Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 27, 1873, Page 4

COLORS OF THE PLANETS. From Appletona® Journal, Tho colora of the plnnots prosont Interesting stbjeots for ptudy i throo differont dopartmonts of nstronomlenl investigation, oithor observed by thio naked oyo, soon through tho toloscope, or oxamiined by tho apoctroscopo. I'ho most familint and accosniblo flold of ro- soarch Is found in the colors which tho planats oxhibit Lo tho naked oye. Each of the five visi- blo planets bias an individuality as characteristio a8 that which distinguishos tho membera of the snmo family, aud this difforonco dopends largoly on paculintity of coloring. Jupltor, tho giant of {lio solar family, is clnssed as a white star, slthough to our vision. thore 1a & yollow tinge blonded with tho whitencss, Whon shining in full glory on the dark back- ground of the midnight sky, il is impossiblo to mistako him for any othor star in tho firmament. ‘When ho i8 morming or ovening star ho is some- times tokon for Vonus, But caroful attontion will onsily dotoct the differencoe, for Vonus is tho moro brillisut, whilo tho tint of her lightls o much softor and more croamy white. Thoro in su indeseribablo loveliness about this plunot ‘which belongs to no othor objoct {n tho heavons, &nd which Ia largoly duc to tho boaming color which eho roflcats. Mercury is also n white planot, but differing entirely from onch of tho others, His nearnoss to the sun gives him a peculiar sparkiing Lute, which can never bo fore otton by those who have boon fortunato enongh o catch & view of the shy planot. o is some- “(m“ called tho *‘Sparkior” from this circum- etanco. ARS8 13 o red star, and was called the * Fiory One"” by tlo Grooks on account of Lis ruddy light. In-| ancient timos his appoarance was looked upon as tho barbingor of war, This planot haslost & {lurt[un of his doop-red color, and tho cause of lio chnngo has loug beon a Bubject of disous- sion, Iti8 now nscribed to cortain changes tak- ing placo in thoe color of the constituonts. BATURN shines with a dull yollow color. This, with his slow niovemont and dismel hue, accounts for tha uulucky influonco aseribed to him by sstrologists, Thus wo havo sparkling whito, croamy white, goldon white, deop rad, and dull yollow for cold ors of tho viuible planots, and, altor a little ob- sorvation, it is onay to dotoot cach planot by tho color it reflecta. But tho teleacopo revesls in some of the flunms poculiaritios of color which are fonund n nothing olso in tho haavons, Thoy aro tho only objests which are sotually varigguted, for thoy prosont, sido by side, in belts, bands, and clouds, tiuts of almost ovory imaginable color. But tho obsorvation of tho rewarkablo pho- nomona {8 comparatively recent, Such is” tho distance soparating us from theso onter worlds, and such tho dolicnoy of tho coloring, that i roquires the most favorablo stmosphoric condi- tions and tho most thorough familiarity with asironomy to reach resulis in the least dogroo satisfactory. MERCURY AND VENUS 270 now soncar to tho sun that it is almost im- rosslb}o to obtain trustworthy results rogarding Lo color of their surfacos—indecd #* is proba- blo that thug aro nover seon., Bub fhen o havo pnssed the boundary of the earth's orbit, wo enter upon A more satisfactory flold of ab- sorvation. Alars, our noxt neighbor, ranks first among tho plancts for the distinctnosa and varioty of tho colors ho prosents. Two white spots shine with o xlniuh\r brillinncy, marking his ice-bound poles. dolicate tintod border or white light surronnds the polar zones, Somo-" iimos a_groonish tint of oxquisite delicacy is mingled with the whito and nupfloaud to bo due 10 cumulus clouds floating in his atmosphare, Tho body of tho planot noxt appoars, with tho provoiling red or ocreish tint, giving the deep red color so familinr to obsorvers, Wo can also dotect occasional spots of salmon-colored light, brownish patches, and oven black spots, probae bly marking the Innds and continents. ~ Then wo 8ee, covoring nbout the same portion of the diait, green or indigo-gray portions, forming the scas or ocoans of the planot. Nono of these spots azo entirely dark, but eithor faintly tinted, al- wost whito, or tinged with purplish hue. JUPITER, undor & poworful telescope, develops a marvel- cus #plendor of ecoloring. Tho poles are of o singalarly borutiful color, called by painters ulirs marino ash, and tho epaces botweon the durk belts aro of o rich creamy white. The dark Liolts display remarkablo gradations of color. ‘Lhicso nenrest the poles are elato-colored; farthor on, ntiugo of red minglos with the gray ; that is succoaded by ndolicato chocolate ; while, tho belts on ocither side of tho oqua- torinl ‘bright zono dovolop n_garnot blonding ‘with tho other hues. 'The grent equatorial belt in mnearly white, but hns recontly presontod unusun! “variations of color, chenging from groonish yellow to bright oclirsish yollow, and still moro recontly pssuming all the tints of yal- low from Roman orange to yellow lake. Tho Telts vary groatly in number, form, and oxtont, whilo processes of disturbanco are constantly going on. Immonsoe rifts open in the vaporous anattor, binck spots como into view, and all ob- seryation noems to confinn the theory of the action of intense Lieat around the surface of tho planet. saTURN presonts n view to the telescopio observer more charming and improssive than that of Jupitor. Mia ring systorn makos him tho most interest- ing of tho planots, while his family of satel- lites raiso him fo the dignity of & sun, Ifis Tamily of satellites is as large as tho sun’s fam- ily of planots, and hia ring is now considerad to Lo composed of myrinds of minute satollitos circling in intotrwining orbits sround their mighty primary, The colora observed on 8nt- arn aro as beautiful as thoso on the noarer and larger planet, but his groster distanco makes thom appoar faint and smooth, instesd of dark and rugged, Buturo’s ring {8 dividod by n diatance of two thousand miles, tho inner “portion being wider aud brighter. Boveral other divisions also ocour in the ring aystem, ono of them dividing tho outor ring near tho middle, but (heso divisiona ave not black, neithor is tho groat dark division, for whon the shadow of the planet falls ncross it thoroe i & marked contrast botwoen the intonso blacknoss of tho shadow and the morely dark color of the divieion, showing that some- thing bosidos empty space ocoupios the division between tho rings. = Within the in- nor ring lics tho dark or crapo ring, through which the body of the planot can bo sean pro- senting the appoaraunce of & crape velling, but not Inding the view. 'This portion of the ring system is supposed to coneist slso of minuto sntellites, more widely soparated than they aro in the bright rings, and itis botween them that wo cateh glimpsos of the planct, At ordinary times the x:mI[vI colors recognized on Saturn uro the whito of the cloud zones and tho yollow of tho belts, But on nights of ex- coptionnlly favorable conditions theso palo col- or8 chango into the most beautiful hues. Mr, Browning, tho distinguished optician, bas pro- duced a beautiful reprosontation ot it a8 ho_saw ii-on one of the rare nlf))ls which reward tho nstronomar for months of patient waiting, Ile Lus ropresentod tho color of tho rings by yollow ochro, shaded with the samo, and sepin ; the globo, yellow ochro and bLrown madder, orange, and” purple, shaded with popia, Tho at division in tha rings is sopin, and tiie polo ud tho narrow belts near it, pale cobalt blue, Br. Browning's picturo of Baturn is the most Loautitul ono that has over beon produced, but it gives no adequato conception of this farcinat- ing planct; forall torrostrial colors ara mudd{ nud dingy whon compared with the tints thal displny tho glory of tho Oreatar in tho honvons, aud show His handiwork in the firmament, —— A Woman’s Congross. From the Golden Age (New York), July 20, Horasis calls for o Woman's Congross, In the sivenlar whieh tho club hos issuod for thia pur- pose, the callera lamont the loss of power which venulis from the Jsck of collective nction and thorough organization among women, Thou- eands, snys Sorosid in thia mousage, of nabloand tenoticont women, cattored ell ovor our country. wo to-day thinking, writing, and sposking the srutha which ull women need, snd many are raiting