Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 3, 1874, Page 9

’ LITERATURE. Tow to Minico Momcss [DMES, AND JIOW TO MAKE TIEM. Dy T, 0, Ganpdrt, Witk Tlustexdfons, 14mon, pip, Sl Doatont . Jatmes 1 Ozgood & .-+ we o Mr., Garduer 18 n» mastor of {ho arts of author- ahip. *Ilo ks ldéns, aiid prineiploe, and culturo, nd ho undorstands’how to combine and oxhibib thom In tho most attraclive manier, e little book—tho firat wo havo had from him, but not, wo lope, tho lnst—is tho porreation of ita kind. Itsthomojsono that concorns ua all dooply. Olr floareat Liopes and ihtorosta contro around it e novor Liro of hearing. it dlacussed, and. aro over rondy and gratoful for mew suggostions . that will help un to wisor and moro oxalted vlows of It Thoro is au Incrdasing ‘fooling amoug the moro calm and’ thoughttul por- tion ot communily, — atimulatod, ,nio._doubt by cerlain spocial roforms of tho day,—that tho tight way to tmiprove socloty lu'ta fmprove our homes ;. Uint, i wo keop thom clean, and bright, and wholesomo, wo chall leop socloty puto and, npright, Tho iden undorlics all the theorles in I£r. Gardnec’s littlo book, and constantly, comes to the surfaco, impressitg tho fendor at ovory pousibly, opportunity, with aconviction of 1ts solemn truth, “Allow me to add’ [aro tho v-ords In which,” at ouo place, b Lronks . forth] that, whilo faithfully striving to buitd a house [lint gl be Lioneat and cheerful, you will surcly fiud yourself growlng in the samo direction.” * TIu tho motive of his work, and iu tho graco with whictt ho mnolds it, Br, Gardner recalla to. us Tuskin ;' but it is Ruskin with hig high-toned morality and without his ‘cynicism; “with his noLlo and beautiful idoalism tomperod vith prace, Hicality, aud mado o possiblo and admirable utiti- toriauiam, Dir. Qarduer pronchos s lofty o doc- triuo a8 {ho groat English Artwriter: ho’ urgen na stoutly the Leruly and -necesslty of honosty, i1 all our building'and all our living; but thero I8 no gcorn nox sarcasm tinging his tenching with bitternees, and temptiug us to reject it beauso it lu eo ill-tlavored. On tho contrhry, it is enticlng, and gently and genially porsundes. us_ that it s botter, and in the end oaslor, to tako paing and pive thought to whalévoer wo undortake, aud to- strive, in c\'eryu.\in% wa'do, to worle nndoratand- Iwgly and thoroughiy, for tho goud of vihers as well'es ourzelves, - Tor oxamplo: e Every man who twould bnild himeclf o houso shall frat &ff dow, aud—not count the costs that coniey Inlo my department ; bul—ask Limself solomnly What thio Lioiteo 48 for., T Livo in, of courze, “Lut living iy s complox affair; {tis constant growih or graduul death ; thoro can bo no slandlug eiill, I tho "Loueo 1o Lo an end, ora. mesna; nhiclp to make {he Jife- work lnrger and better, oran added burden? Shall It Iift or crush him? . When this solemin_questioning 12 Lonostly done, io whall Lave n udw: order of do mealioarchitéeture, It niay nob Lo clbssic, “nellher Greclan nor Roman, Gothio nor Frenclr, but tho best of all4hat Lian gono before, and tlio laat, beat thlng Wiraws in, Worhell have'oro cheap. hoyses, moro small oues, T thipkt; moro comfort ond leas show, moro coutént and feiver morigoges, Again ¢ T don't despiso{hie nesw fashionn, Itryloadmirothiem —wheu they are good, W you pleasg understund that L thing of beauty faa Joy forcver 7 Vhalever s boru o truily, whethier in Art or lteliglon, helong to eter« aity s 1t hover gocd out of fanudon. Wil youslso ro- member that modern styloe, ‘modes, fashious, fuven- owa,—gall them wliat you Wil —ata tho mero avor- 16 produet of human thought aud labor during a fow earu:¥ tho old thot abldes f# drawn from tho supetla= vely good of formor aountlesy genorutions, culled .over and over agaln {111 thnt alono remalns which han Hood thio fest of “your eritica and Teformers all sloug’ tlowa frotn Adam, br up from {ho lwst monkey who wopt to ind hla fizut-born wifhout o fall and morals 1y Becountable. . Alr, Gardner has chosen tho pleazant method »f convoying his information through tho medium af a correnpondance betwen auarchitet and'bia fricuds,’ 'Fhe lottors arg writton in au casy and Familiar atylo; and, whilo they admit of quostion snd answe, and tho oschango of varlous .indi- vidual opinions, ihoy introduce to us'a littlo clo of charming Fnonlu'. whouso characters and wffairs wa ave delighted to bocomo acquninted with. Dr. John, * whoso sbip is just con;n.fi {,” tg, liko overybody elso” who bas acquire suflicient means, benb upon forthwith building n bomo, 1y kind and engacious friend, the architect, i anxious thal Lo shouid build wisoly and well, and thoreforo’ pioffers him, from tho ttoren of his lewrnivg und experience, advico npou overy point in tho coustrualion of o honse, from tho Jaying of Lhe foundation to tha khiu- gling of tha roof.. Ho shows that no hoino is so rmall and humble that it cannot be conveniont and artiatic, i Tnstead of preventing ita indulgence, cloa gemands tho’ exerciea of the ust retined t very howsca that must psy striot regard to rluciples of att arothoss upon which not ono dollar can Emvrn-!ml. + « « Lvenconspicuous chearness iy tot necesyarily unpleasant o seo; but don’tiry to concval 1t by forelug tho materials {0 secin someihing belter tban they are, Lot wood wtand for wood, Lrick for rick, and never selc us to imrgina & brown-atonerive: 10 bo paiuted rheet-fron, ‘hers fu, too, & dooper Lon paty thcn mero truth-Gefling in materisls s conselons Hoitbnoes of purpose, au arifstic spivitual seneo of the oterual Dinesh, -withiout-whieh thoro cau ba no worlly achiovemont, uo lasting beauty, : : On tho otbicr haud, tho nzchitect ehowa tliat, in the most coitly houscs, nolhing is artlstic that is uot genuine, or that is superiiuous or out of plca. s s Y ‘o coming house, in_Lis opinion, *‘will bo fair to sce and mads of brick.” "The outer’ walls will Le vaulted, thoroughly nou- congueting beth of and of avisture, Al tho ‘parditious viill be of brick, preeisely ndapied in sizo to hetr wee,—1 wm uot sWFe but tiey will be Lollow, ho body of the flavra will Lo of Ludck,~—supported;” it iced be, by fron 4iers or girders, all oxnctly Gtted’ to the dimensdons of Lo roows, 10 that not & Found of auaterial or an hour of lalior shall Lo wasted on itens- work ur ju experiments, € gtone, the hotso will bu a-liviog, Lreathing, orgznic taing. 1f the westher-prophiet will declre whgt tha avarige temyerature of the winler §s to e, wo eXn fell fo hadrul how much coal will matatain' a summer- Tieat turoughout the establirkment. You may bo sure 1£ will ot bo ore than you low ue in keopliug tvo ‘rooms uncomnforlably Lot und in bakiug the family- ples, Thero will be wo itbiug, ° ozeept oce Lisloualty on ho coilings; oven thin will mot o neceisary, You may ~mako o holocuust of the contents of nuy raomt in ‘the house, sud, € tha «ours, finish, otc,, Bappon to- bo of-iron; es thoy may o, 16 ono Ju {10 houso will suspect YOur Lonfre, un- ti1'tlio heap .of ‘charcoal and axhes is fonud, Damp- Dos# and decay, ungavory odors und fmputonlr, clifily Tedrovms and cold floors, will bo unknown, Tie ears: In tho walle will -bo stopped ; - thuro will -ba 7o - foltle- Iment from ahrinking: tfmbita, o Jelly-lke trombling of two wlolo s fubrio when (ha mifer pule hiv foob dowp, Tiunlly, thu, dear old -Louso will bo just as motud and just as Jovely whcn the futur John brings bome his bride as when his grandeiro bullt It: And it woil't costa cont moro than tho weul, unstublo thingo Wo'ro Taining by {he thougand, < o ‘ In troating of‘the merits of wood as n build- ing-matorial, sud of the bet cconomy in uning it, hosays: . "Thiere Iy grent virtue in’ tenpenny nafta, Teb the ding ba well peppered with them, Lyenafier Do 'lm‘l! wal%u {‘Jl’ll hAve less than two inclies of ¢ bourdinig, eolid wa Self, Tay {his bourding dingoually ;. sud, {o cap thio cli~ toa3 of seicatifie thorouglinest, Javing given it o good uailiugand s layes of slieatling-falt, cover tho wiolo with aother wooden gurment of (ho same slslo 38 tho Grat, nud crosuing it af rigut angios, Al of thia befors thio fiual overcort of claplioards,or Whatover it may ho. A Liougo bullt i this way would Jauzlt at' enrthquaken . 