Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1875, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUN BALTIMORE. SATURDAY FEBRUARY 20, 1875.-TWELVE PAGES. AFTER DARK IN THE ABBEY. It was the 4th of Decombor, 1875, at a quartor- past4 in the afternoon, when I strolled into Woxtminster Abboy. I had no thonght tn going thor but to stroll. Inst ae I entored—inhar- montously, XI admit—I took ont a ptrno from my pocket and canntei three or fonr bant notes, I ought not to have dono this. Woatminstor Ab- Acreage not piven, but allowing « quarter section te each pita gives 80,180 acres, ALEXANDRIA DISTRICT. Twenty-seven ontrics, allowing » quarter section to eacll entey, 4,920 acres, OAK LAKE, OM} AUDUBON DISTRICT. No returns yeh, naetiniation of treeplanting entrien, mado fa Aine ‘Trovota np to Jan. 15, 1674, under the provisions of the Cangreatiousl troe-planting act: Bik for it until the completion of tho Inatitite build. ings. It will boin avory way of the highent or- der, froe to all, and especially arrauged to afford art-atndenta avory possible ald in prosecatlig thelr studios. THE COUNFE OF LECTURES, placed at o price within the roack of the poorest, —$1,60 por coures,—consiste of two sete. Tiret- class lectures, intondod to give regular inutruc- tion, sch as twenty Iecturon on the Madorn Literature of Franco, dolivored inthe Trench thoro is of aven midnight forgetfainess, How- | atationed himrolf over, I was fascinated into anying ‘ Yos" to iny | two waited future deat outside Wea’ a friend, and accordingly to tho cloisters wo wont, Wo stool perhaps flve minutes ; nob It was tho vory witching hour of 5, which, in | ad, But juat nal was dospairing of any wu wintor Hmo, means coming night, and ehadovs | a gentlonian, aged perhaps 30, with very ned drearand fitful. ‘Tho Abbey was growing indie | hair and black whiskers, anda januty ange Linct. As wo turnod to go, my friond still poured | yonilo mion, camo out of tha yard throu, h ju on me tho stream of his laborious commonts. archway. Ho wes not my frlond, Myeei's “Thin motley crowd of inocongrnous monn- | was GU, was white, was aged ; this man Y geeiand ments casta nwolrd and gopulchral look along | yborant with youth. ° * ‘Wau or. thoso degolate aisles. Itie dificult to ascartnin Teenreoly bestowed even ane glance on thi Yi —_—_—_—oOsXX—XXX FOREST-CULTURE. sand we Ody ass, The Monumental City Seen by in Minnesota. Ita Progress Chicago Byes, An Esssy Road Before the State Peabody Institute, Maryland Institute, rs Fy heaaldes language, by a native Frouchman, andan oqual | boy is nota bani; and though a good deal is | whathor ono fs really inn church or in nome Va- | gontloman; but my surprien waa tute Agricultural Society, 3 i | and Other Public Libraries, | mumbo! ou oder Garman Literature lv In| Jone ia Wantaintar AUboy which might be dono | Payee ACT oust on, ten tho elcome aac clic an ht ‘ gat the daytime, and aro invaiusbto to the atulents | Zore appropriately elsowhiero, and a good doslis | + A}," he wont on, for men who think, this Cidenear bo lal Leos watehod the alse ed od § 5S tendent af Bho et of those Jangunges, ‘Also twenty leetnrom on not dono which tha uaturo of the place might | in o very limmilisting spot. I ntways feol in- | round tho clolatora of Wontminster kivece ce by Leonard B. B| ges, Saperin Mc hadagae Correspondence of 7'hé Chicagn Tribune, Physics, accompanied by npraratne ‘and oxporl- | suggest as religiously ft atill counting bank | clinod, whenovor I como horo, to take « pickax | was known tothe police.” Io had b a ie Batrnorg, Fob. 16.—Tho Wbrartes of Balti- | monts. | The aecond sot is os jutended for the ron- Tree-Planting, Firet Division St notes 1s decidedly out of koeplng with tho orig- and broom, and swosp all those monuments | moro than onco in these lalra by CN tracked Tott.osceessesecsesece nsvecseeet170,007.50) 2,110 eral culinro of tho citizens, and coneints of leo ® detectirg moro are very intoresting to one fresh from tho foal idca of achirch, My only excuse was, that | to tho Thames," drossed in plain clothos, io waa a fra . H ae 7 tnres from ominent mon, more inetmictive than i! Lobjectod to this. of iuteresting piacos, ia tollette ‘quentey Paul & Pacifie Railroad. Peay ee eRe Toynolde, of hat john! at Ta ies beet ree popular, on such aubjocts ne physical antrono- ty mut ono {othe hafitng manned io ate ens vine is moro vilgarthan marblo morit,more | gravo. Io reel Bee ‘Lack known Pane Trattt = de little under the trea-plauting ‘i 5 rae | tof th my, tho Grandeur and Fall of Nome, the English | thore for non-devotional purposes. it could make | anmeaniog than stone in-momoriama ? In tho Crystal Palnco at Bydonhain, Te we ‘ 7 ofice Las dots so Ultie daMonlug + bue the re waya must. A visit to tho throe largoat of them | Langnage, tho Nervous System, etc.—L tnko | no grost difforonce ff I assumed for an ariom L objected again. fond of aysuming a dignified chnracter, wiht ‘At the Jate annual meoting of tho Afis nesots pale be Bee to be wort sited States Land-Ofllcos | Will plonsantly occupy a day. at rondom from last wintor's _iet. | hat others merely took for a postulate. Do this a “T geo,” horotorted, witheome little contempt, | tonning towards vonsrablo ogo. Pity “youara a manof tho ninetoonth contnry. + misundorstood bin! Ho aR el rorenneet am not. I tlatoat the progont, aud live altogether | tatont lio might have rison vory high in soine be in tho past. the branches of *logitimato felony.” 9 It ai rock me that I also “dotested tho Briefly, my friend was n first-clasn thier, pesronty and would Lave boon glad to got on | had graduntod in tho kloptomauiac collego, Kot nto tho futuro, I cannot toll wht it was that | precively nt Oxford, nor accuratoly at Dublin, . poseessod moto accompany thid gontloman to | had noverthelosa tnken hia dogreo. AI, A’ he tho cloisters, save that cnrions and indofunblo | was, though the "A" might bo aqulrocal tot ; faacination to which I havo alroady alluded. ‘Lhe | moral of its range, while doubtless dificult i¢ sirens woro fabled to attract poor mariners by | “master.” Ho Boa ‘boon at a very good ecbece, aveel vaices to imovitablo shipwreck, but this | and, oa it tratispired not many days aftormards man brad notaswveet voice. Thora is, too, on | whon bis story was told before a magistrate be allusion in some natural histories to tho “ovil | nad once gainod a prize for Latin catpositlon’ eyo" of tho snake; though Mr. Waterton says | and had Loan accond for an Exhibition at Oxford this 18 all nonsense, and that the oyo of thosnake | His boast waa thorofore well founded. He had Ninety _ Joctnros were —dolivorod nat year, and they Lave had a marked offect on Baltlmore people. Moro couraca of lectures aro supported, aud larger mudiences aro present. Also, by roportof tho Librarian of tho Inati- tuto, itis found that aftor a Jocturo, or ect of -lecturee, on any subject, thero is a Groatly: incrosgod domand for Looks ou that and kindred aubjects, showing that tho tendency is to awalon interest, and opon now ficlds of thought, THE CONCERTR, of which nixtoon wore given Inst winter, con- slated of eight symphony concerts by the best orchestra procurable, aided by first-clars solo talont, and elght by tho samo orchestra, per- forming alsoa symphony, but haying solos by First on tho lst, and the oldest institution,— though it has tho smallest number of books,—is the library of the “MADYLAND INSTITUVE FOR THR PROMOTION OF : ‘THR MECHANIC ARTS.” This {nstitute was founded iu 1825, ond has other points of intorest besides Its library, Its plan was originated, and mostly carried out, by ons man—John H. Latrobe, It includes valua- blo instruction nt an astonishingly low price, in- tended to meet the neods of the Industrist classes. It has a Library, Conserratory of Music, Cabinet