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'HE .CHICAGO DAILY 'TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCH &, ‘1874. 10 : o e s ot Seemem e e e e A e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e o e et i ] savhasmade! Bat in how shorta time? Who | .. METROPOLITAN MODES. or bed, tho onds ara gono, and. onois struck BY | books to him.) 3rs, Algornon— Really. Alger. Chicago Insurance Companies Ruined by the Fire, Condensed Statement of Their Assets “and Liabilities. What They Have Paid and What They " Hope to Pay. A Word of Advice to Policy- Notwithstanding that tho legal columns of Try Tamuose have recorded, as thoy occurted. the vanons and successive incidents in the Titsgation consequent upon thoe going under of the Jocal insuranco companics after the great firc, the fact that thero sre still many parties who are ignorant of their present status is al- most daily shown by letters addressed to this ‘paper askiug for information regarding tho con- OUR BANKRUPTS. R. T. Jenkins was appointed. Ilo states that the Company had 80 disposed of their assets and concoalod mattors that ho Lad great dificulty in getting nt the facts necessary to bring suits for the collection of the stock. If these suits aro successful, the Compuny will, after the de- cision, pay o small dividend upon the amount of claims that havo been duly proved. The amount of money involved in the suits is about $12,000, Outside of this amount ho does not expect to e- cover more than $20,000. Tho office of the As- eigneo is in Room 35, in the’ Republic Building, No. 159 LaSalle street. THE GERMANIA INSURANCE .COMPANY, A very close estimate places tue indebtedness of the gnmpwy at £3,100,000. There aro still a number of proofs of loss in Register Hibburd's hands which witl ot be delivered to Mr. William Voclse, the Assignee, beforo the final dividend is declared. These are principatly the proofs of the shareholders who had filed them in Court as anoffset to_ the Assignee’s claim to moneys on unpaid stock. The dividends paid by the Com- pany amonnted in all to 83 por cent, a dividend of 2 per cent having been declared in June, 1872. and another of 1%{ per cent hoving been declared in December of the same vear, On the first day of January last the assets of the Com- puny amounted to §7,840 and a quantity of stock-notes, the majority of which ~the decision -of the: Supremo Court, rendered gince that date, have converted into available fonds. The amount which the Assiznee oxpectod to realize from this source was about $110,000. Of this thers has already been collected the sum of over 73,500, making the balance on hand at present about £82,000. After the decision of the Suprema Court, which made the stockhold- ors lisble on their notes, there was somo delay on account of the gronnd taken by soma of them dition of the differoat bankrupt compasies, tho probsbility of faturs dividends, etc. With a that the judgment did not includo iuterest, but view of saving the seckers after knowledge on | the pomt was left for decision to Judge Blodgott, this subject future trouble, the following con- deusad account of the baukrupt companies 8s they at present stand, with bhints a3 tothe probable future action of Assignees, is pub- lighed. While there is in somo quarters ex- | th Libited patural anxiety in the manver of divi- dends from these concerns, in others there is an ‘who decided it in favor of the Assignee. are but four stockholders who have not paid the amount of their indebtedness, and of these two have handed in their checks for the amonnts, dnted tho 15th inst., and sceurities retained by ‘There o _Aseigmeo. The Assignee expects to paya final dividend of about 8 per cent within a month. The office of the Assignes is in Room 4 of the Staals-Zeilung building, on the cortier of apathy of which some of the Assignecs Com- |y, hineton strect and Fifth avenue. plain, one of them stating tbat he is mfmh eoxercised over tho tardiness with which policy- ‘holders havo called for their dividend, over £15,000 of which remains in his hands subjoct to their disposal. bt - THE REPUBLIC. The indebtedness of this Company smounts to about $430,000. Before going into bankruptey the Republic paid 50 per ceat of its entire in= debtedness, and gince then it has paid two divi- dends of 95 par cent each, its indebtedness at | gj; tho timo it went 1nto insolvency amounting to sbont $412.400. The available assets of the Com pany amount to about £153,000, made up as follows: Cash on kand, £42.700; bills receiv- able, £20,000; certificates of indebtedness de posited by sharcholdors, £63,400; cash accrned for costs, €10,500. Tho Assignec of the Com- pany, Mr. J. I Payson; cxpects to declares dividend of 25 per cent more In Juae, and in the fall to clear off, with a final dividend, the total indebtedness of the Corapany, with interest. The Assignee of the. Compauy keeps his office 8t No. 164 East Randolph street. TOP GREAT WESTELN. When the Compiny went into bankruptey there were proven against it claims representing over §900,000. ¢ About $120.000 of these were objected to by the Assiguee, and in adjusiment somewhat over 590,000 wera sllowed by the Registor. No dividends have been raid by this Company. Itis. difficult to determinc the valuo of tho assets at present in the hands of the Com- Pane. Amoug tnom are 300 lots.in B, L. Stow- art’s Subdivision, on the South Bide of the citv, the title to which was secured by tho Company. only ® fow days.ago several other pieces Of property at present before the courts on a ques- tion of title, and the balances duofrom atock- -holders. A description of 3ho Stewart property in at present 1n the hands of real estate men to have its valuo determined, ond 4s soon 85 tho Court orders and the condition of the money market warrants its sale it will be disposed of. . The larger amount of the assets of it amount of its linbilitics and assats, donds bave already been paid, one of 20 and the THE LONDERMA In tho abscnco of tho Assignes of this estate, was impossible .to_get particulars as to the Two divi- ber of -5 per cout. Thi# Compans bas at pres- ent on hand cash assets amounting to over 77,000, and a meeting of creditors is called for the 81t day of this month for the purpose of declaring a dividond, if deemed advisable. It will probably amount to about 15 per cent. There is also & good prospect for s further and final ividend. The Assigneo of the Company is Mr. T. C. Hoag, whose ofiico is in Room 7 of the Foot Block, corner of Monroe and Clark stroets. TE CUICAGO. The indchtedness of this Company amounts to about £1,700,000 ; tho nssots to about 395,000, made up’ of tho. premium-notes of the Home Mntual Fire Insarance Company, amounting to about No dividend has been declared by the Assignee of this Company. ficiently early and happy termination of he bundreds of snits which tho Assigneo is con- ducting is obtainocd, & small dividend will be de- ciared early in the summer. The Assignee of this Company is Mr. James. K. Murphy, whose ofice 16 in Room 87 of tho Bryan Block, on La- Sallo street. 