Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 8, 1875, Page 9

LITERATURE. ORIEMTAL SKETOMES. Sercronnrs AND BYntin t::‘n‘lll‘l'fl A VisrT 10 Patstyaa, Hy Esewr A, Toxr (Viscoenions. Senasarinn), Author of HiTlie LORe, Shares of the Adriatic” New Edition, b, 840, Tomilon: Macmillan & Co. £2.09, At the clote of 1858 Mlss Deaufort left Ene pland, sccompanied rololy Ly bor sister, Lo travol through the storied and nacred landa of tus Tiest, At any time #t would bo a brave under- ,taking for two Jadics to sttermpt & prolonged four elona in conntrles throngh which tho Lravel- er'n path fa benot nith poculiar dangars and difil- cultien; but twenty veara ago tho feat recuired doublo the pluck and daring that would be de- mandod now. ‘The accure and agrocable prase- cution of & two-yoars* trip in Egypt and Syrin by iho Minsen Dosnfort shows that ladies may go sbout whero they will, and do ahont whet thoy i, and sulfor na cepacial molestatton, provided Aoy puraus their ebject in an inoffensive, ap- ropriato, and rosolute mauner, Thae travalorain qoostion bad the advantage of ample meana and {oiure to nocure the fulleat henefit from all op- ! portunities offered n_thoie Jouraoy, and left no epot or place wnyisiled for lack of time orof -oer to command every facllity, Their conrao was firet directed to Eggpt, whers tney pagacd up the Nile, from Alosandria to Wads 1alfol iu Nubfa. On theratarn-trip their luzuriously-equipped dahabieh was destroyed Ly firo ot Eddfon, and the ladies wora loft peunilcen, sud with moerely the garments thoy chauced lv tave on, iu tho Leart of n forolgn country, KXind frionds provided for thom immodiatoly, snd, srrived {n Caivo, tholr wants wera soon all supplied. Yrom Egypt thoy bent their way to {he oly Lona, stopplng arhile at Bmyrns, ab Teland of Mitylens, at Letakia, at Tripoli, -lll::) n:iu‘:: [ l!o;,rzul, tho "‘buuunl’ul gxlau of ria. E"1'1»: ot rongon hadl now beguu, and tha isters deterinined {0 apend the terma on{he cool hielghts of Lobanou, They choue an inviting residenca in tho mountsin village of Deit Miry, which commandad & superd viaw of tho plain and T'own undar +utance in considaring thin unlvorsst ignoram af Boyrout, of tho Daruk Mountsins opposito, and of a wide expause of seo. Tho village Is In tho Druza couniry, snd was [ohabited by Druzes, Maronitos, and Greeks. Deforo tho Iadics had left tlueir summer rosort, tho qunre rels botween tno Druzes and dintonites that ero to culminato in tho fearful mussacves of the following ycar had brokcn out in n most ranguinary fesbion. Meanwhils the sistors on- Jjosod many weaus of delicious exintonco in whey zcoms fram tho doscription to havo beon o ter- restrial patadise. As the cool weatlior admitting of travel came on, tho ladicn resumed thelr route, which wag made to include all points of intereat in Byria. From Damascus n trip was made by rivor to ‘Lad. wor, the Queon of tha Dewert, sud bolog undor \lo protection of & popular Sheik o fortuight. wan occupind in _an oxamination of ity peautiful ruips, In this slow and eawy war montlis were cousumed in vimt. fag; the interosting citios and aites of the lzat inboritauce of laracl. A leisurely journey throush Asia hiinor and Grocco, with long pauses at tho Tslend of Rhodes aud av Countantinepls, trouphit our travelers Lo the conclusion of their Uifo tn tho Oricut, snd far into the gummor of 1800, . ‘Ditring tho yeara that bave clapsed niuce this yoluma was written,. the ground it Lravoraes hua Uocn tradden by s multitnde of pilgrims, who, by thelr ropoated descriptions, havo made it fa- wmiliar to overy intelligent reader. Yet thoro iu & sufliciont reasou for the book boing reprinted, in ita caroful snd thoroagh account of whataver is test worth seciuy sud understonding by the travelor. The author prepared hesell by ex- tended atudy of the history of countries vilted to viow thom discorningly, and lirs shared with her readers tho profits of her obscrvation and rosoarch. Having alua the trained oye and hand of an artist, kho imparted to her deliucationn tho charm of color, which s gonorally wanting in tho tfkotches of ramblera. LOWER FORMS OF LIFE, Dors anp Ginry i Biorogr; om, Buirne Brupmes ‘or THE LovER Fonsts OF LIFE: DASED UYON THE * Latrsr Lrcruses or Pror, T, H. JIUXLEY, At PuBLIIED DY Fis Prnsansio, Dy Ranait Havsyrs Stavancox. llustrated by Mins BY. A, L. Macom- b, 1320, pp.: 180 Now York: D, Appleton & Co, Trica, SL50, ' Whilo listeniog to the loctures of Prof, Hunx- loy in South Konnington Sicience Schools, ths ides wos suggested to Mis, Flovenson of al- tempting to intorest little children in the physi- ology of somo of tho loweat forma of life, Tho tcheme of lier worl:, when duly 1aid eut, was submitted to Prof. Muxley, and received hia cor- dial approval. The sorvicos of Aica Macomish, a prize-pupil of Prof. Huxley sud a sclencs- teacher in the Londou kchools, wore eecured in maling tho drawings, and with this distinguiohed help aud sanction thoe bock hins boen completed and presented to the boya and.girls of America. Ita titla in rather bigh-sounding, and mey dis- courago somoe limid young folky, but when do- fned {hcro is nothing so yory abatruso in the term * Drology, * niter all. It aimply meann aci- onco of life, and the science in this cago is mado 80 easy that, with a litle pationt concentration of tho mind, it csn bo undorstood by any 10 yeur-oll, Bizn, Stovonson han very happy talont for aimplifying the infornmatlon she wishea to convoy, and ivaorting it with intercet fortlo youthiful reader. dienca face to face and hoart to heart, fecling a aympathy fror them. Her book shonld hiave the help of & parent or ateacher, however, in order to eccomplish ita full object. sy znd altractive anithas been made, the, brizhtest child cannot master it with- ont downright ntudy. The hill of knowledge cannot bo utterly emoothed away, and the gver- 3go child Lias Lo bo coaxed ar wompelled to une dertako serlons, persistont work of any nort, But Jot the mother taks the ook, and whether roo hLave any ecientifio Jinowledge or not, she will bo irreswtibly Interesteu in s clear explanations of the phenomena of tho yeast {))nnt, tho protccoccus, the hydre, the lobrter, lia oyeter, and tho other low formy of vepetabin and animsl life iy {llustrates, She will then find 1t & puro plesaura to aid the nuthorin impress. ing upon lior child ity curions aod usoful les- eone, A microrcope wonld bo anothor powerful ad- Junct to the book, And what au ondless rourco of amuserment and instruction the jnstrument does prove to overy motive, foquiring child! It mworth rcores of ordinary toys, revealing ex- haustleen brautien and wonders in npparently the wost trivial objects of Nature. We cannot give a better Elnco of advico to paronts and guardians than thet thoy shenld procure for tho children in thoir keeplug Mrs, Sloveuson's Iile- mentary Diology, and if poseibls a nierazeopo to go along with it. 