Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 14, 1874, Page 9

THE CHICAGO DALY TRIBUN2 e e et g e LITERATURE. . BONGS OF MANY SEABONS: 1862.1874, Dy Ot ¥ra WENDELL 1lOLMER, 10010, Dp, 210, Boston ! James R, Ongood & o, ANTER THE DALL, A¥D OTNHER Pory) PEnxy, 10mo, pp. 19 good & Co. No nutlior In Amerion hos ueed moro veriod nud brilliant gitta for tho entortainmant of bls rountrymen than Oliver Wondell Iolmen. Itis jmposalblo to tell whother as poot or proso- writor Lio bas dono most to amuso, delight, and By Nora Boaton! Jawmow yll. [:3 . ontortain, Io Los writton lyrica of lofty and gtirring epirit, aud s0 musical in flow thoy would sing of thomselves ; Lo has poured oub tendor sontimonts in vorss, that have touchod tho doopest springs in tho Luman broast ; snd hohas roveled and roliicked io humorous rhymes, that wore as hearly and spontanoous as tho Iaugh of # child, and moved to contaglous mirtl 38 oasily, Thon Lo Las producod cesnys that woro unsurpassed in thoir combination of lingiing humor, pnd profound reflection, and cauatic eatiro, and dollcato fooling. Agaln, Bt~ tompting the novolist’s srt, ha has composed tales thai nddod to woll-wrought platand marked charaoterization the mystetioud snd fmpulsive truthe revenied by paychology; sud, inally, in tho domain of pure sclence,ho hus publishod Rovoral valuablo troatiscs on modiclue,—not for- getling a powerful dissertation on the functions ©f tho bratn. In nll theso dopaytments in which ha has worked, ne hne r‘roved Limeolf such & mastor of tho toote tio hus employod, and hos Prodnced suoh exquisito offects with thom, that o muse pronounce him ono of tho fow mon of our generation of undlaputod aud mobile geuius. This lagt volumo which ho sonds out to his friends includes upwarde of sixty pooms swhich Diave originated sloco 1862, The greater part of ‘thom conmists of after-diunes songs, of moemorisl werses, and piccos produced for some specisl featival occasion, wiitton— Not for glory, not for poic ; Hol, ba sure, to pisade myasle Not'for any mmeanor onds,~— ‘Always * by roquest of friends,” Bt Dr, Holmes has a quick brain and a ready hend, and, no matter what or how sudden tho call for their sclion, he {5 ever preparcd to seapond with some flng thoném. or flnsh of wit, got In & polished stanza.' Of the more sobor poems dono “In the Quiot Days,” *Tho Or- an-Blower™ s Yurhnpn the most hnprosaivo. §thas boen widely clrculatod, liko ell tho othors in tho collection, yot wo rend with rouswed Ppleasure tho lines boginning with— But then, with docent mien and face, And olwaya roady In thy place s Thy strenuous blast, whate'er the tuno, A3 steady aa tho strong monsoon Ty ouly dread & leatiory ersak, Or amall residiial oxtra squeak, 80 send along the ahadowy alsies A sunlit wavo of dimpled smiles. ot all tha presching, O my friend, Comen feam tho chugsive pulpit-endt ot all {hat bend the knee snd bow etttk pestormed arighty no e performe: With slender skill, but all lhi mi:‘lfi, Whero honsat labor docs its beat, And loaves the player all tho roat. Thin many-dlapasonsd moze, irough which the breath of being atrays, Whouo muslo males our earth diviie, 3as work for mortal hands liko mine, My duty lies before me, 10, hie lover theral Tako hold and blow! And He whose hand i an the keya Wil play the tune as Ho shall picass, The namo of Nora Perry has boen nssocisted, dariug a little time past, With sowe of tho most motoworthy pooms that have appeared in our magazines, Ouo of the first, it wo mistako not, to arouse attentionm, was tho &mwu!nl pocm, SeAftor tho Ball,” which hid ondor its light and playfal Lines tho eaddest boart-tragedy. Tho wrriter baa been diligent, or she began to make her collection before she appoared in print, for slhe hss presonted hiere nearly fifty separato pieces, Thoy are not all of equaf atiraction,— that weres miracle,—but Lhoy all have sume trace un{f mm chllrm, Cl\nt makos t# not » ut a pleasurs, to run rough the whole of them. Tho poculiar besutica of Nora DPerry's art are lho. supple onso and elasticity of lier verse, tho finonces of hor perception, and tho depth of hor fecling, With owera Jiko thess, we may anticipats, in tho fufim, the production of mauy equal, if not bettar, pocms than the one alrendy mentioned and *Tying Her Bonnet Under Her Chin,"— the two which have galnod their author tho most ropute, Not t0o long to copy, and justly ahowing her merit, 18 tho poem ontitied N AN,!IOUIL ANTIOIPATION. * I taks the orchard-path,” sho safd, Speaking lowly, smiling slowly ¢ Tho brook was dried witlin i1s bed, Tho hot sun fluug o flame of red Low in tho West, as forth she sped. Across tho drled brook-course sha wenty Binglag lowly, smiling slowly : She scascely felf the sun hst epent 1ts fiery forca In swift deacent ; 8o never saw tho wheat was bent, 4o grasse parchod, tha blossoms deled ; Singing lowly, emiling slowly: ‘Her oyes amid the droush eapled ‘A summer-pleasanco far and wide, With roses aud swoot vialets pled.’ 11, ‘DISAPPOINTMENT. But homeward coming all tho way, Siging lowly, pactag slowls, a0 know the bent whest witiicring Iay, £ho saw tho blossoms dry decay, ke misged tholittle brookleth Play. Adrecrobad sprung from out the Bouth, ut, slghing lowly, pacing slowly, Bho obly folt tho buraiug drouth ; 1er oyss wero hot, aud parched Lier month, et 8woot tho wind blow from the Bouth when the wind brought welcome rain, Bl sighing lowly, paciug slowly, #ho neyer saw thio Lifting grain, But onlg—a lono orchard-lane, Whore she hsd waited all in vain, German Universitiens @ERMAN UNIVERSITIES: A NARRATIVE OF PTo~ R0NAL EXPEMENCE, TOOLTHER WITit REGERT BTA- TI8TICAL INVORMATION, PRACTIOAL BUGUEaTIONS, AXD & COMPARISON OF THE GEmAIAN, ENGLISH, %D AMEMICAN SraTas of ILUNER EpucaioN. B Jaxrs MORoAN IIART, 12mo., pp. 48 New ¥ork: G, P, lutnan’s Sous, Aftor Matthew Arnold's scholarly and thorongh work on * Higher Schools aud Univorsities in Germany,"—recently published in Amorica,~a trestise on the pame Bubjecs must show skillful exocation and excellent materinl not to seem in- ferior and suporflacus. There was left, however, whon Mr. Aruold's ablo sad comprehensive re- view of tho system of school-oducation in Ger- many was concluded, room for the supplemon- tary matter which Ar. Hart has un- dertaken to provide. The English writer made wup his yeport. from @ very complote investigation of the histoty sna the practical workingy of the Qerman schicols, and brought & mature judgment and a profound in- telligonco to besr in inatituting inguiries and forming opinfons ; still ho was an outsido ob- sexver, and there would natuislly escape his knowledge, or fail to appear in bia account, many little details of university-life whick would add a practical valua to the acope of our informa- tion. Mr, Hart weg for saveral years & student ab QGottingen aud Borliu, and,from kis ingonuous narrative, we infera faithful and capable one. “Tho atory of his exporienco should bo worth the roading ; should supply us with just thoso itema wo need, and caunot find eleowhere, In & 1mensure, it does what it should, but not to our satisfaction. Thero isa lock of art in the con- atruction, which makes itself avuoyingly folt, Yocause, ir & work that uspires to importance, thora ought to be no such want apparont, First of all, oncouragoed by it title, we look to My, Hart's book for usoful, practical kuowl- ©odge of tho Gernan nuiverities, If ho chooses 1o give it in the way of & history of Lis porsonal expetionce, thore is no objection, But the real, vital knowlodge whicl we oxpect to come at, wo want presentod in & oloar, cuncieo, and orderly mauner, sad to hava it kept uppormost in tho yo- lation, = Now, hero I8 the feilwo of which wo complain, ‘Lhie information for which wo sook the book is not condensed and readyto ba srasped tnetantly, It i so ontangledin a dif- fuso aud nomothodical narrative that it kg tobo icued out with ditliculty; aud who han ime aud patienco to stop aud luut for what Lo wanis, when ho rightfully expects to find it directly undor bishand? Thers 48 such an junwnerable Lot of books uovadays, clalmivg to hsve somoihiug to say 