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‘I‘HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: BATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1876—-TWELVE PAGES. of the oxterior worl terlona ehamber. 1t wan natura) {hal TITERATURE. tanley’s History of the ewish Church. Ith the ramo high-hred conr. that marked all his dealings, like that which ngulahed evon the Plato nnd 11 Inter Ay, hn pave onlers to from Lhe confmlnation which he knew that hitw nresence thero et have oceanloned, and invested with thie Pontificale the unfortnnate ilyrcanus. ‘Ihe lnat staze In tho history of tho Jewlsh which lus been left by Dr. Stanley for lon In thy fourth and flual volume of his work, exceeds ol that liave preceded it In grandeur and slzniticance, author to fuclude within its scope a portrasal of the historieal appearance of the Founder nnd the lirst teachiers of Christianity, In the light of their connection with the long serles of ets and heroes of Isracl, this task wa may expect the cllmax of o work which embodea thy ripened tha most uble and eminent of Church of Epgland, apire of Brazil---Color in t...New-York City. Catalogue of the “Cen- Romanism-s- istology. e min Banuekor, Mathematician and As- It is thio plan of the 1u the fulfillnient of the Negro owera of one of he divines fo the THE EMPIRE OF BRAZIL AT THE UNIVERSAL 111 U IN PHILADELPHIA, #yo,, pp, 451, Ttio ile danciro: I Lithographia Do Tinperial Instituti Artistico, The Empire of Brazil supplements its contris Uutions to the Centennial Exposition with an oflcial compitation of the Jatest statistles ex. hibiting the progress of the vountry in the arts The work embraces in {ts table of coutenta a deseription ol the physical surface of tho country, of Its animal, vegetable, and mineral vroducts, returns of the census, a sketch of its form of gavernment, of its public worlis, civil, cducational, literary, scientific, art, and chinrltable Institutions, and of the extent of its commereo and industrics. In short, it pre- sents o compact history of the present state of the Emplre, The exhlbit refleets great credit upon the activity and ambition of the natlon, andd s bright with promnise tor the future of the o Empiro of Brazil s of vast extent, cov- ering one-fifteenth of the terrestrial surface of the globe, one-fifth of the New World, and more than three-seventlis ol the Continent of South t hasa total papulatlon estimated in_ronnd numbers at 12, 000,000 wild aborigines, and 1,476,5 slaves, DBy the Inw of 1871, which nssurcs the eradual extinction of slavery, the eldldren of slave mothers born alier that date withlu the Emplre are free. Brazil fa most n Ancient Times == The Birds' Eggse== Potato-Beotle Paras LITERATURE. of civilization. WIS CITURCIT, STORY OF TUE TRW- T PENIIYN STANLEY, \Wokiminstor, Correspondin » Institute of an‘z:mt:fn L CAPTIVITY TO T) R o bp: 6iD. New . Fro B fiirong & Co. auley cccuples this third volume of of the Jewlsh Clhurch with the luet- +ing n the interval from tho exile ws In Babylonia to the riso of It was his orlginal Intention to mits the last epoch, in- fose of the Jewish Commonwealth datlon of a new and higher system but after-considerations induced momentous perlod for treat- il to rescrse this rent in n separate volume. The portion of tho subject here discussed ivlded by o logical arrangement into four The Babyloninn Captivity, B, C. The Persfan Dominfon, B. C. 538-333; The Grecn Perlod, B. C. 408-363; and The man Period, B. C. 160 to A, D.70. Under on Is brought o description of the 5 of Babylon, of the condition of the cs durlog their captivity, and the Influence of their sojourn among the Chinldenns helr religton and natfonal Jife, and of the {inal overthrow of the Empire of Babylon dur- ing the reln of Balthazzar., d period includes an account of the return of the Israclites to thelr ancient home, now restricted to a small strip of country sur- roundiog Jerusalem. 'This was the inherltance of the trives of Judah and Benjamin, to which mostof the exites Lelonged, and thenceforth the name of Judah was prominent in tho na- tonat titles. *As the primitive namo of *ile- brew! had given way to tha historfcal namo of Jsrac), suthatof Israel now gave way to the nameo o Judaan or Jew, 50 full of praise and pride, of uprosch and scorn.” In this sccond perfod Is wito cmbraced a reviewof the lives snd works of Eurs. Nebemlah, and Malacli, the last of the t vlch in natnral resources, o abundant miolsture, and a wide nate, insuring an hnmense variety and” luxuriance of vegetation, and mines of large extent, vlelding dismonds, cmeralds, frcs, rubics, and other preelous_stones; silver, copper, lead, fron, and a long list ) metals; and coal, sulplir, peter, rock-snlt, and other minerals, Thecountry has_an extended coast-line, on which are situ- ated forty-two scaports, and it Is intersccted with a nétwork of lrge rivers. Nature has heen lavish In its favors to this hi and it only reinains for its prove the facilitics offorded them in order to elevate tho Empire into oncof the inost wealthy and Intluential countries of tho carth. The relgning monarch, Doin Pedro II. ing what lbcral sovereign and an enligl man may for the development of his_realm and the advancement of his subjects, tions which characterize an enereetic and aspir- carefully fostered, and an 0 to guide the nation In the path of moderh progress Is manifest in the ad- ministration of the State, In 1875 the Imperial nuy one men-of-war, carrying aggregating 4,13 the standing army was fived at 30,000 peace-footing and 60,000 on the war-footing, In April, 1874, there were netuatly under arms 28,- At the end of 1873 the Es sessed railways of a total length of 714 English miles; and at the end of Jue, 1574, un agure- gato length of 397 miles was i provess of col struction. There were, ot the close cf 1874, 8,875 miles or telegraph-lines, with seventy-four The total value of fmnorts_fnto