Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 22, 1873, Page 10

NEW YORK. fogenious Mode of Marrying a For- tune---Particulars of an Ad~ vaatageous Match, An Extraordinary Literary Ciroular ---Caleb Cushing as a Worker. Reported Retirement of Alden B. Stockwell---Still An- other Great Hotel. From Qur Own Correapondrnt, NEW Youx, June 19, 1673, Bomo timo ago, & vory weslthy heiress, and, what is more, a handsoms and intorosting woman, was married to & young man of this city who has ability, character, and culture, but o monoy beyond §2,000 or £3,000 & year earned by his own ozertions. Everybody knowing him ©r her was much surprised st their union, aware ihat she had refused a number of extremely ad- vantageous offers because she feared that her fortane rather than horself was the attraction. Bhe bad been particularly unwilling to wed any man without means,—supposing that such & one would be more tempted by her wealth than he who had eomething to match with it. HOW TO WED AN HEIRESS, ‘The manner in which the marriage wasbronght about is pocaliar exough to bear relation. The young man—Ilet us call him Edwin—had fre- quently heard that the young woman—she shall e Clara—woald certainly die in msidenhood for tho reasons already mentioned. One of her re- ‘Jocted snitors, believing, with tiie vanity of hia ‘£ex, that a woman who Lad refused him would zefuse anybody, informed Edswin, ono day, that Clara was doomed to celibecy. Edwin expressed soine doubt of this,—asserting that, whatever iar prosent feclings, she would find ber hero sometime, and then wounld come matrimony, ma- ternity, and sll the rest. The discarded lover ecemed to regard this as & personal re- flection, and offerad to bet $500 to $100 that ho was right in. forecasting Clara’s future. Edwin, from s epirit of mischief, more than any thing elso, nccopted the wager, remarking, “ Anybody could marzy the girl if he only knew Eow to go about it.” “ Perhapa you think you could ! observed the friend. “If you do, I'll introduce you, and give ¥OU W0 years’ time." “Ihadn't any idea of trying the thing my- self,” said Edwin, lsughing; “but, ss Clara 2zust be smisble and sgreesble, I haven't the doast objection to making her acquaintange. I don’t think I'm at ali interesting to women, and, 24 you kmow thst I intend to remain a bachelor, T shali not iuterfere with the connubial designs of any other gontleman. Still, I am convinced, drom what I bear of the Iady, that it will bo next Yo impossible for her to remainin her present Elata.” The upshot of the matter was, that Edwin was introduced, and that he and Clara soon be- csmo very good friends. (Friendship betwoen soung persons of different gex is such a peculiar selation that it ie vey apt to becoma somathing more, or komething less.) At tha end of two zonths, the predetermined bachelor began to &uspect that he was falling in love, and to sur- Lise, net without vanity, that Clara was Lig fond of him. To guard against continge: cies, he frankly told her, as he could do with entire delicacy, ginco they were only friends, fint ho hnd mado up his mind nover to marry, d that, a8 he was poor himself, he would never ‘ronsent Lo becoming the husband of an_heiress, ARowever much he might love her. Clars ad~ Inired his candor, if not his resolntion,—saying 5t was extromely fortanate for them. that they re merely {riends, and nothing more. every bound- , that he was des- 3 3 had very good Teason to believe that she was in love flzilm. Tho situation, under the circamstances, wes wwkward, and ‘indeed porlous. Edwin belog s Jaan of honor, said to his friend ove evening : ““I may 88 well expross, Clara, in words, what, for somo time, I have been unable fo conceal. I Eavo not coased to be your friend, but, unfortu- zately forme, I Lave grown to be your lover. It you were as poor as I'am, I should beg you to e 'my wife; but, 2s yon are wealthy, all I can do is to say fatewell, and try to oonguer my Passion.” _““Wealth ghould not be_sn obatacle to mar- ringe, Edwin, and 80 far as I _ **Ianticipate what yon will eay. Clars, and it s thst which I feared. My pride is superior ‘even to my love. Ishould despise myself if I iived upon my wife, and it would be impossible “for me to svoid it if you were she. I could not, &y any exertion of mina, earn one-tenth of yonr ancome; aud hence, unlees we had separats es- 2ablishmente, I must spend a large part of your money To have a separate establishment would be marriage bt in name; and I doubt if either you or I would consent to such an eccen- tric arrangement,” * I can manege that, Edwin.” b‘l‘ No, you cannot, my dear; it is not manage- able.” £ “But I can, T tell yon. You are unwilling, Zecanse I am wealthy, to ask me to bo your wife. Dut I am not unwilling, because you are poor, to nsk you to be my husband. You must consent £ this. You would not like to have it knownthat You had declined an cffer from s lady who is 80 Zair and interesting, as yon sy Ism;” and she wdded, still laughing : Remember, you do not propose to me ; I inist on your taking me, in spite of my fortune. Can you talk of your pride eince I bave laid aside ming 7" Lis, it must be confessed, was &_dilemma for the philosophic bachelor. 1 don't know how 410 got ont of it ; but I do know that, in three weeks after, he and Clara were married. The rejectod suitor and a number of others “Weclare that the course Edwin pursued was a mere ruso; that.he felt confident his line of Jolicy would be certain to win the bet and the “oman's heartat once. My informant avers that Edwin was etirely sincere, and that his parnest intention was to break off tho_conpec- Xicn with Clara before it was too late. I believe #bisis the correct view ; but I leava the matter %o the yeader to decide. "I tell this story for the beneiil of men anxious to marry heireasos, and Iguorant of tho best means of_ effecting their varpose. It is easy enongh, as Edwin esid, it ©no cnly knows how to go about it.” . A LITERARY CURIOSITY. There is & delicious coolness in the manner xhich Bomo magazines have of doing business, Xhat is bardly credible. 1 have Tecently goon & cizcular gent to a contributor, which 1 should <ertamly believe ironical, were { not aware of its geonineness. The circular—n printed form— Teads in this style : Your MIS. has made a favoraule impression, hopes that he msy af and ihe editor of tome tims be able to publish it. You are at Jiberty, however, to withdraw it at any time be- fore it is printed in the magazine, to find & place for it elsewhere. Generally n MS. is either accepted or de- clined ; but in this publication it is neither one nor the other. It may be an interesting fact kst a contributor has mads a favorable impres- +ion; but, when it merely gives its author lib- crty to withdraw it at any time before it is printed, the interest is baidly sustained. What © Gelightfully undecided fellow tho editor must 2, and how charmingly ambiguous he is in the couching of his phrases! As & specimen of lamor, the circular is excellent, though, as s atter of business, it is exccrable. Tt cught to be set down as one of the curiosities of cantemporaneous literature. It +hows in & most unmistakable way that some lnagazine-editors are firmly persuaded that ~uthors hava no rights which editors are bound 10 Tespoct. if you prefer . A TEBRIBLE TOILER. Speaking, the other day, to a gentleman well ccquainted with public men, on the subject of their capacity for and habifs of work, he re- moarked that the hardest worker he had ever known was Calsb Cushing, Cushing told my ioformant that, for twenty-five years, he had £pent seventeen out of every twenty-four honrs in intellectual pursuits,—reading, studying, or writing,—giving himself but seven hours for et and recrestion. This is certainly such toil ag koy one would supposs wonld cATy & man o’ grave in less half the time mentioned, and yet the state- ment