Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1873, Page 7

HOUSEKEEPING HORRORS, The Demoralizing Effects of Untidiness. How Women Become Slatterns. The Sad Expericnce of Arabella. Thore {8 notliing wo know of in the wholo rango of our oxperienco that ls- A8 DEMOHALIZING A8 UNTIDINESS, espoclally to o woman, Hor naturally-oathoetio tastos, hor lovo of tho boautiful, make all ugly or dlsordorly things an oyo-soro, and, if sho eluks ovontunlly luto n elnttorn and o scold, it fa almost alwnya tho result of a fight with dostiny, 2 which gomo prodominating causo has opposod hor finer tastos and sensibilitics, and las con- quored hor. Many a wouan's lifo {8 a constant fight with the disngreoablo nocossitios of life, from tho hour in which sho nssumes its respon- sibilities. Carlylo doifies labor, and his war-cry 4s, “Down with Dilottanteism ;" but we fanoy, if tho rugged old mun. could ouco be brought feco to faco, practically, with the dishenrtening, ovon disgusting, dotails of Lousckeoping, ho would sigh for a littlo of thav despised dilottan- toismn, und find, porkaps, that all Jabor was not oxalting, . { 1T 18 80 £ASY for pooplo to whom the pen ts mightior than tho broom, to sit at thoir dosks, away from the dirt and tho turmoil, aud tho domoralization of tho senilion's station, and write philipplcs againat tho idlenoss and the daintiness of tho age, and exalt to the highost piunacle of excollenco labor that dogrades and disheartens, *‘Impossible,” enys tho philosopher, ** for any labor to be degrading. Labor, woll porformed, bo it of whatever,kind {6 may, onnobles mankind,—raises him far above tho idler, who roprosonts domand, but naver sup- ply, in the political economy of the world.” That man or woman writes well, ably, words thint poople like to read and hear, especially those who aro tugging inthe harnoss of absolutonnd contin- usl toil. They like to bo deified,—like to fool that thoy aro, in tho minds of thinking poople, rogardod ns of moro ac- count than tho inhoritor of amplo moans, who docs nothing, porsonally, toward filling up tho mousuro of human industry which is necossary to keop tho world moviug. e may fling his monoy brosdeast, and so, by keoping it in circu- 1ation, aid some fow wrotchos who would other- wiso starve, becauso tho baubles which this {dler purchoees would otherwise not bo domanded, snd their Iabor Iack o market, DBut all that is of no account, and the costermongoer, who hawkshis wares from door to door, is, thorofore, far more godlike than the gontloman who adds nothing to the sggrogate labor of humanity in general, but i simply contont to live and dio, enjoying tho lifo it has boon his good fortune to have recoived. Buch 18 the burden of the song of those whopro- fogs to bo holping the downtrodden childron of toll. As we nid beforo, given the mental capac- Ity to write ncceptably, and it is an easy thing to theorize, Did that man ever take off hia coat, turn up his wristbands, and wash up o lot of . GREASY POTS AND PANS ? DI that woman ever Iny asido Lor pen, and get down on her knoos with a scrubbing-brush, and. tont tho strength of her bicops by forcibly pass- ing sald brush ovor a dirty kitchen-floor ? Did bo o she do this, not oucs, but continually, as o urt of the businioss of lifo? Whon thoy havo lone 80, they may extol the dignity of labor if they wish ; until they bave, we.can only assert that the view thoy {nko is one-sided, and, ton cortain extent, untrue, Certain kinds of labor forced into s womnn's life do derrade, do dote- riorate, do demoralize; aud ( . chiof resson of their go doing isin tho fu..ihat they nre conuected with a degreo of porsonal nntinfinuuu that is almost unbenrab. to every woman,— entirely so to very many. TO PBACTICALLY ILLUBTRATE THE FACT, lotus supposo that a young couple, vory much love, and with a vnr{ slim iden of the absolute dutics of 1life, fancy- In, that they are difforent froin ‘these other people who have found lifo not an idy), dotermino to try “lovoin & cottage.’ Arabolln thinks that nothing will bo so delight- Tul a8 administering to Alouzo’s wants, making dolicate cates to tempt his appetite, and watch- ing the divine beivg whilo ho, by the mere act of mnstication, turna that earthly pabulum into boavenly ambrosia. * Ol it wil Lo 8o de- licious ; Alonzo always with me; and ours shall bo s Garden of Eden’into which no serpout shall ever enter.” She forgot the limited income that mado oxpeonsive Beryauts out of the question, and the nehes and cinders, pots and pans, thal wero to introduce dirt and discourage- mont into heir Paradiso. The coulour do roso is _ decidedly . dim whon Arabolla awakes with tho conscioutncss that thero is breskfast to get and tho fire to bo lighted, In the absenco of dometic holp, every American woman considers such labor na lighting fires os bolouging toaman. She is not oxpocted fo drag up coals or split kindling, Ble nudges Alonzo, and, stating the hour, mildly suggosts that a cortain mwmount of hoat'is neceasary for tho proper ac- mm{:lishmont of culinary offects. Certainly, tha darling little wifo could not be oxpectod o do that ; and when ho can make up his mind to it, ho rises, and, in what might be called decided negligo attire, dives into tho collar aftor tho- vequisite fuel. IT 18 A NEW EXPERIENGE; nnd as hithorto his moruing's housohold ocen- pation has boen to shavo, dress, chaff the waiter- esn, and find fault with his broakfast, .ho has all the ignoranco of the neophyte to rotard him in his now self-educational attompt. Ho 18 not quite sure how the thinga works; but he soon linds out that, at all events, it smokes. What la a virtue in an individual of tho mascu- line persuasion is decidodly a vico in a stove. Ho wipes hie oyos, blows his noso, and daocs not spesk gently. Evontually the stove galns tho victory, and he1s forced tofloo. It can outsmoke him, After soveral chargos and retroats, at last, with an idiosynerasy peculiar to stoves, it burns clearly, brightly, and cheorfully, Mountime Arabelln, quite unconscious of the quantity of smirches which are lying in wait to dostroy tho freshnoss of her attiro and tho sercnity of hor tempor, dons one of those dainty whito wrappers that formed a congpicuous por- tion of her wedding-troussesu, and goes down to investigato the mystorics of the cuivine. Iler bair ia dono up in the most becoming mannor,— gach brald, band, snd frizalls in placo,—ylilo the bluo ribbons’aro fresh aud dainty endugh for the piquant young bride, Tho fire is all right, and she lifts off a lid. It fally, ang BMIROM NO. 1, Bhe fills the kettle, and thon prepares for her frst sickoning sonsation, Bhe has nover han- dled raw moat. ‘Che sightof it has always mado her fool qualmish, and she invariably closos Lier oyos when sho passes a butcher's, Don't say “ Bosh1” It's the oxperience of nine women out of ten who havo never lcarned u:‘v of the practical dutics of housekeoping ; and, even when they have, somo never quite got over if. Blie takes hold of tho moab with a napkin, and at last succoeds in cooking it; but, by the time Alonzolas made his toiletto and is ready to sit down to the table, sho Is » sorry figuro. Btove-hoat in August is not beautifying—not ospecially eo at any mongon of the year; and, as for tho pure whito dross, surely the gnomes, or somo mischiovous imps who inhabit coal-miucs or kitchens, havo ‘beon cmmplh:{; it in thoir grimy hands. Tho {trizzos aro stralght elf-locks, and sweet Arabella LOOKS DECIDEDLY FROWSY, and fobls excoasivoly cross. Alonzo's bath has refreshed him, and lus clean linon makos him look and feol liko a gontloman; and hais rendy 1o play the god to this worshiping Hobe., Un- fortunatoly I{ebe's labors _have not mado hor feol in o devotional mood, and sho absolutely shrinke from sitting at tablo in_his prosencs in that demoralizod condition. He excuees, but evidontly does not admire, 8ho would like either to ory or scratch his eyos out,—sho is not quite sure which, Possibly she compromisos by & hurrled tush to hor drossing-room, % quick lavation of hor faco, & brush to “tho atraggling hair, nnd & quick donning of anothor wrapper. No limo now to add the littlo touchos that make her toilettos usnally #o charming. Droakfast is gotting cold; #o sho