Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 5, 1874, Page 4

; 'THE CHICAGO “DAILY . TRIBUNE: .SATURDAY; SEPTEMBER 187 QUEBEC. Maikot-Place --- Tho Lower Town.-Montgomery---Tho .Citadels ‘The Darham Terrace---Historic Associations -=-Chiamplain---The 01d Gates, Corresnondenec of The Chicago Tribune, Quxnko, August, 1874, It ig o triflo moro than o woek since IJoft Chi- eago, and how gront the change |—from the New tothe Old. It is impossiblo to deseribo tho im- proesions which thia olty of tha oldon timo makes upon me, and I am glad tbat Ihave notas yot soon thono othor parts of the world which wauld, I fonr, causo this delighttul old place: to soom foss quaint and pleturcsquo, Hven from the first moment, aa I appronchod thae city, it ohnrm- ed me, Betting nsido nll its historic nssociations, the dullest mind mitst be pleaged with tho cas- tle-crowned cliffs, ibo encircling wally of the city, and tho stravgo architcotura of house and church, Ench sceno ia 0dd and atrangely fasclnating. Tho first morning of my visit I walked through TUE MARKET-PLAGE, whaze tho women, in thelr farm-carts, with char- acteristio thrift, plied the neodle, tho while watching for a customer. When ho comes, tho woman's quiot rosorve s changed fo mctive molicitudo lest sho shall not soll her wares; Though hav- Ing mo possible need, I could monrco restrain myuelt from buying somothing. Tho butter, in real golden balls, was very inviting a8 it lay on clean * birch-bark, partly covered with a nont whita cloth, Thoe berrics and vogotablos wera #ll frosh and of wholesomo look. The wholo placo wus g chapter from sonmo book, oven in its dotails familiar, but always associated with a foreign laud. Tho carts stood baclked against tho woodon walk that ran down the squaro, and over each cart was mpread s cloth for shelter from the sun. The old Burracks, the churches noar by, ond tho constant flow of 8 langnage not your own,—all tho nccompaniments toll you plainly it is o foreign land. A stroll along the walk onables ono moro easily than in any other wpy to lemm tho chief features of this sirange city, I'rom any point on tho river-wall you look down on THE LOWER TOWN, Ite ohimney-tops ; the flowers in the windows, from which ono can searco gee the sky above tho clifta; tho domestic arrangements of theso hnm- bler homes, aze o}l laid open before you, and, whother you will or not, you sty the intoriors of tho old houses through thoir wide-open cagse- monts, or a dormer window just below roveals n neat and ordorly chamber. Tho nurrow strects of the Lower Town, lendin in cither dircction from Preccott Gale, are fui of incerest. On ono handare Chumplainand Littlo Champlain streots,—the patli along which MONTUOMERY, but for his untimoly fats, wowld have marched to meot Arnold ne ho camo from nuother quar- ter along tho sault on Matelot. Tho simple in~ seription placed ou tho clift' near whora Mont- gomery foll has mislcd moro then one person in trying to detormine the spol referred to. A sol- dier on tho Citadel nauured nie that it was nenr the wall on the top or the oliff; whilo 8 lognacions bostwan, whon asked,’ at the foot of tho clitf, “Was {his whero Montgomery foll 2" looking up the clift uaid, wifi?n rich broguoe, ** Oh, ves! *tyas n ‘hlerican trying to climb up the rocks, and he foll right down there." A battery bad beon pinced by tho Englizh on_this narrow path be- twoon tho cliff and the river, and in atorming it o random shot ended ono hife, but, s we mny swell bolieve, enved Quobeo to the Liglish, The citadel is not remarkable, sevo in its ad- mirably-defended approach from the town. Tho cliffs aro tho best protection, and tho fortifien- tions are interesting rathor a8 wondorful master- picces of stonework than as impregnnblo hurricra to modern ertillery. DUREAM TERRACE is tho promenade of the town; and, from sunset i) tho gun from tho citadel at half-pnst 9 tends them home, thore is abusy throug of poople, English and Lrench Canadiang, hoth old and young, and, nt thisfseason, a fair eprink- ling of Amsiicun tourists, Tor the most part, the French remained quict- ly soated, and beld their busy conversation with each other; but the English™ people wore etr Ing up and down tho Terrace, big walking-stick and all,—n vigorous, hoalthy “stop, in'strik- ing contrnst to tho leisurely, almost indo- lent, lounging of tho Americans, A group of soung men aturacted my atfoution, aud, whilo standing nesr, much of "their bright, witty, yot wholesomo ropsrto eame to my ear, I donot know whother thoy were characteristio of their raco or not, but cortainly their wholo manner, nud the tono of thoir convorsation, wero very ro- frashing, ‘Tho view from the Torraco is boantiful boyond Aencription. The river, the Laurcntian Hiils in the northeast, tho ships below, the green hill- eide on the sonthern shore, thoe bezutiful valley of the St. Charles on the north, sud the warm Bunsot glow throwh over nll. That evening stands out in bright relief in my * memory of Quehee ; for one can so fitly eall up, on that spot, all I TISTONIC ASSOCIATIONS OF TIE PLACE, TYousce where the early * Iionoors of New Frunce” asconded tho river. Thoy landed at your feet, Recall all you hnve read of the place, cloka your oyes, and try and roplaco the mon and ovents of thoso dnya. What-a singalar mixture, —merchant, priest, and soldisr, and the Indian wrapped in skius and silonco. Moro than 250 years ago, Champlain built on this vory spot the Castloof St. Louls; and Mountnin ntrect, through what was once Pros- cott Gnto, was then, ns now, tho chiof path af commubication botwoen tho_soldior nnd priost above and tho Indinn and trador below, It wows a8 fur buck as 1608 that Champlain land- &d on tho site of the LOWER MARKET-PLACT ; and 340 yoars ago Europenns first looked upon theeo clifs. To-day the Castle 18 gono; only tho Old Cha- toau remains ; nud m its garden-wall, on the street leading from the Torrace to the Govern- or’s Garden, you can seo i stone hnving carved upon it o croxs of tho Order of Multa, and bonr- ing the figures 164(7),—tho last o somowhat-con- Jectured Lut sufflciontly-accurato replacomont of & figuro lost from tho stone. This stono, with- aut doubt, was placed in the Old Castle ot tio timo indicated, aud ouly in 1784 was found, when diggiug for the prosont building, ** L'Abum du “Couviste™ of 3. LeMoino hag beon n conntant companion in my wandarings in Quobeo, zud I havo found it vory sorvicoublo as afiording au inwight iuto much “of tho history aud romauce of tho city which I could not otl- rwise have obtained, The book is by no monns confined to Quabeg, but itis o gnide to ail the Lowoer St. Luwtence and the Baguenay. Ono i disappointod in not finding tho gates of tho city ; but O MUCH BTILL NEYAINS that touriata need Wwaste no tino in regret, al- though tho native will tolt you, “''hore iy noth- M ko batt d th nf know botter,—and that iu only rosent- 1y,—I had ascribod great n;iu 10 all Lhz presont walls of tho city; but L fiud ic was only iu 1828 that thoy, Wwith'tho Citadol, wore comploted. Just ontaldo Lo prosont, walk' which rosssn the bigh platenn from the 8t. Lawrencs to tho Bt. Chnrles, thote aro still found, in ruins, the old TFrench walls, which, with the Gates of St, Touts and 8t. John, wore Luilt in 1693, Of tnootlior gates, Paluce was Lnilt in 1715, Hape in 1786, and Proscott in 1797, Tho robuilt' 5L, Jobu's Gato is most unsatis- {actory,—many & fort can boast a botter,—and this hus now no agé or historic assogistions as apology for its obstruotion of the path, "L'his {8 not all of Quoboo, 1t is but a Anggoes- tion,—an outline whioh weoks of sojourning thoro will fill up with logend and romanoe, e ® Bingulnr Suicido, Front the Denver (Col.) News, Yymiad Grisworld, agod 37 years, shot himselft In tho hend, in bis roomn st tho corner of ‘L'onth end Larimor stroots, yesterday afternoon, in- fligting a wound thet will probably prove fatal. Ho way o miltwright by trade, and of nober, industrious hnbits, Tho pistol was found on tho floor boside tho bed, o had taken dinner ot tho usual hour, aud was scen g iny to his room about % o'ctock, BShortly aftor- torward tho Jadics on tho lower floor heard & sharp roport, but thought it wau the crack of a whip, et sowe childrou woro playlug with