Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 1, 1875, Page 5

& SUNDAY, AUGUST 1. 1875.~SIXTEEN PAGES THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE —— ¥ by catching froge, and refascs to wear feminine signad to provide against shrivkage and change, ca'cnlated to advancs the phonetic theory. Out of 111 consecutive words, 103 are changed,—in most cases 8o much 8o that it 18 difica!t to un- derstand what the unconth signs mean. Phonetic reform must be gradual or-it cannot be at all. And people would prefer to see soms plan of it peight of the aristocratio standard: Tt was not Joag, bowever, before be was acknowledged to smong ibe very best Parlismentary orstors. Proceedings were nstituted sganst himin 486 for beving violated the law forbidding meet- to s breach of the pesce; but the probibiting them went ont of effect before | suggested by & well-known phlologist life Prof. b, W. D. WaTrNxTY, instexd of in an advertising cir- trial came on. O'CosNELL now began to with might and main for s repeal of the petween England and Irelsnd. Ho £ that there conld be freedom for Ireland ‘an condition that Ireland were independent, 1sast, left to govern itself. Dut the movement was so severely defeated 1834, that O'CoxveLn it enmtirely, pro~ yided the Ministry should keep their prom-~ jon and &0 justice to Iieland. But idng years apd the Whigs fesred still to redress o? which O'Coxxuiy complained. m:'“mhentor" called upon the peopla & fam s new Dopeal Association. The Iush complained that the vast msjority of the people were taxed to support s Chburch yhich they did mot befieva in; that only e man ia tweaty in Ireland had Parlismentary rights, while, in Englend, one man in five bad fbem; that the representation of Eogland in puttiament, 88 compared with Ireland's repre- ion there, was a8 five to one, while the joos of the two countries were as three totwo; and that the rystem of laod-tenure had oot been reformed in freland 2s it had been in Eoguand. 0'CoxNELL'S monster meetings were the lar~ ever held. There were many at which ssreral bundred thousand men were present. §5t the ntmoet £00d order reigned among them, )t the great projectcd monster meeting at Clon- fart, 8 muilion of men were expected. The peeting was to be beld on the 8th of October. A proclamsation was issued on the 7th prohibit- ngit. 0'CoxxELL declared the proclamation lawfol, bat, at the same uume, to preveata ponflics with the troops, he ordered that the neeting should not convene, aod his couners gavo notice to the assembling crowds to return guistly 0 thewr bomes. 0'CoxsELL waa sccused of couspiracy at 1ast and, tried by 8 jury, was found guilty in 1844, Anappesl was tuien to the House of Lords, and powas acquitted. He wos immediately released {om prison, and returned in trumph to Dublin. 0'CoxxiLLs €pirit was broken by hus short stay inprison. He never was himeelf again. He lied Msy 16, 1847, on bus way to Italy. KEEPING BABTES ALIVE Moderr society seems to e opposed to babies. Fewer of them are born—or is Prof. WaLkER fight in denying this common belief ?—and more * of them seem to die. The eltborate sppliances of civ:lization for preserving life by” hoepitals, e, are apparently outstripped by its resources, o the shape of the filth -incident fos big aty and of the hury asd worry inssparable from modern life, for de- stroying it. The mortality among cuildren thig rcmmer has been very great. The lake excur- sions just inangurated may eave very many lives in Chicago, but ‘the death-roll is already .of s plastly length, and every day adda toit. The mot succesaful khfe-saving institution im the wald, as far a8 babies are concerned, is probs- by the Antwerp (Belgium) creche. It was loxuded ip 1866, during the cholera epidemic. Tiecharge for taking care of s child is only a ceata day, or 5 cants per week. At these low ra:es, the annual profit is ovar £3,000. The fol- loving sketch of its management will be found o valne: Tor the food of very young tnfants there s provided a1resd-s0up, or Liscuit-panado, made of white bresd 1wd arrowroot doiled in Witk and water. This is given 8303, m., and between 2and 5 p, m., a0d, for & arink beween times, thin larley-water, kor unwesned ' ¢ren 7 months old and nare, the pausds is given menday, in the morning; at2o'cluck p. m. 8 pap o gruel; and thres times ¢ week a bonsLion of beef or v, from which thie fat is carefully skimmed, This %P ia 1o be propared with semolino (a sort of bran). Foc children who have been weaned, at 10 a, m. the iads, but thicker; st 13:50 p. m. beef or veal soup, wihrice and seolino, folowed by vegetubles, of wlich potatoes arexot to coastitute more than the en.-#ixth part; at5 p. m. alives of bread and butter ; for &rink, a ptisan flavored with licorice. Al these e culgr of the Josk Brurixes school, AET MOBAICS, I In one sense,—the most artistic,—thers has been no revolution in Art. The studsnt of beauty 10 form proceeds to-day to the same mod- els that afforded instruction to MicHAEL ANGELO angd THORWALDSEN ; and these models, immortal a3 Time, and as perfect of their kind as if in- spired by divine soggestion and assist- ance, srouse the same profound hom- ege in the nineteenth ocentury - which Boman arusts felt when Boman arms bore the pallid captives from Athens o grace the pro- cessions of the victors, and then to adorn the porticoes of the Capital of the World. The im- sgination of man has boen engaged in a constant quest of a perfect standard of beauty; but ANGELo himself, the Redeemer of Art, affirmed that the Greeks had arrived most nearly at its realization, and, instead o} attempting to im- prove npon (he fragments which remam of their skill, be was content to become their scholar and follower. If one chooses to cross the material limits of antique designs,—to pasd from the finished statue in granite, bronze, or marble, into the Mind, 28 it were, of the firet sod best distinct School, he will discern that the aim of Greek Art wsa to realize perfect natural types. The process waa one of selection and combination, They discriminated between the essentigls of beauty and its accidentals. Wherever, in the models which prévious Art had lett, or in living men and womeu, they discerned parts or fea- tures which were in unison with that inatingt of the soul which differentiates between the per- manent in natural sympathyand the graceful or appropriate phases which beauty assumes under local causges and ehifting conditions, they seized the discovery, and applied it in their approxima--| tion toward perfect uatural types. The great artists of modern times worked in precisely the same manner, altbough they only aspired first to the formation of correct ideals, then to their accurats reproduction, bat mot, 88 did the Greeks, to the creation of perfect types. RAPHAEL Geplored the paucity of beau- tiful women, and confessed that, ‘‘to paint a beawiiful figure, he inust ses others more beauntiful; and that he had striven hard to at- tain within his mind a certain ideal.” The sculptor Gissox chose three of the finest male models in Rome when working upon his Baccavs. He did not seek to reproduce the entirety of any one.aof tho three, or that one would have been enough; but to select