'Tho two will atart tho young mind on & conrso of education that will call ont ils powers of obscrvation, aud give all its facul- ties tho best discipline, while.zupplying it with a ife-long fund of captivating entortainment, Bhould this attomptto engage Loys and pirls In tho otudy of the aimplert facts of biology T" succosuful,—as it vichly deservas to do,— . Btovenson promisesto supplement it witha work on the vertebratos, in which certain anl mals with back-honen witl be treated on the #amo plan ea that sdopted in tho present vol- e, THE ART OF SPENDING MONEY. Now 7o Maxk 4 LiviNG: BUCGESTIONS UPON THR ATT 0 MAKING, HAYIX0, AXD USING MoNkr. Jly Groscx Oanr bgoLustor, Anthor of *Ifow to Lducats Yourscif,” ete, Ehmo. pp, 125 New York: @. P Putuam's Sonn, Vrice, 75 conts, Every fow days the pooplo’s column in the 1zdly or wookly newspaper contains a lettor from %ome anxions paterfanillay, putting, In one lorm or another, the great qucation, * Iow ahall {mansgo to live comfoptably on & limited iu- tome?" The frequency with which the Inquiry nprosasd shows that tho butk of the communi- iy are stroggling with the problom, and find it a hiffeult, if not anlmpossible, matter to arrive at V matinfactory eolution. For the assiztance of bin large body of domestic ecouomists, BMlr. 2ggleston bas prepasod the littte manual befure 18, whick, in many respects, is excollently itted to scoowplisli fta purpose. In the Irst place, it ia cheap, Beveuly-five ceuts is + small smount to pay for a compact o of sagacions laws for the financial manage- tent of Lousehold offaira. In the necond place, hints, advice, and arguments it presents aro ractical, to the point, sad, for the moat patt, uninently just and sonsiblo, Itisonoof the most deplorable and unec- wnntabjo mystoties of nocial hro, t| ion after geuoration of human bein; © grow 1o udulthood, and to assume the sespon- ibilities of mrringe and of o family, withiout mviog reccived any souud, practicul fostruction n the principles of. domestio economy ; without ¥or bavivg bud tho essentiol diacipline of worke 6g ever the fundamantsl proposition uatiiitts Bagtly desentitated s ' Clivem 00 wuck suaual Bho talks with hor young au-. |- sympathy with them, and thercfors winning a |. income, more or loss, hiow would you contrive to bring succesefully and easlly all expenses it, not forgailing to leava & safo margin?" Thore te n comforting viren “lho noutce of more mikery than auy othar arthly thing—nand that i, 1L is nover too late to vorrect it, One 18 nsavor too old to bexin lesrn« ing how lo_rogulate expenditurea anid husband tesoirees 8o us t0 make tho aliowance for per- xona) snd family expenditnrea cover them, and In moet caren Icave a little balance, Mr. Eggleston's minoual is & gond one for tha would-bs aconomnint to counult. lta auggestions on many ‘;nlm-l aro rational and practicsl, the fruit of sober Judgment sud of enlightened ex« orience, 1lis chaptors on Marriage and Slovor, Tow 10 Live on Yanr Incoine, and What to Do ““l}l’ Savings, are spocially clear-sighted and val- wable, SCHOOL-BOOKS, MonTrrrn's INpEPRRDENT CoChar, 1. ELIMENTARY GxoonaPny, I1, COMPRALIENELYR GLONRAPIY, A, Barnes & Co,, Kow York anil Chicago, 18 Of making of school-booka thero fa no ond. We may porhaps pardoo ths process, however, 1t it gives ne such nont, clear, and nonnible books 8y thin brace of geographies. Tho child of to-day renlly bng no oxcuso for not loarn- ing his lesson. This Flomentary Ceogra~ phy, for inntancs, in s picturs-book. The text merely oxplains tho culs Perlnps, hawover, tho child in queation would rotort that it was easy onough to learn geogra- phy when all yoa had to say about half of Afri- ea and of North!Ameriea wan: ‘It is snunox- plored wildetness, rupposod to be a grout dea- ort.”” Decidedly tho world kuows altogethar 100 1nuch, nowadsye, for childiah comfors, Por- linps wo ahall apprecisia this are loug, and stop trymg to texch a litila of overythivg inside the fon suort yeara of the average American's school- lifo, Oneof the things, though, that youst bo taught, in goography; end wo koow of no heftor text-books thau theso two. In fact, the clo- mentary baak fa #o very good that it scoms ax if there was not much uea io haviog a child study auy_mora comprehansive book in an advanced grade, A loy who has really learned thoro wighty pages of pictires sud print will probably B3 sble to aclipss his preonts in geographical knawlodge. Tho bool I esld by ita pablishers to have & 1srgor number of maps than auy other elomon- tary goography. It ia full of them, DBeeides thoe ordinary mapa, thero aro othors piving s birdsoyo or halloans view of tho diffevent conno- trlen, and still othora which show the principsl products of cach distriet, ‘Tho publishers have copyrighted thoir method of placing at tho sided of cach map tho nanei of countries in tho came Iatitude. 'Fhia bs teally vory serviconblo. Take- ing {he map of tho United States au an in- atance, who knows that Porlugal lies betweon tro lines drawn from the nouth of Virginia aud the north af Connecticu, or thul Romo iy due enst of Chicugo? An adaptation of the chromo process is now bofng used in printing tbe maps af this norles, nad the work 1o renlly artistic. Tho many picturen allow a great daal of object- tenching. ‘Tho affect of climate, oull, ole., upon the people and products, in shown, The “tan- dcal rnviow " aum op each chaptor admirably. Iio book inn geography, and somothing hostdes. "The nccond book of the aoriey combiney the advantayen of the firat, with tho addition of sev- eral extra maps, and of some clevor rhort slotcues of the history aud the government of each country. ‘Che simplicity of tue clementary troativo iu romewhat impaicad, howaver; iu the other; and tho ilral scer to ua the better of the two. 1t would bo difticult to improve upoa it. DETECTIVE STORIES. i \|-CEivpr MELkoTTE A3 A DETECTIVE, AND OTHER Bronies, By ALLAN PINXFRTON, Author of * ‘Fho Tzpresziman and the Detcotive” iumio., pp, 23, 3]&;1;1!9 : Wililam B, Keen, Cooke & Co. Price, The stories of Mr. Pinkerton visidly illustruta thio mazim that **‘Tratn in stranger tban tiction," In reading tho xccount of * Claude Melnotte na 8 Dotective,” it is difficult io realize that it is not an mgonionsty-constructed romance, and yeb overy incidont aztually ocenrred exsclly nsitls narrated. Tho scens of the history was tho old Clitton Housa, Chiengo, where, in tho yoar 1854 2 sorien of singularly-adroit vobberiex bafiled do< tection and throatenod to crapty tho house of Ite\ guests, mokt of whom, in rapid succersion, woro heavy losera from the depredatios of the mys- torious folon, Tho case waa given into tho Liands of Mr, Pinkerton, who soon aue- ceeded in discovering the thief, Ilis principal sepintant in thowork wes s ynun;’: dJateclive who ersonated the part of Prince Dosubarnais, of avaris, and, estabilshing hiwmacll atthe Clifton Houso, flirted with the yauuf Iadies, paid conrt to Lhoir mammas and fraternized wilh taelr pepns, while bo *shadowod " aud finally entrapped the gay msn of fasbion, who, tho mont brilliant and trustad porsonage fu tha aocisl eirclo attho hotol, was ul tho tame time tho perpetrator of ihe danng aud cunmulzl{-nxecmed larconius, Tha nmrics of the Clitton loude in the fall of 1354, ho enjoyed tho distinction of friendly relations with a T'riuce, will loarn for the firat tima from this new vorslon of Clzudo Melnotto thio troe history of the man who wora in their prosence the hunora of royalty so modastly and mulflllf'. o The otlier storles o tho volume, *The Two Bistors™ and * 'The Frenchman,” roveal the ro- markabla qualitios that, combined in Mr, Pinier- 1on have made him tho most famons of Awmerican detactivon, . HINTS ON READING, Tuz BrsT Rrapinag : HixTs oN Tity SELrorion oF Hooxs 3 0d TuUE FONUATION 0F LauriRies, PUbe 110 AND PRIVATE § ON COURAKE 0r READING, ETC.; Wiril o CLARIVIED THULIONRATIY JOR Edsx 1ikre rrence, Revised, Lulizged, aud Contuued to Tiecember, 1674, 'aper, ¥ice,$l. New York: G. ¥, Putnsw's Govs, ‘Thore i4 Lielp in this volnme for nlmost every one who reads and buya booky. ‘Il Lielp mainly lies in the bibllogrephy, which {a quite full snd vory woll classifiod. 