1€ you wlsh to make'si examplo of yonr- ood -tornadocs, -1t - couldn't - Tall - down, : bu would: ‘blow :over aug sroil + down: kil “iitbt~ out dofug .sny:. daminge, axcopt disrranging tho furniture, end, possibly, shaking off the chliney= tops | -1t would bardly néod any studs, execpt s Turrings for lath and . plastering, und Would be very warm.” You kuow my mind sbout floors; 1f yoit enat aford Juiats’ sthif -enoughto-old yaiu-witliout {3 avon wen-yau clauco o ot & caber With tho by, dofor buildiag Ll you nro s littlo riclior, » Ploors nectha woll-usled Luingn, (o0,-—ospeclally. {hose of Lho unpor atoriss, ~tlimost bs mucl 23 Lo outor Wally nnd shiould bo_ déatencd with mortur, i you can atan 1hio coat, }f not, Wit felt,” Ot tho virtues of paiut, lio writes ; Dy pll menns, futslh witl unpainted wood, §f you are ot afenidiof tho wxpeneus ikl el Dt aud yariish ara good, aud putty, Ko eharity, covoreth n multts Tudo of &lne.' Nothig protects wood hot(cr flin ol nnd Iead, and by ucans of them you izvo unihmited cholca of colors, {n e soluctiow aid, trrungement. of which there §u room nud need for genujuo artlatle: tasto, Yes: good, houeat paint {s worthy the utinost reapect, \When it trica to imyrove upon Nuture's diyine mothods, and calls ltaclf “yratulng," it be- ‘comea unmitigated nousanto,—yes, sud worse, 1t iy ono of the sure ovidences of 1non's ‘fonato’ perversity, that he perists in trying fo copy.certalu beantifnl Iines and ahadiugs in wood,—~1ot s an. Art=atudy, but for aotunl uge,~whon lie muy juct as well hiave tho petfect orlginal an iy own faulty Sinitatlon. What cons <clt, whut blinduoss, Waat Juijotence, thiy revenls} What downright faldehood! Not fn {ho paintor,— ol uo skill {s commendable even whon unworthily o Illnnfl.—\fllt in Im who ordors it; Yo may Luy a‘}( (v door, which is very well pine doors nro gnod 3 Fou tel ovey maw that-como Iuto Sour lowss it lack-walnut, or osk, or mahogany.’ If thab fsn't greating him with lylng lips aud & Qoceltful boart, the stioral luw 4an't 43 clear s It ought to Do, You!ma fulnk Vs of uo counquence—cortauly not wort 1aakiug a fusa-ebout,—bat T fall you thiv eplrit of gham that pervades our - wholo soclal structuro, thut poro and 13010 obirudes §trelf in overy dspartmont of 1ife,.cowea from tho boltoulces pit, aud will corry ua il fbither, unless we rosiet t, even in theso mflder nnnifentations, % wo would roaivt tho Fathior of Liva Dimeelf, Truth aud falashood nre getting 8o hoj- Jensly confuned tlat wu can wearcoly distinguisl ono {from theother, Ono other. oikestion tn this connootion s Without chilioy paiuting ur genining, you muy got most satlse Taclory offuck Lotk tn looXs and utilily, by staiulug $ho lcks rostly kindn of woods, sl o transparent pain ihat will not cosicest, but virengtlien, the natural Ghding, aud, ot the mmp tine, ohunge Ha-tint o~ voxding'to yous faucy, This &4 au bonert. and ecos nomical expediont, - It only roquirea that yonr lum. er linll, bo sottmsl, foletably clenr,~a good hard knot o't alarining—nefnotied, wnd it wilh care. Wi cost IeIesa linn comuioh painting, nnd (Lo ofect ai ek bettor thai' graining as Nature's work is moro orfect thnn ours, * In thoe courdd of tha corrospondence, Mys. Joln nud _Bister Jano dovelop thelr ideas upou tho mrangoment'of Litolicns, "and tho imanngo- mont of domtestio work, and write thonjsolves, and ol froni tho nrohltect, somo of tho most usetal lettors in tlie sholo volumo. With n ain- thio gist 6f 'the domostic theories entertnined witl uttantmity by ‘sl partios, wo'tako loaye of tho dolifhtTul avehitect uud lis no lous delight~ ful frionds & T contverted tieyonad tho posathility of backsliding'to Ahdg'truth : that there fh no work ro fit and ploasant, fo_profitablo’ aud improsing, to tho 1mass of womane Jind,~tlelt: and poor, yiso or- unlearnod, atrong o weaki—yes, proud or micok,—aa -tlio aro and coutrol of o liomo} none a0 worthy of thocough study: nono. Eofull ot opporiunity for eserelsiug il tho bottet bodily and wentul poirers, from méro mechnnical and'museus Inz kil up through philovoply tud scleuce, mutbes malles and invenclon, lo pootry and fine-art, Wo, munt not” forgot: ta add (hot tho book in genorously furnished with architectural doejgug ;| and plang, $hick ara diattuguishod foir their plot- uresque benuty. Adventures in Cuba, on, ADYENTURES .OF A Thin~ N 13 Cuna, By dadzam g, O'Rertkr, 10mo,, pp. 459, Philadeiphla: J, D, Tippincott & Co, - 1n Decembor, 1872, Mr. O'Kelley was dispatoh- od to Cuba by tho managoment of tho Now York Ilerald, with directons, to entor the military lingg, and thenco transmit’ vews of tha progross and ponition of tho Cubnu fnmirrection, Tho undortaking was a diffoult snd dangorous ane,. but Mr, O'elloy had tho nervo and resolution- to undertakoand fo throngh with it, o sncaocd- cd, after many. trinlg, and, dolays, in, xeaching. Cenpedan, tho Prosident of {he Cuban Ropublic, nnd, remained somo weoks with him, eharing thio hard Iifo, of tho lender and bis woldiers. On |, roturping to, tho Spanich camp, Mr. O'Kelloy was arrosted a8 a, prisoner-ol-war, sad, .after somo weeks’ imprisonment, wna sent to Madrid, where e was finally ot ab Hborty, or, rathor, obstaclea woro tacitly removed that stood in tha way of lis reburn to his own country. “'ne dotnila of Mr. O'Kolley's.. cxporienco throughont his oxpedition ars rolated in tho go-. alond ~ud fear-nothing stylo pocidiar to tho | *gpocial “correspondent,” Wherover wa find o Herald reporter,..thoro, wo geaorally find bold- nens and regolution, nccompanied.with a knaok of what is called In'tho fratornity ** pencil-push- ing” Mr, O'olloy.has tho roqulsito. supply of tiiozo qualitics, and, an Lin reloaso from tho wob of untoward circumslancas. that liod o have proved fatal te him, deservod promotion to tho front rani of his colaboratours for the unflinching plitck and oporgy Lo. had dispavod. " 1Lis narra- tive js ppiritod, and will bo relished by thouo eu-* rious to follow tha carcor af & cool nud infrepld, }uumnl} & throuph the hemt of » sirauge ,nnd, halt-clvilizod country, swarzaing with flsrce bols hgerents, | olt . Antltolozye TIE GREEK AXTIOLOGY, ByLord Nrirrs, ono of tlie Benntors of the Collehe of Justics in Scotland, 10mo,, pp. 20, Yhlladelphls: J. N, Lippiveott & Co, 5 7 "Tho work of edising’ tho shors, epigt: poems known s the Grock ** Autholog beon accomplished by Lord Neaves in a scholar- lyaud clogant mannor. - It line beon & favorite omployment among men of -clagsicnl learning, aver sincg the tim,of Planudes, in {ho carlior half of tho, fourteonth contury, to study. theso flowors of Gireeks poesy. Iirasmus and Six'Thom- a0 Mors found congenial iolexation from ceverer taska in conning over theso clegaut.trifles ; and Gray, and Cowper, and Johnson, -kpent many voluntary Lours (rzuslating them . into Latin vorgo, or enriching thom with notes aud omendations. Nearer our own timo, Kit North dovoted hin aeholarship and ekill in versification to nn English translation of tho Grook opizrams, snds.in the pagon of Dlackwood's Alagaziie, In 1828-"4, taught his readers how to nppreciate their true character, . | i Lord Neaves has roviowed the entiro worl’ bim, and approprinted from ilo labors of tha miost oxpert whatevor would assist him to o com- pleto clucidation of tho subjoct. T'ho rosult is o collection of tho fincst gems in the best Englizh rotting, .nith & thrend of natrativa hinding thom into a round and perfect garland, The proso ac- companiment, which is moant to bo subsidinry to “tha pootry, will to many bo uot the leus intorest- ing of_the two, 0s it constitutes u quite full Lis tory of tho rellgious and._civic institutionss and tho charucter aud manner of tho Greaks. The German Emperors. TISTORY OF TUI GERMAN BMPENORS AND THELR CONTEMVORARIES, Transluted froms the Goriaan and Complled from Authentlc Sources, Dy Buizavem Praxe, Author of ¢ Len-Pletures Trom Enrope.” Tusirated, 8vo., pp, 667, Philadelph. 