Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 6, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUN SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1875.--TWELVE PAGES. LITERATURE. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. ¥rre Lirzor fxmiaux Frankay, Weitten by Hime Now First Fdited from Original Manuicripta, aud from Hin Printed Cortospondence and Oller Jons Brassov, Rro, Philadelphin: J, B, Lippincott & Oo. Of the mavy hiographics of Franklin from the bulky work of Dr. 8parks, 1 ton volumes, to tho Iato admirablo Memoir by 3Ir. Parton. thero s woro that contbincs so many excoloncles com- meuding it to popular favor ae thla now beforo v, ‘Cho anthor has had peculiar opportunities tor fnrnishing » comploto, compact, and antben- tio blography, Widlo Minister at the Court of Frence, Mr. Iligelow came juto possesalon of the original manuseript of the colebrated Autoblog- raply of Frauklin, togather with a numbor of latters hitherto unpublished, sud vlier mowmo- tiala of the writer, of great valuo, On comparing the manurcript with the only wdition purporting to bo printed from it,—that publisliod by Willinm Tomplo Franklin, in Lon- don, iu 1817, —Mr, Bigolow discoverod that more than 1,200 chianges had been made in tho text; and that tuo Iast eight pagesof the manuscript bad boen aitogetlier omitted, IL was a fahor of love, a4 well as of duty, with 3Ir. Bigelow, to prodige & completo aud coirect copy of Dr, Frauklin's autograph,—thoreby prewenting the rich legacy to tho world in the exact condition in its aathor boquenthed it. T'o continue to the ond the iustructive story of Franklin's life, which is brougbt down m the Autobiography only to the yoar T fow ban ndded, in consecutive requance, extracts from his extended correspondence, which re- Iato in full detail the evonts that crowded tho busy yoar ondiog with the Doctor's doath, Thue wo_havo, for the st time, tho entire record of Frankiin's private and public career, writien out with his own haod; ita vaned and manifold incidents aet in'tha light whick he regarded /s the best and purest, In porforming the work of edil has been carefnl to futrude Liawelf ne soldom nd then simply by way of a Toot- uote, axplaining eome aliueion 1n the narrative onintolligible to tha general reader, or supplying some fact necded to tlll o gap in the line of the Indeed, tho toxt of Franklin ts unbroken, contivning, after the manner of a diary, up to the Inst atages of the illness which torminnted in his death, at tho ago of 84, tor, addrexsett to Thomns Jofferson, was dated Apni 8, nine dass befors the fover which was connuming hi life had tinizhod its work, The memoir, as Mr. Bigslow preseuts it, fills 1t could scarcaly b com- preased juto o smaller space and do justico to tho grest man whoso lifo it photogruphs, Iu- deed, thore wili bo & rogret on thoe part of some that jarger drafts have not been mudo upon the vast collection of Franklin's writings included in Ar, Sparks' biography, Thia laet-named work baa ncw beon ont nf print for above thirty years, and, at the most, thero wero probably not moro than 5,000 coples printed. But a work so bulky muut bo limited fn jts circulation, and Mr. Bige- low has struck the happy mean it tho propor- tions of tho present hiography, which I8 noither oo bulky and costly to snit averaga roadors, nor too condensed to injure the futl aud uapressive effect of tho monogruph. ‘Three Volumen, tor, Mr, Digelow ‘e closing lot~ (hree octavo volumas. THE LIQUOR QUESTION. Tar Morariry or Froumzony Liquox Laws, Faeay by WILLAM B, Boston ; Roberts Brothors, Evory man, according to 2fr. Waedon, Las a moral right to chooso whothor he wilt use or re- fueo liquors. So loug as hie does not abuo this right by makiog an inobriato of himsolf orof others, the law which maddles with lis priviloge wenrps authority sud 1s oppressive. Decuuss tho drunkurd prefors to spend ol Lis earniugs for tipple, and to sloep in the guttor, whilo his fam- tly suffer from huangor, ie no reason why thio tom- porato man shonld be forbidden n glass of wine with hig dinner, or & gill of braudy to flavor his Bocauso certaln individuals nake themselvos dyspopties by high dviog, and WEELDEN, 10mo,, Bp. 28, citizens in the purchaso of boofates or fiuo Neitlor should it in the matter of liquors. A's intemperauce affords tho iaw no « reamou for prohihting D's temperate gratifica- tion of Lis natural taste for beor, slcoliol, ur the juice of the grapa. bave not lessened the cousum) nor the ovils of intemperauce. systematically svaded, and to ths erime of over- Tias hoon ndded all the vicea attendant upon law-broaking. ‘ Such nro the main propositions {u tho eusay of Mr. Weeden, and ho supports them with a con- siderablo array of statistics, and with much onre neatness of argument, tion, he would advise & regulation of salo of liquors, aud Proliibitory statutes ption of liquors Ihey have boen Iustead of prohibi- predents the motlod in operation st Gothenburg (the wecoud city of Swoden) se worthy of imitation. scheme, all licenses for selling liquor are held by a single **retsiling compuny," incorporated by royal charter. Tho mumber of anted aro in proportion to the populatioo, ach person buying o licenss Is compelled to procure his entire supply of spirits from the ro- tailing company, aud to sell them at oxactly the ruto hie pays for them. Ife is obligad to carry on the trade in clean, light, well-ventilatod vooms#; to keop wholesomo food, with cotYeo and tox, on eale, and is probibited extending credit or selling liquor ou tha security of pledgos. The not prolits mado by tho rotailing company on tha eale of liquor d each year paud intv the City e, only pure spirits are sold, and ¢ he rotailor, who s thue withhold from tho tewptation to stimuiate their In tho eight years during wlhich tha aystem has been sustained with mors or loas stringoney, there has beon & contiuual decrease of drunkenuots and crime iu C(lothonburg. percontages, by polico rocords, of cases of drunkenness have been : d thio alight ju- To the riso of wages Is attributos erense of druukenness in 1871-'72, Afr, Weeden'd cssay is appropriato at the pres- ent timo, when tho question of temperauce fs in active agitation. Although Lis viow of the pro- hibitory taw may not find acceptance among the apostlen of total abstivonco, his argument i) favor of a system of regulating the sals uf spirit will commond itsoll” to mon of modorate Tur i1sTORY OF EXPLOBATION AKD An~ VENTURY. A1 (IVEN IN THE LYADINA AUTHONITILG oM HEUODOTUS TO LIVINGATONE, Wit Map und Tilustrations, Now York: Heury Holt & Co, Africa hias boou a favarito fleld of exploration for tho past ciglity vears,~more having boen done within that perlod to acqualut the world with its geography, than had beon accomplished in all the ceuturics beforo siuco the time of Ftolemy. An extensive literaturo hugacenmulate el an tho result of thoue explorationy, avery vol- umo of which possesson some peculiar intorest, However clumsy sud unskilled bas.been the record of his advenlures, osch brave trav- into Atricau wilds now and valusble communications to mako regarding a hitherto unknown continent. But it {4 shinply smpossiblo for the groat multitude, eager as may bo their curlosity on tho subject, to read the varions portly octavon in which Af- rican explorers have conveyed tha full account of their experionces and discoverles, Xor the convenience of the iutelligent but busy publie, an ubridged bistory of the entire work of travel and rosearch whichh hao thus far buen accom- plishod was wuch to be desired, Iu apswer to this demand, My, Joues has pre- pared the volume under notice, which seemna to neot overy necd felt for s work of tho kind, opeus with a chapter ou the physical gevgrapby ond ethnology of Africa, in which tha informa- tion already obtalned, comin; huccivetly relate has bad sowo under theso two A briel b pion, followed by moticos of African travelors, of tho recent expl wud more extended accounts oratious couducted by Buith, Overweg, Richardson, Anderson, M Chaillur, Berval, Burton, Spoke, Grau 1 uel Bakor, Stouldy, Liviugstoue, aul Behweine furlb. 