Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 12, 1875, Page 10

LITERATU FEAT.H—F.HF.D LYRICS. or NEw T wor THEA AN FrAR v, Fraou, Author, Gt O P 457, Btor e 1, O B e fer eholce ronls that by natural orgenlza- ticn ot by favarablo twining huve eyee nud earn cpen to the refined and exquisite beaution of Natiros whodrink in with delight the sweet, enny lo mugic of her msring cliofes, and recognize il happy intuition all lier mavifold clinrna of form, amd fragrance, and color, will gratofully sead Abevo cusays of Mr, Flags, which pro- elaim him ono’ of lher most fond and gentle ndorora, and- possessod - of - mnany of ko deep necrots, of . her . Intrieato lara, The ordinery warld, wa . fear, will take no more interest in his obuervations and rotlections than they wou!d in Lo koug oF tho robln or the'tint of tho tosa. L Mr. Tlagg is ro reverand In hia lova for tha Bosutiful objecta of Naturo, thaf, although ha Tina studied tho birds from hig boshaed, ho hng never yot killed ono—**or wacrificod It In tha in- torgatn of setonco™ as it would he techufeally termed—in ‘order to sntisfy himself ns to its jdenttty Ly observing pomts Iu its form.and plamagoe not to ba discovered when in the bush or tree. In tho pamo devent apirit bo lurns from o flaral oxtubition with paln and pleasno, T am offanded.” ho says, *when I oo lowors dograded o a level with -ribbons, lacks, and jowelry, and prized accovding to somo property that in abpraciablo only by n. connols- veur, 1am mwara that such oxhibitions ato at- fended with cortaln public advantages, and con- {tibuto xn fnnocent amusement to the inhable tants of towns and eitfes; But I «honld be mora interestod tn looking over tha dricd mpecimons of somo ruatic botanist in be countrs thau in viewing the moest apleydid assortmont of show- towers ; aud feol moro for tho z-al of a trua lov- er of Nature, who traverecs tho continen? in sl of an muknown.speeles, than for the abi- tion of a floriat, who exporiwents Lslf his liZe- tino to adid ouo now tint to a dajilia.” g Thin fooling will sesm whinsical on the sur- face, but there is really o' fluo Inatinet at bottom of it - “Uhe essays that M. Flagg has collocted in his voluma aro not o limited in scoba ay toeir titlo 1d indicate. ‘They trent of eones and flow- ors ne well o8 of **Rirds and Seasous,” The as- pects of natura pecalist to cach month i the Yerr nro marked and deseribod in weparato Dapers, which bogin with March, the moat blos- tering, ickle, and trring of all the senxons, but one full of bope aml prontiag, 1t briuga beclk, e by oo, many of the birds of the garden and orehard, and tho cheer of their inupiring viices Laltows the month to all Naturo's volarles, Iho patient, faithful mannor in which 3r. Flagg haa ctudicd tho Life of the orchard aud 1ie1d In ravealed in mauy an soule abearvation fhat Lns beeu wiesed by those. most versed In natural history, Tt 18 a familiar fact that birde follow in tha wako of clvilization and mmle tiply with the seitlerment of n snow country, Tt who has told ug before that thls incroasa i not deponidant upon any_ protection that the preannce of man affords, pon the groater wanply of inocet-food eaused by tha titlage of the grousl? Fho labora of tha farmer factlitato {u- Neel ozistence, nad in an equal ratio increasa tho birca' means of suisistence. It in an illusteation (f the Darwiuian principle, In the animal world the rirugglesfor MNfo muinly dopeiids yipon the avunlanen of, food, Provida thia in exhaustioss d the species thtive and multiplv, Flagy haw writton ont tho rongs of many of tiw birdy, u feat that would reom nearly im- possibla to the casual Tistoner to thair wild, 1ireguinr, cecantric noten. * Mr. Charlos 8. Paine vian tho first to rownik thal the nong-aparsow, co of tho smoiriest Jittlo warblers of ‘tho oarly Apsing-titie, Ly almoet jnvariably in his musieal 1cpettoire.a soug With siz or covon distinet varia- tiona, Well-ssinned ents have attentively marked the tiraing of this bird for many yours without divcovering this intorasting fact, which i con- fivmed by Mr. Flaug's abeervations, Tho nuthor uo adds thntstho birds of most npccies con- siruet their musio unon o wingla theme, which they simplify and adern by numorous variations. Tu hin words & ; , Yivery seng of any specled 19, technicslly npeaking, 8 Seninsio ucted upon this themne, from which, Pictgh Moy way groatly vary Welr notes, uo Sudivids il ever departa, The themy of the songe-npatrow is carfly writlen on tho gumul, ofit of wislch the bird praken toruy varintle fhat of the rolin's souy iv never more than elighily varied, but I have uot heen ekl to delectin tho miodioy of thi Lobolink any theina atull, . p Mr. Tlegg ndvances the curions apinlon that tho song of tho male bird during the period of inenbation does not spring - from an unalloyed cemotion of heppiness, e ouo would naturally -unppose, but rathor from n foeling of dlscon- tent nud lonolinoen. Jlo seems to be displeased at the absence of hin mate, and sings with all Lis inight that: he may ontico ler from tho nest, or posaibly Dboguile wsomo coquettich fomalen of hin raco into a passing flirtations - It s surprlking to loarn the Dirds ean bohinve &0 anch likn naughty men, and ilo their dusiful Jittlo dontcstio wives ara huny with family caros, lawlogsly. strivo to win the 1aitblul ereaturos from thele proper omploy- ment ; or. whiln they are confined as liome, souk mansement I daliying with othor birds' wives. *1 havo often thought,” says Mr. Flogg, it the almost uninterruptad song of enged tards proves thelr ainging to arise from n deslro to_entico o companion into their-own little uison. 1Menco, whon an old bird from. our lasis caught and caged during thn brosding op, ho will contitnie his tunelulness long atter all othors of the uame specios Lisve bacome ritont. Tho hoboliuk, in A stato of fresdom, ' wili not sing aftes the middle.of July; but If ono Le canght and eaged, he will continde o, warble wore Joudly than he did in his. uative meadows until Heptamber.” 7 » Mr, Flagg rolates a pretiv littlo incldent of the ' cedar-iird, s wongeter ‘of beantiful plamaga, Lut of guiet. mauners, and so sitont that iv at. tracts littlo observation, **Once whan ono bad Legu taken In o uot spread over strawherrics, its mate refusod to lenve it suffered itaclf to bo takan by tho hand ‘in its nuxioty to fron fta’ mato, aud, whan. sct at liborly, would not loayo until jts uato hiad also boon. releascd and por- mitted to go with.it.” During the nesting uea- run, & pair of cedar-bitdy are nlwayas varessing cach other ke turtla-duves, whilo the antiro #yoctan aro most gocial and Iriondly to cuelrothe- er. Afriond of Mr. Flagg's onco sraured him *that ho had séon one among o row of -thom Hefze an inanct and offor it to §t8 next noighhor, who pussed I¢ to tho noxt, oach potitaly deolining the ofter, nntil iz had passod backwards and for- wards sof ttman." ' Wes thers over recorded an Inatsnco of more excuielte contosy among the human specien ? 