Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 27, 1874, Page 9

ITALY. The Journey from Florenco to Milan. Belogna~Its Painlings—The University~- Church of San Stefano—ieaning Towers—Campo Santo, Modona~--Parme~-- Correggio-~-Lodi and Marengo, i Turln---The Cavour Canal---Anclent Copy of tho Gospels=~-No- vara and Magenia, . BMilan---The Great Cathedrnles Lakes Como and Maggiora =:=Da Vinei’s “Last Supper.” Hpertsl Corvespondence of The Chienas Tribune, VENIcE, May 30, 1874, Loaving Florence for tho north, the railway Toada out of the Valloy of the Arno, over aud through the Apeuuines, into that of the Po,— Ianding the traveler st Bologus, aftor passing Lim through fifty-six tunnela in 24 milos, and over vinducts so high s to make the hend giddy in looking down into the chasms beueath, The tao citios are 72 miles apart. . BOLOGNA, which, until 189, belonged to the Popo, contains over 100,000 whabitants, and over 100 churches. 1% was founded by the Etruscana (modern namo, "l'usoane) more thon wine conturies bofore the Cbristian era, In addition to the 100 oburches, it Lad until recently iwonty monas- torics, whore's, sovoral hundrod mendicant raonks, living at the exponse of the community, duly droped their lives away. The city is sur- rounded®y s high brick wall erectod centuries Votors guupowder was invonted; aud it looks anif it would afford but slight protection against amodern artillory., The city is Lullt exclusively of brick; red Lriok wails and rod tile roofs im- purt s very red complexton toit. Its military suputation was esrued during the war of tho Guslphia and Ghibellines, in fighting its Modeua nelghbor, who wsa Ghibolline in polltios, But coasiderabls of the renown of Bologna fa founded ou its snusages, which. have a world-wide ropu- tation; and next to its sausagos in morit are its pulntings, In this art Bologne rmuks as the fuurth city of Italy,—Rome, Florencs, aud Ven-. {aa only excelling it TUE ‘*BCIOOL OF BOLOGNA” aconplies n prominent place. It produced such ronownod namos 88 Caraocl, Alboni, Domonichi- no, and Guido, who are reckoned mmoug the gront Italian masters. The tourist with = taste for paintings can spend a fow days to good pure pose in atudying the jmwmense collection In tho * Academy of Belle Arts.” Que object T hed in visitiog Bologna waa to #co Rophaol's ** 8%, Ceoilia in Lostasy on Hoar- ipz the Hoavenly Musio of theAngols, abd Burrounded by Bt. Paul, 8t. John the Evangol- fat, Bt. Augustive, and St. Mary Magdalene.” Bt. Cocilis is represented with s portsble orgen, Leld with both hauds carelessly dropped,—* tha hoad turned up to Heaven, with a ponsive coun- a}enance, baving an exprossion of exalted feel- Ing," ete.; the othor figures on the canvaaa M in rapt, devotional attitudes. The drapery, coloring, sud drawing ara purcly Raplaolan, and the painting is uudoubtedly of great meric. Dut I wasnot impiessed with it to tho dogres anticipated, which I asoribed to lack of appre- ociation of *high art.” Several other picturss by other artists pleased me more, especinily two or thres by Gudo, viz.: The Vic- tory of Bomeon, the ' Cruciixion, &nd the Midonna della Piota,—8o called ~from tho - Yirgin weeping over tie dead body of the Sa- vior. The Commuuion of St. Jerome, by Ca~ ravel, which was cairied off by the French, and racovored after the britloof Waterloo; the Mar- tyrdom of Bt. Agues, by Domenichuno; and the Baptism of Christ, with the Almighty in the Heavons Burrouuded by Angels, aro all picturcs of grest power. The Fronch invadors, undor Booapsrte, made picture-gailetion, a'wuvros were never recovered, having passed iuio private bands, and were secreted whon the Yrouch wers requirad to rostore thoeir stolen treasures of Art, ” IChe oldest college in Italy 18 TIIE DNIVERSITY OF GOLOGNA, Itis the first in which academical degrees wers ocnferred. It was fuundod in 1119 by a lawyer vnmed Irnerius, who introduced the Justinian Cude 10 the Btate, Foriwo or threa ceuiuries It was the- cblef Iaw-sohoul in Europs, and atudents flasked to it from wll parts, by the _ thouesud, In the thirteenth contury, Facultles of Modiciue and tho Arts wore sdded to it; and, & little lutor, Innpcent VI. instituted & Theological Fac- ulty, It was the first school in Europe m wbich surgory was taught by weans of the dissection of the human body, which was early in the four- tosuth century, 'To it alno belougs the nouor of discovering galvanism. This Univeruity was ro- markable Pm' tho number of ita learned female rofeasors, 1n the fowtcenth eentury, Novells ' Anoria frequontly oocupiod her fathor's chair iu teachiug law ; and it iv recorded by Chrintiua ds Pissn that her beauty was so great that w ourtain wes_drawa before hor face (or a veil ora likely) in order that the latter might not distract the attention of the students. Moaore Lise xoized on the incident to popularize it in these lnes: Drawn before her, Lest, if her charma were suen, the students Bhould let their young eyes wander o'ar kior, ‘And quite'forget thelr Juriaprudence. The library of tbls once reuowned university s many great rooms ; how many thonssnds of volumes of manueoript sud priot it coutains, I di€ uot learn, The number of studenss uow ucarcely reach 700, which 18 nol & tenth of what ence puraued their stuchos there. In 1ts museum of autiquities I was shown several almost rerlact skeletons of the Etruscan eriod, recently discovered twenty teot below rh urface of the ‘;mund. in the old city come- ‘They are believed to bo, from the neck- bracelets, riugs, vases, aud other orna- ments found with them. not less thun '2.600 yoaraold} Blore thun 60D In all were exhnmed 1o 1871, The moat auclent ecclosisstical editice, porhaps, Ia laly, is THE SAN BTEPANO. It s qulte a labynuth, formed by the union of sovon churches, © The most primitive of the group was ereatod A. D. 330’3 one of thio others o {ow years Jator, and five of them provious to A, D, 488, The visitor is:sbown sltars, urng, cracifizes, baptiutrics, imagos of the Virgin ang Haiuts, holy garments, boues of Saints, bos-re- liofs, relicy; and piotures, al unid to dte buok to tha fourth, fifuh, sud sixth conturles, Every- thing has a musty, fusty, moldy, anclent look and muell, or, as & more lovou writor would any, o air of holy odor and ssciod asuctitv. things sosu on approaching Lologna, indkm. last on loaving It, wre the Ewo squase ric LEANING TOWERS, ‘The short one !s 200 feel high, and 8 feet out of {arpoumculur. TFhe wallor one Iu 821 feet in alti- ude, and loans 7 feet, From the top of it thecs 1 obitawad & magmficant view. When the airls cloar, the Alps on the aupoalzu gide of the great isin, beyond Verous, 60 or 70 mniles distant, may En #0on, 1t wus erected 800 yours ago as a look- out tower, in vrder to ditcover the spprosching snsmios, The most beautiful **Campo Banto™ I havo seon n Ltaly s - THE CEMETERY OF BOLOGNA, It was origiually au oxtensive monastery* but Napoleon, {n the year 1800, uup?re“ed fi, and convarted it luto & cemeteryy st tho samo time, by edict, forbidding auy more Intsrments withis tho city. With tho exnoption of the oliapol, nons of the buildings sre more than one story Ligh which fust suits the purpose to which be devotes 6. Tha corrdors “oxceed & mila in length, snd it covers uuder yoof at least 10 or 12 acion, his City of the Dead countalns nhundreds of marble monwments and bukts of groat artistic besuty, 'I'he University hae a kind of Pantheon for ti- intermont of ‘the learned Professors, One oorridor is net apart for the Jows, and an- other for thie Protestauts, of whom lore are many s the eily, Nupoleon's grest onvaliy- Marahal, Murat, "ln Lurisd and thme is axectad Gver Lls aine Lhe wwosh msguitoent :;omu-n-nhl group of statuary in the Campo anto, e I havo dwelt thua long on Dolozna because it is genorally overlooked by travelers, and re- garded as unimporiant, eapecially if tfmy are in & hutry to ses Rome, or Floronco, or Vanieo, which is usually the ease, Wora I not prossod for tima, I would devota the ramalnder of this Inttor to desoriptions of interestiny things thero sooir, which must be omitead, Tho noxt peint of any interost on my route was MODENA, the