Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 1, 1874, Page 7

——e e e THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY MARCH 1,.1874. - MR. BARTLETT'S LECTURE. The Marriage-Relation, and ke So- cial Statas of Aspasia. & primary Xeelings > Now, and as They Wil Be When Women Shall Yole. o the Liditor of The Chicago Tribune: Sm: fett, at the ““Xlary Chapel,” on Tucedsy even- ing, thero wero two or threo things which, it scems fo tho writer, should not escape public griticism. Tho reverend gentleman, in what was, under the circumstances, a very remarkablo interpolation 1 his lceture, declared it to be an historic fact that Aspasis, of sncient Grecian fame, *TWAS A COURTESAN.” (See Webster's Unabridged for a definition.) Now, the writor will not yield to any one in intensity of couviction that the only absolutely blameloss course for womaa to adopt is the rigid insistance npon the falfiliment of the very last Jetter of the law of her reco and time, beforo entering tho marriage-relation. Tndeed, were I 80 unfortunate s to loso the little finger of 1y l=ft hand, and afterward to immigrato to one of those distant isles in which we were told the marrisge-ceremony consists in drinking water together and then linking the Little singers of tho loft hand, X would not marry . the most captivating Princo I found there, how- ever much he might entreat. No, I would BEND MY LOVER WALKING, and colin my wounded adfections s I might, rether than consent to such an “irregulsr mar- risge” a8 my niutilated lefs hand would, undor {hoso circumstances, necesitate, * For, ic all seriousness, asido from higher and weightier considerations touching tho obli- gation of the individual to avoid wounding the best moral senee of the scciety in which he lives, thofe 18 great warrant for this position, as 2mero matter of eelfish precaution, sinca it is not probable thet the love of any man could fully compengato & woman for what ehe is liable to experience as the result of 5 failire to demand .the wholo fulillment of that preliminary cere- mouial which law and custom decree should precedo tho marriags rolation, AndIonly wish I could tcach this to the thousauds of young girls who, upon entermg life; sze ho dazed by their own hearts, and the ULLF-SENSELESS TALK In literature, in tho pulpit, and on the platform, to_tho eficct that * Wi life is love ;" “Lova is ber moat and drink:” * By love siio reigns and wins;” * Without Jove 86 pines and dies, or becores au unsexed creature, odious to gods sod men,”—ihat they fail to sce that woman's true crown of glory is not much loving, bus wiso loving ; aud perish uttorly. From this point of viow, Aspasia was not alto- getlier wiso or exemplary. Hed it been possible to ber to have used her raro powers and intluenco to change the corrapt marnisge-laws of Athens; or, failiog in that, hod ehio pationtly eubmitted to them,—she might not huve come down to us in bistor?, but would Dhave been grander in character. As itis, she wesa 7 PURE, LOVING, AND NUCH-LOVED WOMAS, bighly catecined by the best .men of her ration, snd immensurably superior to the women of Lier Tor, what worothe facteinhercase ? According totle latest and best authorities upon Athenisn history, Aspasia wes a freo woman, residing in Atbens, but of foreign birth. Pexicles, the statesman, patyiot, scholar, and eoldier, whose position in Greeco the reverend gentloman of Tuesdsy evemung paralleled with that of Charies Bamner to-dey, procured a divorce from his firat wife, by ber full cousent, aod in full accord with Athenian law. IT then took Aspasia to his home, and lived with her for twents-five ears, in the most faithful and devoted affection. us Aspasis’s forcign birth—in her case tho missing “liitlo finger "—preventod their logal marrisge, and gave to the community which condemned Socrates to death, aud baoished Anaxagoras and Phidias, s prelext for calumny and slander. j Of tho fact that a gentleman in the position of the lecturer should endeavor to BEVIVE THESE OLD CALUAINIES, in their very conmsest form, s0 soon after the fruer and betier interprotation of Aspasin’s life had been given to the same sudience in the game place, but two explanations are possible : Either bo has allowed himself toTemain in gross ignorence of thie more recent historical investi~ =tions and anthorities upon that subject, and g0 dogmatically repeated as bistory tho im- ‘pressions of bis boyhood ; or he was impelled by Bome present personal animosity, or eome per~ sonal pique, which found, in that attack npon & different opinion of Aspasia given in tho fourth lectmie of the same course, its natural grati ticn. As illustrefive of the willingness with which some young msidons,; just fitting. from the paternel nest, euter the open door of any mniri~ mon:al cage, wo vere told the story of & New Ycrik clergyman who, haviog been called to per- form A MARRIAGE CEREMONY, found, in the basement of tho tenemeni-house desigmated, & young girl of 15, who stood au the bride cmid a group of sailors. Upon an inquiry for the bridegroom, a slight commotion aroso 3 and “ You go Jim ["—* Ko, you go yourself I went on, with nudges of the elbow, and so forth, whilo tho young g'rl stood an interested thongh not spocizlly egitated splctator. Some who listened to that story thought it more illustra~ tive of the moral degradation of the clergyman who weald perform a_inarriage-ceremony under those circumstarces than of anything else.. An it is very certein that the pure woman, to whose Imemory the arches beneath which the lecturer stood aro consecrated, would bave found some . womanly way in which to have oxpressed her in~ dignation Lad it been told in her presence. As s fo:son in morala or fact, the tale had only such velue as & sneer at girlish innocence and the marriago-relation can have. And, ns wit, it wea very dreary. After gome brilliant periods upon the yalue and dignity of woman's lifo, in the wise perform- zuce of her Bpecial duties as wife and mother, which no one ever protends to deny, the Tever end gentleman songht to produce o telling effact by the remark : “And ahall wo degrade . this creature, 8o endowed, to THE PRIMARY MEETING?" or somothing similar to that. I quote from memory. Now, the abominations of a primary meefinihnvu been g0 long and_forcibly insisted upon, that T, for one, am inclined to believe in their existence ; but, if any one supposes that, when wamen participate in leg tion, they will hold their primary meetings in low grog- eheps or the rear room of a corner grocary, he 18 simply mistaken. Men may