Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 6, 1873, Page 10

FILAURAY AR NG LVeTLE MARTE, ) The Foibles of Our Friends, and the Friends of Our Toibles. Innsmuch a8 our present assooiations are de- tormluing our charneiors, and vur chiaracters nro oxpocted to detormina our status fn tho next world, it becomes & lighly Important quostion with whom wo sholl live, Thomas a' Kompls oays: It fsuo preat matler to nesoelate with tho good and gentlo; for this is naturatly plons- ing to all, and overy onmo willingly enjovath peace, nnd lovoth those best that agree whih Lim, Dut to Lo ablo to liva penccably with bard and porverae peraons, or with tho dis- oudorly, or with sucll as go continry to wy, Iy a groat graco, aud a mont commenduble and mauly thing.” Tiom this paragraph ono might almost fazncy {hat tho eaiutly monk of old thought thnt sociul contact ouglit to bo a eort of cwery-dust to the soul, aud placed a higher valuo on tho hardness and solf-control born of tho constant eaduranco of things unpleasant thou on the content and 8weetnosy springing from pleasnut lives, Dut Iomy.is wrote in day whon solf-(logollation was part of the Ohristian’s crced, and times and viows hava changed. A modern writer in Black- 1c00d says, in speaking of porsons whoso tonypors mako tliom unploasant to live with “ Happy ure they whoso owu temper is not tried or exasperatod by rasping contact with ono of theso social monstors. . . . . It noecds o vory fino naturo 1ot to bo narrowed and soured undor such coutact, oven whore it is borne pationtly and wisely, Itis fow indeed who can ondure such bondage, tbough thoy seom to boar it woll, wihout suffering, not ouly in feoling. but in character, and sinkivg below the lovel to which happluces and intercourse with juat and gentlo natures would havo 1aised them,"” Unfortunately, ourmost familiar assosiatosaro not ours of clioice, but of necossity. Wowake up to a coueciousncss of Hfa's possivllities only (v find ourselvos placed in’ vertain conditionn which are uncon seiouxly molding us, while our characters aro yot plostic, into ibat form wo must wear through otornity, Every sowd with which our own comes in cuntact is destined to exert au influcnco over ug, aud you wo ourselves bLave no voico e to whom we slall mect, but ate nil tho mero fustrumonts of o highor end wnscon Dowor, which ordors whoro wa aro born, what slall happen to us, oud when wo whall dio. Morcovor, ko ill-adapted aro tho events occur- ving to most of uw, and tho circumstances sur- rounding us, to display oxr innato graces uud virlues, that wo aro fuicad to conclude thab the ond of humnn hie Iy uot to give us an oppor- tumty of oxhibiting tho virines wo uatnrally cus, but rather to develup and peifect 1 churacter those virtues not indigenous to Lhis 18 n vory consolimg 1oflection at those tin:es when wo have an initated cousciousnes . hat things are all golng wrong with us, und that Wa ure not apy.caring Lo very greal ndvininge in our mortal oxisteace, 1f, Liowever, wo hiave the Bofidd luck to belong to that fortunato clays calle CUEENFUL PEOTLE, wa aball not probabiy waste any time or fealing over the idea that ull we poor humans aro work- lug ot a disadyantngo. Wo shall rub our Lands bifukly, aud rmile cordially, aud bave an alogicul behief {bat whatover is i righty—or, if it isn't, it will como out so, Tlcre nio several classes of ekeerful people. ‘Lhiere aro thuso whoke cheorfulness is not con- tagious becauso it is philosophical—and philoso- phy is ot catehiug, ‘Uhioy ara_foraver bidding you bo thankiul over oue “evil because it isu't two. If you kreak your log, they exhort you to vemember to Lo glad that it isn'c your neck,—as if nfte one's necic was faicly broien ho soout auv time in regiotting icl 1f you are hovering over the fire and grambling ol tho oxtraordinary cold weathor, they propound '{o you a conun- dium as to wha: people du who ate too poor to ave aty lire,~as if all doctors did ot ngroo that oue felt vory comfortalle when actually ficezing, or asif you coula raiso your owu tompe:atuie by reflecting on tha su'paseing lowness of some- body elso's animal warmth, Then come the oppiessively choerful paoople, to whom overy dazzling xain s o fino sLower of incstimable benolit to thio crops; evory unbearably Avetio duy Is fine, Lracing weatler, tud overy <log-duv is ood haying-timo, Thoy are not satistied with main R that overy cloud bas a eilver hining, Lut they try to induce tho bolief that it is solii silver, Worse than this class avo the aygics- sively-choeiful ones who {alwnys come into your presenco a8 if thoy Lad just heurd good news, who insist {hat ‘minfortune exisls only 1 imagination, who pooli-pool your gravest apprelioneions, and, whon they are renlized, urge you not to cry over spilt nulk. Mon of this stamp ave always in high animal spicits, wuking you up Irom your first nap by tieir lively whisthing ay they como up stairs two 8t o timo ; and, coming down to broaklast with sli their dieadlul vitality in prime order, they thiuk it 2 capital joko to givos loud call and deal o thundering rap on the door of some lie- aLed, wiwse roatless brain and nervous tempoer- ameut xdwit only of lizht sleep and siimmer- ing droams, Vonly, Solumon was right whon ho wroto: ** e that Llesceth his fuend with o loud voics, rising early in (he morniug, it ehult Lo counted & curse to him." A eort of ueccssary oflsct to tho everlastingly cheerful peoplo s1e tho FROCEASTINATORS, ‘They are tho tomper-iviers and the paticnce- tostors. Somebody is always waiting fur them, aud somobody 18 atways obliged to eowe to their rescuc at tho Inst moment and huln them off. Tho more timo they hiave to do a (hing in, tho more cortain it is not (0 Le dono in (ho ond. Let o man get bis reputation for procrastination ouco established. and 1t is worlh as much to him as uny number of sharcs in an Egyptian plague stock, Thers is no end ta the nug- ging and worry it brings Lim, No- body takes aay pleasure in an antici- patud fele uuless thoy first givo him & gunch about beingon time, Ileis wakodup at u'clack to make 1oady for an_excursion {hal itaris at 8, 1o allows them to keep waking him ap at intorvals till half-past 7, aud then bolts lun breakivst while omobody packs his valise, and tomobody eluo bunts up his fshing-tackle and sollects his varions belongings, ** Are you going to church to-day ¢ quotics his spouse Bunday mon, vainly scanpiug nis apparel for some re- ligious insignia botoiening lutentions of visiting tle sanctuary. Lot Lim boware of committing bimsolf afivinatively. *Idohopo you will be ready thew,” aho colily suggests as sho asses his - coffec, A litla luter, while o dowdles over ‘'me TRILUNE with slippors aud dvessing-gown, sho returns tothe attack: *I thought you said yon were Eomg to ciuich. You wou't be ready.” Thon 0 very carelully turns the paper the other side out, and deliLeiately knocks the ashes off his sigar, Llitteon minutes lator shie returns {o the wtenok with that perseveranca only gnats and woron possess: ALy doar, tho fhul Lol is ringing. Yuu won't Lo ready.” Then the pro- crastinating wan’s patiencoe is gone. ‘I bup- pose.” lie ramaikn, in a voico cucling a8 s No- vombor wing, **that it £ wers going to dio yon would keep uagging mio to be ou tima.” Thon tlint wife retiren With loars in ber cyes, and wou- dora why sha_ovor maied. Tut, jiritating as muy Lo the compavionship of tho dilatory wnd piocrsstivsting, it iy olten pledsanior than that of LUNY TEOPLE. Ono gots 80 Lired of porsutin who are forover buzzing about their work, wind make as much noise und 1068 at any intosraption an a boo who fiuds himsell ou tha wrong sids of the windaw, and who uets aa it Lo thuught thero never would Lo any moto honey mads it Lo was not Jeb out Immediately : Wowen who niso early in tho moraing and_sinonnco that thuy hnve a grent deal to do, and mant laury abuut it, and wao Luarry all day, and then recount their labors in tha evening, sull woreing, aud who aunounce thut 1Ley are guing tu bLod owly wo ns to gob o good tlark next . day. Bo they hwvy, laury, lay, ™ anc suil are never duuy, Lecauro they ais alwayy reueenly Luntlng up womothing new ta work uj 0., Very counmendable i taam, cortainly, but very fatigiing o lvviters-an whono