former Capital of the Duchy of the same name, Ttis only an hour's run of tho cars from Holorna Modonn coutains 55,000 inhabitants, and aubalats on the surroundhig forhle plaws, The Ducnl palaco contains upwards of 600 pio- turee, some of them by the old mastovs, sud many ou sscular subjeots by modorii Ea(nlem, wiich {a quite o raliet to thie ey, a4 it begomes utterly weary of Samts and Madonnas, Crucle fixious and Martyioomn, Assumptionsaud Ascen slous, ‘mmnalonn of monks and pious sestasies, after it hne contomplated thousands of each kind. Thore {s such a thing as a sufeit of %ulmud plety and ““‘S““m sanctity, The athedral 18 & noted building, erected, or rather begun, in 1099, and never Hnished, which is the caso with searly all the groat chuvehies in Italy, This * Dnomo * contains tho usual sort of paint- nge, statuary, and curious old rolics, with the wenal quantity of miraculous traditlons and other drafts’ on faith which “Amorican visitors #ro mnot often abls to honor, Tho Cumpamle, or bull-Lmrx, asconds into the henvens 825 foot porpendiclinr, and docs not Jean MHie tho oue ovor tue way in Bologua ; but it 18 quite a8 ancient, and wau arocted to watch the duingy, and anuuclnui the outgoings, of tha Tolognesn, “Lho Pubilo Library containa’103,000 yolumen, many of them anc.ent. reador nead not bs detained longer in Modoeus, but prooeed at cues to PANMA, 85 miles farther uptheplain in the direction of Turip, Purma containg 47,000 fubebitauts, pos- sesses & well-patromized Univeraity, 1nan, mpacions, negivotod-fooking bulldings, and well- paved, clesn, broad strosts, A Itomau colony was plantad here B, 0, 187, aftor the expulsiou of tha Cluslpine Gauls, and it bocame quite au important city uuder Roman rule, It was do- stroyed by Attila, and had *hard timea" for many oenturies afterwards. It contalus oue groat Cathiodral, 700 yosrs old, surmonnted by su finmense doma. Within the church 15 & bust of Potraveh, who was Archdeacon of the Gathedval, The dume 18 adorned with an Assumption by, THE CELENRATED CORREGI, to whom Parma is cluotly indobted for lta fm- portunco in the his.ory of Ait. 1t is here, and 3t Drosden, that the (nscinating worke of thus remariable arust can be best soen aud appreci- ated. No priuter Las caught tho frolicaomo race of childliod 80 perfectly as he. Ilis cnle {ifen aco not cliorbs with colastisl air sod at- pect, but naturst boys sud pitls, such os ona ssces liore bolow, with dimpied choeks and roguish oyes, and loving misclucl, There i8 o corcnin chiarm about most of hus pictures, but tho ctitics also find many faults mth bis works, Lhey say he Incks digmty of sontuoent aud severity of tasta, and runs ivto voluptuous excess in delino- ativg fomsle forms, althongl be reproducos their lovelinous, sa well as tua gracoful move- ments of children, to porfoction. Iu painting tue Madonna and Clild, thoy think ko fuils to mako ber suliciently divine, or it suficiently grove. Perhaps 8o ; and, a8 there is nathing alse worth talking about in Parmna, lot us pro- ceed to Tuiln, By one route the railway passes through Lo- “di, colebratod as the acenc ot Nn}\mlnnu‘u slorme ing toe bridge over tho Adds, Moy 10, 1797% after a okt desporata contlict with the Austrians. A little furthor on, the tramn passos he Village of Melegnwuo, momorsble {u thesue nuls of medievai warfare ay tho place whets TFraucis I, King of France, in & great battle, fought Hept. 16, 1815, routed the Swite army which had beou previously deomed tnvincible, and of whow 16,000 fell in cthe'action. The Fianoh loss was |oss thau balf =s muny, Ae the train approsches Aessandris, & city of 40,000 1a- Lisbitanty, it passes shrough the FANOUB BATTLE-FIELD OF MARENGO, momorablo as one of Napoleon’s Laidest-fought sotions, and where he suatched victory out of the very juws of defost,—Juno 14, 1800, Tue Austrisne under Zack, & Genoral 0 years old, with 40,000 wmen, stlacked him, ITe Lad but 20,000, in the absence of Gon. Dessuix, with the tesorves of 10,000, 10 or 13 miles away, who was ordered to matoh on the double-quick to the rosoue, He arrived just at tho mck of time, for Napoleou's troups, after a miout ded- porato struggle, had boen. crushed undor the woight of tha Austrian flce, fland their suk hiad keeo turnod by the euawny's cavalry. Doussmx, niding up to i‘npnlnou, aaid, I thinl this & buttlo loat.,” 1 twnk itis s battle won,” an- wwored Napoloon. * Do you push ou and check the cnemy's advance, and I will speedily rally the retroating troops Lolind youy aud then we shell_chauge the face of aifuirs.” Dousnix did as orderad. He led Lis column io a furious charge on the advancing Austiians; but e foll dond at the firat tire, shot through the liead ; bis division, bowevar, stopped the euewy's advance. Nupoloon, taenawlilo, Tallicd bis brokou buttsl- fons, and formed new line bohind Dessnix's column, Ho then rode along the front, and shouted to his soldiers, * Comrades, we bave re- tired far enough; let us now advanco. You know that it 18 my custom to sleop on tho Held of bat~ tle,” The enthusiasm sud courage of the irre- prosalble Fronch were inutantly revived, and thoy rushod forward with loud cheers, poured in & withariug volley at short distauce, and dashed into the staggered and dismayed ensmy with the bayonet. ‘Lhe batilo was guickly won. The Auatrions broke and fled from the field 10 gonfu-. sion, Hundreds of them wore drowned in ut- temptiug to. cross the Hormids River in thetr rear, Whole divisious, bemg unabla to effeot the passugo, surrenderod. Only s small rem- nunt of that magniflcent army ascaped capture’ or death, Sixty miles fartber up the Po we arrive at the 1arge and lmportaut City of TOWIN, formerly the Capital ot Sardinia. Far tha last 40 or &0 miles, tue great plain i somswhat un- evou, and luoks more like the rollg prairies of Towa than the lovel ones of Ilinois; but the ovuntry is very besutitul, tortile, and highly cul- tivated, and'adorned wica sbundunce of .irecs, The city coutaiua 215000 inbabiauts, The abundant supply of watur at all soasons descend- ing from the neighbonug Alpy, has given it great savantoges 88 & msuufacturiug centre, [u Italy, 80 rich 10 recollectious of the past, Tutin in per- baps the poorest city in the Peniusula, in whis respect. In other word, it is a wadern awy, and ountaius vory few ruius or. remains of early ages. Lle ravages commilted by Franats L, 1636 denudea 1t of all_structures of classion! or medieval antiquity, It has pioduced uo sohool of Ast. The streots wro wide, aud iid out at right snglos,—s raro thwg i Itulisn towns, Taoy are excelleutly paved and kept strioly clean, and the whole eity Liad an apvearance of tbrift, comfort, sud prog- resd, bosides having & modein uspeot. Nowe of tho ahwehos are vemarkuaule far arohilactuve. More utteution has of late yeurs been poid to schoola aud publio education, aud less to churches and eeints, thon formorly. ‘The Waldonues —Protostants—are quite numerous in Tarin, boviug survived ull pervecutions in tueir adjacens wountain-homos, although hunted like wild Doasts for mavy '» contury., The Royal Gallery of Paintlugs, the Museum of Autiyuitios snd of History, are worth seoiug, but contwin wothiug very romarkable as comparod with what may be seen iu other parts of lnal{. i From Turin to Milay {s about *100 miles of beautiful uuuntq, down the valley, We are now deuconding the Valley af the Po on the Alpine wide, baving ascended it trom Uologua on the Apennive side. The most Important thing to o saon betwesn these cities is THE GREAT CAVOUI CANAL, constructed = few yeais ago for irrigating pur- poses, at & cost of $20,000,000, It recelves tho watary of the Po a few wilcs bolow Turin, aud ing the Doro Riger by an aqueduct a mile and a halt long, It passos successively under severnl other rivers by meuns of syplon-tunnels, aud distributes its water over 400,000 aoros of what waspreviously comparativoly poor tand, the value of which hus sdvauced from §30,000,000 to $75,000,000,—Lhat Iv, from §76 por sole to ¥200, The Uumplu(y winols bullt % broke up and sold oul the canal to the Government, which renis tho water to tha oultivators on modorate terme, Half-way