Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1875, Page 11

pee SS ee THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES. - . EUROPEAN GOSSIP. A Blind .Girl with Implicit Faith in “Our Lady. of Lourdes.” The Trousseau of a Daughter of thé cs Grand Vizier of Turkey, American Scandals in Paris---4 Fa- mous London Chop-House, Case in the British Di- Remantic yorce Court. Bismarck’s Appearance as He * Confronted His Enemies. PARIS. 3 . A BLIND GIRL WITH GREAT FAITE. Not long aco (says the Paris correspondent of the New York Times) the Captain of ove of our great ooran steamships found, just after pass- ing Sandy Hook, that he haa s young blind girl among his passengers. Her whole appearsuce showed him tnat there was some mystery in the ease, and he esked ber how she camo ‘to bo | there, inthe steerage, alone. The young lady told bim her story. She was a Miss Kane, from New England, I believe, who bad, uvfortunately, Jost ber eyesight. Baings Catholic, she had hesrd of the wonderful cures performed throuzh the agency of “ Our Lady of Lourdes," and for many long, weary, half-hopéfal, balf-despairiog months, ehe had been trying to raise the meang formasing the trip. At length she cold not bear to wait any longer, and, unbeknown to her ' parents, she hed elipped .away to New York, where she had arrived with $69. She had taken the cheapest sieeraze fare, and felt aascred that God would help her on to the Grotto of Lourdes, and that sbe should, by virtue of prayer, and the inter- yention of Notre-Dame do Lonrdes, be once more restored to sight. The sailor’s heart waa touched by this simple atory, and had he been on abore he would provably nave given his purse to the girton the spot. Wer faith was sublime. Her religious fervor left no shadow of scspicion ig tke purty of ber motives, or the | The weather- ; reapectin; y truthfoloess of her intentions, ‘eaten ssilor brusbed his fingers several timsa scrogs his eyes ae he repeated the story in his own rudely eloquent way, and every one was in- terested. who served ix: -be Federal army curing the War, and he an3 b's wife went at once to louk after the girl. Sy paying ihe supplement they got her s comfortable room in the second cabin, and on Iendin.- brought her on with them to Paria. When lesving the city the surgeoa went to tho Embassy: solicit eyiapathy for Miss Rane. He “happensd to fail upon some kiodly hearts who ‘were there st the moment, and they freely ‘took fhe casein bind. One went to see some ment bers of the I'aris clergy ; another opened a sub- scription, putting himself down at the head for absndsomesium. This was only a week ago. ‘Mies Kane will goto Loardes and remain there as long a8 she pleases, and then she will go com- fartatly bome with an American family. Bat meantime the gentlemen interested in her have sent ber to the best oculist in Paris, who does |. Tuere was a lrepch surgeon on beard, | | been ‘going it,’ tonse » slang phraso, ats most uncomfortable rate. Two of them, both ladios of social position, and one bearing a vame of no mean disti®-tion, recently decamped_from Paris | Jeaving behind them unpaid hotel bills to the } amount of 10,000 francs each, beside other out- manding accounts with mulliners, dressmakers, ote.” et “ LONDON. ie 4 FAMOUS CHOP HOVER. John Green, #god 73, Iate landlord at Evans’ Covent Garden, London, leaves memory that merits something beyond a mere obituary notice. { If nota very remarkable man himself—indeed, he did not claim to be anything more than an { affable Boniface, who was eager to welcome the | coming aud speéd the parting guest, and whose { smile, whoso salutation of “Dear boy,” and i whose snuff-box, were at evervbody’s service— ' Mr. John Green had certainly succeeded in { making the famons cellar in Covent Garden ig piazza, over whose nocturnal and strictly decorous: revols he presidea, the favorite place of. resort, vot only to two generations of remarkable Englishmen. but of dis tinguished foreignera from all parts of the civilized world. We have not the slight- est doubt that the late Emperor Napoleon IIE. had often parcaken of a pinch from Afr. Green's box, and it is on literary record that Mr. Cherles Sumner went, at least on one uccasion, t Evans! with Mr. Thackeray, with whom he bad bosn diny ing at the Garrick Cinb, then situated in King ; street, Covent Garden. Who, indeed, has not | been to the conviviai souterra:n? So widely was } ite fame known that there is little reason to re- j gard as apocryphal the story of a Russinn gen- ; themen “who arrived in thiy country with a soli- | tary letter of introduction, which be ssid had | besn given to him by'a Moldo-Wailachian friend on board a Danubian wteamor. It was only a scrap of paper on which were scrawled the words, *Evansechopsingsaokroom, Kovert Gard.” _ _ABOMANTIC CASE IN THE DIVORCE ccUaT, _ The Probste and Divorce Court (saya a London correspondent of the New York Hrorld) decided | on Saturday, after along trial, a very romantic case, in which # baronetcy was involved, and wherein the question was the validity of a mar- riage alleged to have been solemnized more than 100 years ago. Capt. Charles Edward Frederick i petitioned the Court to declare that his grand- father, Col, Charles Frederick, on the 20ch of March, 1778, had been lawfully married to Mfiss ; Martha Rigden. Ir this marriage was thus af- firmed, the petitioner would becomo Sir Charles Edward Frederick, suoceeding to the baronetoy, which became vacant a year ago by the death of Bir Richard Frederick, of Burwood Hall ; if no! the title and estate would go to Vice-Admiral i Frederick, who is the head of a younger branch of the family. ‘The evidenco showed that in 1772 Charles Frederick was a Captain in the Guards, ; bardened with debts and the roputation ot arake, but still standing much in awe cf bis father, who was a Baronet, amomber of Parliament, and the husband of the daughter of a Viscount. Capt. Frederick fell in love with Martha Rigden, the pretty daughter of a brewer. He ran away with her, and, as the Court has-now decided, he ! married her. Itwasasecret matriage, and no | register of it can befound. But in 1776—the | year when certain memorable events occurred on ; Your wide of the ocean—Cupt. Frederick left the ; Guards and entered the East Indias Company's } Borvice; his wife—or et least Martha Rigdeo— j followed him to India nex year ; she was intro- } duced and received there as fe ; ho rose to ; the rans of Colonel; and at his death. in 1791, } ghe claimed and received for herself snd her chil- ‘ dren a cension as his widos. Col. Frederick had | inserta a family Bible an eatry of bis mar- + mage; and Afr. Frederick, it seems, presented a certificate of the marnage to the East India Company when she claimed her persius. A reat namber of letters were also produced on the trial, which had been written by Col. Frod- ‘, erick to ‘his relativea here, speaking of his mar . MINISTER WASHBURNE, His Great Popularity in Paris. The People Who Come to the Lega- tion, and What They Come For. Qur Ambassador the Guide, Philosopher, and’ Friend of Parisian America. Advice on Schools and Undertaking--- Western Hospitality in the French Capital. Spectal Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, Panis, Dec. 30.—In the selection. of foraign Ministers thero ia much more tobe considered than their ability to accomplish with wisdom and discretion the business of state with which they are intrusted, It is not by any means an unfre- quent occurrance that a man of rough extenor can and does carry his party or, country through a delicate crisis with ungualified. success ; but the life of s Ministor ia so even, and often un- important, that the opportanity ‘to distinguish himself by wise diplomacy comes only once in a great while. It is something like being struck by lightning. When the lightning doea strike, all eyes are turned towards the poor victim; and, in the case of a foreign Minister, the lightning often serves to bring him from darkness into light.’ It is often the first time that the people of the United States have thought of him, while many do not even know hia name. Admitting the possibility of ; DIPLOWATIO LIGHTNING, ; the diplomatist should be ready for the stroke. It is, first, most essential that he should be a { shonld bea gentleman. For our Minister rop- | resonts us socially as.wll a politically, We have yet to make our reputation for politeness ; foreigners by no means give us a good character socially ; and our own countrymen, when they allow themselves to be just, remark the differ- enco. J remember hearing s high judicial off- parallel, in learning and ability, between an emi- nent English representative at the Conference and ype of our foremost public men in America. “ Bat,” said he, with a aigh, “ Lord isa gentleman 1.” Thavo such unlimited confidence in the re- sources of our country thatI am sure we can produce worthy representatives for every quar Washburoe's most eucceasfal career in France goes a long way toward strengthening that con- fidence. That he is a wise diplomat, one cannot doubt when .one romembers the turbulont state of this nofortunate country during his adminia- tration of- our affairs here. Through the siego, the Commune, the changes and uncertainties in the Governmont, he bas stood his ground so wisaly as to keep us free from all false positions or unworthy intrigues. So wisely indeed did ho carry himself as an Envoy, snd as aman with a heart full of sympathy, that he is ADORED BY THE FRENCH, pot exclnds all hope, and itis just poscible that | riage and of his love for bis wife. All these | who are capable of only two eentimenta,—ador- with his trifling aid Notre-Dame de Lourdes effect genre in the case of an American my B ‘ ae 5 + | trymep, $ : ri who showed herzelf so strong in the faith. :' the pleas on the other side that the absence of | Lt te not a polltics! cpinton that T wish to give’, 4 REMARKABLE WARDROBE. Incy H. Hooper wriles to the Philadelphin Press from Pans: |Z have recently had. the pleasure of inspecting a portion of a very re- markable wardrobe, it being the trousseau of tho fe the Court held, were sufficient to proves marrage ‘by repa.ation,” and it disregarded } g registration of the marriaga wea suspicious ; | that the certificate held bg Bra. Frederick was 8 | forgery, and that the father of Col Frederick | and che uncle -aod brother of: Martha Bigden mever believed that the marriage had tazen } place, ‘Tae moral of the story 1s that when you. eldest daughter of the Turkieh Grand Vizier, It:| get married, you had better do it ‘tin the face of appears thatthe daughters of Kasten Princas znd nobles are now far advanced on the road to emencipation and civilization. Thedaughters of the Khedive of Egypt, for instance, are; I am’ told, ‘very accomplished young ladies, speaking several Jangunges. and particularly French, with great elegance aud fiuency, and, as: I wrote in a former letter, their papa recently grdered for them a number of superb dresses. from the celebrated Maison Lafeviere, which’ is ‘yecondto no other dressmaking establisnment to Paris gave that of Worth. ‘The voung Tark-' ‘Yah Indies, sl86, are beginning, I hear, to drive vut'in open catriages, and have chrown aside the heavy shrouding Yashmak in favor of the alight- ‘sat possible ehield in the shape of faabionzbie.|- ‘Yeils of white tulle. hs Turkish bride in: question is only 15 years of age. For the wedding-day three dresses have-been . prepared. The ove which she is to wear satin \ the caremony is of the richest crimgou velvet. It is made with an immensely long train, over which faliss broad sash of crimson satin, the ends decorated with a pattern in stamped velret, -stitched down and cut out so as to show the satin : underpeath, and bordered with point sppliqas Jace. Coquilles of the eatin and lace ran up the nides of the fiont breadth. Over this is to be ‘worn a half-fitting, long, sleeveless jacket of the embroi: wok upon which must ha: 4 Tifie to execute. This jacket is bordered all found with point applique Isce. The sécond wedding-dress ia of white silk, the long ekirt terminating behind in three wide flonuces, and sorered in front with a tablier of white sulk, cut got in a Jattioe foxtapes the matenal of which disappears wholly under a close-set em- troidery of white jet beads, Thia tsblier is wi all round with a narrow tionde lace. “Tast below the corsage behind is s fan-shaped «rangement of beeded silk to match the tablier | aod differing but little in shape and size from a | {sabionable tournure. The corsage is made bin the neck, cut surplice in front, and with Self tight aleavea, which are trimmed with bands of the beaded ailk lattice-work ruoning up the | beck bf the arm, The tablier and its appendages tre to be transferred to the third dress, which is pepe of blue ailk in three suades. At the ck the skirt terminates with three wide Horrees, the lowest one of the darkest sbade ‘at bine, tha second the next lightest, and thetop vie of the palest shade, The two last dresses & dopidedly European in style, while the first, in ite massive and elaborate richness, was 2s stakingly Oriental. A dress for indoor wear was tande of watered silk in white stripes of scarlet gray. The jacket was loose, avd under it as worn 3 ‘lose-fitting vest and tunic of | ‘while erepe de chine, embroidered with flowers oa whits flocs silk, and edged with “wide white silk fringe. A superb jacket for ont-door Near was composed of palo blue silk, lined Sroaghont with yellow satin ;-it was embroider- od all over with flowers in shaded yellow floss end was bordered all round with a band of pals yellow silk, cut in waves around the upper 3dga'and held down by a broad silk braid. The useres of this jackot were of white tulle, em- Jered with yellow floae-silk flowers like those tnthe garment itself, and were edged with » Sand of yellow silk. Theee slooves are intended to display the wearer's arms, no underwaist be- ‘log worn with the jacket. Another outdoor gar- | sant was of violet and gold embroidery on & foundwork of white satin, which disapo Xmost entirely under the noedlework. For ony of tha youngest danghters of the Sultan, a child Pyears of age, there had been prepared # gorge- ots toilet, consisting of a short gored dress of Poppy-colored velvet, worked up the front with an elaborate embroidery in pals’gold-colored sitk And gold thread. ‘This garment was to be worn Prox a ahort flounced skir: of rich poppy-colored ilk, and it had silk sleeves matching the under- shir, The costume was to be completed by a a of red velvet, embroidered to ‘match the ea. AMERICAN WOMEN IN PARIS. ‘Tho came writer says: “ A dismal scandal bas Yeeently shocked the American colony in Paris, iteing the arrest of « wealthy American lady of respectable standing, at the Bor Marche for Healing. The case appears to have been one of bona fide robbery, and not, as on » former ocos- -Hon and in another establishment, an unfoond- ‘Wand alecderous charge, for the erring demo, “Mm being searched, was found to havo filled ber Pockets with articlos for which she was anable Weccount, As tho smallest trifle purchased at -the Bon Marche has to be paid for at one of the. eake. where the purchese is doubly entered, fret by the exlesman, who files a bill of it, and, -Mcoudly, by the cashier, who receives the pay- ton) maxes out the change, and enters a iull, roocrd of the traneacticn 1m his bock. a |° titake mn regard to the ownorship of the arti- te is hardly poamble, The unfortunate woman: ‘Was in prison over a weex before her relesee on! Inil conld be effected. 