Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 25, 1873, Page 7

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MAY 5 5, 1873, 7 "THE JUBILEE BALL: o mber of Commerce. as thy e Scone of the Festival.. . yow the Argot of the Eoard Wil Adapt Itself to'the Occasion : : rrangements that Should Be Made, by {he Managers---How the Pleasure - " of the Participants Can Be “% Largely Enhanced. ‘Balls, in their vasiety, probebly afford mors. * cmmsement to all classes of peopls than-any othar epecios of entertainment: Therd seems tobe a fascinstion in dancing ; dod; whila tha. of motion may b8 classified in the simd. vy 43 that of language and ides, tho former ad: its of more umversal participation. : Still; . THERE ARE BALLS AND BALLS. ) Aost of these are stigmatized by Madame Haut- toa and her danghters as vulgar and objection- sble; ad, in older cities than Chicago, when some grand charity is on the tapis, and the sceno isan opera-honse, she gits in stately magnifi- fecé; flankod by Hef bemntiful dnghters, with | Holi me tangere written in every line of tace.and figure, and wonders how people can . dance in’ & ‘public place. E ' The only excoption o, this rule is when 4 scioN oF movALTY is o be feled, and a8, in this democratic country; where Congressmen do thrive, and Senators, even:Vice-Presidents, are not always indubitably #ans peur el sans reproche, Mrs. Shoddy or Mo- bilier . may get- & ticket of sdmission, she i§ obliged to. put up with the “ dust of vulgai . feet,” at such a time at Jeast. “Her old inherit- {'. ed Point dé Venise and jeweled heirlooms- may Dbe outshone by the recent purchases of some Tsmmany attache ; but she must even sub: it, or allow wandering Princes, Dukes, Czaro= sitches, and Mikados to think that therd is no real ‘aristocracy here. So she frowns at thé nouvean riche, and smilos sweotly on the inof: fensive and inquiring youth of royal lineage, withont regard $o his climatic posseesions or his _ complexion, and is & martyr in a noble cause. As for bor own entertainments, if Hsut-ton xire can foot the little bills, Gimbrede receives orders to engrave cards fora. " BAL-DANSANTE AT DELMONICO'S, st which the German and minuet-de-Ja-cour aré played by celebrated bands,“two at-lesst, con- tealed by screcns of odorous blogsoms. Madame 1nd bor dsughters dress at home, and drive down there toreceive their guests. Th& supper is prepared by the prince of caterers ; and, when the last guest has gone, Madame returns to her own get, elegont house, which has not been upsat by the rout, and slecps the sleep of peace, 29 one wwho has done her duty to society with the greatest amount of eclat and the least possible discomfort to herself ; while' papn puts off any thonght of the little vhill until it is absolutely neceseary to recognize his liability. That there are occasional exceptions to this rule is true, as it is of all other tkings, and es- .+ pecially is it 80 ‘Whether the heated term, in relaxing the sys- tem, also melts one's dignity, and produces & certain fusion of opposing elements, . is a gues~ «tion that might prove a fruitful one for subirb- an debating societies, who gencrally discuss subjects that they know the least about. At all “en'hf ‘hops 8t I{ewpon and Saratoga are guite possibfe to Madame Hanut-ton snd her daughters, evenif. Mrs. Tammany and Mobilier, being able to pay their 85 a day, fos the waiters, and writd foreiga names on & Little card at breakfast and dinner, ave also present. 1t is here that Chica- E, rising in her yonthfol might and poirer, has e sdvantage over older cities. Teading the eeasan, 28_Bhe- expects. to.do, with s ball. that aball be nnexceptionsble in every item, she is sure, from the elements from which she pur- result, that it will be €8 to effect this grand 53'2 only social, bat A NATIONAL 6UCCESS- There is perhaps less in this cify than in any other of that spirit which is said to obiain in .certain” New England towns, in which *The woman who takos in washing will not aszociate with ‘the woman Who. goos out -washing.” While & ceptain inexplicable something defies social limits, the fair dame of Chicsgo feels thai she may bail with eagerness such balls as are given here, especially sach & one a8 is at present under consideration, without derogating from ber position, or losing her inherent dignity. To this ehe may welcome whoin she pleases, whether foreign potentate or one whom she wishes to hohor smong her countrymen, with the assur- ance that npeither Madame Haut-ton's private bal-dansante at Delmonico's, nor the hop of the season at any of " the renowned Wwatering- pixces shall eclipse it in elegance. 5! it is to be given 1 g THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, is a pleasant fact; but it is rather funny to think what a very different sort of financial transaction will be represented on that night. The supper will be served in the Open-Board Toom; and hers, no doubt, the bolls and beara will modify their bovine and ursine natures toa degree fitting the gentle socioty that shall make of helr dusty mart a sacred s, thongh Venus, Bacchus, and" Terpsichore the deitiss they worship. One can imagine them emulating the bard-handed men of ‘Athens, and * roaring yon softly, as a sucking dove.” While, in the mazy evolutions of the waltz, z THE BEARS 5 will have a chance to indulge their natural pro- peneities, still they must not bs too- bearish in 0ir '_embrace, but hug gently aund discrest- Iy, and with an eye to the proprietis. As for THE BULLS, recommend that they showld 0 whitewash themselves as to represent that snow- white animal who mingled with the herds of Agenor, and, hiding in that spirited and beanti- form the matchlcss Jupiter himself, won the fair Europa and eloped with her to Crete. This for the young cubs and calves who msy seek the favor of some fair goddess. As for the older snimals, ve suppose. it will require a certain amount of restraint to make them forget their soquired shibboleth ; but for this_evgy all events, o tion, and Fow =v® %e_can’ onl; it should_have b aZiorded even here. 5% {amor of bids will give way to & CONCORD OF SWEET SOUKDS, snd torn serophswe will take the placo of smash- &d hats, whik- tie German, or evolutions of like eharach=f will usurp the cheerful and exhilarat- §p Kercise of lelp-fr%g. Taurus will be too 8y paying court to Europs to amuse himself g{& cing hot gravel-stones inside the el of Ursal Minor's shirt-collar, that ey . may thence meander slowly and g:pleulnfly to ‘his boot-heels, to’| - removed thence with effective remarks: it sk, L ey ieked,—the only s market that night being quoted T o, That somo of it Toay be, dinposed o for cash iy of for cas o in the regular way, is quite possible, a3 matri: momal ventures are spt to. have a mercantile n ‘e, even if, like certain stocks, they are apt uctuate. “All the more chance for specula~ - 2ud it is not supposable th:‘l of thess gen- {lemen, ome can eay with Macbeth, when he ad- & m the apparifion of the murdered Banguo, Bk bast no epeculation in- those eyes.* nPWflhhm in the eye and on -the lip is their normal condition. No doubt TADY & yOUNg man Wfieh{sh‘ua"poinl,"mdmnit!ul ' gure mflg, while ¢! corners,” if Jjudiciously screened, ol clebied “to s sentimental - shade, T be “eagerly somght after. The terms, b fi‘ three,” or ~“geller three,” mean- g thres weeks or months, not days, howerer, Unot be out of place, though, of course, in ol case, it must be “/eeller’s,” ot ¥ buyer's Ption."" Urss or Taurns may—indeed, must— = pe 8 specdy delivery of the stock at as early o 2y 88 possiblo, bat it remains with Mamms to i her ecller's option, and_only to hand over oo, £Topety whon sho sees fit to do so. ‘She’ @23 possibly do some ¢ bsllooning,” and in this §28% It s parfectly commendablo. -{Vhat dowager gt Liss 2 right 10 present her_stock in tho most lg::r::lignhaz 2~ Bat b might not be wiso to ¥ IV t00 long, as, unlike otner speculative Broperty, it is not apt to advance m valus - - e FRELT T00 LONG ON HAXD. - 3 oute2a " 85d - calls " may aleo be in oder for o er8 who are interested in the movoments 5 lbeix- frisnds : but_enough has boen written ow that the whole argot of the brokars’ By i8 equally applicable to an ulra-fashionable e with ' the excfl:fim that, in some cases, i{ o no: optional with both partien: - “and away in tho other, both in -oupauts and ia returning for them. A published /| tion of drivers,.and s general condition of dis- considered. no_better- placa” conld have been selected than the Chamber of Commerce for the ball“ Tt depends only apon the managers to have it & perfect success, and the leading bell of the senson be unsurpassed by any thatshall fol- lgvy it. To prevent crowding, . 