3., Lippiucott & Co; Students of hislory havo reagon to Lo gratefal’ for tho.service this autbor hng performed for them. -Tho :moat needful work in literature at tho present: day'is to- zilt and systematizo the reitings of tlio past, no that, litorally, ko that runs may read, withoit troublo or delay, what is choicest end hegt, and ozactly to his tagte. . Tho multitudes would bo gind to know tho world's history from {ho beginung, but Lave time, and spaco in tho miud, auly for tho groat, centrel facts ; and, fov chese, only when they aro col- Jected nnd grouped togothor g0 as to be taken in ot eingle glce.. Whoovar, thorefors, goes throngly the " tojl of resourch, aud seioction, end coudensalion, for the sake of bringing tho mast important tinths, the ot valuabla knowleilgo, within the grasp of tho busy vould, is n bouo- fagtor to bis ruco, In this single voluwoe beforo us wo have the biographics of ftty-throo Bmperors of Ger- mauy, together with much conlomporary bis- tory. | Necessarily, tho work is compact,” In oM cases tho lives nro po abridgod ak to cou- st of littlo moro than' a_table of dates and statistics of great ovonts, But Lhoo ia onough to ervo & usoful purposs; bolh for tho hurried and tlio toisuroly roadur.. The biogiaphics are, in cach inatance, necompanied with i portrait, and the entiro work ia abuudantly supplied with indoxes, te, s Sotar Ehysicss CONTRIBUTIONS 0 S0LAL PILYBICS, Dy J. Non- A% Lozayem, ¥, K. B., 670, pp. 616, London: Macnitian & Co, 4 Tho flrst port of this worlk contains a popular necount of inquiries into tho physieal contitu- tlon of tho wun, with wspecial reforenco to recent spectroscopio . remcsrchies. It in- cludes . o tories of = tweuby-nix papors, most of which Lave Dbeen printed in , Lritieh periodicals or delivered in the lecturo- room, : 'Tho .second part is occunled with com- munications .to the Royal Sueciely, of Loadon, and the Prench Acadomy of Scionces, with notes nnd appendices. Cho text thraughous i coplous- 1/l {ltustrated with fleo wood-cuts aud colored plates. . . VI L osliozcr's position smony; men of sclenco 28 an origival observer and an ablo writor 1 so well kuown that an enumoration of tho contonts of any work ho may publish iz all the reviower need undortako. 1t is to men of teionco that ho uppeals for an audienco, and to them must b SoTAFOL thi Hhity nf TSRO R LXiet {udg- mont upon tho value of bis commuunications, T'ho book is handsomely produced, snd, with its oxquisito engrayings, it enticing ovon to {hoso who eannot understaud o mathomatizal problom fnvolvivg greater futneacies than. fhe sulo of three. Dooks fTocetved, | THEZ MARTYROOM OF JLSUS OF NARARETI : A iliszoutco-Cnirioate Tk Lss #4A0 AATISE ON TUE Cuavruns .o¢ Tie GospeL, Ly the Rev, Dr, 3, Wik, Paper, Bvo., 1D, 134, Cinciumutis Oitico of tho [dmerizan Joracl MISTORY OF 'THE RLIGN OF THILIP THI PECOND, KING OF BEAIN. By W it Dugscord, Now and Itovised :Edition, Wi ‘Author's Latest Carrections, sud Aduitio by Jony Foarra Kime, In Throo Volumes: Vol, I, 13m0, ppe 603 Philadelphia s 1, 1, ‘Lipplucott Co, %1 on, BraouBnokry Dintows: A Rrony, nfi'x}“ kOB 1 Taien, 1310, Db 175, Now Yorks ‘Althors? Pbtinhng Compusy, PULE K TORTSMANT OLUL AMONG THE TRAD- i Ty HLAGWY CATLEMAN, Author of Wil Uunbost Berles,” ate, 10mo,, pp. 20, Piflndolpli : 2 atcd, m’&"ifo'fu?fi‘u” WAVL 3 on, Tae HIDDER TnrAsune or Jiair Kook, Dy OavEl Owric, 120, Vi 35, « oston s “Les & Shopard, - Tlllxln'llll*:!;!l‘fllls'j'l()x 0 EXPOSURES; on, EXTERNAL IAZARDS IN VIRE-INSUBANOE : WItit Bongbunes AND SONMULAS PON BATING RISKS, AND BIENO. Gnavine Founuran ron DEKo Ruises | A0 Nares, 10mo,, pp, 89, Davew, Duy, Eghert & Fidlor, . X A BKBICIL OF 'TIN: ART OF DOOR-BINDING ~ Wrrn JNTs a8 To THY. CARY OF Lioutsj L Aun Uow AND Wiene 7o IAvE: BoOKs BOUND, ' Um0, Dy 41, Ohieago: O, H, Cox & TIIBUNE POFULAR BOIENC Dy Louls Aoaswiz, . A, Pnoozon, Dr, O, B, HEOWK-SEQUALD, ¢! ulo, - Bqusre oglayo, ostun: llonry . Bhep & Co, AMERIOAN DIONLERS AND PATRIO Carr, WILLIAM Kinp, AND UTiERS OF 435 VLATES o LUCOANEEUS WHO TIAVAGED i Hias, 314 Ibt- AUDE, ANP TUR QONIINLNTG® O AMLBICS, TWO glo quatution'fram_Sintar Jane, Which cantaiua | (ug L Lelie npon the Authology that bns been dono befora. | TF B, Tl CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY,. OGTOBER 3, 1874, . -9 flwm{:n’nxmqw A‘;m. n{n ‘,ml";. fi. o'. Auvporr, im0, . 473, Néw. York: Doid & Nead, PRINGIULLS "OF MENFAT BitTrioRORLY: wer I'HEIR APPLICATIONS TO THE THAINING AND Diso1- DLANE OF TiE MIND, AND 1HE STUDY 0¥ Lyd Mone . 1D CoNDITION... 1y Wituiast L, Cantssrifh, M, D, LL. D, 1% I B, F, L 8 F QB 13m0, 1y 70 Nuw Yark D, Anplotou & Uo, o 5 WIIYSIOLOGY. FOR PIACIICAL, USE, | Laited by James Ilivrox, Author of “The Thowghiy of Tenlth,ti "Pho hrsstoky of -Pain¥ete, Wi an In- troduction by I3, 1, Youstans, 1%mo, pp. 607, Koy York ¢ Dy Applelon & Co. - % i Sasrg SRR LOST AN THI ALPS, Travelers Fall into . Crevasscs The Continenlal Herald nays: * Last Tues- day o young ehophord desconded frotn Dernina to Poutrsina with the nows that Lio biad found alndy dead at tho foot of nrock., About forly pergons imtnodintely started for tho placo indi- oated, in the Valloy of Rosepy, whora they dint covorod tho corpas of n young l'mly oxtendol on s bodof, Alpine rosos,” Thoro wag 1o sound visible, and the only anatlc was o yollow spot on tho loft tonples . Int facy, tho unforbuuato Jady. Aoemed tathor aslcop then doad, It §s surmised thnb, fu looking for tho cdeliceiss fiower, alio foll over a'ledige of yoclk and was killed Instantan~. consly. - 1t is strango that a similer aceidont, uunttonded,” howeyer, by fatal cousequouces,. ocourred fu-the smmo noighborkood, & fow dava Lofore."” On Eatarday -thio - Meyor of Loods ro- colvoa o lottor giving dotalls” respocting. the fatal accident to Mr. J, A. Garth Mnrshall, of Todds, on Mont Dlano, on - Monday lnet. iho Yottor, which &s datod Sopt. 1, snd {8 signed “ 3. M'cosh," wayy ;- ** Mr, Marshall romainod sevoral dnya nb tho ToyalIlotel, Conrmayour, during: whiich: o told “mo his -plan of panaing over. Mont Dlenc ta Ohamounix by n now routo, ng o Td recently como oyor from Chamounix to Courmayeute by tho Penk Troilot, - Ho loft,-ne- companted by two -exporieced gulden (mon that Iind sécompinied him: during -his Iatd trausit), oud provided . with * overything necessary. Ono - only - of tho - guldus roturned, and snid- ting fn descending wgincfor, Dir. Mar- ghall and « guids hnd fallon 0o o crovuses and wera' killod uponi’ tho_ spot, neithor of them ut~ tering n‘wbnl, Io wan v much oxhsustod and exetteil, bt dolivered bis account with dis- tinctriony, which T yroto dawn nw'hio upolio, Tho party wallked up the Alloe Blancho, aud reachsd ho baso of Mout Diwbe enily in the alternoon,. nud _nfler ezondingto” the fail of tho Xrennay glavior miado _prepatetions to spoud - the night omy tho tock. Lhoy aftersards ororsod ovn xoeky reof aud rérelied tho glacior Du Drouil Jard which flows divectly from Mont Blanc; but aftor'ascending that glacler for 'nomo hotes and the precipleey that ovorlook iz, until thow found further adyazco actioablo, thoy resclved to return, and {inally reached the ginoier Drouillard. in safoly, il threo cordod togothor.. Gomtine wine- to mako thoir ratveat dotvu the glucivr ab .mnidnight, all ‘threo fell lnto n crovasse, Mr. Marghail aud tho guide Firchor wera killed u&wu tho spot, neither uttering a word, and whon doy- light cunio {he ‘Gurviving guide, nnabjo to raio . tho Lodies to the surface, lefs them and mado his way down t> Courmeyour. Immedintely af- ter, s arrivaly tho Inndlords of tho ‘hotal, sloup. with’ tho Wajdeusien minieter of this place and seven or orghtien and the guide that caeaped, ot oft for tho heono of - tho accident, Latorin the dsy tho 'Magiutrato of tha district sud six raoro uen; withn tiatels, followed them.: About 8 o'clock n man rotnrnad frons the advanco party with o tidiugy of euccens, butroquasting sip- plios tor two d When the bodies ara fonnd, thoy will be, I will writo to you.” LISTERING, Tlor white hiand flashies on fho strings, Biveoniug & swilt aud und silyer cliokd, Aud wild mind atrong tho great harp rings Tte broug of throbling tongyabroad uade and miounlight mako u Liotim Throughout tho tich sud sombre room, 0 nweot tho long and shivorlag swells, And mweoter atill tho ngerdg flow, « Diliclous 09 remembered liclla Dylug in distatico Jong ngo— - When eventng-winds frow Heaven wero blown, And tho b wrncd for (ings unknown | Acrass the leofy windaw-ylaco Tcuca soals the otufileds xapyhiro deop Onu sentry-stur o outfer paco 11ly queirchliess TP B, haif-naleep rouds wlieio faling waters flow, . Teato whure s beavy roses blow, Andon the windless atmosphera Viuis el tho frugrmnces of Jungs Tiro Summernight is huched to hear “Whio passion e {io anclent tups's - - Then iy these sudden Lears that slart, Aud veliy this plorcsd and nehing heart 7 Al Unten! Wo and cll our pain Arasnoptal, snd