Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 23, 1874, Page 10

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MAY 93, 1874, LITERATURE. Ntomes for Workingmens Brourer, bY EnwAnn I3, HALE AND OTuRNM, ONTOR tonea or fiux Wito Livie mi Lanoe Towsw, 19 mo,, pp. 182, Doston : James It, Osgood & Co, Mr, JIalo inono of tho most nctive and on- lightoned roformers in Now England, o is ever ongaged with a forvont hionrt in tho corroo- ‘ion of soma wrong or abuse which injures the wolfaro of classes or commuuities. With the cnrea of n parish sud a porfodical resting upon him, onch quite cnough to weigh down an ordi- nary man, ho talkos upon himsolf the troublonnd pain of lifting at sll sorts of burdens that op- proos'wenkor shoulders, and calling lustily upon athous to holp him in his bonevolont efforts. 1le is, in tho noblost soneo of tho word, a Good Sa- maritan ¢ and all who obsorve the dovoted, un- tiring, and bumnno epirit fu which ho toils, must rogard him with honor and gratitudo. ITis latost work in Lohnll of humanity is dl- roctod to tho establishment of choap, comforin- blo, practleabio homes for tho humblor class of Inhorors in our citles,—the porters, the hod- carrlors, tho stevodores, ote,—who nro able to pay buta small rent, and theroforo aro com- polled, for the mont part, to dwell all thelr dayn in wretehiod, crowded, and unwholosome tono- mont-houses, In the fulfillmont of his dutles 88 o minister, Tio ling acquired an intimate Tnowledge of the misery which theso poor peo- ple endure in their squalid city-homes, and has, with chornctoristio onorgy, sot about n mitign- tion of tho great ovil, 1Ie has projected plans of his own, nnd inquired into tho plans of othors ; and, liaving discovorad such ns promlso quiclk and suro reliof for workingmon from the | intolorable illa of close, cramped, and unhoalthy town-rosidonces, hns blown a shrill gound upon his trumpot, to draw the attention of the rich and poor to the subjoot. £ The boolk boforo us containg tho results of his invostigations, clenrly and poraunsively Hot forth. In n sorics of casays treating the mnttor from difforent points, e plainly shows that, if tho workingmen in sny of our largo towns will but band together in arge compnuies of any G0 or 100, eons to have tho power which comes from numbers, it is ensy for ench one of them 20 come into the ownership of a pleasant and «conveniont home in An accossible suburb. Iix- perimonts conclusivoly proving the'truth of this proposition havo norn made in Boston and Phil- adolpbis, and, if successful there, they could bo #0 anywhero, A dotalled history of these several nttempts i given in the presont work. The most lmnrusllufi. and probubly tho one most applicabls to worl Ingmen in all our cities, is that of Mr. Josinh Quincy in tho foundation of the village of Dod- fiam, near Boslon. An oxplanation of the pian pon which this organization is based, aud of tho systom upon which it is worked, proves that it ia porfoetly simplo and practicable, and may be ropented, with or without modifications, wher-~ evor it it desired, Italso domonstrates the ime portant fact that, by co-operation betweon lond~ ‘ers and borrowers, or betweon boirowers them- solvos, loans can bo mado for the orcetion of houses with s much sccurity and caeo to the Tender ss he would experionce in lonning ou first~ claga renl catato. ‘I'vo years sgo, at tho suggestion of Nr. Quincy, a compauy of twonty-soven Germans anrocinted togothor in the purchase of a farm of G0 acres, in Dedham, & suburb near Boston, The property cont 8195 por scro, 1t was convoyed 1o My, Quiney an frusteo under n common dood of truat. Streets woro Inid out, and = lot con~ taining about ong-half an acro was conveyed to ench mombor of tho association. Mr. Quinoy thon contracted to erect tho Louses for ton of thene Germans who felt nble to pay 26 per wock rent, taking from each n bill-of-8alo mortgago to securo a bond for §2,100, Tho extra 3100 in the bond wos for the pnyment of intornst on ad- vances, incidentnl ~expenses, and insnranco, which was offected for the whole amount for five onrs. 4 Tho houses compriaed a collar and tiwo stories, contaming seven raoms, besides balls, closots, nud pantries. They wero models of convenience in arrangement, and were thoroaghly built in every respect. ‘Tho complete cost of ench, ox- vlusive of land, wns §2,835,—the $335 being paid by the owners. On the lstof July, 1873, the tenants tool possession of their houses ; nfter which they deposited ina_suvings-bank, in Mr, Quiney's name, €6 for ront every weelt. Jan. 1, 1874, their bank-books wore sent to Dr, Quiney, who drow his interest, and roturned tho hooks to their owners, with a balance to the credit of the laltor. July1, in adherenco to the preseribed arrangement, onch owner will nave deposited 8303, From this sum, 8147 interest on $2,100, nt 7 per cont, is to_be doducted ; and £165, with the intoreat allowed on the doposlt at 3 per cent, amounting to $9, will be pussed to tho owner's credit. This will leave tho ownor, ot the ond of tho firat yoar, with the dobt in- cwired for his houso roducod to £1,926. At the eamo rate, int nine years ho will be in possession of his homo, will have enjoyed its comforts dur- ing that time, and have paid simply a weekly ront of 86, Under the ordinary circumstancas of o tonnnt, ho would havo had to pay this sama reut for an infe dwelling, and, inthe ond, havo owned nathing. It1s tho purpose of the organization to es- tablish a workingmen's villnge upon this prop- 1ty in Dedbam, and tho snale of tha vacant lots hiold in trust by Mr. Quincy will be applied to the payment of the houses built for the members of the useociation, In order to ronder thoe project of suburban homeu feasible for tho industrial classes, thore must be regular and cheanp communication with tho city by way of railrond. This could goner- rlly bo procured without much dififculty. ChonH Lrains, 1un upon tho Boston roads morning ang evening for the accommadation of workingmen, havo boen profitnblo investmonta to the railroad corporntions. By negotiation, or the iuterposi- tion of the Logisinture, this part‘of the problom could bo easily solved. The chapter contsining o minute acpount of tho enterprize of Mr. Quincy ot Dedham has beon extracted from * Workingmon’s Homes," aud Ilmblishcu in a separale pamphlet, for readier circlation among tho_ masses. Either that, or tho entire work, should come under the eye of every one mterested in the well-being of society in our citios. ‘That which touches the intorcsts of the workingmun affecta tho wholo body politic. “Plio groat question of the prouperity and hap. pinees of the industrial purt of o population de- mands tho carolul consideration, not only of him- gelf, but of overy individual united with him in tho common relations of humanity, IBnddecks DADDECK AND THAT SORT OF THING, By Cnanies Duprey WAnNsn, author of # Ay Sume merin o Garden,” etv, cte, Square 16 mio,, pp, 191, Doston: Jumen K. Osgood & Co, “And That Bort of Thing" is a clog to the title. It ia o tag without any sort of connection. The ruthor tacked it onin o whimsical mood, end les it #tand just because he likes to bo odd. We cun thoroughly rolish his motive, and yob with for . some means to cut away tho clumsy fncumbrance. But it 18 the only thing about the book with which we can pick a quarrel. Other- wiso ik is & perfect littlo bijou; an opal, ghinting nud glenming with a flickering and fascinating play of lambeut humor. ‘Whoover but a quaint, capricious spirit like ‘Waraer, would hayo conceived the notion of viss iting on out-of-the-way, unheard-of place liko Daddeck, durivg the precions dayas of a fort- night's vacation in mid-summer? Risking all ouo's chauces of ploasure by travel fora twelve- month, on a