Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 18, 1875, Page 14

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 18, 1875 —SIXTEEN PAGEM. TRAVELING. Séeing Nothing, and Seeing Some- thing—People Yon Mest on the Trains, The Lady Whe Objected to Cigar-Smoke, and the Resnlts which Followed Her Objection. Getting Among the Folk Who Ride Second-Class. Hew They Manmage to Make Their Journeyings in a Comfort- able Masuer, A Cake-and-Chezse Donation to Some- body’s Mother-in-Law. I believe I bave traveled more and seen less than any man who couid be picked outof tne aversge thoueand. Of course, I cxcept the writers of books of travel, who, of all beings who have gotten far from home, come nighest sesing pothing ; and tho less they have seen, the more printers’ ink and felr white paper they waste in telling of it. But then the writers of books of travel, as arule, AZE NOT TEAVELED PEOPLE. 1f they were, we shonld find less of their owvn wrovinciatlsm in books, and somewhat of infor- mation worth having. Ihave traveled many thousand milesin my time, and seen next to vothing. By it, Ilearued only that the lower centre perth in & Poliman car was the most -omfortable; that, if I took it, and next mor- ing paid the porter a quarter for blacking my boots, the scsmp waen't in the least de- ceived by my munificence, and knew, from the build of the boots themselves, as weil as for my slop-shop attire, that I couldn't afford it. Idiot that I was, I kept it up, however, and par- ties who met me must bave congratulsted them- sblves on the fact that the fools were not all dead, until, one moroing, on the Erie Rosd, the fellow DENANDED A HALF-DOLLAE. %eroon I strock, and offered exactly ove dime; and, ince that time, have received more for my dime than before I used to get for a quarter. I learned, also, #hat, on s steamer, t0 multiply the Lorrors of. sea-gickness, it was only neces- sary to takethe berth over the boilers,where one f¢els most the throb of the engines; that the great hotels were stupendous {rauds, except for great folk with heavy pursos ; that it was all non- Eonse to sttempt to read on truivs, since the infernal rattlo and clatter jogged out of one's bead all that ho read; that the onepretty wom- on tote found ona Puliman car, and who, in consequence, was the recivient-of especisl at- tentions frém every man oun board, was gener- ally either adangerous sharp or s partioalarly green specimen; that the eating-stations were rast dispensaries of the MOST DIADOLICAL DYEPEPEIA; and that the traveled Englishman, who is in- variably voted a bore becauss he rebuffs im- pertinonces, 15 atout the cleverest, best-io- formed fellow one meets in travel, when he can be induced to let himself out. Besides, he never offers one poor cigars, ahd-cno may drink from his flask without fear of imbibing poison. In the ccurse of eeveral years’ jogging about, I bad learnod, or fanciea I had (which is much the sume), thus much. When I stepped @sboard a ear or boat, Idistingwehed st & glance the cotple on their wedding-tour, whose very effaria to look as though thoy wero used £o it adverticed, just as would beve dcno a six-sheet poster, that they wero merried thet morning at 5 o'clock 1Lkoew the commerdial drommer straightway by the cool acsorance with which be appropri- sted to his own use the two bess seais, and te best of eversthingto be captured aposrd the train, not excepting THE PRCTTY COTNTEY-GIEL, with modest dress, and bonest, shiy waye, too rustic to resent his half-civil impertinence, and frezh as the air of a June morning that comes in at her chamber-window, through the honey- suckles that clamber up the side of the old farm-house. Tlhere was no mistaking the fellow who bad never been aboard a train half- s-dozen times in his life, He wore his Bunday-go-to-meeting suit, includiog the ewal- low-tsil coet Gf sulique cut, aud talked of the big towna he hed never seco. No more could be mistaken the country lawyer going to the Capital to attend to lus first case beiore the So- preme Court, of the Judges of whick Le spoke #s tamiliar]y as though they bad Leen his schiool- mates and old chums. The thestrical people, particuiarly THE STAR ACTRESS,— of course, suybody could disticguish them on any train by smply noting how completely they bave mastered tho art of traveling comfortatly under the most uncomfortsble cicumstances. She Juows how to dress for the trainsso ehat ber toilette shall neither appear neglge, nor yet get into that abomiuable state of dust- begrimed disorder so nocomfortably saggestive of horrid discomfort. Lhe star-nctress frequent- 1y hss s husband, s quiet, businese-ike fellow, who also has mastered the art of traveling com- fortably. He it is who provides the delicious coid lunches, aad gets from the porter, at noop- day, s card-table, which he fizes in position in the sleeping-berth. Thereat, their colared servant (it 18 always & colored woman) disp.oses of the baby (thestar-actress seems always to bave 2 baby) in'a corner of a seat, where, quite lost in 80ft wool wrappings, the cherub goes to_sleep, when Dinah, from the lunch-basket, produces s spotlessiy-white napkin, which ehie lays over the card-4able, and thereon sets out the dainticst, and at the same time most substantial aad sppetizing luoch, which is fiLished with & bottle of claret. I shall mever foryget” THE ESTECIAL ENVT with which I regarded such a luoch spresd on s train on the Fort Wayne Road. I saw it jost after I bad bolted the inevatatls indigestion dispensed at the eatiug-station, and felt almost mean enongh to Dbeg » glasa of clazet from the husbaud of the charming Iittle comediesuc wko presided with ::bclh exquisite grace at that sawe card-lunch- e But I d&id not begin to ses things 8s Il a‘;x-n’-alzd until long after I had trav- el for the express purpose of seeing ‘what was to be eeen, and of describing it in print for the benefit of newspaper-readers who had to stsy at home. I em fer evough from having yet mastered tust art; but I fear I should bave scarce made a beginning &t it but far the lsdy who objected to cigar-emoke. It was st the stepping-off place of civiliza- tion, Omsha. waim't, however, going (o step off jnst then. On the coptrary, I had taken mry ecat in one of the abominably-filthy cars of the ‘Transfer Compauy, to cross to Coun- cflinlfuflx; 'm;nu‘ I:nybmuu was homeward; aund, for crossing the bridge in one of the iudescribsbiy-filthy cars, I ¢ e HAD PAID MY HALF-DOLLAR. To make the conuection on the Iowe gide, I had risen av 4 & m. st Omaha, and, withont get- 1ing breakfast, had burried to the station to bs on time, There 1gniped down a cup of the most villainous compound ever sold as coffee, and, taking my seat in one of the nas- of tho masty Transfer-cars, iit = * chesp cigar, apd puaffed the smoke out the car-window. The cigar was no lees s fraud than had been the coffez (in Americaitis im- possible to get a tolerabls cigar outside the great cities), avd I was taking but about four pufls per mmunute whes wy esrs were saluted by the tones of & feminine voice, sharp and frotfol as the squawk of & settiug hea cisturbed an her nest: «'Ob. dear! - THERE'S A MAX_SXORING. 