hurries down, and, aftor a timo, ls somo- what mollified, though sho knows shio is not looking her best, At last, after a cortain amount of eproning, Alonzo goes, and thon she turns to the dihes, Bhe looks at the woiled, discarded white wrapper. Bho cannot put ft on. Oh! why had there not boen somo serviceable prints added to that troussean, with a dozon large aprons? Thora lisd & new book, and tho plano s tempt- of Clriatian 1abor 19 NCIORBILE W twy Lsyuey Ingly opon but hora a & stoaming kottlo and a very :E]au fonablo gridiron, to sny nothing of the other cooking utensila aud tho dishes. Sho comnoncoes tho nssnult, and, boforo sho finishos, sho has bocomo v AB UNPLEABANT AN ODJECT as ot first, and dovoutly wishes that the divino Alonzo ould oxist without onting, It I not so charming as sho thought it would bo to geo that common, daily food changed into amnbrosis, whon sho hag to prepare i, Itis astonisbing, too, with what colority gronso gravitntos, It sooks tho floor s ity vatural restiug-placo, casing ity downward conrso by maling wny-stations on her clothing, Thoro aro bods to make ; thoro is syeopiug, which grimes the delicato skin, hard- ons tho hands, and dulls tho lustro of that falr huir 3 and, by tho time it is all done, and butch- o, bikor, and milkman, to say nothing of tho multitudinoug solleiting agonts who waut to soll hor everything, from n patent_clothes-pin to a piano, have Leen attonded and listoned to, it fy TIME TO PREPARE FOR DINNEI. Bho doos tho best sho can ; indelibly staina hor fingers with pariug potatocs ; adds an extra porfumio to tho odor of disn~wator which clings 0 thom, by taling off tho skin of tho fragraut onion ; grows elck onco more over tho handling of the raw ment ; aud at Inst ls tho principal monl undor wny. She Ling been brought up lika o littlo Indy, and sbo now diucards soiled wrap- or No. 2, and rcefluces it_with somo protty ousc-dress. Whilo shois doing hor halr, the smoll of somothing burning groots ler olfac- torios, and eho rushos down tofind tho walor boiled antiroly of of somo nicoly-propared vogo- tablo, Alonzo's favorito dish, Blio roscuos it ns bost sho may, and again rolurns {o com- ploto hor toilotte, Bho s scnrcoly rendy whon she hears his uta[», Bho rushos to meot him, and for o time all her waos are for- otton. Dinnor in served, and they onjoy it, only the Pal {8 #o tired sbio hina no np‘fntlw, and thero 16 nlrondy a spot on that now dross. 8ho lns ot yot loarnod to put seido hor dainty ways; and the rosult is, that, boforo long, all THOSI: PRETTY CLOTHES ANE RUINED, TInd sho not dotormined, whon sho married, that ubie would nover negloct hor appeatauco? And yet horo she is mnow, looking . porfect dowdy. Bho fecls it, aud it docanot fmprove hor tompor. Alonzo admires Miss Smilh, across tho . way, and injudioiously tolls his wifo how charm- ing and frosh sho looks. Wifo jealous, envious, and angry,—all the rosult of thia onuobling abor. Aftor a littlo, eho grows caroless. Bhe is o weary at night with_this troadmill of offensiva dutios ; and it is 8o hard to L‘;ot up oach morniug and recommonce the eamo dull, dirty round,— FOR 1T 18 DIRTY § you cannot apothoosizo pots and pons, coals and ‘gronso, smoko and soot. At lnst tho linir censea to bo 0 olaborately drossed, and finally hocomes o hord, twistod pug at the back of hor head. ‘Tho dainty white wrappors, noarly ruinod, nro thrown nsido, and some othor drosa substifuted, —aorviconblo, perhnps, but not particularly be- coming. She feels that thore isalways . smoll of dishi-wator havging around Lor; aud sho do- voutly. withos that sho could throw tho ~dishes all out of tho window aftor evel meal ; that eho was dead; that she never had boon married ; that, in fine, 'sho_could go bnck homo, Bho cannot look sweot and frosh, oy when sho was a girl in papa's house, and somo ono olyo Lad the caro of things. It makes hor cross. Bhe knows sho ia untidy, and she hatos it intonsoly. Then she hatos the causes which have produced this stato of things. Sho is out of tune with evorything. Will tho. time nevor come wheon this disgusting work will boatanond? Sho used to road Carlylo, and think how grand, how truo, was all ho eald. Sho wishes now that he could wash dishes in monoto- nous continuity until ho was AS BICK OF IT A8 SIIE 18, Thera is nothing especially noblo in the lines toil is drawing upon hor brow. They arolines of caro, and of & queralous tomper. ~Oh, for the sweatness and cloanliness of daya gone byl It cannot be. Tho domons of housekold dirt are sgamst it, Wonld she not alweys bo charming if sho could? Give her half- a chance and see. How sho envies that bold, dashing Mrs, Brown, Who is aliyays on grand_tonuo, and who boards, Why can't they board? Housckeoping is ol vory woll in tlie abstract, but it is not always succossful in tho realization. WIHAT I8 TO DE DONE for these poor girls? Tho wholo eathetio por- tion of their nature crios out for pleasant, charming things, and they aro tiod to dirty, ugly ones, Tho row ‘discouragod in spito of them- solves, and long for any means of frocdom from theso dograding, dobnsing onros. Dograd- ing bocause thiey ontail dirt and untidiness. De- basing for tho same reasons. Tho whole wom- an's nature undergoos o chango, aud sho eithor gives way morally, or changes into 2 sharp- nosed, vinegar-faced, unploasant scold,—hor wholo tite passed in trying to - FIOUT THE DEMON DIRT,— hor whole nature bowed before it. What isto Lo done? Is it tobe cheap Chineso labor, or what ? It must bo somothing, or wo are likely to still further increase tho victima of untidi- ness, who are cithor slattorns or ehrows ; or olso thoy must livo in other paoplo's hiouses, &nd loso ol the charm of home,—so0 truo ia it thnt cor- tain Inbor does demoralizo, Is objcctionable, and cannot be mado o Giopping-stono to bottor tlings, Productive as it is of untidiness, it ruing & woman physically, mentally, and morally. Rt o IN DEATH. Tow stlll she lics ; how poaceful her ropose ; Tow ealm tize fiatures sot in dosth's long sleep ; Thio dark-friug'd Jids, 08 in o quict dream, Vel thio dim cycs that nover more sliall weep. A singlo bnd, amid tho shining wealth OF clust'risig ringlols, neatics on hor brow ; The lipe of clay just parted, wear a smile, And peace divino rests o tho sweet face now, The hends aro claspod, and in their marble clutch A stainloss lily droops abovo lior brcast, Which, hending low, doth kisa th nowy ubroud, 80 White—s0 cold—abovo tho heart at rest, Oh, Deathi | thine is the hand whose wondrous touch Doth Lift the cloud no mortal oye can sco,~ That robs tho spirit of cach cankering care, And broathes upon it immortality, OweN M, WrrsoN, Jn, Cutoaao, July 25, 1873, The Altitude nt Which NMen Can Live. Thore hay beou n great deal of discutsion as tothe altitudo nt which human belngs can oxist, and Mr. Glnisher himsclf can_toll ns 18 much about it ns snybody. In July, 1872, ho and Mr, Goxwoll arcondad in a balloon to' the enormous elovation of 87,000 feet. Provious 1o tho start Mr. Glalshor's puleo stood at 176 beats a minuto, Coxwoll'sat 74 At 17,000 foot tho pulso of tho former was at B4, that of tho Iattor 0t 100. At 19,000 fect Glaishor's hands and lips wore quite blue, but not his faco. At 21,000 foot ho hoard Lis hoart benting, avd his ‘Dronthing becamo oppresod ; at 20,000 hobecame sousolosit; motwithstanding which tho aoronnut, in tho atsec. . ** - £ Beionce, went up another 8,000 faok, till 116 cuuld nolongor uso his hands, and Bind to pull tho string of tho valva with hisfooth, Aoronnuts who have to mako no oxertions hnve, .of course, & great advantage over membors of the Alpine Club and thoso who trust thoir logs; even at 13,000 feet thoso olimbors fool very nncomfortable, more 80 in the Alps, it seoms, thon olsoworo. At tho monastery of St. Bornard, 8,117 foot M(.i-] , the monks becomo asthmatio, and are com- })‘c lod frequently todoscond into tho Valley of the hone for—anything but “a breath of fresh air;” and at tho end of ton yoars' sorvico aro obligad to give up their Ligh living, and como down to tho usual lovel. At the samo time in Bouth America there aro towns, such a8 Potosi, F]ncud a8 high s the top of Mont Blano, tho nhabitants of which foel noinconvenionco. Tho highest