Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1873, Page 10

10 LTS CHICAGO DAILY. TRIBUN SUNI.);A.Y, DECEMBINIL 7, I¥T e NTIL G S S S TR R S S R I R S S " OUR ACQUAINTANGES. The Foibles of Our Friends, and the Friends of Our Foibles, Innsmuch as our pregent nesoclations aro de- tormining our chinraclors, and our charactors are oxpectod to detormino our atatus in tho next world, it becomes & Lighly important question with whom wo shall live, Thomas a' Kompls says: “Itisno prest maltor Lo nssocinto with the good aud gentlo; for thia is naturally ploas- ing to all, aud overy one willingly enjovath peace, and lovoll those best {hat agree with him, Dut to bo able to livo peaceably with hard and porvorso pereons, or with the dis- oxdorly, or with auch ns go contrary to us, {u o glr;mt gruco, aud o most commandable and manly thing,” Tiom this paragraph one might almost faney shint tho eaintly mouk of old thought thet social contaet ought to bo a soit of emery-duat to thoe soul, and placed a higher valuo ou the hardnoss and solf-control born of the conatant enduranco of things unpleasant than ou the contont and sweetness springing from pleasant liver, Dut Kempls wrote in o day when solf-lagoliation was part of tho Christian's oreed, nnd times and viows bave ohinngod. A modern writer in Black- cood snys, in gpenking of porsons whoue tompors malo tlom unpleasuut to live with : “1lappy uro thoy whoso own tompor ia not tried or oxasporated by rasping contact with ono of theso mocial 'monsters. . . . 4 I nocds n vory fino naturo not to be narrowed aud eoured under anch coutact, oven whoro it i borne patiently and wisely. Itis few indoed who can onduro such bondnye, though thoy seem to bear it woll, wichout sufforing, nob only ln fecling. but in cbaracter, aud sinking below the level to which bappiness and intorcomiso with just and geatlo uatares would have taised them,"” Unl‘m‘hmn'.el(. ourmoat familine ngrocinten nro not ours of choico, but of noceseity, Wowake up 1o a consciousners of lifo's possivilities only to find ourselvos placed In coriain conditions which are uncon sciounlr molding us, whilo our chiarnclers are yot plastie, into that form wo must wear through etermity. Every sonl with which our own. cowoes in contact is dostined to oxert an iufluenca over us, and yet wo ourselves huvo 1o voico a4 to whom wo shall meet, but a1o all the me1o fustrumonts of o higher and unseen Powor, which ordors whore we are burn, what slnfl fiappon to us, sud when wo shall dio. Morcorver, ko ill-adaplod ave tho events occuw ving to most of us, aud the clrcumstances sur- rounding us, to display our innate graces and virlues, that wo are forced to concludo that tho eud of buman life {s uot to give us an oppor- tunity of oxhibiting the virtues wo naturally porsess, but rather to develop and perfect in cach character those virtues not indigenous to it. This is o vory consolng roflection at those timos when wo have an iriitated couscionsucss that things are all going wrong with us, and that we arp hiot appenring to very great advantnge iy our mortal existeuce. 1f, liowever, we have the golflldnl luok to Dbelong to that fortuuato claus callo CHECRFUL PEOPLE, whora one bundla more or less over thg dozon Do nlrowdy carcies s & triflo unworthy of mon- tion, Wiilo his wifo hositates and sco-ruwe Letween two polcos of goods with 10 cont' differonco bolwoon thow, he calmly weatn Llmself on A wteol fn the Iroot part of tho store, aud ronds Lis paper, and ndunros the protty Indy-clovke, Asa lovor, ho excols in cowrthyg, bedauso practico mnkes porfect. Ilis sty dispostion ndmits of no rogrets and no fulobodings, 1f fate lna tem- l)urnvuy soparatod lm from his adored Agnes, io_uow tluds time to perooive bow chariming {a Dartha. Bhould Borths orift away, Olura is 8Ll lett with now nitragtions,—and o through ths wholo alphabot, 1lo discovors beauty m nearly ovory woman, but still if a woman fs not beautsful lis tinds hor giftod ; but if by ovil chnueo sho Lo noithor fulr uor talontod ‘sho ts sure to be good, aud theteforo lo Lo worshipod, Tho incensoc on Dis lLoart- altar in always burning, and ho i3 novor &t loss for auidol, Barsing tho fact that their catholio likings aro apt to onyondor joul- ouny, thero aro o pooplo 0 pleasant in daily asyaciation ny thoso or sunny temyor. THE PAINFULLY-NEAT INDIVIDUALS aro found in both soxes. Wo ull of us know viiom, aud havo oxporionoed that disngroeablo counelousnoss of slovenliness in omsolyon with which these types of ncatness fmpross nll with whowm they conis in contact. ‘Lho tirst ylance ub thom sugpes.s combs sud Lrushes, aud sunp aud wator, and brings to tho belioldor's mind s disagiecablo romivisuonce of cvory missing but- ton, snd of the ripped glove or irayed cuf of which Lo s tho unfoftu- nato wearor, When you visit the houss ruled by one of those tominine exquistes, lite Lecomes mtolotable, You lay your buok down on the tablo for & momont with™ your epectucles in 1t to mark tho plnco, Yuu return in ten or fiftcon minutes sud both are gone. Inguiry proves that the Dbook las Leon roiurned to its placoon tho library-chelf, and your spooincles have beeu roturned to their caso. No matter we sl:all not probubly wasto any tima or feeling over thie idea that all wo poor humaus are work- ing ot & disadventage. Wo sball yub our bauds brivkly, aud emile cordially, and Lave ilogical belief that whatover s is vight,—or, it it is't, it will come out so. Qlcero aro goveral clasees of cheerful poople. There aro those whose cheorfulness is not con- tagious becauss it {4 philosopbical—and philoso- phy fs ot catching. Thoy aro forever bidding you bo thankful over one “evil becanws it isn't twao, If you brenk your leg, thoy oxhort you to remembor to Lo glad that it isu't your neck,—ns If attor one's neck was faicly broken Lo sveut any time in regrotting it! If you are hovering ovor tho fira and grumbling at tho extraordinary cold weather, they propound to you m couui- dium a8 to wha: peopls do who ate too poor to bave any firo,—as if all doctors did not agree that ono felt very comforiable when ctunlly freozimg, or a8 if you could raie your own tewycizure by roflectitig on tho surpassiog lownesu of somo- body else’s animal warmth. Then come the oppiessivoly cheorful people, to whom overy Arizzling rain is o fine abower of fucstimable vory unbearably Arctic duy er, oud overy dog-dav 18 good Hay Thoy are not satified with maintaining that overy cloud has n silver hning, out they try to induce the belief that it is solid silver, Worse toan this class aro the azgies- sively-chee1ful oucs who talways come into your prosénce as it thoy hod juet bheard good news, who insist that mirfortune exists ouly' in imagination, who. paob-pool your gravest apprelionsions, and, whon they are roalized, urge you ot to cry ovor spilt milk. Mou of thig stamp are always in high animal spints, waking you up from your ficat nap by tuelr lively whisthing as they come up stairs two at o timo : and, coming down to broskiast with all their dteadful viality i prime order, thay thivk it 3 capital joke to givos loud call aud deal u tbungering rap on the door of some lie- wbed, whoue restioss brain and nervous tempoc- ament admit only of light sleepand shimmer- ing droumn, Verily, Bolomon vas 1ight whou he wrote: * Ho that Lleseoth bis fiend with n foud volee, risivg carly in the moruing, it shall be eounted 2 curso to him." A eort of necossary ofisot to tho everlastingly sheerful people are the TROCHASTINATORS. They are the tempor-triers und the patfonce- lostors, Somebody i alwass waiting for them, ind somebody 18 atways obliged to como to their roscue ot tho last moment aud hfll’; them off. Lhe move timo they have to do a thing in, the moro cortatn it is not to bo done in tho eund. Lot & man get bis reputation for procrastination ouce established, and 1t is worth s mach to him a8 any number of slarcs in an Egyptikn plague atock, ‘Thore is mo ond to tho mnage ging and worry it Dbrings him, No- ody tokes any plenswo in an antici- patéd fete uuloes they first givo lLim punch sbout beingon time, Ile is wakolup at 3 o'elcek to make ready for an excursion that atarisat 8, Lle allows them to keop waking him up at intorvaly till LaIf-East 7, nod then bol(a hiw breakfsst winle omebody