1 do hate tobacco-amoke. I thougnt they didn't let "em smoke in here.” Now, in point of fact, at that moment { warn't smoking, and my cigar, which bad almast gone ont, I held ont of the window. I turned rcund 10 . see _the spcaxer, aod beheld a sallow, Dbilions-loosing femsle, in frowsy attire, and gederally of mo:t frowsy make-uyi, —in sbort, to me, in my then uncomfortable frams of mind sod stomscli, tho most’ scert, disagreeable-a) female I had caxt eyes on for mmoy a - femzle dstressed With Darves ; a famals who questions the “conductor, ‘the brakesmam, the train-boy, and half-s-dozen pansengers, before sho is eatisfied slie is on the: right train, snd then is oply balf-eatisfied; a female travelng with her mother-in-law, and a coaple of scrawny, frightened-lookin girle,—her daughters,—who have juet sttxine that sge hacpily designated za hobbledeboy- hood ; & female who- hed evidentl: pg!led s most uncomfortabie might on & sleeping-car, and who, perhaps, bad imbibed eome of the same liquid poison sold me a half-hour befors »a coffee, 1 shionld bave considered all this, and hava remembered that poseibly sho also suf- fered from dyspersis. Bot I didn't. Instead, 1 PCFFED THAT YILLAINOUS CIGAR-ETUMP uptil 1t was well lit; then seized my carpet-sack, snd overcost, smd umbrells, gave myself & gavage shake, and glaring, &3 nearly a8 I could 2a Pdwin Forrest used to in Virginius, stalked forward _imto a _ still mastier car of that Transfer Company. Untu then Thad Dot known what degroes there could bo in the Yastness of dilapidated, ancient railway-cars. hiad electod what seeimned the worst of the train (baving learned that the penalty of our smoking sboard trains is to be put in a car fit only for wwine, though one paye fors gxmt-clnssmssuiu). But the car | entered was oastier than that I had taken for the nastiest, 1t was 80 nasty that, at Siret sight, I perceived that in it I might smoke 2 libitum : the odor of the cheapest cizar would pe fragrant compored with the odors that huog about that car. —Fortunately, toere wes po trombls about raising the windows in the rattle-trap of = car, s0 T hoisted them on ezch side, opeued both the doars, and gzt down to finish puffing that villainons cigar. At that time, I chanced to be the sole occupant of the car. Presently other passengers began todrop in—second-class, all of thom. Among them were the REALLY TRAVELED PEOPLE. There were oo that train adventurous Irish mechanics, who had been to 'Frisco by way of Panama, and_who, findinz times anything but golden around the Golden Gste, were roturning, overland, to New York. There wero English- men from Australis, who hadn't made fortuncs in the minesnor on the sheep-ravges, or who preferred traveling cheaply. There was the mother of s family from Californis, with & flock of little ones, on & visit to the old folks in Ohfo. The honest miner from Nevada was on_board also. He had his iron-bound box of specimens, and was en route East to ‘‘prospect” in the way of forming 8 company to furnish fhe cap- ital for the development of the newly-discovered Jode. Lean, ucebaven, keen, quict, and ob- servant, he looks just ss'a fellow of adventur- ous dash and Western-Yaukes shrewdness always looks after an experiencs in the mining regions, which learns him to be ready for anythiog, from cookicg his own breakiast to. cutung a epiurge on Montgomery strect, San Francisco, and from playing a cool game at poker whon the stxkes are Leavy, to finug first in a melec, or aiding in the delibera~ tions of a vigilante committce, He was accom- panicd by his wife, & wiry, bronzed little womsn, EVIDESTLY TSED TO ROUGHING IT; and, as her keen gray eves betrayed at a glance, plucky enough to lend a helping hand to her John anywhere, from a scrimmage in the gulch to doing the siuoming in "Frisco, Shen he had **cieaned up” o big pile. She had an armful of babies,—thatis to eay, a babe on each arm, and & little 2-year-old fugging at her skirts. Besides, there was a laok, elderly Scotchman, who might have been a sailor, & raucher, aud 3 miner ; and a scoro more of folk ot the ‘sdventurous type, who find their way to sll sorts of out-of-tne-way places, tske back as it comes, and whose luck generally Lasbeen of the unlucky scrt, Men, women, and bovs, even dowa to the youth from «up on the Willameite,” not one of themn was there who wasu't o study worthy, a Nast or a Dickens. At last we got across the bridzo, and burried out of the vile pexs of tho Transfer Company to the belter quarters found in the emoking-cars of the eastern-bound t.ain. Iv chanced that most of ns fcucd our way into the eame smokiug- car. There it was that I saw how theso folks, whio had evidently most of them traveled half-a-dczen times'as 1aras most péople who havo.made tho fashionable tours, and had seen inore than a dozen times 28 much, bad LEABNED TO TRAVEL WITH COMFORT. ‘The Scotchman pulled off his'boots, thrust his feet upon the next seat, leaned back in 8 with his bundle, tied in a blue corner, cotton ‘kerchief, undar lum, to make it more easy, and, lghting his clay pipe, evidently found the ride very cosy. A pariy of Corsbmen from the Colorado mines aleo pulled off therr boots (the which, I must say, didnot improve the atmospkero of the car); and, one of them producing a loaf of rye bread and a bi wedge of cheess, thoy took their lunch wit soch relish as is enjoyed only by fellows who never dined =zt a big hotel, and nevér ate eavo when thoy were bungry. After the lupch, which was washed down with the contents of & black bottle, 1hey also smoked their short pipes. The miner's wife thiew a corner of a cotton 'kerchicf over the babe that was suckling, whilo the other wee one slept on ber arm, and the 1-year-old settled ler Lead in the mother's lap for a sonnd nap. The youngster from Oregon looped a piece of bed-cord round the 'back of the scat in front of him, and _then, hoisting that seat-back, 0 that it wonld permit him to stretch his length from the first to the third reat, tied the ends of the chord to the hat-rack above. That done, be iurned the cushions parallel with the car-sides, and, pu'ting his bundle under his head, lay down for a snooze on his improvised elceping berth, which, in ono respcet, was vasuly saperior to a Pullman, namely : There was no upper berth let down over him to exclude the air and he could raise the window at lus eide. The Ger- man gude-wifo with half-a-dozen children settlod il youngest on & car-zeat to sleep, dispersed black bread and sweitzer-kase to the otbers, and retarned thanks to the German merchaot (rom 'Frisco, ovidently a well-to-do fellow, vho had come into the car to enjoy his cigar, and politely offered her a dsiok from ont his bottle of Rhine wise, In short, everybody aboard that car made him- self or herself PERFECTLY AT EASE, not with the seltich brosquerie of the human pig who “doesn't care whether his compauions like it or not, but with nnobtrusive self-posses- son, ench as is said to be of the essence of breediug. I felt rcassured. There wasn't a Wwoman in that car who would object to cigar-emoke—uot even the swoke of s poor cigar. 1 puifed away, the beat (it was & July dsy) was sweltering, and 1 pulled off coat, vest, neci-tie, zud coliar, slip- ped myarms from under my suspenders, and myself tried traveling with some approach to comfort, and without fine regard to appearances. I was jing over 2 cheap edition_of * Tom Brown's School-Days at Rogby,” aod execrating the suthor's apotheosis of muscular manhood (which is ouly brate man- Lood at best), when the tran-boy passed down- the aele, end rudely jostied azninst the miner's wife, with ber srmful of babies. The miner, who was exhibiting his specimens to the Cornish- mon, saw it, snd, hastily stepping to his wife's side, eaid a few words in & very low tone to the youth, If ever a train-boy's face changed color in lets than a baif-second, that tram-boy’s did. He grew about as white as, say, 8 treshiy-whitewashed wall, and_spologized 60 abjectly to the mmer's wife that I'd ventare something be wouldo't jostls sgaiost another woman in the smoking-car for a week. Not a. lond word was uttered; and, though I occupied the seat next behind them. I conldn't hear aword that wassaid. But the Cornishmen evidently took in the situation at & glaoce; acd, from the way they eyed that train-boy, it was mauifest they ‘were revolving whether to forthwith PITCH HIX OFF THE TRAIN, The cars stopped at the dinoer-station. With my wonted improvidence, 1 had squandered my traveling-expense funds, until, if' I didn’s begin to ecconomize, I must needs go without supper. I never begin to economize untl I reach that stege. Having reached it, I made the beginning. I inve 10 cents in cakes and cheese at the lunch-stand, instead of throwing away six bits at the dining-room for indigestiblea. I tried to munch the same with such reiish a8 some of my fellow-passengeis had tuar cheese and rye-bread, and 1 made a complete faure st it. Those folks had never bsd the dyspepsis. it was manifest, or they couldn't have eaten that siumil. After having swallowed & few morsels, I was abaut to pitch the cskes aud cheere out of the window when some trite tesching avout the wickedness of wastefulness occurred to me, and, voingin an economwe mood. I looked zbou: to see what to do with it. Somebodr with stomach less demoralized might relish thoss same cxkes and cheese. Bure enough, THERE WAS THE VEEY PERSOX. 