does mnot ecem fo SXagger- ated. Cushing hag an extraorcinary constitution snd the most vigorous health, and receives snch _Pleesure from absorbing mental occupation that it has by long habit become_ge aturo tohim. Bix or eight houra & day is genorally nsidered s full average of such work for the most studious men; and how Cuslung could treblo or quadruple the hours, and yet retain his health and sanity, it is difioult to understand. He is now 70 at least, and of lato years, being regularly employed a8 & sortof Government law- yer upon interpational cascs in Washington, be has taken life moro_essily, as well hio might st his advanced age. Boventoon hours out of twen- ty-four of sovere labor for a quarter of a century is enough to kill Horcules ; and still it sppears to Liave agreed quite well with Calob Cashing. SALMAGUNDI, In thess hot daye, selling soda-water is a most_active branch of metropolitan industry, Ono druggist down town often raceives for soda alone $100 or €500 a day, and on some special occasion, like the Fourth of July, Lo has taken in as high as 8700 or 800. As over half of this is clear profit, the trade is decidedly profitable. Oue of the cheap sonsational weeklies hore Lias been printing the mokt abominable adver. tisementa in order to attract the attontion of the public to one of the murdered Walworth’s ridic- ulously extravagant stones, now running in its columns. Assuredly there ou‘fht £o De some law regulating the decency of advertising. . Aprivate letter from Paris montions a report in circulation there, that Father Hyacinthe in- tends to visit thia country sgain next spring, and remain £o or three years. A new, commodions, and elegaut hotel is soon tobe built at the corner of Fifth avenus and Fiftioth stroet. It i to bo called the Bucking- ham, will occupy, it is &aid, 13,000 square feet, and will cost, with the ground aud furniture, abont £1,000,000. 1t is generally remavked that, within the mem- ory of the * oldest inhabitant,” mosquitoed have never been 50 sbundant here and hereabout st this season as they are mow. Lven couatry places which have not hitherto been troubled by the pests are rendered almost unendurable by them at present. It is romored that Alden B. Stockwell will 600n rotire from Wall stroet, where he Lus been 60 prominent a figure for several years past. Tho resson piven for his retiremont is his im- mense logses in Bpeculations within the last six months. A grent many persons are anxionsls waiting to seo the statement Henry C. Howen is_expectod to make in regard to thé Beacher scandal,though there are those who insist that he has no inton- tion of msking any. % New-Yorkers have been going ont of town for tho summer_very rapidly during the past weck, Tho annual Lisgira has begun this uesaon two oF three weeks earlier than usual. CoLsToux. EARLY HINDOO MATHEMATICS. From the Popular Science Monthly for July. It piques us to know that, sixteen hundred years before our ers, there Was & post who sang : Like 35 a plank of drift-wood Toseed on the watery matz, Another plank encounters, Meota—tonches—parts again ; 80, toased, and drifting, ever O life’s unresting sea, Men mmeet, and greet, and gever, Parting efarnally.” This surelyis not the verse of & primitive people; these are not the feoble lispings of the infants of our race; did it not require time to accustom the Hindoo mind to similes as complox ac these? This verse would not seem childish if Tennyaon had written it ; it appeals to as deep a consciousness as Coleridge’s ** Hymn in the Vale of Chamounix,” and would even bearcom-~ parison with the “ Peter Bell” of the great Lake poet, 3 If this people wes 80 old thirty-four hundred years ago, when was it young? We begin to bolieve, with Baillyt, in the existence of ‘co peuple ancien qui nous a tont sppris, excepte BOD nom et 80n existence.” It may, then, be interesting for ua to glance st tho state of acienco among theso predecessors of ours. But let us remomber that we are ap- plying a severe test, when we compare thoir pro- gress with the science of to-day. Let us re- member that it is only within a hundred years that the return of comets has been predicted ; that our knowledge "of the constitution of the sun has been gained gince 1859 ; that Newton hss been dead only 147 years, snd hat Lagrange and Lae place both lived and worked in our own century. - When we consider what astronomy would be without these three great men—that is, what it was only 80 few years ago—we aro better pro- pered to appreciate the studiea which Inid the remote fotndations of their triumphs. 1t would be imposmble, within_moderate lim- its, to determine the value of Hindoo astrono- my, however interesting the effort might be, since we should enter at once into debateabls ground, and come among great authorities in confict. Bailley, Delsmbra, Bentley, Davis, Hunter, Sir William Jones, and others, hava various, of- ten contradictory, beliefs to maintsin. Some aro partisans of the Greek, eome of the Arab, othors of the Hindoo scientists of long ago. But, fortunately, some of the eriginal manu- script books of the Hindoos hiave come down to us; smong others various completa treatises on msthematics, and theso zre authentio and of eat age. Precisoly of how groat sgo it is oult to ascertain. - Bailly, » Hindoo partisan, accopts the largest estimate; Delambre, a detractor of Hindoo science, and an_advocato of the Greel, believes the most important of them to have been vritten about A. D. 1114 ; while the tranalator of this manuscript, Colebrooke, & dis- tinguished Sanscrit scholar, ' places the date of writing in A. D. 1150. This trestise, the Lilivati " of Bhascara Acharya, is supposed to have been a compilation, and there are reasons for believing a_portion of it to have been written abomt A- D, 635, How- ever this may be, itis of the greatest intarest, and its date is sufficiently remoto to give to Hin- doo mathematics a respectablo antiquity. “The © Lilivati," according to Delambre, was written to console the daughter of its author for her ill-success in obtaining 8 husband, and it specks well for the Hindoo gentlewoman that such a means could be considered worth the ot~ tompting. It waa called by her nsme, aud many of the questions are addressed to Ler, as we shall sce. It opens most auspiciously with an invoca- tion to Ganess, a8 follows: * Having bowed to tho Deity whose hoad is like an elophnnt's; whoee feot are adored by gods; iwho, when called to mind, relieves his vota: nies from embarrassment, and bestows happi- ness upon his worshipers; I propound this easy process of computation, dolightful by its elegance, porspicnous, with words conciso, soft, and correct, and plessing to the loarned.” Thus fairly launched, the author gives various tables of Hindoo mondy, weights, etc., and pro- ceeds to business, not_without snother invoca- tion, howover, shorter this time: * Salutation to Ganess, rezflendem 85 & blue and spotless lotus; and delighting in_the tremulons motion of the dark serpent, which is perpetually tswin- ing within bis throat.” Tho principles of numeration and addition aro then stated concisely, and ho affably propounds his first question : * Dear, intelligont Lilivati, if thon be ekilled in addition and subtraction, tell me the eum of 2, 5, 82, 193, 18, 10, and 100, added together ; and the remainder when their sum s subtracted from 10,000.” Ho then rapidly plunges into multiplication a8 follows: ‘“Examplo. Beautiful and dear Lilivati, whose eyes are liko a fawn's! toll me what are the numbers resulting from 135 taken into 122 .... Toll mo, suspicious yoman, what is the quotient of the product divided by the same multiplier 2" ° The ireatise continues rapidly throngh the usual rules, but pauses at tho reduction of frac- tions 10 hold up the syaricious man to scorn : ‘“The quarter of & sixtoenth of the fifth of three-quarters of two-thirds