11 worth the atteution, that, lu solf-dofouse, wo are constrained to dethand Hint each communioa- tion shall be mada lu tha fowest words wud in tho dircotcat wanner, Aud especiatly is this zecesary whon tho subjact touchad upon is of cousequénen, and appeals 1o she sducsted sud thoughtful-mnded, who should by the busost peoplo in the uuiverne, t. Hmt pernonully prepossersca us by bils un- donbtod good motve b iupartiug bis Kuowledge oF Gaxman twaveswition, sud by the erruesinoss and modeaty of his demeanor; but we cannob comniend him 28 hoarhily 1awe would, bocausa lio takes too much timo in convoying his in- formation, and boeauso ho his not added to his sludont oxporisnca thnt brond aud oxact re- search and vbservation which are nosdod in dis- cussing tho groat quesiions of national eduentlon, Thoro is muchnood of improvoment Inthe pystem of collogo-cducation in Amerior, Publia thonght hina beon of Iate suxiously considering the sub- Joot, and overy Intelligont *discussion of tho wmethods rrovmllug Liero or elsawhoro is oagorly wolcomed, It is gonerally concoded that tho lan af oducation pursued tn the Cerman schools s suporior to that sdopted i any otlior conutry. England ackuowlodges that her universitics do not graduate men so thoroughly tralned in seholarabip and equipped for practical worlk r do tho universitics of Germany. Thers are many foatures in tho avalom of tho Iattor which Lnglish echolars commond for imitation to the authoritics upou education in their conntry, If Englaud can study with advantago the schomn of the German &chools, how much mora profit may the United Sintow dorive from the snme in- vostigation, Those tutoreated in the matter will recognizo Mr. Imt's sincere contribution to thoir fund of knowledgo, and will only rogrot, 18 we have done, that ft was not more thoxoughly digested and conclsely prosentod. IReport of tho Chicuge Mcllof nna Ald Socletys REPORT OF TIE CHIOCAGO RELIEF AND AID BOCIETY, OF DISHURSEMENT OF OONTRIBU=- TIONR Fbfl TUE KUK RS OF THE ONI- OAGO FIRE, Itoyal actavo, pp. 440, Printed for o Olcago letiet sud Ald'sosily, at o iivsralda a8, This stately volums, in its amplo dimensionn and handsomo accossories, anggests the bounte~ ous charity it commemoratos. Itis ntestimouinl commongurate with tho sublime work 1t momo- rinlizos, It was needful that the rocord of tho Groat Firo fn Chicago, and of tho deeds of benovolonco by which tho calamity was miti- gated, should go out to tha world in n suitable shape, to bonr pormanent witnoes to the divine sympathy univorsally felt for our otrickon city, and to tho profound gratitude with whioh that sympathy {s remombored. ‘ Inthe hour of Chicago'a sudden 2nd over- whelming disastor, evory eivilized man becamo & Bamarilan, aud hostoned to pour oll ov her wounds, and offered her sustonauco until ehe waswoll and atrong ngofn. Tho story hias been roliearod jnnumorablo timos in ovory particular, until it would eeem to havo long grown stalo and unbearablo; yot, when it ia vividly rocalled janorw, 18 in theso cloquont pagoes bofore us, tho heart I8 stirred o its Inmost dopths, and tears will forco themsclves into oyes unused to weep, In momaonts of doprossion, when faith in mankind rnna low, snd goodnoss scems to have deserted the earth, it will ba well to tako down ting vol- umeo, and let it rovive tho recollection of how all mankind moved to one impulso of brotharly kinduese, whon tho nows weut round tue globe that Chicago was beggared and Lomoless. Bocioty—into whoso lands, immediately aftor the Fire, was committed tho onormous work of disponsing to tho suffering the contributions that camo poutiog in from all quartoss, *like the gontls dow from heaven“'—aro presonted in the Roport in & mothodieal and comprohonsive manner. At a glance msy bo gathered full par- ticulars of theamount, ond kind, and time of eid recoived from every placo or person, with the ranner in which it was disbursed. Tho tasl suddenly imposed upon ttie Sooiety, of cdminis- tering rolief to deatitate thousands, was onerons and moee aiflicnlt; but, by merns of systematic organization snd unfiting labor, it was 8oon managed with sigoal efiiciency, Tho racord of the Socloty, which testifics loudiy of the world's charity, slso reflects honor upon its own indus- try and ability, It ia & mattor of regret that ocenslon was Elvon for the sharp roproof that comes from Cincinnati, that no_ackuowledgment of Ler gonorosity ia inoluded in the Ropurt. The nobls contributions—amounting 1 monoy slono to some §300,000—donatcd by ihat city wero nover placed at iho dispasal of the Roilof and Aid Socioty, fhd, thorefore, would mot logiti- mately be montioned in ita rocords. still, this formal and published Report will be out iuto il 1ands, og a statement of what was done by tho world outside, a8 wall as by tho Society itsolf, for the reliof of Chicago; und, on this account, o pluco shoald Liave beon somowhera xesnrved for mention of the gonerous asaistanco rendered by Cincinnatl, An sppemance of ingatitude, whore cerlainly its reality caunot exist, should have beeu carofully avoided. snmucl Lover. THE LIFE OF BAMUEL LOVER, R, II. A.: Antis- 710, LITERARY, AND MUSIOAL, ~WITH BELECTIONS ¥ROM Hii UNPUDLISIED PAPERS AND CORNESTOND- ¥Noz, By BAYLE DENARD, 16mo,, pp. 637, Now York: D, Appleton & Co, When 8amuol Lovoer died, he left bohind kim singularly littlo for the building of & biography. ITo had writton two or threo successful novols, 28 many popular poems, and had mado himself poreonslly koown tothe amusement-going public in Grest Britain and tho United States, byn sorles of original Irisb cntertainments, which bo detivered for a pumber of years in the latter period of hig Jifo. He was o gooial, nccompliskied, tnd versatilo Irishman, with a talent for painting —which ho folloved for a profossion— and for humorous wmting. With his obilities, his posilion in FLondon literary soclety, snd bis wido experience in tne lecture- room, it might bo expeoted that Lis caroor would yield an obundance of intoresting matter for a memoir. But it proves to be not ko, r. Berpard found, on undoriaking to write 1us lifo, fow Jotters aud no papers or uotes from bis own hand, eave a ecanty journsl aud somo scant reminiscencos of his childhood, There wore no personal details of hia wors, anccdotes of bis contemporarics, or recollections of wociety. Nor could hia fomily uunply uny dots from the stores of their momory. The donrth of particulars re- garding his public avd private lifo was surpris- ingly abrolute, Yot Mr. Bernard has not beon discouraged by the dificulty. What was lacking in material he bas made up in enthusiasm, and, bent upon making & book out of tlo romaina of Mr. lover, ho hoa filled its pages with osanyh ond dissertations on litoraturo, bis- tory, and the arls, in genmeral, wud on” Irish literature, history, and art, in particulsr. ‘Lo bulk of the book is composed of **asldes.” Evary opportunicy is seized for o digreesion, and the escapade is prolongod s far as possiblo, Thus wo bave o preat deal of Mr, Iernard, and extromoly littlo of Mr, Lover, wlioh, {n - worlk purporting to bo Mr, Lover's biography, is, to say the least, dissppointing. It may bo wo should regard Alr. Beruard ns o capital fellow it ho wero frankly fo present Lim- folf in Lis own charactor; but, when ba deludes s by substituling his sociotv for that of » rathor popular author wiom ho hee wvited ua to moat, we are wirrantably disafTectod, Mr. Bornard was born in the United Btate: but, since carly boshood, has dwoelt in Bnglnm!l‘ and has, therefore, an Englishman’s misunder~ standing of Amevica, Whis is ehown with par~ ticalur offensivencss when ho nscs the vulgar torm *' greenth,” aud coolly exouncs himgelf by cnllipg 1t ou Americonium, Thero is no excusn for tho employmunt of such & term by a respect. able writer, and certainly no truth in'calllng it an_Americauism. Tho word sounds a8 foreign and berbsrous to Amorican as to English cats, and, it it has ovor follen from o tonguoe or pen 1u this country, it has dropped into puich obscuri- Ly %8 to bo uouoticed, It hascertainly nover ob- tained currancy, nor even