Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 18, 1873, Page 7

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY 18, 1873 THE “ GALAXY.” wghilarationsof the Road-Leon ! Gambetta, ~ - - gisses--A Fire-Proof Building «Material. ;i oo Hum‘qrous and Striking' A ;-;gra.m_s.‘ John Burroughs makes & vety bright, whole-- ' ¢ THE EXIILARATIONS OF-THE BOAD,™ < - - which gladden those” who - follow the bidding of ihe merry Song in' Winters Tale,” and Jog on, jog on, the foot-puth way, ." Rad mercily heot the siioa " A merry heart goes'all'tha dsy; e, - : . Your'sad tircs'tn & mil Heeaya: - o = A= oo When I 5ee the discomforts thit'sblo-bodfed Ameri- a0 mea will put up with rather than go & mile or hait- smils o0 foot, the abuses-they .will tolérate and en- aorage; crowding the etrectcar: on & Httle fall in -the - {empezaturs or the appearauce of ‘an. inch ortwo of mow, packing up to'overflowing, dangling to the straps, - other’s toes; brextidng each other's tresths, crusbing tho women and children, hinging by tooth and nall 10 a Squareinch of the platform, fm their lmbsand Killing the horses—1 the commonest framp in the etreet has good reason’to | felicitate Mmld!rnhm -rare privilege of going cfoot. ; & rnoe thit nieglects or des) Bt Fi i bl vs. touch of “the soil, thit has no foot- 0 community.of ownershipin the land which imply, thint warns off the walker, as s trespasser, {bat knows o way but the highway, the carrisge-way, that forgets tho stile; ths foor-tridge, that even Jgnores the rights of thie pedastrian in the publio road, provid- 06 cscape for him but'in ths ditch or up.the bank, §5in 8 fair way o far more serlous degentuzcy. 1 notice with astonishment, that at our fashionable watering-places nobody walks; that of all those vast Frowds ‘of -haslibosbekers and’ 10vers of counizy’ airy you can never catch one tn ths fields or waods, or guilty of trudging. along the conntry road with dust on_his shoos and gun-an oa his hinds and face, The sole musement seems to be to eat snd dress and mitabont- Y the hotels acd glare at each other.. The men look bored, the women look tired, and all seem to sigh, Qb Lord? what shall - we ‘o to be happy and fat b vulgar?” Quite different from our consins across the wter, who have plenty of amusement and hilarity, spending most of the ime at thelr watering-places the open air, strolling,- picnicing,. boating, <limbing; triskly walking, apparently with little fear of sun-tan mising thelr “gentility.” . ... | 0, tho' Atnerioan 18 becoming disquaiified good are o be infarred irom ita diminutivh e A trim foot, well “ooted-or gaitered, is the national vanity. How we stare at the bigfect of ig and wonder what may be the prica of leath. erin those conntrics, and where all the aristocratic blood is; that these plcbelan extremities 80 predomi- e, 1¢ wo were admitted to the confidences of Her Ssjetyor o His Bol Bichnces, 20 doubs ws would modify bur views upon this latter- point, for a-traly and royal nature is never stunted in 'tho extrems lLittié foot:never:yet.supported a great char- STaTrislehmen, whei thay ‘Arét coms to hus comnfr5 SR BHBIE Unaer tho tmprammton £0coy of them #nd go studiously carelfiCish ey &7 tid, "That there is an astonishing difference between Tospect, every- fraveler can testify ;_and thet there is a difference equally shing ' between the pedestrin habits and capabilities of the rival sisters, is also certain. ‘Then the English claim that they are a mare hearty 1 robuat people than weare. 1t ia” certain they aro - plainer " peopl puber, build platn toibes, “placo 8 * lower estimate seives, ote,—all of which traits favor podestrian hub- 4tz The Englsh grandee is not confined to .his car- fisge ; butif the American aristocrat leaves his, he is ruined. Ob, the weariness, the ‘emptinesa, the plot~ ting, the seeking rest and finding none, that goes byin ¢he carrisges | whils your pedestrian | {ul, alert, refreshed, with his heart in his hand and his Razd fres toall. Ho looks down upon nobody 3 he is cathe common level. His pores are all open, 'his cir- calation is active, his di on good. His heart is not cald, nor lus faculties p. He is the only real trav- eler; he alone tastes the “ gay, fresh sentiment of the 0ad? He is not isoluted, but one with. - with farms _ snd industried on - either - hend. The vital, universsl v him, He Xnows the ground alive; -he felf the pulses ‘of the Wing, mnd reuas' the mote langusge things, eympathies are wronssd ;.his menscs are mu“uf;“ Teporting mes- #2gea to his mind. - Wind, frost, rain, - heat, cold, are ing to. . He is not merely. a spectator in e panorama af nature, but a participant In it. Ho jences the country passes ugh,—tastes it, feels it, abeorbas it; the traveler in his fine 208 1t merely. gives the fresh charm to that b6 called * Views Afoot,” snd exploring etc, - The walker does not need a largs territo- en you gebinto s railway car you want ‘& con- in his Toquires & township ; them- class of books that may. &0 the narratives of hunters, nat: partis 0 be not o, pickpocket 3 very lkely, settls down closer en down like & meas- . walking 18 2. B ip3 the rela feniae closer and sympaihetic ane, and you do not lpuxflng;iunu‘ ten paces With & stranger- withont ence this fast. = 1o choosing or admiitiess of tho professional walker trth of a remark of mu-wmugn. and henco the finbelyla,h ux_da ymil'x' dog than {030 | ng;:‘mr . Your cur- & true pedestrian; "X 2 - “Ikely &_saall porisician, of 'you will, a0d Armer 0 your reserve, tan every To0ks 1 S5 wode 58 Dew world 105 exetorel o ever on some freah trail, knows something important 1 happen littlo farther o, gazes with the trne wender-seeing eyes, whatever the spot ar whatever the foad finda it §00d £0 b there,—in short, is just that urpy, vagabond that touches one 850 many- points, and_whose’ human - prototype in 2 Sempanlon Yobs mlles and leeques of half their power atiga 2 Fersons who Aind themselves'spentina short walk tothe market or the post-office, or to do a little ah Bing wonder howit is that thole pedestrian frien s 50 many weary miles an down #rom eheer exthanstion ; ighorant of the fact that the ¥alter is s kind of profectilo that drops far or mear Srording to the expansivo force of the motive that 3etit fn motion, and that it is easy enongh to regulate e according to the distance to travarsed.. carry only one mils and am com- Thad maiked s Sador ”m?fi“pem“ f inder the proper 58 pres fusted resolution, In otner words, tho vl o rporeal mainapring, whatever is capable of Ieing wound up to Sierent dcgre‘:’ of &enp:(nn, 50 Lat ene may walk all day pearly as easy as_balf that fmedf ho js prepared beforehand, He kuows his ::‘flhm!y and utes his powers aoc- Yra. Emily E. Ford, who recentlyepublished a Tolume of very womanly and sweot verses, has s E4ls poem entitled . " ABSOCTATION : Hght o muruu!m@urfl- the silvery shores of memory. . LEON-GAMBETTA .~ « 2 l;): Justin Meg, o reaimark in Enrope:: i ope:: Heis not yet 35 o old. He enterod publio life in the sams Whic g s vith te grast Spanish orator, Emillo Cns- hu.’-;&“ is, in'the eventful 1869;. but Gam- g :he became a member of the Paris hm&-ndbamno‘bh‘nodasofipffm = ler uv.ml.l as a” representative of the :‘:“:i&p:;hmmme:". " % Thiey e‘l‘gul l’!m;.%h]!kdaal of the “Men oy ers B shimated idure of - Ga ] 4 he.used to pass i his Bohemian frj R, piquant, and is_done win .L%&I i far - Gaimbetta’s characietand o t maked far oo, nuch of te sup.- “.