packs his valise, aud somebody else bunts up his fshing-tackle and sollecty nis varioun Lolonginga. ** Are yon going to church to-day 7" quoties Lis gprouse Snuday morn, vainly ecanning his apparel for some re- ligions insignia botozening intentions of visiting the sanctuary., Lot Lim boware of commitling himself afiirmativoly. ‘I do hopo you will be toady theu,” sho coldly suggests as she runma his cofiee, A Clittls " later, while o dawdlen over Tur TniuNe with slippers and drossing-gown, sha returns to tho attack: #1 thouxht you sald yon wore moiug to cinueh, You wou't he ready.” Then Tie very carefully turny the papsr the other side out, and deliberately knocks the ashes off hia cigar. Fifteon minutos lator slie returus to the attack with that persavorance ouly guats sud women possesa: ** My dear, tho fist bell is ringing, You won't ba ready.” ‘Then tho pro- crastinating man's patisnce is gone, ‘I sup- Dose,” he romarks, in a voico ciing as a No- Yember wind, ** thiat it I wero going 1o dio_vou wonld keop usgging me to bs ou time," Then “that wife rotires witli tears 1n Lier eyes, and wou- devs why sbe_over martied, But, irritating ss may bo the companionship of the dilatory und piociastinativg, it s ofteu pleasauier than that of HUSY PEOPLE. Ono gota 8o Lired of poraciia who are forevor ‘buzzing abont their work, and muke a8 much noise and fues at any intorruption ag & bee who {uds himeelf on tho wrong side of tho window, nud who gots an if he thought there never would bie any moto honoy made if o was not let out immediately : Women who riko early in tho morping and_auuounco that they hisve a great deal to do, and ruunt hurry about it sud who hurry all day, and then recount thair labors in tho evoning, still working, aud who snnounce that they are going ito bLod early so us to got & good wtart next ° day, 8o thay buery, huery, ler and ¥y st1ll are never dono, becanwo they sro always restlessly hunting up somothing new to work upou. Vory comuandable in thent, cortalnly, but yory fatigning to lookers-on whoso foslings aught to have moro consideration paid them. ‘Ihen the men who nover have time to sit duwn and talk hke civilized belngs, but stand, donr- Linob in haud, for ha!f aa hoar, fragmontarily diseusefug n subjeet which might have boun dis- posod of katisfuctorily 1n ten minutes of solid Lullk on s counle of chaird, ‘Lhere lusky in your niind againat these men who are alwiya on the wing an uneacy itritation of which they them- solves nover dream, T'he most dewirable of all desirable things in # constaut assuciato 14 A HUNNY TEMPER, [t fa never the rerult of culilvation or self- contral. It i the direct gift of God—and s most douitablo ono. It in the koy to all hewis, 10 fman who han it s tho clnol tavorite with all Lis lady-noualutances, and tho idol of tho Kitolen- malds, Tho cluldron love him, for Le is & ehild among thow, siucerely enjuying thalr sporta; it 1 s oLiataotoriatio to ba sincero—for the time Doing. As » kusband, he 15 amodol ous, to how puuctiliously ?'au DRy your deroirs to tho door-mar, you aro followad about with a carpot- brush #nd @ dust-pan, and whon you rocirs you aro expocted Lo spond balf tho niyht taking pile fow-shams sud connterpanes off tho Lod, fold- ing them up wiong sido out, aud laying them oue Bido, 'Nl:.\r must moution be omitted of our frisnds it BIIORT MEMORIES, who are always usking us to do errands for thom and forgetting to band us the obouge; ot to chango & Dill thut leavos o small dobit on their uido, whiol novor recura to their mind; who write to us that wo may expoot them by rail on a cerlaiu day, ‘Ihoy fail to come, and for days following wa baunt tho dopot, and put off on- gagemouts, aud procrastinato tha serviug of (able-dainties, and keep tho children in & con- stant stato of ablutiou, and wonder and worry as to what keeps thom; and thou, nftor weeks of susponss, we got n nonchalant uoto that thoy chiauged their minds after they wrote us; Lops to be mors 1urtunate next timo; aud sou a kind wieh that we bave enjoyed tno summer, Hucel are soms of the defects iu the oharactora of thueo with whom woe have to live; but the gracos and virtues demandod iu the characters of those who Layo to livo with us are casier 1mag- ined than dosoribed. Wiron-1AzEL, CHILGHOOD'S DAYS. s gontle na he soft brestls of s Southern Bummor. 1coze, As tender us 'the love-strafn of & minstrel's melodies, A woiemn ws ut miduigbt tho murmuting of she soas Lbing (0 wid fro, Are the visions of iy childhuod, the olden memories Of long yoats ogo, A5 beauteous aa lue dresu-land of & poss Lapry s, As dear, and soft, snd loving, &s & malden’s virgin or, Au full of ‘Joy and gladness as a mother's fond careas or Ler baby born, Are the mormories of wy young life, dreams of saddene ed tenderness, ‘As troat) and fafr as morn, As balmy an tho evening in the goldon Summer-time, Ay pure aud fulr os suowflaks n an fcy Northern clime, As plu:fikm a5 tho Boft peals of the holy Clristmas- chimo To thelistening ear, Aroto yant wisuen of iy boylidod,bossomma oa e troo of Time, ‘Evor loved and dear, As sweet an sweatest Liones that kindly, fondly flows Lo tue lips of Bumer's gold Lea from the busom of the Toae, X Aa bright, and fatr, and sunny, af any fower that grows By vippling rill or river; Ol tlat time of vanishod ploasure, round my soul & ehuriu it throws,— 1" dreaw of it for oves CmoAgo, axes LAVALLIY, — Mary Somerville’s RRemiaiscences, From Ieraonal Recoliectivna of dinry Nomerville, In press by Loverts Lrothera, Mr. Dowditeh, of Boston, U. 8., who died in 1883, loft among other works a ** Commontary on La Placo’s Mecanque Celesto” iu four volames, While bueily occupiod in veinging oue an edition of tho * Physical Scionces,” I received n lotter from his soin, Mr, 1. Bowditeh, raquesting mo Lo writo an efnborato reviaw of that work, which would be published in Boston slong with the biography of lus fathir, writton Ly Alr. Young, who acui me acopy of it. Though lughly seu- siblo of the bonor, I declined o undertalo so formidable a work, feating that I ¢hould not do Justico to the momory of ko groat a man. 1have always beon in communication with sonio of the moatdistinguished mon of the United States. Washington Irving iroquently camo to 500 mo when lio wos in London; Lie was aa areo- able in converaation as ho way distinguirhed ag an author. Noong coulil bo more amiable than Adwiral Wilkes, of tha United Btates Nuvy 3 Lo hnd all the frankness of a eailor, Wo saw a good deal of him when o was in Loudon, and I had a long letter from bim, giving mo an account of lis floct, Lis plan of circumnavigation, I nevor liad the gaad. fortuna to becoms porsonatly ac- quainted with Capt, Maury, of the United States Navy, author of thut fascinating boolk, the ** hysical Goography of the S2a,” but I am indebted * to him lor & copy of that work aud of bis vuluable charts. Mr. Dana, who is an honor to by country, sont ma copios of his worls, to which I have had occasion froquon:ly to refer as un ackuowlodzged nuthority on many branches _of natutal hiatory, I sliould bs un- grateful it I did not ncknowledge the kinduses L Yoceived Crom tho Silliman family, who informed mo ol suy sciontific discovery in the United States, aud gout me o copy of tlicir journal when it contained_anything whicl might intereet mo, L was electod an honarary moembor of _the Geo- sraphical and Siatistical Saciety of Now York, h. g!,, on the 15th of May, 1857, and on the 15th of October, 1869, 1 was elected A mambor of tho Ameriean Philoropbiceal Society, at Philadelphia, for Promoting Usefol Knowledge, I shall over be. srutcfnl for these hoaors, White living in Florence, many yoars afior, an American friend mvited me to an evening parly to moet an Amorican authoress, who wislied particularly to make mfi acquaintanca, T xecordingly went, thero on tho ovenivg in question, and my friends, after rocoiving mo with (heir accustomed cordiality, prosonted mo to tho lady and placerd mo berido lier to give mo an opportiwity of couversing with her. I ad- dressed bor soveral timon and mudo vurious at- tompls Lo enter into conversation, but only re- coived vory dry auswers in reply, At last she fairly turnad Ler buck upon ma and bocnme en- grosuod with o lady who sat on ber other side, lipon which I got up and loft her sud never saw hier again, A vory differont person in every respoct was present tiat ovoning, 08 much dise tinguishod by her high montal qualitios aud pog:ical goniun as by lior modesty aud smplicity. Lallude ta our greatoat British poctess, Blrs, Drowning, who at that time resided in Floranco, excent wiien tho dolicicy of hov health oblied Lor to go to Jlomo, L think thero is no othor instanco of husband and wife Loth poats, and Loth distivguished in thoir different lines, Ican imagine no bappler or more fascinaling lifo then theirs—two kindrod spirits united in the bighest and noblest aspiravious. Unfortunalely Jior lito was ashort one, In the full bloom of hicr antodloct hor frail hiealth gave way, aud sho died, losving a noblo resurd of geuius to future agos aud & wwost momory to thoso who wero hor contemporaties. 