Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 6, 1875, Page 11

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBU LONDON. An American Woman Abroad. Thoughts of the Old Home and of the New Sights. The Picture of Lady Blessingtov, and What It Suggests. Brecher’s HNigy Among Madatne Russaud’y Wax-Works. Epeetat Correspondenea of The Chicago Tribune, Loxvox, Eng., Jan. 2.—Ono who has never econ his native aboro fading from hin sight to become a faint linoupon a distant horizon beforo It ie oufoldet in its down-dropping films of n doroiating romotoncss—which has nover sailed for many days farther and farther away from the epot which holds the bost there is for him in Mfe—who has novor lived months in a foreign land, tho inhabitnnt whereof though of his own tribo are not of his own kindred—knows nothing of tho fever of dosiro which possesacs tho wanderer for tidings from homo, And for tid- ings not only of the domestic contro whoro his heart rests most fondly, or of the social circle of which homo 1s the bright contro, of tho Joys that come Into livea woll known, or tho Bwoot sad stories of fricndly hearts chastonad by now sor- rows; not only for tho births, deaths, and mar- ringes that have como among thuse fio knows per- sonally, but for news of the great world of pub- Ue event whioh surged like an over-rostloss ses around the little falands of domestic and social interests whion wo cach cali our vory own. ‘To an American abrond, a newspapor from home, como from whatovor section of that expansive “home” it may, is recoived wila degroo of dis- tinguished coneideration only second to that which welcomes an American letter, And it ie true that items of nows which havo the beloved home flavor about thom,—evon if at home those game items would have as‘little significance for the reador'’s comprohcusion as tho history of Janghis in the chotogst of Oriental classics, devoured with au hoon s Zeat as that with which tho rather underfed Ieraeiites may have con- aumod tho clusters of Exchol. AT TOME AND ATROAD, In proof, I know a certain stranger in tho land, who, when eho left Chicago, was sitch aublimng idiot in the mattor of mathonstatical cal- tulatiog that when an inciplont Nowton or 8 budding Pascal asked her questions in the mul- Uplication-table—"‘ sipping abont”—sho was amitten with » deathly terror, as those are smit- ton who tremblo amid earthquakes and fierce tornadoes, Sho was so utterly foolish in tho matter of tho currency of her dountry that whou she expended 50° cents and reccived tho thango for a dollar, she had not tho dimment idea if tho shopman had given her that which was her own, and was forced to bold her chango lightly grasped in her palm till she reached the enim seclusion of hor Lome, when she would go to ber closet, and, whon she had shut hor door, would bring all hor intollecttal forces * to bear upon the middie, which the Spbynx might have propounded to ber and found ber uo Gdifus, “Fifty conts fromonp dollar, and how sda semales?” Sho nover aspired to the su- prome wisdom of knowing what day of the month itwas; sho could ncarcoly tell the number of her parents withont landing pator and mater ina row and counting their noses, sbe hardly kuow tho year of graco in which sho lived, and es for the year of our Lord in which .sho was born—dear mo! hor canary-bird knew it ns well assho, Sue came abroad, sie sailed across that Ureadful sea, and in throea of mortal anguish tho learned ono dreadful number, the disbolical eleven of the days during ‘which she bocamo an ipDaraitiattory Of desolation to ail wlio gazed upon her, although she never did so thoroughly learn the number of bor state-room that sho was ever brustod to find {t alone, Sho came to London, and thon and thorecamo upon her that hungor for news from home that Tlave mentioned, and bhe read with such avidity every word of Tue ‘Tnucxe that camo to her that eho gained from thom a &# mathomatical educktion which droadful years of “Colburn’s Mental Arithmetic” nover gave her, and which years of indopendont shopping affordad hernot. Soatthis moment, after having for yeaa shrouded heradl€ ih figurative oack- cloth and mourned in imaginary ashes whenovor asked, ' What is tho interest of $1 for one yor at 10 por cont?" Sho in eo thorowelily av fait with suck commorcial transactions a8 aro report- ed for the readers of Tae Ciucaco ‘TrmoxE that sho can tell the Inst market quotation of vhont, the prosent valuo of Government bonds, the prico of fold; ‘sha ean. even describe the grand propottions: of the National debt, and the ultimate financial insue of Prosident Grant's ac- tion on the Inflation bill. AT WAS ONE OF THESE hungry Atnoricans who caused us afl to laugh » few days ago by throwing down tho J'imes (which that toring ¢ontained the news of the tho restoration of the Bourbons to tho throne of Spain, a description of Biamarck's attitude to the Ultramontanes, the issue of Count Arnim's trial, and a resume of the policy of tha Vatioan), with an exprossion of tragic dospair, auch as might mark the foatures of shipwrecked and starving mariners who ace an approaching ship dissolved into a phantom craft fu tha ky, to Bay: “Pahaw! what au cmpty napar! Nola word of American news init!” To us who are allon in tho land, and whoso hearts turn fondly toa glorious constellation in the Western Sky, there is one 6! which thrills ua sa martini muslo may thrill tho battic-scarrad: yeteran, That sight is not eo mach one of England's noble gethedrala, many-shadowed in the wanshiuo by Gothic arches, pinnacles, and buttresses, aa pethapss noble though erring soul may look Saadowed toits Maker; not uo minoh of England's poblo rulus hallowed by proud traditions and lorified by wonderful histories; not so much of 'Engtaud'y lordly casties whose donjon kesp, @tay toners, and battiemonted walls atand in tho geet English laudscapo to aoom liko wtorn, gray sontinela watching the atatoly march of the cou- taties ; not of Engiand’s majestic monumnonts of history, or of its priceloss works of art, but of ackats of whito paper, bearing in ono cornor wo omerakl signs and seals of their bravo com- mission, two poeplcdant and glorious bits of ‘een, known to the vulgar apoock ax ** stampu,” ut seeming 16 ws the proud escntcheon of our Republican linoage, jut alae! the packets, to our sorrow, some- timos come to as like a torn loaf from a profane catechism, andthe sum of their qu might woll be reprosonted by tho aia. « nd the catechised dsrou not expoutulute, that, instead of giving her information of tho opular opinion at home on the downfall of the Boanust, Republic,—thet hybria affair which the English Row snoot at our Govornmont for having been in ‘auch fudicrous haste to recognize, "—and he return of young Alfonso to the throne va- cated by his decorous mothor, instead of tolling her if onr own present Administration sits amid tha ruing of its party like Marius in the dosola- tlon of Carthage, or if, indocd, the Mopublican party ia not bettor Ilkoned toa Ppheonis-—instoad of giving domestic nows of tho baby's tooth and the gray cat's kittons—thone home letters scatter interrogation poinw like the cuuntlesa oryetaly of s wintry storm upon the wile world of literature and art, for sometimes they fall from a loweraky; and instead of questioning, *Have vou over found a portrait of Lady Blera- ington PY “Te ao, wilt you wilte na about it?” “fs it truo that Henry Ward Boschor ia on ex ‘Dibitlon as the waxworks?"” ‘If so, Lave you oon his olny 20 Have you yivited Living- Hoge’s bu 5 PY Tf po, will you doscribe “ne Y, palt ber with wuch questions as: Wnt Go pretty bonnets cust in Téndon?