8he was blessed with a sound digestion, with- out doubt ;: ber not less than 220 pounds svoirdupois proclaimed that. The ol lady in the corner, mith a big bundle tied in 2 sheet, 1t was. Ihad noticed her before, from the fact chia to the belt which compnased ber spacious wast wae tied a postal card, on one side which wag written her name aed destination, and cn the rever-e 5 reqnest to conductols to carry her ticket for heri 'and see tiat she was pat aboard the ‘right trains. I hsd = been wonderiog whether she- was samebods’s motter- in-law, thus consigned to smash-ups and’ de- struction generally. When I sz that shé didn't’ go out for dinmer, 1 becmwe confirmed in the homtls suspicion that ske was sowebodr's | mothor-in-lsw, and was cousigned not only to smash-ups and destruction generally. but to Starvation en route. As, with all my misbaps in Tife, T happen ot to have acquired & mothor-in- 1w, I symipathized with her, and haonded’ over my' package cakes sud _cheess, for icn’ ehe thanked me, and at which he munched with quiet satisfaction. Then I resumed * Tom Brown,” and wondered whether there mightn't- bo- sometbing manly, after ail, about the muscalar mantiood which Tom Hughes so worships. Then, feeling in & ‘particularly good humor with myself, I wished I hada pocket- ful of candy, and might distribute it among the babies and small folk of the'car, who dido’ cry, nor get the chalic, nor make things uncomforta- ble in the least. Then I recurred to the pum- berless opportunities I hadn'timproved of doing good, which wouldn’s have cost anytbiog, the which is the GREATEST LUXCRY IX LIFE. Particularly I recalled the sick colored woman Wwho had s first-class ticket, and was cleanly and neatly attired, but, accorgiog to the rules on o Georgis railroad, was placed in the smoking-car at night, and, while she had money to pay for a paseamn on the sleeper, was sfraid to ask for it, though she would not reach her destination until noon pext day. = And 1 was pondering how essy it would have been for me to say to the conductor : ** Sir, X revre- sent that mighty power, the press. Tam an in- significant personage myeelf, but back of mois the groatest power on earth, With that backiog, 1 ask you to conform to the Civil-Rights act, and Jet this eick woman out of the pig-styof & smoking-car.” - WhileI was framing this fine spoech, the tramn balted for supper, and I opeorv- cd fhat the corpulent motber in-law was just paying out of & well-filled pocketbook for he supper which had been brought ber from ihe eating-house. Forthwith, I mentally eet her down a8 A SHAMELESS FRAUD, £ 8nd, further, as omo.of those exasperating mothers-in-latw who are proof against all railway smash-ups and general desiruction, and are sure to turn up at the period most aggravating to their daughters’ husbauds. —I hadn’t seen much, to -be sure, but I was (at least, &o I fancied) beginning to sce, and had jotted all this and more down in my note-hook, when the conductor interrapted with, *Take the® stage here for Cbicago.” T happened to have a return ticket in the slecp- ing-coach, and, gatherng up my baggags, made my way thither, and scon was d:eaming of & modest but savory breakfast at the Tremont res- taurant, and genuino coffeo to wash it down, and then of an evening at Hooley’s. HanpyTH. THE FRENCH FLOODS. Scenes and Incidents. The Paris Journal mentious an extraordinary episode. At the extremity of & listle village was n small holding, occupied by & farmer, lus wifo, and threo children, The villoge generally had been warned in fime of tho inroad of the waters, and bad been able to_save themselves, but the unbappy farmer snd kis family were sur- prised by the mubdation. Awakened by the rush of the water, they climbed, balf naked, to the roof of the stable. Here the mother, sniveriug in the_ cold, attached herself by a rope to the chimney, while she held con- vulsrvely an infsnt at the bresst. The father, ' with his two little girls on his sboulders, held on to a projection of the roof. The unfortunate creatures, livid with-cold and fear, and not hav- ing even the strength to cryout, felt the walls giving way uoner them from the force of the tliood, and swaited death. At last two heroie eoldiers, mounting a bank and carrying torches, approached the farm. At the very moment of theur arrival all gave way, and the walls, in fall- ing in, formed a kind of pit, which eogulled the unfortunate bemgs—those who had been in such peril and thoze who came to save themn. The correspondont of the Figaro relates the following sad scenes : *‘The rescuo of thein- mates of the lunatic asylum at Toulouse was a pocaharly difficalt and borrible task, The lu- paties did not understend- €be -danger, - and fought violently with those who tried:tosave them., One old womsan danced with joy ; she was delighted with the sight of the rising foods, and shouted, ‘Water, water! Thauk God, I shzll bo able to take & bath? On the other hend, another lunatie, & mddle-aged man, ran abouterying, ‘I don't wsnt any more water ! I have had enough bathing! Give me gome fire! firo! fire! Many of the poor inmates were drowned owing to their resistauce. . . . Atoneof the windowsof the hospital e man and his wife wero fonud clinging to the iron-bars. Some gallont follows in 3 pnnt, umong ther Do Belcastal, tried to break 1o the ouser door, but fuiled. They then succeeded in wrenching omtone of the bars of the window, and threw up a rope to the two prisoners. The waters were now rising at a rapid rate, Inthe fright.of the moment the mau and Wwomsn got oui of the window mthout fastenicg themselves with the rope, and the next second tley were caught by. the flood and washed away. The men in the punt succeeded 15 saving tho Woman as 826 Was sinking, but the man was lost. One of the waifs was a showman’s van, which was by the Garonpe at the village fete and carried down to Toulouse, scarcely injured. The company inhabitivg it had not time to escaps fromtueir itinerant dwelling. An unfor- ‘tunate watch-dog, chaiued to the axle, was bat- tered almost into s puip. All the “traps” were stowed away in baskets, covered with .tarpaulin, which served as beds to the drowued players, and came out fresh and gaudy in the midst of the nracked objects beaped about for transporta~ tion to the Mayoralty. A little girl, supposed to haye been & dancer, had not_washed her face cn going to bed, and the vermilion wes bright 2a if baked in fast colors upon ler ghastly choek. The fomale giant. with o pair of artificial lege, to which her feet were strapped. Wwas,in her tinsel crown and dress of crimson cotton velvet. She and her husband had probably sat up late and wexe only thiuking of divesting themselves of their finery when a wave swept over the plain, and in its recoil drew them into the central carrent. At 8t. Gaudens s Newfoundland dog saved in ruccession twelve persons, dashiog info the 1usbivg torrent bravely, but making the attempt the thirteenth time the poor animal was drowned. 5 A letter to tho Paris Journal says that at St. Jorry nothing remained but =few walls; eighty peojlo bad perished amonges tharuins.; all the populction turned out to meet Marshal Mac- Mabion ; some of the women had on regimental trousers, xnd some of the men appeared in patti= coats. * You imagine, perhape, that this pop- ulation had given icself up to despair. Ab, yes! Every one 18 shouting and - langhing, and wouid even' sing were thoy not restrained by respect for the suthorities,” The arrival of the Marshal i8 for them a grand fete, and they bardly remem- ber the mundation. An old peasant said to me, * How unfortunate it is that. we have forgotten to hbang out our flags!’ The Marshal is quite at home in the midst of the firnms. oud I saw the tears . siresm down cheeks as-a poor woman related how she had lost ber mother and her child.” At Castelsarrsio, which has suffered frightfally, ‘**the joy is greater even than that at 8t Jorry.” An im- menge heap of masonry represents 400 lLionses. “This town waa caught whila it elept. The family of s baker having no time to cscape, the father got on the roof of thie house. and the wife, with twins at the breast, embarked in a washing-tub. The tub eoon dashea againat a tree and was upset. The woman, who had lasbed her children ronnd her neck, clung to & branch of the tres; sbe tried to get on it, but in van, and, . feeling ths branch giv- ing WAy, she untied the twins from round her neck, and attaching them to the frail raft, made a sign of the cross, let go the branch, and went down. {The children were saved.) Thescene was witnessed by amanio & tee, who bind managed to resone the body of his intended wife from the flood;. he held her in his arms zll night, but inthe morning his limbs were benumbed, and she slipped from his grasp. At 10 o'clock I watked through the streeis of Toalouse, aud, by my faith, the town is right gay. The desolation of yesterdsy has passed sway, and the people whose faces were Beveral yarda long yesterdsy are going to dance at the balls this evening.” All the work of olesring away the ruins is left to the soldiers, the people showing all the resignatiun and fatalism of Ma- ‘hommedang. The Tale of a Sugar-Bowl, _ Cinannati Gazette, It was during the festival week. Haont's was full to repletion. Bo were the men and women Wwho came outof there. I was in gettiog supper. A consequential, infportant chap stalked down the room, strode ng to the side-table in front of me, stoodhis cane by the sids of the tabls, slam- med the sugar-bowl back against the wail, sub- eided into a chair, crossed hus legs, and waited, Waiters, fall-armed and expty-armed; were rush- ing in alldirections, butnone paid anyattention to the chap in front of me. Helooked puzzled and out of patience. The fellow in front of him left 2nd another took hia seat. In & moment a waiter w8y taking his order, but sull my friend waited. This, bowever, wag too much for bim to bear. Ha belran to mutter under hia bresth snd pound on lhs table with the ealt-cellar. In thedinhe wasn't breard. It waa getting interesting, and ‘1 forgot to eat, watcbing bim. ‘He was getting very red in the face, and commenced to gnknn $o'the waiters, biccould not catch their eye. He half etarted once or twice to_leave, but his hunger conquered hix jre. He now $ook his ¢aue snd- tegmn to hook for the'waiters' legs should .| as-they went by. For some time fishing opeaitons wers uorewarded. Ho wasgetticg desperate. Ho looked savagely for one fellow’s legs snd floored him, Ob, Wwhat s waste of eat- ables was there, my countrymen | The waiter did not know what tripped bim, but supposed it waa the foot of my hungry snd impatient friend. Tha waiter accordingly, when be had wiped the mashed potaioss from his noss, asked him fiercely what ho was doing with bis feet. This nestron took him by surprise, snd heTeplied that he did not know. ~ Why did ho ask? The waiter looked at him as 1f e thought him a fool, and marched off with & lot of cracked china and broken victuals. = By this time the fellow in ‘front of bim ‘had Jeft, and a third man-gested himself thare. A swaiter was promptly ou hand and took hia order. Tiis wns too much. He spraog ou the mext waiter that passed, and dragged him to the table. « Haven't you ordered yet ?" asked the trem- bling captive. g » «Ordered yet! That .is nice. No, I hain'y ordered yet, yvou _thick-skutled sborigineo, Whero's yoor eyes? Huut's eating-house ? Why. don't you huut? I've been hunting an Your for something to eat on this table, und I hain't fonnd anything yet. You bring me'a porter-houso stesk quicker'n lightnin', or you'll 1ind out whether I've ordered yet.” » The waiter slunk away, .y indignant friend torned around to the table, readjusted his-cane, gettled his vest, shoved the sugar-bowl out to the end.of the table; and felt inclined to.grow mora pacific. Instzntly & waiter was.at the table. “ Ordered yat? " “Yes, I havo ordered yet?" The waster-shoved the sugar-bowl back:.to'the wall and vemoosed. My ‘friend looked daggers at the retresting waiter and pushed tho sugar- bowl out to the end-of the table again. In an instant:another watter was at his eido. * Have you ordered 2" «Ob! you're very attentive, ain’t you? How long since you was took? 'Yes I've ordered.” Tho waiter slung tho sugar-bowl back to the wall and passed on. 2 * Look-a-hore, young man," said my friend, but the waiter did not hear bim aud-ho finished the remsrk in an ‘undertone, addressing it to his eyes. Tuis time ho put the bowl out to.the end of the {able very -emphatically and made some remark to tue effect that he thought it would stay there. ¢ Qrdered, gir ? It was another waiter. Iy friend looked up with an expression of decp redness and eaid meekly, while his under-lip quivered snd tears gathered in bis eyes: + Young man, don't.bs hard:oo me. When my sopper comes, .von eat it for me, will you? ‘Whers will you have the sugar-bowl? Arrange 1t to suit yoursaif; don’'t mind me.” And he took his cane and depurted a broken-spirited mav. The waiter .Jooked bewildered, and walked ot into the kitchen, in a dazed sort of away. My meal had grown cold long before, g0 I defarted, too. ¢ FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES.” How n Deacon Got a Little Some- thing for His Wife?s Stomachis Sake. t. Louis Repullican. Up'in the Eleventh Ward-thero lives a certain Deacon who i almoet too good for this wicked world. Itis a real comfort to any one who ad- mirea goodness to see the Deacon oven passing along the street, there is such an air of modest but conscious benignity about um, and his very walk 8o reminds onme of walking au invisible crack. Specially zealoug is the Dosco: in his efforts to suppress tho *hideous and inexcusable fault of .partak- ing of intoxicating hiquors,” as he terms it, and on more than one occasion has he spoken oo the subject to evening méetings with 8o much feel- ing and-righteous-warmth that old ladiesin the congregation hiave compared him very flatter- ingly with Gough and Payson Hammoud. Nor is the Deacon wanting in deeds more thau words in this direction; once or twice has he given his-oldest boy no light pumshment for venturing'in a beer garden, and he has on one or two occasions secured the conviction of a ls- ‘boritg man gailty of taking a drop too much, and bad bim *‘sent up” for such a lengih of time tbat the poor man'a children becane gaunt for lack of 700d before he got out. He i ono of your porfect men, is the Deacon, and St. Peter is 10 doubt really impatient 1o see him and shake hands with.him, One evening last week at about 9 o'clock the Deacon entered a drug-store in'his neighborhood. The drug-ctora is kept by a man who is well enough m his way. but who ie" one of those coarse natures who do not see that Deacons are any better thun otler men, and 80 pay them 1o particular roverence. ‘The Doacon advanced to tho counter in a dignified way, sod tho drug- store man noticed tbat there was a slight pro- tuberance visible beuneath the left breast of the Dencon’s coat, _‘“Have yonany alcoholic remedies for sale, gir 7" said tho Deacon pompously. “I've got soma of the best whisky in the city —half-a-dozen brands,” was the prompt reply. ++Ab well, my wife ia very much troubled with & pain in her stomach—some result of the chol- eraic tendency of tho scason, I fear—yon may fill this small bottle with the -dsngerous stuff, which I have consented gshe may use medici- nally, even 28 arsenic 18 gometimes used.” The drugzist filled the bottie sad returned it to the Deacon. Tho pious man took it and pulléd out the cork. “ Are you sure this is really pure liguor, the proper fluid for medicinol uses? I fcel bound to exerciso dge caution in the matter.” ‘Then the Deacon applied the bostle to his lips and tested the whisky. Thetest took away sbout bolf & pint. He swallowed most of it. avd then spat out a very.small portion with o look of distrust. “That is not fit to use! Have you no better than this for #ale!” The druggisi emptied the botile and again filled it, aud sgain the Deacon took & deep draught, “That is somewhst better, bat, _still, not fit for medicinal uses. You must furnish the best you have, sir.” o Again the druggist filled the bottle, and again tbe- Deacon tested the srticle thoroughly. This time -he- ‘made no objections, morely re- marking : _‘;"Tlmt ig better. What have I to pay you, sir * Ninety-five cents;. 