'Yhe Florontines, wno, like all Italiang, greatly apprecinte gonlus, whather uutive or foveign, lave pluced a commesmorativo tablor on Casa Guidi, Lthe house Mrs, Browning inhabited. 1 was extromoly delightad, last epring, in be- Ing honored by's visit fram Longteitow, that most goninl poot. It is not nlwave tho cand Lhat tho gonerul appearanceof a distinguishied person auayiers to onu's idos of what he ought to b in thils respect Longfollow far aurpassos expect. tion, 1 wan a8 much charmed with his winning mannor and couversation as by hia calin, grand featuros and the oxpression of his iutellectual countennnco, ‘Tho Barons Falrfax, as T montioned already, had lou boan mombars of the Rupullie of the Unitad Btaton, aud Washington's mother be- longed to this family, During tho war of Inde- poudence, while my fathor, thon Lieut, Fairfax, was ou bonid & msn-of-war on the Amorican stetlon, b roceived & letler from Uenernl Washiagton, claiming him wsa yolation, and wyiting him to pay bim a viuit, sayiug Lo did mov think® thuat war whould in- terforo with the courtosios of private lifo, Purty spirlt ran so high at that tiwe that my fathior was n\:\.mundu\l for being in ocorrespoudence with suomy. I moutioned to my friend, tho Rav, Dy, Tuckerman, of the Unitcd States, how muel I roprotted that so rocioas a Ietter bad been lost, and hs mont [l’lndly. on galng home, sent mo an autograph lettor of Gon, Washington, FROM TIHR REY. JOBEPI TUCKEMIAN TO MRS, B0M- ERVILLE, “ TlosTow, Aug, 23, 1834, 1My DeAn Mapast: 1 have very gtont plense uro in sonding to you an autozraph_loller of your nnd our “glotlous Washinglon, I obtained it from Mr. Sparke, who had tho gratification of seeing you when hio waa In England, nad who told mo, whon I applled to llm for it, that thore 18 no ono {n the world to whom ho would bo so flvtto ghvoit. It fo bovend comnarison tho eut and almost tho only remalsing one at his disposal nmong the Washington papers, [am again {n mv family, and {n tho flulll’lul' my minis- try, Dut very dear to mo aro my nrssoclations with acancs amd [rionds {n Eugland, aud most glad should T bo to ronaw that. intarconrso with yourself and with tho intellect and virtuo around You, to which Thiave Leon indobled for gront inppineas, and which I hopo hins douo romethin, to qualify mo for a moro efficlont sorvico, Wlfi you plense Lo prosont my vo:y slncere respects to your husband, and to vacail mo to the kind re- mombraneo of yonr childron, With tho highaeat rasnoct aud rogard, allow ma to call mysolf yone friond, Josrru TuckERMAR.” STRZET-CAR MORALITY. Respectabls Passengers Who Nover Pay and Conductors Who Aro Never Caught. From the New Yark Tribune, It in an admitted fact that, in a considerable propartion of cases, if the conductor noglects Lo ask for tho fare tho passonyor fails to remind Dim. 'Thero aro fow of us who have not sceu a man whose appearance weuld prosupposs o well-linod pockotbook nud a balance In bark, sitting for a whilo with a fivo-cent pioco betwoen his chumb and finger, and aftor tho conductor han passad by quictly slipping the coia back iuto Lin vest pocket. Thero i3, howover, 8 groator trust on tho partof the car companiey {n the avarage honesty of tho passenger than in that of the conductor. Tho ‘*patonc-nox" sys- tom, mora in voxue in other citle than onr own, depends upon this faith. Yot wo aro tuformod that ovon this soon indicntes a progressivo do- cliue of morality. ‘I'he patrons of n now route ]my a8 mafl' enter with great promptitude aud hounusty ; but it Is tho convietion of tho rond- owners that aftor o year or two they are carrying nconsiderabla number of regular passengors who soldom or never pay thoir fures, But tho dotarioration of morala in the caso of conductors, if report spenks truth, ls somethin frightful to contomplato, At all ovont, syatoms of manngemont at presont are based upon tho supposition ihnt couductors are dle- lonest, From time lo timo a chango in the motlod ov the introdnotiou of some contrivance for chocking the receipts, indicates the eox- tent of provious demoralization. The romark- able circumstance is that sooner or lator all chacking comirivances nre mniore or loss evaded, and the old pilfering s resumed, The mdox {hat used to Lo placed in cars to show the number of fares proved valucless on long routes, Lecauso tho conductors soon discovered that Ilnaaangl!ru would nog troublo themselvos about ts record. T'ho patont box was introducod on a. Brookiyn road, and suddenly rulsed rceelpts by 40 por'cent ; but gradually they fal away, and in a fow monilis they woro ab thair previons standard. Wo all admit that there is & high moral tone about tho atmos- pliore of Loaton that exciles our hopelesn enyy. Yot from that blssful lucality thore camo sonie time ago a talo of ingonioud horac-car immoral- ity wineh would raiso o blush on tao Indofinite ciieek of n Now York conductor. A compaty thora had introduced the punch-gong system, Yiach conductor, n# bio took a fare, wus obliged to squeezo a punch which marked its record on s slip of paper, and eimultancously rang o small gong attacked to the punch. ‘The passcngor wau to uote the ring of the gong. Yor a while tho receipta wer Inrgoly uwollod. ‘Thon thoy declinad. At longth thoy roached o lower point than ever boforo, Do tectives rodo n[l aud dowa in the cars, listencd faithuliy for the noto of the gong with cach fare, heaid it_every timo, and yet the receipts wero short, Montis olupsed, and the proprio- tora weroe at their wits' oud, At length tho trick way discovored. Au ingonions artisan had fu nished almost every couductor on the roud with & small duplicato gong, which, carried econcenled iu tio bsnd, did tho riagiug without the record- ng. A= e W A Portuguese Ceuta, Tt was & ** featn,"—= loliuny—nnd the poasan- try woro all in thair holiday oressos ; the women vory gayly attitod, with’ embradercd muslhin kerchiots on shwir heads, over which is worn the teavy, Dlack, Spanisb-looking hat, wilh orup- menty of Hlosy sils mado to curl aud to look like @ black ostrica featuer, Tho custume of tig wonon varios slightly in almost every parisk of the Kingdom; but it genorally cousists of an amplo serxe petticost, desconding to the ankle, aud gathiered round tho waint into innvmorablo pluity, & close-fitting bodico (cither black or Hayly colurad) over & linen shirt suowing whito ou tie shoulders aud tho wrmw, with a bright- colored kerchiof, commonly red or orangoe or Lluo, oroszod ovor the broast, All this Ppicturesque coutimo which well suits the c uxom, blsca-burod peasant womon of tue Miubo Province, with theie rich olivo complex- ious and fine eyes. Tho women bave reiained their national dress, and, in tho remoter paits. the mon also ; but in many placos the iatter ave loss consorvalive aud wear wido-awake lats, trousors, and short jockets in Lieu of the old uational costimno, Vo wouien use thetr peculiar peasant jewolry, of ancient Moorish desgn, o fuast days ouly. Loavy necklacos of complicated pattern sus- pend”hugo, heart-shaped lockols on their bronsty ; iu their eurs are leavy pendant car- tiugs. Ouo woman will ofton wear threo or four nucli nockluces ot gold, of & standard of not losy than twenry caraly, aud Lum ussured that many of the poasant women carty about them uut less than twouly or thirty pouuds’ worlh of guld or- naweuts, Coming from Calicia, whoro tho nati oxeeedingiy buorish, 1 was much stru lindiy, choerful