Brazil during the five years ending with 18573 averaged about $01,000,000, Including bullion and specl and the exports fu the same perfod, also nclud- {ng bulllon and specle, were about §110,000,000, hly-endowed land, nlinbitants to fin- ing peuple are beln lionorable alsposit! consisted of sixty- 0 guns, and crews In 1800 the etrength of The third period opens with a sketeh of Soc- nates, of his pubtle life, his teaching, and his The singularity of this {n- eat heathen philosopher into Gwish Churely s explained by Dr.Stanley's Interesting cxposition ot the fnflu- cnce which the teaching of Socrates exerted over the whole subsequent history of European spec- 0, andwhich * bore on'the future prosy cwlch Chureh aa clearly a8 the te ol lastali or of Ezrn." Tho author’s vencratlon of the spirit and docs trlnes of Socrates finds cloquent and extended cxpression. The comparisons, he declares, whichhave often been drawn botween the Galllean Tescner and e Athencnn Sage m: 1iizes exagrerated, ments of the character of Socrates dnrk shad- nnworthy associations, whlch tender any such paraliel, if pressed tao far, espoinful ond ns untrue as the hike Lave rometimes heen fonnd in Jacol or, yet more rawhly, in Jephitinh or Samson, Stf il'viewed aright, “thero are few more remarks of the reallty of the Qos- pel hlstory than the Nght which, by way of contrant of likenese, 18 thrown upon it b ertesample of Greek antiguity. toubserve that there, almoast nlone, outsile of tho found the career which, at owever remoto @ dislance, suggents, whether to friends or enenles, n_#olid Nlustration of the Ono Life which is the turning-point of tha religion of the whole world. We da not forget tho marvelons Darity of tha lite of Buddha, nor tho singulur like. niestand contrats between the riso of Islam and religlous character, troduction of the COLOR IN ART. Y OF COLOR 1IN ITS RELATION ND ART-INDUSTRY. I Professar of Physles at the Toyai Palytechme Schoul at Munich, ete. Iated from tho German by 5. R _KoEuixm, an Introduetion and Notes 1 »nixa, Tuayer Professor of | sachuretts Inatitute of Technolagy. Ameriean Edition. THE TIEOR TO ART Al 1Ly Vox Bezo owe, grotesque inclde Enwanp ¢, PIck- yafcs at the Mas- Ioyised und Enlarzed by the Illustrated by Chromo-Lithographlc Plates and Woodents. ton: L. Prang & Co. Bince the days of Durer, Da and Michael Angelo, ft has been nnderstool that a severce trafning in anatomyand perspective was neeeseary totho pafuter; but thore has been no such convietlon with regard to the fmpor- tance of o knowledge of tho sclence of color, The art of employing color has heen commonly supnoseil to be n gift, an insplration, and not an acquirement. And yet the effects of the great masters in this dlrection were not produced without prolonged study and experience, and the development of some theory which guvern- This theory, In cacht ndi- vidual case, died with the orkginator, or, at most, was imparted to o few puplls, and, after n, was Jost £0 the world. {hepresent age, when art and ort-fidustrles are recelving o more general attention than ever before in the modern ern, it Is fmportant thnt the scteatlfic principles whichunderle the effects formulated that the paintlne may poseess himself of oes of those on whicli anatomy and us, fu the begine he advantuge of u Ue Hlustrations N Vinel, Raphael, Jewieh race, I8 to bo fail.and whero the story nrwt‘socmcn» 1s full of pug- When wo contemplato (he confented poverty, the sell-devotion, the constant publicity, the misccllancons followers of Socrates, we foel that we can understand better than Biefors the ont- wazd aspect at lenet of that Sacred Presonce which moved un the busy shores of the Sea of Gallleo sod In tie streets and courts of Jerunalem, woreadof the dogged obstinacy of the conrt by ‘Which he was judzed; the relj Judicen Jayoked agasnst h is friend when ail was finlehed’s eod ol the wirest, and Jue wen that [ have ever knows footler Parting Inevitably When we read tho Jast convel e Athenian dungeon, !l:lens‘vbly Tlee to tho Per chamber ot Jerunealem, with Ent there i a llken ed their practice. 100A of auporatitfous the expression of *45uch wns tho t, aud best of all the “-another Telal and teh o tho mcinory. raation of tho prisouer onr thoughts ' alnost farowall diecourses In th perspeetive are based, and th ning of his carcer, have 1 rightly-educated artlatic fecling. vide this so-much-needed systom for the Lreat- ment and applieation of volor, so far as It can be iven a sclentifle expreasfon, that D Von Bezold has prepared thie preseiit work. It is not tho first attempt to proditce n Several German sl vestigated the subject on the hysloluilenl as well as the esthetie sides, but r, Von Bezold has had the advantage of unit- ing the results ot thely fuqulrics with his own Independent researclics. He has almed to present hls anaterials fnoa populag form, adapted to the comprehenalon of every person of Intelligence,—at the saine time treating them with great thovow, first four chapters of the work dea sies and physiolozy of the subje is devoreit to the arthstic ad art-iis- torleal aspect of the theory of culor. s toxt Is gccompanied” with notes hy Pickering,. and with coplous plaln and col I3 o diftcroncos iru mmense. c#3 of moral atmosphore, shesiermalincident, that caunot foil to strike tho To Socrates Dr, St of having been e Dith I the lmmor anloy glves the distinetion tirst “ta cuunclate clearly o tality of the human soul, i s0wn the” seeds of this faith in e deep sult ol tha Hebrew belie trong voot ns never afterward to bis *#No doubt,' he says, ‘“the Ie- Ists and Propliets contalned aspira- bright heeeafter, the under-world In the dislogus of Socrate conviction of w future cxist may be thought of the arguments— npreselve carnestucss which has left crmanent mark on the world, and of ¢ Jowlish mbw, hitherto so dark and thls momentous taple, wos destined become the ready rocipient