between Turin and dlan i3 Verciils, & town of 18,000 inhabitan! The library of the Unthodral coutainy s collestlon of munusoripia of great autiquity, smong athera A QOPY 07 THE GOY'ELS written by 8t. Lusebius, the fuunder of tho Church here, sbout the year A. D. 3840, Itiy much decayed, i bound In a silver coyer orna- mented with rude chasings, sud has a Latin in- seription, This manunorit, which 18 & Latin vorslon, I8 cousidered of the gieatost impore tanco In Biblical criticlom, as it {a peruops more ancient than any of tho exiating Greek vorslous, The Gospels ars arranged in tue following order: 8t Matthow, 8t. John, st Lucanus,” and 8t. Mark, 1t s written 1w capital lotters, In two columnm, The wntiug is 8o mugh_faded that the characters oan nosrcely be traced in the smoldoriug vellum, Bt Eusehing "alwnyn carried this voluigo sbont with lim, 1t 1a one of the eurllest authontio authographs in existence, ¢ T'ue uagt point of any nate la NAVARKE, atound wlich kave bswa A"au.hl wmsny & bhpd battlo, It was in the suburbs of thia town whoro took place tho donporato battle betwoon the Sar« dinlans undor Citarlos Albart, father of the prosont Vielor Emsnuef, and tho Austrians under tho vetersn Hadotzky, March 2, 1840, The Austriang numbered 60,100, and the Hai- dinfane onl{%. The copfhiat laated during the whols day. At night the Italisn army ro- troatod, baving lost 8,000 moa, and |uflioted on tho onemy a 'inn of 10,000, ‘Tho brave and chivalroud Albort, as ono of tho torms of peaco, abdicated his throno in favor of bis son, tho prouent King of Italy, who fought like a lion'that day at_tho head of his division. Albert had hoaded the Ropubliosn revolutionary mavemant in Ttaly, whion was orushed ont by uho alited Austilan and Russian Governments in the namo of *order" and '*divina rjght." It was in Navarre that FRIAR DOLCING flourished for a brief pord. He prenched Froe- Loyas and Communism,—s community of goods and women. Suntonoa of death was parsed on bim se's heretic in A. D. 1307, anm[; rotreatod to the mountains, with 5,000 fanatical followers, ho waa defeatod in & pitchod batilo, aud takeu prisoner, with bia goncubive, the beautiful dar- 5““’ & nun bo had abducted from bLer convent. oth wore burnt alive, and both are said to hnve behaved with extraordisry firmnoss at thew oxecullon, which was ncnam?;nled with scts of the maat revolting cruolly. Dante apoaks of the incident in bis Intetno. ¢ Aftor crassing tuo Tacino, the old boundary- lina botween Saidinin aud Lombardy, the train posson through the Lattle-feld of MAGENTA, whero tho Fronch and Bardinians defeated tho Austrisvg, Juve 1854, after & hard- fought pattle. It was bero Marshal MaoMahon ained his eroatost celeurity, Tha French lost ,600 man; tho Austrians, 18,000 killed and wounded aud 7,000 prisonors, Tho shattored ro- meina of thoir army retrentod through Milan, and hastily evacuated ail of Lombardy, takiuy shelier belind tho Mincio, in the famous ** Quad- rilatoral," undor the gnus of Verona. We now come to the large and aploudid oity of MILA, sltuatod in tho midst of & plain of unAnrpassed bouncy und ferility, in full view of the Alps, aud with & bright and'sperkling littlo river flow- ing through it. Milan contains 226,000 inhab- itants, and bias more of the Paris style aud ap- poarauces iu its streats, buildings, and shops, thau any othor city in Italy. Bince the union ot Lombardy with Italy, dMilan has groatly im provod, and_fargoly added to its povulstion and wonlth. It is surroundoed by s ino broad boule- vard of 7 miles cironit, whose wmargius aro planted with four rows of magmiticout wide-branching horso-cheatuut treos, Llis roas 18 tho favorito ploasure-drive of the oitizons, Oa the ono sida ia the city, on tho other tho suburb- an villns and gardens ; though, inside of the rosd, for tv0 or three mulas, ara parks, gardens, ang rllleguéu villny, which form the "\Vguul Tud" of thy vy, . Lxoursions are made from hero to the lovely and pitturesque LAKES 0OMO AND MAGGIONE, which stratclh up amoug the Alps for 40 or 50 mules, thoir southern oxtrewmitios projooting wto tho plain, while their heads are buried amoug olond-covered and snow-olad cliffs, I carnies them along thoe plain for 70 miles, crows. .| Tuve only time and space to that I proved thom to bo all.I concerved, and mioro, ln respact to charming beanty ana wild grandeur. ‘Their margiue aro taickly siudded with villages .aud villan; and the mountain slopes, whero thers 15a pardiols of eath, are covered with vives and fruit 1008, and dotted over with farm-housas, cloar up to the clouds. Iow the poople cling to the sides of these Steop mountnins, and “scratch aliving" out of their ruggod brows, Is ulmost iucoucaivable. MILAK, IN TIE TIME OF TIE CHSATS, was, {n ‘I:oiul of splondor, tho second city in Tialy, and ranked third or fourth m populution. It was filled with tomples, Laths, thestres, statues, fountaius, aud every luxury required fors sm: Cujatal, for it was tho cief city in the Vwmley of the Po, But, of all its anciens works, scarcoly a fragment remaios to attoat its former geavdonr. 1t was sacked aud burned oy tho savage Athla, A.D.d52, A tow churchey ouly woie loft standing. Al otbor buildings were laveled to the ground, sud the iuhabiiants were dluperved or massacred. Subscquently it was rebuilt,~not equal, however, to ite former state; but it woe wgain totally destroyed by the limperor Fraderick, *the Barbavian," in 1162, aftor it Lad susrendored, who disperand its inhobitants. Ho was Instigatod to this sct of supremo vandaliem, it 13 wald, by-the moan jorlousies of tho surrounding rival cities of Pavia, Crewmons, Lodi, Como, and Novard, *which Milan eclipsed in tradaaud prosverity,—all of *hem now iusiniticant towns in comparison with it. But the city speedily rose agatn from ita ashon, and exhilited the old vigor and power. !\ll‘l;m then wot the tauhion Lo the rest of Europe, an THE WORD **MILLINER " ia derived from the name of ** Milzu.” Millinery, for some centuries, was synonymous with fiue dress-goods of Mitan manufactuve. It is sull the most fashfonable city in Italy, and 18 the contro of ita wilk business. Yrom 155 till 1959, Milan and Lombardy woto rulod over and plun- derod, first by the Bpaniards, next by tha Austri- aghin by the Austrisug, unl liberated by the battla of Magents, which rostored it to the Itals iaps. ‘The weaith and beauy of tho city, and the wonderful fortility of tho surrounding cosu- try, huve always rondored it an object of cupidi- ty and longing dosive to foreign Poiwers, The ceniral objoct of attraction to all visltors is the GREAT GOTIIC CATHEDRAL, situated in tho midst of alaigo public square in tho honrt of tho city, aud fiom which strests ra- dinte 1 evary direotion, It is the third church ocoupying tho same spot. Attila burny the one built in tue time of Eusobius; Fiedorick ** Bar~ barosas " destroyod that orested in the eighth oontury. ‘The flrst stove of tho present myghty ‘| and magnificent structure was laid in 1887. It took a hundved yoars' work to render it sufli- " ciently complotd for publio worship, but it is not finistied yot. For nearly fivo centurios the task of constiuction and ndornmons have gone on, Tweuty-five millioys of doliars bavo alrendy been expeuded upon it. Napoleon spent 1,000,- 000 in ioserting thros Gotais windowa in the facado, sud in adding to the piunacies, and fiying butcroases,” To my eye, the exterior of the Mijan Cathedral 18 far superior to that uf 8t. Pator's at Rome ; but the atylos of architectura &r0 40 widely different that they caunot well bs compared In uny rospect, Their respective mer- its oun ouly be judged by the effeot or improu- giou which eacli leaves on the mind, By this tost one will remember the outside appearance of the Afilan Cuthodral more vividly and recol- loct mors clearly in after yesvs than thas of the mighty Basilics of Rome, But the inferior of &t. Yoter’s so far surpa-ues that of the Cathadral, or any other exlsting struciuie reared by hnman Lands, that only » gontrasl with any of thom can reman on the mind, 4 The Milau Uathedral is constructed of marble throughout, to which time givew a fino, warm