feclings ought to lisve more consldeiation paid shew, Lhen the men wio never Lhave (1ime 1o wiv down und talie hko civilizud Loinys, but slaud, daur- Laob in Laud, for La't an boar, taygneutsiily di-cnselng o wubject which might have Losn dig- pored of nutistuc ovily 1 ted winutes of rolid ulke on a coup.e of caaird. Lhere luzks m your mind againos these weo who wro always uu the wing sn unsacy itvitation ut whici tiey them- colves novo: dream, ' ‘Ulia most denicabla of all desirablo thiugs in 4 Culaant B38.C.8t0 18 A HUNNY TEMPER, 1t is nover tho reult of cultivation or self~ control, It s tha direot gift of God—and amost duottanlo one, It is tho key tu all hewts, The wan who lins it is the cluet tavorite with all bis Indysacqnuiutances, and tho idol of tho kitchon. maids, 'The childran love hiw, for hie s & ehild among than, sincersly enjoying thelr mporte; it i3 lus chainotesiatic 10 Le alncere—for the tims boiugs A3 & huasbaud, bo 1 & model oue, to CANNOL HEIP 1AUENINE WHOL DU) AERGS SRR IR L RERERY S ion tion, Whilo his wifo hositatey and sco-saws Letweon two poies of Euuds with 10 conts' difforenco bolweon throm, lie calmly noats Limeelt on & wleol dn the trout part of tho stors, aud ronds lia paper, and aunnrod tho prolty lady-clorlks, Asn lover, ho axcoly in courting, because practico makos porfect. s guuny dbposmtion admits of no rogrots amtno forchoamgs, 1f fato han lem- lmrm‘lly sopmatod bim - trom bid ndored Agnee, ho uow fiuds time to peresive bow charming in Dorthin, Should Borthin arift uway, Clata s ulill lelt with how nturactions,—nnd no * through the wholo alphabot, 1fo tliscovors beauty ncarly evory woman, buc siilk if o woman iy not beaatiful o finds ber giftod ; butif by ovil chuneo sho Lo eitbor fuir nor taiontod “sho is sure o bo good, and thoieforo lo Lo worshipod, Tho iucenso on his lieart~ altar I8 Always burning, sud ho s nover at Ioss for su fdol. Darring tho fact that their eatholio lings u:o apt to “envoudor jeuls ousy, thore arn ho people o pleasant in duily uwsocintion ay those or suuny tomper, THY PAINFULLY-NEAT INDIVIDUALS are found in both sexes. Wo ull of us know wiem, and bhave oxpusionced thut digagrecnblo coukciousnoss ¢f sluvenliucss in ousclies with which thexo types of neainons fmpross all wish whow Loy comu in contuct, ‘Lho Nrst glaneo ub thom sugues.s combs aud Lrushes, amd soup and watot, and biings to the beholder's mind & isngreonblo rominiseoneo of ovory wissivg bit- ton, und of the ripped glove or Irayed ol of which Lo is tho unfortn- nnto woarery When you visit tho houss tuled by ono of these lomnine exquisitos, lite buoeomes ntolotable. You lay your buok dewn ou tho tablo for a momont with” your epectucies in 1t to murk tho place, You rottun iu ten or lifccon minutes sud Loth are goue. Inquiry proves that the book Las boon roiurmed tu ity iduco on the liorary-shels, wnd your speciacles huvo been rolurued to thelr caso. Nou mmtter how puuctiliously tynu puy your detoirs to the door-mat, you ara fullowed about with a carpot- biush und o dust-pan, and whou you rotire you aro expooted to spoud Lulf the night taking pil- luw-shums and countorpanes ol the Led, tol ing thom up wiong side out, und laying them vne s1du. ‘Nl:nr must montion bo omitted of our fricnds L W 3 SHORT MEMORILS, who ato slwaya usking us to do errands for thom und forgetting to band us the chwnge; or to chnngo a bill that leaves o swall dobit ou thelr sido, whichh nover recuis to their min who Writo to us that we nuy expact thom by rail on & certain duy, ‘Lbey fuil to come, aud for days followitsg wo haunt tiao depot, nnd puc off ei- gugemutty, aud procrastivato the wserving of Lable-daiution, and keep tho cluldren in s con- slant stuto of ablutiun, sud wouder aud worry as to what keops them; and then, slter wecka of suspenss, we got & nouchaluus noto that they cusuged their minds aftor thoy wroto us; liope to Lo more turtuuate next tima; and soul u kind with that wo havo onjoyed tue ewmmer. Huch are soiny ol Lhe defects in the characters of thoso with whom wo bLave tu live; but the graces and virtues demanded in the chaiaciers of thuse who Lave to liva with us are easier imag- iuod thun doseribod. Wircu-llaziL. ——— CHILDICOD'S DAYS, As gentlo as tho scft breath of tho Southern Bummer. coz, Astendor ws'the love-strains of a minstrol's melodics, s susemn w8 at uldingut tnd murmaiing of ke acus Eubiug to end fro, Are tho visious of vy chiidhood, the olden memotles Of long yeuts ago. As boauteous s tho dreameland of o poet's Lappy ™ A5 dcar, oud soft, and loving, ax & malden’s virgln e, Asfullof 'Jo{ and gladness a8 o mothes’s fond ceress s hor baby Lorn, Ao the momuries of wy young life, droams of sadden- cd teudernens, As facall and fulr o8 morn. As balmy as the ovening in tho goldon Summer-time, As purs and falr a8 sbowllakes iu an fey Nortliern ciime, As plz\;:uul 28 tho soft poals of tho lioly Christmas- o imo To thollatening ear, Arothe past scenes of my Loyhood,blossoms on tha treo of Linte, Evor loved and dear, As syeat us sweatest honoy that Hudly, fondly flows o the lips of Summer's gold Loo froni the bosom of the Toce, As Lrighit, and fair, and sunny, a8 any fower that grows By vippling rill of river; Ol that o of vantahied pleasure) ‘round my soul & cliari it throws,— T4l droaw of It for oves, Cuoaco, Jaxrs Lavavuoy, ) Mary Somerville’s Reminiscences. From Fersonal Recollechions of Mary Somervidle, In prees by Juberts Lruthei s, " Mr. Dowditch, of Buston, U. 8., who died in 1833, loft nmoug other workd a ¢ Commentary on Lan Place’s Mecanique Celesto™ in four volumen, While buxily ocoupied in b:inging out an odition of tho * Physical” Sciouces,” I reccived u lotter from _Lix soit, Mr. 1L Bowditch, roquesting me to writo an elaborato review of that work, Wisich wowld be published in Doston along with tho Diography of Lis fatle, writton Ly Mr. Young, who acnt ma a copy of it. Tbough lighly sou- siblo of the honor, I declined to undertako o formidablo a woik, feativg that I should not do Justice to the memory of so great a mun, ‘I have always beon iu communication with gome of the must distinguishied mew of the United Stafes. Wasnhington Irving trequently camo to 880 mo whon he was in London; he was asagrea- oble in convorsation as ho was distingaished ag an author. Noono could bo more amiblo than Admival Wilkes, of the United States Navy ; he liad all the frankness of a sailor, We saw a good deal of Lim whon hio wes in London, and I had a long letter from him, givingmo an account of Lis flect) kis plan of clrenmuavigation, I never lind the sood fortuno to become' porsonally ac- quainted with Capt. Maury, of the Unitod Statew Navy, author of that fascinating book, tho * Phissical Geography of tho Sea,” but I am indobted to Lim for a copy of that work aud of his valuablo charts. Mr., Dana, who in an houot to bis country, sont mo copica of his works, to which I bave had ocensiou froquontly to refer o un ucknowlodged nuthority on many branches of natwal history, I should bs un- gratoful if I did not acknowledge the kinduoss L Yoceivod frow the Silliman family, who informed me of auy scientific discovery in the United Statos, aud sout me & copiy of their journal when it contained anything wlich might iutorest mo. I was clected an honorary member of the Goo- geaphical and Stat:stical Society of New York, U. 5., on the 15th of May, 1557, and on the 15th of October, 1869, I was olected a member of the Amorican Ulnlowophical Boeioly, at hiladelpliia, for 1"omoting Useful Kuowladge, I shall over Le gratefnl for thede hoaors. Wiiilo living in Florence, many yours after, an Amorican friend mvited me to nn evening party to moot an Amorican authoress, who wished particularly to make my acquaintauco. T xccordmgly wous. thero oa the evening in question, aud my friends, aftor receiving me with their accustomed cordiulily, presonted me to tho lndy and placed mo beuido her to give mo an opportuuity of converaing with hor, I ad- drenned her soveral times and nlude vurions at- tompls to euter into conversation, but ouly re- coived vory duy answers in reply, At last sho fuirly tuviod hior buck npon me and became en- grosead with & lady who sat o her olher sida, upon which I got up and left Lor and never saw ler again, A very