of & moiety of a dramma was glven to s beggar by a person Lrom ‘whom heasked alms ; tell me how 1any cowTy- &hells the miser gave if thou be conversant in arithmetio with the reduction termed subdivision of fractions.” ‘* venorable preceptor,” e Bhascara calls himself, illustrates what he terms the rule of supposition by the following examplo : “Ont of a swarm of becs, ono-fifth part sottled on 5 blossom of Cadamba ; ana oue-third on & flower of Silind'hri; threo times the difference of those numbers flaw to the bloom of & Cutaja, One bee which remained, hovered and flew about in the air, allurod at ‘the eame moment by the Pleming {fragrance of & jasmin and pandamus. Cell me, charming woman, the number of bees.” This example is sufficiently poetical, but thera i given section on interest, and ono on pur- chase and gale for merchants. It is easily scon that this arithmetic varies but little from that taught in our common schools to-day. The pro- cesses are noarly the ssme, and the advauce of the Hindoos in this science is due largely to their admirablo system of notation, viz., that called the Arabic, which, however, was uodoubt- edly derived by the Arabs from Hindoo teachers, #a is admitted by the best suthorisies. * “Book of Good Councils : written in Sanscrit, B. fs.fllxm 37 translated by Edwin Arnold, 3L, A., Oxford, + *This anclent people who have taught us every thing but their oyn name and their own cxistence,” o mpmy,'rmzhth;sl t 1 over tho shoulders, the figure ugpbl:b-mdng_‘dmas % looped-up_slik, fall ot the hips, a bright-colored sash tied behind, etticoats “excesaively short, fully displaying oog brilliantly white trousers, falling grace- 1 im' the anzes, just showing the open- worked stockingy, and the feet flashing brightly in the pretty patent-leather ghoes and sandals I have written of before, constitute the most };iqnnnt, dainty, and captivating costume devised or girls. This attired, in & dress singularly sppropriaté and characteristic, becanse so be- coming, childlike, snd modest, giris might well yosr it ll 8 much more womanly sge, and if young ladies in thair teens would believe bow much more fascinating they look in the youth- foland ladylike dress I propose, they ‘would THE FIRST DAILY NEWSPAPER. Ono hundrad and"sevontj-One years ago, on the 11th day of March, 1702, the first number of the first daily newspaper in the English langnage was publishod in London. Ita appesranco was not heralded by edvertisement, for, besides the w0 or threa woekly journals then published, and which were wholly devoted to politics and conrt matters, there was nothing in whith to advortise. The proposed publication of the Courant—for such the new venture was to be called—was not looked upon with s high degres of favor by the ‘monopolists of the London newspaper field, who affected to regard it with supreme contempt, L ¢ k; y s0d spolio of 1t only as * the pitiful Projoct of a | BIOPE it with pleasure sod, retain it without poor Printer,” with all the addod weight that | pro i, BIC ROT BARE M COMTR migh could be conveyed by a liberal uso of italics and | ba unail Introduced, as it would only involve oxclamation-points. Bat tho publishor was o | the gradual lengthosing, by s fow inches af shrewd follow, snd saw thak this display of spite | Hmo, of he tronsers o Tt mfi“.ugfi‘i;"réa; would act aa an iritaut upon publio curiosity, | (%% Foace, e aeitel orkth, £nd slighlly west and, judging by what a sharp newspapor-man | ond gliftering brightly from bozeath the_snoy would do nowadays, he went home, ordoroi; his m“nt ot;d;liulowwe or “flbr};hi There iad ; “ i) el ndent enow o} ns, an preman to. LN o O AT el e T b zevivan. for Avaled Ao Tl i apposz, upon the sbove | 115 Pieitiness and piguancy make it slmost the mentioned da, it was & curiosity. 1t was about | ooy jastog to render the young ladion the size of half 5 sheot of foolscap-paper, print- costume of the present day all thai can be de- sired.” ed only upon one side, containing ueither edito- rials, locals, court news, politioal matter, adver- tisements, nor English intelligence of any kind whatover. This ISt omission was the mors sin- gular, ot to eay significant, whon the reader will remember that, upon that very date, the 11th of March, Queen Anne wont to the Honse of Pecrs to deliver her first speech from the throno, King Willism IIT. having died upon the 8th, throe days before. We have said there was 1o home news in tho first lssue of the Courant, Tho assertion was too eweeping. In one corner there are soven Jines, four of which relate totho funeral of tho deceased King, and three aro de- voted to tho condition of the English army in Flanders; for war at that time was raging be- tween England and France. Tha remainder of the coutents .cousisted entirely of quotations from foreign papers, with the excoption of half 8 column 1in referonce to its future prospects aud plans. *This Courant,” says the publisher, ““ay the Title shows, will bé published daily, be- ing designed to give all the Msaterial News ss §00n as every post arrives, and is confined to half tho Compass o save the Publick at least Lulf the Importinonces of ordinery Newapapers.” - Six wecks after the first issue, the publisher sunouncod in his largest type that the project lad been *uo Buccessful, that hereafter both Bides will be priutod.” The appearance of over a column of advertisementa in the same number is a suflicient indorsemont of the statement, and from that time the Courant incrensed in prosperi- ty. Evory newspsper has its leading feature, and that claimed by the Courant waa foreign in” telligence. Three months after its first appear- anco the following notice found a conspicuons place in its columns, which leads to tlie belief that newepaper publishers were much_the same in thoso sy 38 noW s fegards the dishing-up of news from abrosd: ‘It will be found from the Foreign Prints, which, from Time to Time, 88 Oceasion cffers, will be montioned in this Paper, that the Anthor has taken Caro o be duly fur: nished with All that comes from Abroad in an; Langusgo. And for an Assuranco that ho will not, under Pretonco of baving Private Intelli- gence, imposo auy Addition of feign'd Circam- stances to an Action, but give his Lxtracts fair- Iy and impartially, 8¢ the Boginning of each Articl he will quote the Foreign Paper from whence 'tis taken, thet the Public, seeing {rom what Country o Plece of Nows comes, with the allowance of that Government, may be better ablo to judge of the Oredibility'and Fairness of tho Rolation, Nor will ho {ake upon him to give any Comments or Conjectures of his own, but il selat only Matter of Fact, suppoging Sthar Paoplo to have Sonse enough to make Refloctions for Themaclves.” e Had we acy intentlon of glorifying the modern dsily newspaper at the expense of the Courant, wo might stop hero to draw & vory striking com~ parison betweon the merits of the two. But that s 1o part of our original plan, and we leave it for those who have nothing else to do. As we hiave eaid, snd as is claimed in tho above quota- tions, the strong point of tho Courant waa its foreign intelligonco. Clipper-ships, ocoan-steam- ers, and submarine-cablos, were alike unknown in thoso days, and tho publisher was obliged to depend upon the uncertain movoments of trans- atiantic shipping, so that the newa from America was somotimes two, thros, and ocos sionally even four months old. Even the news from ncross the Channel was often two aud throe weoks old. But then this intelligenco, stalo a8 it was, was undoubtedly read with sa keen an appelite, and discussed with as mach earnestnoes, 88 if it had come hot from the wires an hour bofore. A fire might occur in Now York, and tho destroyed buildings be replsced, by tho timo the intelligence would roach London; or s Colonial - ofilcial in Doston might die, and his widow be spend- ing her honeymoon with her socond, before tho newa of the first event would be published in thecolumns of the Courant, But the preserva- tive power of time did not allow anything in the news line tolose its esvor, and these moldy Bcraps, with others gathered from various parts of the world, were served up, day after day, to the public, with grest seoming acceptance, £y~ ery afternbon the samo stroAm of purchasers flgwed into the narrow, dingy street of publica- tion—left its innumersbla pennies, and bore away ita innumerable copies through the fog and emoko of London. At last thera comes & day, 88 thore comes a day to us all, when the fonndor and puplisher of the fret daily paper in the Einglish tonguo, having schieved bk work. sk his eyes upon the world, and went out of it, That work, looked at across one hundred snd soventy years that have elapsed sinos its ac- complishment, scems poor enough; but, poor as it was, imporfect s il was, ab-urd ‘as it was, it via the firet placing of tho lever which to-dsy moves the world.