sud ireclan period Dr. Stanley ke~ he place of Alexander the Gireat tory, of the foundation of the Vot ol Irly, of the Jewish colonies fn A Db of Lhe Septuaging, of varlous books of Pha, and of the endenvor of Aristo- ‘llosoplicr to Iiebratze the Greelan © oud to Idcalize the ebrew Se lusing with the history tlod 1a followed by that of tho lon over Palestine. vinfiey the Great, Dr, UCTOr us 3 man of nol) inauners, ak oneo practical theory entlsts hove In- and | wlso dim of thu grave, A in the prison, ence {5 urgred— NEW~YOIIK CT HISTORY OF THE CITY OF N Mrw, Mantna J. Lasn, Chicago: A. 8, Barues & Co, T'his work, on which the author hus heen en- goged for more than ten years, Is now passing through the press,—four parts being, at the enrrent date, ready for distribution, with an outline sketeh of the conditlon of Fu- rope at the closo of the fifteenth nnd the open- ing of tho sixtecuth centufes, and takes lu an account of the varlous navigators who, sall- ing to the west fn search of the supposed open gate to Indla, ran upon the Continent of Amerlen, 1ylog In thelr path, Thence it passes to a description of tho two commerclal cor, tibna known 2s the Datch Easd Indin and West Indln Companles, und of the circumstinces by which the tirst unwittingly discovered Munhat- tan Island, in 1601, Following after fn natural sequence 18 the story of the settiement of the ed by the Duteh through This enterprive was up- en by the West Indla Compuny, which {u [ Protestant Walloona to ew Netherlund, s thelr Amerfean province was callel. In 1092 Mane hattan Island was purchased from the Indiang, priseid i it aren hein ty of trinkcts worti i New York antl of Judas Mac- ptitro of Jernsalem tantey deplets this noble quallties and win- “the greatest and most P 0 Western World,” pier, telling the relgn of Herod, s filled phic' pictures o ul wife Marlanna aud Aristobuins, of Salome the the King, of Hillel the the ccremonies of of thorltes of the Essenes; yet pressive than that represcnt- the kacred preeinets of the ompey, whoso sol- ihe outer courts thelr sacerdotal duties, 1 of Plack saclkcluth. ‘The sct need as un unpardonablo out- ‘.mrlcy regards {6 lenfently, In AWn on by tho same olwiays mingled with hia love of 1 tuspired M with e wn oyes tha whores of telant’ seas, the Atlanlc, tho Caspian, which Lucon has In part place val in uscribing ta him tar hls dtacovery of the sources of 1o tho ‘Bave (sv to speak) rloets might ens ablo, the sscred A lf(‘flh-’l’fll had restored. new territory 1624 gent out a part; found a culony In changed for a quant| ‘The history of the settleme: down, in the portion of the wi sued, to the year 13, when the City of Amaterdam, on _the point of Manhattan fxland, included upward of 1,000 juhabitants and 120 ‘Tho author has been assiduous in the collec- | tlon of materlal for her work, and muny fresh articulars woven fnto the narrative wifl bo of pterest to the student of carly Amerlean Lls- Ty Ilm? Cleero at’ tha tine, and Jo- entury, alike commonded it o3 erliunian virtuo, he touched arrived Ml the vast curtain o! Lrieat conld enley a0 bo, that very THE ¢ CENTENNTAL." EXIIBITION 1870t Complete {n One Vol- 11 —DEpaRTUENT ar Maclixert. uLTURE AND Hontse I.—Maix BuiLpixe, 1 ~Derarues: V. —DEFARTXENTA 0P Ad levised Edition. Published for the Centennlal ‘ompany by Juhn B, N To look over thls ¢ 8 Voilaside. " N 9rprlaveceasioned by this ong §llmpae hlozue s the next thing to vislting the “*Centunnial® fteelf. 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Chicago Medical Jourpal and Eraminer for Oce tuber (W, B, Keen, Couke & Co,, Chieago), FAMILIAR TALK, DENJAMIN BANNEKER. In Jolmson's Cyclopedia wo find in tne lat of Ti's the nume of ane Banncker (Benjaniin), fol- Towed by the brief biographical note, ¥ A negro mathematiclan, born fn Marylund, Nov. 9, 1731, 1o wns the guthor of an nlnunoe (1702 sqq.), of which a copy was sent by Thomas Jefferson tu the Beeretary of the Academy of Sciences at Parls, Banneker nasisted lulaying out Washing- ton Clty and running the boundary-lnes of the District of Columbia, Died at Baitimore in October, 1804." This information Is scanty, yet It suffices to whet the appetite for more. Who was this colored man, born i the American Colonics above n century ago, of an enslaved race, under the disabilitics of low birth, talnted blood, serv- itude, and privation, who yet could compile an ahoanar, and engage by his enterprising achlevements the attention of one of the mnag- nates of Virginia and of the Eccretary of the exclusive Academy of Bclences at Pais? To most pereona his very namo [s unknown, and one may search long outside of the Cyclope- dius without gaining any further particulars of lals carecr. Inthe dtlantle Monthly for January, 1863, Moncure Conway told tho full atory of the negro mathematiclan's (e and so interesting is the account that wo makean abridged version for tho benets of our readers, Beujumin Ban- neker was of pure African descents Liis father, 1ers happy than thoge who are Lorn {n alavery, had known in s carly Nfe the sweete of freee dlom, but was made the vlethn of the kidnipper, rnd horne away from his native land to endure the misery of houdage to sn Amerfcan slaves holder. ‘The parents of Lils inother had suffercd the same lard fate; therefore the blood In Ban- neker's veins had not Leen ennobled by mixture with that of a superfor race. ‘The genlus with which he was endowed would seem to have heen inlicrited from the maternal alde, 08 uo altuslonis made in his history to any unconimon gifts distingulshing the clder Dan- neker. But the mother was possessed of ex- traogainary encrey of mind and activity of body. At thengge of 50, 1t is rclated, she was so swilt of foot, and so given to physical exploits, that shie was accustomed to run down the ehicke cns ahe deslred to capture. Her husband was o slave wlien she married hiny, hut, she snon acea- sotlated means Ly hier labor to purchose his freedon. 