Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 6, 1876, Page 10

[ { THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE:; SUNDAY, FEBRUARY, 6, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. e BOSTON. Mrs, Sargent’s” Second Evening with the Poets. A Great Party, but the Poets Fight Shy of the Entertainment. £he Author of ihe Famons Satire on the Badical Club Found Out---A Fresh Commotion and Indiguation. The RBev. W. H, H. Murrey Asseiling the Radical Leaders in Music Hall - —Jir, Murray's New Grammar. Spectal Correspondence of The Chicano Tribune. Tostox, Feb. 2.—Mrs. Sargent gave another entertainment the other ovening, which she relled *‘snother evening with the poeta™ It wae not a brilliznt gathering as to gues:s, but 1he New-England poets do mot come out on phow well. 1f this party had beon in New York, it would have been a succees in the way of - xpontancous response, There is a verve and 2bendon, 8 eocisbility, about New-Yorkers which we may look for in vain amongst New-Englaod- srs. They—the New-Yorkers—zro not so much o the lookont for outside poseibilities of criti- cism. They have less eelf-consciousness, or 1nore aplomb, avd are willing to make an effort aod contribute their quota toward a good time, withont the golf-conscious fear of beiag on perade. But tho New-Englander locks himself up 1o his or her LITTLE ICE-BOX OF BESCUVE, and only comes out to the elect few. The party ‘heother evening being up in the bundreds as to pumbers, the poets fought ehy. Whittier, who was expected, staid away ; and alittle poem of bis on * The Gentian " was rcad by John Weise. K. Weiss not being gifted with the happiest ~oice in the world, nobody got esthusicstic over that. Ooe of the most enjoyable things was the reslly fine dramatic rendering of Mrs. Dodge’s *Migs Maloney on the Chinceo Question.” Mrs. Davis,—formerly Josophine Ellery,—a yonng lady who has had 2 good deal of reputa- hion for some years in Joston and vicinity as an elocutionist, was tho reader. Mre. Rary Aapes plicity and_intrigue.” The written or printed words, which read . tamely perhaps, had a thun- der snd fire of feeling which emphesized their epecial reference and meaning unmistzkably. And listening to these words, amongst the vast sudience, sab 3 N o - ¢ THEODORETILTON! That Mr. Marray is a prescher that s great majority of the people want is pretty strongly proven b{ the numbers that bave followed him from Park street snd ‘elsewhere. Music Hall every Sunday is simply paoked with people. He is certainly one of tne apostles of freedom ard progress in some directions. and deserves great praise ana appreciation for the practical stand ho has taken agsinst costly churches.” Wherever his followers may locate ia the future, it will not boe noder a stone’ burden of debt, or under the trammels of representative millions. In their present quapters at Music Hall, B e R NO SEATS ABE BOUGHT UP AND SOLD DY FARCE.” Tweunty dollars is the_highest prica far the best geat in the house, end §5 will givé one a very good seat. Altogether, Mr, Murray is really ono of the redical reformera of the cge, in his war, just 28 sare a8 the meti Le denounces as_infidel are seekers after trath in their way. Like most leaders, he throws out, now and then, eccen- tricitics which startle s stranger somewhat. For instance, in one of bis very pleasant and practi- cal Friday-eveving talks he insistod on using the word * senso ” instead of *‘reslize,” in a deliberato manner that suggested at once that he dud it with fall determination of his inner and outer consciousness! The form of the sen- tence was the old Yankeo provincialism, which has been so criticised : *They don't sense it Ths was continually used, and grated a little on the ear. I afterwards learned that Mr. Murray assumes the right to use this in the verb form, 28 convering & complete meaving, which “realize™ will not farnish. I thought I_should fike to hear a tilt betseen himself and Richard Grant White on the subject. Itisn'tat all up- likely that Mr. Murray might make his claim fo this new rendering entirely sound, according fo Mr. White's own methods, however. But we shall probably net have such a tilt, as the yonog prescher is not a controversialist, and hates ar- gument as a theological bramble-bnsh. N. P. -amid- pleasant = gardéns "the sufferer the AT SEVILLE Written for The Chicago Tribune. In that particalar period of tho past to which 1 rocar, steam had not attained, on sea or land, its present lightning-spesd; aud, when we ar- rived at Cadiz after a seven-days’ voyage from Southampton,—during which an enliveniog con- trary wind gave ns quite a8 much experience of ihe sleepless waves of the Bay of Biscay as we conld desire,~~we were contented with the thought that we bad made 2 good voyage. Safely Janded at Cadiz,—which, by the way, i3 the ancient Gades of which Horace epeaks (and in no very complimentary terms) in his Ode to Septimius,—the next thing to be done was to decido on the most agreesbls ' romte to Seville; for that wes tho point Dodge, whois editor of that remarkably-well- zonducted juvenile, St Nicholas, is the suthor of this very witty poem, which all the public readers are showing their appreciation of. A Scotch poem in dialect was read by a Scoteh gentleman, which was anly inteiligiblo to those who were familiar with tho laognave of Burns in its brosdest- brogue. By one or two of those gescm, tho rendering was said to be extremely 8. ‘Yo give a conecientious account of tho even- ing, 1 must mention that next in order came a posm of your present correspoudent’s, which was very obligingly read in a very fine voce by Mr. Werd, a young aenileman of ‘‘the legal pereuzsion.” _This production was eatitled *In the Dark,” and went to ghow the effect of a Jong couree of Theological Radicaliem and Science upon the ordmary human heart. Then followed an answer by Mrs. Woods, of Balem, tothe rerio-comic poem called **The Radical Club,” which last year caused such a rommotion in Boston,—a cymmotion which has been again stirred up somewhat by its republica- tion in the paper where it first appeared,—the Boston Sunday Times. “This snswer was very good ; but it conld not have the soap in it, from tho very nature of it as & protest, that the sstireitself had. The author of this moch-talked-of snd much-quoted take- off has & JTST BEEN “ TOUND ovT,” and pow frankiy acknowledges her work, just as eho eaiis for Kurope: with Mrs, Cbandler NMoulton. Her nom de plume is *Sher- wood Domner,” which covers the mname of Alrs. McDowell, a young Southern wo- man, I think formerly = resident of your neighbarly City of St. Louis. The poem has romo yery sharp hits, but I don't think it was written in malice. The personalities, however, gave a good deal of offense; and the writer was accused of violating geod taate in accepting sub- scquent invitations after this production of bers, then urnacknowledged. There is a rollicking tone, however, ranning: through it, which'sesms [good-natured, and suggests simply A SPIRIT OF RECKLESSNESS and fun, but searcely the epite which those who ery ont sgainet it most bitterly would imply. If the author were & young man instead of a yonng woman, it wouldibe more easily forgiven ; for I tiod that the wrath concerning this offens s mostly confined o feminiue breasts, and femi- nine wrath, when kindled sgainst another femioine, is s smonldering fire, a8 Junius Henri Browne teaches us, which is slow to die. Speaking . of .Dadicals, 1 am remindedof s whap and unfair rap which that verv good- patured youug preacher, 2 W, H. H. XTRRAT, ) gavein s recent- Music-Hall disconrse, at_the whols grand army - of Radical speakers end lecCers who are to be heard from timo_ to time at Horticultural 1iis sermon was on the relation of the intelloct to religion, and s epecial attack was made with much force upon the arrogant tendencies of the asy. “ The worst phase met with,” ho said, i was the srroganee of “what is known as Radi- salism. Thereis a class of men in this country and in Eogland whose whole philosophy is that of negation. Their wisdom = consists in denial. They deny the existence of God ;" they deny the xaliation of Christ ; they deny tho truth of the Gospel ; they deny the intelligence of piety ; ihey deny everything that faith credits or the »onverted gonl believes. Their sole object seems }o be to undermine and pull down every struct- nre which Chnstian faith and hope have builded. 