| but’ the remite (of- -eagacity' and success, "I arthy) is the youngest states-. |. | Then T kies6d her, and o] all the winds fell to singing -1 Some merry, glad song that was almost s psalm, ‘s “intended. to render houses absolutely fire- "few instancesin which it has been-tried, _{ sists. o tof the oratar's earlier dyz, |- ondthat it pictures him ns more nolsy, vehement and cven coarse then I at least can ine him o hsve bean, £ tomt arent tho present day eingularly plain, unpretene tious, and modest.. No man.T bolieve, eonld fon ereny grester freedom from ostentation, Many of . his Iriends have spoken tome of his simple mode of ex-" 1stence, srith hisgood mother.for o housokeoper,An 8 manner which gavo rme & high ides of the ex-Dictator's | genuine ‘manhobd. ” But it s cérdaln fbat his was' 8 very sudden leap from -obeurity, or, if you' will, from Bobemlanism, ‘into renown.. The defonso of a- newspaper prosecufed in 1668 before the Court of Cor- “ection and Police, for having opened ita colomns to subscription for tho eroction of.». monument® 1o & ¥lctim of the coup d'etat, gave Gambetta his first grand Chance, Ho furned ’ himeelf.. into_a. mational- Prosecutor, and arrafgned the Empire and the Em- peror at thebar of European pablic opinion,: His next great triumph was when he defended a Toulouse news- Esper, and was scclaimed fa {ho south of France as ihe young hero of liberty. + This waa tho-time when TRochefort was waking thé echoes of Camille Desmot- Hins with his ferocious and unmenaured nttzcks on the Emrperor and the Imperial family; The air was dis- turbed somehow, "Pooplo. felt uneaily and -vaguely.. ‘that sémething strange was ‘golng fo happen. Tho -tresson.of Em{le Qiliyier had been proclaimed, groaned over,! exulted oyer, vituperated. 1L Thiers, with his ‘wonderfully incisiva - criticisma of .~ the . Tmperial -poticy, i had “been. ‘undurmining ‘all’ faith--in - the _eupposed ity ‘and success of ._that: Gov-. grament which go, long Liad had nofhing to live upon- -theima for; a: man like -Gambetta. Atthe general election in_ 1569 he becamea candidate for aseatin 1ho Corps Leglalstif, and_was choeen_at once by Paris ‘and Marxeilles, Mo docided 1o tako -Lis seat for'the .southern city, and he cntered ‘the Palais Bourbon,: ‘where the Depulles sst in thoso dayn, 23.the head of & arly creaied by-himself, and dibbed with n titlo of Bis omn invention. - That was the party of the Trrocon- .cllables, Other men might aei ‘mercly for frecdom “and_good :government -at"the hands of any ruler.’ Others, agnin, might involvo. themselres in the dignity of the} uncoimpromisiag sepublicanism, and cling fo. exile, or to potitical faolation equal to exile, whilo an Emperor raled in France, ‘But Gambetta struck out & now path, Ho went fnto the'Corps Leglslatif avowing ‘his resolve to ‘use all the weapons of parlismenta: strife nguinst the Empire, and nevor fo o retoncil 'with the Empire. *‘No matter what concessions you ‘make, 1o matter what “promises. y6u hold out,’"—this was_ virtually {he programme of . Gambetta,—*we will mevér'trust you o Liave anything to.do with you. Tho Empifois forgery, robbery; ‘and marder: we will not -became- reconciled. to. criminals* merely because {his" criminals offer to pay.a ransom on condition of being: sllowed to-etijoy the friuits of “thelr éyimes.” In plnin English; this wia the| 2l tha excited emotions of “republicanism, stirred up by the ficw omeins and sudden prodigics of,_com change, - surged -up -passionately around {t." 1 think, cansidering the hour, the situation, and the imexpect- od elements pregnant with new posaitalitics,. that the, ‘creation'of ‘such a party just then wasa genuine in- spiration, a veritable sirake of genius. -+ - - The career of AL Gambetta, then,:is how in its fourth act... Many persons believe that the fifth aot will see him President.of the Fronch Repub- lic.” Mr. McCarthy thinks it wonld “at all events b6 safe.to predict that the next great ‘chapter of his history.will: show him:1n power or in exilo. No middle.way, no: commonplace’ course, seems ‘possible for him: 5w parn ALTEE X caxinot imagino him ¢ subsiding ” like Jules Favre, or patiently content fo waitin the background like Louis Blanc, Thero is probably noman in Euroj Whose temperament and mental him -more tharoughly *‘irre] stble.” . Gambetta's jinyslcal health is not strong, but the fers soul -would carry him along to anything.- 1 am mot myself s cordial sdmirer of Lim. Ho does not appear to 4 " s undoubtedly a ity i tie maturs if ‘not in tne. long S=a —annar of speeches. It is nothing buf ,[_““’“‘“;.%;' T Roths Prussians, whom Gambetts ‘people 1u Turope, as’ barbafUlaert ighly cul; Decaus they would not let his raw lovies conquer theny, in tho fleld.” Itis essentially vlgar, no matter what showy examples m3y seem 1o sanction the practice, to Xeep perpetually feeding with" flattery the miscrablo chauvinisme and inflated national vanity ‘which have ‘brought 60 much disaster and disgrace upon France, ‘These ways, {0 my mind, stamp Gambeita 28 3 domo-. cratic leader of an incomparably lower type than Mazzini for example, with whom truth, daty, and ‘principle were always the first considerations, and the Bucoess of the hour was sltogether a sccondary object. But it is probahls thatno could - just ‘now bs o in France who did_not sometimes stoop to the loss nioble arts of popular lesdership. Idonot think Gambetts an anscrapulous man in the worst and Soursest snse; bt T presume that n_the redalve to carry the prosent of e would not_allow man; scrriple to wreaken the power of hia rhetorlc. Nor & hein the_highest sensea faithful lover of liberty. Probably liberty, in his acceptation, means frecdom* for the Repubiican party. Ism not thota ‘demonsirative Legitimist or Ultramontane would have ‘s muich better time of it under a Gambetts rule than the Republicans had under Napoloon IIL., or the Com- ‘munists under M, Thicrs, ‘These defects, however, do ot by any meavs militate sgainst tne likelihood of Gambettas scquiring power i France, On the con: trary, they rather incresse his chances, The one gr facully of stimulating depression into renewed cnergy and self-confidence, would outweigh at such a crisis as the present almost every dissdyantage. It is not the ‘highest order of genius or intellect, or even patriotism,* Which would have the best chance just now of becom: ing suprems {n'the politics of France. Thereisncer- | d of succoss which always seems to carTy With it n distinctflavor . of charlatanism and vulgarits, Which appears even o have needed such elemefit for ita proper working. The career of Napoleon I. is the ‘most splendid llustration of this kind of muccoss that is known to French histors. I cannot help thinking that the career of Gambeit3 is, in its lesser degroe, and with 80 many different conditionz and _characteristics, 1ikely {0 rank itself in the eame category. Butitis 3 great success were it to end even now ; andsurely, ono. would only some sudden and inexoralle stroko of fate can prevent- Gambetta from making it greater. " Poets are notoriously fond of kissing, and the literaturo of kisses -is perhaps moro extensive than that.of any other of the fine'arts. JuliaC. B. Dorr and Ellen E. Rexford each hava poems on this inrviting subject, which thoy treat in very different ways.. The verses of the first are very sed and pathetic.. They are entitled ° - 4 T Dbefore me dead, d rest, - When you lay . G s assivo ips of thin 050 paseive lips of thine . "Not one kias I pressed! - =y, wonder—looking down Enowing Fewbigher sphere— Moy snd many ', had loved - Did yew think me sirings &nd cold. Whea £ did not touch,. d ‘Even with revercnt finger-tips, What T hiad loved 50 much 2 Ah! when last you kissed me, dear, - Enow you what yousaid? - “ Take thia last kies, my beioved; 5oon shall T be dead | s “ Eeep it for solemn sign * ‘Through our love's long night, . il you givo it back sgain Oz some morning bright.” mn Bo I gavo you no carces; " - ‘But, reiombering this, Warm upon my lipa I keop ‘Your last living kiss! . */DOWN IN THE MEADOW " is the alluring title of Rexford's lines, which are all the brighter and happier by their contrast with those just quoted : & il Wo strolled down the meadow one ‘morning in sum- mex o, - . 