of Minerals, and }hitonophical and Me- ftate Agricultural BSocioty, at Minnoapa lis, an e¢asay on Forest-Culture in that Stato waar read by Mr. Leonard 2, Hodgos. Subjoinad ase libe eral extracts from the soon , sided hile the northern and vortheastern portions at Winona aro emphatically timbored re;zions, tho southwest and western portions of our Blate are vory deatitute of timber. While Minornots ‘fan a Stato is moro abundantly supplied with tim: ‘ber than either Iitinois, Iowa, Kanuaa, Nobrasta, Novads, Dakota, or California, yot tho stubborn fact existe {iat nearly or quite one-third of tho fincet agriculuural Innda of Minnesota aro seheo- Intely too dostitute of timber to admit of sottie- ment and enitivation. show an nroa already takon ander tho troo~ planting acts of 1879-1 of 170,307.69 acres hy 1,116 elnimants, enough to redoem ono county in tho trolese region, if the planting and cnlti- vating is proporly performed. “This exhibit does not Justify the expoctations of the friends of forest-troa culture, who had good reason to hopo that, undor tho liberal provisions of the treo- planting acts, thousands of our young men would aval themsolycs of this new opening for entorpriso, ‘To the speculator and man of roady monns, this opening offors no indncomonte 5 for ‘ho thinks he has to wait too long for returas, Tho peculiar weakness of Lumsn nature, to ‘be in haste to become rich, continually acts 08 & ag it may, just as E was counting my notes, through somo suspicion that I had lost one on tho road, I observod a most respectable old gon- tloman atanding within holf a dozon yards of me, and taking keen coguizance of my monoy. Dut lot this fact pass, The old goutlemnn passed. And with him there went from my momory all recollection of his gaze. I thon strolled round the Abboy. = “Johannes Smith, armiger, Smithorum Lin- colvisnsium olundus,” was an inecription that engaged my attention, ‘Lincotolensium" was perhsps more distinctive thao tho somewhat 7 cannot move. Yet this man hod uot an ‘ovil rely dirce! i feloni Exlimating five persons to » family, atinacatle oa The ee Eee aregie chanical Aparatus, and a School of Dosign. In- | studonts from the Conacrvatory: ‘hoy ara well | promiscnons “ Snilthorum:" but neither of the | yo.” ‘Thero must, then, bo charma of the dia- sbilitien aiislenere Meant, for comet now coutaives 120,000 ifamailley wa ee erode try, and ambition ts gonorally In too big a hurry, | struction is givon by means of lecturea nd woll- ateanlzed, though, ot hea tine See ob two could be said to Individualizo tho particular botie Hind watch ‘scinlk: -bot of foatured oxprs- Belgravia. ont the year requires ro oy cords of wood. | forpermanent nuccess. ‘Tho profits on s quarter- | quallfed techera in every department. Te has | oe ee en: they: ace cub by ‘the | Mlentity of Smith. Thoro wae play loft for fancy } pleasure nor burm ; you are conscious of nothin; A TRAGIGAL TALE OF TH! This ‘one item ef fucl for Lhe housohold demands | section of whont, with ita epeody returns in ready | gy annual fair for tho oxhibition of American } 1, siento, "ot or $6 for the courso, including | #6 to ‘ Smithi,” oven with the narrowing of the | but tho charm. ‘Ovid calls certain kinds o| THE TROPICS, an aouual eonuumption of 1,410,000 cords of | mousy within a year or two from the commence | arta, whon prizos, medals, and diplomas sre | rehoaraals, : county; andX wondercd whother that ancient | witchmont, which ago not of tho virtuous kind, | 5.4 saeane Knyte wae jolly tar oats in Minnesota, in ronnd numbers, say } sccumnntations thropgh stock-growing and treo- | given for inventiona and improvements, Tho} In aduition to sil these departimanits the Taatl- Toman family had originally como ovor with PE hrer bret BO ae ee Abound of the atearmeblp caiden Star,” 2.000 Nes of railroad, with 210 or 240 locomo- | planting, and their consajuent ‘permanent | library consista of 20,000 volumos, and is free to | tute gives sovoral handred datiam orcry yon’ 1 | Cresar, Sang lator vou mre cobsciGua, of boi sram.the. |! aeaceaeaa to tbe Nae ot what yo-sall Tigo engines, consuming annually, with theneces- | values. Tho too common, but mistaken Idea, | all members, It ta placed:in a pleasant, light | Prizel to tle bent schorar Muto School of Design, | _ 48 pondered these mattors, I noticed, almost | beginning, Yet thia man bad neither jucun- ‘Agr’ pla tay nupply to railroad stations, not lees than | that {t takos too long to walt to Rot any gou | room, furnished with chairs and tables, and it {8 | ‘The proporty SP tbody Tnatitte faces tue | touching mo, a gontloman aged perlaps CO. On | dum” wor “moatam,” atlosat in bin gonsiblo at- | Kitty Do-Peep wae n dusky matd $20,000" cords. ‘Tho 6,000,000 tice euteriug Luto } from Ser TAT present | mostly composed of popolar works, with maya | famous Washington Monuimont, in ono of tho | » second glance I eatistied my inquiry that it was | tragtivencea. 1 Biro it up. Cortain it fs that, | Whose father was in the banana Lrade; a SE co an fan 240,000 00 miles OF | proveiting eontimeuts and opinions atiout tres- | zines and papers suitable to aciraalating Nbrary. | most dolightful spots in the city. the same gentloman who had looked at my notes, dn ner Journey throng lilo, taoze infinentad {or ‘Ata fire'Bo-Peape llved at Paoama Bay, fa the ave to be renewed as often aa ones in | planting by » fow sasortiona which, If falao, can | There are about 3,000 mombors, Thesystom of | 1s ue oF wink eee Th of white marblo | Bat this did not mattor, Tho gontloman, who- | Hear thoir meaning on tho front, a oa ey hate to os another annual consumption | bo readily disproved, and, if truo, will be of per- | ingtraction consists of sete of lectures on the | o'iick, and, whan it ia finiehod, will be very | ¢Tor bo minbt bo, bod s right both to look at iny | Afight I venture to inquire,” asked my friend Sint sefons tha tethinue Le took tap of nearly 85,000 cords. When so also take Inco Rae a oe is faniice on tho bloakest | Various sclonces, and thore are about 60 pupils. | Sroamental, ‘The part now occupied furnishes | notes and at other objocts of interest in tho Ab- | at this momont, whon wo wera just going out of | Aud in bis wanderings who sould he toe Paaper enna) “our raltroado, aud t.ho | portion of Ca Wresless regions, oon, bai jons The Aegan RE eccominciations only Jerthe, Hoare sn reading: pha = Sere aapmaet i uaa ist ot eer sregerd ia re salting feo. pront a lib- | But Kitty, asleep, 'noath a mengo-tree? i d mein. | reagy mouocy than ft would cost to buy a brons- la 4 4 x . i : Undor s mango-treo, fant avlee) Smber' rai Poececolenckabint ented Tate ing iow, ‘arround bis stock-yard and buildings | ploasantly situated at tho top of the building, in tHe Rallery of att sud musteat. sons ei bs lifted with » viow to the monumonte, especially | 49) conceded the Inquiry supertluons i ang mers With her head ou hie neti nt ‘reet Bo-Peep nouses, fences, atc., we can ndd another annunt | with s wind-brook within five yeara that will pro- | » room lined with models and designs, is espo- | Placed in tho now part. «ho sho: ig ig in Bhe looked Uke un angel—minus wings— to the monumont of Smith.” Ho had very whito hair. Ha wore vory old spectacles, His apoctacles were of thnt domonatrativo kind which throws tbo rest of tho toilet inte the abade. It is the proviuco of, gota epectactos to obscure every detail of oven the bost-dressod and most distinguished of mon; and thoro are some yold spectacles in particular which do this, such o8 thosn which the Shah wore in Lon- don, The gentleman in the Abboy had (his clase of spectacios, Thoy botokenod & mind ncous- tumed to think, and oycs that evon nooded ro- pose. Losy tn ornamont than moant for real ‘yao, they suggested library and tomes, ‘Thoy had, too, a