continue to- do so for a time, but women will never adopt that cus- -fom, and it is probable that the third generation after the commencement of women's ;practical Pparticipation in the work of legislation will seo ita placos of civic gathering AS ZLTOANT, AS ORNATE, AND AS DECOROUS 8sour churchos are now. And they certainly €ehould be 80, as an expression of the dignity of the State when it stands zs the personification or reprezentatjon of the highest wisdom of a majority of oll its citizens. E As tothe character and conduct of primary meetings, these are matters for those who com- Ppose them to regulate. Doubtless much of our Dresent politicel machinery may ultimately ba Zfound unfit for the work of gotting at the best judzment upon legislative questions of & major- ity of those legislated for. ~ As isnow stands, it ivsimply what thoso in whose lionds it bas been -bave made it, or permitted it to becomo. Meautimo, the fact remains that the study of the science of human government is ono of the L NOBLEST AND MOST ENNOBLING, and, it is gafe to aflimm that, if the women of 1l- Luois had given eome timo and thought to the Questions now occupying legielativo bodies, sach 2y the pecuniary relations of bus- bavds nnd wives, tue obh'g-ntions of parents to chiliren and’ of children to psrents, compulsory education, the Bible in pub: Lo “echools, tuxation of [church-property, the carrency question, railrosd msnagoment, ete, they would not have found thom degrad- g, but'a tonic to mind and heart encrvated by concentration of interests upon merely per=onal Telationships. That any Jarge number of women give much sttention to theso or any sub- Jects, except under the stimulus of opportanity for exprossisn of individual choice Or opinion Soncerning them, i8 not, however, to bo ex- Pected. wens Ceicaco, Feb, 25, 1674, ———— A Bark Attacked by a Whale. The bark Kato Williams, Cspt. Hale, of the Fxcular packet line between Boston and Fayzl, B arrived ab Buston on Friday last, had a emerinble cscapo on her paseage. The Boston Viurnal thus describes the incident : * About 7 In tho Jecture of the Rev. W. A. Bart- o'clock one morning & seaman aloft cried onf that thero was a whalo on the port bow. c.pts Hale stepped to tho port quarter, and almost {m- mediately could have laid his hand upon the np. Per jaw of & sperm whele, which had paldan pne welcoms visit to the vessel. It wasa cow whale, about 60 fect in length, which bod ot uata them, and had ebe struck the vessel a littio ars ther under, tho Kate Williams would probably over have been heard from afier loaving Fayal. As it an, the veseel received a pretty good al.\!‘)clr, aud lost & portion ‘of ber mizzen chan- pels. 'This monster had seen tho back abont the time the sailor diccovored her, for she im- mediately sank and came up with groat forco Tight at the vessel's stern. gspz. ale thinks her mouth measured at least 15 feet, and her under jaw was felt to scrapo the bottom of tho | vossel as sho glided swift] - :finifiti‘l ‘mnm'g' ly away from her un- @ bark, no donbt, for the quurter-deck covered 'wih ‘icoes of tho leriaihenie onres skin and ibe “10ud™ that is found between it and the tougher hide. Tho Kato Williams was sail. ing rapidly at the time, and in about Sficen min- utes the fish was out of sight, While tho latter could Lo scen, she ‘appeared_swimming aboat Tooking for the vaesel, and evidently in & rago.” ——— HAPPILY MARRIED. An Offsot to the Divorce, Breach-of. Promisc, and Other Unpicasant Phuses of Courtship and finrringe. o the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: 2 One cannot tako up a paper nowadays with- ont being; confronted, in glaring letters, with & ** Divorco,” or * Matrimonial Quarre),” or “Wifo Beaten," or what would sec to bo a universal complaint,— ° & DIFFICULTIES BETWEEN MARRIED FEOFLE. Then turn to the correspondence, and soms husband complains of the extravagance of wom- en, of the leniency of the'law in giving women 80 many privilegos of property denicd tomen, or somo poor, subdued wife ventilates her opinion on the tyranny of men " in general, or the fearful injustice of the law in regard to' wives and their right in their own children. Per- Thaps somo bachelor or sncient maiden ntters a growl at the fetters of matrimony, and declares how much better and wiser it is to remain single. ‘The newepaper-columns are mediums of com- phints, grumbles, and abuses; but whoover represonts to tho public that large class— IN FACT, THE MAJORITY— of contented married peoplo, who troubls not themeelves sbout the law, except in a general way, becauso the 1aw of tnoir honseholds is love, which ‘‘casteth out.fear,” and never ssy, “Mine " and * Thine, ” and ** What I have done for yon,” and * What yon have dono for mo.” Iam proud to own that I belong ‘to this class, and I audaciously claimto ropresent at least two- thirds of the households living in tho pleassnt, shndy streots “on the Hill," or tho elegant brown-stonerows ‘‘ on the Heights :" the honees from which the sunny; happy little children como whom you meet going to school in the mornin, od from which you get a delightful odor of yyod dinners, and & glimpso of & warm, shiny dining-room, as you pass toward evening, Our young men andmzidens, with thoughts of matrimony and each other natarally lurking in their braias, and plenty of newspapers to -road 2t home, conclude that it is all a faice, and the ouly way to be bappy and indepondent is naver to marry, and thus escape those dreadful fat- tera. Not long since I read a lettor—intha Graphic, Ithink—from s *‘Bachelor,” who claimed to have solved this whole problem, I can just soe him blustering around while ho tells how he and another follow hired a pice honse, furnished it comfortably, got a respectable housckeever who did not 8eo too sharp, and who understood her business; how thoy had their meals ('.mlfiussli served, buttons all right, snd Low they too] their night-keys, came in_any hour they chose, ond 1o oue kaid a word. This he called comfort. Brother, lot me tell MY EXPCRIENCE. We—my John and I—aroclose in the neigh- borhiood of our ervstul-wedding day. Wo have three or four children, all boyx, which is a pity. Now, 1 honeatly do not tt..uk John is porfect, a0d I never kcard of his saving that I was. In temperament we aro not altko.” Jobn is one of your punctual, accursto men,” iutollizent (or X shouldn't have married him), kind-hoarted and loving (or be wouldw't have marricd me), not very demonstrative, and no ovo but his wife, 1 sometimes think, koows Low much he docs Zeel. Now, I am