ono in in the bnok yard. About haif-past 2 o'clock clnmbormaid, possing through tho up-stairs hall, hoard gronus procoeding trom Girisworld’s room, aud on roaching the door, which wny sjar, sho naw him lylu‘f ou tho sido of the bod, with blood stroumiig down his face, He Lad ovidont- 1y placed the fatol .to hin right l{nr:plu and flred, Tho bullet, which had inado a frightful oponing, apparently ranged down- ward townrd the nose, and mny have passod ont throngh the ball of the right eyo, whioh was fonnd perforated. Drw, Danoroft and Bteclo wore in uttondnnee, but thoy thought bout to dofor au oxaminntion ef tho wonnd, To the {:h‘l who had come to Lis room, and who asked hint why hio hind shot hiimuelf, ho enid that * Life sy burdensome,” 1la snid ho was willing it his brotlier sliould know whnt lind nap, onod, but Logged his friends nob to tolegraph hi’x mother, a8 hewould endaro anything rathor than diatrons lior, o talired froely and tationnlly to the by- staudoms, especially J. I, Bates and Col, MoNns- sar, in whom ho rotognized old and doar friendy, To Br, Batos, who nalied him what caunod him tocominit fo rash an act, he said: ** I couldn't help it, Joo; I'm tived out.” As ho tossed abont the bod, ralilug in e own Dblood, o soomed sorry for his own net, aud froquontly mald: * My Qod, forgivo mo.," Upon I.mlnix asked i€ ho hind any mounoy, ho fitrned upon bl back, thrunt his hand into hia pataloons pocket, and pulled forth A roll of groanbacks, nmoun!ln;( to 8114, Mr. Grisworld lins boon o citizon of Colorado Rinco 1800, ITo has valusblo property in Chi- cago, anid is roputed to bo worth 50,000, Pov- orly cortalnly had nothing to do with tho nttompt ab Bell-destruction. Bt ho #eema to bave beon in troubla conccmhlfi his buniness affairs, Onco ortwice helins beon hieard to aay that somebody was trying to got possession of his Yraporly. Hov- oral persons remombor honring him sny that ho has been disnppolutod in not gotting monoy from somoWhore Hast, A man who stood at tho bod- #ido, yestorday, told n News roportor that lio dietinctly remombered learing some one, a stranger to him, eay to Grisworld not longslnce: *Nover mind, Lyman, thoro's ns_good fish in tho saa nu wore ever canght,” and henco the ro- port that the unforlunate man had been re- vorsed in a love-nffair, Mr. Grisworld haso brotlior, Dr. Grissorld, livivg in Chicago, who, many ot onur rendors will romombier, resided soy- oral years in .Bluok [Iawk, aud who amaased n fortuno in mining operations. AN EVENTFUL HISTORY. The Rove Wilhinm EFyler’s Family— Fheo Father sl Three Danghtors Prowned- filother and Daughter Shipwreclked—Death by Ileart=Dise eano of tho Younuy Lady. From the Denver Dewiocrat, Tor tho facts substantinlly related in the fol- lowing article, our reporter is indebted to Con- ductor Painter, of tho Colorado Contral, on whoso traln the unfortunato lady nnd survivin, mombera of the family tool passago for Black Hawk, ono day lnat weok, and from whoso lips came ouo of tho strangest aud saddest histories it has over beon tho misfortuno of our reportar to hear. About two years ago thero lived in Sacramouto, Cal., a Baptist minister by tho nome of Mr. Fy- ler, with his wifo aud oight childron, 1Sur of thom being daughters. . Mra. I'ylor had for several yonrs been aflliotod with an aggruvated form of caucer, for the re- liof or wluch all known remedies had falled, bor caso apparently dofyiog medical skill. '‘Tho youngest of tho four daughtors was also & con- staut suffer from hoart disoaso, and it was for tho supposed banolleinl offccts of tho climata on mother and daughter that thoe famity located in Californin. Thoro bieing no apparent relief afforded thom, thoy wora advised to go abroad for trontmont, 1t waa therofora agreed upon that tho father and throo oldest daughtans ehould remain in Califor- nin, the four little oncs to be sent to a niaco, named Margaret Stuart, residing in Biack Hawl, Col., whila glr!. Fyler and horyoungest daughtor went abrond, in_the hopo of gotting al loast ro- liof for thoir bodily nilments. Shortly altor thoir depariuro, Mr. Fylor and daughters roturnad from Califoinia to Colarado, locating in Black Hawk. After an ubsonca of bout & year and o bnlf, Mr. Fyler recoivod n lottor from his wife stating that it wes her intention o loavn Kuropo for hiome on a certain date, and roquosting that tho family moot thom at Naw York. For this pur poso, father and danghtor loft Black Iawk for that city, whero thoy waited and watehod for tho return of tho sufferers. -Not knowing the name of the vossel in which thoy had eniled, nnd the probmblo date of their arrival having pussed, their auxiety gavo placo to serions approhon- sionsand surmises a3 to tho probeblo cnuso of the dolay, ‘I'io poeseuger-list of each incoming stonmer was eagerly searchod in vain for the nemou of therr loved ones, and all inquirios seemed only to envelop tho affair in greater mystery, 3 Rteceiving no furthor communication from his wito, Mr. Fyler and danghters wont to New Jersay, to visit some scquaintancos, in the moan- time having oxorted ovory possiblo means that wonld b likely to result in the discovery of tho whorenbouts of mother and daughtor. The couvalesconts sailed from Lurope about tho up- pointed time, in the eailng-vessol Mary Ann, and when fonr days out, the vessel encountored o vovero storm, and was wreckod. Among the fow passengors who oscaped a watery grave, were Mra. Fylor and daughtor, who wore picked up by au English steamer, bound for Now Yor! at which they arrived a little ovor four days ngo. Huviug renson to expoct thav thoy would bo met in that city by tho romainder of tho fpmily, they in turn beeamo anxious 1 to their whoren~ bouts, inquirics in overy dircction proving una- vailing, their information from Black Iawk be- ing to tho effect that Mr. Fylor and daughters had-left that place for New York somo timo pro- vious, Deing ina weak bodily condition, thoy were illy ablo to boar np under this new affliction, Iu Now York without frieuds, tho great city scomed to them s wilderncss, and they rosolvad to como to Black Hawlk, which was to Lo their futuro homo, but which now hed for them no intorest other than tho possibility of their got- ting somo informalion that might give thom n elug to the whoreabouis ot husbund and futher, Whon tho train bearing them westward reached New Erunswick, N. 1., tho daghtor plcked upa acwapaper which hed hoen left in an adjolning seat, knd bnsied herself in looking 1t ovor, Tho paper might bo oaid to linve boon her doath mo- mant, Initshorend tho announcomentof tho doath by drowning of her father and threa sis- ters, whilo eailing off tho const of Now Jorsoy, Bho commnnicated the sad intellizenco to hor distracted motuior, aud thon eank back in her gont, and without uttering mnothor word, sho died of Leart disonse, #o suddenly and unoxpect- odly did this afflicting dispensation: visit Lier, g to crusoa shock Lo Lor norvous systom from which eho found rollef only in denth. Mrs. Fyler, an jovalid, perhaps childloss asd & widow ; *with the cold form of hur longz-suifer- ing doughtor and companion nt her side, that now, for the firet time, atirasted tho uttention of tho passengers, who kindly sdmiuistered to ber in her great bérenvement. After burying hor ehild at New Drunswiclk, tho ulmost distracted mothor continued her jour- ney to Binek Hawlk, whero sho arrived last weok, Hero she lwl:cd to find her nicce, Margarot Stu- arg, who brd her four little buys, and imme- diatoly_upon hev arrivine at (lio Black lfawl Iouso, having Leon earried from tho cars to the hotel, her condition being almost helpleas, shio auked that word bo sent to Mre, Stuart, appris- ing heor of herarrival and- requesting that sho Lring the children and comno to the hotol, 3 Inthis curo, a8 in tho others, the search for hor nieco proved unavailing, and all that could be learncd was that Mrn. Htnart had somo tima Ernvlo\m removed from Black Iawh to—io ono now whore, ¥ Alroady borno down with griof and trouble, the unfortunato Jndy, in order to receive proper medical attondance, was bronght down to Den- ver on last Yriday, and convoyed, in o holploss condition, to tho Grand Contral Hotel, opposito tho Union Dopot, whoro #ne now lies, without monoy or friends, and snfforing not only intense bodily pain, but torriblo mental ngony. 