the most symmetrical parts of each, and combine them in hLis cist. Then he engaged a female model **because the Greeks usually threw into Baccaus female traits.” TmonwaLp- SEN employed over thirty models during the three years in which he worked upon hin Vexvs. The individual beauties of so many different forms, ali more or less bean- tiful, are combined in the scuiptor's umt; sad the product of these common fractionsis con- sidered the finest of modern Art. DONATELLO, the Florentine sculptor, experiencod great diffi- culty in getting favorable models for his JuorrH, and suffered more weariness in examin- ing the festures and the capacity for pome of his feminine visitors, with & view to their partial adaptability for the assassin of Boro- FERNES, than in chiseling the reluctant marble. So ardaous was lus toii that, upon giving the final touch to the almost palpitating form, bhe cried, *“S8peak now! I am sure you canl” This process of sacrificing, 80 to spesk, many human beings for the for- mation of & single material being, had the ‘effect, naturally, of engendering familianty and contempt in the artist's mind for the person 8o employed ; and the soquired habit is likely to o, ot &rnts and soups are made fresh every day. The ; ! m‘ s fi:nudm y. d‘humghly’ .nd‘ mnun‘n‘; grow so intense and involuntary as to be no re- ouly vent and strexms of fresh ¢ k. NOLLEKEN: i e e anie: b ihe i a1 wpactar of rank. NorizxeNs, the English sculptor of the middle of the last century, when making a bust of the King, thrust a pair of compasses into the monarch’s nose and ran some risk of putting his- Msjesty's eyes out, while measuring the height and breadth of his forehead. Rounmuc, & French sculptor, who preceded NorLLEEENS 1n England, often startled decorous company by exclaiming, *‘Madam, I must have your hand!”—when he merely ever expored Lo sny draught. No flowers are allowed ; Lt cradies exe mired frequently and the infunts taken £t the adr s often as the weather permita. The tem-. ture of the creche 18 kept s nearly as passtble at egroea Fahrenbeit, but lowerad a little 10 the even- lug. “In Tespect of ciesaliness, the Teguistions of the e he peem to kave Dothing 1o te desired, Every chi’a §a washed and combed in the morning and be- forv the firet meal, aud it haude and face washed after atng, Theyare un sponged all over whin ¥alied, then rubbed dry with clean towels, From 3y til] October they have a tepid bath every dsy, two Dol s after eating, inthebath ton minutos. 4 meant to borrow its shapeliness. When he 3 i8 rarely resorted to, corpural punishment B 2 o oh tuisly forlddden ; ¢ae Tale of treatment is fender- | ade his statne of HANDEL, be ssid that 80 exquisite s sepss of heariug conld only be represented by a small and elegant ear; and s Miss Ricm became famous for s day because she was able to lend him her ear, literally, for the desired model. Was the artist justified in pat- ting Miss Rica's ear on Hawper's head ? By the laws of ideality, he certainly was. He sargued, probably, that, in creating so great a musician s Haxper, Nature meant to give him an external organ indicative, according to patural harmony, of the refined sense which it contained. Accident thwarted Nature, and the artist corrected the mishap. The two accepted models of perfect humsn beauty are the VENUS bDE Mepicis. aud the ArorLo BELVEDERE; and thoy illostrate, with extrzordinary minuteness, the respective cuar- acteristics of sex. *¢This allotment of several distinctiona,” 8ays WeATT, waa *‘one of the iirst qualitiea of which the waitks of the early be . Theymsy be but not embraced ; tueir tlepis not to be interrapted ; they are never to be ex- ed; ner lifted up by one arm, nor let le t00 long ‘2pun the same sids ; confectionery is prohilited, ana e talion kept wih head coal, stonch . Attention to these rules,xnot only in American echas but in American homes, would save i neands of infant lives every year. Ignorance I targely responsible for the present msssacre of Lbs innocents. On the 15th qit., in Parig, the Exposition of tho Congress of Geographical Science was pubiicly opened, according to previous snnouncement. Comparatively fow reports have yet been re- teived from it ; those which have come to hand spoak of it in high terma. The chief object of !!llcuti » gigantic map, on s scale of two inches o the mile, which was begun in 1818, wer Lopis XVIIL, and is bappily just com- bleted for tnis oceasion. It ia about 60 feet bigh Greeks expressed a singular appreciation. To their representations of the ope sex, they gave swelling muscles, large and bony articulations, vigorous expreasion, and the appearance of sin- ewy elasticity, all indicative of the highest de- RTee of energy of life, combined with resolute determination. Upon the other, they implanted the tenderest graces, the modest elegance, the rounded forms, the graceful action, the timid restraints which modesty imposes upon freedom of movement in girlhood, the refinements of ornamenta! costume, and that pamsless charm which baugs about the lovely form of woman. Even in their representations of the Goddess of Wisdom and of War, no unfemi- nine characteristic was ever introduced: a grace and beauty distinguished no lees the MiNgnva than, in & differeat form, they adorn the Vexus.” PRAXITILES, 264 years before CERIsT, chiseled two VENusEs,—one nude, the otner draped. The people of the Island of Cos preferred the latter on account of its sssumed modesty, aod purchased it—the same price being set on botn. The citizens of Coidus bought the reject- ed fgure, sod afterwards refused it to Nicomxpes, who offered to can- cel an immense debt in exchangs. It is this statne which is eaid to have been the original of the VExUs pe Mrpicis, which is the work of CLzoxENES, about 200 years before Crrwist. The sculptar representa tho goddesa rising from the ses, on the shore of Cytherea. It was found, in several pieces, in Rome, in the sev- entsenth century: and, after remaining for soma time in the Mxpict palace, whence it acquiresits name, it was transferred to Florenca.. It is nude, 4 feet 1134 inches in height without the plinth, which is modern, and bears an inscription copied {from ths original, giving the artist's nams. The 124 of unknown length, the pisces mot haviag syel all been placed together. Great Britsin lfl{ Russis ghow their Asiatic possessiony in micatle but dangerously-suggestive proximity; By Austris, aod Huogary, Belgiom, Beaden, Norway, and Denmark, Germany, and Holland, are well represented ; and Fraacs her- [ exhihits mors than 1,500 mape and charts, etlending through many saloons aud galleriea which it would take days to examine properly. Andwhat has America to show ? A starspaugled ', & fow common 1oaps stuck upon the wallg, and a “ pictare ™ or two. This for a conn- #7s0abundaotly bleased in land, is the sorriest eshibition of all. Amaricans certainly onghs to brag and bluscer st bome, for they bave little “-Wflflobapronqotwhnthaygn sbroad. The o old ricksty Madison street bridge wil Jndis laat unday o earth to-morrow.