1 MORE SELP-CONCEITED AND ARBOGANT £ET OF They fulminate their ékeplicism a8 if they spoke xith the authority of 3 God. A scientific sup- sosition is made to subserve the purpose of & Inct. Their epeculations are announced as if they were demonstrations. They are all kindred in the fashion of their behsvior. Their utter- inoes are monotonous. He who has heard ane »f them lecture in Horticultural Hall has heard All.” This.special and mention of Horticultural Hall, by the way, was ouly given in his speech, wnd not 1o the publivhed sermons. Going on, \r. Murray declared that he who had read one rolume had mastered their .entire system, if mch vagariesof thonght can be called a system. And these men, he says, ALL REPRESENT A “'S0LI) MASS OF SELF-CONCETT.” As 1 listened to this depunciation, it was im- possible not to guestion whether Mr. Murray simself was not laying himeelf liable to the isme imputation of arrogance he was fastening tpon the other side. To talk abont such men as Martinesu, of England, together vith all the rest of the well-known pen of earnest thought and caulture, and Prothingham and Wasson, snd we msay 8y Emereon aleo, of onr own country, making ooly % 2 golid mass of conceit,” is, to say the least, \ VERT DECELESS, AND CERTAINLY A FAR FROM THOUGHTFUL, STATEMENT. ifr. Murray, 1 have no doubt, in private conver- 1ation wonld courtevusly accord his deference 0 these gentlemen, and admit their sincerity. 3ut the worst of itis, that, in theso sweeping Jnslaughts that “ tell from the popular puipit, ind fix the attention of tho listeners, there is ;anerally a one-sidedress that does great harm 0 the listeners who follow to appland. What- sver any ope may think in regard ta the thooght sf these Radical leaders, ho mast, if at all candid 10d enlightened. &now that they are simply fol- owing-out, with earnest and mot irreverent pinds, the secrets of what tney consider Truth. Lhere is a good deal of what Mr. Phillips calls « painting with & largo brush in tbis stxle of fr. Murray's. And,in this conpoction, there is me thing to be eaid far theso Raaicals : they 1ever use this large brusb of porsonality. They save no need of it; for whatever they are theo- ogically, or untheologically, they are philoso- shers denling with the inside of things, and not the ontside. o 18 WELL ESOWN TOAT 3T JTRRAY IS AN AD- AORER OF MI. CEECHER: 10d when, inspeaking of the axrogance of some forms of Drotestantism, he_spoke of. the per- tonal epite that still mantled 1iself under the anime of - conscientious conviction, 88 1 the -old . it was &lnt d-lllilcult_lg Eeul shero be waa drifitog. And presently, with real ire of cloquence, he made this declaration : uInstead of siabbing men with swords and dag- ters, s they ance did, they stab them with sharges which kill reputation, sod dirk them with ipsinuations which repel public confidence. [nstead of burping a msao's pody, 88 they 3d of old.tme, they. mnow char man's cbaracter over with . the torch of smany slanders, unul lig very inmocence 1ypears blsck, sad he who is as simaplo 88 a child. 18 sworceented as having lived in hfe-lovg da- 3avs of persceation. a to which our journeving was directed. We had our choice of atrip thither wholly by water, wholly by lsnd, or by a judicions use of both {heso elements, After duo disoussion, pro and con, among the members of our little party, wo csme back to our first proposition, and deter- mined to ascend the Guadalquiver. . Eigls hours' steaming, at the then satisfactory rate of about 10 miles to the ‘hour, brought ns to tha lnnding-place, near the Torre del Oro (Tower of Gold); wheoce, after submitting our Iugzage to the rather minate inspection of soms very inquistive gentlemen in Government em- ploy, we straightway hied us to the Fonda de 1a Reyna, in the Calle do Jimios, where we took our ease in our inn. Quien mo ha visto & Sevills, No b visto a maravills,” js an old Spanish distich, which may be rendered into English thus: . : ‘He who has not st Sevills boen, » Las not, be sure, a ‘wonder seen, Due. allowance must, of course, be made for Andalusian grandiloquence; but, indeed, Seville is a place of great attractions, scenic a8 well ag historic; and the impressions which the intelli- gent visitor receives there, while they cannot fail to b agreesbls, are always sure to be last ing. The early history, and even the date of the foundation, of this venerable city, arelostin tho obscurity of far remote antiguity,—its origin being attriboted to no lessheroic & person- age than Hercules himself. Its yvery namo ‘bas been the subject of much antiquarian re- cearch. It seems, however, to be agreed on all hands that the town was 3t first a Pheenician settloment called Hispal, which the Greeks, in time, chaoged to Hispola; the Romans, to His- palis; tho Moors again, duriog their possession of that part of the country, iuto Ishbilia; from which last the transition to Sibilia, and later still to Seville, seems _both easy and rational. Ivis certain that the city was captured some foriy- five or fifty years befors the Christian era, under Julius Czxsar, who aelected 1t for thosite of 3 TRoman Court of Justice, and caused it to be in- Cclosed by walls. Itafterwards becsme the Capi- tal of the Goths, and so remsined until the pixth century, when it was forsaken for Toledo, on account of the more central situstion of tho latter. 1t subseguently vielded, aftera somewhat stubborn defense, to the Moors, whose victory over Don Roderick, on the Gaudalete, made them masters of that part of Spam, and continued Subject to thess African. conguerors aptil their dominion was overturaed, in the thi teenth centary, when it again assumed the di nity of a Capital city, which it retained, in con- giderable magnificence, till the removal of the Court to Valladolid by Charles the Fifth. The great discovery of Columbus, in its time, restored the city to more than its former splen- dor: for it soon became the commercial em- porium for the golden posseasions in America, and the residence of merchant-princes, boil native and foreign. The wealth of the place continned almost upabated until the more recent invasion of the French, when the new conquerors overran Spain ; and Seville, sur- rendering almost without a blow, was Iaid at the feet of the victorious South,—during the short period of whose possession, plunder aud wanton destruction reigued supreme, and from whoso daily orders, says one historien, *‘mercy was erased.” # Yet, under all these varying fortunes, Seville remains the marvel of Andalusia,—a -city in which the sutigoarian or tho artist may find months too short for his full meed of admiration snd interest ; and in whoss neighborhood the Jover of the picturesque may revel in the pro- fuse and still unsatistied indulgence of his {ask, The shooung, teo, i3 excellent,—the covers abounding in game. We had