1t eannot, of course, con- tain the name of every book on every topic, bub it contatoy the natoes of o lurge number of the boot books on most subjocts, and will not fail to guldo the majority of rendors tonoeded volumes not previounly known to exist, The best thing about tho hints on the selection of books and couracs of reading, ete,, is, {that thore are very fow of them, and what thora sre have the 1morit of discretion. Inquirers aftor tho Lest reading neod but iwo or threo rules to diroct them, ‘The very firet thould bo, * Nover attempt & cooine of read- ine” It is contrary to malure, and. thernforo, absurd sud impracticable, Because A sladu his- tory the most antertaining aud usciul and nter- esting knowlsdge in the world, it 1 no rewsvn thut Buhould. ot each Individuat coosult hin own tuats in reading, meroly taking caro religlously to obuy rulo No. 2, ' Iteed only tho hesl books on sy subjoct.” Finally, lot bim “master ove ary book reud,” and ho fias conformed to all the laws thot novd bo imponed upon lim, It {spot he who roads many books carolessly, but e who reada & fow chojos liooks understzudingly, that ia the wiwe man, **Much, but not many" (real much, but not nieny,'books), is & golden max- im that roaders shouid nave ever in mind. OPTICAL CHEMISTRY, AUNT ASD UfloToanariy, By { rofusror in (s oy a) Tnduse fin, With 107 Tumairatous, 12 e D, Appleton & Un, s suthor of this work has for nino years 1y nio,, DR 4, New York: ! held tho chair of pliotography in the Royal Ine dustrial Academy at Boclin, the only techuical institntion in German whers the art Las boen sllowed & place in the curtienlum, Ha naturally regards the dopartmont ovor which hoe presides with outhustusin, and I n foll appreciation of the value of fta various invontions in themsclves and in thelr application to tho industries, Ie- faned rocognition cithor a8 an art or & sclonce, phatography hae ot recoivedi from the world ho reapect it descrves, but with earnestness and candor Dr, Yogel endoavors to elevate it toits proper position fu the provinco of oplics aud n(och‘nu;hlg_v. X \ ut of phutography ias apritng & new sclence, to c\wmflsry of Lxgfit. i giviug & popular viow of tha one, Dr. Vogel s prozented an analyeis of the princlplea end processes of the other, His treativo lu as entoriaining an it {u in- rtructive, pleasantly combiving a history of the yrogress and practive of phnlnfirwhy ~—from tha tirst rough oxperimonty of Wedzwood and Davy with ssusitized paper, in 1802, down totho latesk improvements of the art,~with technleal illus- trations uf tha sclentitic tLoories on whick the art in based, I¢ 3 the first attempb in any manual of photography to set forth adequatsly the just clalma of ths invention both from un srtistio aud o acientitic point of view, and it s bo conceded that the effort Lins been ebly conductad. MRS, STOWE'S LAST NOVEL. Wr avp OvR Newgitsors; on, Tl Riconos oF AX USPaatioNABLT HTaerr (sequel lo 31y Wire AnnIM: A Novat, Ny Ilanstier Brrcurn Hrowe, With ' iliustrations,” 32mo,, PP, 480, New Yorki 4.3, Vord & Co, Mrs, Btowe nover fsils to write agreeably, ne watter what o Mhe subject under her pen, Her THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY MAY & 1875.~TEN PAGES, extremely felicitous command of language and her clear gond ronse reodler her tecatmnnt of anv toplc inviting and insfructive. ‘he preeent noval in not by any meanu great ; ita author ban ovldontly foll no inepiration to oapend hor higheat eftorts tipon it ; #ho has simply allowed her facultisn fres and eany plsy ; yet the hook in clever, nmacking utronzly of ity author's picaa- fng quatities, and 1a woll worth reading by meit womon, Wo aay women. liscsune, heingt a pire- 1y domostic ntory, it is ealoulnted to interont, and in iutended pactienlacly to profit, thoss whone pravines it is to ho homa-keapors, Almont oyvery topicof i day 1s touched i the courre af tho itory, and toushad with » wice and carolul hand. Intie mentenco or paragraph in which eacli i discugsed. thors s luvariabiy » lhuuf(hl prasented, a hint dropped, thet throws roul lizht upon it. and pointe ont the way toward rattonal and definitlve conclusions. Min, Blows bringa to tha cansideration of overy prob sucial lifo a eatholic spirit and & gentin charity that euabla her to mnEn & falr intarprot i nenrly all tostances, EMGLISH STATESMEN. N Biourariira s Pra. y T instax ¥y 12mo,, 263, New York : G, P, I'atnam's Hons, Iriee, G, This in the flrat of & eerlozof volumes that, un- dor tho head of “Iiriuf Diographies,” will pregent skelcher of promiuent living statesmen in England and France, and, 1f we do not {nfer Loo much from tho prospoctus, of otbor foreign natfons. The biographios in \ae present number aro not original with Mr. IHig- ginson, but ara compiled by him from the best afailablo rourcow. Lach Is made up of asaries of mimaturoes drawn by vatious graphia pona, a4 diferent intervala and ju vary- ing lights, and oo poeloctod and arianged by (Lo editor an to give & many-sided, yet uoiform uud harmonious, view of tho cubjocl. Jightean por- traits aro by this apt method vigocously delin- ‘hoy Includa the fignres of fr. Gilade y Mr, Diaraelf, 3ir. Bright, Earl Russolt, Farl Granville, tho Duka of Argvie, Loxd Cairnes, tha Duke of Jichmond, the FEarl of Dorby. ete,, ete. - 1t is In the character of utatesmen simply that tho divers peraonsges aro exhibitod, but in this aupect they aro without exception fairly and sirongly pottrayed. NAVIGATIO! Purhan's Apvaxcen Hereney Hrurea: NAvinaTion PORY AND I'RagTicE, By Jizxny Eves, Heleuco and Art College, flymauth, Anthor of nutical Antronomy," eie 1Gmo., pp. 9. New York: G, T, Putoamn’s Bone, Price, BLAO. The ahoro tezt-book is reprinted from the Xn- glish edition for the benefit of mich American riudentn as moy wish to learn the it of Navigs- tion. Tt haa boon tho 2im of tho outbor to maka the aubject perepicuons and practical by means of dotinitions, illustrations, efe., presonted in crory vatlety of sspect. 'I'o adapt the manuel 0 1180 1n nchools each nection is provided with full rets of questions and anawess, fermulae, and problewms, with their nolutio NEW ROOKS, IXPHOVED RULES OF BANCUQ-PRURO, TRE LATEAT AXD MOAT FASCINATING GAME OF CALDE, WITH RUOGKK TIONA 10 LEARNYIWY, CARLPULLY COMFILED FliON H');r AvtnomiTies, Paper, laiford: Ham- ¥, TADLIN ¥OR THE DETERISNATION AND CLASKIZICATION or MINKIALS FOUxD 1% Tuk [INTTRD KraTIs, By Jauns €, ¥o17, A, L., Profeator of Cliemistry and Physlcs, Lawreneo Ublversiy, TPapar, Cbicago: Janeen, McClurg & Co, 75 cents, Tnr. WRooK or TRE CaaNcaLLor, DBy Jones Vease, Autlioe of “Twenty Thousand iecagues Under tko Bea)" 'Trapslated Dy Gromar 3. Towne, fquare 16wmo,, pp. 255, lloston ! Jamea IT. Osguod & Co. PERIODICALS RLCEIVED, Aldine, No. 17 (Aldine Company, New York). Ilnutrations: Ciodorells fo the Corner; The Return from the Field: A Funeral on the Adri- atic; The Youngy Wanderers'; Tho Fatal Bpiu- dle ; Cinderolla’s Pumpkin ; The Paoa of I tormunz, Switzerland ; Ettan Allon ot Ticon- cdoroga ; ¥rosco Contro-Piece in tha Musoum s Loiguic, Saxony. Awerican [dusirated Home Monthly for Moy (Gontral Pablishivg Amociation, Clncinnatl), “Tho Vyestern for May (Wesern Publiéhiog /Aunociation, Bt. Louls), “ American Builder for May (American Duilder Pablishing Cotnpauy, New York). Illinuia Schoolinaster for May {Cork & Hewetit, Normal, 1i1,). 