3 a5 , And gathoréd some_blossoms that grew by the way, 'And heard in the Jowlands the brown ago drum’ mer - ek - Beat up his brown soldiers to drill for the day. Tha robins were gay, and the blackbirds were merry, ‘And blnebirds were caroling softly yet clear; And far away up in the limbs of a cherry, . The sound of a mother-bird's talk we conld hear, The sir was astir with a jubllant chorus, s For.all things scemed glad in that midsummer morng o . ¢ X There was sunshine behind us, and sunsbine befors us, And sunshine on whest fields and rank rows of carn., We by the stile where the fragrant sweet clover "Held up to the morning its clasters ot xed . Far the kiss of the sun, 5.8 gizl to her lover ~ Lifts up ber pink cheek with her wishes unsaid. ‘Wae stood hand in Eand and lockéd ot on the meadows - That ed afar in the glow af the morn And noticed the shifting and tramulous shadoy "Tho blitho breezas mado in the rows of the Corti. ‘| “Diayou hear what the wind said 27 Iasked af the malden 3 - Who stood by my side, With her hand in my awn. Sho answered, “ Ah, 1o | for the hreszes aro Iaden. - ‘With to0 zmny whispers o Lear oo alone,” I heard, Tove,” Tanswered ; “ they sald, ‘Ses thote lovers, Th ]:w;xk through the meadow with hearts full of eir secrel the wind-nymph most quickly discovers : Th-,u:wxq "I 3 Jook, (a8 Word, 10,8 Kiss.' 7 blushed, and X saw all the roses grow palar B kh an:‘;md Ludngl.nfl. . She gfl hercyes With a by, fe ‘expression that could not avalljgr; e Tant She e Bolher foix nor SrpEise, ’ pot B e T e e R . Theinventionofa '@ . NOVEL BUILDING-MATERIAL 1s mentioned in” the ‘Scientific Miscellany.” It proof. It was'invented in England, and, in the has given very satisfactory results.: --:. “The system is known s * wire-concrote,’ o sustatning metallic framework ‘or skeleton, upon which wires are strained, tho whols being Feta in the canereted materisls forming thia body of Gambetta's ways and testes - platform of Gainbetta’s party,and | constitution make g&m‘:h the utmost dnmtznht .ot} cohgsion _thiongh. 8 Imass, an prevent crazkin; espe- clally where employed h‘flflflfm'flfsfismr certain proportion of fibrous material vorked up in ihe concrete. . ‘A dwelling in Edmonto: it in this i ¥y, has on fvo oceasions been subjectod to tho test of .. fire, without damage, 5avo from smoke, cither to the ‘mafn wallsor tho Bitings: - Moreover, - furniturs was left in somo of .the rooms, and persons also remained in then, while » brigk conflagraiion was going on jo lower apartments, * 'Ihe'cost of bu!ldiny -~ thfs “syn-| tem is'8add to bo coneiderably less than oy the ordinary ‘mehods, and-the durability 18 practically unliniited. M. Brannon, who has neefoctad the inrention, regards 1t 88 equaliy applicable io livuses, sea-walls, Lreakwa e, pler work, o Indced -asthiog wiere elther 6techgth, durability; or rosistanca to firo 18 Tequir In; tho samo departmont theso ‘intoresting TERICAL RELATIONS OF THIE SEXES. In ‘numbers, tho two sexos ate very neariy e tho Thited Blafes ' ‘males, 19,403,563, femalis, 10,004, 86; ‘on.” The'grontest [but, the distributicn 4 not o _cxeéss ,af males is fonnd in Idaho (19,182 to 2,815 fo- hales), Montana (1G,771 to 3,624), Wyoming (7,219 to 1,880), ~and Nevada (32,033 to I0,12). ~ Females aro in-- cxcess -in -Aisbama’ (504,560 to 48 70) District of - Columbia (61,237 - to fl:éfl;: Georgia_- (600, to - 372,125),” Louisinna (330, 345 10 “398,74), Maize (299,600 fo 287,434), Maryiand ain (855,246 to '342,%6), Masrachiusctis (568,180 to 535,70 New Hampshiro (147,008 to" 140,991), New Jezasy ( 668 to 354,485), and Now York (1,647,214 (0 1,697.19: “Virginia, Vermont, Tenuessec; botl: “Carclinas, Thods Trland, . Penpaylvanin, Ohio, and . New fexico show a like excess of “female population. In Utah there are uorondies than femalea—08,904 0 97,090." - - - Th the Galaxy. Club-Room,” Katé A. Sanborn ;g;tzxgxx together a numberof - - ;.. . = . ;AUMOROUS AND SIRIEING ANAGRAXS:, Anagrains have st times been cudowed with undzp and superatitions mportance, many belicving that the finger of fate could bo thus revealed; and iadeed the conibinstions xre often -extremely curiots and appro- priate. : For. instance, Florence Nightingalo's 1ame: ‘when transposed rcads, Flit on, chicering angel! And that of the brusque “Dr.’John 'Abernethy, Jolny the* beir. ' Horatlo Nelson, mado intoa Latin anagra gives £ Honor est s Nifo* (bfs -honors sro from tlio XNile).! Numberless changes have been rung upon the all-potent, mogic name of Napoleon Domaparie, as ol as. ‘alrildng. calculations in numbers; - whdle _books af latter-day_prophecies hzvo bean “founded on'‘the similarity of Napoledn' and Apollyon, _tho slavk angel. It §s fold that Napoledn; whea- at 8t ‘Helenp, was ssked by an ironic Briton if he thought e codld havo's ZLondon, snd replied, - Ablo was Tere I saw Elba,” the eentenco reading -backward and forward tho same. Another - patriotic Englishman made Napoleon Bonaparie read in-Latin, : Bona rapta eno’ pone,” . e., “Tascal, yleld up your stolen Lis possessions.” In English, fhere ' is warni; 15" Ba found, “No, sppiar mot at Elbs.n Ang - Arthur Wellesfey, Dake of Wellington, has been’ Fen: dered, ‘“Let well-foflcd Gaul ‘securo thy renown.” " It. -does ot eeem foolish nfter thése illustrations fo agrea with Burton, who n’his'Abatomy of -Melancholy™ acknowledges, L belicve now there is.somo secret ‘power and Virfio in names.” = ‘Pethops the most _cxtriordinary_ifsgram ta be mot with ia that on the Latin_of Pilato's_quostion 20 the Baviour, “ What is trath % - . ~Quid eat veritas] 0o Eistvir qui adest. - (It 15 the man who 1s beforoyou.). " : Anagram-making waa - the favorite amusement wits and scholérs in tho scventeenth contury, and every namis of note was fwisted. and ransacked.” ‘Ran dlo Holmos, the heraldic writer, was complimented with * Lo; mien’s herald {7 - B oy 564 it " wga found in Walt, renown ” in Vernon ; James Stuart—' A just master;” and of the poct Wal- leritwassaid:. . . s s - THs brows noed not with Iawrel to be bound, Since in his name with lawrel ho is crowned. And here 15 ono of more recent date, When Mr- Gearga Thompson, tho eloquent suti-slavary advocate, wwas solicited somé years sinco to go into Parliament, Wit a view to his more efliciently serving the causg of negro emancipation, the question being mubmited 16 29e consideration of his friends, one of them found G1iG g ~ewsweer in tho Jotters of g Geor, 2y U, 2, : I think the queerest way of exn that mado use of by one of the (Bl s a At DO T8 %Bgnfi:nonux M NOPQRSTUVWX . No Queen Elizabetli was one morning presented with & noto from an anonymous individual making 4 na Anglorum,” read “Glori regni malvi mantbit ™ which is in English “The glory of thy Xingdom: shall remain intact” And Lhere is one alsy n tho name of the unfortunate Mary Stuart, Quees of Scotland: .. . . - Maria Stewards, Scotoram Regins, Trusavi regnls, morte amara eado, (Thrust by forco from Ty, kingdoms, T £all by bitter death ) 25 e . - WWho can wonder that the simple and_superstitions we:; .g;i "Dy sucha startling sentence £o strangely produ And the result is quito as surprising and apposite when aingle words are used. Murderneversed s red rum, and certainly rum is the causo of the bloodiest Ccrimes, Thero are so many of thase which I want to give, that I will put them down {n an onderly way ‘with the eign of equality : ‘Astronomers—2loon starers. Impaticnt—Time in a pet. . Elegant—Neat Icg, Parishioncrs—1 hire parsons. Parliameat—Partial men, Say, I repest it, 1iLd his map. ent—Nine (humps, Matrimony—Tnto my arm. Swecthcart—Thero we eat. Gallantries—Sce great sin, Telegraph—Great help, ‘Monarch—March on. Catalogue—Got rs o clue, - Radical reform—Raro mad frolic, Tovolution—To love ruin, - . Lawyers—Sly ware, Humor, satire; fun, and truth are all well ropresent- od in these changes, e — * BOOTS AND SHOES. Sensible Fashlons in Foot-Wear., ¥ From the -Loston Gazclle. name “The.new styles of boots and shoes show that fashion can have lucid moments, after all, when, repenting of her many follies, sho bestows a grain of common:eense apon the ideas. relating to the'personal comfort of her victims. At any rate, it is not fashion’s fault now if women per- sist in walking. on their great toes like a ballot-- dancer, or if the.children hop through, .lifs on crooked legs, a very natural consequence of +hege high heels, s