Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 6, 1875, Page 3

Hoacu. LSRRl G ino ES¢SEEatang s w- i i i i i i 1 H i i i : : i b i AL A N S e i { THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY JUNE 6, 1875.—SIXTEE PAGES THE HARBOR. A Trip to the End of the North Pier. The Favorite Ground for Chi- cago Fishermen. How the Shore Line Has Been Ex- tended Since 1521 Gradual Prolongations of the Pier. Manner of Sinking Cribs for the Breakwater, The Proposed Basim, Loiterers about the north side of the river, slang Michigan or Lilivos sireer, may have Doticed men and boys coming along at tumes with fine strings ‘of fish, J.ese fish are no emall pickerel or caifieh, bui fine large whito perch, and there seems to be 2 ploity of them. A TRBCYE Teporter, who happened to saunter Town in that locality ope day last week, be- thonght bim of those fieh. and decided to ex- plore the lake shore at that poiot to find the place whero fishermen met with such good lnck. Going along Kinzie atreet, the reportercametosa stretch of territory opposite the elevators on the north side of the river mouth, where tha street ended, aitbongh & raway-track ran slong parallel to and abost 50 yards from the ehore. Piles of Jumber, surrounding saw and planing- ‘milis, obstracted the view to the north, bat to tbe east was the river, and the reporter nothing doubted but that he was on the North Pier. Along the Tiver's edgo was a pier, sud the Iand inside s evidoutly made ground. Fanog on- ¥ard, the reporter came to the light-house, and bere the oid pier which formed tho shore- line took » nortberly slant. Stading at tbis point, tho reporter could eeo s pier some dis- tance zhead, zlovg which & large number of fishermen were busily at work. Notbing doubting that it was a contmuation of the pier on which he thea was, the reparter par- severed to tha end only to find AN INTEBVAL OF WATER seversl burdred feet in extent separating bim from'the other pier. Being odligad to ga’ bsck ebout balf a mile to get acr: i th Pier, the topogTaphy of tho localits ividly im- pressed on Lis memory. One secking the North ier sbogld Leware of the right-hand rallway tracka. Turniog to the left suficiently to get past the bead of the Ogdeu Slip, we can pick ane’s way among lumber piles o the lake beach, which here raus out along the wier, so that the shore live makcs a0 obiuse angle with iz Gerting on the pier, wo sco taatit s at onco the morth mide” of = Ogden lipe and = bulwark to fend off the incursions of gea and dntt from the dock of the Chicago Dock and Carsl Company. 1is lengsh issomeshing fright- fol Trom the head of tho slip it runs esst sbout balf & mile. Over this distance the ro- porter's interest in the fisberies and zeal for knowledge carned Lim, although it was & hard toad o wravel TIE PrER 18 of rough, sltbough strong and durable con- struction. For a grest pary of the dietance it copsuis of two parallel rows of piling from 15 20 18 feat apart, and filled in between with 1oose one, making & rather rozgh footway. The favonite style of fooi-gesr ia use amovg the fishermen 16 the natural hide, and this siyle is For clambering on the slppery topa of pil whers & mis-610p EOuces one inta the elip, itis far euperior to shoe-leather. When ons has otten about as_far out ss oprosite the light- ouse om the porth side of the river, the crib-work is reached, sud hera thare s sgood floomng to walk on. At a distance of 270 foet from the head of the alip the pier turns south at a right sagle, extending i that diroction at » distAnce of Grer 800 fect from the esst bulkliead of the Chicago Dock and Caval Company's land, thus meking s basin, forming with Ogden §lip &a L, of which the slp is the upright, and the basin the base. The North Pier, which is_hete 30 foet wide, ex- tends soutiward about 450 feet, Which brings it Deasiy apposite the ead of the piar formig the rorthern shore Lne of the river. At this joint the pier turns eastagain ats rigbtanglo, extend- ing & dustance of over 400 fect. a beacon light ‘bewng placed at the end. An elevated way, built an trestie-work, extends along thie section of the XNosth Pier from the angle to the beacon. All along that portion of the pier forming two #ides of the basiw aud the last soction, et whose farthest eud the bescon 15 placed, ate GOOD FISHING GROTNDS. The water is 25 foet deep at the end of the ier, a0d is about 18 where the crib work begins. n the day when the reporier was there, there were over 100 persons nshing. Some fellows were fiehmg with rod sad line, and were huting fair Jack, bur the most succersful used a drop-line wilh's heavy sinker. The sinker is placed at the end of tho iine, and boois are sttached to the Line &: intervais above. In fi-hing, tho lesdresia oa the bottom, snd the movemcuts of the fith 2t the hooks are noted by the vibrations of the lLive. Onenot upin the sporc would bo eur- prised 10 find bow sccurately the line registers o0 your fingers the movements of the fish. Ouo foels the tiny vibsatious when the fish 18 just nibLliog s the bait, can feel him cut sod como 2cun st it ubul a eLarp Lug makes known the fact that he has taken the hook, when up comes the line hand over hand, and up cames & bounc- ing g perch, with goggle eves sod gaping moutn, all o & futter at Lis rude introduction ta the uvper warid. A few who fish for market g0 to work on A MORX EXTEXSITR SCALE. They bare large cuvular nexis, doep and ca- Pacious, rauning to & point 1n the middls, 80 that, euspecdod from (he poles to which they o aitached, they assumo the ehspe of spiral cones. The fiskermen 6coop the water with 1hose, lotting them sini s0d Temam for & time, nd then rwiaipg them. catching the fish which 1ay have been above the net. Popular tradition Las it that & fisherman's fortune is to bave tne Tear portion of lus trousers saturated with mojs- tore, and to find that his stomach has acquired & distreasingly keon appetie, but on the day of the reporter's tour there were many notable instances of good luck, some etrings showing meveral dozen as the result of the moming's work. Perching himeelf on tha elevated way ranning slong the last scction of the pier, the reporter made @ suivey of e barbor and the work going o2, which, a4 supplementod by subsequent in- Yeatigation, put lum wn posseasion of some in- formation coucernitg the IISTOEY AXD CRARACTER OF THX HARUOR OF 3 caIcaco. From the seat of the reporter on the North Pier 20 extended view of the city could be obtained. The eye could trace tha straight shore-la of Lake Park on the south. snd the gradual curve eastward beiow, the symmetrical pile of the Ex- ‘pasition Building s1anding conspicaous)y in the foreground, while a widemess of roofe and #tecples occupied the backgronnd, except where the lake filled out the vista, 1ts wrinkled, white- Becked purfaco dsvcing and ghtieriog in the sunlight. Norubward a Live of sund-beach trend- ing Uy into the [and, back of this occa- aional patches of green, masses of houses, and 4n the foreground & clustes of fastories made up the proepect. The survey, although ot particularly sucess- falin discovering scenic besuties, gives one an e of how far the nver ehores Lave been ex- tended into the lske. Since 1821, the north thore bas been extesded into Lake Michigan 4,275 feat, sud when the work now under way is somplesed it will exted 500 feat atil farther. The south shore has been run out over 3,000 deet. Band bas been tilled in about these shore- lines unul a trisngle, baving a base kine 7,500 eet, or neariys mile and & balf long, Smm’ifi“ into the lake half-s-mile and contaming abous 420 screg, has been formed. This land is in- tarsecteq with docks snd piers, and forms_one of the mos: velusble portions of the city. Whera the'early settlers nsed to fith and ewim, large mazufactories and immense elevators now stand, aad laego industries dounsh. ALl this has beon tecquplished by slow accretions of imorovement. 