Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 15, 1876, Page 2

- CENTENNIAL. Fealings of the Philadelphians as - Remarked by Our Core respondent, ( Comparisons Betwoon the Centen- nial and Previous World’s Falrs. Comments on the) Situntione-= Prospeocts and Pre- dictions. Disgusting Proof of the Avarice of Restauratcurs, BUNDAY. Spectal Dispatch to The Tridune. TIIE BAUNATI QUESTION, PrmapeLrnm, May 14.—The question of + opening the Exposition grounds on S8undny las not beon allowed to rest. Last evening thero waa o largely-nttended mecting ht Music Fand Hiall to protest ngainst tha netlon of the Com- misslon. The Rev. Willlam H. Furness pre- slded, and speeches were made by George W, Boddle, Col. Fitzgerald, the Rev. Dr. Bellows, of New York, and others. The customary reso- Iutions were passcd, of course, though it fa dif- cult to sce what gooil any amount of resolving can accomplish. The mecting itscll is the best cxpresston of public sentiment. This and kindred mectings that have been ‘Teretofors held sorvo to show the Commission and the people of the natlon that the action ot tho for- mer was not taken ont of regard to tha feclings of the citizens of Philadelphia, - ihat. tho eost of living hors at r’e'!‘e‘x'\“’ I:’l‘fi;;‘l?“l‘l-‘:l}lr:: examine carefully the fol- Jowing, whic 1s an' sccarnte copy’ef the charge fnsta gentleman for o dinneral one of The Centenninl rnc.mflnnnu tha other da Tho Parls reataurant charges $2.05 for heef- steak, fricd potatocs, coffe, and bread and but- tor. e el ine, thonsands of ‘0-day, the weather Leing fne, p;ple Tinitea Fatrmount Fark. 'Tho Ceutenninl grounda werc closud, and guards stood at all the u:»)m pfxn‘wnnt n{y one .{m’m le:;c‘:ln;;:l?mm‘l- jouely. The park preaents, jus \ g 06| ECIy. the lm‘és m‘n’d carth “having put on their ‘brightest robes of green. THE STREET-CARS, Ahout the only class of peoplo. who will make maney out of (ho Exposition are the stockholders in the strcet-car lines, The husiness on-those | nes eanning to the Centennlal grounds has in- creaxed 200 per cent within a few months. On the opening day tho CRestnnt street line carried 65,271 passengers, at 7 cents aplece. The newa- papers are clamoring for o reduction to 6 cents, and the Companlea ean well affurd it EXCSPEAREN DLAINE was given a receptlon last ovening at th Clllh.ml)y Cln_ylnlll” MacMichael. The club-house wae crowded, 'nm‘.\luynr and many prominent cltizens wwere present. N To the Testern Asnclated Press, PIiLADELPRIA, May 14, —The Centennfal Com- miasion has done away with the regulation roquir. ing 1 50-cent note_or'a H-cent sllver pleco to so- cure admfssion. Tho gates of the Exhibition wero closed to-day, Theavenues in tho vicinity were througed. SATURDAY, TIE PEOPLE'S DAY, Bpectal Dispatch to The Tribune. PmMLADELYIIA, Pa., Moy 13.—Saturday {5 the people'’s duy, and will so remain a8 long 28 the Commission persist in closing the grounds on Sunday. The attendanco this morning num- bered nbout 40,000, including exhibitors and emw ploy That unumber falls far short of what thic Philadelphians expeeted, nnd of what cven the manogers of the Exposition have calculated upun in the carly days of the enterprise, It was cstimated that 100,000 visitors o day would be required to refmburse the Governmient and the State of Pennsylvanis, and pay the running ex- pensce, and I have met many citlzens bere sinco my arrival who have osssured me that the nverage attendanco would be ahove that figure. The opening day witnessed a crowd of 160,000 within the grounds, but on the followlug day the number fell to 35,000, and from present appear~ ances it ddes not secm as £ there would bo any matked incresse over that before the 1st of June. It will searcely be necessary, therefore, for the ¢ity to eulargo its present accommoda- tions for 150,000 strangers yeb awlile. In fact, Ui siblaans who Davo rooms to rent, and who a short time¢ ago tried (o fmpross the applicant for lodginga with the dea that they were conferring an unwarranted favor by admitting him to thelr premisea at any price, are now cagerly ‘bealeging the newspaper oflices with advertisc menis of apartments 1o let at rennonablo figures, A fricnd of mine Inserted an ndvertisement In o mnm|ng]mpcryeatcrdhy for o roum, ond has ro- cefved 245 anmwers up todate. This would not indfcate that theru ls any lack of nccommodatians, Tho sooner the citizeny here begin to uudor- stand that thls show is not Intended for thelr privato benedt, the mooner will it achiove that measure jof success which the orlginators Intond-. «cd for it, and which will never be obtalned without the help of tho peoplt of the Unlted States. Thix 1s u hopeful sign when the Philadelphisns are even willing to let thelr apartmeonts, to say nothing sbout o reduction ln price, which atter will inovit: ably coma about. The hotela which were overflowlng Wednesday, have falien back into ldlencas and disnse, and their roprictors uro comequently disconraged. Thera not, falrly epeaking, »o inoch causo for complalnt ngainsl the hotele, Those sround tha ~ Expositlon wero erccted ut grent ex- pense, and thelr C|\flr§cn arg only " thoss of rataclaes hotels in Now York, lutitls difforent wvith the private lodzings, where thero was . ponso entatlod fn opening them, and whers chi are propuruunnlc!{ as high as ‘ot the hotels, rooms can be hired for less thau $1 u day, An cffort 1a on foot to sccure the uxmnln'g of the Exposition at an carlier honrinthe moming, At Jrescot no visltors aro sliowed ‘to enter before 1) o'clock. This i very awkword for a great many people, who ‘llke to got up early in the moming and cconomizo tholr me. Thero Is mno good resrun why the gates should not be thrown open at 7 o'clack, At e mecting -of tho Comuirsion an Friday, Mr, Lowry, Commlssionce from Jows, moved thiat the Ezhibition bu opencd ot 7 o'clock in tho morning, whicli created powertul opposition on the part of Ar. Morrell, of Tennuylvania, and some athers, and next day the Press declared kuch a motlon un inenit to those who had decided on the arrange- ments, notwithstanding that the actof Cungreas vx- Pressly declures that alf regulations lhlull‘m sube mitted to " the “Commission for approval, and that &old ~ Commission, aftce the opening, shall Lave foll control of 'tho Exhibitlon. +Onthe merits of the case it s 1o bezald that many thousunds cume hither expressly to visit thu grounds; that they wleh to funprove sl their time, and they fecl that it is a loas to walt untll 9 o'clock, at which timo crowds are tasembled, and the two previons hours, which would by comparatively quict, are wholly unimproved, Besldes, when the woathier 1s warnmi, thess twoe hours ure apcclally fitted for examination. Ifthey could be fmproved, the heat of day would by aosiy bo spent In rest snd "rtlrement, It fs urged that tho cxlibitons themselvon necd thess two hours for resl, and -thet by openlug as carly sa 7 a'clock thoy will bo overtazed, ‘I'hls fs Tot & proper statement, The fact munifestly s thut (e exhibitors are here on burinces, and thut §t I s finportant for them to have niany hours for the sliowlug of tholr gaoda us it 1 for 1he peoply 10 new them; ond, furtlier, the Exhibiton depends more upon those who pay their, money, ian {pon anre ¢ clae; thercfore thelr deslres u : ¢ . 2d befors all uthers. ool — POILADELPHIA’S BIIOW, HOW IT CQMIALES WITH TILE PALIS AND VIESNA BXPOSITIONS, Spectal Correspondence uf The Tribuna, PpiLApzLrais, May 11.—Thers s not in the ‘wide world ut this moment o peoplu so Lappy a8 ore tho Philadelphfans, They have ope the Centeonfal Lxhibition fu grand style, and are congratulating themselves on thuir com- plete success in their enterprise. 