all unfashionable. obseryers BUsu-n: pature have rémarked ero,mow, It has been 01 . ygg to preach sermons on deforr- ity whilo theze Musrpeting - kid distortions were not confiscated by pareata] sutherity ; for.to see 2 pair of. dainty buttoned poots tilted up on 8-inch heols was to groan asd succumb, igno- miniously give ‘in, thougli & reglment of chiro- podists stared one in the face. But lot tho aching onos rejoics, Touis Quinze ‘i -not only dead, but o is his hesl. True, a ghost of it remains,—not enough of one, however, to *wobble” on, but just enongh to preserve the arch of the instep and “keep you out of themud.” Tho most elegant styles for Indies this spring are tho recently imported’ French boots made of delicate black kid, with- broad goles with or. withont an interlining of cork.. They are of exquisits beau i with two {bmges £0 mhark them. f:%: flsfi?’» sons fashions. - The foxings are cut square and Tow across the foot, whilo the upper portion only just covers the ancle. French kid boots of a tho'structare. By this arrangement, not only are the alls and ficors of . & -bullding Tug up.in concrete:- “but the doorz, shelves, and other fittings sre formed of ' the same materiel. Wood and other_combustible T with, In order to tezials aro thus eatirely dispansed ‘simpler style come in three grados, the first with a thin sole suitable for dancing, the second of a medium thickness, and_the .third a street boot. For all of - these the square toe with Tounded . corners is .used entirely, but- in | preme, both Indics’ and childre +| ecross -the fool the imported. French kid the toais rounder. excellent * walking ~ boot for _every- da.by ‘wear is made of goatskin -and soft kid, with a broad sole and a heel of only tbreo lifts. boots'of black satin are now ornamented with & tiny bow that does not destroy the catline of the foot. - s - The most coguettish ehoe of the period is by all 0dds thé Richelicu, and for style it has no compeer. Itiamade.of black or bronze 'kid, with a moderate heel. An elastic like that of a Congress boot is inserted over tho instep, and by this'means it is held uh’nnilky and firmly in place. _Bows of rich gros-grain silk, with plain or cut Eteel alides, conform to the high instep, and give an exquisite curve to the foot. - A bronze pair that has four large flat bows of silk fastened with cut steel slides is perhaps the loveliest of these dainty shoes; Another prettypair ia made of gray morocco with black heels, and trimmed wilgrb{&i:k ribbon an inch wide. 'Three-button kid shoes ara to be fashionable for the strect this summer, and their proper compsnions are-col- ored silk stockings, or striped Balbriggans. One of the best inventions for young girls and children is tho sea-side and country boot. Itis made of fine goat-skin, foxed with French calf, thick, broad sole and low heel, and a8a specimen of high finish and durability deserves more than » passing notice, lhoufih 28 a model of reforma- tion it already ‘speaks loudly for itself. A mo- ment's reflection- tells- -one 'that health, and |- necessarily grace, depend greatly on_ just such boots as these, and that the best physical econo- iy is prevention. Careful mothers-msay well re- Jjoico, then, in this ‘downright scnsible -fashion that has shod their children with trength and Bubstance. B e S I Bagis Tee -Boys are now favored mortals, and if they doubt it Jet them.contemplate- those besutiful boots made expressly to try their destructive powers. Buch boots ag these look like cast iron, and if any confidence was to be placed in'boya or leather, they might last forover ; but nothing will stand’ the ravages of time, for .even cast iron ” vould bo_outgrown after awhilo. The Intest styles are Balmorals, made of. calf, with _soles nearly an inch thick, intended for country wear ; and aTnors elegant buttoned boot; also of calt, with the Bcoich Weltand: box-toes. . They ‘or outside: of- Christendom,’ arer conkidéred the best' boots™ now ‘manufac. tured. and surely & -purely disinterested: spcttas Lor might be pardcned o thrill of horror in imag- ining anything o tott and. formidabfa on a boy 0 sormetimes kicks.: Boys, alas! have beon. Xkniown fo indulge in that gentle execcisa, thaugh otherwiso saints and cherubs-“but parents and |-gunrdians have nosuch foar of their well-bahaved. affaprinzs; therefcze, by them the preaont modes willhe day ;ppm.-cmf Even littlo 3-yanr old Dias hia waliting boats, as woll as his older broth- ers, and they are miniature studies of those wor: by the “ grown-upa.” A protty style is of 2 del “cata‘calf or morocoo, with the_foxings cut in | little scallopa over tho instep. Let it ba borne il mizd in all theso now spring boots the excel- lent faghion of -brond solos aud hecls reigna’ su- n's. . Tor gentlemen, dealers now offor ono traction—a ‘shos for hot weather, and o ghee, too, that the swellest awell would admire, end ar old fogy, given to gout, would remember with titnde the vest of his lifo, Of conrse, French. Tlhie ehapeis poculiar, bul meac~ of _Boftest kid of an elsgant finish ; il is poth'styliah and o Gentlemen who do not take kindly to emhu;i’:{nrcfl “or ‘morocco sglippers will find. this French shoe an.admirzble- substitute for hous: Another siovelty is d congress boot, for even- ing, made with patent-leather foxings cat square with silk tops tosimilate the Intost fashion of blaclk silk stockings and pumps. A very handsome French button Doot comes with o ginglo gole or the intersoling of cork, and an- ‘other congress boot is made of calf and French kid, intended for summer wear. Then thére are thié Fronch wide-strap shoes, and the Oxfords for every day, and patent-loather boots of a superb ish for dancing. £ .. AMONG THE ISLES OF SHOALS. Eztract from Celia Thazler's new .boak. + -In 6 series of papers publishod notmany years 8go; Herman Melvillomade the world acquainted with the “Encantadas,” or Eachanted Islands, which' he * deseribes ‘a8 lying dircetly under tho equator, off -the- const " 6f South America, and” jof which _he . says: “It .is . to be “doubted whether any spot of earth can, in desolateness, furnish o parallel to this group.” But.their dark voleanic crags and melancholy ’beaches can -hardly seem moro dosolate than'do -the Jow-bleached rocks of the Isles of Shoals to oyeg that behold them for the first time. Very sad they look, stern, bleak, and unpromising, yet are they enchanted- islands in a better sense of the word than aro the grest Gallipagos of which Mr. Melville discourses so delightfully. -.There is s strango charm about them, an inde- scribable influence in their atmosphere, hardly “to bb explained, but " universally acknowledged. Poople forget the hurry and worry and fret of 1ife after living thero awhilo, &nd, to an imagina- tive mind, all things becomo dreamy s they were tothe lotus-eaters, to whom Sat % i The gushing of the wave .. Far, far away did seem to mourn and rave . "Onalienshores. , . . . . 