muvuers of the pevple. Ta avory Litle ot by the roadsido—aud the fro- quenicy of sucu Lamlets and the donuity of the popalation are marvelous—in overy villago 1 puszod tu-day thore was a gathering of the in- Dubitants; tue mon busy with gaina at Lowls, tho youtus aud girls daucing, with a crowd ot loukrs-on; Lo twanging of guitars minglivg ploasautly With the svuud of laughiter aud caeor- tul voices, Up awong the mountaing, some kind of ‘“Boloro" in daucod, thut is, & * jma do deux " Letweon a wale and temaio dancor; but in this pait uf tho couulry I huve woen only oue kind of dance, certainly & vory singular ono. Each porson anuees by bunslt or Lorsell, to a slow 110 mouotouous jig tune, following tho porsou in frout in a circle, ~ Tho wusio olies accom- panics—in tho most literal seuso—the dancers ; it 1w gonerally a tiddlo, aud sn amusing sight it is to see tho mau who plays it fiddung gravely away as he cuts the quecr littlo eteps of tho dance. Lhoro are usually ono or two guitar- players aong thy spoccators, who Joiu tha fiddla und mako up an orchostra, 'Ihese monotounous dauces will iast for hours, the tilod dancors fasl- ing out sud fresh onos taking tholr pluces, Often, on o holiday avouiuss, the villarers ns- somblo to listen tu extemporary sluging; one lad will challonge anotiier lad or maiden to sing against bim in altervato rhymed vorso; orachame plon will suuntorup with bis gurtar from aneigh- boring villuze, and throw down tho gauntlol ton whole hawmlot, ‘L'us is called singing ao desa fio, singing tu a challonge, 'Lhero in, of course, o3 in Liasian extomporary revitations, some trust to the performer’s moemory, and wheu Lis wvention is ot fault, ho may ofton internolate sonia stock- rhyme; Lutas the Purtugiicso improvisor Las to flid & thyia to bis OpponoHEs Yorso, thero must bo far Joss dependoucs on memory and nore quicknowy of funsy than i Italy, ‘Tae rule is, o far o I con uudorstaud, thut the singer who bu- nm gooh ot plyimg tho other with versos, Lo whieh the socoud has to find rhymed answors ; when Lo hositates or stops, the bout i conclud- od, tho parts roversed, and tho fmjirovisation ra- commonces, 1t muust not bo supposcd that this feat is quite no ditiicult oy it might uppear, ‘The vorsos aio balt sung, half recited, In a pecaliar, elow, drawling tono, and ploaly of timo Is given Lo flud a riyme in & lavgungo hle the Poituguese, wluch ia very full of tusw, Morcovor, pinitice mukon porfoct, and Lhis altornule vorse-ringing is to bo board ail day among the flelds aud bill-sidon of the Minko, The shiopliord Iud, koeping his flock ou thy hill, will seronado i frionds nsross tho valiey, perliaps a quartor of a uulo nway, A girl custing grave will shout ou hier rewaiks lulrwr lover, two flelds frowm Lior, and thoso two will go on mnum[f to each other the live-long «ny, 1iko cicades fu ko wunshine, 1 Lavo honrd & nun, when no compauion was at hand, actually whintlo cach second vorso in a higher key, to ropresent, | presume, tho swout streius of some wbxent mistross, This ultoruate song fs nob common excopt in the Northern Province of tho Minhoj the most populous, the wost furtilo, und tha mast beauti- m? proviuco of the Kingdom, In the monutan- oun distriet of Buirs, Lin siuging s of quiten difforent character ; and In (he povorty-sirisken provinces of the south, thore i noitlior Huging nor cause for singlug—Th New Quarkrly Magazing, THE HOUSEKEEPER'S AGONY. The DomonticsServant Question, Frow the Golden dge, No ono of tho many questions rolating to the domastio economy of Amorloan houscholdn is mora perploxing than that of thoe servauts,~and 1t {n a8 inovitnblo ns it Is ombarrassing, Lvory housokoopor knows that tho ponco and comtort of her family Is almost entizoly dopan- dent on the condition of lor Litchon ; if the lowor atratum of the domestic world fan a rinto of convulsion and snrtkquake, this uphenval affeets tha wholo housobold, aud throws it into miserablo conrusion, But throughout the country, sud partieularly in the family districts of Now England, the quostioh bas not boon bhow bost to sccuro calm and quict in tho kitohen j 1t bns boon rather how to socure any netiou thoro atall. It ia nl- most impossiblo to obtain any domestle sorvico in theso netghborhoods, and many a wifo of o well-to-do farmer or thriving merchant in that soction 18 broken down prematurely in Loalth aud spirits from sheor hard work ; work from whiel hor lnsband would gladly lhave relioved Tier, hiad It boon possible to lirc any ouo to help lier In hor weary and unroouring houschold tasks, But noither love nor monoy will induce auy women-servants to ahiaro her Jabors. I Irish are gregarious, and throng to the cities, whoro they can indulgo thoir soclal fu- stinets by frequont visitings of thcir frionds and thoir religious forvors by frequont church~ goings, Nogroos have beon tried, siuce the war, but found wauting, and tho importation of Swedes, which was at ono timo quits exten- uively oltompted m Now England by & com- pany, has uot boen #o succeasful in its rouulty os to bo rogarded with any groat favor, As to American girln, that class of domesties who used to be t{lm\vn ad * helps,” & namo which waa appropriate, in spito of tho fun which our Byitish cousing made of us for speaking of thom iu this un-Kuropeau fashion,—thoy have parsad out of oxistence, sud tho sppeilation has died out with tnom, In tho days of our great-grardmothers, “liclps "' wero numerous, and ovou in our grand- tmothiors’ tlma thoy were utill froquent i Amori- can homes, Thoy wore nob norvants, in tho tachnical senee of thut word ; thoy werg general- ly tho superabundant danglitor of a neiguboring fanmly, who, not beiug neoded m thielr own howmes, camoe at the request of a neigzbibor, who lind 10 girls, to aid the ovorburdeaed wifo 1o hor domestic dutics, ‘Lopetier the mistress of this houso and her noighborly assistant baked, washed, swept, or sewed ; thog nte as tho same tublo, went to the wame churcii, vimitod che snme pardios, and wore reaily on & Bocial equality ; thoso Lolps ofcen married the sousof the fumttios whors they waut to sssist in the housowork, and if they ro- mained bluf]a they foquontly lived till old age in thess howmes,in all whoso intercats they sharod as complolely as if they had been really, and not meroly adopted, mambors of the family, But in thowe days, tae Now Lngland gitla who havo their own Way to make in tuo world do not outer domestic servico ; thoy go to factorios, or toneh school, or crowd to the ci ics tu sorve oy shop girls, or to loarn drossmal:ng or millinery, “Chey profer anythitig to nouss vorit. Tu spite of the pictures which Mrs, Whitnoy, Miss Alcott, xud Mry, Diaz have recently given in their books of bright young Naw England girls who, whilo perfeccly co.npetont to ontertaia 2 lady's guckts, uro yet coutont Lo gorve ay waic: rosscs 1 thoso samo ladies' dining-rooms and kitchons, and whilo L would gladly betiove thau thoso plensaut portraits wore true, T must relucs tantly confexs that L foar, 1f thoy are drawn from the lifo, such inulances uro fow nud far between. “Ulaey nre the very idonlof lnnd-maidens ; Lthey have senso onougli to bo companionable, quick= ness and tact onough never to iutrude, seli~ro- speet enough Lo keep their placo, and novor fool hunuliated by its fow dogroes inforiority in tha social seato, warm hearis onough to approciato their mistross’ kindooss, and to return for it a gennine affection and devotion to Lier intercsts ; in fact, ono such servaut in a_houschold would bettor dokorve dr. Blartin Farquaar Tuppoer's description, “*a woll-apring of buppiuess,” than tho buko to whom he origfually applicd it Mrs, Whituey, Miss Alcott, and Mrs, Dinz rop- rosant New Eujland os tho habitat of ihis most desirable class u2 worvants ; and yet, of lato, the Liston papoers Lave boon full of 'lettera from nudtresses who complyin of their sorvants in very much tho samo way that mistressos do to other parts of our country ; and tae servants Dave rotorted iu lettors, ovidently gouuniuo, with as bitter compluints of thoir mintresses. L'lns corvespondenco eopms to indicate that {ho chronic antagonivm which is too apt tv be the rolution Letween wmistioss and sorvaut, ox- ists oven in tho mevidiun of Now Lugland, Everyboiy recognizos