—Appletons’ Journal. THE INSTINCT QUESTION. The London Nature has received s great nam- ber of communications with regard to instmct and sense perceptions in men and animals, From smong its solections we cull the following new facts and suggestions : ‘“ With a regard to a sense of diraction, Mr. ?'fio’ge O. Meyrill, of Topeks, Kan., writes as ollows : ** *1 have learnod from the hunters and guides who spend their lives on the plains and moun- tains west of us that, po matter how far or with what turns they may have been led in chasing the bison or other e, they, on their retnrn 10 camp, ahways tabe 8 sirainbl boe. - In expla- nation' they ssy that, unconsciously to them- se'lv;-a, "t.bay bave kept all the turns in thair ming g Mr. J. D. Bell, of New York, writes as fol- lows on the conscionsnees of time in horses: My own experience will ot allow meto speak positively as to gmell, but horsos that I have met snd carefully observed were not peouliarly gifted in this respect. It waa & com- mon aying on *the plains,” snd in the mining Togions of Onlifornis, that mules, by the way very sagacious animals, W) would woll repsy observation, ' ‘scent the red- skin » mile away’ I have made some in- quiry on this' point, bat.have been unabla o find that the olfactories of the mule are really thus acute. I can bear testimony to the extraordinary powers of sight in horses. And I am inclined to think that they take more notes, by tho way, through thelr eyes than through the nose. ~ As nons of your correspondents have called attention to is, I'desire to recall the fact that horses have ears as well as oyes and noses, Their hearing is very acute, and ! am inclinod to think that the explanation of the detectiod of red-skins by mules, will bo found in the educated ear rather than in the pducated mnose. It used to be gaid in the cavalry sorvico of the United Btates during the “war that ‘horses were the boat pickets.' I have seon them again and again in the dead of night prick up their ears when the men on thair backs heard nothing. 1have never seen them sniff or smell firat, iimm‘ng was invariably the first tovo- ment. Then came sight. Horses have scanned the woods and chapparall with a care thatno man could surpass, If the moving thing first heard and then seen was an unfamiliar object— more eapecially it it was moving along the ground—then I bave seen-horses sniff, smell, nnd soort. In horeesthe smortis exprossive of aversion rather than fear, or porhaps of a senti- ‘ment compounded of both. . ““Horses learn the notes of tho bugle, and I have often seen a trained hotso turn in 8 direc- tion opposed to that indicatod by-the prousure of his less experienced ridor's leg. I havo known horscs which, after dotecting the presence of moving objects by hearing and then by sight, during which time they remaincd perfectly quiet, chango feet, and even paw the ground if the rider did not by his movement show recognition of the presonce of what might be sn enemy. And what, it will bo asked, has this to do with the question st iseuo? Simply this,—horsos think, horses reason, horses clasaify, horsea remember. I desire to offer a few ro- maris on Darwin's letter about the blind mare that stopped at every public house on the rosd. My own explanation of the fact—nnd there must be hundreds of similar instances—is that the mare, by long-continued custom, became con- scious of the time which should slapse between the respective stopping-places. Horses have a great memory for time. - What is the interpre- tation of the existence and improvements of our racing and trotting horses, but that these animals have the poer of remembering time and the power of transmitting this improved registering and transmitting cerobral - ppa- ratus to their progeny, { will close letter xnmhfing L3 cuu&lo of incidents. I was speaking of my beliof in this equine mem- ory for time to an enthusiastic horseman of my tance the other day and at the same time showed him Mr. Darwin's letter. He. said that inhis youte he had driven a horse, sonnd in every rospect, on s bread routs. He always served his customers in a certain order. while his animal knew all the plncefi and stop- ed in front of the store or residence whera read was to bo delivered, without a signal from his master. If tho master remained in any place longer than usnal, his horse started off, but, in~ stoad of go ‘the next customer, returned to the stable, s2id_ho, occurred again and sgain, not at one place, buk at many places. i+ Y served, during the recent war, In a cavalry rosiment in the United Btates sorvis The horses knew the time for the relief,’ and if the rolief did not come on time thoy hecame restive. On one oocasion e changed the time of remain~ ing on post from two to four hours. For the first two hours the horses behaved admirably ; atter that they were in canstant motion, and had to.bs constantly rostrained. ~ Horses recognize the time for stable. call—not merely ¢ hunger’~ call, but the proper time-call.” # ”A gentleman in the North of Ireland sends to ature the story of o dog, who traveled a long distance round & known road instead of taking ashort cut by sn unknown route, This gen~ tloman drawa the following sensible conclu~ sion : - 5 * My theory is that the dog does preserve a very distinct, or, at least, tolerably distinct, no~ tion of the route he was branght from home by, and that it is forcibly impressed upon him ; but the great aid to his return is the direction of the sun orlight. Heknows that if he travelsin a cortain direction—sny east—ha is going towards the morning sun, and west, towards the evening sum.” Revival of Trousers for Girls. A correspondent of the Englishwoman’s Do- mestic Magazine makes the following sugges- tion in regard to the drees of gurla: “In my last lottor, I proposed that young Iadien should, in nccordance. with the “tasts of somo fow years since, wear their droases shorter than is now tho fashion, and { expressed the opinion that they wero mors healthy aad convenient, more suited to the costumeés of young ladies, and decidedly mors elogant, - T admitted that their adoption Involved another cliange, and I now suggest & return to an articls of dress formerly Wom by gils, which I much wish t0 se0 sgain in fhshion,— I mean tho long whits trousors, . which, till sbout_cighteen 'years ago, formed sb Protty and conspicuus s purt of their costume. Doubtless some of your roaders will sty they aro tastsless and unbocomine, and uso othor isparaging adjectives, I roply that thoy were all but universnl for quite fory yenrs, and had they heen ugly they would fave bean sutly abandoned, like ofher uglinessos, as tho waioh undor the armpits of George the Third's time, thie monstrous bonnets and tho bishop sleaves of the next two reigns. The sbandonment of long trousers necassitated Jongor akirts, for modesly's sako, and though T think ‘thas girls young enough to wear short dressos should bo 80 innocent that the decornm or Ofherwiss of their costume ought not to enter thoir hoads, atill, if modesty of sitire is of moment & all, 'long trousers bave the sdvantage. over 8 prosoat sizle, Thoy would give s ihey gavo formerly, a character to the young dasrbig sk Indics' dress which their prosent costume sadly | Ps]sa Lpuscd by that charming retrat, wants, for now it hes no disfinctive. 