differont person in every respect was prosent that ovening, a8 mneh dis- tinguishied by her Ligh mental qualities and poa.ical genits ay by hiee modenty and sunplicity, Lallndo to our groatost Lritinh poctess, Mes, Browning, who at that time resided in Nloronce, oxcent when tho dolicacy of lier health obligad Lior to go to Rome, L think there iw no other instanco of husband and wife Loth poets, and bolh distinguished in their different linon, Lean imagino wo happior or niore fascinating life 1han theirg—~two kindrod spivits united in the highont nul noblest aspiradous, Unforbunatoly hior lifo was ashort one. Iu the full Lloom of her mtetleet her frail hoalth gave way, and she 4, loaving » noble record of geniug to futura 4 and o swest womory Lo thows who woro hier contomporari Tlocoutines, who, liko all Italiung, grewtly anpreciato gonlnw, whether native or foroign, haye placed a commenorative tabler ou Cuaw Guidi, Lhe houno Mrs, Brownig whulited, I was extromely delighted, luat spring, in be- ing honaied by viwit from Longledow, that mont gonind poot. It 18 not ulways the cano that tho gonorul uppoaraticact a distinguished person ankaots Lo one's idon of what ho onght to Lo in this respiect Longfellow fur surpassosozpectas tion, L was as much charmed With lus winning manner and couversiation as by his culin, wrand Teatures nud the exprusalon of hiw iutellectual cunatenance, ‘L'ho Barous Fairfax, ns I mantioned already, hied luug boon mombers of the Lupublic of tio Uuited Btutes, and Wasbingion's muther Lo- Janged to this fumily, Duting the war of Inde- pendonco, whila my fatior, thun Lieut, Fairfoax, was on bosd & nan-of-war on the American station, he received o lotter from Geneinl Washington, claiming hin s o volation, and myvitiog' Lln to poy Lim o viit, siyiog he did net (bink’ that war should’ u- torfora with tho courioelos of piivato lifa, LParty spirit ran so high st that time that my father was refil poded for being in coizespoudence with euemy, I moutioned PY TUHKY tUoim= | NOg TO U0 T, 1 UNITRA MIRCOR; HOW mUlon’ 1 ToRrdiLdd *tint nd roclouas n fettor liad beon lost, and ha mont indly, on golng liome, sent mo an autograh Ietter of Gon, Washington, ¥ROM TUE REV. JOSELIt TUGKERIAN TO MRS, 0M- ERVILLE. “Tostox, Aug. 23, 18), )My Dean MapAxr: Ihavo vory prent pleas- uro {u gonding to you sn sutoxaph_lotter of your and our glotlous Washington, I obtalned 1t from Mr, 8parks, who had the gratifieation of sechur you whon Lo was in Ingland, and who told mo, whon I appliad to him for it, that there w10 ono in the world to whom he would ba vo Flwl to givait, It Is bovond comvavison tha heut and almost tho ou‘{ romaialng ona at Lis disposul among the Washington panors. [ am again in my family, aod fu the told of my minin tiv, Dut very dear Lo mo ara my nasociations with scones aud frionds in Inglund, and most glad shonld I be to ronew thab intorcourse with yourself and with the futellect and virtue uroand You, to which Thave heon Indebled for great happiness, aud which T hopo has dono something to yualify me for a moro clficiant kervico, W(fi you please to prosent my very sincoro respects to your husbond, and-to racail me to Lho Ilillil re- mombrance of your childrou, With tho bighest reapect and regard, ailow mo to eall mysoll your Iviond, Josgri TUcKERMAN," STREET-CAR, MORALITY. Mespectable Pousengers Who Novor Bay nnd Qonductors Who Avo Never vanght. L'rom the New York Tribune, It is an admitted fach that, [n w consldorable proportion of cases, if the conductor noglects Lo ank for tho fare the passengor fuils to remind Dim. ‘There aro few of us who havo not seen a man whose appoarance would presupposs a woll-lined pocketbook and a balauce in bark, sitting for & wlilo with a five-cent ploco betwoen Iis chumb aond finger, aud after tho conductor los passad by quiotly slipping tha cola back iuto his vest pocket. 'Lhere iy, howover, a greator truat on tho part of the car companies’ fu tho averago honosty of tho passengor than in that of the eonductor. Tho *patouc-oox" syi~ tem, moro in vouuo in othor citios than our own, depands upon this faith. Yot wo oro informod that ovou this suuw {ndicates n progressive de- cliuo of morality. Tho patrons of & new routo ay as they entor with great promptitude and houesty ; but it is the conviction of tho road- ownera that nftor a year or Lwo they are earryinyg a cousiderable numbor of regular passongers wiho soldom or never pay thor fures, Dut the dolorioration of mornls in the caso of conductors, il ropore u‘)enku teuth, 1s somuthing rightful to contomplate. AL il oveuts, sil nystoms of management at preeont aro based upon the supposition that conductors are ofs- honest, From time o time a change iu the method or tho introductlou of ome contrivanca for checking the rcceints, indicates tho ox- tont of provious domoralization, 'he remark- able circumstance Is that sooner or later all chocking conirivances are more or less evaded, and tuo old pilfering is rosumed, T'ho index that used to bo placod in cars to show tho number of fares proved valacless ou long routes, Lecauxe the conductora soon discovered that vagsengers would not trouble thomselves about its record. 'ho patent box was introduced on a L-ookiyn road, aud suddouly raised roceipts by 40 por cont 3 but gradually thoy foil away, aud Ia "a fow momhs thoy ‘wers at their proviows etandard. ~ We all admit that there is & high moral tono about the atmos- phiere of Boston that exciles our hopeless ouvy. Yet from that bliseful locality thore cams some time ago a tale of ingeuioud horse-car immoral- ity which would raise a blusk on tuo indofinito cacelt of a New York conductor. A company thara had introduced the punch-gong system, Each conductor, as ho took a fare, wus obligeil to squeozo o punch which marked its record on o slip of vyapor, and simultancously rang o small gong attached to the punch, The passengor was to noto the ring of the gong, For o while the receipts wero largely uwelled, Thion thoy doclined. = At length thoy roached o lower point than over boelure. De- tectives rodo ur aud down in the ears, hstened faithfully for the note of the goug with cach faro, hieard it_cvery time, and yob tho recoipts wero whort. Moutlia clapsed, and tho proprio- tars woro at their wits' ond, At leugth the wick way discovored, An ingeniony artisan had fur- nished almost overy conductor an tho rond with & small duplicate gong, which, carried concealed §u tho band, did tho ninging without the reeord- ng. s SO, S A Portugucse Cestas It was a “ festa,”—n holiuay—and tho poasan- try waro oll in their holiday aresses ; the women vory gayly altiiod, with embrodsrod muslin koreliofs on thoir heads, over which is syorn the owvy, blnck, Spanish-luoising hat, with oroas meuty of flogy silic mado to curl aud to look like a black-ostricn featuer. Tho costumo of tiae woumen varios slightly in almost overy prrish of tho Kiogdom; but it gonorally cousists of an amplo seryo petticost, desconding to tho anklo, aud gathered round tha waist into innumerable plmits, a_ close-fitting _bodico (cithor black or Kayly colored) over a linou shirt showing white on tue sbouldors and tho arms, with a bright- colorad Lercliof, commonly xad or orange or Llua, croszed over the breast, All this malos a picturesque costume which well snits the comely, buxom, black-haired peasant women of the Miubo Province, with theie rich olive complez- ious aud fine oyes. Tho women Lavo relained thewr national dress, aud, in the remoter parts. the mon olso ; but in many places the laiter uro less covservalivo and wear wide-awake hals, trousory, and short jackuts in lieu of the old wuational costume, "I'lie womon use their peculiar pessant jewelry, of auciont Moorush design, ou feast days on Monyy necklaces of complicated patteru s pond” hugo, beurt-shaped lockels on their oroasty; in thoir ours are heavy pendant car- 1ings. Ouo woman will often wear threc or four such aockluces ot yold, of & standard ot not loss thau twensy carats, aud 1 am nssured that many of the poasaut wonieu carry about them not less than twouty or thiity pouuds’ worth of gold or- naments, Coming from Galicla, whore tho natives are so oxcoodingly boorush, L was much slruck by the lindly, clioerful mavners of the pooplo. Iu every