eutkusiastic; if T liko o thing, pco- lo 'in the bouse gonerally know it, and, it I want to_do snything, there isn't much peaca till I accomplish it. I havo some- times wished that Johu would not bo 80 non- committal, and would not look so horror-stricken when I mako s mistako or forget somatuing., And I know bo thinks (he's told mo 80) that if 1 would be more moderate and not tear around Bo, things would bo pleasanter. Bat for all that, T ‘WOULDN'T CHANGE Jobn's faults for any other man’s perfections, and I never heard bim bewail hislot ; at any rate, he does not do it in_the papers. I ehall have to confess that wo did try to make each other over at first, but we gave that up before we reached our wooden wedding. We Liave tried s0 long to please each other that somehosw now wo eeem o have the same tasies, enjoy tho same pleasnres, and suffer at the suma sorrows. I do not say that wo never differ, aud never part in the morning with a shade of some- thing unreconciled between us. But you never & two snch misersblo wretches in your life, whien such is the case, or two such happy beinga when the thing is made up. Abont that night-key. Blese your hoart, John don’t want to go out oveniugs alone. I CAXNOT GET HIM OTT. Here is our bright coal-fire; Loro are our boys, With their young life and . their school-projects; here are books, slippers, cigars (he is a little particular about emolke in the curiaing himsoif), and no ore to scold him. Really now, he doés not care to be out half the night, for 1t is al- togother go_very different, you see, from—well, from a sinfilu bed, and & housekeoper who “un’ | Qerstands her business,” asleep, to order, in the fourth story. ) Eometimes we take a fancy to hear Nilsson, or something nico at the Academy; and Low do wodo? Why, we put our .night-key in our ‘pocket (pantaloons, of course), go where we likic, Ccome home any hour of the night we choose,’ and who's afraid ? Oh! we have had many a rare treat, John and 1, all by ourselves. AS TO EXTRAVAGANCE, , if I ever want something exira good, a silkdress or carpot, I tako John with me, for men have & way of spending money, for 5 good. lhm'g with, an abandon’ which takes 2 womsn's breath clean away. Doesn't he want bis wife to look as well 28 tgo next man's wife, fo besure ? I know tho state of John's aflairs s well as he, and, when | we have to bo economical, it is as much my in- toreat to go without the silk dress aa his, and I can do it and still be happy. 1 could writo & book sbont Jobn and I; but this is enough, I know, for.thoussnds of hus- bands and wives to eay, “‘ That's truo.” BSad cases thero are of unhappiness and nn- congeniality, and they slways come to the fer- face. But DOES ANY ONE BELIEVE that all e martied people are grosning nnder our bonds and_looking about for easy divorcea? To most of us the thought of the time that shall suroly come, *“when ono shall be taken and the other loft,” makes the hearl stand still, ) Does any one beliovo that alt the littlo chil- dren who go dencing to echool every morning yome from onhiappy homes? No, they go with their mother's loving kiss still warm on _their lips, and the happy, proud glatce of their father lingering about them, a8 he straps their books and snse. Good-byo, — After thioy are one, do ibe ({rmm and mother sulic and quarrel? Nota it of it. ; Thero is & Httlo talk sbout the morning news, 8 good-bye kiss, very likely a discussion about which it shall be, roast beef or chicken, for din- ner, snd with injunctions to ¢ Come nome early,” and “ Don't tire yournelf all ut sewing,” they 'each go sbout their werk with a hymn of thanksgiving in their hearts, You don't believa all this, Mr. Bachelor ? You say it is & fancy sketch, Well, IT 18 TRI vz, whether you believe it or not. I know, and you don't. I'have been there. Now, when are added to this love and son- geniality, & true Christian :dymyaflly, 3 working fogether in benovolent deods, a scarching after tho truth side by eido. sny, my growling friend, do you lnow aryhing this side Heaven moie restful, more to b desired. Buch couples are not as rare, perhaps as you fancy, but do not_search the police-records for them. I beheve I speak for many. Axnd, intae name of young men and women ottling in lifo, will not some oune else testify? Von't some brother spoak? 5 g My dear Mr. Editor, hers is a conundram no one but an editor can solve: Cannot our papers bo msde profitable unless they are silled with 2il {he eicxening details of these exceptionnl kor- rows, and the record of crimes which decent peo- Plo do not mention, and of which young people i it ? Shionlit o ol gnanty A CoxtrsTED WIrE, The whalo fared ag badly as | | PROFESSORS AND PROLETARIAT. The London Sunday-Lecture P Society. ‘The Best of Lectures at a Penny Per Hour. In tho foll of 1869, o few men met in London, and resolved to crganize & society to déliver lectures on tunday afternoons. Circulars wero issued, and & meeling was sppointed for tha 25tl of November. At tkat meoting, which was prezded over by Prof. Huxley, Mr. W. Honry Domyille reported that 156 persons Lad signified their wish to becomo members of such a society. The following resolutions were then unani- mously passed: 2 i RESOLUTIONS. That o goclety be now formed, under the titls of # Th Sanday-Lesturs Society,” o provide for the de- livery on Susidays in tue Metropolie, and to encourago the delivery elsewhere, of Jectures on sclenee,—physi- ‘cal, intellectunl, and moral,—history, literature, aud art'; espocialiy u their bearing upos the improvement and social weil-being of mankind. ‘That if, at zny tinie, pecunisry profita shall bo made, such profita elall be appiied o the fusther promotion of the abjects of the Society, and that the members of thio Socicty shall on no account_divide any portion of £uch profit smong thews2lvos, Thal no musical performance shall be introduced st azy locture withous the sanction of a geueral meating of the Soclety. That the Sonlety consist of a President and Vice- Prexidents, and ordinary members ; and that the man- agement of its ailaira be by a comniiltes, THE MEMDERS. Among the names of the 155 members at the timo of organization aro thoso of Prof. Alexun- der Bain, Prof. J. Cairnes, Dr. T. Speucer Cobbold, Dalton, Darwin, Grote, Vernon Har- court, Prof. Hunter, Huxley, Tyndall, W. E. Lecky, John Stuart ALll, Willinm Pace, Ruskin, -and other men well kuown on this side of tho Atlantic. ‘Thoe fuil izt contains tho names of Catholics, Churchmen, Dissonters, Jews, and Tnfidols. It was expressly understood that the lecturers