Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 17, 1875, Page 10

10 " LITERATURE. LFS50NS FROM CHILOWOOO, “Tur Trea-Inos or tar Aur, Tomt TraCnrns, A Ay, Tove Ty the Bosl W, Fy G s o Lee athor of * Thravgh the Tamo., poe 29, r e Willy V' A o fhie Hleant” G, & shejard. Theto aro a good many things that will ploasn and justruct sll child-lovers in this volume of BIr. Ciofts. Thero {a a tingo of oddity inits contents, 8 thero In ln its Litle, but it ia wnitten by ono who hus ax nctive and original tum f_rl . ond who s tho knack of oxprossing hie in o fresh wnd vivacious manner, s euliect (8 ono of vital importance, and ho s swong tha number nho are fuliy awake to ke siguiticanco ond inlinence. Aptly dock heo Ay that overy ago hiaw it trade-mark stemped in ita architecturo, ita sculpture and paint. iog, In lts language, ond I its cun toma ond mauuers, but that tho deep- cet and most triking trado-mark of the prex- ent era Iu ity recognition of the rights and tho purpost of childbood. Never [n tho history of the world lies eo much intereat ceutered in the growlug generation. Novor has ao much baen dono by tho wirert and the best of mankind to amuse, to cducsto, and to guide aright, the soung people Jusk entering upon fifo. ¥or tho firet timo it ja beginning to ba adequately felt that tue futuro welfaroe of tho race dependa npon tho proper training of the children of to-day, who to-morrow will be in their tarn tho teach- ers, tho rulors, the builders, of the nations of tho earth. Au appreclation of the beauty, tho flcrcdnosg. tho menning of chifdhood came iuto meu's minds with tho advent of Clrintianity, Then wa tho now doctrino advanced that tho grandest t5po of Lumen character 4 that which niost nearly spproaches iu sweetness, simplicity, aud purity, the spirit of a litle cbikd. Then was ono of. thesa innocents st Loforo maturo men 9 tha model for them to {mitato that ro thay might become filled with truth, snd trost, and tendornans, and loarn * that tho way up is %0 go down in gentlencss and k-mility, of heartn and houscholds, ey are angels of God in dirgd s mintight sthl eleepw I tieir § Tiin glory rtill locpa n thelr eyes, O, thony truants fran home anil from feaven, “fiey have tada mo more mauly aud wildl And Tknow ot Jeatin would lken “The Kinglom of Gud o a childe Texta liko thia form tho theme npon which Mr. Crafin drlates with feoling and eloquence, Teasoing that we caunot study with tao mich attontion aud roverenco tho relations that child- Tinod beats to sil that 14 most lovely and good in Jifa. 1o tilustration of his vatious arzumonta he lina callected o multitada of anecduten that show the ciear inight and tho ingentous can dor of unucent, untraumeled girl sud Lovhood, For wit and_wisdom these unstudied utterances of Msping children ara uneurpassed, Tishop Peck, of tho Mefbodint Church, who lins o yonni heart utpder 1is gray head, e flowers bencath Tt ptiawes swan talking o a little boy, and satd, * T was Save w Wittt (Ltld 1IKe you, ¥ The tittle ono oked up Wendoringly at hix fmmenso propriions and ailver hsdr and ¥ Why, that st havo been more than A year o, Could a_ repnrtep hnvo boon at once mare swect and flattering, or betlor worth pondorig ? ‘Many of (he grentest men of all agen have bad heartw that quickly yiolued to tho wifuence of Little chilien. Mickael Avgelo wan one day etrolling through the Mrectn of his beloved Flazenco, when a il oy ave cntedl him, The man who combined in ono roul the Yarie powers of Pautor, ascul tar, au avclidtect, sud apoet, wis (hen fu the zenith of s plory, Toprs Pleatied with hins for the trults of s gentus, Kivge Afterad Wim Yast aums for & single work of art 3 bt Shin that Bitl child_held out tohtm a_paver, and Vexged Lim for a plcture, the groat master_xmilingly wat dawn tyou a bench besido tho atriof, and drow a ekelch mich as 5o other hand on earih could have yrodnced. ; Ono day a5 tho Dnke of Wellington wan walk- Ing iu the countty, hio came npon’ & young Ind Iying on tho grond uear a tane toad and crying s if bis heart would bronk, The Duke mquirod into bis distress, and the boy replied that be way 1o bo st off fo sehool and hig tond would be taft nithont any ono to cato for it and would surely dia. Tho Dulio endeavored to comfore tho 1ad, and arsured Liim that tho toad should bo touderly waited upon during his ubsence, and that ho uhonld rogularly recoive news ofits well-being. Bunton: Tho bov gratefully thanked the kind strangor, dried his toare, and turned bomo with » light heart. Dnring all tho time lio was away at selwol, tho Duke faithfully fuliiiled hia promise, sacing 10 it that thy toad wae projorly provided for aud dispatehing newa of it candition, at (n- tarvals, to it owner, Ono of tha bulleting that tho Duke dispatehed wiilo attending o this chargo {6 now 10 tho poxuursion of an autograph cotloctor, who prizes 1t boyond most othors for tho noble heart it roveals, 1t roads as follo BroaTnriniosaTe, July 2, 1837, —Fleld-Marehial the Duke of Wellinzton 18 hoypy th inform Witidatn Lar- iva that Tis toudt §8 alivo asid well, Tho Biblo is full of paeeages eotting forth the peculiar graco and runctity of childhood, one of the must fmprossive of which declares: * Ex. copt vo becomo aa iLils childron, ya can in no weieo onter info tho Kingdom of Heaven,” Ration- elists, 08 woll o roligionists, acknowlodgo the subitio truth eaveloped ju tieso words, METEOROLOGY. STonuN: TP NATURY, CLASMFIOATION, AXD Tawe,” Wrrt T MEANS OF PREDIGTING THEM LY Tue Exuopiizngs, Tur_Ciouns, My W Formorly Professor of tho Nntural S cumaf Hatover, 13m0, ph Ad Porter & Coalee, Whilo Prof. Blusins wan engaged In eciontifie studics with Prof. Agassiz at Combridge, nearly twenty-Nve yoars ngo, o violent and desirnctive torusdo aceurred at West Cambridge, 1laving witnessad somo portion of tho pbeuomensa dis- played by this storm in its early careor, the in- torost of Prof. Blasiue was strongly excited, and o entored unon an investigation of its eficcts in ordor ta dotermive if possible the nsture and caueo of its destructive foreo. Fivo weoks were ¢pent by him In & minute survoy of the entlre teack of tho tornado, the result of which was o conviction that both tho popular rival theotles a8 to thio law that covorns storms—tho rotaey theory of Redfield, aud the jublowing theoxy of LExpy—were orroncous. Followlng the 1m0do of investigation prescribod by Mr, Rédtiold, which Iucludes ouly certain sections of tho scene of & tornado, Prof. Blasins found it ensy to adopt his theary; but, an atudyfog tho entiro conrse of tho storm from beginuing toond, phenomens were ravesled that could not bo oxplainod by the rotary bypothosis, And so with tho inblowing theory of Espy. 1t conld be reconcilod with par- tial or disconnectod observations, but not with the wholo masa uf data gatbored by s complote survey of the ground traversed by tho storm. Continulug bis etudy of storms for 8 period of three years, Prof. Dlasius graduslly buil up & now theory, which be claims will satiafactonly necount for tho osigin, character, progress, and appearauce; not only of tornadoos, but of all storms oceurring turoughout the ditfer- ent seasons fu the Tomperate Zone, aud pare ticutarly fn tho United Hiates. Contrary to the geueralty received opinion of cyclonigts, Prof, Blasing belisves storms ure the ! effect aud not the cause 0f opposing aerial cur- Fents of dulforent (etmporatures. According to hud demonntration, local aud progeessive of ro- A1y Btoris wro genoratod Ly & condlict between ho polar curront aud the” oquatonnl current, Ahio oue bloplug conl from the north, and tho ether waru from tha south, AL tho crifical moniout in the progrees ot tho storm, when the teusion between tho two currents has produced an cquilibrinia, ghould same distnrbance ocenr (a6 from o peculiar conliguration of the grousd over which the storm-clond i Passiog) dn tho placo of wmocting of the two bitancing currents, causing ous to rueh saddenty forward or to wink sta cors tain point, tho other as wuddenly pursues or pound oxer ity ol e whirl 1 produced, which travels in the disgonal of tha forces of the two curronts throueh the reglon of calm betweon Undarueath which 1t Wil traval, < TocHo of 8 The coutrifugal force aud the rapid evolu Bateut heat from condeusation will s ?:p.f: of rareticd alr juwide of thia Fotaliug cloud, wnd. ihiv Increasus gain thy rushiDg Up of alF from’ lower ror iotis of the squatorlad cursvan, thus addlog tew cone Qeusativns from belows aud il furtber labmthentug tho romtlpg cloud Gownward, CAlur p vortex s thus formod, while the latent heat evilved by L0 CODUCHASIUN Woold increars tho temperaturo of the ciotd 0B the cutalde, the Farefuction 1 tho inaldo producod by the ceutritugal force would cause 1his jart cf tho YOrlex Lo be much colder, That the cloud sadunice $avericd cone foilowe from tho action of tho contrifugul gorce on the spirally-uscending cloud. ~ For the longer Ilm,-uh of fus cloud rotat: on thulr Way upward, the further they will be throwy from the 33is. Tuua e ouniealsliabo of the tornaue—lond 1 furtiied, sud it leugiLens gradually duw (o hia surlace of the darth, Vilienibe opusdb-cloud baa spyrasched ihe gronmd the surroundioy sir on the surface Wil Tusl iLio the Nave of sarefied alr of (b vortes with & velxlty Frvpostionate bo the ifeccuce uf. prossure. eulsido I'hila- And dneo f the vorter, L L TWOR & fecand enne, Tanktgg 1kn a elowi) Wit 148 Basa on {he e eth, will o attarhind 10 the fnyerted ecno of e tormdo- owd, Prof. Dasinw explaina hin theory at great Jongth, and kabstantintes it with nmeh evidoees feeulistg teom e own olecpyations and from the ex) oriene of other Fetent fie dnvertipators, It in his convierien that weather [rognusticy Liaeed upon L will bo far more trorbxonny thn thoro now yietded by tho ob-ervations of tho United Statén Bignal Borvice ; and aiko that, by a bttlo practics in working from it, any one mas boable o foretell with considetably ecrtalnty appronching storms of wind and rain. Hig b al® is_interesting, and his theory piankiblo; lat sclenen alone cant deferming how mticii of yosis tive truth underhen the latter, SOCIAL SCIENCE, FRixctriA on Darks oy Hocuag ¢ TiriNa A BURVEY 0P THE BUNECT lust THE Monste AN TS OLOGIEAL, THT LIW AL AND PRuGRAACEE RIASDPUINT, H.J, Witaner, Philagolpia s do 1, Lipplucolt & Frice, $1.5% “Iie title in fougr, but the huois {s unfortunate- iv longer. ‘fhio nuthor weema to havo tempora- rily escapod from n lunatio asylum and to havo improvad tho opportunity by printing every idea that iad glimmered on bis mind during yenrs of fantastic imaginings. Wo fait to son any Justifi- cation for the foolwlnoes of sny person, not & perfunctory revicwer, Who dehberately reads this book through. 1t is s fawh of Inmo fancy and stalo foct, thrown together lirglody-piggledy du the most iovenly tarbion, Ivorything sbout it Is peculinr. Tho nrrange- meut, or tatber disarrangoment, of tho contents 14 unfqne; 80 {6 the atyle ; & is tho punctnation. “Thio author prides himeolf upon tho lutter, Ho calls capecial attoution to ft, I hofellowing: sou- tence, tho cnd of tho proface, may £oIvo eH o far o3amplo: ** And flnnlly s borrowing an fdon from Paley, but revising it, wo may weay,~that, wo cannot £00 Why, ons having doné, however feolily, yot ng well ad wo woro abilo, & work which peemen 10 bo very much needed,—shoull binder any othier porkon from dotng it as nuch better a4 bo would choose t0." This jumble of words {llustratos tho atyle of tho bulky volume, tao, Tho wilters and publishers of such sad stult ehoult bo imlicted by n Surioty for the L'ioveus tion of Cruclty to Heviewors, GUIDE TO G.JOD READING. WiAT ARD 1oYW 70 KKAD? A GUIDE TO JUFCENT Fx- wnat LiTenaTung, By @. A, F, VAN IUtes, Paper, Now York: D, Appleton & Co.” Price, 75 ccutn, Tho nuthor of this *‘Guifo” has nccom- piivhed o beavy task with pisisoworthy abilicy. 110 hias caréfully elaseifled o lint of tho best bovks publiehed in England and America auring tho past fivo years, intorsposging it Wil eritica) wug- gestions, and preceding i3 with some useful hints an to tho best meihod of reading. It will Lo readily scon that herein ho han proffered s belp to overy stndent. Ilis list is full, embracing 7,000 volumen, snd, in the maiu, is judiclously chosen, Excoptions miglit bo taken to the clng- sitleation of certaiu volumes, to tho ostimate puc ugion sowe, sud to the omision of olliers; but where an arduous work hus been ns a wholo ko woll dong, it seems MLETAsoNs to carp at sl orrors whbich ho who i3 able to noto is also him- aelf ablo to correet. In the conrso of tho intro- ductory cssay, the author makes the fullowing siguificant romarks : Ltead o bouk of whi<h the mibirct fa ot of grest futerent to you, and of Which the languags uod general reatiuont are dich that you cannot. iy undeetuid it, Wi mental bepent derived from the readl » ook utio dhea Ot ke fn sbout _ea great an tho adv o thu budy bus of food tepuguant to i, O pieagire 1 1 bouk shonkd be such that o Ly ctautly asidlo when other 5 T'o exervind onr furco of will to go (irouals w work bee el 013 We esteem Lun tecommended it to s, Lecause wo do not wirli 10 Jower oursclyen Su s Exiimiation, 18 purtly foiy aud partly deveplion, » . . Youn persoun are rometimes eounseled 1o resd bodke Aiftient for thmn to widorstend, aver aud over suin, uptil they do understud them,” It is wp unprotiabio cwtdoytient, « o Jdnordinary clremnistances walody hould bo_cncouraged, and el Jesy compelied, 1 read n bouk ubove bis montal capacity, ‘I'horo is & good deal of wisdom in this advico, ang yet there are cases when it would mistead. When aceopted by persons who aro trying to fol- low o zet courso of readivg that has beon pro- seribed ns goncrally usoful, it will prove whole- some, It ls indecd tiuo that each individual should, as a rulo, seok tho reading s ho scoks tho vocation that In sdapted to bLis tostos and ro- quirementy, ;Aud yet cnitdo tustes need cultivat- ing. Au enjoymont of the highest order of literataro Is not always instiuctive ; but the lovo for it may Lo aeqmired. Tho authior meaun tole uuderstood, of ouurso, that from smony tho boxt boola it s advixable that vachave sbould cliovse thoso that aro moet luterosting,—~becsuse thoy relato to tho sublects on wluch his mind is most actively working. But the Invoterate novel reader must not consiruo Mr. Van Rbyn's com- meuts fngo sn. approval of au exelusive dict of tiction, We do not permit children to live upon candy becauxo thoy love it better thau broad aud moat. Ignorauco sud childisliness noed restraimt end guidanco 1n the meunor of reuding as ot eal- inge PROTECTION TO INVENTORS. DUDLICATIONS OF THE UNITED BTALES PATENT Asso- CIA N, 5 Parexr Svavest, Dy Jags S, OB Counriy's Diut 30 Pat 1, Howsoy, uf