—~Chioago That is & baran obituary of a faithful public *rvant. The Madison styest bridge has given eafe Raneit fot ywenty yearsto the people of Chi- ©59; and the bridge that carries one safely ;’:--m_h- proverb, ought not to be abused. mlllfmmh smong bridges. It has seon hl’“’pucnbouxtidmot it rise and fall, and outlived all those i exiutence in Chicsgo ?Rfinlgmainwmworld. It has beea m‘flhflmm all the time. It bas ssen *hardest naage that ever 8 bridge was re- Hized 10 do, and has borme 1 faithfally to the :- Millions of poople have crossed it, on foot 3 “_"lxmu; borss-cars have given its an- "‘.flfllflnnmnyln:nin;\'muhhnubumpad # Weather and wing have besten it; and there Saods to-day, apparently sound 28 ever. The ‘;‘t&. have aidered its removal only be- %hhupuudxha natural age of bridges, i dometlung weird snd uncacny abont it, (4 o e cuy Fatbars fons it may al fll n P the lover ball of the Bfeamdada Beaa st cncs, Like the wonderfal. ons.forsy i . Ponca et Braow's poem is but a faint Livh of ita inds- saribable beauty : thmw bas issned s tiny | APpesedist thou nnt to PARD fn this guise? P2ohesdarcied 30 phonsni setom Paiee. | Ot s wirpoes dxcwmns: G Uropy md prudence are combinea by flling | Befors thes thy own vanguished Lord of War? 0 Dageg with & phonatis. s : in Ry fase, a8 toward & ataz, (i var, “Wo Jesen thas they aro Tpon | Feshing oL hFveoet e eh b8 154 Mangutakchenrurs ov liil‘:;h Tl:.: ith Kl eiting il (heg e 1 153 Soagieets ok 1 03 Bbar-‘::;;mbhulflb.mv.m 1mouth, as from an tioez’ Begailn, Buks, and Dieploemaz.” good Arorro Bw: discov "‘&:"t the vowals 1 the orums ace Sacbucd eiboh of AR, 0 1508, and plaoed e Bt e YRrioos acoents, which make this remark- | vedere of " the Vatican. Its onginal is supposed Seatense even :z'f::.:d“ Theircate | to have bb.denbyl’mnl. ;nhoflomhmnbant "Itfln‘. dodge Maisonz,” *Od | 500 years befors Cxnsr. 0 status represents "‘-n_;mu‘mm:u.' and “Niets of | the god as having Just shos the monster Prrsiox, Vs *dy by et of theen, bud it (4 nat | c-his frame whill ‘with ezaction. Ths hand which held the bow is extended, and the forehead gieams with the exultation of success. Brrox's description is a8 accurate &9 it is besa- tifuls The Lord of the nnerring bow, The God of Life, end Poesy, and Light,— The Sun in bumsn limbs arrayed, sud brow All radiont from his trinmph in the ight ; The shaft hath just been shot,~the arvow bright With an immortal’s vengeance ; in his eye And nostril, beautiful disdain, and might And majeaty flash their full Hghtnings by, Developing, in that one glance, the Deity: But in hid delicate form,—s dream of Lovs, Shaped by tome solitary nymph, whose breast Longed for a deathless lover frum sbove, And maddened in that vision,~are exprest ; All that ideal beauty ever blessed The mind with {n its most unearthly mood ; When each conception was & heavenls guest;— A ray of fmmortality,—and stood Star-like, around, until they gatbered In & god! The figure is 7 feet in height, The left hand and the right fore-arm were restorsd by a pupil of MrcaAEL Axaero. There is considerable dis- pute /88 to the genuineness of all the scolpture accepted as Greek, including the VeNos pE Mepicis and the Arorro BeLvepere. A recent Eonglish writer, LAN- 104N, author of “A Theory of the Fine Arts,” saya: ‘It is, I believe, now the opinion of thoae most competent to judge in such mat- tors, both archmologists and sculptors, that we do not possess a single Greek statuo in marble; acd that the AroLco of the Vatican and the Vexus pe AEDICIS are /but copies, executed by Roman artists, of original Greek statues, when it became fashionable in Rome to ape the manners and customs of the Greeks. . . . . But I believe the Arorvo BeLvEDERE and the Vesus pE Mepicis are the only two perfect works which can claim to be original works of the highest order of Grecian are.” - 1t will be interesting to note briefly femous other antiques frequently alinded to in connec- tion with modern as well a8 ancient design. The Juriter OLYMPTS was & statue of vory, gold, and precious stoes, 60 feet in height. The Father of Gods was represeuted on a throne.; in his right bhand, s Victory of ivory and gold, with & crown and fillet: in his left band & sceptre, His head was crowned with olive, and his pallium decorated with flowers, animals, and birds. On each of the four corners of the throne, a Theban youth was beiog torn by a Sphinx, which supportea & dancing Victory. On the bar and panels of the throne were legend- ary representations,—the destruction of Niose's children, the labors of Hencvres, and kindred myths, The fight of THESEUS with.the Amazons was upon the baao; and, on the pedestal, an sasembly of the gods, the birth of VENTS, and the Sun and XMoon in their chariots, Pamus was the artist of this gigantic creation, and imitations of it exist in marble and brouze. * Puipias” is jnscribed on the pedes- tal of the ** BrLrenop=ON,” which is opposite the Pupal palace on the Aonte Cavallo, io Rome. The bero is about to mount Pegasus, The JMINERvA ATHENE is also aseribed to him. It was of ivory and gold, and 89 feet io height. Copies of the etatne Temain on" Athenizn coics. The group of Niopk aod her children, by Scopas, 400 years ‘before Cunist, is one of the most valued treas- ures of Florence. Nione exposes her life to save that of er children, who are threatened by Jove's thunderbolts. Her face sud attitude convey mental tenderness and anxiety, while the stataes of the children ex- presa terror and - dismay. The HuxTiNG Diaxa, in the gallery of Versailles, is 6 feot G inches in height, aud its characteristic is supplencss and elasticity. The VENUS oF Moo embodies those qualities which best fit 8 woman for motherhood ; it is brosder across the hips than the Venus pe Mepicis. The RicHELIEU Baccats, in the Louvre gallery, is 6 feet 4 inches in beight. It has more softness than the APoLLo BELVEDERE ; curls fall in pro- fusion about the neck and shounlders. It was greatly impaired when found, and the hands, the lower part of the arms, the right leg, Bnd a portion of the left foot, are restorations. The Hencures FArNese, repeated on gems and coins, and in bronze and marble, wss one of the most famous of the early sculptures. Itis colossal in magnitude ; represents the herd, ex- hausted by toil, leaning on his club—the muscles distended, the veins swollen, the head bent, and the face melancholy. It is said to have been copied by GLycox from an original by Lysieeus. 