1 thiuk muny of them are surprised at théfr uchlevement, a8 was once u ‘Chicago man of my acqualntauce who thought be lad ounly whipped ou ordinary clitizen, and found he bad thrusbed a well-known puptlist. They are juble lant fu the extremne, und may be pardoned- for being 8o, since thelr ity hus been the scene of the wost pumerous ussemblage ever guthered for peaceful purposcs on this slde of the Atlun- tle. The spectacle of yesterduy has never bren equaled in Americs, and s not often equaled in England or ou the Contluent. Phe Exhibl- «tion is 4 WOLTLY BUCCEEB0% of the World's Fulrs thut have gona before it, and will doabtless be 8o acknowledged by for- wienass who. mar stiesd it - Tho | Pl No set up. adelphial in thelr rejoicing,. take mucfi n;} tho ~ eredit to thichisclves, it by no moeana claim that they alone shonld hiave all tho honor, They frankly acknasicdge the ak that hins been rendored by other cities, by Penosyl- vanis and othor States, by the Generdl Gayerne ment, and_hy private cltizens, Thuty as_this clty haa tho Exhlglllnu within {ts limits, and has cou- tributed vory Inrgely In money and in other ways, it naturally assumes tho lon's share of the honor an fa":x'v’.';nm‘v‘m attempt to describe properly tho detalls of tho Eshibition, and T ahnll devote thiy Ictter to genoralitiea and pecnifatition aronnil lm(l in It. Taken as a whole, the Paris Exposition of 1807 wam far behind this; and, In the sama way, aml with certain limitations, wo aro shead of the Vienna Weltaustellnng of 187, The arrangemant of the buildings ls_more antis tory than was that at Vienna, ns it places the varl- ous dapartmenta whore thera 1s no ponsiblo iinnser that they will be confounded, In point of pictur- sagticness, wo ard FAR AIEAD OF DOTII PATIS AND VIENNA. In Tarls thero was absolutoly no picturesquonces 80 far 03 rconery was concerned, ‘The nildings wers erected on the dead level of the Champ de Mars, without aneclovation larger than the mound atthe entrance of a fox's den. True, there was somo artificinl scenary arountd the base of the Light- house, and in A fuw other places; but it was so manifestly artidcinl that a novico conld detect its character a onco. In Vienna thore was nlso o level, orncarly #o¢ there were some undulstions, but they wero nelthier nmerous nor marked, The Leat of them wasnear tho Russian Reataurant and tho Amctlcan Wigwam, where rome of the old treos of tho Prater had been feft in avalloy, that forme n very plensant rotreat whoro one cauld sit of a hot afternoon nnd sip tha cooling colbler or thie suothing julep from the hands of an American bartender who kept watch and ward In the famons Wigwatn, But, with thisand o fow ather excepe tlons, the ;irnmnln of the Vienna Exhibition derived thele beauty almost entircly from the arrangement of the buildinga —and tho bitsof garden and fountain work, with the tiacking of prand old trees heyond the fences, llera we have o pretty scction of the Fafrmount Fark, with nudulations frequent and frregular, and with Dits of forest, und garden, and: open lawn, Acat- tered with tho apparent carclessnces of Nature. The view from the "mm of Hortlcultaral 11all is tha; }-ngnmu‘x? " fianw‘wA:;"' onc who n anything In the Vienna crounds, walks thut"nnu uses his eyes nny find Tota of viows just na pretty. Inatead of ono great mama and chimp of hnlh{lll; ., wo hnve them ecattored aronnd Irregularly; and from certain polnts we can look at them through snch on . embowering of trees ns o render them slightly shadowy and indistinct, ‘Tho fountain at Vienna was In the centro of an DNUHF pond that Tind Leen lald ont with tho regularity of a lectura- hall; here we have an apparently “natural pond, with grasey elopes leadingdown to'it, and the foun- Iin risen from a mass of rocks that unfortunntely have not qnite as much of tho higledy-piegiedy anler about thom as one could wish. " Then we havo a pleasing Irregularity and varicty in the strect, or_rather row of houses, leading awny from the Unjted States bullding, which formws a rubstantial base, or start(ng-polut, on which they can fall bagk in coac of trouble. The catalogues are not yet ali ont, and thoro that are rrlmcd are wretchedly Imperfect, and you can hart neual number of cyes nnd feot could go over the Exhibition lhnronghly in tho littlo time einco the opening. the gooda are In place yet; & gnod iy cxpect that 8 human being with only the And, morcover, remember that not all ANy Cancs now up are sti)l covered, and many wnachines are not B0 you wiil forgive me in saying that Tam to mnke o downright, flat-foofed not prepared comparikon between this show and the Vienna one. But I will give my impressfon, —reserving the right 1o give any oplnlon § mny arrive at o week oF & month hence, My Impression s, that we have made an Exhibition AB GOOD, IN A GENERAL WAY, as that of Vienna; we hava not as greata varioty in tho matter of products of all natloos as hail Vienna, but we have mnn{ thinge that were not represented at Vienno at all, oriere InsufMiciently shown., 'The American scction is hetter than thy Austrian or any other sectlon at Vienna; and L think the Hnulrfll scction is better liero thanit was there, The Engllsh Colonles aro botter represent- ed here than at Vienna, aud the ramo s tho casn with the Sandwitch Islands, But France, and Italy, and Germany (remember, 1am m\lylglvlmzn present lmpremsion), do not agpear 18 well’ repro- vented; ond Russfa—owlng toan accident to tho ship which malled with * her goods—has not yet put o much asa kuout vra wolf-skin where we can Jook ot It UNITAPTY TURKEY har n Tot of goode here, but the boxes are not yet apened, and may not be, ‘Tho roaxon -u-h"m:l! ( that they have o money: the funds required for the lerzegovinian war and the Sultan's new pul- aces on the Do<phoris havo emptled tho treasary, BoEhaE Lt cannor even tivo aut tho paltry aum neci- cd for her share in this cxhibition. Unhappy Sick Man! Wo feel his misery (and maybe somu of us enjoy it) when we look at the sorry part of Turkey in vur Centenntal. She had a splendld lllu]flng at Vienno, and It attracted much attentlon, Threo .short 'years have made 6 preat change fu her affalrs, ller credit 10 gone, and #o fa her cash; and 1 venture to predict that 4 ool many old men now livingwill witness or m:‘d of lhnynnd of the Ottuman Emplre. Once she waa great and powerful, and 300 years azo sho thundered nt the wallaof Vienns, and wus wonder- fully near capturing it. Now, nione =0 poor s do er Toverence, hllul T have drifted unwittingly Into tho Fnstern ncstlon, while diecnesing the Amerieun Centon- nlal, and’ must apologizes Let us relurn Lo our muttons und green pcha, And speakini uf mutton and green pens reminds me how the restaurants yesterday wero LATEN OUT OF HOUSE AND HOMD by tho hungry multitude, I mentloned it by tele- graph, ‘and "o great many men mentioned It by words quite as cleciric, though less polite than those which wera lashed over tho wircs. The rus- taurants bod mado falr prepacations for feeding o throng: bui, much as !h::( had pree pared, they could not meot the demnnd, At 4 o'clock even a ham-sandwich was sn impossibllity, and a visitor with an aching vold within equal to tha Mammath fave was forced to rr‘mYnt Nlmeelf Wil something liquid. Yon cun get wino ar beer or cocktalls, or water,—thuugh a1l wil admit that the Inet-uatiied article makes o very thin dinner,— but, asfor edibles, they were as wcarce s clergy- men in o gambling-Louse or tecth (n 4 gooso's mouth. Whenovers waiter, by careful rummag- ing, hal mecured something forn favorite or fece iving oistomer, and was hueeylnyg with it along the fil". 1t would pass from bly hands into thuse of somo muscular Christien {or mayhap Jew or Gentllo), and dbappent down the throat of the atranger ke 4 rat secking o plao of — sccurity. Monners were more thaz Ropublican or Démocratics but what can on_expeit of n mrvlu‘( multitude? One of the l‘llhlvmc\mlnlnnlmmn inppencd into the French Restaurans while tho scramblo fur fuoil waa n prog- reas, He vas dressed In his best, nud his pigtatl, freehly braded for tho great oceanion, hung ahin- ing and wa'lng down his back. ¢*Hero's » fellow sith a nlco eol over his shoulder," said a hnngr) Amerfcany **1 suy, waiter, aak if L'l sell It.