u recognition., At tue closo of e biograply of Mr. Lover, thera follows u sories of sclundam Irom bis un- published witings, which aiford a fair example of Lis humor aud facility in description, Christlnnity and Mauhood, CORISTIANITY THE BCIENCEK OF MANHOOD: A Boox Foi QUESTIONEWY, Dy MINOT JUDION BAv- Aug, 13m0, pp, 187, Boston: James K, Qsgood & 6o, The namo of this work is not folicitous, It sayors of polemics und scholasticlsm, and thus vepals, in many cases, the reador thatshould be sttracted; for mothing {8 simpler and moro in- pinuating than the cluracter of tho book lteelf, Its toxt and teaching moy be summed up in the plrage, * Christianity Synonymous with Man- hood,” and this would more approprintoly aud wiunfugly seive as its titlo, Tho arghment of the work ia to tho effeot that perfoct manhood domands the higliest dovelop- mont of tho animal, iutellectunl, sffectional, sod spirituel pature, If sny ouo of theso ewontial factors of & man be either unduly vestricted, or sllowed @ dis- roportionate growtl, the harmony of his being 11 degtroyed aud his anr unpaired, A perfecs umuhum’{um bo aitained only by lmplivit obe- clonca to the law of right: bonco manhood, or manlincas, s identicul with rightnesd, and right- neus i8 only anothor mamo for rolimon, The {rue man w the religiows man, who cumbines n sound body with u vicsr futellect, & toving hoart and o Banving spuclt, 01 all the raligiona which have boon profesacd by wea, Clirlstiauity alove sute us b tiudurd of \deat snisbood, aud kolioitu aud vomumande b R The statistics of the Chicago Relief and Ald nature to nspiro to it. Its contral principls 1e lovo,—love o Qod aud to humanity und this prinolple, mada tho ralo of lifo, cslls out in just provortion tho hizhest physical, mental, affeo- tionisl, and spiriial facultlos,’ It producos » nerfect manhood s is, fu tsct, tho selence by which it is cronzod, I'so doctrine commends {taclf to the Orthodox and the Liborat, It oxalls both Christlanity aud humanity, and elevates noithor at the oxponso of tho other, It includes tho religion which wonld hove man devote himaelf exclusivoly to the aal- vation of his moul, and that which would hnve him chorfsh his human natura aud make tho most of the presont lito. Phe book has paesad thraugh theae aditions, and received hearty approval from the religlons and tho socular prass. Bools RRecolveds LIFE OF THOMAS, FIRST LORD DENMAN, Ton- MEntr Lonp OHiEF-JUSTIOR OF ENGLAND, Dy Hir Josevit AuNoLp, Late Judgo of tlis igh Court of Tombsy, Tn Two Volumes, 8 vo,, pp, 34hand 330, Boston: Haes & Lauriat, THE HEATHERS OF TIIR HEATI: A ROMANOH, INATRUOTIVE, ADSORDING, TiRtLLIng, 1y WitL- 1a3¢ MoDONNELL, Muthof of “ Exoter' 1l ete,, otc. 11 mo,, pp. 48, New York: D, Nenuoti. LOSING TO WIN: A Noyet. By Tiaobonn DA- Yo, 18w, b i07, Now Yorks Siildon k Oo. Tiie S00Ti1gd PUILOYOPIY, DIOARALHIUAL, EXPOSITORY, CINTI0AL: Fhox Husaneso 10 aviLroN, 'By Jases MaCosi, LL.D, . rosident of the Oslioge of Now Jersey, Irinceton, By, bp. 481, Now Yorl: Robert Cories & Drotk-~ ees, AN EXAMINATION OF THE ALLEGED DIS- OREPANCIES OF TO¥ BIBLE, By Joumn W. Haruy, M, A, With an Iutrodnetion by ALvai ovey, D, D,, Prafossor in tha Newton Theologlcal Tusfitution, 12mo., np. 473, Andovers Warron I Drayor: Tost oo & Lauelat, ADVANCEMENT OF SCIBNGE: Tue Inivovmiu Anpnzes oF Poor, JOUN TYNDALL, DELIVERED Di. Fouv 718 BRITia ABSOCIATION FOR TILT; ADVANOR: LN OF ACIEXOE, AT BELFAST, Ava, 10, 1874, With Tortralt anit Diographleal iketéh, OrxaioNs or e Esmnenr Soinstisr, Pnov, . IPLMUOLTZ AND AnTiouxa” oF Pror, UyNpALL AtD 8m rer Tuoxrsox, oN DrAzem, 12 mo, up. 106, Now Yorl: Asn K, Dutts & Co, AMERIOAN 'SOHOOL MUBIO READER, Daoks 1., 10, TUL. J6 o, Bosiou and Now York : Ditaon & 0. Periodlienis Itvcelved. Wa aro {n roceipt of the Young Pcople's 3aga- zine, & now monthly magazino publishod in Bos- ton by Guild & Co., of which U, O. Lavette, 35 Exchange Building, is tho Woatern Agent. It clalma to bo an improvomont on tho Young Folks, which was consolldated with tho St Nich- olas last winter, It s woll printed, aud is fiiled with clioico mattor for tha juveniles. Great Western Monthly tor Novomber (Phila~ flo\th). Jindergarten Messenger for Novembor (Eliza- beth P. Peabody, Cambridue, Mass,), Pelerson’s Journal of Popular Ialeraturs for December (1L Poterdon & Co,, Philadelnhin). Current wumbers of Liltella Living Age (Lit~ toll & Gay, Baston), aud Applelons' Journal (D. Appletou & Ca., New Yorlls. —— THE MUTINEER. Tuar was 8 man who run on_tho Mississipp! as mate Ho wasu't much ot booli-lrahn’, nor e didu't s up late Postin' hisaclf on history and civilization, For litoraburo waen't his favorite reluxation, Lut I you went to his buuk sny tine you could bet Your ll:ut l:{;\t ou fuding the Lay's Lown's an’ Police jazelte. Ha was an hin mueslos somewbat, which is the com- inot complaint With thiom ar Miuslesippl River Loatmen t—thar's few that ain’te An'lie couid et more work out of hls men, eu biled Lams An' h]lnl tack, then any mate from 8t, Louls te Or- eane, 1le voics was ttroug, and Lem up out of his boots Bumethin’ artor {his atyle: * Kem, git thar, you A gulootst? One dl:y Lha aafd to & roustabout who had onto hls uel A four-bushiel bag of corn—rathor Leavy, but it's a ot— Tow that ho thonght his galt wa'n’t oxactly up to rail- yoad time, When {0y gob into a controvorsy~1'l not put it in rhyie, Dut T1 stal thar wan't no moro corn’ carried en that boat that day, Forall lIlm crew was occupied in seein’’em have fair Tisy. They shiook things up lively for the firat thres-quas- ters of nu Liour, An' ramnmed {helr heada right into sevoral barrels of flour, An' thie cort an’ things that wks apilt around on tho lower deck Mado it 100k 0 thovgh 140 boat d atruck & mag an' gone to wreek ; An’this yor mate, who badn't never yit lost o aingle [ Savr thut s chiancon for komin' out st best In thia ior ouo was Nght, So, when Lo found ho couldn® g1t way with that thar ronstabout, < o boguy to git Gneasy ;. thon Lo oussed and hollorad B ut: “8ay, cz you *uns all goin’to stand round this yer Dot xn’ b This Jusubordinatlon 7 I say, yer atop this mutlny " Aw’ that i':: the woral that I've boou tryin' for &) paint: ‘When them mates liok a man it's all right, but when they dow’t it atu't, ~Comnidore Rollinguan's Alinange for 1875, Llow to Aveid 'taking Oold. A cald is simply a doveloper of a diseased con- Qition, which may biave been latent or roquiriog only some favoring condition to Lurst out inte tho flama of diseuso. That this {a usnaliy tho correct viow of cold a8 a diseaso-producing agont under sll ordinary elrcumatancos may be made plain by rotlection upon personal expori- onco ovon to tho most ordinary understanding. When the Gumen body is ab its prime—with youth, vigor, purity, and o aod constitution on its side—1o degres of ordinary exposurs Lo cold gives riso to any uupleasant eifects. All tho or- ginary precautions agomet colds, coughs, and rhoumatic paing may bo dieregarded, and no ill offects onoue, But let tlo blood bocome impure, lat tho body beecome deranged {som any aequired disorder, or let the vigor beogin to wane, and tho intirmities of sge bo folt by occasional derange- menta in somo vitel part, eithior frow inheritod or acquired abuses, sud the action of eold will excite moro or less disorder of some kind, and the form of this disorder, or tho dis- onsp whick will ensuo, will bo determiced by tha kind of pre-existing blood impurity, or tho pre- existing fault of the orgenis processes, It fol- lows from thego faals and considerations that the ecret of avoiding the uupleassut couse- quences thonght to sprivg wholly from the ac- tion of cold upon the body has veiy little de. pendorco wpon cxposuro, but a great dest upon an imoure and wesk gondition of all the vitnl processey, In othiar words, with en svarnge or superior constitution, und &o intotligent observ- nace of all the laws of leelth, mon and womon could not tako cold if thoy wanted to; thoy might be exposed to tho action of cold to n degroo equal to tho Lonst of tho flald, and with liko imponity. But in tho csze of persous with feeblo