bulk that was costly. Tho gentloman himself jooked costly. Hiy spectacles and him- self were on o par—pro-eminontly fonncial and Botnd. Le vores blue coat. It was buttoned up to the throat. A white tfo of immaculate rity surmounted tho very blue cont. ‘antaloons of indisputable neawnesa porfectod the downward proprictios; and boots that dis- tauced competition ended tho man. Tesult: aristocratic, balance at his banter’s, fino coun~ try seat, distinguished old fomily, with o son perhaps in tho army ornavy. This wae the im- pression producod. Bo I felt, whon the gontlemnn, turning to~ wards mo, inquired, with # large-incomed staile, * You like art?” I said that I did, but that I was nut altogother 8 proficient. “Thin figure is remarkably fino,” ho kindly advanced for my iuotruction. You unotico, from whichever point you viow is, tho effect Isequally perfect. Look this way.” Ttooked, But I hazarded the romark that I but parttally admired tho boauties of tho figure reforred to. I thought that a lady contemplnt- ing 8 medallion on which was s marital counte- mance was, to ay tho leaat of it, somovwliat un interesting, oud unworthy of Westminster Ab- chargo of s Board of Trustoos appoluted by Mr. Poabody. Thero nre rovoral smaller libraries in Balti- moro, such aa the Odd Follows’ Library, Historl~ cal Society’a Library, and othors, so that Balti- Tmoreans baye no oxcuse if they aro not a read~ ing people. Hi, Mf. a. A CHARMING WOMAN. tect him aa effectually as though he was in the middle of the big woods, Second—Thst a crop of troes can be grown as suroly, sud, in proportion to its value, with far less oxpones than a crop of corn, ‘fnird—That 10 scros properly planted to timber, and properly cultivated, will in fivo years supply fuol for s family in groat abundance, ana also foncing for tho farm of 160 acres. ‘Fourth—That tho most worthloss !ands of our tresless regions can, through the intervontion of the Tree-Pianter, bo sold for $100 per acre with- in twenty years. Fifth—That tho net profita on a quarter-scc— tion of prairic, properly preparod, planted and cultivated with forcat treca, will, within ten years, oxceod the nott profits of ten quarter-acc- tions of wheat. Sizth—That sainglo cottonwood seed, although smaller than ‘'a grain of muntard," can, by ine telligent cultivation, be doveloped into a cord of firowood within twonty years. Seventh—That any young man of musculor de- yolopmont and good “ horso-eenee," can surely nocomplish these rosulta: providing always that lo is not in toogroat haste to get rich; and, ‘Eighth—That tho genuine whita willow, prop- erly ‘iandied, will incroage fastor thaa money at interest at 4 per cont per month; sod that the First Division of the St, Paul & Pecific Railroad Company is now preparod to furnish it to Bot- tlors on thomr Huce, delivered at any station on tho prairie free of transportation, at a cost of from $1to@2 por 1,000 trees. Theae may to somo sound like bold, rackloss, and perhaps {g- norant assertions, but they aro hercby made, and I propose to etand by them. In an article in the Now York Tribune of Ma} 4, 1874, the amonded treo-planting act of March 9, 1874, ia denonneed sa an absurd thing, and tho editor gravoly informs hia readers that “+ treos sot every 12 fect apart, that is, at the rato of 290 per scro, will cout for eight yeara not fesa than 25 ceats each, or $72.50 per acre, or $2,000 for 40 acres,” and that contractor wonld not undertake tho job for loss than $5 por treo, which would run up tho cost of plant- rig and cultivating 40 acrow to forest trees for cight years to $59,000. ‘The samo article fur- thormore informs us that in Colorado they hire tio work dono uodor o akiliful suporiutondent, trat they plant large numbers of cottonwoods, aid that the cont of planting and two years’ cul- uyation 1s 81 a treo. Having read in childhood tho sccount of the encounter of David with Goliath, I am en- conraged to take out my little sling and go for this modern Gotinth, by saying tbat in Minucsota we bnve plaoted furest troes, given thom from cight to sixteon years’ cultivation, at a cost of not &) oxeced 5 cants per txce, aud that some of these treva will to-day yiold a cord of wood per trea; that wo have planted sud cultivated bun- dreds of thousands of treea within two years,— now far enough along to take cure of thomeclyes witho at furthor cultivation, at a cost not excood- ing 2 Sats Par troo,—and that wo plant foreat and raise troos by the nero, cheaper than its New York snd Now England readers can rive tho anme uumber of corustalka ; and, furthermoro, that tlero aro thonsnnds of quarter-acctions of Government land in Minnesota, as fertile as tho choicast portions of Genesseo, Mohawk, or Connactiout Hiver yalloys, within sight of rail road stations, and in numorous instances on the main Kno of the first divielon of the 8, Paal & Pacifia Railrond nctually adjoining thelr town sites, to be had by tho actual scttlor * without money and without prico” by simply sailing himself of the boneficlont provisiona of tho Con- gressicnal Homestcrd and Treo-Planting acts, which securo to evory man not losa thon 210 acros ol! land, ______»—_——- MOONLIGHT ON THE SNOW. O white, pure whitu! ‘Tho Herth fe fat too fale for Lath, too bright! ‘Cho Angel of the Night, Down stuopiug from the zenith's sapphire Lelgbt, Mistakat her for au angel af the eky, “Instead of luliby, He wingi a glorious anthem, and on high o wtars make glad reply. O white, puro white! ‘The loved snows, with sparks of dismond light rupangled | Odelight ho silent cilvar arrows? ght, ‘firoet songs, or dreams of song, that tray From choirs so far away That, though we listen, wo con hardly say ‘We hear them, 'yos or nay, © white, pure white! Ta this tlhe Honee of Blcop, which Bercorova Night Heth ballt with magle mlqut, ‘Whors Aviumn, and sweot Spring, and Summer bright, Avalt Gera coll, weep tn white siroud drecacd? er uy Roath sleeve, to her Ureant er Utile living tulngs, ealeop, clone pressed, Tit Lush of wiilte, cold rout? - subject into parloy. vewbite “Cambridgo,” I replied, rather shortly, aa ae Saw aN ruse $80 OUNNE Saat “YT thought #0," ho answored. ‘Some ree | And Jean he took and ehivored his cyes, marka whieh fall from you in respect to the mon- | Ant awore an oath of tremendous size umonta implicd tho mattiomatical mind. Iwas | That any party might take bie hat, at Oxford myself, though pravionely nt Dublin, | 1 he'd over acen s sight lke that, E uta Oxon promalis atboological turn, Cam- itty Bo-Poop started ap 8 alarm, I did not weo the drift of this particular com- oud thoug andor inews Kors yenr or tire ment, which my friend delivered senteutiously ; | If you'd only scen tho kisses he throw. but I was pleased to think that he was theologi- cal, and that J was eo ostonsibly mathematical. spwantats at first sight, Tam sure, with he; We bad no ge iH Tho 6p ao | et a at Te er ive handkerchiofa up to our facos a8 wo isstied from | And there, at that witching hour in Jnne, tho great west door. ‘Thon, ontoring the archi- | They whispered thelr love ‘neath the round, fy way ehlen leads to Deaweesnta, wo took as akon hea vast in tee mand . tura 0 Taft, and in tho course of a few 4 BETS), momentu we stood on tho threshold of tho | 4nd feasted lls eyes on her dusky charme, really bosutifal cloisters. The porter might # possibly be eanctusrized in his om little house | And tuespectied sonics suaiteced over the ground: hard by ; but we saw co sign of Jifo, save tho | The crocudile panscd in bis wild carcer, ‘ milk-boy ana avery old woman. ‘When ho heard tholr low-toued voloos fear, eit waa Just in the interim between the eclipee | omnons none! #34 to relate 01 jay an jo lighting o! 6 lamps for the night. ‘The Jamplighter would bo round in a | # cpcoanut dropped on yean Jacque Knyfe's patel fow minutes, Hohed not como yot. I should | And down acold corpus Jean Jacqte fel, hsve hailcd his approach with pleasure. My eect was sduberantly talky, and a8 aver Bo Peupas shee ce ae or ram, with profound cogitatlon. He was so g! to ative gum, have me for @ coarnauipt, Au intelligent ac- Sebi the generoes peleubors, auick ay Saxby quaintanco was such an infinite troatin the world i : whore ono met so fow. She mixed them togethor, and srery apeck Ste—lrank, and fell on hor Jean Jacquo’s neck) ‘Then smoothed her alr, and laid by his aldo, And, bidding farewell to Bo-Peon, died. ‘Thay buried thom under the Ginkgo-tree— Jean Jacque Kuyfe and Kitty B, 1. Aud sruund the foot of the Ginkgo's trunk. ‘Tho mourners, I'm sorry to say, got drank, ‘And over Joan Jacque's and Bo-Peop's grave ‘The winds and the bald-facod monkoys ravos ‘This for a trysting-place they chooso— ‘Tho aforesaid moukeysand kangaroos, Strangor! if aver yon pase that way, Temotnber the lovers of Panama Bay; Fiod the Glukgo-tree Sader yota fer sleep, 10! 