1t veads lilko a pasnngo froms tho romanen of chivalry, But wo lisve anoted quite uuotigh {rom Jr, Flage's work to wond ol bird-Jovers ta lean for theweclyes from itw pages. It Is yout out by the publishers in besutifut form, with the sdorpont of photegraphic il P e ¥ Rrap ustrations and A CLUSTEP OF POETS, A Gnove or Toits anp Tivis JAunes, By Jawes ALGUT TAGRINOS, 1000 Dps 819, N s Hurd & Hough CREY New York: The titlo of this voluue f4 in wouine monwnre disappointing. It leads ono to expeot that wiich raudors nost onjoy t & glimpao of the homes, the resorts, the anrroundinge, the overy- Gay lifo of tho groet und gifted fndividusly whious vorks have eslled”out to them o doup hanian wimpathy, Tt thora fa very littlo of Wil pe- uliurly interesting information in * A Group of Tocts und Thelr {launts”; too littlo to awawar tho browiss held in the words used to namo aud dtescribo tho Liook, 5 ‘The aulbor lns wtudled tho poots whom he groups together with & warm, tendor fellusefeels ing. Anurdont temporantent sud a Yorvid im- siination hiave' vnabléd him to oiter inte ¢losa harmony with thelr moods, and impulses, and aspirationn, o ia nblo t6 put bimselt W their placo, to feel their enthusissmy, to understand their propansities and antipathics, to mako al- lowaneos for ‘thelr fallingy, ‘and’ Lo eutimato arighy thelr excellancies, . Thus wo, pleasantly wekuonledge that Le writos from a ull heart und as ono haviug a cortaiu suthority, Dut lie etrs fn giviog hiy luuc( 100 ‘free o roin and sufs ’c‘;;lx‘:‘éy“ to ran perifously voar tho boiders of The'exsay on **The Borrows of Helne ia Derhaps tho wowt Jutercating 1o the- volumo, Uis psthoido figora of this Isugbter-loviug, 1oin-stricken oot s - eumiemly atiracthve, {ko & dead mian,” payn Osntler, *Vilio® poct Was nated up du niv codin alive, but, when the var hos: Kesod, Pootey wis beard stuging bensath the Llack bivetivtis,”, .You cannotymagine,? taid itelug hitaseit {0 w viwisor, on gue of (Lo Luxldays of . Jis muny vexrs of . bodily torture, afiee Lo hwd Loon castaed out. ou tko bulenvy, vod from bis papel Lud gased e tho gy crawdls ou tue Coulag s Elyeees, * you caunot o :00 Low I felt whien I eaw {ho.world sgain for A1 iirds Hime $u yo weuy. yeors WiD suy oue-balt o5e, sud fi" 50 Uttle of 1t I mudo tue band e Mattlldo's opera-giass, snd followed with E. S tetaaits / Increcibla plonaura'n” pasiiy-ueller offering hix enfiea to two ladies in erinolino, and o liktio dog ctanalng on thrgo logs by n tree. Iclosed tho lass. T did not want to ece auything movo, for ensied the dop.” Could any conteesion be more tonching,, or convoy a profounder senso of tha misory of tho ¥porker 2 A erippled dog * etanding on throo legs” was 8o much happier In its enpncity for enjorment that Heine conld not look at ity the paug of envy was so_ intolerable, One cannot vemflhiu tonf that Mr. Iavrison has torn from 1leino'a blogtaphy without fealing an justinet of divino pity that softous tho heart toward all weak, sorrowing, ering humanity, J T Among tho other poota whom Jr. Harmeon Iing dircoprzed nboud appreciatively are Lord Brron, Tasso,, Denvennto, Borénzer, Alfred Do Miuect, Boudslaire, and Andro Chonier, . . APCEM DY LUCY LARCOM. Toye op Wonuy Luct Lancod, Bquare 2o, pp 183, Boston: Jawen R, Osgood & Co, 'tho hame of Timey Linrconi hiabécomo pleanntit- Iy familias § most Amoriean houneholds, thraugh thio pooms nnd wongs sho hias publiched and tho Juvenila, magazino sho for many years edited. Noono who has pver read tho pattetic story of s 1annalt Dinding Bhoos " witl bo likely to for- et it or its nutlor, or to sover in memory the asvocintion' between tho two. An much may be gald 6f Ll other pooma of Mica Larsom, which, by thoir mingiod heanty of montimont and melody, hnve maved tho people's feeltnge, "Clun trosaus worl, though protending “to bo simply 'a wketch, Incking tho full compieteness of o finislied pletues, In stall tho niose ambitions attompt in verss tint Miss Liarcom has . yot pro- Jectod 3 but he skill with which botli poem and narrative haye been managed moro than satis- flos the nutieipattan, while it sanations tho hopo that {n the futnro yet mora olaborato efforts may De undertakicn by bor, and successfully accom- plished. It (s likely i0 bo aurmised from tho namo, *Idyl of Work," that ttie poom doals witlt the mucl-mootad queation of woman's aphoro of Inbor ; but this {t does not, save inci- dentally, Tha miotive of the worlk is mumply to present n view of ractory-life os it oxisted In Tow Eugland villages thitty yesvs sgo, Miss Lareom was herself, in early life, an operative in n mill in Lowell, and therefors delticates from experionco tho gondition and character of nill- fabor at o dime when. it wee chiofly ypor- formed by, young ,girls who lofs vempectablo Lionies in order to gaia by this means pocuniary indapondence, - Bevoral loading eliaracters aro intraduced +Into tha poem, rud ail avo fair and intoresting specimonn of ' Now Englaud woman- bood, Tlo threo contral Sgures of tho group aro prosentod it the spentng lwes af tho story: In latter April, earth ono bud and leaf, Tureo sirls looked downward from thefe window pere Thiree mandens In thelr different matJon-bloom “[lires buda tutiele vangh calyxes,~for swost And oscliudlike a gisliood everywlu In calture or wild fra=dom, lovely wiil With prowiiea of all thy nidswndd years, The ractn wan dlin With April's rainy Bybt, that here sivi thers Catuw I tlirougl greenery uf pernuinm-leaves trown lush aud frgrme to the wadowe-tops, Briuging o bint of gurdens rt 1hick woous, iTue Hight leaf-shaluwings atolo toadsrly - Over tuceo threo girl-irures ki e nook,— Esticr; and Elesuor, and Iebel. g Latlior wax tall und atrong, with gokl-brown halr ‘Lt ripgled sunsishio to her fect, uimiost, Witen oha undid iis coll ; and suzuy lght - Seotned ever (6 straam outwarit froto ler niud, Targe, fuir, wail-ordercd, elder-sistor-like Wan vho 10 Eleanor sud fsabel, A Jittle while 350 Lo piraner-itis e thie oy, wesklig vorkt A mather to tho orphin Lleauor, & Whosy only el locia fram slcl kucestors Was uluw cousuzuptiou, bers by sury cutal, Lleanor's doom in forceast in these few lines, tut tho destinies of Esther and Isabol—the ono to be a-happy wife aud.the other to bo bo- treyod by her Leauty and volatile eplrits into great trial and suffering—are alawly . worked oat in the coursa of tho narrstive, Wo shall siot follow thoe views- kitudes of this, which each reader will chooso to discover far himuetf, but will rather intke someo oxtracts that shiall show tho textura of tho poemn. Miss Latcom fs particularly folicitous in descrip: tion,.as mauy bo scon 1o Litls portrayal of a spring tiougquat s . - . Axnot of deliclous flowors,—anemenes, Whven of wind nud suuw, sud faluily Siah Axu Labes clieel Violets bisio, tbat b A aweetiean ot of ‘earlls aud pilo gold Ll Or uvulariu ; snd 2 tuft or two Of downyatenined rocdk-saslfruge, thot Lringa New Englnnd sea.craga tielr firvt hifgd of May 3 Aud i 3t agtlefolded.oupd Trannpareat, tnged with awethyst aud roso, Al 1aintbycclore, aa wur wpring flowers xre, With fine. cool, clontental tinfe,—tho light” Of vink sud aller yusels . upon anow, . Tho exqulaito trath of this portralt will bo recognizea: by alt who havo foraged the woods and Nulds fur'the oartiest fiowers, aud thua kuow Ly heuct the lincaments’ of thelr paly, fragile benuty, 3 Intarspersed through the poem are frequent nongs of diverss metvo that add greatiy to its variety and atbeactivoness. Oua of these wo