ollow tiut,” The privcipat aimensions of the uitding aro a8 follows: Louglh, nearly 500 foot; breadth, 283 foot; ~height to the erown of tha vsulting in the nave, from the pavoment, 163 fast; helght of the exterlor wally, 110 feot; ditio to the top of the statue of the gilt Madonna whica crowns the ufinre, 300 foot. ~ ‘I'he visitor can aecend to a balcony or observatory under the statue, to an aldtudo of 298 foet, whente thero 18 & grand view over the beautirul eity aud omerald piain for an immonss distance, with tho Alpa for & buck-grouud, Oue poculisrity of this Cathedral ls tae MULTITUDE OF PINNACLEY which the structure supports, I'boy are so tall aud stendor that thoy rosemble tho nasts of ships, Puised on top of each is & marble statue of wome Bulut, looking, fram the strast belaw, smallor thou sb iotunt, There are 100 of those minurets or pinnsolos, euoh’ ubout 75 fect 1 Lunght, Whou oue uncends to the vast marble roof, he feels s if he wero in the midut of a [uiest of marble, poopled with gods sud goddessos, Tour of the stutuosare by tho groat Canovi and scoros of the oluers aro by the most skillfu aoulptors of Europe. Auvoiher peouliarity of this struoture 1 tho multitude of nichos, urrets, sud pinnaolus, requirlug slatues and busts, 1 in catoulnted that tue outside alone will roquire 4,500 tatuen ko 4 pooplo ” it, of which 8,500 are {n their places, It will need an aqual l)opnllllou of murble uien to dll up the vickes of the weido, Hundreds of weulptors und carvers are constautly omployed produciug this kind of inhabitsuts, [nmuw& to utate in ity propor pluce that the Cathedrsl iv in oruviform uhape, with double isles, aud & trausept flauked with aivles, The ool I8 wuppoited by Wfty-two pillars, 1n four rown of thirtesu each, 14 feet in dlsmeter. A graup of thess euocmous towers ratber than pillars support the great ootagounl dome aud wpiro, which roars ity hend 220 feot xbove tho roof, vault Ope the osn nover forget of this Cathedrul vask rd, [ that ' dim, religlous Lghe," 10 sb sltitude that weoms almout as fur ays the olouds, and thers bebiolds, In the canopied nicl ey, & multitude of statues, whichan oudy stretch of the imaginativa may convort into bands of white-robed augels, Just alighted from Heaven to dodicnte this wajeutio tewple to the worslip of the Almighty. ‘The uldest cliurch {n Milan !s that of UT. AMUKUSE dedlcated by him iu A, D. 987, and olled aftor Lty by Lis followers, Tho walls only survived the ixvuges of Attlla, Thore e uothing fu the dusiyu oc dolslls b0 eauile adumuaiion] yul, ou ans, then for s time by tho Franch, and after them | account of its avolont orlgin, and venorablo, timo-worn apponaranae, It 18 ons of the sights tho tourlst ja uuro to visit, " A awarm of logands sur- ronud it, sud miraclos were wrought too numer- ous for narration or boliof, wh.ls rolios ot Hsiuts moot the oye at avory turn. Noxt to the Virgin, 8t. Ambrose ranks highost among the true bo- lHovers in Milan, snd his Churoh {8 nett to him au an objaot of adora:fon, Tha great pleture-gallory of Milan, caltad the ' Brors,” contains, porhaps, a thousaud pafnt- Ingy, many of thom mastorplecos of arl, But space will not pormit a notico of the Lombard School of Paiuting, whivh at one tme ranked high_in Europo. {fose of tho oallootion i de- votod to ecolenlastical subjeats, of whioh tha travetor §"" & aurfelt in Lialy, Among all the plcturos I snw in idtla, tho ono which must fixod my attentlon way A * TUE LAST surPen," by Loonardo da' Vinol. Thore was somethin, wonderful about_it, notwithatanding its fade and ruloous candition. It is a fresco painting, on & damp, moidy wall of = cloiater, and every attampt at repairing 1t Las dono barm toit, As sliown iu the coplos and engravinga of it, Christ g just uttered tho words, "' Ono of you shall betray me.” 'The Twelve Apostlos are atruok withy astonisiment, aud ara conforring in groups of threo with the Nvellcst emotion. T'he contral figura is thus shown a little soparated from the groups, whoso Leads are thrown to ether, Theo is su air of calmness, scrioueness, and divimty, expressed in the face of the Savior which I8 fndescribable, The painter would ssom to bave been inapired to ptoduce it. The best copies made by celobrated artints Lave all failed Lo catoh and trausfor this wonderful expreasion. The photograph nlso fails to roproduco it, }mfl!y on account of tho docayed condition of the frosco. It will hardly survive thia generation, a8 no mesus have beon deviwed to mave it, It must now bo looked at through a glaes, lony and intently, to catch the original expressions of the faces ; but soveral uave boon irtoparably spoiled hfy paintérs in retouching them, Tho sight of this mastorpieco of Da Vinel ricaly repnid me for golug t‘e Alilan, leaviug all other migixs out of account, ML BABY SYLVESTER. It waa at o littlo mining camp 1n the Californls Blorras that he first dawned upon me in all his grotesquo aweotness, 1 had arrived enrly in the morning, but not In timo to intoroept the friend who was tho object of my visit. Ho had gono * prospooting,"—so they told mo on tho river,—and would not proba- bly roturn until lato in the afterncon. Thoy could not say what dirostion e had taken; they could not sugget that L would be lkely to find him if I followed. But it waa the gooeral opin- ion that I'had botter wait. 1 looked around me. [ was atanding upon the bauk of tbe river; and, apparontly, the only otlior human beings in tho world were my inter- locutors, who wore oven then just disappearing fiom my horizon down the steop bank towards the river's dry bod. I mpproached the edge of the bank, Whetre could I wait? | 0, anywhere ; down with them on the river- bar, where they were working, if I'liked! OrI could make mysolf at Lome in anyof thoso cabing that I found lying round loose, Or, por- lps it would be ovolor and pleasantar for we in my friond's oabin on the bill. Did I see thoss threo large sugar-pinos? And, s little to tho right, & canvas roof and chimusy over tho bushes? Woll, that was_mvy friend’s,—that was Diolk Sylveater's oabin. I could stake my horve su that littio hollow, and just haug round thero tilt hocame. 1would find some books in the sheaty ;' I could smuse myaelf with thom. Or 1COULD PLAY WITK THUR DADY. Do what? A .Bue they had lready gone. I leaned over the bank sud called ufter their vanishiog fAigures: What did you sny I could do?" The suawer tloated wlowly up on the hot, slug- giah air “ Pla-a-y with the ba.by." The lIazy achoos tack it up and tosned It lan- guidiy from hid to bill, uutil Bald Mountsia op- posita mado somo iucoliorent remark about the baby, sad tuen all wag still, 1'must havo been mistakon, My frlend was not saman of family; there was not a woman within forty miles of the river comp; he nover was so pasatonately dovoted to ohildren as to_import & zuiury 80 oxpeusive, I must have been nus- ke, i 1 turned my horse'a head toward the hill, An we slowly climbod the narrow trail, ihe little sottloment mught have boon momio oxhumed Pompeiian suburb, no desortod aud silent wera ite habitations. Tho open doors plainly dis- closed oach rudely-furmished intorior—the rough pioe tablo, with the scant of the morning meal still stauding; wooden bunk, with 1ta tumbled aud dishevelud blaukets. A goldon lizard—the very gonius of desolate stilluosa—had stoppod breathiess upon tae throaliold of one cwbin; a squirrel pasped impudently iuto the wiudow of suothier; & waod- pecker, with the goneral Ravor of undertaking which ~distiugwshon thaé bird, withbold Lis sopulobtal hammer from the cofMu-lid of the roof on which he was professionslly engaged s wo'passed, I'or s moment, 1 balf-regrectad tI 1 bud not sccopted the invitation to the rive bed; but, the next momeut, n breoze swapt up the loug, dark canon, and the watiug files of the piues bevond beunt toward mo in salutation, I thiuk my horse underatood ks well as mysslf that it was tho oabins thal wade the solitude luman, sud therefors unbearable, for he quicis- eoed his vace, aud with & geotle frot brought me Lo tho 6dge'of the wood und the thres pines thiat stood liko vidattes boiora tue Sylveater out- ost. H P0iieaddling