7 X 1821 *he ehore-line oo the North Side extended from 859ve the Water-Works, aloog where St. Clair firpet now is, to the river. On the Soush Bide 3 extended along what e now the Owar p:zma- ‘ol mflafigu Ceutal lng Central Bailrosd depot grounds, an El—nm along whas is mow Laks Pask. improvement of tho harbor was be- gun the niver made & sharp bend soutaward near the preeent depot of the lllinois Ceniral Road, #od had its outlet mear the foot of Madizon street, fall balf a mile from the bend. leaving tetween the nver and the lakea long sand-bar above water, . I~ 1833 the Goverpment began the work of improve- ment. The firat step waw to cut through the bar €0 as to give the rivera stracbt outler. The niver was cut off from the old channel by an em- buokment, and s freebet occurred the syring following ' the beginniog of the work, which washed ont the sand b the month of tho river, doing more work than the dredges. A pier was bmlt ov the porth side of { the yiver, begining nearly 3t the shore-line at tbat time, and runbing out aboat 1,090 feet in a direction a ittle cout of esst. A pier was also constructed on the south wide of the river, tbrough which, at a later date, cuts woro mads & the Hlinois Central Road 1o form docks. In 1836 T . THE PIER WiS EXTEXDED 400 feet, but the direction wes changed to 8 lit- tle porth of east, probably with & vigw of widen- ing the mouth of the river, but the result as unfortunate, a8 & sand-bar 0on formed in the Terr ckannel. 8outh of the eastend of the pier. To remely this, a pier was built betweon 1338 ard 40 cutving eouth unal it reached a point In fins with 140 onginal direction of the pier. In 1559 the LIGET-ROTSE on tbe mnorth shore was built. It is 72 feet bizh, or 83 fest above the lake level. The light is fixed and visible fifteen pautical miles.” From the shoro-line at which tbe work was begun to this point is just sbout 1.950 feet. Notwithsiandivg thesd improve- ments, the strang littoral currents that aet down the lako constantly brougkt sand from the pro- Jections of the shore above, sud rolled up bars in front of the city, This bar gradually ex- tended southward. until in 1854 it resched tho fooy of Van Duren street and vessels of any considerablo draught yere forced to rua down that for, and beat arocud the end in order 1o'gel up tho river. Casgalties were numerous, and the Government nos then being able, owing to thio draio on ita resources by the War, to make appropnaticas for harbor im- provoment, the cily was compellod to taks action for itscelf, aud 1n 1565 extended tbe morth pier 450 feet, and a direct:on norch of east. ignonng ihe fact that the Governmext pier whea built in that direction had conduced Lo the rapid increaso of the bar. The barbor was atill in a very nnsatisfsotory eondition, and VARIOLS SCREMES OF DIFROVEMENT were broached. The Chicago Dock and Cansl Company was formed, and projected & magnifi- cent plan of improvement on the North Side, in- cluding canals and basins. Tae GOvernment did po: Tesums its operations until 1867, when an extecsion of the North Pier was begun, 300 feet from tha old pier, £0 a5 to leave room for & ehip-tosin, which was subsequently inclosed by the Chicago Canal and Dock Company. This Compauy tlled io with land 8 _distance of aboat 450 foet from the Lits of tho old pier. a2d thep, leaving an intorval for 8 wide ship. constmoted & breakswater aud pier to connect with the extension of the North Prer built by the Government. This pier was compised in 1869 to the longth of 400 1eet, ang the improvements on she Dorih ahore of the river mouth had then reached tho conai~ hsn in wluch they are st present. In 1869 and 10, TUE $0UTH PIER was extended s leogth of 1,224 feet. A large area of ground was filled in back of the pier, priceipaliy by the Ilinois Coutral Raad. and forms » valushle riparian frontaga. In 1870 a Board of Engineers was convoned to consider tha subject of the farther improvement of the harnor of Clucsgo, and Col. J. B. Wheeler, of the United States Engineer Corps, submitted plans which were substantially aporoved, and are now being carried out. TEE DEA was to form an onter basin or harbor by the building of s breakwater st right angles t0 the south pier, and_extending south for a considers- ble distance. In Bepiember, 1870, the work of cooatructing the breakwaier was begun, and in 1874 the et of the criba wers sunk to complate it £o the proposed distance. 1n all 80 cribs, 50 feet Jong snd S0 feet wide, were sunk, which wouid make the length 'of the broakwater 4000 fecr, but intorvals betveon the euds of the cribs make the total dutance 4,073 foet, or & Lttle over four-fifths of a miie, In addition 40 this, six criby were sunk at right sugles mth the rest of the breakwater, and in & lina with the Soush Pier, 50 &8 to make & retura. The interval between tbis end of the brosk- water and the end of the South Pier is 800 feat. The work on the breakwater this season consiats in buildiog a enperstructure on eome 1,237 fect of tne crib-work. In sddition o this an exten- &iow of 500 fect is to be made ou the North Puer, If the reader has waded thiough thess statistics. Le will now accompany the reporter down ta the end of the North Pier and observe THE MODUS OPERANDI OF CRIB-FINKING. Prior to0 1873, cribs were sunk directly on the sand botiom aud afterwarda flied with stone, malung » fonndation on which Lne suparstrocture was Jaid. 1t was found, however, thst the ear- renta would erode ihe sand botiom under the cribs, 80 8 to cause them to settls down un- evenly. This waa remedicd by an insention of Cal. D. C. Houston. who was 1n charge of the work here from 1870 to 1$74, and_tbe cribs now being placed at the end of tho North Pier are sunk by this procoss. Take & basket and fill 1t with stones and you have a miniatare of the old stsle of crib. It wes nothing but = equars-built trame of wood, 50 fees loag, and 30 wide. When it was aet in po- sition, stones wera thrown into it until it was sunk, formuwg s foundation. The style of crib ip use now is slmos: equally ‘as simpla, but is secred from _slufting off tha sand LOttom i & vers ingenious mauner. At the end of the North Pier, wa may 800 piers placed in conples, aud st intervals, so that there wil bs thr couples of piers oa each side iu & distance of 30 fect, Heavy cap timbering is laid aiong tho tops of theso picra $0 s to b in Lne with the 6tdes of the pier, forming & sort of berth. The cribs aro built in the augle of tiso breakwater, 2nd are towed into posiuon by the Governmoat tug Gen. Belknsp. At the Lime tne reporter was standing on the end of the pier, one wus be- ing put into place. The huge wooden crate was soch an unwieldy eoncorn, and swaag back so opstwately, that it wis kard to get it ito posi- tion 80_as 10 push 1 straight into the berth placed for it, bt the gallaat Little tug gripped it and shook it into ducifity. Getting & firm bold on it by means of ropes and {astenings, it haaled it about, sheersd it around into position, snd finally BCTTED IT INTO TIE BERTE. shoving it up 10 the end of the pier. Then tne workmen went 10 work to cham it, and bere comes i the peculiaucy of its cobstruction. Chains are fas. teoed about tne cap cimber, one between each pou of piles, the Other ond beiog fsstened to the lowest course of timber in the crib, cnb 18 coustructed with thres longitudioal com- parimenta, the middle one with clored bottom. Now 1t is evident tha: shen ¢tons 18 thrown into this midalo compartment, the end will sink down untii the chups are’ drawn taut, and the cribia thus suspended from the piles. When this 1a completed, stones are piled up in the twa other compartments, and, falling to' the bottom, spread out under the crib. forming & acone foun- datio, relieving the chains from the weight of tbe erib. In tius way the position of the crib ia made independent of the shape of the bottom. 