4nd really our countrywomen abroad have and cnt-out velvet over satin, the + i i been something ter- ° strongest nerves, when Ke darts it at an object) | the Church,” and pe careful to get your ‘mar- riage lines.” ‘ ‘The itcreasa inthe business of the Divorce Court is rather alarming. In 1870 the Court an- pulled 154 marriages; in 1871 ‘the number was 166; in 1872 it rose to 173; and last year it was -}:215; If one will reflect that before the Divorce Court was established the number. of. divorces obtained in England was ecarcely ‘five per - year, and that domestic life was then far more puro than it now is, he may estimate for himself tho yalue.of this. especial vention of *‘human progréss.” I suppose that, if a law were passed by which parents might kill their children undor certain ciroumstances, the numoer of babies put todeath would inciease steadily year after year. BERLIN. ‘IEMAROK CONFRONTING His ENEMIES. ‘This is how Bismarck looked when meeting his ; spemies in debate in the German Parliament: | +i His gigantic frame fairly trembled with pas- {sion ; bis gray eyes flashed, and bis heavy mus- : tiché bristled; » paper he took up during his firat speech, for purpose of reference,. vibrated : visibly in the passionate grasp of bis sinewy ‘ bands, and aver and anon his closely-buttoned -uniform became tense almost to splitting across ' his huge chest, as he set back his shoulders and! ‘threw. up his head. regarding his foes with that implacable glance which never fails to shake the : of his hatred or contempt. In the course of an ! experience neither brief nor ordinary, I have seen many remarkable men at moments when * they have been. expected to labor under excite-- ment of the most vehement description; but I ; Lave never yet witnessed the conscionsneas of | unbounded power expressed in the physique and } bearing of s human being as I eaw it in Prince i Bismarck. As he stood forward, f i Honse, the natural sternzeas of bis aspect ac- | cented by the nataral rigidity of his military ungovernablo will; like s Colossus, unquestion- ‘ably capable of bearing upon his mighty shoul. ders cares and responsibilities that would crash ‘a. common mortal inte powder.” o eee NAPLES. : A BASCALLY TRANSACTION. : A letter from Napies to the Boston Advertiser: says: “A gentloman who is very. fond of that pungent'little gourd known es the peperone de- cided the other day to lay ina stock of them, and for that purpose went down into the lower or” eastern part of Naples, where the confadini from. about Vebuvias come to station themselves with. their preduce. Hechanced upon sn old man: who had anice Iot of his favorite vegetable, and bogan io ask about .the price. Beside tho ‘old man were standing @ couple of loafers, of, that unprepossessing aspect which here we call |-nbrufto muso and at home is nick-named an ‘ugly mug.’ One of thesefellowsnameds sum i which wasof couree exorbitant; but afters proper ‘amount of haggling a fair price per hundred | was agreed upon snd the’ bargain concluded. "The purchaser pulled out bis, monsy avd was | about to hand it to the old countryman, when the second lounger atepped forward and took it. ‘This done, without waiting for the departure of the parchaser, or attempting to dieguise tho rascality of the transaction, be divided the money into three parts, of which he and bis companion took two, giving the third to the uolacky owner -of the produce, who had remained wisely muto while this disposition was going on.” THE MAGDALEA?S HYMN. , wilt ‘Thou pity me, Tesmtn'T reach Thy courls above, Shall I then Thy glory see, - in Thy home of light spd lovet il cross I giva to 3 Beny tagcat ‘and follow Afe. * Teaus, I my cross will teke, Caliuly bearing every ill? Help wat, then, for Thy dear sake, «To be obedient to Lhy will; And, when my night hes passed away, I aball know eternal dey. .. Let mein Thy footsteps go, “'yvishing bat Thy love to gain; : . |. Boothe my sorrow, heal In the manstons of Thy grace, Tahal seo Thee face to face, i hast said, my gracious Lord, vos. Tipiyguter T thy sins Torgive ; ‘And, socording to Tay word, ‘Tao more in ein will live. From temptation set me free; Let me dwell at last with Thee, pice alahoemeaaes LL Ze has bean discovered that whieky can bemade ‘And now there is need of stronger: ate ara bles. When a whale gets drook on ‘ands. whooping and yelling-around, he; wants something as substantial 22 = lamp-post to cling to. ig the i tenue, he looked to me like the incarnation of an | { ing aud hating,—and admired by his own coun- of Afr. Washburne,. but the opinion of an Ameri- can who bas had an oppo! ity of etadying him in social relations with his compatriots, and who finds him, in‘ all respects, worthy of the State which olaims him. He brings witt him into thia suopenlere of mock politeness: and wrigeling French etupidity the healthy, breezy air of Woat- ern prairies, aud warm-hearied, generous Weat- ero hospitality ; all tais combived witb the fin- ished londliness and grace of the true courtier. A visitor at the office of the United Statea Le- gation in Paris, who sits there an hour or two reading the home papers, comes to the couclu- sion that sill Americans who travel should bring guardians with them. They seem to be perper- tally in’ trouble. of some Bind, and constantly needing assistance or advico. itis here that ono caught a faint idea of the perplexing and end- less demands made on Mr. Washburne by the thousands of traveling Americans who ssem to took upon him ? AS 4 FATHER. * ‘Thete are some who baye no idea that ho has anything to do but to be polite to Americans, and administer their private sfaits, He is closeted, perbaps, with some political friends, holding an animated and interesting dis- cussion upon: some subject dear to the politi- cian’s heart, Meanwhile, the list of now-comers who oapnot be disposed of by tlie Secretary, claim upon the Minister's‘ attention, is fast increasing. ‘One by one the cards are sent in,— some with names entirely unknown, and others unfortunately well known as bores. “In one moment,” to the messenger, and the broken thread of discourse is taken up agsia. Bat. these people mast be disposed of, and s0, with a -| genial smile, he exoases himseif for a moment -| to seu some ** friend: ho are waiting outside. {t is one of his peculiarities to speak of people as his “ friends ;" one must be a VERY PRONOUNCED ENEMY of Elihu Wasbburne, I think, not to be spoken of in this kindly maunor. | and before any one of the people who are begin- ning to get impatient is awere of his presence, | our American Minister is among us. A tall, { Ainely-built, muscular man, whose brosd shoul- dera eak an active life of healthy exercise, ‘} put whose remarkably small hands and feet indi- ; cate rather the life-long gentleman. I do not Know that small foot are aids to grace- ; ‘fal carriage, but it is a fect that few men of so | more ease and elegauce. If any one has become the least bit doubtful of a kind reception, the Minister's face would be reassurance enough; it imequare, and the features are Leavy,—iodeed almost homely, were they not lit up by the ex- pression of benevolent indulgence for the weak- nesses of his fellow-men, which shines ont like a’ gunbesm from under his shock of snow-white chair. Ho is clesuly shaven, and scrupulously nice in his dress, but free from the least suspi- cion of dandyism. A familiar nod is exchanged with any habitue of tho: office, which of itvelf would make AN EVERLASTING FRIEND of snyman; and an intolligent look from out of his keen, blue eyes compictos the recognition. The first to be atrended to, of course, is a lady, ‘ng gallantry is one of Mr. Washburne's most natural -virtnes, ‘This is a widow who bas brought her daughters over for the advantage of |-a foreign education, and introduces hergelf with | & letter from some Western ex-Member of Con-. gress. Long’ since forgotven, and probably buried in oblivion, is that brilliant career, except, perbaps, to Spudstown and the Spudstown folis. Our widow is effusive, for she hss found an in- dulgent hearer. Soon you begin te think she has made 5 mistake, avd come to the conclusion that she bas taken the Legation for 2 achool- agency.’ No better advice could be given, how- evor,than she receives, if foreign schools had been, six -years. . Ho has also those rare and valuable gifts of memory ané tact which can recall at the’ proper moment, from out of his fund of remin- iscences, something connected with the history of even the most humble citizen with whom his life bas brought him in contact; avd you hear him talking of this woman's friend mith as much _warmtn of manner aud detail in- anecdote as though he had been one of the shining stara in the political horizon, when, on the contrary, it is more than probable that ne has never done more than fill his chair in-the House, physically epeak- ‘eould well got’rid of: Happy widow! - Sho will Teave the ation with a feeling that she has really done Mr, Waehbuino a favor by calling on. ‘him at all, and it will never strike-her thot she +} might, perhaps, better have got. the information from ‘atother quarter-than to have troubled a ‘whom she really had no earthly claim upon. next is not unlikely tobe a young man who wishes to 2 BURY HIS GRANDMOTHER 5 jo Amerios, while the oid lady bas been so incon- siderate as to die on the wrovg side of the wa- ter. Of course; in such a case, he must come to got xdvised ag to the best means. of. sending her ‘where she belongs, where all-the-Amerioans get their advice,—at the Legation. * Here are gone Americans ‘in ‘trouble with a ‘French landlord. This isnot at all ‘an unugcal -ciroumstancs, a8 Americans, 1am happy to say, vere not accustomed to the underbanded, .que- ysided manner of doug business which the French people. indulge in. They. have. letters -to .the, Minister, and probably think the matter worth calling his attentiop to; while it atrikes 4 third man wise man ;. afterward, we would ask that he ; cor, after his return from Geneva, drawng a | ter of the. giobe, and the contemplation of Mr. *: who have, or who think they bave, some special .: ‘The door of the private office opens quietly, . | large a frame find their way about a room with | “the one atudy of ‘our representative for the past | ing, and use a8 much Guyverument paper ashe | person that it might have been just as well to pay the few francs oxtra, and introduce them- selves, if needs wust, in a more sgreeable man- ver. You wonder if the next man has had’ s guerre! with his wite, and has called to have the egation pour oil upon the troubled waters. No; but he might better be at war with his wife than in the financial calm in which he finds him- eclf, Ho is OUT OF MONEY. 5 I would like to know if there was evera foreign *| Minister, or a clergyman, who has hot cast bread upon the hopeless waters of Jike charities, Of course, s uian with such lettera must be assisted. It people would only consider the destination of their letters of introduction, they would bes little more discreet in giving them. Bat over- good humor is an American trait, and Jetters will be given snd cheats and bores encouraged till the ead of time. Lie Thue goes.on thin endless business, of which the voluminous records of the Legation give not a hint, and which would almost seem to require the attention of another Mimat Bat, if our Minister isso pleasing in hia office, hoi 4 KING IN HIS HOxE, where bis own virtues as s host are augmented by the charming presence of his wife. Instead of crowding themselves up in some apartments | in the city, they have chosen themeclvea a home | on the Avenues Imperatrice, and near one of the | entrances of the Bois de Boulogne, The avenue is one of ths most beautiful in che City of Pari: perhaps a ialf-mile- in length, extending from the Aro de Triumpho to the Bois; it almoat de- serves the name of 8 park, becanse of its beauti- ful trees an? shrubbery. The central carriazo road, which is the widest, 19 flanked on one sido by a walk, snd on the other by a road for aques- triona; on either side, again, are two beautifol parks, abou; 40 feat jn width, and extending the length of the street; then, again, come other carriage-roats, and. gravel-walka for the cov- venionce of the residents. As you godomwn the street to Afr. Washburuo's. home, you got a fine view of the hills beyond "the Bois, sad can even catch a glimgse of Fort Valerien, THE GRAND OLD STRONGHOLD | { which the Prassians bad to take. befoi 80 entranceiato thecity. The house i pretentious, red brick building, with a little garden in frost, These French bonses have the most impossible and unexpected entrances. You may look in vain for gate by which to onter the garden, and, when that ia found lock- ed, you makethe discovery that there is no door by which to enter into tho house, even if ‘ou were once inaide the fron fence, As it ia on he corner, you jump at the conclusion that the entrance is a the side, but that is also a fruit- less search. Finally you decide to ring at the great green door which leads into the back yard, and when th) servant answers, you are a little surprised to4ud at your right the front coor. To be sure, Bis st the back of the house, but | thnt is inavitable ; nothing in Peri “is straight- | forward. I must except, however, the recop- { tion which gieets one jo the drawing-room—that | is sorely straightforward and honest, One muat ‘bos misanttrope indeea, and wofally lacking in faith in his fellowmen, to mistake the gener- ous | HOSPITALITY OF THIS AMERICAN HOME ~ ! for anything out honest, genuine friendliness. ' Mr. Washburae makes no pretense of being p; ' rich man, and while bis home 1s in every respect ! suited to his position, itis,. nevertheless, plain, and not pslatal. Tbe works of art whieh adorn } the walls betmy at once the ruling presence of a refined and cultivated taste, which one cannot fail to attribuce to tho Ministor’s wife'aa well as to himself, Mrs. Washbarneis a very young-, looking womun,—s black-eyed boauty, with charming, qrscions manners, to which all Amer- icana who take advantage of ber recoptions on Mondays oan wesufy. She is indeed = worthy represontativeof her husband, as ho is of his nw- tive land. ‘Tha people of Lilinoig are to be con- gratulated on Seng sq wall represented: abroad, THE ALPINE TUNNELS. Mt, Conis and St. Gothard, From the Cine:nnat: Commercial. The constrection of the Mt. Cenis ‘Tunnel was encouraged bs Cavour, the great statesmac of | Piedmont, wile he was reaurrecting Italy from { beneath the bsel of foreigners and priests. The firat shovelfal of earth excavated trom the Al- pine Tunnel, cow so commodiously connecting | France and Italy, oocurred in August, 1857, un- der bis order and in his presence as iu that alao ef Victor Emscuel and his son-in-law Prince Napoleon, assembled at Modena in honor of the event. At thi day the proposed tunneling through the borels of the gigantic’ Alps was { looked upon as létle short of chimeridal by the public ; bat Caveur and tho ineers had the faith to more ‘npontaing, and wdingly thoy ‘| went to work then and there to suove the Mt. Cenis out of thei: way, -- Although Piedmont had ' but little cash tospare from her huge poiitical | ; undertaking, yether ambitious statesman man- | | aged to furnish tre money, and the engincers } were gifted with sufficiont brains..19 invent the | necessary macbivery to cut and blast through rock at unheard-of depths below. tho service. Compressed air ts 4 working power was a pew and leading festure in the accomplishment cf | this stupendous piece of ‘iutorual improve- { ment.” Cavourdied in 1861, four years after its commencement,'but. the tunnel went on, and on the last of Decembor, 1870, after thirteen years ; of persevering toil, the last shovelful of earth i was thrown out of it, enabling a current of air ; to pass straight through and. under s mass of superlsing monatain too deep to admit of ahatis... | It was miles in Jength, mostly ent through solid ! rock, sad, upon receiving the finishing touches, ; bad cost about $20,000,000. Its success was duo entirely to Italian gealus, Napoleon LL. joined | in the enterprine ab frat with warm words, but | subsequently slacked out and turnedit overupon | Italian shoulders. While Cavour lived, he watch- | ed over it with inteuse interest, and, whenever meeting the Chief Engineers in the streets of ‘Turin, he was accustomed to hail them with this j-greeting: ‘‘Quaudo sara finilo quel buco?” | (When will that hole be fiushed?) On the 17th of September, 1871, the tunnel was formally i opened to public travel, and, im honor of its inauguration, a grand banguet waa given upon ; the elippings’and debris piled up at the Bardon-, | neche entrance on the Italian side; a flooring | and sumptuously decked tent’ were spread over {the pile, and there, amidst banners, music, | speeches, and champagne, ministers, deputies, ! journalists, civilians, and soldiers vied with each } other {8 according praise to the energetic builders. | Thus the old roadway over the Alps followed by | the Hapmrbals, Cxsars, and Napoleons-was done away with by the final opening to tratlic of the double-tracked, splendialy ventilated, aud gas- illuminated tunnel stretching 9 miles under- | ground as straight ns a die. The passage of merchandise and travelers over that route be- tween Franch and Italy has aver since been easy, and never interrtapted by snow and avalanch:s, ag in the days of the stages and sleds and Yell railway, when days and days were often loxt in crossing-the crests, Cavour had had a keen eve to the trade as. well as tho political consequences | of the. work; he desirad, by drawiag Italy closer to France and Evglaod, to hasten his task of thoroughly resumecting the penile by a process of modemizing it. 3 tuonel bas already to a Jarge oxtent served that purpose, and ia continmng to serve it. _In 1871 anotherambitious and keon-eyed states- man began anothertunnel, even on a larger scale, through the Alps at another pont. No sooner had ho returned to Berlin in triumph with bis army than Prince Bismarck gave order to builda tunvel under Mount St. Gothard, connecting Germany, | vin Swiss territory in part, with Italy. The en- ginesrs in coneeqnonco drew up their plans, and submitted them through German mediation, to the Governments of Switzerland and Italy, which immediately senctioned the same, and caret ated money for theirexecution. ‘he St. Gothard Tunnel was commenced Oct. 1, 1872, aud is | now being constructed under the same syatem as { that which gave to the world ‘the Mt, Cenis. It will be 12 miles long, and be comploted in | 1982. It will level, 80 fo gay, cne of the most difficult and dangerons peaks of the wbole Alpine chain. and, commercially, it will be of obief bene- tit to Germany, although, at the same timo, an- other advantageous link for all Europe, for, juat -as the more Atisntic cadies there aro, the more Alpine tunnels there are, the botter for all, It ig estimated that the cost of the St. Gojhard Tunnel will, exceed that of the Mont Ceais Tunnel, and no one can foretell to a nicety what it will cost, a8 anticipated expenditares may turn out, in reality, to bo at fault. It is Bismarck’s favorite while fighting the Pope, and lie watches it with { as fathorly an eyo as the Picdmontese did his own. On-more grounds than one it ia safe to say that there will be no difficulty, Guancial or other, in building this great throughfare, -now fairly under way, destined to tio together mate- riaily the united’ Fatherland with united Italy. ‘The actual excavation in the work of boring through, which was commenced ‘simaltancousiy. on both sides of the mountain, has given very satiatactory Fests, Up to the end of the second year, or Sept. 20, 2,728 yards—s little over o mile and a half—had been bored; and it is calcn- Isted, according to the programme of the engi- neers in charge that, by Sept. 30, 1875, 4,875, yards in ali will be bered. For tho last three ‘iaonths both on the German end, st Goschenen, and. the Italian end, at Airolo, the improved Farroux machinery affords bettor resulta than ‘have been obtatned {o tunueling, or 7 yards ‘por ! | | THE “CITY OF PEKING.” Her Trip from Rio Janeiro to Panama. Tho Straits of Magellan---Patagonia ‘* + and Terra del Fuego. A Whale, and Whales’ Food—Beantiful Sonsets—Hothor Carey's Chickons. The. River Plata---Gannets and Pen- guins-~-Albatrosses---Cape Pigeons. ‘The following in a third letter from the young Canadian gentleman passenger on the steamship City of Peking: Sfeamsu Ciry or Pearxa, Stnarrs or Ma- GELLAN, Nov. 23, 1873—3 p. m.—We made Cape Virgivs this morning at 4 distance of 6 or7 miles, and aro now heading west by south, mid~ way betweon Patagonia aod the Island of Terra del Fuego. The Straits, at their entrance, are upwards of 30 miles wide, but at present the shores on both sides may plainly pe distinguiah- ed, especially those of ‘. ; ‘This coast-line pre: pesranoy, and qansiste of a flat and elevated table-laud, extending for milea unbroken, and ranning precipitately doin to the water's edge. Ié is, infact, « steep and rugged bluff of sand, ‘relleved Here anc thero, where the surface slopes, by a cover of dull-looking grass. On the wpposite side, the Ialand of Terra dol Fuego is to bo seen, and appears to be an unda- lating and hilly country, - The weather is delightful, and nothing like a8 cold a3 Lexpected to findit in thasa low lati- tudes. Of course, it is the begioning of sammer in this region, and consequently will be some- what more pleasant. The water is of a iight- green color, and strowed with white-caps, while the aky isof a pale-azure-blue, scattered ovor with soft and flegcy clouds in fantastic forms. ‘The sun is warm, with wind brisk and cool, * Topspay, Noy. 24—2 p. m.—About 6 o'clock last evening we reached Rossession Bay, and dropped anchor for the niznt at: distance of 33 miles from the entrance of Hg Beraite, Shortly after our arrival, i A LARGE WHALE began to sport in the region of the Bay, atid once appeared within half’ mile of the vessel, showing bis tsil:above water. One of the pas- songers fired at him twice with an Express rifle, and the aécond shot seemed to hit hia tail, and he was not seen again. ‘The sun did not set until past 8; and it was the most glorious sunset I hayé ever witnesced. Of course, it is past description. Ite bnght vermilion hues, and dari clouds lined with tho richest gold, combined with the reflection on the water, gud a faint rainbow in the West, formed A MAGNIFICENT Stout, ‘Wo left Possession Bay st half-past $ this morning, and it was thon davlight. Weare nor almost at Sandy.Point, where we are to sochor for this evening. ‘There is a Christian settlement ‘4 of hute here.