Fhiladelphla, Squato 12mo, itou : Jamis It, Osgood & C Jan, 14, 1874, an assembly of gentlemon in- teranted in thoe protection of tho righit of inven- tors gathered at Washington for the purpose of diseuseiug certain proporitions cnumorated at the I'atent Congress bold at Vienna iu tho sumn- mer of 1873, svd looking to A gradual unifica- tion of the patent systems of civilized nations, Out of this couvontion at the National Capital grew & socioty eutitiod tho * United Statoa Pat- eus Aesociation,” whicl: was iusugurated on the sccond day of tho meoting of tho conven- tion, Tho cspcoinl objecis of this soclety were to sccure intolligent and united auns among the inveutors of the country; to collect and dissominato information rolative to the afTect of patenia upon the nation’s industry ; to ca-operato with Eutope for the establishment of more fust and equituble patent sywtems abroad; ond to further all sucl mensires ns wbiould conduce to the advaniage of fuveutois und owuers of patent proporty. In cunformance with the eecond proporition of the Socloty, the preeant publicativn Is offered to all interested in tho questions to which it ro- Inten, Tho tirst of the tivo ersavs it contains le w reoly Lo thespocchof the Hon. Heorr I, Sayler, of fudiana, delivercd 1o tho Iouseof Represantne tivew on tho Tth of Fobruary, 1874, Its most strilung foaturo is tho mass of atatistics 1t pro- ¥onty iu refulation of the argument of Mir. Ha; ter that an luordiosts profit i wade on ail put. untod articlen, Tho econd eunsy treats of the Reneral benefis of patents, and answers sitacks upoa the Patent-Ollice aud upon tho rights of invencoie, A STORY WELL TOLD, Doixa a¥p DReanina, 1y Evwann GAnRrrT, Au. thor of *Oveupationn of & Ketlre | Life, " otc,) cte, 120, pp. 205, New York : Dodd & 2vad, Thore Is moro real and sustattied power fa thin story than in half the novels with many times Uts pretension, In portraituro and phraweology it is uxcoodiugly stroug, Tho chogacter of the Leroino 4 nobly modoled, producing on tho reader & profound effoct, Yot thero 1 nono of tho rosy romanco of lovo thrown about her to cnhinuce her oharmy. Bho wios neither swoot~ Leart nor husband duriug the time sbe in under our observation, but sho is the staif and the comfort of brother and slster and friond, who rely for svmpathy, assurance, and direction, upon ber borolo nature. It i rofresiung to coms in contact with a serone sud valorous soul evon ln 1lie pages of fiction, for it uorves oue to a ro- nowed ptrugglo to bo truo to the eall of duty, “‘Lho uariative (8 so lofty, yet vo shnvla In all its olements, that wo fuel fike cullmg it an aple, ouly the nathe may socm tou dulluted for & work of fus modvat dimensiony, EGYPTOLOGY. Axcieny Jhistouv ruoy titk Moxusments: Fover yuos TiE EAkLicst Tiugs 70 1, 0, 30), By 8, Tanch, LL.D., ote. 16mo, e 205 Now York} Berlbubr, Atmitroug & "The objoct of this littlo work soems to be, not to w1d to our provious knowlede of Exypt, but ratber o givo In & condensed, chronological form that which s alteady kuown, The iutro- duotion gives a ebort skotch of tho ancient Egyptisn race, aud {s foliowed by n seriew of cliaptors coutalning the aunals of the various dyuastios thot ruled tho uation frem thoe early dawn of authoutic history—tbat is, from about 2,000 years B. D.—to the gotjucst of Egypt by Aloxander. “Pho book is not attractive roi ling, the style being dry; but iu the absouee of more elaborata work ou the subjoct it will bo useful for study and HIBTORY-PRIMERS, Hisrony or Ouuack, Ly O, A, Frree, M, wud Latw Tuter of Ouiversity Qolle, With Mape, 18wo., pp. 137, tou & Co. Price, 30 seuln, The series of * History-Primers™ to which tho ‘Oxford, Now York: ', Applos THE CHICAGG Ti cliilidren {n aml out of echaole, but It is not withont valuo to mature readers, The wtory of Aucient Greeco, for fnatance, is related with mo wuch wimplicity and brosity that thoxs most famtiar il (o pubject will tado plessors in pernsing it ‘Lhe weyle alwe fucai-les geatition- tion by it rare oosenty winle tho atear corves thn pur gt of 4 sel-airdnged Faopuly it refreshlng tho memory, T 3. A hOSmine, Tilted by TNoeatTEN JoNNsox, Porva NARRATIVE. 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Aunt Ednards, tillle rger's tliustraled Magozine, No, 2 II-‘@- ward Mulibergor, Stuttgurt wid Loipzig; Edw. Buchlor, Chivago). et THE I;ILGRIMS OF THE PLAINS. They climb thio rock-bullt breasta of eartl, The Titan-fronted, bluwy steeps Tnat eradled Thue, Whicre Freedom keeps Her g 51 whito-bhown alars ungaried, uey turued about, they saw th Lird Q1 studden dawn o the worl Ajpubin 110y gadul 3 they s thie face Or Gul, had named ¢ boundivsy spacos And they dexcendel and did raam Tarongh fosehd dintanees st fonpd 1y room.They waw the whieuces Alosa by sud bickon} uaw tueir forms, "LLeir VG Leards, ot (u stor And heard thens 105 Hie s o s, Ou ubmamed belgats black-1 vy aid brown, And torn Uko Latiloicas of Mars, They natt thy darkiwes Con e down, 300 Curtainn lovseied (Fom S wui® O Gud's catlicdeal, butlt of Bar. They saw the anowy mountalns rolled, And licavod plong 1L Bameless lauds ko mighty billows, saw tho gold dw the blush OF uWiul sunrety, Of wndden daw, Of [uaven when the day st duwn, Al i ik faco i dusiy bunds Tuuey pliched tie fent, whero £ A 1£ 10 drown the fullon van, ‘Tho loog ani lonesome nighta; the fent $olt 11 sweep O grass; guinet tko grmsment 16 tho tioviug woun could pass ous eatup, the smotheied ligat, YLe sleut wentinel 3t nigtl - Tho wild bousts Lowling from the Lill§ 18 run The troutled eattlo Lellowlng § Flio BakuRe PEOWHBE LY $h0 ApTing, Tueu nutden [uosisg awifs and atill, Aund bended as & bow {s bent, Tho arrow eent: the srrow spent Aud bured 1 )is Yowdy place, Jinw dead wian Iying ou his faco Tha clouds of dust, thalr cloud by day, Thoe piliar of unbaiding nre, [l far North S:af, Aud hich, and bighar— chmbod 80 Ligh it seemed eftroou "Ll tuoy wmk £ac6 the falling woon, Tuat, Ik vome date-Lt ruln, lay Thrown down befuretheir welsy waz, They loarned ta reyd the #izn of storms,— Tl tio0u's witlo <lrviow, sxniant bars, Aud atorm-provoking blood std tamo; ‘Aud, VK3 tha Chaldean siepherds, cae ‘AL DIGLE 10 namo $he 1Y LK whaty Aud {n tho heaveus pictured forums O boastu cud daten of tho seas And marked the Great Dear wearily e up uud drg by cHuking cliiss OF atars around tho starey main, —Joiquin Milfer s the Indesendent, t Was Sam.a * Tho othor day a tall, thiu wownn from over tho river Lnutod nround Vickebisg woul ehe found Coroner Dlesting, whoso retiriug disposi- tion aud prompt attcition 10 bukiugss ate certoin to make biw famods all over the Mtate within thoe coming yoar, sud when «ho was certun of Dier wan she fuquired : 5 Basluows nia't driving now, @ {67 “Waell, yotbing to bragof. I get a foater or o nfggor now sud thon, but it i auything like ohl timen.” Shao heaved a slzh and continued: © Hum 18 nuesing.