* ‘hat do you pay for kid gloves, aud what aro your ek's Charges?" LADY LLessinaTon. ire have seen Lady Biessington's portrait, tho = le! raed Sue by Lawrence. Woe found it in ir Kt ard Wailaco's collection of victures, probably the raress in England, «8 its ewuer who Is possessed of » colousal fortune, is oe of the most (horoughty cultivated conuoinsoure of art in the Kingdom, “During the building OF Tho oltre for ite ecoption, his ‘i lor ifcent ovllection iv loaned ¥ bli and left for gratuituus 9 tho public tim at Bethual Groom “agbltion 14, the Muso- woul they may lack and homers ocr oteetee ional epicureanism thoy ma: lovely in color sud foatitre, was eat “aidan ' Pointing to ua at direst, for we looked to find ipa the ineffable charm, the socret of subtle fascia. Hon which sutbroned its original, the Queen of Nelleciual and aristocratic wuciety wish Beamcre Place gud Gore” How M to Prime of our century, the opola in England. It’ teprestctt her as a rather palo, spirinolle woman, with rogular fentures, binck hair droop Sug low, and put plainly back hohind hor eara. Her oyes aro of tha deep, dark, beantilul. blue that nosoms an Irish beauty'’a nrtural horltago, and gaze ont upon the spectator from under their aweoping Jashen of midnight hue with so little of tho miechlevous aparido nnd electrical brilianey that made her beauty the admiration of her tino, and with eo much moto of pensive repose, and the soft inatre of calm contemptation, that sta gazed at it long in wonder that this contd fndend be sho whoxo beauty in her Ttation daya (from 1825 Lo 1826) was considered peertons, — But it is onlya portrait, tho pleture of an interesting young woman in white; and agit was wont to be said in thorn billisnt dare when Canning, Tord Castlereagh, tho Marqiun of Landsdowne, Lords Palmerstin and Ruesetl, Burdett and Brongham, Frakine and Scarlett, sorhiped her beauty of mnind and person, when Wing and Tory forgot thoir animoniticw in ber radiant prescnce, when Kemble, Matthews, Lawrenco, and Wilkio dwelt: upon the over ‘changeful’ beauty of hor countenance, when Rogera, Mooro, and Byron tonched thefr lyroin hor pralee, when Count D'Orsay finttered about her avs treo about the nwhetcat blossom of tho Bummer, that it was her marvelous facial expression, the Instantanoons correspondence of every fonture of her face with every thought nnd emotion of her mind and heart, heriinging laugh, her silvery voico eenti- tive to cvery feeling of her nature as an Aolian harp to every breeze, and hor inimitable conver- sational powors, (hat made her charas, rather than perfection of faco, ns a ntatue's face 18 per- fect. RNOWING MER AEBTORY, it was wilh interest touched with sndners that so stood before thin pletare of a celebrated tvoni- an, Whose house was the rival of Motland House iu the zenith of its social, literary, aud intelloct- ual tenownh, the quecniy woman who for baeuly yoars ruled tho fashionable literary twortd, counting tho proudest of London celebrities tor lumblo subjects. reckoning among her adinirera and the launters of her salons the most omi- nent men of England in literature, art, and sci- ence, yet all. those weary years, though living a lifo ‘brilliant to the highest degreo, with every applinncs of taste and tuxury, with a canker at tho heart of hor peace, » moth and rust invisible toalleyes but hor ovn, upon hor goklon joys, In 1840 came the Lronk-up at Gore House, when the suctioncer’s hammor fell upon euch royally rich and exquisitely dainty householdadoraments, such tare works of art, au would naturally be fonnd in the home of a woman of tofined triste and most mad oxtravagance of oxponditre. Scenes wero then enacted with a pitiabls fidelity to life, which Lady Blessington horself bad de- weribed ne if witha prescienvo of her own fate in tho very jiret work she over published, called “Sketches of Lifoin tho Mutropolis,” There her beautiful salons were crowded, but not with Ruesta. Quandom friends, open foes, end ins different strangers elbowed ench othdr whers courtly noblemon, wits, colcbritics, artists, he- roes, and eavans were Wout to grow each more brilliant iu the lustre of hor presence, and made orude jestn at tho fall of ber star from the avcial heayous. Groasy Israclites fingered and faked about the most precious objects, vulgar trades- men jokod over a matblo band renting upon book, the hand modoled from that of the beauti- ful aod ruined Countess, whilo women histed tho spiteand spat tho venom thoy felt for her dazzling career, aud showed none of the chority which coteroth A multitudé of sint against the proprice ting of n world tint Lady Blessington know notof, At this suction was sold to the dissolute Marquis of Hertford for £336 (baring origiually cost £60) thia same portrait which now beiungn to Sir Richard Wallace, and which will soon bo hidden again, as it has been hidden for yenis from the public, in his Lordehip’s private gallery. ‘Thery was x singular disregatd of marriago- ‘rows oridont in the wholo btstory of Lady B.'s life, Married horself at an early ago to a Capt. Farmer, she derorted Lim ins year and never lived with him after. Lord Dlossington married hor two montis after death relioved ber from hor matmmonial bonds, and soon after the doath of bin first wifo. The first Lady Biossington had also beon proviously marriod, but doserted Aer husband, lived with the Lord and bore him two children, before the doath of hor Hiego mado it inwful for her to marry her fecond hvsband. Ono of thoso illegitimate children way aftorwarda compelled by her fath- er's will to marry Count D'Orsay, m her 10th year. This marriage also proved w chain of iron rathor than ronoate bands. A separation ensued and Count D'Orsay attached himself to his wife’s stepmothor in @ relationship which had the effect to throw « cloud over their mutual bistorics, and concorsing which tho worid's verdict bas always ‘beou as various as tho world’s vordicts are wont to bo in mattors that aré not to be ensphicred with- iy the circle of strict order. Lady