1@ gay gorilles wi ee) —Broeklyn Surdey Sun, me ooo Postago-Stamp History. From the Springheld (Mass.) Republican, Now that wiatogatheriog 18 such 8 Wilk spread recroation, it will bo of interest tommy to loarn that the second postago-stamp issuedia tho Unitod Staten was engraved by Thoms Chubbuck, of this city, at Brattloboro, over twee ty-seven years ago, Mr. Chubbuck was in Bab tloboro from 1845 to 1848, while hia invalid sf was undorgoing treatment at a wator-curo thers, and had an ofiica directly ovor the Post-Olice, by which he becamo intimate with I’. N. Palaer, the Postmaster, At that time, it cost Gcensh sond a Iettor, and propayment was opticul Postmastora’ salaries, moreoyvor, wore graded 38 thoy are now, to somo oxtent, by thy amout taken in at the ollico, ond tho Postmaster u New York, thinking that tho peop would bo moro apt to prepay ther postage if thoy eonld do so by mew of stamps, had some etruck off at his own a enge, Ono of theso reached the Brattlebon Poat-Oflice, and tho plan commendod iteelf Mr, Palmor's judgment, who dotormined toi ereaso tho rovenuos of his office, if possible, ty tho samo meaus. Accordingly he employed Mn Chnbbuck to prepares coppor plate for cote taining elght ataimps, and had 600 printed. They wero printod in black ink upon buff paper, 54 wero of about tho samo dimensions aa those nct inuse. The design was very simple, coosisticg of an octagonal centro, differing from the bondt in tho direction of the tintiog Hanes. ‘Tho centre contained tho initials of the Postmaster, ‘8, 5 P,,” in fac-eimile of hla handwriting ; aborett was Brattleboro,” below ‘Five Cents,” 104 ou the sides “P.O.” Bofore the isnuy of 4 stamps was usod up, the Govornmon} began publish postage-stamps, and the destruction m4 ordored, both of tho stamps on hand and (te dies. Honco has happened the extismo rmty of the stamps, which haa led some to dol their oxistonce. Mr. Chubbuck bed 4 single sheot of the stamps in his boo’ of sn ples of is work, for a numbor of oars bot tinally sold thom about two yoars ago, to aX Hnavon goutleman, who gavo him « dollar for thom, leaving the engraver chuckling ov his bargain, Moeting the gentleme™ ame tae after, Mr, Chubbuck Jearnad that a. bad # tho stamps for 810 apioco, but the man I eoll them to," waid he, “got $20 apleca for them This gentleman wrote av account of the staph which was published without Mr, Chubbuct’ kuowledge, in an Eugilish postal inagazine, t a woodcit of tho stampe, In consequence d this publication Mr. Chubbuck bas received ot merous lotters inquiring bout tho stamps, #0 offering goncrous prices for coplos of ther, 004 mun bolag willing to givo @100 for the origia! plate, tf obtamable, “Tho plate, however. 4 bean destroyed, andthe stamps are nove fe. with oxcopt in tho album of somo philatillss $i haa beon fortunate onough to secure a COPY the rare curiosity. ‘ itom of not leet than 15,000 cords, Whon v0 take into account the consumption of timber im building our cities. towne, and villagcs, and tha amount eonsunied in fencing tho 60,000 farms in tinnogote, wo are just boginning to got foirly {nto the merity of this question. Lot ws recapitulate a moment: or hownebet fo For Jocomotivor, Hor repairing ralcronda, oles... cially flourishing. It provides classes in freo poncil-eketching, goometrical drawing, machin- ory drawing, architectural drawing, topograph- feal drawing, and artistic drawing and paint{ng, with evoning classes for those who are employed by day. Tho musical fastruction fa of tho bost, beginning at the a, b, ¢, with echolars, and taking thom through a course that fits them for teachors, both of piano and vocal rousic. Tho prices aro extremoly low, 3 por asonum for membership, entitling to library priviloges, and @3 porterm for osch class, excopting music, which fa @6, It fe nearly solf-sapporting, Any deficiency is made up by the Stato, and some- timos tho City Govornmont gives ita lizt, The building was pot up in 1662, andis of brown stona and brick, and cost $100,000. Itin situated on Daltimore stroet, in tho heart of the city, and hag a hall for its annual exhibition, Thiw insti- tution is DOING A GREAT AND GOOD WoRE in elevatiog the working clasess. When the French Governmont, some years ago, sont mes- songors to onr country to inveutipate its educa- tional advantages, the Maryland f{ostitute waa mentionod in thoir report in the most fiattering torma, as boyond all comparison the best thing of the Idod in Amarics. Torn from bi is bustling Baltimoro street, into a perrow, winding way, whore the rattlo of acartis soldom heard, aud you can carry on social talk with people across ths stroct, lined with old fashioned residences, now filled, from collar to attic, with dingy Inw offices, with bore and there an old book store,—the very ideal haunt of the book lover, aud suggeatively nomod Bt. Paul's atreet,—and yon como upon tho MERCANTILE LIBNARY. Enter its doors. No modorn light and gny recaption-room dispela tho old fashioned i- fluence of thestrect, Nothing meets your oyoa but a large room, filled from floor to coiling with books, and plentifully sprinkled with tables and choira, with bore and there a rendor, lost to all sdermundllngs in a book. It looks the yory home of tho book-worm, with its quiet foot~ stepa, and low tones, and its “dim religious light"—rathor too dim, in fact, for it 1s sadly olmcured by Polghboring, buildings. The largo room is davotod to general literatura, asmaller ono to fiction, and a third tox reading-room, whore many papers and periodicata aro oa Milo. This is the largest circulating library in the city, and has about 30,000 volumes, to which about 1,000 now ones aro annually added, ‘THE MIBfONY OF THIS ADEOCIATION fw vory interesting, aud presenta a model for othors to go and do likewise.” ‘ho Morcan- tilo Library was projected in 1499, by four mer- chants’ clerks, who desired a botter place taspond their ovenings than a saloon or Dbilliard-room. Forming plan, they inducad othor clorks to join them, each ove to contribute ten books, aud poy, ‘2 initiation foo, od 93 for annual duos, it chanced to filla want, and mombers_flockod jn, a room was ronted, and the young Mercan- tile Library was conveyed to ita home on the sholves, i) that primitive vohicle, s wheolbsr- row. ‘Tho first volume honored by a place on ita shelves waa Diblo, given for the purpose, by one who shought it tha foundation-book of tho now library. Now, aftor moro than thirty yoaro of usefalnens, ‘it ia on w firm basia, it is catiroly welf-supporting, has no debts, and fur- nishes @ ploasant place ef reunion in the contre of town for young men-(and womon also), by day or evening, It is ontiraly officored by clerks, none other being oligiblo, and_hss been a power for good for many. yoars. It bas