5 The etornal sound of tho sea on every side has a tendency to wear awsy the edge of human thought and perception; sharp’ ontlines become blurred and softened like a_sketch in charcoal ; nothing appeals to the mind with the same dis. tinctnese as on the main! amid the rush and stir of people and things, and the excitementaof social life. This was strikingly illustrated dur- ing the late war, which, while it wrung the heart of the whole country, and stirred the. blood of every man, woman, and child on the continent, 1tk ha handful of human beings uwpon theso lonely rocks almoss uutouched. The echoes of woe and tarror were 80 faint and fur, they scemod £o loso thoir significance smong the maay-voiced waters they crossed, and reached at-last the in- different ears they sought with no mors forco than » spent wave. = Sina milpg of the Atlantic Ocean intervens be- fween these 18ianas ~—1 the nearest point of the const of Now Hampshiro; bRt fruus this nearest point_the coast-ino recedes gradually, in dim and dimmer distance,-to Cape Ann, in Massa- chusetts, twenty-ono miles away at the south- west,- and to Cape Neddock, in Maine, sixtcen miles distant in the northeast (in clear weather onother cape is faintly - distingnishable beyond. thi&fl,‘ and sbout one-third of the at horizon s fille land, ent ab- ) d by this beantifnl, undulating line of whicl:, . under the touch of atmospheric change, is almost as plastic s the clouds, and Wears a new aspect with every turn of wind and ‘weather. K ¥ " Bwept by evory wind that blows, and beaten by the bitter brine for unknown agos, well may the Isles of Shoals be barren, bleak, and bare. At first sight nothing can be fmore rough and In- ‘hospitable than they appear. Tho incestant in- flnences of wind and sun, rain, snow, frost, and spray, Liave so bleached the tops of ' the rocke, that thoy look hosry as if with sgo, though in the summer-time & gracious greenness of vegeta- tion breaks hero and thero the stern ontlines, and softens'somewhat their rugged aspect. Yet eo forbidding are their shores, 1t seems scarcely worth while to land tpon them,—mero heaps of tumbling granite in the wide and lonely sos,—when - all * the smiling, *sapphire- spangled marriage-ring of the land” lica ready to.jro0 the voyager back again, and welcome hiS retarning’ prow' with pleasant sights and sounds and, scents that the wild wastes of water never know.. But to the human creature who -has eyes that will sce and ears that.will hear, nature appeals with such a novel charm, that the luxurious beauty of the land is, balf forgot- ten before oue is aware. Its sweet gardens, full _of color and perfame, ' its' rich woods_and softly swelling hills, its_placid waters, and fiolds and flowory mesdows, are no longer dear and ‘desirable; for ‘the wonderful sound of the sea dulls the memory of all pact im- pressions, and seems to . fulfill and satisfy all present noeds. Landing for the first time, the stranger is struck only by the sadness of tho place,—the vast loneliness; for there are not even trecs to whisper with familiar voices,— nothing but sky and sca and rocks. But the very wildness and desolation. reveal. s strango -beauty to him, TLet him wait till evening comes, With sunset purple soothinig all the wasto, snd he will find himsel? slowly succumbing to the subtile charm of .that sea atmosphere. He . eleeps with the waves of the Atlentic - murmuring "in his' ears, and wakes %o the freshness of 3 summer morning; and it seems 58 if morning were made for the firat time. For the world is like a new-blown rose, and in tho heart of it he stands, with only the caressing musio of the water to break the utter silence, unless, perhaps, & song-Sparrow urs out its blissfal warblo like an embodied joy. 'The gea is rosy, and the sky; the line of and is radisnt; the scattered sails glow with the delicious color that touches so tenderly tho bare, bleak These are lovelier than tho sky or'sea or distant sails, or graceful gulls' wings reddenéd withthe dawn; nothing takes color 8o beautifully aa the bleached granite; the shadows are dalicate, and the. fine, hard ont- lines . are’ glorifiecd and softened beneath the fresh blush of sunrise. Al things are speckless and spotless ; thers is mo dust, no noise, nothing7but peace in the sweet air and on the quiet sea. o day goes on; the rose changes to yellow gold, the gold to clear, white daylight, and _the ses to sparkling sgain. A breeze ripples the surface, and wherever it touches the color decpens, : A seine-boat passes, with the tawny net heaped in the stern, and the scarlet ghirts of tht rowers brilliant sagainst the blue. Pleasantly their voices come ncross the water, breaking the stillness. The fishing- -boats stealto and fro, silent, with glittering eails ; the gulls wheel lazily ; the far-off coasters glide' rapidly slong,.the horizon; the mirage steals down the coast~ live, snd seems fo ' remove it leagues away. And what if. it were to elip down the slope of the world and disappear entirely ? You think, in alf-dream, you would not care. Many troubles, ' cares, perplexities, vexations, lurk behind that fsr, faint line for you. Why should you be bothered any more? Let us slone, Time driveth onward fe " And {ao'a little while our lips are dnmb‘.'g And 5o the waves, with their lulling murmar, do their work, znd Iyrm are soothed into repose and transient forgetfulness. B REPENTANCE. He kirsed me, and I knew %was wrong, A o was melther Kith nor kin; eed one do penance ve “Forsuch n tiny Hitle sinr © c He pressed my hand ; that wasn't right ; Why will men have such wicked waya 2 It wasn't for a minute—quite— But in it there Wero days nnd days. "TLere’s mischisf in the moon, I know; - T'm positive I saw her wink When I requested himto go; Imeant it too—I almost think, ‘But, after ali, P'm not to blame ; Ee took the kues. I do think men Are quits without a sense of shame, 1 wonder when he'll come agsin | P ‘—Referring to the intimation of the Congre- ationalist that ** the saleswomen at the Boston ar have been solected more for- their good looks tkan for their orthodoxy,” tha Christian Register says, “ there are very few. girls, - inside | ~ who wonld ‘ot rather be'callod pretty heretics than homely be- liovers. ez ’: % FOETRY OF. GEMS. -- Sparkle of Diamonds and Glint = v T Cof Ruby._ ) | Teles, Legends, and Stories of Precious Stones, . . From the WateAmaker's Magazine, - ' Upon the dizmond the ancients engraved the figute of Mars, helicving that victory would come great the number of his adversaries. 'Fo lose & diamond sas & pieca of ill-luck from which " was argued the anproach of some dire 1 snisfortune. i 2 The lergest diamond which is known belongs o tho Rajan of Matton in the East Indics. This dismend hes been in tho same royal family fora century and a half, and, although large sums bave beon offored for i, and « bloody wars havo been fought to guin possession of it, the jewel still graces the Indian crown,—as the Rajah balioves that part- “ing with 6o costly s gem would insure destruc- tion fo himself and dynasty. This dinmond is celebrated for tho marvolous cures it performs when sufferors bathe in the water in which it has been steeped.. Precions stones seom to havo been worn in ancient times as amulets or charms to protect the wearor from evil, and they were often en-' graved with somo curigus device or magical in- ecyiption. ‘Thus ear-rings cams to be placed in the ears, and strings of. jowals hung aronnd tho neck. Besides the henling of discasiee, many other proportics aro ascribed to gems. - Every one has read of tho famous ring of that Lydian_ monarch, Gyges, which was fablod to render ita owner invincible. The Jows were accustomed to prophesy futuro ovonts by the clanging color or brillancy of twelve precions stoncs, on which wero engraved a 5ot of anagrams of the name of God. An old Jewish tradition says that all the light Noah had in the ark was derived from the diz- zling eplendor of jewals. S - Tho first person who over wore a ing with & stone in it is said fo have been Prometheus, who as condemued by Jupiter to wear upon his fin- fex 8 pieco of Mount Gsusaaus, to which ho had Deon ohained. This stone was set in a ring of iron. - ‘The seven planets were once believed to have an'influence over seven precious stones. There was some mystical tie betweon Saturn and the turquoise ; Supiter and the cornelian ; Marsand the emerald ; the sun and the diamond ; Venus .and tho amethyat ; Mercury and the lodestono ; the moon and the cryatal. In Poland, at this™ day, each month is sup- poeed to bo under the influence of some juwag: which also affects the person born in that par- ticular montls, and upon birthdays presents are given containing tho natal stone, The garnet, emblematic of constancy and fidolity, is dedic cated to- January ; the amethyst, sincerity, to February ; tho bloodstone, conrsge and pres- ence of mind, to March ; the dizmond, inno- cence, to April ; the emerald, success in love, to May ; the agato, health and long life, to June ; the cornelian, contented mind, to July ; the sar- donyx, conjugal - fidelity, - to -August; the chrysolite, antidote agaiust madness, to Septem- ber’; the opal, hope, to October ; the topaz, fidel- ity, to November; the turquoise, siocerity, to December. - * Perl:aps no people have ever been 8o lavish of ems upon their attirc as the sucient Romans. lnn)i of that famous wardrobe of Theodosia, 5idonial manties v . Belts bossed with pearls, robos sbrf Whu se;._ ‘And head-pl:tes ehining green with emeralds bright, ‘An1 helmets rich with preclous sspphires’ Lght, Pliny says: ““1 have myself seer Lollia Pau- lins, once the wifo of the Emperor Caliguls, thotgh it was on no great occasion, mor she in her fall dress of ceremony, but at an ordinary wedding dicuer, and Lisvo #¢en her entirely cov- ered with emeralds’ and peadls, strung slter nately, glittering all over her hoad, hair, b desn; neck, and fingers, the value of all Which pat together amounted to the sum of 40,000,000 sesterces " (52,000,000). 