inhabited apot in the world is, however, ‘the Buddhist oloistor of Hanlo in 'Fhibot, whoro twonty-ono priosts live at an_altitude of 16,000 foot, The Brothors Schlagintwoit, when thoy oxplored the glaciors of the Ibi-Gamin in the wamo country, encampod at 21,000 feot, tho bighest altitude at_which a Iluropoan sovor nssed the night. Evenst tho top of Mont lane, Prof, . Tyndail's gnldn! found it very unpleassnt to do this, though tho Profossor himeclf did not confess to feeling so bad as thoy, Tho highost mountain in tho world iy Mount Evorost (Uimalays), 20,008 foot, and tho condor has boon scen “winging tho blue air” 600 feot bighor, Tho air, by tho by, is not “Dlue,” or eleo, a8 Do Baussuro pumlcd out, 4 tho distaut mountains, which are covore with snow, would sppear bluo also" i n‘p aront color boing duo to_the rolletion of light. What light can do, and does, is marval- ous ; aud not tho losst is its power of atiruction to Lumanity,—Chambers' Journal. The Shah in Pacis. The Bhnh appoars to havo boon loft to amuso himsolf protty much as ho plonsod in Paris. Tho Paris corroupondont of tho London Zimes eayn that one of the most famous jowolors of I'niin oxhibitad to His Majesty his cofloction of jowols, and ho purchusod af tho prico of 60,0001, o col- lar of pearls, and for 85,0001, u dinmond bracolot, which ig intended for tho wifo of Marshal Mne- Mabon, 1o also purchased mony articlos for Lis harom, Tho Blak tried on tho Grand Vizier ovorything whioh was shown him—girdloes, col- lars, and aigrottos. Ilo nfterward examined arms of differont modols, and was sbout to firo one from tho window, when ho was romiudod by the draud Vizlor that Lo might posslbly wouud somo ono, Tho 8hah luughed at tho triviality of tho caution aud put asido the rifle. # , SPOOKS. { Some Glimpses of Ghost-Land, If Not Supernaturnl, at Least In- explicable. From Lippincott's Mapazine for Augual. Itis nolonger tho fashion toscofl at tnles of tho supornatural, On tho contrary, thoro I8 a grow- Ing tondonoy to invostigato subjects which wore formorly pooh-pooliod by most porsons claiming to bo well informed and eapablo of ronsoning, Tt is, ltowover, without propounding sny thoory or ndvancing any opinion that I rocord a fow instauces of nppnrently supornatural, or at leant inoxplicnble, ocourronces. I can vouch for the truth of noarly all tho storles Iam about to rolato, ono of thom only not being oithier my porsonnl exporlonco or nurrated to me by some ono of tho actora in the scono. My first etory shall bo ono that was tola to mo bynn aged lady who was onoof tho friends of my youth, and who ofton montioned this strengo incident of her placid, yot busy, life. Bho was a sensiblo, practical womsan, tho lnst porson in the world likely to bo led nstray by an overheated imagination or deceived by hallucinntions, Hor early youth hod been passed in tho country, hor fathor boing % wonlthy farmer. Bho had formed o cloge in- timacy with tho dnughtor of a gonloman living at somo distance from her fathor's farm, and the two wero soldom apart. Au invitation given to my friond (whom I shall eall Nrs, L—) to visit somo relativos in & noighboring olty caused o briof soparation botween tho two girls, and thoy purted with many protostations of enduring affoction. On tho dny appointed for Mrs, L—'a roturn she sot out at tho presoribed hour. Tho Inttor part of her journoy was to bo porformed on horgoback. On & bright sunny afterncon in Juno sho found horself, about 5 o'clock, drawin, near hor father's house. Suddonly fn the bronfi rond bofore hor sho porcoived a fomalo form walk- ing ropidly townrd her, aud, to hor dolight, mno;.'n}zod hor friend coming, a8 sho thought, to T, e il mako hor go back with mo snd tako ton,” was Mrs, L——'a thought a8 sho whipped up hor horso in hor basto to graot tho doar ono, who waa all the more beloved on account of thoir tomporary soparation. But as sho ap- Ibmm:hm] tho flgure, and bofore sho hLnd had ime to speak, or indeed to do moro than notice that her friond looked very pale and ill, hor Torso, an unusually quiet, standy animal, seomed strucl with suddon terror, rearod, ehiod, and finally plunged into o hollow by tho roadside, from which she had somo troublo in oxtricating him. Whon she did suecced in bringing him back to the level road, sho fonnd, to hor aston- jvhmont, that the youog girl had disappoared. Around hor lay tho open fields, before Lior and bohind her the road,—all in the bright lustre of the summer sfternoon,—but no trace of tho figure could she seo. Complotely mystifled, sho lfifiknnm\ home, thors to lenrn that bor friond DIED BUDDENLY TIIAT YERY MODNING. Tho noxt incidont I shall narrate was told me by & Gormon gentloman whore mothor was tho horoine of the talo, His fathor had boen ap- pointed to somo public offico in a small Gorman town, and among the omoluments of the place wos the priviloge of rosidivg in » large, old- tashioned, but very handgomo mansion. = Tho husband and wife set off in high spirits to inspect their now abods, to which some portion of their furnituro hod alroady becn transforred. They Wont from room to room, inspocting and plan- ning, till thoy camo to an partment tho coiling of which was elaborately decorated with plastor Cupids, basketa of flowars, oto, modoled in high rolief, and with » contre-plece of unusual size sand maguificonco, A small table, tho only arti- clo of furniturc tho room contained, was placed direetly undor this contrs-plcco. The youn wifo, rathor weary of hor resoarciics, was staud- ing bosido this tablo, aud was loaning on it while she went on talking with hor hus- Dband, when suddenly a loud, imploring volco called from down stairs, * Caroline! Carolino | come down to me—conio 1" “Who can that bo?" askod tho husbond in amnzomont. *I fastoued all tho doors and win- dowa boforo wo left the lower rooms," "Again camo tho loud call, this time with an ac- cont of ngonized ontreaty: ‘‘Carolinel oh, Caroline! come down—do come!" "ho young couplo hesitated no longor, but hastenod down stairs. Thoro was no one thore. Doors nnd windows wore sccurely fastencd, and the old houso looked as molitary as when thoy Liad first entered jt. “Vory strangol” said the Enntlemun. Bt now that wo are down hero, Caroliue, supposo wo take o look_nt tho garden 7" So thoy salliod forth to examino that portion of their now do- mnin, but scarcely had thoy entered it when they wero startled by a loud crash withinr{he houso. Looking up, thoy saw volumes of what appearod to be smoko issuing from the window of tho room thoy had just quittod, and, foaring that tho room was on iire, lhog quicldy roturned to it. Thoro was no firo: what had appoared to bo smoke was only a cloud of dust, for the massive and_elaborately-ornamented coiling hiad fallon, and the heavy contre-pioco had crushed to frag- mouts tho tablo againat which tho young wifo Liad o lately beon loaning, But for the warning voico 1IER DESTRUCTION WOULD JIAVE DEEX INEVITABLE. My informant went on to stato thot the picces of tho shattored tablo wore preserved as sacrod rolica by his paronts, and that his mother always declared that sho hind recognized in the mysto- rious voico thatof adearrelative long beforo docensod. It was once my fortune to pass somo wecks in & ** haunted houso.” I was quite young then, & ‘mora school-girl in fact, and tho friond whom I cao to visit was nlso vory young ; and both of g woro too gay and froliceomo to caro muoh for whatoyer was strange or #tartling in our aur- roundings. Not that we ovor saw anything,—my friond hiersolf, tho daughter of the houso, had never done so,—but tho sounds wo henrd were sufliciontly odd and inexplicablo to fill us with astonishmont, if not with torror, _Tiwice during 1my visit I was roused from a sound slumbor by a Joud, hoavy crash, rosembling that which might be cansed by the overthrow of a marble-topped washstand or buronu, or somo other qually pon- dorous piece of furniture. ‘The room actually vibrated, and yet a close scrutiny of that and tho adjoining apartments failod to*roveal any causa for the poculiar noiso, It was & sound which could not pousibly have beeu produced by crack- ing furnituro, fnlling bricks, scampering rats, or any othor of the numerous causcs of sup- posed sbnm sounds. Thoe room overhead was used a8 a_linen-room, and was always kopt locked; and bosides, the mnoiso (which I after- ward hoard on muother occasion in broad day- light, whon I wos wide awako) was unmistakably in the room whore we found ourselves, My friend told mo that she had hoard it vory often— 80 ofton, in fact, that sho had got used to it, and 1o longor folt any emotion savo that of curiosity. Thoro was anothor room in which (also in brond dylight) I heard a strango crackling sound like the Tustling of a_largo sheet of sliff aper or parchment turned slowly in the ronder's Ponda. Fiia nolso alko was ono of froquent oo- currenco. Among the things scen by othier mom- Dors of the family was & light thal ,‘;,u-xua over walls and celling in_points inaccossible to out~ side light or rofleotion. 