2 GES - CARRIA should bo obliged: to driv p % one direction leaving thcir oc- xotice to this effeot, thoroughly unders enforoed Loy Crowe X u ood, and proper polica authotity, will prevent 1§ _0r_delay; which is so aunoying, 4 x'm;l. np‘m'e.tiq:es' disturbs 6ne's bquanimity for. an briire: avening.: How. .d o shioui suter ith ‘an anatheme on b Soraphina with “a there had an -anathems.on - his lips, or. frown’ on’ Lier brow, because been o snaxl.of carriages, a-vilupera~ cord! “Thon’ 2 £ o DBESSING-ROOMS FOR LADIES' -should. be_ample. _The. presont voluminous- | toilettes require abundant space to sbake. ont -and arrange in proper sinnons, serpentine, and enchanting. linos, - Plunty.nf:nte?:danu there shonld be,—armed witli sowing implemonts). to o¥ercoms any serious damag® produéod by the paw of 4 dancing bear or the lioof of 4 pironette: ‘Lflfilfll,.qr the antics of any other mnsculive al that may perform at this elegant . enter- F - ATTI by.the, 42 {0 JOLETTE. are generally brought CLES . fair. damos them- || eelves. At fhe Inst ball. we attended in the “character of ** A chiel's amang ye takin' notes,” we saw a lady take her, bair-powder from:her - pocket and request her attendant to pepper her ead with it, which he did in a sufliciently awk- ward manner to cover her entire face a3 .well as “hair, Sho, however, with great cara removed it : from her skin with her damty mouchoir, being yery careful not to rub .too hard.. Two - others exchanged face-powder, . xomarking, for the ben- efit of Iookere-on; that i One was obliged to, do sich things whan dancing, though - they never— no, nmever—thought of doing .80 at any - other time.” Did the audience beliove? \WWe_ are “afraid this is a very incredulous'age, full of -shams, and eelf-deceptions, and delnding of riends and strangers. Why, if & parson wishes to use powder to cool a heated skin, is it neces- sary-to act o8 if she was committing an nupar- donable sin? And yet each feminine does, though tho use of ‘cosmetics Las been a mattor -6 courde in all iges and Countries, among the fashionable and beautifal women of the world: . . . UPON THE FLOOR-MASAGERS will devolve much of the onus of making the ball a success. There should .bo no wall-flowers allowed ; but when, with their ubiquilous vis- ‘on, they discovér s lady sitting out, it should be their businoss to find hior_escort, sud ascertain ‘whether.it is a.matter of choico that ehe does so, or iexhapn because she is a stranger, "Let them look to this, and not consider that their whole dpais fulfilled when they have assigned places to those who may have risen to join the dance,. Being gentlemen, graced with & sort of cordon d honneur in the badge of office which they wear, they ought to have the privilege of ad- dresging any lady : | . . . WITHOUT THE CEREMONY of 8 special introduction, and thus sscertaining ersonally her wishes in regard to joining tho ncers, and by this moans arrive st a speedy knovledge of who her escort is, and through bim ‘being able to serve her. Not infre- quently . voung Isdy, passionately fond of ricing,—for with many it 8 a passion,—has had her entiro evening spoiled, through neglect con- séquent upon being & stranger, or in the fact that her escort is one, - et the éhimxg of Chi- .cago lock to this, and see that no such contre- temps happens at her grand festival on the 6th of June. ‘There should also be an abundance of some i - cOOLING DRINE _in an adjoining- ante-room, or iced sherbet, to Which the dancers could Lave access. If it ever does come warm, it will probably make up in in- tensity of -heat for all tho coldness with which re have been imized thronghout the so-called zfiflnmnd it is probable that, by the time ho takes place,” we' shall reslizo that fact. The . nocessity of rofreshment for| .the dancers - must be = patent to any, one,for, even in the coldest weather, such ‘exercise is apt to_develop & certain amouxt-of ‘thirst. We have known gentlemen quite unabla fo rosist ita clamors for appoaing liquids, whi 7 which, however, were not always, when obtaine [, of tho most cooling kind. Let the mauagers make a note of this, and add to the comfort of their gaasts by thus affording s meansof rofreshment which will be a little thing in itself, but will add immensely to the comfort of &1l who participate in the affair. L & E o AS FOR THE SUPTER, - that, no doubt, will be a feast acd flow ; but kow ‘much reason or soul tliere will be in it, one can hardly conjecture. .Recsonable eating, howerer, i8. a good thing, and soul aud _spirit have: been Téceived as synonymous terms. * ~ Therefore, with every expectation that the JubleoBall' -~ : WILL FAR EXCEED . anything of the kind ever beforo attempied in this country, we hope that all. may enjoy it. to the utmost of their anticipations, and arc morally sure thsd it must be an'immense success. S e il . 'Dining with Victor Emanucl. - Anne Brewstor writes from Rome to the Phil- adelphia in: % ‘The King’a oficial dinner came off on‘Sun- a.l-‘yd and his 3ajenty has gone to Naples, vory B féasts, which are especially dizagreeable to him. The royal dinuers are. very fine, but . they are served in the most vapid mainer, and it is aid the guests aro apt to dine at homo previous to ‘going. - His Majesty never eata a mouthful at them. He sits with his hand on his sabre hilt, her father's feet, and as himsolf. The evidences of torture on the body of the jeweler are fearfully spparent. . Marks of thie cofd nd of the buraing ron are desply, ro- © certain. however, that, all things | in any part. sometimes in moody, bored silence, sometimes His' niece and daughter-in-law, the Princess Marguerite, is alwaya at hia right hand, and very ‘devoted to him. Ashis Majcsty is fond of her, and as she is gay, chatty, and attractive in man” ‘ner'and_person, she serves as_one untiring. re- source for him during the fastidions feasts. On Sundsy evening Prince Arthur of England was n the left of the King, and did his best to amyso his royal host. Victor Emanuel has what are called ““simplo “tastes” in eating—to my digestion they would be very complicated. Wild boar and brocali, equivalent to corn-beef and ‘cahbage, theso aro his Majesty’s favorite dishes. ‘He cats sporting food at hunters’ hours, at day- dawn end middsy. Therofore, o7 o'clock oven- ing dinnor, with . French ‘menu_with Potage coulis de perdresux s I'Rogonce; Becasses & gasronome, &c., i8 nonsense and. * grest trash o him. Thess are the ressons - given for the King's fasting while his guesta are feasting —for Hia Majesty makes no secret of his sustinence ; be does not evon pretend to cat 0 p wine, nor play with bread crumbs; Very likely, these roa- “8ons may be the true ones in EIXIH,A":L %3";5:1 isa nore potent one, not given out. AD 0.Crule in Tho antient Bavoy mv damily establishd that its Rings must ~5ver broak broad(in public. An o ey M¥iont saying is o subject can cioRk Pope or Bavoy sovereign.” Constitu- onal King as is Victor Emanuel, there -never was a mora thoronghbred aristocrat at heart : no monarch ever stood mare firmly by the lawa and traditions of bis line and: race. A * Shylock,” his Majesty will buy, sell, talk, walk, and so fol- lowing with his_dear ‘people, but 1ot ent with them. -Drink and prsy with .them, Lowever, it