3 Pliny slio says of the dismond: It is s0- bard that, if struck with o hammer upon’ ma anvil, it will rather Bplit both hemmer and auvil than break itself, unlegs, Indeed, it io firat dipped in the blood of & goat, reccutly killed, in which case it will prove soft enough.” 5 This fact, however, experiments upon the dia- ‘mond have proved to be but a mere superstition. Precious stones of the rarest value were of- fered in great quantitics to the Leathen gods, and statues of theso were covered with eparlling goms. 3lany o royal dame might havo cuvied the fsir goddces Astarte, Who is said to have been resplendent with Indians, Medes, Armenians, and Babslonisna. Precions goms wero also used to lighten the Torror of tombs, and we aro told that _the tomb ‘of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abboy contained eighty-four jewels of great value, an the tomb, of homas a Becket, in Canterbury Cathedral, was celobrated for ité great wealth of ems, . 8 %% Tho timber work of tho shiine on the outside,” eays Stow, . “was covered with plates of gold, damasked with gold wire, which ‘Eround of gold was again covered with jewels of- gold, as rings, ten or twolve cramped with gold Wire into the 8aid ground of gold, many of theso rings having stones in them, broaches, images, angels, precious stones, and groat pearls.” \%’ififin this shrine the wealth corresponded to its onter walls, and Erasmus, who was perinitted, before tho Roformation, to look upon the treas- ures, says that ““ndar a coffin of wood, enclosin, anotber of gold, which was drawn up by ropes an pulleys, ho beleld an amount of riches, the val- e of which Lo was unablo to estimate. Gold was the meanest thing visible ; the whole place glittered with ¢hs rurest and . most precious gems, which were genorally of extraordinary size, and some larger than the egg of a g:m." The enormous value of all this wealth was of Henry VIIL, and he accordingly appropriated it to himself. The Abbey of St. Denis during the middle ages was regarded 88 one of the marvels of Europe, and was visited by strangers from all parts of the civilized world. d Here fthe Kings of France were buried, sur- rounded by untold_trensures—jewels and other valuables placed within their tombs, and offered too great for tho cupidil at the shrine of the Virgin and to the sainis. Many of these articles belong to history, snd have a world-wide fame, but wo canonly mentiona fow of them; a brilliant ruby in which waa enchased thorn claimed to have belonged to the crown worn by Chrisé; the crown of Charlemague, of gold enriched with jewels, and worn at the coronation of the Kings of France; the gold crown of the consort of Charles IV., set' with ems; & book of tho Epistles and Gospels Bound ingold and the binding covered with gems ; Sfi.?auia’ ring with & sparkling sapphire, and s shrine containing the bones of St. Louis ith precious gems. “:)wn: alptha nmgt and most valuable gems is the Oriental ruby. A perfect ruby exceeding one carat is said to be highcr prized than the dia- mond. A . ruby which ‘once belonged to Radolt "II, was_valued ats sum not less than £30,000, and in size resembled a 's egg. he,?;e fi:sn of Ava is said to possess one of the samo nxgE;, ‘which he wears 8s an ear-pendant. The Emperor of Russia_possesses the largest Oriental ruby koown. It was brought from China, and owned by Prince Menzikofl. Peter the Grest, of Russia when be was visiting England, presonted as a. farewell gift to King _ William s id ruby, worth £10,000, which, in accord- e ota well known ecedntricity of charso. ter, he took from his pocket, wrapped in s bit of n brown paper. MET&:O“ mt}a gvhich. once belonged to Ed- ward, the Black Prince, is now prominent in the royal crown of England. This rubyis pierced through the centre, after the Esstern manner. 1t was worn in the battle of Agincourt, 1414, by enry Vi a'mreylilng of the Islend oi Ceylon—famous for jts wealth in jewel mines—was eaid to have pos- sessed the largest ruby ever seen, boing a Bpan in length, and as thick a8 & man’s arm. it has,” says Marco Polo, *the appearance of » glowing fire, and is 80 valuable that no esti- mate can be made of its worth in money. The Grank Kshn Hublai sent ambaseadors to the Monarch with & _request that he would yield to ‘im possession of this gem, in return for which o should receive the valup of a city. The an- pwer given was_ to this effect:. ‘That he zonld not seil it for all the treasures of the universe, nor would he, on any terms, suffer it to go out ‘of his dominions, 23 it bad been handed down o ‘him by his predecessors on the throne.” " ‘The oarly Chinese travelers relate that in the seventh century a ruby was elevated on a spire in Ceylon, the light of which illuminated tho pkies. - A Chinese Emperor wore in his cap a carbuncle of such'unusual brilliancy that at the to tho woarer of such a dismond no matter how” dismonds, _boryls, sardonys,’ hyaciaths, and emeralds, all bronght to her shrine by pil grims ‘from all lsads—Egyptians, Ethiopians, | egg. bo'nsl:lluck ox'dnlmdmm_ al and ground @p). iron looking like nprig:t ste:xfl)aflm, are filled 80,000 pounds of - bone :black each. :Through" - this the syrup is made to triclde. . A8 it .comes out at the bottom it is a8 o 28 ‘rock erystal. A goblet of it looks like pure -’ water. B ¢ “Is it perfectly pure now 7" I asked the chem: “Yes, as near s possible. ' It is 893 per cent ist. ,E‘u’" sugar. You might poar five ons of ., kerogene and s small-pox patient cut -into ssus~ great levees at night, its red Instre fo filled ths | hired palace that it was called the “Red Palaco Illu- | parat minator.” - 2 N . -.An_old Chinese work says that the origin of trade on tho island of Ceylon was coeval with the visit of the Indian god, Buddha, Who sprink- lod tho land with sweet dew, .which can: itto produce red gems, and thus gave the people an erticle of merchandise. ] -Among the superstitions connected with the ruby is that 1t confers the power of uaini inthe, dark, if it be worn upon the meck. It also warned its wearer by change of color of comin; misfortune, and cured diseases of the eys if tiag over the forchead.