received little aid outside of itsown members, but it naw noeds better quartora, where the books could be safoly housed, and come to the light of day. Special effort is made to rondor it an at- tractive place for the ovening. Thus tables are ilapadt in hore aud thore betwoen tho others, aud, sbove all, tho BOOKS ANE NOT LOOKED UF as thong y wore prisonsrs, or the visitors were thisves, Thia is a great comfort to tho genulue book-lover, who cannot select hia road- ing by catalogue, but wanta to touch, and taste, as well ag ace tho outside of books, and, accord- ing to ad teutimony of tho Librarian, very fow aro lost, Besides furnishing booke, the Asuociation, tho Biscnd year of its lifo, provided for Baltimore r 1 | Acharming woman, I'va heard tt aatd By other women aa gut oa ake + Dut ell (a vain I purele my head "To Sud wharvin the charms may be, Mer face, indeed, fs pretty enough, ‘And her form {6 quite as good a4 the best, ‘Whero Nature hss given the bony aut, ‘Aud a clevor miliner ail tho reat, Tottlccncceeces ose Estimating onr timbered lands to yield 4 averare of 23 cords per acro, which ecnsider a liberal estimate, wo find thar about 75,000 acroa of the foroatp of Minnosora aro being atrippod annually for our honschoids and railroads slone. For fencing our farms, bridges for public highways, manufacturing purposay, tho operation cf our lumbermen who farniab tuo matorial for building our towne and citict, not only for Minnesota, bat to a largo ortont for Towa, Nobraske, Dakota, and Manitoba, no om> will quarrol with mo, if at o rough guess I plany this consumption oquivalont to the sunnal stri ping of anothor 75,000 acres. Honco I lave some reason, from tho above approximations, ta infer that the annual consumption of timber of this State is cquivalont to the destruction of 450,000 acroa of tho primoval forests of Minno- ota overy year. The geographion in uso in tho public echools of Minnosota say its area in 83,531 equaro milos. Our Commissionor of Btatiatics estimates our foreate to cover one-sixth of out eros. From thnee data youcan figure how long our wood-pile will bold out with our present pop- ulation. ¥ Twenty-five years honce, with a million or moro of population, our pinorios exlausted, the Big Woods protty well thinned out, tha Missia- sippt drying up, St. Paul and Minneapolis 800 or 400 miles above the head of etonmbont naviga- tion, mercury 40 deg, below zero, and tha wind blowing a hurricane, is not tho idlo rovory of a dreamer. . . « Does the Stato desiro to sco its treolees counties ablo to contribute $20 to tho Stato Treasury whore they now contribute 21P The State oxtracts about $20,000 revenue por anuum in State tazes from tha most destitute counties of the treeloss region ; roturne it all os soon ascollected to keep tho inhabitants froin froezing to doath avory wintor, besides contrib- tating twice as much in provisions and ceed wheut to keop them from starving; sud yot so far ro- fusee, through the Legislature, to appropriate a dollar to the only project which will ever redeom thone treeless counties from virtual pauporiem, and placo them in s condition which will anablo thom to gubeist upow tho frnit of Shoir om Jabors, and aluo pay their just quots tg: the royonuos of the Stato. Tho State has also a direct intorest In the improvemont and conro- qn.cnt dovolopmont of this treeless region, for elo owns in feo simple not less than 700,000 accos of choice agricultural Janda, in a region Ho destitute of timbor og to render thom practically worthlces, Asa groat landed proprictor, tho Btat3 owes it to horaelf to mark out, pursue, and devalop s system of forest troe oulturo, which will inn few years ronder thove Innds valuable, and, oansequently, salable, The rondy salo of Jands thoreby accruing would ina comparativaly alort time doublo our achool fund, liquidate our State railroad bonds, and bride our streams, The State revouucs would indirectly bo so uugmonted as to roduco our Stato tax to leas than 1 mill on adollar, ro- turning to the tax-payers of the timbored dis tricts tenfold for their temporary advances. Agricultute, pre-ominontly the great interest of Minnesota, tho foundation and aupport of all other interests, would thereby be ensbied to so spread itself buat this treeloss region, now de- pendent on thu bounty of tho State for *tsoed wheat,” world in a short poriod ba enabled not only to return it “with usury," but would alao ‘be able to adit more than 100,000,000 bushols of wheat toour oxporte annually, with » propor tionate incroase of horses and cattle, butter and cbaene. t ‘Lont the State prrtially recognizoa the impor- fanco of forest-tree culture is apperent, whon wo refor to tho legislation alroady bad in this bebalf, Butitieonty n step in tho right direc- tion, Buch additional logislation should at once be bad astorendor operative tho acta already enacted. ‘The State should at once organize a treo-planting department, sod appropriste such asum of money for it operations as to onabie it to aosomplieh such resulta na could be reasona- bly he expected under a faithful, practical, {intellfgent, ‘and honest administration of its af- toire, Undvrr the legislative act of March 7, 1807, 2300 oro annually placed at tho disposal of this Bocioty for the encouragament of forcst-troe culture in Minnosots, ‘What have you dono with it? One prosont Commuunsionor of Statistics, C. F, Bolbergh, Exq,, is entitled to much credit for tho trouble aiid labor he bns been in collecting sta- tistics on tree-planting in Minacsota., On the liste prepared for tho Township Assessors, col- ‘umns wore prepared for aretuzn of the numbor of trees planted in Minuosots, cod also their acreage, ‘Through the courtesy of Mr. Sol- bergh, I have beon permitted to examina his ab- atract of those returns, which show that 14,908, 048 trees have been planted, on au acreage of 6,569 acres, ‘Yo those returns T can add in round anmbers 4,000,000 young forest treva for the St, Paul & Inteltigent? Yos—in a certain way ‘With the fominine gift of ready And knowa very well what not to say Whenever the theme transcends her roach, But turn the topie on things to wear, From an opera-clonk to a robe de 1iuit— Hats, basques, or bonnets,—trrill naka you stara ‘To seo how fluent the lady can be, Mer laugh fe hardly a thing to pleane: For an honest laugh must always start From a gleesome mood, lke a mudden breeze, ‘And hore ia purely « inatter of art— Arnuscular motion made to show ‘Wat Naturo dosignod to lie Doueath ‘The Ouer mouth; but what can she do, If that 4a ruined, to ahov tho Lecth 7 ‘To her seat tn church—s good half-mtle— ‘When the day is fue abo in sure to go, Arrayod, of course, in tho latest atyte ‘La mode de Paris baa got to show ; And aba pute her banda on the velvot pew (Can bands a0 white hove a taint of alu 2) And thinks—Low hor prayer-book'a tint of bluo ‘Must harmonize with ber milky alin { “You haves mind,” ho ssid warmly. “A maind is tho luxury of life, to others as woll as to yourself, [should prefer your companionship to that of tho canons who inhabit this comforta- blo Close. They read Grook and drink port; but mind, sir, mind fa the thing.” Could I donbt him to ba aman of obsorvation? “Yow domeatic this scems!"” continued my friond, as we stood at the entrance to the cloia- tora. '* Wecan hardly imagine that the homo- toving clorgy who livo in theso nests of roporo ore successors of the men who prayod halt the night for tho souls of tho liv- ing and tho dend. Times chango, liko cities, Since tho night whon, as tho Jenond asiuron us, the fishermen, flahing in tho Thames, caught sight of St. Poter and hia com- panious, and ferried them across tho river to consocrate the Abbey—twhich then was but par- tially built--London is not mora changod in character and aroa than hor peoplo in faith