appears he does not objectto. . The Wonders of the Grave, * The tomb of Edward the First, who died in- 1807, was opened Jan. 2, 1770, after 463 years had elapsed, His body 'was_slmost. pesfect. Canute (the Dane), who crossed over to England in'1017, was found in 1776 by the workmen who repaired Winchester Cathedral, where his body bad, reposed: nearly 750 years, perfectly fresh, In 1569, three Boman soldiers, fully equipped with warlike implements, wore d? out of a g:d of peat in Ireland, where they had lain probably years. Their bodies were perfectly: fresh and plump, In'the reign of James II. of England, after the fall of the church at Astley, in Warwickehire, there was taken up the corpse of Thomas Gray, Marquis of Dorset, who was buried there the 10th of October, 1530, in the twenty-second year of He i »V'mm ;+and a}fimngh l; hndflhin ere seventy-eight years, the eyes, hair, nail S50 Johnts s arned as though it had e bu:E " bu‘%"d‘ brook, wh a raybrook, who was consecrated Bisho of London in 1381, and who died in 1404 lnfi was puried in St. Paul's, was taken out of his tomb after thaimn fire in. 1666, during the re- pairs of the cathedral, and although he had lain there no Jezs than 262 years, his body was found firm as to ekin, hair, joints, and nails. Pietro Rodriguez, 8 Portuguese jeweler, whilo pursuing his occupation in the City of Mexico, was, in-1595, accused before the tribunal of the inquisition, and, after suffering a variety of tor- tures, was condemned to be buried alive in a vault in the Convent de 8t. Domingo, in that city. He was then 38 years old. The Convent de 8t. Domingo was_ lstely demolished in search of tressure supposed to ba concealed there, and the body of Rodriguez taken oat of the vault exactly as when placed there 270 years before. His dsughter, 21§ years of ago, was lying under per%ecfly preserved as corded-on various parts of his body. ‘hair and beard are firm, his skin ndtural in hue and texture, without the least trace of decomposition to be through with these ceremonious | tolking to the person -most -agreeable_to him.- ENGLISH SERVANTS. - From' Appletons. s of living among tho Y. * Thie scals Ithier classos’ In fact, the combination - of splendor and com-; fort wkich it prescnis been kmown. in the .world's history, It could ecarcely ‘'bo ‘ compassod with any’ amounf of wealth hidré, depérding, 2ait In 4 great degree does; tipoii the peculiir financial. anid sodinl cons dition of the differcnt cl2sses which Goniposs thd English community. . -'.The great noblosse, and indecd- many wealthy commoners, maintain cst2blishmonts nearly as { large a8 thoso of their feudal forefathars. Miny keep'a huudred servants in aud sbout the house. ~ Herois a:list.of.wbat would be fonnd in the household of a wealthy.peer of the highest class of fortano s oy Tér péar; Honse-steward, 1.81,000 atler,...... 759 Underbutior < 250 o 500 . Wo may remark, cipal ddtics of.this last fun ary a0 to £p6 (at the requisita writing Is Ave [n all tig sitting and bed-rooms, and, where thero are fifty, rooms and & conetant flow of visitors, this really. gives him something to do; but, taking tho year through, Lis dutica are by zo means overnheln- ing, for, in London, they are principally confined to seoing thint his mistress is well supplied with viciting-cards, and waiting at dinzie; Toresumo the lisks: -~ - - My lord’s val Tiirce footmen, cac: and their Uvery, aud aliowazce for their hair, = = Hall-porter.: : Usher of the hall. i "2 This is & domestic only found in very Jarge es- tablishmonts; his epecial avocation is to attend to the servanis® hall, and keep itin proper order, and ho rarely appears above-steirs unless the whole force of tho establishment is needed, when he files intd line with tho footmen. "Finally, there is the ‘staward's-room boy, who is'a gonaral “‘scrub,” and waits on “the £oo as the house-keoper's room i _termed par exc lence. *“‘The room” is an inetitution peculiar Great Britain. The etiquetto observed there, as in all dopartments of English “high-life bolow atairs,” is truly terriftic. - = Only = very lmited uumber of a household enjoy the privilege of the entreo to this “exclu- give retreat: These are the steward, the butler, and any other servants who don’t wear livery, and. among the feminine portion of the houeohold, the house-keeper and ladies’ maids.” Whero'there is a man-cook, he also partakes of this paradise. - J“The room” is s soug parlor, neatly car- peted and warmly curtained. An old-fash- ioned,” spacious, chintz-covered 8ofs, an arm- chair or two, and a_number of cauc-botfomed Qittv, compriso tho’ furniture. The walls aro hung with prints from fimily portraits, such a8 the Dulke, when Merquis of Steyne, in the midst of the Steyne huut, with huntsmen and hounds - around . him—the late Duchess, from the portrait of Sir.Thomas Lawronce. Much of the wall is covered by presscs well filled with linen and’ preserves. O, thab- apricot-jem of our youth! A very cheery rotreat is *‘the room " on & winters’ evening. Enter tired after hunting,~sbout 5 o'clock, sud - tell Mrs, Rouncewell-yon are, of course, an habitue of tno castle—that you have come to bag for & cup of her delicious tes, and you'll get snch & brew. with such cream and such buttered toast—all buttered toast on this side of the At~ lantic is a mere mackery of it—as you won't for- get in & hurry; snd - Mre. Rouncewell. will put you in hor easy chair, and, when she has made Fou thoroughly comfortable, will begin to talk about *‘the family,” whose bistory she has at her fingers'-onds, and iho old lsdy's reminie~ cences &re 80 entertaining that you stay chattin and listening until tho _dressing-bell ringe; an you hurry up to take off your Girtyshooting-gear &and get ready for dinner. Dressing for ‘dinner it littla troublo, for, oven if you've no sorvant of yoar.own, all is arranged for you. ; 5 : lorions firo is_biazing at the grato. A sofa 15 wheeled ronnd to tho fire, on which a carafal hand. has_arranged all you cen requira for your ovening toilet; n bugd easy chair, on whoso back reclinos your dreesing-gown, is be- side it; wax-candles gleam befor the. amplo mirror; and 2 big pitchier of Menton's prettiest ware stonms at (ho wosh-hand stand. , Your let- tors, -whick have arrived by the evening's post, are laid out on the table. The womei-seryauts £ro far more numero! than the men: t tio pri Por pear, €00 Per Year, 100 re-on,” ser- ten do moro r aondescrip! g vants’ gervants, in fact, who too of than half the work. = These 'angers-on, be it obeerved -are sexes, and it requires muoh vigilanco o prevent the number of ‘‘odd ” men and-‘‘0dd ™ women about largo places incrensing. ‘In Iroland it is almost impossible. 5 The organization and Yropur management of {hieso very large househo) expense, but uften entail great, trouble. “Thon why Lave thom ?" may neturally be asked. 2 i Xy > ‘The answer is, that they the prevailing structure of the. and “high life " in England, For instanco, through = the tle, and a million of dollars a year, and noblesse mevsurnte therewith. 5 Again, the hospitable customs - of houses entail it. People muy Lave litt &t another. * There are a few houscholds where the mon- servants are 8o numerous that eome of thom sixteen sitting down to their ‘mnster's table, crammed with company, twenty-two or twonty- six sitting down to dinner cvery night, and the whole establishment will really work bard. : Itmust aleo be romembered -that, to have rato establishments, requires a largo stafl. First-rate English the various otherunploasant eccentricitios which we suffer at the hands of our Hibernian waiters aro never hurried. Thore is in their work, as in Iabor, and each man lottod tasks. “See ‘that yonng footman with a hot plate in his hand; which is burning a Lole in his finger ; he will Daud it properly, nevertheless, Tho stern eye of his gencral-in-chief, the butler, is upon him, and he dares not drop it, as our ‘own Patrick would dg, with & howl. . . 