5000, and $100,000 cash loaved out. 1t 1s possible that, if a suf- THE HOXE. Tha indebtedness of this Company amaunts to 88 nearly 2,000,000 as possible, on which thero has been paid a dividend of 2 per cont. assots of the Company atein tho neighborhood of 165,000, of which $40,000 is cash, and the remainder, liability of contesting stockhalders. A meeting of the policy-iolders is called for the 26th inst., for the purpose of declaring & Tivi- dend of about 3 per cent, at which the exact con- dition of the Company will be made knowa. The It is expected that another dividend of about 5 por cont will be paid some time during the sum- mer. The Assignee of this Company is Mr. T. Buckloy, whoso office 18 in Room 22, No. 163 Dearborh stieet. . TILE CHICAGO FIREMENS'. The affairs of this Company bave been wound the Company consists of the balances due. b5 | ;s rtar the payment to polics-holders of two stockholders, Tho amount due by thom origi- nally was $700,000. To recover this the Assignee, C.W. Upton, bas institated & number of suits ag jndgments in many instances,—some of which ‘are ood, but promise to bo fought by the de- dividends aggregating 53¢ per cent on its total indebtedness. Tho Atsigneo of the Company is net tho' shareholdors, and has recovered | At O F- Horton, whoso ofico is st No. 8§ La THE MERCIANTS', Tt was a very dfilicnlt matter to get any par- fendants, snd many of which are worthloss. | y;ogiars repnrding tho state of this Company's The declaring of & dividend by this Compeny is 2 question of time. The litigatiou it procceding, | & and a3 soon as the 300 0dd cases have been do- cided. judgment obtaincd. -tho “ execation- | X proof ” ehatcholders found out, and tho paving | o ones made to disgorge, a dividend sheet will be | 4 4 of the Comy prepared ; but how long that will take those inti- mate with the Company’s afiairs koow not. Still thoy hope that before very long they will be | aflairs, a8 the Aesignee was found to be of a ccidedly uncommunicative turn of mind, quite in contrast with the alacrity displayed by tho ther Assignees. After many delays, and in lien f an often-promised statement of the prosent ny and its future prospects, the reporter was obliged to confine his statement to the following mengre facts. The indebted- cs8 of the Company is in the neighborhood of able to declure a dividend of about 5 per cent. | 56,000,000 7he dividends paid on its original ‘fhe office of the Assigneo is at No. 83 LaSalle stroct. . THE EQUITADLE. ey indebtedness wera two in number, one of 4 and no of 21¢ per cont, smounting in_ cash sbont ~ £400,000. The assels consist of The indebtednoss o this Company smonnts to | 10, 80957, o000k fIbg agsels consist of A , over £1,700,000. On this s dividend of 5 per cent hias been paid, amounting to about $35,000, of which only £68,000 Las been applicd for by tho creditors of the estate. The assets of the Company are §18,000 cash. and 210,300 in notes, s nod & large amount of indebtedness by share- | o holders. The settling of the latter portion of the ascets is 2 matter rendered very difficnlt by the total destruction in the grest fire of the Company’s books and the stoci-notes signed by shareboldors. To decide the indebteduess of the Iatter will require_their examination under oath in & court of equity. . Mr. Lovg, the As- | o signoe, expeets within three months to pay an- | & cluims against other companies which amounts ed, the reporter learned by diut of incessant and energetic pumping, to considerable,” thees it is expected that a further and final ivi- Trom end of from 1 to 134 per cent will be obtained, nd declared a8 soou as tho said Guita are do- cided. Tho Assignee of tho Company i8 William Rol- 1o, whose otlice is in Roown 25 of the Chamber of Commerce, BUMMARY. ‘The following _tablc, which shows whon the iferent Companics wera adjudicated bankrupt, nd the percentago of past aud prospective divie other dividend .of from 1to3 per cent. The | 5 ¢t 2 A e X & lecds, is worth the cutting out and preservation office of tho Ascigneo is ab No. 83 LaSallo | for roference by those who may be intorested in HE AUTUAL SEeTRT. the matter of our bankrupt iusurance com- The tfoal iudebledness of this Company is | I 2 gomevbat ovor LU0, On this thero Liuve Name Whan DIvIDENDS. cen peid two dwvidends—one of per cent, o . jad e amounting to about 180,000, and another of | __Company. Declared.| Prospective. 81¢ per ceut, amounting to’ about §65.000. Tho | Gricgs - o assets of the Company amount to over $137: | Somabmts 640.90, of which ©57,600, with interest, isin judgment. The sum of tho assets is made up as Tollows : Capital-stock notes, £19,600: mortzage notes, $64,000; smount due from J. Y. Scam- amon, Treasnrer, $39,000 and intcrest; reinsur- anee, $10,000; bills' receivable, collected pre- miums, efc., $2,500. The amount representing reinsurance is stated to be nearly worthless. The T Nene, 1) 42} 1to 1, : 5 £ >3 413 | 3 Doubtful, ltog G0 7 20ver 15 Iu full, Small. o ose, 5 Assignee states that the Company will be able fo pay another dividend of from 5 fo | 4 7 _per_ cent, but caunob tell when it willl be paid. Its payment depends upon the decision of the suits against J. Y. Sesmmon. ns Treasurer of the Company, and on the latter's stock rotes, and upon that of the suit aainst Jobn Forsythe, who claims an offset against some stock notes. Judgment hus been obtsined by the Assizneo in these cases, but de- fendants have appealed to the United States Su- remo Court, which will probably not reach a gcu‘sion before next fall. The greater part of | & tho assets are in notes which have not yet ma- | i tured, and which coald not Lo realized upon profitably in the present condition of the money | P ‘market,—a fact which will ehow that the delay in tho declaration of the dividend until better times was a wise one. The Assignes of the Company is Mr. Mark Kimball, whose office is in' Room 2, in the Honore Block, on Dearborn street. STATE INSURANCE COMPANY. . The total indebtedness of this Company is b £738,000. A dividend of 40 per cept has bLeen paid on £418,000 of ita indebtedness. A matter of £261,000 liability is in sbeyance in tho hands of the National Loan and Trust Company, whose claim has not yet been proved in_baukrupicy. Toe assots of the Company, including cash on hand $41,000, amonnt to about $100,00, consist- ing of mortgago loans in process of foreclosur a number of local accounts in process of collee- tion, and & small balance in notes. Tuere is no prospect of s farther dividend until the litiga- tion in the matter of the £261,000 before men- tioned is ended. There i3 somo talk of the snaking of an asuessment on the sharcholders of {rom 40 to 60 per cent on their capital stock, which would foot up about $350,000, with which, 3f carried ont, tho Assignco would bo ablo to par the lisbilitics of the Company in_fall. The Assigneo of the Company is Mr. B. W. Bishop, whose office is Room 25 1 the Repubiic Build- ing, No. 159 LaSalle street. TIE COMMERCIAL. What the amount of indebtedness of this Company_smounts to has not yet been deter- mived. “Its state of affairs siuce the fire has generally been considered so unhealthy that s large number of its creditors have not thought it worth while to file claims. On this account, those who Lave done so will get a larger divi- dend than most people have supposed. No Gividend bas yet been declared. The value of the assets of this Company cannot yet bo deter- mined vpon, a3 the claiws against the stock- holders, on their notes for 40 per cent “unpaid stock, ore stillin litigation. Many of the stord- hoiders, after the fire, bought up the Compsny’s policies, got tho due bills, and pretended to pay their notes therewith, a transactiop of which the legality will shortly be. decided in the Supremo 'Court. The claim of the stockholders ficds its streagest ground in tho fact that their notes were surrendered to of n w it. While a8 to the solvency of a company, or & completo iguorance of its stato of aifairs, tho busincss was s legitimate one; but evel now, when the o reputalle. Bofore the embers of tho great fire had fairly icd out, and long beforo anything Jike o cor- rect idea of the =status of the different fire companics was made known, tho basiness of discounting the clsims of poliey-holdors wag ke in hand by the spceulators, many ¢ whom made quite a good thing ot of there was an exieting doubt Tairs of each company have been fully pub- ished and sbown up to the world, there are not ting thoso who_ would take advantzge of & olicy-holder, end Jpersuade him by meaus of misrepresentations {o dispose of his claimagamnst one of the bankrupt fire compani say that the business of buying is now confined It is eafe to up policics sbysters and othora whoso cediness or greed leads them into something Lich is now_looked upon as eminently dis- Tho proper person for a policy- older to confer with is tho Astigoeo of the company against which tho claim is held. By following this rule, the polics-holder will get tho most money and vith (e east trouble {0 bim- solf, e ASPASIA. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Sm: Somo lady, in last Sunday's Tamovs, took the Rev. Mr. Bartlett to task for calling Aspasia a “ courtesan.” What, in thoname of all that's historical, ought she to_be called, un- less things, women included, ought not to bo called by their right names? considered pretty good authority upon ancien# history, not only calls Aspasia & courtesan, Dut Do says, in his Life of Pericles, * The business that supported her was neither hosotuble nor decent, for she kept a number 7 courtesans in* her house.” There nre pleaty of authorities to the same purpose. Aspasia’s defender in Tge Trinouse admits sbe was Pericles’ mistress; and yet ehe eays shie Was 8 * pure, Ioving, and much-loved wotban.” Thisis strango language for & womss to use. Does she mean that the acknowiedged eocial position and intellectual orawence of such & woman onght to shield her g-om censuro and cover up her moraldeformity 2 1 doubt if the Rev. Mr. Dartlett’s sssaiant would be willing to avow this. And yetsuch must be the logical conclusion of any attempt to defend such s character a8 Aspasias. She al- ways lias been, and always must be, classed in the category of women who, like Minon de I'Enclos, added to wit aud besuty a pracivity to Iead de; LC that it 13 not, and ought not to be, in the elo- Platareli, who is ed lives; and it ought to be added them by the Company, but the Assignee is cou- S}lcflflc of any writer or speaker, even though fident of decision’ cliat will disappoint them. ‘The Company faiggxt overy attempt to put them | ac - in bankruptey, 80 that no Assignee was put in charge of théfr alfairs until last April, when Mr. @ bo oue of her own ke, to redoem such. char- ters from the merited oblogay and disgnco that atiach to them in all civilized communities. JUSTICE. UNWRITTEN' HISTORY. Important Inventions---Pioneers Un- " rewarded and Unknown. First Thought of the Sewing- Machine. . Ciroular Saws, Screw-Augers, and Boat~Propellers. The Hot-Air Engine. Tt is & proverbial saying, if not a substantial fact, thac inventors of usoful improvemeuts are xartyrs for the public good. Lvery important discovory, whother in science or mechanical ac- tion, is at first only tho intangible thing called: anidea. Itis first well-conceived in thoaght, and then, by artful manipulation, it assumes the form of the thing, which may become o thing of beauty oruse. From thought has como every greab achievement which wo see in regard to the application of & machine to the great do- ings, and making of everything about us that marks this 28 tho age of sccomplished me- chanics, Commonly these have resulted from the " COMBINATION OF THOUGHT; or, first, & valuablo primary thought of one mind, folloved by s secondary thought of another person, improving upoun the first ; and so on, till a great and perfect machine is invented, or o great scheme of mechanic structure is wrought inton Bystem, 8s with the railroads of this pgeperation. It is very diffi- cult to tell or find out who had the first thought or made the invention. Tn some instances wo can tell the man that did it; and be should have proper credit and re- ward. Too common it is that the real first dis- coverer is overslaughed by some more intriguing and artful person, if not a more inventive one, and he is ropbed of his reward. . Then, the first valuablo thought of o truly valuable discovery does not alwaya take on a practical tnrn. Bome more practical man thinks of thesamething, independoutly of theother, and brings it out in proper shape for uso; and he has his reward. But, ns o rule, the original inventors, or the men who have the ingenuity to apply old dovicos to now and msefnl pur- poses, . Do NOT GET THEIR JUST DESERTS ; & speculstor, s capitalist, a manipulator of public opinion, gets all the profit, while tho in- vontor plods on his way in poverty. It is a pleasant matter to find out the original mun of the originalide Whoinvented canals ? —who invented the railroads ?—who mado the firat horee-shoe >—who made the firat reaper ?— who mado the fitst locomotive ?—who made the first turning-lathe >~—who the first saw-mill ? ete. We aro glad to know that Goodyear first thonght to utilize India-rubber to the purposes of tho mechanie arts ; that Whituoy mado the first ma- chine, and found the only truo way, to clean cot- ton from 1ts sced, and thereby, perhaps, did as much fo turn tho tide of commerco as was ever dono by any other man; that Watt madoe the first steam-engire thet did auy work, and Fulton practically applied (wo snppose) the stcam-en- gino to the pronnision of boats; butwe know that these men, in their dar, got HORE KICKS THAN COPPERS for their public spirit; and, now that they are dead, we praise the acfs of their lives. We are told that Colt made tha first revolving fire-arm loading at the breech ; but in the Tower of Loudon can be seen, at the pressut £imo, a breech-loading musket withrovolving chambera, precisely as Colt's pistols are made to-day, Colt was probably nono the less an mventor; and he lad Lis reward. We fool confident that it is Just to ascribe the inveation of the SEWING-MACHINE to one man, and that is Howe. Many imprave- ments and many forms have ‘been made of the Bewing-machine; many patents issued; but never one was made that did not take the first essential idea from Howe's invention. Ho at- tempted to make o machine that would take the thread through the cloth, after tho stylo in which ho saw his ‘wife punsue _her weary task whilo struggling wih him- self* for subsistenco;. ~ sud,. while be succeeded in taking tho stitchies, it. was not a . practical machine, and Lis first invention was a -failure. But, when be thought to make a nee- dlo with tho eye taking ths thread in the point of the needle, instead of the head, then he made the invention of a sowing-machine possible. In that simple arrangement. consisted virtually the invention. Every sowing-machino that has ever sinco been mado, in whatever form, whether a shuttle, or a rotary, or single-thread, has, in ono form or anotber, to take the needie with the eye in the point. Howe strugpled in poverty, sus- tained to the last of his lifo by bis faitnful wife; but he triumphed in the end, made his millions, did good, died bappy, and all good veople re- Jjoico that one inventor .at last, thongh sadly frustrated acd cheated, succeeded in bis inven- tion, got due credit, snd was amply rewarded. ALYOST THE ONLY INSTANCE ON RECORD. There are severul common instruments, or dovices, which aro sccopted as indispensable, and which are quits modern, aud of tho origin of which the public know little, and of the real inventors nothing; for these thore aroa fow paragraphs of unwritton history which should bo written here. Among those are the circnlar-saw, and with it the sawmill ; the scrow-nmger; the serev-propeller or scrow-wheel of the stesmer ; and the hot-air engine. . 