and abit. ‘This was really too much for a cold afternoon. But before 1 had time to suggest our roturn my friend proceeded to ravo, “Do you know" (lo had a constant habit of saying “Do you know,” as though he would convey rea} sympathy and an intuitive apprehon- slon of me), ‘‘wheneyer I como hore T' always rogret that {aid not live and dio a monk. Bly Inthor wasn clergyman of the Church of Ku- gisnd. Ho was Kector of Broadstone tn Suffoltr, and he wrote the lives of some saints, which I used to rosa when a boy. I always bolioved that tobe a monk wae tho most thoughtful and philorephical lifo; but I married when I wan only 10; #0, you #00, [ waa born to be Benedict.” “Like o good many others,” [ roplied, “who are monks in theory or sontiment, you wero ominently connubial in fact, Calibncy is charming abstraction, but it not unfrequently ends in ting,” “Ah, true,” he continued. “My brother wrote n book on the blessings of colibacy, but ilu wife wag tho protticst woman to bo found in tho County of Doraat.” And thon wo stood etill in tho cloister. Nor can 1 toll why I did not movo away, Lacarcely know what it was that arousod my espicions in this vory romarkable man, To was gontloman, and ovidoutly educated ; bat thoro was something nunatural about him. I dofy a man to act for throo-quarters of an hour without doing something that is odd, Io ‘will stand still, or he will move, whon ho should do just the contrary, sod he will spen his words without ou}, A contrast that etrack mo In this mon was the finish and ardor of his language with ¢ colinova of oye and of tone. A tian who ig an cothustast will throw about bia limbs, and foeling will gleam from his face; but this man spoke always by roto, dike au actor who has got up a part, I was ovout to inalat on do- arturo, when there passed wa, very hastily indeed, a strangor, drossed npparaotly io Diack: What struck mo about him was the sin- gular fact that Tcauld sco hin but could not hear avy sound, Hermust have worn fantastically- thin boots; or porhaps ho wore slippers—which would bo a little unusual on ® cold afternoon in Decomber, Any way, ho was totally inuudiblo, and, gliding likes visiov, he passed under an archway In the direction of Little Doanayord. “ Did you soe that man?” I asked my friend. Ho locked not a little disturbed ; thon ho sald harrisdly, and with obvious effor! “No—what man? Iwas thinking at tho fn- stantot this interosting passage, which lod to Little Dean's-yard. It was one of tha oldent bits of the Abbey. 1t has of courao beon spoiled by modorniam—whitewashed, like the cuthedral piety ut you cannot offace the real. Do you now, I beliove if you can dotach the beauties of London from tho masa of modornism and money, and placa thom in one spot by them- selved, you would mako a revort compared to which Rome would be 9 dustbin, and Athons Ah 1 what shall wa psy of one who walks Tn fields ef flowerd to choosa the weeds 2 Teeada euthors of whom shonever talks ‘And (ali of authors sho never roads 7 Bio's a charming woman, I've heard it sald ‘By other vomen as Hglit as eho ; Dav all in vain | puazla my bead ‘To Nad waeroiit the charm may be, John G, Suxe (n Uurper'a Magazine for March, ae eee ae ‘ Amportaut Sliver Lodes. From the San Fraactoto Bulletin, ‘The reputed immensity of tho bonanzs now undorgolug developmont in the Ophir, Califor- mia, and Coneolidated Virginia minos has led to cunsiderablo spocalation reiative to the yield of other argentiferous lodea in other countries, It is belioved in some quarters that this bonanza, provided it shall prove to ba as rich aud oxten-"! sive asit is computed to be, is far from boing equat to ore bodies that have been worked in the mines of Poru and Mexico. A cousultation with tho most reliable authoritics on tho subjoct docs not sastain any euch belief. Humboldt collected the most rehablo data that could be obtained of tho ylold of the Mexican and Poruvisn mincs up to tho commencement of tho presnt century; but luo found it impossible to segrogato his matorial no a8 to aacertain what each mine, lode, or min- eral district bad yielded during the 280 years they had bean worked prior to tho time of his visit. ‘Tho Spaniards kept no record of tho product of their minoe. The records of the mints —institutions established in the country an early as 1535—ropresented tho total vicld of tha Moxican silvor mines, frum tho Conquost to tho beginning of this con- tury, to bo @1,707,052,000, to which Hum- boldt added one-sevonth for unrogistarod silver, making tho grand total 32,027,952,000, Another writer estimates tho total yiold of tho allvor miues of Mexico, up to 1858, at $12,000,000, 000, which makes a wide difforonce betrreon him and Humboldt. During the last half-century the mints in Mexico have beon colning silver of the avorago rate of 320,000,000 per anoum. During tho first quarter of this century, owlng to internal tronbles, their coinage did not exceod $10,000,000 er annum. If Humboldt’s extimate of the Totat yiold of silver during tho bettor part of the three contutics which it covorod was correct, then the total yell up to dato cannot have ox- ceeded $3,£00,000,000. Tha groat bonanza forming the mother vein of Mexico is the only one of tho msny argontiferous lodos oxplored in that couutry of whoso product any definite ostimate has boen made, Its yield during tho three centuries it has been operated is placod at 800,000,000. But this reprosents the combined product of the roup of wines of Guanajuato, embracing a large number of soparate and distinct coipora- tions, , Tho greatost yiold of tho Valenctsuns, the richest mino in thia group, was 81,000,000 a yonr. For ell that we kmow to the contrary, the Guanajuato vein was tho richoat nilver lode evor discovered prior to the Comstock, and the Va~ lenclanna tho richest mine. "lho Cerro de Potos! minos of Bolivia, formor- Jy apart of Peru, yleldod during tuo period ex- tending from 1545 to 1789, according to the moet reliable date at command, $1,000,000,000 in ail- yor, In this estimate the royal dues of ono- fifth and the amount smuggled do not apposr, Dut which, itis computed, would awell the tota! yield to $4,000,000,000, But this sum agsin ro- rosouts tha product of 6,000 upouings the conical summit of tho sliver. bearing mountain, which probably ropresent in turu half a8 many separate mines and diatinct lodes. For twonty yeara subsoquent: bey. Ila replicd Hiko 8 mon who deignod to answer mo, There wos a blandnesa of authority in hiv way of speaking that did not admit of contra- diction. Ho delivered an opinion like one who decided, not like ond who oponed, an argument. T was glad to havo a ido who had views of hisown, Slaving gono into the Abboy to waste my time, I though! X might now improvo it. ‘Theda monuments,” he continued, ara bad~ ly arranged. They are heaped togethor without plan. Admirable, some of them, in the merits of att, they are spoiled by ides or location, ‘Thero fsa want of harmony and whole. Whats contrast, indeed, between fho oxquisite thought, Improsaed on tho glorious pile, and the paitry r attempts at mero human pratso chisclod on moat of those marbles! How the past scoms to weigh down tho present! ow small aro wo to- day compared with the foundora of this ebureh |” J fancied that this seomed Tcarnod by heart. It was vory well spoken, and if it was his own, it was ovidont ho wae a man of aducation. I concluded that the Idean ware his own, because thoy wero consistont with his ‘¢form," But who shall tell whothorn mau is original in the firat five minutes of hia acquaintance? Cortaiul; tho words had that sort of sound which itnplie thoy bad boon said once bofore, and might por- haps bo sald onco again, It struck mo as ac- cidontal that I was tho rociplent of wisdom which was proparod and sontonced for delivery. And