* Tho Commlssloncr from his Celestlal Majesty's Court may aave understood Engllsh, for ho walked out of tho flace with a rapldity that caused the ob- ject of the \merican’s attention to project astern at un angle)f thirly degrees or so. ‘NTaoh basbéen bald ahont (oo prices of tho rea- taurants in ‘he Centennlal grounds, aud the res- taurants ant botels outslde and down in the city, ‘Fhere has been an sdvance in prices in some cados, and there hive been nany atteppla st extortion, but, on the vhole, when we rouicisbor what hn- ma najure b, tho Philadelphiaus huvo been pretty decont, or, it all evenbs, NOT 60 BAD AS TITEY MIGHT DE, Cerlainly they have not come up to the Parlalans and Vientiess {n tho great yesrs of '67 and ‘7L In Paris I hutted for lodgings, and at last fonnd pome that I declied to take. After tho bargmin ‘was concluded, ond I had pald the stipulated rent in advance, Isaid to the pretty French widow who kept the houss, ** Milbs pardons, madame, I un- derstand perfictly” that this 1s Exposition’ price; now how mucy would you aak for thuss rooms In ordinary thoo, 1° Sl healtated o moment, then smiled and am led agatn, and findlly after exacting a promlsc of wereey, and explaining that she must take advantage of the timen, she admitted that 1had pald exactly deuble the ususd figure. In Viennu b ‘Wad & groat deal womu than in Paris, and I could tell you atories of extortion there *¢tll you couldn’t rest.” It waa that extortion that kept the great publl by from Uie Visuua Expoulion, ahd hrought rufu to thousands of speculators, ' The Philadelphlans determlucd ta avoid this pltfall, and pllogethicr they have dono fairly, There are a good muny abnses und extortions; but they are not a circumstance to those at Vicona. Tl worst thing now, to my mind, {s TiE PRIOE OF BERR =10 cents—inside tho grounds. A man mnst be rich who in an babitual beer-drinker and wunts to do tuo Cantennial tharougbly. o kuop Lils hoad cleur and his body In good coudition, he must tuke bis beer regularly at frequent intervals, Think what an smaunt of cash hio will got away with ju a manth with beer ot 10 cente! Ho can wait fur hls fuod until ho gots nutaide; but, when it comes to Leer, ho eannot wall. Knnwlm& whut happened at Paris and Vienns, 1 am somowbat surptised at the botel aud rostaurint enterprives _in the Centennial grounds, Every zestaurateur and bar-pros prietor lost tnunoy ot Paris; und tho sume wos the cose sl Vienna; and how any wane and thoughitfal man coutd put bis maney into entorpriscs liko many of thoso have, Tam unable to un d. ha' Transcoutiyentsl und Glolo Hatels Lisve cost a greot dval of mooey, aud thoy will poud to have TBEIL IIOUSES CONBTANTLY FULL in ordet to cover expensen and original cost, not to upenk of & profit on the fuvestment. Tho Atlas io- tel b nos yet flobshed, but {ta cost will Lo less in proportlon to ite capacity than the houses 1 huvo incutlused, Thers aro ‘the Exposition, United Btates, und wome other hotels, and it s pretty cor- taluthat thers wiil be accommodations neur the frrouns for more people than wiil wish tostop shere. Tuu city fucliitios are, ua everybody kuows, vory extenslve nnder the Aresugeuwents of Lho Bourding Hotiwu hynicatos und v Is my Lpreasion that there will Lu much of thy time this sunoes when Ll tuahiecous hotelu and restauranis will dis poor buvineas. 1 venture to predict long faces and droophig months auiong the lotel kepera ef id omne geiva sronnd the Centennial before the sunis mer bkies ceuns their glowlng and the sutumn COMEN upou us With ripculng frults ond falling leaver, WK . and around e —— © . REMARKABLE CASE, New Yonx, May Lt ~A wca captain restding In Brooklyn has kept tho body of & favorite child in iy Louse for woven years. Tle child dicd ut thy 4go of 2 yuam in Suuth America, and the Captain had )ty ramslow placed in o motuhlic colin, Whe be cams to Brooklyn he brought it with bim, and hus bag it o thy hous " . s o B I ki ver sices T o or THE UHICAGU VRIBUNE: MUINUAYX, .MAX 1D, 1D/0, GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. A Dumb Courtship, and Ita Happy Denouament, Then and Now, or Love and Time===¢Whose Duckey Are You??” Why & Countryman Hngged o Homely Girl—All Sorte of Femining Notos. A SPIRITUAL KISS, TRed 1pa eald ** Don't;"* gray eyea rald ¢4 Dog" Tler atlent wish found pasraito throught A volce in my heart's chumber heard Contradicts lier epoken word, While from hicr cyes the clear atar-shine Came tlowing, flowing into mine, d we stood. T feit no need {Irrv’:d:l?lllnlil!ls:fleo obodicmt heed, Suspended in a teance of bliss, The xoul of that unproven kins Forth from her pray eyen divine Came flowing, flowlng Into mnine, . —Dulght's Journal of “Music. y s A DUMB COURTSITIP. At the timo that Francs I of France wos taken prisoner ad the battlo of Pavia, ono of his ofticers, tho valorous Chavalier Beauregard, smitten by tho charms of an Italian lady of no- ble famlly, named Aurelia, declared to her his passion, Aurclin, though ffattered by the dee- laration of the gallant sollier, refused his suit on the ground of the levity of tho French char« acter and the nateral indiscrotion of that peo- ple. But Besuregard waus not to bo put off so casily, The depth and fervor of lis love led him to proposo to the lady to put his constancy to any proof sho might think proper. Aurclia at length accepted tho terms of the proposition, and agreed to marry Wim if, for the spnce of six months, he would nemaln utterly and entirely dumb. J ''he Chovaller promdsed, and then, with n sl- 1ept bow, withdrew frowm thelady's presence, and from that_momont he opened 1ot his lps with the sound of human speech. He returned to Paris, where ‘his friends and relatives wero stricken with sorrow at tho terrible Infirmity which had fallén upon him—for his had been voico musieal ayd entertalning, Beauregard ex- pressed all his wants by dumb signs, and seldom smiled, Tha best physicians were seat for, but lie refused to see them. Tho captlve King was ot length sct free and restored ":u his ])coglu: but his joy on his return 10 his capital was diminished by the sad misfor- tune which had befallen the Clievalier, who had Leen the mounrch's chief favorite, Franels sent his best doctors to the striken soldlor, who, out of respeet for his ruyal master, took the medi- cines preseribed, but with no effect, The King even went 50 far as to employ the charlatans and necromaneers, who ‘then, a8 now, professed to hold speclfics for ull sorts of diseases. The news spread abroad snd preat was the sorrow. ‘The Court and the people had he- come lopeless of his cure, when a falr Italian maiden, professing to be n fortune-teller, ap- pearcd befora the ing and informed him thut glic wonld uniertake to restore the chevaller to this epeech, The King would not cast away an opportunity. He summoned Beauregard to s preeence, and told him that o Bhynichm had comewho promised to curg him3 bui the chava- ler bowed low in silent dlseredit, The King nodded to the falr stranger, and asked her wha slie would do. 4 Beauregurd, my tried and cherished,” sho gald, turning to the chovalier, ¢ this must en- durn no longer, Speak to mo 1" The chevalier instantly recognized his beloved Aurclia, who had truly loved him, and whose heart had been deeply " touched by the proof of his constaney and devotfon, and he pronounced hier nawme In” rapturous toncs us he flew to take lier outstretehed hand. Tranels wvas senatbly affectd hy the romantic event, and he presented his restored favorite with a rich eatate at his marriage. ——— TITEN AND NOW. They hnd not met for yeara, Ouce, they had ITeaucd over the sclf-same garden gate, and sat slile by siidc an tho old-fashioned halr<clotl sofa, whispering those platitudes which young love makes of such breathless Interest, while the keroseno lamp was turned down o the falntest glimmer compatible with perfect propricty. Ho lind said that her fmage, and hera alone, could Il tha veld which absenco from her left In his heart; and when after unutternable’ ago- nlea of broken but impassioned English hio Lind sald that ho adored her, sho had gently reclined her head upon the home-starched shirt-boson thiat creaked above his manly breast, he having, with great presenco of mind, placed his hond- Ierchief thercon, In view of possiblo pomntum, And then he had taken the nssurance that she reciprocated his affection, from her own lips, and he remarks-with o snd smilo that her breath was faintly sugecative of fricd onfous eaten the previous duy; but fu those heavenly gold-piated moments he thought that tho odor of violets In spring was extialed from her roay Hps. 1o went away to work; thue' corresponded until, from two fetters o week, the correspond- ence dwlndled down to the exchange of a casual newspaper, and then silence. 