2 THE CIRCULAR SAW. There are very fow peoplo who ever think how recently this device, or machine, as it may be called ono, has come into use. The common straight saw is without & history, vet has beon known earlier than any record, probably. It is a process of cntting its way by’ innumersble of- forts to cut or seratch away the substance. The Bible speaks of gaws in very early times ; and 8o history shows its scratches, 8 far back as lus- tory rins. And may not the circular 8aw bo fonod runniug in those ancient times? Bat we do not seoit. - The circular is but a rotary saw; it is the same as any saw, only it i8 50 contrived s to keop on its motion and work of cutting ever forward, without ever returning to take n now start. The other eaw is always forward and back, forward and back. The circniar is always forward and forward,—a saw on o wheel, And see what necessity it has become! It is in every machino-sliop where wood is cut up iuto tho ten thoussuds of forme of use, for ornu- ment, building, or menufacturiug. It does the work at an sstonishing rate of speed. It is like the railroad in travel, compared to the one-horse cart. The untold quuntities of lumber now cus and brought to market ; whole regious of cons- try stripped of their forests and mad into plauk for salo in the lumber-markot, —it is ALL DONE DY THE CIRCULAR BAW. A log is thrown upon the earriage in fropé of it; it begins its work of transformation; in a fow moments the log is turnod into boards of any prescribed width and thickness. And listen to tho song it sings as it goes to its work; yon can hear it fur away. Therois a hurm, and o buzz, snd o moisllic risg, as it starts into the wood, like the refrain of a lively song, of & half-dozen notes or so, till it has passed through to the end; then a pause, as the carriago trundles back, mingling with the whiz of the saw, like another part in the piece; and then in again it starts, and sings 1its songs over again, till ite work is done. Thus its cheer is kopt up, whila active men feed it with Jogs to devour. Such a mill will cut from 80,000 to 50,000 feot por day. By the slow pro- cess in vogue but a few years ago, the straight saw stood in its frame, and slowly took- its . monotonous course, up and down, up and down, 24 the log was hitched up to recoive the descend- ing cut, making & most wrotched scrocch at overy stroke. Slow was tho process of tumn- ing logs into lumber by the upright saw. And slower still ia”the process of the more prumitive way,— THE TAND-SAWING 3 one man standing on top of the log, another in the pit beneath, cach having their Lands on the cross of thowaw. Itis up and down, up and down, the whole day long.—the most wearisome process possiblo, and 08 slow a8 tedious. This 18 the primitive saw-mill, and is much used now in England, where labor’ is ns cheap as steam. And some of the most_accurate work ever done by saw is performed this way by hund-sawing. Panels aro cut through large logs of ouly o fourth of an inch in thickness, and show no per~ ceptible variation, It Is reported that, whon the finst rude _saw-mill of the uptight saw was con- siructed, to be run by water-power, the hand- gawyers woro 80 jealous of its invasion on the riglits of lsbor, that they made s mmaltaneons attack upon it, and destroged it. From these, see what a revolution the circular | what had happened. invented it ? * The circular saw 18 the INVENTION OF A YANKEE, and hes not been in' use much over half a century. The inventor lived in Hartford, Ct.; his namo I have forgoiten ; he is not alive, but his wife survived him, and i8 now alive, or was two years ago, residing in Vermont. And in acknowledgment of the grest good which her Lusband's invention haddone, a President of one of the railroads of that State gave her a free Fu! to ride over his road 8o long as she might ive, The circular saw was never patonted, and the inventar never had greator benefit from hLis discovery tban what ho derived from running his own saw. In this way was the inventor of this great and valnable instrument, and truly o revolutionary invention, rewarded,—his name even uurecorded. The manufacturers of wood should seo that & monument be erected to his memory. 4 THE SCREW-ATGZE has a history hardly iess interesting. It mever yet bas been put upon the printed page when 1hi0 serew-nuger came into use, or who juvented it, or by whom it was first manufactured. Very old men may now remember when the pod-auger was the one commonly in use. The scrow-auger is not much used in England. They eay they” caunot bore true with it. The screw is mostly confined to bita or augers not more than hslf an inch iv size, They start Lue suger with & gouge, 18 our grandfathors used to do in NEW EXGLAND, The screw-aagor was first made in this conn- try, and in its present form invonted, about seventy-five years ago, by. & common couutry blacksmith. -His namo was B 2 1SRAEL SCOTT. At the timo be made the first auger, he lived in the morth part of the Town of Amherst, in Massachusetts, in a httlo village wheroe four roads met, culled *“Tho City.” He was a very lhoneat man and did not claim to be the inven- tor, because hoe eaid an Engplish journeyman- blacksmith whom ho had employed told him that he had seen a bit 8o constructed that, while bor- ing into the wood, it was drawn in by tho screw, and it was only the common screw gimlet bit. This gave Mr. Scott the hint, and he con- structed tho auger substantialiy as it now is, with the .centre-screw, the cutting lip or blade, and the spiral twist of the shank. For many sears ho was tho only manufacturer of this kind of suger, and his reputation becamo quite extended. It wasnot made with the ele- ganca and finish of the suger of the present dny, But it would bore well, and stand well in use; for ho bad a wonderful knack in getting the right tomper upon edge-tools. A few. years later, he removed to Whateiy, Mass., where he continued to malio augers and sboe horses. About 1815 he returncd to Amherst, and had charge of tho cotton-factory at Parting Village, near “The City:” and in 1823 he moved to North Hadley, where Le died about the year 1840. Snell, about that time, becnme a popular manufacturer of aogers, that went into the mar- ket for sale, and substituted the Scott auger. Mr. Scott had a peculiar brand of his own make, with which he used to stamp all the augers he made for customers ; it was eimply ** L SCOTT."” Buch a high repntation did his forged and an- polished work attain that many connterfeit an- gers, made in his stylo and branded with his name, were manufactured and thrown into hard~ ware stores. They wero even brought fo his own village-storo for sale. THE SCHEW PROTELLEE. Many years before the scraw wss applied to the propelling of boats, the writer.of thus heard Mr. Scott toll the particulars of his making a re- markablo instrument for one of his customers, It was at tho time when there was much discus- sion and interest taken in the makiug of steam- boats, and tho way_to apply steam-power to get up motion,—when Fulton was trying his experi- ments, This screw was made for o man living near “tho Pond,” in Leaverett, sud who was amusing himself in the running of small boats on “thes Pond.” 