'Ihen thord was s lady in bluck silk who had more than_once been seon gliding about the house, bnt who always disap- poarad when accostod or followed. Three slow, Bolemn raps sometimes sounded at tho doad of night at tho door of one membor of thoe family, & ukoptical and irasciblo old gontloman. But, strange to esy, oll theso uncanny slghta and sounds portended nothing, aud seemed to bo utterly WITHOUT A PURFOSE OIt A OAUSE. Thehouss was a cheorful modorn one, and tho father of my friend was its first occupant; so thero wna nothing in the past to which thoss oceurronces could rofor. Nor wora thoy warn- ings of coming misfortuncs, Noithor death nor disastor over foilowed in tholr train, and in due coures of timo tho fumily consod to trouble their hoads about thom,—were uot at nll fright- enotl, and searcoly ovon sunoyed. Thero wore othor sounds which I did not mysoif hoar, but of which I was told,—stealthy Tootsteps thab pneed o cortnin corridor at dond of might P8 shurp, attling nofse like Lail dashing sgainst tho window-puuos, and ono or two othor trifling yot oqually unacoountuble ocourroncos. Onco, 100, » young Indy visiting the house heard in tho noxt room to that in which sho was loud and lamentable sounds, a8 of o woman weeping bit- torly and in sore distross. Bhe listened in con- sidorablo porplosity for somo tina, fonting to intrude on the sorrowa of soms momber of tho fumnily ; but at last she resolved to go aud prof- for aid, it not consolation. As sho appronchod the door botwoon tho two rooms the sound sud- denly consed, and, to her amuzoment, she found the adjoining spartmont not only omply, but with the doot locked and bolted on the iuside. Tonco knowa young lady who, on goiug to pay & visit to n friend who lad re- contly moved into » uow houso, Wad . minister was writing in_ his study tho stops asled to walk up atairs, and on_ com- -Iyln{: saw an old woman proceding hor up lio atalrcaso. Bupposing horto Lo ono of tho sorvants, shio took but little notice of hor, though struck by the lmoullnrlty of lhor gait, arort of {urhy 1imp, s though ono log wan shortor than ho othor. In tho coursc of converaation with hor friond sho mentloned tho old woman, ana nked if she was tho housckeopor. * ITouse- keopor ? no,” satd the lndy ; **wo have no such porson about our houso. You must lave beon mistakon,” Who visltor thon doscribed the por- son sho hiad scon, and when sho_montloned tho peculine limp hor hostoss scomod atartlod. After a pauso sho snid: ** No auch person lives here now, but the woman who tovk caro of this houso bofoko wo rontad t \as oxactly much n porson o you dosoribo, and was lamo in just such & man- nor, X * BUT BIE DIED NERE ABOUT BIX WEEKS AGO,~— Ithink in this vory room,—s0 your oyes must Cortninly have decolved’ you" Tho Indy atill orsistod thnt sho hnd soen the old woman ho scrvants wora called and the house thor- oug{xly senrched,- but no intruder was discov- orcd. I have known sovoral instancos of persons who hinve doon the ! fateh” or n&pmltlun of & living poraon, callod in Gormany tho ** Doppolgangor ; Sot, though such nppearances aro usually sup- Posod to portond tho donth or fllness of tho Poraon thus strangoly * doubled,” I bave nover yot hontd of a case whore ony unpleasant conso- quoncos followed, For instanco, an old friend of ming, a gentloman of undaonbted veracity, onco told mo that on ono oceasion lio entore: bis louso about G o'clock in the after- noon, and ran up staim to his mothor's bed-chambor, whore ho saw_hor standing near tho contro of tho raom, clad in & ‘noso whito Eowu, and enfingud in comblng ont her long lack halr, Ho remained looking at her for #omo momonts, oxpecting that sho would speal to him, but sho did not take notice in any way of his prosonce, and nelthor spoke mor looked at him. Ho then addreseod hor, but, receiving no roply, beeamo indignant and wont down stairs, whero, to his nmazoment, he found his mother seatod by the parlor wlulfmv, drossed ond coiffee nsuaual. It was somo yoors befors lio would trust himsolf to toll herof what ho had soen, fonring that sho might considor it an omen of appronching death, aud indecd, though not a su- norstitious man, ho waa inclined o to viow it imgolf; but his mothoer LIVED FOR MAXY YEATS aftor tho appearance of her wraitli. I alro knew | o young gontloman to whom the_uuploasant ox- perionco of beholding his own double was onco vouchsafed, Mo had been spending a quict ovoning with somo young ladies, and roturned acrosn thoroom, and the nnacon visitor would #ont himaolt in Lho ohnir that usunlly stood op- oslte to that of the clorgyman at tho wriling- ablo, whion n sound an of Wio pages of a largo book with nlifE paper lonvos bolug slowly turmad would usunlly ensuo, The minlstor often ad- drossed his invisiblo companion, but novor ro- colyad ony xuplr Lo his quostions or appeals. On henring thero strango ntorios, Mrs. X—'s fathor dotermined upon trying to traco out the history of tho houso bofora it camo into his pos- wesslon. Ho lonrned thnt it hindl originally boon oceupiod by tho porson who built it, a man of Tow origin, who, heing looked upon as s pillar of tho Ohicels by the congragntlon to which ho b longod, had Licon entrusted with tho tnak of col- 1octing’ cortain sums dus to it,—whothor actunl incomo or subscriptions I do not now racolloct, At all ovents, he never \mld over the monoy, but Inunched out into sundry extravagancos rathoer unusual for a man in his Atation of lifo, amongst which wns tho orection of thin large and hund- somo houso, But from the timo fim houso wag finished o blight scomed to fail upon his lifo, Iognvo up allhis roligious and rogular habits trmfiuuulm ovil unm‘umy, toole to drinking, su finally, in o fit of delirium tremons, HANGED JUMBELY in the very pavrot-room of which I have bofore spokon. "iie nconea b hin funoral woro mid to baftlo deseription, 'Tho corpso was Iald out in tho kitohon, and thither all his lato boon-com- I)Mflmm ropuirod and turned the snd coremonial nto s hideous orgy. Among other horrible doeds, they took tho corpse from the coflin, propped it up in a chalr, and poured whisky down ity throat. "I'ho Incidents which I have relatod happoned whon Mrs, X~— was a child, and sho Is now In tho prime of womanhond, When sho finished Tior story I recollected that rcarco a yonr ago I had rond in o Philadelphin papor an extract from ono of tho jourmnls of the town noar whioh this house stood, giving an account of au investigation ~ which = was thon taking placo of the aaiso of mundry strango distarbances oconrring In this very houss, Tho oxlrnot closed with tho history of it builder and first occupant, tallying oxnctly with what sho ro- Intod to mo, though with fower dotails, Bo, af- for il thosd yours, tho porcusbod spiit rofisca o rost. Tho natralive with which I shall concluds this ohiaplor of ghostly experioncos is ono for tho truth of which I am not propared to vouch, ss T was noithor an actor in ito scenes, nor was it xo- Intod to mo by ono wha was. Yot woro the incl- donts of any othor than n supornatural naturo, I should considor tho authority from which I learnod thetn as unquestionablo. homo about 11 o'clock, lot himself into the houso with his Intch-key, and proceeded to his own yoom, whora ho foiind tho gos alroady lighted, - though turnod down to a moro bluo spark, Ho turned it up, and ‘thoe fall light of tho jet shono on his bed, which stood just beside the burnor, and