been but 2 fow days in the possession of our comfortable quarters, whea we picked up a very agreeable acquaintance, &t tho' Fonda, in the person of a Senor Alonzo Gutierrez, 8 young Cuban, who had come over to Spain, not only on pleasure bent, bat with an eye“to business a3 well. .He was a wine-merchant of Havana; and while Xeres, about 40 miles dietant, was tho point in which bis mercantilo interest lay, he had been in the habit of making frequent visits to Seville, whera his letters had procured him many introductions. Ho was already much at home here, nud we gladly availed ourselves of his Jandly-proftered experience in our various ram- bles. The Cathedral was, howaver, his favorite place of resort. This is by far the largest, and altogether the finest, church in all Spain.. Itis, moreover, enriched by Art in every conceiv- able way in which Art may be, with becomiog aptitnde, spplied t0 a sacred edifice. Originally 2 Moorish moeque, it was, esrlyin tbe sixteenth century, reconstructed in its preseat form. The object of the projectors, * to builda church such and 8o good that it pever should have its equal,” seems to have been faithfully carried out ; for, in spite of the iconoclasm which raged during the French occupation, the old Cathedral etill remaing, both inside and out, a Museum of Fins Art, in which some new discovery rewards the observer 28 often 8s his visit may be ro- peeted. But it was not long before it became quite ap- parent that Gatierrez was not wholly inspired by religious enthusiasm, nor by his admiration of the statues of Montanes or the piciures of Mu- riilo. We cculd not help but notice that, while he always accompsnicd us to the church, he iovanably fouod an excuse for taking his leave of us before we came away. It was not until the feast of the _Annunciacion that the secret transpircd. After the servico of the day, we had determined to visit oce of the lateral chapels, to contemplate Rodag' picture of the event just celebrated To this our ciceronce made decided, though, as we thonght, rather unreasonable, objections. These were soon overruled, and we repaired tothe pici- ure in question. Wa were at the very thresh- old, when we encountered s young lady, care- fully veiled, but of exquisité figure and car riage, comipg somewhat hastily ont of the chapel. Gutierrez wasin & moment st her sida; and the look which he gave when he signaled to s his adieu and admitted us to hia confidencs, revealed the whole mystery of his love for—:{"* the Cathedral. Weeks paased ansy, and, amid ocr numesdus, engagements, the youog Cuban, who had not mado his sppearance at the Fonda sinca our parting with bim 1n the Catbedral, was'almost Jorpotten; when we wera startled by the in- telligence thet & person acswering Lis descrip- had beea bronght to the Hoepital de Ja Saugre,” wounded and in a dying condition. At first we doubted his identity, a3 e were at a loss to conceive why be should nave tion in every particular " GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. Mr. Shott’s Railway-Trip, and tom of my heart is a ferveat love, on which I bn‘fid my. gapuu. “That love has holped me stand and faco—Thunder!” He was down again, sbe could stoop to help but scrambled up before him, and she gaid breath- wandered iuto the ;\;B‘urbi ',',‘;“g f,'a'c‘: ;oi:\:g ; lassly: Just at so late an hour of the night ;-but, determ Bl ume of I * "y , John. You remember you jus to ascertzin the trath, I Jost no time in repairing What C: 5 “iz;y:lan‘n’?hic: . holped you stand and face to the Hospital. The wounded man was indeed LTS L — SRBERER Y i thunder. And that you founded your hopes on Gutierrez. He had boen paying s visit, by Popping the $5o s inpery Places | ——This pesky ico!” sieal o the Seoorits Isdors, the yousk | TOPPIOZ the Question in s%“’% v There sho ait. Jobn grasped tho looss part sdy whom ~We seen el —Y ili ride. ue, between the shoulders, with one the Cpthedrsl, the way to whoss homs, Tinctitions ?a'..g;f o ¥atsed her to her foct, ad ons would a _short distaoce from the city, Iay through- this subarb, The wounds—for thers were several—had been in- flicted by the cuchillo, that dreadful knife which is to be found in the posaesion of almost every Speniard of the lower class, and of which the to “chip bread and kill a man.” Notes of-All Sorts Fielative to the Female 1ift a kitten from & pail of water by the back of thoneck. ‘Then he said with increased earnest- 0Of course, darling, and I have longed foran opportunity to tell my love, and to hear those sweer lips ‘whisper-—Whoop!” Somehow John's feet had slipped from under * 7 Portion of Humanily. YIELOING TO TEMPTATION. 4 boasted use is it i or friend, | What a rout do you make for o slngle sweet Kiesl £ d {ngfhl;“:ngfl*;;;;fig‘;g"dgg“";;_gg" -n.d!:nl Izsdlfld ity ’“:Itruu, &rjc; L ne'er shall repent it him, and he bad come down like 3 capital V with sistance 88 the appalling cirécumstances of the M;}r ?; ne'er =;{gv nflfféfl;‘:fl *N“h Bt s?“’”" bis head and lfiuz pomtl:ng ”ui\'fuik ‘Sh; ! pri i ut for me, I tbank deaz Cythorea, ! e twined her taper fingers in hie carliog locks ao s SR, e D oo Okbac s e e " but, T raised him fothe staturs of nman, sot Lis bat Inst consolations of the Oharch ;. and I was compelled to refirs without -t knowledge of the particulars I so much desired to hear. I waited in vain for another inter- view; for, even hefore the - rehigions formalities wers quite over, the wial spark had taken its flighe. It was then, from other sources, we heard tho sad story of his fate. He had loved Isidors, the dsuzhter of Don Jose Cubeto, a poor but proud nobloman, s widower, who lived at' Seville on the slender income which bhis reduced roperty afforded him, and who hoped one day, fhxongn tho instrumentality of his beantiful the estates which ‘his reck- fess youth had squondered. When he found that® Isidors had given her heart asd promised her bhand to 8 despised. trader, and a colonist at that, and that 2l his degigns for & wealthy, sristocratio aHi- ance, through her, were frustrated and over- thrown,—for the poor girl's confidences had been betrayed,—his rage knew no bounds, and & trusty dependent was not hard to find to make off with the offender. Such, at losst, was the current belief as regards the tragedy; for, though & form of judicial inquiry was in- stitnted, no satisfactory conclusion was reached, 2nd Doce Jose was soquitted. The walls of a couvent received the haplesa TIsadora. daughter, to retrieve You may pout, and Jook prrttily What business so near to my lips had your cheek ? 