yuotoentirs, and with it talo our leave of ** Au dylof Work™: . Applevlosomne, budding, blowing, Iy tio soft May nirs Cngw wath annshing overflowing,— ¥iakoa of. fgrante,—dnifiing, sowing, Bhowering everywhero | Fulry promlsss, ontgusblug From tia happy trees! ‘White sonls futo fove-light blushing,— Love and Joy to utterstice rushing,— ‘Aro yo tiow ko theso? Huch an avertlow of -westnoss Newdw the heart of Bpring; 1n lier woallh of bloom 4 nicolnens, “Inough 0 the ripe fruil’s comploteuoss All ¥l may 1ot bring, ‘Words aro more than iille steming,—~ ionwoma of posd-will, - Whiat wla wauld do;love la dreaming ¢ What sbo cunt, oelismed of polieming, Grawmped and stinted otlll, - Apple-Ulasnomns, Lillawy brightness Ou the tido of May, - 0, to wear yur rosc-touched whitoness, Flusbluig hito bloom, with Hibtuces To gIva iife uwuy, TRIP TO_LONDON, Qe ann DuizoTony, Fou AMERIGAN s, Uy Cuinius Eyue' I'ascor, ' Idif, o didion Jevisads 1o pp. 210, Doslon § Leo & Hhepard, A porsou wishing to spond two mouths in trave ol can crods the Atlautio and pass fivs wools at Loudon about'as clissply ua bo canl sojourn for tho samo thno at & fasblonablo watering-place, and with loss cxponge than bo can'imako the trip ‘to Culiforuin, First-class passoge from Boaton or Now York to Liverpool costs £80 in golil; cxpontes on tho way ovér may bo pitt at #205 hotol and 'cah-fares in Livorpool ot £15; and rajlroad tare from Livorpool to London at 610, ‘Cho passage wcrosw the water oceupics cloven days, und tho roturn the same, loaving 1ivo weeke for sighitssseng 10’ tho mout iuturosts tugg eiey In the Gld Workl, ; _oayd for this poriod b 2,50 por day—it may b got £oF thik butu ub soveral oxcollent” Liotels— wonld, amonnt to 357,601 and tho fure homs to 2105, 1nall, the enliro oxpensos of tho eliht wesks may be rockoued in youud nwumbord at Y50, And thilg espendituro may Lo reduced by 4 rosort £ *ladgings ™ daring tho utay in Lone don,~n ratloual uytl ceguomical mannes of liviug lnbitunlly ndopted by tho best cluss of English- we. - “'ia foambility of thia chieap and pleasant tour in tully wet forth in the guids-book heading onr wotlee, All Itoms of “joforiaation naud- ed by tha stranger iy tha mstropolis vr Eugland uroulsa furnidaod, It.would be- ousier tu way what information 6f pracitenl sorvics 14 owitted thau Lo moution the mulitads of wielal details that aro fucluded. 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Wilder is . perfectly . unobjectiouablo, but ke lias - defeated the purpase of -his work by makiog 1 so tochniozl thet noua bug the students of puro.sclonee—who do not at a1l seed it—wilj ba incllued to road it, Corteluly ths tadud of youug psoply will be repslied b arrey of wolnteiligibla tesma thet n‘:-oi hi :.;: atover. polus f1 tho first portion of tho Liook, The great factn reganting tho stincturo and function of all the various organs of tha human body should be known to overy individual who hng” arrived nt tlho yeans of discrotion, but it ie not necesaty that non-professional pecsous ahottld bnrden thelr momory with the fong, herd, arbilrary names that ectotics hav applied to the muscios, and norves, and tiesuoy, and bones that muxe tho™ framo of man, 1t l too much to sakt, with o) olwo that must be tastocait (n the achool of life, and, being too much, cominon senso rojocty it, "'ho lant Hity pages of thobook, which axplain tha hiygione of tho eubject treatod, aro not oven to tho nhicbllnn wo have urged, and tho trthy they emplinaizo eannol bo too atrongly impressed upun the sttention of—ngain wo way—ald aud young. 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THE GIVER AND THE TAKER., -[Tho following -1 an attompt to verdfy o lterst tninslation o€ a poont by the Hindoa writer, Tineval Jusa, who Jived, 1t fn supposed, i tho third Sentury of our era, i{s was remarkablo for his hutrod of idalstey und caate, aud for bis alnost Chiletlan coneeption of God and fugian duly.| "Who gives woat otliers suay 1ot sce, NuF contts ou favor, famo, of prulio, Shull Oid bis wnnlict gift outweighs " Ty Lurdon of the ity wea, ‘Who gives o whom bath naught been glven, 1fv g1 1 nced, thougs suall tndeed A s the glankelilado's wind-blowt ssed; Ta Jarge v carth sud rich as hesvonl ~ orgat thou not, 0 man{ to whom ‘A s ubiall f3fl, whilo yot un earth; Y, uven to thy vavew-hld bintd, | -+ Tevive 10 1t ths livea to como | Who, brooding, keeps wrong in thonght: © Eyus uii hut greater stn e bhls - Who, {od and clothied with kindnenscs, Rliall count the Loly slme s uaught, Pur bo whio bre sl lowrs may atil ® It Bivat's imerey bn forgive 5y 1t nonm cab wave in earib or beaven Tl wretel who ativwers good with {11 —dahs G WHIler (1 the WAL, “ B e Teakiadidod (SOREEES ¢ 200w Nhe 'Tanght X " A paper printed in Eufauls, Ala, priots the following a4 o veritable incidont which-vcourred tue otherday -in that city: A ludy Lived an old nugro woman uamed Charlette, wha bagd-the 108t exalted opluteu of hier awn individulity autarigiuality, © Whonever a subjest wus under dligcuusion fu the fawily, Ciarlutte would be suro to ktito hor owu superior method of procseding i such wstiors, On uue oceasion the - lady was talkiug of voudlug vome of the childron to +ehoal, when (tuurlono‘rn; in Ler oar, as usual; *Lorl Bissuw,’ ke said, ‘what wek you pay monwy far to squd de ctila to sehool ? 1 got ono wuiart hoy pumed Juuuy, but I laruy bim l&n;l:lll‘.‘ *1ut, Aunt Churlotte,’ replied tho lady, *how can you teach your cinld when you don't know ova letter from unother ' ¢ How I -tonch bim! }I Jia mt‘:lk m‘m jok go ook au’ m‘.‘ ,down ou do 0, on [ 80y § Jouus, you tel'yo oye fra: :ln \u}a"k. muhhulngoiln. 'l lh’lu 13‘:‘; CIIICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY SPARKS-OF SOIENCE. CT 't cooknonel, Ouo cannot contomplate thia little domestio noat without & ehivar at disguat, and yot it is worth while to know soniothing of its life hin- tory. ‘Tho more facts wo can gather rogardiug hio habits of the fneects that infest or housen und flelds, the botter we are abla to rosist their invaslon and ses limits to thoir inerease, Tlio common cdckeonch’ {Matia ovientalis) 1a euppoeed to hava origiuated In Asia, whoneo it wan eartied to Furapn, nml from thore Lrought to Ameriea. It had 8o, overrun England that it moy Lo sald to hava taken posscssion of Lho island, * It was ot frst conflriod to voaport tawns, but is now fotnd in every nook and corner of the Kingdont, An tho femalo cockroach fa wing- toug,, Aoy, depends; wholly ,upon ilw logs Jfor locomotiun, it & ovident that its rapid spread in owing to R trapsporistidn fuon place 1o placo in Laggage, freight, and oven In tho weariug apparol. Tho wweot i so abundant and traublevama in Landon thac teaps for eateling it fro o commun astiolo uf wale in all the hardwato Alores, . 'Tho insnct -1aya Ita-ogrs in o silky capsuld that inin tho form of a boan, with two valvos in the intetlor dividitig it dnto two apartments, each coutaining a row of Beparatoe chinmuors, —nbout thirey 4n number,—nnd ench chiamber inclosing n liglo egg. 'ho capsulo ar egg-cnse in about threa-oightha of “Ru nel in length, dnddeorly throa-gixtaonthe - of -an fnch wide.