thero, extended at full longth, lny— INSELE. His first idon wes of a burglar, or somo such intrudor. DBut his sccond glanco dispelled that improsgion, Ho stood for somo. moments gnz- ing ot tho prostrate figuro with foelings which muet have beon anything but agrocable. e no- | ticod liktle peonliaritios of his own dross and fen- tures, and marked tho closed oyolids and onsy xosplration of slumbor. At longth, pluckivg up courage, ho attompted to paes his hand under tho pillow to dras ont & small rovolvor which ho usunily kopt thero, and as ho did o ho felt tho Em““m of tho pillow as though weighed down: areclining head. This complotcly unnerved m. Ho wont out of tho room, locking tho door on the outeido, aud spont the romainder of the night on a sofa in tho parlor. Mo did not entor his chambor till broad daylight, whon, to his do- light, his ghostly visitor had vanished. ‘The noxt story on my list was narrated to mo byono of the most sonsiblo and intolligont womon I evor met,—a lady of great strength of obnraoter, joined foa fine and highly-cultivatad mind. During hor childhood my friond (whom 1 sball call Mre. X—) dwolt with her parents ina Iargo, roomy honso in the vicinity of ono of our inland cities. Tho house was a double ou, » olid, substantisl structure built of stono, and and had boon purchased by hor father n short time boforo the occurrences which I am about to rolato. A wido lawn at the back of the mansion slopod down to tho baukof n small atrenm, along tho vorgo of which, without intervoning ‘bank or path, ran tho torminating wall of tho rounde, ‘I'he stables woro aleo situated ot tho ‘oot of this lawn, and tho back windows of theso stables looked out on thewater. Mrs. X— had sovoral brothers aud sistors, all of whom, s woll as horaolf, woro still childron at the period of which sho epoko. Ono summer evening her parents accoptod an invitation to take tea with n fricud, and wont out, loaving tho childron at play in tho library, room whicli opongd on the main hall on tho und floor. The front door was opon, and a8 it grow dark s largo hanging lamp which fully illiminated tho hall was lighted, 8o that evory part of it, aa woll a tho staircaso, wns fully iliti- minated. Late in tho ovening the children wore | disturbed at thoir playin the library by the sound of heavy footstuvn ascending tho outer stops and thon pacing along tho hall, Imagin- ing that it was thoir paronis who had returnod carlior than thoy expected, they rushed to tho door to groot them, but to their nstoniehmont THEY COULD BEE NO ONE, though the hoavy stops woro still heard trav- ersing tho hall, necending tho staircaso, and finally resounding on the floor of & room over- hond. Tho childron summonod the sorvauts, who morely laughod at thoir story, till ono of tho maids, who had boen busy up-stairs, camo down ond said that hor moster and mistross must suro- Iy have roturnod, a8 she had hoard thom walking along the entry and aftorward entering one of tho rooms, Upou this, ono of tho men-sorvants went up stairs and mado a caroful search, but without finding any ono. In the midst of tho oxcitomont tho Iady and gentloman of the houso roturned homo, and upon hearing the story the gentloman himsol! institutod a nocond and moro vigorous soarch, which, like tho first, was whol- 1y without result, Bome time aftor this the childron wors Elngin under their nurse’s caro on-tho lawn at the bacl of the houso ono gray, dismal afternoon in the oarly autumn, The aitontion of tho whole party was _suddonly attracted by the figuro of aman passing elowly outsido of tho stono wall that Strotoliod along the foot of the lawn, aud finally disappoaring behind tho stable. As' Lo did 8o & tromondous uproar aroso_smong tho horsesin tho stablo, and, on examination, ono of them, & remarkably fino and docilo animal, whoso stall Dhapponed to be noxt the window that openod on tho water, was found to bo in & porfoct ecstasy of terror, plunging, rearing, and strug- E].(ng to got looso In a manner that rendered tho ask of rolensing and romoving him anything but an easy or even a safe ono. Aftor the horao was got out of tho stablo and lod away, the ques- tion aroso, What had frightoned him? Could thio man thoyhad seon passing bohind tho stablo Thave done anything to torrify him? Then, for tho first timo, it dawned ou the minds of the whole party that NO NUMAN BEING could have walkod whoro theyhad sgen tho pass- ing figure, o8 tho wall roso “straight from tho yorgo of the wator, and there was no pathwoy botween the wall and tho stream, which in that spot was deep, though not very wide. Btrangoe to eay, tho horse could nover be induced to ro- ontor that stablo, but always manifosted signs of wild alarm and oxcitoment whon brought oven to tho door, though in all other respoots he was perfeotly gontlo and tractable, ‘Owing to tha sizo of the family, ono of thelarge garrot-rooms Liad boon fitted up as & bod-room for one of tho youngor boys, who profarred hav- ing & chambor of his own to sharing tho apart~ ment of ono of his brothers, He had not oceu- piod it long bofore Lo began to complnin of frightful droams, and moro than onco'ho camo trombling down stairs and took refuge in hiy mather's room, TERRIFIED DY BOMETHING HORRIDLE— what, he conld not define, but somothing thot camo into his room at night and roused hin fromhis slumbers, Thinking that tho child was merely norvous and_oxeltablo, sho changed tho arrangements, put kim to slecp in tho bed-room of ono of his brothors, sud gavo up tho apart- ment in tho garret to ono of tho soryauts. But in & very short time tho complaints wora renowod ; tho girl could not sloop on sccount of that vague, strange horror, which ofton- drove hor shrloking and half awakencd from her bed. 80 tho lady liad the room dismantlod, and used it na o lumber-room, and during the remaining i';mm of her occupancy of the louso wad oubled no more, As thoe passed on, tho lnnruualnf oxigoncies of his growing family induced Mrs, X—'s father to purclinso & houso in town, aud he ao- cordingly rented his country mausion to a child- loss pair, o clergyman and his wifo, Tho uew residonts had not boon long lnktalled whon a worion of [i:h“uy dlsturbances bogan In real oarncst, 1 bhelieve that nothing more wns evor een, but tho kitchon at nlght, whon all the fam- ll{ bid rotired, would at times bocome tho sent o AN APPALLING UPROAR of funrticulato voivos, and claubing dishes, and dragging furnituro, Lt any ono was bold onough to venture down stalrs, tho noiso would suddon- ly censo, and the kitohen itsolt never showoid any traco of these unonrthly rovels,—overy plate, dish, cup, and chnlr remaining in ltsacouatom lace. Then, tao, the Iontutu!lm of tho invisiblo ntrudor wero heard again, snd ofton whilo the A fow yearnago o lady in quost of summorlodg- ingy forheruolf, her siater, and hor childron (hor luisband being ' shsont) was offered a large, old- fashioned house in tho vieinity of ono of our fen~ sioro rosortaon Lighly advantagoous torms. Iint- it inpocted the hiovso and foundit, thoughold, i good ropair, she engaged it &roydmy, aod & fow weoks after the dato of hr first nogotiations showas sottled thero with hor family. For wome timo nothing ocourred to mar tho ponco of tho housohold. Tho children onjoyed tho frosh son-breazos, thoir plonsaut sports on tho boach, aud the large niry rooms, whilo tho lndies sowed, and rond, and looked aftor housohold maltors, and took long wallw, after tho fashion of most pooplo during tho fummor soa- 80n by tho sosside. Ono niglit, when tho mother wwiny about £ retiro to rout, one of hor youngor ohildron, n bright littlo boy, eallod to hor from his sleoping-room. Fearinj that ho was ill, she haetoned Lo him. > “Mamma," ho aid, vory earnestly, “I wish you would tell TUAT BTRANGE WOMAN to keap out of my room." “\Vhat woman, doar?” neked his mothor, convinced that Lio'had boon drenming, 41 don't know Lier namo, sud I ean’t s her faco, boeauso shio wonrs @ big sun-bonnot, but 8ho comes and stands at tho foot of my bod, aud sho frightens mo.” “Woll, novor miud, doar. Go to sloop, and it over sho troubles you ngain, como into my room and sloop with mo,” nuswored tho mothor, still thinking that tho child had beon swakencd by an uncosy dream. Tho littlo follow, thus soothod and consolad, soon foll nelesp, and slopt soundly till morning. But & fow nights aftorward tho child camo running into his mothor's Toom at dond of night, panting and torrified, and ox- claiming, * Momma! mammal sho bas como again!””’ Ifiy mothor took him into her arms, nnd sioon curessed away his foars, but, thinking that tho child's unoasinoss wns 'caused by his sleoping alono, she kind his bod moved into hr owu chambor, aud fitted up “the vacaut apart- mont a4 & guast-chambor, Soon aftor this, tho sorvauts began to complain of sirango sights and sounds for which thoy could not sccount, and ouo buruing July duy tho sister, who was sentod by tlio_parlor winaoi, bappousd to say, #0h, T um so warm 1 whon & voiee, HEEMINGLY FROM THE CELLAR, mnde ouswer, “Anal am so cold!” Struck with amazement, sho catled, but no one roplicd, and subsequent ‘invostigation provod that_thoro a8 no ono in tho collar at that moment, nor could thero hnve bocu,ns its only door was always kopb lockod. T onnnot now recall tho dotails of varions slrango occurroncos which atterward took place, but will puss on to tho final ono, which may bo considored a8 the denouoment of tho wholo sto- ry. Thelady of the house, o sirong-minded, practical somian, Lind always stornly rojccted tho thoory thnt the 'odd incidonts that anuoyed hor had any supornatural origin; so, _disregard- ing them wholly, slo _sent an invita- tion to an od friend of hers, o clorgymen, to pay or & visit of somo woeks' duration, Hor invitation was aceopted, andin duo time hor guost arrived and was put’ in possession of tho sparo bed-room, NiguE coming on, the whole honsohold retired torest. Early in the moruing tho activo hostoss rose to goo that all was in order for tho further ontortainment of hor guost, whon, on going into tho parlor to unfaston tho _shutters, what was her amazement to find him thero oxtondod on_the ofa, and looking vory ill, sa though Lie hod possed o wrotched night!’ In nanswer to hor anxious questioning ho statod that | on retiring to reat ho bud fallen 1nto a profound slumber, from which ho suddouly woko, and eaw & woman wearing n largo sun-bonnet, which complotely concoaiod Lior faco, standing bosido Lis bed, thomoonlight which shono into the room ronderihg evory dotail of her figure distinotly vasiblo, ~Supposing that she was one of tho sor- vants, who had como to bis room to sco that he s porfoctly comfortabla and wanted nothing, ho spoke to her. What she roplied, or how he firat became convinced that the T).\lnf boforo him wag no form of flosh and blood, I cannot now remember; but Irecolloct two particulars of tho interview: ono was, that sho told him to look for hor in tho cellar; tho othor, that ho asked hor why #ho woroa sun-bonnet, and sho answered, **Bocauiso tho limo hna spoilt my face.” At this his failing monues forsook him, and whon cousciousnoss roturned his ghostly visitor had disappeared. i hostoss hoard him in silonce. As soon 36 ‘broakfast was over, she requosted him to accom- pauy her to the cellar. Cnroful oxamination Boon rovealed & spot whero somo of tho stonos with which it was paved had beon removed and aftorward roplacod. Assistants with (]mzpor tools weroe procurod, the stoues wore littod, and, after a fow minutes of vigorous digging, a mass of lime waa disclosed, in which was found im- bodded & quantity of calcinad fragmonts of bone, wml:.h medical authority afterward pronounced to b PONTIONS OF A UMAN BRELETON. Those poor yémains woro_carefully removed, Plncod in a box, and intorred in a nelghboring cometory, and tho *woman in a sua-bonnet™ Was BOCD DO MOT0, Bubsequont invostigation into the history of tho old hiouse rovealod the following facts: 1t had crlginnllfl Doen uccu{)ied by & rotired sea Captain and Lis only #on, tho latter a wild, rock- losu youth of evil charactor and confirmed bad habits, A young girl went to live thoro asa servant, and for somo months scomed woll con- tonted with l.lcl'dplwo, but afterwards sho bo- camo gloomy and unhappy, and was froquontly soon i tonrs by the noighbors, At last siio dis- appenarad, and it was given out by her employors that sho hnd gone to visit some frionds at a dis- tance, but she did not roturn, and suspicion was alrendy dirooted toward the old man and his son, whou one morning tho houso was found to bo ghut up, ity inbobifauts having found it ox- pudiont to_romove us silently nnd socrotly ns possible, Tho girl was nover heard of aftorward. Tho discovory of tho bones lod to tho supposition "that the younger man had seduced her, HAD AFTEIWALD MURDERED NER to conceal his original crime, and that lio had thon_ buricd the body in the collar, taking tho precantion to cover it with quicklime. As T snld at tho boginning of this article, T neithor wish to_propound auy theories, nor to deduce any conclisions from tlio relations I havo iven. I can ouly reiterate my statomont that Lioy eamo to mo from gourcos tho roliability of which I caunot question. I Love carefully ox- oludod_evorything rolating to the supornatural which I over honrd from tho lips of ignorant and suporstitions persons, and hnvo only recorded such incidents ns bore an added wolght of ovi- deneo in the shapo of tho sense, intelligonce, and unquentionablo veracity of their relators, ks Lucy 1L Hoorex. St b Speech and the Tongue, In tho latost number of the Academy is an articlo by Mr. B, Ray Laukoster, on the sup- would bo hoard coming through tho door aud posed nocessity of tho tonguoe to spoach, In tho courao of whioch tho writer says: ' U6 wuwsie of Porsia nrpunr to be In the hablt of cnusing this oporation (oxclsion of tho l.onfiuo) to bo per- formod upon Hiolr subjocts—togothor” with {hat of burning tho oyos with hot Irons—whon _thoy liavo canco to fool fll-diapofod toward thom'y andit in woll known in that country that tho [m\var of apeoch 18 rotnined aftor tho loss of tho ongio. 1L In & curions taok thnt spooch s ofton loss impaired by tho romoval of a Iargo portion of tho tongito than by moroly utting away tho tip ; and porsons in tho Last who have boon clumsily operated upon by the publio exeeu- tionor actually submit thomselyves to s kindof liomoopathio cure for tho impedimont to apocch which sucli an oporation e)mdur,nu; they have tho tonguo cut o sccond tfine. ‘Thoro s, thon, no ground for tho popular notion that tho tonguo is the organ of Apocch in the sonso that tho oyo la an organ of sight."” AMERICANISMS.* From the London Saturday Reviets, ‘Wo English aro far too apt to think our own way wisdom, and to look with scorn upon tho dolnga of our neighbors, aud mora oapocially upon the dolngs of our kinafolk in Amorion. All ways of sponking and acting which strilo ua s boing specially vulgar or disngrooablo we ab onco donounco a8 Amoricanisms, thoroby show- ing tho vory low ostimation in which wo hold, our transmnring coueins, This ostimate, bo it falso or be it truo, is in most casos tho result of porsonal obsorvation of tho swarms of Yankeo tonrista who, yoor aftor year, by tholr vory pros- ouco, take the bloom oft our summer boliday. Thoy crowd in upon us in railway carriages, they ompty our favorite dishes at tables d'hole, pour- ing into our enrs tho while bitter complaints of tho worthlossnoss of all they got whou com- parod with the comforts which *thoy have at home, whore wo dovoutly wish thoy lind stayed to enjoy them, Of courso it may bo said that in this way wo sco only unfavorablo specimous of tho raco, and that, to judgo of any nation with anything like justice, we must go to thoir coune try and study thom thero. Now that stenm has practically shortened tho distance botween Liv- erpool und New York into somothing not much longer than a journey from London to Edin- burgh used to be in our grandfathors'days, o tour through tho United Btates hes become vory little more difficult than a tour on the Con- tinont. Bl vory fow of us tnke advantago of this groat facility of intercourse, Wo shriuk from plunging in smong a wholo na- tlon of poople who spoak our lan- guago through thelr noses, and who call us mon and women, aud our sorvants gen- tlomen and ladics, Wo drend having no nour- ishment set boforo us butment-pios and chicken- fixings, and, porhaps, secing oven thoso