'Fhe threo concluding ehapters of the book are duvoted to s review of foymed in bebalf of Cuiristi It witl bo scou, by thiu en! fents of the volunie, that it jucludes the ontire Lo recont effores thiat have buen madu Lio Interior of Africe to the civilicing The task of condeusing and conuccting the narrativesof the different explorers with a united jsslons in Afrca, ration of the cone influences of the rge. and_oonseculive story, With au fmpartia decision, each travelar Ly boen aasi| placo and spare in the hiatory; and, by judicious exliscts from Ly own rocords, Las boon ale lowed to pive s just oxhibition of ths extent and valune of flln 1abors, and of the apirit with which they woro earried through, Al honor has, in n-cfi inntance, bean ddona to the valor, tho on- durance, and ths schioveroonis, of tho gallant Dand of menwho havo given the best yeara of tiieirhives Lo tho solution of the intereating problems invalved in the life of Africa, The volume s provided with nn oxcellont map, capiouw ilinstrations, and n fall index. In fact, tho wark of compilation and publication is, in ali respeets, 80 nbly dono that wo raay, withont hesi- tation, prononnce tha book the mosi uneful one upon the anchject of Africa that has yos hoen Rivon to the American reader. THE LIFE-BOAT. Mrvony oF TR Lirg.Boar Axp Irs Wonx, Dy caann Lewis, of tho Tuner Templn, Feq,, Bartin teroat-Law, and Recratary of the Royat Natumal Life. Boat Tustiiutlon, With” Iluateatlcns, 1no, 18, 2. Londons Maemilln & Co, ‘I'he oxtont of tha seaboard of England nnd Wales fs 2,000 wmites 3 that of Scotland I8 1,600 miles ; and that of Ireland 1,400 miles, In tho year 1879, Lho number of vesacla which entersd and cloared from the ports of the United King- dom, Ineluding repeated vovages, wna 612,211, Tho number of British vessels, exclusive of river-steamern, that were registored during the Foar, wan 20,7905 2nd their crews amonnted to an armiy of over200,000 boys and men, Tho number of wracks, collisions, aud aceldents ocenrring on und near the British Consts [n the year 1872 waa 1,958, with a toes of 50 lives. Tha number of sels lost and damaozed was 2,381, Tho num- Yer of srecks was (92 in uzcoys of those of the the year 1571, 'Theao statistics give some conception of the exient of the commarco of Great Britain, and also of the work to bo dona by the National Tite-Boat Institution in protecting mariners and shipping from the perila of the sea along her vest line of coast. Prior to the foundation of tua ** Royal National Institution for the I'reser- vation of Tife from Shipwreck,” in 1824, the meuny of extending succor to snfferers from whivwreck on the British coants svere most in- adequata, Irom that period, they have been constantly fmprgging, throngh the zealons ose ortiona of the sty devoted to thie canro. In tho sixtoen years following the foundation of tho Tustitntion, it espeundoed £5,500 on lifa-boatn and life-pxving applinuces, £6,970 in rowards tor tho rescuo of 6,710 lives, and awarded 74 gold modallions and 120 silver miodals fur waritorious exestions fu cases of shipwrack. In 185D, & ronowed interest was takon tu the humnno object of the society. It was roorgan- ized under the name of tha ‘Natinal Life~ Bost Tostitution,” auod reccived tho hearty patronage and sssistanco of the moble and wenlithy, It baw since been able to pursue ity noble work vigorously,—oquipping, up to tio ‘present date, a tleot of 312 life-boats, and raving upwards of 42,000 lives, The soaboard of En- gland aud Walea is now furnished with 181 life- boats, that of Seotlund with 30, aud that of Ire- Innd with 81, It was maioly owing to the brave crews mauniug theso boats that 4,634 shipe }vr_’n;!;ud mariners woro saved during the year 872, A complete hisiory of the life-boat sorvice, with au explanation of the cuaracter, specialties, and oquipnent of thoe immorgible and self-right- ing cratt, is given by Mr. Lewis in tho volnme Leading theso pnr:&:mphu. No attompt is made at picturing the thi Iliul: seenen incident upon a whipwrock, snd the gallant efforts of the lifo~ bLoatmen in rescuing life and praperty. This portion of the story of the Dritish life-boat ser- vice lizy beou vividly told by the Rev, Johu Gil- moro in bis ' Storm-Warriois.” 3r, Lowia con- fines himsolt exclusively to an acconnt of the machiuory by widch {hd servico bas been broaght to {ts present stato of high eficiency. 1tisnn iuterosting ne well a4 neeful statoment, toatify- ingtothe valoraud the humanity of the Eu- glish people. BOOKS FOR CHILDREN, A Srony ov Six Ysans Author of Cluld-Life in Furope,” Boston : Willlam ¥, thll & Co, TarrLs-Forx Hrmes, By Gatu Hasurox and Mrw, N, H, Sroppaep, LolLy Dixxs' Dotxos, by Ilrs Moriinn, ULD Mus, DINKH, ALIAS FLIZABSTIC Kropoanp, 12mo,, pp, 379, Bastou: Willlam ¥, Gl & Co, QOursrsd von Cminpuoon: A COLLECTION or SoNos von LitTee Oxen, Wil Twenty Iluslrations by r Foatkn, MiLLA, ote. 16mo,, Gp. 204, Lod- lates & Laurlat, Tho volumo eutitied * Child-Life in Italy” wag apperontly written by a governess in the family of Thomeas Crawford, the lamented senlp- tor, and contains & trae history of tho Lome-lire auid the summor-oxcaralons of his household Auring & number of years’ residence ia Italy. It 18 nddressed to the youny, with the intention of awakening their intorest in tuo natural sconery und the works of art that embellish and enrich the countries of Europo. Tha object of the book Is quito cleverly oarried aut by tho author, who writes in a simple and famlliar manuor, and skillfully interwonves lossons of history and art into the web of the story. ‘We sliould judge that * Lolly Dinks' Doingu"” is o literal pago from the private history of Mra. Stoddard and o very bright and mmscluavous in- mate of her nursery. It is 80 life-like, denpite of its shiadowy chinracter, that overy mother will deleel its porfoct truth, and be secretly smusod with it. T.ally Dinks, the hittle rogue, ‘‘is one ton muuy” for lis foud-hoarted, woak-hearted female parent : and hie Lnows it, and sk knows it, though they never conyess tho fact to one an- other, and the farce of obedionca and contral is piayed through overy day.