™ ¢, Sa," Lo repeated. Ve, my ols tnan, 1Us nigh on to twelve treaks sinuo ho statted to crovs the river ubout G milos abovo hioro, aud 1'm gotung ansious, 1 thought I'd drop down and soe if you romawm- bered of Liaving sot ou such & wan,* ; wAbuut twelve weolis ugo—lessseo ? I belioye I ‘dul pull i & tloaler sowe tou or oleven wooky siLco, Was he s tall man " o Yes, L tlank Lo was,” + Huvo w losg nose avd brick-colorod hinls?" “Yes—1 tomombor now,* “Cow-bide ahoos and & yallor cost ou.” “Yos—I got thnt very wau | A 11z Lo the sustecy and was pullod in Lero, sot on sccording to law, sud duly buriod.t “1fe was, meduwm, Aud do you Lalioyo thatthio bouy was that of Your miusiny husbaud i *1know it} [a could drive mules or padlle & dug-out with suy man in Louimung, but ho eulllfill‘& awimn worth cobn, 1l cianue fluppad hio wout undur, aud thu's the ressou by didu's cowe butua.” * At do you want the body exhumed so &4 to wako sure 7" *Wus lie put down to stay ¢ ** Ho was woll binjod, wadam.” “ Wall. it's "bout 88 woll t lot him stay thore. fle’s probabily fell nway so that [ wouldn't know him, snd I dow't feol like baving my usrvos atrung up,'! **Wall, 1'm vory sorry for you, wadam, If 1 could have idontitied thu body, I wonid have uent you word sight swey. “1v's all rigut, I've folt it fn my bones for more'h Lo wonths that | wws o widder, aud the shock dou’t staggor ww Hixe it would at e, 1w sorsy, for Bain wis kind," o, it wos too bail,” Bt Lo ought a kuowed better, when ke conld't wim. 1 told Lim and told him anlt told fiw, sud that duy £ ol biw agatn, wed b boilered ‘buck, *shut-up e dud “Yes, bo did, and naw bo's nudor the silo ant I'w hero! Il 'blooged, Mr, —; | know whorg B is wow, aud when { w up in the night [ shuu't worty 80 wuch, ls there avythig b pay 2! No—nothivg." A Well, £'il go home feoliug better, It kindof hard {0 bave tha old wan go uudor (hat way, but 1 'spoue the Lord kuows Lent. The Lible says wosumeth up $ be cut down, and 1 KIppoLL that means drowning e woll s« shooting.™ And vho folt to bew if Ler spoctacly case was all suie, sud started for home. Mark e, An Enstern journal ways that Mark ‘Twain, to Lave the furuitura of L bause corrospond with s utbier peculiarities, bas ordored su uunique chamber-ser, waae of maloguny with dsmoud- shisped pavels of bluo aud white chins pionti- huly bespangiod, sud with heavy blue saiin draperies, the whole of oty threo pieoes, to cout BeoU. Upou whick tho Vizginia (Nav.) Evening Chronicle tematkaz * 11 Mark bad s proper aps preciation of cffcotive coutrauty, he would send ouy biore tor the old campestrotobor aud tireg- legged stool bo used 1o occupy on tick whou he above book belongs i# eyideutly inlended for | lived in Virginia" UBUNE SPARKS OF SCIENCE. SAQACITY OF RCES AND INTS, 8ir Johin Lubtork, the ditingui-hed Enplish naturnhiat, hias been for rome timo eopaced 0 expenments derigned 10 teat the powers of com- munication and of co-operation praresncd by Leea and auta. Thus far the dovelupments arising from lis obrervalionn teud to rlow thas becs bave less xaxacity than hins heen popularly Asctibad to thom, bat, on tho other hand, thut Ants aro qmite s wisn a8 pocts and pllosnphers bave matde them out to bo. Tho Iriouds of the bees protest semnst tha conclusions of dir Juhn Lubhbock, declaring that bis experimente havo not been wuMlcicatly extended, and that they have been condurted, not g crlapy unfairy, but In & spanit of prejulico agninst tho hnrd-working, bouey-maakiug insect thae has bindered the ex- erciwa of perfect Justicr. ‘The history of bin Tateat experiments fias junt been printed by Sic Juln Latbock i the fuurnal of the Linncan Baciety, snd ta 1 brief a fullows: Uct, W, the experimenter welocted o beo from a particular bive, eebn wark npon ft, snd put it to & good #tork of honey, The ben woried at the L .tiey aix days, visthing 1t at intervais of rix ©or acven tnnutos for many hours cash day. It firat viait n the moining Was uno of mere fn- roection. Tt did not alight, bt hovered about fur & foww moments, and then fiew away on koma wexplicable erraud, Quevery other vinit duriug the day it hore off & lond of huney, Yetin sll thenn wix dava it brought no companiona with it to shure in the stock of sweets 1t hal accesa to, Ono or two rtrangn Lees tound the haney, but, thie Lemg no mgus of concetion boveon e argavals und the regular visiia of the hee, 1t fair 10 useuws they amcovered the ot by necident. f A recond bee that Sir John tubjected to & kimilar oxperimont behuved w e raine say fur o deye, durmg which it vworkel g 1he boney, and not 8 mnglo ulther Len o Uty tpot, | NOW, It hees 1abor 1or the oo of the hive. wirtving (o kecurs tho lagews p eeibio wtore of Lionoy for the wintat's ne, whis dif nit these two Lees abta Lelp it securing the rteek pliced at thett dikporal 7 Did thiey i profor (o aequire credit among thew Tedan for unneually 1l snd saccosatul work, or hal ey 1O Means of communicationg 1o the vilie.s the fact thut they were disw; from a riy store of ready-wade honey ? - S:r Jubn Lutilae evidently ittes to the Iatler erence, amd yot hin abi ervations woie not saflicicntly elabo ¥Ato to Lo conelusivo. 4 exiertments with the snts wero in this wise: Into apiece of corlc about § 1uehes lung by 4 tuchon wide he pit gaventeen pins, and on thren of the pins pleced Lits of card contaimng Loney. Auant wa< then put to oue of tha cards, tho aperator argning thut'1f sfter its visit many 120 autys came 10 Ly i than Lo auy other, 1t wght Lo justly inferred that tho ant Lsd tho pever of commuuigsting where it found tho fioney, Tho experiment ecemed t0 prove con ely that it md this power, for during tvo 47 ants visited tho pinw, and 19 went di- v to tho aiht pw, onlv' 8 going up the other pins, Other expernuents gave sil) more watiefnctary rew 1its: und yot othern neain wero fons Geetrive in their tostimony, On ona oceas ni0n o ant 't for mora than throe hours at some hotey waliont brivgiug or souding u single cumn Avuther intersting esperiment was mado with rowe larvoe of ants. In-overy caro each unt to which Sie Jubin TLubbeck shoned a snpply of larvie worked hand ot removing them to the neet, all day and kometimes for more thun day, withent imyoking tha srmstauce of any other aut, o8 nrd dono in afl but one of the jnatances of experimeins nith honey, What fnference js to be dedueed from this procedite? Curtuinly none t in cenelmy. In the cotse of hia connt of thesy exj criments, bie Jolin quotea Srom F. Mailer an weident confirmiug the theory tha: bees bave o limitted poser of commuuicai- we fa Mr. F. Mullor saye: u-e [ omsdsted at cutious cantest which teok plsco tetween (e giieon and the worker bees i to of y Tilyer, amid which throws sumo light on the intllectual faculies of theo anituly, Ast of forty-soven col bl teen hiled, eieht on o nearly completod comn, thirty-iive on the followlug, and four around tho tiest vell “of & mew comb, Whon the quocen hal fand epge fn all tha celly of tua two ollor cambn sho went several thines ronnd the e ferenre (in sho alwayd doex, In onler fo whaihier ehe ban forgoiten any coll), and the parud 1o retreat futo the lower Toum. B, a4 aite bad ovurlooked the four thie 1w ectnb, the serkers Tan impativotly from this part o tin queen, pushiug ber fn an odd mauner with Tursr heade, an ihey idid atso othor workers they et with, T Cousequence, tho ueon beyrn agitn 10 o roubd on the two oldet combas but, an who did not 3 1oy cell wanting s esg, she tried to disend, but everywhere she was pushed back 1y the workern. Thix cotteat Inated for rather o loug wlilo, till the queen escaped without having completed her work, Thue the workers knew how fo advise (Lo queen that somctiilig was o8 yot {0 bo done, but they knuw not bow to xiow hur where 1t had 1o bo done, CARNIVOROUS PLANTS, The Britivh Medical Journa! sintesthat, at the 1ast meeting of