5 Tho fall of a plete ivould disturb the ropose of dinner. My lord’s diicsllon would _suffer, my Iady would bo agitated, and Dayward, the. great “diner-out,” wonld remark, at_the pext house he wont to stey in, thiat tlie dinner wus very badly managed at Rr-badab Castle, and the foot- men knocked the plates abont. _ One'sometimes very oxasperating effect of this division of labor is, that eervants will die rather than do any worlk which they consider does not Dbeluisg to them. o - Asl's butler to lay the echool-room cloth, and tears of indignation will well up into that func- tiouary's eyes. Tell - the footman to wash the door-steps, and he will giva warning on the spot, And hero is a reason why 5o few good English men-servants liko to come to tho United States, _Muny ' people oxpoct of them sor- vices which they-would nover ba expected women’s Wwork—iwashing down stoops,-cleanin, parlors, and such-like. This is what they wi not do; but, humor them a little, aud they are, in most Tespects, the best servants in tho world, although wanting in the power of readily adapt- insfl.\emsal\‘es t0 new circumstances. f_course, tho establishment wo haso boen describing is one of the very largest. - Thers ere probably about 200 on such a scalo. Bu there &ro many more tiearly as large. ] The usual number of in-door men-gervants in an affivent household is four, with mboub ten women-servants, but the number of, the latter varies very much according to the number of ladies in a family.- B 3 Ahout tiwelve years ago several proprictors of very large houeeholds awoke to the conviction that they wero being ruthlessly plundered, and’ forthwith instituted s rigid reform. . One wealthy Duke went 80 far.as to enter into a contract with his major-domo to supply him with overything at & fived price, and the story in England to-day is quite aslavish-and irifinite- | 1y mors ‘comfortable than at any provious period.: probably. never beforo, .ate. of_both ds oo not only.s great gnrt and parcel of. ercditary system lcnfifi: and bredth of the land there is scarcely to be found a man of smmpler tastes and habits' than Lord Derby,bnt he hasbeen born to a famous ti- obliges him to maintain’ an establishment com- f;mn o for their servants to do at one time, but & greatdeai movor have to wait unless. thore 'are more than Then, agaln, for & fow weeks, tho' house will bs everything as perfectly done us it is done in first- men-servents pever rush’ sbout, bang doors, knock over chin, or commit in this country; aud one reason is, that they everything else in England, immenso’ division of ccomes perfoct in his al- with & voice choking with silent rage. 3 to perform st home, often what they considsr, -~ goes that, whia dovre ono s stayinzat D—n " owners are of “history of cach domestic, and, takes .an interest and ke broke one of the cherridés with his_testh Castls, jn the Highlands, Lo 128 rstonished on | from o b g s, cilling for sodacater Sne. night, 10 lecti Shat | from pis month - Coeror 1t 10 the Friacess none -was to_ be' hadi.- UJe was. subse- | .:Tha.Princess conld not do otherwise thau re-. quently. informed bye, his own. valet,. who | ceive it frord hiz mouth, and so her face was magle privatd inq g down-stairs, * that it | brought i5: #5iaq Boon accldantally omittod oz iho cone | charey Lopsen wer e, oonh i e tract.” . besidas, ahio was not able to ssy thab instatt; “ 1. -0 “tlio miost ingtorionsly badly-managed houses was that of the late Duke of Dovonehire, s0u of tho celobrated Georgizng, commemorated by Macaulay, R = Once a gentleman” who s staying at Chata- Temomber.” Then ho cried, 1 loved one,” sud drew gncl\lermul pnlx;bmcorl h.;r. And thoy spent the Test of thei ves toge i - ) orts, the Duke'a princely sest. in Dorbrabire, | arietaces.From 5 Gorman of Gudien. Fres obderved tho shimeful neglizence of the domes- | fug, 3 tics {?\7&5 bh%rigu'm; hazual.}i'flfwflghi it right to' X £ ‘mention the subject 10 1 tost: % +Tho. Duka hgr.rd Dim _out, DANBURY-NEWSISM. joytilly, ““Good morning, his hands from Lia and, wisa friond had concluded, said,~in' s voice which | & it e 5 wtomod to imply, . *What -am I.to do 7" | SUizéthing Aboni the Humorist Hinte “ Just like 'em, just lilko 'em;” but there the sclf, aud i Fovy 7!!!ls;1‘alcsll’rnupc. tions, ; Correspondenco of the Doston d¥anacript: i Danbaory is o thriving, manufacturing town cf about 8,000 inhabitants, largely given over.to the.oppreciation of jokes and the manufacture of has, Wo believo it has been engaged in hat manufactdrd sinoé—rwell, since it was destroyed by the British in 1777. : ““Farly ovening fosnd us creoping up & dark stairwz to the composing and printing oflice of the News: Ip one large room are the cases and presses, and fereed off by itacif in ono corner is ths 7x11 plain‘deal-board sanctnit, i which we found the editor opening his mail. 23 4 - Coming along in tho cars to Danbury, wd bad; At gur idlenees, wondered if any of our fellow: travolrs Wwird the editor. A gontleman care- fally dresed and adorfiAd with spectacles was finally eclected as tho possible hidmarist, We hiad mede up our mind to & middlc-nged msf it broadeloth aud rpectacles, and now we found s ‘fnll-fsced young man dressed in coarse clothes, th séruptlotisly white linen and no necktio. 1t may interest our lidy-réaders to know that Mr: Bailey is fémarkably fine looking j ho is even-featuréd, with blick flowing hair and clear ddrk complexion, aud hds ari oyo that shows that, “liko Johm Gilpin, ‘‘ho has & pledssut wit.” - “As regards other personal matters, they are ‘well epitomized in the following auswer to a cor- réspondent, Iately published in the News : matter ended. - s +Toward the end of his Jife he bad a gentlemen of good Lirth and pokition to- reside “with him d is establishmont 3 but,: notwith- standing. s estab u butler somahow-contrived to pecu- Talé to the <moiint of §7,500¢ ** " - 0f~conrso,- in.- theso vary-lirge houses, -the god to trust very much. to upper Gervanfs: It they ,dro reliabls (ind; whem carefally - Beleoted; ‘they- generally” are o), ali squ,gxo{)grly; but, if they are-mot, thero_is generally much which i§ very wrong going ou: T2It is inémaller establishments thaé the most thorough ordor,:regularity, and comfort. 4ré to ‘be fonnd—houses where from eight to fourteen servants aro kept. Horo' the mistress of tho mansion persoually ‘Superinténds. all, knows the in them. “Thoro is no happier, bétter-orderod, more o~ fined, and moro thoroughly. comfortable home then’ that of ‘tho Englieh country-gentlemsn dwelling on’ paternal acres, from whicki he de-- xives from $20,000 to £50,000 & year. © -'Wo Lave hitherin beon considerin, % g only in- door servants. The stable estiblishment is often yery- cxpensive. . Sometimes; in the casé of hunting-stables, as many as fifteen men gro kept: Tho expenacs of & pack of hounds ‘aro éati- mated allogether at 315,060 & year, but very fow" porsons _pay exclusively for & pack. They nre usually more or less maintained by subecription. Then, again, gardens take alarge sum,and in many places from_four_to twelve pardons: are omployed in this way. . Servants in gentlemon's honses almost always como from the peasant class, and in ths figst in- stance got a place through the- clorgyman’s or, London. squizo’s wifo: A S . “I'he dream of the Londod butler iss smug iodging-house. in the rogion of the clubs in In factj- Rugglos, in *‘Vanity Fair” very faithfally’ dlustratos fheir nolions in fhis so- spect. Hotbrook, dfass. Tho editor of this paper does not fectore : hie iz married: -Mr. Bafley has had a great msny offera of but las refuscd probably from an unrecognized feeling that his fs 5 litan dailies, ns Tpidn: 'y in Danbury, em all ; resolvéd (o “mind not to be changed by place.” 