- Many duys aro required for wwiposition, and during this period the femsln may bo soon running about with the capsula pertly protrnding from her body. 1t in ot this -timo that tho embrsos ero forined, and shortly slter "the ‘eap- aule’ ‘is ~dropped’ tho larvio aro linteh: ed. Ilzmmel, tho' Germnu noturallst, onco: placed & « femalo - cockroach * and an egg-pouch- - that - had just been nhzndoned by anothier fomale, under o bell- plassi On discovering the poueh, tho cock- roach oxawmined it carofully, turning it shout in all dircctlons, and thon taking 1t botweon hor front legs mado & lougitudingl opouing: in it Yhrengh this vponiug she vasisted. thio hitle whito larvae to coma forth, siditg_thiom gontly withy her antonnw,” Tu a fow seconds after thele Ihoration * tho' Inrvd woro able to walk, “after wluch tho aecouchense lofe thom to take -caro of themselves,. R e f _1u ordivary clrenmmstances the larve, ue soon a4 iy aro exclinded from tho cgg held 1 tiie ponch, dischargo o liquid which oftony Lho ce- ment closine the * toothed odges of tho Tonpi- tudinal slit in tho capsule, and thus are able- to emorgo from i -fnta tho onter world. 'An woon aw thoy havo.escaped tho. openiug of tho copsula or ogg-ponch clones ngain, and thus tho swpty caso loukis oxsctly us it did boforo it lost ity coutéuts, '© T ¢ : . I'ho larvm change thelr: slin nix timos bhefora reaching the poricct stato. ‘Thoy sro colorless on llm,nmorglut;.[mm tho old skin, but assumo their nmial tint (i the courso of o foir days. AL the fiith moult the insect outerd,tho pupa siate, and st the sizth, which takes placo at tho ond of alx wcoks, the pupa becomen a perfoct Insect. T'ho fomale fs distinguisbod from the. mala - by tue largor sizo of, the abdomen, and by the info- riar stze of tho siogs and clytra, c The cockroach ia omulvorois, and’ devoura nll sortn of dend substances, vegetablo and aujmsl, 1t Is fond of tho blacking on booty, and will con- suma tho leathorand sil., But while it doosiso mych dumago by eating garments and destrosivg provisfoun, it way 1 womo enses render an ofil- cient-rervics, -I¢ feuatd cpon the bed-bug with extromo avidityy sndwill rid' n ship ur-a onsa of tho noxfous creaturo.. It. wonld -bo & hard question, , Lowgvar, . for Lousckorpers to decido whiloh of "thesa Lwo, ponts they would profer Lo ¢libe[uh 0L i oxpidfind LF (Lo otlier, 'Thero insomo comfort in kuowitig thut tho coekeonch also hiag sonio natural enomies dmony sho lower auimaly, Tha badgehog considers. it. delectable.food, snd & tayag ono kopt i 6 kitehion will clear 1ho nunrt~ aient of the terelblo nuimanced, Alwost all insgets 1vorous Likds ara who fond 6f'tho cockroach, MMy, Wond; tho- Tinglish -'nuturadt, rélates a stary-which shows that- to sonse inman -palutes tha "cockroack iy ay oxceedingly agrocablo tit-bit. Two youug ladics Irom Jamaica, who wers ut séhool §in Londen somo thirty yedrs bgb, wore, Tound to'havo the habit of *rising at night’and dosconding to tho kitchon in order to sup upon cockronches, When remonstiutod with upon tho filthy practico, thoy, defonded thetuolves by suving cockroaches woro clean fecdetd, aud cere tainly s fit for eating ae whrimps. Tho dlsagroenbla odor which the cockronch omits, und which goon permeates nll places that it luhabity, prodeorta from o datk-colored flaid which it diseharges frow ibo mouth. The cock- roach loves warmth and moisture, bonco jté pop- ulousness in Litcheus whera iivo nud water are almost ever present. 1t fa n night-prowier, and #warma out from ita geerot fatrs on tho doparture of daylight, "' S i For thio destruction of thia cocliroach 1. Har- rin, tho luto owinont ontomologlst, recommends » wmixture. contnining a tabte-spoonful of red load, the name umonnt of Tidin meal, with nio- Insues enongh to weka a thick batter, Set this on nplate ot uipht in places frequonted” by the insocta and pll thut eac of it will_bu poinoned, Angther piopuration 18 coposed of oue tea- spoonful’ of powdgred srsenic, with a tablo. ssoonful of mashed potato, Crumblo this ovar: night ot «bed-thne whero the .iusccts will find it, and itas suid to- bo an' effectnal poison, Uroat caro should bo exarcised [u the uno of ‘such dangerous ageuts, Au inuocont matlod of des- troying cockicuches isto place bowl or basin cuntiuningsa hitele molaszes ou tio tloor at m{.'m. A bit of wood, roating ode ond on- tho floor and" tho other on Lhe edge of tho vessdl, serves o8 s bridgo to conduct tho lusocts 10 the Bweot * daposit, OncoIn tho trap aud ity lippery sides’ provent ratrest, aud thus cock- roaclios muy bo canght by tha thousauds. Various iusect powders uold at tho drugglsts may be asod for thoir oxtormluatlon. - Somo tropicst -#pecios of cockroaah ava of cnormous Bizo and vory troublesamo from thelr nabit of “tylhg. ‘Wi Kakerla inviqnis, which inkinbity Ca enuonml\nmzlll syoelites vzeoods un fuch and three-quartars in Jengtly, sud in tha oxtent of its winge four inchos aud a holf, They aro tha pout of the - Antilles, where thoy Bo nbonnd that wally, floors, furmturo, evorything, aro covered with thom,and *1c [y imposdlbls to prosoryo, food from thuir doprodutions. It s anfrped Lhat thsy,will in a'singlo night vat holos iuto trunky, coscy, and bays, ntid dostroy objeots that wara supposod- to ba juaceesmble to them. 'ths Kakerl Americana, “shich infosts tho warm regions of tho United States, la srum 1 to Bglnchesdong, 0 0 E Uno epociey of cockrdach, ‘the Plalamodes unicglor, s vory shuudant tu. thie woods in 1lli- uois, . It may bo fonnd under tho loose bark of stumps and decayed troen ag afl sensony of - tho oar, Itd egg-casea are aboat half- mn ‘loch u lengtl, and “of ‘& uh\uluf. mnnngm?'color. Tho Jlaita Germanica and Matta Lappondee, two -opoan ipecics, Tuu wild fu _thie woads about 16, ‘They uro both domesticated in the northorn countios.of thu Continoit, It Is clain- cd that the - B Germanica was- Introduced. into | Ltunsia by the army returniog from the ‘moven- venra' war, It i8 now very commion’ ju’ the Tioukos of Bt, Peténiburg. 1t outs almont ovory- thing, but proferawhito braaid to Sonr and 1mnat. e Ulalta Lapponica is Vory destructive to tho ¥molod Bnh'rmnnrnd tor-winter. ‘I'no *tCioton bug" (Eelolna (Jermanica) that #o triod the vouly of housekoopers tn Now York, Ioston, and Chl- cng% even, is n pelo, shall spdcles of ecook- ool - * THE ISLAND OF3CAMIQUIN, . Among.the 1,200 islouds that form the Philip- pine group, eltuated to tho north of Burneo and Calulien, i tho Malay Archipologo, llow the fittle lsland of Camigutn, Itinabout 10 ntlew loug and 7 milea‘in’ extremo widily, ond ls dlstant s0ti0 8 fuilva from tho coast of Mindauao, s lurgo island of -tho group, baving an ares of 25,000 sijuaro wiles, C: u wa formosly oue of {he wost fertile sud prosperaus of tha smaller iat-- ands of - thio Archipetago: ' It bud population of 95,000, s0il prodagod munila. hetwp, si tabaceo of the very firab quality. 