Blessington retained her charma aa long as ube lived, and she died In 1840 at the ago of 6U, As Ninon de 4,‘Enclos captivated the Mlar- quis dé Sovigne when she wae 60, and at 80 rove two pious yet warm-hlooded Abbes wild with love, 60 the beautiful Countess was likely to have kept her fascinating powers bad she lived to gee her thrice score yonra and ten. When she died in Yaris, Count D'Gresy wan so mad with grief that ho cursed the honr of his birth, He orccted « nobis monument to bor momorr, ho upver ceased to mourn her while ho lived, wad whe he died was placed beside ber in tha tomb, Lady Blessington, tike Mndame Renmier, was an acknowledged queen of socioty. But now, aftor the darzis and glitter of hor fatne Lins faded toa memory, it is plamly seen that not even in a romote degroo was her position like Margarct Fuller's or Madume Do Staol’s,—a purely intol- iectual one. Thero éan be little doubt that abe might bave exorlod every influence of hor ap- parent wealth, and cvery power of her intellect, and yet bad slio heen losa fo- yored by naturo than ehe was with charma that catch the fancies of meu, might havo ktriven in vain for the honors she boro so well. Sie had & keenly-perceptive intolligance which, whan it wont gieauing in the flolds of art and literature, never failed to copy the richest grain that youl garner well, to feed after eonvernations, Her mind was ontircly objective in ite charactor, not in the leant subjective. It Isid hold upon tho outer world with facultics (hat gathorcd and brought bone thoir gain to mako hor intelli- gouco brilliant but cuperiicinl, to make hor conversation moro descriptive, wotative, and omotionally critical rather than dis- passionately ounlytical, and — transparontly Profound, She had’ no vision of the mnysterios of mind and soul that bafite and perplex the thinker's conscioustess. ‘Tho sight was goldom or not at all introverted. She liyed to grow, a4 a morning glory grows, to boan— titul bloasoma and luturiant foliage, but with little root into the deep soil of thought. Bhe Was wonderfully gifted in expression, both of Bpeech and person, wo that the tdea which o lava attractive woman, uttering in more barren phrase, would weom but a scanty addition tothe eouver- sation, caine from her with all the pomp and oud glory of an assured triumph, Sho of conne was hover orizinal, her ideas wore tho thoughts that are tho world’s universal own, robabilituted iu the showy Blessington livery, and sont forth to enhances the lesilugton reputation. ‘In read- ing ber life end letters, one always lias the | impression that sho poses alwaya for \dramatia effect, even in hor pris yala correspondonco; that she alitaya wrote oud talked, not from the overilow of her own naturo, but pertinaciously up to the stand- ard of eoclal and worldly approbation, Hor lit- erary reputation waa made at atime when there were fewer fotinite compotitors for fame than how, and was nourished upon dot or ehowy Annuals, such as the roadmy PubHo of to-da} would reject as the mont innipid of literary gruel. Her talos ond uovola probably ara never read. by the present army of light-literature roadera, and would not find @ publisher were thoy hawked froin one ofiive to another all over the country, Her beauty, her montal brillisney, hor tare ex- pisaelona Rraco, and her suprema ambition to 0 the bright focal point of tho iutollectuat rayn of woolety, made hor houws feablouable, Authors wits, artistes, acientivts, gathored there to moot their kind, so fady Blessington became a colob, rity, aud wo traveled all tho way to Jethnal Green, through the most common and unotoan Portion of London, to find her Portealt, thirty. tour yeara after Khe had moldered into dust, BEXCHEU'S REET, We have soen Houry Ward Boccher’s offigy at tho wax-works, whora he ia introduced ta the pulilio na the * gittod and eloquont (eloquence je evidently not a ‘ gift,” or cise the Tussaud rheturio is liablo to a charge of tautology) Amer- Jean divine, brother to tho author of Uncle ‘Tom's Cabin, aud tho principal characters in a» Tecont groat scandal.” ‘Chia tiguro Jooks like a, Daniol Lambert in the middle stagos of develop. ment of adipoxe ; ite head is grand enough to Lavo boon modoled after an. idcal of tomers head; while tho face, if Homeric, must hayo beet wrought oué from an inspiration of Homer sta timo when Homor uodded with tho stupor of » too abundant feast upon the honey of Hymettus, It ts a etupid, silly, almoxt imbecile fare, boors jug aalight resemblance, not in jmbecifiby, but in feature, to Mr. Boucher ag he wax some years ago, but only as Blight Bone ad the figures of Henry Vitl's six wives (which atand not far away gathered alout their uxorcidal lord like pail-bearers around w bearse) probatly bear to thelr originals. Ar. Beocher'a fumo docs not voom tu Lave echoed Uke thunder or tlashed hka lightning over the wos, for, btanding before shin travesty of hiy face and tiguse, we overhoar commonts and questions that imply a density of ignorance concerning both ths brothor of tho wuthor of ‘fum's Catin” aud “the re- Bocohor?” asked No. 1, who haen't paid aixpence extra for a catalogne. “Lnecher? Beectot 7” anawors the other, med. Itatively, ‘why, n't ho the Prime Munster of Amoriea?”” ‘AN ENGLISH ASSIZE, “ay that ho in!” quoth No.1; and the two | Our American Cousin Among moved on to tho hext figure, nneonecions of how clowély they had Inid hold upon the tenth, al- though swerving #0 widely from fact. For we nll know that to many minds the oricinal in not only the © prime mininter" of Brouklyn, and of America, but of the nuiveraé. LAVINGRTONE'A TOMB. Wo hare neon Livingatone'’s burial spot in Wentminator Abhay. Utivlor the cold, icy pavo- mont of the church ho lier, whore ashes of the bravo, and isd, nnd good, have mingted with tho sagred tat, ard made thivholy ground for centities, ‘Tho tombstone is black marblo, inreribed with olden charac- tera,—an tiny bo the horoes in the Book of Ife. ‘Sha Inscription reada: "Brought .by falthful hands over land nnd soa, here reate David I{vingetons, Minstonary, Travoler, Philanthrop- int, Born March 19, 1813, at Wiantyre, Jnvarks Fhtro, Diod May 1, J873, at Chittambo's Villago, Ulaln. ‘Por thirty years his Ife was spent in un- wearled oforts to ovangolizo the tative race, to explore tho tndiscoverad aserote, and abolish the iniquitons sinvo-trade of Contral Africa. “Whero, with bis last words, bo wrote: ‘AIT crando in my solitude iH to pray, may Hoaven’s rich blensingn come upon every ono—Atuorican, Enallshe or funk, who will help to hnal this apon of tho world.’” Benrua Darne, — BITERS BITTEN iow ® ‘Froy Womnn Got Enough Money to Bay n New Bennet, From the Trop (Ne ¥.) Limes, James Maxon {a a duly initinted and valiant Knight of Pythias, residing on Fourth street. ‘The other night be loft homo, telling Ara. Maxon