2 A }Jcmonml roporter intorviowed the unfor- tunute woman yosterday aftornoon, and the story abovo related and told us by . Paintor, was corroborated by Mra. Fyler, “Tho morbors of the Baptist Cnurch owe it nea duty to hu- mnnity to aoo toit that this nfllicted sister, and wife of o Daptist ministor, roceivo uid and cont- fort at onco. i Information rospeoting oither the relatives of Lier Iate Lusband, the Itev. Willlsm Tyler, or the whoreabouts of Maygarot Stuart, or fhe Ray, Charles W, Pnrkor, rosiding n yoar ago at Ited Bluft, Oul., will bo thankeally received, And may bo addrosied * 8lrs, Williun Lyler, Denver, Col,, enro Grand Contral Hotol, opposito Union Depot." ; d ———— Coffin Dusting. Moneuro D, Conway, in his Tondon lotter to the Cnclunatl Commierelal, writes : * Phoro Is monoy enough oxpended In morely Jdle ways ovory yonr to relisvo all the unctnal sufforing in tho country, and to raise the pooplo s full degrao in the scile of humanity. How is this money spont? The other dny n solomn group pro- ccoded to tho basement of s church in Bangb noar the Oryatal Pulace, and thioro dusted an old cofftu, It was the cofin of ono JMary Weagg, who loved noutness, Wheu shoe died sho lofe boquest of 10864 annunlly ta hive her ooflin dusted, ong puinen to bo given to the clorgyman onthe oceasion, und two guiness to procare n dinner for her cofllu-dustors. 1'lio sum 1a small, but I refer to the solomn continnance of this caromony simply hocauso it fa tha last Inatanoo I hava unted of "how hundrads of thonaands of outls in_this conntey wre aununlly distributed Ky !}m Lunds of moldy skolotons for nothing st all! ) BIRDS OF ILL-OMEN, - Owls, Crt‘rwfl,' Rovens, Magplon, Crowing.-Hens, Iite, Among the signs whioh ara balloved by the sus poratitions to proguostieats future n\'unh!i thoso connactod with tha habits and chinracter of birds have slwnys' boon’ regardod as important. - Ho niuch rttontion was paid by the anclonts to thowo indications that the word bird was. oven in ilomor's time synonymous with omen. Most birdu were ominous of good or ovil, according to tho placo and manunor of thelr appoardnco, 80 that thoy might be snid to fiuttor with uncertiin wings ou tho gonflnoa of disnpter and succoes. Othors, howovar, from tholr own pature woro bolioved to portend ‘calamity, and although thoy might ocoaslonally afford o presago of pood luck, yot tholr goneral roputation was deeidedly bad. Thero s nothing 0 hard to got rid of ns o bad nawe, and as this I8 truo nlike of bineda with or withiout foathers, it In uot surprisiug that some of the furmer hove alwnys baon regarded ag birds of ill-omon, Ttis nmlconkln that this stigme hns beon af- fixed only to thoss bitds whosa nppearancs or voles is disagrocable, and whoss habits nro some- what pecaliat, and oecantricity in this roupoct being porverted by supericial obsorvers into an alarwing porient,” Thus i TIE OWE had to bonr & good deal of unmeyited nbuse be- eauso of his nocturnal lubits; and unmolodions notey, Even his wiso looks nnd I)!Idln_ml grovil havo been mado tho subject of dorisivo oritl- clsm. 'T'bo only porsons who really appreeiated tho owl woro tho citizons of anclont Athens, and the good opinion of that rofined nnd intelloctual peoplo, like praise from Sir Hubork Btanloy, ont- woighs any amount of depreciation. In thab city owls woero sacrod to Minorva, the goddess of wisdom, and woro looked upon n8 omena of vie- tory and snccops, By tho Romans they wore regarded with feolings of dotestation nud a4 forcbuding grave misfortunes,, The laugunge applied” to thoso birdy by the Latin poots roflocts tha provaillng projudice and suporstition, Iiven Virgil gives o bad namo to tho owl. Ovid calis it a dira omon of mortality ; Lucan stigmatisos it a8 * sinistor bubo,” and Claudian inveoighs against it as “infestus (dan- orous or hostile) bubo.” Tho word bubo, nscd y naturnliaty to denoto horned . owls, orginally liad referenco Lo tho poculiar sound of tho note of this nocturnal bird, which in Spauish is called bubo, in Troncb, hibou, and in Enghsh, boo-hoo, a3 Buffon has also entitled it. Borno of the worat things ovor sald about the owl camo from the eldor Pliny. The Roman naturalist, who trusted mora to othors’ obscrva- tion than his own, snd in whoso writings fact and fiction are ofton Inoxtricably blondod, calls tho owl an inausplolous nnd funereat bird. Ho is_partioularly severe upon the horned owl, to wh&h ho givos o vory Iugnbrious character, call- ing it tho monstor of tho night that nover utiers o choorful noto, but emits a doloful shrick or moan, This owl and the screcch-owl wers especinlly abhorred aud dreaded by tho Romans ay MESBENGERS OF DEATH. As the former inhadited only doserted and innceessible places, its appoarance in cities wos considersd s very _ alarming omen, During the eatly days of the Cousulship horned owl happoned to siray into the Capitol at Tlome, causing goneral consternation. To avert the disastera which this round-faced prodi- gy was believed to portond, n Iustration or gon- eral 'imrlficn!iou was ordered. Butlor has ro- Torred Lo this incident in some amusing lnos in Lndibras, Dilny, nfter stating that it is lookod upon rs a direful omen to seo an owl in o city or oven any- whero, in tho daytime, confldently remarks: I know, howover, for o fact, that it is not porten~ tous of ovil when it pottles on tho top of n private lhouso.” 'Tho doaths of sovoral of tho Roman Emporors wero supposod to have boon foroboded by the apponr- auco of owls in the halls or ou the raofs of thelr palaces. Brande, in his Popular Autiquitios, bas given many ourious illustrations from old writers of the misfortunes of which thego birde were the prophetic precursors. Ono of thomost nacrilegious acts evor committed by nn owl took place during tho roign of Pope John XXIV., whon tho bird of night had the offrontery to fly into tho hall whore the Holy Father was holding u conneil, dinturbing its delfberations by his ill- omoned presence, It i not strange that tho owl in modern times should bo the victinf of inhorited nversion. As tho perverse fowl has not o far profited byeriti- cism a8 to change its natura or hnbits, the samo causes whicl ocensioued ita classical ill-ro- pute help to perpetuate it. A bird that shuns the honest ght of day and disturbs drowsy rus- tica by hooting and scresching at night, that haunts ruined and dosorted places, prowla round church-yords, and bides_in hollow traes, must expect {o be maligned, It is natural, therofors, to find traces of this suporstitions dread in the worka of modern poets aud- prose writers. Chaucor speaks of tho owl as bringing THI: BODE OF DEATH. ?nomur. too, givos It the enmo ghastly char- actor : e racful Striteh st waiting on tho heero, "Thio whistler shrill, thut whoso licares doth dle ; nnd again: The fll-faced owlo, death's dreadful messenger. Marston, in snumorating the gloomy crentures thet prowl about utdoad of night, asaocietos sereeching owls with * mengro guosts, Piero, aud black thoughts,” and in Jiced’s Ol Plays it issnid thut the croaling of scroech-owls upon the obimnoy-tops is cortain to be followed by Lieariug of & corpso, Thoro was a Erovulnnt popular superstition in England, in the olden time, thut if o scrcech-owl flapped its wings or sereochod near the windows of a sick por- gon's chambor ono of tho family would soon dio; and in a paper in tho Spectator, in whick tho be- liof 1n omone is koouly satirized, it is obsorved that o soroech-owl at” nudnight has alarmed a Tanily niore than a band of robbery, Sliakspearo largely availod himwuoll of tha sin- dntor roputation of “tho bird of doom. *'Tho ominous sud fearful owl of death,” ns ho has grn?lliunlly olractorized it, is ausoclatod with goblins and olvish wpritos, and King lemy VI, mentions thie shriok of thioowl at. the birth of Glosfer among thoe portouts of Lis infamous onreer. Aud, whon Lady Macbeth is waiting in suspenso for tidiugs of the mardor of Duncan’ by her husband, It was tho owl that shricked, the fatal bellman ‘Which gives the stern'st good night, T'he phirago in * Hawlet,” “Thoy say the owl was a bakor's daughtier,” probably had reforonca fo the story, still common among the pessantry in Glougestorshire, of