1If the mortality records of Pensacola should be anpuslly collected and published, and the nimber of officers who have died thers while on duty sbould be indicated, perhaps the Govern- ‘ment might serionaly consider the expediency of abolishing the Navy-Yard at that point. The Philadelphia T¥mes calls attention to the fact that the existence of the Navy-Yard causes the Goveroment to keep considerable garrisons at Fort Pickens aod Fort Barrancas, besides the naval force which naturally centres at snch a poiot. The yard is comparatively useless in time of peace, and the cost of maintaining it, even when reckoned in dollars and cents, is an item to be considered. It must certainly be & point of considerable importance to bs worth the valusble lives which are every year paid out in its service. Some of the most valusble political and social ideas have been transplanted from one country to another. Tested st home, they have been exported. The last suggestion of the sort comes from Wadai, a Kingdom of Africa. It isanent prohibitory legislation. As a preveotive, it is enotgh to make (feminine) hair stand on ond. ‘We submit it to the consideration of believers in the Eleventh Commandment. The laws of Wadai forlnd- the drinking of beer. Whenever aoy of the amber fluid 18 found in & man's house, the authorities confiscate all his proper- ty and shave his wife's head, If this system should be adopted hers, it is appalling to think of the pumber of bald-headed women who would adorn our strests. ‘There was & young girl {n Iowa Who said shé was bound to show & Baok-cashier that he couldn’t play smart With the tender, budding, loving hears Of this bold young girl of Towa, Bo she shot at him and put & bullet within an inch of his heed. She has been fined adollar for **careless use of firearms,” This should ba & warning to ber to aim better next time. There is no fine, you know, for careful use of fire- arms. Mr. Disra®Lr's speech at ths Brrox memorial meeting, a8 reported in Tae TRIBUNE yesterday, contained one carions reference which needs foller explanation, It was to that produet of Italy which Mr. Drsrazix called Broox's *‘last and greatest” poem. Caz it bave been *Don Juan™ that the Prime Minister of England re~ ferred to? 1f 80, Byeox h#s been paid : com~ pliment 88 unigue, if not 80 conspicuous, as a monnment in the Metropolis. " PERSONAL. * Balvini is said to have clearsd £20,000 by his London ventare. Lient. Courtney, of the English army, is a the Tremont Houze. = Eliza Cook, the poetess, is helpless, and her zecovery is hopeless. Lone Bear, s Cheyenne prisoner in Florids, has become insane. He could not bear his lone- liness. Mr. Harriott sails for Europe in a fortnight, to join his wife, Clara Morris, and will return with her in November. . The Albany Argus makes s suggestion, to take the animals out of the drinking water and uie them to draw horse-cars. Tenngson and Walt Whitman keep their hand in by writing to one another in thoss mystio phrsses nobody else understands. Pat Gilmore has another opportunity for noiss, and lots of room for it. Ho will welcome the American Tesm with caonon at his Hippodroms. Montague, ths shapely actor, will have to borrow corsets from his lady-admirers, The baak-faflure rendars it {mposaible to psy for his o‘:nmdlammhcwvhtw do with a8 Almphibious French gitl Bbe makes a lviug attire while doing eo. Frog-cstching natmially wounld be damsging to frocke. The Viceroy of Indis proteats against the visit of the Princeof Walea to India, and it is finally understood that Albert Edward will play second fddle to him. + An editor dead—more of them ought to be,” is the feeling manner in which the Syracuse Standard acnounces the decease of a jour- naliet. The Hon. Isaac G. Wilson, of this city, is go- ing to Europe on the steamer Bohemia, of the Cunard Lins, which sails from New York on the 11th of August. 5 + Mrs. Mary Coffin " is credited with an un- successful attempt to smuggle a Chinoss csrgo 1nto California. * Houest tea is the best, Polly C.!"—Graphic. Celis Burleigh, the noted. woman-suffrage lesder, was only 48 when she disd. It was pre- mature old age, conssquent’ on too hard work, which ended her days. Judgoe Jesse Norton is still in a very critical condition. His physiciava- think that, if they can suatain life for & day or two, he will recover; but the case is doubsful. One of the conditions upon which the coming hired girl will take a place is, tnat the new masliesble glaes sball oot be used. It takes too much trouble to break it. The proprietor of the Female Chnsty's Miostrels recently committed saicide in London, The company are in black yet, but.they make just ss mach fun as ever. B A man in Mississippi sot & gun-trap in his ben-house, and was the first chicken-thief shot byit, He mistook lus own yard for his neigh- bor's, the night beivg dark. A Kentucky barionder asssulted Mr. George Brimstone, and the latter naturally suffocated bim. He onght to have known he would meet his matoh in Mr. Brimstone. Ira W. Allen, LL.D., has returned from a sev- eral weeks' eojourn iu the East, where Le has been to increase the apparatus and library of Allen’s Academy of this city. Henry Trviog always asks for his besfstesk or sausage with tragic gravity and startliog intons- tion. In other words, Henry Irving behsves off - the stage like & bumptious priz. In pulling down & wall io Buckio gham Palace, some plate of George III. was found concealed. There was a siogular mothod in'the old gentle- man's madness, if he hid 1t there. Miss Newton, of Delaware, poisoned herself becanse her mother mispronounced & word. How many times would the youog lady have wished herself & cat to dojustice to our eloguent Mayor ? The poet Close, who is in the habit of petition- ing every new English Admiuistration for a pen- gion anda title, has soused his muse in the English Channel, and come ogt with an epic on Boyton. August Bchuteuhelm, a liquor-merchant of Hoboken, put a bulles through Lis head with fatal effect recantly. He bad met with business troubles, and the only way hessaw of getting over them was by Bchutenhelm-self.—Boston Post. iThe Domestic Sertants’ Journalis the organ of the kitchen in England. Precigely where it is to get its eupport it is hard to sea. John Thbomas and Jeems scorn the imputation upon their social standiog in taking & servants’ paper, while those who would take it have not the money. . A resident of Fottsville, Pa., has 8 coin which has been decided to be a Hebrew shekel of the data of 335 B. C. Ithas on one eide a represent- ation of Aaron’s hudded rod,-and on the other a priest’s censer with incense. The same gentle- maa also has 20 old Saxon coin, an Elizabetban ehilling of 1591, and an Enghsh coin of 1693. Dat he has not seen & 820 goid-piece for severa! yeurs, Miss Annie Oliver, a young woman of 20, in- troduced a8 ¢ the woman who has conquered 800 liguor-dealers, closed their saloors, and won &il of them to a Clristian life,” preached in a New York Methodist church recently. The experi- ence of the late crusade was, thatittook five days to convert each saloon-keeper who reslly yielded. Ac thia rate, Mies Anme Oliver has spent 4,000 days, or eleven years sll but e fort- night, in the gracious work. = Either she must have commenced business at 9 years, or her sge is a pleasant feminine fiction. Mrs. Laura de Force Gordon, editor of the Stockton (Cal.) Leader, shows herself to be a remarkably-sensible woman. Recognizing the fact that the political canvess in the Stateis going to be a remarkably-acrimonious one, there being four tickets io the fleld, she conciuded to run away from the clash of controversy, sesured a male friend to occupy her editoriat chair, and retired to domestic privacy. The Virginia City Chronicle, however, 8ays her motives were differ- ent. Bays the Chronicie monster : Laura says that the campaign will be ““t00 serimont- ous for 3 Woman to ougage In.” Now, Laurs, why didn't you own up at ouce? We all knovw it ien't thet. ‘However, we'll givs you the best bonnst you can plek out,if it'a a boy. > A noted efegiat, A. 1L, has 80 far tranagressed his custom 