'The mother of Banncker was nnt the on)y re- morkable wember of ler faplly, Shehada nephiew, named Morton, who was renowned througlt all the” country abont him for his ex- trnordinary eloguence, Vrlor to 1503 the negroes of Marylud having certaln property-qualificas tions were allowed to vote. Inthat year the right of stiffragre was taken from them; but the uewa of the act of disfranchisement, traveling slowly, had falled to reach Greenbury Morton, He visited the polls at election-time to deposit Iis ballot as usual, and was then Inforimed that 1t could no Jonger be legally aceepted. Inthe first burst of his indignation he spranz upon a near door-step, and poured vut & protest against the bitter wrongz done im and his people, fn words_so impassioned and effective that he soun had a larce crowd of moved listeners about him, He rose i the excitement of his emotion fromn passion Lo prophecy, and warned his audience that, unlcess the Inlquitous law were revoked which took from the negro the hopo of unlversal freedom engendered by the framers of the Declaration, the result at last woull he terrible and remorseless revolu- tions, - The throng surrounding the vehement orator held their reath In cager attention, aid, when he had done, felt with him, to a man, that a lieavy plece of injustice had been Ymcucul upen the helpless colored men of Marsland, When young Hanneker was abont 5 ‘years old, Iig parents had ot so far along in the world as to be able to buy a farm of 100 acres, ‘The land wia mu\'cf'ml, un_the 10th of Mareh, 1737, hy Richard Glst. to Rohert Baunaky (as the name wus then called) and to his son Benjamin, for the consideration of 7,000 pounds of tobacco. It was situnted fn Baltimore County, not far from Ellicott's Millg, the place of Henjamin's birthe The region round about was a wilder- ness,—the future City of Daltimore having ot the time Jess than twenty houses, seattered in the vicinlty of Jones' Falls, . Benjamin’s boyhood was spent in hard work on the farn, In companionship with his poor and {lliterate parents, Negrocs had not yet been forbidden by thelr masters toJearn the alphabet, andat Intervals Benjaminerjoyed what. opportunitics for an education were to be had at_n remote country-school. Through this privilege the youth acquired a knowiedge of the three HR's,"—inastering the art of reading atd writing, and advancing fn arithmetle 83 far 06 “hjoulle Position.”” With this ended his school-cducation: but the youog man’s mind weas active and {nquiring, and though, for years after, he was _destitute jof books, he went on gathering intelligence from Nature’s apen and affluent pages, aud from processes of reckoning which he earried on unalded fo the work-shop of his braju. His }n’u:rr.ss in learning was comparativels slow, for he lived and wrought alone; yet, at the age of 30, lis powers of invention were signally exhibited fu the manufacture of a clock. He hnd never eeen one bufore this which he made himselfnorwaa there one within ifty miles of him. He had, however, scen awateh, and this was his model. 1lis nvention cost him much contriving and a lone time In the con- struction, bt at laet it stond complete, a per- feet thne-keeper, and probably the first clock ever wholly manufuctored In America. 1lis chief diftienlty in working out the problem, ns he himself often safd, was *to moke the hour, minute, and sceotd hands correspond in theif, motions.” b Rumors concerning the wonderful gkill and ingennity Banueker lial displayed In making a clock reached the Ellfcotts, afamily of well- educated smen, who hind lately founded the get- tlement at Ellicott’s Mills. They rought the acqualntance of the clever negro, and cvent- ually Mr. George Ellieott made him a present of Maver's “Tables,” Ferguson's “Astronomy," nnd Lendbetter's *Luuar Tables,” together with someastronomical nstruments, The doyor nfter- ‘ward went over toBanncker's place to explain the use of the struments: but his visit was need- less. Bauneker had already made himsell e ualnted with their possibitities, nnd was get- ting the utmost out of them. The solltury scholar lind now arrived st the aze of 353 but, as with othier wise men, he felt himsclf never 00 old Lo learn, and devoted his life thenceforth to the atudy of ustronomy. 1113 parents were now dead; Tie remalned un- marrled, aud alone fn the cabin on his farm passiuz lis doys und ulghts in the mathemutieal regearches fo “dear to him. It was neccesary Lo carn with his own hands the food and clothing requisiic for kis comfort; hut, Hke Thorea, whose abatemiousness for o similar purpose lus heen o much applatded in our day, he shmpli- fledl his wonts until very lttle suflived them, and the major part of his tme war free for in- tellectual Tubor, He took lils sleep mostly in the day-time, that he might bo fresh at night for tho observation of * the heavenly bodies, W hose Jaws he was flowly, but sureiy, masterinz. "This sineular custom of using the day for rest, aad the night tor work, provoked not only the curlosity of Banncker's neksibors, hut also thedr anhnosity, which nally developed fnto actug! perseeution. A memorandum in the hand- writing of the recluse, dated Dee. 18, 1700, Indi- cates that he had evidenve of rome conspira-y against his Nfe, and that ho had been warned to admit no one within his doors after nightfall, Other memoranda made by b, shortly after the roceipt of the hooks from Mr, Ellleott, show the critien] abllity which hie brought to the study of Ltheso abstrise writings. In one case hie cor- rects un error fn Fergusons “Astronomy " 1g appears tu me that the wisest men miay at thnes he In erear; for luwtance, Dr. uson Informs s that, when the ann 18 within ey, of cliher poda ot the time of Mll, the moon will be eclipsed; but 11ind that, nccording to hig method of projecting u Innar eclipge, there wiil bie none by the alove cle. ments, nid yet the eun b