—pad overy night, “too, for that matter,—with the sume luvariable result on each ropotition. Fairy storics are tho charms with which tho mother tries to subduo hor apirited boy ; and, while thc<o sre recling off the fertile matornal tongue, Lo 19 decently quiet, a8 will probably. bo overy other restlaus durnnlla who bhus the opportuuity of reading thbo talos in this little volume, + Bkotchied of Little-Folk Life,” by Giall Hamil- ton, aro bound together with ¢ Lolly Dinks’ Doings." I'he mongs forming the collection, * Chlmea for Childhood," are tuatefully selected. 'fhera are ninsty-six in all, aud thoeir authors are from tho bost ranks of our English singers. Whoover {:mu tho book in thie hand of » child will present e wath many of the favorito juvenilo poemuof our laugusgo. POEMS, Bawy Diep To-Dax; aNv Omnem Poxus, By the Late WiLniay LeiautoN, Paper, Loudon: Louge @unr, Green & Co, The author of these pooms died at tho early sgo of 28, Ifo belouged toa giftod family liv- ing in Dundas, Scotland, and was not tho first member diatinguished by poetical genius of a moro thau common order. 1o diod in 1869, and tho tollowing year & acloctinn from his pooms was published, and met with a favoralle re- coption. ‘Cho presont sofection includes those which were most widaly admired. Thoy indicato dalicuto loulmf:. o tender love of Nature, and o flue poetic justinct, Boveral of tho stanzaa in WA \Whispor of the Bpring” aro replata with trnth #nd beauty: Suut out from Nature and each natural thing, Within the city's dusty purlieus burled, Theard to-diy w whisper af io Syrlug, As through the strects I hnrried, A soft, low rephiyr, that Lad loat ita way, Capie, rich with ‘baliy ador from far’ mesdows, Aud breatlied on dingy biles, that all the day tood frowniny o'er thin shadows. All Hintdly sndsweot it cropt along 3 A prisonied throstio (elt the wafted woader, Aud nbrilied & welcowe, a8 if gusbing song Would (ear ita throat saunder, Al tu & momeat 1t was borue away, ¥rum the groat Dabel's mighty (i aad bustle, rongh woodland-glades, th soft winds To where, play, Makiug ibe youug leaves ruutle, And wowentary way the spell] for soun The lu‘:hyr‘- Hettls Lreaths waw all axpendad, And up the'dreary atiect the throstle's tune Yet all day long, tu crowded atrect or uart, Anid the great lwan's ceaseless atir and Jjostls, 11t the avert Lracxa play about wiy heart, And heard the cear-toned throstie, BRITISH ART, Tig ABT-TEEASURES OF EXGLAND, Quurto, Chicago s 0. 4. Uyitiiths, Illustrated works, pullished in parta snd sold by subscription, frequently cassit a elalm to favorable attention ; but no publication of the kind that hos fallen yoder our notice squals ju beauty and ertistéo value * The Avt-Treasurcs of iugs are exquieitely exccutod, and are printed on superiine plato-paper, The ompanylng text ual Grew fuluter, s1d iea caded, ? Foghand. To look at it s to adwive and covot . The work will ha completed in twenty-four semi-monthly parts, at 50 conty per part, Mach part will contuin three steel engravivgs, repro- sontiog oa many of the best vaiutiugs or sculp- tures of tho great Knglish artists of the preseus century, sccompanied by a descriptive toxt, ed- Ited by Mr, J. Vernon Whitakor, ‘The eugrav- in ul?:: 1 clear-cut type, on psper of the beas Y, . 3 Vbon complote, the work vl.ll compriso & gale lery of seventy-two engravings from the fore- mont works of Tutuer. Landsoer, Conatable, Castlako, Raynolds, Wilkio, Mulreadly, Nicol, Fostar, Lawronce, s othor renowned painters and senlptora of the Inglish school. Ten parta havs boon already ixsued, and an examination of any opo will slow the superb charsctor of tha work, A historicsl reries of British art and artists runs through theseveral pacts, forming & useful adjunet to the colleciion, . SPARKS OF SCIENCE. * CEPHALOPODS, Rocont oppottunitios for studying the natura and hiabits of tho Cephnlopodons (head-fonlted) Mollusea hava convincod men of ecienco that tho imagination of Vietor lingoe did not so far oute strip the troth in his description of the cuttie- fieh a8 has Loen genorally supposed. Bpecimons of thin monater of the deep, that havo boen within tho lnat Tow years eaplured noar our own #nd foreign connts, hiavo rovesled tho factthat thoy aro among the most gigantic and formidabla animals that inhabit the omth. Mz, W. Baville Xent, in a recont monograph, and Prof, A, I Verrill, in the American Naturalial, bave given full and interesting accounts of thio giant cuttle- fish, containing moat that Is known of the larger spacies up Lo tho prerent timo. Aristotlo, Pliny, Aolinn, Strabo, and other an- clont writers, have loft testimony to tho occur- renco of colossal Coplislopods in the walors of tho Moditorranoan, Pliny givea an account of tho capture of one on the coast of Spain, which, along with much oxaggeration, contains somo particulars that aro undoubtadly truo, From thas time, howovor, wo hiear nothing of the ox- fabence of theso ocoan-monstors until the early part of the aoventeentli century, when atories of thoir appenranco in Seandinavian soss begin to minglo with tho wild traditions of the bordering countries. In 1639, a gigantic Ceplinlopod was captited on tho shoro of Zealad ; nod anothor, aof similar size, was stranded in the Gulf of Ul- wangen, in 1680, 101824, the travelers Quay and Galmard en- countored in tho Atlantic Ocoan, noar the Equa~ tor, the skeloton of an enormous cuttle-fisli which bad fallen n victim to tho shatlks. Ac- cording to their calculation, tho living auimal must hiave weighed 200 pounds. During Cook's second voyago, a mutilated specinen wad picked up in the South Beax, sud forwarded to tho Mu- soum of the Noyal College of Burgeoow, Lan- don, and thera oxamined by TProf. Owen. In 1854, o gigautic individual was strandoed on tho coant of Jutland : and, four years after, ono ot tho largest on rocord was net and grappled with, by Liout. Bayer, of the Freuch corvotto Alecton, hetween tho Iulands of Madelra and Tenoriflo. It was found floating on tho surface of tho wator, baving been probably disabled by somo means. According to the account, it was 30 foot long, fucluding its arms, about 20 feet ln cir- cumiferonce av its Targest part. and weighod, a3 Figuer states it, about 4,000 pounds, lts flesh vuls sofl, gelatinous, and of a reddish-brick color, Gront offorts wore medo to necuro the monster by the ude of musketry and liarpoons ; but shots POLITICAL ECONOMY. Tur Bemxer or WrALT, Hy AMAva WaLxes, Stu- dents Edittou, " Phiiadelphin s J. 1. Lippiticott & Co. 1, I'rof, Amasa Walkot's book on *Tho Seionce of Waalth,"” first {ssued in 1806, reached its eixth edition in 1871. It popularity fa & proof, to n cortain oxtent, of ita morit. Thoe annonncement that the author had prepared n rovisod aud con- donsed edition of it for uso asa taxt-book in sclioold, was therafore roceived by eoducators with pleasuro, They, a1 a class, believe in the prime impastanca of introducing tho study of Politieal Economy tulo our sehiools. They will