6Eylo, 6i1ch | M bamor ehmerp oot th s mathy o ioen, Blightly touched by the sunshine, s form eflu]d be seen. Fair Mabel from' reading had fallest ssleep, ‘Whilat the moments with flowers around her did cresp ; ‘Thongh carelesa ber pose, it waa artistio grace ; Andlow whispered the rephyra thetr loves 0%ar Ber face. As blithe thonglits of love then sweetly did sing 45 clor foytally mestlod Mmeath bright Fancy's wing, T sald t myself, With all elso I would part, Gould T clasp thioe, felr areature, as mihe 19 this heart, AsT long gazed on that vislon of bifes, A D LETCTT tuw mnah s i nd, waftod along by the Roft breezey' swell It gracefully rose, st my feet lightly fell. Myaclf of the petal I quickly posseased, And, when to my 1ips it softly had press X turned from the sceno o dazalingly bright, ‘And theso were my words os I paséed on from sight 1 though thy form is by Morpheus embraced, Pxfi:flmn thy reias 850 08 pure aud as chaste As the scene now around thee, where each flower vies With tiryself in competing for Beanty—the prize. —_— Ancient Copper Mines of Arizona. From the Pucson Oltizen. Charlea 0. Brown sod others have been ex- ioring some old mines about forty-five miles & Yiflla north of weat fram Tucson. “From Mr. B.'s nccount, which is gereral and somawhat in de- tail, the locality is one of great interost, both to the curiosity seoker and money er. Tha party do nof think they disoavered the extent’of the abandoned mines thoroaway, but are sure of having seen aboat & hundred whichi had been ex- tensively worked, some of which showed excava- tions in cuts, shafts, end tunnels, that to make nowadays would coat st least $100,000. At the mouths of some tuuncls and shafts the dump piles are immonse to this day. The smooth walls Which onoe encased veine of ore are exposed in LINES. Written on aesing a young lady asleep in & summer- . g @ Yo " 1 know of but one whose smilo a sa sweet - As the blush of the rosss which bloom st her fest, Not in palace, but cot, 18 this tréasure raro, Tot torinens e e ‘momges the abrest of fatr *The cottage, her home, snigly rests ‘tween two hills, Whero the Bum of the bee, the isugh of the rilla, | With the notes of the lark harnioniouly blend,— ‘Whero & friend unto Nature noeds ne'er want & frisnd, Ons day, sa T long hair flowing down the back and ekirts a foyw inches from tho ground are, I um pleased o say, not confined to girls in’ their teens. Lon, trousers of linen or cambric, trimmed wif noedlework or lace, are feminino enough, do- spite their name and shape, and thers is no question of their outhfal appoarance, which T ok a very great advantage. To' be quite beautiful thoy should be brilliantly white, and very stiffly starched, 80 28 not to look creased or 1maddled, and should be so long 88 to reach the feot, evenif they do not elightly hide tho insteps. The trousers may be oramented in many ways. Even when quite plain, and with only one doey hcn&l they are clmrmins; but trimmed with ric} needlework borders, and with strips of {nsertion, sometimes, in full dress, with bright-color ribbon run in the work, or with flounces of Iace, or with various trimmings of finely-worked mus- lin, they are most elegant and becoming. They algo make the foet look 8o much e er, and veil many defects now too often visible, as ill- sbapod logs, bony or thick ankles, or flat insteps. T am old cnough to remember the pretty trou- sers, tastefully trimmed in various Tashions, we used to wear twonty years ago, and which mady our costumes 80 bright aud atiractive, when ‘white muslin dresses with smail black or bright- colored mantles, were almost universally ¥om in summer by girls, the formeyr being smarter, and certainly gofter and Pprettier, in material, than the white pique now in vogue. Quite young children, say girls under 6and 7 (unfess unusually tall), ehould only woar their trousers s few inches below thy skirt, which at this age shonld be above the Imoes. Their Limbs are not long enough or their movements such as to make them look well in quite long trousors. I think thata hat of one of the many pretty shapes which have becn sorn 1msny places, firm and perfect. The shafts and tunnels aze 8o filled in with crambling 8topo and ‘earth that it is difficalt to determine the depth of any; but it is certain that thous- ands of men have been emploed thore for many years. Appearances indicate that the ore was génerally tuken elsewhers for redaction. What the component parts of the oro_are, or ‘whether it was copper, or silver, or gold, or all combined, that induced the old 'work there, are now &ubjecta of uncertainty. Copper ore is now seen in abundance, and of aimost pure q\mlit{‘ Hundreds of tona are in sight, of which nearly every pound shows the virgin ore, which seems to argue that silver or gold, or both, were ob- jeots of the miner more than a hundred years ago. There is no evidence of the use of powder or other mining appliances at these mines: but stone hammers lie about in abundance, and with them and sharpened iron steel bars the vast work must have been- accomplished, showing that very small wagos must have satisfied the workmen, else immenso sums of mouey must have been made in the operations. —_—— DARWINISM IN THE KITCHEN. ¥ was tain’ oft my bonnet One arternoon, at thres, When a hinseck jump'd upon it, As proved to be a flee, Then T takes it to the grate, Batween the bars to atick 1t ; But I hadn't long to wait Ere it changed into & cricket, Bays I, * Surelis my senses Is a-gettin’ in a fog.” 80 to drownd 1t I commences, ‘When it halters to s frog. Here my heart began to thump, A n womder £ 1ol Tany £ For the frog, with one big " jump, ZLeap'd hisself into a mo: o Then I open’d wide my eyes, A2 ohsarved Wi groa burprise, ol surp: "That the moukey wes 8 mac. Then g to abruse m She W&m Jou're been drinkin'! 1 says, “ No, mum, you'll excuse e, But TI've merely been a-thinkin’, “ Bnt, as sure as I'm a cinder, t party, what yon seo A-gettin’ out'o’ winder, ‘Have doveloped from & fles 1" A Letter from George Washington. The original manuscript of the following in- teresting lotler from Gen. Washington be Bold among the effects of the late John R. Thompeon, of the New York Evening Post : “Nxwsuzon, March 19, 1783, “Dran Bm: About the first of this month I wrote you s long lotter. I touched upon the stata of the army, the situation of public credit- ors, and wished to_know from you, 2s a friend, what canses had induccd the Assembly of Vir- inis to withdraw their assent to the Impost w ; and how the continental creditors (without adequate funds) were to come at or obtain secur- ity for their mouey. . “I little expocted at the time of writing that lotter, that we wero on the eve of an important crisis to this army; when the tou:hstone of dis- cord was to be applicd, and the value of it was to undergo the soverest trial, * You bave not been aitogether unacquainted, I dare sy, wilh the fears, the hopes, tho appro- liensions, and the expcctations of the army relatively to tbo provision which i o be mado for them hereafter. Although a firm reliance on the integrity of Congress, and a belief that the public would finally do justico to all itsservants, sud give an undisputable security for the pay- ment of tho half-pay of the officers, Lad kept them amidat a varioty of sufferings tolerably quiot and contented for two or three years, yet the total want of pay, the little prospéct of ob- taining any from the unpromising