Littlo humlot by the roadside—and the fre- guency of such bawmlots aud tho dousity of tho population are marvelous—in overy villago 1 pansod to-day thore was o gathering of tho in- linbitants; tue men busy with a gamo at bowls, tho youtus aud girls dancing, with a erowd of lockurs-on; tho twanging of 4 wmingling Plonsautly with the wouud of laughter and coeer- Tul voiees, Up among the mountaing, somo kind of “ Lolero™ i3 dancod, that is, & *jus do doux” botween a walo snd towalo dancer; bukb iu this part of o couuntry 1 hava ecen only one Lind of dance, certainly a vory singular oue, Iuch porson aances by himself or Lowelf, to a slow whu monvtonous jig tuue, folluwing the porson in fronc in a circle. ~ Who wusis often nccom- panics—in the most htoral sense—the duncers ; it 1 gonorally & fiddle, and un anusing wight it i to sce tho man who playy it fiddinyg gravely away os Lo cuts tha queer littlo steps of tlio dance, Thors aro ususily one or two guitar- playcrs among (uo speccatory, who join tho tiddle aud mato up an orcucslya, Lhese monotonous dances will iast for hours, the titeu dancors fail- ing oat aud frouls oncs taking thoir placos, Often, ou a boliday oveuiny, the villasers as- somble o lieton to’extempurary singing; onc lad will cliallonge anotlicr lul or maiden to sing againut it in witernato rhymed vorso; orachuins pron will saunter up wita his guitar from a veigh- boring village, and throw down the gauutlet (0 o wholw bamtat, ‘Ths is catled ringing av desajflo, singing to n chalionge. 'Thero i, of coarao, s in Latan extemporaiy recitations, sume trust Lo tho porformor’s momoary, and when his ivention iu au fault, Lio way often interpolate some stuck- rhyme; butas the l'ortuguese improvisor Lus lo il o rliyma to bis opponunt’s verse, there must Lo far less dependeuce on memory and more quicknesa of tuncy than i Ltuly, Uie rule iy, as Lur o 1 can understand, that tho siuger who be- giuin goos on plying the otber witli verxos, to which Lho s d hias to find rhymed answors ; whets ho Lionitites or stopm, tho Lout s coucind: od, the parts roveined, wnd tho improviention ra- columenges, 1t munt not be supposed that thin feat is quite 60 dutiieutt ay it might uppear. The vorses wnio Lt sung, holf reeited, In & voculr, tlow, dinwling tune, and plenty of timo is giveu to find a ruywme in s languago likio the Yoituguese, which Is'vory full of them. Blorcover, piaclico makcen porfect, und this altorna’o varse-iinging is to bo Lowd all day smoug tho telds and hill-sdes of i Minlo, 'Tho shophord lud, Imu‘;luyz hin fluck on the hill, wili soronado hls frioads naross tlio valioy, perhapy a quarvier of & wilo nway, A givl cuting grasy will shout ous her remavks to hier lover, two floldy trom hor, and thero uwo with gu ou singing to esch other tho live-lung duy, iiko cicades i Lho sunkhine, 1 havo heard a man, when po companion wus at hand, actually whintlo cach “sevond vorso in a bigher key, to ropreaent, L presume, tho swoet stiains of ¥onie absent mistross. Llus ullornnto song s nob common excopt in tho Nurthern Pravines of the Aliulio; Lho most pupatlous, tho mosl fortilo, aud tha most bonuti 1ul province of tho Kingdom, In tho monntsin. ot district of Dolra, the singing is of quita s diffovent character; and in the puverty-siricken proviuces of the south, thera s noithor finging nor causo for sugiog—2%s Now Quaricrly Aagazing, AYHON, TRKINE HUC JONE Dotwesn | oty wia tie reforangTIOM, Ly suy Jutd | GIUUT s b Eho Domestic-Servant Quostion, 3 From the Golden Ape, No ono of the many quostions’ rolating to the domzntla economy of American housoholls in more parploxing than that of the sorvauls,—sud it In u@ inovitablo na it ls ombarrasslng, Lvery housckooper knows that the ponce and comlort of her family is nlmost entizoly dopnn- dent on the coudition of hor kitcheny it {lo lower atratum of the domeatic world Is in n etato of convulsion and enrikquake, this uplicaval affeets tho wholo houscbold, and throws it into miserablo contukion, But througliout tie country, and particularly i tho family disteicts of Now Laglaud, tho quostion has not boou how bost to Boaure calm und quiot in thoe kitchou ; a1t bins boon rather how to socuro any notlon thore atall. 1t fu al- maost impossiblo to oblain any domestio sorvico in thoye neighborhoods, and many n wifo of o well-to-do farmer or thriving morchant in that aootlon §u broken down prematurely in hoalth and apirits from sheer hard work ; work from which lior husband would gladly bave rolioved hor, lad it Leen possiblo to hirc any one to holp her in her weary and unrazuring housohold tasl, But noithor love nor monoy will induce say women-servante Lo ahavo ber labors, Tho Ivish are gregarious, and throng to the citios, whoro thoy can indulge thelr soclal ju- utinets by froquont visitings of thelr frionds avd their religlous forvors by froquont church- goings. Nogroos havo beon tried, sinco thawar, but found wauling, and tho Importation of Biwedoy, which wus ab ouo timo quite exton- sively attompted 1n Now Eugland by a com- pany, has not boen 8o auccessful in its resulty sy to Lo rogarded with auy grent favor. As to American” givlr, that class of domesties who used to be known ay ** helps,” & namo which was appropriate, in spite ‘of the fun which our Btish counine mada of us for sponking of thom in this un-European fasbion,—tiey have parsiod out of oxistenco, aud tho appellation lLiny died out with tnom, In tho daye of our great-grandmothers, “* ielps ” wero numerous, and ovon in our grand- mothery’ (imo thoy were still froquent iv Ameri- can homes. Thoy were nut servants, in the tochnical tonso of that wotd ; thoy wero goneral- Iy tho suporabundant daughter of a neiguboriug family, who, not being ucoded m thelr own hoes, camo at tha request of a neighbor, who had 10 gisly, to aid the overburdonad wifu in bor domestie duticy. ‘L'ogzesiior the mistress of this bouso and her noighborly assintunt baked, washed, swept, or uewed ; thog ato as tho same Lablo, went to the samo chiureh, visitod cie same parcies, and wore realy on a sozial equality ; these Lolps often murriod tho sous of tho familios whoro thoy wont to assist iu Lhe housowork, and if thoy re- matued wiuzle thoy froquontly lived till old 30 in thees homes,in all whoso intercats thoy shared a8 completely as if they hud boen roally, and uot merely adupted, mowmbors of tho family, Lut 1 wheso duys, tao Now Lngland gitls who hLave their own way to make in tito world do not outer dowmentic servico ; they go to factories, or taceh schiool, or erowd Lo theé ci ics to servo as shop guls, or to loaru drossmaling or millinory. "Whoy prefer anything to houss vori. In pite of the picturos which Mrs, Whitnoy, Miss Aleott, aud Dre. Dinz Lave rocently given in thoir boois of bright young Now E’:zglnud rltls who, whilo porfaccly compoiont to oulertaia » lady’s guekts, ure yot cortont to eorvo as wait resses 1 thodo same ladies’ dinfng-rooms and Kitchens, aud whilo X would gladly buliovo that theso pleasant portraits wero true, I must reluc- tantly confoss that I foar, if thoy aro drawn from the lifo, such instances are fow and far botwoen. They aro the very idaalof band-inaideus ; they have sonse enougli to be companionable, qui noss nud tact onough never to intrudo, seLl-re wpees enough Lo keop their plage, and nover fool hunuliated by its fow dogrosa inforiority in the social scalo, warm houria enough to approcinto their mistross’ kinduoss, and to return for it a ronuine affection and dovotion to her intorests ; in fact, ono such sorvant sn o housobold would bottor desorvo DMr, Mlartin Farquaar Pappor's doscription, “*n woll-spring of bappiness,” than tho bato to whom le originally appliad it. Mra. Whituoy, Miss Alcott, and drs, Diaz rop- rasout Now Lngland o3 tho bobital of iy wost desirablo class ol sorvants ; aud yet, of lato, the Baton papers bave been full of 'lottors from mistresses who complain of their sorvants in very much tho same waythat mistressos do to other parts of our country; and tiuo servauts bavo rotorted in lottors, avidently gonuino, with a8 bittor compluints of thoir mistresses, Lhis correshondence soows to indicate that the chrovic antagonism which is too apt to bo the rolntion Lotweon mistross and servant, ox- ists ovon in