not, howover, find the text-book they meod in this work. ‘I'bo book {8 not very bad as a treaties for an adult to study, It s foferior, howaver, to Porry's * T'olitical Economy " in clearuess and compaot- ness ; and Perry’s voluwme is too abstruse for tho average high-school schiolar, much moro for uee ina grammar achool. The third l;m raph on tha first pago of this 4 Btudent's dition " is aa follows : The relations into which thess sclences [Political Economy and Volltica] enter aro voluntary, and for the supposed adyaniagoe of both,~uot from any logical nevesaity to complete cilber, A Just and oficient gov- erumaat of tho State is Lnportant to realize tho largest developmont of wealth, but only oa & condition 1nier which tho lsws of wealil, already complete and har. monluns, may hava their own proper away, Fancy a boy or girl of 14 trying to master such aconfused massof words at the vory threshold of Scieucs | "I'he haok ia written thronghout in an almast Tidicrously pompons style, which eutirely nnflts it for use in achools. Its doBinitions nre lost ina maze of words, aud its principles wre stated slmost at random, There are some good dia- graws ecnttored through it, notably one which shown the Unitca States toriff since 1616, Tho volume doserves a place a8 a hook for oceasional rofernico on tho wholves of a Hbrary woll equip- 1red in Bacial Sciance, Wo cannot uay more for it. “THE OWL,"” Titr Ows, A Titerary Monthiy. Chbleago: W, D. Keen, Cooke & Co, ‘ ‘This unprotonding lttle periodienl hina nover solicited » notice at our hand, and so qulot Iy it habitow appearance wo are hardly surs it would rolish being brought into publicity, Yet truo merit, however modest, cannot bo disploased at recoiving a jnst award of praise, and theroforn wo gratify our hearty inclination to commend ‘,’3{,’3“‘:‘,{ ";,",,u,‘;g,‘." .,”}““1,,033 :,‘:'3"";0:::: the Owl to tho friondly rogord of our readers. { and & strong exhalation of musk; while barpoona took no hold on ita impalpabla flosh, rhmx{, ancase was slipped over tho croature's tatl, and thus it was being hofstod to tha deck of thevessel, when tho rops cut through ita body, and ouly the pousterior portion way secured. ‘The remaindor sunk out of reach and sight. Tho strugglo with the moostor occupted nbove three hours, giving sulliclent timo for a correct sketch of tho scone, which was produced by one af the officers on board. 3 From ten Lo twelve of tueso huge Cophalopods bave been captored on our Atlautio coast. Tho mowt tcomplete specimon thnt ever camo nnder yeientific absorvation was talen at Logic Bay, St. Johos, Nowfoundland, in 1873. Its arms got entangled In a herring-not, rondering the wioa- ture comparatively helplers; yet it was over- come by the fishermea only whon its hoad was sevorod from tho body, The specimon was socured by the,Rov. Mr. Hardy, of St. Johus, who bad photographs taken of it, and furniehied saveral descriptions for eclontiflo and sccular journals. o body of this cuttle.lish was about 7 feet long, with a girth of & foet; tha two long arme were 24 feot in longth, and tho six shorter ones each 6 foot in tength. 'Tho horny, parrot-like beak was tha eize of a man's fiut ; tho nockets of the great eyos wore 4 [nches iu dlamoter; and the color of the skin was a pale-red, Anothor speciuon, probably of the same apo- clos, was captured at Coomba' Cove, Nowfound- Jund, The body of tuw measured 10 foet m longtl, and was nesrly ae large ow u hogshond, The long arms were 42 feot loug, and woro tho slzo of o man'y wrist; tho other arms wero 6 feet louz; aud tho colur of the siun and flesh was reddish, Dr, Honoyman, Geologist of Nova Scotia, gives the folloning description, taken from an eye-witness, of n capturo in tho Straits of Bella Iste, at Wost St. Modent, on the Labrador sidos “It was Iym;l:'pnncntullym thoe water, when it was provoked the push of an our. It looked flerce, nnd ejected much wator from ita funnel ; it did not seum to conwider it necessary to dischurgo itasopin, na molinsca of this laud ]‘!nnmlly tlo, in ortler to covor their cscapo. .o Tho length of the longest arm wan 87 feot: the length of tho body, 16 fect; whole longth, 62 foet, The bill wus veory large; tho suckers of fte army o feet, by which it Iaya hold, about 2 inch- ey in diameter, ‘The ruouster was cut up, ealt- od, and barrcled for doge' meat. ‘I'his specimen was probably disabled, as the Cophalopods apparently nover float or lie quietly mt tho surfaco when in Lealth, They shoot through the water with great veloclty, and many spocios associnte in companies, As they romaln deup below tho surface, aud morcover, by meavs of their big oyos, are cnabled to seo” und avoid objacta afar olf, wo understand why thoy aro not more {ravuently encountered by vesiols traversing tbo seas, ‘Phe giant species of Cophalopeds rmbnbly inhabit all marine waters, but thoy par- fenlarly 2fTect those which are deep and have & racky bottom, o which thoy can adhero with their arme. From the dexcriptions we have given of various spocimens, it is eany to pleturs 0 the miud tho form ond proportions of thens Cyaloplo mollnsks. Thoir bodics are long and fusiform, terminated at the poutorior end by a spear-shaped fin. ‘Cho hoad iy fornished with n pair of great, greenish, ghastly oyos, & bill like & parrot, and ten arms surrounding It in a cirele, ‘Tho arms aro provided with rows of suckers, and, in somo spocios, tho suckers are oncirclod with a row of hooks to aid them in clasping. Add to all thin that tho body contains & fountain of inky finld, which tho animal cnno eject at will in order to color the water and hide it from view of {ts enemies, nnd we have a creature rufliclontly equxpluul with woapons, offensive aud defonsive, o coma forth vietorious in nbattle with alnost auy combatant inhabiting land or soa, In its own'alemont, the Cotacoaus aro probably the only auimals that can succoss fully ongounter it. Tho euttte-fish foed vpon living fish, crosta. ceous and mollusks, It may be presutned that they make great Lavoo among tha tribes upon which thoy proy ; yot, In obedlence to the Inw of Nature which pormits uo single apecios to obtain a predominnuce over the rest, itisin turn the victim of other tenants of tho deep, Abundant ovidonco has beon received that the toothed whales flud in theso colossal Cephbalopods & favorite and common artiolo of diet. Eomo Judgmeat may be furmodoftho fecundity of thess croatures froin the statemont that tho common squid, Loligo.—n nearly allisd species,—doposits 40,000 ecge in & seaton, Thowso are lsrge, and generally extonded in clustera united by a glutinoits substance, and aro oalled by tho tah- ermen wea-grapos. 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Strahan, London; Willmer & Rogors Nows Compavy, Now York). cu}‘aluaf Masonry for March (John W. Brown, ICARO), Amgern)mn Homea for Februsry sllenry L, S‘huyanl & Co., Boston, New York, and Chicago), linoiy Schoolmaster for March (Cook & Hew- ott, Normal, IiL.), American Jfibliopotist for Fobruary (J, Sabln & Bona, New York). e S S A POEM BY LONGFELLOW. Tho following poem, prefaced by tho note pre- fixed, hias been contributad to the Ark, published in aid of **Our Dumb Auimals’ Fair,” in Boston ¢ CamDRIDOE, Feb, 15, 1875.