8he finally marrled—so did ho, And now that they have met, before his heart had dong beating, ie saw that instead of the sweet girl with brown halr and a lithe, willowy grace, which somehow he had dreamed of en- countering, thera stood u stout lady with a falss front, who sald; “iell, Jomes, 1do declare! How old you've growed un' how gray dyou he." Aud he iad replied, “ Well, ITannaly, I never shonld have known you. How stout you are,® “@Good Heavens, Is that fat old woman the girt thut T thought [ once Joved?” he whispered to himself as he turned awny, while she mur- mured, half audibly, ““Lemmo see, wasn't Jim an’ 1 'ngagedi"'—Loston Commercial Duletin, - — THE TWO “DUCKEYS.” A Cleveland drummer (snys the Leader) was in Elyriu o few SBundays ugo, and while sltting in his room heard, from the next room, the mysterfous question and anawer; #Whose duckey rre youl" “I'sc yopr duckey!” A few moments passed, during which tho drummer sat in open-mouthed wonder, sud the silence was ngaln broken: 1Whose duckey are yuu!" 4 Tse your duckey ! Unable to stand it much longer alone tho Clevelunder hurrled down to the otlice, learned that a newly-married couplo were In the hous, invited three other drummers to hear the fun, and tiptocd back to his room. The wicked quurtet crammed thelr handkeechiefs In thelr mouths, and durimz the next quarter of an hour heard that fond ‘conundrum put and answered no Jess than four times by the uncon- scloun rustic and his hhlshhl[.s bride. At dinner, a8 lucdk would have it, the bride nné groom were scated botween two of the druminers, while the orlzinal discoverer of the bonunza sat opposite, The table had been cleared of tho substantiols and " orders for dessert had been glven, At that mnoment a &pirit of ischief took entiro possession of the Clevelunder. Leaning across thoable he, look- cd archly ot his ncarest friend, and {ndelect tones propounded the contindrum: 4 Whose duckey aro youi"” ‘The other chap wus ¢qual to the emergency, and in tones of uffected sweetness got fn s an- BwWer: *I's your duckey!" Twa scarlet rustlc faces, the flutter of a whito drers through the doorway, two vacant scats at the table, and four crazy drummers langhing il tho tears ran, flashed eross the yviston of the spectator us the curtaln fell MEASONS 'OR IIUGGING. A ciuple from the country camo tq the city yesterduy (says tho Providencs Journal), pro- cured alleenso, and were marrled in duo form, ‘They uttructed tho attentlon of every pussenger by their lavtsh display of affection. The young man kept s arm tight around the bride's wulst, 841f ho was afrald shie wonld vanish be. fore hie kuew ft, and ehe didn’t secm to vare it he hugged her plght along for half o day, Bhe was 80 terribly Domely thnt everybody won- dered how he” could love hier, mnd by and by seemed Lo think that an cxl'nlnnnlun would Ly fu urdur, dle horrowed o chiew o tobawg of o man near the door, und remarked : ST goling t g that gird all the way home, though Limaw wio 2w puity.”™ ST wouldu't," briefly replied the mun, “And that's whero you'd fool yourself,” con- tinged tho young mag, ¢ When T'm hugghg o hundred scres of clean, nice land, with forty ueres of stock on it T can make the homeljest girl in the world Lok like an angol to e . —— FORGOT BOMETHING. ‘Thers wus u luwsuit at Justice Potter's the othor day (says Ui Detroit Freo:Fvoss) which called fn a seare of peuple from tho country, -1t 4 erlzinated fraw Vg ¢alo of A horug, #0d tho do- fondant's wifo was ono of the witnesscs, or rathor made a statoment under oath, Sho tes- tifled thus and so, apd 1eft tho stand. Baveral other witneasca had been eworn, when all of n awdiden sho asked to be recalled, telling the Inw- yer that 8ho hiad negleeted an Important portlon of testimony. 8he took the stand, and lic sald: Y Well, Mra, you can tell tho jury any- th(n{zv!unlmr you have bearing on this cose,” #Welly what I wanted to say,' she hluntly re- plicd, I8 that the complalnant’s wifo has Lho reputation of wearing false tecth and doing lier Iialr np in papers to make it eurll I forgot to swoar to it when X was up hero beforet” piiscl. Shan FEMININE NOTES. Fifteon thousand dollara in gold will now buy an American lady a decent outfit to be married in, and there's no uso talking about prices going any lower. Lace Is what rufflcs the men nowadnys.—Fxr, You are wrong, Laco ruflles the women, os usual, It Is the paying for b that rufles tho men.—Norristoun Jerald. 1 like your Impudence,” sakl’ n pretty girl, when her sweetheart tried to kiss her. ¢ None o' your cheek, Tmth he, a8 be fought his way to the mouth of the crater. Amiddienged gentleman,deeply Interested in the Centenulal, asked n miss of sweet sixteen if sho knew what mporfant event 187 would bo noted for, and she responded, *Leap year? A Bt. Louts womnn anfn 1t I8 no worse to en~ circloa lndy’s walst with your urm In & ball- room than to_hug your friend's slstor on tho ha:-)l‘cl lamm. No ‘worse! \Why, 1t 18 not as Bo A would-be fashlonablo woman in the West, under sentenca for murider, has only one request to make. Bhe wants tho rhinde of her drees to mateh the repe. A *corded silk would be npe propriate. When a Callfornia woman defeated alion In o hand-to-hand cotubat, the nelghliors were great- ly nstonihed, but her hushand quietly re- marked, “Obh, that's nothing, That woman could Tick the devil.” Fond mamma ahout to get into her cnrflnFu toamall hoy Inthohiouse doar: ¥ Now, Freddie, are you not going to kiss mel'! Fchdlc: " linven't time to come down, mamma, (To foot- 1man) John, you kiss mamma for nfe,” Bomehody nsked a young lady the othor even- ingif sho didn’t think the serial lterature of tho country waa nt {ts best just now. 8ho said she did, decidedly; there wora the lovallest prt- torna in Harper's Lazar she had everacen, Mrs. Gitup, of Davenport, remarked to n null‘g’hbor tho other dny: “‘{ly husband {8 thy hardest man to reason with that ever lived. I had tosmash up my china tea-pot:and throw a milk-pitcher through the looking-glass before I cuuhll n;ngku him promisc to take nie to the Cen- tennlal, Tho second night after her fiest hinsband dfed ahe gat by the open chamberwindow flve hours walting for the cats to begin fighting in the back yard, “She snld: ““This thing of golng to sle, without o quarrel of somo kind is 8o new that Y can't stand it! Let mo alono till uwky beging then I cen doze off gently ! "'—New York World. In a horse-car, tho other day, an old lady seat- cd opposite n sharp-looklug gentleman kept her oyes on him o long time, and fluatly asked, “Mister, aro you n pickpocketi” “Why, no, madam; I'n & tradesman,” ho answered. “Is thatsol™ shesighed, * Well, 'm awfully disap- inted. I wantod to try and seo i€ I could re- [orin you.”” 4 Yee's advertised for n girl, mum, I sees in the paper,” gald a red-halred ?lrl to the lady of 4 liouse at which sho applied for n place in” the Kkitchen. * Yes,” returned the lady, “but you aro too late. 1 have alrend: engaged one," “0n, yo have,” rejoined the girl, “Well, mum, {t doesn’t matter, for I'm golng to the Centennial anyway,” 1s {t becoming to me?'” nsked she, ns sho arnded In the costume of a hundred years ago eforo the man who 18 not her lord and master; but {8 her husband. *Yes, my dear,” eald le meekly. “Don't you wish I could dress this way all the tine?" sho asked. “No, my denr,” Tio nngwered, “hut I wish you-had lived when that was tho style.” Miss Siniilt, docs n cormorant eat strawher- ries?” “Law mel no, chilil. What put that into your headi® “10yuse ma told 8arah not to bring out tho strawberrles and crenm untfl that old cormorant, Miss Smith, had left.” About ten mnates nhon\-nrfl, that child and bis mother went up fnto the attic and played ¢ peas bot aud peascold” for nearly an hour, A gentleman living not a thonsand miles from ugnn:lh Me., {4 In a very low condition, and will probsbly not ssrrive ‘many days, Iis affectionute wife, who has been on’ her annual Thouse-cleaniag rald, In tearfully speaking of the approaching dissolution of her dear husband, Lcmlnrl{ remarked to n friend: “Ohl how I shall miss Wm when I come maka soap this spring.” ©Ma!'docs pa kiss the cat?” # Why, not my son, what fn the nume of goodness put that fn your head?? * Cos, when pa came down stairs this morning ho kissed Barah In tho ballway and sald that's better than kissing thut old eat up atairs, nin't it, Sarah?” And’ that, Pcnplo wg’, i3 the reason why Smith stayed in the Charity Hospital for neatly two months.