then, too, thero is a way of taying good things which shows thot tho talkor wishes to eloynto himsolf, much moro than to do justica to hiuthomo; and my frlond's dopreciation of Westminstor eculpture was obviously tho oxaltn- tion of—-my friend. I ropliod in few words, just to show that I understeod both himself aud the remarks bo bad made, Dut ho took up bls themo and oxpanded it, Pho usage of the Abboy,” ho declalmod in fr. ritation, “tare simply infantile and imbecile. Compare that roof, these walls, this idea, with tho grasp of tho Doan snd Chapter. It isn fabric of really great mind chatteled by mero children’s toys.” Thiv was sublime. Tthought it desirable to gay thatI agreed with him. Not wishing to provoke more dcop thoughts, I would acwuage im by gracefol concosslon. “Y geo you aro a mau of ideas," he continued (this at least showed bis perception) ; and then wo wandorod all over tho Abboy, and inspactod tho various points. Ho smited at tho monumentans we passed aloug, and made disrespectful observations. Mere are some of thom: Robort Smith, he considored, Jooked vory uncomfortable; and Campbell, who doubtless wrote woll, bad somo rather weal lines at bis bage. Mrs. Rowo was seen wiping the widowed eyo with a too crisp stone pockot-haud- Keroblef; and Drydon, who lad tho counte- mance of Brontleman, was palofully dovoldof any body. Peel was deeldodly avorago, ond Canning too would-bo heroic. Lord Claro, who bad taken off n coronet, was looking up from a Juzurlous sofa; sod William Wilberforce sucgoated port- wino and 8 moro than opiacopel arm-chair, A marblo erected by tho Eaut India Company wns strikingly stif and unnatural, while a ittto ‘more of the modess and a Ilttlo loss of tho classic had = cortainly been in Christian taste. Such wera tho obsorvations of my friond. It will bo goon that ho profoundly sppreciatad both art aud congrnity of place. It is posulble that Bimilar roiloctions may havo beon made bya good many minds; hor could my friend lay FIRST COULSE OF LECTURES, which have since beon so popular, and it pro- videa rogular classes in Fronch and German, available to its moimbers at vory low rates. But the crowning glory of Ualtimoro is ‘THE PEABODY INSTITUTE, fonndod by George Peabody, the Amorican banker, & former resident of ‘Baltimore, by the foliarons pitt af $1,000,000, Tt wos foundod in 857, aud a portion of its bullding put up soon aftor, but, olving to the distracted state of tho, country, it waa not dedicated and thrown open to the public til] 1866, since which it bas beon ateadily growing in usofuloess and importancs. ‘The purpose of this institution is to furnish to the citizen tho moane for higher cultivation than the ordinary institutions of our country furnish, ‘To this end {, provides a library, a conaorvatory of music, a course of Joctures, and a tories of concorta of the highest class of mu- alc, ‘The library is intended to bes O white, pure white! Ts this tha pavetnept where the God of Tight Sica up hia throne, too bright ‘With awfi 3 purity for mortal alght 7 Now dot’s tho moon u cryrtal ladder throw, "Through epaces all sgiow With pureat light, down to lzrth's ticor of snow, Tor souls to como und go? © white, pare white ‘The raiment and the wings of angels bright 'yhat throng those steps of Nght, Pale set with opal, pearl, aud chrysulite. Go forth, my eoul, and climb, and mee: them there, thne'spirita dear and fate Olficint Jolvos. Mr, Adama, giving in bis diary an account of! Cabinet mocting in November, 1819, neld to om wider tho draft of the Prosident's mosaag® some part of which objection was taken, reo © COMPLETE LIBUARY OY LEPERENCE. claim to be original, eave in his eeloctl , | Homugate and Margate, that bir. Crawford, the Socretary of Vacific Fort Division Company, main lino, and | Thou lovest, nor can‘st tect with auywhere in all branches of human knowledge and | tothelr duicorory the mincs of Potoul aro repro- ae Pe to got rid of fin for Tha | Ethought this absurd, but T did not eayso. | ‘Troasnry, * told “J story about old Gor. a nereage of a eres. x can algo add laritne +n carth, loft love and bare, thought; such an one, in fact, as must be pou- | soutod to lave yielded at the rato of $2,250,000 | Anboy wascald; and the chilllnous of tho monu. | My frond was obviously mad. Hut thon bis | Telfair, ‘of Georgia, who, bavion sot! jons of private partios not embra in tho As- ayear, but this has been considerably loasoucd during the present century, owing to tho im- mense volume of water tocontend with at great depths, Humboldt placed tho annual product of tho nilver mines of Yoru, which thon included the Corro de Potoal group, at $5,300,000, baxin: Ble estimate wpon the returns of the mint # ms. wenaed by every city which would clavate the rninds of Its citizens above their chininey-tops, 1t consist, st present, of 56,000 woll-sclected yolumes, comfortably housed in a large and very high room, which i¢ tills from floor to colling, re- quiring two gallories to reach tho ge It is free to all, but itt ot s circulating Wbrary, ‘I! is as (0 white, pure white ‘Must be the soul that ventures sot Affright ‘“Joth hold me back from fight, Alas! wy ralment and my bands aro quite ‘Too wtalned with earthiingay for me to dare -titexapt that radiant stalr, Or meet the eyea of white-winged angels there, “Mbt Night, thou art too fair. ary W, Atkiawn in tha Independent, white hair—his vory white hair—avcmed to givo him excuss for being exceptional; since ago has thorightto bo dogmatic with youth, pnd I was but a youth in bie presency, We wore now in tho passage which my friend lad psnogyrizod as ono of the mout auciont of the Robey Anciont or not, It was cortalnly very dark, and I could scarcely seo whero I was yo- & sharp correspondence with some obleit and looking over a draft of a lotior which 5 Socretary lad propared for him to the arr plated a paragraph which struck him a} Igh-taned, aud told his Sccrotary be ae thank him to make that passage ‘a little mo spysterioua,'” ‘Tho Cablnot onjoyed tho Jor! ” much that Mr. Crawford ‘told tho story Ore sosnora’ returng, which will awell the Spprognte to over 20,000,000 trees already planted in Min- nosota, ‘The Ausossory’ returns ate, nooossarl- ly, fmperfoct in estimates of acresge, ad aleo in the onumeration of troes, yet it isa atop in the right directivg, and, es this {ufarmation bay cost us vothing, we are disposed bo be grateful for it, menty, with tbo bombast of my friond, suggested aspeedy escape. J think ho saw thar t dad head about enongh, and was on tho point of piiiog him “Qood evoning.” This quickenod 4 plang, “You know the cloistors?” ho asked me with eagurnow—with 9 tono iinplicd, “If you don’t, I should bo oxtremuly dolightod to show then.” readivg-room connected with it 1@ lar Be rather than criticise tt clonaly: oa ate slight, and woll cupped wlth table. The main) Very rich argenttforotid lodge havebeonworkod | didnot know tho clolsters. bad vovor | ing. _ Hardly consclous of what I was doing, or | again in dutail; but,” Mr, Adonis adds, “ tt ‘ Simateaal Conn Reece ett with, 4,277,007 ‘TitlosCraze: uwhelyes aro protected by wire doors, and the | in Europy, The ore has gonorally beon of a | been in thom iu my life, I ladno wish whate why I should foel vory auxious, I looked over | good upon ropotitio ‘At oa earlier Cable ext comes Far oe 3,575,978 Fron the Toledo Nlade, 1,021,778 hooks must be called for; but in the roading- An inutance of invanity under the above name much higher grade than the ores of Atexico aod room sre open cases containing 9,000 books or my shoulder behind me. I porcolyod in tha Yoru, but the velnd kaye been narrow, and con- wer to enter tham, lone of al thi i! * with a cow chill | Garknesa thot aame strange figure whlch had meatiug, in Fobruary of tho same year, the rotary of