the Ediwburz Dotavica) Socioty, Dr. T. A. G, Balfour reported somo interesting esperimonts on tho Dionaca muecipala (Venus Fiy4mp, wativo of Wilmington, N, Q. Tho irsitability under which the loaf coutracty seams to bo lmuted to gix delicato halrs that a10 80 situated oo tho surfaco of tho leaf that an insect must brush thom in crowding over it. Dr. Dalfour tonchod ovory other part of tho Ios? with a noedlo, and 1o roeponne follawad ; but the instant the base of ono of tho lesves was hit tho loaf ctosed quick a8 a flash, Chloro- form dropped on a Linir causcd tho eaf to closo immediately, but water had no wuch offect, When tho loaf ehut wpon an ohject incapable of nffording wutrition, likn s bit of wnod or a dried fly, it opened ngaiv very svon. But, when it closod upon a live #v,cator;iliar, or spder, the coutraction lasted for sbout three wuehs, during which timo the inner wurface of the leat gavo out a viscons, acil weeretion. It nas noted, alao, that thin viscid socretion way only produced when au ivsect was captured. In tho cama of a fat epider it was very avundant, bug, when o khrivoled iy waa inclosed, very hi- tlo was poured out. Ae ovidenco that the plant obtalns nourlshment fram tha insve's thus ceaptured and digzested, Dr. Balfoor pointed to tho facts that young plants of the Dionxa placed under ooll glaseas, from which, of conrse, in- pocts woro excludod, did not thrive as woll an thato that wore lufl free; aud that whilo a bit of beeo! wrappod ju aloal of any other plant becamo nutrld, a bit {nclosed by tho Dlwaaa remuinod entlroly Inodarous, but onn lort 18 red color, nn;l wag gradually disintegrated aud roducod to, pulp. POISONOUS DYES, The colosing mstter, casallin, has heen for nomo time wuspected of noxiona qualities, as tho bright rod woolen garmonts dyed with it havo oceasionally produced violent eruptions on thoss wearing the articlos. Esporiments on animals havoprovod that purs corallin is mnocu- ous, but in dyemg it is gencrally assoctatod with arsonio, henco tha miachlof arising from its usc. Recont accounts stato tbat Dr, Bijou, s physician of Quimporlo, hud an apartmont hing with wall- vapor having a rod pattorn on abrown ground. Whenover ho {nhabited this room he was sffoct- ed with pluching, itching, snd burving sensations iu the evolids. After slovping a tuw ights in the room 110 was attackod with s sovero inflam- mation of the syes. Unon analysin it was fonnd that tho papor was. dyed with coraltin mingled frosly Witk rsonic. Andthor wingnlar casn of poiwing from an sniline dye ix yoported from Btettin, Eneland A gontloman purchased o hat aton of theshans thero, and after woarlug it for onn or two davs was trovbled with intolerbln headachs. at the snwp time littda nleazs formed npon hin forshead, Dir oyes becams inflamcd, apd tho whols upper part of tho head was much msalien, Tho wymptonis wers ovidontly duo {0 the hat, solan exnunnation bya chamist showail that the brown Jeatber Huiug hed ooy colored by polsonous anttiun dve, It sooms Inflanmation 1w unavoid - blo whou this dye comes in copsact with the elin. SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS, The Norwegian Government has voted 820,000 for the equipmant of an expeditiva to bo seut out nest yoar to explore the aca botween lce- Jand, the Faroe Islands, Spitzberyen, and Jan dayen. Tue expedition wilt Lo commandad by Capt. Carr Nilo, of tuo Joyal Norweglan Navy, but will be uudor the scifhititle dirvetion of Dr. Makin, c The uaenl-lfln men b formed & union under tho Delgian Hocloly of Dredylog and Ma- sino Esploration, for tho purpose of oxploriug the North Bea. Tho mateilals gatnot. ed in the oxplorations will be wubwmitted to tho examiuation of specinlints "and afterwurds va arsemblod In » central coliection accoswib'o to all mewters of tha Bocisty, Duplicate specimeus Bolginm have title of the will be sald oach e Mr, Mscleay, A weallhy gantlorasn fo Aus- tratis, Las organizod ab Lis owk ospeuse ab ex- : SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1875, e —TEN PAGES3. netitian bnving for ity objost the exuleration of Do Gminea, T han S0 1 ug gar tha g e a4 ton wan war. and s wlessn lan areet L nvers, Hin objact ie to i notural b eors ¢ et Al the Yeut 0 @ eams qeep After Aurtnliv. New Guiner is inlatd on tho glovs, aud fn anternl by luge navibla 1y Manjoay hoj es b uscrn) Iy Ruver somo 20b tilor, THE FIRE RLIGUT, Aenlemy of 1ences, had by recent insestivatious determnen the tiue canve of the fira-Lilkh. that fur many years bas affected pear-trees in tie Umited Stater, Hois, an bos Loen aus) soted, Yo wothof a tungus, The plant fust gerwiuatew o0 the untmdo of the bark, cansmne immedial chnrpes an Ahe eedin, fillinge ther natiralty tan. spatent contents with dak pigment granuler, Tho exmiuving enlls are soou affected in the kato way in & complete cuele around tho etem, From the cambittn taver the funzus travels by tho med Tusv pava to the intenor of tha stem, Iaving deetraction in ity path. I tha heart of tho e the v aren ate desewoued, Lha plant iv exceed- inghy winnte, beg sikblo only inder & magni- fyiag poswer of Hih distoeters, Lin nsme has not ¥et boon dotermined, nor whiethar thero is any uredmpoxing canne for ua cccurrencr, 1w ex- toreal et npon a branch is ke ot pre by a ties, T4 ex. it An spprrent e of herith, k. hrivel sma B brown, se though bevtched with flames, THE DRY SEABON IN BRAZIL. Tn Juno all vegotation ecmea to maturity in tho tegion of Brazil. Fecde ared finita of ey wort being Tipe, 1ho oftice of tiover and fuliag in accomplinhied, and they enter upon the procesy ! of dveay, Lvtho end of July the leavenof trees, +hiubs, and herby havo faded and fallen, sud i Augut tho earth ix barren aod naked as doring 8 Luropean winter. The trecs ere cowmy lotely npped of their feaves, whits tho jdRute ty Liuvo grown fu abundance i the wilderness ara drimd, and pervo as folder for tho runtenauce ot cattle, Ulhsin 1o the peniod mokt favoribie tor the mountuine, Tuo feans, uft yathering. ore lad on tie eronnd, which, iurtead of g tort:y wostiro, aluorbw it, and, beinie sneronudind with an Atmosphero pupsesmng thu rame dueiccating pioveinics, tho coffee dries rapadly witbous weldiwg. HYBRID PATATOSS, At a lato mooting of the Itoyal Horticultaral Baciety of Evglaud, Mr. Darwio communicsted the regnits derived fromicertain experiwents in producing bybrid plavts by geaftiwg. Iu the sumiuer of 1874, Reutor, the head pardener at the Iraperinl Palace of Potedam, cat out all the oves lu & long whito Mexican potato. Thon, cut. ling & wedge-shajed pioce contawing ’u eyo from & dack, pruy-black kaduey variety, Lo graft- The ed it juio the eyeless Mexican putato. tubera produced by tlis union combis chatucters of tho two origlusl tpoeies i Veulems varieties, Smiar_experiments wera performed in 1872 by Dr. Max Uilmany, wity cmilur rewultn : also, 1n Slutteardt, Dr. Nenbert b~ recontly wiet Wish tho sawe exporiens m lihe atteupts, ACLLIMATISING HUMVING BIRDS, In 1n33 Mr. Delattae wuccasded s ¢ mvesing o number of iving bumunng-birds trom Centeal America to tho Jardin d'Acchmatution w Pavia, bue they all died withiu a furteight alter thur arrival. A second attempt Lo wtraduce tho tiny cyeatures into the Jumidin bis been reveuthy made, but bas alko fmled. A trvelor mmabuged 10 keep win humminz-bitds slive uuil they reacued Pars by u with boney, but they soon atter sy or o