within'l 1 deg, 46 min, 11 sec, of the moon's usrendiug node,” Hut tho munn belng in et spoges provents the appearance of this eelipse. In anotlier, lie notes the aceurrence of errors In Leadbetter's “Tables,” which had misted him In the preparation of his own. - Mr. Conway naturally remarka that hoth Fer- Flmm and Leadbetter wonld have been sinazed had they been Informed that an obseure negro inn solltary eabln in an Amcrican wilderness Dad reviewed and amended their eradite and complicated treatlaes, As goon a8 Banmeker hald mastered the little Nbrary of muthemntics which lias been nien- tloned as coming into his possession in 1787, e set about the compilation of an almanac. This he aecomplished, w6 hy oid the manufacture of his clock, unaliled and alone, 118 friend, Mr, Ellieott, heartnz of his new enterprise, took out somo_ tables for hia assistance; but Banneker had already progressed far in the prepastion of the logarit] essury fur his worle, His rirsy almatae was compiled for the year 1752, nnd was finjshied whenits anthor wisabong 5S yeargof age. It pub)ished, through the bath of James Mellenry, Esq., by Goddard & Angell, then the almanac-publistiers of Baltimore. In thelr editorial notive the publishera s They feel gratifed In the eppottunlty of present- tnyg to thie paiblic through theis press what muat he consldered as nn cxtraordinary eifort of complete und aceurate Ephemeris for the year 1702, calcujated by uaablo eon of Afriens . 5 il Iht?’ Matter themeelves thut a philunthronic public. {n thiy enllghtened era, will ne Induced to give thielr patronage and suppott o ihls work, not only onuccount of [te fatrinsie merits (it haviug miel the auprobation of soveral of the most distin. guished astronumers of America, particularly the celebrated Mr, Rittenliaurey, but fram similar ma. tives to tho=c which induced the editors to give thiv calenlation the preference, e ardent desire of drawing modest merit from obseurity, sud controe verting tho long.cstablished Wliberal prejudice againat the blucks, N Nu ddeserving man was ever more modest than Bauncker regarding his personal clalis to con- slderation i acconnt of the attalnnents he had made under the greatest disndvantayr Juetly felt ita daty to seeure an ack meut of these attatnments i evidenee of the Intetlectuynl capuaty of W4 dlsparaged races With this feellng ho addressed, with a manu- ficr(lj)l copy of his almatne, letter to Thomas JetTerson, then Seeretary of State under Wist- Ington, v which ho made u tervent appeal in behat? of the wronged and desplsed negro. Jufferson’s reply to this appeal was as followss PoLapsLriia, Pa., Auy. 80, 179L—Sin: 1 thank you sincorely for your letter of the 10th fnat,, awd for the alinanac it contalned. Nobody wisliea more than | 4o ta see such proofs s you extilvit that Noturo hnw given to our black bretliren talents equal 10 thoee of the other cvlors ul nen; und that the sppearanco of the wanut of them s awlug only to the degraded conditiun of their ex- Istence, both in Africa and Awmerica, 1 can add with trith that no one wishes moru ardently to sos a guod system comuenced for ralstng the condition bath of ihelr body and mind to what it ought to bo, s fast as the hmbecility of thelr present exlst- ence, oud other circumstances which cannvt bo neglected, will adwmlt, 1 hisve takon the libarty of sunding your almenac to Monsleur Condoreet, Secretary of the Acadeimy of Scizuces ut Parls, and Member of the Philanthrople Suclety, beeuee 1 l couslduered it 8 docinwent Lo which your color had a Tleu fop sbely juatigcation aguiint tha double swhich hinve been entertalned of them. T aw, with great esteea, ir, yoar niost obedlent sersunt’ From this time the negro eatrotiomer welt knasn to all the sclentlfic inen of America vedd from them honorable tokens ol Wihen tle Commissioners ap- 17 survey the District of Columbia entered upon ther worls, they rolleit- sfstunce of Bunneker. with these gentlemen, he was treated crv respect a8 thelr cqual,” Among other Avilities accorded hiny, he was Invited to a scat heir table; but, with & fustifiable unfon of delicaey and dignity, Banneker decined caurtesy, requesting the privilege of eating While he wag For ten years Danneker continued to caleu- late and_patbli He died fn the are of 72, %heloved and respected,’ all who knew him." Benjamin I1, Ellicott, one of the fumily who fo generonsly befriended the lonely schular, tes- ifles of Banneker that Durinz the whalo of his Ton rpectably, and wnuch esteemed by all who heeame acquainivd with him, bnt yrore eapceiaily by those whr could fully appeelate is genua and the cx- fent of his acquirenients, Iife was reglar and extremely. retired alone, having never marriel, cuoking viciuals and washinz his own clethes, and acare ever belug absent from home, ing mieanthropic In his character: for o pentleman who knew him_thus epeaks of him: ** Jic was a brave-looking, plearant mas, with eomething very noblu in bis tnd evidently mich ¢ ut ho was glad 10 recelve th blograplicr, *hy 1ife, he lived re. Although his inode of yet there was ot o wana boy I became very mnch int an hie manners were thore of a perfect gentleman, rous, hospitable, humane, diznified, aboundini in Information on all the varlonn subjects sud fncidents of ti modest and unassusning, and delighting {n society 1 have soon hitm frequently, head was coversd with a thick ‘suit of white hafr, which gave him a very dixnded and Ilia dress was uniformly of superne drab brondelotl, made i the old style uf aplaln coat with straight cu cont, and a broadbrelmmed hat. Jet-Dlack, but decidedly negro, rance, the etatne of Pranklin at the ti- brary in I'hiladelphla, as seen from the street, in & peifect likeness of him, you wonld, either by day or night, there was con- stantly standing in the ‘middle of the Soor a large tahle covered with books and napers, an eminent mathematician, hie was constantly in correepunidenoe with other mathematictans in this conntry, with whoin there was an interchenge of questiona of difilcult rolution.”