to hoar, and which would, at onoe, bo & tenovalivg forco iu the land, if the beljovers sould, in a congregated body, unite upon praoti- ial methods for tholr Incorporation into govorn- went, buginess, and social life, Thorefore, in sonsideration of tho presont domaud for unity 2f mothod among womon intorostod in liko ob- Jjocts, Borosis, whose purposo s ‘‘to roudor womon helpful to osch othor and ugo- ful to socolety,” has . dotermjned to take the prelimiuary steps for bringing the ropre- pentativo womon of the ocountry togothor fn & Woman's Congross, that unitedly we may tsko into caroful considoration the moro important guostions that sffect womsn's lfe. Wosond this messengor to all women who, by volco or pon, or practical work, havo conquered an hon- orablo place in any of the Iu»d(ng roforms of the day, sud we cordinlly invite thom to slgnify thofr approbation and sympatby with our offort by weending us thelr " names to afix to tho call “for a * Woman's Con- cross,” to be hold in Now' York City, in ctober, 1878, Borosly, howover, modestly dig- olnlma tho intontlon of taking tho lead in the Oongrosa whon it i assembled. That Lody 18 to bo lott to soloot its own ofileors aud govorn itmolf. Borosia monntimo meroly offors it sorvicos a8 a local commlttce to -attond fo. tho proliminary Dusiness, It : nug- gnats the “following” as among the subjoeots or discussion at tho mooting of tho Congross: Highor Eduontion for Womon; Woman's s'\Vm‘k In Litoraturo; tha Rolation of Women to Hor Drons ; Womnan the Promoter of Ponco; Prison- Reform ) ‘Woman’s Work ; the Inviolato Homo- stead ; Equal Division of tho Snlary between Husbaud and Wife; Woman's Influonco in Pro- moting Tomperanco: Co-oporative Industrics Among Womon ; Woman's Placo in Government 3 Bystoms of l’h\lnnthr?n Low na It Affocts ‘Women ; Enlightoned fotherhood ; Womon in Burgory and Medioine. "It ooms to us that this i a vory fom.l sohomo, and, it woll-managed and jndiclously carriod info actlon, tho first Woman's Oongross in Amarfon, will not bo tho Iast. = But it, in its dotsils, it shows tho plontiful lnck of oxeoutlve ability which too ofton distinguislics ‘womon's conventions and other public organiza- th;:{-u, it will rofloot littlo orodit on Borosid or it~ solf, PRECAUTIONS AGAINST CHOLERA. Mr, John Bimon, the medical oficor of the Lo~ eal Govornmeont Bontd in London, has issued the Zfallowing minute ¢ Firai—As Asintic cholora is now provailing in parta of Europe, and may probably extend to Places which ‘are in froquent communication with England, within tho noxt month or two the disonso may bo bro\ufiht into thia country. Second—Tho Local Government Bonrd will glve power to local sanitary authoritios to deal with any such cases, if thoy arrivo, in o way to pruh;?b tho population ns far a8 possibla against surprigo. ‘hird—Formor oxperionco of cholora in Eng- land justifies a bollof that the disoase will not be capable of causing much injury to the popula- tion if tho placos recoiving tho infoction ’]’.mvn l::«{ltho'ndvmtngo of proper sanitary adminis- ation. : Fourlh—Cholora in England showa iteolf as Lttlo contagions in tho sento in which small-pox and searlating aro commonly called contaglous, But cholora has o cortain poculinr Infoctivences of its own, which, whoro local conditions assist, can opetato with torriblo forco, and at considera: blo dintances from tho sick. All mattors which the pationt discharges from his stomach nud bowale are infective. Particles of them nro en- oblod to taint tho f00d, wator, or alr which poo. plo consumo. The disonso is not likely to apread unless in proportion as it finds locally open to it cortain facilitics for eprending by indirect infec- tion. 1In order rightly to sppraciato what theso facilitios must be, the following considerations Diavo to bo borna in mind : First, that any chol- eraio disohurfi cast without provious thorough disinfeotion, Into any coss-pool or drain, or othor dopository or conduit of filth, infecta the oxore- mental matters with which it thero. mingles, and probably, moro or loss, the offluvia whioh those motters ovolve; socondly, that the infoctive povwer of choleraio discharges attachos to what< ovor bodding, clothing, towels, and like thinga hiave baou imbued with thom, and ronders these thingd, if not thoroughly disinfeoted, as capable of sproading tho discase in places to which thoy are pont (for wuhin[gnr othior purposes), as, in liko clrcumstances, the pationt himsolf would bo; that if, by lonkage or sonkage from coss- pools or drajus, or through roskless casting ont of slops and wash-wator, nn{ taint, howover small, of tho Infoctive material gots ‘nccoss to wolls or othor Bourcos of dflnking-\rnwr, it im- parts to enormous volumos of water tho power of propagating tho digense, When due rogard is had to theso possibilitios of indirect infection, thero will be no diffloulty in understanding thaf ovon o single onso of cholern, perhaps of tho slightost dogreo, and porhaps qulto unsuspooted in its neigoborhood, may, if local circumstances co-operato, oxert a torribly Infective power on considerable mnsscs of population, Fifth—The mnin object forondenvor mustboe to socura overywhore such local ciroumstances that the infective material, thongh not disiafected, would be unablo to sproad its influcnce among the population, Bizth—The dangers which have to bo guarded ogainst a8 favoring tho sproad of cholora infoc- tion aro particularly two. First, ana above all, thero is the danger of wator supplies which are in soy (oven the slightost) degreo taiuted by houso refuse or other like kinds of flith; as where thero is outflow, leakage, or flltration from sewors, housc-drnins, privies, cesapools, foul ditches, or tho like into aprings, stroams, wolls, or resorvoira from which tho supply of water i8 drawn, or into the soil in which the wolls aro situsto; o dangor which may oxist on & small sonle (but perhapa ofton. ropeated in the same district) at the pump or dip-well of a private houso, or ou n largo and even vast scale in tho source of publio” water-works, And sccondly, thore ip tho danger of breathing air which is fou with ofluvia from tho samo torts of impurity. (a). Immodiate and senrching cxamination of golirces of water supply should bo mado in all cases whore tho sourca is in auy degreo opon to tho auspicion ,of impurity, and "the water, both from privato and public” sources, should bo ex-~ mnined. Where pollution is discovered (war[v; thing practioablo should bo dono to prevont the pollution from contiuning, or if this objeet can- 3:& bl:n attained, to prevent the water from being ank. (b). Bimultanoously thero ehonld be imme- diato thorough removal of overy sort of housa rofuso and other filth which has” accummulated in neglected placen ; future accumulations of tho samo sort Bhould bo proveuted ; attention should be given to all defocts ot houso drains and sinks through which offensivo emells ave lot into houses ; thorough washing and lime-washing of uncleanly prominos, especially of such as aro donsoly occupied, should boe practised again and again. K(x:), Disinfection should bo vory frooly and yery frequontly am‘[:loyad in aud around about hotisos wharever there aro rocoplacles or con- duits of fllth, wherever thero 1s fllth-soddon ‘porous earth, wherover anything olse, in or un- dor or sbout the house, tonds to make the at- mosphere foul, . In the absence of pormanont pafogunrds no approach to socurity can bo got without inoos- sant cloansings and disinfoctions, or without ox- tremo and constant vigilance againsc overy pos- giblo contamination of drinling-wator, In view of any possibility that the intection of cholora may again be prosout in this country it is dosirable lhat%n oach locality the public should sscertain fo whom it practically hns to laok, in coso of mnaed, for its colloctive safoty ngainst such deugoers as the abovo, Seventh—1t is important for fho public to ro- momber that pains tuken and costs incurred for the purposes to which the memorandum rofers cannot in any ovent bo regarded as wasted trouble and “oxpenso. The local conditions which would euable cholers, if imported, to spread its infection in this country are condi- tflma which day by day, in tho alsonce of cholo- ra, creato and epread othor disosses; dlseases which, a8 boing never absent from thae country, ore, in tho long run, far mora