50 conts for the bottle of whieky aud 15 ceuts each for the three drinks.” The druggist-badn’t more than got the words out of his mouth before he knew from personal observation jast what righteous indignation was. The Deacon ewelled up, turned red mn the face, and thundered ou _*What do you mean, sir, by such an insult, sir! Do you dare to intimate, sir, that I would take & drink- of liquor? I was merely testing the vile stuff, sir, to see if it was fit to enter my house for medicingl purposes, gir!” ut the godless druggist could not Le over- awed or intimidated. Lie simply informed the Deacon that the drinks must; be_paid for ; aud thet good mau saw tho pomt in time to saye lum- sgelf fiom trouble. 5 “Ah! well, perhaps I should pay for the noc- essary consumption of liquor’in the tests made. Hereit is. You will be kiod enough not to men- tion tha circumsatance to anybody, 8ir 7" And then the good man walked ont with calm dignity, sud the druggist, observiughim, saw him pause in the dark jshadow of the firet dlley and make still another test of the contents of the ‘bottie—which was one of the rezsonv, probably, that the druggist told the story the next day. S Bold Begrars. _James Stewart, a very wealthy and benevolent citizen of Austin, Tex., has published a-number of begging letters received by him. They give su_inkling by inferenco of the experience of philanthropists of more reputaticn. One was {rom a young woman, who said thet, being pen- niless, friendless, and beautifol, she bad deter- mined to marry a rich man, She wanted 31,000 to enzble her to emhance her besuty ‘ with euch adornments a8 a womsn of taste and cul- ture knows how to nse,” and with. which she could hope to ‘‘marry into & fortune.” An_ inventor of s ‘fiying-machine wanted £500 to pay for 8 model, and would repay the favor by allowing the donor to * win everisst- ing fame by fiying from churcn steeple ™ whea the epparatus should be completed. A gambler bad been informed ina drexm that, by buying & certain lottary ticket, he would win a large rize ; but, alsa! he had no mouey. Wouid glr. Stewart send him 810 by mail? A young divinity stadent had been invited to deliver & trial sermon to &n aristocratio.congrepation, and he needed » new coat to wear on the imporiant occasion. These beggars, and many otherd as sudaciously importuaste, signed real namesto their letters. ‘The Suez Canal. M. de Lessepe has just putlished an'intarest- iog work entitled, ** Letters. Journal, snd Doc- uments Serviog for the History of the Suez Canal.” o ststes that, after having long allowed his 4dés to remain’ & castle in the =air, he was soxious in 1852 to submit 1t to the then Viceroy of Egypt, Abbas Pasha, but was that he had no chance of a favorable hearing. He therefors sliowed the question to sleep till September, 1854:—' I was busy among masons An nters -in addiog another story to the old mansion of Agnes Sorel, when the postmax came into the courtyard with the Paris -lettors.’ - The' wotkmen passed ox my’-letterk ~sud pepers' {rom hand tohaad. What was mysurprise to read the for Protes:ant'Unasutens; aud'thzt the -ssid death of Ab! Tagbs, my youthful friend. tho intellizent sod sym- pathetic Alohammed Said. I.qaickly descended frcm the building d new Viceroy to congratulste him. I reminded bim that politics had given me leisure which I should profit by to go and offer my homage to bim s 8000 a8 he let me Lunow tho date of his return from Constantidople, where ho had to go 10 recaive his investiture.” On arriving at Alexandria in October, M. de Tesseps was warmly received by the Viceror, who being ebout to proceedto Cairo, invited bim to accompany bim. The jouroey occupied wwelve davs, - po railway naving then been constructed. M. de Lesseps _svailed himself of the opportunity of unfolding his scheme; but ho was pot without misgivings, for Olohemet Ali, the Viceroy's _father, when a caral was proposed to him, declined to sanction it, apprebending difficulties with En- gland, and said Pasha had declared shortly be- fore his sccession that, it he ever becams Vice- roy, he would pursue his father’s policy. IHe listensd, however, with tho greatest atten- tion, and said,- “I am convinced. 1 accopt your plan. Wo will discuss during the rest of the jourpev tho means of carrsing it out. Itis a sattied thing; you can count on my.sup~ port.” M. de Leusepa thereupon put the finish- Ing_strokes to the statement be bad been pre- paring for two years, and on reaching Cairo the Viceroy informed the foreign Consuls of bisin- tention to promote the canal. He duacted two French engineers in bis service'to.explore the Isthmas, and thoy reported in favor of the scheme, which thenceforth, however, hed to contend with diplomatio and pecuniary-difticnl- ties. SONS OF TEMPERANCE. The National Division—Thirty~First Annual Scssion, at Providence, . L. ~The Growth ard Conditicn: okthe Order. Boston Journat, The thirty-first anuual session of the National Division of the Sons of Temperauco was tom- 1menced on Wednesday in Anchor Temple'Hall, Providence, R. I ~The delegates to' ‘the gession reprecent tliriy-eight Grand Di- visioas in_ the States, _Terntories, and. British Provinces of North America. The officers of the session are.as follows: M. W. P., F. Marion Bradley, Wasbington, D.C.. M. W.A., Edward Carswell, Oshawa, Ontario; AL W. Scribe, Bamue! W. Hodges, Bostou, Mass. ; L. W, Treasurer, William A. Duff, Ph.ladelphia, Pa.; M. W. Chaplain, the Rev. Stephen Moerritt, Jr., New York, N. Y.: M. W. Con., M. T. Ander- gon, Omaha, Neb.; M. W. Sent., Mary E. Stud- ley, Clevoland, O. . The annuxt report of Stmuel W. Hodges, of Boston, Moat Worthy Sciibe, sffords a conciss and complete review of the actual condition and rogresa of the Order during the past year. 