Were to be absolutely freo to tay what they wished, but that oy particalar creed should only be attacked when belief in it stood in the way of the dewonstration of some truth. A committeo of oight was olceied, and the Society procceded to its work. St. George's Hall was hired, and lecturers were enguged. OLGANIZATION. Mermbors pay an aznual due of £1. - This en- titles them to reserved ecats for tweaty-four Iectures that ero given cach winter. Their tickots. aro trsmeferable. Thoy s&lso re- ceive singlo tickets to cight of those lectures. Reserved sosts are sold at & shilling, and_others at sixpence, aud & 'penuy. Nobody is admitted free. There is no charity about the concern. Tho lecturars receive fiva guiness. Many of them, however, have a way of giving their pay back dgain. Tho Socicty wiuks at this plulo- ical fraud, and tases the douation. The ers are, bowever, under no obligetion to return the monay, and often do not do 50, Thie following list of thie eigbt lectures deliv- ered in January and Fobruary of 1572 gives a e’ W. B, Carpeater, Esq., AL D, F. R. S., F. L. 8., on istic? Alanifestations.” Bebastiun Evaur, Esq., M, A, LL. D. (Combridg), “Tae Legend, cind L Sigalficanca in Belation to Euglish Life, 1wt iud Present. AT, Green, Exg,, M. A’ (Cambridge), Jeo 28 3 Geo- logical Agent, Specially with Ligard to the Way in Vhien ¢ ‘Hs Lett Tes Mark oa the Noenery of the Brit- Lrof, W. A. Hunter, M, A, oa “Stotclem, Epicure- anism,’ and " Christisulty, Compsred es Moral Sys- noy Lacturer on Govlogy, Britieh Museam), on “ The Biscleton of the Higher Verzebratzi trating the Szheme of Creatlon.” - Yrs, Faweett on “ Thie Education of Women.” Jon'A. Hj, ZLanguago and 1ts Stzpilariry to Englie s The Litera- When it is remembered that these leciuressre especially designed for wotkiugiuen, aud timt T3t LECTURES. vory [air idea of the usual subjects and ‘spoak- “ Epidemio Deiusione, witis 8 Keferenco to * Bpirituale on * King Artnar: F.G.8. (of Her Majesty’s Geoiogical Survey), on G Telee, tems. 'T. 8. Cobbold, Exq., 1. D., F.R. S, F.L.S, (Swi- ‘Lawson Tuit, Esd., on * Tho uin Hand, 2s Tius- jaltalin, of Iccland, on *The Icelandic turc of Icelsnd, Old and Moderu, they aro well patronizod, their vatue in the pro- motion of popuiar intefligeuce becomes rppuc- ent. As many of them are somcewhat abstrues, a printed analyais of tho lecture to be delivered is handed to each person as ho onters the hall “he Society gencrully prints the lecturcs, and sells copied at & very littic moro than bare cost. THE AVEEAGE ATTENDANCE was 236 the firet year, 468 the secocd, and 390 the third. Tho stalistics for last yoar hzve not yot resohod us. Tho time of asecmbly has bacn sometimes in tho eveming, sometimes in the aftornoon. It is now fised at 4 p. m. Thero is, thereiore, no interferencs with church-gorvices, A number of ciergymon aro members of the Bociety. But few protests have been made sgainst the alleged desecration of the Sabbath. The most dovout observers of tha day have , been constrained to admit that the Socioty 18 doing more good than barm. It i reaching men (o \thom no clorgyman could by sny clianco speak. It is rescuing men from the gin-shops by glving them somew here else to go on Sunday afternoons, It is civilizing them; and cinlization, according to Prof. Bwing, is *¢ Material Christianicy.” TILE COST OF DOING GOOD hos been but small. Tho fotal exponses for the year ending Oct. 15, 1872, were £376 193; the re- coipta amonnted to £4110s4d. Of tiis sum, £249 158 3d camo from mewbership foes sud donstions. The amount re- ceived for tickets of sdmission has averaged £513s 6d per lecture. \When it is romembered that the highest-priced seatis sold fora shil- ling snd the Jowest for a peuny, it will bo soon that this sum represents a good many hearcrs. On twenty-four Sunday afternoons of every yoar this Socicty preaches tho truths of God as they sppear in different creeds, in Natare, in Philoso- by, and in Science, to Iatge sudiences of work- smen. It gives its hearors the grentcst of sll boons,—Enowledge; but it does not debase them by doling this out ason slms, Tho fect thiat it ia not a charity is the corner-stono of its excellonce. " ' MONETARY. SATURDAY EVENING, Feb, 28, Tho stagnation in finaucial affairs and in many branches of trade becomes more apparent from week to weok. This may bo mccounted for to some extent by the fact that this is ono of the dull periods of the year. The latter part of Feb- ruary is always' ssortof hiatus botween the winter and epring trado. There is usually s de- cresse in tho marksting of crops: and in the sale of goods at this time. Dut, nside from theso usual fentures, there is at present a notable lack of.confidence on the part of capitalists .in soy long investment. Money is superabundant for short investments, but it is all a hand-to-mputh sort of business. Every- body seems to bo waiting, and the general re- mark of capitalists is that they would prefor to know what Gongress is going to do sbout the ourrency before they make long engagements of any kind. This hesitancy may Lave, ia fact, but litfle gronnd in Teasom. Cougross is at lenst pretty sure not to authorizo any contraction of tho currency, and the prospects of inflation by the issun of more greenbacis ara becoming less every -iu{; A Tt hw, Lowever, become tho fashion to foel doubtful, and one doubts because znother does, and the currency discussions in Congress ré thus exercising a dopressiug effect on business. 2Doney is freely offered in the open market at 10 per cent, with some loans at 9. New York Exchange i8 offered freely at 500 per 91,000 discount. s The clearings of the Chicago banks for the wock were: Clearinga, $2,51(,698.12 319,005.84 Total,evuensrvoeens $1 B $1,493,824.50 “Qorresp'g week last year..14,225,217.60 1,433,1ST.40 Mensrs. Preston, Kean & Co. quote ss follows this p. m.: Buying, Selling ‘United States Gs of 81. 1) 120, Tnited States 5-20s of ‘62, Iig 118 United States 5205 of 'G4. 115 120 -United States 5-203 of 205 113 TUnited_Statos 5-208 of Gi—Jenu-. ry and Ju.y. 9% United Biates 5503 of ‘Gi—Jani- ary andJuly.... ... . 120 United Btates 5-203 of 68 —~Janu- July. 103 115y 14 1105 2 mpons. 1125 Gold exchange. 1125 Sterling . SLEARALTIS Chicaga 98 5ot ¥ Gint, “meats, which wero called for .shipping account, and comman 98 &int, 99) &int. @K Cook County 10" per Agreuitural Collego 1and-se .. 