state of tho ublic finances. and the absolute aversion of the States to establish continentsl funds for the pay- ment of the debt due to the army, did, at the close of last campaign, excite greater discon- tents and throsten more serious and alarming consequences than it is easy for me to describe or you to conceive. . “* Happily for us, tho ofticers of highest rank and greator considération interposed, and it was determined to nddress Cobgross in the_most humble, pathetio, and explicit manner. While the sovereign power appeared perfectly disposed to do justice, it was discovered the States would enable them to do nothing. In this state of af- fairs, and after somo time spent at the busincss ot Philadelphis, a report wns made by the dele- ates of the army, glvin'f & detail of the proceed- ngs. Before this could be fully communicated to tho troops, while the mindsof all were in & pecaliar tatd of inquletudo and initation, an anonymous writer, who, though he did not bold- 1y step forth and’ give his name to the world, sent into circulation an address to the officers of the army, which, in point of composition, in elegance, snd forco of expression, has rarely boen equaled 1o the English language, and in which the dreadful altornative was proposed of relin- quishing tho service in 8 body in case the war should continuo, or retaining their arms, in case of peace, until Congress should comply with all their demands. At the eame time, scizing the moment when the minds were inflamed by tho most patriotic representations, a general mcot- ing of tho officers was sumumoned by another anonymous production. Tt is impossible to ssy what would bave been the consequence had the suthor succeeded in his first pians. But, measures having boen taken to postpone the meeting, &0 s to give timo for cool refloction and counteraction, the good sense of tho officers has terminated this affair in a moanner which reflects tho grestest glory on themselvos and demands the highest expres- sions of gratitude from their country. 4 The procecdings have this day beon reported to Congress, and will probably be publiahed for tho satisfaction of all the. good puo&lz in the Upited Btates. In the meantme I thought it Decensary to givo you those particulars, princi- pally o design to cominunicate to you, ‘without reservo, my opinion_on thia interesting subject. For notwithstanding the storm haa now passed oyer ; notwithstauding the officers Dbave, in despite of their accumulated suffer- ings, given the most una%l:voclllndemud proofs of gltriofinm, yet I beliove, unless jus- tico shall be done, and funds offectuslly pro- vided for the payment of tho debt, the most deplorable and ruinous consequonces may be ap- prehended. Justice, homar, gratitude, fihc’, sverytling 1s opposed 10 tho' conduct of driving men to despair of obtaining their justrights sttor seven yoars' painful servitude in. the field ; for they have not, during that time, ha ehelter.from the inclemoncy of the seasons but tents, and euch houses as they could build for themaelves. “ Convinced of this, and sctuated, sa I sm, not by private and interested motives, but by a seuse oF S07, 3 love af Tustice, soil sllthe ‘feelings of itude towards a body of men who have mor- fted infinitely well of their country, I can never concesl or mgfimu my sentiments. I cannot cense to exert all the abilities I am possessed of to sbun the evil tendency of prognosticated jus- tice, for I will not suppose it is not ultimately intended them, nor fail to urge the establish- ment of such adequato and permanent funds as will ensblo Congress to securo tho payment of the public debt on such principles a8 will pre- servo the national faith, give satisfaction to the army, and tranquillity to the public. 4 hfl:\"fi c.‘!ixa honor to be, with great esteem and re, ar gir, B O ¥ most obedt. servt, “ G. WASTINGTON. P, 8,—The author of the anonymous address is yot behind the curtain; and 88 conjecture might be grounded on error, I will not aurcunce mine at present. s G. W. + His Lxcell’y Gov. Harrison.” EFighting of Futurec Men=of-War, The following ‘lsle of *futuro” history is from tho Na fagarine : * The two ficots, having sighted each other, 88 we havo supposed, will; probably—for here we must enter into the region of conjecture—rapidly near each other. As they approach, fire will most likely be opened 1rom those guns (with which all efiicient ships are now provided) that are mounted on the bow, 80 88 to fire abe The shot that can be fired il not be numerous. The hostile squadrons will soon be too close for * bow fire ” to be of any farther use, and as they get very near each other, Captains will perhaps not care to have their view of the foe impeded by cloudsof smoke banging about their ships. Each vessel, still maintaining it epeed, will not improbe ably look for an _opponent in_the enemy’s force whom to try ‘ram.’ The enemy, on the er hand, will moat likely be proparing to do the same, and beiween each pair of ships will begin » game of ekill in maneuvoring, to syoid not only the hostile me, bat also the torpedo, which will Inevitably be towed alongside. In sddition to these maneuvers of defense, there will be those by which it is attempted to deliver » deadly thrust with the prow to pour in a oon- centrated hroadside from the best position, and also to plant the terrible torpedo beneath the nent's bottom. Snpposing the skill on both eides to be nearly on an equalty, the fleeta will at first pass through cach other, then they will have to turn round necasearily with circumspee- tion, to avoid being caught in flank while so doiog, -and perform the same evolutions over n. sgain. —_—— IDLENESS. And slow and slower still, day after day, Comc the sad hours with beauteous upturned eyes, Gleaming with hopes I may not realize, And seeming in their earnestness to 82y Entreatingly: “ Ob, send us not away All empty-handed a8 we came; arise, Give us, at least, some promise we ehall prize, To be fulfilled, though after long delay,” And I, although I weep to seo them pass ‘With ln, pace and disappolnted look, Am lifeless as a statue bound with brass, Tu::dhguu‘!;nmopen, loose-leaved book, ‘urned by ; yea, peazive s tho grass, Weuk as the dfll’nin'- ‘summer bxw{r T e Misuso of Words. It is amusing, if not something pitiable, to se how & simplo English word, the word either, is systematically misunderstcod and misapplied. The real meaning of the word s, *ono or the other ;” just as, in & negative sense, neither Eig- nifies, ““ not one nor tho other.” Shakspeare, in “ An];any and Cleopatra,” uses both words cor- Tectly: Lepidus fiatters both, Of both i lattered ; but he ncither loves, Nor either cares for him, From a stvange freak, the term either has been very commonly employed to signify each of two, or both. For examplo, “ there stood pillar oz cithor side of the gateway;” or, “ they wero seated on either side of the fireplace;” or to take two examples from Lord Lytton's last movel, “A Plenennt greensward bordered it on either #ide " —*' tho mouth singularly besutiful, with & dimple on eithor side,” the meaning in_esch case being ** both sides ;" or, togo & peg lower in the literary scale, and quote from the comic song of the ‘¢ Bear-gkin Coat:" Fine pockets, large and wid Biood out trom cuhes ian™ This misuse of eithor is not new. The exTor oo~ curs geveral times in the authorized version of the New Testament. Two mstances may be giv- en. ¢ They crucified two other with him, on either side one,” 8t. John xix. 18. * On either side of the river was there tho tree of life,” Rev. xxil. 2. It eays littlo for the scholarship of the translators that they should have perpetuated abuse of our vornacular, and anctioned an error 80 inveterate as to be now almost past cor- rection. Perhapa sound hes had something to do with the improperuse of either. Consisting of two syllables, it may ba considered