that bo was going to the lodyo. “About half-past 8 o'clock two well-dressed men rang tho door-boll, and, when Mrs. Max- on appeared, (hoy sutroduced — themseclyes a8 companion Knights of Pythias, ‘hoy atid the lodge had just held aun election, and that Mr, Maxon had been unanimously cailed to the Chancellor's chair—the highest position in the logo. ‘Thoy had been duly appointed, in accordatico with the custom which is peculiar to this ordor, to inform bor of the distingushed honor that bed beet: conferred on her hus- band aud to colicit her consent to his accapt- ance of the office, another stipulation peculiar onlyto the Knights of Pythins, Mr. Maxon, they said, according to their rutes, would hold the office for threo years, and would recsive an annual enlary of $1,202, this being the exact amount according fo’ the tribute levied on each Knight by tho superior council. Mrs, Maxon was overjoyed, flanked the courtoous gon- tlomen,—aho had meanwhite xeated them. solved in the parlor—and gave er froést consent to tho acceptance of tho high and lucrative office conferred upon her worthy husband, The visitors rose to leavo aud, aa they wore about to withdraw with all the thoughtful etiquette of thorough gentlemen, ono of thom suddenly remarked; “Oh! by the way, Mra, Maxon, I almost forgot to give you this vote. Mr. Maxon capecially impressed it upon me not to forgot its delivery.” A hurriedly writ- ten note wns hatided tu Mrs. M., and excusing herself, eho rotired to the lighted parlor ‘and rood: Dran Wirz: Tharve beon sctocted from among the 305 members of my lodgn to set as Chanceltor, x flat- toring office worth nearly $1200 4 your, It in'slways customary for the uewly-elected Chancellor to furniab refrorhmments for the knights, Ihave only $5 with me, Pleage send me at leant 350, for T must do the thing ap well, Send $100, {f you have it handy, or borrow it of tho nefghivors, It will all como back “When 1 get my first mouth's sslary—$100, Your loving huntaud, dAuzs Maxox, Mrs. Maxon's eyas opened, and sho thought a moment. Then sho went to a wardrobe, plunged hor hand into the pocket of hor black silk dross, pniled out a pretty Russia deather purse, and, from its snoply tucked-up eortior, took a bill, It looked nice and fresb, in big thyures upon it “$100.” Going to the door she inquired of the waitin; Fentioman, “Will you take the monoy tohim?” Tho finelooking fellow who hended her the note, proforsing not to -know what was in tt, spoke Spt Oh, certainly, cortainly, 1'll noo that be gets it safely, Gilad to accommodate you, madam.” Said Mra. Maxon: ''I have only & 100 Dill, and James toute tut 860, and, besitle that, F don’t wish to aond the wholo of ft. Will you got it changed for mio, please?” Vhb two gentlemen consulted a moment, and then said: ‘Oh, we have change.” Straight- way thoy mado up £50, gave It to Bre, M. in ox- change for the bill, and, wishing hors very good night, retired with all the elegant ie and mantinoss characteristic of the noble Pythian Knights. in abont twonty minutes Mr. Maxon came homo.‘ Why,” said hie wifo, I thought you wore entertnining your kvishtly associates: didn't expact you before midnight, considering the amount of money you wanted for your fonst,” “What do you mean ?" inquired Mr, Maxon, “I don't undorstand you." ‘Whi, didn’t you set me this?" said Mie. IL, aseho handed him the note, “Right after you left two very claver-looking gentiomon called and said you had boen elected to some high offico—Ohancollor, I thiuk—and I, of cournre——” Maxon, who had glanced over the note and discovered its bomplexton, ejaculated, You gaveléto them? Why, it's a diuuoleal swin- Blo. Did you give thom any mousy? How much ? “Why, I gave them a hundred dollar bill, and they gave me #50 in chango, Moret is.” ir, Maxon, in & dospuiring way, took tho moncy and careldssly glanced it over nt first, then mora Sakotly, acaunipg each bill carofully. “Woll, well," nad he at last, ‘this t¢ a double outrage. Why, all thia money is counterfeit ox- copting tivo £5 notoy! But wherein tho namo of common souge did you over got a» 8100 bill ? Sout uida’t borrow that of tho neighbors, did you?" “ No,” said Mrs, Maxon, who Anpoatell to hor husband to bo strangely undisturbed, “I touk that $100 note you gaye me about o year apo. Don't you remomber ? You told me to look out and not to spend it.” “Why, that’s a counterfoit!” said the hus. band, . “I knew it was, Did you suppose I didn't seo through your stupid gaino, Mr. Mason? Your wifoian'fafoolif abe is a woman, Give me thom two good $5 bills, if you please, I just Want a new bonnet. a aan A VISION, A lovely béing, awect and fate, Lipa parted ax in blorsing, A bright'ning halo round her bar, Hands outetrotcled for caressing; BADLY. ‘And night by night, her glad, wise eyo Forvshine their hoarer glor With glimpse and gloam of Paradiea, ‘And grand prophotio story, But morn by morn I wake to find ‘Tho old, unlltted sorrow, Aud Just as far away, the Kind, Dede vision, called ‘To-nioreow, ~Maria W, Jones in Sortbner fur February, ere ais Iboring the Captain Fancy s koon, bright-witted, practical seaman, tully realiziug tho importance of Lis position aud responsibtllty as vornmandur of an ocoan steam ehip, being’ badgered in this mamior when he toade his appearance on dook in fue weather : “ Oh, Oaptain, what wae that horrid jar in the machinery abont 12 o'clock lost ulght 7” ‘Tean't sy, madam; porhaps the engineer oan tell you,” , “Do you think, Captain, it will be ag fine wenthor us this all the way vor? a Certainly, mius, af the weather does not chango.” “Captain, tell me where ia the moat danger- ous glace ono can be jn $he wholo pasuago?” ‘Overboard uf night, I should think, madam.” “Oh, Captain t don'ts You sometiines gat aw- fully frightened tn storm” ‘Ie it's much of a storm, miss, we don't have timo to be frightoned till it’s over,” ‘Lbis, many obsorversjwill boar witness, has oc- curred pertaps on voyages they have made, and is a sample of tha feminine etylo of conversa- tion, Henly Jess ludicrous and absurd was that of some of the malo nex, ono of whom comes along and, squinting knowingly aloft, vaya: “Ain't you garrying wail pratty strong this moruing ?' * Porhaps we are,"? “ How much dail will abe stan’ in a breeze like this 2 “Oh, all that we make." Another cotnos slong, perhaps, with an idoa of iug tho agreoub! “Good morning, “Good morning.’ “Won't you go down and take ® little suthin’ store breaiifast—cocktnil or » little bitters?” (Sententiously)— No, thauk you.” “Ob, Captain,” says another, “I wish you'd see that T hove napkin put tomy plate wt dinuer; thet waiter forgots it.” “If you will speak to thocbief steward ho will accommodate you,” ‘Think of people who ask a steamship Captain queations ike these (und they ho inven- Hone) oomplsining that he ia * reticent" or “playuey short in hie gnawers."