™ In closinie his sketeh of this remarkable character, Mr. Conway feclingly says: “Though no mouunient marks the spot where he was born, and lived a truc oud high life, aud was i must. record that the most cticet which the South has that of the pure Afrlcan, Ay at hisown honse, sennibic appearance, ar, anil long waet- Tis color wan not In rize and per- Ga 1o hie house when orlginal aclentific SPARKS OF SCIENCE. Mr. J. P. Mahafly, a considerable writer on topfes connceted with Greek bistory, has occa- sloncd a grood deal of debate in the columns of the London Academy by publishing there a let- ter In which he asscris that the domestic cat was among the tame anlmals kept by the Greeks. To support. his assertion, Mr. Mahatly quotes “passages from Aristophanes, in cach of which the name of an animal oveurs which he {dentifics as a cat. But his opponents with one sceord declare that the animal mentloned was some apectes of the Mustdide, a family fuclud- ing the martens, weasels, skunks, cte. In the Greek Lesicon of Liddell & Evott, the term useid by Arlstuphanes is transtated by the word Other authorities decide that the anl- mal In question was probably the white-brensted beech-marten. Arlstotle, speaking of the same creature to which Arlstophanes alludes, states tiat fLattacks enakes and cats birds' eggs,— hablts which are not “possessed by the cat, but arc characterletic of certain of the Vuatelide. Prof. Ralleston, in an exhaustive paper On the Domestic Cats, Felis Domestleus and Mns- tela Foina, of Anclent and Modern Times,” in the Jornal of Anatomy and Physiology for No- venber, 1867, gives convinelug evidence that the mouse-killer of the ancient Greeks and Romans was the weasel, nnd denles that the domese tle cat was known to them. the Academny say “There is 1o reason for believing that the domestie cat was kept as n tame onfmal it any other country than Egypt Lefore the Christian era, stantinople about the middle of the fourth cen- v. Ducarge, 8. v. Catla, quotes o certain writer of the Life of Gregory' Nazlanzen (A, D. 369, cire,) 08 saying, ¢ He ‘had nothing in the world but one cat, which he used to caress and purse in his lap as o fellow-inhabitant of the bouse.” Elsewlere I have euggested that the Inte Imtroduction of the domcstic eat from ita original home, Into Europe, {s ducto t that the anclent Lgyptiang, who wor- silpod ente, were averse to the expirtation of their favorite anitnals, They cherislied the cat they made a mummy of it when dead.” rlzin of the domeellc cat has not been definitely determined by naturalists. Darwin states that the cat s ientioned In Sanscrit writing 2,000 years old, aul that their antiyuity In Bgypt Is tven greater, hins carcfully studied the munimied bodies of cats preserved In Beypt, specles,—the Telia cali Itwas inuse in Con- De Blatoville, who refers these to three isprlua, bndarstes, onal ehaus, The first twd species nre sald to be stlll found ulong tha Nile, in hoth a wild and domestic {ent Egyptians held catsin the hest reverence, creating temples {n thelr Lonor, offering sacrifices and devotlons to them, and embaloglng thelr hodls eath of o et occurred In g honschold, It tstor for the eutire fumily to have Drows shaved. ‘Fhe tlomestie cat was a rare_animal in Great Britain In early thnes, although the wili-cat was then common In the wouds, of Howal the Good, ef Wal fixed the prive of cats of eve beginnog with them Lefore they were weantd It olso declared” that whoever should steal or ki) the cat. which tuarded the Prinee’s grannry should forfelt a il e ik utn, or, (a lew of this, as when poured on the cat s ita tall, the hieail touching the floor, would form u lieap high enouxh o A daw of the relzn who died fn %8, nze amd variety, or able to see. e tip of tho tail.” AHE PITALAROPE, AMr. Kumlien has published an article fn 75dd and Forest which contalns some excedingly curlous atatements regarding the habits of Wil- son's Phalarepe, the most beautiful bird fu the entlve group of waders. Mr. Kumllen says that the female, contrary to the ustal enstom among birds, has o much handsomer plumuge than the miale, and that it §s she who makes the advances (uring the palring-senson. thing, the writter states, * to sce twwo females pursulug one male,”—a reverse of the order of things which prevails fn the anfmal kingdom, The male Plialarope, to mafntain the balauce, aa we iy suppose, performs the whole duty of lu- cubntion, and i the nesting-season has “in- varlably the naked ol wrin fstle of Incubating bivds,” while the” temale ex- hibita an unworn coating of feathers. The Phalarope isa binl of superlor ingelll- renve, 08 Dr. Cones testities In Lis *Dirds of the Northwest,)” %1 had exvellent opportunity “how gentlo and con- fiding the birds become when not molested, aud how surprisiuely graceful they are, cither ficlng the brink of thelr favorite pool, or swinming llnmg".unly upun its gurface, It ts no uncommon led belly eharacters of seeing, he writes, g, —n Ihad no heart to destray by of the beautlful ereatures, much as { deafred suime for my eabinet, after o scene § R Yl sectired rome Avos cets, Three Phnlaropes came In great conicern and alighted in the water where o dead Avoeet was foating, swimming back awl forth, and al- most caressing It with their bills. The Avoc mate hlmself, who was nut Jung jn reachin: spot, showed no more agitation than s felenids und nefghbors, the Phalavopes, did; and, thomen it was only birds of alow orderof belnis who thus exhibited sympathy and grief, who enult lovk on such wscene nnmoyed ¢ 3. The Bulletin of the Muttall Oenitholsgical Club contains a note un the geographieal varlatfon fu the pumber and slzo of the epgs of Lirds, In which the following extracts ure glven froma communieation by Cupt, Chirles Bendire, U, S0 A, Writing under date