—Alx Dxan Sin: 1 wirh T bad nomething better than the nclosod to send you for & cause o nuble, aud iu which I feol so deep un interest, Iiut for want of tha{ mometutng hotler, pleano accept thln, with iny bust wishes for the success of the Falr, Yeurs faltbfully, lexny W, LonurzLrow, A NAMELESH URAVE, 44 A woldier of the Unlon suustered wut,” 1a the Inpcription on an unkuown grave At Newpars News, bealile tho ualt ses ware, Nameloss and datelss; sentiuel or seout, Blct down §u wkirist, or disastrous ront OF Jiuttle, when the lond artillery drave 1t Irou wedgen through the raulu of Lrave Aud doonied bultallous atoriufng 1he redonbt | “Thon uuknown Lero, uleeplng by e sca Tu thy forgotton grave! ~With secr: 1 feel my pulses beat, may forehead b When [ retuctibar thou Jiast given for e Allthat thou hadsl—iby 1tfe, thp very nsmue, Aud T can gl othing lu returs, prhdititods i A Water-Findor, A New Hampnhire corrvepoudont éays that Caypt. John B, Gudfrey, of Howmpshire Ialls, who han rnn_a to Califoruia to locato wells, nover faily in hix **manifestutions " a4 to whore water can bo found, Ho works thue: With nothing in hiu bands, he walks over tho grouud until the water, if any exists, is approsched, when he is uffoctod w # nervous twitching 1 tuo lwby, which increazes an tho water is neared, hoall tho time acting very much like & porwon with the bars of a maguotic bavtory in his bhands, and follow- ing the courss of the apring or stream, which- uver way it may lond, tegardless of walls, fences, or other obutaclus, and sceming to bo controlled aud directed by some powar which he is unabla to resist. Capl, Godfrey claims no suporuatural power in (ho ucum‘fluhment of his work, but declares it to bo simply 8 seusitive organism or poworful current of sloctricity in hineelf, so powerful aa to attract him irreaistibly to Mving streama aud mincral deposits buuua{n the sur- face. During the late ‘War he located oll the walls for tho use of tho army under Gen. How- command. MUSICAL FISHES, There is soma Lruth n every fiction, It is eald ; sud, as proof of this, wo romark that the story of the Birens, or/mormalds, who charmed ancient marincrs with tholr iquid melodiow, is not with- out a grain of fact. Musical notes, linked to. ether like tho tones of an Hollan harp, do issue from tho uea at cartalu seasony aud in cortaln places, 1ut it is nctual flshies and mollusks, nob wythical mordaids, that cmit thom. It iu ptated, lu an articlo by Mr, John O. Gals ton on tho song of flshes, that fIfty-two out of more than 3,000 specics of flubes are known to produce sound. The attontion of but few ob- servers bas been catled to tho subject, and there- foro only a scanty measuro of facts bearing upon it has been olicited, Sir J. Emerson Tennant, Iato Giovernor of Coylon, has given au interest- iug account of hiy {nvestigation nto the matter when &t Batticalos, a place oa tho wast cosst of tho lslund. Ifo bhind hoard it stated by flshermen that two epecios of mol- lusk, known by the 'amil nemo of oorfe cooleero crado, or tho ceylog shell, fubnbited a neighbor- ing lake, wnil during the dry season, when the water was low, producod sounuds resombijug tho faint, sweot notes of the wind-harp, Proceed- Tugg to tho spot, Bir B, Tennant Look a boat, aud, rowiug ou the lake by mooniigbt, bind the pleas- 1o of bistening to thu strango tones coonng om the elemont on which b was Hoating, They cawe up from tho walor,” he says, «like tho gentlo thnill of & wusical chord, or the faint vibrations of & wine-glass whon ita rim is subbod by & moistoned fuxer. 1t was notono wustained uote, but & mullitude of tiny vounds, ench cloar aud distivet in itsall; tha sweetcst troblo miugled with tho lowest bass. On apply- iug the oar to tbe wood-work of tha boat, the vibrution was greatly incroared fn volume." Tho sounds could localized, and were confined to particnlar poiots iu tha lake,~thus giviog color ame e ——— hiands of Mr, Thomas Gnrway, Foudon merchant, who atraight houso for melling the luxuzy, To ), fUarway's Coffeo-Tlousn™ {3 lishment {n Loudon. on the drinle made from tea, from 1§ and, aftor tho latier date, wpon the raw “I'hesas have bean gradunlly reducod the pressot rate i B It in cetimnted that the Brtish consumo nearly 4 ta the statement of the fishormon that they wero produced Ly mollarkn, and not by fishes. Similor sounds hinva beon heard 1n tho harhor FAMILIAR TALK. MADAGASCAR. ‘Tho Inland of Madagascar lies on the routhe oaal coant of Africa, at a distanco of from 309l 400 mites from tho main land, 1tfs 1,030 milea in length, botween 800 and 400 miles in hreadth, nud has an area of about 234,410 squars wilea. It excoeds in oxtont the Dritish lalos, nud haw o pooulation of above 5,000,000, Tho {aland ia travorsed by s lofty mountalu- rango, soveral of whose penks riso to an altl- tudo of from 10,000 to 12,000 foet, and which sonds off spura from various pofuts, tendlng Tho laud ia well waterod,—a eorles of rivers flowing from the mountalns to 1ho onatorn nnd weatorn shores. rivers aro nnvigable, and ono, the Betsibuka, is 400milea long, Tho fsland is alse abundantly suppliod with t{mbor,—it bolng, for tho most part, covered with forests, which envelop hill tropleal vegolation, baobnbs, mangas, sago-trocs, and figs, provail in all tho wooded districts. Although tho faland is aitunted almost wholly within the Torrid Zono, it has a wido rango of tamporature and olimate, owing to its varioty of olevation. On the hillsidos, the climato s agreo- ablo and salubrious; but, in tho lowlands, it is mnlarious and unhesithy. On this acconns, the towns aro usunily built on elevated sites. An- tanaoarivo, tho capital city, in locatod among tho mountains. ata soight of 7,000 foot nbova thesea. The Royal palaco occuplos thoe summit of the hill on which tho city stands, and sur- rounding It ara the dwellings of the chiof officars Tho remalning housea compos~ ing the town are sitnated on tho nlopes below. They are bullt of wood, and are of uniferm ehape,—simplo Luta covered with thatch, approach to the citr from Tamtane, the princtial ann-port of Madagascar, is oxtremoly diflicult, owing to the want of roads. ‘I'ho mothod of travel thronghont the island {a in palanquins borno on the shouldors of me. Tho hijghways aro mero paths winding through the forestnand up and down the mountains, without any alm at directnosa or enso of prog- vous. Tho Island 8 rich in fron, but tho prosent means of working it aro_very dellclont. the fanna and thoflora of Madagascar aro varied andinteresting, iucludimg many specios of plants and animals not olsewhero found. mont curious spocimens af vegolation ara tho Tinvoler's troe ( {frania apeciosa) and the beanti- ful Lattice-lonl plant ( Ouvirandra fenestralis). The 'Travelor's treo derives its namo from Lhe fact that ita loaf-stalks aro fllled, oven in tho ngo, palatablo liquid,— eing plerced, moro than » quart of the fluid. Tho stom of tho trovsonds out leaves on two opposite