1471; after s’ berl tending througls ‘she neighboring.fslands and felt: strongly sy’ far as- tho Islabd of Zebu, Camiguin wis denolated by the eruption " of a now volcano, aud Lius sinco remalusd.elmost un- Dut in May, inbabitablo. * Most of tho houscs areia -ruins, atid* tho rice-fields ~aud groves of usi ilis (thy, plunt producipg the manilla lll:;u()f 4 o sarséd aud evargrawn by o wecoud Jungls. . fho Puilippine Jstauds bavo o voleunio struo- ture and chuius Of woun tatok run through them (rom north to vouth. A correspondont connect- ed with tho ~gcientifie” expedition oo board the Challengor thus describes the present condition af tly Volcauo du Camiguing A chaiu of bigh voleahiy peaks, womowhut Irregulur in form, culimiuates noar the centro of the fwlund fn s mountain, the height of which iy givan st 5,933 feet; ond u littlo way iuwaed, jnst belind tho _ voleauo, thero {8 auother peak 4,500 fect Ligh, Thé active voleano forms au irregu~ 1sx cons 1,60 taet 1 Lalklt, ‘It rivos un frow the sos, witis & slope A% moas palute of upwards of 50 degraes. Tub geusral solof of the oous is sugar, aud, eries 6f violent enrthiguakus, ox-' {8 very striking. ' Thero in an_irregular coulro near tho top, aud from this donss’ wasncs of ntoam escape, ‘'more prominontly, it appoars, hight and in tho morning, when ' the air coolor and there {8 mora rapid condeneation; nod hore and thore pale-bluo smoko atizon from hmorous elifts and fiimernlos on tlje flauks of tite mountain. At'uight all the fleaugos round tho erator and noar Lha 16p slow out” red from {néandoscent mattor within, Tho cona conslsts alnost entirdly of n lmln nray trachyte, very el liks kombo of the trachytey ol the Auvergno district, Mueh of the masd haa hoen cantted w tho forn of mud, ana afterward "conuolidated ; but thero are, likewiso, bads uf what appoars to bo trtio lava," Tho mouritain has heen gradually growing in Riz0 Ainco ita fiest aruption, four, yeary sgo, In faur mantha’ tume it bad inoreasod (o ‘s dismo- ter of nbunt }{ of n e, and Li a hoight of {00 fool. Tt fs now noariy 2,004 feet higl, winlo the basa hing conptantly bxtonded wutll it s entire- Iy cavored the town of Catarmay, formorly the targest on tho island, with s popuiation of 10000, Al thet ramams of it now 18 few ry- ined walls, For miles on eithor sido of the vol- cano, fn the path of the two monsvons, the trees nto Lilritod and veyot: n (s deslroyed by the eulplivrous ‘oxlislationy, ~ e 1 ‘ h 'rlclmhnml}m‘-br-a}u. An‘n’lrl'hu wfil}fithnlwuot: “THE SCHOOL QUESTION IN POLITIC3.” o the Editor of The Cldcano ‘Tribune: . Bnanewoan, 1L, Jane 7.—In your isauo of .t day, an editorinl, deatiug at consmdorable lengi with tho relattous of Phe Catholie Church with the polities of tho countty, and which, from yonr standpoint, places tho Church in tho altitudo of nan aggrensor, neads litilo explanation from the ather sida, Ao as to ba ablo to judgo of the fucts as thoy roally are. Hurely there ought not to bo tanch nocessity for cxplaining the fuatico of - tha law rocently pnsecd in Obio, which simply gives to Gatholies the right ta warship God in publiv Instituttons, which was denied them boforo, Aftor imputing to Catholics a donira to destroy tho public-sehool systom, Titi TrisuNg very ingoniounly diuposes of tho measura, o follows: " "oz la lttio doutrt 1t Jias taken a practical shape in Oblw, whers fho Geghan bil roucerning religions services I piblie institutions (vliid enoigu in itaci) waa made & Catlolio faatie, and sppealed ta the Catholla KOEA 10 FanZn theimselves ot taskae, and on ryiglouy groundz, with the Domorsatio. party, Tue wiiwl question had already been agltated iy certuin lueali- wuch “an ‘Clovelaid, Colwmsbus, Cincinuali, ant ‘wiedo, and it bozaig evident that the witack on tho public-ehioo} Bystom was the nitimatn Tarposs of o alifanco botween thy Catholic clergy atuf tho Demo. oratic party {n that State, Heuce ihe declaration of thio Ohty Mopublicuns Uonventlon ugaiust uy division of thy sclinol-fund wan Hrauly ; and it unuestionubly rafiects thi seutiment of the Topublican ariy eveeys where, Now, {t"tlio' Goglinn'bill wau * right aud just it ftaolf," why wero Catholics douted tho right to worship God in the publio jumitutions of Olilo boforo they * rangod thomsclves on mas3e, and on roligious grounds, with tho Democratic party” of that Stato, tu ropeal the odions clausn ? Voo question of freedom of canwcicuca m publio mstitutions had long beon agitated in that Btate; sud, “right and just™ thongh it way, botr ‘many of {ha leadlng papol the country ussiated the Catholics to wot tho tights guscautced thom by the Counmtitution, I:lenve Pig ‘Frinesg to inform ite voaders, Init wet ovidons that {ho Cathohea-would nover got thege rights {n-any other way but by organizing and developlng AuMicient strengtli “with thicir uyin- patbizers to rovesl auch barbusous clansed 2 ° Tir ‘UninusE canoot Lo ignorunt of the fact thint thern are other States of the Union whora Catholics are not_ only dogled the right to wor- whip God fu public institutiohy, but are actually inelimbla to oftico of any kind onaceount of their religion. ' In thokd States thoy uro organizing'for tho pirposo of gotbiug their rights ;" sud yob no won} of cheer or pympathy conigy to tlemfrom dueli journafs as Tt Trasusg, Tt ouly Wifow montlis siues tho cafighitened Commonywenlth of Massnchuuatts allowod ‘Catholles'to worslilp in public institutions, snd then only allor* intny yoars' ogltution, withuut any sugport’of their causa by the leading papord of that Stato, If 'wo oxcept thd Sprivgfleld Republicun. —Sucly dls- evitnination sgalugt Catholica 19 o shumotul do- bauchory of tho simple law of Justico aud tolor- atiob, abeaudalous dopartiro from tho principles latd “down by tho feunders of our Chatter of Frocdom, and almost sufliclent to mako loyaity italf venal, 1t Now Ifampshiro has u clauso i ita Conatitution oxcluding Catholics from oftlco, what guarantaen can Catholles axpeet from grips g politicians and ' blgoted qall_isnuu in otber Btates of tho Union? Tho only justico they got {4 by concort of action aud unlon with men of candor and houosty of principlo, a8 'way tho case In Ohlo und Massachusotiy. el Can i;nu oxpeet that milliona of our population’ st to bo dpuicd the 1ights guarantoed thom by the Causfitution, by ineans so vilo, and_submit to injurles so palpable sml galling 2 “Bofora You chargo us witn w doslgn to sobvest tho liber- ties of tho Constitutiou, it world bo well, firat, to ask if Catliolics ara in tho posrosion of all thoso libertied. Iu uot tho taste and wpirit of tha nye, in (Lis respeot, & roproxch to thio tardy liberality of State Logislaturcs ? Whop you sco tha lavara of ‘bigotry and Jutolarauce placed un- der the mighty pillara of tho Constitution, ix It not time thnt you, a4 a guardian of fros lustitu- tlong, ehould ‘enter a protest against sucli’ a wronj¢ L0 & portion of your fellow-citizend? Or {3 1t bocnuso thcso dizctiminations aro made only against Catholics that tha pross in silent on tho great injuatice? ‘Tho freadom of tho public Pioss, direeting {te offorts nnder thid fustitutions o tha Condtitutton, 1 tho most olfective kocnrl- ty fur publid froodom'; but, wheu it noglacts "to proteot sgdinst’ a palpablo wrong,-=an" abr ment of uny portion of tho pouple’s ‘rights, =1t follows tho ahallow-nnd trencherons -populasity which ig to'be courted by aubservieucy, sud pur- chneed at the exponso of. principle nud duty. "Phera ara princtplos -of justico whicl uto on- tirely foralgn to tho merceuary politician, but feomt which tho enlightoucd ststeemon oxtracts tha propar meany by which conntries aro lor-’ woutously governod. Indoed, religion I8 