tho miscrablo rosuits, a8 far a8 domistio peace is concerned, of this hostilo attitude of mistress pud sorvaut, but how £ caunge this state of things is tho problem, \ihon tho mistress s redolved to got s much worlk as sbo poysibly can out of her sorvant, sud the servant is rosolved to do just as little as sho possibly oan and yot keep Ler place, naturally thora must bo fiicfion, and this is too apt to bo tho glate of aifa‘rs botween parlor and kitehon, Of course, it therois Lo bo any rofurm in do- mestic muttors it must Logiu willi the Letier educated and lurger-minded part of tho house- Lold,—the mistrenon. Our American gily gonerally marry young and in uttor ignoranca of all houselkeepiny dutics, Wao send thom to school, whora thoy uro tasod «quite ny much a8 is desirable with siudies whicl thiey merely recite in sebool hours. Tlheir teaoh- ars require them to propare their lessous ot Liome, out of school-tinie; 1n addition to this, thoy hiavo thoir musis-lessons and practico out of school, alo, and duncing-seool ouco ur Lwi a weei &8 well. It can readily Le seen that, if they get auy leisurs ufier all theso occupatious, ont-ui-door exetciso Is intinilely nocessory fur their Lealth, and no mother wouid d:eam of add- ing Lo all theso dutios lowsons in cooking in tho kitehien, or in auy other of (he diffovont uranehcs of housokesping lore, wirich aro noces- wary Lo ab Amierican misiross of o fawily. Hor daughtors sre ovarcaxed slroady. She knows that, if she isasausible woman ; but yor, know..ig it, sho I8 almost pavierloss Lo pro- Vout it, 80 rgoruas and tilexible aro the de- Dooter roms, pooror food, and, on tho wholo, ¢t Anvo less monay, Bomio paople wondor that women shiould elamor for now avennes of employmant, whon thare s always o demand greator than the supply for lionsohiold servico ; posaibly the dullnoss of tho lifo of n sorvaut in a family, and tho wonrinoss of tho routine may account for the general dis- like of womon to ontor this flald of lnbor, Moro Inlellizanco on tho part of the mistrens, mora conslderation toward ber sorvant, a cleator romombrance that this servant is a human Lolng and not & machlne, and a-consoquont appracla- Hon of hier noods of education, leisuro and hu-~ mnn nannnlon»‘llp, would go far toward ehange iug onr kitchons from plnces of tormeut to Lot mdtress and mald, oy they too often are now, to a comfortabla and poaceful part of tho homo, But no such chango cau lako placo tlIt our his are educated dilforontly—til they aro fitted for thelr dutlos as housckeopors, wives, and mothar, with the samo care that wa fit our boys for thelr fulure businoss in life, Our boys go through a novitiate before enter~ ing upon n moieantilo, industiia), sxricultutal, or profoesionul carcor, and, while I would do- mand for pirls as wide n clolco of occupation, and &3 amplo opportunities for preparation for tho hife-work choson, surely it is not too much to nuk that, it & woman prefoia wifohood to iy other position {n 1ife, sho showld ot lonst shiow that she Lionors that post snfiiclently to propure for its rosponsibilitios aud duties, No womnn should be 8o shut out from oppor- tunitios to oarn hor living that slho is forced to marry for o maintonanco; but, on tho other haad, no woman should marry until she hns bo- come mistross of tha rudimontal duttes which marriago will Imposo upon hier, Proparation for theso dulics, howover, in- volves o groat a rovolution {u the prosent ays- tom of education, both at schonl and at homo, that {t is atmost Liopcless to oxpect any chauge in cithior of these diroctions, Tt is indeod conaidered rank horesy to oritielso our presont achool systom ; and paronts are ex- pected to go on uncomnlainingly teaching their clnldren their lossons st home, and sonding thom to teachers who merely listen to the recita'ions, whoso oxcellonco is tho result of tho parents' hiard work, while tho misnamed toachers ure paid high pricos for tho duty which thoy havo not performod—of instructing tho chililren. But public attention is bheglining to bo turned townrd thls munilest injustico—nll roforms movo slowly under tho impetus of protest, but thoy do move atter all. 5 Lauza Cuntis BULLARD, Nxw Yonx, Nav. 24, 1873, —_— THE CHALLENGE. There {a a greater army, That Lewets us round with sirife, A Rtarying, namborloss ariny, At all tlio gates of lifa : Thio poverty-stricken millions Who cliallego our wino and bresd, Axnd {mpeach na ull as traitors, Doth the Hviug and the dead, And whenever T st ot tho banquet, ‘Where tho feast and song ure high, Amid the mirth and the musio 1 cun hear that fearful ery, And hollow and haggard faces Look into the liguted bnll, And wasted hunds are extended 'F'o catel tha crumbs that £ For within there fa life and plenty, Aud odtors il tho ulr: But withont there in coid and darkness, And hunger und dospair, Aud there n tho camp of famine, Tu wind, aud cold, aud rain, Onrist, the great Lord of tho urmy, Liex'dead upon tho plain, —Longfellow's Lust J'venis, — s A Little Etymologys ‘As Lo poplin, it svas invented in a Papal terri- tory, though by a Huguonct, aud Louco called papalino, wihich account we may as well cred.t, soeing that no other i3 at hand, Silc may bo i Graock, » Porsian, an Avalie, o Tartar, or u Chi- ueso appellation, sinco the loxicographiers and othor oruditionists might bo quoted in favor of oeach languago; but cpacerning ebawl thers da ouly o singlo doubt botween & trauslation from a Der- sio word and the towu of Buawl, in Boluchistan, whenca it may possibly bave beon dorived, and which was formerly famous for Lhe manu- facture, 'Chis must uot be confounded with tho celebratod shawl of Leybourno, A Maud is a Scoteh pluid, christonod nfter a Seottish Queen, daugnter of Malcoln, and wifo of ienry L Jerkin_may bo from tho Anglo-Saxon eyrlellien—here wa fall baci upon the dorivative doctor ngain—diminutive of cyrtel, a cont—n piesumplion, at any rote, mors rational than that which traces it to tho vulgarism Little Jer- ry, which is also claimed for jacket. Dut now wo reach a forandable mystery. \Vheuce came the namo cinvat? _Was it fitsb worn by a Croat _cavalior? Docauso tbat is slmost the sole suggostion of the learned. Con- cerning collars, thero used to be a sort worn in Germuny which wera nick-named Vator-mordern, or father-murd rors, from tho legend of a student who returnnd from the university with such n BUMf pair that, on ombraciug his paront, they'cut hia throat. 'Lhoto aro many testimonios to swicides—tight-lacing, to wit—enused by vanity i diess; but wo thiuk this is tho only caso of assuesination on record, In lho gouersl gloseary, cardiuals, capuehing, and 1nnntitlas_teli theirown story, though the old-fashioned Borthins do not, ard ihe renowned chapenu-du-patlle, which a0’ harmonized with the beanty of tho Churohilla of the lass contury, would bo oquatly -oxplicit had it bean & straw- hat at A1l LChers aro many varietics of fabiics besidos those already wmentioned, which indi- cato their own birthplsce, ns the mobuir Lnown as Angola or Angura wool, from tho full- fNleceod gonts that feod 1ar in tho dopths of Asin Minor; tho mixturo of the Liair aud silk called, in cotworeo, Dangal; the loug-closhs, lal belod Madapollams; tho favouie Morino ; tho soft weavings of DParamatts, in Now South Wales ; the yollow cottons ol Nankin, corrnpted into_nankeen ; and tho tapoatrics of Bargamo. Losy familiar; Lowever, aro tho sillis named Ardessines, uftor tho d.striet pro- dueing them in Porsia; the lamb's woul Liats— now disusod—ywhich wore oncs identifiod with the Normau town of Caulebee; the tigured linon wado eud dosignatad aftor Doruvoh, in Boot- land ; tho _thick-napped woolons callud aftor Duffol, in Flanders j the cords of Grenappes, in tho kune territory. When you hear of a cam- wands of wehool dieciplue, and so ummiwl-you_\\ill untllrnlhy think of Cambray, in aud ambitious ate hor dunghtors iu theie desiro | Fronch Flandors, DB:hold a giugham umbrells, to koop up with their classes und in favor with their teachets, Lossitly sho moaus to teach her gitds bousekeeping whon they leavo school, Lut very soon after that occurd they ure on- gagod and too muals absvrbed iu the art of love 10 hood bor advice to_attoud to the prosaic de- taily of the mounge, 'Tnoy mnrry alter a briof courtship, aud assumo the dutios of housekoop- inng in wetor ignorance of its roquiroments, worvauls were woll tralnod in_Amorica, this would not Lo o great o blunder; but well- trained servants are tho excoptivn, and not the rule, as the novice soon laarns 1o ber dismay, An Ameriean Indy ought to be a good cook, laundrosy, housemid, and dining-roum soi .ant, in ordor to teach tho raw Irislt servauts who iu- vado hor Liomo Lo becomo eflicient sorvunts, 10 800 uudosstands all thewo departments of housakeopiug, and haa putisnce andgood nature, slie cun suon drill the Lrish domostics so s to mako them capublo in thele dimorent flafmr!