vides, which form a growth lile a great oxpanded fan, Icaves fall ns the upper onea dovolop, so thata single Lree wiil not boor at onco ovor twonty ach leal has o atalk G or 8 foot long, and o bright-greon, shiniug blade from 4 to 6 feot in loogth. uded by tho natives for thatching, and the stalks for tho partitions and walls of their honses. ‘Tho inhabitants of Madagascar consist of ya- rious tribus. tho most powerful of which aro tho Hovas,—n brown-skinned, straight-baired, fine- 1y-proportioned raco, with fenturon like the They aro_probably of Thero in & large mixturo of Arab ond negro blood in other tribes of tho fsland. Within less then s contury, Madagascar waa divided fnto more thon n hundred soparate and hoatile Governmenta: but, during tho loat fifty years, the Hovas have acquired tho ontire sunremacy of tho island. ‘The firat foreipm rettlomont was mado by tho Tronch, at Antongil Bay, on tho east coast,’ ju but it was ultimatel: In 1803, ladama I, ascended the throne of the Tovrs, and immediately mada friendly advances to the Englich. Ho Introdnced tho furniture, dross, and oustoms of the Europeans into his Court, and made atronuons axertiona to promoto thie uneful arts end hiabita of civilization smong 1o invitod missionnries to the gh his _encouragement, schoola wero oatablishod, in which 10,000 chil- dron wero taught to read and write. prosn was kot up, and of Bombay, and aro alloged to proceed from a apocios of fish closaly resembling in alza and shape tha [frosh-wator poreh of Northern Iiu- Thesa mounds aro doscribad a4 ¢ like tha protracted booming of a distant bell, the dying cadenco of an /Eolian harp, the nolo of & pitch- pipe or pitch-fork," or any other prolonged mu- "oy aroso from tho aurfaco of the water {n all dirootions, and wero of equal sirongth whorevor lioard,—showing thoy wero etnitted by singers eapable of locomation. pounds of tea pe Ilonce thore i3 mnch loya uy Tiquora than in the the olden timns, 10 170, the average consumption of hend of populgtiun was A GEOLOGICAL CAMP, The teachors of geology at Harvard University have concsived tho plan of cstablishing n aya- tem of summor instruction for tho benofit of those who desiro to gain & practical knowledge of tho sclence of rocks, conducted n the fiolds and among the hills, whero tho objocts of its study aro to bo found in situ and can bo soen to advantage, It Is pro- posed to Jocata It in the immediato moighbor« hoad of Cumboerland Gap, In Kentucks, whero & nectlion of atrata, from the Potsdam Sandstono to tho Middle Carboniforons, can bo easily traced, The aituation 18 hoalthy, being at an olevation of more than 1,500 fest nbove tha nea, out of tho rance of malarin, aud in n comforta- blo tomperature. The fostruction will include lectures by com- petent teachers, and opportunitioa for fieid-work whichiaro 50 uccowsary o tho proper acquire. mants of dynamic geology, palcontology, botany, The firat torm will continue from July 1 to Sept. 1 of tho current year. Tho feo for instruc- tlon nnd use of camp-lurniture, $50, most bo Board will bo afforded nt cost, and is not oxpected to excced £3 per wook. 'Cranaportation from the nearcst railwayetntions to the camp will be provided at actual cost, and efforts will be mado to eccure a reduction of rail- road-faro for students traveling to and from the ‘L0 number of studouts will Lo limited to twenty-five, aud the achool will not open with W, Harris, IHarvard Univer. mity, will respond to applications for furthor toward the ses. The schiool will Lo Thns, na Matthew Arnold pats it, Jol leyeorn fs belng overcomo h{-‘ John o During tbo last contury, the dra liguor {n nglnna has declined one-halt, conzumption of tea has increased in pro and valley with RIVINGTOM AND ETHAN ALLEN, Mr. Curvon rolates, in hin * Ilistory of Pogy, rollers,” un amueing incident m whjc) Fthan Allen ccnaplenousty figures, My, Rivington, ono of the old hooksollers o don, failing in buslness through a fondy, camo ovor to Amorica in 1760, anq 4, tablished a Tory nowspaper in Dhi) ealled the Royal Gazette, Tts wit was and rashly personal, and invalved the e contioned difficulty, behind which thers almy, Turked tho throat of a *cowhtding.” Not laary, ing wisdom by oxporienco, Mr. Rivington Yene tured to mako freo, in ono of bis pithy pn, graphn, with the name of Col. Allen. Thy o maindor of tho story two tal ton'a own account of tho affair: Twan aiiting down, afte: toltle of Madeira hefore me, when I heard an noize tn the sircet, and a huzza from tho boys on the necond atory, and, stepping to the winds uiall figure in tarnishod cookod bat and an enoruionsly fong sword, a crowd of boys, who_oceasionall, huzzia, of which li scemed _quit up tomy door aud stop) my heart told me it wan dow, andl retired behind niy table and my heur of reckoning lad comemthy 3 my clork, camo In paly lian ever, clasplng bis handa, “ 3taster, lic has comgt my mind, looked st tha i, raibly 100k & glan, % Bliow him b delea cannot molify hu, h munt hero wnn & T heard him ‘on the atatre, Lol sword clanking at every atep. In ho aial your nawe Jamen Riviugiou 7" 1t fa man can be moro deliglitod tn ese Cal, 481, T avs come —— gar Colouc}, until yon have taken a seat 4 of old Madelra.” "¢3But, efr, I don't tlink iy o another word, Colonel, Lut take try wino; I have had it in glasn ten_ years” Ho took ity glass, swallowed the wine, smacked Lts lips, aud shyy Lis hend npprovingly. I her word untll you' have takon suoiry glasa ; aud then, my dear Colonol, we will talk of of affairs, and T havn somo quecr oventa 10 detail” Iy short, we Nnirhed three boitles of Madelra, and parte| £ o friends a8 If wo never hiad cause 16 be o, se. paid in advavco. of Governwment. ko from A, Ruving, v n gool dlaver, SUICIDE OF SCORPIONS. regimentals, witha Wo rocorded, some waoks ago, soveral cascs ol thio sulcido of scorpions. Tho Doston Journa of Chemislry adds to the instances wo cited tho following oxumple, which occurred in tho ex- perionco of tho editor : ** Tho only scorpion that wo happened to see during o briof visit to tho Isthmus of Darion, last November, was one which 3Irs. Corwine, of Panams, gave ton friond in our party. 8ho found the ereature in Lor chambor, and chancd it round the room with & slipper, until, at longth, it becamo 8o exasper- atod that it turned its tail ogainst itself, and Hor account of the be- row 1noro and moro th that givon above, iy clieersd i wiy Ethan Allon, I shul 1 know It.” T made u| than adamant, driest seasona, with a cach stalk yielding, on died almost instantly. buvior of the auimnl, as it angry, agreed essontially v 1f neoma as if wheor fury prompted tho suicidal net. 