178 “Ihe following quotation: ai 6ocks are furnished by Messrs. Hammond & Gago: Bid, ‘Firat National Dank. Third National Bank.... Fifth National Bank. Commercial National Bank.. Aferchants’ National Bank.... German National Bank. . Eigin Watch Company...... .. L2100 Z Chicego Gra-Light and Coke Company 105 Cramber of Commerce Traders’ Insurance Compan; COMMERCIAL. BaTunDAT EveNrea, Feb, 28, Tho following wora the recsiptsaud shipmonts of the leading articles of produco in Chicago during the past twenty-four hours, and for tho corresponding date one year 8go : . Eremrzs. |} SEITAENTS, Flour, brls. Wheal, bu, Coru, bu, Oate, bu., Rye, bu.. Barley, bu Grass seed, ..., | 108,524 Flax scod, b8 .....| 20,850 Broom corm, L5, ,000 Cured meats, 1bs .| 174,60 Becf, brls.. ork, brs. ar Withdrawn from storo on Friday for city con- sumption, 1,776 bu wheat, 10,357 bu corn, 2,744 bu oats, 4,525 bu 150, 1,167 bu barley. With-:| hama, drawn for do during the week: 7,074 bu wheat, 21,997 bu corn, 8,603 bu oats, 8,579 bu rye, 5,207 bu basley. The following grain has been inspected into storo this morning up to 10 o'clock: 85 cars wheat, 8 cars corn, 15 cara oats, 8 cars rye, 7 cars barley. Total, 197 cars, or 77,000 bu. The following wero the recoipts and shipments of broudstufls and live stock at this point daring Lho past week, end for the corresponding weeks cuding a8 daté ; 3 zecerrers, Tep. 28, Feb.2l, Mur. 1, 187, 1674, 1875, Floar, bris,, 7, 2803 5840 Wheat, bu . 803,016 268,900 Curn, bu 189,380 563,375 106,813 230,693 23,195 15,342 Flour, brls. Wiseaf, b .. Corn, bu Live ko 34,053 Cattle, N 9,298 8536 “Tlo usually dreary procecsion of days which make up the winter mouths, as they aré populer- Iy regarded, Las now passed by. It Lus not been v very ghastly procession tlus far ; 1ndecd, its aspect has been one of unprecedented mildness. ‘The blaster of November, whick frightened so many who, expecting o very hard winter, turned ont to be only a littte metfereclogical brag after all. The indications now are that - the season of avigation will opea very coom, though we may Lave a great deal of raw weather bofore summar, It can ecarcely bo cotd enough after this to add malerially to tho thicivess of the ico in tho Btraits of Macxinaw, which is understood to be already on the point of breaking up 2nd moving ont with the eastward carrent. Wo are usually ready in Chicago two or threo weeks beforo the Straits uro open, and if they aro_cleared of ico within a short time oven the enluinacfin.l winds of Mazch will not prevent our lako craft from moving. Freight room for wheat to Buffalo v offercd to-day at 9o per bu, £nd 74c was the bost bid reportod. Willism Young & Co., commission merchzats, of this city, bavo isuued their annual circular, wvhowing tho “Present and prospective sapply of spring wheat froi now unti nost Latreater Tha informatiou contained in the circular_embracea roturne from 49 points in Iown, 37 in Wisconsin, 89 in Minuczota, and 21 in Nebraska, a total of 137 peints beard from. From an aoalysis, it would appear thiat the stock of wheat at iotarior Imim 18 consideraly larger than at this time 25t year, especially at the prominent places. Thero 13 a mags of other information relative to tize prospects, ctc., but tho document is too vol- uminous for s to attempt aaything more than au aualysis of the prominent feature, TOE MARKETS. ‘The loeding produce markets were rather less active tc-day, with few important changes in prices, tho tendency thronghout being $o steadi- niess, excont in wheéat. “Fhe recapts are rather small for the neason, with ne prospect of 3 Iargo increage in corr, 0ats, Or ryo. ‘T'ho demand for staple domestic and foreign dry gooda was fair for tho scason, and_the gen- eral inarket 2gain presented a firm, bealthy tone. Grocerics wera without change in price, but eome -lines of goods were more firmly held. This was epccially truo of coffeca and sugars, and in the former the tendency was upward. | Teas wore quict and casy, while rice, spices, soaps, candles, sirups, and most otuer descriptions wore steadi- 1y beld. Batier continues active and firm. Good to fancy lois eold at 33@48c, and poor to medium 8t 25@30c. Cheeso romains quiet and firm at the advance noted early in tho week. No quotable changes wero developed in tho fish, ~canned g00ds, and dried froit markets. Bagging re- maing dull at 3414c for Stark, $234c for Lewia- ton, and at 23}¢c for American and Amoskeag. A liberal movement in oils was witneesed at un-~ changed and generally firm prices. Pig iro paints, tobacco, coal, and wood wera quote: quiet and steady. Leather was firm 08 provious- 1y quoted. Tho shipping movement of the common grades of lumber continucs large, and, under reduced stocks, chcxs are ruling firm at tho recent ad- vouce. Tho other grades are steady, and shin- gles and lath active and firm. Metals and tin- nera’ stock wore steady and fairly active. Build- ing materials were quiot, Nails wero quite firm under an active iuquiry. No change wasappa- rent in the wool, hay, kop, or broom-corn mar- kots. Tho soed market was loss activo, but the foeling was one of firmness, especially for choico eccds. Timothy and clover wero in demand for shipment to Canada. Green fruits were rathar quiet, but stesdy, excopting apples, which, being _in liberal supply, ruled weak, The local trade in potatoes was again fair, and prices wero without important change. The receipts were Isrger, but choite peachbiows brought former prices'in cars. _ Choice dressed poultry was firm under & good demand and light supply. Eggs were dull and lower, _ Highwines were 1n good roquest, and steady during the greater part of tho wession at yester- doy's price, sales being reported of 250 brls at 3¢ per gallon. Toward 1 o'clock Cincinnati was reported weak and lower, and New York waa also lower, at 96c, but our market closed steady. Dreseed hogs were quict and easicr, the milder weather making shippers_less anxious to buy and holders leas willing to keep bck their offer- iogstill Monday. The general market was $6.00 per 100 Tos for light, and £6.10@6.15 for good heavy, with a littlo niore for really choice lots. Bales were reportédof 26 at $6.25 ; 330at §6.1214; 420 at £6.10; 23 at £5.95; 67, dinding on 200 Ibg, at $6.10@6.15. Toial, 976 hend. Frovitions wore moderafely sative, and afirmer fecling prevailed for all descriptions of product, though higher prices were obtained only for guilc liberally on od fully 36 moro than on yestorday. Pork and lard were dealt in mainly on speculativo account, and the busiuess pasiook largely of changing options from one month to another, tho current ratcs being S3o per brl for pork,’ 20c per 100 Ibs on lard, and #@3c per 1b on all descriptions of