- in & linen cloth. Plutarch Bsays: ‘It is discovered when tho moon ia waning Perkins; that I wouldn’t have the slightest ob- Jjection to drinking the symp five hours after- to tho sound of tho fifes, and is worn by persons d. It's perfectly cl d o - fo o soumd o ¢ ward. I's perfectly clean and puro." . - Noxt fo tho distaond and ruby, the opal is the | ims e o0 "orer (rensparent’ eyrup mado . . ‘most valuable gem. * - ‘The Empress Josephine possessed tha finest opal of modern times, which was - called ** The Burning of Tr:{,“ on ‘sccount of ita brilliancy, which resembled tho fitful light of flames. &a ancient writer mentions an opal of the size of & hazel put, which was wrought with mar- velous and .clasped in the' claws en oagle. It - contsined all the 'vamous tints of tho eky, and shore with such eplendor that it struck terror into the hearts of baholders. > The opal was highly esteemed by the ancients, but modern romanco™ has flung around it a bale- ful influence and it is said to bring ill lnck to its wWesrer. g The beantiful sapphire, with its s6ft, velvety blue color, waa esteemed as being a great enemy to “Dblack choler, - and to free -the' mind and mend the manners.” It was some- times powdored and mixed with milk a3 a curs for_bolls, which was_surely s rather expensive medicine, s It was believed that if the'nams of the sun or | tho moon was engraved upon tho amiethyst, and thejewal liung soound the neck upon the hair o a baboon, or- the = feather -of "a low, it. was 2o infallible -. protection sgamnst witcheraft, and also protected -its wearer from the flight of locusts and of hail- stones. ’ S Tho amothyst is called the * Bishop's stane,” becauee rings set with thesé gems are worn by the Roman Catholie Bishops: 1T G The turquoise - mot only.,. strengthens the-.eyes and enlivens the heart: of ita posaessor, but is said aleo to take npon itself the consequonces of & serious fall,.and broaking itself to eave its wearer from fracturing a bone. It was also supposed to lose- its color if the per- son grow il, and {0 bo entirely blanched Fhe ed— - . S As » compassianate turquoise that doth tell By looking pale, the wearer is ot well. ° One of the most besutiful .and’ This i8 simply done by taking the water out of it. This is accomplished by boiling it in an open | vacuum. It would boil lize water in the o] air and volatilize at 212 dogrees Falirenheit, “remove the -air- pressuro -and it will ‘boil 0 Fahrenheit ; 150 degrees never burns it, and tha. . T is white. _After boiling the syrap down t0 8 thick paste, it is ‘drawn off in pots shaped -like the “old-fashioned sugm-loaf. ‘These pota hold_fivo . gallons - and are_open at_ the large | ond. The small ‘end has a hLolo in it | through ‘which -the water runs -out, leaving the sugnr to crystalize in & hard white cake, such a1 used to bosgld in the market. But nowsdaya the pure whits sugar-loavee are sawed up inta regular-shaped cubic picced of . Thesoiled + sugar-loaves, .or thoss with ;gfi:; streaks io them, are crushed: into Iuraps, and the sawdust and- leavings are made into. granulated and pul- verized sugar. _ e Whero does tho yellow sugar como from?” - sugaris crystalizing—the residue is treated in - the same manuer a3 the original Cuban sugar, hien an inferior sugar apd an’ inferior syrup re- - sult. Tho syrup grows ¥ro impure each tima until finally it cannot be crystalized.. It is-sous and ‘salty.” This- impuro~of brown sugar is shoveled into acentrifugal or revolving machine, which revolves 2,000 times per minute. This throws out tho water through a strainer, leaving . the sugar quito light and mealy. - g * Which is the cheapest to use—brown sugar ar‘w‘l;'il!’e ?" I asked ai_’flm chemis| s 1 = * Why, white, sir.’ Brown sugar ly pure - sugar with dirt and water in it.. -The fieflt 3 eugar to buy is' whito granulated mugar. It 18, simply 991" per cont pure sugar, whils brown ° sugar is only about 70 per cent sugar, 20 per cent water, and 10 per cent dirt and salts. White | gome old women, bronght up on brown -eugar, still-atick to brown sugar, o call Tt swester than white sugar, but they simply dupe theme selves. If yor want brown sugar, you can wlarot goms s the emerald. This jowal is Sal. | & pound of white SEear porms i e watar, & to havo been found in olden times o lage that | bandfull of sewer dirt, lime, or salt, and yoa'll tho Romans used emeralds for their mirrors, and Nerois eaid to have w.rn_an emerald ‘eye-glass when viewing the combat of the gladiators. The - early inhabitants of- Pern worshiped as their goddess an emerald as large as an ostrich’s The priests who had. charge of this divinity gave out that no gifis were B0 precious to tho - goddess as “‘her danghters,” the emeralds, and- therefore great q};l;:uhfinfl of these jewels were bronght to her ino. 3 d Emeralds wero preferred to all other precions stones for sparkling around tho brim of & jew-. cled goblst. T : o Those_ who . engraved upon . ~gems’ wore sccustomed to gaze for s time upon. emerald- to - refresh their wesdried oyes, This atons was also conzidered & pre- ventive of cpilopsy and other diseases. - It was | held in such esteem'by the ‘Romans™that~ Pliny tells that when the famous Lucullus landed at Alexaniris, Ptolemy, who wished to sttach him- foreyer to his intercats, could think of no more precious gift with which to win his ragard than 8 precious emerald set in gold, with his portrait engraved upon it. * : “have two pounds of it. * How many kinds of crude sugar are there " “Three—cane sugar, fruit sugar, and milk sugar. Cane sugar is found in sugar-cane, In- dian-corn-stalks, sorghum, beets, melons, sweet potatoes, cocoanuts, ohestnuts, palm trees, birch trees, and sugar maple. Cane sugar i3 three * times as'swest as milk or frnit sugar. Byrup® contains_a good deal of frmt sugar, generat by ferméntation, etc. Therefore, syrup is not 80 Bweet 38 pure sugar dissolved in wator. Beet -8ugar emolls ,badly, and sorghum has too much acidity. They both contam galt, to remove which is very expensive. They aro things of the past when gugar-cane can be had reasonabla and in sufficient quantities. In Europe brown sugar. is not used; white ia considered chesper and botter.” 3 ¥ & : LITERARY NOTES. o ‘Alegsandre_Manzoni, now in~ his 89th e is engaged on hia “ History of the French Revola- tion.’ s . s —Olive Logan has written a novel, We Met by Chance ;, a Summer Romance,” which will soon be puhlished. = - . .. ; - —The copyright of Keble's Christian Yeac™ SUGAR-REFINING. - il expico hortly, sftor haviog : : New Yok Xisdom of Xt mfifim_ s FED l Do you wish to kmow all about the sugaF WhICa | wiGen M. VY, Gary, of South Carolina, has you eatevery day—how it is mado in flth, shov- | singular it of ““payi b nnblished, with the ove! YRS S, eled over in dirt, and how it is finally purified till it i ‘Whita and immacalate? i New York has thirty-five out of the fitty rugar- rofinerics in the United Ststes—tho other re- fineries being in Boston, Philadelphis, Balti- more, snd St. Louis. Tho largest sugar-refinery in the world is that of Constance Sey, in. Paris. Boy refines 5,000 burrels per day. The. next largest is that of Havemeyer & Elder, of New York. : They rofine 3,000 barrels per day. _ How does sugar come Kera ? Tast year tho 548,769 tons of sugat shipped to this country came mostly from Cubs, Porto Rico; Bryant, have been elected honorary members of tha Academy of 8t. Petersburg. . . —Joaquin Miller's now volume, ¢ Songs of the Bun-Lands,” is already published in London. It containg **The Tsles of the Amazons” and many othflr:&l:-mrpoem!. Ikis dedicated - “‘to the Bossettis.” - o = D —A new work from Darwin, on “‘The Evil ‘Effects of Interbreeding in the Vegetable King- dom,” is forthcoming. % > —Sir Henry Itawlinson will shortly %’u to the world a series of papers on the polifics and gecguphy of Central Asia, under the title of fEn$hnd and Rustia in the Esst.” - Brazil, Mailn, Jamaics, San Domingo, sad Bar- |-~ i P ARG, B AR S0 Oy o ine the badoes. It camo in hogsheads weighing 1,600 | Zeitung fur _Latxflngen, ublished in Metz, has s iar and chnndeon-fi.n life. In the morn- ‘pounds, boxes weighing 450, and bags weighing 150 pounds. A large part of it came in s black, dirty, “raw " stato, and some called * centrifu- " had the water whirled out ‘of it in" centri- agal machines before it left Cubs. Sosugar is quoted a8 “raw” and “centrifugel”. Baw su- gar is worth about 8 conts and centrifagal 9 cents per pound. - Cuba £ugar i the best sugar, but it all has to bo cleaned before it is fit” for use, and then tho raw sugar wholosales for about 3 cents per pound more; From dirty 8 cent_ sugar -they ing it comes ont 88 a half sheet, in French; in, the evening asa foll sheet, in German. The for- mer is entitled Premiere Edition, the latter Zuceite Ausqate. “Tho Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Including the History of the Primary’ Causes and Movements of ‘Tho Thirty Years® War,". by Minister Motloy, is announced by Murray, 