disine tho xong | 1dly outr fopmict hefiit e (ot — 1t spursk that lelilit, and far ‘along Sk fu th heavens 1t aplendil mark, And wie fail backward on the dur't ] ~Harriet Preseu ford in tic Octoler Atlantic, “CGHVERTIRG PROF. TYHDALL.Y T the Editor of The Clicage Tridune gm: I desire cordinlly to second the recom- mendation of yotr correspondont, Mr, W, I. 11, Mogan, published in Sunday's Tem which it iu propoecd to-set tho whole Ohristian world to praying-for the conversion of DIrof, Tyndall eud bin brother feiontists, Darwin and Huxley; only, for.iho rake of offectivanean, X would concentrata the whole firo on ono until ko was convorted,—tien I would bring.the puns ta brar upen tho athera in turn, Thia plan of testing {ho officaoy of prayer. would Bo. freo . from ths objecucns urged ngaingt that proposed by Drof. Tsndnlls friond, nod at tho tama timo would bo conclusive, Wao oceaslonally have n * week of praer,” witli a cortam see of objects specitied Torench duy of tho weel, bubin thin we could afford to spend a wholo weel: on Txndall rleno, Jugh think of tho immenso gain to Christianiy which woutd. result from tho convorslon of such nman ps Prof. Tyndall! It would mors {han offsot the Beccher scandal. God would corfnin- Iy hear tha prayorn of bis peoplo offered: up in nuch o cause, if thoy Wero only offered up in fuith ; and nmong 80 many there must bo soma: whoeo prayors wowid bg ieceptable, sud God would hear” aud angyor Tor tho sako of tha fow righteous ones, il not for the eako of the whole, W. . Yax Onsuan Crioido, Sept, 29, 157 e Gaittmoro the ©hawplon Clty on Couvnellmntisr=lew Uso for lloman CTanaies. i Irom. the Dalliinere Amerfean, 1t i8 paid that thevo bug' boen for somo fime o very lively vivalty hotween the Bporting mon of 1lurford County and those of Daliimors. ‘Iho Isuno at lust contored on the question au to whicl, conld kill the groatost number of coons in tvo nighty, and to deicrmine this a grand match was miadoup, and camo off lnst wecl, closluy on Bat- ‘urday with a brilliant victory for the Daltimore- ans. Bearf and bis frionds, of Iacford County, by maiu erangth sud porsovorucs kitled fistedd .coons, and wero grently elated. ‘I'hey consid- ored it a suwo i that IIorford County would 'bo tho vietor. Thoy ovon chalfed the Baltimora- auw, and voluntoerod advico to givo itup. Thin wotia up Georzo Joues aud Duckott, Lwo of (ho most nntiriug spottomen of . the present age, and thoy determined to rewort to stratogy. * Duckott soleotod tho'night for tho huuk, and tho locality Mddle River Neele, Jonces got o pyrotechuist to manufucturo & greab lot of ruckcts and Touwan candles of unusual siza, Thena were taken along and when thae doga treed auy kind of gao, Jones ould elimb up a4 far as Lo could and lob off his flroworks. T'he coous could not stand this, and at oneo . tumbled to tho gronud, whero {liny wero quickly dlupntehed by tho the dogn, Middle River Neck was Ina blazo’ eyery litile *whilu the wholo of Friday night, sud the people Tiviug thoreabouts wore (r'ronuy alarmod at tho numbers and spparont clozencss of tho fulllng sturs, znd wondored if tho'world was coming to an ond. Mr. Jonew snyu thoy killod twoniy- soven coous, and thab it wau tho_greatost sport he oyor had in his 1fe, and that Harford Cauuty ivea 1t up that Daltinors is uhead in coon-hunts ng, 5 e starving Aninalne At (ho County Hall in Lewey, Engiand, on flopt.. 1, Blrw, Mary Chantrell, s wilow, was Drought up bofora tho niagintratos on o charga of forturlng olgghteen dogs and fourtoon cats by koeping thom witheut guiticiont food and nour- fuhment. Tho evidenca showed that altogotuor oighteon dogs wore found on her premises, the loney of several of them protrading nenrly through their sk, In o plg-siyo wora two boxcy and & hampor, in which. woro discovered thir- teon ¢ats, which had ovidontly been dead some timo, and anothor doad cat wny found In & room up-stalrs, Thore wora fuurteon live eata fu the outer-kitchen, nud theso, liko tho dogs, appearcd in n gtate of pemi-starvation, On visiting the. premizon five dagya Inter, tho ofiicer found ono of ho. caty dond, and minsed {ivo of the leaneat of. tho dogs, 1n axplanetion, Mru, Clhuntrell soid oho had taken tho dogs nway for foar thoy, might bo ordered to ho killed, Guinoa plys and othey auimnle weve found in the honso, hnt thesa wero | in falr condition, The Earl of Chichostey, In passinng Judpmont, muid tho Donel woro matinfed Ly, Chantroll hiad keen gulity, and thoy hnd do- tormined to commit huer to privon for (wo monthy. Bho grvo notlco of au appent, but, In SPARKS, OF SCIENCE, Ok 0N, RAILNPAY-TRALNE, Tho cars_onlonosof tho railwaya .in Prussin have beon ligted with: gan- for b yoar past, and tho.oxporimont hiay proved so successlul that it wlil probubly Iéad to tho use of.thin illtainating malorial on o]l -the railvayn.of Qormidy, Tho gy is manufactured from oll. and s rickor in hiydra-carbon that common sitect-gas, It lo coms prerged Lo’ six atmospliores, in’ eylindrieal ro- celyera 5 faot long aud fiom 16%¢ to 20 liichea In diamoter. If moro tuantwo rocelvors aro to be counceted, tho . conncoting: tnbas are 3«Inch boro, vory strong. - ‘A rogwintor {8 fntroduced fy termodiate bolwoon tho’ burnors “and .the ro- calvorn, ,in which tho roquisilo low pressuro in po mtendily sustained that tromors ior concuenlons will not - percoptibly affock it. ; Tho . rogulator. conalsls. of ‘a cst-lvon olvoular vosyel, 10 inches in dlameter pnd 6 Inchios [n holgh, tio open.top of whicliis closed . gaw-tight by.a Noziblo membrane,: ao. contral point of the membrano s armed with n raolsl dluk;: connected. with a lover ngling on thd supply-valve communicating witls Lho({:nn-hold- or, Wio wolght of tho .mambrang .and its con- noations Ia sufliclont to furnish nil tho preesuro neoded to maintain tho ofilux ab tho bumer. Wion tho supply in_the rogulator is low, tho. aupply-valve Is openoil; by tho.deprossion of Lho; mombrans, ., At tho gay, aireams .nto tho rdgu-. Intor,, the mombrave. risen. and .iho supply~ valye is gradually cloned. “The {uminntion {n thus moto steadilysustamod than fa the gas-jols fv clties, thotgh -tho pressuro in tho gau- Tiolders gradually falls off, +A uingle-holder, of.8 to 9 cnbio foet capncity, will anpplv a burnor for forty-iive to stxty-sevon hours. 'Theintensity of the Iight, by photomotric detorminntion, inequal to that of ten candles, wlilo tho light of ordina- 1y conl-gas, used in oxactly -the: samo mannor, - would oqunl that of bul throe-aud-a-half candlos, . "I'hio burniers in uwo give the light of about soven candies; tho ?rmmd 1ampa’ noatly employod givo the light of Lut four candlos, ~The oniiro npparatus, excopt tho burnern and their protoct- ing lauterns, ju”carried undor tho carn, ‘Thero weoms to e 'no possibility of accident from its 1eo, oxcopt Auck as might result from oxplosion. INCREASE OF DIUSKENNESS IN GBEAT BUITAIN, Tjio Lov. W, Caine gavo, to the Intomeoting of Lha British Aosoclatlon for tho Advancement of feiencs, zomo stztistics upon the ! Increaso of - Drunkonness Among tho Working Clesses,” which aro of painful significanca. * Accordwng to hiy report, tho quantity of spirits drank in. tho United Kingdom in 1872 wan 26,872,183 gallons, or 2,709,589 gallons mora than in.. 1871, In 1878 tho consumption of howe spirits amounted to 98,008,601 gallons; of foroign npirilo; 10,223,709 gallons ; of wine, 18,327,104 gallena; tolal, §7,- 159,314 galions. - In nddition: to this thoro wan consumed 1,076,844,041 pallons of beer, rud about 18,500,900 gallon’ of Dritlah wino, - cidor, cto.,—making & s total of 1,152,805,156 rallcns of spirituona and walt lk{nm‘n drunk in tho Unitad Kingdom in tha twelyemonth onding Doc, 81, 1875, “Lhio commilials for drunkeunoss woro:. | 1869—3en, 1,335; women, 670 {ofal, 2,004, 1870—3Men, 1,508} woniun, 504 ; Lotal 187130, 1,603 1 women, 720 tota 73—Men, 1,900; women, 814+ | 157—dlen, 4,063, women, 2,11 2, In ono jail wo find tho committals’ had in- creaser 60 par cont in_five years. - In Monches- tor, during tho yoar onding March 81, 1673, thera woro 9,150 approbensious or draukennsys, 1'hls - 1was-003 Jegs than tho pumber of* arrosts in 1872, —thio decronto owing {o tho Liceusing act, and consaquont eartier cloalni; of publig toune. But thoso figures reveal but » small part of the ovil. 'Fho committals for all sortn of offonses is large. 