28 to write a bisthday ode to voung Sartoris, which is bere reproduced from ths Brooklyn Argus: ¥ TO ULYSSES ALGERNON SABTORIR Born by the g, the sounding ses, O what & glorious thing it i to be Born Ly the sounding ses, O happy, happy fate 1 Born with thy mamma’s heavenly eyes 3 Born to grow up 1o ba sbout thy fathar’s sizs, Anglike thy graudpa, great. Boru & roaring, radiant boy, Hore radiant then gas or oil'of sperm, . To opown with ‘hu:lr[;‘mhnhl Joy HOTEL ARRIVALS. . H. Wilsen, St i e 1and, New York: W. ML Angier, San Francisco; W. C. Coup, New York; Col J. M. Leighton, Rochester; G. W. Miller, "Norwich; Col @. D. Ba Boston; D. C. Murr, Boston; Gen. J. E. K. Herrick, Boston ! J, L, Crosthwaste, Buffalo: H. Hay, Colches- ter: Capt.J. W. Bellly, U.'S. A.; J. W, Jeffcles, Phila- delphia V. H. Dunning, Detroft....Grand Facilo— W. R, Graef, New York; D. M. Craigen, Washington; Prank A. Lee, New York; B, F. Jennings, Pittsbarg; Gearge W. Cobb, Mineral Point; W. H. Dimond, Bos ton; Arthur P. Perkins, New Orleens; E, 8. Dougluss, Bt, Louis; T. Hobart, Minnesota; S. A. Pern; M. »G, Williams, = Boston} New York; E. B, Alen, E Q. Comstock, Muskegon} ; 8. C. Spencer, Baltimors | Sormuda ; W. R. Thomas, New louse—C. B. 'Bragg, Cincinnat ; 3. love, Cleveland ; J. T, Cuyler, H. L. Evans, L. A Howland, Georgs ~_Alerander, 4 Nicholy, Eccamba; G, W. Harmon, Boston; John McLacblsa, New Tork; C. L -Lcrn w: H.w:rnn.m gumn: IA;B ;3. W, , ‘rancisco ; R. Davis Carey, Putisdeiphis ; Frank B, Rice, . Louls; W, A E ey, lelp] H o Bloom, Louisvills ; 'W. F, Downs, Atchison. The Ympressive Hotel Clerke John Paul at Branch, The botel clerk I venerate in the abstract, but Iam rathor afraid o approdch him 1n the concrete. 3ly experience 15 that when he does not snub yon he patronizes vou, and 1'd about a8 leaf be killed one way as another. Yhere moral ‘ character and that sort of thing tells, I feel particularly at homo, but where s man is_judged ouly by his clothes. confidenco t'n‘n;j me, and I am backward about coming for- “Can T bave s Toom i* T modestly ask after Tegistering my name. Clerk looks at me a mement, takes in the gen- eral unostentaticusness of my apparel atvs glance, turns away and attends to the swells who get credit of Bell inntead of buying for easlr of Porter, chata with t:e young wen whom he koows fora few mmates ‘nauses to tell some old gentloman with & ballhead the last brilliant bon mot apropos of the Eeeceer trial, nd whea evervbody. else is roomedand he has sectied the pen right behind his ear, ;hen he calls the small- eat-beil boy in the ofticeand tarus to e with, ** Bhow this gentleman up to 983! And by thia tima I feel &0 humble abcut it that I bow to the boll-boy sod look arotod for his bag snd Lmdnhtl‘-hluh 888 1o 2how him THE FINE ARTS. Statuettes and Casts as Household | Ornaments, The - Material of Popular Works df Sculpture. Parian, Bronze, Biscuit, Terra Cotta, * Lava, Plaster of Paris, d and thia Intarventics of sunother hand between the work of fhe artist aud tle reproduction 18 often very damaging. Persons familiar with the original statues can pick out the besi copies in Parian, and for decorative parposes, to sec upon aclock or a bracket, where the generat effect is the principal object, the detail of the modcling is of no great consequence. But for artistic .| nses such inaccuracy 18 fatal, and Parian figures are rarely or never seen in a sculptor’s studio, or in a room furnished by a connoisseur, Plaster lacks the translucency of Parian, but has no defect of shrinking. It is cast in molds taken direclly from the model, -and shrinks scarcely E:rcaptibly,-—only perceptibly in larga works. a plaster copy, of which I had some knowledge lately, taken from the clay model of a statue of heroic size preparatory to easting it 1 bronze, the reproduction of the face and soma other portions of tho statae was 8o perfct that the sculptor did not find it necessary to touch & finger to them by way of correcting C d refiing. A plaster copy sxillfally made 01 Masters in a, New - New | i o reproduction of the Orig 'N York Garret—Yew =il S lwpyity that the chulpn::a York Metropolitan Museum—An- nual Report. The Naples Mercury---The Flem- ish-French Artist, Verhas. HOUSEHOLD ORNAMENT. THE BEAUTIES OF PLASTER. Intkess days of the diffusion of intellizence and of cheap production there 18 scarcely a par- lor or sitting-room 8o poor as to be destitate of Some ornamental objects, some pictures, stato- ettes, or other works of ari. If these objects are often poor and objectionable it is more likely the fanlt of the taste than of the purse of the master or mistress of the Louse, for, by the varions mod- ern proceases of reproducitng good pictures (of which the methods of photo-sugraving are the chief) and the inexpensive materials of which the bost oasta are made, good household orna- ments are put within the reach of all but the very poor. A’ discriminating taste is perhaps more widely diffused respecting pictures thsn popular works of ecaipture, and some at- tention to the latter will nat be amiss. It may be remarked that, while pictures answer s wider purpose than statuettes und casts, and are usual- 1y and paturally found in greater abundance in most houses, I8 ONE DIRECTION CASTS HAVE A DICIDED AD- VANTAGE. . A copy of s fine painting, faithfal encugh to be in any way a fac-simile in drawing and color, can only be produced by the patient and expen- sive Labor of an accomplished artiat,—a process {ar beyond the resources of ordinary persons. Trustworthy copies of worke of the greatest sculptors can’' be bought for one-fittiein the amount that must ba paid for sa equally good imitation of the great maaters of painting. When one good cast has been Pprocured from an_original statue, it can be re- produced indetinitely by wechanical processes; but though s similar thing is attempted in pic- torial ast by chromo-lithography, the results are 80 inferior that few persous familiar with good paintings will have.*chromo " imitations of fine works 1n their houses. The fleld for chromos i3 in bumble, decorative, and domestic suojec:s. A plaster cast of a marble siatueis by no means Lopelessly behind the original. The texturs and trausiucency of marble, it is true, are far superior to plaster. but the superiicial form of the original is conveyed almost to perfection by a good plaster cast. Many of the msrble origimalé of sntique stafues are 80 discolored by time, or excosurs, or Deing buried in the earth, that the wffects of thetine medeling is very much impaired and obecured by the varying tints of the surface of the marble. 