the Navy told a story of a Justice of winter's evo, with the thormomoter down below eee Twiudling dows, ‘800,817 | recently occuriod in Pans, where tho daoguter | common refereuce, dictionanses In all languages, | sequently mora dificult ta work, Ura repro- | zero, ‘The wind. too, was blowing from the vast, | Pastod ws thrag minutos before, Not a sound— | tho Peace in. the Blate of New York, wb ') aa ltts a TetUra Ofescee es ano | Of@ Wellthy Oldoan eloped with the ispucum- | encyclopedia, ete etc which avery ono con | seuts that tho mean product of the wholo quantl- | und thora was nothing outeldo tu invite one, | wots muftled ono; tho human being alono—ite | ton yoars topothar, wasin the constant pre ous, dotnoralized, and decidedly fast younger con of a Britinh Poor, Tho young lady, ike wo many unfortwasto American ‘girls, who aro aflictod with valu, eilly mothors, Lad been educated to rogard au eristocratio title as the one dosirable thing ou! life, and, consequently, was perfectly titlo-craid. A few yoara ego hor slutur was lite erslly gu Wi by hor parcats to ® German Princo, whose ncusoasions in roal estate were all Cha- -teauren Uspaigne, for the eum of ©100,000, thin consult at pleasaro, In addition to theav, ucarly $00 poriodicaly aud regularly published traus- actiona of loarned societios are takon—Amerl- can, Eugtish, Gormau, French, and Italian, Large additions to the library are mado overy ear, sui it 1s intended to mako It seoond to nono this country. ‘THE CONSERVATORY OF MUBIC {a not intended for beginnors. {t takes pupils up whoro crdioary fnatitutions Iecye them, and ty of gllvor ore reducod annually in BMozico “only amounts to from 0,18 to 0.25 por ceut—that is, from 8 to 4 ounces por 100 Ibs, the true average not bolog over 2}4 wunces.” Ho malntalus that it in by their groater profusion of ores, and not by their superior ricbuows, that tho ailver mines of tho American surpass those of Europo, ‘The miulng district of Freiberg, in Saxony, the rich eat silvor-boaring district in Europe, contains 150 ailnes, ylolding acombination of silver, load, cop- For the purpose of ascertaining the amount form—its very dark form. of encouragement given to forest treo-culture in Minnesota under the provisions of the Con. greveional tro-planting acta of 1673 and 1874, I addressed letters of inquiry to the Registers of the local United States Land-Ofiives, and havo secoived replies. which enable me to make the following exhibit : In the Litchfield Land- district, in 2873, seros EMULE essce esses se eee: + 4170.1 thorofore replied that I would now return home, and I made some oxousos about family,” Ho was not to be refused. “1 Imow all thoge placos by hoart," he object- od; “I Lavo msde thom tho study of my life, Tt will nos take uu iva minutes to walk round. Do come!" ‘Thore is a fascination In wome men in tho in- yorua proportion of thole gifts of attractivoness and merit. You may often bo unablo to refuse swearing witncssva and certifying that be hat aworn them, that they wore noither Inter o nor dialnterested ju the event of the sult Shr, which they testiled—meaning that they Toy neither directly nor indirectly interested rot watch Crawford told of & ian in tho i. pe Georgia who had two sons with whow isi disyatiafod, and, upon bolng told that se 0 cause in court was to bo reir shea tio indifforont mou, said it ough Now here I might descend from those very lofty flights of wathotic disquisition and lore, with which my friend bad im- structed mo, and toll plainly oxact- ly what bapponed. Tam not going todo any- thing of the kind, Ifthe reader wishcs to enjoy annccount of a robbory, of “ garroting with vio- tonce in London,” bo has only to take in” jot “aches ont comfortisble fortune being absolutely scttled up- | aims to give the highest musical culture. Ju-, rand cobalt, aud yot the total mineral pro- | to the disagrocablo what, with retuctanco, copies of Royuolds' Sunday uowspapor, aud ho| to bo reffered to his two sous, hun, sera paciel on the Lvidegroom before the wedding day, it be- | atruction iy givon not only on the piano and or] duct of tho entire district docs not oaeeod would sofuse to tho pleasing, Nor is {t poasiblo will bo ablo to satiufy his yearnione. tT was gar- | thoy wero two of the d—deat inaiteret Total acre. ...eecseeee oo02-20,098,15 | ing specially stipulated that nelther Lk nor | gan, but on all orchostral instrumonts, aud in } $1,000,000, The Bierta Almagror silver mincu, | to account for this anomaly, savo on the ground | roted; butwince the sonuation was quite enough | men in the State.” Thore is one other Allowing a full quarter woct! enter ahows divorce could compe! him torelmburee her or her | aingiug. ‘Tho course also includes lectures on | im Spain, never yicldod more than $350,000 n yoar, | of that secret bewltchmont which comos of rank for mysolf, and I have uo wieh to live it over | which is evidentiy spoilod in tho re! porting aig, 385 treoplanting claiciw mac's io Litchaeld Dis | parente for tho amount uaimed. The youngor | all subjects important to the atudant of that in- | and the maximum product of the neighboring | ovil to the soul. { tuluk Cetullus spoaks of | again, tho reador will be vo kind as to supply his | » diunor at the Presldout'y in Dacombor, ile of trick, Sen eho whiten: mater al o Fescl sed te jaalistc, the oe te ant erate ea Me 9) pacisliy usoful ta j{itslog Sty OE “inlet ob i jendelansian ra a aly shou faxelualing a soil Hogue 3" but thoro era wanda fuagipallon with mhatever particulars Lellesacs, Ahn told otee seaus his story ae ee ie ‘Mite id pve w F to Pris, whore the husband o| 1D ui 8, ny or public per- 200, be ‘ho greatest yivld o: 6 wilver mlnos faxcinutions inherent to some mon than those lost my bank-notes. Dover ret ein. o} ino that he once br A ‘Two hundred and two outrics, covering 27,998.09 | the latter iauu attacho of the German Diplomatio | foru:ers. Tus terms ato made, xtajlow, a a H Me : : nf porated thers oan x ned of Konigsborg, Norway, in any one yoar, was peres, chip a quarter of wwilion dollare, Tow. auch those mines have yielded since thelrdisco very wo 3 which proceed from the tongue, ‘Huadent cadontia sidora somuoa,” says Virtil,—though L forget with what context.—which one might apply, {n allegorical sonue, to somo fallin; utars that are homan. ‘Tho “ eomaos" would take s moral signification 4 and truly there is more af moral *somnoe” in the world than Madison, and of Hobort Santh’s saying |8 iy of whisky; of his (Clay's) dispoaitton Ysa time to cut off Suith’s bead forthe Ba reallf of its afterwards turning out thos Shen ce waa whisty in tho wiue—identically ipsa story watch [heard him toll st tho? tablo once before.” But let that face sufilce as to detail. I hate gar- roting, both the rcadiug of itaud the sufforing it ue anit aud [hall not ailudo farther to tho sybjoct. 0 soon a8 L recovered y passed through Dean's- Nets and made for thoclolators, Lhailed a oman andinfosmod himofmy wrongs. if Cora, ‘Thore she mot the son of an English Lord, an.i, contrary to the wishes and udvice of tho frien iy of both particu, clopod with him, marryicg; lum in haste to undoubtedly repent at ined imprudence and hor insanity to wod a tit! he. cortain number of pupils of musical ability from the bigh schools aro admitted to instruction frog. [t iv in succeusful operation, THE GALLEDY OF ADt, comprehended in its pian, is still [o ite infancy, no suitable accommodations being procurable NEW ULM DinscBioT. In 1879, eighty-soveu eutrics, embracing 32,726 38-100 ere (1G, 184K, 114, embracing 24,004 976100 eres 5 WORTHINGTON DIATRICT. ‘Total number eceed Jan, 16,1876, ta 601, have not at presont avy means of ascertaining; ‘but it Is evident that their total yield would cub no fi ure im comparison with the mines of Rexico ant ‘or.