1y incrensing; yrhilo tho committnls of woman in flvo yeury -had rdvancod .60 per cent.. Of tha 12,420 comtailtals in thd Liverpoot borough jail during tha year-ending Sept. 30, 1878, 6,073 wera women. 'I'bin increnss .of drunkehucss was at- tributed by 31r. Crlne to tho hishor virgas of tho working classes, tho fewer houra of- Jabor, and: tho inereancd facilitios for obteining intoxicating liquore, 'To tho Ealo of lignor by procers i re- ferred tho incicase of druuleuncas nmong women, THE WHELLER EXPEOITION. On tho st of September, tho two parties be- longing to tho' Natural istory Dopartment of the Wheolor Espedition met ab Abiqui, on the Tiio do Chiama, New Mexico. = Dr, Yarrow, I'rof, Copo, nnd othergof the fleat perty, have been working in tho vicinity of San Ildefonso, Thoy report tho discovery, in the Rio Qrzndo, of oY~ euteon now specics of fivhes. Dr, Yarrow, who han charge of Notural History, has made Inrge callections of Dirds, insectn, plauts, ote. Drof. Copoe, palcoutologist, has found fossil romaing of tho rhinocercs, eamcl, dog, mammoth, deer, beavor, turtle, and horge, and ks loarned that tho. fortiary, formation covera &. large .portion of \Now -Mexica. . Dr. Leon, chemist and wincralogist of .the mecond party, hau.ne- cumuinted o well-stocied - eabinod of apec- Imene. IIo_oxhibiln quarlz from. the Sioira Blanca, which has arich promise of gold, and has essmined iho mivos.of. Toeita. and Placor. Creek. In .his capacity of chemist, Dr. Loow hay tested for ozoue in high allitndes, rud ex- amined tho wators of the Ojo Culierte,—u colicc- tion of miucral springs near Abiqui, whoeo tom- peraturo tavges from- 103 to.114 dog. In mis- collanoous worl, hio hea studied the lauguagos of tho various Indian tribes Lo has mot, ing mado collections of insects aud plants,with notos on their geographical distribution, .and . bas,, mnde constnut tests of tho tomporatnre of the stroams, and romarked tho spacios of flsh inhab- iting tho eamo,~hioping, by tho resuito of anch worls, fo render ussistanco to. tho United Stntes Fish-Commiusion, The party undor Dr. Gavvow is traveling northward, -toward tho. Gnllinag., Alouutuins, which aeo said to bo rieh in fosails, 3 A NLW MOTIVE PRINCICLE, Dr. Being, of Qroningen; hag beon for many years trying {o solve tho questiod, *'Ilow to trausform haat into mechanical power mora ad-~ véntageonsly thau. it i3 douo iu out-common steam-cugines. Recontly ho liaa publinied tho resulta’ol his investigations in tho Zsis, a Duteh journal devéted to physical seionco. Tho confl- douco of tho Doctor in 5o groab that Lo has finally found a successor to stoam. thut -ho hag talton ont-in soversl countrica a patont for hin diacovery. Tho namo of Lhe now motive prin- ciple is carbolomn, but it scoms to bo shmply liqnidt carbonio acid givon off by natrlum bicar- Douate, When hoated by steam in £ closo spaca, r. Bioing hax fouud Ly ospaericues that it proves. zeellont motivo power in pluco of szcanr, e has also found. ihay cngines for its ugo can be oasily conntructed, and eau Lo employed for Invgo ns well us small industries, 'Lhoy cin also bouyed ju ships for war-murpesos. Equipped with o earboloum ougino, w,veusol cau be raisod or ynlk b will, uud oven mwada to cruiso ubont under tho suifeeo of.tho wator, o4 the carboleum in not only independout of tho air, but enn main- tain thelifo of the ciow, dovalop light, eto. The ongincy qau ba used to yrojel priuting-prosues, {lrc-ongines, - lreot-locomatives, otu, ~ Carbo- leum 13 plso valuabla, for. nejoulilio purpoacs, T havo ad tho catlafaction,” sayo tho dixaoy- orer, 'toshow th oxperimont to govorul sci- ontilie mon in Iollmid, who hava teken {ho groatost fntercat in tho mattar, i MYSTEMDS OF VEORIATION. The Opolonsas (La.) Journal gives an no- count of n whitc-onk treo, in tho Pnrish of Oale caslott, whicl hau, in tho courso of itd growth, aceomplished a curious feat, Tho trunk of tho troe is mhout 24 feot iu dinmelor, aud risos to tho holght of about or 80 feet without throwiug out n singlo branch. About 12 or 16 feot ebove tho bayo of the oak, the limb or stom of o pine troe, 6 or8 inchies in dismoter sod 12 to 16 foot long, pnssos divectly through tho | contra of {ts sbalt, projecting soveral foct bo- youd each sldo. “'lio oalk inclokca the pino tight- Iy, aud is e3 porfuctly solid at this poiut a3 at svory other, Tho quostion is, Iow-didtho pino and the vak geb into wo sirange o position to- wintd cach other? Iho pine in doud, but -the turpuntine fn its colln prosorves it from doeay, and conjecturo holplossly wondors how it ever got througlh tho oal, or tho.onk over got around it, i In Mallob woods thers Is another whito nak thut presonty a eurions feature, Pho brunk Is of conuiderablo nize, and dlvides into two prougy ubout 13¢ foot nbove tho ground, which tun up !u)mrnle)‘y porhay 16 feot, ad thon unite ngain into o singlo, #olid stom, The two piongs ‘aro enohy, sy, 134 foot in.dinmater 4 but, whon thoy becomo ony again, thy singlo slom 18 umaller in circumforoneo than tho two stomumensuro taken soparatoly, TRANGTORMING BXCRUMEST I1NTO FUHL. D Petrd, of Dexlin, has perfectod an ensy and ceonomienl procons by .which, exeromontitions matter may bo transformed into scentless blooks of fuel, which burn without odor, giving o heat oqual to houso conl, aud afferding an ush that iy i oxecllent phosphntie fostilizer, The oxeros monts ave lrut rondarod odorless bofora romoyal from thelr recoptacles, end aro thon concens dolault of ball, Wao removed to tho County i} | rrated by ovaporation Lo tho conslatoncy of clay, Tho mags In_thon "doiivorad by tho machliio (n wihioh1b han hoon inaplasated, /o an - to ho cul by swires into blocks, which. ro aftorward -prosncd. ond drled, liko bricks, Both Hquid and wolid oxcroments ‘ara . capablo “of treatmont by thig ‘process, ywhicli in so inoensive throughout as to nanoy no one, . 'the machines mct rapldly and raquiro few hinnds 3 hence, tho establishmonts in, vhich thoy aro uspid .need not bo.oxtensive or rawmate, . I'ho oxporiments conduated bofura the Dorlin nuthoritlos wera very atis(nctory. - It was-| nlso shown by caraful estimatos that this molhod of disposing of excromentitious matorialy would L6 beonomienl to thie ety LFFECT OF COAL-GAS UPON GROWING PLANTS. Mr. J. Bochm communleatos toluo Ohemical L'cuqul-]}lall tho results of aseries of ‘exporl- monts tosting tho offcct of conl-gas upon grow- ing plants. -.Of ten plants fu pots (variotics of fuchsis and galyin), mmong tho roots of which conl-gas was condneied through' openings in tho bottom of tho pots, soven died in fonr months, 'U's discovor whether thelr, donth was owing to tho direct aclion of tho gos, or to the poisoning of tha noll, soeds woro sown in oartly through whichgns lind boen passed for au hour or two daily during n long period of * time. 'I'ho woeda sprauted; bug the roottets falted to grovw, nud aoon decayed.. A hoalthy Blnm sob m this ‘woil porished “in .ton .dayn,” Dr, achm con- eidors that thoso oxperimonts oxplain Ytho de- clino and death of.nhade-traos in our.cities, Tho couno s the -escape ol conl-gas from loaking moing ; ‘and the romedy whicli tho author pro- pouca i to inclose all sircot'gas-pipes within Inrgor tubes, Laviugopeninugs to thoair, through' which vontilation muy bo maintafved, Bub gas. companics will zenrcely bo indneed - to take suol oxpensive procautions agatust tho deatruction of shade-treos. v GYNOCRAQY: It scoma- from recont. dovolopmenta that, among sivago and gemi-civilized races, 'man is not elways 8 tyxant aid woman his slave. In n pagor “ on. " U'ko - Peoplos ‘ bobween India and Ohing,” read by Sir Qeorggo Campbell beforo ' the Anthropological Depattment of tho Dritish Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Sclenco, the nuthor stated that, in‘ons of these trilies, woman ocenpled o mora exaliod - position” than man. *'Tha wifo wau tho head of the houschold. Eho courted and proposed to the man, nud, after' muarringe, toak tho respomsibility of providing for tho fumily. She lived fn hor'own house, and on her own esinte, nud descont wos on tho fomalo sldo.” Unfortunalely tho atatistivs .end hore, and wo aro not iuformed au lo_the dogreo of suporiorily in character .and in maunors which thia 'raco exhibits in comparison with sur- rounding peoples. Vo DELP COAL-BIATTS. Ierotoforo, tho deopest coal-shuft