1f you will put temptation o pat in one’s way, ‘Saints, reaist if you can; but for me, ‘But come, dearast Doli, our‘guarrel let's end ; Nor will I by force, what you gave not, Te By allowing he kiss I'm forever your friend If you say that I sfole it—why, —Harace Walpole. M. Bhott hadn't been out of Detroit in seven sears (says the Free Press), when, tho other day, business called him to Chicago. Mrs. Shott wanted to go along, but he said times were too hard, he didn't want to have the bother of tn_king careof her, and she was compelled to remain at home. He reached homs in the evening after an sbaence of two days, and as he sat eating his gupper he observed: “Itellyouitwasa didn’t go.” “Tonesome, was it 7" she asked. w1t would have been forrful if Ihadn't had a young lady in the seat with me,” he replied. “What! A youngladyin the seat with you?" ‘6 That is—that is—you know the car was crowd= ed,” he said. + And you offered her half your seat i croms;but, IPRY, | Gniy over his eyes with both hands, and cried, in breathless basto : 4T underatand ; and let ma assura yon, John, that if it is in my power to lighten your cares and mako lighter your journey through life tu ——Jerusalem | " Jobn stood alone, and said, with breathless ve- hemenco: ¥ A “0 ;ny precious ! and thus sllmll itdba my h{: s S g lang pleasuro to hift you from the ruda assau MR. AND MRS, SHOTT, of ea‘l’-zh and surround you with the loving at- mosohers of ——Texas ! And there they both sat together. Tney had nearly reached the gate, and, hand to haog, and with hearts overflowing with the hliss of young love's first confession, they crept alang on their ¥moes up to the front steps, and were soon for- getful of their bumps on the softest cushion of the parlor eofa. A MARRYING WOMAN. About thren weeks aga (ssys o New York let- ter), an attempt at murder aud an actual snicide got into tho papers in a way decidedly sensa- tiopal. A German cigar-dealer up town became fariously jeslous of his yonng wife, and, when the muan whom he suspected of intimacy with ‘her cama into bis atore, he banged away at him with a revolver, and then sbot himself dead st the door. 1he othor man was taken to Bellovue Iospital, where he is now 1'm too weak, retain, lake 1t again. long ride, and I'm glad you WAUKEGAN. Jlovs i " recovoring; and next day she body of the hus- #I—that is, sho sat down there,” ho stAm- | 13 5ag put 1n ncemetag’ovcr on Long Island. A chromicle of Events for the Past| mered. To-day, I.am told, the poor_widow is marrying Weelte Mrs. Shott's ears grow red and her eyes | apain, not the man who got au sssortment of ‘Special Correapondence of The Chicago T'ribuns, Enappod. 2 Youdidn't bullet-holes on her account, bt ane who took WauggGay, I, TFeb. 5.—The change of weather during the week has already made quite an apparent change in business-circles. The farmers are coming $0 the city in large numbers. The merchants, with outstretohed hands, wel- come them cordially to partake of the comforts which their individual store or place of business can afford, and, by 8o doing, leave a good im- pression on the minds of the innocent bat ambi- tious * Granger," whosa sole object is to * ive and lat live.” Real-estato matters are seeming- lyat & stand-sull. This, however, 18 owing to « And 80 it was Jonezome, was it speak to her, Why, I—I spoke one or twice, of coursa.” ¢ Nice youn| “Well, no, « Aud there you sat and looked your swaotest, and T'll bet you passed yonrself off as & single | "~ man,” I don’t know a3 I did,” he replied, as he drank his tea, g “'Did you inform her that you were married and bad three children ?” she demanded. I don’t remember, though I presume I did.” ¥ou presnme you did ! didn't. charge of her business the day afier her has- band was buried. Thoso three weoks of lone- liness must have been fearfuily long and dreary to tbe disconsalate widow, I wonder what the man 1n Bellevoe Hospital thinks about her now. 1suppose?” inquired the wife. 1ady, I suppose 7" can’t say as sho was.” MISCELLANSOUS NOTES. The home-circlo—Walking around with the baby all night. 25 #Talking. to her husband in aloud tone of voico” is enongh to send o Persian wifs to Jail for thirty days. - W ell, Lpresume you | o, G 10 special stylo of engraving engage- 1 kpow just how you sat up there aod tho fact that tho proper time has not yetarrived. | protonded to be & rich widower, and took care of | ment-rings. A spider's web, with a ly init, isa As the sesson advances, I hope to bo able to fur- | her sntcluflls; m;(} bought pop-corn and illustrated | very pretty device. nish a more substantial report; but letit besaid, | papers for her!" Call & Iady & * chicken,” and ton to she i Y ; i i - Shott i d if thers was sny more bis- all s Iady a *chicken,” and ton to one sho fa however, that the fature destiny of this beauti cmt.r Shott inquire: angry with you. Toll her she ia **po chicken,” ful city remaias entirely with the citizens. This Dbeing the case, let us all baup and doing. BOCIAL. . . . The tenth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Porter was celebrated at on. 4-I1's & nice operation your coming home and expecting to find hot biscuit for you!"” she went conld make biscuit ? ~ Why dida’t shecoms home to tea with you ?” and twenty to one sho is more angry still. One of the most pitiable sights in this lifois the spectaclo of s man, wWho has been married pot three months, wearing ¢otton in his ears. “\Why didn's you ask if that young lady their residence on Geneseo strest .1ast Tnesday | = «Nancy, don't ba foalish,” ho observed. theming, Tho house was chack " fullof relutives | i Don't be fooliah! - Who is foolish? Here I A Namont o e s o o ngnds, to witnass the Socond marrisge of | s, gorubbing around and baking nd patching, | ¥ier R A0HECE O 6 °F 1 yenzd, and fonag thae neitber of the three husbands his wife had mar- ihe brido and groom, who went through the per- formance in such a manner that no doubt was entertained as to their being there before. The gifts were_quite numerous, and many of them valusble. By no means were they all tin,—there being among them, for instsace, & handsome silver” cake-basket, & lady's reticule, etc. It and breaking my back, and you were braced u in seat beside & young lady, low whiskers and talking about your bonds and mortgages and your lonely widower life.” T wasn't,” ho_briefly observed. +*Daniel, did that girl ride all the way from Chicago ried and buried had fixed the gate. The longest night in Norway lasts three months, and, when a young man goes to ses his girl, her mother, before ratiring, tells hor not to ruin her health by sitting up more than two months, stroking those yel- with you 7" asked Mrs. Shott, as she proved an enjoyabie occasion, and one that will i ho milk-jug. Toos bo remembared. Next! toged with the huodle of thomkJuE, o | *Aun," obrerved a Danbury honsskeeper toa A pumber ofc tl):a nm; folks ?lgoy;(:_j 8 very | helped himselt to the butter. 2 I:xreg girl, t{:: o‘;her morrnmgt,b“aa m: haw; en- leasant time &t the residence of Dr. Price, on 0 id " ered upon the dawn of another centary of our Grand s + You kuow stie did 1" shouted Alra- Shott, nation’s history, I guess you haa butter get a Grand avenue, Satardsy eveniog. The young uns are bound to enjoy themselyes. PERSONALS. : Hiram Bart. who has been engaged in lumber- ing up north, i in the city, and 1ntends remain- ing here uniil spriug. Sheriff Buell is much better than he was af my last report. ‘I'bere i8 now a strong probabil- ity that he will recaver. “TThe many friends of Audrew Perrin (brother of Lew1 Perrin, of this cily) were painsd to learn of Lis sudden death, which occurred near Negaunee, Blich., Wednesday last, occasioned by & car runniog from the track, which contsined tho Paymaster and himseif. The Paymaster was also killed. AL_S. -Kucker, Esq., laft, Thureday last, for Ciuckinnnfi. “Ho intends returning in about a week. and LOCAY, PIOKINGS. The City .Council meets Monday eveniog, at «Jf she got off at any of the stations I didn't see her,” he admitted. “And there you sat and sat, and rode and rode, and you paid out the money we need sa much in the house for pesuuts, snd pop-corn, let mo see My walloz P . *tYes, sir, your wallct!® § «What for, Nancy 2" 1 1 want fo ses your wallet!™ ¢ «Tt's the same ono I always had.” A You left home with $26, and I kuow exactly what the trip cost. $17. Hotel bill, $2. T'll allow 81 more for in- cidentals, and now where's that 36 2" I—I—1" he stammered. « Yon what ?". T mot Green lim $4. 