of May 21, 1670, thiv “The geographical variation in sizo among North-Amerlean birds holds trug also fn respect to thelreggs, find, for tnstauce, i Jeterta viridis var. longicaudata, that, ln the viclulty of Fort Laphatn, Idabo Terrltory, where the apecies breeds abundantly, they alinost m- while near Tucson, Al aast elght of their ests, y ouly three, und the stze of the egus is much smaller, In somo cuses fully one- at they might curily be taken foregss of an entlrely different species. farther sunth you go, the egus of the same specivs become smuller, and the pumber laid us a full nest complement 8 also less b avule, Of vourse there ure execptions.” The wrlter S Of courso there ks conskderablo varla. ton fn slzy, even du the sume localities, whew o obaerver says: varlably lay four eizis Vet 1 tonk e I tnd that, the numher of rets of the same epecles are com- pared; but the assertion thatin the North the ez, ns welkas the birds, average Jarger than In the Sontlh, 18 perfectly correct.” Mr. C. (3 .\lnynunl remarka, in his * Birds of Florida,” on tuc fingular fact that many birds Iy n emnller number of eggs at the South than nt'the North. oo NEST OF TiE WHITE-FOOTED MOUSE. In his work on the * Quadrupeds of North Amerlea,” Audubion speaks of the strange habit of the white-footed mouse (Mus leucopus) of making its home {n abandoned birde™nests, A correspondent writes In the American Natural- tst: **One day toward the end of August, 1875, 1 found vne of these mice in the deserted nest of n red-eyed fy-cateher ( Vireo olivaceows); it was on the border of o thick forest in the Biue Ridze Mountaing, Manroe County, Pennsylvania, The nest was situated near the” extremity of one of the lmbs of a rapling or young treé, a few fect from the ground, The mouse had completely stopped up the inelde of the nest with dried zrass, leaving just enough room to squeeze isclf througly, and have a ‘comfortable hed at tife bottoin, 1t was {naide of the pest when I found it, but afterwards escaped. When 1 first ob- served this pecullar structure, I conld not make out what it wBs; hut, on thrusting iy finger throngh the dried grass, [ discovered the strange tenant, L maved off, after cetting cut of 1h¢ nest, I a rather slugiish maniier, o5 this species ix nocturnal and nluu‘m duringe the day., Tt should be adderd that the vest of the red- cyed fly-tateher, or Vireo, 8 woven of grass or otlier fibrous materfal, fn the ahape of acup, and {8 suspended by the upper edge belween the forks of a twig. POTATO-BEE Prof. Riley exhibltes LE PARASITLS, at a meeting of the St. Louts Acadeny of Sciences, May 15, a specimen f of the Colorado Potato-Beetle (Doryphora de- cemelineata) which was so covered svith a mite- parasite that n needle-point could not find room on Its hody without touching one. It was eatl- mated by Prol. Riley that there .were over 500 of the mites on the beetle, and that they had causcd its death. The mite was nw—mcmly the Gamarus colevpteratorum, a diminutive creature about a third of a lne In lenzth, aud of 3 reu- dish-yellow color. Prof. Blley has figured or deseribed n his reports twventy-three fnscct-ene- mies of the potatoe-beetle that prey upon ft. ‘The mite exhibited on the occaslon referred to above brings the number up to twenty-four, and 13 the second one of the list which Lxs the chare acter of the true parasite. MONSTERS OF TIIE DEEP. The Natural-History Museum of the Royal Dublin Society has lately recelved an interesting oceesslon in the renains of a gigantic cuttle- fish captured off Bofiin Island, Conncmara. ‘The animal was floating on the water when ob- served by a party of fishermen, who, in at- tempting to secure It, were obliged to cut off. its arms, one by onc. Tie head and back re. malned uninjurcd, with portious of the short urus, which measured seventeen fuet in length, and of the long tentactulur arms, which neasured thirty feet. The sume Musetm has also recelved thiree specimens of the reeently. dseovered giguntic Sen-Peu (Osteocelln sepleii- trimalis), which were colleeted at Vancouver’s Island by a mewber of the new Arctic Expe- dition. — THE LILY OF TIIE MINES, The American Naturalist notes the discovery, in an atundoned drift fn a mine in Nevada, of a remwarkable fungus, It wus growing from a beam 400 fect betow the surface of the carth, and was three feet four Inches in length, and of light bufleolor, It * consisted mainy of athree-. parted stem, two or three inclies in diameter, attached by means of a dish cizht or ten juches wile.,” The stem was “divided into short Lranches, greatly resembling in sbape and ar- rangement the young antlers of a stag, the three terminal ones belng much the most vigor- ous uml conspicuous, forming a nerfect tri- et The Ymn. {3 called by the miuces the Lily of the Mincs, and hus becn named l‘?' the naturalist first deseribing ity Agaricus tridens. BRIEF NOTES. At ameeting of the San Francisco Academy of Scieuves an Instance of ** mimicry ' was re- purted which was obseryed in the Banta Cruz Mountains, It was n milk-white spider, which, in shape, slze, and color, wos uu exuct jmitation of the fower Mediovo. The Hfe of the cell of which anfmal tissuesare compored §s of hricf duration. It was shown by BDertiold, the German physiologlst. that the cells formning the human nail complete their exlscence In four mouths In summcrand five months fo winter. A person who llves to hix S0th year hus the entire structure of s nafls renewed at least 200 times. And yet it is sup- posed that most of the cells of . the body have a 1nuch briefer Hfe than the nall-cells. The Jungs of anhinals living in an atmosphere of swoke and soot beeome churged swith par- ticles of carbon, which' sometitnes are su ab dant as to color these organs quits bl Laborers in coal-mines, whes stantly inhaling the fine st of tho mineral, are partienlarly lable to this condition of the }rumry orcuns, ‘The otoms of carbon pen- etrate