o bakor's daughtor boing THANSVORMED INTO THIS DIRD by our Savior, as punishimont for reducing to a very small eize the largo pieco of dough which bor mother hiad ngreed to make for Him, T'he dougl, howarver, swellod in tho oven to enormous proportions, to the great astonishmont of tha bakot's duughter, who cried out, * Heugh, hough, hough” ‘This 'owl-like nolad suggostod het transformation vinto thav bird, ~ Tho story is told to detor. childron from illiboral trestmout of the poor.. It is evidently alinded to in Beau- mout aud Floteher's play of **‘Che Nice Valour," whero tho passionate Lord suys, aftor aponking of & nost of owla, *Huppy in ho whowo window opons to a brows baker's chimunoyl he shall Lo suro thero to hiear the bird somotimes nfter tii- light,"* Accordipg to a logond provalout in tho norih sof England, Pluraoh's deughtor wag transformed “into an owl, and when this bird scronms at night, ohildron are told tho :‘ulnngn story.of ity origin in {he following dis- ch: Oh {~0-0-0—0-01 ‘Twas ouco s king's duughtor, and sat on my father's nee, But now li'nm & poor hoolot, and hido fna hollow reo Nuttall, tho ormthiologist; sayn ho often hoand this couplot whon n child, I tho old country, In Bwedon tho owl is cousidorod o bird of morcory, - Great cauntion 4 nocos anry in spouking of such birds to avoid being en- sunred. Lt in dnngerous to kill onn of them, na its assoointos might avongo its doath, Although the owl iy wnr«hi&md at lindoo festivaly, it is genorally rogardod a8 a birdof ill-omon, 1f ono Lappons to porel ou the houso of a natlvo, 1t i & wign thus ono of his honschold wil dio, or Aome othor misfortune befall hitm within n year, T'hig ean bo avorted only by giving the houva or its valuo in monoy to the Brahmins, or making extraordinary noaco-offerings to the gods. 'Who oblations to Vishmu and other doitios aro followed by an entortain- mont of clarillod butter and rico mille to l:no Brahmins, who, aftor recolving tho wnorificial fag, will give a bunodiction to thoir doluded foj- lowers. Among somo of tho North Amorioan tribos it ia customary for an Indian to whistio whion lie hears thio cry of a peculiae kind of oy, 1t tho bird does not dnewor him ke oxpocty to +Tho provalonca of a bollaf i hch o transformation by ikt 1 vory enrlous, thoughs 0. (ziditonn vary somowlnt fi difforent counteies, i Norway, ' thy ntory fatold of & woman with i red hood, famedt Gecirude; As shie flow np tho kitchon-chimmay her Loy ~wan Dbickened with - mout, an thne sho appears na the rod-crestod blagk woods Iuoier, whichi thio Norweginny' eall Geetrudo's ird, atcording (o tho North Gurumns, o buker's 1mas s the offendor, s was turned into o onckoo, whoso dutcolared Plumago, uceniingly prinkled with flor, rocallt 1ty origin,~Thorpo's Northorn Alythology, vols, 41, and fil, - Comnpuro Haxlitts Loglish Proverby and Proverbial Phruses, , S8, -at Altarnum, “Tho caugo ‘1nability to work was owing to doproas .ot norvouy dlospoodily, On acoount of. the muporatition, this 0wl whicl: {nhnbits both Europo and North Amorioa, {a called FTUE DIRD OF DRATI, Thoro i4 n atrango fasolnation in tho ‘appoar- ando-of Uio.owl nt midnight in the stillnoss of thio-woods, a6 o wings iy speotral fight and ultors hia monn of:Inmontation, and it is not surprising (it his nocturnal habits and unoarth- IY sliriolc Ahould malte him an-object of dread to the ignorant aud crednlous, But the intolllgont obuerver dotcots a-harmony botwoen this' ghost- ly vinitor and thasconos amld which: hio soundy his wombro motes, Tho mopmg owl In his ivy-ninntled towor is in- unigon with tho folomn ?ntlmu of Gray's Ilogy, and tho oy of tha boding owl had' - plhintive oliarm' to” tho' sousltivo oar of Cowpor. ‘I'lio naturalist also ap- proointos tho qualitios whiclt have beon: racog- nived by tlio poot, and'tho owl nowhoro appoars to hotter advantago thnn in tlio pioturod pagen of Autlubon, who calla him the Bancho-Panza of the woods, Induod, wo could not woll sparo-tho owl oithor In litornture or Nifo, in the domain of nonrlng fanoy or of grovoling fnot, Ho is tho fitting embodinont * of that supernatural influenco whioh londs suoh n shadowy charm to bygono days, innocent alike of sclontific knowl- edga and solontiflo skaptiolsm. ONOWH AND RAVENH hnvo.genorally boon rogarded. by superstitions poopla-ag birds of ill:omon, Tholr croalting gar- rullly was bnl(avud‘b{fim avclonts to portend onlnmity, and the bollof still lingors among the snodorpd. Pliny obsorvos that tho crow in mobt Inauspicious at tho time of wcubatlon, just aftor tho summor solatico. Nuvous, ho tolls_us, oro tho ouly ‘birds that seom tor undoratand tho inenning. of sheir. anepicos,. for, when tho. guodts of Medus wera. aneassinatod, tho ravens all took thoir departure from Attica’ aud the Poloponnosus, 1o adds that they aro-of tho very worat omen whon thoy swallow their voice, na if- thoy woro boing choked. It.waa: supposod tha theso birds uttored: their shrill, disoordant ory a8 6 note of. warning to ynrsfinu nbout todio, aud. Aloxander tho Great is said to hoave: beon thus admonished that bis ondwasnenr. * Lo thab._omployed. & ravon to bo: the foodor of Rling,"" says an old writer,. “‘may eme ploy. the snnio Lird s b mossengor: of denth to others,” Appion sud othor authors Liave made specinl montion:of thoe crows which wers bolioved 10 havo forbodod the doath of Cicero. As tho great Romun orator lay slooping in his Forminn villa aftor his tomporary escapa from his pur surer, largo numbors of. thoso birds aro said to bave fluttorod aud sorcamol nbout tho . windows, ug if to warn him of his nppronching. fato. Ono of them, aftor enteriug his chambor, fiullud mway tho- bod-olothos from molicitude for o snfoty, till his faithful slavos, frightoned-. by tho: omous, rouscdglum from bis- alimbors and carriod him awny in theitter in whioh ho was #o0u nYier nusnssinntod, § "This story afords a good. {llustration of the anciont bolisf in. . TIL PROPHETIO FOWERS of tho-ravon whiclt caused it to. Lo: saored: to Apollo, Virgil, who had the' good sonso to ro- gard tho notions of thoso-birdsan tho result of natural; rathor than snpornutural powers, rofors iu the Gaorgics o tho joyful notes of tho ravon after o storm ay indicative-of tair woathor, and ' montions tho dismal'oroak of the impudent crow stalking solitarily on tho dry sand, a8 n_sign of approachiug rain, If & ravon apposred. on the lefe of n porson tho omen was partioularly bad:: i Biopo sinistra cava pradixit abilice cornix. Tlho ovil reputo attachod to thesa birdsin n- clout tinos has lingered for conturles'among the moderns. Abuudant ovidonco of it is found' in English litoraturo, Sponsor spoaks ot* The hoarse night raven, trompo of doloful dreere, Marston sssocintos the screeching crow, *flut- toring, 'bout casoments of dnpsrthfl,’ souls," with gaping Em\'eu aud the most dismal'voices of tho uight. In tho Barons’ Wars, Drayton mon~ tious tua baloful notes of tho omiuous raven.as bogotling atrango, imagiuary fears, and tolling through his honrse beal of following lorror. Tho proyalenco of this suporstition is. thus ro- forred to in Butler's Hudibras: Ta it not om’nous in all countrics When crows and ravens croak upon trees ? Itia natural that there should bo-many illug- trations of Lhis boliof in the pages of Bhnake- peuare, who turus to good. account the weird fan~ cios of.agen in his immitable erentions, HOARSE, MATEFUL, FATAL, WOLFISH, BELLOWING, aro tho opithots which ho applies-to the ravon, and the orow docs not fure much bettor, being stigmatizod os ribald and Lkoavish. The reputation ~of - tho raven ®s. o proph o of disastor s illustrated in_two momorable instances. Uhus, whon Lady Macboth is plotting the murder of the King, sho #aclks to hiave his doom foreboded by tha. voice of ihe fll-omened bird: ‘The raven himaclf {s hoareo That croaks the fatal outrance of Duncax: Under my battloments, And when Othello is reminded by Iago,. to rouse his jenlousy, of Desdemonn's 1nissing handlor- chifof, hio excfaims in tho agouy of his griefs 0Ol 1t comes o'er my memory, As doth'tho raven 'or thie fufected house; Boding to all. It i diflicult for us torealizo tho impressivo- nosy whioh those illustratious must haye tad in tho oldon time, when the raven, instead of being the plaything of