3 =i Daniel Shott,'who !is Green, and where does tooth-brush of your own.” A Balt Lako Mormon has written to the Cen- tennial Committee proposing to exhibit his nine wives at Philadelphia, ** to illustrate_one of the social phases of American life.” He adds thas his wives are anxious to go. Themon and women dress so much alike in +Cochin China that it is dangerons to slap & man on the shoulder and remsrk, * Come, old fellow, Jet's drop in here and indulge in asmile.” It may be the old fellow's wife, you knosw. Jawelers ara said to be busy preparing elegant new pins to be worn by gentlemen this season, upon which is engraved * Engaged,” * Married,” **Don't want to,” “*No, ma'am,” or something of the kind, to be used as a protection during leap-year. ‘fhie foreign fashion of wearing colored under- clotning is fast being adopted in New York, and juba-paste, and picture papers! Daniel, punr wnuat!B . Fare to Chioago and back, down bythe depot, and lent which meeting it is expected they will conirm | 7g jize 7" & i boigho: A e it - Sho nomipation of aither Medsthur or Brovster | “paniel diduoply. T e ahsmiss, dravare, and skirt—fab- for the omgz of v"’fi“i’} l,h! Al b to talk “Daniel Shott, you've lied to me!" she ex- { orately trimmed with insertion and locs. This Sam Bradbury's Patriot still continues alk | claimed. *You aido’t want to take me along | does not, however, exclude the fine linen batiste hotel. Keep on, Sam, for it’s just what we need. Our citizens received quite a **scare ” Monday night, which was cansod b{ the buroing of a load of hay on State street. It served admirably 28 an illominator. ~Torrent boys were promptly on hand, and always intend to be. The masquerade ball given at Pheenix Ha < last Monday evening, was well attended, and proved an enjoyable occasion forail who were present. : A grand ‘* Mother-Goose ™ party {s to be held at the residence of A. T. Spencer, Esq., on owing _to the bard times. yon. If I'd been along yon'd havo growlea four times & mile about the bother and the expense, and there yon went and bothered with a young lady and squandered $4 ou ber, and here I've worn those old sLi0os seven months to save ex- pensa[” > z +I'll geb yons new pair pretty soon,” he re- plied. - 4 Yon will, eh ! When ?” 4 Before the Fourth of July, anyhow.” «You can squander §ion an unknown girl, Yoa smd I'd bother | and percale underclothing now wern by women of wealth, i A young Iady has sent to the VWoman's Ceo- tenoial Committeo at Philadelphia a.repressu- tation of what she ia sure must have been the style of dress worn by 3other Eve. Itis afig leaf, of course, but 28 the donor believes that the Vanity of womsap was born with tho sex, this primitive garment is elaborately ecalioped and edged with far. They've got the smali-pox pretty badly in “ Littlo - n o 5 g;;::t :tnr;eé;s “_“Isu_x‘u‘:i1 d.):::!;e !;%n::;;nm -::;: ;';3 ;:;,lku ‘me wait four months for shoos, can | Norwich, 20d pnoremnl di!cipl(:i: is accordingly | Nl 3 . TN 3 yery severe. ne_young lady writes to her lived 1n a ehoe,” are ll_going to be there. * What unknown girl betrothed: *‘Dear Roaer,gl cannot endure this ‘Tho Buck piano, which was raffied Tuesday evening, was drawn by the holder of Ticket No. 164, wno £old it soon ‘after at less than half itg valge. . g 5 oiN That Young People’s party, at the remdenco of C. E. Whitney, last Saturday evening, was auize_ an unique affair, and worthy of a repe- tion. £ * Daniel Shott—I" And the milk-pitcher came down on his head, she caught him by the necktie, sud the oldest boy ran out doors aud yelled *Firel” Several of tho neighbora ran over, but Mrs. Shott met them at the door and said it was only a burning chimney. remarked : You say vou were Last Monday! It Tell me, O tell me, separalion much_longer. vaccioated last Monday. seems to me like an age. when it takes.” A young lady of Austin, Ney., who has been for some time wrestling with the problem of & suitablo costume to wear at the coming masquer~ ade, on being asked bya friend what she in- When they asked for Mr. Shout she 2 z “ Mr. Shott doesn’t feel a bit well, and is cov- i i A SUMMER-ROMANCE, £ tended to wear on that occasion, replied: **O b ered up on tho lounge ! i botber! I can't think of a good costume to wea’:: There was a maiden fair to see, A PUNGTILIOUS BRIDE. soIdon't think I shall wear anything.” The Called Amarilla Cain, Who loved & young man tenderly Named Ebenezer Pains, - - . Bhe was o healthy, handsoms girl,- . As artless as » dove; R She met young Etenezer Paino, | And early learned to love. Tet love is but s transient dreum, “The vision of 3 day; Its castles risc amid tho akies, To quickly fade away. And women are as fickls things As ever bave been born; 3 While Hope itself will take to wings, And leavo the heart forlora. # To that contented neighborhood | - ‘A city-* drummer " came ; And soon sweet Amarills Caln Forgot her rustic fame. “The drummer, as the dsys went by, In female favar grews; And Amarilla Cain forsook Hex old love for the new. The splendor of his Toud attire,’ And manners, were complete: The Aaming necktio thot he wore Was redder than a beet, . And searce s snmmer-dsy went by BB:;hnhwl:“hm“!llg & bought her candy by the poun ‘A8 1ook her out £ Tde. % On Sunday, in the village-church,” He looked acroes the aisle, And watched each movement that she made With an admiring smile, She tarned her head the other way Towards Ebenezer Paine, With an expression on her {208 . Of feminine disdain. Then honest Ebenezer Paine Grew very lean and spare; The drummer quickly overtarned 1His castles in the air. in the The rivals met one ralny night: The drummer talked of blood,~ Dat Ebenezer threw him dowa, And rolled him in the mad,— Then slarted for the Western witds; He could no longer stay 50 neas the woman that he loved, And set 50 faraway. He went to distant Tdsho ; And Amarilla Cain Ne er saw his melancholy face . Nor heard his voice agatn, A s3d and naexpected talo Was brought {0 tawn 7ae day; - When told to Amarilie Cain, She fainted quite away ifte draramer had & wife it homis, And children three or four; i3 Teast,: i : Axid twenty swecthearts, at the . Intwenty towns, or more,” . Ploasant Valley, In., has developed an uncom- monly punctilious young lady (says the &t. Lonis Republican). Bhe lived near enongh Davenport to catch the mauners of the town sud a city beau into the bargein. She put style on her beaaty, and, a8 is generally the case with sub- urban belles, overdid it. Her wedding day was get, snd her father’s house was thronged with seventy guests, who were invited to witness the ceremony and sit down to the wedding feast. ‘The preacher was there with his book. The bride swept into the midat of the companyin gorgeons attire. The groom and his friends were there on time, and the hour was 5o'clock in the after- noon. groom had forgotten to provide himself with a pair of gloves. Gloveless and shamed be stood in that brillians, expectant company, to be done ? night was growing dark, and the roads were bad. Iacking attire, but a0 nobly refused to appear to take titne by the forelock, and be married without gloves. The bride positively refused to be merried without gloves. He sat down in a pet of perplexity, and sne flirted out of tho room. Here was & marriage mess, and geventy guests io waiting. Two of the bride's brothers mounted feet steads and galloped to town through a storm of mud to buy & pair of gloves. In the meantime tho wedding ' guests slumbered and slept. About midnight the gloves csme. No matter if they were a mile too small, they were regulation white kids, and that was enough to eatisfy the whimsical belle. Sho was married to white kids, and the feast went on. A SLIPPERY PLACE TO PQP THE QUMSTION. She came tripping from the church-door (says tions awakened by tho just uttered discourse, and eyes bright with loving expectation. He ghivered on the curbstone, where for an hour he had waited impatiently, with a burning ‘heart fairly palpitating in his throat, and frozen fingers in his pockets. They linked arms and started for thereaidence of her parents. After s few moments’. hesitating silence he said: s Jane, we have known eachother long. You- must koow just how I feel. You must heve peen that clear down at the botiom—0 Moges!” He had slipped down on the ice with so much force - that his epine was driven up Into his hat, and his hadt was tippflu‘d over 'his'nose, but Ehe ‘| wae & tender-hearted gixl, “She dl bue ebe carefully hfllpged him to glsn?:e:,mfi:d said : s TR *You were eaying, John, when you slippad, winter has been very sovere in Novada. My dears, I miss something or somebody, T cao't tell what or who,” #aid Jones to bis children, as he sat down to tea the other night. ¢ P'raps-it's mother,” said littla Biliy, *‘she's gone over to Aunt Jane's to tes.” Tho child was right. It was 3rs. Jones who was missed, and Jooes eaid in continuance: ‘*Well, lot's Lave a quiet supper, thon."