in the country Lag beon that of tho Hickory Mine, at’ Tottaville, Pa., which descends to tha dopth of €66 feet, and wags constricted nt a”cost -of £100,000 and-fourtoen months’ time, DBut the Philadelphio & Reading Conl and Iron Compruy’ noyr contempluite slnking two ahalis noar Polis- villa to o depth -of 1,500 foot. Already the ox- cavation in ono shiaft hing reachod 900 foor, and in {ho other 760 feat,: At both shafts twonty-five dizsmond.drills aro. used, Loring lolos to the doptls of from 200 to H00 feat, whicl uro simul- tancoualy blanteds It is cstimated that thosa worka will, ‘en completion, develop o mining aren thataill yield a¢ loast 80,000,000 tous ofcoal, CARNONATT OF EODITX. The discovery of considerable deponits of oar- ‘bonate of wodiwn near Omeba; and not far dis- tant from lha»Uul‘ou Pacifle Railway, ‘hag been recouily anvounced, This native carbonato is faid to bo very rich, and its cost; whon delivered in Now York, provided a branch raflrond bo oon=" structed from-tho mives to the -Union Pacifle, will:uob equal £4% par tou, -'fho United Slatos annnnlly finports 11,000 fons_of sodium, ot tha mean rato or pes toin. Tho advantago of having ».nind within i3 own Lorders i, thore- ford, decided. Tho manufucturo of wodium by tha.Leblnue procous is o moss important. fndus- ‘try hnurozt Brittan, Weun yoarn ngo, it was worth £5,000,000 sterling nonualiy, and” gave cmploy- wment to 10,600 men. g BOILNTIFIO EXTLORATIONS. The Dutch Geographical Sopiety has resolved tosend ‘o eclentific oxpedition to Sumatia, to exploro the hitherto ‘unkuown portions of that Island, Tho exponaes of tho entsrpriso arc not oxpoctod to oxcoed £2,000, ' Ruasia, which mane {fests o landable desire to fartlior tho discoverles of Selence; will seud out ¢wo toura of oxplora- tion from Archaugel, next summer; One will proceed to Ruasian. Lapland, for tho purpose of oxsmining tho traces of aucient. glaciors.. Tho othor will study, tho ehores of tho Whito Soa, with & spocial view to zoological investigations. L'wo yeats rgo; Dr. Yarginaky discovered in tho waters of the Whito Soa soveral upecios of fishes and crustaceans that swora wholly now to Science, CONSUPTION OF PATPER, 4 Signor Bugono Morpurgo “has published at Venico s monograph on paper-making, 1rom this it sppoars that the Unitod States consumes moro papor than Bugland and ‘Franco united, Tho ayorago .consumption is: In the United Htaten, 17 pounds per capitn; in Russin it is 1 pound, iu Spain, 3¢ pound ; v Austrin aud Italy, 81¢ pounds; in France, 7 pounds ; in Germany, 8 Jiounds; and in England, 111§ ponnds, NEW COFFEE-TLANT DISEASE. A nerw disonse-bus attacked the coffeo-plant in Coylon. It inafungus lke o niiniaturo mush- room, which, attaching itself to tho undor sido of tho loa?, causes it £0 withor airay. ‘A TOISIL SIDLE. + AMr. O, Harger s recontly discovered in tho coal-measurcs’ of Illinois n - fossil spider, 1o which tho nhms Arfhrolycosa autique hes boen riven, e ' ¢ Jled Kish.? Tram the Siicer City (daho) Worid. About 100 1uiles to the northyard of Idaho City is Payotto Luke,” ny Loautiful o shoot of water.as can.bo found., This Jako.is tho largest of a cluster of. four or ive situsted in its imme-~ diato vicivity, aud is sbout 12 miies in longth by 3 milos (avorage) in width, It is both fod end Urainod by the north forl: of tho Payetta River, which pasics directly througlit. It wators aro &nid " to be hundrads of feot dpep, und are 38 clear ag .tho. mout fuoly-polished mirror.. ‘I'ho country around tho lako 1 mountainous, and tho neonory varlod, buk pleturesquo and bosutiful, In it is found a Apecles of tish-known liore by tha name of “ Ilod Viuk,” an appollation derived by thelr color, which is a. boautiful vormillion, with tho oxcoption of tho hoad and finm, which uro of & dnrk” carthy-groen color. Their habits nro similar to° thouo of tho sahmon, nd fike tho salmon thoy upuwa and then dio; ‘o male aud female aro easily distinmpuishable, tho colora of thio nuals boing muneh brighter than thoso of tho “omalo, Thoy livo in the doop wator in tho lake, nd Wwo have no acoount of one evor having boan scon-in the lake onty when comiug up ont of the Wptor at the month of tho river, Whon going up tha river to spawn, which thoy do from about tho last of Tuly until noarly tho st of Octobor, Whon ascondiug tha river, "they Lravol in schools numbering from one o Lo _or thros hundrod; end fishormen lapd them iu largo quentitios by mesny of drag-nels sud soines, Whon frosl, or .whan' propurly -eured, thoy nro outcomsd a preater delicacy for tablo uke than evon the mountain trout Lut groat skill aud care, and,’| sbovoe all, great cloaniinens is ragquired for their prosorvation ius a maunar-for the tablo, Driad, they aro profarrad Lo ofthor Lerriug of codiish, - bub the best way to preserva them is in -brine. Put up in this way—care being obsorved to bavo thom porfectly fresl and porfactly clean—thoy afo probably “not. oxcellod. by auy fish Tt thy world, Tho” writor has seen ‘them lato in tho Iall moving -down tho river as if roturning to the luke, but such multitudos of ¢hom die slong tha stream fuac-it i beliovad to bo fmponsibla that any got back elive. Iu size tho % Ited Fiuk™ yary-buc httlo, being unnurnll; about 20 incuey long, snd-woighing from 935 to° & pounds, DBeing uaknown to both Dritich and Amorican dluhermen, they aro coming to bo looked np- on a3 confined solely to Idaho aud Lalke Payotto, und tho objack of thi atticla in to call atlontion to.tho fact of-thir oxistenco, and to draw out an oxpreusion of opinion from persous cupublo of. judziug aa, Lo telr place among the “ liuny, trivea,” * Dosidon, thoy aro a grest delicugdy,, and 1t may.yet bo found practicabio to utoel tha lakos of Californis, Orogon, Novada, and porkinps of il tha Northern sud Northwest- oru Blstos and Lorvitorics with thom; tho only appavout requisitos nevesnary to tholr pronngas tioh buing ‘dopth of -pure,. cold wator, and & gravelly alrenm for thaw spawn, + Aun Avmicsy Womian. The Suskex (1ng.): News gives n romarkablo ncooumt--of the urmloss woman of Joviugton whoue marringo was revently roportod, Bholu very good vondery writes vory nivoly and vapidly, i s membor of tho patish church, und has loarned to play upon o soncorting, her feot, and cupoolully tha - left foot, taking tha plnce of hundw,- Among _othor Lhingy-slie munagos to do Hlua edlo-work aud fanoy embroldery, which sho-offors for mlo. Bho iw a nkilitul oouls, nud droxses _horuolf campletely with very littlo nid. Mout of her worl iy performod silling oo the FAMILIAR TALK. OUR NUMERATS, A correnpondont sk, *What ia the origin of our preeent nine flgurcs, 1, 3, 9, ete.? I am aware thoy afo Arable, bitt Liow camo they to ng- JBumo thelt provent forma? What gavo the fig- res 8 and 7, for tnatanco, thelr pecullar forms? 8 and G aro aliko, with tho tops turned dlfferant wagsj O and 8 aro tho snmo, only roverred, If you ean give yoir roadors any light on Lhia somowhnt recondito fopje, thoy would bo- ob- Lged," TRecont laborious researches have developed tho fact that the numerala now in wso nro not ‘of Arablo origin. Thoy aro o ho rockonod armong tho Ingoniona inventions of tha Drahmins of India, and dato baek to gomo undetormined poriod before tho' Christian ora, An obsourily which seholats havo' thus for boen unablo to cloar up onvelops tho Inquiry na the {imo thoy first hecamo known to the Arabn and wote {n- trodueed Into Buropo, It in euppoded by tho most loarned writers on tho sabloct that tho Araba obtained thair knowladgo of tho charac- ters through the Porsinns, whio wero conquerad by them in 636, nud adopted tholr refiglon and ouo of " thelr dinlocts, - 'l'ho so-onltod Arable figures rosemblo the Porsio charnoters, which nro thowo in popular use throughout' Iudis, Trustworlby aulbiorlties fix tho period ab which ibo Arabs acquired tho numer- nls ns Jato rs tho -middle of tho thitbeonih centiiry, Otlora bolieve tho figures, called @obar by tho Arabs, were brought to Bagdad-during the relgn of Al-Mansor (760) or hils Immodinto succossors, aud certalnly not Iater than fho "timo of Al-Mamum, aud thoneo weio enrriod to Spain during the ond of tho tenth or boginning of the cleventh contury, Aknowledgo of the so-called Avabio figuren was woon conimunicatod Lo the learned mon' of Turope. 