meats. fi:ere is undoubtedly more doing in meats than the reported trandactions each day indicate, a8 is cvidenced by the ehipments, more espocislly of boxed deecriptions, Our et:cks aro large, but the weakness of yesterdsy developed the fact that there are some who want the property, a8 -was evidenced by tha offers of prominent dealers. This feature caused firmer fecling to-day. A considarablo proportion of the product now in the hands of packers cost 5@524e por pound groes, hence they cannot very well efford to sell it at lower figures than are now current. . The stock of mess pork here ig esti- mated at 140,000 brls ; of Jard, 105,000 to 110,000 ticrces ;.and of meats at 85,000,000 to 45,000,000 pounds. ” At the close of the packing last vear the stocks wora about 94,000 brls of pork ; 44,000 tierces of Iard, snd $2,000,000 pounds of 'cut meals, showing that thore it o material increase roduct on hand. Freights are atill unsettled irrogular, both rail and ocean, and tlns s a tendeucy to stimulate shipments —indeed it is kpown that consider- able freght-room s engaged ~ abroad. The market closed steady and Lrm at the fol- lowing range of prices: Aless pork, cash or seller February, 313.85@14.00 ; do seller March, £18.85@18.90: do seller April, S14.16@14.20; do scller May, $14.45@14.50; prime mess pork, $12.25@12.50; extra pnme’ do, $11.00@11.25. Laxd, cash orsoller March, $8.00@8.5735 ; do seller April, $8.75@8.77}4; do scller May, £3.9214@3.95. Greon hams at 9@9Ye for 16 and 16 . Ib sverages; sweet-pickied hams, {@105c; dry-salted meats, loose, at $5.10@5.20 for shoulders, 7i¢c for Cumberiands, 7@ 7% for long clear, 7.85@7.40 for snort ribs, Tige for hort clear; the same boxed at igc per i above these prices. Groon meats 3@ o lower than ealtod do. Moats for April delivery }{c bigher, and for Moy <. higher, than cash rices. Bacon meals, Gc for shoulders, 7{@8}{c for ehort ribs, 83/@8}gc for ehort clear, " all "packed in' boxes; tho samo in Lhds, 3¢o highor. Bacon hams, 11}4@130. Mess becf, 8§8.75@9.00; estra mess do, $0.75@10.00 ; beef hams, $23.00@23.50. City tailow, 63{@6J50; grease quotable at 437 @ic. Sales wero reported of 50 brls mess pork, cash, st 914.00; 1,500 brls seller March ot $18.50; 500 brls do at $18,821¢; 1,250 brls do at $13.85; 500 brls ecller April at 81450 ; 500 brls do at $14.20 ; 250 brls soiler May at 81.50; 100 tes cash fard at $8.60; 3,000 tca sellor March at £8.55; 230 tes do at 58.52(4 500 tes seller April nt 93.75; 1,500 tes sefler Blay at £8.95 10,000 1bs bellies at 8150 looso ; 250,000 1bs dry saited shonldera at $5.10 looso ; 100,000 1bg short ribs at $7.80; 30,000 tba doat $7.3734; 100,000 Ibs do seller April at 75¢c ; 100,000 108 short clear, séller May, ot 8¢, all 1oase ; 60 boxes short clear at 73{c ; 48 tes white greazo at 6e. The Vaily Commercial Report_pives the fol- lowing 08 the shipments of provisions from thia city during the week, euding with Thursday last, and for cther periods: Tork | Ear bria. | 1 ) bas * flama Should's 't Hiddles, fen |l 123 o5, 433) 425 108l w068 64men Samo we 3,358 GGl 1,824 1,187, 500] 10,423,160 SincoNov. 1,13, 63,515 73,44] 23]511 100,555, 6211126, o7, 763 tima 1210 17,6431137, 62| 34, Geal 23,002, 4331106, 403, €23 *Grecn_ hams shippod during the week, 1,330 pes, Sfalnet 8538 1es the comosponding week 1dst veart Tamo tinio 6L v Do sgaluish 262516 pea the tincludes all cut meats except shoulders sad 8. P. With to-doy ends the regular packing season of 1873-4. Tho number of hogs packed in this cits daring that period was : 1873-74. even 1,622, 17 1872-73, 1,425,079 187172, 1,214,836 1370~ 870,260 1869 643,130 Fiour was very dull, or than nominal at_the decling notod yesterday, the business being confincd o a few lots taken for city use. Exporters were ont of tho market, a3 their limits were reduced 6d yosterday. Dran wus again 3100 Iower. Sules were roported of 100 brls white winter oxtras at $7.75 ; 200 brla do on privato terms ; 150 brls spring oxtras at.$5.75; 100 Lrls do on ‘pr vats torms ; 100 brls superfing (Osk Grovo) av 2455 ; 100 brla o on private terms. . Total, 750 brls.” Also, 20 tons bran at £15.00, on track. The following wero the quo- tations at the close : : Fair 10 good whito winters, $650 @ 1.5 Cloice do. .75 - @ 925 Red srinters. 5 @ 7.50 Cholce spring cxtras, 625@ 6,00 Medium to good do. 20" @ 5.0 Good to choice Minnesofa.. @® 675 { Patent do @10.50 Fr to choice spring, superfine. @ 250 Common do. @ 350 Tyo flour, @ 450 Buckwh @73 . 15,00 (#1350 Whoa , and averaged about tho same 0o on Friday, being very steady through tho gronter pars of the session. Tio carly sd- vices from Enropo did not quote s matorial do- clivo, but chatacterized thoso markets as dull, with no demaud. Thin took off the adge from thio appetite of spoculative buyers hero, giving but o light domsnd. for Apil delivery, “viild there was very littlo March wheat offered, as moszof the frades for that month hed Veon swopt out of tho way proviously. Hence thore wasno expeotation of Leavy offerings on Mon- day, to bear tho markot, and cash wheat was not a burdon, as the roceipts veroabout equaled by ‘the shipments. Henco the markot was steads, in the absenco of pressuro cither way, and quiot. There was & moderate smount of buying for April, bowever, as the very mild weather promised sn eatly resumption of laks naviga: tion. _After tho telogram at noon anoow New York fim, thore was more activity Dero, and » decidod improvement in prices. There was very little shipping demand. Seller April opened at 1,18, declined to #1.173¢, rose to S1.183¢, fell back 0 81.177¢, and dvanced to £1.18%, declinod_to $1.1875, and improved to $1.19% at the closo. Scllor Alarch sold at SL155@1.163¢, and soller May ar 31.21¢21,24, Botl ciosing at tho outsido. Chsh No. spring closed nominal nt SL1G3; for regular to S1.17i¢ for girictly fresh recoipts, mo sales being mado at thoso figures, No. 1 spting closed nominal at 8119 for straight, and 3120 for Northwestern rodeipts. No.3 closed nominal at 511214, and Tejected doab 31.08. Cash sales woro reported 01,200 bu No. 1 Northwestorn at £1.20 ; 800 bu do (Central) nt $1.19; 400 bu-No, 1 spring at $1.18; 1,600 bu No. 2. spring, strictls fresh, ot $1.16%5 ;4,00 bu do st S11GK(; 21,200 bu part- Iy doat 116 ; 15,400 bu .do ac 11537 ; 5,000 bu regular at SLI5IS ; 5,000 bu do ot SL153 ; 2,300 bu No. 3 spring at 81.12; 100 bu by sam- o, maminoth, at $1.25 on track. Total, 58,600 u. Corn wes quietand firm st sbont {he ssme range as on Friday. The recoipts wero light, and New York was also qnoted