destructive than cholera; and tho sanitary improvomonta which would justify o sonso of sccurity against m:{ ap- probonded importation of cholers would, to thoir extent, though oholors should never re- appear, giva nmplo romuncrative results in the provention of thoso otber disonsos. S o it What the Fardin Maubillc Ikenlly ¥s. From a Communiecatfon fn the Cineinnati Gazette, And hie will have the Jardin Mabille, for this waxes with the summor sun, What American man goof to Parls without visiting this famoun garden? And the guide books say married women may oo it with their husbands, It mny bo woll. The Jardin Mabillo is somohow synony- mons _with the fanoled liconsg and abandon of Taris pleasures, And what aro tho attractions of tho Jardin Mabillo ? It is ofton doscribed in ottors to tno presy, and much oftonor in por: gonal narration of experionce, and I vonturs to #uy tho improssion in tho genoral mind is of n groat Bcono of rovelry snd mirth, in which tho exuborant spirits ‘and oxcitoment of tho timo find oxercjeo in a comical, oxtravagant, and othletio style of dauclog, 'Uhis s tho notlon that the traveled man canvoys to his innocont follow man, and that tourists give whon they write lottors of trayol. Tho wondor Iy, whero tourists oxpeot to 70 to whon thf dio ; for thair inevitable finbft of drawing the DDF bow would make them peaple o large torritory, if Iying were to bo takon notice of, Ihe roality of tha scone of rovelry in the Jar- din babilo is to this common idea about as the roality of & Gorman masquerado ball, fu which thero are ucores of overcoated, hattod, tobacco- B8] mm;; mon to one masquerader, is tho genoral idea of tho gayety nnd rovelry of snch parform- ance. Upon the ground by the stand of the fine orchosira two couples, thoe women ovidently stock porformers, danco tho flgures of & quadrillo in o stylo moro or losu oxtravagant, according to their geniue and ‘musclo. Tlo grest attraction, and groatout foat, s whoro the femule dancer gathers up her &klrts to frao hior movement, and flings n‘:nuu foot a8 high ns her hoad, Thiy ono of them may bo oxpeated to do every time tho figuro comes to the motion of‘ forward aud baok. ‘L'he other oxtraordinary motions consist ohiefly of that swaggering aud swaylng of the arms in time with ™ the feot which “Aimoeo and other Fronch slugers in gpora bouffo have mado familisr to Amerioan eyes. “Around theso two oouples tho epectators who havo como £0 soo the fastost Jifo In Parly finthur in_w rivg, ns at s wrostling-matoh [0 New England on training- day. Poradventuro, i a favorabla night, thore may bo porformera onongh to form &40, OF pos- elbly thron, of thoso balf-quadsillon, ench of which will have its arowded r?ng of %nplug Bpao- tators, Tho porformancoia varied by walizes, Which, 08 thoy do not admit of the peouliat Jar- din Mabillo stop, aro loss attrnctive to tho look- org-on. This I8 the roality of tho fancled scono of danc- ing rovelry which s thought tho great attraction of the Jardin Mabille, Some &coros of woll- drossod womon visit tho gardon in purauit of thelr avocation, and in gonoral placo thomaolven unobtrugively on the Loenchen that are seattorod around it. Homo aro bolder in mannor, but mon who hold out no invitation ara not oxposod to sollcitations, Many of the women acom to como ?nlnuy 28 to an oxohange, and whon they havo found that tho romaining epectators have como 30 800 fast lifs in Parls, but do mot ‘ mean businoss,” thoy nn quictly do- nrt. Tho rovelry and mirth of tho Jardin abillo are tho tamest. But {t is s beautiful gardon, and, with its shrubbory, its arbory, faney grottogs, mininture fountains, lta hooths for va- Tiou litllo gamas, ita brilliant, lighta aud muslo, | it hng the offect of n fairy acono, It is only ag 8 6cang of fast fun and révolry that it {s dolu- slon. Unquestionably, the Irench have tho onius for ‘comical mirth in a high degros, but lila andnn is too much o placo of business, Tho visits of Amorican and English aro its chiof meang of support, and these go to sco and not to porform, or It they go to trado that furnishes 10 publio ontertainment. THE AERONAUTS. ‘Wisc and Donaldson. Jrom the New York Graplile, PROF, JOUN WIBE. This distinguiphed aecronaut was homm in Lancastor, Pa., on the 2ith of Fobruary, 1808, At an osrly ago he was gont to the German Grammar School of his nativo placo, and after- wards graduated at tho High Bohool, . From his oarllost youth Prof. Wiso was Iimbued with o dosirp, or, ns lio himsolf oxprosses if, o ‘“longing to float among the clouds.” Ho wonld sit for hours walching the birds, and wishing for wings like theirs with which to ascond into space. When only 14 years of sgo, ho bogan oxperimenting, and for a long timo his prineipnl amusoment consiated in con- structing and sending up kites and balloons. Indeed, onything that would fly gave him ploasure, At this timo he was appronticod to # cabinot-makor, and for a numbor of yonrs warked falthfully at his trado. He naver lost sight of ballooning, howeyor, and & doy scldom passed in whioh ho did not make eome new ex- puril]nunt, eome novel attempt, in this his only Dpastimo, Prof, Wise's first ascension was mado in Phil- odolphis, some forty yoars ogo. At that timo lio waa only 26 yoars of ngo. Ho made the nsoont alone, in & balloon constructed by hime Bolf, and was successful in overy way. Ho passed over the city twico, first from east to west, and then, asconding higher, from weat to enst, Ho landed in safoty nine miles east of tho city. Soon aftor this tho young nerousut bo- camo acquainted with Profe. Xspy and Honry, from whom ho raccived = many. valuable hints. A fow yoars after his first oscont, tho Profossor _dotormined to penotrate into a storm-clond. Ho wrote to Prof, Hoory upon tho subjoct, saking him for his opinlon 08 to the feasibility of t] oct, Tho raply was favorable, and sinco then Prof, Wiso has salled for upwards of o hundred miles in the midst of thunder dlouds, and always withont accident. TIn the course of this romarkablo man’s most oventful oarcer, he hag mado no less than four huudred and foriy- six balloon nacensions, Of theao, his memorablo voyago from Bt. Louls to Now most notable, From oarly manhood, Wiso has boon dotermined to nttempt tho crossing of tho Atlantic in a balloon. Ho has lved with that ono objoot in viow. He momorialized Congress for funds ywith which to malio tho exporiment ; tha momo~ rial was reforred to the Committes on Naval Af- falrs, and has not since boon hoard from. Io spposlod to i frionds, anly to ba disuppolnod. ow, howovor, his darling wish is soon to bo ro- olized. Tro many weoks shall have passed, the attempt will bo mado, and with every prospect of succoss. That at a cortain height ‘s “current of air oxists which ia constantly moviog {rom wost to east, is boyond dispute: that Prof. Wise ia in ovory way maater of Lis profession is not to bo donbted; "and that bo will be furnished ‘with every means that monoy ean secure is al- rondy assurod. MR, W, I, DONALDSON. s ‘Wasbington I. Donaldson was born in Phila- detphia April 7, 1840, of Quaker rnwmngo. Very -mr{‘y in life he struck out for himself, and in 1857 studied tho busingss of ambrotyplug with his fathor, ono of the first artista in that line in his native city. In 1860 ho was engaged in o photographic estsblishment in this city, and aftorwards lonrnad tho art of engraving on stone. Dut his health failed undor tho confinemant of those parsuits, and ho wns obliged to soek out- dooroxercise end businogs, Fromenrly childhood Tiohad conceived » strong liking for gymnastio ox- erciges, nud in 1861ho securodnn engagomentaa a tonchor in thia line, and miot with great success. A fow yoara ngo ho dotermined to turn his atton- tion to acronnutics, nnd accordingly made his first nscont at Ronding, Ps., Aug, 80, 1871, Sinco thnt ‘timo Nr. Donaldaon e mndo moro thn thirty trips, many of thom being of a vory excit- ing charactor, T porson Az, Donnldson Is of medinm hoight, dark comploxion, black Linir and eyos, and pos- sos#os o superb physique, Ho is temperato to # fault, abataining from all intoxicating drinks, even to ten and coffee, He neither smokea nor ohows tobncco, esying, “I sm dolore mined to have my full lease of life.” His manner carrries with it animprossion of earnest~ ness and_dotormination, and convinces tho ligtonor that Lo will not undortake tho voya;io