Sy horse In the little hollow, I upelung the 100g riala from the aeddle bow, and, totheriug him to & youug saplivg, turned toward tbe cabis. But I had goue ouly & few stepy when I hoard & quiok trab bebind me, xnd poor Pompuso, with XVKRY FIRRE TINOLING WITH PIAR, was at my heels. I looked hucriodlr around. T'he breeze had died awuy, and only wn occasion- al breath trom the doep-chested” wuods, more liko & loug mgh than any aiticulate sound, or the dry singiug of & cicals in the the hoated cans on, was 10 be heard. I examinod the_ ground carefully for rattlesnakos, out in vaiv. Yet Lero was Pomposo shiveiing from lus srohed ncok to his seusitive hauuches, his vory Hauke puleatiog with terror, I soothed bim as well aa 1 could, and then walked to the edge of the wood aud poeted Into its. dark recosses, The bright Hash of a oind's wlni, or tha quick dart of & uquirre), was all 1saw, 1 confnse it was with something of supesstitions expectation that I agwin turned toward the cabin, A fairy oild, attendad by Titania sud ber train, lying in ap oxpensive oradle, would vot huve surprised me; » Slesping Beauty, whose awakouiug would Lave rapoopled those solitudow witn life aud energy, I a3 altaid I bogan to coufldoutly look for, and would have kissed witbout beaitation. But 1 found nons of theses. Meras was the evl- dsuce of ny friend's tasie and retinenent in tho hearth swept scrapulously clean, iu the pioture oeaque arrsugoment of the fur akius that covered the tloorand furniture, aud tho striped serape% lying on the woodey couch, Here waie the walla fnuuqlu]ly papered with dlustrations from ths Loudou Vews ; here was ths wood-cut portrait of Mr. Eniatson over the chimney, quiotly fram- od with blua jays' wings; hoie were hia fow fa. vorite books on the swinging sbeif; snd Levo, Tying ufian the conroh, the latest copy of Punch, Danr Dick| Whe flour-suck was sometimés eu)pl{, buc the goutle satirist seldom misved his weakly visit, ¢ 3 T chrow mysolf on the couch and tried to resd. But I soon exliausted my iuterest in my frieud's library, snd lay there starng through the open door ou the green billsido boyoud. ‘fhe breoze agun spravg up, and a dellvious coolnoss, mixed with tho 1uro fucensa of thoe woods, stole through theeabin. The siumbrous droviug of humbie-beeu outside tho canvas roof, the faint cawlng of ronks on the opposita mountain, and the fatigue of my moruing ride, began (o ‘droop wmy oyelids, { pulled tho serape over we, as & Precaution agaiust the freshoning nouatain-breozo, and in B {OW INOMBLLS WAK Rnloep. 1 do uot temember Liow long I slept, I must hive been cousclous, howevar, during my slume ber, of my inability to kesp myself .covered by the serape, for 1 awoke once or twice, clulcliug it withs » despairiug hend as it was disapposring over the foot of the coush, Thon I beoume wuds dml{ aronsed to the faol that my elforta to re- toiu it wpte roslsted by some equally poraistent force, and, leiting 1t go, I was hornitied at aceing it nwitely drawn under (ho couchs, At thin poing 1 sat up completely awakie; for, immedintely af- ter, what sesutad to bo au exagyerated mart be- gan 0 ewmerka from under the couoh, rensntly b up)i‘nnd fully, dragging the serape sftor it, Thore wud no mustaking It oW~ IT WAS A BARY-DEAR. A mere suckiing, it win tius,—o lelpless roll o'b‘“ aud fur,—but, unmisauably, & grizaly oub, 1 oannot recall auything moro lmvli}lbllv lu- dierons than its wepeot sn {t slowly muived its wmall, wondoring eyen to mine, It was 8o muoh tallor on ita haunches than its shouldore,—its foro-lous neis uo nln].m)vnrumm{olf small,—that m wulkiog ite hind-foet invariably took piave- donco, 16 was perpetunlly pitenlug furwaid over ‘A fne Manioan Wlsubet wsed as am vuler germeut tor nidiig, . Ita potuted, inoffanslve noso, and rocovering itaclt always, aftor these lnvoluntary somer- snults, with the gravost astonishmont, " To ndd to its preponterouy appearauc, one of Its hind- foot was adornod by o shoe of Bylvoatar's, into whioh {t bad accidontally and fnostricably stopped. _An this somowhat impedod its lirst Im- pulue to fly, i turned to me; aud then, possibly rocognizing in the strangor the same epeoion as its nuinator, 1t paused, Presontly it slowly ruisod itsolf on lte hind-logs, nud vaguely and” depio- catingly wavod a baby paw, fringed with little Looks of stoel, I tuok the paw aud shouk it ravaly, From:that moment wo wera frionds. hio hitle affair of tha serape was forgotton. Naverthsless, 1 was wise enough to comont friondship by an act of * delicalo oour- TFollowing the direction - of eyos, I had no dinlenlty iu findng, on & sholl neartheridge-pole, thosugar- box sid tho aquaro lumps of \wlite sugar that even tho poorast minor is never without, While ho was eating thom I had time to oxamine him more closoly. Ilis body was & silky, durk, bub exquisitely-modulated gray, doopeuing to bluck in bys paws and muzzlo. His fur way oxcessivoly long, thick, and as soft as eidor-down ; tae cushionu of Hosh bonoath psrfautly infantiue ia their texture and coutour, Ho war so very young that the palms of his hulf-human fout were alill tender as & babv's. Exvept for the bright-bluo, stoely hooka, hnlf-shoathed in Lis Nlittle toou, tuore was not & single liarsh outline or dotail in Lis plamp Hgure. Ho was as free from auglen a8 ono of Leua's oftapring. Your cacoss- ing hand sank away in his fur and dieamy lan- guor, 'To Jovk at him loug was intoxication of the senges; to pat him was & wild dolivium ; to ewbraco bim, an utter domoralization of tho iutellootunl facultios. ‘When he had finlshed the sugar, hio rolled out of tho door with a balf-tilident, half-inviting look in bis _eyo, ss he expocted me to tollow. #0, but the sulling and snortlog of tho - keen-sconted Pomposo in the hollow not only revenled the cause of his former torror, but decided me to take au- oiler direction. After o moment's heritation, ho conoluded to go wita me, although I am satistiod from & ceilain fmpish look in hle eye, that be fully understood aud rather enjoyed the frigut of Pomposo. As he rolled along ot m; gide, with & gatt not unlike & drunken sailor, dizcoverad that his long Lair congenled a.leatpor collar aroand bis neck, whick bore tor its logond tho single word, * Baoyl” 1 recallad tha snys- terious wuggodtion of the two miners. This, thou, wasula “baby" with whom I was to plag. WOW WE ** PLATED ;" low Baby allowed mg to roll him down hill, crawlng ond pulling up again each time, with perfect good humor; how he chimbed & young sapling arter my Pauams bat, which I had “‘shied " into one of the topmost branches; how, after getting it, ho refusod to dexcend until If sultad Ing pleasure ; bow, when he did come down, he persisted in walking about on threo legs, oarrying my hat, n crushod nnd shapelons mass, claspad to his broast with tho romaining one; how I missod him at last, aud finally discoyered bim' seated on & table 1n one of the (enautloss cabivs, with » bottlo of sirup betweon his paws, vainly endeavoriag to extract ita contents,—thesa and other detnils of that eventful day Iabhall not weary tha veader with now. Enough that, whon Diok Bylvestor returned, I was pretty well fagged out, and the baby was rolled . up, an immetise Dolitor at the foot of the couch, aslesp. Syle or's first words after our gresting woero : an't he delioious ?” berfoctly. Where did you got him P * Lylog undor bis doad mather, tive milos from hero,” nafil Diok, liguting lus ripe, * Kvocked her over at Afty yards: perfectly cloan whot,— nover movod &ftorwnsdsl DBaby oruwled out, soared but unhust. Sua muat havo been carry- 10g him in hor mouth, aud dropped him whoo ghe faced mo, for he was not mura than threo daya old, and not steady ou bis pins. Ho takes the onlv milk that comes to the seitloment— brought up. by Adsms Express at 7 o'clook overy mormng, They say ho looks like me. Do you think 6o 2" ssked Dok, with porfect gravits, stroking bis hay-colorod moustuchios, and evie dontly assuming bis best exprossion. X cook loave of the baby early the noxt morn-~ ing in Bylvester's Cabin, and, out of roavoot to Tomposo's fealings,rade by without auy postscript of axpression. But the night bofora I brd made Sylvoster solomnly swoar that, in the event of any separation beiwaen himeslf and Baby, ¢ IT GHOULD REVERT TO ME. At the same time,"” he had added, * it's only fair to say that I don’t think of dying just yot, old fellow, and I don't know of any thiug elve that would part the cub and me.” ‘Two monti aftor this conversation, as I wan turning over the morning’s muil st my oflice in 8an Francieco, I noticed & lotlor benting Sylves- ter's familisr band. But it was post-marked * Brockton," and I opored {t with some auxisty atonce. Itw contonts wore as follows : O Fuanx ! Dou't you romember what we agreed upon snent the baby? Wall, constder me a8 doud for tlig uext alx wonths, or gonw where cuba cau®t follow midEaut, 1 know you jovs the Laby’ bat do you ihink,idear boy,~-uow, really, do you' think.