—Boslon Traveler. The London Womau's Dress Association, & soociety formed some time ago with the object of induciog English ‘women of all classes to avoid extravagance in dress, i8 now turning its atten- tion patticularly to the servant-girl clags, and awards in money are to bo offered as encourage- ment to female servants to dross more snitably to their stations in life, and to keep their places more carefully. f An inhabitant of Dover, N. H., reached that place by the noon train- the other day, after an absence of two wecks, and was mes at (he sta- tion by his sop, 8 years old, who loudly wel- It was now first discovered that the ‘What was The town waa along way off, the Mo BhORS ot coula b resched iy | Comed him. + Andis eversbody well, Willies aroom's pext. friend offered to lond himm he | e poe e And has nothine. baypacdoh # Nothing at ail. 1'vo been good, Jennie's been good, and I never saw ma behave herself £o el a8 she did this time !" _Jobn Henry didn’t notice the large-boned, vinegar-facod woman when she got into the car. He saw at once the fair-baired, red-lipped dame sel who looked at him with such sweet expect- ancy 1o her great brown eyes. Ilorose to grace- fully wave her into his seat, when vinegar-face slipped quietly into it. **Whry, look hers, my good woman,” enid John, *it wasthis Iady/X was giving my soat t0.” *I pays mv fare,” replied tho dame, with & £08D of her heavy jass, “ and 1 guess as my nickel's &8 good as her'n. The seat waa empty, an’ I'd like to know who's got a better right ?" Some way tha bslance of the rido was not & pleasant one to Jobn, and it oc- curred to him to wish very earnestly that he dared to punch that fat fellow in the corner who kim burstipg out wish & snicker every fow min- utes. borrowed ‘‘toggers.” He was willing Boston Times), her face flushed by emo- ———— How Winslow Got $2,000. Tioston Giobe. ‘Winslow's plausible maaner did much for him in his business trasssctions. He wass great borrower, &nd had a faculty of obtaining money fromquarters whoro others could not. X citizen of Newton, eince deceased, lent him $500, and .shortly afterwards was told that Winslow was not “eafe,” and advised to colloct tho amonnt and to lend him no more. Acting upon the ad- ice, the gentleman at once sought out Afr, Wins- low and requested the returnof the $50. Dur- tng tho loug conversation on the subject, the winning ways of Winslow had s telling _offect. _|. Afew daya later the gentleman and bis friend met again, and the inquiry was mada it Winslow had returned the money, to which the gentleman replied that be had seen Winslow and bad had 20 hour's conversation with bim, ‘and that he said it would bo a very great sccommodation to he foendation—O0, goodness!” Sy 0 And, ers the cheerless morrow dawned, that he. , goodness!”. _ : i | himif becould have the usa of ita i B8 secretiy had flown; . oo - . Sho alipped herself that time, nnd saw littlo | longer. *But did you get the m;‘i“;;‘ Hms _And fickle Amaritls Cain - stars come down ta dance before her' oyes, but.|ihe friend. ** No.” gaid the gentleman, **bot’ - War lett, in tears, alons. he pulled her up in hasto andwent on. .- : | Wioslow succeoded in getting 91,500 an, ™~ Ouax Tanx, 1L Evomne 7. HaLL, ' Tes; just 88 1 eaid, clean down at “the'ot- | of me.” - 91,500 more out, SOPHOCLES. Greek Tragedics upon the Ger- man Stage. The * Antigone,” *Edipns Tyrannus,” and “Edipus Coloneus,” Per= formed at Klannheim. Correspondencs London Times. HemeLeERa, Doo. 14.—The numerons tonriats who acamper through Mannheim on their way to prettier places would do well s0 to modify their programme 280 pasazn evening there. The town, 1f itself plain—to useno more discourteous word—wears yet a precions jewel in its theatre. This is ono of the oldest in Germany, and once, under Herr von Dalberg was, Iam told by a Mannheimer, the hest managed. It is classical, too, a3 the house in which the first acted play of Bebiller—* The Robbers "—iwas produced. The experiment hus, I think, never been tried in England of putting any play of Sophocles on the stage but tue ** Antigone,” whereas the Ger- 1mans are bold enongh to complete the Trilogy by giviog also the ** (Edipus Tyranous™ and the “@dipus Coloneus,”—plays far less suited to the modorn stage. _ 3ly otficial play-bili—which is. oven for o Mapnbeim play-biil, a macvel- ous helfpenny worth of erudition—gives me, in addition to s brief biography of Sophocles, the information that the ** Autigone " was firet played at Weimar, under Goethe'a su- spices, in 1809, It was then given three times, and once again in 1818, In 1812 it got by tbe help of Mendelssohn's music and Dobner's translation something like & -recogaized foot- iog on the Gorman stage, and has ginco been frequently performed =all over Germauy ; at Maonbeim. for instance, fome twen- ty times. When * (Edipus” was first in- troduced to s Cerman audience my learned friend does not say, but probably very much Iater than ‘* Aotigope,” as Mannheim did uot take him under her protection till 1572. Since then all three plays haya been given at Mann- heim once or twice a year, in the same waek on alternate nights, and the experiment ecomed to me o curious and adventurons that I wes anxions to see for myself how it was carried out and with what success, Obvions difficalties suggest themselves. The absardities of the Chorus, for instance,—even when it is read and treated meraly as a splendid piece of composi- tion,—are sometimes barely tolerable, as in the famous scene where, while Agamemnon is being murdered, twelve old gentlemen, doomed by dramatic _exigencies to remain on the stage, listen to. his groans, and, one =after auother, promounce, 1n neatl batanced couplots. = the unsnimous opin- jon that something omght - to be doue. Such a scene ou the modern stage would be alto- ether intolorable, except, indeed, in & bur- esque. Then, agein, ehonld the chorus be througbont sung, and, 1f 8o, to what masic? May our powder and paint be considered a suf- ficient substitute for the ancient mask, sod the modern high-hesled shoe, With the appropriato + Grocian bend,” do duty for the cothurnus? The mask 18, of course, out of the question, and yot the want of 1t creates for most managers & difficalty in *‘casting " the piece. Where un- der cover of the mask the same actor could play two or more characters, the dramatist might, withont much wasta of force or matensl, put a magnificent descnption into the mouth of & messeuger, who is only for & few minutes on the stage, or, on tho othor bsud, give a prominent character comparatively