- We have passed three vessel this morning,— 1} thie frat an Argentine brigantine; then sa English ‘| steamer, bound for, Valparaiso, named Iberia; alterwards a Peravien man-of-war; and now as wo approach Sandy Point, wo see a steamer anchored there. While at anchorage at Fortesque Bay, a pr of ug went ashore after breakfast, and remaine roaming in the woods until luncheon. After luncheon I returned again, in company with one or two others, and we went all around the bay, through the very thickest jungle and under- brush,—-baving several shots at wild geese,— over hills and creeks, to the other side of tho Bay. There we mot s large party who had been shooting, I inclose aume specimeas of vegeta- tion from this quarter of the globe. - L have written thia letter in order to mail it, if possible, in the Straits of Magellan, but which will be but 9 mere chanse. ‘you, is mattors little ; if it ehonld, you mil ap- prectate it all the more, coming, a3 it does, from these low latitudes, and almost the ‘LOWEST INHABITED QUARTER OF THE GLOBE. Toespay, Dec. 16.—O# Point Parina. We are now drawing ‘near to Panama, where it is ex- pected we will arrive on Monday next, and prob- ably romain a couple of weeks. So I shall there . have an opportunity of hearing from you for the firat time since our departure from New York, andalso be able to send yuu an account of my ‘Jong, sea-voyage and eaf@ arr.val above the Equator once more. Siva ‘My last letters were written from Rio Janeiro, where we remained three weeks, and left on. Monday, Nov. 9, for the Straits of Magellan. We had'a very fair ron from Rio to the Btraits, which occupied just two weeks, and proved a “very pleasant trip, aa we bad favorable winds most of the time, and no storms to contend against. However, our short stay in Rio Ja- neiro had bees an EXCEXDINGLY AGREBADLE OXB, : and it was not without some feelings of reluo- tance that se took our departure. Everything in the city had seemed new and full of. interest. There were g0 many pleasant rides outside of the city, and the scevery around the harbor and in ; the country was grand in the extrema. The day | we left was beautiful, and, by half-past 2, we y, steaming out the Bay, which was studded” with veseels” of almost all nationalities." As we passed the Dart, an Rnglish man-of-war, salutes wera exchanged, and they immediately. lowered:a boat to try and meet us; but found they were too late. Aitor. we got outside the: harbor, we heard a salute of ‘fitty gana fromons of the forts within, and conjectured that it was given in honor of the Emperor. On getting fziriy.out on the occan, we found the sea rather rough, aud ths vessel: rolled con- @erably.- Some of ua were sea-sick, and I bad a shght touch, but nothing serious. The second day after leayiug Rio, Nov. 11, we siguted tho island of - were on our way, SANTA CATHERINA, ‘and passed it at a distance of 8 or 9 miles. Tt ls ‘a hilly, underlating island, gaid to be 40 mifes in Tength, and belongs to, Brazil. The only cign of lifa we could distinguish was a fire built on the coast, mostly after sunset, though the island ia said to contain 40,000 inhabitants. The wind was now on our bow, and the tem- * perature of ‘the ‘atmosphare becoming perce) bly cooler as we advanced farther Sonth. But the following day waa again mild and delightful, 4 with 8 smooth sea, and lots of “MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS’? following in the wako of the vessel. Theso latier, which are often known as ‘stormy patrela,” are pretty Httle birds, about the size of a common wallow, with long winga and webbed fect. Their color is of a light brown on the back, but shades gradually till it becomes quite dark at the tips of the wings. Between their back snd tailiss white spot, and_it is thoir custom to flit lightly over the surface of the water. Wehave had several of them on deck, which were caught by means of « “thread” suspended from the stern of the vessel, in which their wings bscome entengled.. ‘The minute sfter they ara pronght on deck, they begin to be sewsick, and throw up; snd, besides, they cannot fiy upward from the deck, unless raised: This, I: believo, 18 owing to some peculiar formation of the legs. We were at this time in the region of ® whal- ing ground, and paseing through long streaks of - . WHALES’ ¥OOD floating on the water, This substance, which jndeed seems singular nourishment for whales, is of a reddish-brown color, and, in the distance, resembles sand-shoals. On a nearer view, it looks like settlings on the surface of the water. But, through the aid and application of the microscope, it is found to be a collection of num- berless animalcuies called medusa, which resem- blethe Infusarian animalcules. They are slipper- sbaped in form, and furnished with Ione pair like processes called ‘‘cilis,” with which they propel themselves through the water, Daring the afternoon we saw sevoral whales in the distance,—large, black-looking objects, which geemed to plunge lixe porpoises. Towards evening a large steamer passed op our larvoard beam, going north.. It was thought to be an English vessel from Valparaiso. ‘The.ship was now put in readinees to encoun- ter gtormy weather, and everything was lashed down on deck. : = For some days apthing of particular interest transpired, excopt that, while passing the cosst of Urugaay and Ls Plats, tho sea was rather rough, and the vessel rolled 2 great deal. However, sd becomes accustomed to aheaving sea, haviag, ‘as the sailors say, * got on my sa-legu,” 60 t dsy., The contractors are now -working st $750 |..was quite independent of the wesiber. per yard. The aperture isto be perteotly straight, , On the afternoon of the jth, = y is: when, THE ALAR 25 : Caesee the tale oe oi Bee Being to try the men, and Afford thein- “meet unider the middle of old St. Gothard, throned. ae. | the object : ; z Spractice, They all took ta their poss rapidly . Ef it does not reach } in due order,-and almost immedistely pine or ten streams were Poanes forth at different parts of the deck. The dis- cipline and arrangement of the men were good, and their promptness in action showed thai they would be ready for aT: emergency. On the evening of the 1ith we encountered a very heavy fog, which continued till about 3a. i. the following morning. The wind thongh bad been favorable most of the time, and our run this dsy was 201 miles,— which was very good, considering the disabled state of our screw. ‘i ‘We were now passing the mouth of THE RIVER LA PLATA, which is 160 miles in width, and where it is usu- ally very rough.. Here there ave heavy gales from the southwest, called ‘Pomperos,” and blow is almost inevitable. On the 15th, a utrong | vind continned directly on our bow,and the veesel | piished and rolled ;.but the next day found as in | latitude 37 8., and completely past the La Plata, considering ourselves very fortunate at escap- without a storm. We now enjoyed. very pleasant weather, the temperature of the atmosphere being 37 deg. : { while that of the water was 54 deg. All of Mother Osrey’s chickens had deserted | ua; but their placa was supplied by iarga : BEA GULLS AND QAUNETS, jl which followed in the wake of* our -vessal, and afforded amusement for the psswengera with ; their guns. . Aisd, several piuxzhius bad made : their appearance, which, a8 you know, are a kind | of asea-fowl, having sbort, stu:npy wings, and jogs aitasted far back ov tho body, with which they swim and dive ravidlv. ! On the 18th we fellin with s large flock of j porpoises, which fo'lowed the vessel for a long distance, skipping merrily before the bow. ‘The following day we passed the mouth of the River Negro, aud then bogan tho coaat of Pate- oni: : Selibis waa a most delightful day, nd, instead of having any disagreeable or