unuaturel cotdizivus of continewsnt, BRIEF HOTES. The pumber of Peof. Huxloy's studeuts in Idinburg University now awmouuts 0 upwards of 360, Dr. Osecar Frags, Professor of Surgery at Stuttgardt, bas gone out to the Lobanou to study tho geology aud wineralogy of the region. lo iutends to work out a geological map of sho rangy of the Lebanon. The several transit oxpoditions sent out from Frouco exspeuded 80,000 fruucs mors (han the auw granted by Govervment. A supplementary eredit will be asked from the Versailles Avsem- bly by the aris Acsdemy of Sciencos, which bus the ater ju Laod. i T THE FACE OF THE CHRIST. [These sonnets aro based on to Controversy respect- g thie beauty or deformity of Clul-t, which orl gt wd very carly, aud coutlausd for a oy perod, Jusiin Startyr, Cyridof Alexandria, sud Tertwiben upheid thy Lusewry of His defuruntyt fuideed, Cyud aserted that 1o bsd Peen the * ugiie-t of the 800s of men” The neivol which cunouded for the budily perfection of Chiist wutbcred, among e Fathers, Amurose, Curysosmn, Jerogie, aud Jolin Damae wuv, In sup- port oF tho fatter doctriug, n fctler Waa prosuced pute urting (o b whiten by Lentulw, Procousud in Judea Q\\ fore Herod, fi wiiiclt @ deseriptian of the Saviar voe i dewcription s xo boatinfal, and raslizes so 5l fueal, that vus regrets the'letier in @ for- ¥ 'ILe leture tiere giveu bas Leon used e thard sonuet,) curw, I Tho Stanter vautsbiod, but 1ite Spirit swept Actons the East, und atirred b clojeeuce “Ju and discrples i 1he Truti's deieuse ) Bt year by year tho Land of Blleuve crop uto i iwidet, sud oo by one tiey aipt, Tull o man livelt wio bud with Fovereuso Jawoked on tiie Lord Cbirisl's stniing countenance, Ur atoud auenr i whiils bo preyos aud weph! Yet auil Lin punifying pint coigund, A0d Lliod remoter souls with bt vibime, Aud conquerod kingdows by 1L teindor grace t ‘Tl mauy sagor, Wankiol eycs Were strauod ‘Lo pierce 1he suists whicl (o e of Time, To galh ok gianeo of Wy Redeewrer's fucel 1 And there wera those, severa of eoul, who salds SENInK uoL b Birit of ige Lord Was 13, And clotlied 1aclf with ovoliness, 10 gait The wretolied bomego of o kues sid bead § Nay, ruthir, witl uticooly front, o peal For'grace of suul, with beavy brows of pain : Andthadowed civels tebiked thelr durce dldaln Whoeo posup disturbed the 8; inia of the dead | Tiile by pure force of ¥irie mou beievod, At guided pevsteratt woudcrod atd was wroth ¢ B0 wus tho triaph of the Lord schieved, Ho scorped tho briiltaat rawent of the ol Chiose tho rough patiiay fo toe teruad pual, Thie lusiat 4 L0Fw, tiu nightivat of Boall ™ . A chiitied ved rone, deprivid of sunlight, dles, * And souls, fur Lack ol Jleauty's Wariutl, despale; B0 tuere toba w ery 2 4 Tue sarth wie bary LYl Curiet ppearisd, ko @ divie surprive, Wikl God's Ligut glowiug i Uis rate Ul oyoe Atith o Hin brow: Uke Puured=0ub Wiiie, liln Bale Fell, & ¥0oth current 10 s varw, and thers Mipjiled, liko wauny clouds 30 sutiuer ekivs | Lims bits sistor, and, aftor su Luur's couversation P, Wit Iafuatie LR tice, caill, wlid stfolidy The'wplendid Loasititizlos of Lfe Werw parfoct 1 Hun, snd o the ken Of 1roubled matlons siraggliug uuder wrong, A vexed with lmu{‘ ceremunial mirile, o Chrask re valod buniuutty o wie 1v, “Tho contraversy apread fruin raes to race, 10t uo sutheutic vimou bicsved iiaukin} Eaeh 110w the sublie subainsce ol his wud, AT ¥onio witul g uiuewts slisped & HATveious faos, And called §t Chr.acs, lid for & Uliarfil space Hunt low before §i ; Uius wers arany bilud o 1 soul's busuty, 1 Wt Lasto 1 ol Bonio FapAUTOUS ghaniees uf IESLsAEY grace } Boll, witls arevervnt derire, they dars soek the Master's piesris, kuowing well J, thougl ey found L festures s tian falr, e vpletdira of 1 Barit would co ol o mank of Geabs £ $ail, wud they would see oy pertect ioseun o Bammaity T =i Jo Millgan an tie Lenden Spectator, Breach of Promise, A remarkable wuit for bieach of promivo hus recontly Luen brought batore the Baliuero courty, the dotuila of which 1ovesl & curiuds cies tom wimoug tho Foliwh Juwd, Tho g was brougut by & Hebiow wuiden pamod Yoits Nause worvitz sgainst Lase Mayloss, aleo s licbrow, 10,000 datnagus beiog laid by the piswuit, Toe alloged engago.nont way bv a Bvinbolic betrotual, cagl takitug hold of tho ends of & lisudkerchiel unt pullg tt, ths sgoitleation bitag that the purtics 810 hold or Louud to cach olbior, sud, soulotion. though Lot auways, thy worle, * Wo sio bound, of 8 slutlar phrsse, are pro- vounced. A numbor of witugsses e tined that such & custom of b trothal oxisted amang ortuvdux Polis Jews, ikl Dok amony Gerawt Juwa, 1t wWod proven ihat this ooremony Was porformed berweon tho plantil? aud defoudunt, and that the defoadunt wout to the houss whete slo hved, takiug with with each otlher. they weus through the foru of Lundkercbiof-pulling yu the presence of several povaous. ‘The Judge {us-racted the jury that 1 such & cuslom ezivied swong tho Pulish Juws, and 1f the viatow bad been vbseryed by the pars tios, the couttact of uweriega ueod nut be proven by expross words, but wighit Le shuwy by acts, bY freqpiout Visit aud other siguiticsi atiou- tions. Tho fury buig upon the rsgred edyo uf \bo legal techuicauty for # whilo, snd theu found u vordict for tie youug hady who voumd- otod bor affectious bligbted, aud atlized the preperation of the colfeo that grows upon - | FAMILIAR TALK. THE GRE®T STORM. In examining the record of dirastera by wing And Sintuing and rain which U (elestapl daniy atheis from nll quarters of the globe sud brinen Wider the eve of avory reader ot tha newap.apers, 11 wuepase that thie In aw epoch of tartienluls eavesn store, and that never ho- fore in the tartry of tha wotld Lavo tho elo- miente of tho o r furlied themnelves so frojuently intoawnte of furs, an i ex-ended their fago in #eh terile decteartion ueon the earth, Bt provably the tral ie, ot tempenta hnvo oc- curred as often ntid wante -ted an wach violence in bines 10t e s the freeut, the difference Bedig thint we hiear of them all sow, wherean be- tore the lightuing had learne 1 ta tashy messanes round aur sphere only tho-o ba: yewne i the anmediste Vicmty R ere kLown 1o the mbabita,ts of auv given lucality, In tho listory of Enziand the attention la not eeldom called to the esent of #otie rtorn of yue comuon ferocity, which bardiy Las Lad i ikl in the prescut centiry. Bt of all tho femuesta that ever suapt over that kea-girt Intand, one 50 Kurparend the rent in the fisrcenern and duration of its Anger thac 1tdy by common conseut clasned with tie * et Plagns® ard the * Great Fire," us tho “Great Stormn.” Nu dencription of the thnuder-s jnalla snd hurn- ennen of our das equaie, in tho extent of tho ealamity portrayed, the scounts preseryed of s wluch buret upon Tupland Novewbor, 130, It began oo the night of tho 2ith, anl rared for an entire wWoak withune miermirsion, Lut waw at its hetght on Saturdnr, tho 27th. *Then, Indeed,” writes Harting in **Ihe Acinl World,™ *it ecomed ss if Eomp hisd set Lyome hiy winds to do sheir worat, sud as if sun. carthe and heaven wero torn aud rent i ong wild contunna, ‘Uhat the esd of all things was ot wow generelle bejeved. * Horror aud con- fumion,” writes Letoa, *roized upon ail; po il can exprers W, o thought conceive iv ! In Lowion wloys the damawe dono was esti gble o7 i Evarywhuo the ¢ rirewa vath the ruius of falien 1 1or monthe