'Tho astronomeru of France' snd Gor- many seem to have first omployed thom in the fourteenth contury, in composiog calandars, which wero sent {o thto varlous religious: houcs, Dy this menua the charactors wore ganerally dif- fused through Lnrope.. Ono of the oldont authontio dates in {ho Arabic numorals is that . of 1835, which wna written’ Dby Detrarch in~ a copy’ Of St Aumuse tite. 'Tho college-ncconnts in tho Tnglish universitios wore genorally kopt in the Roman numorels untit the- bogining of the alxteonth contury. Tho Arnbla characters wore not-nned in tho parish-registers beforo 1600, * I'ho oldost date met with'in Scotland i3 that of 1490, which occurs in the ront-rolf of the Diocese of St. An- drow’a, ‘I'ho forms of cvoral of the figurs havo under- rone considerable chanro ‘sinca their firat intro- ditetion into Iuropo, In tho oldent manuscripls, {ho figures 4,5, and 7 ‘aro most unlii:o the pres- entcharacters, Tho 4 consista of a lonp with tho onds vointing down : tho 6 has some likenesy fo tho fipure O; and the 7 issimply an invorted V, Tu the dates unod by Caxton in the yoar 1480, tho 4 hins ahwamed {ts prosont ehapo, but thoe 6and 7 ara still vory unlike tho samo charactors of fo- dny. There is no renson assigued for theso chianges, which appear to huve boen gradusl, and tho renult. of chioico rather then introduction. Nor have we aver mot with suy attempt ~to nttach an eapecial significanco to the foring of tho nurherals, If thera bo o symbolism hiddon in thoir mold, it has ybt o ba unveilod, A BTORY O DATNTE-DLDYE. 1t {a curious on what slight chances somatimes ‘hang tho fortunes of ovents and individuals, In hia intioduction to hia worle on Chatoaubriand and contemporary awthors' undor tho Empire, Sialnto-Bouvo tells o trange story, of Limself, which illnstratos tho power that trivial and un- notod accidents often exoreigs ovor Luman fato, Tn Ostober, 1847, SBamnte-Bouvo was acling as ono of tho Librarinun of the Mazarin Library, and oocupled n lodging in tho Institute. Tho apart- ment was plaguod with a pmoking chimney, =nd Bointe-Bouvo applied to tho Minister' of State, who was thio propor authority, to have it ropaired. Tho repeirs wero promptly oxecuted, and Safnte- Bouvo dismissed the aflair from his momory. ‘The Rovolution of 1848 followed, and lista were mado, ffom tho accounts of the provious rogimo, of thoso " porsons who had recelved public money, Dircctly the - rumor gob afloat thet Sninte-Bouve was one of the benoficiaries, &nd that ho bad recoived considorablo suifs at ‘varioua times. Sainto-Deuve was indignant, and ground, donied tho rumor in the Journal des Debals, challeoging proa! of tho accueation. Simultanc- ously, from tho eamo molive, he cosifned his position ag Libravian at the Mazarin, Now, Saiute-Bouyo had an enemy in ono M, Gonin, whoso bilo Iind been atirrod by tho boliof that an articlo of lig hiad been rejoeted by tho Zevue des Dewx Mondes “through the influenco of Sainto- Douve. M. Genin, tirerofore, hielped on ths ugly Yumors about Sainle-i'anva's’ roceipt of public moneys, tnces drova Bainto- Iouve from Tavis, usnd he went to Bolgium, whorg, 88 & peeuniury resowee, ho delivered w courso of lectures on” Chateaubriand and_cons temporary witers,” which wus afterward ex- panded into n couplo of volumes. Eventually the tnystary of the public monoys cloared up.. The only evidenco extant that Huinte-Bouve had drawn from the Stato ex- chequor was iho singlo entry: *M, Sainte-Douvo, 100 franes.” Atter puzzling over the origin of this account, Sainte-Bouve finally recollected tho smotky chimnoy, the cost of repairing which must hiavo amouhted to'about tho sum sot down. Thus tho trifling accidout of o smoky chimnoy had been tho.meana of throwing dishonor on tho namo of Sainte-Bouve, had obliged Lim to resort to n publio dofenso, o resign tho ofiico of Tivrarian, to o to Drunsclsand thoro to deliver loctures, ‘Tho oud of this chiein of ovents wny the production of a pair of volumes oI the clioicazt qualily of literary eriticisn EDUCATION 1N INDIA. 1In her Journal of the National Indian Associa- tion, Misa Carpentor gives choering accounts of tho improvemont i tho éducation of tho girla, an well aa of tho young tion, of Indis. Tho first girls' sehool in Indla was establishod in Bombay, sovetal years ngo, by a rich Parsco, nnd wae named after tho Princeos of Wales, Intho be- Gioning, there wero in attendance upon thiy #ehool not above n half-dozen girls, and they did not belong to infuontial famllica. At tho present time, hundreds of girls, of every rank and creed, aro gethored into its classce, 'Tho daughtors of tho Parseos aco takiug tho most rdvantage of Its dpportunily for education, and thoir progress . ju anid fo he vory fair At the anuual distribution of prizes, last win- tor, tho fiiut prizo—oonsisting of u gold medal and geveral’ valuablo? booky~was awarded to a Paraco girl, who recitod a long passage from ono of tlie English poots, with' fine elfect; Another young_girl was warmly applauded for a recita- tion oI Wordsworth's ** We aro soven.” Boveral liindoo_girls alao acquitted thomsolves crodita- Dl on tho srmo oceasion, (treat’ projudice has oxisted ngalnst theso achools, bub thia js gradu- ally Jeing ovorcome by tho ardont desiro of tho sox for odneation, 1n April, & new collego for youns mon wna opencd fortha ‘ontive Vrosidouoy of Caloutts. The building containg sixtoen clans-rooms, thrao phynieal-scienco, lecturo, £nd apparatus rooms, larga oxaminntion ball, libraty, otc., nd was complotadat a cost of £13,000. AL the st oxami~ nation thirly-seven students eraduated from the Caleutta Mcdical Sclionl 3 and, at tho'commenco- ‘mont of tho Modus Unlversity, fifty studonts took tho dogree of I, A. * Ono day It spring;" says Mis Carpontor, * tho Vicoroy paid a_visit to tho adult ladies' and muls’ achool of tho India Reform Association at Calentls, i order to in~ spect somo apecimens of nativa-Art, Tho exhi- bition incinded carpots, taco, catechn oraamonts, ' Joyporo mnrblas, Luclnow vork, Poona work, otc. ! About fitty native lediea woro assemblod, Lord Northbrook and Misg Bating were reesived an thoir arrival by Dabu Koshub Chundor Hen, and woro greotod by & song of loyalty in Bong; g, by £ho ladion.” Wo gathor thoso part 1ars from * L'e Liecord of I'rogross " in Old and New. % DESTROYING ORNOXIOUS LITERATURE, It 1s sald that more than twico tho amount of seditlous and immaral 1lteraturo Lad boon con- fisentod in Parls during tho past year thau in aiy twolvemouth of tho Imporisl ora, Once a viook, tho books aud prints which havo boon cons domned and meized undergo oxecullon ab tho Profecturo, Tho mothod of dostroying thom Ia not by burning, 28 is popularly suppoacd, but by roducing thom to a-pulp, which is thon sold to n paploraunchio manufactory, Ono”who has wit- uasded tho pracoes of the destruction furnishes an account of thuo afair for tho Pall Mall Budget, When ho reachod the aceno of opora- tlons, un Inapector and tivo agonts wers compar- mg o hugo collection of stuffed eapvas-nacks witl an fuventory whivh the formor hold In hand, As soon us'caol sncl wag vatitlod, it was dragged into the yard, nud plven over to tho cars of a second inspector, Under bhis suporvision, it waa thou transportod to a penthouso containing o row of tauks, lialf-full of hot wator, Into one’ of whi its conlonws wora emptled, = **From ono_ sack” ruys tho writey, *rolled out hon- dreds of dwily nowspupersy from euotilor, al- wanacs with soditions propho: 3 from un- otler, goudy phvtygrapbu,*ar yads upou yards af songs, or flaring Bonapartist plotnron dons Epinal, or mdro pretontidds pw\ll]unl tracts’ i-: rod and rollow covorn,” ucli as paddlora’ Aol Tivory apaclos of Ntoratura known to printera or lithographors wau ropresontod “In this wholossla Dbecatomb,” When tha tauks wors full, sgonts mounted guard ovor' them intil tho pro- ceaa of wonking was ncooniplishod, swhich wns ot the end ~of abaut -two 'hours: - The mns wad_thon scooped up in big ivou' Iadles, nod trndled “in- wheolbayrows to anothor ronlhnuuu. whora it wos dymped foto an immonea jron mortar gurmounted by o ateam apparatus. A ton minutos’ pounding by a gigantla.. peatle suflicad Lo oxpress all ‘romaining noxlows - pmnorllcn out of tha pulpy mass, 'and roduco’ 1t 0 an fnnocent but wretchod-looking ‘padte, " In this stato It was roady to enter into & now and moro succostful 1ifo at the hands of croalive