4 E Current numbera of Litlella Living Age (Lit- tall & Gay, Doston), and of Appletons’ Journal (D. Appletan & Co., Kow Yorks: THE MIRACLE. (Tle fotioming fa the Ictent poem by Hons Christian Asidereen, aud 1s now for the st time published jn inglish, 'The transistion s by Miss Adamine Sind- berg, of Doston: ] Tzom a pyramid In (he dessrt’s sand Amum-fl; ‘wea hraught to Denmark’s land— ‘The hirroglyphlc inseription told . ‘That the body embalmel was thres tbonsand years old, 1t was the corpse of a mighty Quecn, Examioiog it, they found between Tier clonril fingers 8 corn of wheat: Ho well presnrrod wan this litile soed, That, being sowa, it put forth its blade, 1ta delicate aten of a light-green shade, ko err ot filied with riponing coru, Tai-growas (Lroug suneping and 1ght of the morn, That wouderful power in a corn so gmall— It {v & leavon Lo each and all Three thousand ears did not quench ita gorm— 1t tenchies our aitls 1o be strongand firin, When such & Jife ia Iald In 2 corn, Vilien out of that husk a new plaut cauld he barn “I'o ripen in aupehine and dew from theaky, ‘Thon, buwan soul, thou spark from on high, Thon art immortal as thy greal nire Whoag praine Is snug by the sugel-choir! ‘I'kio huak, the body, is buried deep, Aud fricnds will go'to the tomb aud weep; But thou shzlt move on, on wings eo fres— Tor ihino fs tho life uf eternlty, That wonderful power of 10 eundll & seed— “iTis miracle seen {n that corn of whust, it {3 dons. 1t puszlea th mind il Ouo, My the Anthor of Ll bt el ho . o The Shawls They Wear In I3oston. ‘'he Hoston Transervipl taysr *''I'he striped India shawis and their vory popular imitations aro a8 thick in the streets of thia city aa thay ure ecareo in all tho reat of the world, Indeed, it is said that. Boston has xort of monopoly of the atriped shawl fasbion, A lady informaut says that one seus hardly half & dozen striped abhanls in an afleruoon’s walk on Broadway, whilo, on Washington atroet, the dificulty would bo to find halt a dozen_ ladics who Lad not striped shawla. In Washington, during the past winter, it wex conslderod almost a ‘siro thing® that n Jady acrrivieg ot ono of tho liotels in o striped shawl wan & Tioston lady, aud the rulo wan teeted with nuccees by our inu- furmant in numborless inctancos, ‘Yhe eame lady, in ll\aml\lh\f o purnchiave » striped eamel's baiv abawl in J,ondon, was told hy ths shopkeep- or that her order woilld L:ave to wait, as at pree- ant tho whole etock and the whole prodisction wero domanded by tho loston trade. There might be o great deal mora untastotul fushion than the ruge for atripod shawls, The effect is rich, elogant, and striking, and in accordance with the prnciples of docorative art, Itut the mosb ¢ correct thing ' palls on the taate aftora hundrad thousand or s0 ropetitious, and it cer- tainly is a crodit to ba [ndopendent and original in dreas to & gortain oxtent.” ‘The Khedive's Domestic Iistablishe ment, " New Yerk: Times, Yeaterday, at the Shubra Gardon, four hand- a0mo turnouts—neat carmeges and blooded horsos—~attonded by outridbrs, guards, and ennuchs, drovs up, and from cach alighted two clegantly-atticed ladies from the Kliedive's barem, “‘Thosa Iudies aro not Limited in any ex- peuas of displsy, dreas. or luzury in equipaga or paluce. in wbich they chaoss to fndulge. 1 they want & palace yefuroiehiod they have only to oxprems tho wish. ‘lhe Yiroroy haw fuur wives, ko number permitted by the Koran, end thees have soparate estab- huhmonts. Hs hes between 450 and 800 cualinques, alaves, or conoubines, ag you may viish tu call them, some of them beautiful tieorgluus, reported to Lave cost aver £4,000. ‘I'nis portion of ble fumily is bestowed in moro thau one palace, und $hay are chavged abont to audt his vouveniotce or sccording to their whims, s has forty palacea ; somo of {he lsaser oucs up the rivor huve cost half a miltion dollars, and thooe in Ceiro snuch more, 3auy of them are, of cotvas, unoccupied, and golog, buildiogs and sardeus, into shabby Jocay, Many of tho new ones only receivo flying vieits, 118 is now build- lug threo tiuo palesos on the olher side of the river, beyond the Gizukeih. Ono porson can lme agine the outly for alt +' .3 palacos, plesqures gArdesy, 404 HAreIme ax weU 83 deibiie 9 SPARKS OF SCIENCE. THE DARK DAY, May 10, 1780, js known fu the history of New Fingland as the Dark Dey. DBotween the lLours of 10 and 11 in the morning tha aky became ob- nenred wilh dense cloudi of 8 emoky hna that | dirifted from tho gonthivest. In mont parts of New England the gloom that ausued wasso great that it was fapossible Lo read commom print, to dolermine the time of day by watches and clocks, or to purse any sort of work indoors withont the aid of artificlal tght. In eatns placen com- mon print eonld not be read out of doors for gev- «aral houra in auccession. The fowla went to roost, the hirds asug their avoning monga and nettlod thetmsolven to sleop in their hiddnn res traata, eandlon wora lgated in all the Tioues, while a silence and dimness anof night restad up- hs faco of all Nature. Yor noveral days preceding this tho atmosphers been baen sumsually thick and hazy, and the sun and moon Jooked dultand red asthey rodsthrongh the heavens, On the morntug of tho 18th thero wors nlight showera in cortaiu localities. accom- panied with thunder, while st different intorvals through the day thero was rain {u varions places, Tho water that fell was thick, dark, aud sooty, and & rcum ay of sahes appeared on the surfaca of rivern and resorvors. while, when the tide went out., it loft m line of the smut along the shioro at the whith of 4 or 5 inclien. On exam- Ination thin murfece malter xeemed to bs nothing 1wora than the ashes of Lurnt leaves, Thin ex- trantdinery darknens lasted for & period of about |, 0 teansactions of the Philosophical Soclo- ty of Philsdelphia, printed prior to 1785, thers i © corament on a similar darkneas {hnt was expo- rienced Oct. 21, 1716, O. B. On this oc- caslon, **The day was £0 dark that ‘peoplo wero forcod to light caue dlos Lo eas their dinners by. Which could nat bis from 2oy 'cfi\)r,c‘ the solar eclinsn being the Ath of thet month,” Nothing s »aid In (his sccouut of the cause of tho darkneas, nor are suy particulara given. On Oct. 19, 1762, # ro- markablo dirk day wrs obmerved at Detrait, and deecribed in tho Philadelphis_Trensoctions for 1763, ‘the wrller mays: *‘Tueadsy last, being tha 10th faat. (1. e, of October), wo had almoat tota! darkness for tunmoat of the day. I got up st dugbreak. About ten minujes aftor L obuerved it ‘got no lighter theu before. Tho pamo decknors continued nntil 9 o'clock, when it clearod up a little, We tham, for tha #pace of about » quarter of an honr, taw ths bLody of tho euu, wbich appeared as'vod ne blood, and maro than three iimos as Iargo os uaual, fho ar, all this timo, which was very dense, wos of a airty yellowish color. I was obliged to light candlee ta wco to dine, at 1 a'clock, nolwithstandivg the {abls was placed close by two large windome. Abant 3 tle carkness bocamo mora horrible; which augmented unlil helf-pest 3, when tho wind breazod up from the southweat and brouzht on some dropn of rain, or rather aulphur, and dirt: for it appearod wore like the latter than the formor, both i minell aod quality, I tookaleal of vlean paper aud held it ont in the rain, which rendered it blck wherever tho drops fell apon fx; bul, when hold near the firs, it turnod to o yoltow color. and, whon brurned, it fizzed on the paper liko wet powdor, During thia ehawor the uir was almost suffocating, with a strocy aul- phurous smell. It eleared up a little afler the rain,” An officer atationed at Detroit deacribed the eame day 1n & letter Lo & triend. In his_words: “Iho 101k of this month {October, 1762] was tho most extraordinary dark day, perhaps, over soen 1n tho world.,” “Tho particuluns following in this secount azs dontical with those stready Tmmd frora the I’Iulnaorhiunl Trapsactions. "I'lta canieo of the unnatural darkness prevailing ou three roveral daya vas probably the extensive burning of Weatorn prairios and woodlande, THE LARGE BEETLE, Trof. F. H. 8now bas contributed somo inter- esling observationa on tho large baetle, known an Iolyphylla variolosa, to tho ** Transactiona of tho Ranazs Academy of Science.” This Inscet occura abnndantly in tho month of July ot Mar- tha's Vineyerd, and somo other places slung the cosat, TItis of alight brown color, with irregu- lar whitish Dlotches, saud measures nearly an inch in length, The knob of its antonnw cous aists of navou narrow, strap-shaped leaves, which intho mnle aro excosvively long. Prof. Snow oncountered in the twilizht of a Inly ovoning about fifty of theso beetles in o aingle spol, on the Island of Denekozo. flia aitention waant- tracted by the singular sclions of a nxle that was vigorously scratching the ground with its feot, whils tho teaf-liko Ianm)n’;va of its ou- tonnm were widoly separated, *“His progrese. nays Prof. Soow, “beng too slow to ouit my purpose, I sewirted im in his oz cavetion, snd, sl a dooth of bhalf-an- ineh, diwcorered a fomale, who, witis Liead up- ward, wan atruggling to reach the surfaco, hav- ing evidently but just emoryed from the pupa, Alittlo furtbor on, anothor ioale was Lusily acralching the soil; and another fomals was unearthed dirsctly underneath ; whilo a momont later two rival males woro discovered digging for & third fomale, who was buricd ncar]y un jnen below the surface.” 