1f the bottom should nhift, the loose stopes in. the two outer compartments will shuft to accom- modata themeelves Lo the new contour of the bottom. but the enb, havmg an independent aup- port, ia not affected. THE FIBST OF THESE GRIZ wsa sunk Tuesday, and nine more are to by sunk during the sesson, miviog the North Pior an ex- tension of 500 feet, and brfnging it #0 8 point 4.175 feet disiant in a straight kne from the sbore tins of 1821, » distauce of almost four- £(ths of & mils. The extension now muking ia Dt t0 connteract the formation of gand-bass tho channel, a3 the chaunel has & depth of not Jess than 13 feet, but to fend off highi soss from the basin inmde the breakwater. A preseat the northesss wind drives & current diresily through the gap batween the end of breakwater and the end of the South Piér. Whon the extension is completed the water behind the breskwater will be emooth io the beaviest weather, and will aé- ford safe anchorage iu storms. < THE 80UTH KND OF THE DREAKWATER i8 now opposite Monroa strect. sud the original lan contempleted the buiding of pier 3,400 teet long at right anglea with the breskwater, connecting it with the alhore 50 a8 to close up £he basio. Thii would make a sort of immense marine bottle 1o which ebips might be bottied up sa Butler was in Dermuda Hundreds, if an enemy shionld seize 0o the month of the’ basin, 678 feot wide between the ends of the bresk water aad present South Pier. Dunng the five years beginmog wich 1570, $533,000 wero appro- pristed 10 tho work by Congress. but is ia oty gueston of time when sdditional extensions of bouh pler aud breakwater il - be needed. It fs thought thal the present works will protecs the harbor for almoss 8 guarter of a century 1o ~ome; bus, scoper or later, sand-bars will work out and around the end of the Notth Pier, and an add.tional exten- sion ba required. As the commerce of the e grows and additional dock Taculition ars req tho breakater will be_axponded furthee pouth, od the projected pisr conassting Wish \he The °| g in the basin will truct- Thore are Bome eand-bars in this basin ed. which can only bs removed by dreaging, but once oot they will not re-form. A dredging-muching in now at work pecking: away at the sand, aad epitting huge mouthfu:s into scoms to be carried away. Col. G. L. Gillospie. who is in charga of the improvements of the harbor, exvects to have the woris now noderway completed during the Present seayon. HUMOR. What is it that a poor man has and a rich man wants? Nothing. It was comforting to an Trish editor to know €hat half the lies told about him wers not trus. Warm weather helps one to be good. That is, you don't eare whether your neighbor bas & big woodyile or & small one. * One thing,* ssid an old toper, *‘never way soen comivg through the ryo, and that's the kind of whisky one gets nowadays.” Half-a-dozen horee-thieves banging in a row formed a pleasing spoctacle that mat the eve of 8 recent Boston visitor in Western Arkansaa. *Siz hemp-er tyrannis,” was hus feeling remark. A littlo girl and bov, § or 4 gears old. were plasing on tbo ice, when sis fel down and com-. menced to cry. ‘Bub ran up and soottungly lisped: “Don't cwy! Thwear! Thwear! Thbay damn I"—Dartmouth. * Cap! said a eon of Erin, as the ship Waa Deariug the cosst in inclement weather, “have yo an almenik om board?* *No, I baven’t.” *Then, be jabers, we shall bave to take the westher aa it com: *“What's your business?" askgd the Judge of prisoner at ke bar. *Well, s-pose yon might call me & locksmith." " “When did you last work at your trade 2" " Last night; whan 1 heard a eall for the police, 1 mada & bolt for tha door. Lady of the bouse to two gentlemen: * Rinc 1y allow mo to plase this macassar ob the sofa.’ “1t is," roplied one gentloman, *quite un- necessary, as I never use pomatum.' **And 1, madam,” added the seco: bave 5o hair.” “ Tnowas Towser, are you guilty or innocent of this chargs,” said the Judgo. * May it please ‘your Honor," rephied Thomas, *'I don't wans to Commit myself. *Ah !" said the Judge, blandly, *then I'll'save you the trouble ana do it myelf. Sixty days." If & man wishes to eruolly lacerato the feel- ings of wn acquaintance, he remarks: A cow would regard your feet with comblacency,” and, upon being questioned why, he answera: cause khe would s2s at 'a glance that her hide would not have to be cut down very much to wake shoes for them.” In an omnibus recently, » protty-looking boy ‘made & sudden grab among the straw, canght someihing, and then inquired, * Who's lokt & nickel " Foar men held out their bands to him, aod four men wanted to, but felt ashamed. Thers was a painful pause, and then the boy un- clazped bis hand and exhibited & button. This story is told of & certain man who had been rendored almost blind by dnuking to ex- cess in the hot summer months. *‘1 tell you,” sud tho physician, “you must either lesve hiquor slone or lose your eves entirely.” * Well,” responded the paticot, sfter a fow moments of reflection, *‘ good-bye, eves!™ A [ady who hed been teaching her little 4-yesr- old the elements of srithmetic was astounded by bis running end propounding the following prob- lem: *-Mamms, if yon had threo butterflis, sud each butterfly bad s bug in bis ear, how many butterflics wonld you bave?” The mother ia still a4 work on the problem. Jonea gave s lawyer a bill 3o be collected to tho smount of $50." Cailing for it aftor awhile, he inguired 1f it Lad been collected. ‘ Ob, yes! said the lawyer, ** I have it all for yo.” ““What charge for collocting?" *“Oh!™ “eaid the law- yer laughing, *I'm not going to charge you; why I have known you ever since you wersa baby, and your fatber belore you; §20 will be abont right,” handing over $10. ' * Well,” said Jones, 28 he meditated upon the transsction, “it'n darned Jucky he didn’t know my grand: father, ar I shouldn't have os anytaing | ™ TIME’S CHANGES. The seasons come snd go 0id Fatber Timo his round unwearying goes, And takes from us the brightest, faireat, best,= Not thoss that weary are, and lcpg for reat,— Not thase whoee every Hope biaa perishied. No Bat tose wosa Joyu ere brightest sa their life doth . "The seasons come 2ud go Thae Spring-tide, willi ita verdure green, and Sowery Of brightest hue, its skics of deopest bius; And +tuil Time gathers up the young aad true To A his fatal sheaven. Alss that this lssa | That e slould pluck the brighiest buds from all life's bowers, The seasons come and go: ‘Midsumner, bringing iis fruits and fioral offertngs rare; Its ahady Lsnes with e-laden Tines ; Its snliry noovs, breathing of Tropic climea ; Its woods with verdare clotbed ; and yet we know Our ireasures with tie Beapel siara We acll Tonst o The seasons eome and go The Autnmn, with its gorgeons coloring ; 1ia wealth Of treasurcs that tse Barth doth give 1nto her care ; sad yet our treures Liva But in our bearte.” Sorrow for ull bedow The aassons in their Journeyings enly hring. Taseumons comesndgo: = e Winer, wearing robes of purest 15 sonehing lescing ua it shshented sk Had pamted pictures held by fairy hand ; And set the water's deadened, dreary fow A secmon yives 1o those whip read aright. Tessontcomesad gz pring, Summer, Auttmn, Winter s baxta, Kok bvocy aeasoh thken Ou (rousuris EAFey e Of il tlo bappy bouseholds, the wont fair § And still starn Winter leaves us in vur wos We ¥ho would fain depart