—you could'te u fatherto 1t? Conallor this woll, You'are youilg; thoughtlves, well-meaniug euough ;' but . dato you tuke upou yoursolf the functions of guide, geulus, or guardian, 10 ono %0 youug and gujlsless 7 - Could you bo the Munlor to thilv Telemachua 2 Thiuk of the tomptatious of & metropolis, Look at tho ques- tlon woll, and Jet me Xkunow apeedlly, for I'va got bim as fur as this place, aud ho's kicking up an awrnl rowin tue hotel-yard, and rattling bis chain like a mandso, Let me know by telograph at ouce, BYLVESTER. P. 8.~0f courss he's grown s little, and docen’s take thitgs always 3s quietly asbe did, 1o droppea rather hoavlly on two of Watkou's *' purps " last week, snd snatelied old Watson himuelt buld-beaded, for Inter~ foring, You remember Watson: for an ' intelligent mau, ve knows very little of Culiforula fauns. Ifow &re you fixed for bexrs on Montgoniery streot,—T wewn 1u regard to corralv wud things ¥ § T b B.Ho's 4ot soriu et tricks, Tl boy hive been teaching him to put up his bands with them. He sling« wn ugly left, 8, I am atraid that my dosire to nossess myself of Baby overoame all othor considerations, aud I telegraphed en aftiroiative at onca to Svlvestor, When 1 renohed my lodgings Iste thatafternaon, my landlady was awaiting mo with a telogram. It was two lines from Bylvaster: All rigit, Baby goes down en night-boat, Baa father to him. 8. It wae due, then, &t 1 o'clock that night. Tor » momeut I was staggersd at niy own precipita- tion. I had as yot made uo proparatious,—had said notbing to tuy landlady about her now guest, Toxpected to arrange everytuing in time; and now, throuch Sylvester's indecent hasle, that time had heon shortenod twelye hours. Bomothiug, however, must bo done at once. I turned to Mra. Browu, I bad great roh- suce in her maternal instinots; I had thus still groater reliauco, common fo our sox, in the genecral toudor-heartedness of motty women, But I coufoas I wav nlarmed. Yei, with » feeblo smile, I tried to intyoduce the subject with classioal eave and hightness. I even said, “If Blaksvoare's Athoolan clown, Mis, Drown, believad that a lion amoug ladies was » dreadful thig, what must—" Dut bere I broke down, for Mry, Brown, with the awful in- tuition of her eex, [ anw at once wad more ac- cupled with my manner than my epeech. So I triod » business brusquarie, and, placing the tologram i bor tand, unid husriedly, * Wo must do somsthing sbout this at ouce. 1V porfastly abgurd, but he will be hers as 1 to-nighs. Beg thousand pardons, but business preveated wy wspeaking before—" aud paused, ous of breath aud cautage, Mru, Brown read the tolegram gravely, lifted hor pretty evebrows, turned tne paper over aud looked on the otier side, and then, in A REMOTE AND CHILLING VOICE, askod me if who underatood me to esy that the mothor wau coming alao, : 0, dear, no," I exclaimed, with considarable roliof; ** the mother iu dead, yoit-know. Sylvas- tor—thiat is my friend, who went thia—shot her when the baby was only three days old —." But the expresslon of Ais, Brown's face at this momont way o nlnnnluf that | eaw that uothing but the fullest explanation would save me, Hast- ily, aud I foar noc yory auhemutll I told bor all, Sho roluxed uweotly, Bhoswid L hud fuigutencd her with sy talk about lions, Iudeed, Itk my pietura of poor Baby—alvelt & trila highly- colored—touched her miotheily henart. Bhe was evon & little voxed at what she called Sylvester's “ hord-hearteducss,” Sull, I wus not withuuy some up)rehension, . Tt way two montha sjuce I woon him, aud Sylvester's vague allusiou to his ¥ slingivg nu‘ufly Joft " pmned me. I looied t symputaetio’ little M. DBrown, aud tho thought of Wataon's pups covered ma with guilty confuslon. AMra, Brown hiad agreed to st up with me until ho srrived. One o'clock camo, but no Buby, I'wo o'olook—3 o'olovk—passed. It wea almost 4 whan there was a wild clatter of horses’ boofs outylde, and with s Jerk a wagou stoppsd &t the door, In au wetaut I liad opened it and cou~ frouted a strauger. Almost ot the sams momeut, the Jirees attomptod to run away with iLe wagon, ? I'is stranger’s appearance was, to say tha leart, divconcerting. Hiw clothes were iy lorn. sud frayed ¢ Ins Hnan suok bung from bia shoul- doye liko o herald'a apron ‘ ono of hig bauda was bunduged; bly fuce novatol xod, aud there wou no hat on hiu dishoysiod head, Tondd to the gen- ernl effece, Lo had avidontly sought veltof from his woos [n driuk, and he swayed from sido to nide a8 he chuug to the dony-nandie, und, In n vary thiok voico, stated (hat lie Liad *muthin® for” mo outwide, When Le Lad falslied, the Lorses made auother plungo, % Mra, Hromu thought oy munt be frighteusd ol wuiaviliig, *“ Frighiencd 1" laughsd tha stranger, with Intter irony. “Oh ol Hosiatah aln't frightoned { On’y ran away four timenh comlin' horo, O no! Nobody's frightoned. Lve rotiun's all tl's Aln't 1t, B ho wald, nddrosetlig this dyivar, - #On'y beon ovarbonrd twinh ; k'nocked down a hatchi- way oice. ‘Uliash nothin'le Ou'y two mon unuor doctor's han's at Stooktom, Thash notlun'l Bix bununar dollacsh cover all (lnmmygh,” 1was too much disho artenod to roply, but moved toward the wagoti, The stranger oyed mu with by astonishmenl;’ that almost sopered in, f +* Do yois roolion to taok'le that anlmile your- :glll'o'nt bo sskod, as be su.rveyad mo from head Ididnot spesk, but, with an appearance of bolduess I was far from fooling, walked to the wagon and oalled, * Baby YAl Cash lovse them siraps, B, and stan’ clonr,” ‘The stiaps wore out loc me, and Baby—the ra- motreless, the terrible—quaietly tumbled to the ground, aud, ratling to my sldo, ¢ RUBDED LIS FOOLIAU | IEAD AGATNET ME, I thinlk tho astouishiment of tie two men was bo- youd any vocal oxprauslons, Without a word the drunken atrauger got into the wagen snd drove away, And Baby ? He had gnown, it Is truo, s triflo larger s but Lo was thin, sud bors the marke of evident ill-nuage, IHis boaatitul cont was mat- ted aud unkempr, and bas claws—{hose bright stool books—lind boen ruthlessly paied to tho uick. I8 oyes wero furtive and_restloss, and the old exproalon of stupid good humor had ahiugod Lo ona of listelligont distruat, His in- tervourse with manltind hind ovideutly quickened Lis inmelloct without broadenlug his moral nature. 