littie to do. Jocaste, for instance, was piayed by the leading actiess of the Maunheim Theatre, Mirs. Herzfeld, an artist whose genius wonld do honor to aoy stage. Yet ons bit of by-play— when the horrible truth dawns upon her that her busband 18 her son—by-play which a spectator closely following the coursa of the story might easily ezough have missad—was the srlitary chanca she got throughout the performance of showing what she could do. On tho oth- er hand, Eursdice—originally played by an actor who also took other parts—has only about adozen lines to spesk and fifty mora to listen to; it wonld be scarcely practicable nowadays togive suchs paritoa first-rata actress, and yot, short as it is, only a first-rate sctress conld do justice toit. Even these difliculties, though by no means tnwal, sinkinto insigoificance when compared with the radical defect, from a modern point of view, which rups throngh such plays as either the ‘‘(Edipus Tyravnus” or the * (Edipua Colonens.” In tha former, indeed, the interest of the audisnce is skillfully sustained by the gradual disclosure of the terribla secret which constitates the story. Bus tho story itself is of too unnatural and horrible a cbaracter to eulist modern Eym- patbies, thongh a Greek believer in Ate might follow it with & feellng some- what resembling that which in Catholic countries is now excited by a passion piay. Butin the ‘‘(Edipus Coloneus” there is Do plot whatever worth the name. The thin thread on which the story hangs, aod which is meant, apparently, to give a gort of unity, is the prophecy of (Edipus that he has at last reached the land in which he is to die, and there is little or nothing to sustain the in. tereat of modern spectators who cannot get up any excitement about the Furies or the Delphic Or- acle, or even Zens bimself, beyond the hope that this prophecy may be speadily fulfilled. The old man_prepares himselt for his mysterious doom by vigorously cursiog and thwarting everybody who has doue him an injury. Creon’s bold at- tempt to carry off the daughiers might excite soma interest were if not so obvious that they will be rescued.| The character of Theseus, a gentleman born = and bred, s very pleasing and wins esteem, ag the™devoted filial atfection of Antigone and Ismene—the Istter o pale copy of her sister—touches the pathy. Dut these merits aro too slight to redeem the play from its difficuities on the mod- ern stage. The exquisite beauty of the Iyrical portions coospicuous in the ** (Edipus Coloneus,” though by some means altogether lost in -Herr Wil- brandt's spirited trapslation, seoms - to the modern play-goer strangely omt of ita place. That s mapager, in short, shonld nowadays not only venture to give sucha piace, bat should give it with snccess, 18 more than I should have though poesibie if Ibad not myself seen it, Certainly the performance did not owe this suc- cess to meretricious ornament. In the ** (Edipus Tyraanua ” the scenery was quite sublime in its simplicity, not to say shabviness. The great gods and goddesscss themselves—the patrons of ‘the performavce, 1o whom & good denl of idolatrons homage is paid openly on the stage—were not treated to statues, but bnd to make cheap sbift with dingy paper ficings, which destroyed all devotional feeling by allowing the speciators to soe that even the goddesses bad no back hair. The costumes, however, 80 far 28 I can recoll my ** Charicles,” were strictiy Greok. There was no orchestra, nor during the performance of the ** (Edipus Tsraonus ¥ was thero any musio, though aTew classical strains were introduced into the ‘Coloneus.” Bat in both plays the chorus was raid, not sung, and the thoatrical elect was cer- tainiyvery trying. Stropbo and Antistrophe de- generate into the prosaic First and Second Citi- zen, selfiebly taking eli the talk to themselves, and ‘while they are exchauging pious plati- todes and infarmine everyoody that the gods hate bad_peoole, but love good peo- ple, that punishment oyertakes tho guilty, and thav it is very £ad and shocking for a mag to marry his mother, their wretched comrades hawe nothing to do bnt pose sbout the stago, holding up their hsnds sympathetically, or struggling to make their heads shake like Lord Burleigh’s. I never thought that I should live to be so avepged wupon my old enemy, or that & fos 80 formidabla 1 _his native Greel could be rednced to = plight which might move even n Bchoolboy's compas- sion. The Chorus—and this is, perbaps, 1ts worst fault or misfortune—isalwayson the stage. The curtain never fell, nor during the whole pez- formance, which lasted about two hoars, were the audience given s moment’s respite for leg- stretching or undisturbed sneezing. But, to do them justice, they seemed altogether sbove such trivial, ~ unclassical gumnu weaknesses. and remained in silent’ breathless attention, with eyes riveted tha stage, from the firat line to the last, On‘gxl or twice some especisily fino piece of acting on the part of Mr. Hanisch—who plaved (Edipus surprised the impulsive, untutored “gods” into involuntary burets of applause. But _thoy were “immediately smothered- as indecently modern, ‘lll!l it was mot till the piece was fairly finished, and when in England the spectators are usually stroggling over each other’s bodies to the door, that tie house gavo full vent toits long'pent-np feclings and’ stamped the performance & success. " - The chief elsment in the succeas I take to-he ithe character of the audience, though no doubt the acting of Alia, ' Herzf 7. Haniseh contributed its f?]lemuh:r:(.l e excellonco of tha translation may also have had something to do with it.- ‘The marvelous plasticity with which the German L. guage leads ffself to the formation—certatz'ly with a very difarent tone—of the long sonorous compoedds in which Greek poetry atouads— compounds . of _which _the Titers] Tendering x‘x‘z’on:gllsl; or tl’re:é-h ni‘?t be either rou: r | forced—makes - i i fitted for 'a modern Verfi?n, o Con conecientions and epirited,* of & Grook play. Tdoub} if the Mannhaj could Lo given anywhere in 15'5.‘;';.'3,‘,";’"‘“ I will noy say with,success, but withog: o0 rigit failure. Irefer 2t present op] first two plavs of the Trilology. Tup oy 28 gone ™ stands perhaps on another footin, Auly 18 &t least very differently put on the ;l.z e —_— ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY) ° Extraordinary Advance in Scien Sayant:Makes an Egg, ang nnc ‘fierefrom a Live Bird, Hatchy SRR Clmrflé Omen, © . e annexed account of a wor ery recently made in Germmymtrf::ln?!