across tho ocean ag an adventurs, but solely with the dosiro to prove tho fousibility of navi- atipg tho air. Last autumn he announced his otorminntion to cross the Atlautic in a balloon this summor, and this annouscement led to tho formation of a I)nrhmwhlp with Prof. Wise. In an interview with o roporter of the Sun, pub- lished Jam, 11, Mr, Donaldeon said: * Next summer I shall have something for the Sun to notico, I ahall show tho pooplo that tho ocoan can bo crossed by balloon, and that X can do it” In tho “World of Juno 7, snothor intorviow was published, in which Mr. Donald- son said: ““During the month of March one- hundroed vossals wore lost and many lives. It is Ligh timo to discover somo sufo, T}lck, and com- fortablo trapsit ncross the Atlantic, and this ig ust what Prof, Wiso and Iintond to do.” Ina lottor to tho editor of tho Boston Globe, pub- lished Juno G, Prof. Wiso writes: «The batloon has beon abused too long na nn itinorant and acrobatic vebiclo, and should now be made to subserve scionce sud commorce, and 80 snys mvv E"mg and encrgotie friond and companion, W. , Donaldson, who has done more with tho bal- loon thnan any other living mau, although an neronaut of only two yoars’ experionco,” ——— ¢ Thnckeray nnd Ris Peoplo,?”? John Eaten Cooke, tn Hearth and Homo, T was talking ono day with the lato Mr, Thack- oray—a most oxcollont, gonisl gontloman and companion—in roforonco fo authors and books, and 1noro ospecially nbout bis own books, which Lo spoko of "with frankucss and unrosorve, as though thoy bad beon written by o third porson, Ono or twa things lo enid which struck mo foreibly ot the time, and have remained in my momory, affording me food for roflection, Wo wero speakiug of tho sketch, * Mr. Doauceaco and his Friends " (I think that is the title), in which appenrs_tho finfshod raseal and soroncly smiling scoundrol, the Earl of Crabs. * ?\nro did you meot with tho original of tho ** Enrl of Orabs, Mr, Thackeray ?” was my, ory. V8T nover mot with any.” 4 You drew him from your imagination " , T suppose so," " ‘“ He is_certainly tho greatest gcoundrel in lltm‘a.turo, 1 think, not excopting Loxd Steyno or any." Mr. Thackoray acquicsced in this moral or immoral emineuco attributed to tho Enrl, mused & omont, amiled in o gool-watured voy, sud anid ; 1 renlly don't kuow whero T got all thesoras- enla”in my books. ' I cortninly bave never livod with mich pooplo.” : That is the flrsb un[]'gcnllvn obsorvation. I shall fllflfur my moral rofloction until I ropeat tho socond. 3 Wo cuma to talkof Vanity Fair" and tho ox- collont Misw Booky Sbarp, of whom Mr. Thaok- oray spoke with evidont solf-congratulation, Bho had * mado his fortune, " tio sa; and ho sddod frankly that ho thought ho had never dona any- thing botter than tho doscription of the wannor du which Madam Becky Omwluy ** ceme down " to tho low lifo of Boliemis, aftor hor opoch of soclal olovation as tho friend of TLord Bteyno, ‘Thero i one mystory about Beoky which has always puzzled mo, " I said. 4 {Vhat is that 2" **Noarly at the end of tho book thore is a plo- turo of old Jo Bodloy, gouty, uIFhL-cnupufl, and sontod in his onsy-chilr, whilo_ bohind o curtain atands tho ghastly, glaring Bocky, grosplug a dnwlnr." “Yan," * Boneath this picturo ia the single word Cly- temnestra.” " Mr., Thackoray added s $'Did Beoky kill him ?" Ar, Thaokeray *‘yomnined silent for s mo- 0 pro-. THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1873 mont,” ha tho novellsts say ;-8 alow emile dawn- ©d npon-his faco; ho nasumad a roticont and se- oretive exprossion of countenanco, and at longth rapliod in n confidenttal volo 1 eonpter "I don't know." 2 * CENTRAL ASIATIC RAILWAY. An Intervicw with the Builder of tho Sucz Connle-Soven Days from Calais 1o Cnlcutin. s R g Parfs (July 3) Correspondence of the New York IHer- ald. Your corrospondent Lins hind nn intorviow with M. do Licsuops, tho famous Fronch ongincor, whoso puccoss in building the Buoz Onnal gavo him world-wide fame, sud who now proposes au- othor onterprino, lors novel; but nono tho losa gigantic,—tho unlon of Europo and Asls by manns of s railway, to be called tho Groat Con- tral Asintio. M. do Lousdps spld that, 08 to tho raflwa schomo, wo hiad no doubt scon the corrospond- onco published in tho Jonrnal des Debats bo- tweon bimsolf and Prince Orloff, the Russinn Ambaasador, That correapondonco showed tho good will of Russla toward his entorpriso, “I may ssy, moro partioulnrly,” continued M. do Loggops, ** that Ip ave my noto ta Prince Orloff, a8 ho was loaving for Ema, At Ems ho saw his sovorolgn, tho COgar, Tho roply camo in four dnys, ag:wlng the interest felt in tho ontarpriso by tho Ozar himsolf. This roply, as you will noto, grantod all I required, and gavo mo au- thorlty for an exploring pm:{ undor M. Ootard, Who was with mo at Suoz. This party will sur- ey tho country from Onmlmrs{ to Bumarcand.” gnm- correspondont asked if thoro was any spooial reason for this being surveyed. Only this,” enld M. do Losscps, * that X do- alro to build tho first sootion within Russian torritory, There will be no polltioal complica~ tion o ombarrass mo {n my work. And this will al8o bo the case with the soction from Samar- oand to Poshawar, Our purposo is, na soon as wo have surveyed these soctions, to push our ex-~ loration !fiudu as far 08 Afgbanistan and ritieh Indin, provided we find tho routo safe. If thero should bo troubles from the E\o lo, or any othor cauao, then wo shall return to S8amar- cand and start for tho British possesstons on o new route. Thoso oxplorations will not bo paid by the 'Bualm Goverument, but from our own mpans,” Your correspondont enid it would probably bo s most oxpensive prnnnudlng, ‘but M, do Los~ e 3 B 6’6‘;""“ bat it need not cost moro than A question was then asked oa to what aiM- oultiea woro approhonded from the wild nomndio tribes of tho FIMIJB, botweon Oronburg and Bamarcand, M. do Loesops said: “Ido not foel any sorious up‘{nunonmon. Tho polioy of Rusala has proparcd theso rosming barbarians to rospoct tho entorprisea of civilization. Bo long 88 it is known thot Russin 8 friendly to our sohoma, wo hnve all tho advantage of -Its moral power, Iis agonts and officors aro also_our frionds, Furthormore, tho entorprises of Rus- sla in Contral Asio gt the prosent time will sorvo us. Bofors wo are remdy for work tho Ozar will havo concentrated and consolidated hia wor in Contral -Asis, Kbiva, must fall foro tho . stropuous ~ oxortions of the Russlans, That will add lnrg::{y]' to Russian powar and its prostige among tho wild peoplo. I am quite confident ‘before wa havo lald our firat section of rall, or built our firgt hfldfi:, the road will bo as froo from_moloatation or dangor 88 the road in European Russia, Yon will find a arallol caso in your American Pacific Rallway. ‘hat was built in a country inhabited by Indians infinitoly wilder nnd_moro irreclaimablo than say in Cgmiml Aefa, Tam told that your road hag had aalvmzh;f: offoct npon tho country it traverses, It will bo the samo with thorond through Asin, - Like your rond, this will have ‘mnny great ongineonng difficultios to encountor, and, lkeit,wo moot thom at the ond of our route. You Linvo the Rocky Mountains and Bierra No- vadas; wo have tho huge masses of the Hindoo ionh in Afghanistan—a rango about a8 high ns tho tocky Mountaing.” Your correspondent askod M. do Lossops as to the comparative longth of thetwa lines. *“Woll," ho ndded, * the lino in Asin will be shortor ihan tho one in America, The American road is 3,200 English miles, tho Asiatic 8,400 French kilome- tros, From Moscow it would bo o longor dis- tanco, while from Calais to Caleutts, which would bo like calculating from New York to San Frau- clseo, it would bo 7,000 kilometraes, or, in rough fuossing, about four thoussnd five hundrod milos.” M. do Lossops thon alluded with some amuso- mont to n calculation he had seen in & London Journal to tho offect that atrain could not run from Calnis to Calcutta in soven days, Ho thon sakted how long it took us to make our journeys from Now York Lo, Ban Fronoisco, - Your corre- spondent answored that when tho enow did not intorvene tho journcy omployed sbout sevon days and seven nights. * Tres bien!" added M. do Lossops; * you aro not vory rapid railway travolers in Amerien, cither, not in many casca going moro than ono-half or two-thirds