- ments, for the Leish, as arule, ave quick to learn and ouger to improvo, if they flud & mistress who Iy kindly and reasouablo, Lut waon tho muslross 1 lersolt jguorsnt, as well as her servaues, what wonder tust chaos reigng. A succossion of poor aud wasteful domus- tics pnss lilkio phantasmngorin across the scene, leavingr, howaver, very convineing proofs of their roality iu the wreeck of cums, kitchen ul:cuunn, aud otber housshold gouds Lebind them. A fow experlences of this sort genorally sels & iyt American matzon st the tuek of Jearning the eieuco of hiousoscoping, and many a youug girl who was as uttorly isnorant, waoon rhe mur- ried, of the nuture of domestic duties ws if she never lived in « home, puts herself ut work to loara thom, anu in o few yoars Lecomos mu ad- ‘mirably housekioeper, “ Any ono wiih common sense and a cooliery- book can loan to ba a good couk,”" suid one such Inexperienced beginner aftor her transfor- 1aation into an accomplishod honsewifa, DPunaibly the blunders and mistakes of theso tyros moy teach them ‘mtlaucu und toloranso with thoir inoxpertencod Irish pupils ; but it i & hard dleeipline for any one Lo pass through, 1o mateor what advantage it may carry with it, It is u fushion to suy that the (s aro un- gratoful, and that it"1s o wuste of time aud trouble fo traln thom ; but it hias beon my guod fortuno to koo moie gratitude for kindiy aots, aud more dovotion for kindly services in siok= ness or troublo exhibited by lrish eorvants than by any other claus, — 'Thoy aro an aifuntion- uto vace, uud tho clanuish spivit which hobls them 0 closoly to thalr own kin, attachies thom ofton g ulrungl{ to familios whore thoy hiavo met with thoughtful connldoration, care ‘in wickuess, or symuatky in distroas, "I ha [ife of » domestio 18 & dull one at tho bont, and whon, a8 in wuny houses, thoy are never ullowod to rocolve a visitor, norto go out, ex- copt ona sfternoon in tho woek, and are uever spukeu to by their mistrous except when slie g&vun thom an order or a roproof, it i not strauge thiat bright giils who can got auy other swploywent should preler it, uvon if they Lave and Guingeanip, in Franco, ries at once to (ho mind's eyo; and ko on with tho coarso stulfy callod Osuaburgs (Lanoverlan mauufacture); with their opposite, tho dalicato open laco-woric tulle, wiich formaa flecey foundation for so many boniiols, and dressca o many * bioathing roses™ of the ball-room in raiment light as sir. Onceo mors, turning from cities and towna to persous and tho signatures they have left bohind them in the mercors’, drapors’,” or upholsterers’ shops, or among the chroniclea of ulilcy faxh- lous, and we hove tho wallant Due do Roquelsiro muking & monument to himsolf I tho cloak o Mtreduced 5 Laptisto fvonting tho batisto handkerchiofs, polxx)uhr privet- pally on the Coutinent—batisto drosses being faslijonable in England now—aud that color Yuown s laabel, tho traditiona) orlgin of which, may be supposed, evorybody (s awsio of. One pustical peraonnge has Leon croditod with the nume of & gaumert, 8 mantel of pale-gray cloth, trimmed with black volvey, colled » Laila Toukh, prosumably beeauso it bears not tho remotest resemblance to anyihing which an Oulentul Princoss ever wora or could wear, Leaving this ‘ussaud group, muslin perploxos allinquiry ; whether tho woid iu to Lo ncconut~ od for by tho Froneh mouuse, or woss, becauso of itu sofineus ; whether thig theory would bo moro tenablo if to monsko were added lin or flax ; whothor the fabric was fivst wrought at Mosul, in Asiatic ‘furkey ? Masulipatum may ‘bo Joft out of tho question, Professors of dure ivation cnrry us back to_ the Grecian agas to ex- Dinin Low the torn diwity aroko, doclaring, on the authority of n wholo gardontul of roots, what it eiguifies s fabrio woven from double threads ; Lut less learued pundits attrivuto it to the ' Dgyptian Domioctn. It Is ayreod that calico must Lo idontified with Oulicut, on the Mulabar cosst; gambroon with the Dersian Gombroon, and, though less unani- mouuly, marsella with Muracilles; but there iy no such cortaluty nbont tho connection bo- twoon gnuzo and the Seriptural Uaza; or korsoy with either Jorsoy or Cashmore, though the lat- itude of choico pormitted fu cortainly a wido one. Jaconot wae originally mannfaclured by aman of that namo, who gave it its title in the matkots w0, it ail likolilood, of jean; but how did a Jady's riding-hobit over como to be callod a Joseph # Tartann owo thoir desiguation, as wo pleakn, to tho Latin, the French, vr the Gache, the last Lavivg the word ** tarutin," acreas, which Aoemy noar obouph without going back to Lyre, Rustian, howover? Ons echool afilrms {t o Latin, another that it is Arsbic, pointing umphantly to the Egyptian town Fustal, whera it is #aiq to have origaually come from tha loom of n dusky weaver namelers iu history. Of courno, malty of theso dorivations are remote and fantaxtio, and heng on the frailest threads of authonity § belug vholly unlike, in thess re- wpeots, otliors so obvlouy as Arras, from the quaint old Franco-Iiemish city: Gobelius aud Lalakoro, woven from the bavk of u tre in a dis- triot of the Bongal I'resideucy; but wa hesi- (ato (o deduce Laize from the ruiued Iiaiau town of Balw,—Al the Year Round, 1 HINTS TO BLACKGUARDS. A Kew Suggestions to tho Chicago Tamcs, From the Kt. Louta Demotrat, ‘Tha recont efforts of tho porsonal journalists oro chiuracterizad by an eRunlve flatulence, ora fatulont oxclusivonoss, astho Chicago Times would say. A rpinitod diecuneion between tho Bungtown Banner and the Weelly Washinp is roproduced in our columna thin motning, a8 another *awful examplo " of personal Journalism, T'rom the Rungtoen Lanner, Nor, 21, From tho nsinine efaculntions of the inebrinted Idiot who prericien over tho dirty deatinies of tha Weekly Washtub, we gather that lis bile has haen started by tho blnc-nmass romarks which wo anw fit to make upon his oourse in connection with the quostion of locatiug the town-mump, Tho hybrld reptilo, whom it wore hngo flattary to call n pupny, dives into the recersen of tho sower which rorves tim In placo of an intolleot, and flshea up keraps of parbago and bucketsful of filth, with which ho \'uhfiy attompts_to bodanb the immaculnlo poreon of the editor of the Banner. We will fuform thia infatnous oxcreacouco, this half-baked lump of clay whem wo cannot dignify with tho title of muil-heap, thet his insano efforts only recoil “Yun Iis own bosotted nature: thac the fitth with which ho attomptn to bespatiorus only ndds & deeper dyo to tho indecency of his own chinr- acter. 