cold weather, the thermometer now ranged from 6! to G1 deg. Donng tho day. a quantity of empty boxes wero seen floating by the vessel, mersed ‘ De- yoe’s Oi},” and various conjectures were made cs to their import. pee! ‘The sunsot this evening was one of the most peculier and magnificent I had ever scen,—there being 8 loag, glowing atresk extending along the | horizon, and almost meeting in the east, while | the clouds were unique in form, ‘After this, the temperature became cooler, un- til we reached tne Straits; but the weather was | clear and favorable all tho way, except on the : H morning of the 20th, when A HEAYY GALE arose from the southwest, and continued until noon. The wind then veered round ta our ater- board quarter, and our sails were again atretched. | This day it was cool exough fo sppreciate a) fire, and the steam-pipes in the cabia aud social { hail wore used for the iirst time. | ‘The next morning, Nov. 20, tho water present- ad rather a singular appesrauce, being of a greenish-brown color, with screaks of a peculiar | muddy shade, which seemed to be indications of | shallow water. Soundings were then taken, aud it was found we were in 24 fathoms of water. However, our course was afterwards changed, | and we bore south-southeast till, late iu the | evening, we were again bearing southwest. We | now, for the first time, saw one or tivo } ALBATROSSES, | about which I had heard so much, ard which ; were afterwards te be our compauions sailing in tho Pacific. They are considered the largest of | ° the aea-birds, and seem to fiy without any exertion, ‘Theit color ia principally white, inter- ; mixed with gray; sod, with their long beaks and | intelligent-looking heada, they form worthy com- | panions.on along voyago. Some of them are of an immense size, measuring upwards of 15 feet oc-oee the wings, from tip fotip. Wecaught s | amallone by means of a hook acd bait, wach | measured 7 foot. His feathers wore of the fincst | auk-like texture. SEVERAL CAPE PIGEONS wore also caught. ‘They are odd-looking birds, a little larger than the common pigeon, aud of a mottied black-and-white color. ‘hey had been our constant atéendants for some tune, and had come tousina very high latitude, namely: -be- fore we reached the Ls Plats River, whicher they bad probably been blown by a storm, i Our passage through the Straitu is worthy of a separate letter; 801 will loave you for the prea- | eat, and bid you farewell at our departure from the Atlantic, . Not having been ablo to mail yous lettor from the Straits, [have sent it together with- this, condensed into ove, Paxama, Deo, 28.—We ABBIVED AT PANAMA on the 2ist of December, all safe and sound. On cur arrival here, there was some talk. of | transferring all the passengers tothe Constitu- tion, which leayes for San Francisco to-night, as it might be s long time before the Peking reach ed San Francisco, as some accideat might befall ber on the road, in hor disavled con- dition, At firat the phasengera did not like theides of being shifted. However, nothing compulsory was done, and it was left entirely to their own choice. Six of our memodera had de- cided to leave us at Panama, and revurn to Now:: York direct from Aspin vall; 20d, of the rest who continue to San Francisco, the result has beon that sil, with the exception of three gentiemen and myself, havo gona over to the Constitation, and loave bere at 10:30thia evening. I feel that I should prefer to romain with thie vessel, after having-come araund with her, avd think. she will be perfectly safe, having covery confi- dence in her officers. r i THE TOKIO arrived at Aspinwall yesterday, Dec. 29, bring- |. ing sixty-six through passeugors, and nine pas- sengers to go through the Straits. Those of our number who leave for New York aro Mrs. Piatt, Mra. Greetey (who is ill) and ber brother, Mra. Wells; also, Messrs, Lawson, Maun, and Sar- ‘gent. .These letters will go at the same time, on “the Hapry Chauncey. It is expected we will be from twelve to. fiftoen days reaching San Fran- cisco, - TREK: “ BUT. FOR A LITTLE, WAIT.” Deep, strong, and clear are tho dark-brown eyes Of the girl I love; And you would swear they would keep trae ‘Whila waters ran and grasses grew, Or stars kept watch above. Blondo-brown and soft, in s willful mare, Flies her silken hair. Peas Skee esa or willow ar 2 8 your gaze ‘Unconscious she is fair, - Brave, grand, and high, her castle is built the Tosy alr: . Earth is a stage, snd life o play; Toyons she acts her part to-day, ‘Without a thought of care, ‘Tender end trae is the faith I keep For this tender sprite: LE wait a dey when Love shall wake, ‘And through her soul his street course take, Of strange and deep delight, Brave, fond, and strong, Love st the helm ahall For sho hes said: “If Love do como, Vil reign your nin heart and home: +. But for a lite, wait.” Mating Moncey Out of Pancnke. The Belfast (Ale.) Journal tells how an enter- prising woman is making money thoro: ‘It is |. not of that article of diet mada by our grand- mothers that we are to speak, buts pancake of | aless digestible nature, mannfactuced at the.! Balfast shoe-factory. t Jeathor is allowed to go to waste in that inatitu-"; tion. Even the abavings from aolo loather havo | their use, and from them the pancakes are made. These shavings are placed upon .a table before i the operatives, who separate and carefully spread. | them ont within a smail casing with paste, in | Jayers, like raisins ina box,—first leather, then Raste, and the whole patted down compactly. When a cake is completed, it is about 1 foot in length, 4 inches wide, and half an inch in thick- ness. They ere then laid away to dry, and in | three or four days ore ready for ure, which is to be cut up into inner heel hfts. Their manufac- ture 1s not a very pleassot tot, ax the girls who make them are up to thelr elbows in paste. | ‘When tho fectory first started, this work was | ‘iven to Alma House, at 4 cents per cake. Sho | ecame ao expert that sho could casily make 190 ; per day. Being an enterprising woman, and | seeing money ahead, she closed 9 contract with | the proprietors for the sola manufacture at 4 | cents apiece, aod then hired help. To-day she | has an apartment off the sole-room, and employs | six women, who turn ont from 30) te 409 s daz.” Le Sport publishes certain corrections of errors which have ppeared, in the papers as to tho house of La ¥ brghest radk in the French nobility. The Duk recently deceased, being the hena of the family, | wasaimply Duc de la Rochcfoucauld. Thenamo ! Lisncoutt is that borno by the eldest son, who, | during the lifetime of his father, was Duc do | } i Whe Mouse of La Kochefoucauld. { { i Liancourt, and is now simply Duc de Ia Roche- fourauld. If it be considered proper to add all his titles, it may be said he was Duc de Ia Roche | Gnyon xud Prince of Marcillac. The house is now represented by five branches, three of which bear the Ducal ticle ; the eldest i# that which lias ; Jost lost ise head ; the eecond is that of the Duo ; ac; the third is represented by M. Stan- tales de 1s Rochefoucald, Dus de Dowdeauville, and br his younger brother, M.