1y what fiuo sense did tlhiego heotles discover the exact locality of (Lheir males undor the gronnd ? Prof, Snow believea thut the anteue nie of the malo are oxtremely sonsitive to avnod- vibrations, and thne that tho insoct Lioars tha ef- forts mado by tho fomalo to dig hor may out of the carth, and so is directod to tho procisa apot whoro she is entembed. A DIRD OF PREY. ‘Tho Southern California siatcs that the bine heron (Ardea Ilerodias) merves & most useful purpose in California in diotivg upon gophory. Thess lzat little pouts 'are tho worst onemy that the farnier on the Pacitlo glops has to cou- tend with, It throws up myriads of monuda in avery flold, thoraby uiterly detanging the plans of tho agriculturist. Dut whors these monnds aro thickest thoro the bluo Loron statlony itaelf with its long meck on ths streteh, and all its scnscs alert, watching for the appearancs of tho mound-buildor, No doner doea tho tatter thrust its noee out of tlhe ground than the horon with n lightning etrokn sonds his bill through it like n ditk, and lita [t out a3 ou n slower, The bird ueldorn mismes it mark, but when it does, an whough ovorcomo with disgust, it apreads ite wingh, and, with its long legs streaming out be- Nindg, takes its fligiht ~ to suother tiuld, 1 s alao sald that when tho blnok- Dbirda swoop down in flocks upon tho newly-sown prain, tha herou oftcn stalks in amoog thent, and. etending motionless, waits until tho nuwary birds como within reach, thon with a sndden dive troneiixos no on its besk, and makes & Toant of the daintly monsol. The Southern California urges the expedioncy of protecting the horon from anarzs and bullets, as 1t is tua natural slly of the fermer 1 his con- test with blackbirds and gophers, SNAKES, ETC. Dr. 0. Beccart, an Itallan explorer, s pub- lished » list of the roptiles nod batrachiana col- lectod by il in Amboyna, tho Avu Iulande, and the Ko Islands, in 1872 and 1873, The list con- taiun 670 axamplos referablo to 53 apocies. In Amboyna, mnot. muck {hat s new Jas heon dizcovered, es this island wis prelly thoroughly exploded by Dutch naturalists years ugo. Tho two olhor groups of T'apuan islands were, howaver, almost un- Lnown, a8 3Ir. Wallace, thoir previous explorer, devalod hunsolf mainly to insects and birds. Ths species actually now to science in Dr. Tieceant's colloction are fow, but they avnoutce thiat tho genoral churacter of the roplilisn fauua of the Aru and Ko Islands js esacutially Pupu- ap. In the latler group thero ia rather n tirongor infuelon of Indo-Msluyau forma, iu tho Ko Islands the Australiau Death-Adder, Acauthophis anfarcticus is very sbnndaut, In Atu the Bunriane are wmoru numorous ju spocics than the Opbidians, whita the Ke Islauds tho contrary istho oase. Dr. Beecart did notsind a siogle batrachian in tha Ko lsiauds, whorous he procurcd threo in Wokan, the noriharniuosi of tho Aru group. - One of thesa wex {lio Wwidelye wproad Lvlodryascaeridews of Mustralia, IIAPROVED CLASS. Improvemeuta in the manulnzture of gisw baverccontly been invonted by different artiticera ia Fuorope. M. do la Bastle’Lus auccecded in produciug glasa that seaists blows ang she action ot tive, aud at Yourg, in Iranco o company having a eapitat of 1,400,000 fraucs, was estab- lieliod last sutumu for its juauufacturo, 14 has transpirod that the peculiar olastivity of this glars is gocured by divpiag it whito heated ton Lbaif-llquid state, into a hermetically-closed bath of oil or fat. In Bilesis, another impreved quals ity of glass was lately luventod by Herren % o i Coun&rl;bolny:'n Lubisch and Riedore. works, Audreashutte, lan, This glass, called ' motal glas in Iasa- | that a pann of it Iving on the ground rocsives no yinprearion from s leaden ball of 40 prammes weiput dropped 1pon it from A hisight of 12 fens, Nor (3§t anected by being dipped whilat rad-lint into cold water. Window panes, 1atop exliudern, and ather dnmestie articlen made of it, mey bs pronouncad impertabalite, : SILK-CULTURE, The Internatlontl Congress on Hilk-Culture will lold its fifth meeking at Milan in 1876, A programmn of experiments to ba made during 1875 han boon sent to all milk-calturias of Bu- tops, 'The programma indicatss the quastions concarning the ralsing of #ilk-worios aud the nravention of diseases that tequirs the most nerlana attention. Tho disnanenf *inestivity," thnt hias lately done great damage to tao ailk- cron, fa to he particnlarly observed. All means toremedy it liave Ditherio proved fuefeciual, hut it is Baped that. xith jnvestigatora like Cor- uelia, Duclaux, Bolle, and othera cupaged In stirdying the diseasen raging umong silk-taims and thetr ava, ths conditiuns for secaring health emong them may Lo uscertained, THE DCEPEST WELL. In the village of Sporonbery. about 20 miles distant from Berliv, ia situsted (o deepest well in tle world. It 48 for somo distanco 16 fost in dismeter, aud is 4,104 feet (0 deptl, It was bo- gun about five yeara ago by ths Government sulboritics withi a view to ancertziniog tha ox- intence of rock-nalt Lenoatl the airats of pypsum occurring in the Jocality. At a dopth of 230 fect the malt wny reached. hut tho baring wam cone tuned to u depth of 930 feet, the diameler of the bare heing reduced to about 13 iuches, ‘I'ha boring was subsequontly prosezuted by stesm until the final depti of 4,191 feet wis attajned. AL the jovent point, the ealt de; ta rill con- tinne, exbibity snOrmoYs thicknoss of 2,007 ARTIFICIALLY-COLORED PLANTS. A rare colloction of artificially-colored plants from Ching 6 on ethibition 1 the groat glass houso of tho Acclimatization Gardena in tho Eofs de Boulognes, Paris. One ol the most cu- rious things in the collection is a dwarl vak that {3 nearly 100 verrs old. Tt is about 20 fnchea in heighs, ita trunk Is o3 thick as n finger, an inch in diameter, tud its 100ts will hardl the hollow of m rusn's hend. Itisin dwa plants that tho art of thoe Chinece agricy ia tost inikingly manifentod. COFFLZ-PLANT DISEASE. The Gozernment of Ceylan hag taken moane ures for a thorough investigation of the now dis- easo sffecting the coffoc-plant. It is calied “lesf-disessc.” as it attacka nnd destroys tho foliage. It isbslioved by competent observera to be tie reault of ¢xhaustion, and in this re- eeect sunilar fo tho dizeaso siong the Jemen plantaviony, of which wo snicke s werel or twvo azo. The damand is increasiug foc land in Ces- lun for {he cultiration of toa, cinuamou, cin- chova, vanills, coffee, aud otber uuefcl planta, A BOILING LAKE, A boiling Iake hiny letely Leen discovered in tho Ialand of Domintea, or Dominique, une of thn lenser Antilles, Tlio lake is situated in the for- eetcovorod wmouniun back of {lko towu of Rosean, Itis 2,560 feet abeve tho rea, and s