the moridian of Now England. Everybody recoguizes tho miserablo rosults, as far a8 domestio peaco is conceraed, of this hostile attitude of mistross and sorvant, but how to canuga this stato of things id tho problem, Whon tho mistress is resolved to got ag much worl as she possibly ean out of her kervane, and tho sorvant iy resolved to do just aslittle as sho possibly can and yob Leep her placo, naturally tlicre must bo fiiction, and Lhiy is tuo apt to bo the stats of aifu’ts botween patlor and Litenon, Of course, ir theto is to bo any reform in do- mestic matlers it must bogin "with tho better educated and larger-minded part of tha house- Liold,—the mistreston. Our Americsa guls gonorally marry young and in uttor ignorance of all housekeepiny datios, Wo send them to school, where ‘thoy are taxed quiie as much ns is desirablo with siudies whicl they morely recite in school hours. Their teach- orarequire thum to propare thelr lossons ot lome, out of school-tima; 1n addition to this, thoy have thoir music-lesions and practico out ot school, also, and dancing-sehool once or twice n weeic as well, 1t can readily be soon that, if thoy get any leisure ufler all thdse oceupations, out-or-door exicivo is infinitely nccessary for their heallh, and no mothor would deam of add- ing to all thaso dutios lessons in cooking in the Kitehen, or in any other of {lie many difforont branches of housckeeping lore, whicl are neces- uary to an American misiross of n family. lor danghtors overtaxed alran] kunowa that, if she is & s2nsible woman ; but yat, knowing it, sho is almost powerless to pre- vout it, 80 rigorous and ntlexible aro the de- mands of scnool discipline, and so sensitive aud ambitious ara hor daughtors. in theiv dosiro to keop up with their classes aud in favor with their toachois, Possibly sho mouns to teach her glils housekooping when they leave sohool, Lut very soon after that ocours they aro on- gaged and too much absorbed in tho art of love to oed hov advico to attond to tho prossio de- tails of tho mennge. Thoy marry afcor a briof courtalii, and ausumo tho duties ol housckoep- ing in ucter ignoruuce of its reyuirements. 1f sorvauls wero woll trained in_Amcrics, this would not bo #0 groat a bLlundor; Lut well- trained servants ave Lhe excoptiou, and not the rule, as the novice soou learns to hor dismay, An American Indy ouglt to bo o good vool, laundross, Lousemaid, and dining-room sorvaut, in ordor to teach the ruw Ivish . wesrvauts who iu- vade fier homo Lo becamp efliciont sorvants, 1r sae undossands all theso dopartments of housakeeping, and has patience aud good uature, she cun suon drill the Lrish domosiics so s to wako thom c.\imbla in thuic dinorent depurt- mouls, for the lesh, as arule, are quick to lean aud eugzer to improve, it they fiud # wistross who in kindly aud veasonable, But waen tho mitstress 1 herself ignorant, ns well as ber servauty, what wouder that chaus reizns, A succession of puor aud wastoful domes- tict pust like plantasmagorin ncvoss Lho scune, leaviug, lhowover, very econvinciug proofs of their roality iu the wreck of e, kitchen meumlu, and othor haureliold gouds bLohind oul. A Low experiences of this sort generally sot: Lriyht Amaricau matzon ab the tusk of Jearui the oionco of houssieoping, ud wuny n your girl who was ag uttorly iznorant, waon Lo mar- ried, of tho nuturs of domestie duties uy if sho nevor lived in o hume, puts hersell at work to loari thom, ana in u fow yours becomos an ad- mirable hotsekorper, ** Auy one with colnmon senso and e cookery- ook can lean to be a goud couk,” e ol wnel inexpeticucod beginner after hor trunsfor- mation futo an accomphished housewife, Lonutbiy the blunders and mistakos of theso tyros iy toach thom lYntlmwo aud toloranco with thoir iuexporiencod Ivish puplld ; but it is 0 hard disciplino 1or any one to puss through, uo mattor what sdvantago it way eavry with it. It i u fashion to ey thut tho frivh are un- gratoful, and that it 1w o wastoof time aud troubte to train them ; but it Lins beon my good fortune to seo moie giatitudo for kind.y scts, and more dovotiou for Lindly services in wick- noss or 1 trouble exhibitod by Irish eocvants than by any other clasy,” 'Lhey aro an affeotion~ alo ruco, utid the elannish spivit which helds them #0 closoly to thair own kin, nttachos thom ofton as etrongly to fam whora thay liave niet wilh thoughtlul counuorativn, cave n sickuess, or sympathy in distress, ‘Ll iifo of & dumentio 1 n dull ono at the best, and whon, u8 in muny houses, thoy uro nevor altowod to receive a visitor, uorto go out, ox- cops ono alternoon in tho week, and are nover u‘mhou to by lhelr mustross excopt whou sho glves thom an order or a roproof, it {8 not sirange that Lright girls who can get any ather swploymont should preler it, eveu if they have cnt Bivo lern monng, : 3 Bome poople wonder that women should clamor for now avenues of omploymont, when there, is alwayn ndemand greater” than the mupply for hounohold servico ; possibly the dullnesn of tho 1ifo of n sorvant in a family, aud the woarinoss of the rontine may acconnt for thoe goneral dis- like of women to antor this flold of Inbor, More fulelliganco on the part of tho mistrens, mora conkldoration toward kor sorvant, o clearor romombratco (hat thix rervant is o human Loing and not & machine, and a cunmajuont apprazin- tlon of lier neads of educatlon, lelsnva and hn- man cotnpanionship, wonld go far toward chang- iug anr kitehons frotn pinces of torment to Lol nuatress and mald, ay thoy too uften are now, to a comfortabla aned poncoful part of the home. Dut no such change can take place {ill our irly are edneated difforontly—Lill they aro fittal for their dutios as houstkeopern, wivos, and mothers, with the snmo cace that we fit our boys for their future businosa in lifs, Our boys go through a novitiate befora entor- ing upon n metcantile, industrial, agricultural, or profosrionul carcor, and, while I wonld de- wand for pirls a8 wide o choice of occulmunn, and a3 ampla opporiunitios for preparation for theo hife-work choson, surely it {s not too much to el that, it o woman prefois wifehood to nny other position in life, shio shonld ut loast uhow that slio konors that post anfliciently to propare for Its rosponsibilitios and duties. No woman should be so shut out from oppor- tunitios to earn hor living that sho s forced to marry for n malutonante; but, on the othor hnnd, 1o woman should marry unbil sl hag be- come mintross of tiao rudimontal duties which marrisre will imposa upon her, Proparation for theka dulies, howaevar, in- volves 80 groat a rovolution in the present sys- tein of education, both at school and at honie, that it is nlmost Liopcless to expect nuy chaugo in cithor of theso diroctionu, 1t in Indeed considored rank heresy to eriticiso our presout school system ; and paronts aro_ex- pectod to go on uncomplainingly teaching their cluldren thelr lossons at home, wnd sending thom to tercliors who wetoly listen to tho recitations, whoso oxcolloneo is tho result of the paraute’ hard worl, whila tho misnamed teachers nro paid high pricen for the duty whick thoy have not porformed—of instructiug tha children, But public attention is beginniug to bo turnod toward this mauifost injustico—all reforms move slowly unier tio impatus of peolost, but they do movae ailer all. Lavna Cuntia Burnino, Nzw Yonz, Nov. 24, 1873, Rttt THE CHALLENGE. Thero {a a greater army, That bescts us round with strito, A xtarving, munborless army, Atall tho gatos of lifo The l‘fl\'cn}‘-nlflcllbn miltiona Wiho challengo our wino aud bread, And tmreuel us all an trtors, oth the living and the doad, And whenever I sit at tho banquet, Where tho faast und song ura Ligh, Anid thie misth and the musta T con hoar that fearful ery, And hollow and inggard facea Look into tho ligatad bail, Aud warted Jimda o extaded o catel the crumba that fall, For within fhoro is it and plonty, And odars il the wir: But without there fs cold and darknoss, And hunger and despair. And thers in the camp of famine, Tu wind, sud cold, and rafa, Chiriat, thegreat Lord of tho army, Lies'dexd pon tho plain, —Lotigfeliuu's Lust Jogmia, —_— A Little Btymologys As Lo poplin, it was invonted in a Papal terri- torv, though by a Huguonot, and houes called papaline, which necount we may as well credit, vociug tint no other s at hand. Bilit may bo a Grool, a Porsian, an’Avalic, o Tartar, or i Chi- ueao appellation, sinco the loxicographers and othor oruditionists might Do quoted ia favor of cach langnago; but concorning ebawl thers {8 only o singlo doubt botween o translation from a Per- sio word aud tho town of Bhawl, in Baluchiatan, whence it may possibly bavo been devivaed, aud which was formorly famous for the mauu- facture. 