° Sosthonea de In Rochefoucald, who was created Duc de Binaccia by the Bing of Naples. Le Sportig -syere upon Guide the course of F: | i Nothing in the sbspe of; hefoucanid, which holda the | : w the use of anch a fashion as calling him Due. Rochefoucsuld-Bisaccia, - . os isaie sien ee THE CONTEST QF MINERVA AND ARACHNE In burnished armor all array ‘Tho sags Suinervar marin med, ‘The uvve-strock deities among, From Jove’s own bral f Or, with her Gngers’ gentle force, Guided the needle in its course, Not Neptune, god of all the main, Had skili the tempting prize to gitm, Yuich, from their resis, the gods decreed, For the best gitt for mor:us’ need, ‘he god produced the courser awift— The olive was the goddess’ yiit 5 Athene’s akill the trophy wun, ‘And galne:l the city for hor own ; On it bestowed her migity name, And Athens lives in song and fano$ If thus the oceau-god essayed int Tn vain to match tne sapient mcld, ‘Wht boldness, mort], should’st thou hava, A contest with such power to cava? One maid there was, Arachno hight, ‘Who dazed to brava the godless” might Dared to contest her vaunted skill, Needle to ply, 01 ‘The nymphs, cit From out tnsir le fo view her wo-45, Aliks in duing sat wosa Lou. To ave her witsslo dagess pad Froun oif tha Heece the erimpy wool, And from it form the dywuy roll, ‘Wail, beneath her apt control, . As light aud soft the texture grow “i As brightest cloud the moon peeps through ¢ Or waich the spindle’s buzzing whirl, As, from its point, the snuwy curh : Into» Rimy thread ako drow,— Like apiderw’ lines to mock tue view f ‘Tae woof-fraught siutile's darticg Might Proyoked anew theiz battied sigat, ‘As underneath its transivat gies ‘Tue fabric grew along the bean, Such apiwess had tho maid displayed In all ner skillful banda easayeu, . ,Lwas deemed Minerva’s seif bad taught ‘The wondcous stt by which whe wroughh, ‘Such thought the gifted artist spurned, ‘That e'en from goddbea she bad jesrned 1 ‘+ Let greas Minerva vie with me, In emUlating industry ; z 2£ oonquered, I will umbly pay ‘The penalty—Le what it may !” Taseen,, the mighty goddess heard, Disyieased, each thouxhticss, boastfal werd, Ja garb of ‘aged dame dieguised, ‘The bold Arachne thus guvised : * © The counsel af tae ald and wise, 1 ‘ou, inaiden, not dospisn 5 Your feliox-moctals, and thelr abst, as freely a8 you will, immorta's naver dure Your awa acyuiréments to cowpare, For the vain bosst siread; made, MMinarva’s vengeance insy be ata} If you with supplication meet, For pardon, humbly ber entreat, ‘As she is merciful, us w:86, ‘And seek for favor in her eyes.” ‘With anger flushed, the busy maid ‘The aged counselor survoyed = “ Keep for your daugbiers your advica— wilt no: uiske tho wicridee; ‘Assured ain I whereof I spoils " ‘Deemi not Arachne yet yo weak” 24 to forego her well-won fama, Aud falter, though a godess t 3y former challenge I re,0it— 8:11 with Miuervs would vompete 3 If suo the insue dare abid ed the guise that late concealed, =~ ‘Hoe awful presence a:ood rovealed, "bs nympus in homage lowiy vent, Aua bowed their hesds in wonderolenty ‘a full on their aetonished view ‘Tho awe-fuspiring uddesa g-ew, Arschne, ouly, uidismayed, Caliuy Cebeid the radiant maid, °Tis true, a momentary Uiteh Spread o'er ver cuseks its Uinging fash 5 Bat pallor soon the conquest guined, Ad vlanched the cheeics #o lately stained, Bat, firmly, ia defian: mood, Tue unselenting arts: ¢:020,— With vain concelt of her owt sit! Rushed on her fate,—presurs :tuaus sti ‘Advice Minerva gave Lo mote, Alt farther parieyiwy foreboie Quick to the contest they prosoed,— Tiamortals vies with mortal’s speog! | Each one with eaze hee loom inspects, Da:h ove the web and beam coauects': Then forward, backward, in their soed, ‘The shuttles ash along tha reo, ‘Whose teozh lok up tho threads they Ieavo, And woof and weep together wesve. Compsct and soft the woos extend, Whilst diverso hues toge:tier bled, ‘the Tyrtan purpla’s briliiint dy With o:er colors joined, the oye Deib baile, as it sucks to Aud ee Tac point where sb-d> with shede combined ; ~ * As, when the Low its arch exten: 3 And o'er the earth iu bewuty Lea Comn-tngting hues tifvauir sdera’ ‘With tinge of evens, blesh of inom, The sun eizas, whi-h the suvivers sere wasny in i Bat, viowed aio. In Verious hues, distinct a: Worhy her stall the zune. TP adorn her work wire 4004 al vies, pon her webs fal With all the witnesses therete, Of the great contess when she vied -2* Neptune, tie rulor of the wars, ‘Wath: auaggy locks and aspeot grave, Wieldad ats potent trident o'er, ‘And scemed ty have smitten just before, ~~ Of Nepinne's sk * With helmet tow Minerva moved with es . Guarding her bresst, tha Zia blaged, Iaming all her basds iad ae ty Acciscle bright the pageant giasmed,— : ‘Not real life, though wich it seemed ‘ The margins of her web so graced ‘With incidents adroitly placed: =~ - "Co mark the ire tho zods dispiay 2Gainst mortals bold who dare E’er with immortals to contend, Gr seek thelr power to comprehend,” oa 91 induce her rival to desis, 7 i Nor longer im her aim persist; ‘To end tue strife ere ‘twero t00 late,— She gava these warnings of her fatal Upon the task herrelf imposed, Atachne toiled with mind com) Uuaswed, bebeld the threat’uing view Of augeced gcds, Miderva drew. Boldly ber skitl so used to show ‘Tae devious ways immortals go) Aa ‘neath her Hively Zagers grow ‘Tho errors of the gods anew. ee Bbe showed tho frowning, brazen tower ‘Where Jove, in form of golden shower, z An entrance gained; where, beld in Bgcure from mortal lovers all,— i Aliko her father’s care and sido,— ‘The loying Danse watched and sighéd, Anothee scene, the snowy swan” Oontrasted with tao hues upon Tal the graceful urd nsestad, ila the grace cores Beatowing on the god's disguive Hor yielding heart's impassioned sighs, In his disguise of bullsbeehowad =~. ‘The exploits of the wayward god. Enheartencd by his gentle mien, ‘And trusting lok thut beamed serene, From all her timidness released, - dared lo mount (he Least, the £ea the inaid he bore, And swam unto tie Czcten shora, Aliving brute the creature seamed, ‘And, 28 it awam, beholders deemed ‘The wares were real waves, so bright ‘They glistened in the morning light, On her loved shore, receding fast, Hegretful looks Europa cast, 4 ‘And seemed to plead, in mute despair, ¥or help from triends and comradob there, + Werrur appeared toshake ber frame, ‘Af on ty heaving waters como; Back from thsir touch her feet ahe dzew, As wave on wave in fury grow t ‘With visious of success etite, Arachne labored tocresto |” Some crowning record of het “ki, ‘Thus toiled she with unending will, Unmindtal though ver zecl might be Doamed by the gods impiety. pon her web Slinarva tooked— Admitred,—but ube n0 !pager brooked ‘The deep sfreat from mortal maid, ‘Who bad immortal skid quinuald, ‘Remorselesaly the goddeza sent Her shuttle through the web, aud rent . fabric and its garnishment : Arachue felt her guilt and abame As on her pa orehead camo z Minerva’s touch. Unquenched hor pride, By her own hand she would have died! But, when the godders saw her cope ‘With Death, upon th’ fgnoule rope, Some latent jlty triumphed o'er + That heart wiere vengeance ruled before: “ Live, guity women ; for all time Preserve this lesspn of thy crime} Porever itanging thou nhait be,— Thyself and thy posterity 1” 4 While thusstio bung in shamefal ptight, With juices of the acozite ‘Her form the godiees aprinkled o'er; Straightway her lr wes gone ; no more Her cars and nose remained to grace ‘Her comely head and handsome f3ce 5 Her (orm shrank up, and smaller grew ‘Her head, to farther mock the view ; Hor nimvle fingers, ouce ber pride Now clesved uuto her witaered xideme Not altogether loat their skill, For legu they served—snd busy silt ‘All elas is body, Since that hour ‘Her ailken cave in silenco weaves 5 Apreads in geometric itner, Deftly, unto the eepiring vines, Her merby web from viewless ‘Tempting tae muller to ius deom, Ever, from store exbauztiees, spins— Asif in penznce for ker sine— - ‘Hor eiiver-hued, increasing thread, : ‘On which she hangs with les outspread ¢ Da In self-eamo posture sti] discerned, . Ae when Simervs'’s anger barned, Andherintoaspidertumed, "°° * ‘CurcaGa, + 2) lum