‘m from an article in a late number of, 5 Gooo X puver, the Algemeine Zeilunq, recaived ; Cambria. Tho editor, fn his introdnctor. ¢ marks that *Tois with no ordinary feeiinly® sit down to make public the' astonishing pugt” which follow, well knowiog, at first, v it but excite the smiles of the incredulons: Soal indegeuden: journalists, we feel it inu'd!,u’ u ‘lay before tie public such matters of rzk may come within ths scope of our own ab;" 4 tion, and others may draw such congl i from them as they may seq fit. oy +*Somo years eince,” he continnes, “ the w) world wag thrown into & faver of exaiteme, the sononucement that Mr. Cross, an 2,,:1}:’ man, had read before the Royal Electrica] gi ciety of London a memoir in which he datafleg process by which he had sacceeded in i ioto life, by means of voltaic electricity, 5 nuto inseot of the acari specie. The subsar; from :hi:;!h lhcie insects wera recired or cr was the silica of polassa, & perfect = sod transparent lLiquid. perfectly colorly r. Crosa' experiments were sabso tried by Mr. Walker, Secrctary to the etly with entire success, and with evary yociaty, 28 to the introduction of any forei uubahnm thet might contain the eggs of thess inges Ho was also equally successfal when ths exper. ment was conducted in an atmoaphere of oxygen %:a. These expariments hava besn cer. titied to by the moat respectable anthority ; xng yet there are persons obstinate and izn'mnl enough to deny tue posaibility of tha prodnetion of life from such a substance as flint. _““As what we aro abont to mention is of o similer patare, we expect that the same class of persons will be incredulons as to thetrnth of ogy Htatemnnti‘ b 3 W + Bot ¢ Troth is mizhly aod must prevail,’ we trast Boon to_give ocalar damml:smfi]‘;nlzdl u.x‘ev faces &etnih;d.u’ fisd ‘e shall not follow the Isnguags of bok cive a brret @atho of Vol oo™ 1t seems that, for more than fonrteen years, Prof. Geifling, of Braeobergh, amsa well knowy in the literary and ectentific world, has had hir attention directed to the production of animal life by means of galvanism. This was a daring thonght; but the Professor, with the zeal and devotion worthy the old alche- mists in whose footsteps he was following, per. sevared against obstacles that nould have dis. couraged any man less sangina than' himself; and at Iast has had the satisfaction of seeing hi patient Iabors crowned with euccess, that wil place his name in the foremost rank of that gal- axy of bright stars who preceded him in thy great field of discovery. The Professor's first experiment was o hatek chickens from the egzg by the employment of artificial -heat, after the manper ol the Egypuans. In this he was entirely su cessful, and perfected a simple and compact apparatas to maiotain, by means: of Lot water, an equal temperature for any period of time. * This being accomplished, he turned his atten- tiou to the production of the egg! This was ma easy matter; but, after innumersbla. experi- ments, during a period of ten years, the dataily of which would ful a velume, ho sncceeded in making a eorrect analysis of an egg.” Onestep was accomplished ; but tho most difficult wu et to be taken,—the mysterions combinasion of the elements so 23 to form a compound similaz o the natural article. ® Encoursged by his success, the Doctor set about his almost hopeless task with s determins- tion to surmount every obstacle He felt salis. fied that it was only by means of galvaniamthst his objeot could be accomplished, and directad all his energies to the conatruction of a batlery of-conatant, equal, aud moderate power. After tryiug nearly every kind of battery ia use, he had almost begun ~to despair, when, by acoidont, ho learned that o constant battery of moderate power had been constructedin Engnd by placing a vlate of zino and a plate of copper in an ordioarv flower-pot, and keeping the earth moistened with ammonis. E He immediataly constructed such sn one. Aftar various modificaions, he succaeded in adaptinx it to his purpose; and had the satisfaction, atisr pearly fourteen years of almost constant expen- ment, of seeing his. labors crowned with mo- cess, and producing from elements s substance similar in all respects to an a?. * ‘Now came the exciting pariod of his labors, ta gee whether this artificially-formed egz conld bs hatched by heat. He placed iv in bis hatching- oven, and watched it sthrough a glasadoor al- most constantly, scarcely taking -timata et or sleep, until he had seen the success of his experiment. Day after day he watchoed with patient auidu- ity the consummation of his darliog schems, and at Iast had the matisfaction of witnessing . the consummation of his hopes, On the twen- tieth day after placing his egzin the oven, 2 small hole was observed in oneside of it sod shortly after the bill'of a bird was throst through. - The Professor wasalmost wild with delight, and soveral times was oo the poiat of breaking the egg, to see what kind of & bird he was going to have. He restrained ‘himseif, however, and fiext marning had the eatisfaction of findiog in the receiver s live bird of some unknown species, perfect ia its snstomy, bat, etzansa to say, entirsly withont feathera! ° “This most astonishing ‘result,” zamarks the psper from which we quote, 4+ has almost opse! our pravions notions of natardl nhi!o.wphymé the governing laws of animal organism. Aswi gazed npon the featherless bird hopping about, and feedmg upon the seeds given it, we began to doubt the reality of our own existence, or thal of anything about us!” The Professor, urged on by his success, bt set about another analysls, and his 0o doubbol being able to produce periect birds of evar? known species. . The Algemetne Zeltung of the next :xn- marks that tho whole city is electrified mih 8 development. B ritish Personals Some From *“ Wha's Who {n 13i6.” Tho oldest member of Her Majesty's Prvy Coupcil is the Rt. Hon. Holt Mackenzie, 8J; the youngest, H. R. L., Prince o aged 23. ~ The oldest Duxe is the Duke of Pere Iang, sged 70 the youngest, the Duke of Ror- folk, aged 29.’ The oldest Marquis is the Mar- quis_of Tweeddals, sged 89; the youn est tho Marquia of Gamden, aged_4. The oldest Earl'is the Earl of Leven and Melrille, sged 90; the youngest, the Earl of Norbury, 13} The oldest Viscoant is Lord Stratford dt Tedclife, nged 83; the youngesh Yiscood Clitden, aged 13. The oldest Baron if Lard Chelmsford, aged 82 ; the youngest, Lord South- ampton. sged 9. The-oldest of the titled heirt of peers is Viscount Kirkaldy, beir the Earl of Melville, aged 59; the g’"‘“l' eir s est are Viscount Crowhurst of _Cottingham), Viscount XForbes to the Earl of Grabard), Viscount Kingabo- rough (beir 1o the Earl of Kings!oug. and Vis- connt Stavodale (heir to the Earl of Bochesteth each of whom are in their second year. TH oldest member of the House of Commons il tho Right Hon. Joseph Warren Heoles. . P for Oxfordshire, aged 83; the youngesh it Hon. Willism F. 0. 0'Callagsn, 3 P. for Ti- perary, aged 23, The oldest Judge n" Foglaod is the Right Hon, Eir Fitzroy Kell Tord Chiet Baron of the Court of E¥ cheqner, aged 80; the youngest, the Rignt Hm}i Sir Goorge Jessel, Master of tha Rolls, aged 5 The oldest Judgein Irelaod is the Right Hom James H. Monahan, Chief Justice of the of Common Pleas, aged 72; the youn “""’j Right Hon. Christopher Pallas, LL.D-, O Baron of the Court of Exchequer, ‘Bfig 45. Tho oldest BSeoteh Lord of sions is Lord Neaves, aged 76 ; the youngesh Tord Sand. aged 48. Tho oldest Prelsd of the Church of Eogland is the Bishop of. dafr Alfrod_Ollivant), aged 78 the youod: est, Eward Parry, suffragan Bishop of. Du:! aged 46. Tho oldest Prelate of tne Irnsh Chn‘n 8 is Dr. John Gregg. Bishop of Cork, szed TLi tho youngest, hie som, Dr. naben.sm“‘;_ Grogg, Bishop of Ossory and Ferns, aged & The oldest Bishop of the Colonial and Missioh ary Church the Right-Rev. Sm{!m Gobat, Biuhug of Jernsslem, sged 773 youngest, the Rt. Rey. Regioald Cuplefifl; the newly-consecrated Bishop of Colombo, 88 i 0. The oldest Bishop of the Scotch Episcopl Church is the Rt. Rev. flobert Eden, Bishop Moray and Ross, aged 71; ths youngest, the 9 Rev. “Hugh Willoughby Jermyn, Bishop © Drechin, aged 55. 'fbe oldest of the retd Bishopa is the Rt Rev. Jares Chapmsn, I Rishop of Colombo, aged 77; the youngest ,: Ttt.-Rov. Edward Twells, late Bishop of On!'cfi River, aged 48. The oldést Baronet ia Sir Bict: ard John Grifith, aged 93: the yonnge!k;Sl: Tenry Palk Carew, aged 5. The oldeet Eoieh! 13 Gen. Sir John Bell, G: C. B.. sged 94: b youngest, Sir Ludlow Cotter (eldess 80n of Sit James Lunronce Cottor, Bart.), aged H"Tfll‘ oldest Recorder in England is Joun Bramwelh Recorder of Durheim, nged 82; the youogesh “E! Dering, Recorder of Favers d