—New Orlearis Ziicayine, a A woman tn Washington Territory kept her mouth open long enoujth upon a certaln ocea- slon Inat month “to sawallow a enuke. Her hus- band betrayed n good deal of fecling In relatin tho Jittle circumstance to his neighbors, and concluded his narratiye with the remarle: “Thero alw’t nothin’ hard-learted *hout me, but hanged I T 8'posed I could feel enny sorrer for a snake." ** George,” sald o malden, as shio smiled arghly in her lover's fnce, “what h thero In o grond achiovement that reminds incof youl” George's ey 1it with pleasure, aod therd was o loving tenderness in the glance with which lie replied, “No, darling; please tell me." ¢ 1 cnl," replied the mialden. 8ho now flattens hier nose againat tho window-panc, and wonders whether Georgo as committed sufelde or gone to China. - Tarry (whose paps has just gono to the En- fillsh scheol for yeomanry offlcers nt Aldershot): AMamme, what will papa learn at this school {* Mamma: * He will bo taught how to'command o troop and a great many things you could not underatand; but there is onu thlog, Horry (Im- presalvely), which all soldlers must lenrn, und which I very much wish [ could teach you—to do exactly ns they aro told," Harry ‘(relective- 1y): “Pnpa won't mind that much; he atways lins to do'it at home"—Punch. The old gentleman rushed across the street ralsed his hot, and offcred to assist in any pos- siblo way. 1l wllnhrollnwod him across at a slow pace, and withessing his dovotfon to tha stranger, sho got wwt and shook her flst at him, %t all right—it's all right,” ho whis- pered. “Yes, 1 know it Is," sho lotly ex- tlalimed, **Hero an unknown woman stulis lier toc und you plow across the atrect to eat her up with kindueas, The other day when I fell down stalra you stood at the hottom und Inughed, and chuckled, and tickled your ribs, nnd wanted to now 16X was practicing for o circus."—Hoston ll;bube. s CASUALTIES, DROWNED, Bpecial Dispatch to The Tribune, Rocxronp, 1iL., Muy 13.--A very atrange cano of drowning camo to light In this clty yesterday, It appoars that two boyn, named respectively Luonnlo Poake and Eugenc Boice, and aged the former 10 and the latter § yeurs, went down to the race to fsh Jast Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. It ap. pears that Eugenc foll into the race and his com- poanion walked quictly away without saying a word toany one, Ilo went honie to dinner ut noon and bLils parcuts noticed nothing nousual tn his appear- ance, nor was {t until yesterday morning that ho revealed the socret, whon he was fnduced 8o telt o ttle boy. In the meantime Dolce's father and nother wero anxiously searching for thelr poor Jit- tleson, BSearch Las been made for the body, bot np ta the present tiue the emaina of the drowned boy havenot beenfound, Lennle Peake 1s looked upon as & remarkably qicor boy, to sve i coms pun!n‘{;dmwn and say nat a word about It until the MRV Y. it Prpatch f0 The Tribune, !lourmuua May 13.—~'Three childron, two named Carballle and the othor La Chappelly, whila play- ing in bont on Back River, neur this city, yostep- day, were carricd Into the raplds ln view of their yurcnts aud drowned, — FI,O0DS, Hpecial Disputch to The Tribune, Ot14wA, Moy 14, —Dlspatches from Hawkesburg, Tocklond, Pembruke, Arnprior, Westmontl, and other polnts on the Ottawn say the river Is rising Lut ore alowty, sndno further dumage I8 report- ed, A lurgy qynml!y of togs that excaped from the broken boons huve boen sccured in Deschouus Bay, und wlll men feel somewhat casier tu-day, TERRIBLE DEATII, ® Special Dispatch tv Tha Tribune, INniaNavoLte, . Muy 14,—Yesterduy nfternoon Eddy Frober, a'f-year-old boy, drank a bottlo of :‘gzwnumd Jyo und dled to-dsy in horelble KILLED, Bpectal Diyaich ko Iha Tridune, Dytrorr, Mich., May 13.—Danlel O, Heron and Yl wero atzuck by u traln avax, Kromo last aloht, and the an fnetantly killod. The man oscapcd with u'fi'inkm arm, "l‘hcyo vum‘ trampa h‘:vcm Dubuque, Bpecial ispatch ta The Tribim BLooMixaToN, fl Satarday by the kick of a calt. ' RAILROADS. EASTERN FREIGIITS. There are no now developments fn the #ar be- aro still quoted unusually law, hundred, 1t was rumored Satarday that Mr, War. to Hoston, will undoubtedly give orders at onco to make tho entes fo Now York atill lower. Ollo Nafirond ls also makiug contracts at 17% cenls to Baltimore. e 72 The Kallroad Gazetle has the following artlelo in regnrd to the provailing low rates: The Intest opposition to tha extromely low rates from tho Northwest to the Enst comed from Chl- cogo grain morchants, The Noard of Trado ap- pointed & Committee, which waa to do everything lmndp]u to recure low graln rates from Chlcigo W he East. Tho low rates havs come, but they aro uncomfortably low fo‘y Chicago trafile. The grain merchiant does not doslru 1o have all the graln of the Northwest go throngh Chicago, unlers it will stop for & thme at Chicago, hin busincss xln‘:cmllng upon tho tranefer of the grain at that point, Now rail rates are no low that thero ia no advantago n shipping by Take, and the wheat put into n car in Wisconain, Minncenta, Towa, Nebras- ku, or [llinols rolle teanqullly ¢arongh Chicago to the Eastern consumer ar exporter, withont giving the produce meechant or elovntor owner n chanco of o commisslon or profit, Worse than that, for the preeont, the low rates esnsed-auch heavy shipments that the marlet was ovoratockedl, prices wera forced down, and holders suffured consider- able losean, Doth of these wo belleve 1o be legiti- mate subjects of complaint, since the chango In” the method _of "whipp ng rlcos wera artificially and the fall caused by u rollc which in ita naturs must bo temporary, [ the ratey now recelved by the rallronils were justiied by n reduction in working expenecs, noono could complahy of the offect on hnsiners, however scrions it might boi and, doubticss, n grest deal of bnslness would bo quite dbstroyed by such ratess but na they have no snch calisg, anid must occnslon elther s permanent loss to the rall- road proprictars or the rerort to unduly high rates liereafior to make np for the preeent losses, ail whoss hurlness (4 unfavorably affectod by the ex- cessively Jow rtes have good right to complain, Such fluctuntions lenve no solid buels for business; and even I wo grant to rallroad proprictors un- linvted freedom to cut each others' throats, wo caunot extend the lcense 80 a8 tq Inelude all other Dbusiness men who nre compelled to mako grent nse of tho railroads, Bome way must bo found to put aucud to this barbarous prictlee. —— Ro R L & C, Bpecial Dispaich to The Tridune, Davesront, Ia., May 14.—Tho nowa of the decllon of Judge Drummond, of Chleago, n tho Tockford Rallroad case, was recelved hera yos- terday. 1t gave gencral eatlafaction. It Is now announced that the Road will immediately changs its nome to tho St. Louls, Rock Island & Chl- cngo Rallrond, and pass under control of tho now corparatlon, composed of 1L, Ostorberg, Charles 1L Deere, John M. Gould, W. C. Browster, E, D. Sweeny, George Skinner, and Walter Trum- but. Tho Company, on purchasing the Rond, will &t onco exccuto mortgages,—~in accordance withthe inatructionsof the Frankfort Committee, — giving o freah lien to tho Austtlan-German Bank of Frankfort for $200,000, horrowed (o complete the purchase af the proporty, and o sccond len to the purchasing bondholders to cover their 20 per cent asrcasment and the valne of thelr bonds a8 fixed by tho Court. Thin includes Miss Hooper, who holds bonds, and Capt. Robinson, who halds certificate far Londs, The new second morigage bonds will bo for 81,000,000, running for ten years, und bearing 7 por cent interest In gold. —— * MARQUETTE & DLACKINAW, Laxsing, Mich,, May 12.