linger the last, CrIRAGO, Muy, 187 AUDREY VEREGR, . = Engilish Children. Mre. Julisn Hawthofne thus describsa the manner in which English people of the upper classs treat their young children ; * Porbiaps, whids we sre m the nursery, it wight be well to give an idea of the course of dally discipline to which Enghsh chudren are subjectod, and to which quite sa much a to the climue they owe their 8o brght complex ions ‘sod abundsut heaith. They rise st balfpsst 7 all the yest _round They are cacefully bathed and rub- bed, aud by halCpest 8 ace hungry for’ breakfast, which coosists of a dish of cat- moal or bominy and a bowl of milk, or of Eppe's cocoa with a little stale bread crumbled in ju. Tnstesd of the oat-meul or hominy, they msy 0o casionaly have s perfocily fresh goft-boiled egg, mixed wilh stalo cramoled bread. After break- fes: thoy pay their mamma an bour's visit, and then go for an hour's walk. On toeir raturn they pisy in the day-nursery until 12, sad are then put to bed for sn hour and a half. Betweon haif-pust 1 and 2 they have dioner. This moal should consist wainly of strong beef or matton broth, woolly free from greash, and zuxed with balf its buli of boiled rice or barley. It must be cooked especially for the cluldren, and the cook must be made to understand that children's meals should be proparcd with oven tmore cate than grown peopie’s. Kar dessers they may est » little atowed fruit or rico-pudding. At 8 o'clock they tako their afterncon walk. Yemsibing out, unless in- tha bitterest weather, until 5, Then they have what ia called afterncon tea—bread and’ black- borry jam and sweetened boilledmilk. The pext thing ia & good hearty romp in ‘the mursery, in which the whole family takes part. until shous 6:30 o'clock. Then msmma takes them to her toom while she is dressing for dinner, and ab 7 they are put to bed. . *This regimen is paraned with undeviating reg- wularity untd tbe chuld 18 4 yoars of sge. and it builda up a fand of arderliness, blocmisg health, and sturdy nerves which geerally lasta through Lfe.” ©ne Tethod of Watch-Making. Boston_Advertiser, A correspondent, who migré himeslf * Adal- phus Morninggiory. East Saugus Gentre, Mass.,” writes to the editor of the L G. column sa fol- lows : *The story of the man who lost & wasch ad eham while shooting is nothing to what bappened to ' me. About seventsen years ago I too was shooting, and lost a gold watch and ciain ina similat mancer. They were snatched from my pocker by foang sorig of » espling, now grown into s Totty” willow. _ Upon my rotarn 1o the. spot Isst summer my attention was arrested, by s glitter among the brancncs over my 'heall. I looked—I fo0ked rgain. Yes, there was my waich. The chain was imbedded under the bark of the friendly branch. and, straoge 40 ssy, further out on the braoch wad groming & watch exsctly Eimili? to wy old One, except in size. It was a trifle smaller. the season tnen being early for wawchea, The chuin, too, was » small coun- terpart of my old cbain. Ay first impulse was to pick them off the tree, but I afierwards do- cuded 1o wait until the ascond watch bad faily nipened. aod 1o due sesson I culled them both, a0d they may be seen at my office st 12’ o'clock any day for two weeks. A patent has bsen ap< Pliad for, for this method of mh-gah-m sod 1 faw treed hays hean aeh ORS Dear Welhas L men ks boen o ART GOSSIP. The Comparative Rank Given to Portrait-Painting, A Glance at the Works of Two Chi- cago Artists, Phillips® *“ MeCullough,” and His Portrait of Mr. Norton. Personal Notes from Europe and the East. An Artist in Italy---Art and Ad- vertising. E PORTRAIT-PAINTING: 178 COMPARATIVE BANK. Among the various specislties of artists,—land- scape-painting, historical painting, geore, stiil- Mfe, portrait-painting, etc.—the last, the art of portrait-painting, has, for some reason, never been admitted to more than a secondary rank. A thin pamphlet of Charles Sumner upon **The Best Fortraits in Eograviog ™ hies upon the connters of Jansen & McClurg, in which is a quosation from Josbus Reynolds’ “ Discourses to the effect that, while a historical painter “painta men in general, & portrait-painter paits a particular man, sud consequently a defactive modeL" A tyro in drawing would' much rather »draw a man in genersl then s particular man; but it appeara that an accomplished also finds & higher field for his skill in the effort to produce the ides! man. It wss cuaracteristic of the land- scape-paintars of the last generation, of whom Thomss Cole was & conspicuoua example, that they goneratized natural objects instosd of palnting them particularly snd epacifcally. When Cole painted a tree ho did not paint a pat- ticular kind of s tree, but & tres in genersl, and 1o man could tell whether it was an osk, or s maple, or an ash. The modern realistic school bas revolutionized this until no artiet ventures avy Jonger to paint & tree without at least in- tending it for somo particular wpecies,* and this i8 justly regarded as an sdvance on the former castom, With regard to portrsit-psinting, whils it would be presumptuous to question the correct~ ness of the grest masters in rating ideal paiut- ing above portraiture, iv may be doubted whether smong artists of more modest claima there is not NORX BEILL REQUIRED, 2nd actusily expended, in exocuting portraits than in producing other subjects. The fact that thore 18 some market for portraita When every- tlsing elso faile, 80 that almost any artis: at one time or auotner turné his bLand 1o them, wmay have womething to do with the depressed condi- tion of tha azc and the consequent estimation in - which the srtiets hold it. Nevertheless, some of the greatest works of the best artists have beon poruaits. To name the finest portraita in the world would bo to call the roll of the tmasters,— Raffssllo, Titisn, Rembrandt, Velasquez., Rey- nolds. A sucoassion of portrsits is exnibited the abop-windows of all our large cities, speci- mens of the productions, from time to time, of the local artigis. For the last f8w mobths Chica- g0 bas been favored with s exiraordinary num- beraf CRATON LIKENESEES by a variety of baods. Most of them are bad, many of them etrsordinarily so. In tbe mosi ordwary stylo the fentures ara stippled up with great patience sud carefuloess, in imitation of photographs, and the - background worked in with broken lights, in the hthographic method, the result wheb completed being precisely Like & 25-cent lithograph, common, and hard, snd in- delible to the last degree. Nevertheless, we have a fair supply of good portrait-painters, and, without invidions com- parisons, two or three msy be selocted for par- ticoiar comment, far, however suporior man i goneral may bo fo_the partioulsr and “ delective model," it 18 certain that criticism of individual aztints is more commonly useful and intereating than of art in general. For several years B, JORN PHILLIPS, with some demur from professional rivals snd occasional objection on the part of connoisseurs, Dhas maintained humself 25 on the whole the best portrait-painter in the city. With a robust temperament and & hearty Scotch confidence 1n big own powers, Mr. Plullips has probably suc- ceeded rluizl:f twico aa much work aa suy othor artist bero. His portraits vary from very good to rather bad. Thers have becn times in years PRst when he baa been very much occupied, or at least very much intorested, in business euter- prisea outeido of ks profession. It muy be that the inferior picturce belong to thesa periods of distraction from art. Two pictares of his, of considerable pretensions, have been exhibited bere within the last year,—ome s portrait of the sctor, John McCallough, at the Exposition, lsst fall; the other s