do- praded .whon it is brandisbed ns . political weapon, oud thoero is no modinm in It ; withor it in justiflod by Loly zeal and forveut piety, orthe ubpeal to it baconies liablo to the most” susple- 1ous laputations, v TS = Tneed not remind Pux Tamuse that, of all Lhe leading natious of tha civilized woild to-day, the United States alone donies: froodowmn of eon- seioneo la public inatitutions; b y Bpoakinit of ctholics who favor Catlolio od- neatlon sud a dlvision uf the sehdol fund, Tux IWILUNE KAyt 3 ol b oy “Choss who do ought ok to lisve .voluntarily sought & hono fu & country und Gnder. o Guvernment . woro 1hy sepazetion of Churelaud State 38 oue of tho fane dumbntal privciyles, Or o8 much 04 to ray, thot Catholics are all foreignors, ~Will Tiig Tiinune toll ty what -hay becowno of the dostendauta of 1ho * Ontholics of Ameriea” who signed @t oddvey, haaded by 1umhap Carrotl, to Uoorge Washington, in 1700, to which thoy recelvad the followiny roply from tho first P'residout of the Ropublio ¥ 1 Liope over 10 866 “America swmong tho- foraniost na. this §1 examples of Justico nud iberality s and 1 pro. sumo that ymr felluw-citizens mil not forjet the jat. slotlo part which yor took i ths accomplilimen of Thintr Hovolition, and the entablictinent of theie dove ermnent, o the fmportant rukistanco they roceived from o uation {n which tho Roinay Cathollereligion fa profunnl, 3 CEN T What has become of the descendants of the Friendly Sons of 8t. T'alijck of Philatelpbis,— oh organization which, subscribed over £100,000 Ing ol aud sllvar coin when Washington, with his army, lny at. Valley Forgo, in dirg ueod of foud and elothing ; anil of -which tho Father of hia Country wftorwards bocama an honorary moin- bor, on which lio nttorad tho fallowing words + Tuccopt with' stigniar pleasuro tho ausign of so worthy o fraternity us that of tho ous of Bt, Iate rick of (s clty—s Hocioty distinguisbed for tle Tirsa adlurenco of 11 teombens 10 the. glorfous cavse i whieh wo nro embarked, s What biss bocowa of -1ho descondants of the firat Commodore of tho Amorican Navy, Joln Uarry, wio waa ioade Commander of tho fit Confinental veusel, the “Lexingtow'?” What tas hecome of tho 22,000 Catblics which Gueorge tho Third said Iroland fuemabed sho flevolution, and for which bie 1mposod frosh ponaitios on thy Catholics of Iraisud ? 'To lmpntation of Lur Tuisuny la neither fair nor well-founded, It thoro wos any body of peoplo in tho ‘United +| Btatos more fiiinly steadtsul vath patiiotinm and tidolity to the Amorican Usion, wud whicl coy- tributed more to the foundiug of pur libertica, st s tlma that. * tciea mon's souls,” thau the Cntliolica, history does them great jujustice, » AMEZRICAN UaTioLIo, P Washington's White Iforves, According to G. WV, P. Cuntls’ recolloctlons, the grooming of Wasbinyton's whito horsea wa somothing surprising. Too unight-before tho liorucs woro -espeeted” to Lo nddow they woro covered entiroly over with & paste, of which whiting was ths priucipat compotiont part ; tien tie amels wero swattied iu body-clothes, and left to wlgop upon closu straw, 1u tho worning iho compovition had becomo hord, wsa wol yubbed w, and curried and brarhod, which pro. Ccens gave to thu coatd o boamitul glossy und satin-like appearsnco. The hoofu “wers thon Llacked aud polistisd, the mouths wastied, tosth ma\ud and cleaued, sud the loopsrd-wkin house % being properly adjusted, the white chuigers were 1od ous for sesvios. PG FAMILIAR. TALK. BOME ENGLISH AUTHOPESSES, Mre, Ienry Wood, tho popular and prolific novelist; who 18 perhsps bost known by tho #tory nud the play of **Laet Lynno,” was born in 1820, and boro in hor maiden daya tho name of Ellon Price. Iler fathior wan a leading manu- faciuror fn Vorcastor, nud hor husband 18 con~ nected with tho shipping trade, It fasaid that #ho hing oducatod hor family by har favora with tho pon, Misg Braddon, ono of tlio moat kenea- tional ns well an- nuccessful writers of fletion, is tho wife of Mr.Matwoll, tha publishor of Ehos Tanc, awd lived noar Biackioath, on tho Thamos, Qouslp, whoso words are 1o s faken with gront caution, wags that at ono time Miss Braddon's Imagination’ bocame domontosd -(hvough oxcoz- giva action, and that sho had to enduro enforcod retiremont for o torm pf two years, Tho Indy _who wears tho num de plume of « Holz Leo," hives in Devoushire, hue auntally sronds o poriion of timos on-1ho Continent. Whon paut tho ‘perfod of her yonth, Holm Leo Jout hor property through tho_failuta of somio baukitg or moreantilo bouse, and was obliged to rosort to tho.pen for s lhvehlhood. Ithods Hroughtou is the daustiter of-an English clergy- wman, and I8 gald to b *'nico lookiniz” And whill, an s rule, tie gentiomen do not admiro her, Slio has too sharp o tongus-and dares to bo pe- cullar. Bho i a nieco of the.late Huoridan Lafaum,- sathor of ** Unele filas,” . and othor wiriking novels, Oenind i3 o heritago of the Shoridana,” Laly Dufterist, o granddaughtor of Ttiehant Tiinaley Bheiidan, has praduced some mritorionn poems. , er wow, Tord Dafferin, Gavornor of Canada, Ly added honor to tho t- tla lio hina Inherited by bis brilinut writings, Of Miss do o Bnnio, who writes abovo the siguature of *Ouida,” rumor koops afloat vory puzziing and contlicting statemonts.” llor real- dence.Liss boen for somo timo in Florenoo. . A portrait pablished in ono-of her lsto novely represonts her au a falr woman, In years' vomo- vhoro botwéen #0 ahd 40; IToF facp hna air,'ex- pression of amiabulity, but,.judzing from her booli, hes heart must ba full of rall. Hbo de- "lights In nothing 8o much agin dendly sarcasips nupon love and upon women: AL some lmewm lier expotionca * Owida ™. hns iimdoubjadly boan sorely woundod du Lot prido or, her alections, and sho revenges horsalf Ly tho must saavago at- tncks upon tho charactor of hior own sex,’ Bho desorven whatever anperaions aro cant itjion lior nao, for, thord i fio womag living whoso intlu- cneo is mora hlighting. 5 ¥ . Miss Ctinrlotte Mavy Yonzo is o dangbter of an Englisk army oflicor, W. C. , nud lier honto haw boon for maevy years in Hampshive, Sl began pablishing in 1818, ot the age of 25, ©nd tina over ninee hoon n most hidustrions sriter. Tho number of nor books, many of thom throo-volumo novels, had noveral yoars agn feachiod abovo ffty. Bho sitenpty Wrstoyy and biography aa woll na flction. Miss Yonga'is n dovotod churchwoman, Julis Kavonagh, al- though born in Jreland, may bo included among gl thoresser, . llar Tavorito storiod, Nachinlio™ aud ** Grace Loe, " wore papular in America, twonty or more yeurs ago, llor last novel, recontly” published,” has Doon sovorely troatod by tho oritics, who docliro that, it i & vaiy wenk suceassor, of her early works, Miss Kayonagh 1n ono yoar gmmynr than Miva Yongo, Dinving Deen born in 3821 . 