sad to bo 2 miles in _circumference, The mar- gin of the Iako consists of bods of sulphur, and its overflow finds exitin c watorrall of grest height, ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCICTY. The Jurgeat Agricultural Soziety in the worll in the Roral Agriculinral Bociety of Lngland, which bas 5,846 wmombers cn fia roll. It was founded thirty yeara ago, and has ever siuco published & half-yearly volame of Transections, in which many valuablo papers heva been givoa ta the pablie, HACMATITE IROMN, A large deposit of hacmatito iron has been dis- covored in the dintrict of Nordland, Norway, about 15 miles frow Bodo, aud 10 or 12 miles from-o port that s eolirely free from ice, The ore contaius bet ween L1 and 67 per cont of jron, and only » vory emall percentage of phosphates. REXSER'S DIREBAM, flow Mr, Keyser Ansicrpated Death. Hes Adeler, Lazt Decembrr sy Iriend Yoyeer dreamed one night that 2 would die on o 13th of January. So strongly wna lis nesured of the fact that tho vision would prove true that he began at onco to make praparations for his departure. Mo gol wensured for a burixl kait, he draw up hia will, o pickod out » nira lot in tho cemetery nuuhicd it fenced in ; he Joined the eburch, and relected 8ix of the Denconnan bis patl-bearers; hie also requested tho choir fo slugat the funcral, and ho got thom Lo run over b favorite hvmn of his to veo how it would mound. Then he got 'Toombs, tho undiriuker, to koock logether a burial casket, wni silver-pletod lLandles, aad cusbionn ineide, al e fvetructed theundertater to runsh out hiis beet Learso, nud to buy sty pai of bluck gloyes ta he distribuled “among the mourners. lie hod anime trouble deciding upon » tombatone, Tho man at the marhlo-yard wanted to shovo off ou um a_second-hana ‘one, with nn augel weepiuz over s kind of » tlower-pio but Keyser tinaliy ordered & new one, with o de- sign rapresenting a rosebud with a broken rtems, and tho legend, ** Not lost, but gono hefore.” T'hien Jo got tho village newopuper ta pat n guod obitnary notice of him in type, and he told liis wile thatho wonld ba gratified if she wonld cema on! in the spring and plant violets npon his grave. 1o said it was hard to loave Lier and the children, but abo must try to bear up under it. There shiictions are for onr pood. and when lie was ap supel ho would come ntid wateh over hor, and koop his eye on her, o eaid sho might marry agaln it sho wauted to. for, althongh tho mere thought of it noarly broke his hoart, s wished hor above ali (o bo happy, and to Lave some oné to love ier and psotoct hor from tho atorms of the rude world. ~ Then ho, and Mrs. Kuyner, and the children cricil, and lieyser, as a closing word of counsel, advised hornot to plow for vorn eatlier than the widdin vt diarch. On tho uight of tho 12th of Jauuary there wan atlood 1 the creck. and Keyser got up at 4 o'clock in tho morning of tho §Sih, and workoed until night, trying to sa7o his bnildings and his wooapile. 1o was ko busy that he forgot all about its boing the day of his death, and, aslio wa very tived, s went to bed early and slapt soundly all night, Abont 6 o'clock ou the mornivg of the 14th there waa a ring at the door-boll. Kuyeer Jumped out of bed, throw up tho front window nod exelaimed. +\Who'e thers 2" +]¢'w mo—"Loombe," said the undertaker. +\What do you want at this time of the morn- fog 2" dennnded Koyrer, * Want," ssld Toombs, not recognizing Keyror. Wiy, I’ bronght aroun the ico to pack Key- ser in, so's he'll keep uatil the funersl. The corpuo’d apoil thia kinder veathor if wo didu't.” ‘'lien Jlioyser rentetnberod, and it mado bim feel mad when he thought Low the dsy had pansod and loft bim still alive, and how ho had made a fool ot lmself. Bo the corpwo Well. you cnn jnst sheot sround home zzain witle that ico 3 the vorpuo iy not yot dentd, Yon'rs n Jeetls tooanxious, it slrkes me. You'ro not goin’ to chuck mio jnto n wepulelirs yet. ir you liave got everything ready. o yon cun hawl oft and unload,” About half-past 10 that inorning the Deaconn cama aronnd, with erapo on their katu and igloons in their facos, to carry the body to the prave, and while they wore on the front stopa tho nar- Lle-yard man drove up with the romebnd tomb- stono and s shave), nod etepped in to malc tho widow how deep sho wauted the mave dug. Just then tho choir arrived iwith ths miulnter, aud the company wan axsambled in the parlor, when Iieyser came in fiom iho stablo, where 1o had beon dosing a_horse with patont medi- cina and warm mash for tho glanders, 1lo was surprined; but ho procceded to oxplaiu that thero hind boon w little mietake somehow, Ile was.also palned to tind thut evorybody scomod to Do a good doal disappointed. particutary {he tombstuno man, who went away inad, declariug thint such an old fraud ought to be rammed into the ground anyhow, doad or alive, Just as tho Doacons 1813 fu a hufl, the faitor's boy arrived with the burial suit, and bofore Keyrer could Lick him off tho eteps tho paper carrier fang nta tho duor the Morning Arquain which that obituary ncoupled & promivons place, Auybody who wanty a goud reliable tombstone that han s broken rosebud on it and tab hus naver beep usod, can bity one of that kinl at a ssentice for crult, from Neyser, He thinks thet bad direawn must huve bacn cansed by osting too wmuch saungo at auppor Neven Nlda by Troy (N, 3 Frese. We haye herelotore montionad the wonderful end sadaening mortality in ths family of Mr. HMinckler, at Sandicke.,” Soven of his ehildren have now died within ‘ona moutt, all of diph- thoria. ‘Fhoir romaina bave Leen deposited in n vault as they hsvediod, aud to-day thelr funcr- al lnllésld ot Bandlako, and all will b buricd side Y sido, FAMILIAR TALK. LONQZVITY OF JEV/S. According to ntatistics gathered in France, Algeria. and Prusafa, tis Jowish race i ramark- able for lungevity and immuaity from dincsse, Jtn mean averaie duration of Jifa axccoda thint of Chrintisn races by alout five yenrs. Thin tenaci- ty of life s due to the inhoritanca of & mound phyricai conntituticy and to tha watchful care of the mother over her oficpriug, 'Thens two causon Insure the Jews comparalive socnrity from 1aladies that decimato ollicr racos. Techueli stolos that the plagno of 1346 did not affect the Jowa of any country. Frascati essortn that they completely enesped from the apidamic of typhua in 1505, Rau mentions that the name Innunutty from typhun was ebsorved at Langoous in 1324, Accordug tn Ramazzi, they wero froa from tho intecmitient fevers prevaile ingg a4 Nome In 1691, And. according to Legner, thoy suffered nothing froin tho drzontery that razed at Nimenguon in 1736, It is said by other authoritien that tho croup is oxtromely rare among Jowinh childres, snd that they have very littla rerofuln, On the uther hixod, M, Ribaut asgs in his work on * Heredity " that intermarriage has ezorted & baleful inllucnce on tho Jowinh raco by sowing the sceds of montal disorders. Ilo declares that the number of Juwinh deaf-mutes I8 encrmous, and that ldiocy and lueanity arn very fraquenc. Acsording to . tablo of German ststistics quated thero fo ous fdiot tn Hilealn i Protostants, o 4,113 by this outhor, to G0 Cathol to G4 Jews; Catholies, & aud ona luns Protesiants, to 641 Protestzats 5 C o 4 in nricwberg, N 10 044 , 102,004 helics, e, riatizticn (bt Jows euflar froquonily from non-indemmatory nkin Giseznes, inierns} stowach aifectiony, zod ** rupturen.” statisticn in Prumsia pave awong sty 1 desth for 2105 iubabitanta; 1 deat} 50.18 ichiabitanty 5 Jows, 1 death for 40,69 inhabitats. ‘rom 1559 to 1661 tiera wore in Prossis, for 100 birthe, a raln of mortality rmong tho rote (ot of ChaT3 CGerman Gadinfies, *5i77; i 5 Mennain, boiti; Plnliipo, It 13 attested