'I'his must uot bo confounded with the celobrated shawl of Loybourno, A° Maud is a Scoteh plaid, chiristoued after a Scottish Queon, daughter of Maleolw, and wife of Ilenry I Jeri may bs from the Anglo-Sazon eyrlellion—hero wo fall back upon the derivative doctor again—diminutive of cyrtel, o cont—n presumption, at any rate, more rational than that whiol traces it to the vulgsrism Little Jer- 1y, which ia also claimed for jacket. Dut now wo reach o forandable wystery. \Vhouce camo tho namo ctaval? Was it fust worn by a Croat cavalier? Dacauso hat is slnost tho solo suggostion of the learned. Con- cerning coliars, thore usod to be o Bort worn in Gormany which woro nick-named Vater-morderu, or father-muvd.rers, from tho legend of a student who returned from the university with such o B pair ‘that, on ombracing his porent, thoy cut his throat, hero are mauy teatimonios to sweldes—tight-lacing, to wit—causod by vanity in diess; but wo think this is tho only caso of nssassination on record. In_the gencral glosuary, cardinals, capuchius, and mauntillas tell theirown story, though tho old-fasbioned Berthas do not, and the ronowned chapeau-de-paille, wiich so larmonized with the beauty of tho Churchills of tho las: contury, would Lo equally oxplicit had'it boen a straw- Lat nt all, ‘Lhere avo many varietics of fabiics Losidos thoso already mentioned, which indi- cato thelr own birthplaco, as the mohair Inown as Angola or Augura wool, from the fu)l- flooced goata that feed fur in tho dopths of Asia Minor; the mixturo of tho hair aud silk called, in_cotnmorco, Bongal; tho long-cloths, la- beled Madapollams; tho favorita Morino ; the soft’ weavings of Taramatts, in New Bouth Wales ; tho yollow cotfons of Nenkin, corruptod into_nankoon; aud tho tapostrics of Bargama. Loss familiar, however, aro tho silkis namod Ardoesines, aftor the d.strict pro- ducing thom in Persia; the lamb's wool hatu— now disused—wlich wore onco iden with the Norman town of Caudebee; tho tigured inon mado and designatod alter Dorngch, in Stot- lund ; the thick-napred woolons callud aftor DufTel, in Ilauders ; tho cords of Gronappes, in tho samo torvitory. When you hear of 1 cam- bric ruff you will naturally think of Cambray, in Fronoly Flandors, Blold o glugham umbrolla, aud Guingeanip, in Franeo, ricos ut onco to the mind's cye ; and £o on with {ho coarss stulls culled Osunburgs (lianoverian mauufaolure); with thoir opposite, the dolicate opon_lsco-word tulle, waich formsa fleecy foundation for so many bonnols, and dresses 8o many * bioathing rosos™ of the ball-room fa ralnont light as air. Ouneo more, turning from citics and towus to porsons and tho signatmics theyhava left bohind them in the mercers', drapors’.” or upholsterers’ shops, or among tho chvonicles of ulden fashe ions, and we hovo tho mallant Duc do Roquolsire making ‘s monument to Limself in tho cloak ho jutrcduced ; Baptiste inventing the batisto baudkeichiets, popular privot- vally on the Coutinout—-batisto dresses Lemg fushionable in England now—aud (hat color knawn ag Isabel, tio traditional origin of which, way be supposed, ovorybuly is awaio_of. Oué postical perwonage hus Leen ciedited with tho Jnme of a garmot:t, & inanicl of pale-gray cloth, trimmed with blaoX velvat, callod & Lalln Tiooxh, prosumably becauso it bears not tho romotest yesemblance to anyihing which an Oriental Priucoss ever wore or could wear, Leaving this Tussaud group, muslin perplexas all inquiry ; whether tho woid is to bo account- od for by tha Fronch mousso, or moss, becauso of its woflness ; whethor 1his theory would bo miore tenablo if to mousso veore added lin or flax 3 whothior the fabrio was first wrought' at Maosnl, fn Asfatic 'Lurkey 7 Masuhpatani may bo left ont of tho questiod. Drofessors of dor- ivation carry us back to_ the Greeian ngos to ox- plain how the torm dimity arceo, declaring, on the authority of o wholo gardoutul of roots, that it eisuifies o fabiio woven from doubly threads ; Lut less learued pundits attribute it to (he Igyptian Dawieita, It I3 miveod (hat calico muut Lo idontitiod with Calieut, on the Malabar coast; gmumbroon with tho Lersian Gombroon, und, though less unani- monsly, marsella with Blaraciltes ; but there is no such cortajuty about tho connection Le- tweou guuzo and tho Scriptural Gnza; or kefsoy with either Jorsoy or Caxhimore, though tho lat- jtudo of choico "pormitted i corcainly o wido ouo. Jaconct was originally manufaciured by s man of thal nama, who gave it its title in (he maikot; #0, in all likolihocd, of jean; but how did o lady's riding-habit over come to bo enlied a Josoph 7 ‘Wartans owa thawr desiguation, as wa pleao, to tho Lintin, the Fronch, ur the Gache, 15 inut Laving (1o word * tarating™ acrss, which seeus near onongh without guing Lack to T'yro. Tustian, howovor? Ono kchool afilrms {L in Tatin, anochor that it is Avobic, poluting tif- wmphintly o tho Bgyptian town Featat, whora it In unld to hiave orygiinally vomo from tho luom of n dusky weavar uammeless in history, Or eaurno, mauy of tloso dorivatlons are remotc and fantaetic, and hang on the frailest thronds of awchority § Leing wholly unlikio, in thess ro- wpocts, otliors so obviows” an Arrss, from ihe quulnt okl Franco-Flomiah clty: Gobelivs aud Lulssore, wovon from tho barlof & tree 1o a dls- trict of tho Dongal Prosidency; but wo hosi- tato (o deduge Laiza from tho yulued Ilalan town of Dalw,~—All the Xear Round, 8 2 A Fow Suggestions to tho Chilcago Aimes. ¥ Fram the St Lowia Demorrat, The recout efforts of the personal jonrnallsts ara chinracterizod by an effusivo flatuloncs, orn fntnlout cxolusivoncss, astho Olicago Zimes would say, A rpinted divcunsion botween the Bungtown Banner and tho TWeelly Washiubis reproduced in our columns this motning, as another * awful examplo " of porsonsl journalism, Trom the Bungtown lanner, Nor, 29, Trom tho nuinite ojaculations of the inebrinted idiot who ymrlficn over the dirly destinies of tho Weekly Wushtub, we gather that his bila ling Loon atarted by the blng-niass romarks which we unw fit to make npon lis esurko in connection with the quoztion of locating tho town-pump. Tho hvbrid reptilo, whom 1t woro Lnss flattory to call & puppy, dives into the recorses of the sowor which rerves him In nlaco of on intollect, and fishes up seraps of garbago and bucketaful of filth, with which ho vainly attompta_to bodaub tho immaculalo porson of tha editor of tha Danner, Wo will {nform this Infamoun oxcroncence, this ha! f-baked lump of clay whom wo caunot dignify with tho titls of mul-lioap, that I lnsano efforle only recoll upan lis own beeotted nature ; thac the fiith with which ho attempts to bespatior us only adds a deeper dyo to tho indecency of his owit char~ acter. 