1) od groat difisully in keeplng Mra. Brown from smotheriig him in_blankets aud ruining Lis digustion with the delioncios of hor larder; but L'at Inst got him cumplately rollod up in the cornor of ny room and asleep. I lay awnke some time intor with plans for hms future, I finnlly datermined to take him to Oakland,whore 1 had bullt » listlo cottage and eiwags spant my Bundays, the vory next dny. Aud, fn the midst of a rosy ploture of domestio falioity, I foll asleop. Whon T awoke It wan brond day,- My eyes at onoo =ought the corner whero Baby had boen lying, Bit ho waa gone, I sprang from tho bod, lookod under it, werrchod the_closot, but in yain, The door wan still lorked ; but thore weio tho marke of Lis bluuted clawa upon the sill of the window, that I had forgotten to closs. He had evideully escaped that way,—but whoro? Liro window opeucd upon the baloony, to whioh the only ather outrauco was through the hall, e musat ve still in the bouso. My band was alteady upon tho boll-rops, but Israyod it fu time, 17 Lie hod not mado himuolf known, why should I disturb the louse? I drosod myself hurriadly, and slipped mto the Lall. The first objoct tuat mot my oyes was a boot I{nhm upon the esirs, It bore the marks of Baby's teeth ; and, as I laoked along tho hall, 1 ERW too plaintythac tho usual airay of frashiy- blackene. boots aud shoes before the lodgers’ doors was not thero. As I asconded the stuire I fouud another, but with the blacking care- fuily licked off. On the thirda Hour wera, twoor throe more boots shightly mouthed ; put ot this poiut Baby's tnsta for blaoking had ovidently pailod, A lictle furthor on was a der, loading to an onon souttie, I mounted the ladder, aud reacied the Hat roof, that formod & continuaus lovel over tho row of hLouses to the coruer of the stroet, Behind the chimnoy on the vory last xoof somothing was lurking. IT WAS THE FUGLTIVE BABY, o was coverad with dust, and dire, and frag~ wmeuts of glasy. But bio was eittiug on bis hind logs, aud was eating an onormous slab of pen- nutcandy, witha look of mingled gulltand nfiuite satisfucaon, He even, I faucied, shightly stroked Dis siomack wih his diseugagod fore-paw, as I ap- proucbed, Roknow that L wes laoking for y and the expression of his oye eaid platuly, * The paet, ot least, Is ncouro,” 1 harried bim, wich the evidonce of hia guilt, back to the scultle, nad descended on tip-too to tho floor benesth.' Providenco favored us; I .met 1o one on tae stairs, and bis own cushionod tread was jugudible. I think he wag couscious of the dungers of dotaction, for ho even forobore to breathe, or much less chew the lust mouthful ho bad takon; and Jie wiculked ot my sida, with tho eirup dropping from Ins wotionless jawy, I think he would Iuve gilonlly choked to death Iust then, for my slce; and it was not wmil I had renched my roont’ again, and thraw wmysolf puuting on tno soiw, that Lraw how noar straugulation ho bad been. Ho guipad once or twice, apologatically, aud then walked o the coruar of bus own o~ cord, aud rolied himsof up like su immense sugar-plum, swenting romoiso avd sroscle ab wvory pose, 1 locked bim in when I went to broakfast, when I found Alse, Brown's ludgors 1 & stato of intouge exditentunt ovor cortain mysterious oveuts of tho night boioie, aud the droauful rovelations of the morning, It appoarod thut burglara Lad eotored tho blook fiom the seuttles; that, boivg suddenly alarmed, they had quisted our housa witlout comutung aity depiedation, droppivg even the Douts thay had collustod in tue hulls; but that o dosperate attempt hul been made to forcw the till 1u the confeotiouar’s shop on tne corner, and that the ginss show-cases had Leon ruthisssly smushed. A couisgeous sorvant in No. 4 had seun o maskod bwigiar, ou bis baunde and kneo, attempting to enter their wentilo; bur on her shouting, **Away wid yoes!" bo wstuutly tod. 1 way through thus recital with choeks that burued wucomifortably ; uor was I the less eme barrassed op rawmiug my eyos to wmocet Mrs. Broww's fixed ouriously and mischicvously on mine, An soou as I oould muke my escape fiom the table I did wo; and, run- ning rapidly up-stairs, sought refuge from any possibla Inquity 1 my own room. DBaby wag still asleep 1n tho corner. It would pot be safa to vomovo him uutil tho lodgers had gone down town ; aud 1 was revolviug is my mud the oxpedianoy of kooping bim until night veiled his obtrusive occeu.ricity from the pubic oyo, whou there camo o cautivus tup at my door, ! nruuud it. Mra, B.own slipped in quietly, closad the door softly, stood with her buck agaunst it aud bor hund 'ou the kuob, and beck- oued me mysteriously towsrds lor. Lhen she asked 1o & low voice : ** 18 HAIR-DYE POISONOUS ?" I was too coufounded to speak, “ (1 do yon know what 1 moean,” she sald, im- patioutly. “Plis stull.” She produced suddenly hiom behind bier a bottle with a Greek tnvel--s0 Jung us 10 ruu two or three Linios spirslly arouud it from top to bottom, **He says it ian't 8 dye; Efil u vogotsble proparation, for invigorate g —" i Wiso veya ? ” 1 asked, deapairingly. ©Why, Mr. Parkor, of courss,” sald Mrs, Browu, soverelv, with the air of Laviog repeated the nuie a great many timos, —'* the old geuclo. manin the toom above, ‘The mimple quuse tion I waut to wk,” she coutinuod, wich tho calm mauver Of owe who has Just convicted auother of gross ambiguity " of languago, *‘is ouly this: " If some of thiv stust wero it in & saucor and Jeft carelessly on the tablo, aud'a child, or & baby, or & Cat, or any younk_aniual, should cows In the window and drink 1t up—a" whole sancer-full—becnuse it had B uweat tuste, would it bo likely to burt them ¢ T aant un unxious look nt Baby, aleepiny paaco- fully in the corner, and s very graroful une at Dirs, Browa, aud eaid I didu'e tidnk it would, * Because," said Mrd, Brown, loriily, as she opsuad the door, I thonglt, 1f it way polsonous, remedias wight be used v tiwo, , ** Becaurs," sho added suddenly, abandouing her lofty mane ner aud wildiy rusbing to the corner, with a fraptic embrace of tho uncunsoious ¥, * be- cauve, Uf nyy nasty ssull shonld tura its boofull hair & borrid groou or v nsughcy pink}_sl would “break its own muzzor's hoart, it woud But, before [ could assure Mrs, Brown of the ineficleuvy of hair-dye ms gn 1nterurl upplicue tion, sho had dartod Trom tlis room. That vight, with the socrocy of defaulters, Baby and 1 decamped from Mrs, Brown's, Dis- .trunting the too ewotional uature of that noble animal, the borso, I had rocourse to & band-cart, drawn by & stont {risuman, to convey my chargo to the feiry, Even then, Baby refused to go ;mlh“ 1 walkod by the cart, aud at times rodo n it "I wish,” sald Mrs. Brown, as she atood by the door wrnI;pqd in &n immense shawl, aad vy ua dopart, ** L wish [t looked lexs solemn— ' LEBH LIKE A PAUPEN'S FUNEHAL I must aduiil, that, au [ walliod by the cuvt that night, I folt vory muoh us if I wore accowpany- ing tho remaivi of some humble frioud to hig Iast routlog-place ; and that, whon I wae obliged ta ride iu it, I nover could ontirely convince my- solf that 1 was pot holplessly averoome bv liguor, or the vioim of an accident, eu routs to the hospital. But, at last, wo reachod the ferzy, Un tho boat I thiuk no ono dwcovored Laby excopt o deunkou man, Who approsched e to ask for & light for lis cigar, but who suddouly dropped it and Hed in disniay to the geutlemen's cabin, whete bis incoberent ravings wors luckily takon for tho eaglior indivations of delirium tremens. 1o wan neatly miduight woon I reuchod my lit- tla cottage o tho outskivie of Onkinnd; and it \was with & feoling of veliol aud_wuourlty that I euterad, lucked the door, and turped him looko in the hall, vatiatied that hencerorward his depro- datious would be hioiited to my owa property, Ho was vory et that might, and aftor be bad tited to it the hat-ravk, ander tos miv.sien fmpressicn that iv was intended for his uwn gyme IRatio oxoroize, and kuuckod cll tho huty otfy ko Wanl JioAcoill 7 L0 slnop un Bho ridg, Tuw wuek, witls the uxvieles airosuud bl by tlie 1 run of nlnrfm caratully-boarded inclosurs, ho racovorad lals hioalth, stromgtih, apirits, and mmuoh of Lis former bomnty. His presonco was mme known to my naighbors, aithough it was notico- able that hornan livariably *ahied * {n pusing to the wiudward side of my houwe, aud that tho baker and milkman had grest diflenlty in tho dolivery of their warod in the moruing, and in< dulged in unsgamly and unneceswaty profanity {n ro dolny, £ At tha end of the wook, I dotormined to invite n fow frionda to vos tho Baby, and to that pur- pose wrote & nwmber of formal luvitdtion Aftor descanting, at some length, on the greal exponse and dnnsnr altending ‘g captitro and Araining, I offercd a pru§rmmne of the perform- ancos of tho ** Infant Phesomenon of Sisrran Bolitudes,"” drayn up into the lighost professions ol profusion of militoration and capitat lartors, A fer extracts will give the reador sows ides of * Lis oducatioual prograss : 1. 1o wil, rolled up In 8 Round Bal), ro)) down the Wood Shed, Rapldly, {llustrating His manner of Ea« caplug from Kiv Ensmy in 11is Nativo Wildn, , He wiil Ascond tho Well Pole, and remove from . the Very Topa Hat, aud an muvh’ of the Crown uud Brjm tliereof an May be Formitiod. 