singlo die, with overy probability that it would turn wrong ond up. But tho mul- titudo in sympathy with Warnor will bo glad he vontured it, for now they will kuow all about Buddeck, just whero it is, aud how it ie, and how not to got there, For Warner, with indomita- Dle pluck and spivit, found the spot nfter a week's howildored wandering, and compolled it 19 yield up overy enticiug secrot it hold. He has ‘written the wholo history down from begluning to end, und spored bis readers any itching here- after to tollow in his footsteps. The gtory roada dulighzrnfiy a8 ho bns written 1L out, but 1o one would bo wild enough to hope to ropout his experience. Thore is only ono othor pair of microscopic oyea like his owned by an Amorican, 8nd thoy belong to W, D, Howelld, “hose two mon will forret out tun from arid eunds und naked rocks, aud in one tripof a Jeuguo, loss or more, aver & barren waste, oo and hosr moroe that is umnulnfi und entortaluing, than the rest of the world will diucover in oromse ing o contluont, Huch men should do our tray- eling for us, Wo can rielly afford to pay tho iauy times over for thelr trouble of juunting ubout, while wo it by our firosldes, and look on strunge and far-off landscapes through their magical oyes, and Jangh at thu thonsand-und-one huniorous Incidents that would nevor happen to un{ one olso undar the sun, ‘ron the time our two Lravelers—for on this trip Wurner has his doublo—ronch Ioston, wihiich thoy mako thels pofut of doparture, uniil they return ngain, thelr tour i mudo up of & coutinuul gorles of divorting advontures—ac- cordiug to tho narrative, They gob no sleep at tha caravanaury at Boston, from tho incousant racket fnnldo aud out, ch contrivotobe atuned during thoir midnight vigils, by, among other things, the rldle\llml# nn‘-lgl n?lhu porl.crpa rous- ing up an unlmflay indlvidunl nanod Smith, to inguive bis inffala | Aud, Warnor suggeris tnnt “A porson named Bmith, when ho travols, should leave hin initisla outside tho door with his boota." On thie atosmor which thoy take for Bt. John, Lhore is & wondorful pauoity of pusaon- ort, " If any scoldont should happan to the oat, {t wns doubtful if thero woro personn on bonrd who aould drnw up and pasa the proper rosolutions of thanks to tho officors,” Vith tho determination which betokenstho wise {ravolor to extract ovory jot of onjoymont from tho most trifling incidont, our tourists slt out on dock far {nto the night, Jooking anxiously for tho Muaine bills that _boldl thrust thelr naked foot Into tho sen, Wo mado out olonrly [writos Wnrnor] Mt. Derott, and folt repaid for our Journey by tho sight of this famous island, oven &t such a distance, I pointed out the hilla to tho man at tho wheel, and asked if wo should go any nearor to MMt Dosert. ‘Thom!’ said le, with the morited contompt which oflicinls in thin country have for inquisite travelors, ¢ thom's Camdon Hills. You won't sco Mt. Desert till midnight, and then you won't,” ‘Pl wos a quonchor, but our torchos wera not to bo oxtinguiahed, t{'nmlng out at an oarly Lour noxt morning "to see what was up, thoy found tho usual tourist who had beon out shiv- oring fu his wintor overcont sinco daylight, * He deeorlbod to mo the megnificent sunriso [writes our author], and the lifting of tho fog .from islands and capes, in luufiulnu thnt mode mo rojoice thint hio Liad soen it At lnat thoy approach tho harbor of Bt. John, aftor a morning of quiet salling and quict ob- sorvation. ‘' But wo wore advanoing into the Bay of Fundy ; and wy comrade, who had been brougnt up on ite high tides'in the’district school, wag on the lookout for this phenomenon, The vory name of Fundy ie stimulating to tho imagination, amid” tho geographien] wastes of youth, and the young fan- cy reachos ‘ont to itn tidos with nn onthusiasm thatis givon only to Fingal's Cave and othaor ptetorial wondors of the text-book. 1 am sure'tho dletrict-nchools would become what they aro not now, if the geographers would make the other paris of the %Iubn o4 the sonorous Bay of Fundy. Tho recitation about thntia always an onsyono; thoro {sa luaty pleasuro in‘tho mero shonting out of the namo, as if tho spenk- ing it wero an innocent sort of swonring. From the Bay of Fundy tho rivers run up hill half the timo, and the tidos nre from 40 to 80 feot high. For myself, I confess that, in my imaginntion, T used to seo tha tides of this bny go siniking into the land like gigantic wator-spohts ; or, whon I was battor Inatructed, I conid sc thom advancing on tho cosst like a soud!n!l of mn- sonry 80 foot high. ‘Where,! we 6ald, ns wo camo casily, and nolthor up hill nor down hill, into the pioasant harbor of 8t. John, * where ara tho tides of our youth?' They wero probably ont ; for, when wo camo_to the land, we walked out unon the foot of a sloping platform that o into tho water by the sido of the piloa of tho ?nfin W{)kl!.l stood up naked and blackenod high in tho air." ‘Thia was only tho firat of n snccossion of disap- ointments and voxations, swhich lasted until addeck was flnally renched. " Dut “It was atrictly o pleasure-trip,” and our travelors wero baund to get only pleasuro out of it. Refresh- ing themselves, during o todious stage-rido in n rickoty old wagon, by taking a short walkin advance of their team,—somewhore in thein- terlor of Nova Beotis,—thoy encounter a wild native, and accost him. Snys Warner, * It oo- curred to me that porhaps ho u‘mko Tronch Fnloln, and I askod him; but he only shook his hond, ITa would own neither to German nor Irish. Thohappy thought camoe to mo of inquir- ing if ho koew English, But he_only shook his hend agrin, and snid, ‘No English, plenty fm-l!c.‘ Thls wns ontircly incomprehensible, for know that garlic ia not a language, but a smell. But, when he had repoated tho word sevoral times, [ found that he mennt Gaelio; and, when wo came to this understanding, wo cordinlly shook handd and willingly parted.” But we cannot stop to” pick out any moro tld- bits from this racy volumo, Enough has been given to show its fiue flavor. *It is & churlinsh critio that would bring it into comparison with My Bummor {n a Garden,” Milton only wroto ono * Paradise Lost,” but ho did write an 11 Ponseroso.” Undoubtedly posterity will be ablo to ey, ** Warner only wrote one ‘AMy Summer in & Gordon,’ but ho also wrote *Baddeck.'" A Novel Sanitarium, LIFE UNDER GLASS: CONTAINING BUGARSTIONS TOWARD 7111 FORMATION OF ARTIFIGIAL CLIMATI, By Geonor: A, Smove, 12mo,, pp. 111, Boaton: James R, Ozgood & Co. An articlo published in the Adlantio Monthly o littlo over & yoar ngo forms the nuoloun of the prosent volume. It excited a good doeal of at- tontlon nt the timo of its appearance, and lod to 20 much comment and inquiry that the suthor haa boen encouraged ta elaborate the papor and publish it in book-form. The plan it projects is highly ingenious and intoresting, At first it strikos one ne purely fauciful; but, under the suthor’s earnest and confldent exposition, it gradually grows more and mors plausible, until floslly it socoms splendidly feasible; and the roader, fully charged with the writer's en- thusiasm, yearns to have it put to the tost of ox- poriment. Its iden Is tho' conatruction, anywherein the United States, of a vast sanitnrlnm, ‘where in- valids of overy sort, especially thoso addicted to pulmonary complaints, shail dwell in a por- potunl summer, with soft, equable aira con- stantly fanning their brows and soothing their lungs, with vegotation ovor graen and luxuriant about them, with birds continually flitting and singing in thelr prosenca ; in short, with evory accompaniment of the most dolicious climate in the world, preserved in a changolees perfection, to choer, rofresh, and cure thom, This sanitari- um i6 to ba composed of iron and glags,—the two chonpest, lightoat, and most abundant of build- ing muoterials. The ideal .structure which the author roars in his imagination covors 40 acros, The reador is aghast with tho J:toposiuon. But the London Exhibition Building, after which thin i closely modeled, coverod an nren of 241¢ acres, A 40-ncro hullnlnfig' i8 not impracticablo, Ita walls wonld be 40 or 50 fect high'; it would be supported by iunumerablo iron ehafts ; it would bo heated by steam-boilers ; it would be furnished with ample ventilators, and with a comploto system of drainagoand saworage ; and it would be embellishicd with all tho attractions that unstinted means can prooure for tho adorn- mont of plonsure-grounds ; with traos, flowors, groveled avenues and sorpontine pathe, hills, mvine:(.’ lnitos aud fouutaing, vines and fruits, ote., ele, Hore invalids, whoso hope of recovery, or of temporary alleviation or stay of -their melady, lios in the enjoyment of a mild and oquable cli- mato, should pass their days during the long, droary months of our Northern wiuters, Con- tiguous hotols, built with reforence to their con- vonience and comfort, should snpply thom with boarding accommodations; and tho whola thing cont thom, ns tho nuthor figuros it, but abont $3 por day. ‘Lhie plan is beautiful ns a dream; is it s chimerical ? According to s liberal estimnte, one such sani- tarium could Lo built and equipped at an ax- ponse of 812,000,000, It would uccommodate 10,000 guosts at n timo, Thoe cost of runming it from Nov. 1 to Junoe 1 would not exceed §2,500,- 000. Add to this the iutorcat on the camtal nt'8 por cont, and we have the sum of 88,460,000 as the expenso for o single year, The bonrd-bills of 10,000 gueats, at. S2 nor day, for thirty weoks, would amount to £4,200,000, leaving the haud- some.profit of $740,000, ‘Whon we roflect that noarly one-fitth of the nonual doaths in tho United Bfates aro occa- sfoned by lung-disonses, and that thonsands are compelled overy year to leave their homes and fly for their lives to some more hospitablo oli- mato, thore need bo no foar that & sanitarium, built as our author describes, aud properly cun- ducted, would lack visitors, It would rather lack accommadation for ths multituden flocking to it 83 n haven of refugo. Mr. Bhove doservea oredit for his novel and humane scheme, It is honorable to the genins of our day. Itonly remaine that some philun- thropio capltaljst should translate it from theor into practico, Hottiug nside tho idea of pecuni- ary advantago from such un entorprise, it is cor- tainly worth whilo that some gigantlo offort, commonaurate with tho cause, should be mada to savo the valuable lives that are anunally snc- rificed in our gountry to tho fell disonse con- sumption. Esunys by Prof, Mathews, TEN GREAT CONVERSERS; Anp OrTiten Essavs, By WiLLiak MATaew, TProfessor of Rhete orlo and Lnglish Literature In the Univeraity of Ohleogo, 12no,, pp. 304, Chicago: B. O, Grigys & Co. Many of the essays comprising this volumo havoalrendy beon porused by thoussuds of read- oru, as they originelly appeared in il columng of Ty TuisuNe; yet thoss who have seon them auco will be bost pleased to maot thom again in thoir prosont rovised and pormanont form. There are an ovon twonty of them, all tronting lively and agrooablo thomes, and lu tho ossy, polished, aud sparkling style that has mnde tho suthor famous as nn oseayist. IF one can exor- clo o choleo whoro thero is such uniformlty of oxcollonce, tho preferance will beapt to fall upon {'The Grent Conversurs,” and “ Nosos,” as the best of tha papery, They are, at any rate, fino epecimens of tho writor's Funhm and vornatility,—~the firab belng extromoly folicitous in expression, and the noo- ond teoming with qualnt and whimsaioat concolts. Tho most striking oharnotoristio of Prof, Mathows' writing Is ita wondortul wosith of illus- tratlon, e iy ovidontly an omnivorons render, end giftod with a memory that navor rolaxes it geanp. Oue will malio the acquaintanco of moro euthors in tho conrse of asingle ono of his es- says thau aro probably Lo bo mot with in tho samo limlted mproo auywhoro olso in the whola roalm of our litornture, Prof. Mathews in too akllled bibliophile not to know tho valuo of acoplons and woll- arrangod indox,+ Ho has, thorofore, provided his book with this ossentinl ndjunct, whiok enables tho rendor, without a moment's lous, to turn to aoy writor or subjoct alludod to in its PAgOB. The Tuhllehou havo o nicely porformed thelr part in the proparation of tha'voluno as to do- sorve cordinl commendation. A Dofonsc of Chrintinnitys MODERN DOUDT AND CHRISTIAN BELIEF: A BERIES o¢ ATOLOGKTIO LEOTURES ADDRESSED TO LanNesr SrExins ArTeER Tnoti, By THEODORE Cugiwzsien, D, D,, University Proachor aud Profes sor, of heology dt Boun, “Transintod, with, fiia Autlior's Banctfon, Obfofly, by ilio Rev, I, U, Wriz- DiEORT, Ph. D, n0d Editoil by the Rov, T, L, Kixas« nuny, M, A. Vicar of Xaston Roynl and Riral Doan, 8 v0,/pp. 00, Now York Sarlbnor, Armitrong & o Dr. Christlich has orooted o strong bulwark in defonso of Christianlty In this able and compro- housive work. It moots tho manifold objections urgeil by unbolief against tho truths of orfhodox theology, with » calm, suro faith, founded on reagon aa woll as rovelntlon, It turns nsido, or blunta the point of, many of the most dangerous argumonts that have been hurled at the founda- tions of tho Olristion religion, And tuis it doos In n most genorous as woll as zoalous mode of warfare, Tho cathollo, candld, and impartial epirt in which Dr. Christlieb writos commands the ro- epect and wins the admiration of the ronder quito as much a doos his mystory of tho ro- sources of logicand scholarship. A man who hos athorough control of himsalf,—who s novor be- trayed into a moment's weaknoss by passion, by projudico, by bigotry, by sophistry,—is an op- ponont to bo foared and honored. Such a man 18 vr. Christlich. Aud, added to this natural toemper, he has, to complete his qualifications nu o controversialist, gront l“""“‘F and minute understunding of the arguments in common use on both sides of tho questions at iesue, and an oxcoeding skill in polomica, His work embracos oight lectures, which cover the following topica: The Existing Bronch Bo- twoon Modera Oulture and Christianity ; Ttonson and Revelntion : Modern Nou-Biblical Concep- tions of God; The Thoology of Seripture aud of tho Clureh ; ‘Tho Modorn Nogation of Miracles; Modern Anti-Mirnoulous Acconnts of the Lifo of Ohrist; Modorn Deninls of the Resurrection ; and The Modora Critical Theory of Primitive Chriatiamty.. Tho author frankly ncknowledgoes that tho Churoh hag, in o grent mensure, to thaul itself for the provaleucs of intidolity throughout the world. "Its apathy, formalism, selfiuhness, and narrow-mindoducss havo repolled the maes of mankind and hrnufim it into diegraco, Whilo olinging with a doath-like tonscity to tenots and creeds, it has nogleoted to cherish n vital and active faith., Ithas conflned its mllfilon to pro- fousslon, instead of liberally exhibitingit in {:rnctlcu 3 and the world has consequently como 0 feol that tho Christian‘is notin realicy n purer and nobler man than his fellows, but sim- ply ono who wears more shaokles, warping and confining tho freedom of his min Tho remedy forall this, Dr. Christlich or- gues, lioain the Church itsolf. Christiane must approximate more nearly in their lives to thoir ront, Mvine Typo, and “teach men the hoauty aud virtuo of a charactor modoled in all thinga atter that of Christ. Thoe arguments which aro nmp]uied in the dis- cussion of tho various topics embraced in the loctures will bo followed with interest and in- struction. Thoy are profound, cogent, and straightforward. The nuthor's style is eminont- 1y becoming to bia subject, boing simplo, grave, clear, and