by all dena, 45,11, mortshty smong dewish childran in Fion- don frem 1 10 & yearsof ago is rated by Dr. Btailard 22 10 per cont, whils zmoug Ci 30 children it 18 12 per esut, Tho Averais duration of life of tue Cbrivtian in London is 37 vears, and that of tha Jow, 40.60 It is an interesting fact thal thers is o larger rroportion of hoys boru to ths Jesa than to the Christisos. Trol. Waitz gives 100 Tewmals to 203 uale Lirths smom: ilo Jews i Berliu: 160 to 120 in Livorno; amd 300 to 111 thtonhout tho Prussiin dominions, Yet, uotmithetanding this large exvess of ala L antounting altwort 1o 13 per cent. thy n of males of Ml ageo awong the Jems than awon; Coristiane, Tha Jews huro fever msles nnd the Christizus ewer males than females. This differcnco is Lo Lo accounted for ither by n groater proportionato mortziity among Jewidh chi:drnn or of a greator luugevity among fo- maloe. MIXED CCLLECES, In 1667 thero wero in tia United Statenoniy twenty-two colleges open tomen aud wowmen aliko. In 1875 the ** Report of the Upited $tatos Commiteicner of Edurticn " shnouncwd thet tho number hed increased to nintts-reven. The rams roport rhoned that only 17 per ceut of the academies and normaland igh echools of tho country are for boys alune, while €3 per cent aro for boys and girls togethor. Alao. of 1he 120 commercial coileges reporting to tho Jiuvesu. at least 70 per cent are conducted npon the cooducative plan, In Switzerlard, since 1861, women have beon aduwittod to all departments of the University. During the laet summer twanty-eight young wouen wire matriculated at the Univarsity of Zavich. Thero are uow at tho University of Derno thirty-fiva lady pupily, who enjoy ail the privileges for study accorded to the other sex. In August last, Sophia Von Kewslewsky gradusted as Doctor of Philosophy and Magis- ter of Liboral Arts, at Gottingen, and sbout the tamae lime Bcrnoconferred itn first medical de- sreo upon & woman, bestowing with 1t marka of ths highest distinction, At Vienon aad ot Parie women are welcomed {0 university inatruction, wiilo thev are seported in atendancs st Rome, Vadua, Milaw, Lieipuic, Bieslat, Gottingen, Bt Pelersburg, and Upnata, Inone ur two of thewre inutitutiwoy the admit- teoee of womon into all departoienis in ot yet formelly #anctionud, Lut it may be anticipatod fran) & growing liberelity of wiminiatration that tho tin:e iy not far distent when every barto their 1rve ontrance will bo removed. ‘Tt convocation of the University of London has within the yoar volod, eighty-three to sixty- ono, to admit women to all degrves on precisaly the bamo terms oa men, Tho IVErsIty ex- aminations for womeu " have led to the entab- lichment of coeducative claseos and schools in woys of tho large vities in Engiznd. The Uni- vorults of Camibildgo alone superiutends such iustitations in sistoun different tonoe, In Lon- dou, during the pas: vear, a colleprs has adoptod asils corporcto namo, **College for Men and Womou,™ and it already hus nesrly 500 studonts inattendance, In Cambridge, Newnbam Halland Gerton Cuiloge have beon extablished in order to give women facilitles for a bighereducation, and more than twe-thirds of &l tha profersjonal lectures of the University have been thrown open to then, ‘I'he Edinburg University still clovcs its doors agminet women, but thore is significauco 1u ths facts that the Dritish Uaclinment law eater- tainod a Lall for brealing dowt tiicic bare, avd tbat fa the momorialy in favor of the Wit thes was a potition signed by bwenty-six Profussors of Scolel umversition, and by 16,000 women, Tho groviug agitation throughout Groat Driiefn of the subject of o ligher educztion for women indicates that it will not cearo unzil the came opportunities for Icaraing aro accorded to girls thatars enjoyed by thoir rothern, It slso indicates that the idea of ccoducation is_continually gaining favor swong all clasees of peuple. TRUFFLE-HUNTING, Intho south of Praucs, where the moch. prized mushroonm called the trafile grows, hunting the favgus fs made & special trade, nod the men who follow it pirsue no other calling, 'The har- vent begins at tho closo of tho year, and estonda overa brlef rcason of thirly or forly days. The (rufMo begiza to form in July, and at tho end of a mouth hes reached tho iize of o dlbert, If tho vicather bo dry the trufilo 13 now apb to crnek tho ground, thus adwitting tho air, which is prejudicial to its quality. Thoroforo a duo supply of ram iy necded to £3+ cure 2 good crop. By November tho traillo has ettainod tho wizo of a hen'a egg, and is ready to ripen, In this month it chauges from a dull whita {08 1sarble giny, deopening to durkior huoa in Decembor, and becoming black as ohony in January. An traflea mover appear above tho sur- face of the ground, but grow at & depth of from G to 10 inchios helow, it wonld bo dif- fealt to gather them without the aselstanco of ® trajned onimal of keen scent, Lointer dogs would £oom to bo tho creatuics bast adapted 1o tho work, but sows bavae proved to bs very ufil- clent in tho hunt, 2nd «ro theretfors extanslvely wsed fpr tho putpose, Thuy aro fod exclusiyely upon kcarns, and duricg the season only after tho day's work 1» over, To secura a daily supply af neorns for hus faithful aesistunt, gives tle bunter full omployment during tha menths not dircetly davoted 10 bis culling, ) ‘'l outtit of a Lunter conaists of his sow tied by tho lud leg, a bag contamnivg broud and elioese for hibmsolt and seorns for bis beast, s bayg for hia trufdus, eud a blanket and cane. 1o penorally begins the season the day arter Chriut- way. s wode of operation i pa follows : Ar- rivad fu tho wood of flbert, whito or red oak treas, —under which only the traflls i found,— the cow fs pet 1o0sc and suunediately puoceuds to s tho ground, whilo ita owner closely watches ity Dhehavior, ‘'Ile eow naver roots until it hae detected thu presence of the trale, thea tle taoment it hus pouv tratad to tho vepstably the luutor strikca it on tho enaut, zud 1t retires with a err, leaving the gamn t0 be nafely bagiod, attor whicl the bruta is rewarded with'an acorn or two. The hunter zudl bis sow reain fn the wooda until the crop 14 entiraly harveated, unless driven to sheiter by the stress of woather, ‘'o preparo tho trufiles for market, they ore earefully washod &nd cruvhed, A portion ore peeled and tuo roct are foft fua ontural stste. Thoy are post scalded snd putinto tin caus, with & wino-glaas of white wiue, After thocans s hermatically esaled, the trufties mre sub. Jected to & rocond bolling to insare preservation, ;‘;‘.“,’,‘;‘,’,,,{"“ ready to ba shipped to any part of PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT. According lo M, Dafon, s Fronch savand whs h.u vablished & monograph on the Psramids of Lzynt. containing tha results of his inganions inveatigatious Inlo a very nbatroso snhjieat, the huilder of tho largest of the four grost Pyremidy, called tho Graat Pyramid, or ths Pyrarald of Clicopa, wen Souphin tho First. iis Toyal predocessor, Ceepliorss, or Snefa. laid the faundation of the nndorground part of the monutaont tventy-nino yeara hofora his acaes- sion Lo power, but Souphls continued aod com- ploted the glzentie structuro, In eroating thin work it was the oblect of ita author to make It **= monumenta! book, a gort of national library, in which were deposited the ldoan of tho chist rcionces which the priests’ colleges had acquired and on which the safety of tho whole couatey (leenmlm]." M, Dataen rofors the namo Pyramid to the Cor- tie words I'f-re-met, signifsing tho tenth part, ang Lelieven that tho bulldiug fisell was intended to be forall tims a natioual standard of moase utenient, o alno concludos that this standard A an‘a rcals for denoting a