'This instrument, or machino, was made of thick sheat iron, and twisted into a screw nearly a foot 1n diameter, and several feet in length,—jusc liko ono of Scotl's augers, which suggestedit, if it wero mado of mammot! size. The man way very sceret about the use he intended to mako of it ; but, said Mr. Scott, **I haye no doubt he meant to use it in ruoning one of his Little boats,” That is very likely ; and that this wag THE FIRST ATTEMPT mado to propel a boat by a screw, tried even ba~ foro the paddle-wheel was counted & success ; and the attempt failod simply because of the leugth of the screw, the motion of which, when too fong, would produce a back-action in tke water which would retard sud neutraliza its mo- mentum. Just such & scrow as this was firat yut upon a steamer ou the Thames, and it worked 80 Ladly that it was prononnced & failure; when, fortnnately, a8 they wora about to lay the serow up, it was accideufally_brokon off near tho first twist, at its junction with the boat; after which, tothe great surpriso of the oxperimenters, it worked well. and was accepted as a saccess. That broken screw- is now exhibited in the Patent Museum at Kensington, in London, where it was shown to the writer by the Cn- rator SMITH, the notice of whoss death was recently pub- lished in Tne TrInuNe. Smith beld tho posi- tion of Curator, and was also the recipient of a pension, complimentary or in reward for his sorvices as tho inventor of the screw-propeller introduced into use by tho British Government. He bad every style of the screw on exhibition in the Muscum. ERICSSON at the same tima had the credit of the propeller inthis country. The ides was not probably original with cither ; thoy bad but different forms of applying tho same device. Ericason is & great mechanic and inventor,.and ia 8o for the ‘many improvements in which ho_Las succeeded. Hemay be trusted, s Brunell ‘was, upon his Toputation, . This Jeads mo to tako up, in_ this connection, another invention of Ericsson’s, TIE TOT-AIR ENGINE. Tbis was thouzht at the time to bo & great and a'most revolutionary invention. These engines aro still somewhat in_use, but do not fuliill practically what thoy originally promised. It was, at tho tite when introduced, not pre- tended *o be an original idea, The manoer of working it was all Erickson could claim. Ten yours, before tuis_iuvention was_an- nounced, & fow days after I had published in my nowspaper Some account of an importang in- ~vention, I was called upon, near the close of tho day, by an old man, who eame suddenly inte my oftice, with a largo staff in his hsnd, sud his boots and tronsers’ lega badly besmeared with mud. It was before the msking of the Galens ilrond. He stated that he had como in all the way from St. Charles on foot and through the mud, having been two days upon tho wag,for the purposo of consulting me upon an importsn{ matter, with a belief that T could help him. Ho statod tnat Lo was the inventor of an engino to be ran_ by Lot air instead of steam. That man i KOV LIVES IN 5T. CHARLES, Kano County. Iwould give Lis name if I were sura of getring it quite right. I raised the ques- tion of the practicsbility of the invention,—ad- mitting cho power thero is in the expausion of air by heat, as well as the expansion of water, or its _conversion into stoam. Ife stated that ho had experimented upon it ; that tho statements mudo in books upon the snbject, as to the extent or tho power of the expansion, were not correct. He had, somoe years before, made s crude ma- chine of & hollow log, aud had prepared a piston to work in it, snd had got up heat by the sud- den combustion of inflammable material, aud he had proved by that crude experiment that tho workicg of an engine by thatpower was a very practical matter. Ho bad, withal, patented ' tho invention, and the records - hnd all perished in the burning of the Patent-Ofico a few vears boforo; and it was necessary that ho should fake out new papers, Ilo wanted my help (nowspaper-editors are sup- posed tobo all-powerful n tho estimation of some) to et the subject before the public, that ho might get money for a new patent, and nid to bring out the important invention. Tho way ho pleaded—he anold roan, and feeling his case desperate—was most pathetic. I could not per- suade him that it wes oat of my power to help Lim. His faith and conviction wero 80 stroug that ho_could spare enough_to sapply any num- ber doficient of those qualities. Ho Lalf-per- suaded mo against my opinion that he was nearly right. But ho had to go back much eaddened, borne upon hia stad aione, to his homs in St Charles. A FEW YEARS AFTER out cams Ericsson's hot-air engine with & great tlourish, asif it were the greatest inveution of the age, and to superaede ali other powers as the servant of man. I thought of the old man at St. Charles, and wished Icould have helped Lim, go that at least he might have made a show in bis claim to have been an originator of the idea. 1 thonght his the fato of many men, who, connected with almost every great discovery, have done the thinking, have borne the agony of parturition, and theo have been robbed of the child. T think of the old mag of the oaken staff whenever I hear tha hot-air engine mentioned. Erary, 11 EasauaN, o= et A song-and-dance man numed Wayne was ar- Tesied st Pittsburgh on a charge of desertion preferred by his wife. He obtained leave to ap- pear for the Iast time before the foot-lights under the surveillsnce of an. oflicer, and suc- ceeded in making Lis ekeapo from the atage by tie back window beforo the officer could guoss | Hats and Bonnets—Forty Varietics in Fash- ion—Bewildering Beanty and De- formity in Profusion. Flowers of Exquisite Design~Trim: mings Running Riot, The Discomfortof Long Pendants-= A Diversity of Chips. From Our Own Correspondent. New Yons, March 4, 1874, As far ns T have observed. Lent has wado less impression this year than usual on the social world, “Many persons, though not belonging to the Lent-keoping fuths, have been in the hablt of abandoning largo entertainments during_ the time. This season, however, they have paid no attention to theologic' regulations, and declare themselvos unable to discover any falling- off in ' attendance upon their gather- ings. The truth ‘is; that, in Gotham, denominational boundaries are very faint. Your intimate friends are more than likely to be of & different religions creed from your own; and you will, probably, be less well acquainted Tith the members of the congregation you be- Iong to than with those of Lalf-a-dozen other churches. And, therefore, yon geo Lent really males little change in sccial life, though it is supposed to put a sort of quietus on all kinds of amusements. Of course, apring-clothes aro agitating the sonls of the feminino Msubattanese. The almenac already declares spring to be here; but we, who are wicer than the almanac, know spring begins on Easter Sunday,—never ear- lier,—and that, if that day bo exceptionally stormy, a littlo later. Enster comes on tho 5th of April ; on the 5th of April the Metropolitan spring begins. TONNETS are naturally the first corsideration in season- ablo alterations of toilette. It is, perhaps, even more of & polite fiction than it has been for some fime to denominate the new head-cover- ings by this ancient and respectable title. The crowns are bigger, to bo sure; but what they makoup in-crown they lack elsewhere. The strings are tho strawberry-mark ‘you know & bonnet by when you fee it ; and not seldom what, from reason of its having no strings, yon aro prone to regard as a hat, yon are expected to Tecognize as o bonnet also. The fact is, if you pay your money, you are at perfect liberty to | call sour head-picco whatever you think best suited to your years and style. There seems not to be much change in hape, thongh we are informed that forty dietinct and entirely-novel forms are in tbe market *at this moment,~it might be added forty distinctive forms of nun- becomingness. I am more and more convinced, a8 timo passes, that this is tho age of martyrs. To the gympathetio observer, thore'is something “sublime—or s step from it—in the manaer in which women, brought up as devotoes to tho shrine of Mode, will boldly assamo s garb or hend-gear,—knowing, in their inmost souls, that it is unbecoming,—and hie them forth to challenge adverso criticism, all m the name of " Fasbion. Who says the women of to-day arenot cast in & Leroic mold. They will be severely tested in tho coming months’: butI am confident they will pass the ordeal without shrinking. THE NEW STYLES number, among others, varietics of the Dirac- toire, Rabagas, sud