por- trat of Me Norton, of New York, now oa exhibition at Keen & Cooke's bookatore. The focmer represented Mr, HcOullough in tha cher scter of Richelieu, & fuli-levgth figure 1 ful Cardinal’s robes, the hands outstretched and face uptwrmed sa_though in invocation. The Royal Palsce of France appeared in the back- ground. A grest deal of painstaking isbor and indead of arustic enthusiasm hsd boen expended upoa the pictare, for the artst not ouly was aaxious to produce talliog picture but had a warm persoual sdmiration for his subject—tnat is, for McCulloagh inehe part of Richalieu. But » telling pioture was_just what tha work fell short of attainiog. _For some reason—perhaps Partly the unfavorable character of the subject —ths effect was nos striking or satisfactory. Tho faws was in nowise suggeative of the great Cardinal, nor was the trestment of the flesh op to Mr. Phillips' stand- ard, which in robust male complexions is un- usaally high. T he pose of the figure, if it waa fine, was very much abscured by the heavy drap- éry. The drapery alone seemed to call for d- miration, The close proximity of Healy's fine pictare of the Pope reduced the Catdinal to s Tather lamentable state of weakness. Nevertho- loss, it is only fair to romamber that the one paioter wes working from a real polentate, the ather from an actar. Such beiog the estimato—at least by some good fudges—of Mr. Phillips'lsst. great eflori here is hearty satisfaction in finding 80 good & pictare from his brush as the present ** Portraic of Mr. Norton, of New York,” which is no} only a good picture. but a very extraordinarily good ‘piosare, sure of bonor in any competition. Mr. Norton, judging from the pictare, ia & mad towards 70 years ald, gray, sbrewd, benevolent.” The "fignre, about two-thirds lengtn. seated in an old-aahioned straignt-back- od ohair, 18 faced naarly to tho front, leaning & little forward, tho bead furncd slightly to the fifiL The right hand holds & newspaper; both W6 reat upon the arms of the chaur, and the Joft band, with & pair of apectacles beld between the thumb and fore-finger, is supported upon & céne. The attitude is that of & _ssgacious old ‘Dowepaper-reader who, having finished leisare- ly perusal, bss dropped his paper and removed Lis glasses, nod is now reads to give you his ma- tare and debiberate opinion. It wonid be just aa valusble for » typical pictare—of ** The Old Newapaper-Reader,” for instanco—ns it is for & portrait. The handling throughont is excesd- iDgly 8LIOLR and estisfactory, Thers is some- thing abaolutely fscinating in_the treatment of the light and shade in Zore- Besd, where the fight catches = it lances acrosa, sud in tha natorsl expression of the texture of the old echin; the bands too are painted with ad tuch care and feeling as the face. A close examination dis- closea how muoh more 1s suggesied thao ™ so- tuaily painted, the gves, for wnatance, being saton- ishingly indefinith on vear inspeoion, but par- fectly expreasive a: the distaace of a dozen feet, and this quality spesks bighly for the knowledgs and skill of the arust. It msy be swd, witboul fear of contradiction, that, if Mr. Phillipa cso Paint a8 well as this ‘st will, Obicago need not fear to compate in any markes in the master of portrait-painting, avd if hs conld unitormly maintam thik level he %ould stand in very nearly the highess raok of porsrsit-painters. Ihere Bave baon pictures of ‘Page, Healy, acd Huni~ ington hete, hut never & bettar picture than OBaYOX PORTRAITY i enjoy a wide populacity, and it i especially observable that persons of gooeral cultare wihout especial artisuc tasies oftén prefer them ta oils, the xppreciation of the expression of form by outlize and shsdow apparantly pre- - the teate for oalor. Artiets well know ends of tho sitter for an ofl portrait to fin fault with tbe color, and to fa m,mgfin? about it amoug themselves. Aporoaching thy picturato, closely the wife or brotaer of the sab: Ject dotacts a green tinge in the shadows of the complexion, and stcaightway declares that what ever their rolative may be he is not in any sanse green. It is in vam that the arcist en. Plains abont “offects* and the biending of unts by distaoce: to the ordinacy mind the great fact remains that the roal man 1 ot greeu however méar you may get to him. Al these troublesome questions are escaped in cragona. p 3R JTLITS GOLLMANY is one of our most successful crayon artists, per- Leps the most successful. Thers ia littie in his studio at present _excepting a good portrait of Mr. Pullmso, aod a considerable mumber of cabinet photographs from picturesof well-known citizens execated berotofore, among them Mr. John Crerar, David A. Gago, Mavor Rice, stc. Artists consider themsolves afected with faint | ‘raise if their work is compared %o photography. Nevertheless, vine peorle out of ton wonld sup- Doaa thesa phatagradha from Gollmana's pic- turea to be taken from hife,—a compliment at least to the carefumess of the drawing snd finish, snd the truthfuloees of tho likeness, —whiio the temth, and he the best art critic, would pronounce them superior to auy photographs. unless it bo the moet exceptional, and arus:ic, and happy ones, Tbis srust's work would merit moro extended notice 1f here were more oumerous and import- ant epecimens of it acceseiblo 3¢ presont to the public. —— 0ODDS AND ENDS. James Jackson Jarves, the art critic, ia in Flor- ence. H. F. Soread, formetly s Chicago artist, is in TIndianapolis. Mr. Ford, painter of forest interiors, etc., is n0w in Sea Francisco. Mr. Samuel Cookey, the scalptor, bas gons to Detroit. fe hus & medallion head, & companion %o bis “Juliet,” 1n progress. Nast serves up Phil Sheridan in Harper's Teekly, Captared at Last,” and dragged in flowery chains by Capid to the altar, Rouse, of Boston, execates crayon portraits at $400 8 head. 'Lve cbarming litils pictares of chuldsen for salo in the src-stores. photographs frotacrayons, mounted on. biue-gray paper, aro 2. Strange phenomenon—st the late picture salos many of (he pictures regularly knocied off st tbe first auction were pubiicly offered at the secoud. Both sales were sunounced bona fide 8od unrosersed. How is this ? The statue of St.John the Baptist st Pisa, which was formerly ascribed to_Doaello and has lately been alleged to be by Michel Aogelo, Lot now boen prouounced by a jury of connois- seurs to be a work of the latter. Dore's great pictrs of * Christ leaying the Protorium,” with his other pictures in the Dore Gallery, sod Fortuny's latest pictare, *The An- techarber,” stand smoug tae regular advertise- tents of exhibitions in the Athenmuom. The works of art admitted to the French Salon of this year are sbour 2,200 iv number. Thess are additional to about 2,000 of the **exempt.” The total 1s unusually large. The capacity of the galleries in tho Palaia ccs Champs Eiveccs is aaid 10 bo practically unlimited, and would admit 10,~ 00 pictaros if the authontics chose. In Massachusetta the law requires that freo industiial drawing-classes shall be established in ol cities of over 10.00 inhabitants. Last year twenty cities complied with the law aad tbres dieregarded it. It is now proposcd that the law unall ho amended ®0 88 to inciude all towns of over 5000 inhabitants, which wounid iuclude forty-three mora, There ia didiculty in obtaining competent teachers. Appletoa's Art Journal has been publishing ever since the bogivning of the yoar a serics of studies and sketchos by Bir Edwin Laod- seor, reproductions in woodeuts of draw- ings eclecied from tho slighter works of the grear artist that exiat in private collec- tions. Tho piciures are in Landsear’s charac- tenstic veiv, nsnally animals and figures, some- times simoly ogulines, more