fancy, was au object'of dread 8% & Veritablo doom-bird, This_popular conce) tion of tho corvas family, which oxisted in full foree long after Shalupoara’s day, fa still prova- lent in tho 01d World, Bishop Ifall, in onumer- ating tho omens thnt torrifted tho super- stitious mon in tho early part of thic saven- toenth century, says that ‘‘if Le hearo but a raven croko froin tho next roofo he: makes Lis will.” At a lator doy Ramosey remarked in his Elminthologin: “‘If u crow fy but over the houso aud croak thrice, how do they fear Lhu'v‘ orsomo ono clge in tho family, shall digl” IJome, in . his Diomonologlo in 1860, montions tho tlying and eroaking of ravons over a bouso as > TIE DREADED FONTENT OF DEATH, * In the following contury we find tho gloomy superstition still strong in the mundsof tho vuigar, It is quaiotly ‘sald in tho Secrot Momoirs of Duncan Campboll, that * Somo will dofor going abroad, though called by business of tho groatest consequenco, if, Lap- pouing to look out of tho window, thoy heo & single crow.” The poct Gay, m Lis amusing fablo of the Farmeor's Wifoand tho Itaven; makes the formor mention among tho omons which caused her griof,— “That raven on yon loft-hand ok (Curso on his ill-betiding croak ) It may surprisc somo peoplo fo learn that dread of the cronking raven atill oxists in many parts of Great Dritain, Callectors of * folk lore narrate many curious instances of It in recent daye, In hin eutoriainiug work on ** Romancas aud Drolls of the ekt .of Lngland,” London, 1835, eocond serics, Mr.. ITunt relutos au. ancodots told o bim by **q really intolligout man,” winch illustraton this feoling. - Tho fumily of this porson wero annoyed by tho croaking of 4 raven ovor thoir Liouso, sonie of them ‘belloving it to bo a denth. tokon, whilo olhors ridiculed the iden, By tho advice of a good lady. who lived noxt door, thoy woted tho. day and hour of tho ooourrence; snd fiye monthe aftorward they received n black-cdged lotter from Aus- tralia anuonucing the ‘doatiiof ono of tho mem- bors of the family in tlidt country, On compar- iug the dutos of tho denth and tho raven's croak, thoy woro found to bave accurred on the samo day, A writer in Noles and Querics, Muy 21, 1858, relates an incldont showing tho powor ‘of this snperstition ovor bodily s wall as mon- tal boalth, At & mooting of the guardians of the poorof & porish in Cornwall, which took ‘place a short timo provious, an application waa mado by the relieving oflicer on lohalf ol o swgle woman residing In the church villngo of socking roliof wus stated to bo “griof,’ aud, o' asking for an ex- plunation, tho oficor said that the np&\licnnt'u sed uplrite roduced by tho flight of n oroaking ravon over fier dwelliug on the morning of hor visit to tho villago. 'Tho paupor was by this cirenmstance 3 in oonucetlon with itu woll-known ominous clin actor, nctually frightaned 1uto a utate’ of wroteh- oprosuton, which iuduced physical wunt." Nowharo is superatition moro rife than in the north of Europe, und thers tho ravon I investod with mora J: hastly qualities than in sunnior climes. 1nBwoden thio ravons that seronm by night 1 forost-awainps aud wild moows ate said to bo the GHIONTS OF MURDERED MEN conconled thore by tholr undotected muirdorers, and deniod Cbristinn burial, Ly the pousdntry of Dopmark the night-raven is considered au oxor- ciabdl apint. Thoreis wholo in its loft wing,oaured Dy tho ntako driven into tho carth whoro o npirit lins boen exoroised. 1t is dangerous to look up wheou it is flyiug ovorhend, for whoover acon through the Liolo iu its wing will bo transformad: into a night-ravon, sud tho bird witl Lo reloased from ity woary flight. Its course is over towards tho Iinst, in ordor to rench tho Holy Hopulohro, whora 1t will obtain rost, 1n tho Danish isles the appenrunoe of o raven in-a villugo i a sign chat the patish prieat will soon dio. ‘I'hough tho ravon and the owl uta, mentloned togothor In Beripture aw typical of desolation, yot thio formor, us tho first niosseuger sont fram' s ark, and the feeder of Elijah in tho wildernoas, i4 & moro ploasing abjeol than the owl of tho dogort, the compunion of dragons, and the rop- of tho Dnncs and Baxons may bo sgen aldio among the Norman onslgna in tho Dyoux tapostry, and with the Hcaudinaviang 1t wau the usual syinbol of slaughtor. rAariEs, or magot-plen, an thoy wore orlginally callad, havo. gouorally: beon considored birda of {114 omon, In-Hwedon thoy aro belioved to be undor tho apecial proteation of tho powors of darkuess. When tho witchos go on Walpurgis night to their aconos. of elfish rovelry in tue Blakulle, thoy tnko tho-form of mngples, Tho balducss arounit tho nacka of thouo bivds at the closo of summer, tholr maulting onson, in supposed by tho super~ stitious ummtfiy peoplo to ba cnnuudiy tho yola of tho Evil Ono, which thoy hayo worn in the Blaknllo whitehelping him: to gathor in his hay. Tho drosd'of the. mngfilu 08.ominona-of danti, srhioh oau bo traced bck to tho oldon timo, atiil lingors in many partsof England and Scotland.. Allusions to it mnay be fonnd in Blinksponro, who associntos tho dismnl discords of thia ** chnte toring ploa" with those balaful siglits nnd soands that attondod tho Dirth of Richard IIL, At. the. Imglunlmil of thin century it was truthfully said that mony an old woman would' more willingly soa tho dovil; who bodes no-moro fll-luck than he brings, than-a magplo:perching in s noighboring trog 4: and at thia-lato doy, tho bonated light of our oivilization Lina not wiolly dispelled this gloomy suporsti- tion. Honderwon, ihv bia ontortaining work on ihe Polk Lora of the Northorn: Countios of Fne gland; eto., desoribes bis sstontslimont, whilo driving s’ old lady insher pony oarriago in hia boyhood, to.sco hor snatch thoroing out of his liands and suddenly bring the pony to a stand; Tha object which had oxcitod her alhrm was n magple crossing: tho road, upon whichi aho-was gozing with. inteuso interost. After a short anlo sho oxolnimed, with & slgh, * Ob; the nasty . TURN.-BAOK,. TORN BACK!" And'back thoy wont, the old Indy ropenting to ltim;on the way homo the following lines ilius. trating tho superstition : Ono 18 sorrow, two mirth, “Tlirep & waddihg, four-a birth, Tivo lieaven, six holl, Seven the deild ain sel', The first couplet} with somo: variations;, i provalent' in Great Britain, Tho ovil: omon conveyoed by this-bird is gonorally Jimited to,its appearanco. singly, and the superstitious’ drend of it.is not confined to tho poor and'ignorant. A connty magistrato aud landowner: in' Yorkshirs in 1825, while riding-toYork to doposit his routa in a bank, turned back on seeingia magplo fly ncross his. path, and the failura of the,bauk on the - following, day. was supposed fo have boou foroboded by tho appearance of the bird, Communicationa ‘fu Noles and' Quorits 28: lato ax 1806 whow. that. mem oud women of oxcellont. cduoation avd posi~ tion, chiofly of the old school, are. in tho babit of inking cortafu sigus whonovor thoy see a magpio, to avort tho ovil consequeuces hick thoy beliove: will othorwizo. onsue, und thess stntemonts'aro contirmed:by regont works ou Lnglish folk lore, T'he modos. of dispolling thte charm aro- various, Somo persons contont thomselvos with bowing and: ralsing the hat, whilo othors, more-devout, make: tho. sign. of tho cross on ‘their brossls, in the airy or on the ground, 'The. custom of- crossing. tho thumbs for this purpose is aatd to bo confined to Yorksbire. Ono elderly geutloman thers not ouly orossos his thumbs, but, to mako assuranca doubly sure; spits ovor them. In this he follows - time-honorotl- usage; for mpitting as s charm agalnst evil was practiced by the most cultivated nations of antiquity. It is: advorted to by clas sio _poots, plulosophiors, aud satirists, and.waa condemned: by .somo of tho Christian fathors, Spitting, boing n sign of contempt or avorsion, wau s defiance of tho omen. T'ho reason givon by o servant in.the north of Eugland to her master, a clergyman, for the evil reptitation of tho magpie, cortainly. justified vor il opinion, though it may not Lo equally con- vincing to’ Biblical scholars, Sho- said * it-was tho only bird which did not go iuto tho ark with Nonbi; It liked bottor to sit: outeide, jabboring ovor: tho drowned