Charlotte Corday or Al- wacienno caps, and a few Gipsy shupes that in themselves aro pretty. Then there are thoso whose brims turn up in front and down 'behind ; up behind snd down in frout; up on both sides and down front and back; down on the sides and up front and back. Some are’pointed in fl:]m and round belund, while others roverse the order. Which is thefavorite ? - Nobody dare prophosy yet, thongh I make bold to think the prerty Alsacienue caps, with chip rims and soft sili crowns, will be tio most generally adapted to the typical American face. STRAWS have almost wholly superaeded made (silk) hats, and are infinitely more becoming and econom- ical. Itis almost as easy to match n costume in’ sLraw as in silk, especially when more ' than one tint is-employed in the dress. A silk hatis liable to be spotied with dampness, to fade and “*muss ;" while o straw, though slightly open to tho first two objections, will generallv last a scason in & very creditablo condition. The chip i3, a8 it has been for several yvears, the most desired, thongh snndry soft: new braids are very beautiful and less expeneive. _Chip, in the best qualitics, is 28 frail and perishablo as_bonuet-fabrics; and, though the blecched chips mingle exquititely with the pale-tiuted trimmings, the white is 80 dead a shrde as to be ill-ndapted to most complexions. The ecrn or unbleached chips are more becoming, but even more fragile, than the white ones; and, s thoy are costlier than other straws in the beginving, they are, in tho end, the most expensive of sume mer-hats. | Leghorns, both in wide-brimmed *flats ™ and bonnets, promise to ‘be well worn. Cerrain la- dies, not too devoted to Fashiou,wear them year- 1y, whether they bappen to be ““in” or “out.” Leghorns are, probably, the most dursble and Wholly entisfactory ©Of straws, and, while among the - higher-priced, - are not o dear either in - netoal _onily or ultimate good. The black chips will, in 4 meas- ure, do away with tulle bats, particularly when in the Alsacieone form,;with tulls or'sitk crowns. “Thio only laces that will bo_ strictly fashionablo for bounet-making are, alas! jet-sprinkled. Many of the tullea have light jet pendants, bu- gley, and loops of fine strung beads, hanging from the surface. The effect 18 naturally very Drilliant; but, whero thero is snch a profusion of beads, ono does miss the moccasing and other Indisn accoutrements. THE FLOWERS are lovelr. Pardon tho adjective. It has a pushing onnd; bnt, if ono only gushes over tiowers, aud feathers, and lace, certainly so mild a feast of adjective may be toler- ated. Dusides, the flowers are lovely. The deulers say they are; so do the buyers. Those cabbage-rosos and_hollyhock-blogsoms of {hree or four scasons back, areall gone. In their ‘stead, you can have your choice (if you can pay for it, for fino flowers are never cheap) of violets, daisics, hawthorn, roscs of all hues, primroses, heath, lilacs, elder, arbutus, lilies-of- the-valley, white and red clover, heliotrope, long-stemmed white violets, deatzia, butter- caps, blue-eyed grass, poriwinkle, ivy, myrtlo, forns and fern-tronds, and such 3 . wilderness of others as I cannot tell you of. One eays, every year, * Can theart of artifici-flower-making f0 further than it has 2 And, every year, one seca tho advance to perfectness. Theraiss little excuso for decorating gowns with muslin . blossoms when they are so nearly the rivils of Nature's work, The novelties in flowers aro pincipally in the extraordinary coloring of some of tho roses. Thoy are_maroon, - claret, Llug, green iolet, Lrown, and gray, not to mention cettain shaded of yellow, the like of which wasnever seen in a rose-garden. Roses are, and hive long been, the favorite artificial flower ; bu: that is no ap~ parent reason why, in order fo rvder them nerw, they should be mude’as unlike their growing pro- totyFes ns possible. There are tvo moro trifling varicgations of old rules. Moitof the roses, and many other single blossoms, nre fastened to long flexible atems, instad of being bunched together in solid and inartistic maascs. The effect produced bythoso trembling sprays is much prettier and mor grucoful than that of thegreat parterres, whick the Mode has dictated heretofore. Each bloascm is scen to ad~ vantage, and mado the most of f this way ; and three or four, or at most half-a-lozen buds will seem more than n double hanlful in the old method, The fancy is for minging two sorts of flowers in the same group—sw:h as bawthorn and wild roses, purple violets md daisies, white violets and buttercups, clemitis and bheath, lilacs aod elder, penwinkle and dentzis, with all descriptions of combinations, Trailing vines, beginning on the apex of the hit, and wander. ing off into space, are abandonwd—a concession to convenience, 54 well a8 © the insatiable appetite for change. Evéry woman who has tried it Imows the discomfort of loug pendants {from the bacis of the hat, whetler of ribbon, or lsce, or flowers. It they be Teated with care a0d respect, the wearer must Jit absolutely up- right, looking a8 though enffring from a stiff neck. - If the wearer bo rash amough to attempe tosit at case, ehe feels first a jerk and then a twitch ; discovers that she s leaned azainst her cherished wreath, palled lor bonnet off, de- stroyed the symmetry of he back hair: and learns, all too late, that danglag ends, however good for ornament, are not. Tor ase. Bat, good the compactness of t! TRDOONGS on the new head-coverings. The bows have loops without ends; the flowers have no spran- gles; the lace is gracefully but firmly secared. Qf ribbon_so little 18 - employed that it hardly shows; and the tout-ocsemble ia -light, well-de- fived, and admirable. Bonnets with coronets Lave their trimmings massed in front; and those with flat fronts continue to use the back 28 the starting point. Wbere the brim admits, thero is a so-called face-trimming, gencrally & wreath of small leaves or tiny buds, which ex- tends all round the edse; and, where only the rear rim tarns up, the face-trimming—to perpe- trate & bull—is put on bebind, A simple aad stvlish * model 18 in this' wise: -A white- chip Gipsy-frout bonnet has around the ecrown a twisted scarf of two shades of bluo twillea silk,—one sly-color, and one threo shades hgater,—that tio behind in a large bow-knot withvut ends. At the left of the bow is heaped & foamy bunch of clethra and ar- butus, which strays out over -the bow. The face-trimming is = continaous puff of white crepe lis with a small roll of the deepest biue gilk drawn through it. . Thera are no_strings, though it be & Lonnet ; but behind the left ear, | twisted into the elastic which bolds the *edi~ fice” in place, is & spray of arbutus, most co- quettisbly becoming. This, indeed, i5 & new ca~ price,—the putting of flowers into the elastic, {o appear to be arrangod in the hair. An Alsacienne chip has g high soft crown of violet silk, with &° delicate basket- work of chip scross the crown. A handfal of heath. and daisies, and purplo.violets aro tossed agcinst the crown in a dainty nest of white tulle. Tho back of the rim rofls up, acd is the basia fora pufl of the silk, inside the tulle ; while, under the front odge, the puff bo- comes the merest suggestion of a lace-covered band, with » half-pompon of the tlowers tacked under the right corner, acd resting on tho hair. A black chip has a three-inch bias baud of pale-greon gros-grain carricd plainly round the crown, ending under three fans, of three shadea of green, intho middlo of the back. The fans rise from behind a tiny, shaded-green ostrich- tip, and & ‘singla spray of whito elder-blossoms with dark loaves. The coronet-front has a wroath of tho leaves, ending in s shaded green bow. FoRLELOW. THY WILL. The glors of the setting Sun We