'here have been no large losses in memberahip, and the total gain bas been about 6,000, the. Tnrgest loss having bcen Eastern New York, about 1,500, spd New Jersey, about 800. Ne- brasia ghows a loss of 200, and Viestern Penn- sylvania aud Louisiana 150 oach, Indians made no report last year, and has-made none ths, and tho:Ordor in that State mamntaics obly s nomi- nal existence. Total membership reporied at this time. Total membership reported last yeur.. Net gain fortho Fear... sereveeesisnscannses 5,803 The largest gains, as reported this year, are by Nova Scot:a, about 2,800;_ Visconsin, 1,800 ; On- tario, 1,230; Westorn New York, 1,100; and 500. Aaryland (both Grand Divisions), is_(both Grand Divisions), New Bruns- Iilinois, Newfoundland, AMassachusetls, Delaware, Florida, and Penosylvania make cains of from 100 to 200 each, and all other gaina-or losses aro less than 100 each. Special mention 18'made of the-work of sev- eral of the Grard Divisions. Wisconein ‘has made 2 splendid grinof 1,276 on ther last year's memborship of 1,282, Iowa has lost 10 Der cent of its memberahip; the-eight divisions in East Tennessee are in fair condition ; Florida basmade a'largo percentage of increase'in meni- berahip; tho Grand Division of Western Fenn- sylvania is weak, Bominaliy beving three divis- ions, only ane of which 18 strong ; there'is'only one division in Vermont; Ontario ehows a-sieady progress; more work is needed in Kentucky, Louisiaua, and other jurisd:ctions. The Grand Drvisian of Dakote. comprising _eight subordi- Date divimons, was organized on the 10th of De- eomber, 1874 The Grand Division of Michigan was organized with twenty subardinates oo the 25th of January, 1875. The seyentn division of colored people has been organized in Alabams auring the year; ouly two of the divisions in Arkansas have been regular in their reports; soveral new divisions have been organized in the Bahama Islands, and there is one aivision at the Bermudas. Three divigions have boen organ- 1zed in Utah and three in Wyomicg Tenitory, with the-prospect of the speedy organization of Grand Divisivns in each of theae ‘jurisdictions. A summary of the statistics'shows that there are thirty-nine Grand Divisions on this continent, and subordinate divisious in ten otber States, ‘Perritories, and political divisions. The total nuniber of subordinate divisions 10 ODEration......veenesss 1,978 Number of members sdmitted. 47,941 Number reinstated 2,006 Number withdrawn, 9,497 Number of divizions 5,134 Suspended. 16,800 Expelled fo jon of pledge. 3,538 Expelled for other csuses. 768 Deaths....... < 010 Violsted piedges Ly 7,269 Total number of members. 8,102 Number of ladies sdmitted. Lo 7,16 Number of lady visitors. Representativesin Gran 11,096 Representatives in Nutional Divisio H 664 867 Public meetings hield. Tracts distributed. .. 169,371 Totul receipts of subordinate divielons. 160,4U4.77 Paid for benofits....... 24,193.55 Cash on hand and fnvesied. 385A1LTE Per ospita tax to Grand Divi 831. Per capita tax to'Notional Division.. 4,405.10 Easgtern New York is the vision, with & membership-of 12,535 ; Ontario, with 10,418 membors, is next in size, and Peun- sylvania, Nova Scofia, and Massachusetts have botween 7,000 and 8,000 ezch. In the New En- gland States—Maine has 1,327 members, New Hampshire 1,110, Vermont 100, Massachusett 7,561, Rhode 1sland 1,196, and Connecticat 1,562, ‘I'he total cash reccived by the Most Worthy Beribe has' been ©6,481.4%. 'T'he sulable prop- erty of the Nationsl Division now on hand ie estimated at $2,483.50, and the net sasets are $6,805.12, an increase of $327.69 during the vear. In regard to the general status of the cause the report eays that it **is gaining ground in many localities, and where any apparent back- ward movement has been made it bas occurred from lukewarmnees oo the part of friends and increased activity on the par: of our opponents, rather than any loss of faith in any of the principles we advocate. For years prohibition of the liquor trafiic has baen the groundwork of our labors, and evers day brings additioual arguments in favor of our standpoint. The only featuro of a license law which is of any value to the community, or that makes a lcense law better than tbe free sale of intoxicanng liquors, ia its re- strictive feature. In fact, the only features of any law on the subject of the sale of lir“lufi of auy valueto a community ere the pro! ibitory portions of the- stdtute. In-a time of great danger in ono of the large cities of North Amer- ica the Mayor, for three days, by direct order, alosed all the ram-selling places in that-city, and is prepared to enforce the order by the help of the police_of the city and the bavonets of the State, and intoxication-in the streets of that city becomes a'thing unknown. Tho lesson of license everywhere and at all times has been'and to-day is, that its value is only to be found in ita restriction of tbe unlicensed nale. No care in regard to the men to whom license are granted, no multiplication of sums o bo re- quired as the basis of bonds; or for the prices of Jicense, in any manner tend to restrict the evil effects of the sale of intoxicating liquors; but, prohibition in any form, whether it be in re- Btriciing the sale for certain hours of the day or night, or certain day proves our argumentiin- favor of total and en- tire prohibition, The rule on this subject is unchangesble. Enforce prohibition, and good order, morality, aod the safety of the com- munity foliow. Allow liceose, and disorder, licentiousness, crime, and danger to the publis -follow.™ The Legal Right to the Title ‘ Reve erend.” A correspondent of the London Law Times writes to that journal as follows concerniog the rightd g.l Dissgenting ministers to the title ** Bev- erend " : +The Bighop of Lincoln and the other Angli- cans who retuse to acoard-such title shonld study & document in the handwritiog of the great Eo- glish Jodge, Sir William Blackstone, s good su- thority on' ecclesiagtical matters. The docu- ment runs thus: ‘Memorandum—18th April, 1765. It was then sgreed between Haooah Bromley; of' Wallingford, widow, and Willam Blackstone, of thesame place, Eaquire, That the said Haonsh Bromley, within three months from tbe date hereof, ahall, for the consideration of the sum of £340, couvey to the faid Willism Blackstone, aod bis heirg, all* her third part or shara of the'houreand lands, and other premises in the pansh of St. Peter, in' Walingford, now in the ccenpation of Jeremiah Morel; and of the advowson of the Chnrch-of 8t. Peter.and also of the rooma or plees now used for s meeting-touse and bastened to writs to the. 88,102 209 Willism Blackstons shall psy to ths eald Hannah Bromley the said enm of £340, on having' & good - title msade out to him of the same, snd aleo will permit the Rev. Alexander Jackson, munister of the Gosvel, to occupy.snd uea the suid Dissenting meeting- bouse xo long as he shall reside st Walling- ford aforesaid, withont paying sny Tent for the same, either in respect of the third part of the same premises lately purchased by the eaid William Blackstone, or ‘Thomss Tower, Ems. Hannah Bromley, William B'ackstone. Wit- ness, Alexander Jacksoo:' Mr. Juckson was the'Baptist minister of Wallingford. Ths docu- ment is-in possesston of the' Rev. J. Martin, of Briehton, who, I believe, is willing to let it be inspected.” ROBERT DALE OWEN. What I¥is Brother Thinks of His Present Condition and Chances oi Recovery. Lowwsrille Courter-Journat, July 16, Prof. Richard Dale Owen—the middie nams of each of tho sons is ** Dule "—is 8 member of the facuity of tha.lodians State University, at Bloom- iogton. He has been on s visit to friends in Jeffer- souville for sevorai days, and yesterdays re- porter of the Courier~Journal wsa sent to him with the request that he should give. such facts 28 he was williug to furnish concerning his brother’s condition. Prof. Owen .gaid that there have been so many statements made -and published on the subject of Mr. Robert Owen's insanitv, many of winch—doubtless unintetion- ally—are 8o calculated to mislead, and. even those from reliable sonrces are so-mingled with orror, that he felt jusnfied i giving tho follow- ing facts and reasonings to the reporter: "The condition of his brother is now much bet- tor understood than formerly, and the best phy- sicians and superintendents of asylums concur in the bolief that a disturbed montal condition is always connected with & disordercd physical conaition. The Cincinoati Commercial's cor- respondent stated that insanity had been hered- jtary in tho Owen family. several -members, in- cluding the father, having been insane at the time of their deaths. Prof. Owen snyr that tho correspondent asserted correctly that the mind of-Robert Owen, his father, and of William Owen, hia brother, gave way beforo death; ba: he saya tnat the writer seems unuware ofithe fact that the father was in his 89th: year when he died in Wales, and that bis body and mind were in & sound condition until a-few weeks before his denth. : Turther, Prof. Owen calla stiention .to .the faiture of the correspondout to nute that the