conetitutions, and , who disrogard, koowingly or othersise, and most fro- quently othormise, tho conditions - of hoallhy existonce, no dogreo of care will prevent the taking of cold, & {¢ is tormed. They may live fu houses ruguluted with all tie precision of o hot-bouse, they may cover themi- solves with Lo most highly-protective clothing thoe market provides, and yet thay will tuke cold. I do not think tho consumptiva porson Jives, or over will live, oven if kopt in o tomporatuie abrolutely uniform, sud clothed in o wholly faultless manuor, in whom tho woll-known signs of ono cold afior suother will not Lo appareat. But, on tbe other band, there are those who, liko the Iate Bir Honry [Iollsud, af good consti= tutions and living in “accordanco with she lave of healtl, may teavel ns ha did srom tho tropies £o the avetie again nud agsiu, clad caly inan ozdi- nary drend coat, aud yeb scarcoly kuow whab it is to izve n cold or 5 hickaces of soykind, The Lruth is, (hat to avoid teking cold from ordinary or uven extrnordinary oxposwro, the vital pro- oosues muat be made Birong enougl to riso abovo the untoward joflupncoe of external coudltions,— The Sandlarian, ———— A Brave Girle A Tiverpool papzr of the 20th ult. mentlons thiat on tho Bunday morning provious o desper- uto encouuter took place beiween a livnuehierkor and a girl 14 yoars of age, nomed Alico Slaok, at & villago nour that city, John Wallwork aud family wout to church in tha forenoon, leaving tho girl and a baby in the house. Tho girl was going tuto the yard for a rug, whon tha mau, who was lylug undor the wiudow, sprang into the houso, seized lior by the throat, and swore ho would murder her it sha did nol tell whera tho monoy was. She rofused, end Lo pushed hor down'the cellar-steps and tlirewa choir nftor lies, Bhogot up and 20und ho wes poing wp stolre. Bho eoreamod and went up afier him, and pulled bitg down by hls fackut, Ife turnod and koooked her down, and pulled her norosn tho kitchon floor by tho bair of her head, e then got o heavy walking-stick from tho lobhy, with which Lie struale Lor twfooon tho head, anud neveral thnes over thoe back, Ho then got her saiost the labby wall und kicked her eyoraly. Bhe screamed aud strigglod havd, nad at lnst ho l-)xtuhed bor lnto tho parlor, shut the door, eud eft tho houwe, having oltainod nothing, On tha provious Friday, the samo mou vaia L0 the Bougs with s big bulidug and said that Mua, Wallwork, who had Junt gunn ont, hud sent hin to got his ton at the hunes, Faa il aen kha: tho doox Lu s fave. FAMILIAR TALK. ART IN DUSHIA. Art In Ruesia {a cherished by tho Govornment with the utmost caro and gouorosity. Potor the Qroat, who toiled, with the sagacity of genlus and with the might of an autocrat, to civllize snd ombellish his Empire, wizely sont Russian youths to Italy, Hollsnd, and other countrios, to loarn paluting, arcbitecturo, aud sonlpture, This practice lina gica his time been coutinued, and arl-studonts who give evidonoe of talont aro furnisbed with o comtortablo support during six yonra of atudy In forolgn capitals. Tho Acad~ omy of Bt, Potorsburg waa ostablisled and on- dowed, in 1767, by Cathatine 1L, who imitated the oxamplo of Czar Poter in patronizing art and ponsioning artlats, Tho institution 18 in poases- uion of such rich funds that it is able to cducate and partaily maintolo 500 puplls, Tho nand- wonio and oxtonsive oditice wuich shioltors lho Acndomy sorves g o regidence for tho Profos- ror, ncadomicians, and others cutitied to its privileges ; and at times not less than 1,000 por- wony ora ncoomwodated undor its roof, In 1820 waa founded tho **Socioty tor tho Liav couragomont of the Fine Arts,” which has been fosterod Dy tbree wuccosslve sovoroigus, It pupports students at tho Academy, Aouds artists o torsgn tinyel, gives commissions to pajuters, and expends&6,000 aunually in tho purchase .of pictures. ‘The Ttussinn. school, though {n ity fn- 1ancy, hos been wondorfully prolific, aml thou- sauds of picturen by native artistaaro djstributed in the palucos, catliodraly, museums, and galler- 108, of Bt, Petarsburg sud Alosdow, 'I'o thosa unacquanted with the astounding progress Russla bias beon maldng in the arts na woll a8 the industrios duriog the last contury, it hos beon o surprise to voe tue large cotloctions of muritorious paintings in hor departmout of tha are gallories at the Intornational Exhibitions iu Lopdon aud Parls, English crities aotnowl- edged Shiat their artiata must yiold tho palm to the Rusiuns in the domaiu of high art, In com- parison with the Freuch scnool, the Russian 18 now gearcoly inferinr, and it has the vigor sud firaof youth to cavry it forward in the future, while the schoul of Irance Is fn ity declino, Count Raczynsls, who gave an epitomo of tha Russian school in 831, enumoarated titty-oigit sriists whose ability eutitled thom to uotica ; aud tho number Liss at loast doublod in the thirly-throo yonss ninco. A lurge fiateruity of talented and trafned ar- tiste dwell in &t Vetorsburg, aod, by constaut and kindiy futorcourse, encourage aud stimuluto oach othor's avilitios, A pleasant feature of tliewr intimaotos §s a clob callod tho Fuiday So- cloty, which moots woekiy on tha dsy rrow which 1t iy named. None but mewmbars of tho brother~ hood are sdmitted, and oach is expociod duving the meeting to produce soma pleture or skotoh, in poucil, eepia, water-colors, or _oils, which is given over to tlo socioty, aud pold for tho beuofit of arcisls noeding cssistence. ‘Lho club meots at the room of gome joember,—oach Ono raceiv- ivg 16 in tum. Tallea tra provided, wita shaded Sampn and artisls’ molesiaty, and ut toose the mewmbors taso theirseats, and, while worktug dili~ gontly ot tho subjoct of shiot choics, Jwdwgo in tho delights of social couvorsation. Stouds of cigarottos aud Havanas ara woattered wbuut the tablos, and glasses of hovtoa cuwoulato during tue ovening. Yownrds 1 o'clock in the. merning s light sup- per 16 servod, which is seasoucd wita storied, and Juisos, and songs, aud sometinies with an oxam- ple of wmiwiory, for which artists gouoially havoe a10to facully. ‘Lhese ovenings are prolitabls fn nauy ways,—promating frioudlicess among tho wrtists, condusing to their social Lsppiness, and assisling those iudividuals of thelr olass who meos with misfortuue or tomporary embarrasy. mont. A prominent member of the Fridsy Society is Zichy, the Doro of Russin, Tbis artis 38 pifted with brulliant sud vo:satile talsats, and by turns ‘¢ wall paiut a boar-hunt or ducorate a fan.” e has powers by which he might easiy ecals tho Lieiglits of art, but prizos tuem too lightly and used them 103 unscrupulously. Tha genius in his piclures compels ndmiration, but it is_not slways rosbraived snd guwided ns 1t should be. Itis ept to run riot in audacions rocklessnees, and give pain and dissatisfac.on where iv should only praduce pure aud perfest plonsure. Zichy is thie favorite of furtuuo asnd the compnnion of Princes, ‘Lhie lite of Rugwian arcisis i8 sald to bo briof, and wubjeot to cocial inflrmities. The artistic temperaont snffers in the cold and gloomy climate of the North. It sooks in artilicial stim- ulants tho excitemond which warm aud suuny Nature herself afforda in moro Bouthern regions. Ilonco the wine-cup is too froquently resoried to, and oxcedaes, witich grow rifo in the hothouse atmospiere of Rassian nteriors, resuls in many Luplesy and untimely graves. THE ICELAAD OF ELDA. The littlo islaud of Elba, to which Napoleon was vainly banished in 1814 by the Allied Powora of Europe, conlaing an aroa of 97 aquare miles, Its groatest length ig 18 miles, and its breadta. varios from 3to 10 unlos. It is moat irrogular in outline, and its const is rocky and precipitous Porto Forrajo, tho Capital, and residenco of the Governor, has o population of 38,0005 white the whabitanis of tno eutire islund are reckoned at nenr 10,000. The climato in the higher Iands is mild and healthy, but on the coast tho neat in summor 8 opprossive, The sirocco, blowing ol _tho bot sands of Afrios, is the scourge of Elba, and, while it pravaus, life out of doors is well- nigh intolorable, Porto Ferrajo i8 an exccedingly clean town, and, thongh its housos aro plain, and it boasts 4t no palacos, it prosents fow fudications of gflverly’. San Martino, the country rosidonca of Napoleon during thie nino mouths of his exilo, is situated 4 miles from Porto Ferrajo. ‘Cho road thithor is desolate, &nd tho houso itsolf occupies o gloomy location. Itisn large, square build- ing, with no pratongo to architecture, nnd stande in & deep ravine botweon two fir-clad hills. When Napoleon loft tho island, ho bequoathed bLis library of sev- eral thousand volumes—among which wero many costly editions of valuable works—to the munici- pality. But tho generous gift has not boen ap~ preciuted, Many of the books have boen lost, aond others have boen suffered to porisls from mildew and tho raynges of worma, Thorom- nont that still exist lio unusod on thoir sholves, and, indoed, can bo scon_only by special favor, Deapite this negloct of his parting legacy, the Eloaus gratofully treasuro the mamery of Napo- loon, whio, whilo he was upon the isinud, mani- fusted tho warmost interost in tho people, nnd did all that was possible for him to improve their wall-beiug. 