worshiip as we look upon; , while wo gaze, the work ia done, TG 3Masters touch {8 vanishod,—gone,— And the uight begun, Tho beauty and the glory gone,— The great world of {63 brightneas shorg,— The darkness of the night is born, And hiearts that greet it stand forlorn, Tue loss to mourn, Bat brightness cannot always stay ; Aud througl tho darknes: Diviue, if We but know the way o where tho 3faster's lessons lay For us to-day. And light and darkness at His will Alike our hearts, or Earth, cun il 3 But, through it all, we fecl 'ty still ‘The Masters's touch to heal, not kill,— cl 'And wo can say, © Zhy icall!” Rax TroRxz, et HUMOR. Rooted sorrow—~An aching tooth. X great hardship—An iron steamer, —As twice eleveu i3 twenty-two, how can tvics ton bo twenty too? | —A poor family iu Green Bay had to mortgage their six dogs last week to get & batrel of “tlour. Tho caso is pitiablo. —Adam had ono consolation when he foll. Tifteen or twenty ncyusintaaces dida’t stand on the opposite corner and laugh at bis mishap. —A pack of wolves in Sherburno County, Minn., “chased a couple of lawyers fivo miles, and the New Orleaus Republican thinks it showed o lack of professional courtesy. —The Congregationalist oxplains wlat it means by *lightning-bug picts, —DBright while it lasts, but cold, and soon out. —Ong &an judge somothicg of tho patienco of Hoosiers from tho statoment of an Indiana pa- per that twenty men bandled over thurty-five cords of wood to got at arabbit. & Wor-uk!” oxclaimed a North Carolinian when offered & _job, “ do you #'poso I wor-uk, when coon-tracks are as thick ay grass-blades ?* —A prominent busincss mau in Cloveland bears the namo of Jtdtjst, and poople seldom inquire if he is in. —+“And did you hesr him call her my dear or anything like that?” avked tho lawyer. **No, sir'; of course not; why, she was his wife,” au- swered tho lady-witudss. —A Peansylvanis debating society is engaged .upon the question, ** Whether sn natidy woman, with a sweet temper, is to be preferred to a tidy one with a sour temper?” _Tho controversy, sc- cording to the last report, is still raging. —*Susie,” said a teachor to one of Ler pupils, “you shoulda’t make faces. Youwll grow mp Lomely if you make faces,” Susie looked thought- fully into the teacher’s face for a moment, and then innacently asked : “ Did you make fzces when you were a little girl?" . —Sueezing is very ecldom heard in parlors now after the old folks Lave retired, for lovers bear in mind the receipt given by Dr. Brown- Sequard,—that sneezing can always be stopped by pressing the upper Lip,—and a2t accordingly. —Boslon Advertiser. A Frenchman, condemned to death for mur- dering his wite and child without extenuating circuwstances, demurred to the sentence, be- cause capital punishment bad been sbolished in France for political offenses, and be had killed his wife and child for no_other reason but be- cause they were Legitimists, —A faithfal brother in a Fairfield (Conn.) church recently prayed for the absent members “who were prostrato on beds of sickness and chaira of wellness.” —In the City Council, Kansas City, & horse- railway bill, providing that *‘no siugle person ™ should pay us fare moro than 5 cents, was amended, on mation of Ald. Black, to includo also married people, and passed. —A Little boy in a Nelson street family caught his foot in somo worsted with which his sister was working the sentence, ** God is Love," in perforated cardboard, and got & erack on the ear that will lay him uY for a fortnight—if it does not injura him for life.~Danbury Aeics. —At Dieppe, in France, the following notice has been issued by the polico: *“'The bathing- police are requested, ~when a lady is in daager of drowniug, to seize her by the dress, aud not by the h'ni:, which oftentimes remains in their grasp.” —fiolhlcr—““'bat largs chickens these are !" Landlady—** Yos, chickens aro iarger than they used to be ; ten years ago wa conldn't pratend to get chickens as large as these.” Boarder, with an inpocent air: “No, I suppose not : theso must have grown a good dealin that time.” ZLandlady looks as though ahe had boen misun- deretood. —A gentleman who rather suspected some one was peoping through the key-holo of hjs oflico- door investigated with a syringe full of pepper- gauce, and went home to find that his wife had been cutting wood, and a chip had Lit her in the eye. —Women's Rights—Ancient Lady—‘ Let mo driye yor, Miss Sharp. It is quite ‘in my way, and I can’t bear to think of your walking homo all alone ! Modern ditto~** Oh, I don't mind wall{m;{ & bit, thanks! Besides I want to smoke.” —A crossing-sweeper was trying to get o gratuity from an excessively-dandified individual, who, in resisting, urged that he had no change. nothing but a $20 bill. *““I can get it changed for yer.” said tho youngster. On seeing tho dandy hesitato, a8 if from fear of trosting him with the money, he put it azain, **If yer doubts my honcr, hold my broom.” 4 —A gentlemen invited the Rev. Mr., M— to ride, snd thongbt Le wonld improve the oppor- tunity for a lttle serious conversation. *I sometimes think thero is something wanting in my Life." *Yes,” interrupted M——, * yon want something that will get up and git, and dust them on the road, better than this old plug you're Loiding the reins over now.—Louiscille Courier-Journal. ~—** Ir medio tutissimus "—Country practition- er (about to go up to London on business)—* I shan't bo more than ten days at tho forthest, Mr, Fanceps. You'll vieit the patients regular- 15, and take caro none of ‘em slip throngh your finger—or got well—during my absence !"— Punch. —One of tho London comic papers tells of an Averdeen minister, who, catching bis young parishicners before tho congregation, put the usuul question to s stout girl whose father kept a public house: * What is your namo?” No ro- ply. The question baving been ropeated, tho girl replied: ““ Nano o’ yonr fun, Mr. Minister, e ken tuy name well endugh. D'ye no say when yo come 40 our house on & night, * Bet, bring mo some aly '™ —Tke ways of women are past finding out. It is said taat’ the Jadiea of Jacksonville, Tenm., havo & tasbion of tying up their taper fingers when young gentlemen are expected to call, and when fhey very maturally ask the cause, they blushingly-reply, “I burned them broiling the steak tiis morning.” The result, 8s chrovicled by the Incal paper, is_that several young gentle- men have burned their fingers by believing the story. s —* On!” (Algernon is devoted to science, and makes his young bride read all the scientific non, all this about difTerential and inte; - culus, and biostatics, and biodmmz”:,l :,ld molecules, and concretes, and things, seems by e ratker extraordinary | You can't generally ecuse me of Prudishocss, but is this th sart ot 00; mamma W ould quit remiill;g. lgvo?" quite approvd of my —Ars. Jones always beliesed her Froderi whon 1o told her that the - ciat.