5 Mea, Mutock Cratle wny marriod in 1465, at tha ngo of 'l” to_Dr. tieorgs Liltio Cruik, Profesaor sish Iistory and Litorstare in Quoon's Colage, llelfast, “n voluminous wsnd accurata writer, and the author of n standurd * Ristory of Euglish " Literatura and Longuage." Mrd, Craik woes loft a widow, with an lufant daughter, iu & littlo moro than & yoar after hor marriage. Mra. Ceall luherited bor litorary tnate xnd pale ontn from hor fathor, Mr. ‘Tomas Mulock, an eccentiio but intellactinl man who Iollowed liv- oraturu for a_profossion. Tu Mooro's diary Mr. Malock is alluded to ag *tho nad Irisjunan,"” &uid Byrom, In Lis Taveuna lettors, spesks of mm as having * something of wild talout In him, mixod with-n dug loaver of absurdity,—ns thers must bo “in_ oll * talont Jot “looso in two world withoat o martingale Mr, Mulock was an Oxford man, & momber of Magdalon ifall, #nd & chum of Uaorgo Canning. TFor inauy years he waa o:‘nnlploll in oditing . pro- vinctal newsnapors, snd whilo thus ongagod v Stoke-uport-Tront, Stafordshiro, biy two chil-, dron, Dinah Maria aud Donjamin, wera .born to hin. 1w Qaughtor wns chiolly sall-oducated, holug greatly noglocted bv her “erratis paront. At 17 sho wae ontiroly desertod by Dim, and, Lelng thou mothorloss, Mrs. 8. C. Hull took pity apon her forlorn condition, and secured tha publication i Clambers' Edinburgh Journal of, womo short storles sho had writton, Bastora she was 20 sho lnd produced sevoral capital juvonilo books. “Tho Olgivics” her carliost’ novel, was publishod anonymourly in 1849, and excitod_considerable_controversy, ~boing, de-, notinced by soma readers as immoral (un accoynt, of its loading incident, tho lspyo fram, virtio, of & marriod woman), and belug aa rtrougly up- hiold by othiorn who enjoyed tho ovidint power iy its pagas, It was several timen voted ont of. “Tno Portico” Libary at Manchestor, and e many tinies voted iu sgain, Thin contosi over the boolk gavit notorioty and a widor civeula- tion, The firabueo Mins Mulock mudq of her' ljtarary gains was in providing Tor her brother's aducation. At ler oxpouso ko passed through, Tondon Univorsity, and was tralned for tho pro-. teasion of a civil ongiacer, ~ Ha displaved miuch, ability in his vocation, aud fouud . piofitablo,om- ployment {u Anstralis, Prior to hiex murringo, Mies Mulock Mved i n quigt oud Inoxpensive. mwaoner at Comdon Town, noar Londop. She was at tbat tioio . described |y nminble and bonevolont In charactor, Jvely “and originat i converoation, ' and ~ ducidedly odd in dress and mannors. Her’ fgure wag slight and graceful, Lot featuros’ comuonplace, aod ber oyos large, gray, and prominently wet, Rho was foud of daucing, and, like many at:ather literary wWoman, wad wora Elu:qu! with 2 com- pitoent for her good looks’ than for her good writing, Althoiigh her fathof, wuy n Digsenter and’ » lay_preachor, sho s & ‘ioniber’ of thio Churels of England. aid Is dooply ratigipus, Jeat Ingolow was born I Doiton, Lincotii- shiry, iu 1830, and hay restded moat of hor Jito jn Tondon, lor fathier. Wiltiam Trigolow,” Xwq., vvae feom Ipswicls, Suffoll. 1lor fiat vofuino of poonn was published 1 1863, and immedisiely gava_ hor o high rank npiong tha. pacts of Ln- Iand. Xor. books, which. iuclugo novels and Tvomles a4 woll 08 poems, have hud an oxtond- ed gale, votme thne ago bolug st duwn &t 100,000 copiea, When our own Lonlss Alcott wes for the firt iime in Loudon, abe paid a violt ta Miss l;lgu}o\v and prigted this accaiint of, hot luter- viow: . . . v . Coming at Jast ta & quict atreet,-whore all tho houns wrg tay with window-Loxes full of towers, we reache d Mise Ingelow’s, In tho diawing-roomn 'we found the mothor of tlie poctens, o truly beautiful old lady in widow's ca gown, with the sweelost, rerencat Taco T nver P davghters sat with Yier, botly older than 1 had fauefed thens o Le, bat both vory af- tractivo women, Eliza looked an It sho wrole' tho paatry, Juin tho prodo, for the former wura gurls, hiad B delicate face, o eydd, atid that fudescribabla symo- thing whilch AURGeatd gahlie: the labler ‘was plain sather stout, hwir tonched with gray, visy - yot_ corata manters, aid 8 clear, Mralghiforwara giaice, whith 1 Jiked w0 much 'that 1 forgave hor oo tho apol for writng thoso dull stories, . L ., Haths behyr banlifaly and_ bath latorig audes the 1 elo tiat St wan proper o allude to eact othior’s works, we tried (0 xchatigo 3 Lot coimplisidute) Liualicd, husis teted; Taughed; ani wisely touk rofugo 1 » safor ML Joct,” Jeau budl been abroads s wu ploasantly com- wroi sotes, wind T enjoyed tha sound u€ her pacultsrly Tausical yolte, i which | seeraed 0 Lear tho. Livezy thythm Of sorno of bor ClLrmlugsupi, + « o Later 1 loirned that Mies Iugelow was oxtronely con- seevative, mud was very ndignunt vhies » porttion for wowian's Tiglit Lo volo was offored for bos sluntury, A rempunt vadical toly mo this, and shaok et ants om0 head pathetically over Jean's usrroniess; but whien T hioard. thet onca & week sovural hoor mouls Qined cowfortably. i the pipasknt kuwe.of tho posient, 1.forgave bior couservativpy, aud regretted that an nu- conguerablo avursion 1o dinnor’ parlies made o do- elino ke dnvitation, . TS 5 Chisting (. Rowettl, a pootesii of muchless fae, 16 of tho wiiue sie of Mied lugolow, Yor fatlier wos an exilo from Ttsly, and ber brothor, Uabrie} Daute Kosettd, 14 distinguishod both ne & Joot aud & painter. Tionidos lior buoka of postry, s nout\)l Liag publivhad » volume of prosa stories for children. Hor osldence I8 fu Lune dou, Atisa Dora Greetiwell, whouse xloctrfl‘}lu L friondly.circlo of American” readors, Was born at (reenwoll Fory, County of Ducham, in 1534, Khe haa publishod soveral voldtes of poems,— tho Hrst fu I1818,—and yarious proso works, ‘Tlivreis w provalont hinprecalons that ra, Alar. garot Olipliant, tho vopular novollut, 4 & nalive of Aeotlsnd, but #ho is mlmplfilnr Beottish do- scout, Ler birthplace bolug Livarpool. fler atden nume was Wilkon, and her piother was o Hcotchwotnan ‘of pronvuncad character, ° Mry, ulltflunl way 29 years old whan, in 1849, hor first worl, . ** Pasdagod in tho Life of of Mrd, Margaros AMaitland of Huuuysido,” was given to the melv. Tt thot With inumediate approvel, aud Lias beou followed bya long trotn of {mbhn:.uouu. sopsrated fromn each othies by might jutervala, Mru, Oliphant's fuma rosts moat socuroly upon Yier ‘-Uhronioten of *Cerlingford,” and the Lite of Ed'verd lrving," 5 Miw, Ellgabsth Charlos, formerly Mivs Bundle, ulg-long ba cherished as (o euthor of the Behonbarg-Ooita booke & sorles which Liavé oa- Joyed extreordinary popularity botitin Englay. ari Aniacien, Tho bato of (hopo books 1 T Unlted Hiates alous liss boon npwarda of 209,110 volumed, Mr. Andrew Chinsles, o London m . chant, Toft thoantharess s widow somo wic o 8ovon years ngo. Thele union waa not Lles ey withy cinlldron, and Mrs. Chintlea hiay devoted oy 1ifo to literatura and to nctivo dacds of cliarity, “Uoorgo Elot™ (Marlon C. Evans) fa'(yg daughiter of a clergyman, and was born “In Iy, Dyshiro in 1820, Ao sfors of hér union wien AMr, Goorgo 11. Lawes, tho wnthor anl philn (. hier, §a thus rolatod by Mien Loutea Aleott iy thg uttor fram s hicl wa lisve alecady quateds oy, Lowes, having forgiven and raceived b \ unfoithful wifo, cannot, nccording to Lngl.y law, abtaln o divoree, altliongh the ity g twico dosortad him._ Misn Evand 18 eonsdi g Nia wilo, nud eallad Mra. Lowen by thotr Irior, 1, in z[lnln of gonsip and ocandal, Owing to hop paitlinr powtinn, Mra. Lowes soldom goey faty fenoral pocloty or sees atrangers, tho il ov. re ‘anxlond to moot- hory and-nany of 4 ot frionds are nmong the wine aid e, All whom I saw loved, vospeeted, and dofeud | hier s somo vpon the piea. that, if goufg, li.o cliarity, covers o mittituda of s in mon, vhy not 1 woman ? Othors, that outiders know 4, littlo of thio worrowful story that thoy cuun.: Judye tho oava ;. and, though thoy may condving tho ant. they van pity tho nctorn, and loartily ad. , ab is admirabilo in the life and Jabor of an ho firat wifo “of Mr. Lowes hng died wice this necosut way-written, -nmmd Goorize: Bhiot ;0 legally boars the tmne of Mrw, Lewes, llcr hoine § in S8t, John's Wood, sod in her saloy 19 {0 bo met tho mosl sclect terary society of )on. Ton. -r. Gladstono i3 a frequent visitar th o, and Mr. Browning & copeeinily fand of Lotly thy withor of **“Uhe 1;ife 6f Goothe™ atd'the authnr af * Adam odo,” and aponds mach thmo with thom. Goorge Bliot In ns romarkablo for liee plain fnoe s tor, hior grpnt. lusellect, aud s guitn seunltive to thoe Tach, ™ Hor hand Is mansivo, anl is “wmd to rovemblo’ thut of the Iato Loid Droughu in contour, € - LIFE ASSOCIATION.OF AMERICA, Currespondinee nf The Chicago Tribune, Sr. Tovts, Juno 1, 1575.