unwholesome meats gobbled up boforo wo can socure our modost eharo, The curront British opinion of tho mannuers and oustoms of the dwollors in the States might almost bo summod up in the worda of tho skipper who wont o in- vostigato the social economy of cortain savages, and sent homo, a8 tho result of Lis voyage, tho briof roport, No mannors, customs bonetly.” Then, for thoso who really scck for informa~ tion about America and Amorican ways, thore' are tho travelers’ tales, a frosh crop of which spring “Y, yoorly, though thoso who read thom aud put thoir faith in them would do well to bear in mind the Fronch proverb, “A bean montir qui viout do loin.” Theso travolors, too, who ave for tho most part young mon, seem to make their obsorvations chioly on Young lndies, as boivg to them the most ntorosting sootion of saciety. Thoy roport that, U UL stapus bolln.” Bomo of tho mosat ploturosque words still to be honrd in the Biatos wero lofi thoro by tho Bpan= inrds ; such aro * Bavanns,” m-lg shoot, # corral,” #siampeda,” * Jomacke,” and’ #0 on, used to indiento the differont dogroea of color, from tha full-blooded Nogro down to tho Mustea and Mustntine. Intto ™ wo nro all familiar, bub it is somothing now to loarn thut * pickaninny In » corrnption’ of “poquono nino,” littlo “child; and that Bambo, which now stands for a binck, protty much ag * Paddy nolthor moro nor loga thau the Spanish * Zambo," bandg-lo inally o linon From tho Bpaniards, too, como tho worde With ** Quadroon "' and * Mue " doen for an Inishman, iy ol In trent n‘j()uf tho High and Low Dutch in- fasion, Mr. Do Voro mnkes an_claborals apology for tho carclosauoss of his countrymon in calling both aliko Dutchmon ¢ f It 18 o misfortuno pecullar o patranymics in Amer. fean hands that ey suffer & mnd pervorsion of mosning. Aa fow journalists ovon caro to distingutalt the Hcot from tho Englishmau, and are apt to call Doth nlike Englistanen, 80 pioplo througliout the Unlon aro fu tho habit of confounding therDutchman and tho German, and call thoin all Dutchcn, Tt is ovident,” ho ndds, that thix aroso not from o tendoney to undorrato, as when Froveh- mon were dubbed I'roggles, and tho liko, but from n courteous offort to cnll tho Gormans by tholr own namo **Deutroh,” which, bolug some- yhot difleult to, provouico, rendily changed into “Duteh." It lu ntrango_that, having got #0 near tho truth, still Mr. de Yere docs not oo that Deutsch awd Dutch are morsly tho same word with o slight cliango in spolling. That ho doos not sea it s clor, for ho goos on to plead a8 an oxouso for this use of tho word * that the Gorman immigranis themusolves but too readily gequioseed in the designation, and adopled it thomselves.” Burely he did mnot ecxpect the peoplo who show their dovotion to their Fatherland in overy wuy but by stay- ing i, it, to dony their nationnlity by rofus- ing to boar its namo? Nor does it soem to ptrike him that the name German would, to n now- comor {rosh from Doutgch-land, bo lmrmutly e moaniug. Tho Dutoh words, High and Low, acoms o ciuster chiofly round tho frying-pan and tho markot-stall, The Kniclkorbocker days are recalled whenover * cookies," ** noodlejeen,” “apeck and applojecs,” “*applo-snits,” or auy of the other dishes sncred to tho momory of the notablo "Vrowjeos, n{vpcl\r on the table, Thoy lingar, too, moro picturosquely in iho * stoop ™ of the houso porel, tho ' bush " of tha uncleur- ad_country, and tho * Pans-Blummachoo ™ sud “ Pinxter-Blummachoe,” names still borno by tho flowers which bloom most frooly ut Eastor and Whitsuntide. Ono of tho greatest poculinrities of the Yan- keos’ English io tho odd udo which thoy mako of good En[;llnlx words, Thoy talk of & fine *'suit of hair," meaning thereby not penitontial gar- ment but abundant tressos. In the same wi slones oro * rocks,” l\)lm:uunf linon * rags," eart “dirt," and go on. Othor words, again, which havo fallon to tho lowest dopths of disgraca in this country have with thom kept tholr anciont dignity, First and foromost of theso is * bug.” "That harmloss monosyllablo, for whioh English affectation Loy coutrived countloss enphenisms, 1s in Amorica freoly ap- lied to overy sort of bootle, ‘There aro ‘troo- uga” and “rose-buge,” gold-buga® and *+ gqunsh-buga ;" in fact, overy varioty of bug. ‘Wo have even heard of o Yankeo who went all ovor tho wonders of the DBritish Muscum with thoutmostindifMorence till ho eamoto the Colosenl Beotle, when he stoad still in delightod admira- {,!'oni)nxldnim]ug “ My eyos, what an almighty ig bug!” Ruiothior lass of words which aro, In tho truess sonso, Amoricanisms, aro thoso Kugjestod by the physical foatures and tho natural history of tha country, Mr. de Voro would lhave us beliove that tho uso of oxsggornted oxprossions, os~ pocially amoug Western men, is due to the in- luenco of the prominont fontures of tho land- seapo of the Weut. Ibisthus that ho sccks to ‘besides women doctors, women lawyers, clorgy~ women, and all tho reat of tho wild sistorhood ywho range at will norss tho American continont, thore aro American girls who, with all tho graco and eloganco of Frenchwomon, oud onsy sim- plicity 6¢ Englishwomon, havo in_addition a cor- tain fragilo boauty and vivacity of thought peouliarly thoir own, ond -wonderfully winniug. Thoy toll'also of wocial intorcourse on =o free and oasy a footing that young pooplo moy onjoy ono another's society withous their pleasure in- ficting o proportional amount of ponance on their oldors. L'his stato of things thoso trayelers find #o plonsant that they even venturo tond- vocato its introduction iuto tho old country, though at the merg proposel of auy such rovolu- tion thoy have the wholo army of chnperony up in arms sgeiel them, prepared to rosint such innovations to tho death. Thoso good adios foel that, should Mrs, Grundy counioe- nance tho_scandal of young lndics going un- chaporoned into socioly, thoir reign wouid bo atan end ; they would Liave to think out some highor way of kooping that influence over thoir como-out daughters which thoir present privi- lego of acting as Conatabla to thom confora. No_wondor, then, that thoy try to put off tho ovil day of tho introduction “of the so-called American manners, With American manners, however, the book boforo us Lins nothing to do, _Mr. do Voro troats only of Americanisms so far as language is concorned. Of those he says with gront truth : The largest part of so-calied Amoricanisma ate nothing more thsu good old English wordy, which, for ono reason or auothier, havo Lecoma obsolote or pro- Vincial fu England, whilo thoy have rotainod tholr full power and citizenship in tho United States, Thus all tho provinclalisms of tho northiern and westorn coun- ties of Eugland bave been naturalized in the Now England States, Bosides thoso * old friends with now faces,” ag Mr. do Vore calls thom, which form ona of the Tongost chaptors of his'book, and among which wo find many & good English word now unhap- pily fallen out of uso st homo, tho luguago spoken in tho Statos has beon enriched by n motloy host of recruits from other nations. Wo fiud thero Indian words, and negro words, bo- sidos & mixture of Fronoh, Spanish, and High and Low Duteh. With 8o many sources to draw from, wo might with some show of roason ox- pect to find the vocabulary of our American cousins rich in words suited to oxpross thonicest shados of meaning., But they scom to have an unlucky gift of making new aud bad words, and choosing to uso the words thud made rathor than the Dotter words which are slready within their roach. Henco it comos that slang words are go rife among thom that o strangor must of nocossity consult a dic- tionary if he would lfiot at tho monning of tho queor oxpressions which ho hoars in daily talk or roads in tho daily papors. Tho constant stroam of slang, which is the forco at work in the de- struction of all modern languagos, scoms to como protty equally from both ends of socisty. Tho ignoranco of tho lowost rank, which lets thom havo at command but a vory small part of tho stock of words in sny langungo, loads thom to invont now onos to expross thoir moaning. On tho other hand, the idea of exclusivenoss, which {8 the very life of their socloty, loads to the uso in the highest rank of