'of| Tondon. . ; e —The ex-King of Spafn is writing & book said to bear the title of the * History of King Ama. doo.” The book is divided into four parts, treat- ‘make whits lump sugar worth 113¢, light_yellow | ing respectively of Queen Isaboll'a regime, of orth 103¢, dack yellow worth }9%, G yrup | the satarvogpuie under Prim, of tho Hobenzol- worth 4. ‘lern incident, and of tkie two years’ reign of the “Hoy do they do this ? = witer. R ) This 1e what L saw for tho Graghis Fosterdsy, | —Tho dfedical Times, o Philsdelphia, puys 3 in the-Inrgest sugar-refinery in the United | professionsl compliment to * Middlemarch, contradting George. Eliot’s treatment of medi- cal topics in connection- with Lydgate with the blunders of other novelists, s as Charles —The Personal Life of George Grote, the Historian, Ilustrated by Numerous Letters,” Which is’ nearly resdy, will form (writes Mr. Welford to. the Bookbuyer) another instance of the long preservation of intellectual vigor in women, as the autkoress, his widow, is ‘now 80 years ofage.” - . .. e S R —“Les Ptats Unis_de I'Amerique Septen- - trionale,” by A. F. de Fontpertius, has just been published in_Paris, by Guillsamin, The first “ Origines des Colonies,” stops at the g:;?lsan ‘Revolation of 1683; the second extends from 1688 to_tho conquest of Canada-by Eng- jand; the third, from the capitulation of Quebeo to tho War of Independence; the last, isthe. hintc_ir'&v of the Union down to our time. —The Bociety of Men of Letters has presanted to the . French Government the draft of s liter- ary convention between England and France, to States : 5 e TFirst, the suger in filthy black bags, hogs- heads covered with mud, “and -boxes smeared over with bilge-watar and filth, -was landed. st tho Williamsburg docks, where you see those immense-gugar-houses. Then' stevedores car- ried it back to a big copper vat filled with hot ‘ater, broke open the boxes, cut_open the baga,. and knocked in the heads of the lgoqsbelds and let it all—dirt, mud, sticks, niggers’ shoes, old hats, pipes, bones, undissolved newspapers, sleaveless shirts—yes, let it all slide into the va together. What ! all this dirt ? Yes, and more, too. They a.pla_mni the filthy old hogsheads, soiled bags, and dirty boxes into s steam vat, stoamed and washed off thedirt and engar, and then put it in, too. Then a groasy old Dutchman stirred it up occasionally, expectoratmg tobacco juico here and-there, an scraping bis Willismsburg mud into the future frosting.of our wedding-cake. What next ? Well, the hogahead staves, after the sugar and | put an end to the .piracy of French authors by d.irt:n’a worked off, are sent back to Cuba, and itish adapters, the treaty of November, 1851, . i being poworless on that point. 400 hogsheads of ‘sugar ‘and dirt per dsy are atnped, in 5 liquid fom, into the Stth stary, o e cloaned and purified. - What! can they- take out filthy cigar-stubs, dead rats, negro babies, bilge-water, aud every- thing? —Prof. Francis W. Upham, author of a troatisg - on *The Wise Mon of- the East,” has pursned the same subject further in a volume on * The Star of Our Lord, with an Essay on the Astro- nomical Doubt as to Christianity,” which isnear- - pura and trapsparent - - sge-meat into that first tapk. and I tell you,:” ~ i The eyrup which runs out -when the whits -- rofined soft sugaris 93 per cent sugar, Lknow = —The two American posts, Longfollow and Yes: in fivo hours they draw from this | ly ready., . . wilihs’ chowaor avrup a8 pare and as colorless | ~ —Tho Rev. Dunbar Hesth is engaged upon & and odorless a8 ice water, swork to be called * Printed Phenician Inscrip- - tions,” of which the first part is likely to- 2 in’a honth. Tt will contain il the knows in- scriptions printed in ‘& clear character, Mr. and as clean, too. All dirt, salts, smells, and_every rastarial obstacle or gaseous odor or oxyd, is separated, and trans- iqui arruns out &s water trickles g:’:xm "“&".;"rfng. Heath having had type struck for -the purpose... How 4o they do g2 - | Tho dssign of tho work will ba to populatize tha First, the dirty liquid is pumped into 1,000- | study of Phenician, and; at the ssme time, to show the general Semitio character of much Old.: _ uldr ‘with a steam-pipe in the bot- B Then, pias £ o Toatament theology that has hitherto been sup- Then, blue litmus aper_soaked i cabt oEed ot o sen in bl bbage juice) is to ba purely Jewish. G ;?ia:;x: 1181:j is )smu-, the blus paper is —**Josh Billings,” who is Mr. Bhaw, of Pough- changed fored. Then they throwin & pail of | keepsie, has been written up by the Pough- lime. This kills the acid, or the acid leaves the sugar to attack the lime, when, like the Kil- kenny cats, they are both esten up. If you pour acid in soft-gosp, the alkali (another torm o!‘lime) will leave the grease to feed upon the aci ‘What next ? Then the half-naked men who work over the hot cauldrons pour five gallons of warm g lock’s blood, fresh from the slaughter-houses, into each 1,000 gallons. of melted sugar.- The white of eggs woula be better, but eggs cost o0 much, while blood, which is almost as fall of albumen, only costa 11 cents per gallon. This blood “settles ™ the sugar, s an ogg “seitles” your coffee— that is, the albumensseizes hold of avery particle of dirt and holdsit. Then when they raise the-temperature to 180 degrees, the blood, lime, dirt, sticks, etc., float to the surfaco, while the syrup, yellow and quito transparent, is drawn off ti gh' strainers at the bottom, leaving the scum on top. The acum and dirt sre rinsed with clean water, the swoet part saved to wet up a fresh lot of sugar, and the dirt carted off a8 & fertilizer. They take a ton of rich ma- nure out bf-the sugar every day. Tororgh sepilong cioth. bags, having foue rough baga—long c ags, hav or five thicknesses of cloth ' thom. ‘They catch all the heavy dirt; little stones, sand, etc., and the leaves them transparent, only elightly tinged with yellow. -Thess bags take out about 4 per cent of dirt—real black, mucky. dirt—the same as you see in the streetsl The syrup is now 93 per cent pure sugar, whereas it was Eneaa per cent five hours ago. There re- v maine 7 per cant of coloring, forsign malts,'and mmns of amore advanced age. It'is an. gases yet to be removed. - = LORER i lenit -manual . for the-use of all who desire - ‘How arb thess gases and salts removed ? to learn Gorman without the services of & mag.. This is done liry filtering the yellow syrup | ter. (H. Enderis, Chicago.) . . keepsie Eagle. Ho gots $100 a week from the. New York Weekly;~ bas a desk thers and st Carleton’s. Ha got 91,500, 3 cents a copy, for - dedicating his first almanac_to the Weekly pub~ . lishers, and £1,800, 2 centa a copy, for dedicating - the second. He is now worth $41,000.clear all debts. —James R: Osgood & Co. announce that, not- withstanding the dullness of the season in the book trade, they have found large demand for several of thair recent publications, such s Mrs. Btowe's * Palmetto Leaves,” which gives & Sonth side view of Florids lif» ; Bret Harie’s eketches and poems; Wamer's * Back-Log Studies ;" um.emm;'p new. story, “ The - Other Girls, which cutatrips ali other stories published Iately in popularity ; Grey's essays on Enj of TLife; Matthew Armold's remarkable book on “ Liforaturo and Dogs ;" and Bayard Tazlors - D eloct Garmn tories ™ i a revised and en Iarged American edition of & work which has for * - some time been successfully used as a text-book in the German classes in the Chicago public schools. It consists of a number of anecdotes, short stories, and poems, calculated to and - interest the student, and acqu him, “in- the _easiest - possible way, the idioms and conversational oxpressions of the German,—answering all the purposes of » phrase-book, without being " 80 unfnumung. 0 diffionlt words’ and. expreasions are trans- .- Iated when they first occur, and it is left to the . memory of the student to know their meaning when he sees them sgain. ‘The book covers a wide range, mdiaflligt:dtutchfldmn,u wellas _ .