dogreo of tha ircle: of thodiametor of the equiytors of thy of arth's axin, apdof the fattening of = allofwhich facts afaclence wero known 1li0 pol to the Ligyptians in the thno of Souphis, Tha so-called ¥arcophagus found in tho King's cham. ber in the tutsrior of the Pyramid, {a cousidor ed by M. Dufen 1o liavo been it ont In auch ozact dimennions that it ** garvad an the precions stand- ard of units of national masnuro, the Nilometric or Prlmhnh enpit.” and also aa n tecond stahdard of the chiof geodotlo measures. Tis the pame prozees of computation through which M. Dufen reeches thean conclusfone, ha lizo1 tho epach of the reixn of Honphis tha, Yiret,—ealle:d Cheopn by Herodotus, Accordiog to his date, Moues. the firat sovercign of g5ptian mioharchy, csmo to tha throta eara linfora Chriot, or 7.610 yenrs beforn nu, ‘Tho sccoralon of Ronplis the First rrod 804 yeura latzr,—that ‘s, In Uio yonr 4500 Latore Clriet, or 6,7 vrars bofora thn tummanr aolstico of the year 1572 of pur cra. A4 thas remcte period, therefore, M, Dufeu dsioa the conatruction of the Pyramid of Choopa, that i to nay, RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN SPAIN. Duning tho three eontitcies elapsing Letwosn 1431 and 1731, Spmn annually ezecuted of fn- pritoned 1.0 of her inbabitanta on aceount of their religlous opinions. On an aversgo, 100 rersons endured mazzirrdom and 900 peraona sufiered inpriscument oach yoar of il this long period. Aveording to fruatworthy statistics iu thees 300 yeare. 201,000 pereons wero cope demuad to various terms of imprisooment and to ether puuaiticr. 52,600 porsons dicd at tho stage, und 17,600 perayna were burns in ef- fley. Of thesa last the moet port, probekly, died in priron or fed to other Iande. A policy likn tlus 1uet eod in the deterioration of & pec- ple. By persistently destroying sud banisting its boldest atd moit vigorotis thinkars, its mon: resolute aud conrageaus mey, Spoin wan drained of its hest znd purast blood, and the resule ia Kocn to the present day io the dwarfed physieal and montal ctature of tho Spanish raze. WASIHING FEET. Holigions Ceremony in Madrid, The Madrid correspondent of ths Loudon Timex gives the following sccount of tho cm- Llematic coromony of wasbing tha Apoatles’ feot, as recently performed by King Alfonso: *Tho service attended by tho King, performed in tho chapel. and freely admittod. at noon, and weut up ' SLairease ' on my way to tho ¢ Mall whers the cercmony of tho dav Wt to como off rything about the Madrid Aleszaris grond, if not strictly beautiful ; tha commandiag mite, with o view of tho droary, yet ¥ast opud country, and of the bloak Guadar. ramn ridge, the eourl-yard. with ity maesive but ctumsay colobuade, tio chapel with its wealth of marhles sud frescoed vault: finally the Saton de las Columnag, a epscious vestibulo of magnifi- cent loftinote, o alatcly enlrenco to the some- what too gorgooun snile of miuto apartmonti— overvthing in on g large ecsle and admirably hefitting o great imperial home. It was not without o torriblo stiugple that the persvon lavored with & para and clad, tho inea in_ vuiferms or in sober eveniug black the Indies in tho brilliant colora of their Lrand-now shnery,—tbe black muntify alona beingde tigour, Zconld forco their way along tha eorridors and up to the partals, Lesst with an yuwashodthrong, ewong whom 1 dotected # sprinkling of undenia. ble pickpockets. With a good deal of wear 2nd tear, howevor, brave men aud pushing women maznrged to get through, and by the time T en- tered u compze! maun of will: and velyet, Lroad- cloth and gold luce, erowded tho saloon,the spee- tators, mors then S(M of whow wers ladies, standiog all vouud jamimed uo ou benches, row npon row, leivivg barely the most limited space upen for the performora, Withm this epaco the twelve paupers, or apostles, sl on a peiteo, Qe of them with their best font uud leg bsro (o the knee, and as well vprepared ' for tho occaslon 8 by dint of much roan and nater conld bo eoatrivod; the Jang fu his grand uniform, witha towel tied around him, apren-vise followed by Catdinal 3oreno, Archbiehop of Valiadolid, lu his scarles robes and zkull-cap, ptid behind and all around them a greas eta of grandees snd Marshals, an array of gulden unifornis only distinguisbabla from tho no leay aumptuous liveries of tha court mentats by the ulars, crosses, eardoan, and scarfa of thelr chivalrons orders, The Cardina] wont first, and eprickled a few drope of perfumed weter over eachof the hare feet in sacceszion, the Kiug came after, knaeling bofors each foot, rub- bing it slightly with lis “towel, then ntooping upun 1t as if bo meant to kisa it. Tho ccremony did not take many minutes. Tho twelve mon tuen gol up; they were tnarshaled fn groal pomp round tho hall, and seated in a row on ono wids of tho tabie, with their faces {o the npectators, in the ordor obsorved in Leonardo's grand pictnro of tho Last Bup. or, In tho reer nf Lhe table, on a high and ofly platforp, stood the court. la thy middla the Infanta isabells, Conntess of Girgentd, helress presumptive to the throne, upon whom, aftor louz dlicuselon, the litls of Prigcess ol Asturinn has been lately conforred, looking fall and majostie, end oven somowhat stera and haughty from her elvevated station, wnd arith the ouly grave counionancs in that vast aescmbluru; she was slmplr uttived in pray eilk and wore an em- plo whife mantilla, By ber side, right and left, sud behind her, wero hor” Iadlos of honor, the Cabinet Jinistare, and o multitude of Btate acd ataco dignitaries, On the extrome rignt atood Fw diptomatic body, the heads and subaltern wmetnbers of - all tareipn legations,—~the Enpliab and, I ueliove, tha Dutch alone oxcopted; tha Lutopean reprusontatives in their uniferms, tho Apmlcm ropublicans in plain svenivg cos tuise.” whiclh to which tho public are is viny e THE TABLEAU VIVANT, filin camue i the diademed guiso Of Taypt's Lewiidering Qieen s &ilb e Liocen of anrcate dyey Yent Orieat pomp 0 Ler mef The Meulau stera b ber eres Flashed fate troni thelt Liesvens aersno, This startied smils gracionsly tolil 1o w ylainty our hnimzge wes shown 3 Tho Phrdian face glwmerad culd, (e face of & gaddess i £to Mara Tegal with beauty than g0 Bhe needod no scepire uor 1brune, A monsent T lived in the past, Thextdo hur geramed litter T bowad, Or pan ta (b tetupled Nila faat Tosheer whers DuF £alley plowsd, Auit Iongged for 1o EExalgons to lad, On 1y kueos In 4 kuceliog erowil, And, dazaled, T abouted that well Mgt Eowan with Africau eivive, And, atriving, vhiuge blindly o bell, Atid still grapple Gercoly aud rive, For 4 Quesn wiioce face was For the faireat woman alive, V. T, e Foreat, in the Galaxy, (bt 0 sl A Why Sho ¥oadn't Written, Toledo Blade, Within the last fow days un old beggar woma: baring bosu sdwitted info tuo kitchen of oo of our moat prowinout citizons, was mournfully yo- Iatiug t0 the Indy of tho houss tho imisfortunon of ber lite, Suo said her busbaud went to Cali- foruia to dig gold » groat many )ears ago, but hiad uover boen abls to Nod mors than enough to keop lius-eil alive, k0, of course, ho liad nevor went her auy; thnt, until within a few years, thoy had contloual wiltten each other lcttera full of loye and symapathy. AS this poiut tho tlood-gutes of Ler griel biurst open ; sl spuitered and sighed ot & terriblo rate, und, finally, after saveral jnefoctual efforts, ojecu~ lated that sho had ot Leard frog, or evan writ- ton to, her darling v & loug iiwa. Tho old woman drow a long breath, and was about! to coutinue, whot the lady of tho bouso ssked Loy why slis bad ot written to her husband, *Ab, muw ! " sighed ehe, *'aftes 1 lost my front teeth, 1 couldu't pronounce very good, 60 I ad tg give up weitine." all—