frequently slightly sbaded. Boautifuily edgraved. aud princod upon the fiue paper of the Art Journal, the letter- press of ‘which i8 gaid to be euperior in the American reprint to tho origioal English publi- cation, thoy form au ndmirable serics of studica for any artizt or 2:uateur who desires to scquire & charming and wholesomo 6Lyio of sketching, and are far more reliable than the steel-plates of the same perodical. SALES OF FICTORES. At a sale of modern pictures at thes Hotel Drouot, Paris, held iu April, the most important worke sold as follows: ring " Eugeno Delucroi Eugene Detacroi sarethi ™, 3. Dupre, *‘The Storm ¥, 3. Dupre, “ Branch of tho Oise Fromentin, “ Tho Banks of ths Nila Tromenty, * Hawking ", . Millet, * Death and the Wood-Cut’ Miltet, * The Little Goatherd Girl Th. Rousseau, Tae Sun Setting in Sologne Th! Rouseesu, * Farm on the Bank of th Oiss 7. Th, Russeau, *The Gorgea of Aprezant ™ Rojhet, * The Page Stevens, LTnd a Stevens, The Amazon ™ Troyon, An Osier-Bed™ Troyon, “ White Cow Chase; Troyan, “ Pastures near Trousidle AN ARTIST'S NOTES IN ITALY. Just what art needs in America ia tode brought before sud made familiar to the people. Thero is plenty of money thers, and there are plenty of pooplo_tescy Lo spend it npon the beautifal, but they do not know what the beantiful is. If somo af thosa few fellows who ought to havo been artiais and instead of that “have beon round mights stealin’ ducks,”—I mean pursuing Literature aud science,—wonid just make uso of their talonts, nataral (thas is, artistio) aad ac- quired (that Is, Lterary and scientific), and taik and cxplain ta the peoplo who should bo patrons of art what thoy want and how to get it, they would do_just whas the artists (who, 1 am sorry to eay, are geverally ilhterato) dosiro and caunot do foc themnalve In gculpture I believs therais a good deal to be gnacd by the artist's cubting his owa marble, 1 do not believe that any marble-cutter cau put tho nice feeling into his work that the artist could. The custing of Michel Angelos ** Moses ” is marvelons. Some purs sre Suished to a polish, whilein other parts the marks of the toothed chisel remain as the tool left them. And it is not from_carele-suess either, as might be supposed, bat, it seems o me, from profound study sud feeling. VYeoplo ke the prettiness of the smooth, whita, even marble, however, and look for it 59 much a8 for the gubject of the scalpturo or_the merit. Let them be taught othorwise. Let it be known that sand-paper is Dot what they want, and that certain other guali- tien are. While things sro as they are, & sculptor would starve who aitempted to cut his own marble, roughing, pointing, and finishing. When the public is educated wo wil try it ART AND ADVERTISINO. The New York Natwon two weoks ago pub- liehed an articio usder the abova title, not, how- 8 might be supposed, upon the uso of ad- ‘ertising in connection with art sales, but upon ihe applicstion of art to advertising, in the de- sigos of postors, the paintng of signa, sud similar macters. Af the subject had been the opposite, they might have drawn sn ulustration om their oWn shicet. “u?mu Natwn of April 29, Mr. P. F. Connslly occupied a whole column of the first page with an advertisemont of tho exhibition of the model of his *Fountain of Pesce™ at his studio in Piorence. Mr. Conpelly is an American scalp- tor, who has long been in Florence, and who, sbongh etill young, is well koown and bhas had s brillisnt” and snccasstal (possibly too sncceasful) career. An advertiscment of this Lind, of a work ia an arusts studio, is oob often soen. The work in question ppears to be s very elaborate sud swbitious design for & public fountain. The central figure represents * Peaco on Earth.” No less than Tour squestrian_groups surround her, together with an indofinita_oumber of *medallions, re- liefs, portraits of heroes” heads denoting famous cities, groupa of children * ongaged on the Jabors of peace,” besides four figures sym- bolical of the nations of the earth, with children playing ab sheir fees, and welding tbe chain of e pea?hm itis considered that this is only one of Mr. Connolly's works and that he has doue sn ex- traordinary number of others, sad is still young, it 18 not surprising that he bas beea embraced ip the recent charpes of art frauds. He bas, bowever, a8 is understood, brought lbel suita sgainst his accusers, bas summoned unsuspected aftista to testify to tho ordioary usages of art, and bas written a letter, published 10 this coun- try, in which be calls ug;m maoy well-known Americans, among_them 3r. McGregor Adsae, of this city, $o Witoess that, to their certain Xkoowledwe, the work done mpon portrait busts executsd for them was bonest. Bince the exhibition of this work of sculpture at 10 Via Naslonals, Florence.” is not likdly $0 draw Off patzonsge msierially frum our expo- aition this 563800, Tk TRIBUNE does 0ot mind sdvertising 15 to _1his extent, though the metuod of getting befors the publicis new. The de- mand for works of this character 1 this part of the coautry, Bawarer, this yesr, i arobably not i Moce’ somuion " thua far' the | lizge. WOMAN. Ths Pay of Male and Female Tsachers —A Plea for the Latter. be wit] . Taine’s Views of Frenchwomen=-- The Critic Criticised, rep: Miscellaneous Notes Relative to the Fair Sex. sly THE PAY OF MALE AND FEMALE TEACHERS. To the Editor of The Chicago Triduna Catcaco, Jane 4.~That it is s misfortune for & Woman to ba compelied to extn her own liveli- hood is something that few shoughttal persons ¥ill deoy, Her proper spbere is her home. That many women ate forced to earn & Lving, end, in xddition, to assist in maintaining male rolatives, is, notwitbstanding its mourufulness, atrutb. When this world reaches its true bless- edness, and every man is physically snd mon- tally competent to care for himeelf and his family, one vexed question will be forever faid 10 rest.—the question of the difference which ought to be made between the salaries of male and female teachers. My attention was called to this subject by a letter signod “ Benedict,” mhich sppeared in TRz TRIBUNE recently. The writer, who 1s doubtiess » mate teacher jn the Chicago High School.gave two reasons why females should beomployed at balf-prica : First, becauso they are cheaper. Inthe warld's market, a woman of good ability can be had for so much less than = man of good akility, that employers had noright to make her services more expensive by paying more for them. She bad alwsys been & cheap article, and sbould, for the good of tax-payers,— that is, mankind, —be kept cheap. The same reatoning would have suppiied this world with m slave-labor till the *crack of doom.” They were glaves ; it would be expensivo to free them; theroforo, they onght to remain slaves. Another argument was somawhai after this fashion: A wmalo teacher should be paid double in order that he may be abla to support a family, which he might, could, would, or should have. slig baye the sho the nov: p the to I ter This argument i8 in the polential mode. 1 ot anawer: The female tescher wears ber *rus with u difference.” aad she ought to kave s large family to take tho place of the family which sbe may, cap, o must not bave. In other words, wbile he can traio up children to be to him in mystery ; overpowering curiosity to know it! Thoy ate of #ensitive and highly uervoas which has from infancy been subjected to the tortures of a senseloss, unoataral, unremitting snd a thurd reckless, seoms never to have oc curred to our French sage. What became of treatment it req tellectusl—stupidity implied in this cansot. easily surpassed. ‘Theso young girls have never been permittad (o kaow anything of s ational and by social