nud wonths after the Iwael diho o ot of puserablo w At cobbied was it with thatel, il by, and o d canyon, On the river vd 80 Otiow al bordoans, aweomvated by HL e eepn (Lo i1 feetpbove (he ueunl )60 €6 theit W onngA, welu.aietone suner, Morothi i cinbt of Wl eiZen Wero erusued or wnl for cuve upon days the wwolien nvertobe I np and dowe U Lan b Lusdesed win bodies and fhoatine feagro- wreck, O Wy coast o elaents mged with ath, Ol Elfvetone Livhty aee, aulev, B GUANNL cummbioue, toje U 0 & Ciiteno 83043, and con quently bat jil calealnted to 1exi=t the elemsnte, was pnept away ke o muets chafl, Loe s wuder 8 Clonderloy Shiovel hag b jus: ro: cd from the Mubiterranean, aud was (v ciior 1 thie Duwps. ths tewpent bioke. and peatlernd it in o ot S verrein of the line wern tatally lust, au reve ro diven neliure, Wwinle with them perinli- U0 My wtd vaicers of A pankisg Qucen Aupe was ot ber puince of St Tames during this dismal etorar, and watched from tho warlows thy destrocton o tha 8acient, ity iral trees thut adorped the besttfal pars 1e vthers the interasiive group plauie the clipdten of Jumee 1. uear tho fan- of tho IHorrs Grusds, wan fuul tuw the gule, The leads of most of archen in London wete tolled up Ly roof tue wind ko rerolis, o M Teri i proat devaation un o re: tiat du nooouecuiel wiasad s LU s, " wa Sewept the uterior with uo o uf deevnetun, Whole fumilies were crtistied unter thoar uwn Toufs, and matitides <f e do witied sud wonnded, | A-uong the most remarkavle accidenin of the kind was the fall of a stack of antquo chimuevs in tio Epecopnl Paliwe of Bath and Vielisy wiueh killed the Thshop and dus Gady, Or. snd Mis hadder, wm tuerr bedw." The tempest of wind aud roiu was mnch of .the time sceums paniel wih vivid tug aud_teinle thunder. Al cirenmsiances comibined drnng 1t prosrern to til the winds of tive wituesey l\n h tosror,and leave tathon ¢ a decadtul rools egtion. Tt was an allusion to thisstoru that g to Addis.'s famoits simile of 160 b tha whirlvind 1 o Campai celetyating Mariborongh's victory ut Blenheius, “Tise comparison ruus ay follows: Twas then great Marliro's imigaty soul was proud, Tiaat 10 the shock uf chorJig Bosin nimuvel, Arufart confusfon, Lorrar, am despafr, Examined all tie dreadfol wenea of wars T peace (6l thniohe thie sl of death kirveged T Falutng sey 1dents weut e el vid, Tuepired rejuaed baltalivg » 1o cUag And taught the decadtul Ya'tla wi S) whints uta angel, Dy divine omnin I, With risfug fempeets shakes & gibty band, Suen wd of Life o't g1 (s it tin Cultn and eervne e driviw tue farl Audl plesend the Almf ahy's or Rides 0 the whirbiin |, aul dircctn the wiori, Without & kmonledge of the etnmstances af tho swlul mwrm of 1705 waick had desoluted Inlapd, thrasn hundreds of lamiies into toonming, and mado the Lravest Miitich hearts turn palo, it is dugicult for Tenders of the prasent generation ta underataud the extrsordinary ofuct Produced by the mbove lines, 'Tho pocm which they ocetrred was writien at tho urdor of Gorfolphin, the Lora [reas: who was e {Jlnmml on hennng them—when the puew way but ball finshed ~that on the 1vetant e ap- pointe | Adiwou Comtssiouer of Lands, with a Balary of £200. licavy inntat e ¢ an- Upon 1t the tull fury of THOMAS WILLIAM RODERTSON, Thia talented vlarwright, whwo drauas havo dons much toasnly p nizing the modern Euulish ntago, camo of & fuunly taat for geuesas tivuw had been connocted with tho theatieal Profesxion, Ilis father and hiy graundfather hud succeamvely maneod a countey BORES neiforms ing ou the Lincotslure ciremt, and both wete weu of literary abiliy ara of uncommon eneriy and versatlity, The oldor of tho tso buils emnt different thextres in tho toans of Bost.n, Spalds g, Nottingham. Nsford, ote. Tho mutlir of Rebertson was a Germau, of Jenish extraction, while nis father was of Scottish descent, Tho Loy was aducatod by an sunt, wio wis hervell & remackablo character. Bix moiths of every twelve were epent by young Rubertson at a ‘retielt kelival, whore be milibe skoptical vieaw with rogsrd to religion; but thess wore uever Butrayed in hiy wriing, When 1) years of aze, tho youth experiencal a great disappointment in the doth of his sunt, who fatied 1o baqueath lum tho furtung shat be bud eovnted uvon foberwing, Beog letu 1 pennry ho took 1o the stago and to writing tor s hvelibood, kit 1,6 tno pest Rleen years wan forced o u desporate ebraugle with poverty, Mo had marciod an Betress of great pacenual beanty, aud now lumself undertook Fmall parts, bub With ifl muccess, as ko nad o hill a8 w plasor, albait b could approsiato and educato tho talon, of this wit that obhers posyewued. At timed ho was roducad to tho ulive Of promi-tor, Tecuiving less than the wages of a daily laborer. ‘Lhrouzh te peivd of bitter ol and privation, lobertson chorished i ortgnml thoorien uf the art ho tollawed and Joyedd. and travely kept his courago from faint- g ontilit, Ono of the earliost of hus plays, ** David Gare 1ioh." wan.ones offered for €30, and the acuny rigghit was actually sold for 150 for threo yeus, oF fur 350 8 voar. The piny has winve produvcod abova & i, ** Home," “the noxt of Nobut- W8 piocas, brought 1 suikor &340 & miglit, the biggisess privo ever paid in Bugland for the right 10 presont a contedy, For iuuuy years the wanu. retip: of * Society” weut a boggging smong tho al London theatren. 1t was Ouca et nod 10 Of the loading man- erd of the tity Wigh tho word ** Bosb™ written ows tho Covur, For vears the pisy remasi without & bid OF ARD @ POrtBIILY TF Tol Pencni tiou. AU laat, when Robertson hind seavaed lis Suth year, “Sugiety” was vioduced, lieek s Tavarpool, i $ho apring of 1555, and wis montha aftorat tho littla hours in Tutteubam stiock London, nuder the watsgomest uf ilcs, lans wroft (Ming Murie Witou). Lo this Lty uid to r. Dyron, Hobertaon vied the fudadation of iy bucvens and roputation. Yoth trivuln recogs nized tho ment of luy dramas, sud botli gave bim sl tho aid aud eucoutagewent ta thur wl:‘nkm'),—-h-ving burivd bis (s wile eoma twa oF thres 'yeuis botore.—Mr. Bolartson warried Misa Fiost, a German Jady, s disf four veary Iuber, in February, 1571, lvaviog four children, o of whom were burno tu bit oy thy flrsl wifo aud ewo by tho secowl. Robiertson's, ma‘a. dv, dropay of tho heart, Weurabio from the bo- eluning, wan soo-loratad by tho failure of biv Just play, + War," ad tue Bl James ‘Lheaire, aad Lo lstilo eriticin 1t provaked, Rubertean waw robust and vigorous in framo, aud rather beavy loatured, with 8 roddy cume mowatary luo of (o daaiagea 9ausod by to wald Liight &y 1 cout, | plozion, light beard, wid w alielitly Jowwh cust of countenauco. JU3. ayo was rewackardi brill, fant and Lia faen elaracterized by presy ciorry ol expresmion, Mo wan somes it widlent dn teper, mod wan brijle it fu conversition, al.hough favio to the ACction of ronccit and areozanes, Wit cote KO IAL Pt i wa o wann hearted uud doo SEtEl v, Ao, Fut 100 yoars brfors the Wicgews o lin pinga hat roneitcd Bm o por. #rty, Lowortron udded to his ng....m.mu...g’ by wetiese A1l A o criterann for tho howse Fpers, e was one of the it contritmeors to P, then ciited vy Tom_ 1fnod, mnd nae aire ots of the orctinal wembers of the “Savags Clue " L aier ho cemevted n rirone and aridiog R n i with anry levng, with whe bs Jiw L s s common FO*I24D ASOUT. Eimont T 4 Voleutu Anont was born N ot Bence, and §s wherefore 47 years old at taa pre-ent date. Ho ea:ly eviveed fond- ness for motaphyeleal speciiations, and at 29 bors off the honors and prizas in philosphy at the ** Charlemacne.” AL tuiw ago hio entercd tho Normal Call-ga, which he woon abanlonod tor Lo French scnool ut Athews. In this city ho wurne ] ansiduonsty, employing ovon his lehwuro in rtulyine the drobeology and tha contemporary Nistury of Grooce, Mis titt volume, La (freece fonicmporaive, wom a trenchent satire npon Gire avl created A conmderatle sansatlon, « e cilly onraged at ity lurs alike it eanrage and the nsdern hovoe taten. Tl volumo was appin idad by s s Moneles, which publisied the e i wardof the vonng aathor,—a novel, ”'lwl ST 8 Falof Modars Rame,™ Lurs by oW afrealh, safit was ameptend i ¢ nwrative lod toen bor- [..