1lus drawback of an original sctu- ally disappears in a copy. An American sculptor, familiar with caats from the aotique in this country, wrote from Europe that he was sur- prsed to tind how httle beiter the originals abroad were than the copies a: home. It may be suspected, therefore, that the common excla- wmacious of tourists over the beauties of noted statues, when thoy have never looked twice at the copies at home, are partly a watter of con- Vention and fashion. Casta furmshing then one of the resdiest means of geiting at the spint of one principal divigion of the greatest artists, it is worth while to make some INQUIBY INTO WHAT QUALITIES ARE TO BE SOUGHT FOR IN STATGETTES AND YODELS, and in what material these qualities are most often to be found. A faith{ul hkeuesa to an ad- mirable original work is of course the prime es- sential 1n a cast. A material of even and moi- form color and fine ‘texturs i8 necessary, and Tor the imitation of marble a transiucent quality ia desirable. Parlor and mantel ornaments also require to be of a material that will bear wash- ing. We bavo poinexpensive material that fully answers all these requirements—marbie and *‘real” bronze are too costly to be very abund- ant. The cheaper materials are Parian, ferra- cotta, biscuit, lavs, and plaster of Paris. ' * Pari- sumarbla™ i8 the stoce-keeper's mame for a species of porcelain in the form of statuettes, 3 euphemism of the same character with Rogers' ' artists’ clay” (applied to painted plaster _groups), designed to afloct the imagiation of au uneuspecting bak am- bitious public. Real Parian marble is, of conise, marble from the Islaud of Paros, a fine material of sculpture of which we sgee little. The Parian of the stores is a manufactured.ware somewhere between stonewsrd aod porcelsin. It is unglazed and & beautiful material in many respects. It fine. translucent quality and smootbness have made it the favorite materisl for mante! and bracket ornaments. Biscuit (twice-baked) ia properly the general class of which Pariaq is s species, but is commonly used of an nogiazed porcelain often dead whits, but not uncommonly highly colored with any of the tints of decorated porcelsin. Parian, thongh generally considered whits, is tinted with 8 fine cream-color tope. Parian s nsoally from Eoglaad, Biscuit from Fraoce. * Lava” is snother misnomer spplied to a kind of imported terra-coits, usually painted 28 we. find it in the stores. It may not be superfluons to explain that TEREA-COTTA (baked clay) is nothiog more mystarious than molded clay exposed to fire—of courve, auder ekillful management aad pecnliar conditions— and & common brick is as true a terra-cotta ss suything else, only of & coarss, rude character. Terra-coits is one of the very best materials for casts ana statuettes, and thers is so much to be said of 1ts yualities and of the grazifying circum- stance that Chicago is taking the lead in apply- ingit to artistic nses, that it will bo made the subject of another paper. It only ueeds to “be maid here that, thongh terra-couts is the favorite material for busts and statuettes in France, it bas hitherto been almost unknown for guch purposes in America. The kiod of terra cotts known 2s “Lava”™ appears nsually to be spplied oniy to an inferior class of statuestes, ¥ronch shepherdesses and the Lie, though I have seen busts of German literary characters, Goethe and Schiller, made of it in imitation of bronze, which were very satisfactory and cheap. Sach s material, however, oughs fo manufactured of the required color, aod not need to be painted. Tho real color of the com- mon spocimens here, 28 shown by fractures, is the ordinary color of burnt clay, brick red. BHONZE, . even imitation bronze, is_a good materisl,~—nor can the imitation be distinguished from tha real except by s very experi eye, and by that a3 much from the superior finish put ivto the resl bronze a8 by sny duference in {exture orcolor. The truth is gaid to be that almoat all bronze, trus or falge, has the surface washed over with s substance differing in appearance from the substantial material. The trouble, with cheap bronzes is not with the material, but the fact the manufacturers commonfy do not find it worth while to take pains enomgh with the casting $0 insure their correctness a8 copiea of artistic and meritorious originals. PARIAN AND PLASTEZR 3 are practically the two metats within everybody's reach. Of these plaster is not only by far the chesper, but possesses one decieively superior artistio quality, dependent on ita *‘setting” withous surinking. In the manufacture of Parian, aa of all porcelaine, the object is put into form in s soft, pliable condition, and after partly dryiog i subjected to great heat to bake and witrify it. Under this process it ehrinks & lacge proportion of ita total aize—as much as a quarterors. — aod this shrinkage is fatal to any great acouracy of form. This fact may be testad by going iato any store whers there is 8 cousidarable atock of Parian statuary sad sstting 2 10w of copies.of & rticular subfect, such as the common bust of | Divtio, side by wid, It will mot require an art- int's o detect the great differance in differ- ent copies not caly in the expression of the fes- tures, but even in the poso of the head, resulting from sattlement und shrinksge under the of the material, aod the fact that it is freely used by stalian workmen for poor and in- sigoificant busts and figures, shonld havethrown it 10to a kind of disrepate with the large class of people, who do not clearly perceive that .. THE MATENIAL OF A 6TATUE is of little consequence in comparison With its perfection of form. Even when valuable ma- terials are used, Carrara marble, or the precious stonea of engraved gems, the valuo of the ma~ terial is insicnificant compared with the value conferred by the akill of the artist. Though penerally despised by that pars of the communi- ty whose riches exceed their teste, plaster casts of fine busts, statues, and medallions are found decorating the parlors of the most cuitivated classes among us. Too great cheapnesyis a truly vuigarobjection. Itisrelated thatan English lady juested Sir Joshus Reynoids to paiut coreraits of berself and her bushand in nlira-marine sad carming, because she had heard shey wera the most expensive colors. _Good plaster casts are exceedingly inexpen- sive. The foliowing prices are given by Anthony EauL of this city: Busts, fall size, Clytie, 34 3 Yenua of Milo (bust and upper pRrt of figure), $6; Payche, 84; Nsrcuri)flw Apollo, 86; Div ans, §5; AL Augelo’s “ mer” (msak and part of the head), $3: the fuil-length Venus of Milo, 80-inch wze, $5; the Muulsted Thescus, 80-inch size, $3; S(-inch copies of il Angelo's. **Night,” *‘Day,” etc., 86 apiece, etc. Any of these are admirable parior oruamsnts (and may be privately recommended for wedding presents to one’s cousias at a distance, who have not read this account. and will certainly think the 80-inch Venus of Milo costs a hundred doliars). Paul A. Garey, Province court, Bos- tou, has tho reputation of making the finest casts, aod has a large assortmeu: of classical and modern subjects, His prices are 30 to 50 per cent higher than thoss of ir. Equi, and toe cost of packing and trausportation would add a considerabie per:entags mora ; bot the expense, after all, is oot great, and ths result in to be satigfactory. Plaster is a fragile material, but very easy to mend perfectly. Lhave kown s suatueite of “Hooore's Mercury " (that is, the Mercary of Jobn of Bologna) kmocked over by & pet kisten, acd broken into more thun forty pieces, and pat together 80 that the breaks could ot bade- tected, and the whole figure was as good as new. This, of course, was painted. It is best to have plaster casts for parlors paiutod, for two rea- sous : first, in order that they