1Iis mnfledyod slandors ara quanched fn tho bud, and fall stillbon upon the eacth, leay- ing ua unhatmod by their asinina vonom. Whon Iio chargeit that tho fomaio mombers of our family hava shown a profarance for the Theek Iy Washtub as buatic-papor, in place of the highs tonod Bungtown Zanner, ho utiers an iosidious mainuation, whoso malignant idiocy s only oqualed by its unparalloled exacerbalion. o ropel tho baso accunation as false in evory ag- pect, and dars tho villain totho proof. That tho Danner oconpies an cxalted r:osition as bustle- material nmong {he vory fivat familion of Lung- town, iu a fact which (o foul-mouthed slanderor of tho Washiub is inerpabla of appreciativg, #imply bucauso ho {3 not ndmitted to tho civeloy in which thoso famitics shine resplondent. ‘Chis ignominious idlot violates tho sanctity of El‘lvulu lifo by ssserling that wo attendod tho auquet in honor of the insuguration of the town pump, fo & pairof pantuloons which wo borrowed from ko buteher who lives across the way from our oftice, We rotalinto by the unqualified asscv~ oralion that the credit of the garbage box of the Washiub is po low in this commuuity that ho could not borrow a pair of superannuated abingn from the kickod-out shoes of a red- headed boy. If the pantaloons of 1lana Krauth happen to fit us, and lo lss sullicient con- {idonco in our integrily to belleve that wo will adorn and yeturn ihem, that is o mat- ter with which the general public hay no concoru. it is suflicient to gay that we did not nttoud tho banquot in pautaloona tbat sore patehod nt tho Lnoo oud opon to the winds of Ileaven in tho seat. But wo nro not, forlunately for our repu- tation, responsille for the porsonal appoasco of tho glovenly slnuderer of tha Washiub. Tho erawling and contomptible cur, whom it would be aword of supererogation Lo denominato a dog, bas also insinusted” that we have boen '4n tho lablt of {apping 5 noigh- boring. ash-lopper, surreplitiously and through the fenco, fu order to procute Iya wmith which to cleanse our types, ‘Iiafs infamous invention ia ouly oxcoedad in vileness Ly tho low-flung and detestable disposition of tha cross-ayed calunmialor who promulgates it, and wo foavo bim to tho stings of seorn which burn with firo unquenchable, and that fadoth not away; which will yet 2utin every hone: ind a whip To laeh tho rescal nuked (brough the land, Ilaving thusdisposed of these mily slandors, we cau aiford foalluw tieir cowerdly perpetrator to o unmolentcd ou his way to tiso Peniteatiary ; bt | Wa binve a wotd or two more to suy bofors wo can consign i totliessclusion of hiycoss-pool. What- ovor our ohortcomings may have beon in rospect to our couvivial qualities or in the clothes line, Wo waro nover guilty of tho transcendent mncan- neas ot driviug off our nelghbor'’s speckled cow, and then doluging tho connly with banubills, witl our imprint sttaciied, offering a roward for the thief, “in order {o convey tho fulso im- pression_that wo bad n big run of job- work, Whatover may have been our strungles to build up a paying patrouage for the Zanner, we haso mover desconded £0 low as {u alluro subscriptions from charitable poople on the protenso of & lame logr, which wo claimad bad Loen wounded in the Blackhawk War, but which was roally iujuied by falling over a fence whoa wo wero surprised in tione: of stealing wood from onr noighbor's pilo. lowavar econ- omical and laborious onr fumily may bo, we wore never caught begging cold victuals avound town, and manutacturing thom into hash for our half- starvod appronticos, when the im»oition could readily be dotecied by tlo color of the hairm, whicl’ _could only lLave sprung from the red-braded cook at ths ealoon on the comer. Wo do not charga that the saphoaded slangwhanger of tho TWashiub has been guilty of thoso aud othor detestabls, not to sny dinbolical, practices ; but the public havo soen his handbilis, they bavo lioard of Lis grme log, and tho lLaics of Lis hash are still twined around tho teoth of Lis apprentices, In conclusion, wo Lopa that we may be par- doned by our high-tonod voadors if wa ombalm that dotble-dissilled cssenas of dead dog, tho oditor of the Washtud, in immortal vorse, as follows : Itis type {a poor, Its ak is palo, And ho gets drink on bottied alo, From the Weekly Washtub, Nov, 25, Tho pusillsnimous palecat wito diffuses hi of- fensive odar through the columus of the Dung- town Basner comes st us with a column of dirty drivel, which cimply proves that his slop-bucict has again run over into his editorial page. Al- though itis an et of condescension on our part to nolico this suporannuated samplor of stalo swill, we will procoad to pick him up with a pair of cnet-ofl tongs, and parado lim for tho in- spection of the public, 1 tho freckle-faced fool had scnss cnough to scrape soum from & pot of pips’ feet, Lio would not be 8o ready to acknowledge that not ovon tho panta- loons which Lo boirowed from Xrauth, tho butehier, hnd beon sufiiciont to prevent our keon blade from poncrating hin scaly catiola, Yor oursolf, we can baldly sny, Lot tho galled jado squincli, our wilhors are nustrung! Wo ura proud to doclare that our vflice s mena conscia recti, and our women aund childraa are in the samo fix. The bat-ered baboon who crawls up tho de- cayed flngstalf of tho Banner, aud in so doing ignomiaiously exposes bimsolf, dces not prolend Lo~ deny any of ftas chargos which ws so clearly proved against lim in our lnat fssne. ~Lvon tho slop-kettlo which lio eulla bis head is not braes-plated thick onough for such unparalieled impudence, 1fe s obliged to admit tho buutlo insinuation, ho glo- riea iu tne possession of Krautl's pantaloous, aud the Iyo hie stolo_from Lis usightior's hopper i not strong enough to boar up o denial of the fact that ho stolo 1t, In placo of auswering onr chaiges, the bloated old bumtmor trumps ,up some two-cent stories, which wounld not pass current a8 pay for docayed cabbago-stalks, and attemnts Lo palm thom off upon tite connnunity a8 attacks upon our honor. Unablo to nct Lho part of & mav,eveninsonmall & way anto imlitale whining of a whipped clild, this pitifal puppy sits up ou his hind logs. aud howls delefully nt tho moon of our job-ofiice, s {ries to nmnash upon our head tno rotton opgs of his wrath, by insinuating Luscless slandors concerning ourgub- seription-list, ‘L'hin sott of stuft is what tho drivoling durico of tho Zanner considors stroug wiling. 16 48 strong, with the strength tbat 18 peenliar to the polecat. Tho swell-headed and slobbering simpleton Incics tho courago to fudorse his own ealumnioun insinnations, or to prevent tham in the shiare of chnrges thut can be mot and repolled, but hopes to thrust his slimy tonguo into tho bloesom of our intoxrily, and to Llist izu frosh and feagrant leaves, veforo the fusidioua tustrument csn bo branded by the mailed hand of truth and justice. His calumnics avo as hurmloss as 3 cat withoat clawy, and wo only mention thom {n arder that we may hold up ta' tho disgust of an outraged community this abommable buzzard, who sevts to gratify (e cravings of his appetite for eavs tloi, Ly preying upon tho vituls of suporior bo- g, who are ny far alovo Lis 1each as tho Lieayens ave above the earth, Although this unbearable nuisaneca bas so far outraged all the laws of. truth and deconey ns to bo doserving of no morey from us, we will do liui tho favor {0 suggest, against th nost tno hio _comes bomo drunk ak mght, that Bmith's #will-bairel hay beon removed (o the corner of tho diteh at which he usually tumbles in, and that au: ovordoso of sour swill ay Lecomo sick- cning, ovan to so foul o feeder ay himeelf, In conclusion, wo will bottlo up this fusignifi- eant Juncer by siufling him ato u vial of "im- wortul vorse,” ny follows Mis. li‘lvu 1 worn, hls fuk {s mean, Aud ho gats drunk ou vilu banziue, Mouby Tendery From the IWuslinuton Star, Col. Johu 8, Mosby called uPcm Drexldont Gianc to-day and offorod his sorvices i cune of war with Spnin, 1o emd that in the ovent of wur thoro would necessarily bo (in ocase tho Iroodm wm‘:fi thrown into. Cuba) » greac donl of bushwhacking, *Now," n;‘d Prosldent Qrant, in the late rrvicea. A 000 UL | MSIYE, | Y VMUK L S AV B ) T CHATBIWOM UL DN WHEAWEF Yoo flalynrm 40 counlry you Lraveled ovor, country like Cuba you don't *AYell, that in no,” kald Mol knaw ovory road watfo tho ssonih ' 0! eourao, I did not,” yeplia1 tho Pi : " X.