never tedious. Xiustrious Soldiern. SKETCIES OF ILLUSTRIQUS SOLDIURS. Dy JAMES GRANT WILSON, With Four Sloel Lugray. ingn and Twonty.ono Autographe, 13 mo,, pp. 484, * Nuw York: @, I’ Patnaw’s Sobs, Twenty-five skotchos of colebratod command- ors nre assemblod together between thoese cov- ors, mnking quite & respectablo compendium ‘of military biography. “The subjects all belong to modern times, nono of them having flourished earlior than tho fiftoonth century, Gonsalvo of Cordova, ‘““tho great captain™ whoso exploits wore 80 potent in extending the dominion and inoreasing tho glory of tho reign of Fordinand and Isebolln of Spain, dates back tho farthest, Aftor him follow the Chovalior DBayard, the Constable Bourbon, William of Orauge, tho Dulio of Parma, Princa Wallenstein, and so on down, in tho chrouological order of their suc- cossion, to Lord Clyde, Marshal Moltke, Gen. Leo, Gon. Bherman, and Gon. Grant. Tho sketches aro gimple and succinet, attompt- ing to dono more than give plain statomenty of fact, Assuch thoy are useful; and the author hag done a sorvico to the lovera of biography and of military gonius by extracting them from more voluminous works, and molding them into thelr presont convenient shape. A Uscful 'Fable. Mr, W. Zimmerman, C.E., of this oity, bes Just issued, through Jansen, McClurg & Co., n TUniversal Table for mensuring the contonts of excavations sud embaukments, snd finding the capacity of all solids to which the prismoidal formuln {8 applicablo. It 8 very neatly printed, on ¢ single sheot, 80 08 to furnish at a singlo glance the elomonts required in the computa- tion, Tho principal table, with its auxiharios and the accompanying oxplanations, are " at once correet and porspicuons ; aud the whole forms n very serviceable addition to the desl-furniture of the civil ongmeor who wiskes to calculata rapidly, and ns aceurately as neod be, the volune of earth-worl, Rooks Iecelved. FEMALE BEAUTY; or Tue Anr o¥ HUMAX Drc- By D, A, U . Ana THE ART OF VLEABING, By Euxnsr Fryozax, Transisted + from the original Tranch by Muss M, T, Nasu, 1amo, New York: G, W. Carloton & Co, CIU'FIO, DOGIRINAL, AND HOMILETIOAL COMMENTARY; Tie MEVELATION OF JOuN, Exe vounded by JunN PETER Lanot, D, D, Translated “from the Uormun by EviraNe Moong, Enlorged nud cdited by E, I, Oraves, D, D, Togother witha Double Alphaboticsl Indox to Al the 'Fen Volumes of the New Testament, by Joux I, Woobs, A, M, 8o, l;i'“%l Now York: Beribuer, Armstrong & Co.” Yrice, $5. 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Ford & Co, 3 G Queen Vic, and an Oid Soldier, An Avhentoo campuiguor iu Netloy Ifospital writes that ho wus Iutely visited thore by Quecn Victovin, * Her Blu{uuty chatted a fow minutoy to me, and mado king lmiulrleu about mo, ‘The dnctor told hor how I bad been in tho Orimean and Indian campaigns, and on hoaring my story Hor Mejosty burst into tears, Bho introduceil mo to her youngest son and duughter, who were prosont, and they wore as much sffectod ug their noblo mother. Next day I recelved from Os- borne & copy of ¢ Louves from My Journal in the ighlands,” with tho following lnseription in the Quoon's own handwiriting 1 * Presontod to Hor- gonut-Mujor John Baroluy, Forty-nocond Highe Inaders, Yictoria 1y, Osborne, April 17, 18741 @ “ THE FAMILIAR TALK. ‘THE NRITISI COUNT. The Y.ondon sonson hina opencd with a brillian- oy unprecedentod #ince tho death of Princo Al- bort. Tho Quoon has nt lnst resumed & portion of her old-timo cheerfulnoss; » spriukling of light colora plorsantly roliaves tho somberncou of her monrning; smilen froquently illuminate lor faco with sunshino; snd eho londs hor prtronago, with graclons facility, to tho socinl pastimos hocoming to tho Court of England. With the ontrenco of n now Miniatry Into tho Quoon's Cabinet, theto is an introduction of now sttondantn on the Quoen in her drawing-room, aud & galaxy of fresh beautlos aro groupod about hior on'all gala and stato occasions, ‘the Duchess of Wollington succeods tho Duchoss of Argyll ns Mistross of the Queon's Rabos, As the prosent Duko of Wollington fn- horits from hin {llnotrioua father moraly a big noso aud n pair of small grny-blue oyes, on his lady chiofly dovolves tho tasl of susinining tho proutige of the house of Wollosloy. ~Admirably dous the Duchoss meet tho ronponaibility, 8ho has beon, in her time, ono of ihe famous boau- tlos of Viotorin'a Cotrt. Bhe is now bntyoud middln age, yot s still stntelyand full of ole- ganoo and graco. Bhe i childioss, and tho titlo will pass, on lier husband's doconso, inlo youngor branch of tlho Lron Duke’s family, Tho Queen hins takon up her abode at Windsor for the siensor, but holds * drawing-rooms " af Buckivgham Palaco at froquont intorvals, At Windsor nfiaunm\ll hospitality is maintaloed, snd thoy who have the privilege of admission there report that nothing can oxcoed the cosy, simplostylo that prevalls at tho brealkfasts, opon- air voncerts, oto., that oceur in continunl succes- sion, A the Quoon hos nine children and twen- ty-four or twenty-flve grandehildron, and their birthdayn aro eslobrated with laviuh gayoty, the rocurrence of these fostivals alone gives rise to no small numbor of happy rounions, Tho Princs nud Princess of Wales, at Marlbor- ough House and Bandringlinm ; the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, et Clarence Houeo ; the Prince and Princass Ohristinn (Holona), at Gun- berland Lodge ; the Pritce and Prmcess T'ock S\lmy of Cambridge), at Kow ; and the Duke of ambridge (n bachiolor, nt lonst in the sight of tho law), in Park Lano, oroall active in porfornt- {ug their Royal duty of kuarlng ths Court lively und nnimated. The Marquis ond Marchioness of Lorne hiave hithottalived o quiot, retired Iife in the country ; but this sesgon they hava taken np thoir residence 1n Argrll Lodge, at Compton Hill, and it is said that thoy contemplate nangu- rating thoro n scono of mitch gayety. The Mar- chioness of Lorno has as yeb been unblessod with children. EXTRAVAGANT STAGE COBTUMES, The habit of extravagant dresslog in voguo emong actreescs on tho stage is referred for ita origin to tho peried when the Imperial Court was ot Complogne. Actrosses who were sum- moned there to play for tho amusement of Roy- alty wore, by an arbiteary decree, compolled to oboy tho sumptuary laws whiok regulated cos- tume, Histrionic Queens nad Countceses wero thus obliged to appoar in a8 rich and eclegant rohos as the ladien wors whose state and dignity thoy for the time being imitated. By n ridicu~ lous inconsistency, thongh the drams they en- acted was flctitious, their dress and accessorles muet bo genuino. The Lord Chamborlain even went 8o far as onco to banish an actress who presumed to wenr mock peaxls when playing the part of a Duchess. Two youra ago, Milos, Fargueil, Bornhardt, and Descloes made public protest against the pieces aux robes, in which they were required— aftor the evil fashion now permanently estab- lishod by Parls managers—io drogs like Em- presses, at their own expense. Whon the Bm- iro foll which inaugurated the custom, these ladics ronsanably ngroed that n cortain Republi- can simplicity might properly take tho plnce of an Imperial mmagnificenco. Or, thoy maintained, if atoga-ladies must woar drosses costing twonty times their ealary, the expenso should fall on tho stage-proprietors. But nll to no purpose. It ia tho most dificult of all thinga to exchango aplendor for aimpliclty, ‘I'ifo habilues of a thea- tro, once accuatomed to gorgoons stage-toilettes, wi1§ bo satisfiod with no diminution of the speot taclo. It is anid that the bills whiol Mtle. Taygueil liad to ey for her costumes—* La Famillo Be- noiton " and * Patrie "—represonted a sum total which, carefully invested, would have brought hora ]Ho-snnulty. Thio