the Bpocd of our oxpross traing, W can travel with Europesn speed toward Moscow, and boyond wo can tako our timo. I only allndo to this to show the tendenoy to unfriendly eriticism upon the part of Englishmen, Tho real question i not whother we can run from Calnis to Caloutta in govon dnys or seventoon, but whother we can go by land at sll.” Your corrpapondent asked M. Do Loasopa what he pro'fwsud to do about skilled labor. Ho an- eworod that he hind au army of workers, ready aud disciplined—tho mon who hiad eorved him o8 ongineors, and &0 on, in building the Suez Canal. Atfor the Cannl waa finished many of hia Asint- ics romainod in tho fast—soma to serve tho Khodive, others toaid in h\lfldiné! n road to Adrisnople. Tho surveying expedjtion would start for Dmn‘b\lrg'vur{ Blhortly, Two yoara is the timo allotted. While this work is being con- cluded wo shall have the means of bringing the new company boforo tho world. As to whethor tho mnew shares would Do 5umntnm.l h{ tho Russian Govornment or not A, o Loasops did not know if support of that kind would bo needod. But ho had boon aseured that 1f nooded thoro would beno diflioulty in recoiving tho roquired guarautecs from Ruasin, Thoro would be o break of tho gauge on the Russian frontior, s the Rueslan gauge s not tho samo 88 that used all over the groater part of Europe. Thon, a8 now, pessongors world havo to chango cars at the Ruesian frontier, The quostion ‘would not bo of any mora importance than tho transfor from Franco to Spain, which all travel- orn find nocosdary ot the frontier on account of the differonce in gauges, —— Lack of Thought in Simple Acts of Life. Herbert Spencer in the Popular Science Monthly, Wo have but to observe human action zs it meots us at overy turn to soe that the averago intelligonco, incapable of guiding conduct ovon in simplo mattors whoro but a vory moderato Tonch of ronson would suflico, must fail in appro- Tonding with duo clearncss the natural sanotiona of othical principles. Tho unthinking inapti- tude with which evon tho routine of lifo fs car~ riod on by tho mass of men, shows olearly that t\m?v havo nothing liko tho insight required for salf-guidanco in tho sbacnco of an authoritative cado of conduct, Tnkoa doy’s exporionco snd observo tho lack of thought indicated from hour to hour, You rigo in the morning, and, whilo dressing, taka & phial contalug n touilc, of' which o littlg Tias boen prosoribod Tor you ; but atter tho first fow drops have boen counted succoeding drops run down tho sides of the phial—all bocauso the Jip is shupod without rogard to the requiremont, Yat millions of such phials are anuually made by fikm-mnkou, and’ sent out by thousands of ruggiots ; 80 small baing the amount of sonse brought to bear on business, Now, turning.to tho mnmng-gluus, you find thav, it not of the best mako, it fallsto prosorve the altitudo in ‘which you put it; or, if what i called a “box" looking-glass, yon sco that tho maintenance of ftu position {8 insured by an expon. vivo napplianco that would " haye Deen superfluous hiod a littlo roason boen used, Woro tho adjustmont such that the centro of gravity of the glags came in tho line joining tho points of support (which would bo quito a4 easy an ad- Instmont), tho glaus would romain atoady in whatover attitude you gave . Yot yoar after yoar tens of thousauds of looking-ginesos are inado without rogard to &0 simplo & noed. Prosontly you go down to broakfast, and takin; somo Larvoy oy othor sauce with qu. flahy flnfi tho bottlo has & dofect like that whioh you found in‘tho Ehln\—nifl sticky from tho drops which triokle down, and occasionally stain tha tablo~ oloth. Iere areother groups of traders similar- 1y 80 soonomical of thought that they do nothing to rootify this luconvenionce, Huving bronkfasted, you tuke up the paper, and before sitting down, wish to pui some con! on the firo, Iut tho lump you seizo with the tongs slipa out of them, and'if large, you maho sovral attompta boford you sueoad I Jifing it ~all bocauso the onda of the tougs are smooth, Makors and vondors of flro-frons go on, gonora- tlon aftor goneration, without moating this ayil by tho simplo remedy of giving to thoso smooth ondu somo projecting paints, or even roughons mq thom by a fow burva with & chisel, laving at longth graepod tho lump and put it on the fire, you but;ln to rond: but befora you have go‘ through the first column, 1ya|| are rominded by tho changes of positon which your son- sations prompt, that mon still” fall to mako _easy-chaird, - - And yet tho guiding prineiple iy simplo onough. Just that advanisge sooured by using n soft seat in placoofa han(l “ § ' - aud tho one—tho ndvantsgo, namely, of spronding ovor alargo aron tho prowAurc of the wolght to bo borno, and 80 making tho prossurs loss intenso in nny ono point—Iis an advantago to bo sought In tho form of the cliir. Easo ia to bo gained by making tho shapes and rolative Illullnnfion of sont and baok such s will ovouly distributo tho woight of the trunk and limbn’ ovor tho widost posnible mlr;mrting surfaco, and_with tho lonst straining of tho parta out of tholr natural atti- tidon. And yot only now, attor theso thonsanda of yonra of clvil{zation, ate thero loing ronched (and tlint not rationally but empirlieally) approx- imat{ons to tho structure roquived, B e — HAIL. The Recent Torrible Storm M tho Town of Burritt, Winnchugo Couns= 1y, Xl Frons the Rockford (T1L) Gazelte, July 24. Tow thinga’ livve cnuseq Tatol, moco. bxcite- mont in the immediato neighborhood of its oc- cnrronce than tho groat Lail-storm which took laco noar Wemplotown, in this county, on Tues- ay, the 15th inst, Arr(vhzg at anpfomwn on Monday aftornoon, wo were informed by Mr, William_EKnapp that tho tract of land most damaged by tho storm was located on both pidea of tho rond running directly south from Wom- lotown, and extonded over an aren of two miles n longth by about a milo and a half in broadth, A littio damngo was dono right iu Womplotown, but, tnugry ouo driving through, it was hardly porcoptibla, Tho first farm that waa sorionsly damaged ia ona owned by H. H. Folch, and conpists of abont oighty acros, Tho crops are literally dostroyed, rain flolds look as flat and baro aq though Larvest was ovor, and tho grain all stacked. A little further, on the flgll‘xt hand sido of tho snmo road, ia the farm of Bl Foleh, which is likewiso totally destroyed, not a vestige of hia grops romaining, nsad only horo and - thoro o brolon stalk to indicato tho whorenbouts of his corn-flold. Tho grain on theso farma consistod prinoipally of wheat and onts. Tho third house on tho road running south from Wempletown belongs to Honry Muarphy, Itis s small frame building, standing but o short dlstance from the road. Henry Murphy was for many yoars: in thoe omploy of Emorson & Co., of Rockford, and about six yenrs ago bought the farm, which, for this season ot lenst, ia.a total wreck,' At tho timo tho storm come menced, Mra, Murphy and childron wore in tho houso, and they doscribo tho hail ss rattling sgainst the side of tho house and coming through tho panos of glass like so mmK bullots, Thirty panos of glass woro smashed, the wator- plpo-woa batterod 08 with o hammor, ond the porth side of tho houso lookod as though it had boen hacked all ovor with a_dull nx, ', Mur- shy had forty-two ncros of small grain utterly leatroyed, and thirty-five acros of corn. Thoso orops were g0 drivon into the ground that not an nero of it is good oven for fodder. Plowing whoat undor must bo dishoartoning ‘work for farmore, but noyertholess this is what thoy are obligod to do, and "whon Honry Murphy finishos cutting s littlo pleco of mm all ho haa loft of un:dyms crops, ho intonds to glnw the flelds ready for neat spring. A num- or of chickens wero killed belonging to Mr. Mnrph{, but no other stock was destroyod, Thero {a little doubt that tho Murphy family will gqtunll( want bofore anothor crop can bo raised, and this is but one oxamplo of the many whoss littlo all was destroyed. Tho man who suffored the most of any, and who cortainly desorves tho sympathy and agsist~ anco of tho community, is Tobiss Burus, His farm odjoins Murphy’s, aud his small ‘framo Douso standa somo distanca back from tho road. Mra, Burne is hard-working woman, with soven children, who oro now left_ entiroly deatitato. The 'storm was more violent just bore