1Iis nnfledged alanders ars qnonched in tho bud, and fall stilibosn upon the carth, leav~ ng us unhatmed by thelr asinine vonom. Whon lo charged that the fomalo mombers of our family havo shown a preforoticu for the e Iy Washtub ns bustlo-papor, in placo of the high- toned Bungtown Zanner, ho utters an inaidious insinnation, whoso malignant idiocy in only oqualed by its unparalleled oxncerbation, Wo repel tho baso accusation ss false in evory ns- pect, and dare the villaln totho proof, That tho ZTanncr oceupies nn exalted position as bustlo- ‘materlal smong the vary firat familios of Bung- town, is s fact which tho fonl-monthod slanderar of the Washtub is Incapabls of appreciating, simply bucause lio 18 not ndmittad to the clrcles in which those familics shino rospiendent, Thip ignomimious idiot violatos tho sanctity of Erlvntn lifo by agserling that wo attendod ™ tho anquot {n honor of the Inwuguration of tha town pump, io & pairof pantaloons which wo borrowod from tho butcher who lives neross the way from our aftice. We rotalinto by tha unqualified assoy- eration that the crodit of the garbage box of tho Wash!ub s so low in this community that bo could umot boiroy 8 snlr of suporannuated stringn from the kickod-out shoea of & rod- headed boy. If tho pantaloons of Haus Lranth happen to fit us, and ho bas sulicient con- fidonco in our Integrity to boliove that wo will adorn and jcturn them, that ia a mat- ter with which the goneral public has no concorn. It is suficient to sny that we did not attond tho banquot in pantaloons that rere patchod ot tha knoe and open to tho winds of lleavon in the soat. Bat wo ara not, fortunately for our ropu- tation, responsiblo for tho porsonsl apposrance of the slovenly slanderor of the Washiub. Tho orawliug and contomptiblo cur, whom it would bo a word of superorogation to donominate a dog, bns also insinusted that wo liave been {n tho babit of tapping a neigh- boring esh-hoppor, nurrupl]tfimuly and through the fence, in order to procuio lye with which to cleanse our types. This infamous inventlon is only exceeded {n vileness by tho low-flung end dofes(nblo dispasition of thia crosy- calumuiator who promu'gates it, and we Joave Lim to tho stings of kcorn which burn with fito unquenchablo, and that fadsih not eway; which will yeb wut{n overy boneet hand a whip To laeh thio rascal nuked thruugh the land, Having thusdisporod of these silly slnnders, wo cau atford tonllow their cowcrdly perpotrator to gounmolcsted on iis way to tvo Leniteatiary; but we Lavoawotd or twomors to say boforo wo can consign him tothiosoclusion of hiycess-pool, What- avar our shortcomings may have bean it respect to our convivial guahtics or in tho clothea lima, Wo waro nover guilty of tho transcendont mean< neas of driving off our nolghbor's epeckled cow, and then deluging tho county with hanabills, with our imprint attachad, offeitug a roward fat tho thief, iv order 0 convoy tho falso im- pression that wo had a ‘big run of jobe worlt. Whatover may liave Locn our struggles to build up & paying patronngo for the Hanner, te have never descended £o low as to alluro subscriptions (rom charitable peoplo on the protenso of n lamo leg, which wo claimed Lind been wounded in the Blackhawlk War, but which was roally injmed by falling over a fence whon wo wera surprised in the not of stealing wood t1om our neighbor's pile. 1lowovor econ- omical and laborions our fumily may be, we wora nover caught begging cold victnals avound town, and manutacturing thom' juto hash for our half- starvod approntices, when the im=osition could readuly bo dolooced 'by tho color of the hairs, which could only Lave sprung from tho red-headod cook at ths saloon on the comer, Wo do mot obargo that the sapheaded slangwhanger of tho Washiub Las boen guiity of theso and othor detestable, not to say Quabolical, practices ; but the pubfic have soen Lis handbills, (hey have hoard of his game log, and tho baics of hiw Lash aro atill twined acound tho teotls of his apprentices. In conclusion, we liopa that we may be par- doned by our high-tonod readers if wa embulm thng donble-digcilled cssencs of dead dog, tho oditor of tho Washiud, in immortal yerse, as follows : Iils type §s poor, his ink Is palo, Aud lie gets driu on bottied slo. From the Weelly Washtub, Nov, 15, Tho pusilisnimons polecat wird diifusos his of- fonnive odor through (he columns of the Bung- town Janner comes at us with o column of dirty drivel, which simply proves that bis slop-buciet lias again run ovor into bis cditorial pago, Al- though it s an set of condesconsion on our part to notico this suporannuated samplar of stnlo wwill, we will proceed to pick Lim up with o pair of cant-of: tongs, sud parado lim for tho in- spection of the public. I tho freckio-faced fool Liad sonso emough to scrape keum from » pot of pigs' feot, fo would not bo 6o ready to acknowledgo {hat not oven the panta- loons which lio botrowod from Krauth, tho butcher, lad Looa suficiont to provent our keon blade from poneirating Lis scaly caticle, Tor ourself, we can Lohily #ny, Let the galled jado squinelh, our withers aro uunstrungl Wo ure proud to doclare that our uffice ix_mens conscia recti, and our women aud childroa are in the sama fix, I'ho bat-oyod baboon who crawls up tho de- cayed finymtall of the Banner, and in so doivg ignominiously oxposes Limsolf, dces not prolend to demy any of the clarges which we so_clearly proved against Lim jn onr lIsst issue., Evon tho slop-kotilo which ho ewls bis head is not brags-plated thick onough for such unparalleled impudonce, e is obliged to admit tho bustlo insinuation, ho glo- vien I tho pomsension of Krautl's pantaloons, aud tha lyo he stolo_ from his noighbor's hopper i ot strong enough to boar up o denial of the fact that Lo stolo 1t In placo of auswering our clintges, tho Uloatod old bummor trumps up somo two-cent stories, which would not paes curront as pay for docayed cabbago-stalks, and attempts Lo palin thom off upon tiio community as attacks upon our honor, Utablo to act the part of o man,evenin s small a way a8 to imitnte whining of a whipped child, this_pitifal puppy sits up on his hind Jogs. and howla detefully at the moon of our job-office. 1le tries to sinavh upon our head the rotten eggs of his wrath, by insinuating basolops slandors concorning oursub- seription-list, This soit of stuf is what tho driveling dunce of tho Banner considers stroug wiiting, It is ntrong, with the strongth thal 1 peculiar to the polecal. Tho swell-headed and slobbering simpleton Incits the courage to indorso his own calumnnions insinuations, or to prorent thom in the shape of chargen that can bo met and repedled, but hopen to thrust his shimy tongue into the blogkom of our intogrity, and to blast its frosh and fengrant leaves, beforo the insidions iustrument can bo branded by the wailed hand of truth and justico. 1is calumitics aro s larmless as & cat without claws, and wa ouly mention them in oidor thut we may hold up to the disgust of an outraged community this abominable buzzard, who secks to gratify tho cravings of his sppetito for ear- rion, by preying upou the vitaly of suporior bo- ings, who ore nd far atovo lLis 1cach as tho Lonvens are above the earth, Although this unbearsblo nuiranca bas so for outraged ull the laws of truth atd deconey us to bo deserving of uo moray from us, wo will do im the fuvor 1o suggost, against the noxt timo lhe comes home drunk at mght, thut Smith's swill-barrel lus Leon removed to the corner of tho ditch at which Le usunlly tumiblos in, and that an ovordoso of sour smil mv\{ Looome sick- cning, oven to so foul s feader au himacll, 1n conclusion, wa witl bottlo up this !nllgnm- caut juneoe by stufting him luto o vial of *'im- wortal verse,” as fullows: hw typo fa worn, his Ink {s-mea Aud 1 golu drusk on vils bouzitie Mouby Tendors Fils Sexvices. From the Waslanaton Star, Col. Jon 8. Mouby called upun Presldont Qrant to-day and offorod his eorvices in cune of war with Spaiu, Ife snid that in tho ovent of war thora wounld mnnnnwllfi be (in cavo tho troops woro thrown futo Cuba) & groas doal of bushiwhnoking, “Now," sad President Grant, ln the late war you wero called & bhusliehaclter; you knowy the country you travolod ovor, but’in a new country liko Cuba you don't kuow the roads.” “WVell, that is 50," snll Mosby ; ** but 0id vou know overy yond yon wenb through wioa you wout to tho Sowh & Of gourao, I did not," replic1 the Precidont; fhut what has thae Lo do witt iL?" “Well," #ald Moshy, “ 1 proposoto got puldes, DMr. Prenfdont, if you will commisaion ino in cnso of o war I wiil raise 8,000 mou who know whnt burhwhacking means. 