may be washed, and, second, because the decoration of a room wil bear only & small smount of dead white, and pawnt farnishes the meaps of giviog the casts quiet and agreeable tinta. Itia a-matter of some dificuity aod skill to paint inater well, emoothly, and without lustré, and r. Equi does not always succeed thoroughly with the painting. Rogers' groops farnishs good standard of what tue quality of the paint- ing ougnt to be. Paint does xomething towards 1mpairing the sharpuess of the casting, and the Prussian Governmont is now offering a vrize of '§750 for the discovery of a method of preparing casta 80 28 to enable them to stand wasbing without change of surface or color ; and another prize of $2,500 for the discovery of a new mate- rial which wili apswer all the parposes of plaster of Pais, but will not need a spacial preparation to aliow the casts made from it to be cleansed. * Plaster casty, in skillful bands, furnish the readiest means, nexy to pictures, of making a room attractive. An unframed white medailion, for wstavce, hung aganst a yard of fine, bricht red flannel, nicely draped upon the iwall, makes a brilliant bit of color, which will illuminate & whole apartment. But spaca farbids gowng into detauls of this kind. 2 Parian is pretty—plaster is fine. W. M. B, Faexce. i ODDS AND ENDS. Thackersy was sssisted in illustrating his booka by Fred Walker, an artist who lately died in his pnme 1o England, * Philip” was ilius- trated by Mr. Walker alone., A new marble statue, of heroic sizs, in illus- tration of Loogfeilow's * Hiawatha,® by Bir. Auvg. 8t. Gaudeos, a young sculptor, who is a native of New York, but haa been studyiog sov- eral years abroad, has just been roceived from Romse by ex-Gov. Morgan. Numerons little rude comic illustrations of pop- ular lines of poetcy fill the picture-stores. The first ane, ** What are the wild waves sayiog,* was excellent, but the veinis now overworked. Bur- lesque and parody upon good thungs are admissi- bie only sparingly. Col. Brewerton, the painter of landscapes in ** oil-pastel,” has been turning his hand to these things. Beveral of the water- color aketches of Fortuny, atthe sale of that artist's eflecta in Paris, were purchased for the young King of Spaia. * There are some clever wafer-colors by F. S. Chureb, of New Yorg at O'Brien’s. “The Rev- erie” is a melmnho& seedy, disreputable stork, who apparently bas no friends. and nothing to do but stand motionless agaiost the flat and mo- notonous -landscape and consider. fo_*‘Good- Bye" & turtle plunges off a log into tho wator and lpaves his companion lonely. “Beraping Acquaintance " aiso concerns the denizens of the swamps, and represents the first interview of a frog, a turtle. and some sort of 3 forlorn marine chicken. Mr. Obarch is a mem- ber of the New York Water-Coior Bocisty, and bis works sell readily in New York. Without auy very hizh pretensions, they are humorously con- coived and cleverly painted. Thess pictures aro perkaps 6 by 12 inches. The following anccdote is taken from Le Figaro: An auctioneer is selling a picture— “ Going at thirty fraucs—a thirty, thirty, thirty —too.- cheap, gentlsmen; but haveitat your own price ; goiog, and— " **Stop!™ cries an official who bas just arrived. *‘ Excuse me,” he eay8, **but I happy to say the artist who painted this picture died sn hour sgo.” The auctioneer resumes the sale, and the picture which came very near to beiug kmocked down at 30 francs is finally disposed of at 4.500. This is of course an extravagant invention, but it illustrates how pictares enhaoce in value after the death of tho artist, Shrewd dealers buy up ali the piciures they can When the artist bas a reputation and ia old and sict. When the artiat dies the dealar will quadruple the original price at least. A COSTLY COLLECTIOX. A writer in the New York World has visited - the collection of some mysterious conooissear in New York and seen some extraordinary pictures. Inan *atistic lnmber-room heaped with travel e’ bric-a-brac, and as incumbered with boxes and papers as a merchant’s cellar or & hoasa- wife's attic,” therawere shown him, first, a rasmi- ing of Leonardo,"subject * Herodias ™; srco- an original Rapbasl, a Madonns ; :h fourth, a Tintoretto and Greuze, an.i a picture by Angelica B a Jkept their backs turned and would faces. The collaction is kept by tae osrur to ba sold entire. The sccount, of nearly two colamns, of the pictures and their history and language, is very interesting sod intelligent, but seems in- credidble. If there are such pictures, the Metro- politan Museum ought to have them st almost aoy price. THE MUSETX O¥ ART. The fifth annual geport of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Musoum of Art in New York present s comforiable view of the condition of that important institution. Their receipts dur- 1Dy the year have been $66,719.29. 'he most important purchase of the year: has been tbe Cesnola cotlection of stiquities from Cyprua, which is now the most camplete and valuable department of the'Alusenm. The value of works of art sequired by the Mussum bither- o is given as follows : Paid for paintings, drawings, eto. $145,694.74 Works of art, dopsions.. ... P g,!fln ] ghiul: collection, $15, {M.‘; 4 ensingion rej 180 Etchings. 351548 Total....... oo s $263,148.18 This emall expenditure hss secured a collec- sud interesting 28 to furnish the a{ufln.ngemem for the future. It is that, in about two years, the buildiog in the Central Park designed to raceive the colisc- tion ess of baking. Besides thia _there » will be [useuIn completed snd ready gooical roandness and woknes wd ;i:gnm“ ‘gfia‘:’n. Ao excsllent PHeod-Book for want of sbharpness in Parian figures which form s serious defect in artistio syes. Moreover, Paxias ia not caat from ori) bob from & sopy, msde by as-. the Uss of -Percal Visitors -nml” ping I’otuxym and Bcribed as learnedly yet simply as the collection of pottery and porcelsin in this little book, 8 m:mdex?hl; impetus woald b given to the eda- cation of the community in the facts of tory and art manufacture. . b is nitting fgare of abost Hiamte tting tigure of about life-size, of brons the original in the Naples Museum. Itiss moi gracefui aud beentiful figure. The eyes are wanting, aud wers probabiv of another matenal, 2313 the cage with several similarstatues. In 8ome of them the oyes remain,—white porcelain or something of that sort, with the iris dark. Jarves rates it far above the;more familiar Mer- cwy of John of Bologna (ses Hongre's building). ‘The little Mercary of Giovanni di Balogna is one of ihe finest poetical inventions aftar the aotiane that tho” Renaiseance bas produced. We have, however, only to placn it beside the Grecian Mercury at’ Naplea to detoct how far it fails of high Not to mention tha promivence given to mere muscalar effort, the conceit of poising it on the hreath of & 2zephyr, repradented in a lamp of bronze, would be tolersted only in an age which was pigased with the ecc_untriclfiel! l:vtx a Bernini, whose facility of executing his far-fetched or superficial f; blinded it to his obvious faults.” i VERAAS. The Palace of Fine Arts is divided into twea- ty-four balla by the twenty-four letters of the alphabet. 