'Ihe scorplon gots o 'mad’ that il must vant its venomous rage upon somathing, evon if it bo upon ttself.” VALUES OF METALS. The following tablo of tho respective yalues of motals in not witbout Interest. are so rare ns to be mold in minuts quantities, yet tholr ratos nre given for tho sake of com- porison with tho others: VAN ER SOUND ARG, ‘* Not another o or twonty-four. Tho loaves aro mich The firat four DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL. The history of this little brochure affords sy examplo of the startling surprises which Dang Fortuno now and then amuses hersolf by craats Ing in tho litorary 08 well aa commercial world, The author of the work, Mr. Pullen, a Mivcr Canon of Ballsbury Cathedral, went the roods of the London publishors, profforing to ey one in snccossion his little scroed, which wasty cach one in snccession refected,—not evenw. curing amang thom all so much a8 a readisz, Fioally, indewpalr, Mr. Pullon gave the mios sacript to a booksellor of Balisbury to publishry comumlssion,—that 18, the author assumed allily risks the publishor charging & porcontags ¢ limiting the amount to | onded in advertising to 810 or 315, ittle venturo was launched, and within o wee, to the amazement of everybbdy concornedi Lad croatoa such » furor that the bo removed to London in order tl of copios should conveniontly meot the ds AMr. Pullon clearod a bandsomo iy from his rojocted manusoript, and the commin sions gathored by tho London and Balistay publishers were quite unprecedented in thekiy tory of pamphlots. —— South-Bea Islanders, Malay oxtraction. 104,77 Arsenic, . WAUKESHA, Preparations for tho Coming ¢ Sone son-Various Locnl Items, Byeciat Correspondencs of I'he Chicaun Tribune, Wauvkeana, Wis,, March 2.—*The Saratoga of tho Weat" will be dotighted to drop in, oceasion- ally, to ‘I'nxz TriBUNE Loa-partios. present, she eita in tho corner and haa littls to When tho summer-timo comos, rho will goseip aa fast na any of the rest; sho will tell you just how many glasses of pura spring-water tho Hovorable Senator from Blauk drinks per diom; how Gon. Boum, of Chicago, 18 flirting with Alrs, Prettyface, of Cinclunatij and that the Rt. Rev. Dr. So-and-so ia playing croquet with Deacon Jonos, of Smithville. She will bosst that Lastern capital and Southorn chivalry ars lodged in her humblest cottages, payiog devoted homago as hor shrine of health tho sales, and tho Bible and numorous educational and religlous books and tracts wors put into circulation. The mnative ideaa of raligion wera fow and foeble. Their idols wera scarcsly mora than fatiches, and were now a sitplo red rag, and again a shapoless block of wood. priosts, tomples, nor forms of worahip of any sort, oxisted on the lsland previous lo the coming of the misalonaries. was rapldly extonding smong the pooplo at tho dealh of TDadama, tho firet baotiam of native converis took placa, T.arge congrogations regularly gathered to hoar tho Gospel preaclied, and native toachors woro beginning to impart to othora tho truths they bnd themselves laarned. But, ‘in 1835, Queon Ranavola—ono of the widows and tho succosnor of Radama—Dbegan o terribie persccution of tho now falth, which lasted during the remaining twenty-nlx years of her reign. Tho missionaries woro compolled to leave the island, thoir con- verts woro forced to ronounce Christianity or aufler forture and death, thoir hooks wore taken from them aud destroyed, and commerco with foreign countriox was entirely broken off. On tho denth of the eay, ploaso excuse lier, ‘Tho Past ia fading, fading, Nover to cone bgalu; prezs treo ia ebading of tho sunny plain; Unchanged, T wot, {8 each well-Known sceas Not u branch shows now in the hedgarows g et Just ea tha lark from the meadow sprung, ‘When lifs and I allko wers Just w0 the nrimraas peep'd to iy April Lati'd tho right. Natitro's self, pervading, 15 the senno of something goneg Tho Past ia fadiug, fadlng, Aud the wheel of Time rolls on, Tho Past $s fading, fadin, therd fa ts hold, y pintona lading, zed ‘Chero is Just the faintcst trace of spring in some of thewe langthening days. thero comoa sometimes & whispor of slxhing winds and falling leaves; so now thero is steal- ing into this wintry air the far-away scent of Dblue violets aud the earoling of summer-birds, * Poople aro talking abonut the ors,” and_begloning to plan for their accommo- dation. There i8 b gontlo bustle of proparation in many households,—measuring tho rooms for tho exponso of pute ho Druco Ilouso Lias uoen, in 1861, sho was suceoeded by hor illegitimato son, Radama IL. Tho now King immedintelv instituted a different order of things, recalling tho mieslonarios, opon- ing tho country afresh to foreign commerce, ra- catablishing schools, and proelaiming universal toleration. The reign of this King was short, ouding fu a rovolution aud lis own death by two years after his accession, ng cnough, however, to impiove his couotry by tho sccomplishment of many wise securlvg to natives and forcizners civil and rollgious liborties, and friendly rela- tions with othor peoples. His Queen, Rasobering, came to the throne aftor him, and coufirmed iu all respects bis lib- eral snd sagacious policy. Ab her death, in 1868, Lier auccessor, Ranavols I1., continned tho sams administration, and Chyiatianity and civil- ization havo maintained a steady proaress in tho In 1872, thora wero twenty English mia- alovaries and 2,000 nativo pastors laboring tho spread of tho Gospel. A Theological tution for training native ministers, and a Nor- wal School for instructing teachors, wero in suc- cossful opeoration. In 1835, there were but 200 native convorts. In the last three yenrs, thero Thayo beon numbered 258,000, includivg 32,000 church-members, The term convert ia glven to thoeo who lave abjured lioatlouism and ure ion of Christianity, oging np all orer tho fsland,—evory villago containing convorts having ite own cburch. The poople “austaln almont the entiro cost of thie buildlogs. The ehurch recently erccted at Namohana will ac- commodste 1,600 or 1,800 peoplo, and is fluluhed with much tasta. Tha building of theeo struo- turos baa & decided influenco on domestlo acchi- tocture, which is thoreby improving in neataess and comfort. Tho presont and futurs proupocts of Madagascar are most oncoursging. worl of clvilizing tho peopla has boen performed by the London Missionary Society, aid: 15?1. by sgents sont out by the Boclely of The graen graws rank aver many & Of tlio young and s Many & woll-lovid volce Baby & roldon hope is croul'd 3 ove kindred, frisud, and lover, Tha Past {3 fadiug, fsding, ‘Tha blood rupe cold an Harsh wisdom $e degrauing ‘The creads of loog ngo, The Paet is fading, fading ; Wo cling sud pray in vain Where tho eypross treo I8 sbading The tomba of all the alain, Slaln by the years and put aslde, Tho darlings of lov One by ono the frail links part. 1hand drops from hand, sud Leart frm <. 