4 In conversation wo found him engaging and All about the district called * Club-land ™ in London msy be found numbers of Ruggles' kind and very snug and comfortable they make you. Tako s lodging in Park Place, St. James, for instance, give o little dioner, and you will find sll done as nicely as the most fastidious taste can roquire, acd presently yon will discover that your landlord, who waifed so admirably. wesd the Marquis of - Carabas’ ** own man,” and that those cutlats which your _critical guest pro- nounced : yndeniable”” weré by the hand of your Jandlady, to whom the superlative diuners at Carabas Castle owed their reputation. THE ORIGIN OF PHILOPENA. - Thero was once & beautifal Princess who had 8 great fondnets for almonds, tod ate them con- stantly, but nothing would induce her to marry, and in order to rid herself of her suitors, of whom there Were & great number, she invented overlowing with humor, & stenograpler conld ke & ajeh ‘axticls sitting by and king with Dbim. Many were the good things he said tho eveniiig wo passed with him, and we shall long -remembor our pleasant interview with -+ this ‘most gouial genius,” who, with no advertisement save that afforded by & country newspaper with an original cireulation of s few hundred copies; s’ become omo _of the most quoted writers in the'country, and bids fair, 54 a late critic says, #¢t0 tako Lus placo at tho hesd of American hu- morists.” THE FIRST SUNDAY IN THE NEW HOUSE. . 3 “From the Danbury News. . 3 The first Sunday in the new Louss is a notabie dsy. Thereis an entiro abseace of old land: marks, and a strange, weird newness on every- thing, and you can't find your ahaving-soap: You start for & acuttle of cosl, but you don't seo tho scuttlo. 1t ia at the bottom of n barrel in the garret. You tako the dripping:pan. When you g0, to change yonr sbirt you look for it first.” 1t T in ons of the bureau-drawers, which are piled °| that she was sbout to take something from them, '| them, she would appear Bo charming aud_ en- .| A friengly little. gray man the following .devico: To “every Prince’ who sought her hand, she presented the half- of & double almond, while she ate the other half, and snid: “1¢ your lordship can succeed in getting me to take anyihing from your hand before I say the word ‘I remember,’ then I am ready to become your bride. But if, on the contrary, you recéive anything from me, without thinking to speak these words, then you must agree to heve your bair shaved entirely off your head and lenve.the kivgdom.” - _ ., This, howevor, was an artfal stratagem, for, according to the court’ custom, . no one dare to. hdnd ‘anything directly to the Princess, bat first tothe court lady, who then offered it to her. Bat if, on the othar hand, tho: Princess shonld desire to give or take anylhing—who conld re- fuse hor? So i} was useless for her suitors to make the trial, for when thoy seemed likely to bo successful, and had diverted fhe’ Princess so the court-Iady. always stopoed between, and spoiled the best-laid plan. ] g When the Princess wished to dispose of one of couraging to him, that he would be entircly fascinated, and when he gat st her feet, over- come with joy, then she would seize upon any- thing near her, as though by accident: “Tako this a8 a remembrance of me,” and when he had it in his hands, before lie could think or spesk | {lio necessary words, there would Epring outat Lim, from 'it, perhaps a frog or & hornet, or bat,'and so etartle him that he would forget the words. Then, upon the spot, he was shtven, and away with him. 'This went on for some yeats, and inall tho palaces of the otber king- doms the Princes wore wigs. Thus it came tobe the custom from that time. - Finally it happened that n foreign Prince camo upon some peculisr business, and by accident saw, the almond Princess. He thought her very Dbenatiful, and at once perceived tho etratagem. had given him an apple that once a year he was privileged fo. smell, and then thera came in his mind a very wise ides, and hehad become much renowned on account of hia deep wisdom. Novw, it was -exactly timo for him to make nse of his apple.’ So, with the scent from it came this warning : “*1f thou wouldst win in the e of giving and taking, under no circumstances must thou -either give or take anything.” Sobhohad his hands bound in his belt, and | went with his marshal to the palace, and asked to be nllowed to eat his almond. - ‘The -Princess was socre%!'f much pleased with him, and immediately banded him an almond, which Lis marshal tool and placed in his month. * The Princess inguired what this meant, and, moreover, why.he con- stantly carried lus hands in his girdle. He replied that at. bis-court the custom was even more strongly enforced than at hers, and he dared not give or take-snything with his bands, at the most, _cmli with his hea& and feet. Then the Princess liughod snd said:— “+Tn thia caso we will never bo; able to_havo our little game togather.” 3 -~ He sighed and answered : - - 8 +¢ Not unless you will be pleased to take some- thing from my boots.” “Ihat can never happen!" oxclaimed tho whole court. ST -!*Why have you come hither,”- asked the Princess angrily, * when you havo such stupid “customs 2" - . ‘- Becaue you are 8o beantiful,” replied the Prince. “Andif I cannot win you, Imsy at least have the pleasure of scoing you.” 4 “* On the other hand, I have no similar gratifi- cation,” said she. 5 So the Prinico remained at the palace, and he | pleased her more and more, but when the humor Beized her, she tried in every manner to persuade bim to take his hands from the girdle, and re- ceive something from her. She also entertained Lim charmingly, and ,froquontly .offered him flowers, bonbons, and frinkets, ‘and finally her Dracolet, but not oncs did :ho forget and stretch out iis hand to take them, for the pressure of the girdle reminded bim in time. Bo.he would nod to his marshal, and he received thém, 8aying. “Ye remember.” 2 Then the Princess wonld becomo impatient, and would exclaim: “My hondkerchief has' fallen! .Can your lordship pick. it up for me?” Wharenpon the Prince would -fasten his epur “into if, and wave it carelessly, while the Princess . would hnve to bend'and remove it from his foot, angrily saying: *I remember.” Thus a to hersel < 2 . ‘“This cannot remoin so. It must bo settled in’one way or the other.” . - Bhe snid to the Prince ¢ .** I havo one of the finest gardens in the world. Year passed away, and the Princess said I'will ehow -your lordship over it, to-dsy.” The Prizce smelt of his apple, aud as they en- tered tho garden, ho said:. . . 3 *1t is very beautiful hero, and in order that we may walk near each other in peace, and not be disturbed by the desire to try our game, L1 {on, 1y lady, that, for this ono hour, you ake npon you the custom of my court, and let your hands also be fastencd. Then we will be 8afo from each other’s art, and there will be nothing to annoy us.” wh s --'The Princess did not feol vory safe"about this arrangement, but he begged so strougly that she could 1ot refuse him this, gmall fasor. So they ~ent on alone together; with theirlisnds fastened | in their girdles.’ -The birds sang, the sun shone | warmly, ‘and from the- trees, the red.cherrica hung so low that they ‘brushed their, checks 88 thoy passed. ‘ The ‘Princess saw them and ex- claimed: = i J “4\What s pity (hat your lordship is not able to pick a fow for me!” ® © - # Necosaity knowa no:law,” said the Prince. one upon another in the parlor, and you find that yon Lave got o Lift Lalf & ton of carpots and festher-bods before you can get down to the drawers, After you have lifted them down sud searched them through, it is remembercd by your wife that the desired ent is in ono of tho barrels—the one in the shed, she thinks, although it may be the one in tho garret, and yet it wonld be just like the stupid carman to have oarried that barrel down cellsr. Yon think 80, too. Yo attack ono of these berrels, and are surprised ot fho result. A bed-quilt comes ont first, then & pie-pan, next & piece of cold ham nestly done up in your vest and packed away 1r tho missing scuttle. Below is an Assort~ meat of ironwaro and a longth of stove-pipo, a half-lonf of bread, a couple of towels, anda Tolling-pin. You begin to expoct yon will even- Eially come pon & cosl-mine, and perhaps some desd friends. . Then you go down into tiat barrel ageln, and come up witl . vlessing nesortment of stockings and half-cmptied medicine-bottles. Tho way yon come up this time leads you to consider the barrel itself. It has caught in the back of your vest and made the cloth let go ; it took off one-half of one sleeve, and created & semsation on the back of your hand aaif a bonfire had raged thero. It is quite ovident the cooper who built that barrel was called away before he commenced to clinch the uails, You wvoluatarily grasp {ho rolling-pin and look around as if you balf expected £o sea him. Then you call tho girl to ropack the ber- rel, and start ap stairs to look after something that is ensicr to find. but finally chango your mind; and pasa the baiance of -tlie day in dig- ging carpet-tacks and worthless wood from the palms of your fect, and concocting lies about thio wealth of your uncle; and the moon looks through the wrindow at night, aud tonches up, mith o glow of burnished silver, soveral lom of stovepipo, a half-n-dozen odd chnirs, & sheet of dirty zinc, and a barrel with bed-quilts foam- ing over the top. MAEING A GABDEN. From the Danbury Neis. Wesuppose thereis a time that comes to every man when ho feels he should like to have a gar- den. If he takos such a notion he will tell his wife of it. Thisis the first mistako Lo makes, and the ground thus lost is never fally recov- ercd, Sho draws her chair up to his, and laya ono hand _on his knee, and purses up her lips into a whistlo of axveculion—ihe vixen—and tells about her mother’s garden, and how nice it is to have vegetablos fresh from the vines every ‘morning, &nd she will go right out aud plan the ‘whole thing hersolf. And so she does. He takes Tiis spade, and works himself into o perspiration, and she tramps around under a frightfal sun~ ‘bonnet, “and gets under bis feet, and shrieks zt the worms, and loses her shoe; and makes him first vexed, and then mad,. and then ferocious. ‘After the garden is spaded he gets the seod and finds she has been thoughtful euough to open the papers, sod empty thirteen varietios of different vegetables into one dish. This leads him to stop out doors, where ho communes with Nature alone for & momont. Then he takes uj the seed and a hoe, cnd a line, and two pegs, an starts for the garden. And then she puts on thatawful bonret, and brings up the rear with a long-handled rake, and a pocket full of beans, and petunia eeed, and dahlia bulbs. ‘Whilo be is planting the cora, eho stands on the cucumber bills, and rakes over the seed-pan. Then ehe puts the rake-handle over her shoul- der, and the rake teeth into his hair, and walks overthe other beds. He don't find the squash seod until she moves, and then ho digs them out of the earth with his thumb. Sho plants the beet seod herself, putting about two feet of earth and sod npon them. Then she takes advan- tago of his absorption in other matters, and puts down the petunia seed in one pot, and sfter- wards digs them up, and puta them down in an- other place. Tho beans sho conceals in tho earth wherever she can find a place, ‘and puts the bulbs in the cucumber hills. Then she tips over the seed-pan again, and nrolomzeu and stops on two of the boat tomato plants, eudsays, B fi, my!” which in no way resembles what be saye. ibnfl(’. this time sho discovers & better placo for the petunia seed, but lmvin§ forgotten where she last put them, sho proceeds to find them, and I\'itgin an incrodibly brief space of time succeeds in unearthing pretty much everything that has been put down. After confusing thinga 8o there is no carthly possibility of ever mnrav- eling them again, ehe ssys the sun is killing her, and goes over to the fence, whore she stands four hours, telling the woman next door about an aunt of hers who was confined to ber bed for oleven years, and had eight doctors from the city, but nothing could give her any relief until a0 01d lads—but you bave heard it before. "The next day a msn comes to Lis office to get the pay for a patent teed-sower which his wife bas ordered, and he 0o mere than gets awsy be- fore the patentee of & new Jawn-mower comes in with an order for 810, and he in turn is followed by the corn-sheller man, and the miserable gar- dener starts for homo to head off the robbers; and finds his wifo at the gate, with his own hat on, and just about to closo & bargain with. a ‘smooth-faced individaal for a $200 mowing-ma- cline, and s pearl-handled, ivory-mounted hay- cdtter. He first knocks the sgricaltural-imple- ment agent on the head, and then drags the D rexable woman into. the house, and, focking the door, gives bimself up to his emotions, COUNTING ONE HUND: Fror the Danbrry -Nets A Danbury man named Reubens recently eas a statement that counting one hundred when tempted to say an angry word would seve a man a great deal of trouble. Thisetatementsounded = little singnlar at first, but tho more he read it over the more favorably he became impressed with it, and tinally conciuded to adopt it, Next door to Reubeng' lives 4 man who kas made fivo distinct attempts in the past fortnight. to securg & dinner of grecn peas by the 1atof July, and overy timis he hos been retarded by Reubens’ hens. The neat moming sfter Reubens made his regolution this man” found his fifth attempt :to have miscarried. Then Lo called on Rten- -bens. Heseid: - 5 e “éWhat in thundér da yor mi you¥ Hons tesr up my gardsu?” - il " Toubens was tempted to call him o mudsnoat,.” a new name just coming into general use, but ha remembered Iiis resolution, put down hiks rage, and meekly obsarved : ¢ “One, two, thrce, eight—" Then the mad neighbor, who had been eyeing. this auswer with s great deal of suspicion, broke in again: i = Wiy don't you snswer my question; you raséal i 5 gasd § But still Neubens retaitied bis went on witl tho tost. . “Nino,. em; eloven, twelve,, thirteen,: four- teen, fiftecen, sixteen—"" A Thé mad neighbor stared harder thet over. “Sovorteon;” cightden, *ninetcen, - tweuty, twenty-one—" % **You'ro & mean skiwk,” said the ‘mad neigh- | bor, backing toward tho fence s Terbers” fice fuslied st chis” largo, but o only & R |t Tweuty-two, - twenty-three,” twenty-fotr, twenty-five, twenty-six—" - ' b2 -l At thig figure the neighbor got upon the fence in somo’ haste, but suddenly thinking of s pees, he opencd his inoiith : .. “ You mean, fow-lived rascal, for fwo conts I coutd kniock ¥aiwr eracked head over o bar, and four, five, six, seven, equanimity, and I\\;o\fld—" - t’ -[ i A e “"Pyenty-saven, twonty-eight,” . interrupte Tteubens, = © twenty-nine, u'fmy, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirts-threa—"! D Horo the neighor tbroke for the house, and entering it, violantly élammed the door behind him; but_Roubeus “did not dare let ¥p on the -ennmerction, and so he stoodout thero alond in: Lis own yard, iiid. kopt on connting, whilo his burning ‘cheeks and fashiug oyes eloqiently afiirmed his judgment. Whett I got up into the eighties his wife came v the (0oF in some alarm. i “Why, Reubens, man, what is tho matter with You ¥ she said. . * Do come into the house.” But Le didu't let up. Shecamo out to him, dind elung trombling to him, but he only looked ititd hor eyes, and-said : . S “Kirigty-tLre, ninoty-four, ninety-five, ninety- six, ninely-seven. ninety-sight, ‘ninety-nive, one hundred—go into tli¢ house, old woman, or: Tl bust ye.” Aud she went. ‘ PAINLESS DEATH. An interesilug Suggeetion by o Scien- 3 tists Dr. T. W. Ellaworth, of Hartford; an emifterit surgeon, has written a papéron the modes” of capital punishment, which ia giyen below a8 pub- lished in the New York News : A recent writer suggests tho nge of chloroformi instead of the rope. He also states that the guillotine and the gierote are scientific, and in advance of hanging, an old but converient mode of execution. The subject