3, Ho wlli perform Iu 3 pantomime, deseriptive of the Gonduct of the Dig Bear, The Middle-Bized Basr, and Tho Little Bear of thw Popuiar Nurwery Legsud. 4. Mo will stiake his chuln Rapidly, showiiyg b Manner of atrikitg Dlsmay and Terror in tho Brasets * of Wanderers ju Uralo Wilderucxsen, The morniug of wio exhivition came, but an hour bofore the performaice THE WRETOHED BANY WAS MIGSING, Tho Chinese caok could not indicato his where- avouts, I searched the premises thoroughly, and then, in dospair, took my hat and butria out juto the narrow lane that led toward the open felds and tho woods boyund. But I found 10 trace nor track of Baby Sylvestor, I return- od, after au hour's fruitiess soarch, to fiud my gueste alroady assembled on tho rear verandali, 1 briofly recounted my disappowtment, my probe able Joss, and bogged their swstanca, "Why," oaid & Spamsh friond, who prided himeclf " on his . acourate koowlodgo of Lngliwh, to Darkor, who soomud Lo bo teylog valnly to riss from his rocllung position on the verandsh, *why, do you ot divongage yoursolf from this vorane dahb of onr friena? “und why, in the name of ITenven, doyou atineh to yourself somnch of tuia ' thing, and 1ake to yourself such ummecosksry contortion? Ah," Le'continued, suddenly with- drawing ono of Lis own feot from tho voraudal with an ovident offort, “ I am mysoif attzched | Burely it i somothing horo! " It ovidently was, My guests were all rising with difliculty,—tha floor of tho vorandnh wed covored with somo glutinous substanos, Ii was—sirup | Isaw it all in s flash, Iran tothe barn; the kog of *goldon sirup,” purchased only the day botore, Iay ompty upon the floor. Thoro wers aticky trackw all over tha iuclosure, but still na aby, ‘T'hero’s something moving the ground over there by that pila of dict," said Darker. i Ho waa right; tho earth was sinking In one cornor of the imclusure like au esrthqueke, I approached cautiously. I saw, what I had not tieforo uoticad, that the ground 'wan thrown up | and thore, in the middic of an immenko xrave. like cavity, crouched Daby Sylvoster, will dig- sing, aud slowly, but auroly, suking fiom siglit b o tnass of dust aud clay, What were s iutenttons? Whether ho waa stuug by romorse, and wished to hids himsolf from my reproachful oyas, or whothor he was simply trying to diy his wirup-bosnioarod coat, T nover abiall kuow, for that day, nlss | wasbis fast with me. * He was pumped upon for two hours, at the end of which tima he sl yiolded » thin treaclo, He was thon taken and carofully enwiapped in blankots and locked up In the stora-room. Tho next worniug HE WAS aoNE! The tower portlon of the window-sash and pans were goue too, Hie muccessful experimonts on tho fragile texture of gluss at the confectioner’s, on the tirst day of his eutrance to civilization, Lad not been lost upon him, Ilg Hrst cssay at combunng cause aud effect ondod in his escapn. Whera s went, whero ho bid, who captured him if he did not succoed in teachiug tho foot- Dills bevond Uskland, ovon the oller of & largo roward, backed by tno efforts_of un intelligent polico, coull not discover. I mover saw him agnin from that day wotil— Did [ 8ea him ? "I was in o horge-car on Sixth avonuo, a faw daya ago, whon the horses sud- deuly became unmanageable and loft tho tack for tho sidewalk, amid tho onthe anud oxo- orations of the driver. Imumediately in front of tho car n ciowd had gatheréd around two performing bears ond a showwnan., One of the animals—thin, emaciated, and tho mora wreck of bis native strongch, at- tractod my atlontion. I endenvored to atiract his. 1o turnod a pair of bloared, mghtloss oges in my diraction, but there was no sigu of recognition. T icanod from tho car-window und osllod, softly, * Buby!" But he did not hood. I closed tha window. The car was just moving on, when ha suddenly turned, snd, “either by accident or do- gign, thrast s cullovs paw throagh the glass. ** It's worth $1,50 to {ml in & uow pane,” maid the aondactor, *ir folks will play with boars! »—Bret' artewn St. Nicholus for July, Gotting n Froo Poss, 1! 4T the Souprintendent absout?” The clorks at the Boston & Providence Rail~ rond outica in Boston looked up from their booke and acoounts and suw & specimen of the genus | Now Englaud Yaukoe, sinco the days of railroad ontorprne yearly gotting scarcer. An old man of 67 or 70 yoars of ago, whose face ocontivued exposura tothe sun had browuad to 8 manog- auy color, whous thin irau-gesy bair stragglod out from under & felt bat a little the worwa for wear, whoso * storo-clothes™ wore a dozen yoara old in fashion, whose expanded bony haude and vast extent of weisk projectod far bee yond the coat-ouff, and broad squurs brogane tlod with laather striuge and guiitiess of bluck. ing stuok far through tho ouds of his pauta. looue. Ouo of the officials, in anawer to the inquiry, pointed towaids & desk, where sat un elori-looks iug, - clean-cut, all-nlivo sort of man, and smd, Mt six, ts Slr, Folsom.” # Hurusome ?" said the old fellow, ‘‘yaas, =o, 803 but pramo to tho faco is open disgrace, & Aunt Jarusha used to say.” *\What cau I do for you to-day?” asked the Buperintendent, cuclously eyeiug the vistior that stood before him, in the midot of & subdusd wnfcker frow tha clerks. “Day? Yaas, very tino day, Don't sposeyou romembor me, do ye?" + Your nnme I uiust hava forgotton," “Mustspha Cotton ? Thunder, no! Colton wdl the follor whut did the gradin’, X ouly fure wished Lhe sleeporu.” “What gradibg do yon mean 2" sald the Bu« porintendont. * Gradin' done mean? Gosh alt hemlock! I shnuld tiunk it was, DBottom dropped tighsaout ou't. *\What contract are you talking of, sir, and what do you waut of me?" said the oflicial, a littlo nettled, “+ Whio do I want to sas P—why yo, if yew alz the Subaiintendent. Yew air, aiut ye?" You,” said she raillrosd ofticer, with s nod, Y s, “\Wall, ve seo, I'm a littlo deef, an' X used to furnish aleepers fur this rond, I did, Sold uigh 800, an’ only forty thrown aout," “You must ba mistaken,” gnid the railrond raan, shouting into his visitors' eurs"” wo haven's wmade any coutricts for some vents,’ #Bayen yoars! Wall, dain it ull, 'twas longer ago u'that. £ made a trade with Huymun Loe— d've reluomber Ruymun Lee—Ttttle follur, not nor tall as yew—smart oz er steol u-uy.“ + Yed, [ romember him, ho was Suparintendond of the road tweity yents ugo,” “'wenty yeanra ago! Yuns, yans. Wall, I moved Eadt mere’n tou year ago; I was fanain’ on 1t theu up back of Attleborry ;' ownod a piece of land up there on sheers with Joe Farbink— him as broke Lis leg iv a barrer fu' the widder Buit's field—durnod fool—told him the steers would atart, aud he might hov known—" " “Woll, well,” said the railroad omicor, impa~ tlently,— what is your businesu? " “ Wall, I hey beeu ruunin’ & thrashin'machine Iast fall daown tor Aguaty, Maine, tandin’ & sawe mill till last woek; lwuoor aiu's mov'n vo quick 0z it nsed to, and—" C “Whut is your busincss horo, I mean?* bawled the Buperiutenuent. *\What do yom wank 2™ “Want? Why I want to go to Attleberry,” ““Wolt, nhy don't yon go? there's tho utation, and tho trui laavos in teu miuutes,” *'\Wall, I hwn't got no tivket—on of you ocould glve e a froc pasu—" . B "Why wliould 1 passyou frea? T osnw reason.” “Why, you know, I sold them mlcepors to Raymun Loo s cussod signt too low, s’ hesmid"— “What!" shouted ths vxa.porated ofticer, **Da you tnean to coma to me for & frog pass over thi road because twenty yoars ngo you sold Mr, Le DU worth of wleepers? 'Thid in 100 much,” “Tow much| No, sir, vew conldu't ny the: afr sleepors naow for doublo ths money, sn Raviun Leo bo wan't 80 olose of bis paasos, fux whon 1o down here and settloed with hun an got talkin' with him, ko told mo if I'd ouly go up to Attloborry ho'd glo wo a pans—" o “(ood gracious I amid Lolucny, einking back In lus cliawr, bunrsa and exhauscod with slouting, v.hili tho grent drops of pesspliation on lis foro= hond, “ua will L1f you'll uul{ Ko Mr, 8, luy bl w tioket for the nost Lisly, and obarge 1t 10 my acvonnl 1 wou't wiile Lita & psasi hs wwight vbine bavh hore v ib"