firm, under the inflaenco of emall reccipts, s corn on the way bas been kept back from that city fortwo or throo days past by thoe snow-storm. These things tended to firmnexs, though Liverpool was under- stood to bo dull. ‘There was a moderate amount of changing over, the March trades not baving been seftled up so closely 28 in tho case of whent. Tho inquiry for futare was quite lunited outside of tkis, but the premium on the April option was increascd by the pressure to obtain it in exchange for corn deiiverable on Monday. Seller March opened at 57¢, Tose to 5734, and closed firm at the latter figure. Sellor April sold at 55X@ 58340, and soller May at 625@62%c, both. clos- ing firm at the outeide. Old No. 2 cloged firm at 572 for regular; new No. 2 and old rojected ot 533{c, and new rejected at 60}gc. Cash sales were reported of 13,200 bu No. 2, old, at 57c; 2,000 bu do, new, at 63%c; 2,800 bu .rejectod, old, at 537¢0; 8,600 bu do at Gdc; 1.600 bn do, new, 8t 50340 ; 4,000 bu do at 50c. Total, 27,200 bu. ¥ Oats were quiot and firm at tho eame range as on Friday, uuder a fair demand, with light offer- ings, the latter fact being duetoa small supply. New York was unchanged, but understood to be firm, for the same reason 48 that noted in corn. Seiler April sold at 43}{@4534c, scller March at 42}/@423o, and soller May at 4634@46%c, sl closing with firm holders st the outside. Cash No. 2 closed ot 423¢c for regular, and 423o for 1resh recoipts in car lota, Cash sales wers To- ported of 3,000 bu No. 2 a¢ 43%c: 2,400 bu do at 42140 ; 600 bu rejected do at 39%c. Total, 00 b Rye was very heavy, with no quotsble change in prices. Thero was scarcely sny demaud, but holders were very firm in their views, seeing that tiore has been & ather largo decrease in our stocky durivg the K:“ woek, reduciog them to about 50,000 bu. ar No. 2 was nominal at 83@83}4c, with none offered. Cash sales were reported of 400 bu strictly fresh No. 2 at 853403 400 bu do a$ 85¢; 400 bu ‘do short on 2 storago at 8414c ; and 400 bu by sample at 87c. Total, 1,600 bu. Barley wae very dull, and nominally about Io Jowr, at $1.55@1.60 for No. 2 ; 81.40@1.45 for 0.3 and SL25@1.80 for rojected, the out- side for strictly fresh reccipts in preferred houses. Thie receipts were not large, but only becanso not now invited by a domand. There is Do doubt that incressed firmness would be fol- Jowed by lerge shipments from the West and from Enropo. New York wns very dull to-day. Cash sales were reported of 5,000 bu No. 2 at €1.59 ; 400 bu No. 8 at 21.45; 1,600 bu do at 2144 ; 400 bu rejocted at £1.26; 400 bu do at $1.25; 800 bu, by ampls écdxlamh), at $1.073% 3 400 bu'do st $1.45. Total, 9,000 bu. ETEOFEAN MAREETS. The following advices were received on Change to-day, in eddition to thoze given in our telegraphic colnmos: Fxp. 28.—London—Cargoes off cozst wheat quieter. overal cargoes have been faken for the Continent, Corp steads. _Cargoes on paseage, wheat no inguiry, Livorpool—Californls club whest, 125 9d@13a 4d. White do, 123 52@12 104, _Spring, 11x d@12s, LIVERFOOL, Teb, 27.—Westers prime mess park, 3=, Eacon—Cum! d cut, 4153 short rib, 4083 long clear, 358 6d; 5 long cut hams, can, 738, LATEST. “TWheat was foisly active in the afternoon, snd osing: at 81.163¢ cash or seller 3farch, and selling a¢ $1.19% down to 31.19 for April, ' closing at “Also st S1.243¢ seller May.' Corn was steady 8t 5TH@57igo cash or sellor Marc, closing st 573(@575¢ ; seller April 8t 58}4@585. CALL DOARD. Mess pork 2nd lard wore in moderata demand, and prices were stronger and bigher figures bi Mess pork, cash or seller March,closed at 13,80 @13.90; goller April, 814.5 bid; seller May, $14.00@14.65. Lard, cash or sellor March, $3.535@S.60 ; sollor April, 38.5724@8.80; seller May, ¥8.95@3.00. Short clear, cash or sellor March, T14@73c ; sellor Apnl, 73c bid ; short 1ibs, cash, no bids, ro offers; seller April at 87.55@7.70 ; soller May, no bids; mo offers$ shoulders, cash or seller March, 5o offered ; soller April, £5.50 offered ; oller May, 53(@be. Wheat closed, mellor darch, st .$L.1614 bid. Sales were: 1,000 brls mess pork seller April 214355 500 brls doat 3142317 ; 500 tes lard ;9'1&; April a3 $8.80; 1,000 tca do seller Alay ab H@Xe lower, —_— CHICAGO LIVE-STOCK MARKET, DAY EVENING, Feb, 23. et BaToa; ‘The receipts of 1ive stock during the week have been as follows ; Cattte, activity i this branch of trade, aud pricea of the dif- fercut grades of stock have bocn Armly maintained, While thiere was no special activity in_the demand. for 0y description, the wanta of the different classcs of buyers were sutficient to about absorb the dally ar- rivals, the accumulations at 1o time belng very con- siderable. Tho attendauce of buyens was more fuan usually full, thero being no Eastorn market of any prominenso that did not have a representative here. Of etrictly firstclass beeves the offerings were few, and, with raro excoptions, there wereno tranafers at over $5.90, but the proporiion of good to cholce @grades was Iarger than usual, and the averago quality ¥as quito 85 good as for any provious week of the precent season. Butchera' cattle, though less active #han other descriptizns, have not depreciated in value, 28 tho wupply has not materizlly exceeded tho demand, Btockers continue in active request, and during the weck have advanced a triflo, $3,5024.60 the rul- ing prices for common to prime lots of from 700 to 1,030 e averzge. Feedess from different scctiona of this State, Wisconsin, Towa, Indiana, Oifo, and Penn- s5lvanta lave been on the inarket, and tho daily re- celpts were quickiy disposed of at iho abova rungs of prices At the Eaat tho past wock haa wituesewd 1o material fuctuation fn prices, though reports from most points have indicated & dull trade, snd swall profits for shippers. Veal calves zell at $3.50@5.75, according to quality. New mileh cows cre wanted at 000315.00 per Bead, ~iho outaids quotation for choice. "lo.day there was s lack of snimution, buyers sceming inditTerent, Lut prices were firrly held and w6 quots the market uuchanged, Only & amsll smonnt of s in the yards unsold. QUOTATIONS. Extra Deovos—Graded stecrs, svoraging 1,400 Choico Beevea—Fiue, fat, well formed 3yeir to 5 yeur old stecrs, ‘sveraging L) to 1,450 1ta, . Good Beeves—Wel uteers, nvernging 1,200 o 1,350 lis.. Medinm Grades—Stéers in fair flesh, o 2giug 1130 to 1,250 a. Butchers' Stock—Commo and good 10 extra cows, for city slaughter, £.10@5.30 4.75@5.00 aversglng 850 (o 1,100 s 2.50@L50 tock Caltle—~Common th T ¥ Hoah. sversying 700 1o 1,030 s, 