0One by one the sweet thin, To brighten Earth High tho sense of something gone, And the Past is fading, fading, Aud the wheel of Tline rolis on. —London World, ——— A Fete in Cairo. Tho correspondent of tho London Tims Aloxsudria writes: *On the 10th and 20th the anuual race mooting at Cairo 1 was attended by all tho Princes oo! pt, and by his Hlighnoss the Eheditt and the Egyptiau Princos, buteold; yob thebaauty and fashion of the Euv poan oolony were well Er pean horaes thot ran ma sida the Egypiion Arabs, for of late years bl tho Khodive and the groat Egyptian o= owners Lave taken much pi breod of Arab horasea’ Lozo, blea have turned oot some sple Aud now bow shall I dosoribe tl night of tho 20th at Gozireh Palsco? M magoifloent entorialumonts have been giveu by Ois ulghm-au.'buz tho ball ol ‘ous aud gay aod brave, naw carpets, and ting up anothor ** wing, onca more opened itd friondly doors, und the glimmor of an occasional light in the upper sto- ries tolls of tho early guost who catches cold | In tho midst of it all comea another **snup plog timo;" and we think no mora of wild Howrersand building **zdditions Dbut of the potn- taes frozen n the cellars, and t! 0 prico of wood theidola of pride. Our ono train a day is somotimes hindored by ihie ntorms and snow-bayks ; and, on zoveral oc- carjons, wa have hoen doprived for forty-cight bours of news from Brooklyn. 0l Solitude! thedo are thy charms, A more_approcistive audiouce than which of Evanston, the othor oven- After fecding 0 back to ITeaven, grested Prof. sbo Prosbyterian Church, ing, could scarcely be found. our starviug souls on tho reporta of tho finest of outortalnments in the citics, the opportunity of actuslly listoning to something was a real treat. His reudering of *'I'ho Courtshi, ish™ was peculiarly fiuo ; and ** and somo other pleces of the programme, wero cminontly funny, anid pathos, seot ular olocutionist, of MilesStand- ho Loat Holr," | gradually accopti Places of worsh uslly tho forte of thix pop- tu roadings aro much more onjovabla than the performances of many dra- maticcompanies, wlhere tho brilliancy of tho chiaf actor ia froquontly dimmed by the smudging of but a poor figoré t alirs {0~ Lmprove b [ ted improvements hero may bo sod the mll'!w choose-factory. be good mews for the-neighboring farmers' wives, for they will bosaved tho real hard work of buttor-mnking in the sutnmer. Mr, 0, Z. Ollu, have tho same good fortino that has attonded bim through the viciusltudes uerchant, and DPout- May she proprie- wrun a fete of truly regal magailiconco; that taste or art could oupply was WAl ] sud it will bo long boforo the ecene 'v zecollection of th of and_in the Nile, oo of railroad-conduscter, TEA IN ENGLAND, The introduction of tea fnto Eng! fectod a grent change in the bibulous babits or the people. In the timo of the Tudora, beer way the universal beversge, and was drank at every moat, and all along botween meals, Queen Eliz. sbath diod without having ever tnsted the de- liclous flavor of Young Nyson or Bohea ; for tea waa not known {a her dominions untll after they had censed to be her dominions for soma dozen yeara, Who kuows what softening {ufluence up- on tho Virgin Queen's imperious temper ‘“tho cup which cheers but not incbristes " might have Had sho washed down hor roasis snd broils of beof and mutton with frequont Ooclong ar Imperial Moyuno, shomight have grown enave and geotle, at losst at threo periods each day, and melted into the tender, gonial, goasipy mood induced by the soothing powers of a decoction of ‘I'iere are rumors to_tho offect that one or more breworios are t0 bo established on that side of thoe river whoro awinga the sign, * No accom. wodation for Temperanca-men,” Woull that wo could bo content with the sparkling beversze that Dothesda providea! i 3Mr. W, D, Dacon has moved into Lis new residenco, and the Misses Rayare aleo onjoylug thelr rocontly-completed homs. Tho architec of theso housea—~3r. Horning, lately of Milwau. keo—{s now preparing to build anothier for hiwme fade from ths s built npon an sl DBoulac. It is surrounded by a mag| den and approached through fl nues, which, on this occasion, sots and llambeau for a ¢pnce ol kilometres, Yverything was well tho throng of carriagea to approac) and retire without confusion ; and on arsival, wero presented Lo the Khe 3 of tha side walons. 1iis Highnooa receivos visitors with his usual mixture of i and courtesy, blazed with U‘; On soveral good lots, plles of stone and lnmber of nulder woather, antl the ospect of rupld growth was nover so good iu 0 town a8 now, Mz, J. 3, Nickell, of the firm of Murray, Bid- dle & Nickell, Chicago, paid s homo nnd friouda here last week, T'o tho roal regret of bis many friends in Wau- kesha, Mr I'rank Putnoy, Jr., left, not many daya ago, for New York, whero Lo baa a position in counection with the CAurch Journal, lived bere so long, wany socioties, th The meotinga in tho Baptist an Churches are etill continued, with o marked do- await the comiv Oricntal salute, rotired to roam over the and enjoy tho aplendid aspactacle p! bout 3,000 goosts, wmon forelgn vieitors, were élylug visit'to his Connaught and the irifo of ler sul-Genorat for Egypt, and danciug the etrains of a cholca orchustra, 1. the Khodive passed through ul room, tho gueats drawlu, ag ho advancod, stoped to exchango n:few words with on ot the guests who wero known 10 Lo hio rotired, but tho Princes eign and those of Bia Highn mained till 4 a. m. T o lust ended a fete of rare niugniticence vould acarosly be equ: courts of Earope. wlt Europeans into his p guesty i much, bi civilizotion underita most gracoful au imporsonation—that of tho educ lady—thin is indeed » great ' proprietors of carrlages reupod 8 goldon harvost, olinrged for carriagcs, ane only loo sl?d t&:;uelrr il s bedroom. in the shape of Siich Jra tho charma o uring the Khedive's fetos. o, . The diaposition depends upon tuo ooudition of phystologiuis tell us; sud_ the mpressed by the food and drink tukow futo it therefore the beor-drinker must differ in tompor from the consuwmerof tes, Whon wo refloct upon the vanity, violence, aud solishness of Elizaboth; when we ramember tha signod the death-warraut of her cousin Mury, aud pave orders for the oxecu- tion of tho wayward Essox,—lot us morcifully ro- meinber that she mever drank tos, courso of English history migbt bave boen chsuged from hor day, bad her womau's nature boen stimulated into activity boyond the mascu- lno element iy hor ocowposition, by lingering, ing, mollifyiug sips of black ar green toa, 0 oarliost testimony to tho spposarsuco of teain _England {s found in tho records of the Last Indis Ooro) this timo it gra the wealtby oilizens of London, it came 0 warket in smsll 1ug exorbltant prices. per_pound, and never for loss than £25, 037, & large consignmont of tea fell into the ud was connected with so o will be greatly mlssod. persous have recently nuited with thass denominations,~among them some of the prominout vitizens of the placo. Churchmen canuot complan that Lent is not obaerved here this yoar, ripple of dissipation, if we xcopt o very select Buakspesroan Club, that holds ite meetings hours in which she ‘There {4 not the first alod oven in ho r & Mustim Prnd On “pleswant nfternoons thoro is cousiderablo through tha streets of tho cn & matked improvomont In titruouts durtng the last two years, horses must be clipped, oven if the mercury aloops at 40, s thoro a burg that doos not need QuIzoTE QUICKSIOHT. x‘lrlvlng and racing June 27, 1615, came into use smong. d_wauy 8 Vi el 10 a0 gll’ If you wish to know how many (ricnds you bave, got into ofiice ; if you wish to know oy you bavon's, gt into trouble, Bometunes it aold for §0