world." The ° thieving proponsitios of tho magpio aro woll known, lime loa' nob oured- him, or his. cousin, the Jackdaw, of the habit of stenling gold- and' silver, which excited. tho won- der of Piiny aod furnished such folicitona itlus- trations Lo” Ovid aud Oicero, to say nothing of modern nuthiors, Tho superatitious boliof: thut the treasures purloined by tho magpie are, when found, porilous a8 witches' money, may afford some consolation Lo the ownor of sich property. CIOWING HENS are binds of ill-omen. According to a Northamp- tonsluro proverb, A whistling woman and crowing hen Are 0t for neither God nor men. Similir proverbs are curront in Normandy and Cornwall, All along the border boiween En- glaud and Scotland o crowing. ien is rogarded ag apoctent of death. A fow years ago au old womnn in the parish of' East: Kilbride heard one of horhons crow near the house, Bhe men- tioned” the circumstanco to o neighbor, suying that no good' would como of it. Not long afterwards hor husband died: A month pussed by, avd onmco moro ghe lhenrd the fatal sonud, nhich was followed in a few days by tidlugs of the death or her only son. A weok lator thie hou crowad agnin; and tho elacst daugh- ter died. Thoold womnu could stand this no longor, In lior desperation’ she seized tho:un- lucky fowl; wrung. its necl, and throw it into the fire, Widor peopld havo burned men and ‘\;;amcn \;{lh loss show osl ronson. The tolll’mv. question was proposod many years ago by a mfilor in the British dpollo: Whon my heus do crow, Tell mo if it bo ominous orno?* This waa sugwered by another contributor, whoso roason iy bettor than his rhymo: With crowing of your lious wo will not twit ye, Sinco Liore thoy overy. day crow in the city; Thenca thought no omion, Besidos thio above-montioned birds, which bavo generally been rogarded 88 ominons of oyil, thore aro others that on particulor occa- eious or in cortain places " ARE OF ILL-PAME. Thus, in England it 14 thought to be an unlucky sign-to Lavo 00 monoy In one's pookat on hear- ing the cuckoo for the first-time in o wonson. T'his blrd iy slso coveidered of eyil oman under uimilar ciroumstances by tho Duncs, aud in Swedon it shares with tho'owl and tho magpio the roputation of being.a bird of sorcery. ‘I'he awallow, whiok in classio times was of roputo in nugurics, is in some conntries considored n mos- sengor: of life, ju others tho borald of death. Iu Ireland the vulgar call it:tho dovil’s bird, aud boligve thore is o cortain hair on overy porson's head which, if pecked off by a swallow, dooms tho victim to- oternal pordition. DBut in Scot- land-the protty little yellow-hammor is drosded 88 the dovil's bird, Doves' in tho possession of persovs about to bo married are supposed to bring bad luck, and they have somotimes been got rid of for this roagon. If pigoons come into a houso, misfor- tunos aro suro to follow. Their setthng on’n table forebodes ricknoss, and, on a bed, deatl, When rooks dosort a rookory, the downiall of tho family owning. the estato ia thoreby por- tendod, and, if theso birds linunt o town or villuge, mortallty awnits its {uhabitants. Suoh ara tho suparstitions still current in the British Islnnds. Tho peculinr cry of bean-gewso, on thelr light soutbward from Beotiand und Scandl- navin, benrs a singular resomblance to tho yolp- dug of bengles, and this is tho origln of tho su- pornliunuu boliof in-tho epoctral pack known ns tio Gabriol hounds. — As theso wild fowl seleot darl nights for their migration, it is not sur- prising that their strunge, uncarthly oris should bo_ counsidered’ ominous of ap- roaching death, Wordsvorth, in ono of ghl sonuets, los connocted this Loliof with tho Gorman legond of tho Wild Lunisman who is doomed to chaso {ho' flylng deer foraver on aorial grounds, Iu some parts of Gormany and Beotland tho souls of uubaptized childron are supposad to accompany tho spootral pugk s they swoop ucrose'tho wintry sk{. The wide-spread beliof thnt unchristoned babics have no rost aftor death,-but are forced to wandor in tho air till {he judgmont-dny, is thus blendod with anothor equally curious, Thore iu a provalent superstition that when birds fly round a houso and rest on tlio window-~ sill, or tap agningt the pane, DEATIL IS HULK TO FOLLOW, A pure white pigoon waa thus belloved to fore- bodo ocnlamity by a pious lady in York- sbiro, who, when her ininister ‘soon aftor fall dead in tho pulpit, rocallod the ominous oo~ ourrenco. If thero 18 sickness in » houso tlo portent is peculiarly ulnrzuhx{;. The erowing of & cook at night has cutised suporstitious or- yants to loave a family, Xven: the robiu, which all ovor Christondom ‘18 regarded with aifection and rovorenen, i in Beotland and somo parts of Linglnnd thought to be a prophet 6f doath to tho slok pordon who hers Ity song, M. 8, Baring Gonld thus rofors to tho bollaf among tho boys ac 5t, John's Coltogo, Huraipiorpoint, that when & doath takos placo a vobin will enter the chupol, light upon the sltar, snd bogin to sing: “Bingularly onough, I saw this liappen loysolt on ouo oceasion, I happoned to bo in the ohupel one oventng at 6 o'clook, when n rovin outered ab the opon olp- oulur oast window In tho temporary B/pso, and, lighting on tho nltar, Legan to ohbip, = A feyw winutos Inter tho passing bell bogan to toll for a boy who bind just died,™ In ono of the Familinr Tottorsof old Jumon Iowoll thoro is & quelng. dosoriplion of & tombstona which ho waw In s rosontatlve of muuruiui: and Inmontatlon, The figure of tho ravon which darkenod tho banuers 10Otherwiso known s Tongmalm'a Owl sione-outtor's sliop in Floot slreot, in momory of four moembors of 8 family named Oxonham, Tho inscription utated thot & bird with o whito bredat appoarcd to onch of tho decensed at tho hour of 1 doath, The fact tvas attontad by soveral witnosses ‘whone nnmes wore engraved upon the stone, and Howell himsolf oxpresnca his beliof in oA similar clronmstanco is mentioned in tho mo- moirs of Lady I'ansbawa, ‘['o robin-rodbrensts, b8 wa loarn “from his blographor, appeatoed in midnmmmor in the sick-clamber of Bishop Doylo, whera thoy fluitored abont, somotimoes porching on his bod, uutil death relonsed him. Among $ho ocourrances which are said to bavo warned “'homas, Lord Lyttolton, of his approaching ond, tho appoatance of o bird is ono of the best suthontieated.—Alexander Young in the Atlantic Jor September. ————— . AN IMPERIAL MARRIAGE. The Mussian Grand Duke Viedimir and the Meckienburg Duchess Marice Ono of tho oplnodon of the reeont visit of tho Emporor Aloxandor II, of lussia to Tin, Iand was tho botrothal of the Grand Duke Vin imir to tho Duchioss Marle of Mecklonburg, Thn bo- trothal was anuounced in lerlin oy the 3d of May Inst, sud o cablo tologram from St. Potors- burg statos that tho marringo ceromony toolk B betgs v tho Ducl bo brido was the Duchess IMarle Alexandrly Elizabeth Elonoro, tho third cbild and d;{n;; daughlor of Frodorick Francls IL, Craud Duko of DMocklonburg-Sohiwerin, Slo ‘was born oy the 14th of May, 1854, and bas therofora fairly entered on Lor’ twonty-first yonr. It Is undor. stood that tho marrlago will, as far 88 the Duchess Is concorned, introduco o now custom In tho Russian Conrt, It hns olways beon tho msngo of foroign Princossos who becamo allled by marringo with tho iniporial houso of Russia to” entor the Grosk Churoly, but it appears this practica s not con. eistont with the digity of the now Gorman Fin- bire, and it will probably bo discontinuad, Tho uclioss Marto wil bo tho firat who will contiue in tho oxerclso af hor own roligion aftor becom- Infiumemhur of the imporial family, 'ho Dridogroom, . tho Grand Bnko Viadl- mir Aloxandrovitch, fa tho socond son of the Cznr, and wns born on the 24 of April, 1847, Voing thorofore In his 23th yoar, ITa is ropresentod’ as being & vory landsomo man, Liko all the Imporial Princes of Russfa, L has beon carefully trained, and ling cotnplat- ad.lils.education by foroign fravel, During his tour in-Europo he. vigited all iho privel- pol gallerios,» and onm his roturn re- solvoit, to givo. up a considerablo portion of bis timo to the cultivation of the fino Erts. of which hio hag becomo s distinguished patron, Ho 18 now Vico-Presldont of the Imporin] Acadomy, atid,i# In ronlity tho hiead of that