wandering of mind evineed hy William Owen was proved by a nost-mortem examination to re- sult only from the snme sympathetic csuss, which showed that his long-continued dyspepsia bad aieo involved heartand liver in fanctional derangement. The mind of Dr. David Dale Owen was £o clear at tholast.that,.although racked by pain, he' dictated portions of bis Arkausss Heport until within twilty-four hours of his dissoln- tion, aod the samo clearness’ characterized the death-bed of his sister, Mrs. Fauatleroy, who died of hernia. Prof. Owen conversed freely with his brother Robert in April last, and he was then in remark- ably good hoalth of body.and mind for a man of bhis ago. All hislife, although lus brain was large and active, be was of a quiet temperament; 80 mach 8o, that.he was seldom if ever excited to anger in political debate or religious controversy; be conid also sleep_quietly immediately after an evening lecture delivered with energy, or soun after drinking several cups of coffcs, a stimulus which over-excites many persone and often in- duces:somniency. He usually elept and dx'gaaled well, avd during his whole life averaged five or six hours every day of mental labor, nsuatly writing, without feeling that any injurious effect resulted. Even when be uoforiunately gave in the week, always | Dhimeelf up to Spiritualism, and took o sirong in- terest 1n everything connected with it, he never became cver-excited. At no time.of his life did Dis band ever tremble., Although'74 years of age r&wing born November, 1600), he wrote, last April, a8 clear, bold and distinct 2 haad as at 20 yeara of age. Under all these advantages of or- genization, the guestion paturally occured: to the reporter: * Wnat, them, prodaced the present disorder of hus mind ?™ K Lrof. Owen replied tbat doubtiess his brother | had become somewhat dyspeptic after be left the family and lived at hotels in the East. His daoghter Roeamond is undoubtedly correct in believing that, with his body thus 8 mewhat enfecbled. he should not have performed his usual amount of menial labor, But Frof. Owen thinks there was snotber cause. That cause was mnot Bpiritualism, a8 some journals have suggested, aithough Le thinks tbat the study of Spiritualism is-not calculated to give the mind the same cool reasoniug .power which wonld result from a.study of acknowledged phyeical facts and Jaws, or a life devoted to useful profession. Had spirituilism Leen the cause, either remoteiy or 1mmediately, his brother’a conversation in his .excited moments would be of something connected with spiritual- ism. Wby should he be so.decply mortified about Katie Kiug? He bad stated what he be- lieved, and 88 scon a8 the imposture was ex- posed e horieatly confeesed himsalf decerved. He was still in a healthy condition of body and mind when he went tothe water-cure at Dansville, and, howerver suitabiathat diev may be, especially for'those who go there at an early age and sub- mit to the rule of rerfect rest, the entire change of diet ard habats at 74 years of age, with con- tinued mental labor, was exceedingly imprudent, and, in toe opinion of Mr. Owen’s medical friend, this was the chief, perhapa only, cause of the saberraticn of iovtellect. It is well kmown that even the suppression -of anabnor- mal diecharge. such as hemorrhoids, may by . metsstasis induce insanity. .FHere was a change calenlated to alter all the secretions, under some circomstances, perbaps, for the better. DBat at 74 years of age, no one who hae constantly hived on three meals should at once reduce to two; no one should suddenly change from the ordi- nary diet of & {New York hotel to the oat-meal ‘mush and apple-sauce with bread, of the water- cure, ususlly giving up meat and coffee and all condiments, as is done by the patieuts. Fortunately, lr. Owen is now in the hands of’ Dr. P. Bverts, who has for about fifieen years been the Superintendent of the Indiana Asylum for the Tueane, located near Indianapolis. Should not Mr. Owen .be tao old or too debili- tated to recuperate, Prof. Oswen thinka that his chances are the best. If from the sudden changes be produced suppression and conse- quent undue flow of blood to the brain, the re- gult may be paralysis and death, but, if other- wise, the most_favorable results may be hoped for soon, and he may yet live comfortably for some years, although 1t wonld be improper for him to again resume his literary labors. A Monster Turtle. New London Telegram. The fiehing-smack Sylvan Glen, Keeney, mas- ter, has captured-s monster animal resembling & turtle, off Mootauk Point, and_brought it into this barbor. The animal ia 7 feet longand 2 {cet throngb. Unlike the ordinary tartle, this: apimal has no feet, but large fics projecting on either side which measuro 8 feet and 6 inches scross. The head is unnuestionably that of a turtle, but is -crowded with teetlt which arsof an elastic texture. The snimal is incapable of drawing 1n its head. Ilts neck is sbout a foot long. The back.is jet black, and ridges run horizontslly at equal distances spart. Its shell is not thick, and resembles gutta-percha. Itis estimated that ‘it weighed from 800 to 1,000 pounds. Ol sea-captains, who have traversed the seas for life, shook thair heads and declared they had never seen its like before. In the evening 1t was put on exhibition at the Pequot House, and will_soon’ be' preserved- for the benefit of science. It zppears to be & variety of turtle well known in the Mediterzanean, and in called the leathery or trunk turtle. It is distiognished from other species b’i’h“ing its. shield” overlaid by a leathery. ekin, instead of horny plates: The shield ia smooth in the adult, but tuberculsted i the young, and hus seven longitudinal ridges, with.ite:anterior limbs twice as long a8 the hind ones. It isthe lsrgest- of the turtles, and sttsius'a length of 8 fest and a weight of more-than haif-a'ton. Itaflesh iz of no value, but its shell has been nsed aloog the Mediterrapean' for small boats; drinlang- troughs for animals, and bath-tubs for children. It 18 found on both sides of tbe Atlantic, es~ pecially in the tropics, coming’ north as far as Magsachuseits Bay, sod_following the Guif Btream across the Atlantie to thecosst of Eu- rope and the Mediterraness. It is knowu to ists aa ** uphargls corisoea.” _——— Two Millions of People; New York Sun. The Stats census returns of this city and Drooklyn are not yet completed; but' enough is known'to make ssfe’the'estimate that the popu- lation of New York is about a million and & quaster, aud that of Brooklyn half a'million, And to these figures add the population of Jer- sey City, Hoboken, Newark, and the Jersey Orauges of all sizes, colors, and at all points of the compass, which has its day residence in' New' York, avd we have a ity of 2.000,000 of soule struggling for existence on Manhattan Ialand. ' 23 much & part of the called Sunnyside 1s of Lunfl-w:’sfi:‘:fl' s into place 3 the wecond city-of tae woris, 27 sliow 5-population-two-thirda as lange ag. thatd the'grestest Kivo of human beings toe heit% the cities of the aarth:has evar showg—Lo; _ Weare away shead of Vienna, with ica pei: inhabitants, as given”in 1t3 cansns of xaso!lss per cent Letger thaa-Berlin, with its U2 10 ple, asTeparted by its censts of'1837. el comes up to Liverpool with 517,367 inhhiuk:m enumerated in the censws of 1370, [o14 o these European cities have grown sines dates of their censuses, .but Dane of thyyl® greatly as to deprive Now York of its s’ tise secatid city of -the world in popalatics s 8 counted in all our chickens. - —_— HUNOR, *No, ma'am,”- s jewels -wrbexntipg lady, “Idod’t trust ;nv%edv“th:"a' deye would not eventrust my feelings.” T A lJandlord, having let all his hous was asked 1t that unlet bouss was Lo (¥ **Yes, last, but not leased;” was'his raply, A bad little boy, upon being promised by bus mother if he would take s goss ot ot oil, obtainea the money, mdthen told his pasesy that ahe might castor il in the strest, An accommodating man — Buggs— “Hep Tripe, oving ?” gl‘rlnc-“"l':a;'.";“ 1‘;5& WLt for " Tripe—++ Well, timten ace.s gy hard, aud I am moving to please my laodlagy s The fiddler of.a minstrel .company ran. the otber day in debt to the manager at whi ;hfi mn;nger fig:‘;:luegn that hs had fln;rfl.'fi;\. ellow for & ler; but he had: ' th & baseviolinist. Sihonttin peeg A lawyer ‘at Newbarg, N. Y., has N Journal for callivg him = rascal, udm he.gets a-witueds on the stand he thinkane of remarking: ** Now, sir, Wasn't your graag. father Liung for horse-gtealing 7" In & recentscandal case in Smith County, a Indy witness dectined to aoswer a question, tha attorsev demanded her reason. ‘‘Bacy ags, 1t is-pot fit to tell decent people.” -0, wans adwhue 8aid thelawyer, ‘just watk up herc it to the Judge.” Fhe'Right Hon. B. D.