'The letter A will only detain us by a fine figure of Alma Iadems, “ Painting;™ greas character. and_elevation, tre individuality of color and design. To-day the leading initial in artis C. David used to say in speaking of his pupils, “All are marked with the initial of Genius.” They were named Gros, Girodet, Gerard, Guerin, sod Gencault. Wo still bave our Gerome, but thatis sbout all, except Giscom- etti and Girard. ‘The Exposition of 1875 contains the farawells of Corot—three remarkable landscapes—:* The Woodmen,” * Pleasures of Evening,” and a Scriptural scene. He has the profound senti~ ment for Nature which Leonardo da Vinei had for the human face. It ia the infinita in the ob- ecare, One must view his work with the eye of the sonl. Verhas is a Flemish pamter who now Bel!8 his picturcs to the -English at his own prices. Ten years ago I waa walking in & by~ atreet in Paris. 1 asked the price of a little pict- ure in a window representing a young woman weeping and kissing a little dog. "Her lover was gone, bat her dog remained, and she called him Fidele,—s hackneyed subject certsinly. I do Dot Like that sorc of thung, but the paint- ing was very pretty. * **How much2?"" I asked. **Fufty franca.” How can a man of talent sell auch pictures at such a price? Sond it tome.” The nest day my valet, who alwavs cripples & namo whea he can, anmounced M. Feroce. It was Verhas. Isaid, *‘Iowe you500 france for your picture.® “ No," hereplied, **I chofe to sell it at 50.” ¢ Don't invist,” I said; “ I make s good bargain at that—the picture i worth 1,000 francs.” - Feroce remained five years with me painting ceilings aud portraits. He was * faithful™ aa the dog he bad painted, but the laziest fellow in the world. Now he has his own house in Brua~ sels, but 18 as lazy as ever. Hegetsnp asiste to earn his 300 franca s day as he did formerty ta earn § franca.—Arseng Houssaye, in Paris Letter to New York Tribune. . Elegant Styles of Photographic Por~ traisure. 1t is ndmitted by oanoisseurs in art that se- taally” the finest and most delicately finished photographic portraits to be obtained without regard to price are at B. L. Brand & Co.'s studios ‘on Wabssh aveoue. Among the many pew thinga introduced by Mr. Brand may be mention- ed the ' Bas Belief,” ‘‘Antique,” and ever- popular *Souvenir " portraits. Their card pho- tographs rank with the finest in the world, and they farnish them for $3 per dozen. Their art goods are of the most expensivs quality, snd are imported by tnemselves direct from London and Paria. Ladies’ and children's pictures a gpeciaity. Engagements for sittings csn be, made at their studios, No. 596 Wabash avenus. An Excellent Institution. The Sctiool of Commerce, of this city, founded snd now conducted by Mr, H. B. Bryant, is an_enterprise that Chicogobas reasor o be proud of. Hundreds o young men owe their success in life in a great mean ure to fhis institution. The discipline is very strict, and that s what parents like. No idling or shirking canbe palmed off. The Work is lald out daily and must be_done, just as in & well-ordered mercantils house. Thoss Laving sons or dsughters to educate ahould call and examine the workings of this excellent school, located at the soatheast cornee of Biatd and Washington stresta. An elogant passenger-elevatoa communicates with the rooms, and visitars ars w be found there every day. —_— Picnics. Glen Flars, on the Milwaukes Division of the Chiess §0 & Northwestern Railroad, just adjoining the city of Waukegan on the north, is fast becoming s populas place for private and public picnica. The pleasure grounds, which are located in close proximity to Glas Flora Btation, in a beaafifnl grove on the bluff oven looking Lake Michigan, have been put in complate or der, being furnished with a larg and well-bult dsne. ing platformy music stand, swings, and other appli ances for amnsament ; being but & ahort walk from the famous Glen Flora minera} spring znd other objects of interest for which Waukegan {s becoming 8o justly celobratod. make Glou Fiors a deligntful resart t4 spend & day in pleasarc-socking. - Chicago & XNorthwestern Railway— Sunday Train. The Through Pacific Express Train for Councd Biufts, Omaha, San Francisco, and all other Far Wesl polnts, will leave the Wells stroet depot of the Chicage & Northweatern Eailway, at 10:30 a. m. this morniog Throngh tickets and sleoping-car berths can be secursd at the Companys office, 62 Clark strest, Shermsx House block. _Tickets Via_Chicago, Burlingwn & Quincy and Chicago, Liland & Paciis Rallwan are good on Lhis train, Somoething New. ‘The *“Florentine Fresco Colors ” (sdvertised tn ow columns) are carefully prepared in prip state, for fresco and scene work, and are new to the trads. “As soms forty colors and sbades are thus prepared, *he advantsge to an artist in thus being sble to baves small stock of very many colors is evident, The exact quantity needed Tor 4 piece of work can be taken trom » bottls aad all wasis and iroubls of proparstiox saved. —_——— The Lost Aeranauts’ Photos, together with views of the ascension, can be obtatned at the elegant studios of Gentile, also views af the iste Review. People who were at South Park in theis o8 ahould call and ses them, 88 maDy are quity plain in the photographs, Si cornar State and Washington streets. —— Cutting and Fitting. By request of many ladies, Mme. Washington, 58 ‘Wabssh avenve, will, during the month of Auguss tesch the art of cutting and fitting dreases in the moet artiatic styles. Teaching porties to fit dresses is soms thing umusual. Ladies, improve. the opportuaily. Charges moderate. Elmwood Collars. " Some of our readers may not remember that Johs ‘Wilson is the author of the oft-quotedline of * Linger- ing sweetness long drawn out ; ® but they will remem. ber that Elmwood ocollars can be bought at sny fur- Go to the Housefurnishing Row Btove Store for the * Barstow ™ sample cook and Unian Bange. “Jewett's " telrigerators, kerosens sioves, wire safes, ! ete, Everything firat-class and prices very low. Wat Zina, 215 Stats street. ‘You Married Martyrs ought to thank Cook & McLain for introducing = | process of cleaning silks, macques, 3od suits witbout | removing trimming, or ripping. No. &0 Dearbara, §3 and 261 West Madison. Importantto the Preservation of Teethw John Gosnell's Cherry Tooth-Paste, ihe most eficacions denfifrics imown, Try it ¥ot all droggists. Wholesale T P "hwuyh’, 171 and 173 Randolph e ey No Household is Complete nowadsys without the Family Favorite Weed Bewe ing Machine, Now scld at » liberal discount for cash; or ca small monthly payments, No.203 Wabssh aves nua, —_————— Pianos and Organs. - A lsrge assortment of new piance snd organs i reat, Sscand-hand piancs from $50 to $200. W. W. Enmurz, Carner Stste s5d Adams strests, Chlcago. Wiswall & Greens are dscidedly the shos-dealers par excellencs of Chle cago, When you boy st 76 State, or 131 Twamtyess and street, you get FPUr maney's worth svary tims. Furniture is Falling, or aleast ihe prices are failing, for Sampecn, Greens & Co., 172 and 194 State atreel, are salling st fastory prices, Go and see for yourself, Spring Lake ‘‘ Magnstic® Water. by Buck & Bayner, makars of the Mars * Cologoa,