to bs mors fluent and elegant than the little word each ; in wuich way sound is probably preferred to sense. Fashion, however, cannot be permitted to alter the plain meaning of the English langusge, and we are glad that, according to the newspaper re- port, the correct definition of either waa lately vindicated in a suit in chancery, We give the matter briefly, as it is related. ‘‘ A certain tes- tator left property, the disposition of which was affected by * the death of either’ o!hmtfer!nna. One learned counsel contended that the word + either ’ woant both : in support of this view he %\mtad Richardson, Webater, Chaucer, Dryden, onthey, the history of the crucifixion, and & Tassago from Rovelation. The learned Judge suggestod thet there was an old song in the ** Beggars' Opers,” known to all, which took the opposite view: ‘How hapoy could I be with efther, Wero t'other dear charmer away. In pronouncing judgment, the Judge dissented tirely from the argument of the learned coun- Eitler > meant one of two, and did not mean *both' Though occasionally, by poets and some other writers, the word was emp! olyed to signify ‘both,’ it did ot in this case before the court.” Though such was the decision, we do not expect that the misnse of either will bs dropped. In comparikon with cach, the word is thought pretty, and it will doubtless continue to bo misapplied, both in speaking and writing ; though, perhaps, testators have received Eal. atary leason on the subject. Wo might present other instances of the in- veterate misuse of words, but content. ourselves with drawing attention to one of daily occurence, We refor to the word none, which is simply o contraction of “no one,” or “* not one,” and is accordingly to be used in application to only one thing. Instesd, however, of speaking of it in the singular, 83 none is,” or “ not one is,” o ;. ROt oo wis," it is almost constaatly plaral- ized ; writers saying, ““none are,” of ‘*mone " "They might just as well 8sy “no ons which they would hardly think of doing. As tho English Ianguago is ' precious inheri- tance, it would surely be worth while to avoid such a petty misuse of & very simple class of tarms.— Chambers' Journal. ——— - How 10 Get o Diamond Necklace, From Le Petit Journal Pour Rire. A diamond pecklace—how isit to be got ? Ry working ? 0. By dancing ? No. By writing ? No. By embroidering 7 0. By teaching music ? No. By painting or being painted ? No, 1o, no, no—a thousand times no. You ehall see bow it is done. The Countess T—, who possesses the most ‘beautifal collar in St. Petersburg, if inquiry is mado in rogerd to the prico of this treasure, xoplice, i1t cost me ten months & in prison.” ere is the key to tho engima : The Countess had & revenue of about three hundred thousand francs s year. One day n jeweler presented himself at the Countess’ house with this famons necklace, » 1t pleased hor immensely, of course ; and she esgorly demsuded the price, * Two hundred and Aty fhousand france,” ported the lapidary. Tt ia & great deal. I havm't the money,” sighed the besutifal Muscovite, _ “Well, I ehall tako it to the Princess N.,” he rfl&h’ad_ his lady was a rivalof the Countess, It pained her to the heart to think the Princess should lc:’uiro these splendid jewels. “Stop,” said she. * Can you keep them for me for ton montbs? I engage to purchase them at the end of that time.” The jeweler was satisfied, and the bargain was concluded. Therenpon the Countess went into s Greek convent for ten months, She bado adieu to all Iuxuries and_vanities, discharged cooks, coach- men, and all other domestics, and devoted the expenses thus saved from housekeeping to the fund for scquiring tho diamond necklace, Ten months thereafter she returned to fash- ionable life more brilliant than ever, with a dia- ‘mond necklace de plus. *+A necklace of two hundred and fifty thonsand franca!” cried all tho great ladies, her friends. * How did you manage it, Countess 7" “I have gained it by & cortain method. And every one of you could do the same. But I know you will not try.” And that is tue. i AR Snnke-Charming. The most charming snake-charmer is Mra, M., whom an inquirer, * not very much afraid of snakes,” has boon kindly allowsd to interview. Mr. M., who reccived the visitor, after remarks npon the weather, produced out’ of 8 cupboard a large bos constrictor, a python, and several small snakes, which a¢ once made themselves at homo on the writing-tablo among pens, ink, and books. Intorviower was » good deal star- tled when the two large suakes coiled round and round Mr. M. and began to notico himself with their bright eyes and forked tongues. Mr. M. then went to call Mrs. L, leaving him ajone with the bos deposited on an arm-chair. He felt queer when i a0 gradually to come near him, to improve their tete-a-tote, but was soon relieved by theentrance of his hoeta, followed by two little children, charming and charmors also. The lady and the children went at once to tne bos, and, calling it by the most endearing names, allowed it to twine itsclf most gracefully round abont them. The boa constrictor, 88 thick round asa small tree, twined phrful!g ronnd tho lady’s waist and Deck, forming a kind of turbsn round her heed, and 'expecting to bo petted and made much of like a kitten. The children over and over again took its head in their hands, and kisecd its mouth, pushing sside its forked tongue in doing 80. * Zvory one to_his taste,” as the old man said when ho kissed his cow. 'Tho animal scemed much plessed, but kept continually turning its head toward interviewer, until he al- lowed it for a moment to nestle its head up hi sleeve. This splendid serpent coiled ail ronnd Mrs. M., whilo sho moved abont the room, and when sho stood up to pour ont coffee. He seemed to adjust bis waight 50 nicely, and overy coil with his beautiful markings was relieved by the Iady's black velvet dress. About a_year ago Mr. and Mrs, M. were sway for six week®, and Jeft the bos in charge of & kespor st the Zoo. The poor reptile moped, elopt, and rofused to be comforted; but when his master end mistress appesred, he sprang upon them with delight, coiling himself ronnd them, sud showing _every symptom of intense delight. The children are devoted to their *darling Cloo,” as they call the smake, and smiled when Interviewer asked If they waro ever frightened of it.—All the Year Round. e~ 6 animal be- el et A Maternal Vagary. Ths latest maternal vagary of the animal kind is reported from Lyndon, N. H., whare a con- siderate sow is credited with suckling an o kitten. Two years ago, when tho sow mas m‘f ingup » litter of pigs, littlo kitten strayed - into the pen, took its place in the litter, and W3 nasigned to ono of the fecders. The pigs grew up and were separated from the maternalsm. brace, but the kitten romainod and kopt its piace beside the sow. In due timo anotherlitter of pigs uppeared, and the kitten formed one of the new family, and acted as older sister. As this - litter of pigs separnted from: their mamma, the kitten attempted to supply their places with 'hal{ 8 dozen emall cats, whieh the-sow deroursd boartily, and seemed Frstetul for the prosent, Sow and Litty wers then sole companions 4ill another litter of pigs lpgmad, when kitty kept up hor family relstiona. 