'The mincral wealth of Elba ia tnoxbaustible. Ity jron minon are the richestin Europe, aud, could the ore bo smeltod either in the iutand or onthe adjocont coser, it would supply the dee mands of the whale Continent, But thescarcity of fuel renders thiy imposeiblo. ove than o third of the island is covored with olive woods, vet tho trees have 8o dogonorated from laok of cultivation s to produco kcaraely 150 barrels of oil ounually, Tne Elbans are uuskiliful bus- bandmen, aud tho crops which thoy-raiso ara seanty, mud inadequats o their own wants. The aren of pasture-landissmall, Goatsbrowsosmong tho rovks, aund shoep pick a poor living on tho Jow lunds. 'he breed of Elban horass is oxcel- Jent. Tho animals ave diminutive,—some of thom hardly largor than & dog,—sud their coats are ghoggy: but they ars floot and sure-footod, Tho {uland is iutersected by threo chaine of mountainy, which give & great diversity of wild sud pictucesque sconory. Monnt Calamita—n promoutory extonding far into the sea—containg #0 lareo o quautity of londstone am to causo & doviation of tho noedle in ships that pass near the coust, Elva i3 famous for fly tunny-flshery, whioh yielde an anuusl profit of about £20,000. Tho nets in which tue flsh aro takea are fastoned to boats ast in a large ciccle, and are ellowed o remain undor water for four or six weeks, Whon tho haul 18 mado, the boals draw iu to the centra of the oirels, and, as Lho not approaches the sur- fuce, the elrugglos of tho capturod fish prow furious. Thoy leah right avd lofe with thelr tails, aud, in thelr dylug agonies, fall upon each other until the wator {s dyed witis tholr blood. JMany of them sre of large'sizo, and waigh from 250 to 800 pounds, 'Tho vintagos of Llbs ara alao profltable, 100,000 barrels of wino being ox- ported annuaily. 1RA ALDRIDGE. During the wintor which M. Theophilo Gautier epont in Russla,the celobratod nogro notor, Ira Al- dridge, was pluylug at che Grand Theatra in St Yotersburg, e croated lmmenso onthusinam in that critical Oapital, and 1t was necossary Lo nocure roats ot his performonces some days ba- forchand, [Hin firat appoorauce was in the char- acter of Ulhello ; and, with * his oyes half-shut, u6 if dazaled by an Atrlcau sun, bis nonchalant Orlental boaring, and that nogro gait which no Luropean oan imitnts,” he was, according to M. Gautler, tho very roalizaliou of tho Moor of Shaksponro's conception, ‘Lhe troupe withwhom nio played was German, and road Hebillor's traus- lation, while ho spoke tho text of Bhakapeore, {Tis manner throwgbont tho play was modorata, ay it **ho wished to appear wis civilizod we o white man " and M, Goutier judgad that ho had more alont Ll oI, UKo dun wlogsa that Ingpitas oy Bue Lo pludaved 68 fulwiouso 1prgysion | 1 ‘SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1874-TWELVE PAGES. e nnon bis sudlonce, aud recolved ondless rounds of_applawen, In tho charactor of Ring Lear, tho nogro tras fedian wore & flosh-colorsd skull-cap, from whicls o fow silvory locks floatod, and which camo down to e oyelirows. A wax ndditfon wan mads 1o lils flat nose, a coat of thu covorod hia chooks, # whito board concealed tho lower part of his Iaco and £2)1 upou his breast,—aud the ilusion wag complate, No ouo wonld have drenmod that, in this purlontl.rnlmu]n(.ud gulss of tho Kiug, thera stood o black man, Bat, from & strango aud queationnble foeliug of vanity, the actor re. tainad tho native huo of his hands, and thoy ap. peared bolow his coat-slooves to g(vn tostimony to his Aftioan orlgln. M, Gauttor rogardod his porformance of King Lear as much saporior to that of Othello. *Ifo had supor owlbursts of indigoation and fury,” says that writer, “mocompanied by aitacks of wenkness nud sonile trombling, snd 8 vort of Aomnolont babbling, a3 ono would expect in sn old mou, Mlmost n centenarian, passing from idiooy to'maduess, undor tho woight of futolor- ablo woes. Ono &uu&; 1n tho porformanco W romarkable, ahowlng how perfoct was tho actor's mastory over himsolf. Although s man of robust straugth, and in the Hlower of his ago, Ira Aldridiro never, through all tho uvnnlu{(. al- lowed ono youthiful motion to escape bim; volco, step, and gosturo, slt wore those of ex- troma old age,” Homoilofl, the groat Nussian actor, Tear and Ollello at the somo Hmo ot 4y aoder Thnatre, and with great power. Io s an artlt of nucommon gitts, performing in tragedy aud como 1y with the sama ability, ASIE neting is roprescnind ag unequal and capricious, but at timos sublimo and full of flashes of inspiration, o' drow Iorge housos, but was leas popular than Ire Aldridge, who wastho idol of the hour. GEBNAN STUDENTH, As an illustration of tho thorongh iraining which ke Gormanschosls give their studonts, Prot. James Morgan lart describes, in his re- cont work on education in Gormany, tho attain- menta of u couple of unlversity-men whom Lo kaew. T'his firat was bue an average atudest, o playod o Alex. youth of 28 or 2. e wroto Grook vory rapidly, using abbroviations not unlike the ligatures in iho aditlon s of the slxtecuth contury, In fact, lio had a Groek hand, and Olled in ‘the accents aftor wiiting, o8 one crossos his I's and dots s #'siu Knglish. Aa to the Greek nad Latin geam- oaxs, ho b.ad them at his tongue's end, snd never hesitatod for a ruls or an excoptton, o kuew onough of Habrow to read tho Q14 Testnmont with the vowel-points, and of Bauscrit to read thoe oplopriatry fluently, He was a fair scholar in ‘modieval Qorman, was well yersed in nanclent and madorn history, sud was an oxcolle ot pianist, Yot he was by no moans a bool-worir, and enjoyoed lifo s it passed, For hia dissort stion, presented on his examination for the doitorate, bio took for s topio tho Greolk of Euripid o8, and studiod not oniy the toxts of that nutho r, but collatod the stray fiagmeunts of tho dramat {st seattered throagh the writings <uf other authors, particularly tho quotations con- tained in patnstic Grook. Graded after tho Americon fashion, this stondent would bave raoked lenth iu a class of ono hundred. o bad nos genins ; meroly talent and fndustry. 