is worthy of study in a acientific point of view, for as the world has advauced in its knowledge as to the best ways of preserving life, s6 it ought i the best way of To understand the most easy mode of dying, it is necessary to examine the process of death physiologically, a thing I Lave not seen done ‘when applied to executions. Among the methods of taking life in civilized communities, there ia little to choose; for, whichever is selected, how- ever diverse tothe eye, the physical changes producing death sre the same, and none fre from serious objections. In all, death is tho re- sult of an insufiicient supply of pure blood to the brain. This organ alone is the seat of conscious- ness, and, unlexs thus supplied at once, loses its power of porception in proportion 1o the de- ficiency. % 1t initself almost totally insensible; it- may e cat, torn; or pressed. on by tho finger without pain; Consciousness may ba lost by the press- ure, but is restored at once on itd romoval The duty of the brain is to take cognizance of impressions made o the nerves which terminate in it, like telegraph wirea-in the office. .These impressions, when thus transmitted to the brain, are acted on by the mind, and we perceive ploas- ure, pain, or specific sense, according'fo the nature of the existing cause, or the merve ex- cited. In decapitation the head loses, almost immediatoly, the blood requisita to invigorate the brain, and: faintness ensues,followed by death, just as if. blood wes taken from any other part of the body. g But the Dlow cannot descend so swiftly but that the subject is fully aware of the incising in- strument, and the pain in cutting through the rific injury of every nerve 'in the body at once, since every portion is supplied by this nervous cord, ‘and "the impression'made on the brain i3 referred to every part where thess nerves termi- nato. Pain is thus felt, even after the head lies in the bagket. Thus there- must be a universal seusation perfectly: impressed on the sensorinm. The vessels cannot empty themselves of blood 80 rapidly but that a momont or two of sonsitive life remains, for the brain feels 18 long as it has vitalized blood enough.. SR Now let us look at strangulation. The aim with every execntioner is to brezk the neck. I question much whether the subject is & gainer theroby. Whether the neck be dislocated or not, death occurs in precisely tho same way and in tho ssme time, while fracture or dislocation probably adds suffering. Look at the anatomy of the neck. 'Blood is 80 necessary for the brain that four large arteries carry the mpylg; cutting off this vital fluid through any £wo of these hard- 1y diminighes the quantity, owing to their free union within the sknll.: : 3 o Tivo of these arteries, and the largest, ran up the neck in bony canafs in tho spine; “this on- tirely prohibits compression under any circum- stances nnless the bone 1s absolutely crushed, which is never tho case in hanging. = By this arrangement; when the compression of the neck occurs, the brain .is. still for several moments supplied with blood, capable of sus- taining life. Thisis proved by the black, con- gested, and swollen face, blood passiug up and entering by the great veriebral arterios,. but being unable to escape throngh the jugnlar veins, which are external and compmae«i The person, therefors, must in all cases be conscious some moments after the drop falls. Howisit in dislocation of the neck? This takes place, when it does occur. (which is not usual), at the junction of the wo upper bones of tho spine, viz: between the atlas and the odontoides, the tooth-like processof the latter often pressing upon or into the mednlla oblon- ata, the most vital point_in the body, and it .in instantly TYollowed by paralysis of avarything below. But this does not neces- sarily help the sulferer. The body, it is true, hangs limp-and powerless, or affected only'by spasmodic action from irritstion of the upper end of the cord, independent of themind ; ‘but the brain is as yet intact; it receives its supply of blood, and for s moment or two is falty aware of what has occurred. "Tho~ quietnoss of tho body does mot prove death ; it is simply paralysis ; the man caunot move, but hie cau keenly feel. ' Death nctually in this case takes place from paralysis of the great nerves of respiration which move the and dinphragm 8o that the blood cannot be zerated. Thus, both in strangulation simple and in stran- gulation with fracture, the mechanism is- about the same. In the latter we have paralysis of the muscles, and_obstruction of the air-tube, but this does not hasten death, &ince, if the man can- Dot breathe, owing to paralysis of.the nerveaand muscles of respiration, closure of the trachea is of little additional importance, as no air could traverse it if no rope was around the neck. The garrote combines the evils of beheading with those of strangulation. It isnot as speody as the drop; and the knife severing the spino, while sensation -remains to the person who is choked by the ring, must be very distressing. When in hanging theneck is niot broken, there will be more heaving of the chest and convnl- sive motion, but probably no more suffering. - I Eve seen .ldgn:i -.;ases of fractured neu;k, and ife was prolonged just in proportion to its dis- tance from the brain, and when low down, say at tho sevonth vertchra, life has been prolonged woeks, the respiratory nerve being intact. ‘When, however, fracture was above the third vertebra, death was snid to be instantaneons, though not 8o absolutely; death ensuing simply for want of breath. ¥ Death, to be at all easy, must commence in the nervous -system, and emphatically in the sensorium. If this is insensible, the rest of the body is of no acconnt. In hanging, the pulse often beats ten or fif- teen minutes, but . the subject has long before that time ceased to exist. Organic Jife may g\) on Bome time, as the hezrt is mainly supplied by = different system of nerves from thoss entering the brain. Thus when the neck is and to the bystander the man seems dead; ha et lives; and when ho supposes hita living be- canse the heart beals, be is, in point of fact, dead. In all these instancoa there mustbes ‘brief but severe pain.- Let us now observe the way nature effects her object in the easier cases. Among these, plexy is perhaps the one attended with the i@- | est suffering, though sometimes when the spinel marrow, though brief, must be like s ter-' }s this, In sggravated cases, or in convulaions proving fatal, thero can be none, however for- midablo the gympioms may_ appear. Here tao seat of consciousness is invaded, and this_being lost the porson.is dead to- all intents. .We may by end by find some narcetic which will certainly and regularly produce the desired result. Opinm probably comes 23 near ay anything, os_it oves~ whelms' the sensorinm first of all, but itis firegular in its action ; in Iargo doses it some- times vomits, and in_smaller ones grost and scuiible nervous distuzbance results. “The ancients resorted o various methods of oisoning. Theso hsve fallon into disuso, per- apy owing to nucerteinty aud nneeliablences, &3 the agent would bo sflcsted by many- circim- stances. A - What is wanted is 'a mothod at_once instantly Qestroying seusation, . cortain i its pects, and ‘impressive to the .community. All modes by violence now nsed aro too slow to be painless. Cloroform will not do. * It somefimas destrors. life when we do not desire that resalt, bue oftener it is tolerated to o great cxtent, and Thonrs might be reanited to reach ihe ressic. What I would. propose, thougii ut first view 2 no sufferiog. Chloroform might be uzed in the ccll of the ‘prisoner to render lum insonsible, though this is Dot a necessary pretud to » painless death, for it" would bo equallyso \witiout, but it would 8paro somowhet mental euffering. Then let Jum be placed o that his head rests against tho muzzleof a lozded cannon, which is then dis- charged. It takes some