cortain words and plrasos not current in any other. Ignorance of hoso words and phrases at onco botrays tha intrudor into thelr charmed circlo; but still they oaro just as much elang as tho slang of pickpocketa or watormon. ‘Thus oyery ranl of sociaty, overy trado, overy profession, avery family oven, has its own partioular jargon, But it in clear that tho slang whioh originatos among the bettor educated classos must bo the most dangorous to any language, as it is the most likely to force its way into the literaturo of that language. Mr. de Vore agroes with othor writora on tho subject in looking on the clorgy a8 tho ohief offendors in this rospect. A8 by tho tclorgy,” however, wo find tfiat lio means min- iators of all donominations, it does not surpriso us much to find Buch vorbs as * to followship,” % to happify,” ‘‘to donato,” * to funeralizo,” and strangast of all *to doxologizo," laid to their charge. This doxology does duty in many dif- forent ways, Under tho still odder form, ““sock- dolager," it hna become an_evoryday word, and stands for tho ond of anything and every(hing, “from a word that closos a dobato to a blow that finishes n fight." * Sockdolager means also & double hook, tho two parts of which close with & spring a8 soon a8 the fish biten, as it in grim exproasion of tho unavoidablo result.” 1In the goographical pamas can still be tracod tha history of the differont districts over which tho Indians, tho Dulck, nnd the French by furns hold sway. 'The momory of tho Ted BMan lingers the musical unmes still borne by tho Iakes and rivors whoso waters wero skimmed by his canoe long boforo tho white man droamed of his oxistonce. Btill, too, tho white conqueror_ i universaily known by tho namo Yeugee, now Yankee, which was tho Indian’s attompt at snying ' English," and by which ho distfugmished the Now England- ors from the dronded ** long knives" of Virginia, Fronch numos have suffored more than Indian ones at the hands of the English sottlers, who, in draling with thom, have yielded largely to the temptation we all fool o tuin & namo which wo don't understand Into somothing that shall have o moaning, no mattor how nbeurd that mosning may bo. Thus ‘Dolse Brule"” has bocomo *Hob Ruly;” "“Chomin Couvert” *Bmack Covor;” ‘and, strangost of all, * Riviore du Turgatoire” is now known as ¢ Pickot-wire Rivor.” Another inatanco of this tendonoy of tho popular mind is found in tho namo of the flower Lobalia, now (uvariubl{y written ¢ Low- bolin ;" while another plaut of tho samo family, * 4 The nglish of the Now World," By b1, Schols do Vore, LL,D, Now York : Oharlos Beribuer & Co oxcuse the constant misues of tho adjectives ¢ tall,” *stoop,” and a host of othern. Wo can- not qhite agrea with this theory, Would Mr. do Voro conviuce himeelf, or any one clse, thab tho mind of the man who speaks of & “pretty loud smoll of varnish” iy uncon- sl onulfi influenced by tho roar of Niagara, or by tho roli of tho tiunder among the great mountaing of tho Weus? Tho Labils of tho racoon aud tho opossum have likewiso given tho Ynukoo meny highly suggestivo words. From their woll-known triclk of of taking refuge in & gum-trac when hofly puraucd, a * gum-gamo " 18 now the favorite word for any sly attewpt to - got out of a difficully. Among plants, tho Dickory-treo has fuenislicd a_couvonient ndjec- tive, which at once oxplain its own moaning to all who know the durable yot pliant nature of the wood, Gen. Jackson wns kunown as “ Old Hickory,” and & * hickory shirt,” or a “hickory cont” nre gormonts thut will stand any amount of wear and tear. A Licko Catholio, too, i8 ono froo from bigotry and ascoticism. Dorhaps it Is owing to the hickory nature whicl tho Roman Cotholic Church puts on in the Btates that it gots on so woll with all tho other strango socts which flourish luxurinntly thoro, and whoso sundry peenliaritios givo s _colorin to the sacial life and to tho langusge. To \l'lucfi of them all Mr. de Vero himeolf belongs we can- not quito mako up our mind, for he ocma to bave somo views about feativals which aro quita now to us. Wo know that the quostion of the observauce or non-obsorvance of Christmas Day was ono of tho provoking causos of n long and cruol civil war, but we did not know before, that thero could bo two opinions as to the reason why tho dny is kopt at all. Yot Mr. do Vere begs hig readers not to forgot Tho one Dutefinan whom all Ameriean children hold dear and in great venorution, ‘Thin Is Santa Klaue, us thie nnmo §s commonly,though erroneously, writteu, in roality Klaas, tho abbreviation of Nicholas, a Duteh Saint of undisputod natiounlity, whose nawme s heard overywhore when bis own day, Christmas, I3 drawing noar. Torliaps Mr. do Voro bas studied ugiology at the same source as tho lady who Lought Foxe's ¢ Book of Martyrs” in order to roudup the story of St. Ursuln with hor attendant virgius, and auch other logonds, bofore going for a tour on tho Coutinent. If 4o, it is not surprising that Lio knowa so little about tho patron of thioves and childron, Still oven an almanac would tell him that tho day dedicatod to_tho Saint is the 6th of December and uot thio 25th ; and, consid- oring that ho maltes it & mattor of couscionco to 1imit tho torm Dutch to Hollanders only, wo_aro somowbat surprised to find him calling Beint Nicholas, who, if wo mistako not, was born Bomowhero in Lykia, o Dutchman. _So complale n vocnbulary ag that which Mr. de Vere has hero Ext togother of all the queer words and phrases uso nmong kis follow-citizons ought cortainly to boe of groat sorvico to travelers who meditate o visit to the Statos. If thoy study it thoy will avoid bp_lns called to order for such mistnkes a4 calling ‘s Jpossum * croaturo® instond of & “varmint," and will bo above showing any sign of purprie whon thoy aro told that lady is * ubbing hor gums upon tho mat.” i —_— - . NATURE'S LESSON. % There I8 a losson in each flower, A story in cach strenm und bower ; o On uvery herb o'er which we tread Are written words which, rightly read, Will load us from oartiy's fragraut sod, To hope, and bolinoss, snd God, z —_—————— g The Press in Xuasine 4 From the Springgield Republican. The oditor of a Russian journal has Intely been brought Leforo a court of Justios for printing, ‘without lenve from the proper authority, four words addrossed by the Czar to tho Khirgistan enyoy, Mohammed Sultan. Tho words woro, «AL'{ you speak Russian.” It waq urged in do- fense of the oditor that the prohibition to print |3 without leave from tho Minister of the Imperial Court only applied ta buch words ns conveyed an intimation of the soveroign's will, whoroay this was & simple oxpreszion of good will, and. that the complsint had not boen y‘!rclurmd by thnt y Minister, but ‘only by tho Committeo of tho 3 congors 0f tho pross, Lheso plons wero not, Lowover, accopted, aud tho publication of the 3 interosting litilo itom has to bo atoned for by a o fino-and ton days’ imprisonment. o —_—— ) ) ) A Baby«Show. Tho baby-shiow in 5 public hull at 8an Francis- co hns cloded, ].nwln?l attracted modorate hudi- ences for a wook. Tho following award of prizos was announced: Hondsomest baby, Houry T, Bray; handsomoat twins, Ada Florouco aud Eva § Edun Stevens; hoaviost hoad of hair, Constun- tine Policon ; smallest foot and hiandy, Alico Gil- | bort; fattest dark-oyed baby, I. Bhorman; fut. tost blug-oyod baby, Willinm Bigelow ; smallest Dbuby, Ugonis Olarno; handsomest mother, Graclo Mestayor; youngost mother, Mrs, John Walsh; oldost mothor, Mrs. Bincluir; bo dromsod child, Goorgos Gulttar ; sweotost-smili child, Aunio Rteed; loudost bawler, Laura E, ] Evaus. B —_— An American Doctor In Tgypte Dr. Edword Warron, Iate Drofessor in tha y Oollogo of Phyicians und Surgenna, Haltimoro, Md., and woll known as the chief medival ex- g port in tho great Wharton poisoniug cass, liaa ) son soloctod by the Khedive of Baypt for (he ay ouition of aurgoon to tha staff of Lis avmy, with 3¢ ho rank of Colonel, and the privilego of proce g tiolng modicine and surgory In the City of Cuiro, t) Dr, Warren has arrivod at his post. Ilie ropartea,y to tho Attornoy-Gonero! that *‘Lawyors' mistakey, | sometimes hang six foot in tho air," wilt not soon bo forgatien, 'y Reazes m ; in Ba [ po