—As statod {n Tnn ‘TnIavNY: of the Oth Inat., the contract for the con. struction of the Marquetto & Mackinaw Rallrond was signed by W. 8. Wotmore, Prosident of the Marquetto & Saunto Sto Marle Rallroad Company, "Tha lund-grant Ja vory liboral, glving the'Company slxteen scctions of swamp-lands, in Marquette, Deita, und Chippewa Counties, to every mile of road. The land [n excuipted from taxatlon for wix- teen yeara from the thmo of fis solection, July 1, 1870, and can bo mortgaged, with other property af the road, In ndvance of constraction, under the mupervision of two Truatoes,—ona sclactod by the Btata anid the other by the Compm:‘y. Tatonts aro to bo fssned a8 woon” a4 10 ond 20 milo sectlons have been aceepted. . Tho road i to bo comploted Jan, 1, 1878, but with ono year'soxtenslon of timo if necensury. 1t [4 o bo first-class, —50-1b stocl or 50-5 tron fulls to the yard, with water-tanks ond tetegraph-line In good working order, and stations nt ouch end of the line. Mr. Wetmoro has started Eust to confer with same New York capltalleta, CENTRAL PACIFIC SUIT. AN Fuancisco, May 13,—Anthony Coslat, a Atockholder of tho Central Pacific Rallrond Com. pany, has flod a bI In cquity ogainet that Come pany, and Stanford, Huntington, Cracker & Co, to cnjoin them ualng the fande of the Gentral Pacific to pay Interest on 1,000,600 honds of the Californin. Pactic Company lssued by tho last named Company to Stanford and others, indorsod by tho Central Pacific, and to obtain o decreo that the indorsomont of o Central Pacific {s without authorlty and vold. The dotermination of the mo- tlon Is Important not only as affccting the bonda In question, but for its infinence upon the negotiation now pending for the settiement of the bonds of the Callfornia Pacific Company, en which interest haw hoen defaulted, Stanford & Co. having proposed to the holders of theea bonda to retire them by kub- stituting new bonds of thesamo Campany for a less amount, and Indorsed Ly tho Central Pucltic, —— 8 TITE I0WA POOL. A meoting of ropresentatives of the Chicago & Alton, Chlcago, Burlluglon & Qulncy, Chicago & Northwestern, and Chlcago, Roclk Island & Paclfic Rallronds waa held at the ofiico of the Chlcago & Alton Ttallroad Baturday aftornoon for the purposo of adjusting thelr quarterly accounts, 1t s under- stood that the meoting was snything but harmaoni- ous. Same difiiculty had arleen soing tine ago.ro- garding the equal "distribution of Lusiness, and somu of tha lincs wors accusod of acting uufalrly. Tlowever, mattera wer tomporarily arranged agafn, and no further trouble {a cxpected'nt prescnt, —— PERSONAL. Special Digpatch fo e Tribune, InpuwaroLts, Ind., May 14,—J. H, Ratter, Qaneral Prelght Agent of the New York Contral, Wiillam Bliss, General Managee of tho Boston & Albany Road, and other raflroad oMcers, passcd through the city on tholr way to 6t. Louia. = Thoy aro on o visit of inspoction and pleasure, CANADIAN ADVICE, Bpectul Dispatch to The Tribune, ‘Tonoxro, May 13.—The MallIn un editorlal on raflwaysurgesthat the Grand Trunkand Great West- crn tallwayw combine forces, in order to compel falr play from American ronds, e IOWA CENTERAL, Nrw Yonw, May 14.—The bondholders of the , Contral Rallroad of Towa voted yeatorday to ro- move the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company from the T'rusteoship of both morignges, T TIRES. LA SALLE, ILL, R A TaBalle (111,) Press, Muy 13, This woeck thio Press appesrs in abbrovisted form. The reason for the snme fa casily stated: On tho night of the 11th thero woe o firo, 1t ap- pears to hove originated In the west portlon of the bullding occupled by the Press, oud, als hough the alarm was promptly sounded, and tho Firo Departmont responded with coymmendable alacrity, It galued houdway so rapidly ns to ho checkod only nfter the entire Lollding, saving only the wails, wan destroyed. The Preas oflico, with all its materinl, fucluding fiies and Looks of uce count, was swupt ont of exfstonce, The I'resa had wlmost attalucd its majorlty, lacking only three weoks of tho yeors roquired to ontitle it to vote, and, in nl)lln of “this overwhohn- Ing dlunuter, it oxpeets to llvo for many n‘mndyuur to come, Tho Jocation of tho new oftice 1s not yet determined, Lut the materlal for its furnlahing will bu hicrp ns soon aw [t can bo prepared, hipped, and deliveted by tho fust freight line, "I'he Joss #nutained by the Fress ia notloss than £3,000, which Is covered Ly Insurauce to tho s amouut of §1,500. +A'T DARLINGTON, CmanLestoy, 8, U., Moy 14, ~Nearly tho whole business portion of the Town of Darlington, 8, C., was burned this horming. Aun entire block was (lee stroyed, including tho stores of Maunes, Iyams, Higging, Watson, Bteiubarger, Willlamson, Welel, Calmuw, Lowenfhal, und others, with Mrs, Gib- kon's finarexldenco. The loss I edtlmuted an up- wurda of §100,000—~partially insured, Y A'l' OMAITIA, NEB. OxA14, Nch., May 14.~A fireat avery esrly our this morning destroyed an unocenpled frame buflding which waos betng moved, The Baptist Church, nesr which Jt stood, bad u nsrrow cacape, AT PADUCAMN, KY. Camo, Ill., May 14—The round house of the Paducah & Blomphis Lallraad st Paducsl, Ky.,was hurnod this mornluy. Four locomotives were bad- Innnhlmd -uvummfim ol 1 : - Lit. dumuged, Losd. $206.000 to $:0.000, o, 1., May 34, —~Mra. Richl, a wells known German of ‘this eity, aged 72, was kijiod tween the Eastern trunk lines, and fralght rates About 20 conls per 100 pouniis on grain from Chicago to New York Is the prevailing rate, Lhongh [n samue few Instances contracts have heen mado aa low as 15 cents per rack, of the Mcrchants’ Dispatch, mndoa contract to Liverpool for a eargo of grain based on 18 centa It this proves to botrue, Vanderbiit Tho Daltimoro & Further Odditios of the King of Bavaria. IIis Winter-Garden in Munich and Island of Roses at Borg Castlo. How tho Parlsians Swindle the Amerloans ~Sknting-Rinks in- Paris, TIIE KING OF BAVARTA. A fow weekas ngo, wo gave, from *Les Pruse slens on Allemagne,” hy M. Victor Tlssot, an aceount of gome of tho vagarles of King Louls of Bavari. Tho Parls corrcspondent of the Baston Saturday-Evening Guzette translates from the enme book additional particulars of tho odditica of this queer monareh, as followa: The relgning King of Bavarly hos made tho terrnco of Snalbau his palace. The lodgings are in the most extravagnnt rococo style, and thero 1s n garden compared with which Bemiramis' were but vulgar kitchen-gardens. 1t i fu thls falry garden, whero all the flowers of tho troples sing a voluptuous symphony of perfume, that the King spepds his winter days,~dlays which are so dark and melancholy at Munich. When one entera this garden, ono scarcely belleves tho evidence of his own cyes, One s tempted to take the servant, who guides yout, snd who in doing so violates tho strictest orders, for an {nfant magician, for a sorcerer, for an enchanter, On,the right hand is o Jarge rock covered with moss, on which trafl, ltke cnormous gerpents bristling with dorts, cact!, and orchids, The back-ground rep- resents an Enst-Indfan landscape, with tall, slonder bamboos and broad-leaved banans; and in tho rear Is o caseade, which pours fts opal waters with sllvery, musieal tumult. When one getanear the rock, one diacovers nnder ivy- drapery N}c entrance of o cavern which leads to the waterfall. As one proceeds further into the cavern, Its sides widen, and, through the va- porous blua shades which fill it, preclous atoncs, dimtonds, and golden atolactites glitter liko drops of dew In thosun, Let us Teave tho cas- cade on our right, and move towards the left. Wo shall enter an avenuo of palm-troes, and reach @ Moorish Kiosk, whose bulbous cupols rises to the glass roof of the green-house. A blue sill curtain closes this kiosk, whore reigns n rc\l;fimm calm unbroken ug insome chapel, ‘The windows have the