—~1Tho_ recont tapart of the Dopuly Buperintendent of {tie Tnsutine Dapartinent of Mienourd, sosting forth tho con il of the groat.monotary dustitution of iy Jatituto,—tho Xdfo Aseozintion of Amoriea,— making n most favorablé and nailnfactory oxtitit wf ity afairs, and clearing [b of cortain gnusolers imputations of rumor,—tho roport boury the conclusion and result of n prolonged, oxhaustive, sud detailon examination of -the ausets, scemi- ties, investments, and linbilities of the Cout pauy,—has beon tho subject of conpldeihin congratulation s financial and bLumnes circlos, and will " Lo recogmized in Chicagd, Whoro tho ‘Compaiiy docs & Iarge busi- newy, and in all seétlons 6f tho country, oy some. thing 1iko a'vindication and triumph of tho torest and principlo of sound lifa-fndenmity, Tho veport places the nescty, which arématuly of an oxcoptionally-Ligh' charactor, at’ 24,217,477, inehidibyg lonils ‘on” Nrgt-class roal-outate soéuri- Hes, '$2,194,372.70 real estafs owned by Con- F,nny. aumineumbered, 270,400 ; Missouss uind nited Btatos bonda and stocke; mnarkot valie,— 010,422 3 oanl in banleand ot dopartmens; & 000; ascerund Intorest, 84,304, ofe, surplus -~ to policy-liolders . over form of linbility i4 shown by tho utate lack but akmatl Traction of $1,000,000, The Lifo Arsociation of Amorics was crgan- ized In 1808 ou na origival -vlan, 100 of the . ing solla men of tha city taking vut §10,00) pois icies on the 10-voxr endowulent plane=ths pro- aiuma pradasing a capitul, and hethog in an- nual 1weoma of £70,000 to 35,000, ° Bubsegucut- Iy oneh Slato was organized into & 6 emb under superviston of a.resident Board. of L'ris- toes, Tho plau and manngamont bave. do- velopod iuto national - populanty, tho Dislness belng ropretiontod 1o 1te 000~ pollcios, * fusuring * $11,460;729;" " tho dishursemonts on déath-loyses, tho past year, ngureguting ovor 600,000, 'Tho verv. compre- bonuive ylan of the, Company,,and perhupg tho tocrot of the ubparallolod growth of busines Tiew partly in tho privciple thot it adcures tc each State and locality tho advantages of a toesl otpunization; with the strenpth, and uamo, and redources of o nattonal. inatitntion,—tho invest- wout of Immonno Bums, fopresenting tho net promiums, beiwg made smoag tho local commu- nities, and used to sustain tho induntriesof thoso woctions whore tho busivess is dons. TTo zen- oral oflicors of-the Company aro: Hi-W. (W, Tfough, Presidont ;- Edwin W. Uryant, Actuary;‘J. H. Piarco, Heczotary. - " K TRIUHPH OF SCIENCE, THOFER” noMiliy“on “thila “GkAtl dut tvo—so Wiliym Hhbakspesra sakd. . o & Dut tothe earth some good dott glvé—DBill bad a.lovcl head, And i an crgament Waso wauting, to Hhake ) The poulali, o . clopments Love, furnisliod all | 1 Wit “Twaa Just Doyond ihie Keuses Hue, or_soracwshero thereabotity, i A vetoran "boppor equole’ &-squesl, then shriekedau i ilis Tocky Muun- % 2 70 tho shcred Craoku. Thero wes mirstialing. in the valloy, thers wa newn s thio alr, And wuon-abiout “tou~handred ilioh fréab rec wers thtrs, FoTE % oo d e 01d Xerzca witis' his leglous could_no bave takeu,a trtel:, . % For they were piled upon tho-groid: fall tricuts- . turoo milestbicks . ot .o & - \\‘nll,i:m) mioruing-bright . aod-early, ss ol began to row P Tl regonerating alarices on the Lroad oxpansy Lulo Tlso communder looked wbout him froia” Lio HinG BURA DK, 7 Tl e e s e Aud liko our wn greal Sbormiss, Lis Attls pleco ke spoke: “Bravo comrardes, there ligy Kavsos, slch fn caculauts and gritus, sl : Aud eyoud for ramed Atlivourt atrotches aut hev fer ifu platns, T 3 We'll go through 1t forward, ful- = jownel ™ " o You'd've thought tho way they skippod, that éach "hop per wan b flea, v Aud thoy rafded like true bumsiors—latg’ ficlas ‘azd . gnrdony wasto— A Never feft behlnd o nibiilo, for efilier mau o heust OFf Ay tLing Lo kubBiut ‘o= wlii edlug tielr 83 fats, Concludal thoy hiad Letter gob rlght up and enigrate, » whirlwing, Some struck the river sad coms o diad, Ups JSSaHEE oo} Until the conaoring mopnée Lod widleputad vy 0Of ull that territory thub thereabouts.2id lay, - Thts 18 Hiow tho wiatter rou "o clbilang ‘o the dame pdgng -t 2 e Dat ca'rny‘:nu' iho coming spring, tha hoppers hopied s, Then {hiy Sromsed Juto Misiours, which tmade our Gov- Cruior yave, Aud vow tlia$ Providenco slong our noble Btata could xat Audstralght ho.sctapart m day far fasting sud for ¥ay 00, Foquesths ovory eltizan ¢ o try Liy hand somexhere, For tho mfi‘um L ulways o the uwift, nor the buitie to And o itlo Hooi old-fuiblobed” giace ‘Hlgtt el tho nd 8 littlo good "old- oises ca el ¢ thiug along,” 7 ‘l 5 Tt somo speculsting Yankee, of an faquiring mind Logan fl:“} g oxperiments on tho dead, he fourd . : i o waw o1 enfomologlat, of very bigh dexre Aud vory suon obtalued Tosults surprisiug for 1o Rcooped a pock of hoppers, and to & baker biod, 1480 Vanko wade into pudddug, souie n dungiiug, wid sonie fried ; Then lm,ll!rud »'splandid bauquet, of disties ho'd pro- pore 2 e 3 Whtells sathubar of” profesicre and ‘men of learuing Ona pawned upon » steond Jofut; another one s wing, Aud, sundiog-up tholf plates ngaly, pronounced I Just And;’ 1&:\‘.&5 ineal was avor, sich. gusat iad zisde & Tust he much preforred frisd hopper o saipe or quall omtoast, L And mow our Governor's fus fis,~not knowing Whst For wiat s fock. 40 La & cuirye has proved & Wesslog But yi{ :13"::;'- {me—no sy amend this error, though 1y g e Lo thack the Logd for aendthy oatbe —Commidors Roltinauin in tha ¢, Louls Timés, ‘Fhe Fourth Crop of Grassopperts The Lincoln (Neb,) Star donfen Prof, Riley's statament that the socond gouerstion of grwuse loppors cannot propagate, “aud declares tlst shia is tho fourth crop that hes hatehed ocut in necousion siuce the 'hoppors loft their native haunts, Four yoars ago, weyd Sho’Stary tho Jocusts overran tha Briuish possessions uorth of Minnegots. ‘Tho uaxt yoar they hatcled out sud vintod Shinuesots, “fhivy lowd thelr eges aud aded, ‘I'hie next opring” they batohed out, and came down oo Daxots aud Noithera Jowa, sud 181 tholf ogie. 'Pho next spriok susy batched uutlll snd ovorran Nebreaka sud Keniss. This q:i g bioy butcued agaiv, aad be endiauob