Ghent Inco which sho wor on one fomous blue drees was worth very nearly 2,500, AN ECCENTRIO ACTOR. Glatigny was one of tho most ecoentric actors that ever enlivencd ihe Fremch stage. He was clover, but heodloss, IIe Lad n bad momory; he made up for its defl- cienoy by a happy talent for improvisntion, which ho used with astonishing impudenco. It is related of him that, one evening, ho Baw the nome of his friend Chawilly in the play-bill, as ho was paesing tho Mont-Parnasno Theatre, Ho entered by tho stage-door, and asked to moo his fripnd. Ilo was told thab Chevilly was on tho stage, and could not be spokon to. Thoreupon ho coolly walked to the side of Chovilly, us tho Intter was ropeating cor- :lnin famous lines in Porsard’s * Churlotte Cor- ny.” Aa Chovilly turned at thelr olose, o stared in amnzomont at Glatigny; but, recovering him- slf, exclaimed: * What, you here |" and shook him cordially by the baud. Tho two ployers then bogan talling of their private affairs while they coolly promennded up and down tha stago, in eight of the bowildered sudicnco, At luugm' Glatigny remarked, “Iam afraid I intrude ?" ** Not at nll 1" rojoined Chevilly, **Inm suro I do,” continned Glatigny, “*So, farowell ! When you have finislied, you will ind mo at the eafe, noxt door.” Mo had reached tho wing in Lis doparture, when he suddonly returned, seying : ** By-tho-by, Dbeforo we part, lob un ming togother n littin couplel de factwre?” *With all my heart;” and tho whimsical actors, standing before tho foot~ lights, sang a verso from an old vandoville on the pleasure of frionds meoting unexpectedly, wlhlch used to bring the curtais down with ap- plauso. At this duct tho audionce entered into the Joke, and tho most uproarious hilnrity reignod amongst them. Glatigny then retived, lon\'infi Chovilly to resume his volo with what spirit ang succes wore possible to Lim, SHOPPING -IN PARIS, Btorlos of tho crse und economy with whicl Indies onn pursue tho delights of shoppivg in Paris are enough to drive American.womeon frantic, Look at this, which is vouched for by n contribution to Lippincoll's as n trustworthy catlogue of prices for feminine gear: Yory wearable undergarments, & moro trifle; linea handkorchiefs, mnrkod with embroidered ini- tials, 80 conts oach § two-buttoned kid-gloves, 80 coned o pair; fiue, fashioned mobalr streot-suit, neatly made and claborately trimmed, §16 ; black sille streot-suit, $40; birck silk Louse-dross, trained, ©30; silk potticoat for wonring under ' polounises, ele., prottily trim- med, £12; cheap but mnent stroct-suit for ordinnry wear, consisting of skirt, over- shirt, and juckot, 8 to €10; Lounet, §0'to 74 Doots, not 80 good, higdkome, or chonp au in tho United States. Smali fnories, such as cole lors, ribbouns, fabs, olo., aro proportionately rossonabio, At thoso fignren o lady can dress handsomely in Paris, ot u compuratively slight oxpenso, and do none of her own sowing. Au order to ono's drossmaker is ull that i neccesary for procuring nunow toilette. BLut, ifu ludy choose to make horown garmonts, shocan reduce the cost of Lier dress mstorially in a city whore good wille i to bo bought ot #1 & yard ; & fin bill at 52,60 por yard, snd mixed ond worsted fabrics, eto., 8¢ fiom 10 conts upwurd. Tt i wlmont worlh the whilo of fashionable Amorican Jadies to eyoss the Atlnntio annually and roplenish thoir wardrobes in the splendid Dazanva of Paris, A FLORAL MONSTER, Ou the 28d of March, which was tho twenty- Aifth anniversury of Viotor Emanuol's accesrion to the Throuo, the ladies of Rome united to- gothor in presonting the King with o bouguet, 1t was not o nosogay for his button-nole, or w fragrant trifle which ho could woar in his hand, On tho contrury, t& wus botwoon 6 and 7 foot . high, and roquired aix stout porters to bear it in to Iis Majesty’s presonco, It was, i trath, n floral monster, in tho design of which tasto and elegunco wore snerificod to enormity, It-con- eistod of & baso & foot squaro, and w stom sur- mounted by & vaso of gracoful shapo, with an appropuiuto insoription, It was composed on- tiroly of violots, punsios, and mignonetto, form- ing & gort of mosaio for which Romoa 18 famous. INHANITY IN BCOTLAND, An elaborato puper on tho statistics of insnnl- by fn Ireland, Intely read by RMr, W, J, Corbot bofora n soclety in Dublin, howed thnt, during the last thirty years, with o population dimin- ishod by 2,904,437, thero has buon un Increaso of 6,245 lunatics. Ton por cont of the cauos of Ine esnlty wero attvibuted {0 ntomporance, Yot the moet prolifio oause of tho diffusion of tho malas + dy was, singularly onough, ascriboed to tho great care whioh tho I;mnun recolve of Into yonrs. Many of thom aro cured by Lrontment in nsy- Iums, and Lhen gont out to mix with tho rent of the population, marry, and propagate the hered- itary (aint, "This belny the ehisf source of ihe mischiof, the question wns susggested, if, after all, tho mr.gnlaaont asyluma which ara Luilt and suntained ot eo great o cont, do not have » dotri- montnl, rathor than s boueflclal, offcot wupon soclaly. BALE OF AUTOGRATIS. A famous colleotion of nutographs, bolonging to tho Inte B. A. Do Laboulss-Rochefort, a Toulousian poot of the First Empire and Resto- ration, was wold, April 28, ab tho Hotel Drouot, Tarls. Wo anuumorate s fow of the specimons, with the prices they brought: Balzac tho eldor, 80 francs ; J. J. Rownonu, o fino loltor, 850 o lottor by Princo Eugone of Bavoy, §8f.; the firat Tarl of Bssox, a lotter in Fronch to Honri'IV,, 105f.; Joames I, of Enq]nml. in Tronch, to Mario do Medicls, 195f.; Louis XL of Franco, n lstlor, 9263 Bt, Vincent do Pnaul to Mlle, Legros, 106, P. Virat, collaborateur of Calvin to Cal- vin, 206f.; 8t. Francis de Sollos, 110f,; DA Vor[e, composor, & 1aro oxample, 49f,; B, Cas~ tiglions, o fnalotler, 547, MORTALITY AMONG RUSHIAN CHILDREN. * In s recont volume of travels * Through Itua- eln,” by Mra, Guthrle, Tondon, o frightful ple~ ture of the mortality umoug tho children of tho Ruselan poasants iu prosonted. An official stuto- mont affirms that tho peasant-women generally marry at 16, and tho men at 18, The averago number of children in o famlly Is sevonteen, of whom one-hinlf porish in infancy. Negleot and insufficient protection from cold are ascrihod na tho chiof causes of this mortality. As ovidence of tho careloss nursing peasant-bubics reccivo from their Ruseian mothers, it is sald that munny of thom aro sllowed to choko to death by sucking too hard.at tho saska, a milk-poultico ticd up in n bag, and_(hrust inte thew mouths ta kieen thom quiet, while they avo loft by taem- solvos for houra togother, . CITARTES DICKENS' PARENTS. A vory interesting lotter, printed in * Our Monthly Goeslp,” in ZLippincoll's, gives a quite particular neconnt of tho paronis of Charles Dickens, during thelr last yonrs. Acoording to the writer, who Iknow both iutimately, neither Mr. nor Mru. John Digkons boro a close resom- Banco to the portraits thelr son ukotched of thom in Micawber and Mrs, Nickleby. Mts. Dickenn is doscribod s being especially amiablo and talonted, with a koen sonke of hoth pathos and humor, and uncommon dramatic power, From hor, tho writor thinks, Dickens inhoritod much of his genius, The mother was very fond of ruflenlinu littlo ciroumstancos which marked the childhood of her gitted boy; yst she, ap- E:rnntlf. hind not forescon in his youth his fu- uro colobrity, The following incident, whicly diwelt in hor memory, indicatos unusunl pre- aaoity in tho child: Once, when Charles was n tiny boy, and the family ‘ro niaying down ot Olinhiam, tho tiirss hnd a great deal of troublo in inducing him to follow her when out for his daily walk, Whon thoey returned lome, Mrs, Dickens gaid to her, ** Well, bow have tho childron be- haved 