form of the trefoll lenf, through which n delleato lght flliters, and a cut- plass chandeller throws In the centro of this sanctuary its rninbows Innumerable. A nargblle, or Turkish pipe, adorned* with lang, pearl- ¢mbrofdered tubes, stands on a_laplelazull table, Onc thinks onc’s solf in o Sulian's sa. Toon. ‘This cdifice fs called “tbo Kioslk of De- lights," The King of Bavaria never crosses the threshold except dressed as a Turk of; the old school, wearlng an enormous turbun, aud with a golden crescent in the middle of lis back. He Wwinds up the nellA[l\_mlng plano, which {s con~ cealed behind-a curtaly, ~lights his Turksh pipe, stretehes himself at length on a sofe, and passcs away whole afternoons amid tobacco's nmber clouds and_tho melodies of lis ncchanical orchestra, There are many mysterlous and per- fumed paths,—bordercd wl‘lh seats covered with satin, and well-atufted, and evergreen arbors, at whose farther end is a'Venus, or s cronching Sphinx,~leadlug from the Moorish klosk to the onchanted banks of a little lake, swhich 1s biue and limpid ns » fregment of Orlent sky, and which secms to dream of it nativeland under the motlonless cupola of palm trees. It ro- quircs Dorc's pencil to deplet this marvelous ecenc. It 1s o splendid visfon, a corner of Parn- dlse. Monutains obedlont as those of Hol, Writ, docilo cliffs, framo this lake, in whicl thousands of gold and sllver flshes sport, on which beautiful Chineso ducks swim, and which *18 lighted by day ns well nsb‘y night by oternal moonbeams. Thers ts machinery by which the star-spangled sky may at \vfl]l be covered by black clouds, vivid ™ Ughtolog flash, honrso thunders peal, and the lnke becomes tossed by mfir{y b 08 Willlam Tell, then cuters o boat moored to a tree on the lmnl'(, casts off, and rows among the daring billows. He has had a plhotograph of himself and Joke taken during one of ‘these mimie storms. The photograph s really au in- teresting pleture, It is sald that the King one day asked the prima douna of the Munich opora to come aud sing tho hallad of the King of Thule in o boat on this Inke. When ghe roached the sccond stanza the King - vapg the clectric bell, which was the siznal to Lis machinist to ralse o storm on tha lske. Instantly the Hghtning flaghed, the thuncer pealed, the woves ran high, tho boat {n which the prima donna stood rocke violently and threatonud to upset. Shegereamed in terror, and the King ro) over aud over on his gofn, laughing s if he would split hiy eldes. At one end of the lake is an Indinn wig- wam it contuins buflalo-akins, moceastns, bows, arrows, tomnhuwks, spears, and flshing fmple- monts. A grove of exotle trecs, fllled with par- rots taungm. to pronounce the King’s name, scp- arntea tho lake from u chaln of mountaing made of comont, and made tho exnct counterfeit of the lllmnfnyu. Tho decoration of the fore- round represcnts o tropieal lake, with fslands h};l-f!g with glzantle vogotation and extraordinary , Berg Caatle, which fa situnted on the hanks of thio bautiful Starnborg Lake, near Munich, I3 not less fantastically arranged than the terrace of tho Sualbau “der Resldonz at Munich. Borg Cmstle 18 the King's favorite _retreat.” Mo lives there nlie montls of the year. If ho has his wintergar- den in Munich, hohas s {sland of roscs at Burg Castle. Iis island of roses, too, 15 a scene frout the East, from the caliphate of a,poot like the Culiph of Bagdad; only it contains no. Scheher- ozade. Tho story of a nightingale that was en- amored of a roso must have taken placo fn this enchanted island, placed like an immenso nose- fll‘y urder the Royal windows, The isiand con- ns u\'u? apecles of roso; the eycs aro per- petually dolighted aml all tho souscs uro Intoxi- cated {F the atinosphiere of odors and colors. Formerly, there wus a fisherman's hut on this Ilhllll; it been ro- moaved, and, in ts stead, a Biwiss cotinze bulit. ' Tho King has placed o plano 4n this_ cot- tago, aud during suwincer nighta the boats which “glfdo over the hike ean hear the King playlne fragments of ** Lohongrin and “Fannlausor.’ The Bavarfan people hive given Berg Castle the name of *tho Mugle Castle,” Idid not tryto enter {t, for the excdllent renson that my efforts would Tiave been useless. The dragons which fiuurfle«l the Tlesperides kept less jealous watch «than tho sontinels who kept -ward -over all the avenues lending to this castle. It s sald to bo eranuned with stage - ¢hinery and scenery. It contalns, amonj other ° things, .o Muorlah kiosk, in which the King frequontly spends the night surround- wd by alabaster lomps and smoking Incense- burnors. Berg Castle fa .ulways sllent us o tomb. It nevor recleves.a visitor, Thers fs not, gvon at tho hour of menls, the jnyous ciat- ter of dlshies which indicatea tha naster’s pres- enco, The King dincs alone. o is as temper- ate s an anchorite. 113 has o horror of ma- terful existonco, Ho commonly rides on Torse- bacle around the Take befors_dinuer. He is fol- lowed anly by an outrider, Tlo sometimes stopa ut tho first house of Amerland Villuge; it {8 o lmor cobbler's house. 1le driuks a gluss of wa- or, glves tho cobbler o florin, aud rides off. Puople who enter the ruada reserved to tho Kigz oro tloed, R TARISIAN 8WINDLING. A Parislettor tothe Philadelphia Telapraph soys: It ts an untortunate fact—unfortunnts for tho traveling public at lnrge, I mean—that Amert- cans are usually so ready.to submit to the swindles aud extortious of Parfatan hotel-keeps ers, Of course Jt {s not pleasunt, when tho trunks are pucked and tho earriago fs ot the door, to ‘b called upon to miss u train In order to set right somo comparatively teiling over- chargeIn the just-renderod bill, and sothoamount 1s pald,and thohotel-keeporrojolees inhissuccesss ful roguery. Occaslonully sy fellow-country- men rebel, s in ono Instance that cams tomy knowledge, whero a lady, having spilled a litlo fnkon tho carpet of Ler bed-room, found the price of a new carpot added to her il Invaln did sho call attention to tho fact that tho spot wos but » amnll one, and that the carpet was but a sofsersble, worn, threadbare concern, that could Jast but a short u::; l:lwked n! be&c. Her hoat 'w insulting, aud 1 a 4 pallep, ul.cqq::d 80 umng' guvein aud consent.” cd to pay. * Dut the day she Joft the lotal sho cturning fo ho iflr{)&‘ romn b b oud, % Youshall not maica fwo carpeta out of e, was her commont o tho exasperated hotel-kéoper. On wnother oo caslon, a1 Amorlcan gentleman was unmi‘wlled ta pay fgr u lorge Tooking-glass which had o wnull” erncle in- ono cornor, the crack having exiatod whenhe ougaged tho room, bub be, unlused to tho wilcs wnd wicke of furclgn o without 8 ward, by by ¢ puld his bil lowa. The Kingof Buvarin, costumed | shattered the mirror iuto minuts fra fors ol (e iz, o fragments be. io worat forin of swindle, howover, whiclt 8 procticed wpon »crn::'nn who tnk'«f t(’.'l“ nished apnrtments {n Parfe. Many French pog. plnl and especlally French women, make a m;:' fortable living by hiring apartments on Tong leases, furnishing them, atd then renting thon; out to forelgners, “Tho price 1a n!wnyunm! cently high, “belng generally twica the rent o) an unfurnished npartment of “the sano sfzg and atyle. One would think that such charges woulq covor any ordinary wear and tear of the furnl. ture, but sucl® uot the idea of your py, risiau proprictaire. On tho contrary, wiey, cver the tenant 18 about to depart, a Turnityr, experty nrmed with an_inventory, takes pv\m,', slon of the premises. Every scratch, brulse, o erack, every missing nadl, or apavined ey back, Is set \lown in tho bill at n‘prluo varyin) froin one franc to six. Every PM of ehing that I nicked or defaced, no matter how elfgly 1{. must be pald for at its full retail valye, At tho farniture {a never perfectiy uow, and as thy unwary tennnt acldom or neser thinks of liayjy, an_inventory of the cracks, holea, Berateleq *and #pots, ‘tnken when lio or sho moves | tho sama dofeets are generally pald for Aomy five or six times over at the very least, Then the expert alwnya reccives 20 per cont an ghe eharges, 8o It {3 for his_interest to runup gy largea l.m 