interconrse. The world bas been made o thom A sectet of the futnre, invested b all the strange attractions of s forbidden nd ho wonders that they have an temperameut, ression; and ho tells us, with great dissatisfaction, that tba¥ are morbidly irritable and ong for excitement! They bave mever known any discipline but that of fe boen able to procure a plaasure except ', never on the and he is surprised that they are given to lying ! They havenever beeq trusted, or had the hitest chance given to the germa of self~ respect ; and ho wonders that they want the sense of honor | They bave never been allowed to exercise self-control, or to understand self-de- pendence ; and gelf-command ! i, in tLeir mother, ‘pathetic tendernes: elsewhere. The: tyrant, whose id *“break them i od he marvels that they lack poiss Tustiocs teaches them' toat they fiad bot love and svm- they can hardly hope for it :ave kaowa 1o hor onlv a stapid of maternal training waa to and ho ia disgnsted tlat they ¢ o tenderness, and aro cynical when love is theme! Traly, one would like to meet AL Taino at abail aod take # look st bia head | at conventual syatem was, that opo dsugher the patural result of Madame B.'a uld turn oat embittered, s second faclish poor, outrazed young creaturs who bad er had an honr to Bersolf, or free from con- scious eapionags, for twenty years, we ara not told. Buc, if she atraggled out of tho locg torture spiritually distorted in any way, shs, t0o, wonld probably be set down by bim a3 serpent that ‘The conctusion of the shole matter is, that, it ‘little t00d on its tail and hisse Taine's ideas of feminine natare, and the es, fairly represent ihoso of average Fronchman, it is not uecessary even o0k at their heads o know what ia the mat- with Frenchwomen. J. E.N. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES Oh, my dear wifs," gaid Jobn Henry, as he paid the millinor's bill. A muff—A thing hand without aqueezing it. Wby is a rejected lover likestres in ths spring? Becauao ba ia compelied to losva that holds » young lady’e Hoaven's Own " is the nams of a new Ne- vads town where a railroad-pussenger saw a woman pinning her husband to the fence with a pitchiork. Tne Czar recently gave Patd a new closk which cost $500, and Mr. Caux has bad to go to Lis old ago what she perhaps has been to her | work wnd purchass garmeats throughous fo arents, she has no hopes outwids the County oor-House, or the kind ofices of mera friends. Tho dependence which wonld have been » burden to her in youth and middle age becomes » me- cesaity in old age. She may havo expended much of ber limited incomo in_seif-unprova- meut, and may, though cheap, have becomo & good and eficisot teacher. In her old sge, bow- ovor, she i obliged to * step down aud ous,” with'no * store of Loarded weslth,” as her maie bachelor asuociate can have, and Do chimpey- corner " o the bomo of son or dsughter, as ber male married associata caa bave. “"Tis true, 'tis pity," kst theso single women will sometimes livo and srow old teacling. Hap- pily, only a few do 80 uncalled-for » thing, Sick- Dead incapacitates somo aftor & fow years’ strug- glo; death and murriage take othora: but the doztrne of * the survival of the fittest " Ope- rates here, as olsowhere, aud saves s faw for the Chicago High School. Shonid not tuese, vot- | g withstandiog ** Benedict's * kind remonatrances, bo paid sccording .o the departments they i, her table the otherevenlng dering this morning what the Bascusr jurs woald masch it. It requires all & woman's solf-possession to calmly show her first baby, & hair-lipyed ous, to 80 old beaa whom sne hed jilted for the sake t present busband. A Bogton damsel, who pat on_her gloves to clean toem with benzine, and then went too closo to the gashght, found that she had & firat- clasa condlagracion on hand. A kind-hearted, peace-loving Baltimore msa paioted his front steps twenty-three times. try- ing t0 gat color to sait his wifo; and then ano decided that the first color was the bost. An Ohio bathe her face in the liquid dew, and cut off ons of her fingers on an old scyul grass. There's alwaya soma - meat. girl got up the other morning to hidden in the awback to genti- aid 8 9-year-old Brooklyn girl at the supp * Ps, [ heard yoa woo- sud oot &8 Jemales? Very respectfully yours, 5 L NE oF Tz, ::i&e !fn‘.i"’m‘ care what they ssy. Ay mindis M. TAINE ON FRENCHWOMEN. No matter how sad and weary a womtn may To the Editor of The Chicaao Tribune: Cnicaco, Juns 4. —Extracts from the late work of M. Taiue bave been tuickly scattered through the papers of late, the greater partof them be- ing such aa ralate o his countrywomen. Iam Do Frenchwoman, and have no special rezson for being an apologist of Frenchwomen, excopt my conviction of the injustica of sweeping charac- terization, and because I do not believe it possi- ble thatsuch descriptions as M. Twne's can fairly picturs any class of -women, much less thoss of & pation. Here are some of the *‘keen criticisms ™ and *incisive touches” 5o much quoted : To judga {rom their appearance and toilettes, they are divine, VWhat infinite promise of pleasure, what refined tute and elegunce, i the lace and bosks which frame tucir lovely busts, io the white-Sowered #ilks in which they aro wrapped ! But bo careful not to hear their couversation, nor 0 inquire into their feclings, if they bLave apy. . . A craviog for excitement; bere s the trus word ; 'to got into_ths ligut, lnto the 17030 day, 10 Lave thelr nerves shaken, o 1eél the in- tenes ogitition of enjoyment, to have the head full of champsgns—notaing 18 moze falty French. This of & young bride, or fiancee : The bubblings of fervid passion, the silence of ro- solve o suppressed anguish, the thought of a Life at stake, O of s ideal sitained. sro s thousand miles o, She talks to me of ber besd-dress, and asks some fn- formation about the hotels &t Nice, ete. A graceful doll, agrecable 0 take upon his arm, & credit t0 oim in saciety, attractive in manuers, swakening and stimu- Iating ths taste by the perfoctloa and novelty of her Loilettes—that is all that the bridegroom will find, snd iufaith I would believe he wouid ba sarely embar- rassed should be find uaything mare, Agsin: Thes sre furlons to find themselves the succeasors of fiva or six fast women. One of them constantly camo back to one phrase: I must know Lifa” 1un- derstand by that intoxication, intense seosation, & palfitation of beart und nerves, & whilwind which carnes all befare it,—tho senses, the reason, It will bo seen by this that M, Taine bas pene- trated the deepest depths of his countrywomen’s nature. Now let us sse how he gets at thia pro- fool ma ishy business whea his second cup of co: fozl, she doesn't read much poctry abont doath and ttio grave unul her boonet cames back from the milliner’s for the third time, and still isa't trimmod to suit her. A Cincinnati woman tried to reach the bottom of the staira ahead of a casa of vinegar, and tho surgeon who fixed up her broken bones said thak she migbt try for thousand years and yoi get beaten every time. Priucesa Galatzin, of Russis, has invented a now bridal veil which fits on the shoulders and k8 Likh mosquito. wings. Under the hatlucina~ tion of love, the bridegroom is supposed 0 think the wearer more angei 0Oa Monday evening Le was going, &< shoe Observed him pusing on his overcoat. “I am going to sally forth.” ho ropliad ; 200 sho warmly _rejoived, catch YOu going with any Sally Forth.” Said » saucy Bochoster beauty to a foppish fel- low who bored her with his compliments: ** Your presence and conversation are vaatly agroeable, aod, what is remarkable, your attractivenass doesn’t seem to depend upon brains at all. This is the time of year when