'Tho second slotch 18 that of o student whose rank was ;1 mong tho frat, At 26 e had yressed a vear {u )7ranco and two years fa Eoglaud, and spoke the languazos of hoth countries with sase and preciwion, Tl could slso convorso comfort- ably in Ito) ian and Spanish, Ho was o favorilo pupll of Esald in Porsinn, Hebrow, and Arabic; and tho most promising youug Sanecrit schoiar in Germaunyt. In additioa to this, his sttainments ip Latin sud Groek wero of o high order, Ho was appoiiied Profossor of Orientnl Lisugaages at Queen'n Colloge, Bombiny, end within & year commencad the publication of & loug and care- fully-cditad scrios of valtable Sansortt texts, e gy BARRY CORNWALL. Bz Dean Sm: Isend you some versca writton o day pluco oy rexding Charlss Lamb's souuct to you, and remembsering What you sald (n joat) o Mr, Hay: ard Tuyloraiad myself the otler day ubout your pope try Delug no.v foss known that. it lind been, ~ My tribe ute In leas we xth having, bus ndt less sincere ; 0 por~ hsps you will take it oud excusy i 48 what it 13, en fine promptu, Yoours very truly, ALaEnuon 0, BWINBURNE, To B. W, Pri) cron (Barry Coxt.wall), Bept, 1, 1849, In vain 1 tn tell us time con alter 0id Jovea or ke old memiorles faltor, ‘Tizat w14 b tho old yeac the ol &va:r’a life closen: ‘Tho old d et stili faiis un tho oid awe:t fowers, Tho old 811 1 rovlvea tho now-flalgod Lowrs, Thy old ¢ Wmumier reara tho Maw-orn rosos, Much more 18 buso that bears upon ier Haiment aa0:d wroath aud slowor of honor, Gatherad long minco and fong sinee woven, Fades nol. 1o falls as full the vernul Blossowa ¢ bk Leat no fruit ctorual, + By B ot ot wintor charrod or dloven, No timo 1 sts down, 1o timo upraises, Buch loves,. sueli inemorlos, and wuck pralags, At need ' (0 grace of sun or shower, No saving & ereen 1rom [rout or thunder, o tend r: ¢ bouso sro.nd and tnder ‘Lo fmpn xtishiobls and proriess slower, 0! thanka, old thouglts, old aspiraiions, Outlive we. 14 iives aud Mfvea of nutions, Do.d, bul: for one thiug Which sursivis— The falien v blo and ungricyd trewsurs, Tho old Juy of power, tho old pride of plessura, ‘Tiat liva s fn'light abovo men's lives, A. O, BWINBURNE, g Fluizging Schoolboys. L i A ppletow’s Journal. ‘Wo once kutar & mun who set out to write a book entitled ** Podagogucs Who Ilave Flogged Me,” That b ok contained eowe of thoe livaliost recollections 0.1 bis lito, Tiwe, witb all-eMncing npouge, had » abbed out overy ramombrauce of tho *sums ” b s unod to labor through ; bis histo- ry-lessons liad : retroated into tho dim paat, until thoy mingled ti. omsatves with fablo and tragition in unresolvablzr sebuln ; his speliing-book bad been throwa to thte bats snd tho owl and ko ouuld no longer® p:and up against *sibyl” and “gurcingle;™ bu.t tho impressions of his” numer- ous tloggings ¥ imained, 1o had clussified his subject into 1) oliborata Floggors,” * Pusaionate Floggara,” “M'loggers for Fau,” * Malicious Tloggors,” *T) oggors with a Prologue,” and 4 Puntomimic ¥l oggors.” Ho wrote rapidly, for 1o hnd & good ccmmand of langusge, and was never in waut off fucts. Dut, aftor a whilo, he bogan to grow ivervous, and, beforo ho had fimehed a bundre d pages, ho was an scute sulfer- or. I{e could focl the old wolts rising again on Thia back in ono vast smarting, tineliug, throbs Dbing net-work of :vawnasy, Droad blisters nctual. Jy came out on th o palms of bishands. Several cimes o upsot th @ tablo and spillod sha ink over his manuectipt by suddenly jerkiug up his knees, 08 if somebody, w ithia lash, had cat ab bis bore sukics from behic d, 1o could nover hoar nstep besldo lum withent jnvoluntarily dodging bis liead and protoot jug it with his raised elbow. T'he gtrain upon L us uorvous systom becamo too great, and ho wos obliged to dosist, Taat meou- Herpt iw ko tho window fu Aladdin's tower—no mortal mau can & vor finish it Bug, if it were ¢ o be flatshod, it would not be complete without womo account of agchoolmaster in Huobin, who ba. 6 just retired, after toaching, or at least flapzing e nd torturivg for lifty-one yo.u, e would huva to be put into o clacs by hitasell, ontifled tho * Bta distical Flogger,” for Lo Lopt oo accuratoacoout it of all tho punislunents bo in- flictod throughout thehnlf-contury, llera sratio graud totals, wiuch ho lins footed up with oqual pride undt particuls wity : 911,600 canings, 121,000 loggings, 409,00%! custodivs, 10,200 ear-Loxos, 22,700 tasks, 1506 ti ps with rule, 700 boyw csnsed to stand on poss, 6,000 to staud on shorp-odged wwoud, 5,000 to womr Lho fool's-cap, 1,700 to bold tho rod; total, 1,183,036 cages of puviahmont. This {s an avorage of about ono huudrod a day, or mora than one uvery tive minutes, o must havo thrashed tho t'oys, on many oocasloos, by platoong. One can Iningino lim goitiug Bo gb- #orbod in his growin,'s census of martyrs that ho would oftex muttor ¢y himuolf on Butirday morn- ing, Yunuing bis oye ¢lown the column, xnd add- ing it, ** Tmuse flog & Ixty-four to-day, in order to make up ou even Av7o hundred this woek " -— he iRours at Wiilch Deuath Occurs, In s popor contributea’ by Dr, Laweon to tha Weat-Rigiog Asylatn Mettieal Roparts, Bagland, for 1874, suvecal intercsti nyy obsorvations sre re- corded voxurding the numwer of deathy whioh oceur during tho dilfercut | tours of the day, Fols lowing up the researches oi” Hohneider snd othe ors, who bad shown that ths: greatest numbor of denths tuke place during the1\nte-meridian hours, Dr. Lawson hus boe ablo tio detormme niora closoly the timo of day when the greateat sud Joast uumbor of denths ocorw, Bupplomenting the stutiutics of other instituions by thoso of thoe West-Tiding Asylum, ho #inds that deaths trom chronic discises are more humerons botween tho hours of 8 and 10 in the wmorning than any other time of tho day, wiilo they ato fewest botwaou tho hoursot 8 and 10 in the avening. lutho cass of uoute digenses, mich as continued fevors, pnes'monia, ete,, o dif- terant rowult hug been obiaio od, Followlng up what biad beon pointed out by othier authoritied, Dr Lawson showa that tuo largost mmbor of deaths from this clags of ditiuses tokus placo oither In tlo carly morning, 'whon the poaeis of Nl aro at their lawest, or in tho aiternoon, when acute disenss is mosc nctive. The vevir- rence of theso definite dmiy: veristions in the hourly death rtowo v showi, in tho oaso of ohroniv diseasos, to be dopeadont ou recusring variations i tho enorgies of orgauio Jife; xnd I tho eas of noutediseasey b hu causs fa wiortbocl elthor to the exwiunco of &, well-uorked dally extremo of bowly doprossic p, ora dally maxis mum inteusity of soute diava ko, SPARKS OF SCIENCE. PIRATLOAL PLANTS. In previous article on flesh-osting plants, wo havo statod that Mr. Darwin, tho ominont English Naturslist, is about to publish tho ro- sults of an extanded sarica of ohaorvstions on o Dionea Muscipula (Vonus® Flytrap), Thin is tho most Intoroating of tha ssvoral specios of tho vogotable kingdom that ara in thobabit of de- riving a part of thelrsustonanco from tho juices of luscots, Au Important pointin tho bistory of his plant romainod ungottiod st the conclusion of Mr, Darwin's oxporiments, It was withregard to tho power of & siugle leaf to eatch and digost mors than one insoct. The question has boen doflnitely answored by Mre, Mary Treat, of Vinoland, N, J., a oaroful and trustworthy ob- morvor, Blho Lns communicated the history of Ler oxperimonts to tho'New York Tribune, {rom which we condoneo the following ¢ In May lagt, Mira. ‘I'ront recelved thirty fino apecimens of the Dionaa from Wilmlugtan, N. C.,—tho only known locality whore ths plants aro found, Ble immediatoly placed thetm in sop- arato pots, numboring each, and regularly thore. aftor dovotod o (avge portiun of each day to ex- perimonts with them. We linve already desoribed tho Dioawn, but will repeat that it grows to the hoight of from 2 to 6 tuchs, with leaves spring- ing directly from tho root, - Each leat i crownod with an appondage resombling an old-fashioncd steol trap, oud with the amno kind of action, At tho touch of v insect on its innor surface, 1t closes with & guick spring, ond almoat invariably whuts upon a vietim. Wuen it opoos, nathing remaing of the prisoner but a little buadla of dry bones. 