body, Incom- mon with all the Princes of tho fmperinl family, ha ocouples & prominent position in the military sorvice, bLolding tho position of Aid-de-Camp General to ths Imporor, and boing the nomiual chiof of several Russian ' regimonts, ns woll as of n Prussinn ropimout of huwsars, 1o fs the only ono of tho Ozar's sons who takes any part in tho blvil aMaira of the Empiro, When his im- }mrlrd fathor saw that ho displayed an inclination for taliiug part in clvil affuivs, he mupdo him o momber of tho Benato, and ho regularly attonds tho sittings of that body, Liko bin father, tho Grand Duko is also a keen sportsman, Whenover & bear Is mcon in tho noigh- borhood of Gatchins, the Emporor ~ ig Iiformed- of 'it, and proparations aro st onco mado for n battue. Thoro nro gonerally eight or ton gontlomen with tho. Ty poror oud the Grand Duke; tho boators drivo thio boar as much towards tho Ozar as ‘possible, and tho blnok game usually falls to the gun of tho Emporor or the Graud Dukio, both of whom nr;‘ flrst-mtntfllmls. i l1o cablo tologram anuouncing the marria, i is datod at: 8t, Potorsburg, but ths coremony \v!:lx probably performed at ‘Taarskoo-Selo, n small city 17 milea south of the Russian capital, whoro the Czar’s summor residenco iusituatod, —_— A LOVE-30NG, " Dut now, alas | Bo fask n prisoner am I to my love, No power thore Is that can nty chinins romovo, Ho aweet (o caged liours pass, That, 41t parted mo from theo, I wonld not willlugly go frec, Nor would I dare ‘To ask for racompense of love ngatn, Wha loyo tho for tho hefghit of thy disdain, “Thiou wouldst 1ot eliow 50 fair, 1f wo sliould burn with cqual fire, Tusuinct. with omulous dealre, Full well I know That whiat T worship s not wholly theo, But o fair drewm, a pious fantusy,— Sucli 18 at times doth grow. On yearnings of the olofstercd mind, Or iho rapt vision of tho blind, - Scorn m, then, awcot,— 1 would not tlou should’st leave {hy lotty placo, Thy lover ahould not bco theo fuce 1o face, But proatrato at thy feot, No recompeune, na cqual part T eck, Unly.that thou bo strong and T bo weak, —* Sorigs of Tuco Forlds. o i SRR P THo Bnd of the Enrth—A Narrative of Travel in Norway. Hammenfest (June 36) Correspondence Ala Califor- nig. Wo arrived hore on the longost day in the yenr, aftor o passago of fourtoon deya from Christisns snnd) Norway. We had o rough pessagae part of tho timo when outside of the islands—rain al- most every- day, and cold s Greenland. Wo shivored In overcoats on deck in tho lattor days of Juno. Tho sconory, howovar, s grand, sur- pogsing that of tho Arps and tho castlod Ithine, Thora are thonsands of mountaiva covered with snow, and more picturesque than any we havo ovor scon. Bome: are more thau 4,0f oct in hoight, and havo many woterfalls, fed by tho wolting snow, A part of tho way thoro aro mountains on both sides. As for islands, there aro thousands of them, with a vapor langing over them morng and ovening, which is very beautiful, Our first_lnnding 1o Norway was Curistiansand. M. X. and mysalf took o prom- onado through tho city. Wo Yound tho stroots clenn, broad, and straight, aud the Louses very noat.” Tho populntion ' of ihe place iy 11,468. Many of tho ladics aro benutiful ; most of thom aro bloudes, aud all bave good figures. Our next slopping place was Torgon, a city of 80,262 inhnbitaits. Ilts prin- cipal trado-is lish. A profesgor living thero told me that lnst yoar it 1ained olovon mouthe and goven days, Norwogian gontleman who pays~ ed through Borgou nino years ago during a beavy rain;.whon on his way to America, Lus just ro- turniod and artlossly Ingulrodi [ bad beotiraining eversinco, Woall came to the conclusion that ithad. “Uhore iy at Lergen a mmusoum with tho bost collection of fish that I have over Hoon, comprising the ukelotons . of threo ihales, from 75 to 80 feer long, largo oharks, and: mauy variolies of the finny tribe, Lvery day at noon & military band plays on the prom- ouado—that is, when it is not raining, Thore is onoe good wide street in the city, Tho stores nre small. There i8 a large fish-markot. ‘I'no city lies on o ateep- bill, some of tho stroots’buing ay steop a4 QOlay street. Wo noxt stopped ot I'arondhjom, o city of 20,868 people, founded in A.D. 997 by King Olnf Troygvason, uyon the sent of tho old Beaudinavinn oity Nidoros, It waa tho sent of povernment, and romafned the capital of Norway down to the time of ity uwion with Denmurk, when Christiana was mude the capital, Thoe ety is protril: situatod on a bay at the mouth of the Nid. Thore is a fine old cathedrnl horo, which, ac- cording to‘an article of the Constltution of 1814, is to romain the place of coronation of the Nor- wegian sovercigns. The Bishop of Throndhjem porforms tho ceromony. Last yoar Oscar II, and- Queen Bophio wore orowned hoero, ‘Tho ohurcliyard containg many old monumonts, Tho graves wero nearly ali decorated with artificiul or natural flowers, the latter boing grown in the Alouses, on account of the cold. ‘Thoro is s rail- Way, of & gaugo of 3 foot 6 inchos, running to Storon, tho wain making speed of’ 10 milos an Lonr. “hers ara two beautiful and very rapid oasoados 3 milos from the city, ono 99 feot Lugh and 413 feob wide ; the othor 82 feot high and 122 feot wider 'ere aro s number of mills Lo~ low thum; also furnaces for smelting copper, and ohromo works, Thoro iy & musown, with o small colloction, The straets nro wide and straight, After loaving Throndhjem tho const continuey excoedingly mountainous, As wa ap- proached the Targhalton thore was a rush to tho dock, but the fog was #o donss that we could not seo tho fop, Itiha curious rack, 1,000 foct high, orforatod 500 foot abovo tho soa by a liole 70 oot high ond 40 wide. Soon aftor we pnasod Iorsoman's Island, which fina the nrpunmum of & gaint on horsoback swimming through the water, Noxt wo visited Ilamuncifest, tho most northerly town In the world. It has a popu- lation of'2,007. Thero ara wany Laplanders and Tinlanders i the town, The prinoipal businces is cod-liver oil and fish, and_the ador from the oil makos it very disngrecablo. Rolndeor and souts abound hiore, while there aro but six horses u tho town. I havo nover bofore scon so many childron fu so small o town, I dont know whether it Is boeause of tho flsh diet or tho long wintor nights, but any discousolate chitldless conpla bind botlor como and apond a soason hoere, Tho sun sots horo on Nov. 17, and doos not rigo “wgnin until Jnn, 28, Children go to school with lauterns for about six weoks, In tho sumuer tho sun does not sot from tho 1st of Jun till the 22d of July. Thore is no chance for hotol-keapors to mako any mouey on oandlos, as thoy do in Gormany and Tranco, I had uy photograph takon by tho miduight sun, You got domoralized hore, “Alrd, X hus already, Slho fitaup to 1 and 2 o'alock, knitéing rocks, wat Ing for wight to como. On thio 276k of Jihg thn l‘m])jnm]m-u bruufiht many childron Into town 0 unve them baptized or conflemed, u{fy lltunllhgn uon I}louldc- 4 g hundrod, On Juno 23 u:llc:dl hero 8t, Tans' Day), or Midsummor 09, thoy kindlod Lonfires on’tho sidos of the nlmuntn'npu atound tho town, and had a Jolly timo. Tho wonthor ia horribfa, Tho thormom. otor stands: from 4 (o *& Ronumur,. ‘I'hora fn one hotol hore, and {tg managomant might bo ensily lmpmvcflwmmugh tho Inndlady is kind and obliging, Wo havo flul and. voindeor for breakfast, rofudeor and fish for dinner, and_for supper Homo moro fish and roindesr. This iumnlnz-u'fl: Y]nuo in In Intitude 70 deg. 40 min, fl{&?‘&?:;i t,lv.:‘i‘:rmn an‘ nb granito pillar, sure s bronze glol 4 axl, ndleniing Lo r;lnnng or Ty solobrojounE and on two sidos of the plllar. are fnuey] in Latin and Norweglan, t‘l‘m& this m".‘.'f.'f!lff;"é.