2" “Yory nicoly fudeed, ma'am,—all but Mas- for Oharley,” 4 Whnt i ko dono?” ™ Why, mn'ans, e will Pnrn!c! in always going the samo road uvory dny.” 4 Clurloy, Olirrleg, how fn this2 ¢ Why, mamma,” puw the “urchin, *docs not the Bible i'l:})' ;\:}u must walk in the seme path ail the days of our o WITCHORAFT IN ENGLAND. Tt soems that o belief in witcheraft atill pro- vails among the lower elasses In some portions of Dngland, snd more oxtensively than ono would boliove conaistentwith the onlightonment of the nge. Only n fowdays ngo, n womnn was fined by an Exoter magistrate for applying tho name of witch to o ncighbor, and insisting that the Inttor bad fixed en *“evil eyo” upon her two childron, thoreby causing their death. About the same timo, at Iayhembury, Devon, n young woman rotnmed from a visit to Taunton ina melancholy mood, which sho explainod by declaring that, while ubsont, she had mot u SPARKS OF SCIENCE. A WATER-CAT. Cats hnyo & untural repugnanco to water; but, in o famous instanco noted by Mr. Frank Buckland, one of the kpocies not only ovoreamo this antipathy, but dovaloped e romarkablo fond- nens and talent for piscatorial sports. The ani- mal balonged toa fishorman of Portsmonth, called ‘“Robintos Crunol,” and itaolf hore tho etiphonious nume of © Puddles,” To quote from Mr. Bucklond's history of tho cat, rolated s it foll from tho lipn of Its ownor: 5 Tlo was tho wondorTulieat water-cat as aver camo aut of Portsmontl Iinrhor, was Iuddles, ond he_mwed to fw out a-fishing with o every night, On cold nights 10 would ult in my Tap while I wan a-flahing, and poke Iifs hiead out every now and (hea, ot olso I wonld wrap Inm wp in o sall, ind make him Iy quict, Ho'd luy down on mo whon I wan asleep, und, ¢ anybody eamo, Li’d awenr & good one, aud havo the face off on ‘em i€ they wont to touch moy and ho'd nover tonch o fieh, not oven a littlo teeny pout, if you did not give fthim, T wus OmlF-\lnd totake him out a-fishing, for elno hio would atand and yawl and marr (il T wont back nnd catchied him by tho poil and shied him into tho Lont, and thes ho won auite happy, When it wan fino bo used to atick un st the bowa of the bont and sit a-watching the flo{? (s o, dog-fah), The dogs usud to como alongaldo by fiiousanda at u timo, end, whon they wau thick &1l about, ho would dive in nnl fotel tlicn out, fammed in_his mouth ra fant ns mny be, Just anif ‘(liey wasn parcel of ratas nnd he Aid nob iremblo with tho cold half os 1nuch as a Nowfoundiand dog,—ho was uscd to it. Ho looked terriblo-wild about thohend when lio enme up out of the water with tho dog-fish, I lenrnt him the water myself. One dny, wien b wni n iiten, I tcok lifm down to the sea o wush and brush tho fleas ont of hiin, and in a woek he could swim after a faulher or a corlr, VENERADLE TRELS. Theo threae oldost troos in Britain are tho Cow- thorpo Oak, near Wethotby, Yorkshire, whoso age io computed to bo 1,600 years ; tho Bra~ Bbourne Yew-trco, which Humboldt, Mrs, Somor- villo, and Prof. Balfour cstimated to have cnago of 3,000 years : and the yow-trco at Heddon, Bucks, which is supoosed to bo 8,200 yonra old. The Cowthorpo Oak hns undorgono very little ohunugoe during tho last 100 yoars. At prosont tho trunk s hollow, and many of its boughs are artificinlly propped. Tho ln\‘%u!t yew-tracs in Ingland are slunding in churchyards, nnd the quory arikes, Did tho enrly Christians sclact the viclnity of nuch trecs for their burinl-grounds ? ‘Tho noblest specimens of the English Yow in Amorlen aro at Haddonfleld, N.J. They were blanted hy Elizabeth Haddon, the original pro- nlréctor ol tho town, aud are now about 170 yuars old. THE SNOWDROP: + Tho protly willego of Over-Compton, near Doreotshiio, Eugland, is celobrated ns thoe habi- tat of the Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis), To- ward the last of Fobruary the plunt is in profuso ‘bloom, and ite groen, grass-like leaves, and puro white bells, cover all the wild, shiaded dells, the sloping bnnks, and the orohard-sitos, ho borders of tho waysides and the *hodgerows, with a thick and es?u(altucuput. Iu i not dacidod boyond quostion that the Snow- drop is o vative of England ; but, in any cnse, it by tirmly cstablichod itself among tho indigen- ous plants that flourish at Ovor-Compten. POL AND AVA. Air. Nordhof?, in his recent Intereating volumo of travels in * Northern Callfornin, Oregon, and the Bandwich Islands,” froquontly alludes to the staplo article of food nmong tho Huwnilans, callod poi, It occupies the placo In tho dlet of tho Sandwich Islandor which tho potato does in that of tho Hiberuinn, Dorcover, it ia mann- faclurod from o tubor like tho potato,—thirty difforent varlotion boing cultivated in thd Ha- waiian Islands, Tho plaut is pepularly named Tare, but botanists know it as the Colocasia antiquarum, var. Erculenta, a momber of the ordor Aracee, or Wild-Turnip family. ‘With tho oxception of ouo variety, the tubors of the Taro possoss » dolotorious goid quality, which, however, i mpollod in_the procoss of boiling or ronuting. ‘T'o make Poi, the tuber iz baked in undorground ovous, snd then pound- witch, who had *‘ overlooked” or rogarded hor with 2 melovalent nspect, Bubsoquontly, unn- ble to recover from tho bhallucination, the Wwoman drowned herself ia tho vicarage-pond, An Elizabothan statnte, in 1562, first mado witeheraft o cerime In England punishable with denth. During tho succeeding two centurics, thousnnds of innocont persons boeameo victimm to tho mieerablo superstition, and suffered a violent death, often preceded by atrocions tortures. Tho last witch wns burned in England in 1716, and tho laws against witcheraft were Tormally roponled in 1730, Yet, 8o lntoly as 1803, n reputed wizard was drowned in o pond in Ifedingham, Essex, by o mob of pixty or seventy personsg, all of whom wore of the small-trades- men clags, Striking rovelations, like those of recent oceurrenco, show how deep-seated in the minds of the ignorant rural populace of Eum}m is the belief in witcacraft, and the dread of its malign influences. A WONDERFUL NEGNO. They have got a colored man in Troy, N. Y., tho soventh son of a seventh daughter, who has tho faculty of moving the walls of his nbdomen ; shifting his ribs directly over his bowels; chang- ing the position of the hoart and the right broast, and suspending his pulos and boart-beats, In addition to these abnormal feats, lio has traveled all over the world; las been awarded a diploma at tho Edinburgh Medical University; sponks Frepch, Gorman, Portngiese, Hottentot, and Tebrow ; hus had two wives and twelvo children; bends o bar of iron, eoventh-sighth of an inch in thickness, over his fore-nrm ; and hns fought tyico in the prize-ring. If there iy any thiug elge that this wondorful negro can do, itis not nartated; but what little he can do is only anothor proof of the remarkable achiovements of American gonius and entorprise. It may bo added that he hen a brother in Paris whois 6 feet 2 inches’ high, aud has the wonderful power of shutting himsolf up liken telescopo Lo the height of 8 feet 4 iuches, PATIIOS, That was a flno touch of pathos in the last ro- murk of John Stowart, who, while waiting on tho gullowe, in Novada, the last little attentionwhich te Shorlff conld pay him, banded a half-con- sumed paper of finc-cut tobaceo to faithful soryitor, with the words : * Ctive this to Larry Murphy, of Gonoa, and toll him that the last man thnt took & cliow ffom that napor of tobneco was Johnny Btowart.” Johmny having taken to hemp, had no furthor uga for tobacco, and Larry cannot help remembor Jobnny, if he chooso, NOVEL TREATMENT OF IERETICS. Father Bavonius, o Lombardy prios, was lnte- ly brought before tha tribunal at Treviglio for putting o strong emetio into the wine which somo of his brother-priests \wore about to uge in tho colebration of tho Mass. His dofenso was, that two of them, who had rocently como to Traviglio, Lelonged to an opposite echool of theology ; and he thought, if he could not con- vert thom, ko might at least punish thom, "Tho punishment wusjn savore one, for one of the hor- oticss was Il for o week, whilo the doctors, who wero ignoramuscy, (hought that he hud beon rolsnnnd. nnd submitted bim to so severe o diet Let thoy neatly reduced him to n skelelon, His manner of dealing with herotios hay some important suggestious which wnuy be of valuo to Drof. Putton, BAMOA, 'Lho Island of Samoa, in the Bouth PTacifio, wants an Amevican protectorate. Uhe native Chiefs and the white sctilers, tired of domestio war, potition that the Stars und Stripes may bo pormitted to fly over it,—the emblom of eternal peaco and security. The United .Statos iu to bo {empted into protectivg tho island by such in- ducoments u8 thoso: A couple of huudred miltions of cocon-nuts arve produced; broad-fruit hangs from thetrees; tho ava-shrub s there to be found ; and tho dodo, hnving forsuken the rost of tho world, lives among its wountains, ‘I'heso are no_doubt very tempting {nducemonts, but Brother Jonathou has enough to do just now to look altor his awn housolold, Pt - AN ALLEGORY. Tho Crickel anid to the Wren : *+Why do ot ult so KLY Listen 10 10¢, how shril} G T winyg In tho'avenlng clifll 1» Tut tha Wron buld, * Hark§ Ly Listehing eggs In tho darlz» Tho Urlukot aid (o fhe Wren s 1t Is thue to fly about s T'lo other hirds ure out, And thoy aro wlse, o donbt,” Tt the Wron suid, 4 Noy “Whesb cgys won't 16t me go,? + Who Orlekel said to the Wien s 40 1lght iy wono away 1 Yet here you alt (D‘du,v 1 Why do youdo it, priy? But the Wron sk, 4 Beq | Whreo wrens huve beew born to mo 1» —Samuel IF, Dugllstdh in the Christlan Unton, = e —A Trof houso shipped threo tons of papar nnlln‘rfl tnnflmv‘;leuhud ]nutr'l‘l':umdny.l Thig apoakia woll for tho evooses of the wmwslon oausa fu that wovtion of tho globe; - ) ed very flne. "It ia afterward mixed with water, and, for native usg, loft to undorgo slight fermontation. Fresh or unformented Poi has o plensant finvor; but, according to Mr. Nordloff, when fermented, it tnstes ilko bool- binders' posto. It is oasily digested, and is vory fattoning, and somotimes is prescribed by physicinns to consumptives, i Laro is an aquatio plant, and is oultivated under water. The patch whore it grows is sur- rounded with embanluments; its bottom is of puddled clay, and in this the plants are set in little clumps, in long rows, in walor kneo-deep. Bo prolific is its yicld that n patch 40 foot equare will support o peraon for a year, and one cover- ing a Agquare milo will feed ovor 15,000 Hawail- nng, 80 univeranl is the use of Poi among the natives that its_mennfacture is carried on by steam-power and With Yankes machinery, Itis sold in the street in enlabashios,—the hollowed sliolls of the gourd-like fruit of the Calabash- treo.—and is algo shipped in considerablo quan« tilies to other islands, espocially to the guano iulands that lic south and west of tho Hawniian oup, gl.Avl\l. tho inobriating drink of tho Bandwich TIelanders, is made from the root of & pepperwort Aacropiper metlysicum) by o suliciontly- diggusting process, Tho root is chewed by wnmen, and Kpit, with the copious saliva whoso seeretion it stimulntoy, into a calubnsh, A little wator is added, and tho romaimng juices in the roots ara syueezed out with . the "bends. The liquid is thon strained throngh cocoa-nut fibres to soparato thoe woody particles it may contain, and tho Avais ready for consumption, It in drani just bofore or aftcr supper, and ono may take from two to four gills to produce tha de- sired degres of intoxication, It is & nauseous dato, of the color of thiok green dish-water, and “of an oxcespivoly-disagroeable taste. Thoeffect, liowever, is delicious. It induces immedinto slamber, which lasts from twelve to twenty-four or even moro hours, while dreams of tho” most cavtivating character charm tho long torpor. Tho effoct of Ava upon Labitusl arinkors is disastroug in tho extremo. ho body becomon emaciated, aud the skin is covored with larga gcalos, ng in loprosy, which, falling off, leave 1nsting white spots that ofton degomerale into ulecors, The leaf of the Ava-plant is sometimes used instead of that of the Detel-Pepper, 26 & nercotie stimnlant, Doth plants are Yepperworts, and characterized by tho snme pungent properties. Tho Avn is n shirabby plant, with heart-shaped, acuminate lonvee, nnd short, axillury spikes of flowors, 1t is n nativo of theHawaiivn and many South Sen inlands. ' SEA-BITIDS, The Tavillon Telands, o clustor of six rocky penks that thrust their bald heads severnl hun- dred feet above the wos, 23! miles from tho Golden Gato,—the famous entrance to San Fran- cigeo Day,—aro inhabited by multitudes of son- birds, whoee oggs form, in tho nesting seacon, au important articlo of commerea in the Califor- nin market, Tho chief specion of theso fowl aro gully, murres or guillemots, shags or cormor- ants, and sea=parrots or puflius, ‘The oggs of tho gulls and murres only aro edible, The egg- ing renson Inets from tho middle of 3ay to tho end of July, and during that timo from 15,000 to 18,000 dozon eggs aro annually colleotod. This fleld has boen worked for eightcen years, aud yot ihere is no sousible decrease in the number of the birds or of thely ogga. The murre lays o single ogg upon the bare rock, but the guil lays two or throe in # rudo nest of brush and sea-weed. The birds endure tho, robbery of thoir nests much as_barn-yurd fowls do, although thoy mako o good denl of clamor avoer tho affalr, aud oftan maintsin & stout re- nistanco, Dut this species of burglary doos not breuk up thoir housokeoping altogethior, ‘They will ntilrelink to thoir chosen breeding-place, aud deposlt their complement of ogps sovoral times over, 'Tho ogus ure gathorad daily, ny thoy ure palatublo only whon frosh, acquiring n flshy taste thoveaftor. They ara lavgely usod in Ban Franciseo, by restaurauts and bakers, It is outimated, from the amount of egge col- leoted, that, on Bouth TFurillon Island alone, which 1a loss than a milo inits greatont dinmoter, over 100,000 birds net anminlly, They ave lof! undisturbod for o month bofore ‘the breading season is avor, In ordor that they muy have time to reur o braod ; and thus thoy aro ablo to main- tain thoir population undiminished, despiio the repoated ravago of their houscholds, DRYING MEAT, Recont oxporiments performed by Endemann oxhibit the fnot that, if meat bo cut iu slices, and expogod in & room tha alrof which is hoated to 140 dey, nnd isallowod to outor and es- enpo only through cotton-filters, 1t will bocome #a dry in three honrs' timoe that 1t oan bo ground, Hluce the ullumen and fibrin are not congnlated, the mant loses none of its nutritive properties by this procoss, AN INSTIUMENT TO RILL ANINALH, By means of an lustrumont calted the Lontrols, which was lately fnvonted ot Parls, an snimal con bo inutantly killed with o single blow on tho hord, The hontrole Luw the form of an ax, with & hollow eylinder (like s gun-wad punch) about flx Iza\majoug and ouo h;;u in dlumeter, with tn odjje ground shurp on the ond opposita nlnle.“ [+ welgho léfllfl\] five pou'x;ban; ‘,.