timo for prin to travel ona nervo; its progress isnot instantaneousz, aud long bofore “tho sengation .could roach tho ‘brain it ceases to exist. The Iinglish destroyed thelr prizotors in India by blowing them from guns, put -they it savagely, ns thoy blew .awey the body, leaving the brain for a time capa~ Dle of receivimg sensntions. Ta the'methiod proposed by mo this conld nob occur, . Disfigurement of tho person micht bo objected to, but this is a smail ovil in compari- son with the benefits. Tioro can_bo“no pain, becsuse there is nothing whicl: can feel. X bul- let throagh the brain, ¢ten when lifo is some- whet prolotzed, wonld be far loss painfal than Langing, becanse donth begins in the very seas of cousciousness, and, genorally, in such in~ stances, the loss of coneciousness 18 tho first, in- stead of the last, step bf dizeolution: The sottnd of the gun would announce to o whole city the beginning aud ead of an execn- tion, but consciouzness would havo left the vie- tim long before the reporl bad reached the clovess bystandor, aud, hoyover ng it might ap- pearts the eyo, the plryeiologist would loo's upon it simply 8 o' quist 1ving-down to sleon, from which the element of euiering had beca wholly eliminated. GROUSE-DRIVING. A Britisu Sport From Llackwood’s ugi It is difficult to convey in words, to sny one who has had no esperionce of the sport, what ate tho clements of the fascination which grouse- driving wndoubfedly possesses for any lover of the gun. Novertheless, let ns attemptto do- seribo it es it reaily 14, and recall for a mo- ment the glorics of one of tho grent Yorkehiza dzys: Lotus imngine ourselves again upon & moor, in the early d278 of sutumn, with guns, cartridges, doge, loaders, drivers, and luncheon. —all en regle. We have breakfasted carly, rid- den or driven & few miles to the edgo of ths ‘moor, and walked & mile or two fo the scone of action. Ensconced in tho first battery, with our londer busily arranging cartridges ready to bis hand, and our retricver, keen ns mustard and patient as Job, belind us, we are checred by tho pleasing consclousness that wo have got a good. place, and that the drivers are well started. The ‘morniug ia clear and sunuy ; tho timo of day, ay 10, or half-past. The biue smoke of onr ‘morning cigar caris spirally upward, stirred by no untoward wind. * What 8 day for driving!” - bursts involuntarily from our lips. Half an ' Liour, perhaps three-quarters, elapse, and we are still atraining our ‘eyes into the ~dis- tance. Nothing to bo- seen but tho lovely ex- panse of heathor snd golden bilberry, varied by grey and green patches of stones and grass, or strips of burnt maor. which stretchies swelling or snking away to the blne horizon. Nothing to Lo _heard but au occasional eelf-satistied chuckly from some unemspecting oid cock-grouse, or tha faint blcsting of a distant flock of moor shecp. Bat hack! 2 fer-off cry of “Ma-a-rk" i walied along the light Sentember brecze. Arreclis au- ribus, we listen for the next symptom of the ap- proaching Iray, while our cyes nimost tite of sweeping sky and earth for signs of the quarry. Suddenly o amall pack of tiying birds rises phan- tom-like out of the earth, and settic almost bo- fore wo_have canght sight of a featlicr, nbout 200 vards ahead, chuckling heartily. Tlieso aro ‘doubtless suspicious old stagers, whose habit is, under any circumstances, to slink nway st the first symptom of human presence on the moor. Wo grasp the trusty breech-losder, and, pulling ot~ solves togother, aro conscious that the game has begun.-At length we can sco the flutter of a whito flag on tho crest of yon socond hiil, fol- lowed fnmiediately by a wouderous swirl of dis- taut birds, that look like bees in tho air. Thoy sink dovn again_below tho gky-line, and again the cry of * Alark " arises. Now more flags aro vigible, till the complete horse-shoe of flickering white objects is in .view, though still a mile otf on thq opposite hill-face. Large bodies of birds are on the move in the valloy between us and thn drivers, moro are scttling in- front, and still wo are idle ; while still tho ery of * " comes [or] sighing ‘on_the breezo. ~Tho wierd crow of the old cocks,” rising from all parts of tho “glack” .in front of tho_ batterios, keeps our attention on the strain, and promires that work, and plenty of it, is near at hand. Two rhot—throo—fonr~five’ shota awny on the right of tho line anuouzce that the Dallis opened, and redouble our excifement. 4 Are they ever coming ?” “ Yes!” for beforo wo Liave time to think or am, cur first two bar- rels have been fired at a wily old cock, who was on us before we saw him, bat who disappears unharmed into the.distance behind. Witk a second gun in our Landy we again watch keenls, inwardly carsing the cunning of tha: ‘old mis- creant who has cansed us to fuil, expended twn good cartridges, nod who must have risen out of the earth, for no mortal saw him ¢l he was within a yard-of the batteries. Somehow the guns on -the right and loft nppear to be enjoying all the fan, for their firo 1s in- cessant, and the birds, though they settiod in front, soem to fight shy of our battery. Bat tho ‘middle of the line is bound to have ils turas and look ! ours is coming a¢ lsst. As tho ehouting of the drivers waxes londer, abont two or tkreo hundred birds have risen,. and are now on tko move tawards us, apparently creeping slowly over the very tops of the heather. . Straight at. us they come, their necka snd breaits_gleaming red and bright in tho autumn sun, while a feel- ing akin to fear comes over us. Somo of them settle, fresh ones tako wing and join them,1ils all is alive with grouse in front, and our gun trembles in our hand us they come on. They are on ms—the supremo moment has arrived. We pick our birds—bang, bang,—thud, thud— and by us they go with our four barrels ints them, not croeping slowly, but at the Tato of fifty miles an hour. Mora are coming. Oh_for 2 hundred guns ! Faster and faster thoy stream at us ; packs, twos and threes, end eingle birds, ight as arrows, and a8 swift as the north wind; over us,at our heads, to the right, to the left, mow behind, -now in’ frons again, the cannonade roaring along the. live. Yast our ears, and over their dead and dying comrndes, on they must come, through all tha smoke and thunder of the guns, worthy of Sedan and Waterloo, tilt we would fain hold hard snd let our barrels cool. But the drivers are climb- ing up the face we are- on, and the stream i beginning to slacken, The remaining birds come singly, and are calmly and neatly killed, for those bewildering packs have paseed, and aro over the hill babind. Now the drivera are up to the batterics, and the drive is over. The. faith- fal and patient Hector leaps up, for bo knowshia time is como, and we rally forth to pick up tbs corpses of the slain, and Jay them in triumpk by our battery. Ten minutes of thia work, and we are told to face about in our boxes. We dg 80, and again the expectation, the excitment, tho torrent of grouse, tho Lively fusilsde, sud tho thud of our frequent victim on the walls of our stronghold. - Again the picking up and reckoning of the slain, the congratulations and condolences, and away over tio bill to the nex{ line of batteries. Such is a good drive in mod ern Yorkshire. S AT THE GARDEN GATE. Somebody care Lo the garden gate, 2304 DSkt pipedto e Lasentng me a P i Tl In A langusga as rich as ours. 5 Bomebody blushed st the garden gate— Ak ulasm it was faie to veay o e aly sun pecred as bo fain would wait, And the blackbird paused oa the tree, Somebody spoko at the garden gate, As the shadows began to fall ; And tiie rose So0ked up, thongh the hour was lats, - peach pink on the wall, 5 .. And the peach blushed. ~A sweet head fell at tho gard: -uc:i: an arm fln‘t ns ltsmng?ng\lugnu‘: & chirrup of ‘wera he: L Whst words refamd to do. o 10 M —Transatlantte, [ not govere thero may for a time be a degree of Darbarons way, muss b attended withabsclutely =¥