than at any othor quint, aud the productions of 240 acres of land wore complotely swopt sway. Corn, whont, onfs, barloy, potatoos, grass, gardon stuf?, frait, and all woro literally plowed into tho earth, and the entiro fields aro’ Dow 08 baro and barren ps though harvest had been over for two months. . Tho houso occupied by Mr, Burns is nearly a wrook, At tho timo of tho storm Mr. Barns was away from homo, and_ hig wifo, aftor trying to stop up tho ehattered avindows with tho bods, was compelled to seok safoty for lersolf and children in tho collar. Two of tho windows wore completoly blown out, and ovory pane of Elnss was smashod, Tho noise made by tho ail-stones was torriflo,which, combined with tho crying of tha childron, tho lowing of tho cattlo, and squesling of tho' pigs, must havo all en- hanced tho torror of the storm. Mr, Burng hns lost over 86,000, and, unless somo of thoso who aro not losers £rom ho storm como forward to his asslstanco, ho will bo utterly ruined, and s childron on tho vorge of starvation. Patrick Murphy has 160 seros of grain nenrly all destroyed, Ife managed, however, to save n fow aoros uf barloy, which i8 of no valuo but for fodder. He hind somo of his cows badly cut and Incerated. Charles Bidford lost one-third of his orops; also Larery Burus aud soveral othors, whoso naines wo could not ascortain, Willinm Dickinson wag, undoubtedly, so far a8 dollars ond conts nro ' concorned, tho gronteat losor. Elfim:y acros of splendid corn was cut'to picces, and niuoty or a hundred scres of small grain driven completely into the earth, making it dif~ floult to toll whent from oats or barley. Willinm Mills had ovor ninoty acres of small grain and Boventy or eithE acres of corn destroyed, and Donnia Murphy has lost o greater part o} Lis OOpB, BAVO BOME bnrlfl}’, and a vory littlo onts for fodder, Jobn Clark and Willinm Durno had their cropa badly damagod, and many othora, but not so bad as those especially mantioned. Tho wholo dsmago done by tho storm is osti- mated at from 30,000 to 40,000, R RN S ) Bjornson, the Norweginn Poct, Coms= ing to Amerjca, Bjornson, the eminent Norwogian poet and novelist, somo of whore works aro known in this country, i8_raid to Lave his oyes turned to this country 58 his futurc home, A writer in a Bwe- dish periodical givos tho following touching ac- count of a recent vieit to te poot, in which this intention s nnnounced : Bwantwyk, of which Bjornson is the Vicar, is ‘but four hours from Trondjhem, It occurred to mo, a8 I bad nothing speoial to do there for a day or two, that I might iuat a8 well drive out thare and b u ohat with tho great novolist. It was 6 o'clock in tho afternoon when my oarringe stoppod in frout of tho parsonage. It iy 8 low, one-story woodon building that must have boen oroctod ab loast 100 yenrs ago, With its gabled roof, its hoavy, time-begrimed thateh, its #mall, round windows, and tho ivy covering its ourious front, Bjorson's house is_one which, once seen, willnover bo forgotten. It is no won-~ dor thnt men who live in such houses have poetio inspirations, Andersen told me one duy that tho old houso at Odonse, whero he was born, had in- apired bim with some of his l.ll:{l iest thoughts, Thio May ovening was balnyy and bosutiful, Pro- found tranquility mlqllcd in the quaint old vil- lnge of SBwantwyk. Tho pensants woro yet at work in tho flelds. Ouly & fow chubby childron woro in tho unpaved streot, I alighted and stoppod up to tho opon door. A good-naturod looking, rathor proposscssing, rosy-checked, fair- haired woman of thirty-two or threo roceived mo, *Ts tho Viear in?" I aaked, £ Mfl linsband iu in the gardon,” Bo that was the poet's wife. I followed hor through the hullway iuto the yard, and theuce to the garden-gate, 3 ¢ Fathor I sho sung out in hor cloar alto yoico, A second aftorward, Bjoruson’s tall figuro emerged from behind o basket. Ho was in his shirt-slooves, and hold a sprinklor in his hand, Thad not soen him for woven yoars. lle lad frown visibly oldor, and his fino, manly face ooked caroworn. Our mutnal recognition was instantancous, Thera was a warm grasp of the band, and o kindly northern welconie, ““And you are going to lonve us?" I asked, aftor tho firet ;{‘mntmgn ware over, {Yag, you," fio said, knitting his massivebrow, 1 must,” His wifo, who stood by our side, nodded hor head silently, while o shadow of griof stolo over hor fino, sunuy couutouauce, Weo went to the sitting-room—n plainly furnished apartment. Ina coruer stood tho dosk on which Bjornson had writton hiu last threo books, Wa #it down ; Frau Bjorneon brought in the coffon. imt, aud, while we nipped tho fragrant boverage, hoard tho wholo surrowful story from the poot's lips, It woa tho old talo of ill-requited litorary genius, What n shame for Norwu}rl Horgreate est author, hior most popular novalist, Lor sveot- eut poot, her most charming fairy story-tollor, so poor that Lo doos not know how™ to make Loth mnlsyxuunl. S aait i st *“You s00,” ssid Bjornaon, avo been utrug- ling bard for tan yoars, ]\iy viearago pays n?o ut §200 a yoar, I'or my books 1 invu ardly rocoived suything, My son Olaf shiould bo sent to tho Lycoum, I cannobafford if, Why ehould Istay, thoy, in Norviay ? I wag told that my books had boen well rocelved in Amorica. Ior two fivau‘sl Lovo boou & close studont of tho English lavgusgo ; Ican now writo it with some dogrop of fluondy. Our Norwoglaus in America aro prosperous, - Why should 1 not do woll thora likowiso? If I do not snceoed nas awriter, [ havo atrong arms to work,"” "The good wifa now interpoced. Bho sald sho dronded the long ses voyage, but hor husband had boon unhappy in Swan: \yk, for a yoar or ]‘L‘y’nglndr‘ and dreamed day and night of the New orld, s ¢ Havo you any offers from partics in Amor- fen 2" I askod, + “Nono &t all," roplied Bjorngon; I shall go R to Now York in Qotobor next on & vontura. If 1 find somothing to do thera I shall remain in tho clty. Otherwiso I slinll go farming in-tho Northwost.” I vontured to romonatrato, * Why not apply to tho royal an increaso of galary 2" amilod bittorly, *'T havo done Ro, Limo and again, and nrdly rocoived an answor. Tho government at Btook- holm, you know, dces not carp muoh for Noriwa anyhow ; and, {0 toll yon tho truth, I bollove it hatos Norweginn litornture.” 1 bado Bjornson nnd hig wifo farewell with s hieavy henrt. Wo can mot blama tho poot for turning his baok upon our country, bub only oursolves. THE WASHINGTON MARKET BOOTHS. Thoir Memolition by the NMonrd of Elenlth=eSconos in the MAarkotesA Gront Rat Hunt, From the New York Eventng Poat, July al. Washington Harkot, witn dis cagsed booths oand faliing roof, has long baon one of tho most familfor slghta to the cllizons of Now York. It hns boen, we holiove, gonorally admittod that its outward appearanco was mot remarkablo for boauty, oloauliness, or n:mmulrz but, notwith- standing ail this, the market obtalned o certnin kind of publio raspoct from tho fact that 1t was very old,—ono of the sntiquities of tho oity, in fact,—nud roprosentod & yast amount of money. Theo progress of tho fight botwoon the nttmdhols- dora in the markot, tho Board of Health, and the Commisaioner of Publio Works has boon fully roportod, and it is not at this tim¢ nocossary to roviow it. Buflice it {o snv that tho atalls pro- truding ovor tho sldowalks in Vosoy, West, and Fulton stacots Lave long boon regarded ag public nulsances, inimical to public hoalth and publio conyonionce, ‘Tho Board of Hoalth dstormined to domolish theso shods, and last nlght, aftor proouring tho vacation of an ordor from the Bupromo Court :nu‘t{mnlng them from intorferenco, procoeded 0 do 0, A Inrgo forco of laborors, spoclally engagod, and protooted by a forco of 400 gulinmzun,g:x,idui- tho command of tho two vetorans, Inspector ;Vn;,llln{; ‘I;lnd Ca t.