1t bus been killed, macerated, sud con- sumed, Mra, 'Treat reports from her observations that, & counidoralle numpor of Jooves captured tureo flies fn succession, slthough most of them bnd not streugth to digost the last ono, Fiva of thom opencd in an apparoutly hoalthy state after digosting tho third i1y, but died soon sfter clos- iug upon the fourth,” The plants wero not ro- sericted fn their diet, but fed indiecriminatoly upon fliey, besties, bugs, spiders, aud millepeds, Yrisonors which Mrs, Lroat liberated after two or thrao hours' incarceration appoaved uniu- jnrod, and, attor a moment of dumb surprise, 1lod with the utmost slacrity. Iuscots loft tu the rap twonty-funr bours, alihough often alive at tho ond of that time, novor reauvered. Though cloansed carofully by Mrs. Froat, of the slimy liqud envoloping them, thoy died in every in- stunce. When the deddy-long-logs dropped 1uto the trap, their protracied lmbs, which could not Lo ontively salien in, would show sigos of lifo for twonty-four or thirty-six Loutd. ‘Fho loaves required, on tho avorage, seven {o naturalists, but kian boen notod moro fraquen ly in Jurope than in tho United Hhumfl u,mb‘; “army-worm" undor notiea was probably coms rosod of {ho larvio of n ily belonging to tho gonua Svigra. Theso larvi, or worma as thoy would bo popularly tormed, hiave a curfous pro~ ponsity ta cliny togother in deuso mausos; and, when fully grown, they occasionally march in Erocnuslonn rovoral faot long, 4 or § (nohos rond, aud hialf an nch in thickuess. The Gor- mang givo thore snnko-like maesos tho uawo of Brot. B E, Cop doseriy rof, D, E, Copo dosoribes, In & paper ine clidod in ths protondinga of Lo, Thuagaiplin Acadomy of Natural Bcionces for 1807, o procoss. lon of a Bpeoles of the eiara, which was obearve od In Soptombor, in Chostor County, Pennayl- vama, This company (consisting, by rongh ostituation, of about 2,100) oxtonded over n Jongth of mbout 23 Inches, with breadth of from throe-fourths of an {nohat tho thickdst part, toabout onuAuthtu of an tnch at tho hoad, and " one-tanth ot the tall; fivoor six worms deop fu thickor parts, Thoy advanced nt the rate of 4 inched In fivo minutes, the hindor onocy working tholr way ovor the top of tuo rost.” ‘I'heso Jarvio wero about ona-hislt of an inch long, semi-teansparont, aud with black heads. The snmo absorver anw anothor procesaion, July 8, which was 6 foot U inchies long, Similar traink beve boen mcen by difforont porsons o this country. 'Thoy are ponerally postored in thoir maxch by auts and other predacoous insgcts. COLUR IN FLOWERS, The fallowing I8 ourrent aa *s curious fact:" ' 2n English writer snye ibat the *Throe pris mary colors—red, bluo, and yellow—are hot found puro in any spocics of flower.’ - T'hus we Lavo red and bluein the fuchsis, but no yotlow; yollow aud rod {n the voss, but no blue; bluo aud yellow in the pansy, but no red; aud so on.” Tlorists have tho art of changlng the cofors of many flowors at will, thereby producing an onde lous varioty of shades, as in the tulip and deniis. But thoso "flowors which have yollow fo: thes type oan nover bo ohanged to bluo; my, agam, the tulip aud dahila, which -in_thowr natlve state aro yellow, A blue tulip, a blue dublia, and a blua ross, hava not yot been reckoned among the florists' trinmple, Nor can thoso flowers which havo bluo for their type bo chaugoed to yellow ; a8, for Instauce, the geranium, Do Caudolio dividos flowers by thoir colors in- to twoserios, called Hanthic and Cysnid, In tho that are such na have yollow for il type, and are capablo, of varying to red nud white, but DOL Lo biuo ; in tho votony are thoxs which hava blue for their tpo, and may vary to rod snd white, but oot to yellow. Buth series begin with rroen—composed of blue aud yellon—~and ond in red, thus: days to digest soft-badiod luscols, aud & longer timo to digest boetles nud othor creswuros in costd of armor. Mey 5, two loaves closed upon hossa-ftics 3 Xlay 12, Lhoy finished their feast and rooponed thoir traps. May 21, o 8t ong loaf cap- tured o homoptorous insoot (Afelapodeus na- salus), about tho size of & Bquask-bug; Juno 6, the lonf oponed agaiv, vnd notbiug was loft of the Lug but ita shull, It will bo ssen that four- toan duys wero occupled in disvosing of thisin- soct. ‘Tho shelly caveruq{ of ibo beotles resists tho action of tho flu'u whick tho }eavos pour out in_ordor to dissolve tuem, 3 “The traps pretty nearly bad their match fn tho rose-bug (Macrodactylus eubspinous), which wouid gumeties force ity way out botween their clasping teesh or spluce, 'Tlen, again, it would crouch ¢loae on the bottom of tho trap, in order to bida, nccording to it8 habit, and woull boim- nrisonod effeciually. Nine of theso poor beotles Mrs. Tront helped tho louves to encomb, but ouly a ginglo leal was strong onongl to digost ite vietim ; thio other eight died in tha effort. Uhe strongost plant in the collection caught forty in- seots botwoon May sud October, and digasted most uf thon, The samo sot of leaves, howover, did not do all this worit. They were conatautly dyiug aud bomng resewed. At oue time there woro thirteen sirong lesyes on tho plant; and Qet. 22, at the tiwe of writing, thore were gevon, threo of whick woio closed upon flies. Nono of the plants were allowed to flower, as 1 this elfort tholr vigor wonld L:ave diminished, Mra. T'rent 8ot down one dny and Iukerted tho tip of Lor liftio tingor in une of the trapy, mesn- iug to hold it thero for fivo hours at least, snd vecord observatious. In lesa than fiftoon min- utes the prossure was considerable, and for moro thau o hour it continued to incresse, In loss than two hours sho wes obliged to give up tha exponment on secount of sovero pain in the arin, aithough et position wag porfeotably com- Torrable. On removing hier finger, she discov- arad that the slimy secrotion had bogun to issue from the trap, Alhough this fluid was tound coplonsly anveloping an ingeot a{tor two or threo days’ nnprisonmont, when tho traps opened nt tlo closo of their meal thoro was never any pros- ent, it baving been, no doubt, absorbed 1wto the circulation, BIG TREES, The largest and oldest trees in the world are the Baobaby of Africa and Australin, Thero are two species,—the Adansonia gregorie, which is pocubar to Auatralis, and the Adansonia digilata, which abounds in West and South Africa. The trees do not rise to nn excessive height, but at- tain an enormous circumferonce. Sovoral havo Dbeen moagured which had o girth of frem 70 to %7 fect. A fow foet from the ground, the main trunk gives off immenso brauchces, which oxtend horizontally from &0 to 100 feet. 'The ontiro troe has the appearancoof a perfoct homisphere, —sometimes belog 100 feot in height nnd 160 in clrcumforoace. A group of those weos crown- iupg ite hendlands, gives nomo to thoe Capodo Vo:do Islands,—* Graen Capo.” Tho Baoiab doos not attoin its full growth until it 18 800 yours cld. Adaneov, tha butanist aftor whom the gonus was named by Linnwus, ealoulated the nge of the traes by an Inecription winch ho discovered fu tho bark of ona on tho Cuaype do Vavda Islauda. The jvecription was out in the difteonths_coutury, and 500 layers of wood lad growu over it, Comparing tho'thickness of theso with that of trees whosa age was known. ho arrived at an spproximate kuowlodgo of the age of dilferont specimens. **1Io has found,” says Humboldt, *for o diametor of about 80 foot, a1 ngo of 5,100'yesrs,” Accordivg to this, therd are Hoobaba 1rom 5,000 to 6,000 years old,— hoary patrincehe whioh word in thoir vigorous and juaty pumo when tho Pyramids wore build- ing, o woolly losves of thio Backeb hove from thres to yoven loaflots radiating from a common coutre. Thoy dcop from the treo during the hob and dry summers of tho tropical regions whero they grow, bus put forth again in tho rainy sca- von, Which Justs from December to Juno, The flowers of the Daobub are whito and vary large, somowaas resombling the mallows, and droop ou stoms a yard in length, Tho honey which the trecs muke from them ly greatly cnteomed by the Abybsintung for its porfumo sud tlavor. Tlo frait of_tho African Baabab in of the size of cit- rou, aud ig often cslled *‘monkoy-brend.” Tho shell passes iu ripauing from groon to yeliow and brown. Tho interior is filied witl & spongy, Jjuicy substance, of o pale-ohocolato color, Is iy wlightly acid snd plensant to tho tasto. Tho ox- prossed juice mixed with sugar fo lughly valued 08 8 bevernge, being verv rofreshing and effeci~ val in quenching thirst, and pessossiug inedicin- ol qunalitios which roundor it & specilly 1 putrid ond pestilental fovers, ‘I'bo Baobubis emollient and mucilaginous In all ity parts, ‘fho Afrjoans dry and reduce tho lenves to powder, which they sprinklo wpon heir daily food, for the purposs of diminlshing the oxcessivo Puxanlm(on to which thoy are sub- jectn o torrld