—* Now !bat.yrmx‘mu. ness has, seen the-olessings of freedom,.T try we may relv upon yoar strennous help in:pattng down slavery 2" Sultan Sevvid Bacghash— iy, yes! cc‘r:ta.m)_v! Ex:t remeraber; O Shiekh Bag onservative party very str Zmee bar " Punch. TR ** Whet aro ye dineing around far?” a ‘boot-bisck: );anerd:g o' a miflnzm whose facs waz covered 'viihi.smiles, and-vh was executing a double-sanfe. * Glory 'maff for one day!” replied tho lad, jumping st bigher, **cow got'ino the garden this and tramped every bed a3 flat as your bat, am won't have-to puil'a weed this summer? A colored man, employed as a deck-hand on g propeller, was .rushing around town yesteday and inquiring where the polis were. “Polly Polls?” repeated a citizen; * why, thera's.no election going on' now.” *'There hainir “No, sir.” Tiie man stood for & moment lik. ing greatly dissppointed. and theo turned for the river with-the remark: ** Aud now ds pro. gramme is to fied dat sleck young man who sid dey was paying six dollars apioce for voteal"— Détroit Free Press. Sometime sgo & man was charged in the Glasgow Poliea Court with stealing a hi barrel. After the charge'had been proved, ihe principa! accnser addressed the magistrala: “Deed, Bailie, tho man’ at the bar is'a grea Togue ; the stcaling of the barrel is nothing ta some of his tricks. He stole my signboard Yuz week ; and what'does your houor think ba ‘did wi’t?" ‘< That would be hard for me to ssy.” - Well, sir. Pl tell_yo. He broughsit iuio my aio shop, w1’ my ain name on't, and offersd to sell me’t, and lie said' he'thought it wid be of ‘muir use to mo than onybody else! " There is considorabie rivalry . batween tha vi- Iago (of Webster. Grove und Kirkwood, witeh breaks out on trequent occasiors i spontanstns salf-glorying eveu between the' youngmstchil drep. 'The other day- two little Loys,. aged re« spectively.7 and 8 years, met oach otiier oa ths road between these two suourban r sod the following'couversation ensued : Ak, bal” said the Kirkwood boy, ** we've got aTown Hall" *“’Inat's nothing,” said the Webster Grove boy, with great disdain, ** wo've go¢ & cOWw that’s xol two calves!” Tue Kirkwood boy was: silencsd for a few moments by this astoundiug bis cf in formation ; but.at laet he suddenly brightenek up. and broke ont with ** What if you have! My brother Jahn seila soda-water,. an’ i lastes: jul like whisky " The Kirkwood boy was triumphe ant.—St. is' Republican. VISION OF LIFE. Adavted from tie Frenchof Gressey 1T In reverio, whilst wand'ring farth Byaeadow, upund, sileut wll, B Hahold a L1ook bus modest birth, Whose wave (by rcving Eolus lez fall) Receives a bramble {row some near-vy bush; Snatehed from 1ts stem, tnrns round and round, And guided on by Naturv'e downward pasb, Forced stiil to wander, ever struggting foandy In ups and downs,—0OW SeeD, TOW LU, — Now floating on, now buried 1n the wave,= Enconntring off sad changes Ls 1 1o, — An cver-shifting sccne, if it can brave The desert-bani, or psss thie fruitful bard; 1f dreary.swamp prove not untimely grave (There thickly rest its predecessors stured); "Mid wanderings constant, it goes ever oz, Tull, at tae as, it ouly Suds & tomb Iu Ocean's Losons, Ahl from sight 'tis gonsy Neter to retum. The unlversaldoom! © o P S ‘The Tuileries. B Paris Correspondence Philadeiphia Telegrash The Palace of tha Taileries is positivoly to b reconstructed, and that as speedily a8 possible; or rather a8 500D 33 the necessary preparationd have been voted by the Assembly. The presest project is to rebmild the ruined palsss after the original design of Pbillibert Delorms, that is, with the Pavilioo d I'Jork in the contre, and united to end pavilions by lateral wings. Ths line of ths palace, which it appaars woa sligh.iy slanting.in the old building, 18 to bestraightened. Detween the palace, propeily so called, and the Pavilions of Flora and of Marsan, a terrace raised on sa open colonnade is to be constructed. Along this whole leugth of the facade fronting the Chamgs Elysees 8 footway oser 60 feet n width isto be left for promenaders, Tho sculptures for tho facade are already in progress. When fio- 18hed, the new palaco is to be called. the Palus des Arts, and tho present intention of thieat- thorities is to place therein the gallery of paintings now at the Luxembonrg, where i badiy arranged for lack of space, and is more over too far out” of the way of tou ists and transient residonts in Parik It this project is ever really ccrried into effect, the reslc” will be & great gain tosrt ‘Jovers in Paris by thas concentrating the-tres sures of ancient aod of modern art under. .roof. But will it ever be accomplished? aug, if 80, when ? For the builders of Paris build ex- ce sly slow, and at the rato it took them 13 reconstruot the Colonno Vendome, it toke at least twenty years to rebuild. thé Tuileries. Mesutime, "Henri V.. or Nsooy leon IV. or Louis® Philippo IL may step in, then away wonld go all hope of seeiug the neW _palace. dedicated to art, Among other plaos for renovating the city, thers is talk of tezring dowa, the splendid ruins of the Court of Accognté which are sitoated on the other side of the and whioh npoble buuaing, after fve ysarol rooffess exposure, still fronts tho sunshidé ¥ grandly a8 1n its daya of proud perfection. Brother Stone’s Feeblo: Remarks Christian Intellisencer. = ot Mr. Stone, a well-kuown sud. excallent Chrie tian gentleman; belonging to one uf.tho Marmy Hill churcaes 1o New York City, was up.in the- country one summer, sod learning that ;n ’:m..r“‘ .praver-meeting was in progress:in- the & ichurch, waiked in and took a-soat in the- becS: ‘pact of the room. AL " The brother in the chair -canducting:the meet: ing. observing the atrauger, left his seas, 850 coming to Mr. Stone; ssid to himrs " * What is your name 2" * My oama 18 Stope.” * Where are yon from 7" « 1 am from $be City of New York!’ : © Areyou one of:the Lord's peaple 2" 2 H ipg: bumility. 3 iding g - 'ia8iod wih the anawer of his cateabism, retamed to his elevzsed seat, and, astho end of the: . arose and said : : “ Witl Beather Stons;. frony New York, fsv0f -us with & few remarks ?'’ Mir: Btone, willing to do-whiat-hsoould, mscss few practical observations- to- the- best of: bis* shflig;ingfi?dmm hddnh‘-:l 8at down:thanths L elder rose an 2 4 -Px?- Will Brother Stone,of. New York, sak b8 Lord to bless his feeble remarks £” S5 TUndismayed by this commeotary on B speoch, Mr. Stone offered prayer; and the meett, The population of Londou by tue censas of 1670 was 3,214.107 persons ; that of Paris by the census of 1867, 1,839,462 peisons ; Constan: nople, 1,075,000 by the ceceus of 1864 XN York proper will therefore rank next sfier Paris, xnd leaving out the cities of Chi wow the third city in the world in population. If we conid takie in our Brookiyn' off<hoots and those of Northein Jersey, which of right:belong o ns _ing-prooeedod ss usual. The bronze statne of -Dr.. Horscs Wellf. native of Hartford' sud. the discoverst 0f: anesthesis. for which the Legislitqra zod” (8¢ Cityof Hartford exch sppropristed- $5,000,- ufi been compieted by Truusy H. Ba le:;‘;fl‘:‘_ -l socn-bs erected i the Hartford Ciry PRE