\;;4 ¥ an ital e wo i naolatied 1n Paris in 8% Alamt acinn g m the copcluding g by ol hie leo . bis invdebtediens to tho wlh e ane, by the wiy WAt itis of Lis1onw o 3 bty o the { il punieation Lz boen wporen-cd on s §dond W gones winel bo had | Loarawe lanl b Lilla” wa !t eienta n fa 2 805 wal for A time s o ol d tho eanvestation in tho Larsian sa- otz Ty nest diterary attompt in abie dircetwn Gf il dpan an abwoluts falice. dn 1335 he publisheod Boowork on o arteeriticen,wslen o Joye ages a Trarees O Lryoeean d Thawr Apis" nud it 1555 8 pooulbs 7 the srwy of * Les M, becau cne of 1y tLaid wurdw fonnd a pla inie romancen of Ahaut waa it proved w z 4, ConTinite v Lo Iater ofien tuafo up of ari enbie B, agterwards repin ed e, In 1547 Avait vies onue of tho cds tturs of the Learinad As4, o sicgular and shotde Tived mliret contaliing eVG Y vatiury ol eccantrio It T 14902 Abaat perpsiated a gecond which wow withthuwn wfter tour repro- i i Latts of tho i tumnltnons chwractor,” Il vieco wan (latold fur everat weeas inovraviugial towng, enciaug the hiveliess etntioas, At thi (o ALoat Wak culle e it the Constitulionnes s weil ad the e, Astor exten<ivo fravels fu Italy in 1939 and 1551 Aioat puoduced ** La Queatin Kondme.” | e eusiou advecating the aholition of 1the e v of tho Pope, 1n 148 kLo Tec i raibn ot the Legion of Honur from the | t, whaws emplo OLIE tithe e the Frauco-Trussisn vpecial eorreai oudent, bu wene swdlonly ent whott, or Ly Lcarecralion in o Gers tn 1458 Abot wax maraed, aud ag st 193, he 13 suild to citeulatng bis pajer, the Niwos war Abaue ot hum eacici er todiis, | i pri<on, thy Lates: Lot Lontury. Love's GGz, “Givomen oty € To whi o Lairy w1 Whiat Lisirt 0 ¢ Sotne Liglt emyrine, iy fittlo tove, Worthy 3uar tiny bund oty decd that wil wont 11 uly prova e auder § 238 comsnd,” “ What can T ank," also anwwer'd low, € Bave tant you ever be st 1ot swectbieart now 1k 1hg but otc, but fue? B0 Ut LG yuu 6V dvar, it vl L uiuh, ey dear, “Lunre's WOre Lty Ut a0 “And can 1 by no act dleclare Hv oo W8 fove aod ewng e T 1 Lok 30 o b tust 4 4ix Lyl ety s gionous Wrog? oW all 1 world woukil luas its Hgha 1 you wers gne i, Iy aue biee love's swiel, holy might, My voul doos boid und s way 7 # A how, thougn througl the world [ tried i ] et woabd dell, Av yuar i igering by sy sidey Yot dove <el all 2o Wil Lol it fu your el 7 Baud, 1 wgc N2it yuar eyes b vl to Lid, S, 1 T Bone 4 the skide ! 1 1 1noro contenfy 15 by, Y oW, 11w eutring > vu weat, nd ki e Al wivtic, YU ir yuu wink sonpetbing to do, Daf 1avo, i will 1 945, You'll provs: your love iomt foud and trae If you will Wath wie sty =T'homis 4. Lo.ler s tue sew York Ecening Mafl, A sad Story, A correspondeat of 1o London Tines, writlng x epidemic 1Ow Tz ut Athoury, BusH Panie whielt bis go sprends waerever it showa ite hideold Vikugs Line Wi cuted awecll du s form uot usuwel in lrelaud. Faueran aie avoided by the popula o o snch a degieo that nntil asuitetly doriiary veldels wus providea by the Lourd of Gustalane, motbiers wera tod weed Lo thn biller necussity uf CArFYILg thor childien o the grave. [ do not revolloct tuut Dutos relutes u simdur jucidont 1o connecs tiol With the grout plagus of Lomdon, Lut allows AUCA BeLuR Wody L1 Ly DsauiZuag progress of tho coutiies, the ‘present horror' s vory revowr. A truly taouraful ine staco ocvuried @ oW Woehs muco. A wowun pauwd Logle bad Give chilidven, who, though alaaya 1i-fod anl pourly elothod, were distingaisliod sy succatiundg tauics by tho siusculur beauey of thoir featuren, and 1he bright sutelligence besunag frow their eyos, Lour of them wure strnivken by tie d.sense sud diod, ong ufter avothor; apd whethor it wed that’ her uomhbois thouzut ‘they lsd dons 0uLURL i awsIBtLE (0 bury the lirst ewo, or that thuy Lappoucd to e uccidenally oue of tho way when Alie brought out the Wil for Juterioit, thery Was to man uesr to holp ber, fory, placed the bittle coitin o ber L Sue, taeros d, aud et out unatteuded £ the Aboey charchyad. e her eldert elnld, Mary, & gul i tlorid health aud sboui 16 yesns ohl, wbo wes out aL servive, reciug ler wmother pass, rushod out frow Ler musier's huuse 1ty the etreol, And seizing tho colliu oy toroe bore 1 ewas. Tile wan au Lrish funcral wuch an fow 1aisdory wonld drontn of brausfolrigg to thou cativas, Youdl iy 1 subject not tnwortay of Dulatwis of of Hole wau Huut. U sie wout (aroash posrly the Wwiiolo Jougth of tu steasging ot wlilo wom. on and ouiidron tled befure bor, sod *Lriv's Hotls * Wero not vieiblo or spurently within exll to redeow tue wanliood of St 1AL from sush uecandul, 1€ auy followed. thoy Lield wloot till 1o buterod Lo dieaty ceanery, sud tivre tisy *lett ber alone with Lur glores’ - For lamentanla Hioutuclo ws 1t Wax, Livte was glory sich us might 1uako the ungeln uuity, licu 1hat youug heroine, bowed under bor sacied burden, wey eoen Lo rrutitle wiuon melta Huous giavos and hisad- wlones (1l puo it dosw fondly wud ruversily bewido 1o wearely cold vomaing of the other cluldron, Ao sadlest part of ts talo rown.us o s fuld, Leturaod Juded aud breatidoss to her wytber's door—it would Luve been uscloes 1o prusout bernolf ut any other door wfter-tuat o: eu coutacs with morinhity—Mary Bovle sank wosy upon the threshvld witls the piteoun ory, which vas board t the straot, * Mothon, 1 st ek’ Poar elild, w0 sl wag, sick uuto duith upd 10 less tasu forty-sight hours wen were foaud Lo curry ber over the pailt wulch sho kad tralduu sious, sud Lo place bier fu thy saue Bive Witk dur el biothiens and bor vinter." ———— Hoofutenk Blectricitys The six Christmas lectures sor Jureuilo haten~ ors, 8t the Ioyal {natitutio, noio uul.xmud Ly Dr. J. 1. Gladstone, I, 4t 3. 1o choed 1or Lis subjeet, Yo Voltuie L.ter Otie of the expulinieuts revealed u fact hut genorally knows. He suid that 1b duly huv, weak elecinesl curs 8108t woik where thow prescoco 18 little tuse pueted 3 fur fnstauce, suppuso & potgon ut tatle 0 hiava & pilver tork 1 oo baud aud a fluge: cu Ll wteal purt of the kinfs hell u the other; it follows that, when bo plungos the koo sid foik futo u beeleteak, two dissimilar wotsls aio theruby placod in s woisicotducting wubstauce, whoreby 4 voltuic cucult 18 forumed, sud su eivce 110 eurrout tfuws Earaugli tho twdtvidual be Weon tho kuite un dsbe fork. Ta prova guad thid vy 101l y the cara ho connected a refleetivg gaIv: ue omuier with the kuifs aud foih b- meaus of w.res; Lo theu procecded to cut a Ly futsak, end Lo eurreut thus enerated doliectad the noed o of the galvauomeler 80 that tho wpet of Mgut whicl it roflecto ] way seon warvinig alag the worees by Wl ol yersy