‘-'& ant atation, though not torminal ; that it 18 on tho north capo of the gront Buropenn aro of nieridian, the southorn tormipation boiug on tho morldinn, It \ras underinks by Lo soveralgnn ot Novway, Swedon and Rusula In 1810-52, On tho samo spot, or nonrly 8o, Gen. Babinn mndo an fmportant serios of pondulum oxperimonts in 1823, Tughonnos was ono of the chialu of i tions oxtending neatly from the equator to the pole, at which pendulum obeervations wera niado for obtamiug tho variations of gravity on the oartly’s surfaco, ‘ Yours, de,, A. Kouwin, LOST IN THE WOODS, A Lost Child Lives ScventysSix Ilours nthe Woods Wichout Nourlshment, [From the Louisvills Courier-Journal, Tor the last two mornings our Jefforsonvilla roporter has furuishod us {n-his roport an no- gount of & child boing losk in thoe woods, and last night hio gont ua the following porttenlars of tho stiange miy intorosting wtory: Tho littlo won of Mr.” Willinm Prigloy, who yras lost in ho woods noar Crothorsville, was found Inte Tucsdny nttornoon. Tho cirenm- stunicos attonding thiu caso aro most ramarkable, On last Saturday moruing Mrs, rigley startod for a cornfield near her bLouse, lenving bor little o a xihfld of but 8 yonrs of ago, nt the house, slling him to romala fn tho yord ‘and plny until a Blo bad gono but a fow miuntes - 0foro tho appoaranca of a storm coming up caused hor to_roturn, What way hor surprise aud plarm whon sho arcived at howmo, to find tht or cbild wan nowhoro 1o ba ey, " Bho scarchod the entiro promises, but conld Dot find o singlo traco of tho boy. coniing by this timo notiously alarmed, sho flow over to g nfl!lglil)oflzll[! lmusfi nmll gave tho alarm, 0 Iesy than an bour tho ontiro neighbor! hoaded by to fiautlc fathor, was ‘out ton:shun for the miruing boy., A thorough scnrelr vrag mado all that day uud Lato fn tho vight, but it [m;rod fruitless. "At onrly dawn tho noxt dey ho senvch was rosumed, and night found tho boy still missing, o Pnrunmby this timo wero frantio with griof, and the mothor attemptad to drown horself in tha Kiver known ns the Mus- catintack, nt Balket's mills, but the attempt waa fruutrnlofi, und the griof-strickon woman carried to hor homo. Tho third day the soarch_was atilll continned, By this timo over 200 peoplo had gethered and jomned in the search, Tho excitomont in and nround tho ontire lo- cality was intonse, men coming for (fty mileg on thelr horses to assist in searching for tho loal child, At about 4§ o'clock Tuoeday aftornoon o Ind named Isaso Warner, whila bauling staves blooks through.n loucly part of tho douso waods, and ot n poiut four miles distant and scross the river from Mr. Prigloy's lLouso, heard a peculiag moaning gound, Ho stopped his team and listouod. Tho monning was repeated. Ho got oft hig wagon aud commenced searching avound. Ho had been goarcliug but n fow montonts when ho discovered o child’ lying prostrato upon ita back, Its faco wns turned up aud prosented n palo and ghastly appearance, Warner went up to the poor little thing and took it in his arms, 1t monned piteously, and was noarly dead from faligue, huugor, and oxposure, Tho child proved to bete lost ono,—litllo Eddie Prigloy,— aud had boon wandering around in tho woods for soventy-slx hours, and had eaten nothing in all that timo, It was dressed ouly in a thin calico frock, and, as the nights have beon cool of Iate, his sufTerings must have been intonea, "I'ho child was inuncdiately taken home to ita overjoyed pargnts, Modical attention wascalled, and everything has boon done to savo the lifo of tho littlo wandorer. How tho child crossed the river is oxplained. On Baturday the Muscattatack Rivor wos very low, and 3lr, Priglov, owning a fiold ncross tha stronm, Liad a log raft conatructed for pnassge ta and from bis field. Tho child had froquontly crosued this log bridgo, and must have fone sa that day, Saturdny night tho river raised four foot, complotely covering the bridge, sod atter tho little fellow grot over ho was unablo to find Ius way bacle. The rain also covored tho bot- toms nnd lowlands lying along tho river, making it impossiblo for a child of that sgo to find ita way out. It appoars also that tho search for tho child was mudo on tho side of the river on which 3Ir. Prigioy’s houso is located, no ono drenming thot the boy Lind crossed ovor iu tha bottoms ou tha other sido of the river, Tha timoly finding of the boy undor the nccideutal clroumstances scoms traly providential, end its escapo from denth was wiraculous, —_— Olc Bul) as o Vielinist, Among living violinists, Ole Bull represonta tho bizarre typo of which Paganiui was an ex-~ emplar, without, howovor, Posseasing tho su. prome power that dignified oven the eccentricie tics of that artist, Yot ho s n man of unquos. tionablo genius, and has trodden closoly in the footsteps of tho wizard whom Lo sold his last hirt to hear in Liw youthful days. Iis caraer bLaos been a long _romnnce, suchas no novelist would dars to dopict for rear of being charged with improbabilition. Born in a Norwegian win- ter sixty-four yoars g0 (1810), ho bas tho nrdont tomporament of tho sunny wouth. Il early ar~ Listic pupirations were thwartcd by fawily and «riends, and ovon the groat violinist Spobr, with whom ho wishod to study, gavohimeuch a chilting recoption that in n moment of dospond- cnoy Lo govo up muslo for tho law. Loturaiug to Lis firat love, nu unfortunnto duol, in which he mortally wounded hisautagonist compollod Liw ¢o lenvo the country, In Darm, whero ho next wont, poor aud unknown, ho waa reduced to groat extremities, aud at sk, being robbed of ovarything Lo possessed, including his violiu, o attemptod suicide by jumping into the Seino, Roscued from s watory grave, his condition ox- cited tho sympathy of an ofd’ lady, widow of Comte Faye, wlio rocognized in Lin features a atriking resemblauco to bier dead son, Taking hum into hor houre, sho nssisted him o liberally | that ho was enablad to mnko his first appesranco in public ns a violnist, aud the romunce was completed by his marringo to hor deughter, Tho most brillinnt succoss soou awalted him in Italy, whero lio recalled Paganini, and was embracod by DMalibran oo the staro at Naplos, He aftorwnrd made froguont and successful professional tours through Lnropo, and Lind an euthusiastio recoption in thiv country, Thoso musical_oxpoditions wora variod h_vn\:;ungnign in Algeria agninst tho Kobylos and tho establishe ment of & thontro in Ins notive Dorgen, Ile cherishod plans for tho advancod culcuro of hig countrymon, aud among thom endenvorad to os- tablish'» school of literuture and art, but his prospocts woro blightol by the jutroduction of political sentimonts into” tho porformancos of i thaatro thne brought him ko colision with tho polico, ‘Cheso troubles resulted in serious lossos, which, togothor with the douth of lus wifo, led to Lis rovisiting this country ln 1852, and forming in Penusylvanin tho Norwogiat colony whoso fnilure again sout the nnfortunate artlst into the world to repair i shnttered tor- tunes, 1o met with great success in his con- corts, but in nu ovil hour lensed in 1854 tho Now York Academy of Music and undortook the man- agoment of ltalian opern, Ul diunytrous roeuls ot this entorpriso caused him to return te Eu- rope, whero ho acquired enough to enable him to Hottto down 1 this country, whero bo hag passed somo of tho most ovontful yoars of his lite, Among the tostimoninls which ho has ro- corved during his long caroor, ono of tho mout intoroating is a violin which he oxhibited at a conyorsaziono of the Musicat Huolety of London in Jonuary, 1803, This calobiated instrument wng mndo by Gaspor di Balo, the most distin- fuiuhud of early makors, with caryatides by sonvonuto Cellind, earved by ordor of Cardinal Aldobrandini, who prosonted it to the musoum of Tnnspruck. Whon that city was nssauited by the Fronch in 1800, the museum was plundored aud the violin carried to Viouna, whoro the Couns cilor Rhohazol placed this unique gem in his collootion of ancient musival instrumonts, rofus- ing to soll it at any prico, o lett it, by willin 1813, to Olo Dull, who was Lho first Lo test ita powors, Tho distingnishod Norwogian has an< other violin by thiy maker, which is his favorita fnstrumuont, ¥ ‘e mwannor of Olo Bull," eays Fronoh critio, *“1s that of Paganini, whom ha has taken for lus model, and whoso fantaslical- ness bo hua often imitated ; ho astonishes more than ha toushew, A uomadiu artist par ox- collonco, he has formed no school, nor writton anything to rrnnurvu his_popularity."—Irom % Violins and Violin-layers," by ~Alexander Young, in Lippincotd's Aagazine for Scplenber, —The widow of HonryJ. Raymond was robbad in a Drooklyn streat,” tho other day,of. her « pochotbook, “contalning §250, hut tho thifof wit 'eapturod by an officer und tho monoy rostorod.