'They aro not anxious for a fight, but thoy have faught, aud wil follow wo totho ends of the carth, ‘hoy have fought againnt tho flng In other timea—try thowm whon tho nationnl Lionor is mvolvad," —_— GAMBLERS’ FALLACIES. Curfous Illustrations of Superstition Among Educated fen. From the London Spectator. Tha suswer which wo publish to-day to our corresnondent of last weok wao doscribed hs gambling axpe:enca nt Saxon-lew-Luius is o curious illustraticn of the depth to whicii a com- mon suporstition renches in oilue. mon. 1t iy & popular but vory orroucous helief that heeauso it is boforehand” much moro unlikely that n very uncommon event—eny tho accidental find- Ing of a wovereign in the straat—ushould happan ou two days in Buccession, than that i suonld happon oiiee, thorofore whon 1t haa onco hap~ peued, iz will bo much mora unlikely for it to happou ngain ab oncs than it was Lak it shoull hl‘l‘l‘"“ tho firat thme. "Lhore is no fallazy which ontern doepor Into tho publio ind than this, Wo havo known men who bad lost romo- thing valuablo ono day in_ fhar wull, go out with quilo an easy mind tho nost, on_the ‘im‘md that it wad antecodontly =0 unliitoly that thoy whould hiava such o minfore tuno two da s running, that ita oceucrence the day before must bo conkidersl an insuranco ngainst its Lnpponing again. Leoplo somosimon #ay that a burnt child droads tho tho. And un- doubtodly an unlucky fico insurance company dreads afire. Yot wo doubtif even all fusur~ ance-oflico directora arc quite freo from the falsa impression that a run of ill-luck nst thom s lows likely after such a run of ill luck bhas alrenly "taken placo than it would Lo it tho prospority for years back Liad been nu- clouded, Proveibs lilke “*It's s long lauo that Dins no turning,” which aro_quite trito in them- solvon, aro mirapplied by tho naturally defects ivo logio of tho hnnan mind, {uto nigumonts why a man ml(i‘ht fairly expect Lo tarnivg to Lo nearor if he had already walked far without ono, than it would bo reasonablo to supe poss it if ho lnd only & very short Lib ot stroight Jano bohind Bim. If oae person in a faunily slips on « pioco of oranga-po | on Monday and brenks bis leg, tho other members of tho family will somotimes go out on Tacsday with a moral cortajuly ot not a!lrplug on piczen of orange-peol and breaking their lesws, becanso it would boso absurdly unlikely that such an avent should happen twice running ; and gam- blers habitually act on that extrsordinary con- fusion of idess, as modified, howover, by anotlior strango suporstiion which s pro- cisely mg unremsonablo, nawmely, that thero is 8 socret tendoncy now and then to “runs™ of luck, wo that, if for two or ihrao timos & particular number comes up in a gamo of chance, they are balf disposed to give For- tune erodit for haviug taken a caprics in its favar, and aro dicposod to stoke upon it for at least unce or twico more, Of course, all theso notions are squally groundloss, It ig, no donbt, quite true that it 18 much more improbable that you will find a sovoreign u tho streot two days running than on ono siuglo day; bub the reason why it is moro lm})rubnhla is that the chance of two intrinsically improbable, aud yot quite indopendent, ovents happening in succostion, is compounded of the two chances of ench of thioso evonts happening, and is theroforo much losy thon than cithor chanco separately, But divectly ona of them Aas happoned, the pait of that improbalulity which iy duo to tho first ovent of Lhoe two is alrendy surmonnted, snd now the probability of thoj’x’)imuvam happen- ing In precisoly tho eatno ns the probability that the second would bappon alone, EVERING LONGINGS. ‘The Princess £3t high in hier maiden-hower, Aud thu boy blew iy bora below by tho tower ¢ 4 sd.ont, thou boy, why biowest thou 207 Thou hindoreat my thonglts that xfar would go With tho sultiing sun,” The Princess sat high in hor matdon-bower, A tho Loy uo longer Llew by the tower : “ Why art thou so silont? Agun thou wust biows Thun helprst my thioughis tuat afar would go With tha sottiug sun. Tho Princess rat high i Lar malden-bower, And the buy biow ngaln Lelow by the tower'; And then ehio wept {u the eventiito; “What do I then want, my Gud 1" she sighod # “Then tho sun went'down, —Bjornatjerne Ljorngon, ——— ‘Chic Rlood of All the Slownarda Tomdon Corresvondence of the New ¥ork Tumes, Anothor Howard is about to Lo enrolled iu the Britivh peorago. Itis truo that he is siroady fioir 1o u pearage, but his accession to the title in to bo auticipatod by ma'ing tim a Lord on bis own account, and ho will thon be tho vixth loward in tao Ilouse of Losds, Thenow no- blo iy Admieal Ifuwaed, heir prosumptive to tho Earldom of Cailislo, aud who is henceforik to be known as Duiron Lauuerton. In tho diye tinguirhod aszembly to which ho is to bo added, ba will find himself in the midst of a little family party. ‘Uhe Duko of Norfolk, tha Larlg of Eilingham, Saffoll, sud Cavlisle, Lowd Howard, of Glossop, are all Howards; and thers is anothar noble Howard, the Barl of Wick- low, who, howaver, is only nn Irish DPeer, and does not it in tho gildad chamber, Jt mas be arsumed that Lord Goannorton swhen lie poos to Westminstor will find Lumsolf very much nb liome. ‘hote inno other gront fanuly so fully ropresented in this way, The Leveson-Gowars liave three peerages in hand—tho Dubko:lom of Suthorland and the Larlioms of Granvitie and Ellogmete, for tho latterisveally o Gower, though callod =n' Egerton ; and ona in_ prospoct—the Earldom_of Cromamtic, which the sccond son of the Duke of Batherland will inboric from bis mother, who is Countess in bor own right. lio Stanaopos hava threo Earldoms—Stankopo, Chestorfiold, and Harrington, and the Grouvo: nos & Marquirats (Westninator), an Barldom (Wilton), and & Bavony (Ebury), Thu, thero nco sixtoen poorages betweon four familes, It should further be romembered that tha thie! familics of the country are about all reiated to o other over and over again by marriaze, ag in the case of tha Campbolly (Ariyle), Dercios, and Ilamiliona (Aborcorn). Lord” Geanvilla onee gave au amusing account of his personal rolutionships wich balf the pears who w8re presont st & suting of the Houso of Lords, The marriage of tho Drincoss Louise Lo tha Marquis of Lorno Las also bronght tho royal rxx:mi‘llz into the gouoral Liuship of the Luuse of orda. S P Suels Mysierics of Paris, In the Jebats—n fourunl of high standing and stylo—came to light the first fruits of tho wght- ehiade growths indigenous to the socinl caverna into which Sue bad wormed his way, There ap- poared, in fewillefon form, the oponing chapters o tha' Ajsteres de Parid. Tho efect was pro- digiong, Soon it came Lo pasn that any one wha pasead by the printing oflico of the _jonrual (o guention st 8 in the merning might eco tho mar- valous sight of acrowd of noudeseript pereons, livery sorviuts, commissionaites, muids of lhion. or, niid booisallers’ boya campoting _eagerly for the damp shoots as thoy issue from the pross. A story ia told of n waiting-mn:id who was found bidding two franes for a copy, and, whon twitted for hor prodigality, auswercd proudly, * Madsme tho Marehioness lias lonty of money to pay for her pleasures wilh ;™ and then bogan ta deplora the ovitablo duty imposed upon hor by bor nugust misiress, of coming, rain or shine, to gol weapy af the Debats oarly enouzn to bo laid upon hier tublo, @0 ns to greot her on ansking. 0.+ further quostiontng, howavor, the grumbling damsel owned that #hio bad alicady 'dnvon!'ml, a couplaa? eolumus of that morning’y feuiticion AMysteres by the hight of tho gau-fet u tho streot, o obtmied, it Iy vaid, for tho Myslercs de Payis 160,000 francn, and that for tho cdition published'in the Debais oaly, Publishers vied with one ayiother fov its after publivation; and tho singe oblained o dramats version for it- solf, 1 Dolgium o medal was struek in houor of Sue,andsubacriptions came pouring in so st that in o feyw days (ho cost of the mednl was far ox« ceoded, and tho bulance waw employed In tha gothng up of a maguificont edition of tha “Wandeting Jow," which was dlutributod gratly amoug the poople, With his Froneh pubilisher, Sno finally concludod & bargain by which he wad to receive 100,000 francs o year—somowhat moie than our Laureato ia allowod—duriug fourtoon congccutive yenrs, on the understandiug that he would supply mnttor without ceariug at the rate of ton voluwes n year I— London Socivly. ptial il ST i A “Seene, The lacal of a Caday Rapids paper han written 0 account of a ball . thut cily, aud will probe ably have Lo resipn, Here is o spocunon of his wotk ¢ ¢ Ilio Missos olcomb whivling through tho air ko fatries, tho youngor in her flesh- colored, bigh-lieeled buots, and the cldoer in hior Uluo will, white ovorskirt,’ bor hair biaided ind huoging down hor back, was & kcouno which ploasod all, sud tiokled their papa {nto wwilos ss hio aduiired his daughilors soaking such a faver le Luprosslon,”