‘ [o} mlnrlad, :lvomuml\rchnd lown to the matket and ordored to bogin domollshment of tho sheds, £l o Ho sudden an attack, as may woll bo imagined, filled with dismay tho hearts of tho standholdors who woro yot at"thoir posts, moro especially ng they bolioved that the injunction fssucd by {l:ltgo Pratt in tho oarly part of tho day was utlfl orco. 1t I only due to thom to say that thoy oxhibit ©d no great amount of ill-tempor or rosistance, nlthough many of them will be dgrnnt suflorors by tho action of the Honlth Board, Some of tho men, indood, were vory angry, and muttered threats botweon tholr tooth, but the forca of police on the ground was sufficiont to overawe thom, oven if they had nob beon reatrained by the argumenta of thoir more tomporate friouds. "The worle of domolition bogan, and through~ ont tho night tho sounds of tho blows from nxes and hammers, mingled with tho crash of falling timbors, tho rattloof sheots of tin, and the shouts of :fin lxlngxom ro-ochoed through tho lower part of tho city. All night long tho work proceeded steadily, tho owmors of tho property in the meantimo luohnu gluomufi on, Roporters who were present at the timo tell us that ono or two womon wero in tears, but with this excoption no ontward eign of dis- satisfaction was given, nnd it was ovident that the ptandholders had convinced thomaelvos of tho futility of roslatanca, and rosolved upon thoir future coursa of action. The course of action ghllch thoy intend to pursue will bo explalned olow. Tho oldest wanderer among the purliousof tho market must havo beon autoniahed at its appear- ange this momlug. 1t looked es ragged s eyor, to bo sure, gonsi ly o littlo more untidy than usual, but for all’ that it was possiblo to walk around it without boing run over or coming into collisfon with podestrians at every othor atep. It ncoded not "the worn and dusty appearanco of tho workmen to understand that they had dono their work faithfully. The old asnd docoyod shods, which for tho last thirly yonrs have surrounded the market proper, had disnppenred, and the curbstones of the sidowalks Wwero onco moro restored to tho light of day. Voaoy stroot, West stroot, and Fulton sureet wore filled with wagons ladon with debris, old flooring planks, broken window frames, fragments of tin and brokon glasg, bits of cloth and oauvad, tray lobater-eholls, old cabbaga-stalks, jaggoed pipos, and overy othor kind of rubbieh which was once » part of Weshington Market. And tho boys? *Fhoy wora in thofr eloment, with no ono {o interfera with thom. ~ The polica acted n wiso part, ‘There was no disposition to craato a disturbanco, and thoy wero probably woli ploased to allow tno difffculty to Vo solved in good humor. Bo tho officera gat licro and thero on stoops, smoked and chatted, and laughed at tho sight bofore them. The standholdors had forgatton thoir sorrows in tho provailing oxcite- ment, and mauy of thom, rather thun stand idlo, pozitively helpod iu the dostruction of thoir owr proporty, Rata aro not, humanly spenking, lovablo ani- mals, but if thore had been fower rats in Washs ington Markot thero would have been more ill- tempor, Tho placo swarms with them, Tho roofs, tho walls, the floors, every crack, every cravico formg a snug hiding-placo for rats—huge fellows, big, brown, Inzy, and fat, gomo of thom almost too plothoric for activo exortion. on- ovor a boam was pulled down or a plank torn up, out fell or out rushed n rat, and each unfortu: nate rat was puraucd with shrioks, and yelle, and immodorato lsughtor by boys and_mon, and tomotimon oven by a policeman. And tho rats, although outnumbered, had not so bad a cbanco after all. Thoy found crannies cverywhoro in which to hide.~ A pieco of honrd, an empty bas- kot, o heap of vofialublna, an open drain, wero to thom o many harbors’ of rofugo, and thoir ursuors wore ofton bafiled after a long snd ar- Suous chnao, Half & dozon dogs joined in tho hunt from puro loyo of sport, but, in _tho hurry sud oxelta- mont of tho moment, caught moro "blows than rats. Ho tho fun went on fast aud furious, and tho rat hunt created moro oxcitement than the domolition of thoe shoda, At noon to-day tho present task of tho Health Board was almost completed. The booths had disappeared, and tho boundary walls of the mar- kot proper wero exposced to viow, and presented o strango appearance whon the roofs had been cut in twainand tho old oak beams had been closely sawed off. Thoro still romnined a gront quantity of rub- bish to bo removed, but & score of scavengors will ho ufliclont to cloar that away, aud Vesoy and Fulton streots will then bo as opon as thoy woro whon first lnid out. | But tho markotmen have fully mado up thelr minds that the so-called **raid" of last night is only the procursor of o more serious attack, T'hore aro far greater nuisances on West and Voeoy stroots than any of those which have now beon removad, and it is expoctod that within a foy days, or porhaps in o shortor time, the sido- stalls of thoso streots will bo cloarcd sway. The holders of theso booths aro alwo expact- ing somo such action, and, indeed, confoss that they havo no more right to bo whero thoy are than the persona displacod Inat night, It was genorally oxpectod that tho forcible abolisimont of tho Washington Markot booths would bo attonded with a dusgmrntu resistanco, ‘Tho penconblo acoomplishmont of tho work has, thorofore, cnused somo little surpriso, but tho markotmon this morning frankly oxplained tho roasous for their aoquioscenco, A Thoy made no secret of their intontion to bring suits for damnges against tho city, and profoss themsolvos confidont that thoy will bo succossful, 1t is undorstood that a committes bas alroady beon formod to raise the funds necesunry for Dogiuning theso nctions, and that Mr. Abraham I. Lawrence will bo ontrusted with their con- ek, They do not dony that the Donrd of Health ‘wna justified in tho courso_adopted, and, o far a8 could bo ascortained, acknowledge that their stalls wore likely to broed disoase. But thoy claim that this was not thoir fault, and maju- tain that thoy had cstablishod n right to the posgession of tho atalls by the long-continued paymonts to tho city of foos for routs and por- mits, ovornmont for asked. Bjornson ———— A ot Day in Dan From the Danbury Newrs, 4 It was 80 warm Monday that it was impossiblo to worl without having the window opon, and whilo thoe air was bot onough to shrivel up a Judge of Probatoe, thoro was broozo enough to carry papors from & dosk with astounishing ve- locity, When wo woron't catching for a memo- randum, wo wore diving after & poom, or clutche ing Liopelosnly for an advortisoment, or spring- ing aftor an essay on tho stntosmauship of tho thirtoonth contiry, Bomotimen wo wore com- polled to make & jump for all of them at ouco, and during the operation may have mado some statomonts about tho weather that In the future will troublo ua to prova, And so the aftornaon worn on, first & plunge and then a statoment, until about 4 o'clock., At that hour a flosh; man with & book under his urm, aud s No, emilo on hig face, appoarod in front of us. Ia immodiately procosdod to businoss by obsorving that the woather was excoodingly Warm, an that ho had tho honor of boing engaged in can- vasuing for Dr, Whimplobeo's * Observations in Palastine,” a book that comprised tho viows of tho intel{gent dootor on what he saw, with nu- merous spoculations and compreliousive thoo- Y ‘arma cano down together, but rios on what hio did not soo, altogether formin s volumo of doop_resonrch, pure thaology, an chasto imagory. Tiora o {utorrupted L. 0 plungo aftor ** ~opy for an auction bill, Thon wputours Tk ¢s =, %ollaucous matter, and put tho Puw Whoro wa conld. sot on It, and hungrily awaited further particulars, This' wag 8 work oyery family should "have, and that pooplo generally, would bo henr of, " ITo had slrendy scourod the namor of the clorgy, aud’ kaowiug Low popular aud thoroughly nitmctive was ouf - s, 1o lind cadlod to havo a littlo notico insertod atating thaf hd was in town, and proparad {o tako the names of tho excitod populace, Holindno notico propnr. od, but if wo would givo lim n sorap of papor and tho lonu of our poncil o would scribbio a word or 80, At firat ‘wo woro promptod to sug. gest that tho dootor might bo wanting him, but A bottor thought struck us, and surrondering tho dosk to his uso, we cautionod him to logo nono of ¢thio papors, and stopping into tho othor room, mounted a tablo whore we could got & good view of tho dosk, and walted for dovolopmonts. TFirst ho opened tho book at tho titlo poga and aftor studying over it a momontto got o oloar and tangiblo {doa of tho work, proceoded ta mnako a caroful copy of it. Just aa ho got woll to work a zophyr danced in and carried off an account of a runaway, Tho agont for. *Obsor- vationy in Palostine " mado n paes for it and go- ouring it, trinmrhnutlymatomd it to its place, and fmmodistoly darted aftor o Btate ftom. Qotting back again o run his hands through his halr, cnst o sovere glanca at the window and grnspod Lis poneil to rocord more inapiration rom tho titlo pagoe, whon anothor broozo camo along and mado a goneral eweop. Both of his o didn't oatch moro than half the “stuflf, He put'woighta on this and dasbied aftor tho rost, and nsbo was a floshy gontlemun with o pair of pants that must havo como from a job lot, ho_dldu't look vory suggostivo of Palodtine. 