—digsion Cori mercial Bulletin, the Big-Wigs. Some Account of the Court Ceremonies and of the Assize Ball, [Fritten for The Chicago Tribune.) Ob my arrival in London some fow yeara ago, In the course of my commercial trips to that great transatlantic mart, I found my old friend, Charloy Itussellat the Langham with hie trunks packed and ready for amovo. I had not seen Charley for somo time, and was much disap- pointed to think that wo werd ao soon to part after so long areparation. Heo had completed his. business for a New York house, to which ho stood in the name reistire position as T then did to mine, while 1 was but beginning tho dutios of my mission, It was with much reltef, then, that I heard ho was not yet to return homo, “having somo public duty to perform,” as ho romewhat anigmatically oxpressed himeclf before his tinal doparture, — I was rather mystified et this, but ho neon enlightened ma by alating that he had in somo way become a necussary witness in & caso of very considorabie Impottance, which yaw to be tried i the coming week, and in hich ho was under subpona to appoar at the Ansizos then to be hold in Doerahire, As I had nover boen present at tho Bitting of an ENOLIAH COURT OF JUATICN, Igladly availod myself of Lis suggestion to go down trith Lim, provided I could 69 arrange mat- tera as that tho interests of tho house should not suffer by my avsencs. Most fortunstely ao opportunity presented itself, the particulars of which neod not now be detailed, aud I was ready toaccompsny my fnend. The noxt dey we called at tho office of Mesars. Capias & Pounce, No, $59 Little Georgo street, Westminster, attorneys for tho plaintiff, aud, having there received full in- structions ag to the when and the whera of our departure for the Assize Town, we mnito our- selves as comfortable ss pursiblo, and literally took our ease in our inn, On the appointed day Mr. Caplas took us up of the Langham in o conch, and wo all went to the station togother, Wo had both oxpressed our desire to our legal friend to sce ag much na we might of the cere motics of the court, having heard that they dif- fered 40 widely from our own, and he had prom- ised to gratify our roquest; the more readily, too, ho anid, #8 ho bad other basihess which would require his carly attondanco at Deerham, tho county town, We arrived on the night before tho opening of tle court. How ‘TE 2UDGE COMES TO TOWN, On the foroicon of thé next day, ‘uceday, thitfk. hearlbg martial music, wo walked in tho direction of tho house tho Judge wos to occupy during tho Ahwizes, atid fond him already on the way to the Certlo, ‘The Judge was seated in an elogant carriage, bearing the arma of the High Sheriff of the county on its panola, std that distinguished oficial cecupiell a sont at his cide. Tho carriage was precedsd by a com- pany of twenty-Tour mounted jayolin-meu, in uniform, lod by a band of trumpeters, also ou horseback. Bobind the carriage camo a procen- sion of the magistrates, jurors, constables, and citizens of tho county, The Judge was recoivod with great state at the outrance to tho Castle in which the Arsizes wero to bo held, and, while ho 18 finding the way to hia private apartment and we to our rents iu thd hall of justice, lot us hear what Mr, Capias has to say of the pretlminarica we have just witnessed. TAB UIsroRT OF tr, In anclent times (oxplaitiod lio), all suite at law ivero brought before the King himeolf, at Westminster, or whordocyor else he might bu. As population aud bnsiziess increased, suite beanmo far toe nunicrous to heard by the Ring or any other individual with any hope of juskce belng moted out to cack case, and so Judges bad to be anpointed to ropreseut the King and disposo of the s in bis betialf and in his name. Herice tho re- spect with which thero Judges, as representa. tives of Majesty itself, aro rocoived when mak- ing their circuita through the country for the vonvonisnce of the people, who aro thus allowed the Inxury of litigation at theirown county soats without the expenso avd delay of a hearing at Westmiastor sione. Thone men you see on horseback armed with javelius reprogont the an- cient body-gnard, whith always sccompaniod the King in w Royal progress, and which of right should accompany his reproaentatire. © But whence does he bring this guard?” in- Guirod wo. Mr. Capias explained that the Judgo is saved Bil care of the guard by the atrangement of the High Shorift, who is, for the timo boing, the of. ficer of the highost rank in the county, aud who xcosto it thatthe Judgeie received ins manner be- fitting the diguity aud importance of his mission, and Ina way tho most tiliely to inapiro tho vom= mon people with an idea of the majouty uf the aw. “Ta this High Bhoriff elected, aa with ns?" daked wo, "Ob, n , no," said Mr, Capias, ‘his appointment is mado in a way quite peenliar te our own cus- toma, Onco every year tho Lord Chancellor laces before the Queen a list of tho names of alltho exstated gentlemen in osch county who may bs considered eligible for so high an onico, for you tourt know that thoSberiff formerly held tho rank of Vice-Cornes, or Kari, J.vst any jenlonsy should bo ercated by this onnnal ap- polutment, the Hat for each county fa tempora- tily coyorod by a sheet of white paper, and 8 sharp-pointed instrument ts then pué into the Goyal bend, with which s puncture is mado through tho paper, abd the geutlonien whose name fs found nesrest the purictire on tho lint whan the sheot of papor is removed, fe appaltnd High Sheriff of that county for tho enaulng year, Tho Sheriffs of Loudon aud Westtoinster only are cloctad, and that through some ancient char- ter privileges of theso cities. But ia not the Shrievalty,” asked wae, “an office of muck responsibility, and how are ics dutios perforined 2" “Pho office," said Mr, Captes, ‘is indeod ons of the greatest reaponsibility, too groat fora® Iny- nian to exocute, infact; ant so tho legal dutips fra always porformed by #u Under Shoriff 2p. pointed by the High Shorif, and ziving bonds to him, and ie successure, Sheriffs for the time be- ing, for tho foithful porformanco of hie duty. This Undor Sheriff is alwayu chosen from my own profession, and he is generally a solicitor of some experience, and looks to the appointment au an honorable retiromont from actual practice, and holds the offico, nu ® rulo, for life or good cons duet.” “Tho sppolatment of the High Sheriff adds groatly to his income, doos it not 7” “Oh, no," sald Mr. Capias, ‘he thinks it be- neath his dignity to receive any of the fees, and looks apon his appolutmont as purety honorary. ‘The whole of the omalumonts go to the Undor- Sheriff, aud his deputies, and other employes, “On tha oontrars,” continued Mr. O., tho High Shoriff bears all the expenses of the Judge wide holding the Awsize, out of ‘hia own private rovouuo. He takes and furnishes the house, provides the carriage, escort, tmusic, servants, everything in fact that the Judge mi Ins word, he impersonates hls count: eoption of the administrator of justice.’ OPENING THE ARKIZE, But we have now reached the seats which Mr. Capiag’ forethought has sooured for ns. Wa ult outside tho bar, ad it is onlled, iu full view of the Judge au he takes his scat on tho bench, bowing Rravely to the whole Court, who rive with » sita- Ultsneaus movemont of ‘respect. ‘The ban rintors sit with thelr backs to us, as thoy and wo are facing tho Court. Our best view of those goutlemen in of their gray wise and their black gowns; the former decorated with ou- rious curls and long tally, It is in these wigs that tho wisdom {s oftonest found to dwoll, thought my friend and I, ‘The High Sheriff, in full court dress and sword, site iu an elevated position fn front and on tho right of the Judge. The Grand Jurors aro acated in the gallery, and the officers of the Court aro ready to answer to theirnames. Proclamation ix made, and tho commissions nndor the royal soal are road, whereby His Lordship, tho Jnetioa now present, is to datlver the gaol of the county and to take the assizes fo and forjshesame. ‘Thiaoo- cuples s0tne time, porhaps an hour, The Grand Jurora ate then alld and sworn; the foreman firat, then the romainder, in squads of three or four, ‘The oath ig administered iu the voto of the Clerk of the Circuits, but before the Judge, and ia, av I took i#Hown, thus + “You, an foreman of this gerund inquest now Lolden in and for the Counly of Deor, atall diligent inquiry aud truv proseutment make of all such matters aud tugs a4 alall come to your uhargy. The (Queen's cui our felluwa, aud your own you shull keep secret." You whall presuut uo one from envy, wall or hatred ; neither uball you suifer auy ouo to remain unpresented from foar, favor, affection, guln, nor ald, or lope. therraf ; but you shall present all things truly, sa iUey come to your knowledge, according Ws the boat of your will aud fdelity. "Ho nolo you Ged. Aud to the squads z “ The saiie oath which your fore- mau bath taken oa ble part, you, and each of you, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, ing trum a Bwies inn says: vd ago, Just at dusk, after a cold rain bad act in, two Nu- glieh parks arrived, hotel was cold and damp, aud, au wo sat by our blazing fro and heard thom roonis, we pitied them so ruc! our door aud invited thera to vuaro our warmth and comfort-—so thoy came in, aud we chatted together all the evening, fresh-logking girls sat calnily iu their chairs gud sold ua they had crovsed frow Meiringon by the Rhone Glacier over the Grimsel on fuut, the day before, through a foot of anow—hed walked ¥ miles down the valloy that morniug, aud then had climbod up all the way from Vieseh to the hotol on foot in sain that afternoon, t th 2, they briekly choruaed; and ladeed they did promlne to keep and olnerye on your part. Ra help yon ont Vroclamation of eitence Js how mato and tho Judgo charges the Grand 2ure, giving them in- atructious ax to their duties in general, and in the particular canon furnished by the Shorif's Calendar, which will ba brought before then, ‘Lhe Court now adjourns to church, A chaplain. provided by tho Nhoriff, conducts tho service and preachos what is known aathe Aasize Sermon. [ suppona there was.a ting when the duties of all Interented in tho adininistration of justice wero spocially laid down and expatiated ton by the revorend chaplain on such occasions, but J do not recall anything beyond what may bo termed saound homily on our duties in gouernl, It wan understood that the Judge had juvited the Hijh Sheriff and some others to dino with him in wae evening, and that the first day of the Assizcawan doyoted entirely to coromony, Un the second tho buninose of the Court began in earnest. The Detit Jurors were in attendauce sharply at cull, and (bo rotitine went on With tinceasing assidu- ity, the proceedings boing sometines varricd far Into the night. THE costustes of the Judgo and the Larristorn struck me as be- ing very muguinr, aud it was-ouly by the help of Mr. Caving’ explanations of teir antiyiuty aud tho hold they had obtumed upon the peopie, from generation to geucration, that T could at al Fecondile myxelf to tho reasonableness of their uno, THE LEGAL PROFESSION I discovered ty be divided into bairisters of sev- eral grades, who appear and address the Court and Jury as aceaaion may require; and attor- noys, or sulicitors, as they are often called, who are permitted to sit wear enough tothe Latristerd {0 ingtruct them in any cause in which they inay be mulually engaged. but who wear no dixtinet- ive badge nor porsess tho privilege of addrers- ing the Court, In order to counnence a law-nuit in England, it seems that you must apply tu an atlorney, who eucs outthe process aud las it sery- ed.and Who prepares all tho papera tn the autit ex- cept the pleadings, which muat be signod by counsel (8 barrister) learned in thelaw. The Lurristor'u degroe is obtaiued by study for threo ears, i @ graduate uf one or other of tio niversilies, or five years if not, ab one of the inns of Court, aa thoy aro callod. Theso are more like Legal Universities than anything elso to which Jan liken then, and are governed by the Dunchers of their respective Societies, who hold tho preseriptivo rigut of “call to tho Bar” ef students who have kept the necesvary number of torms, cte., aud of disbarriug or degrading them should they at any time in the practice of their profession conduct themselves in stich maunerasto come under their censure, ‘Cho priucipal lous of Court are the Templo, the Inner Temple, the Middlo ‘Temple, Lincoln's Ina, and Gray's Inti, TUE COURTS OF TUE KINGDUSI. Attorneys aro educated by sporeutieoship for threo years to wome attorney fu good wanting. ‘At the end of the (erin a strict examination eli- titles them to a certificate, upon thé pro- duction of which, and (he payment of a fee, they are admitted na officers of auy of tue Superior Courts, one court giving the rights of all. ‘Tho three superior law-courts of England, which hold coucurrent jurisdiction, are tua Comt of Quoen's Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, and the Court of Exchequer, Tho latter was st ous time devoted solely to the consideration of such causes as bod. toda with the purlic reveunc, put now it_ sup- plics Judges to the Circuit or Asnize Courts with the other two. In the Queen's Bench thera are the Chiof Justice of Englaud aud five Putsne Justices; in the Common Vicaa » Chief Jusiico and a like number of Puisne Judges ; and in the Court of Exchequer a Chief iaron aud five Puisno Barons, INE AS#IZE BALL. But bocauso 1 have not ss yet sald a word of the Avsizo Ball it will not be ‘supposed, I trow, that