manulacturers, 2 FUROPEAN NAVIES, According to tha ‘Jast oMliclal roports given in tho Zlorsenzeitung, of Borlin, tho total numbor of iron-clads owned by tho maval powors of Juropois 214, Tho total numbor of serow. shipy, oxclusivo of const-stcamera and gun. bonts, {8 431, Delgium, Switzorland, and Sorvls, havononavy; and Itoumsnis has only o fow gunboats on the’ Daunbe; - Iolland, Bweden, Norway, and DPortugal,. have no iron-clads, Qroceo lias 2 ; Germany, 3; Donmarl, 8; Bpain, 7+ Auslrin, 11 ; Rucain, 16; Turkey, 16 ; Franco, 28: nud Jingland, 33, Austrin, italy, Groceo, and Portugal havo' no’ iron-clads for coast sor- vice. Tlolland,. which. hns no -ironsclads for warsorvico, hns 18 iron-clads for const-sorvica; England - bas 23, and Irance o0, Germany hea 2 Lurret-ships Norwsy, and Deumark, ' oseh s koy, 65 Swadon, 03 aud Ruesin, 13, Of sorow- shipy, England' has 132; ‘Franco, 52; Russla,’ 483 Turkey, 44 Bpain, 87;, Holland,: 25; Italy, 21; Gormany and Donmark, each 1 14 Dortugal 8; Bwoden aud-Norway, b oach nd Groeca, 2. In 1875; Gormany- will havesix new Iron-clads for war-sotvice, which will rauk among tho most poworful sbips-on thosons, and,; in points of thickuosa of thoir armor, ntrength of their ongines, shd nimber and qunlity of thoir guns, Will' far gurpass those of Autiin, Italy, aud Franco, 'The numbor of saflors, on- glneora, stokors, ate., omployed in the English novy, is 09,2617 in tho' Russfan, 86,000; tho Tronch, 85,570; tho Turkish, 21,000; Spanish, 14,000;' Gorman, 134505 ‘Auslrian, 11,950} Ttallav, 11,200+ Dutoh, 6,200; Danioh, - 4,500 § Norwoglan, 8,600; Portiguose, 3,300, A JAPANESE MEDICAT JOURNAT Dr. Stuart Eldridgo, who bns beon in tho sor- vice of tho Japaness Governmont ninco 1871, and s for two years had cliarge of n hospltal at Iinkodadi, has established a medical ‘journal in Japaneso, which promises to meet with flattéring success, Itia entitled Kin-se I Zeten (Modom Modical Nows), and is printed in the usual Jap- ancso atylo of mixod Chineso and Japanosa idao- frflphn. **The primary object of tlis publica. ion is to nfford instruction to the large number of native practitionors who havo alroady acqnir- ed pomo knowledgo of Western medical soienco, elthior by monue of oral inatruction, or from tho! fow foraign woiks transiated into Japunese, but iwhohavano knowledgo of any langusgesavo their'. own.” Thoro isno sclence moro carnostly pirsuocd in Japan than that of modiciue, and this journal, which exhibits n varied and valuable fablo'of contents, will render important assistanco to studonts and practicing physicians.” The first odition consiatod of §00 copies: tlo socond of 1,000, Tho journal {s sold for tho barccost of tho matorial aud printing. OTTO OF ROSES. Tho crop of roses in tho Orient has so fallon - off this scason that it ia thought tho whole amount of otto of roses distilled will not excoed 1,600 pounds, whorens the product Inst yoar wos 9,700 pounds. 'Thero Arq olght provinces in Turs oy which togethor yield ordinarily 3,600 pounds, and occasionally, as in 1866, G000 pounds. Again thelr prodyct will fall to 1,700 pounds, a1 in 1872, Tho largost of thoso provinces gives about 1,900 pounds, Tho nmount s yariabls, Dut, on 'tho nverngo, it takes 8,000 pouuds of 10808 to produce a single pound of otto of yoso. Great care in neceasary in the cultivation of tho crop, the business of which ia entiroly in the hintids of tho poasantry aud farmors, who have their stills aud condonsation-tubes at work all tho #eason. In consequence of tho.shortcrop this yoar, tho prico of otto of rose bas mado a g_nnildnmhlu advance in London, Parls, aud Now orls. PUDLICATIONS OF THE HARPERS. Tu tho ** Doseriptive List™ of tha publications of Iarpor & Brothers, thore aro onumerated 61 volumes by G. P. Tl Jamoy, 39 by Charles Ane thon, 49 by Jacob Abbot, 32of the Iistorical Sorics by Jacob and John 8, 0. Abbott, " 83 by Lord Lytton, 29 by Anthony Trollopo, 2¢ by Dligs Mulock, 21 by Miss Edgworth, 17 by Lovor, 15 by Albert Barnes, 14 by Mieg Braddon, 1 by Aunie Thomns, 16 by Afrs. Mary Martha Sher- wood -(tho_nuthor' of 0% volumeu), 19 by Mra. Oltphant, 12 by Lamartine, 18 taxt-boolm} by Loomis, 12 by Miss Sedgwick, 11 by F, W. Rob. inson, 11 by Chinrlos Tenda, 10 by Miss Dromes, 9 by Wilkio Collins, 9 by Dr. I, . Upham, 9 by Miss Gaskell, 8 by Mary Uotwitf, 7 by Cathnrina Deechor, 7 by Dr. Nicholas Murrsy, 0 by G. W. Curtis, § by Bdmund Yates, & by Jawiea Do Mille, and 4 by T, Adelphus Lrollope. COQUETRY AND LOVE. THE COQUETTE'S PHILOSOPKY. Juet a3 the candlo flickers, when swept past, But to glow brighter for the transient blast, 80 passing fuucios uway my lovo for thes, Ouly to fan it to more brillianoy, THE LOVER'S REPLY. What potent words ara theso for thos to wisld, 11y Joalous feara bave almost fled the'fold, Bt ono atill strugyling will not sustor rout,— Wt 1f fome gust shotuld blowo lote’s cundle auts™ —Clurlofte 1', Zalss tn Seribner's for October, el o e ‘MeSiave-Trade Crippled—Sanguinary Itnttles Botween tho Bryptiaas and Darfourtans: 3 Alexandria (sept. 6.), Correspandence of the London Times, Nows has boen receivod of a groat viclory won by the Egyptian traops over an 1nvading farge of Durfourians;” For somo timo past tho Darfour- inna bavo excited the Budouin tribes of that dis- trict againsy tho Egyptians, nnd bivo supplied arme to tho disafiocted. . At lougth thoy dotor- mined to invade Kordofan in force. Their army, amounting ta 12,000 woll-armod men, and cor- manded by s Bultan Asbouns, was oucountered on Juna 17, near a placa:called Kalaka, 'on’ tha frantior of Kordatay, by & faree of 1,600 Igypt- izus armed with Homivgton riflea. | After o sovoro engagemont of two hours the anny ol Darfour was defoated, with a very hoayy. loss in killed aud ‘prisoncrs, Their. com- mauder wnd omong the slain, and. Lis son was captured. Almost 1mmedi« ately after this, tho Sultan of Darfour madoe a freul attack on tho Egyptian frontior with an army (according to tho dispatch) amounting to 20,000 men, many of thom woll-anned cavalry. 'I'ha second biattlo was fought July 2, and lested ono hour end a quarter, whon tho onomy were utterly defuntod, and vigorously followod up till" night stoppod tho pursnit. Tha loas of tho Dar- forinug 1w stated at 1,500 slain and 400 prison- ars 3 600 muskoty, sovon riflod caunon, and a largs number of horses wero captured.. The Egyptians Jost oighteen killed and had sixtoen wouuded, - Strong reinforcoments have beon sont from Cairo, aud it- is neerly cortain that aftor'this invasion the Khoedive will occupy Dar- four and_auunox it $o his duminloun. ' Onc main souroe of tho slave-trade will thus bo cub off, for, Darfour being close to Wadal, which is ono mreat slavo-pregerva, its poople are the graateut slave-dealers fu Cenlral Africa, many of their caravany ovon gaking theic way acrons, tho’ Hahars, through an to ‘Uripoli, Bongazi, and tho porty ou the Maditerrauocan, sud sa via Multn, it I sald, or nlong tho African vozst, to tho differont slavo markots. e A Plucky Engiucers Fram the Adrian (ich.) Tunes, Last Friday uight, in Dikhart, an onglueer, namad Alnele Squires, who rans on tho Alichigan division of tho Luke-Shoro Koad, and is woll kuown along tho lino, nhowod that hawas much wora_thaw ordinactly plncky. During tho dny, Friday, ho arow his_pay, snd some tine duting tha night bo was swakoned by sormo one in his room. Burmising at once that jthoy . were aftor by montl's wages, Bquirca drow a ravolvor and shot ono of thom, insuch a'mannoras to dis~ abilo him, and thon tured ta pay his complimonts to tho othor. ' Tho follow ondeavored Lo escaps, but was told firmly that if ho moved lio would bo borod through as had hoon kis companion, Kuowing that ho hadp resoluto man to doal with, the follow aurrondorad and was hold » prio- ouer untit the arrlyal of ofcers to taka him in ohurge, e names of tho two burglira proved to bo Nolland and BloDonnhne, and found to bo workmen in tho railiond shopa at " Blkhort, MoDonahto, who wus shot, ab lust acconuts wns in 8 precarious condition, the bell having ontorod thro sido, MoDonahus bas: sckuowledgoed that robbory was their objuet, but that thioy woro pre- parod ta commnit murder if that wan nocossary to accomplish their object, A bottlo of ohloroform aud o tazor woro found upon thoir porsons, which :;uuhl §O to vhow thak the maw's utatumont was uo.