{"2 singlo stroko onts o round holo in the forchend, and producos instaut doath. The bontrole hns beon recently introducod into Vionnn; and 16 plionld como into uso ovorywhoro, o ll ostab- lishes p inore humano motlod of’ alnuglitoring animnls than that whiol now provails, DOBTON A8 A PORR-PAOKER, Tho astonishing stalomont that Boston hnt bocoma socond only to Ohicago nsa pork-packing centre 18 finding its woy into publicity, Is strangoly bowildors one’a idons to linvo this mod« orn Athona presentod to tho mind in the light ot o vast hog-market, Hithorto onr sesocintions with tho refiucd and culturod Metropolis of Man- suchiusotts havo boen purely litorary and esthiate dcal. Honcoforth these must suffer base hfine ties wilh suggostions of swinc, and slaughtore lousos, and smolls, Faugh! DBut hold! not smollo, Aristocratio Boston could never gon- doscend to becoma n stink in the nostrilaof hex citizons or noighbors. ‘Thoroforo wo (Chicago capecinlly) havo occasion to rojoice that she hns takon {o ‘pork-packing on & huga feale, for sha will suroly doviso 1ncans for transforming £ho businens into nn elogant and clevated indus- try; aud othor citlos may in timoe be relievod of o nuisanco by imitating hor, Alrondy Prof. Horsford, an expert chomist, has boon'called npon to discover some doodor- iziug substunco that will annibilate tho offousiva omanations. which always accompany living swine. The Profossor roports that ho lns atuoe eooded in preparing & liamd which, when sprinklod upon the auimsl and its surroundings, Will ontirely remove its offonalvo adar. Thaukn o Doston!” Ohicago cnn afford to bo aclipsed H{ ber, evon in the pork-packing trado, 88 is pro~ otod, {2 sho will in-roturn teaoh hor younger sisier how to lmu{) hog-yards swoet and olenn, and 5o manago slaughtor-houses as to ronder thom inoffeusivo, MEAT FOR DYSPEPTICH. Tho London Lancet notes tho experimonts mado by Dr. Marcy with a viow of preparing moak 8o as to render it onsy of digestion by weak slomachs. Iydrochlorio acld and popsin aro tha agents which tho Doctor has omployed, and tha rosult of his application of thom to animal food {5 fluid holding in eusponsion a light, pulpy mass, that ia 50 soft it can be swallowed unper= celved, and yot containg all the nutritive quali- tog of eolid’mont. 'Tho experimont promiaca ro- liof to tho dyspoptic and other sufferors f; diseages of nutri't’ln_ - BAT-DANL 1t is 0ald thnt rats havo uo gront an avorsion to Asphiodel that, If it bo grown abous the places which ‘thoy hauut, or if the plant be placed in thelr holes, it will effectunlly banish them; It doos not destroy or injuro tho rat, but is an ine tolernble offonso to Lim. he Asphodel is n bulbous plant bolonging to the Lily family. AMDER, ¢ i In tho year 1870, thero wns collocted on tha shores of tho Baltio Sen 1,400 owt. of ambor, valued at 8300,000. This is the most prolifia amber-flold on tho globe, Tho mineral i3 washe ed up by tho sen, or lu obtained by dredgiog. I8 is found elaowhero associated with coal, and oc- caslonelly in diluvial deposits. It is rare in Britain, but is obtained in small quantitios on the coast of Sicily and tho Adriatic, and in dif- foront parts of Europo, in Liberia, Groenland, ote. Pleces have sometimen beon found weighe ing 12 to 18 Jbs,, but not ofton, Amberisn vogetable resin, supposed to bo dorived from an extinct coniforous tree. In tho state in which it Is now found, it Is regarded ss o minoral. It occurs in irregular lnups, has & conchoidal fracturs, is alightly brittle, omits an agreonble odor when rubbed, molts at 550 doe groos, and burng with n bright flame and please ant fragrance, Amber used to Linve » high Topu- tation a3 a medicine, and an_anti-spasmodia valitilo oil mny be distilled from it. Groag 3nuutltluu_at it aro consumod 1n the Mohammos an worship at Mecca. The noclonts set an ime mense valuo upon it. According to an archaia fuble, ambor is the feurs of tho sisters of thti\on, who, afcor his denth, were changed into poplars. It somotimes incloses iusects and lonves, and is then ostimated ata largoly-ia= crengod value. CALRIER-PIGEONS, / Tho value of carrier-pigeons was #0 plainly | demonstrated during tho Franco-German War, that both the Fronch and Germans have gone to breoding them on nn extensive scalo for tho e of the army. In France, alarge dove-cot is ta Do ereoted, in which 5,000 pairs of the birds will, be kopt for broeding purposes, Each fortross \ is to have & pigeon-houso, with a capacity for | 1,000 birds; and two general stations are to ba ostablished, with accommodatlons for 60,000, . —_— IN AFRICA. Joaquin Miller in the Independent. A slave, und old, within ber veins o ‘Tlhiere runa that warm, forbidden bload ‘Fhnt 1o men dares to dignify Inelovated sonyr, The chiadus “That Leld her raco but yeaterdn: Hold still the Lands of ‘meu, In Etbiop, Tho turbid flood Of prefudica lies stagnaut still, And all the world 1s tainted, Will And wit lio bralicn 82 lancs A ?umt tho brazen-mailed faca 0f old opinion, orbld Nozn ndvaned Blecl-clnd and glad to tho attack, With trumpet and with soug. Laok bag§ eneall you pyramids lio hid Do histories of hor grent racos Old Niluw rolls right eullen by, With all bis eeorois, Who ehall say 2 My fatlier rearcd n pyromiid ; Hy brother clipyed tho dragou's wagsy, My raother wae Semiramis 7 Yen, harpa strike dly out of place; Men wing of savage Saxoa kings New-born and kuown but yosterdy, Nay, yo who boast anceatral name, And'vaunt deeds dignified by time, Dust not despiso her. Who fath wor Since Timo began a faco that is 8o all-cnduring, old liko this— A face lko Africa’a 7 Boliola [ Tho Spbinx fs Africa, T bond Of silence is upon her, And whito with tombs, ‘And trampled on, yot dll untamed ; All maked now, yot not sshamed, Tho mistress of (he young world's prime Sleops eotisfied upon her fame, Beyond tho Bphinx, and stlll beyond, Toyond tho tawny desert-tomb O ‘Time, boyond tradition, ldum And lift ghostlike from out the glaome 1lor thousaud citles, battle-torn ‘And gray with story aud with Timo, ihe point and and cries: * Go read’ T'he grauito obelisks that lord Old Kome, and know my name and deed, My arehives these, and plundered when 1 had grown weary of all men.” Wo tirn fo theso 3 wo cry 2 ¢ Abborred ©Old Bphilux, beliokl I wo cunnot vead 1" ALEXANDAL, 1874, —_— A PICTURE, Within my room’s scrono sachusioty, Diwolls evermara & pictured faco, Drewnehminted, like a rapt Cartiyiatan, Wikl solowin oyes of tonderest graco, Whicl yéom to compass land aud sesy Vet nover look on me, ol nud rent, and shorn, Ob! oyen which gazo beyond and over, Yob.never meet und snswer mine, Whut sy your atendfust qliset didoover ‘On tho horizow's bazy lina? ‘What charm In youder distanco les, L1 #ad and wistfol oyes? Hopstul deaplto thelr depth of grieving, Btill patiently thoy wifich afar, As though swaiting or povosiving Tho dawn of £onio unriser plar: The star which otten and agais Ay own Liave sought iu vain, Homotimes methinks its growing splender Brightens und glows on brow und chegk,=" “The oyed grow luminous and tendor, Tho lips Balf tremblo un to spea; Aud o} tho faco trunsfigured scoms By sweot prophotic drenma, Au! %, when yoars hiavo told thelr stor Thads drearis sl como divinoly trad, That dim duyu bloom to sudden glory— "Lhls fuca shall nbing us ungels’ do,— Those eyes, more dear than ugals’ bo, Wil look—at lagt—on my't —Elizabeils Akera Lllen in Soribuer's for Juns. Pl iid sl il h’l‘llclnb e in Prigon, Lvam D Keealy's paper, The Engtishman, In ndungeon hnnily h{m;ur than o smali coal cellar, uud to which vory little light Ia admitted, with a singlo ohalr serowed to the floor, 8o that its ocenpant is chaiued s it woro to one posture, out and cropped liko a folon, sud in wretelod nrison {,'m'b, fed upon ekilly and such misorablo diat, with no oue to talk Lo, with no writing mo- torials, with no book to roud, is now confined tho unhuppy viotim of tha fate Pprosocution which Mr, Bruco undortook, at the bldding of the Jesult und ‘Tichborne alllanco, and whick has tended moro to_seandlize nud disgraco onr administration of tho law thun any prosoution alneo tho frightful dnys of Castlorengh and tha Hix Aoty and the lufamous roveudings mgaluvk Coclirane, Oobbott, and the Hunts, : 1 i i i i