‘“:v‘“l);n"! i Uhac to dzlwl\rl{h ., * Well," said Mosby, * I proposotoges puidon, Sr. Tretdants i vou w11l churmmeton s e of o war Twill yalso 8,000 mon who know s hat lmrllwlmeluul; menus. ‘Lhey nronot aaxlous for u fight, but Lhoy have faught, nud wil! follot mo to tho euds ol tho ecatth, “ihey havo fonght againkt the tlag in other tim ry thom whon tho uational honor i lvol GAMBLERS' FALLACIES. Curlous Wlustrations of Superstition Among Educated flen. From the London Speetator, Tho snewer which wo publish ta-day ta our corropnondent of lant wookt wito doscribad lns gambling oxpoienco nt Haxon-les-Dalus 19 n curious illustraticn of tho depti to whicl o com- mon ‘supointition renchos in aducated mon. It is o popular but vory orroncous belief :has beeausa it "is boforehand” much moro unlikely that n yery uncommon ovent—sny tho nceidental find-~ ing of a sovereign In the stroot—should ivappan ou two days in succassion, thau “thas It should hiappen onee, thorefors whon It haa onco hap- pened, fo \rlll Lo much moro unhioly for it to happon ngaia at oneo than it wes that it should happon tho fivat tme. Thave i3 no fallazy which onters dozpor Into the pmblio mind L this, Wo have known men who had lost somn- thing valuable one day in (how g0 out with quite au enay mind the next, on tho ground that it wns antccodently eo unlkioly that thay slionld hava such o mitfor- tune two da s runniny, that its occurronco the day before muse bo “vomsiderol nn {usuranco against its happoniug again, People some:imes Ay that o buint child dvéads tho firo. And nn- doubtedly an unlucky fira insurancs company dreads n'firo, Yot wo doubtif oven all insnr- ance-vilica directors uro quito freo frem the faleo improssion that n ran of illduck agamet them fn loss likely after such o run of ill- luek has alrealy " taken place than it would bo if tho prosperity for years back Lad beon une clouded, Provoibs like It n long lang thiab has 1o turniug,” which aro_qaite trito in thone selvos, nro misapplied by the natwally dofost- ivo logicof tho buwman mind, iuto aigumments why n man might fairly oxpeat’ tho turntnz to Lo noaror ([ ho Tad alroady watkod fac withous ono, than it would bo roasonnblo to supe poso it If ko had only & very short bit of stealght Inuo. bobind Lim. I¢ oao porson in o amily nlips on o ploes of orango-pe | on Monday aid Lreaks hin leg, tho other monibera of the family will sometimos go _out on L'acuday with o moral cortniuty ot not lipping on ploces of orange-peol and breaking thoirlegs, besaues it would bo so absurdly nulikely that such an evont hould happen twice ruuning ; and gam- Dblors Liabitually act on that oxtraordinary con- fuslon of ideas, ny modillod, howover, by apothier strango suporstidon which is pro- ciscly ns unreasonablo, namely, that there i3 o seeret tondoncy now and then to “raus" of luck, so that, if for two or threa timon & particular’ numbercomes up in o gang of chanen. they are half disvosed to pivo Fore tunocredit for baving taken s caprice iu s favor, and are_ disposed to stake upon it for ut least onco or twico moroe, Of course, all thesa notions are squally groundless. It is, no doubt, quite truo thac it is much mors imprabablo that you will fiud o sovoreign fu tho strect two dnys ruoning than on ono sluglo day; but tho reason why it io moro nmprobabls s {hat the chanco of two intrinsically improbablo, aud yot quito independent, ovonts happening in wuccosrion, is compounded of the Lo chavces of each of hese ovonts happening, and is therofora mueh loss thon than cither chanco separately, But direetly ono of thom kas kappenod, tho part of that improbability which is dna to the fivel event of the two ia already surmounted, and now tho probability of the joint aveut happens ing s precinely tho snme as tho probabilily that the accoud would bappen alone. et S EVEHING LONGINGS. The Princess mat high fu her mniden-borwer, And the boy blew i3 Lora lielow by the tower, ay thou boy, why bivwest thou ¥07 but 'in & new ronda,"” * hint dlid you a1 went through whoi you 3o aile Tiwit hinderest my thoughts that ufur would go With tho sebiig cun,? The Princess xat high {n her malden-bovwer, And tho boy uo loigsr Llaw by the tover ¢ Why art thou g0 sticul 7 Agafn thou must Llows ‘Thou helpest my thoughts that afar would go With the setting sun,” Tho Princess at high in Lier maldon-bowar, Aud the buy Llow again Lelow by the tower'} ‘And then sho wopt in tho eventlile; #What do T then want, my Gad 1" xhe sigliod § Then tha sun went down, —DBjornatjcrne jornaon, —— ‘The Blood of All the Dowaris, London Corresvondence of the New Yurk Times, Another Howard is about to bo enrollel iu tho British peorago. Itis truo that ho is alroxly Lieir to u pootage, but his accossion to tha title is to be auticipatod by making nim a Lovd on big own account, nud ho will thon bo the sixth 1oward in tile Houso of Losds, Thonow no- Dlo is Adinical Loward, Leir prosumptivo to tho Trrldom of Cailinle, and who is henceforth to be known as Daron Launnerton. Inthe dise tinguishod aasombly to which ho is to bo added, Lo will find Limself in tho midst of = littlo family party. ‘Cho Duko of Norfulk, the Baria of Efingham, Suffoll, sud Cudislo, and Lord oward, of Qlossop, avs all lowards; and thero is anothor noble ITuward, the Barl of Wick- low, who, howevor, is only an Irish Peer, and ooy not st in tho gildad chambor, Tt mav bo assumod that Lord Lannorton when ho goos to Weatminstor will find himself very much ab hiomo. ‘Phove is no other great faniily go (ully ropresentad in this way. 'Tho Loveson-Gowoin havo threo poerages in hand—tlio Duke:lom of Sutherland and the Tarldoms of Grauvilte and Tllosmere, for the lattorisronlly a Gowor, though callod an Bgertou; and ono in prospoct—the Larldom of Cromattic, which tho second son of the Dukeof Sathorland will inloric from his wiothor, who i3 Countoss iu hor own right. “'hio Stananpos have thrco Barldoma—Stanhiops, Chestorfield, and Harrington, and tho Gronves nors s Marquisate (Westminscor), an Earldom (Wilton), aud o Latony (Ebury).” ‘Thu, there aco sixtaan poorages botweon four fauulies, It should furthor Lo remembored that the chicl familics of the country are about all reiated to each other over an over again by marriaye, ns iu tho case of tha Campbolls (Argyle), Darcies, uud Hamilions (Abercorn). Lovd Granvilla onco gave au amusing account of his porsonal rolutionships with Ll tho peers who wore presont at o sitting of the Iluuse of Lo Luo marriago of tho Princoss Lonise Lo tho Marquis of Lorue Eas also Lronght tho rayal liinui‘a' iuto the gouoral kinship of the Louso of o1ds. e Suc’s Mysteries of £'avis. TIn tho Debals—xu jourusl of high standing and etyle—came to | tho first fruily of the might- ehade growths iudizenous to the social caven into which Suws Lnd wormed his wav, L'l pearad, in fewilleion form, the opening chapters of ths' Mjsteres de Paris. Tho clecs was pra- digious, Soon it eame fo pass that any ono who passed by the printing cgico of the jonmal in question at 8 in the morning mixhe seo the mar- voloy sight of ncrowd of hondeseript peraons, livery servants, coumissionnires, maids of hons or, aid bouisliors’ buya competing cngerly for tha damp slioots a4 thoy usuo from the pross, A story is told of a waiting-mn:d who was fourd bidding two francs 1ov a copy, and, whon twitted for hor prodizalliy, auswored proudly, * Madamo the Marchiouess Lins plonty of monoy to pay for her ploasures with ;* and taon Legan to deploro the mevitable duty imposed upon her by her auzuat mistress, of coming, vain or shine, 1o wcopy of Lho Debals carly enouzn to ba upon ber tablo, k0 an to greot licr on aw 0. furthior questioning, howover, the grum g dumizel owned that sho had alieadv devoured i couploof columng of that morning's feui'e! Aysteres by tho heht of tho gas-jet 1 tho & Bue obis '3 Laria 160,000 franes, rud that for tho cdition published in the Debaia only. Iablishers vied it one anolhor {or i arter publication; wd tho stago obtnined a dramatized vorsion for it #£oll, 1n Bolgium n mudal way struck in Losor of Sue,andsubseriptions came ponring in 4o fait that inn fow days the cost of the medal was far ox- ceodded, and tho Lulance was cemuloyed in tho potlmg up of s maguificent edition of tho S Wandering Jow,” which was distiihuted gratin among tho peoplo, With his French pulinsier, Suo tinally coucludnd s bargain by which ho was to raceive 100,000 franes u year—nomowhit moto than our Laurcalo is allowed—during funrtecn conseeutiva years, on tho nnderatanding that he would supply mutter withont ccasing at tho rato of teu voluwes & year l—Londoan Sovicly, —_— A SScencs? Tho local of a Codar Rapids paper hag vritten &n aecount of o Lallan that city, and will peob- ably have to vewlgn, Ilere is o specunon of Ing wouk st Tho Mivses Holcomb whivling thiough tho nir liko faivies, tho younger in hor Hesu- volored, high-lieoled Luots, and thae uldor in hor Llua silk, \hlitfl avorskitt, hor Law braided and Tuoging ' down hor haok, was & eeeuo wiioh plentod all, and tickled Lheir pupa into wmilos a4 he admived biy daughlors makiug such u fuvor- ablo fmpresslon,” J, it i enid, for tho Myalores do -