climate, Buropeans algo flad this powdor useful in cases of dirbes, fover, and otvor maladles, Iu Egypt, the driod su_)p of the fruit is auxed with wator wnd used iy dysentory, ‘I'he Africans rogard the Doobab with super- stitious veneration ; and woll thoy inay revero s tree which for coutury after century supplies them with food, and drink, and modicine. = The hollow trunka of tho troes are used Ay places of vepulture, of oncampment, aud 8a mogazines, Howo of thom ave go large a8 to adwmit 240 men in their luclosuro, I'he Australian Daobab is ravely found boyond 100 miles fsom tho coast., 1k ocetrs wost fro. quently on tho Glenelg River, It flourislos bost on lovel, sundy traote, Ita fruit is smallor than that of the Afzican spocios, buk 1a hlght{ prizod by tho natives, who niako ureat uss of it. Who Gorman setilors on the Orangs River call thiy feuit, from it acld taste, ¥ Croam of Tartar." M ATMY-WORMS." A newspaper-corrospontlent describes a cuvi- ong phonomenon which recently ol under hiu ovsoryation, s attentlon was atlractod to s uualio, or **urmy-worm " as he called it, which wus soout 10 foos in lengeh, au fuch through in the middle, and taporing gradually to both ends, It woe moving along slowly; but, ou coming toa atouo, what was the obsorvol's amazemont ot sacing the Jiend divide iu two or threc, aud sub- sequontly reunito into one. Ou examinlog this fiydramnendud sorpent more closely, it proved to Lo made of an fnfinite numuer of emall worms, ahout threo-oighthof auinch long, sndnot thicks or thun & pm, Tho exuenntics of the sunko tapered down to o Binvle worm. On this two or thtoo were lay Rua for two-thirds of fca lengil, On those uti!l olhers wore lupped, und go ou until tho whole thickucss was attwned, which oxtend: od novoral feot, ‘Al puswsuisenon da not unique, K¢ ie known Bine-groea, Tellowgrees, Bive, Taollow, Dluoviviet, Yelloworange, Violet, Orange, Viowvred, Orangered, Red, A gonus may include difforent species belon; ing to duforent sories, or the din‘ar‘:nt pmm%xg; {lowor may bolong to tho duferent sories. ‘Tho geuus Viola inctudos yollow aud blue violets, and tho pansy combives yollow and purplo or viclot potula, ‘The color in tha fucbsia and the pansy, which tho English writer cited above calls blue, 19, du tauth, purple or violet. MARMLESS NETTLES, Tt Lias boen ascertained by accident that, jme modiatelv aftor a strong wind, nattles are com- paratlvely barmless, Some Fronch laborers, baving occasfon to work ina field fofested by this noxious woed, on a day succeeding a severs wind-storm, found that thoy could haudle the nottles with impunity, Tholr sting Lad lost its viralenco. M. Naudin, in expisining the occur- 10nce, atates that a strong wind atimulates the oxbaiation of the poison in the stinga of tha notttlo, and aflor a time tho entire store secreted by sbio plant will be complotoly exhausted, Sucl was tho caeo in the inetanca recorded. truth of the siatement is supported by (he fact that, cight days aftor the guie, tha wettles had retilied tholr sacks of poisou, and wore 28 vicious 28 over. SULPHUR TN ICELAND. Immenso beds of sulphur have baen diseow ored in Icolnnd. As the Italisn minos Lave, ac cording to tho lest accounts, becomo nearly ex- hiausted, the now deposits will effect & materi change 1n the sulphur trade, An Englishman, nauted Looke, hus purchased six square miles In the region adjoinimng Lake DBlyvator, wherd mountas of noarly kolid sulphur exist, whoae yollow hue s discerniblo at o groat distance, LOUGTER-FADA. A lobster-farm lLias been suosessfully estab. lished in Buston. On tho seaward sido 1t is closed by Lanks, having hatolies or sluices, 8o st to admit of the tlow and obb of the tdo, Forty thoussaud lobsters, of sl sizos, were ptantod here iu the summer of 1873, and,in tha winter fol lowiug, 10,040 wore soid —_— APHORISMS. (Fyom the **Dhammayada,") Like a flower with flame wtence, Which gives no odor to t aene, Are thoss who speak flue words with grace “Lhat n their actions have uo placa; But ke » lower with beauty raro, Whoso strengtls is borne on overy ats, Ate thiose who speak the bivheat will, ‘And speak not anly, but fuldll, Tho sweatest scents, 'tis understood, Oll of Zsgara, sanddl-wood, And flowers in thickoned bds, or thinned Aro wafted not ogainat the wind; But Virtuo's odora overthirow ‘I foreo of all tho winds that blow, Aud, whoso lives In trath and grace, All Yenlma kuow hin abiding-place, As thio lily over rubbish (irows Iis marvelous arniy, 82 Kuow edgo over darkuess ita splendor doth display, =Jeel Livnton {n the Chritian Unon, —— fhe Domecratic Victory and tho Erice of Butters From the Albany Journat, Nov, 5, We heard a story yesterday in regaid to a cons flding Democrat, an hooast, simple-iainded Ja- Lorer. He attendod 2 number of political mest- ings duripg tho compaign just olosed, and sval- lowed, with unquestioning faith, all that ths Domooratic orators told bim asto the Intimate Yolation oxieting betwoon hard times and Ite- publican rulo, and, of coucse, drew tho infer- once that the election of Mr. Tilden meaut timea Jjust the opposite of hard. Yosterdsy moroing, bayving mastered the election nows, Lo soized o plate honded luim by lis esteemed lelp- mate, and, In socordanco with her re- quesf, hled lhim to a mneighboring grocery store, and roquested to ve sorved with @& coupile of pounds of thoir bast butter. The en- orgetic and urbsue clerkk in ottendanco lost no timo in placing it upon tho proffered plate. Thon, while Lo was iu tho act of laying s deli- cato glioot of whito papor on tho top of tho but- ter to protect it from dust on Ita way to ita des- tination, the pucchoser asked what there was ta pay. The energetic and urbaue young clorlk, who was quick nt figutes, raplied: #'T'wo pounds nd 48 conts & pound—90 cents.” At these words the faco of the oustomer, which up to this point had boon wreathed with the smtlos which the election nows had invoked, bocame ovarspread with au oxprossion of maton- fshmont and _soger, For a moment or so his emotions rondered him spoochless, and then n & 1oud voico ho broke forth: “ Forty-ata ciuta! O, musha, mushal The devil fly hway wid yo; woen’t that what yo was after chargin® mo Munda ?™ 1110 urbsne clerks oxplalned that hig customer was right—ho had beon chaiged 48 ceuts rer pound for tha beost Lulter on Monday, and tho prico in the meantime had uadvrgone no varia- ton, “Did yo take a squint at the Argus this morn- ing, mae by ? queried the excited pasty besore the counter, at tho samo time oxliblting to the Razo of tho clork a copy of thnt sloot freighted with Domocratic victories, Thointelligent clerk roplied that Lo had scon the Argus, aad added that he was much olated at tho nowe. “¥o'vo soon the uows, yo ssy that 2" "Yes, sir; P'voseen tho nows.” Aud yo's kuow that Tildern Is eloctad 27 WYey, sir; 1 an awaro of that fuoc,” “An' Mr, Tildorn eleoted ye'ze chnfiln‘ ms forty-ato conts o pound for butter, just the sawe a8 un Mundu." "Iho oleris, as good humorod a8 hie was urbane, expluived_that tho election of Alr. Tildeu had not the sligatest effecy ou tho butter miaikot. The too~confidg Domocrat hung bis Liead a inomont and thon handed out 90 conta in full for Lis batter; and thon, os ho passod out of the grocery, pltelied tho Argus into tho gutter. pastidinl i o strange Effcot of Matrimony. Pho Parln cotrospondent of the London Daily Telegraph wyitos : ** A slrsuke lucluent s roport- o from Lyous, of whicl £ firat heard somia davu ago, withont arodiiing it. On the Gth Untover tivo young pooplo were marriod fu that sown, Withiiu » faw hiours of tho ceromony they bucane insonsiblo, snd lave romaiued so ever mince. {'ye Lyona dociors have exhaustod tholr scieuco {u tois cuse, and the lnckleus palr, though wlive vat, aro ovidently sinking from moro stutvation, lyora can Lo no quextion but that some narcstic, of the moat violout olast bes boen jiven taenmy probably ns w Joke, 'Lo-day we are told tinte youug man, appronticod to & chemiat, has boen nrresied o suspicion. But 1t 18 bolloved that sovoral ot tho marriage-guests bore pare ln the wiluly, wh.Ou Wus twesnt uu w jast ouly,"