™ w:sfig:modi} intercourse and discussion of professional tepics, until the other night, when bo came into thy hall with 8 rush and evinced a desiro to £loop oy the front stairs. “Marv.” said he, bus voiee brokea with omotion, “Mary, yon have becy partaking of the intoxieating pledge ; you bave broken tha cup. Itshnoush d'nving it, Mary | 1 shea it in yonr breath and smoll it in your eye. Ob, Mary I With some difficalty ho was pat to bed, but sinco that night ho has Dot viated tho u BILLIARDS. Daly’s; Unparalieled Run, From the New York Sun, March 4. Fully 600 persons collected in Tammany ¥al Iast nlith. to sco another contest beiween tho two billiard experts, Cyrille Dion and Maurica Daly. Itwas the threc-ball carom game, 6g) points, for 31,000 & side, on_the samo Collender table on which Cbassy and_Garnier tried concly. sious a fow weeks 8go. Daly led off with 2, and was_followed by Dion with a ronnd 0. In tho second inning Daly ecored 5 and Dion 11. In the fourth tbe young Ameri- can made nathing, bat_his Canadian opponent, starting off with a beautiful round-tho-tabls shiot, and, supplomenting this with snothcr, brought the red and_whits togethor in the cor. ner, “and coaxed them from point to point until they yielded him 17, and then broka up on a sophomore shot, the miss being greesed with a suppressed roar. In his ninth inniug Daly promised torun well from s deftly executed angle shot at Joug range, but disappointed hiy friends by slipping up on 2. Altogethier, at thiy stuge of the game, the play was no better than ordinarily, Daly showing but little of his usnal skill, and Dion bandling his cuo with an un- wonted carclessness. Daly was now 30 to his opponent’s 5. In the twelfth inning ho began to assert himsolf. A clean mnsse shot, o series of skillfal draws, several diflicalt follows, and s namber of round-the-tzble shots, all made with the view of getting the balls in the cradle, where he could nurse thom tenderly, blessed Lim - at last with tho deswred result; but the sdvantsze was not long en. joved, for an unlucky kiss sent the object balls ' scattering, and all bhis deli- cato work had iobedone over. He had just succeeded in coupling the red and white neara corner, his own boing in lino with them and al | most in contact wich the white, when au attempt to bauk met with failure, and he closed his count with 61 amid applause. Dion then scared 96, und the game st7od : Daly, 83; Dion, 80,with the balls widely separated. ~Daly brought them together by 2 round-the-table shot, but secured only 5. In his seventeenth inning, Dion scored G5, effecting the massing of the balls bythe moss carefully-considered and admirably-exceuted ebots. ~Among these were four exquisitefy deli- cate bank shots which he made for position's sake rather than risk the breakine of the group by making a plain carom. The scoro now stood : Daly, 123; Dion, 172. Daly scored nothing in ke 2ith inning, but Dion ren up 10, one of which was made by tho pretticst shot of the evening. Tho red and whize lay dead against the lower cushion, three fect apart, aud the play- er's ball three fect from the former and in front. At the instant of contact the cuo ball secned to haye lost its momentum, but suddenly it moved quickly from the object ball, described a long and graceful curve, and ticked the other witha click that was echoed roughly in the plandits of tlie delighited spectators. ~ In eizht mnings Da'y had scored but four points, and was_evidently otting mervous, while the left-handed Cana- an was' gaining in confidence every mincte, But those who feared that the young American's Trembling hand had fost the esse That marks security to pleaso wero greatly mistaken ; for, although in 91 fn- nings he had made but 65 points, while hia op- ponent had scored 224, and although the fates seem to have set therr faces against him, Lo opened s thirty-sixth inning with & glorious draw end mada 24 by a series of as thoroughly artistic shots as wero ever executed in a publio match. This be supplementedin the thirty- cighth by a run of 15, tho resnlt of brilliant plaz, and by 43 in the fortieth, which he achieved by real hard swork, the balls ever _secring to hiolds human_spite against lum. But in tho noxt in- ning Daly showed his strength. Ho led the white snd red 2 merry dance around tho table, never losing his hold until he had made tho as- tonishing run of 21, tho highest ever mado at the three-ball game in this countrr, Daly having scored tho next highest—Ly st tho Chicazo tournament last summer. The applause that rewarded this briilians achievement was deafeuing. Nearly every sporting manin the houso was on hig faet, sEouHu;{. and waving bis hat, and s:amping, and otherwise manifesting his enthusism: and the other spectators did like unto the sport- ing people, go that for three or four minutes Tammany Hall was a sort of Bedlam, hardly a man withiu it walls seeming to have the slight- est control over himself. Dauring the excite- went Cyrille Dion, just a tritle rogy over the cheek-bones, was 23 cool and coltected as he al- ways is, but those who had been wagering their gréenbacks on him began to feel blao. After o short iotermission tho game wasras sumed. The scora was now—Daly, 450 ; Dian, 349 ; and the betting which had at the beginuing of the game been 12108, and afierwards 3 to 1* on Dion, underwent a remarkable change, 2to 1 being earlv offercd on Daly. Some iudifferent play, varied by an occasional brilliant shot, left Daly at 492, 2nd Dion at 06— the latter having scored one run of 17, and an- other of 39. Daly’s forty-cighth inning sdded 27 to his scors, and ho was now on the homes streich. Then Dion answered with 11, andin Dis fifsy-first inniog Daly replied with 14, Dion scemed to bo no longer in favor . with fortune. Besides having & wide gap of more than 100 to close, he found it ditficult to make even a simpla shot without the interferenco of a mirchievous kixs, such 4 one as Secundus would pever havo sung bad Lillards Leen ono of the social gamos of his _ day. At tha closo of tho fifty-scventh iuning Lo was 49 10 Daly's 555, although he had straggled msnlally to pull up cloer. But in tho Gith inning Le wrought wonders with tho ivories and scored 81, placing him at 547, while his opponent had bue 9 to go, which he mado in the next inning, tho house resounding with cheers, As tho last hot wes made Dion stepped briskly forward end shiook the victor by tho baud, and immediately nfxemflud challenged Daly to play lum for $50) to-night.. ¢ Daly's best runs were 61, 43, 212 ; Dion's, 2, 65, 39, 81. Winner's average, 9. _Time of game, four hours and ten minntcs. No safoty abots were pleyed, and thero was but one miss. oS o A REVERIZ Only a pebble, washed on fhe shors, Shalien by tho Ocean's sullen moan,— Wealand emall, Helplesa all, In the wido hollowness of ita home 3 On Creatfon's face, Only a pebblo! Onlya blsde of grass, upward growing, Foiuting a finger to the stars,— Tremtlingly, For you and me, Pointing a finger up to the stars 3 In the #pace of Gad, Ouly a blade of grass ! Only 5 thought, a thought of death,= For the time will come, and the sy, The coldd And mold, The decay znd crumbling sway = Iu eerilty of nilud, 4 thou o Joms Carvey WAL e ey Novel Law Question. Anovel law question hes arisen in Tows. Tho Mississippi Biver until receutly has n!xn\ufli frozen oversolid betwwesn Prairio du Chieo 20 McGregor. Tho ico has furnished & Wit bighway from one side to the other duriag several months in the year, cnabling the POCE to dispense with bridve and ferries, Receatly the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad hes bmlél pilo bridzo across tho river, tho effect of whi it in asserted, Laa been, by creating eddies au clnging tho current, t wholly proveat tho for- mation of ice 80 that tho stream below t38 structure remains permanently open. The river it is claimed isa public highway st all seasods 28 much one way ns anothcr, and the use of u:: sce-bridgo is a Tight of which tho_public anao! bo divested by ‘any authority, It i3 ssswit that suits for damazes would lie, and. that o railroad bridge is lisblo to bo indicted sod, ordered removed as o nuisanco sod 0! to trade and intercourse batwesn States. Pani de Cassagnac. The Paris correspondent of tho Now Y0 Times s2ys & good word for the person who ¢ Limse!f Paul do Cossagnac: * For several years he bas been representod as & bravado, if not® desperado. Ia reality he is one of tise mild mannered men in exirtonce, and very agrees in society. He has never seot a challengo 31083 his third or fourth duol, and all the rest, 9P Lia goventeenth, have beea forcod tpon B3 Poor fellow. i 3 7 ia i S TR