'Tho work on tho titlo pogo wont on, howevor, with briof intorvals for Tocovoriug articles, Af firet ho didn't say sny- thing when tho braoze bombarded him, bul after o whila ha grow more ncquainted, and commenced to converso. Tho firat obsorvation Lie mndo was “Ahl indeod I" Then bo sald ‘ Lool out thora!” and bocoming atill more socinblo and confidential ventured s triflo om history, eslling on " Jupiter [ “ Ohristophor [ and *70, Oabricl " Pretty soon ono shoot of his mmumr‘:st cumao gailing into our room, and out ho dashed aftor it. -Ho made a grab for it as it went over tho n&h but missod it, and it dropped down and rolled under tho table, boforo ho could raach it, It was that patt of tho title pogo whioh reforrod ‘moro partioularly to tho ity of Jomunlomi and if wo are not mistaken he montionod the place 83 ho crawled under the table, Howover that may be, ho eccured the pleco, and carrled it back to tho table, and then dropped it a8 anothor gust danced in and back it eame, and back ho came glad g - after it, looking vory rod in tho facoand pro- | pared to talle further about Jorusalom. Thon ho Fnt back in time to malko enother, and hopolegs, ungo for tho socond page. It struck tho floor befora Lio could eave it, but he jumped on b with both hools, and turned them nround on it, 31?4 groll‘nd Lis tocth till you could hear him on 0 nox bruslied it off, and inopped his brow with his arm, and prococded to ronow his attack on Pal- eatine, wlion moro wind camo in and anothor in- volce of documonts sailod upward and sprosd n;‘b‘uw" danci) aftor thom, ancing up and down and throwing bls arms, nnd slioutiug locafitios that aronot on our Palestine map, 'fi‘hon ho turned over the chair and kicked it, and dashod his hat ou the floor and jumped Into it, and screamed such awful thinga'about the weathor, sud mado such astounding statomonts about whiat ho would do if ho could, fl.\j;fi wo folt compolled to havo tho agont for Dr. Whimplobee's * Observationa in Palestino” led down ataira and Into the streot. ‘Wo hayen't acen him since, but we understand that he was scon undor tho influonce of liquor lato that night, aud, having oxohangad tho ' Ob- gorvations in Palostine™ for a pint of Jamaica rum, is consigning the eminent Whimpleboo be- yond the nunoyances of broezos, Had we nol furnished him with accommodations ns ho de- sired wo might hnve folt in some way rosponsibla - for this descent, and it would have mado ug uns comfortablo, —_— Depth of the Aulantic Ocenn, Tho main theatre of sounding operations has boon the Atlantic Ocean, which, from its relation to tho loading commorcial natious and for intor- continontal tolegraphio purposos, has boen more corofully surveyod than any other grost body of water, Opon from polo to polo, participating in all conditions of climgto, communicatin freoly with other scas, and covering 80,000,001 s#quare milos, it 18 bolioyed to roprosont goneral oceanic conditions, aud {o contain depths nearly, if not ?ulm, 88 gront as tho othor ocean basing of the little is known, " Tospact of tho Indian, Antarctio, and Pacifio Bong. * The genoral result of {ts soundings would indicato that the averago dopth of the At- lantio bod is not much moro than 12,000, foot, and thero scom to b few depression deoper than 16,000 or 20,000 feot, & littlo moro than tho Leight of Mont Blanc. Dr. Thomson sums up tho gonoral rosulty of the Atlantic soundings g follows: *In tho Arctic Boa there is doo) wator, reaching .to $,000 feot to the won and ‘southwost of Rpitzborgon, Txtending from the coast of Norway, snd including Iceland, tho Faroo Jalands, Shetland and Orkney, Great Britain and Iroland, and tho bed of tho North Sea to the const of France, thero is a wida Iatosn, on which tho dopth rarofy reachos 8,000 ot ; but to tho West of Iceland and communis cating doubtloss with the deop water in tho Bpitzbergon Boa, o trough 600 miles wide, and, in somo places, noarly 12,000 foot doop, curves nlong tho onst ‘const of Greonland, This s tho path of ono of the grest Arctic raturn-currents, Aftor sloping gradually to a depth of 8,000 to the wostward of tho const of Ireland, in Iatitudo 52 dogress, the bottom suddonly dips to 10,000 feot at the rate of about 15 to 19 feot in tho 100 ; and from this point to within about 200 miles of the const of Newfoundiaud, whon it begins to shoal nfinin, thore i & vast uundulating submarine plain, avoraging about 12,000 fect in depth below tho surfaco—tho ' tolograph plateuu,’ A yalley about 500 milos wide, aud with & mean dopth of 15,000 foot, strotchos from off tho southwost const'of Ircland, slong the coast of Europe, dipping into the Bay of Biscay, past the Btrait of Gibraltar, and along tho west const of Afriea, Opposito the Capo de Verdo Islands, it noems 'to morgo Iuto a slightly doopor trougl, which ocoupies the axis of the floutfi Atlautic, and passes info the Antarctio Bon. A noar] similar valloy curves around tho const of Nort! Amorics, about 12,000 feobin _depth, off Now- foundland and Labrador, snd bocoming cou- siderably decpor to tho southward, whera it fol- Iows tho outline of tho coast of tho States, and tho Bahamas and Windward Islands, and finally joins tho contral trongh ot tho South Atlantio oft the const of Drazil, with o dopth of 15,000 foat."—The Popular Science Monthi; is true, Monkey-Emotions, Tho moral and psychical emotions of the an. thropold npos aro just now tho subject of con- gidorablo discussion and inquiry, " Sir Edwin Landsoer, as {8 woll known, palated a picturo of s weoping monkey ; aud it is now concaded that some spocies exercise an affectionate cara for thoir dend, Mr. James Forbes adduces in evidence of this an observation of his own, to bo found" In his * Oriental Momoirs,” and sug- gosts that tho very primitive religion—worship of tho ancestor—is common Lo tho lowest sava ges and the highest anthropoid monkeys. The Passago iu as follows : ““QOno of a shooting party, undor & banyan trog, Lilled a fomalo monkoy and carried it to hia tont, which was soon unrro\mdudh{ forty or fifty of the tribo, who made a great noiso and seomod disposed- to attack tho sggressor. Thoy rotreated \whon lio presontod - his* fowling~ placo, the drandful. efloct of which' thoy had Witnossod, and appaared porfoctly . to’, under- stand, Thohendof tho. troop, hcnvnverI stood his ground, babbling furiously i tho. sportsman, who, perhaps, felt “some -littlo dogree of com-~ unction ‘for having killed ono of tho- family, Eld not liko to fire at tho creaturo, aud nothing short of tiring would sufiico to drive him off. At longth ho camo to tho door of the tont, aud, finding throats of no avail, bogan & lamontabla moaning, and, by tho most exprossive gosture, soomed to beg for the doad body. Iiwas given him ho took it sorrowfully in his arms, and boro it away to his uxFucuug companions, Thoy ‘who woro witnesses of this extraordinary scone reonolved nevor again to firo at ono of the mon- Loy raco.” —_— A Womnn Whe Wanted to o o Lawa yer, At Gaduden, Alabania, Inat week, during the sossion of tho Chancery Oourt, Migs N. C, Stow- art appliod for o liconse to practice law. Sho wag oxamined as to her qualification by Cols. Martin, Alkon, ox-Chancellor Fostor, Capt., Ouns ningham, and'J, H. Disquo, who reported that sho was 'Incompetent. Then camo tho tug of war, B8ho got wrathy, and said that it was noth- Ingmore than she expooted ; ncousod tho Court aud Bar of rabbing her, and callod thom a_band of robbors, Tho ghmcpuor ordered the Bhoriff toput her out of the Court-room, for contompt of court, and sho roplicd that sho had the right to epoak, 'The Bhorift started to take Lior out, }mt sho declined I'ID l'u uscarlmll-' ;.um og{xflonl- or then allowod her to remain, If show 00) g:m ; atherwlse, ko would Lave hor put in jflE 0 subsided, floor, Then ho )i‘lcknd it up and and again bo sprang up and darted ° world, although but this.