8e slops on the s byck avd seldom leaves tho pen. These affec- tionate companions may be seeri at any timp un. der tho livery-stable barn, and aro one aad jn. separable. Bonnets for Indian Squave: From & pamphlet lately published in Nebre: The Indians who now remain in Nebraska are settled on reservations. A sceno witnessed 8mong one of the tribes by the writer last spring - he describes thus, in writioy to & friend : * Bpending some days lately amcrg the Otos Indians on the reservation on tho Big Dlue, in Bouthern Nebrasks, I saw quite & new phase of life. Tho Otoos sre still ‘blanket’ Indians - wearing breechclout and_leggins—but neither * cost or breeches. No whites, oxcept Govern. ment officials, aro allowod to hunt, fish, or lodge, or trade among them. “Their lodges, dances, games, dreas and gen- eral habits, and especialy theis burial rites. in- terested me oxcocdingly. But I am now unibe to describe my experience in regard to thase matters. * For years the Quakers have had the Otoea in hand, and have Isbored to clevate them with & zeal worthy of better success than has crowned their success. One snecdote told me shows lainly enongh that. their zeal bad not always en according to knowledge. “Last year news cam to Philsdelphia Quakers from their Quaker missionary among the Oices that tho squaws were all dostitute of bonnets. This destitution horrified the Quskeresses. A . subscription was started, hundred bonnots wero bought, and straightway dispatched by expross to tho Otoo Superintendent. Next da; after the bonnots arrived the squaws were Al congregated, and a bonnet was nicaly fitted on the head of each by tho wife of the missionary. But this headgear was epecedily taken off to ba looked at, and then no Iadian bells knew how to roplace her bonnet the right side befare; nor waa this the worst of it., “But the sequel of tho story is not to ba understood withont a reference to » singular Otoe idea regarding the poink of honor, which was first discovered by Major Loog, on hls expe- tion and councils among this peculiar people, in 1819. No Otoe brave can git down between sin- riso and sunset without disgrace. He may lis, or lean, or kneel, but ho must not sit, anymorg than a ‘Moslem mey eat betwaen sun and sun in Ramadan. To guard against a or's nawit- tingly travsgressing this anti-sitting law, the dress of the Otoo brave is provided with a crow cushion ' 80 contrived 88 to prick him in the soat of honorss Soon s he begins to si down. In consequence of this custom, no soon- er did the squaws bring bome the bonnets than the braves, regarding those_articles as crow cushions, seized them as a suitable costume for themselves, thongh superfiuous for Indian women. The next day the squsws appearsd bareheaded, but each warrior was tricked out with a bonuet, not on his head, butss s panier. Nor could any disinterested spectator fail to con- foss that the fashionablo American bonnet, though unfit for a head covering, when worn a3 & * orow cushion * was enshrined in the niche it was ordained fo f1l.” i Elumors of ¥rohibition. A lady but lately settlod in Concord, N. H.,— relates the Pafriof of that city,—went ino a drug-stors and innocently asked ‘for a pint of alcohol to bo used in a spirit lamp. “Have yon s proscription?” inquired the elerk, politels. 7 “A’svhat 7" asked the lady, in surprise. “4A prescription from & physician! ” explained the clark, .« aro not allowod o_sell xicahol unloss it is ordorad by s physicisn.” ¢ Not even alcohol ?” kaid the astonished cus tomer. *Well, ihat is strange. I was nat aware that any one ever drank pure alcolol as s beverage.” “Vory truc. I think myeelf that such & rege ulztion is ridiculous ; but wo must obey it. I am sorry if you are inconvenienced, but cannok gell yon any alcobol unless you bring s pre- scription.” The lady left the drug-store, aud when lasb seen, in the middle of the afternoon, was cirou= lating around looking for physician who would be willing to cortify that ber spirit lamp was eciously ill, —with some diseaso or ofher pocaliar Intaps ot this season of the yoar,—and that ; case WAS one requiring treatment with stimus ants. —_—— Resuscitation. A remarkable case of resuscitation has just taken place at the Hospital of the Val-de-Grace, at Paris. A man had hanged himself in a garret in the Ruo Saint Jacques, and having been cut down and examined by the medical men, waa ronounced to be desd, The clinical lecturer, owever, desired to try one last e?efimn and Do opened the ehest and attemptad artificial res- piration, but without success. He then applied the pole of an electrical battery to the pneumo- gastric nerves, and passed a strong current atine tervals of four seconds. Soon after, 80me signt of respiration sppeared, and in five minntss tha i cardisc pulsation was perceptible. The epiglottia i was tumefied, and the tongue had to be drawn out with pincers to leave s passage for the air. A few ounces of blood were obtained from the medio-cephalic vein, the dilated pupils con- tracted, the sign of life became mare and more mauifest, a few drops of alcohol were adminis- tered, eome alight muscular contractions became visible without the aid of electricity, warmth re turned to the feet, the pulsation in the carrotid lr!e;lus recommenced. and the pstient was 8y : i { Prescription for Cliolern. : The following prescription was adopted by tie College of Physicians in Philadelphis in 1865: “Laudsnum, 2 ounces; spirits of camphor, 3 ocunces; tincture of capsicum, 4 ounce; tinc- : ture of ginger, 1 ounce; essence of peppermint, 2 ounces; Hoflman's anodyne, 3 ounces. Lf i the anodyne cannat be readily obteined, substi- : tute snl&hufle mthor—half the quantity, Mix thoroughly, and shake well every tim it 18 Give or take from 10 .to 25 drops, according t0 s sge, condition, and violence of sttack. Rejeat. every 20 minutes till relief is obtained. In& desperate case take a tablespoonfal zt once. Take it in an equal quantity of water, and lie on tho back quiotly, or in aa essy sltting posturo, with the back supported, till it has full oppor- tunity to work. Carry a emall vial in tho pocket, with a fow lurps of ‘white sugar upon which to drop it, to be used in sudden emergencies.” Water at Fires. 1t has long boen the thoory of Mr. Joseph Bird, of Mount Auburn, Mass., that & great deal of water is wasted in the oxtinguishment of fires. . To prove this, ke gave a series of experiments on the Sth inat., beforo *President Eliot sod | several Professors of Harvard University.. Nios empty rosin-barrels, with heads and bottoms : knocked out and filled with shavings, were setan - fire, when the flames were extinguished by 8 very amall quantity of water thrown on the ex= gosed sides of the barrels. A large pile of rosin- . arrels, ten or twolve feet high, was then and the fire extinguished by throwing on them shost s bnc:;mfi: of ‘wats? by adostion and-pump, through. a.pipe with an eig] nozzla, A} ‘tramo-building, eight faet by ten aad eight feet high, filled with combustibles, was then fired, nnd the fire, which bumed Yery fiercely, extinguished in one minute by one tub-. ful of water. The experiments were thought {0 be very successful. A Chinese Newspaper. From the San Francisso Call, Juns 12. 3t By tho Quang Be, which sailed for China abou! & week s50, anorder waa sent for 1,000,000 pieces of Chiisc:e type. The type will be used (o_rlbe;. ?nblicninn of a tri-weekly paper, to be print® n the Chineso language. The propiietors wi be a company of Mongolian me ts. Wemsy thereforo expect to seo pig-tailed reporiers 8 meetings. _Ero long ows leading men may bas read interviewing cards sent in to them: o disgraceful condition of our Barbary Cosst wi, furnish text for a series of scatbig Cbinesd oditorials ; the hoodlum will be hold up 0 {7 execration of Chine-tovm; prominent sdronssd of the exclusion of the moon-eyed Orient o be treated to highly offensive p: phs. By it will afflict us " liftle, for we hall u@(zfim nothing that is said about us, and shall, if pwd't ot ble, caro less. Wonder if the Chinese print o be a live paper, and steal telegrams, sndp gus reports and sham interviews ? Gen. —A Portland (Oregon) dispatch says Spragus snd Olasies Nordugh were nbnfi.d o Shoshono when nhe ran the Csscades. Thei’l from the Dalles to Portland was made in the £/o precodented time of eight and a half hour: L Tan gix miles through the Cascades in o » half minates. Those aboard sty the 5820y oxtremely grand ; the seething foam ‘high as the pilot-house.