3.50@4.50 Inforior—Light s0d thin cows, heifors, siage, buils, and scalawag steers... Cattie—Texas, cholco corn-fed Cattie—Texas, wiuterod North....... Cuttie—Texas. througn droves. -7 2.003.00 TXOGS—During the firet half of tho weck the suppiy was moderate, and prices ruied firm and Ligher than ‘st thocloso of the previo under the larger receipfs of Thursday-and Friday thiero was a aliarp reaction, prices Teceding toa point 15@25¢ below the opening rates. There was an in- creaso in {ha receipts of some 16,000 iexd, but tho supply of good to prime iots was not materially larger than ‘during last weck, tho increasa beingof low os, for which there was no outlet at over $7,00. Soms fancy lota were taken at £6.20@6.30, and early in the weelk there were numerous salcs at 38.09@0.19, but at the close, 5,75 must be considered an. outeide quotaiion, Todlzy the market was dull at {rregular snd lowex prices, the decline amounting to 10G15¢ 23 compared ‘with yesterday's quotations, Including the hogs left over irom yesterday, thers was a supply of . fully 16,+ ). Of this number about ope-half found buyereat $4.25@5.00 for inferior to common ; at $5.15G S ‘medium; and at £5,30@5.€5 for good to e Bost of fhe trading waa done at $5.00@3.35, Na, Av. o4 210 5118 64 211 51 185 3§ 217 44206 80 130 60 241 5.65 179 6 249 535 SHEEP—The supply of eheep has Leen smalier than during Iast week or the proceding onc, and, under a ateadily good demand, prices have ruled - firm and higher. Very few sales wore reported below $4.75, whife tho Isrgér portion of the transfers were effected at $5,25@0.00. Extra qualities sold as high as §5.503 7.00, “whilo some poor lats were worked off 3t 84,008 4.25. Wa now yuoto poor to mediuin st $4.2535,25, 50 good to cholca at $3.50@5.25. 5 The Murdcrers of London, The following singular lotter, sigaad A Ro- tirod 3urderer,” was forwarded to the editor of the Pall Mall Gazelte: “You wero good enough on a former occasion to permit me throngh your column to protest against a practico indulged in by young and inexperienced murdercrs of backing aand mutilating the remaing of thewr victims, and thus naturally exciting in the breasts of the public a disgust not generally swakened by a simple assassination’ artistically effected without unduo violence, and with- & proper regard for the feclings of survivors. I venture, thereford, on behalf of a ‘growing and important class—the murderers of London, in whoee reputation I shall ever feel the deopest interest, having spent some of tho happiest days of my life in their sosiety—io trospass ngain on your kindness, - while I beg the public to believo thoy have no hand whatever in a practice which appoars from certain remarks made by Dr. Lau~ Laster at an inquost held by bim on Mondsy, prevails in the neighborhood of tho Rogent's Canal of taking out of that convenient raceptacle tho bodies of murdered porscas or saicides, rob- bing them, and dspoaiu’ng them sgam in the water. A more contemptible form of crime can< Dot be conceived thau the syitem referred 10 ; and I would implore the public to beliove that Do murderer worthy of the namo would so far demean himself asto rob tho remains of oue-in whose removal to a better world ho bad borno a port. 8o far from the London murderers, ss & rulo, approving this practico, they would, I feel semured, willingly lead the Eolica (whom they cordially admire, and for whom, ibdeed, they are beginning to feel a sincore affection), every aseistance ixfi:flngmg to justico the low scomn- drels who thus disgrace the criminal classes. I need only point to the neat and pesceful manner in which babics are now dispatched, and their bodies (packed in lime) deposited under the very noses of tho police, to prove that murderers not only know how to perform disagreeable daties in an orderly fashion, but that there is an openness in their proccedings that speaks volumes for the nobility of their nature,” A Pecaliar Fish. The Fish of Paradigo is one of the most pecu- liar of Chinese fresp-water fish. It is small in size, & pale gray in color, and, at first sight, hav- ing Little about it to attract attention. As soon s tho animal becomes excited, however, the long fins on the back and belly straighten out and assumo & rich purplo huo tinted wmih green: the long and fork-shaped tail spreadsinto & kind of fan, and the stripea upon the sides of tho fish become yollow, rod, and blue, constantly chang- ing in color. Tho écalos seom to becoms opales- cent, and reflect the light with the groatest bril- liancy, while the eyes appear illumiuated with s bluish-green fire. The Labits of the animal are 88 odd ns its appoarance. Tho males take charge of tho young and build the ncet. The Intter is simply a clot of foam flosting upon the ‘water, and is mads by the fish rising to the sar- foco and alternately absorbiug and expelling air, until a littlo cluater of fine bubbles, hardly three- tenths of an inch equare, is formed. The female then deposits her egss, which are at once unzcg upon by the male, who carriea them in his mout) to the nest. Then he watches their incubation, carefully guarding and diotributiog them with wonderful sagacity eveply throoghout the mass of fosm. Whon they clot together, ho pushes ‘them apart with his nose, md{ besides, keeps up a contipual manafscture of bubbles antil the eggs are Lftod op above the water and rest only upon their goft conck. A8 eoon as the embryos appear, hia care i8 doubled. He watclies that none eacapo ; AnG in case somo becomo soparzt- ed, bo chases them, catches them in his mouth, and replaces them carefally in the nest. If one becomes injared he removes it from the others, 20d givos it & separate bubble by itself, and sp- parcntly purses it until it regains etrength, —_— . . e S st Al Association, 0. E. SNYDER, Dentist, Manager, Northwest Corner Dearborn end Madison-sts, Fall Upper.or Lower Sets Best Gam Teeth . Plain Teeth.. No thl‘i! for teoth. Fil |in.f at greatly reds mnteriate, 3ad warrant all wore first-clira. £ Ploaso bring this advortlcment with you. Office, 26 PALMER HOTUSE. DR.H.R. PHILLIPS ‘Dentist, 169 South Olark-st,, bet Madison and Monroo. Artificial Sets Gold Fillings, from.. Silver Fillings, from. Tosth Extracted without pain. All Work Warranted. ~__ RAILROAD TIME TABLE ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRAINS EXPLANATION OF REFERENCE MARXR, —1 Saturdayse coplol. *Sunday ozcepted: 2 . N el Tive Sunday 303005 e} Daly, 00 Sxcopiad. {Ar. MICHIGAN CENTRAL & CREAT WESTERN RAILROANS. 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