08 poseible, The sumsa thus extory, vau? from 8600 to §50, according to the clegancy of ihe furniture and the lengthof timo thyy the apartment. has been oceupled, Tknow of ong instauce whero the tenant, by the terms of iy lease, was obliged to put all thy n L'utunsllu lng -xmrnsc';: order lfi;fl: leaving, He.did end when lie camg A, to scttle, nybill' of 810 for damages to Kltchen wad pendared, % Whor o the .28 N}us 1 he asked the cxgcn,ln high indignation, ‘That individual sought Jgh and Tow fn the pere Tectly-organtzed room for n singlo Injurcd artt. ¢le, " Flunlly, in a corner he espled o small iy, ley‘nr. somowhat bent and worn with nge, “There,” he criod, triumphantly, holding it up ,to the \lght. ! Very pood,” mada anaver tlig Amerfean, coolly; "L padd_ 10 centa fo that thing when'I first came here, and I wiij replacs ity if you Mice, at the samo price" Ouo Indy, on “hiring a furnlshed spartment, Tound in"one corner of hor saloon a snall tahly covered with red cloth, so dirty and worn that sl sent it up to a lumber-room to get 1t out of the way, When ho loft she was foroed to pa &0 for ¥ sulling the table.” As the wisest of thy Amerlean correspondents abrond once remarked tome: *You inny hire nn unfurnished npart. ment, furnish it, and live int for two yearss at the cod of that ‘lmn, il you take your furniturg down to tho court-yard, break it 1ip nnd burn j you will havo speiit less than by Uving in fur nished spartments. ——— SKATING-RINKS IN PARIS. Lucy Hooper .wrltes from Paris: Tho ot tractions ofgthat time-honored place of reso the Mabille, have-been fncreesed by the institn. tion of a skating-rink in its midst¢ In fact, this slmt!nbrink manla Is belng run Into the ground, No less than soven are alrendy started or in course of prepuration, Including the superb Bkating Palacc on the sitc of the old Hippo- drome, on the Avenuo do PImperatrice, There is talk of turning the Awmcrican Circus into o rink %s soon as the ap. proach of warm weather shall gond the horscs, and clephants, and lions off upon their travels through the provinces. Then one ls projocteil in the Salle Valentino, and another on the Rue Blanclie, and still another on the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore, 8o that it some. body does not como to gricf and to ruin among the proprictors of theso different estab. lishments it will bo rather strange. Theso rinks ore none of them reputable places for re- spectable ladies to visit of pan evenin, Like every publle amusement in Do they bave been taken possession of by the deml- monde, the members of which flock .thither to . display thelr costly toflettes and stylish fgures inan attempt ot” skating. * These Indles practice n very slinple manmuvre to get nc- uainted with any gontleman who may strike their fancy, The dameel will contrive in the midst of Yier skating to become suddenly awk- ward and to fall “against the gentlemon in question. Then comes excuses, sinlles, mutual regrets—the ncquaintance i8 begun. The morning hours at the "rinks arc more usually tokon by ladies of and socfety, who bring thelr” daughters thither to pmo tisa skating., Clubs have also been formed for the bettér” pursuit of this fashionable smuso ment by the members of Tardsian soclety, but 1 think that the approach of warin weathor will th 1 stop to the present _mania for * Seatting ings,” na onc of the Fronch advertiscments terms them, The cxerclso fs too heating a onc to bo pursued with any comfort une der o June afmosphere, besides which, all tho pretty fur-trimmed costumes and jaunty fur-bordered caps and boots will | hava to ho lald_amside. Apd apropos of cus- tumes, the English tourlsts ~aro beginnin to flock to Taris, and, as usual, the wondorful tollottes of the ladies atteact unlversal attontion on the Boulevards or the Ruo dela Palx. The sweet complacency with which thoy will mtx uy fur and muslin, thread laco and worsted stufl artificlal fiowers nnd black mmi in one tollette, 13 marvelous to see. Imotn on tho Boulee vards the other day, arrayed in a lilac lawn over- dress over a black velve: gult(cmn., o seal-skin Jacket, and n white straw bounet trimmed with pink rosebuds, " OROPS. DIWIGT, TLYL. 8pecial Dispatch to The Tridund, 7 DwianT, 11k, May 14,—8low progress has been mado with plowing during tho past week. We did not got Anto tho ficlds untll Thursday morn. Ing, nnd thqn found it Impossiblo to plow cxcept on high ground. * Tho iweathor has kopt very cold and backward, About half of tho lond fs realy’ toplant. At this time last ycar nearly all the corn was planted. Wo shall have to sk fot another fssue of more grecubacka this fall to maka money. [llulll{, 08 tho present prospects indicato that corn will bo.scarce, Tho farniom are work- ing s hard lu‘fu\t tho corn in o5 Doveridgo is ta Lo renominated Governor. —— ¢ LA CROBSI, WIS. #fipecial Disputch o The Triduna. TLa ‘Crossz, Wis.,, Moy I4.—Tho weathes the .past three woeks has baon good for farming pure poses, Socding throughout Bouthorn Minnesotannd Northwestern Wisconsin Is now complote. Roporis from Southern Minncsota indleate a larger acreago sown'to amall grains—nrincipally wheat—than last yoar, Tho general ontlook ls vory promising. The farmers, stimulated by the recent rise lo prices, aro .making fall dellverics of wheat, and tha fore ward movement tho past fow days has been tne sl e o5 i AL af s ot A 0 of 1 {finatarred ot tlia poist siuco Woduseday, The weather (s vory warm, i e ————— . TELEGRAPHIC . NOTES, Special Dispatch o The Tridune, Sramariciy, 11, Moy 14, —Wilism I, Tillsoa of Quincy, hai flod a voluatary petition in bank- ruptey; liablitics, $10,000. Creditors have -filed & potltion In bankmptey against Bmanuel Myers and Nathan I, Thorno, of Bpriugheld, clothlers, -dolng busincss us Myers & Thorua; Jiabilities about 89,000, Licenso was issuod_by tho Beerotary of State Raturday to the Lake Bafhing House Aasociation, of Chicago, capital $25,000, und to tho Lindea mpst?wl:umpnny. Linden, Whitesido County, capl- 2000, Special Dispateh (o Tha Tribune. llmnumta»-r‘au, 1ll., May 14.—Justico David Davin has agveed that ho will preside at the Fourth of July celobration here. Tho Tion. Leouard Swetb G o el to Tha Tribuns al 2 . . May' 14, —Bamuel Hard, Prestdent of tho Donver (Col.) Board of Education, Jdudge David Davis, ond tho Tlon A, E. Stevenson, n‘lmub«r from the Thirteonth District, ure (n b0 clty, ——— A ‘Navel Underiaking, New York Rullelin, About o _yesr ngo, the llon, T, Bolt, of Prince (eorge's Cmmt{. Maryland ( mnunll{ decte cd State Benator), started o rm}cct to comploto tho Washington Monument oa lila-own responsibility, For the Information of thore who have lostsight o him for some years, It may be stated that this gen- tleman hus goua {nto fruiterajsing, and hes the lurgost fralt-farin fn the country,—0,000 trecs smong which aro the enoruiouv bumbr of 000 cherry-trees and 1, quincu-trous, the remaindee g mostly peaches. -Ho has.alsoa largs vince {l . Mr. Sult .not -long since proposed to the Wasiington Munument Assoclation to rafss $100, 000 to complete the monnment at Wushiugtot, which for twenty years has been a standing dise gruco Lo tho nation.” On the dth of this month, uller was nccopted, He camo to this city e ordered 100 tin boxes, silver-plated, and la try| lfl{ 10 umplo{lunnu-flvo \adies to stast for mbde{ I{. tlons with seventy-five of thosa boxvs. Hia I L:I . <40 gut these ladiei to act in Philadelphin durlng‘ o Centuunlal, * Lo proposen that the city aud Ceu- sountal uiaings Midl Daatrcted so that tno tols, housus, dwolllp) o phl:m‘ ert Lg-housus, df E'ébm wilh the renacet ou rn'b;r'-f {B:’:" ‘L‘l{“.‘mmn "therelu put in one eon : sy they Ike, tho pro- Chots 13 ba eakom fromm b boxes aaol day bY ile s o e Mesngs St ok alono s ity 14 zathor o curious ddca, bus Ar. Bult Lt 80 it 1t ha eays fio haslready cxpoly fi“z’%‘.’;‘d&‘i.‘,‘hm eduet without baving wllgfwgd: cnt or psked for monoy. M, Bait saysho e to coplota tha pionuwent bu Sie woy bo bas liE cnlu;‘{;: iukmx (nl:r &unemlmi. u:‘la‘.lfi; l‘!‘ix" P: o af thd lntlig i 0 RIOLA b ~vonohory,-and hleayhgle il #6488 be WIALIS, Up 1A 149 projach, i -