the omission has occurred from forgetiulness, ‘The sitting of the Court is the time geuerally chosen fur tho county families to meet at a public assembly, where, taking advantaye of the blirdfold goddew with the soslos, Terpei- choro assumes tho bricf reign of an evening. Mr. Capias' introduction of my friend aud my- self tos local atiornoy at Decrbam ted to our participation in the ‘'mazy "and to~——you shall hour, Although my fricnd Charloy had never Loefore, to my knowledgo, exhibited a very do- cided fancy for the tripping of the light fauiastic tuo, he became, this evening, a davotoe not only td the dance, but to the young lady who had fig- ured ag his partner quite as often ne was proper onko skort an acquaintance, I rallied Charley on our way to aur hotel ov his conquest, but ha would none of it. After paling a primo Havana or bwo wo retired, Ito steep; Charley, aa he sinco confessed, to dream, ‘Iho next day he gave his testimony in Court, and, when he loft the witness-box, I prepared’ fur London, Not so Obarloy. A gig waa at the dvor, and in it aemail boy who hud toon engaged to direct the late witneva tho way to a hady dell sume tio miles out of town, whoso leafy bowers cov- ered an old manor honse, whero dwelt another divinity, before whose proseuco to appear Chiar- loy wanted now no parchment subpona, A hasty adicu, and I went to London and to busi- news. 1am happy tobe able to say that Charley's ‘teaso” prospered. ‘The “ declaration" was duiy made, and, a6 the oplanding was not more than ordinarily special," Charley crlled in no “coumel,” but began and continued to ba his own *policitor,” and won his cause with flying colors, I find bim still warmly attached to English forms in courts of fuation, and very much fear that whon he ontora Congress, a8 it seems he 13 now likly to do, ho will introduce measures to- wards 9 greatet ausimilution in our courts to those of the Old World than now exists. But when axainined closely upon the subject ho is forced to confess that. after all, tho bost remem- Lered and most cherished part of the ceremoni- ale of the Decrham Circuit was tho Ausize Ball. ~ “ ST. LOUIS MERCHANTS MEMORIALIZE CON- GRESS. Sr, Lovts, Mo., Feb. 5.—Tho Board of Direct~ ora of thé Merchants’ Exchange to-day unani- mously adopted » memorial. to Congress sotting fortliin strong terms why, in the improvemont of; tho mouth of the Misslsaippi Miver, the Southwost Pass should be used instead of the South Pass, It urges the uso of jetties for tho improvement, and tho sdoption of Capt, Eads’ plan; elaine that the South Pass would prove totally ina jenuate to tho commerco of the Mis- sissippi Val. by and, while the question of economy should be regarded in the matter, it ia betioved that ihe difference in the cont of the works, og between tho passes, when compared with the maguitude of tho in- Sproat involved, ia bardly worthy of considera- jon. ‘The following rosolution was also adopted : Resolved, Tuat the Merchants’ xchange of St, Louts respectfully requosts Chambora uf Commerce, Bowrda of Frade, snd kindred bodies in other eltien sid eape- claily those alluated ou the Misslesippi aud tts tribu- tartes, to Join without delay in our appeal to Congrcan for the erection of permaancut works tor the iinprovo- iment of tie mouth of the Miaulasippl River at the Southwest Puss, a8 being on all siles acknowledgud to be the largost, safeut, and best natural chaunol, Pe eredige oa A Universal Language. Dr, Bactunalor, & German philotoglet, bas re- cently directed his attention to tho construction tes what might be designated a universal numorul Jang’ ald of m vooabulary of 4,0U0 words man cau give oxprosgion to all his ideas, tho first unlvoranl dictionary is constructed on this basis, each word having a number which raprosents it in each of tho sevoral languages included in the work, As anerample; if tho numbor 100 stands opposite the word jirein the Euglish column, it will alo be found the German, and tua throughout the whole list of Jan muothor frond with the out the word ho dosires to expros {u French; but, in place of writing tho word iteelf, will write the nunieral that {s its universal representatives and, reversing this method, the Fronch recipient of tha communicatiog will replace the numerals by the worda of obstacle in {ho way of thit mothod Is the forma- tion of cases, teusos, ete. tho ovly announco- ment boing thut, ‘to mako known masculine and feminine nouns and adjoctivos, tones and inflections, and other grammatical requiromeuts, Dr. Dachmalor afiixes certain simple marks to tho numorals." ‘The loarnod Doctor has already publirued threo dictionarios, French, German, and Engiish, constructed on this priucip!s. ‘Ansumniug, at the outuat, that hy the inet fer in the French, aud fever in agen sod, -In the application of thie aa Englishman, writing to s French dictionary in hand, will firet seck his own languago. ‘The tain — Stout Engitsh Girls, A correspondont of the Hartford Times writ- “A few da: id their handgomto yray-huired fathor ‘hoy wore cold sud dump, and the Ro tuto their cold n that we opencd Vhoso two bright. We lookol aghast, sud murmured *Tued?' ‘Oh look most ravoltingly fresh and protty, When ‘wo appeared i) the morning, father (who alwara comes in to breakfast from ont of doors, with as Disat of cotd alr, very mich as ff he had alent on the nearest glacier) annonuced that 'thoto inzlinn girts started to walk up to the summit. of the Exgischhorn two Lours ago, and are com: ing back in time to cross tho Alatach glacier to fo to the Bello ap for the night!’ Before long thoy camo in, brisk and rosy as usnal: ‘Oh no! hot tired atoll! ’—and without waiting for a! thing more than x tunch, they were off ag: Wo proaned in rptrit aa we sas them disappear aronnd a promontory.” THE ORIGIN OF MAN. After Darwin, wPwan a lovely (uArTEt ‘a lovely nummer morning in the scar 9,001 before. Christ. Tho woods at Bonegamtin were clothed in. the fairest comtume: the lovely bids were chirping and alnging thetr morning Jaye; the aky was one vast eheetot bins. TE: thing, 1m ehort, tay full of sweetnees and ti except tho lovely Lady Adeliza do Chimpanzen. Bho wos in the dumps. Moodily sha rbbod her shoulder against a lingo palm-tree, and while performing that act heaved a vast igh. Jet at that moment ber manima dropped from the treo above her, “Oy daughter,” ald the Duchess de Chimpan- zee.