mothera and daughters endeavor to give the bresktast-table chat » wataring-placo tins, while the old geutlo- c than ever. > wife asked him whero *Let me Iy to his i fia- 0 eats hagiily ana departs prom; ed. A Tenuesseo preacher stood up the other day and said : dive down into your breeches-pockets and haal out suthio’ for the poor;” and tho women of his congregation iookad nght straizht shead without saying & word or making a dive. A woman rented s house of aman on Croghsa street the other day, stating that she Lad but two chudren. Soon after moving im, the lund- lord discovered that she had saven, and, when ho demanded sn explanation, sho replied : *On. Well ; who'd bo particular over just five children 7* He leaned on the feoce poumng out warm voua of love and admiration to the Jovely being oo the other gide. I hoarers, I now arge all on ye to It wae dark. We could not found and delicate knowledge : see her face, but she said: ** Pray desist. You I have carcfully examined all the heads e ¢ & | ara too vacillating. Only & week azo you told ball, except tha two little G—b. The feason s nota | piq sumo stary three doors balow bere.” Thoy pledsant aue; physical impetuosity ; abarp and willful tones; something excited, dry, a0d narrow-minded ; sudden and impesious pastions ; » norvous irritabulity, followod by floods of tears &t the alightest contradic: tion; a merely superticial inteiligonce; nothing but sterotyped phirased—hall sctresses, half princessea. They dress well, they are brigat enough, but there is 80 nobility abouit tierm, sad tiey aTe too uch given o iying. ‘There you have it. He examined their beada ats ball! Naturo has been kinder to AL Taise than she wss to Samual Weller. “Have you & pair of eyes, Mr. Weller ? de~ mands Sergeant Buzfuz. Yes, I havea pair of eses,” replied Sam, “snd that's just it. It they wos & pair o' patent double-million-magni- fyin’ gas microscopes of hextra power, I might bo able to seo through & stsircasa and a_geal Goor. But bein’ only eyes, 50u see, my wiaion in hmited.” M. Taine's vision is uot limited, that's | he evident. I was guing to say, *Ho bas a pair of eyes,” bt T smend the sontence, and will credit bim with tho double-million-magnifying micro- scopes, that penetrate not merely through adeal door, but through bone, brain, and spirit, a6 he protenades a ball-raom, looking at the heads. But ho did more. Hs talked with some of them, and discoverad no_profound or lofty sen- timeat, no dopihs of tenderness, ote., otc. Tois does discloso & curious trait, These women did Dot reveal say tender or_jofty sentiments, any *bubblings of fernd passion,” any ** thonght of a0 idoal attained,” to this strange gentleman, at 2 ball, who walked sround scruCnizmg their 5001 parted. A red-haired Iady, who was ambitions of lita- rarv distinction, foand but a poor sale for ber book. A gontleman, in spesking of her disp- pointment, egid: “H I ia not.” An suditor, in attempting o relate te joke elaewhare, said: **She has red hair, it her “ Heor hauc is red, it her book k basn'e.” A French doctor, by 0 examination of matri- mopial statistics. Lns discoverad that out Gf 100 blonde women 37 remain old muds by the way- side; while, out of 100 brunettes, nn{ witnout a husband. whom ba imparted this informatios, seked bim to mako her a brunatte. “Yes, you may come again next Sanday even- ing. Horace, dear; bok “\Vhat is it, darling? iy 18 stop Alittle S-year old girl, to ud she hesitated. Hase [ given you pain ? **You ssked, aa ebo still remained silent. didn't mean to, I'm sure,” sho responded, * bat ezt time plesse don's wear one of those collars with the poiots turning ontward ; they scrateh e Alover of bis race bas & bit of informadon for sentumental young_[adues. He says thatws n 28 3 baby's testhing begins. uhe romance of marsiad life ceses. No woman can feel any sentimen: for » man who travels aronod 10 bis night-shirt of hot aummer's eve, with & squul- liog infant dangling over thon that she sope calling bim ** Dacling,” and deacends to such commonplace obser #John Camdre, bs careful bow you hold that s shoulder. [s is ous s, heads, —note-book (o ‘lisnd, pertsps. ButIwill | 408D, venture to hope chat this ia not 2 pecalianty of ¥ French Iadies. Ovg hears a grest deal of “the Thrie s “ profound insight,” * keen analssis,” and * del- E, icate eriticism * of ‘M. Taine. It is intereating © Memory ! bear me back oncs zore to knos bow such mice work is done. ) Bat I will assume tbat sl M. Taioe says of his countrywomen is true, and wonder, perhapa, what can be thoe canse of it. He proceeds, with apparently delighttul unconsciousness, to give us the whole secret in a nutsheti: Look st them after two years of marriage, and you | will see whas was hatching ‘under this modest appear- ance. Mme, B— bad three daughters; she haa broughs them up tn the Catholic faith ; abo bas broken them in ; #he kept them all three in s ltle sleeping- Toom wittiout fire, bent over fheir geography and glued to their tapestry, 1 aaw iheir modast faces, their downcast eyes, thelr humble demeanor. [n a year's time the hitle serpent somiched Rimeelf out, #t00d up on bis tai, and bissed. The eldest, who wax miute, now chatters endlessly, ansps aad soarls from undet her Lusband’s Wig: B0 ODe puts such vemom in 3 compliment s she; her roparies remunds youof Figaro and Dorige, ‘The youngest, who haa marned s bumanfiariar | poutician, Shants philo- sopbic sod relgious motets at tible, aftar hiy ons upou the gcieuces, starta Reneral ideas ; 'this becomes ber about 31 well 18 & palr of trousera ; you ate reminded of he whidling imita. tons of L3¢ parrot ; the husband's ideas are there, o ba sure, but spoiled, dlitorted in unaatural abapes. Ho baa overlowed. She catches and scatters the droppings of his abundance. Shy bas Just fuwabed a pamphist on the improvement and futnre of woman, Tuo third, sn sogel, speat a week st Brighton with an officer—and when 1'know haras ¥us 50 Raively inno. cent,~res, & chryualia, Hear this Mme. de M—— said to me with pride : Never bas my daughter {sbe is 2)) gone aut alane, nor paased an Bour alune, night or day, out of my sight, or that of Ber goversiess.* And the writer indarses these methadsof train- ing. Tbe climste, it eema, renders 1t nacessary Gruide mo agatn to the pratiling biook t Find under the shelving bank a moc On thy gotsamer wings,—pray watt me whese There's Littla bay with its sandy shore; There should ba some tiny foot-prints there. On ! range again, In » glistening row, The polistied pebbles of varied bue; very one 10 its place must go, Just aa she laft it,—ny playmate Sua Bury 7 foot in the moistensd nand,— Draw 1t slowly forth, as cuce 1 drew Let the rounded sand-nut once moze stamk Just aa I bullt it for sprightty Bua, Bet e agan on the painted floor, atre we together 80ap-bubbies blew ; Xet thom nwsi (rom iong-stammed_pips encs WS 1 1Ia zainbow colors, for me and Sus Take me sgain to the orchard-trees Whers the dainty, red-cheeked spples Srew § ‘Bended togetzer four Littls knees, Lat ma eat the fruit again with Sus, pull of fAag-plumes just » faw Where I can brald them again with S, An old red nchoolhonse ; 8 low front seat; A tatiered primer that once was naw ; And dangling four diminutive faet: T'm studying now with sober Sua, Yes, T dfd ask, O cartier Thoughh, 3y childkood’s sports sgaid 1o viaw ; But thou bast laft no scene unwrought, 404 I weep agaln for dying Sus. Thou shawest to e s littls monnd, gl i tufted grase snd pesrls of dew, ripening young girls premsturely, One may be ‘Where sleeps the 4 1 earifest found,~— excosed for wonderiog if it aver ripens the men. l. And sarlicat lost,—07 Daymaie Bee 1t seams to ma that the moral—yes. and theia- L cmioses ?.'x.u—