“ why that sgh 7” “Ah, mamma, look at me,” sald Lady Adeliza. ‘Heo how different I am fram the rea) of our trite. See how white I am becoming.” “My daugiter.” raid the Duchess languidly, aashe neated horeelf on convenient boulder, © You should be proud of the difference. Woaro B lugher race.” “J don't know, mamma, feo what little caudal appendages we liavo; all tho other folky canhang from trees by thelr tails, but wo aro competed to rit on tho limbs,” We sre advaucing. my dear. You are whitor than Loany; you can talk in your youth, [contd not till middl¢-tgo; your grandmother, us sol. know, can only grunt it, Lou are moving to a higher sphere." Weil," mamma, none of onr folla will marry me," said Lady Adeliza. potting. “No. mg child ; it has teen decreed that there ehould be a relection of the fittest in marriage. We havo offercd you to tho Prince d'Uurang tates who is even whiter than you are, as a wife.” “Oh, mamma," gushed the Lady Adcliza, “that's splendid. Will ue come aoon ?” “Heatrain youraclf, People of high blood and kbort caudal uppendazes never get excited, He will bo here 1 a abort time." Lady Adcliza went away to look for cocoa- nuta; the Duchena nat onthe rock, and retlect- ively eciutched ber hea: OCMAPTER I Tho Dake do Chirsyanzee waa Chief of a very large tribe, If he tad been in the show business be would bava mado bia everlasting fortune, Ho had but one child, tho Lady Adoliza, (and, as eho would inherit the lve stuck over whith he ruled, many of tho nelgh- boring chiefs desired to marry her. Ber parente, however, resolved that abe should be, if pus- eile, the fonntain head of tho new race to which all their traditions taught tuom they Were working up. Tey detormined that rho should wed the Prince d’'Ourang Outang. ‘Tho Duko propored the matter to fhe Prince. “Aw. said the Trince, as he adjusled his leer, ** Te it te ‘ple im vere Lea itifal.” replied the Inka, “ Aw!" said the Prince, ” give it—aw—muech stanips 2” e a I shall givo her all Ethiopia," replied tho uke. “1 will—aw—step down. and—aw—look at it.” murinuted the Prince, “ By surprise, you know.” ‘Tuts was agreed upon, and tha Duke departed, ‘The Priuco knew his worth; bo was quite white, aud he was not troubled with slightest particle of caudal appendage, but Ethiopia was a big prize aud he regolved Lo win it. Que week alter the Duko tial offerad his daughter, the Princo started for Senogambia with tha intention of looking at the fair face of Lady Ade cuarten ut. Tho Prince was wandeting through the woods of Sevegambia, gaily bumuiing: whon his eyes fell upon a lovely chimpanzeo, sitting ina shallow brook, sucking a coco She was the loveliest creature ho had ever seen, His heart was touched at ence. He raised his oye-glags and stared at hor until his oyes fell modest confusion, “Pair chitupanzeo,” wald bo. “ will you not— sw—toll me your-—xw—name 7" Adeliza.” whisporod she. Tie Duchess de Chimpanzce, whe had wit- nossod the meeting from behind » clump. of bushos, chuzited, and slid off ou hor left car. * Adolizs,” sighad the Prince, “thou art—aw beautifull “Wilt thou—an—tmarry mo ?” The Lady Adeliza throw the renising of her cocoanut at the hoad of a Chimpanzee who was loating in a neighbouring trec, fell inty sho aria of tha Prince, aud goutly imutimurod, “Tau all thine." They wero married in great eplandor. The Right Rey, Tishop Laboon, axeleted by tho Rev. Simiadar Apo, perfarwed tho coremuny. ‘Tho choir sang that lovely authem, ‘ Aionkey mar- ried the baboon's siate Jady Adoliza ond hur Parente rubbed novss, and thon the bride sisted on her tour on an elephant with oue trunk, CHALTER IY. The seasons changad; rsummor Ispaed into autnian, autuinn into winter, and winter into epring. ‘Thon there was groat rejaicing, for the tady Adoliza gave the Prince an heir. The child, howaver, was nn anomaly in that region; it had no tai}, it bad Hat feet, it had a white akin, it had no hair on itebody, AN tha wise mon ex: ainined it. It was vot an ourang-catany, it waa nota chimpanzto; evidently it wan Lely bpovics, Then n family couclaye was called, “What eball we call it?” nekod overrbody. The Duchess de Chimsanzee, who was languid- ly making mud pies, sand: “Lot's call it—Man." mM Hinds wes 28 SS A Gambling Countess. A Paris correepordent anys: ‘ Aucthor colob- rity haw Just Geen buried. but with all the rites of the Church,--the Camtessa Risseloif, the wife of aouce uusian Ambanuador to Barta, Ale separated from bor husbaud voou after turir marriage, and sinc then fonnd her only dis fraction in gambling. Not a gatning-table in Hurops but bailed her a8 a cherished guest. Her manners wora ax charming as abo was elegant; in driving in bor carriage or traveling by rall eho passed hor time playing piquel. Ib 4n audienco with the Pope, Ifis Molingas mildly rebuked her for hor passion for play; rhe promised him sho wonld try and reform. and fora year undertook naver to sil at a gambiing- tablo; sho felt sho obeerved her promivo, a8 during the twelvemonth sho always stood at the tablo, and might have continurd so had not an accidunt Beoltsa, both her loge, and confined hor air, to a bath 2 “PUBLIC SALE HIGH-BRED TROTTING STOCK! ‘Tha subsctibor will sull at Public Auction on Thursday, March 10, 1875, At his farm tn Rockford, fl., at the Mile Trotting Park, ne ovlts, fram Lta$ years ald, Twaat) of Ite aro TORN ADUS. ‘fourteen uf this aun Nions—four of them $ years old, threo of thin , two of them Uyear old past, and throes coming "Chore are Il fine Toraaihy ilies, trom 1 tad by Ethaa Allon, 3 yeare old; Cby by Horn Blower, 8 sears ald? t i, by Roberts’ Horan, & trottne: alsa, prood piaree, from @xoall-nt aires, ton es Hepat nm. fetoulan, Kvunshec, Gen. Wein, Valontin’s Black Hawk, Hor (ull podigtces and uainse, reference can bo ad!'ts pampblos and ctreul TORWADO waa by Hakor's ‘Tornado, he by Long's Tor pada, he Uy Amoriown Weliywe, ‘Coo dam of ‘Tornado was & __._ AMUBEMERTS, STAR LECTURE COURSE, TH INCOMPARADLE CARON RICHINGS-BERNARD Grand Contame Concert Company, TO-DAY, AFTERNOON, 2 p.m. U.P. Gone’! Church, EVENING, nt 8, Mich. ay, Daptist Churoh, NEXT WEEK, 4 Grand ti ean Meee caper and 2 Poniler Mat | n ily vines Monday, Wedane- day, Thuralay, and Satuedss, ahd Wadnesday And Anine sy’ Altermoans, and 2 rand Coneorts In Us P. 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Spsntah, CAN-CAN AND THE FEMALE BATHERS, The Programme of the Seasah, DONT FAIL TO BE TERE, ree ‘ ~~ ADELPHI THEATRE, GRAND GALA MATINEE To-lay at 2p, m, For Families, Ladles, and Ciitdren, Positirely tho last opportunity uf scelug tho Wondorfal BOISSET FAMILY, Last Matinse of tho WORRELL SISTERS, Sopblo and Tron, IRNNIN TOURNOUR, MAGUIE GRAY, RS and MORTUN, THE O'DOXONUE. GEO, FORTESQUE, and the Gurgeous Extravayanza, THE FIELD OF THE OLOTH OF GOLD! Tring tho Lditlo Folks to sc BABY BINDLEY And ber Fathar in thelr woaderfa! act on tho Gobtete. GLORIOUS BILL FOR TO-NIGHT. HOOLEY'S THEATRE, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, and SATUR- DAY MATINKK, Last Roprasantations of the Great American Scoule Pivy, MAGNOLIA! NAW STRAMDOATS A marvel of rucchaniem, ‘The The gran ma of tho Mlcaianinyis aud tio cele Steattbual Htncey applauded t0'the'dcho. All ine Ste PORT in tne cast. 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