the epithelial cells, und from them enter respi nto the pulntonary tissue. This produces the so-called melanoels of these structures. It Is stated that u marble ficure of ereat beau- ty lias been recently exhumed near Mitylene hy sume workmen engaged fn an exeavation ot Vaai- arakl, The fat: h represents 8 female figgure, double Nfe-stze, has suffered considerable injury, the hend and arms being especinlly mu- tilated, yet In its impafred condition it ble has been clabned as natfonal property, and will foon he removed to the Archwological Mu- seum at Athens, Casfnlr de Candalle has made a contribution to the debate on the habits of Insectivorous plants, In u paper * On the Structure aud Moy ments of the Leaves of Dionaa Muschyila (Vi nus Fly-Trap),” which {8 published in tho Gene- v Archives uf Sciences, The auther deduces the concluslons from hls experbnents, that antmal matter is not necessary to the development and vigar of the Diotwa, und that the substance of the {nsects caught fs not directly utflized by the leaves, Ilis couclusions are distinctly opposed 10 those of Darwin s thie nujurity of natural. Ists who have studied the insect-catching plants, et ————. PARTING. We've come (0 the cross-rand ab And now your way les--theres 1 ehall dnfidly down 2his path, Leading—1 cice uat wheee ! Fanr teot will touch only rise, Whose soft and rich perfunie Wil bn wafted. 1iko pure, weet {ncense, Up from their red hearie’ blooar, Nauzht bug the chitl, dank weeds of grief, OF n mayhap, sl wo, Are wattin? my weary coming; Sweet lips liave willed fiso, And the night has cloced fn shadowe, And th deear sgowilakes fall, $And the e3 e that cannot weop Arc the suddest eyes of nll, ™ Dul go your ‘\uro and rose-wrenthed way, — ‘'he sunshine walts for th At lorget in foyous dreamins “The ehiadow'd road, and e at— The Jowish Tribiute to Amvrican Liborty of Consolenee. New York World, 0=1. 25, The White Star steamship Adriatfe, which ar rived at this port yesterday, bas on board the statute of Religious Liberiy, which (s to bo pre- sented by the Jewlsh Order of B'pai B'eith to the United States Government, to commenio- riate the entire freedom which the Jewlsh ruce lms ever enjoyed under Amerlcan nstitutions, Fhe statie bas been wade in purstance of 4 resolution adopted In January, (87, at 1 cons ventfun of the B'ual Brith, held in Philadelphia, Dy My, M. Ezekiel, the youne Amerlean seulptor, who pecetved the liest prize for statuury at fer- Tin three years ago. It stands elevon feey lilgh, welghs fiteen tons, and cost $20,000, The work consiets of a groun, of which the chicl figure Is a female, representfug Amerjea, clothed In shine ple classic costume, and bearing upon her breast o ahileld with the stars and stripes tn rellef, Her Jeft hand rests upon the fusces, the scrulls of the Conatitution snd s wreath of faurel. ‘The rhghtarm is extended in forbidding pesture. On the rizht and partfally sheltered by America stands o nude boy, syinbolizing Faith, with his hiend aud onehatid Wited appealingly to Heaven, while the othier sustalus u vessel in which 18 shown the uadyfng tame of religion. On tho othier aile, and at the feet of the central lgure, is an cogle with talons burfed deep du the neck of a monster serpent, Intolerance, whose body 8 cotted partially around the bundle of rods, andextends tothe rear of tho group, finally protruding from beneuth the flowing garment of America. ‘Fhe statue will be erected in the Centennial grounds on the cast sldv of Belmont avenue, ut its junctlon with Fountain ayeaue, snd {nmne. diately urpusue the Columbus monument. It will remaln thers untll Junuary, 157%, when it witl bo presented to the Government und re- woyed 1o thy rotuuda of the Cunitul b Waahe Enva. they are con- k} s evi- dence of befng the work of a master. The mar- ——— e ington. Tho unvelling ceremonies ot Phila. delphla will probably take place Nov. 10, thus forming part of the closing cxercises of the Ex- Iibition. As the work has been subscribed to by Juws all over the country, thera will prabe, ably be o Jarge gatherfog of thein on this oceas sfon, and ft iy proposed to have a prayer dellys cred by the Rev. GeorgoJacobs, of Phifadelphis, and nddresses yrohably by Adoiph IT. Sanger, Chatrman of theStatuc iCammittee, Julius Blew, Gen, Hawley, Mr, E: and others! L —— ., THE BRIGHT DAYS IN FALL, *Tis fall, And ealw, gold days ..\ Are dteamaing In the skte, 0 With amber light the far woods blaze, The phndeless corneInmis wear a listicss nazey The river level as the diun mead lles, Her rpell Enchantment lays Op ghmmering hilla-~bright biys— Wide ocesn.ways— On all, *Tin ralm Betore the end. In nature as o lifs "Tis bright at eventide. [ wend My way thro' roods wheee gold and crimson blend, Through corridars where endless grotios axtend) ~ L aigh to think how roon the atrife A Of piping winds shiall rend Each leal and end ‘I'he charia. $0 years Grow calm and bright With & refl'rllmlenl Haht, And direipline ends, and want and care? "Lis autumn In the heart. —1'he Llight Hangs u'er the leal. The sorme propare, And soon beyond the light Loue winter's night. Appears. Tis sweet In winter-ays ‘To mark warm rifts of light In hedzen 0ld, when ardent aunsets blane "Thwart crimson seas. 'Tis a delight On disappearing mns to gage; When Spriog her tobe displays, To follow throuzh warm ways, Where'er ahe ntays, Her fect. Then from May drain the streams, Bnt Spring Is In the heart; her form We ace: abie lingers in our deeama, Thick snows may all, and loud may pipe the storm, T'he winds retumn after the sequent ealm; We heed them little after Srnnx‘n first beams | Uays lent the earth their charm; ‘Tuen winter scema A8 past. *Tis thus With life: ‘tis not What we aro now that joy imparts, Tt the tiear prospect of it futureTot. . In fall. sppeunching winter chills our hearts, Aud near spring-tlaya the blank storm i forgot, Like rare frilt by voyazers mought, Ever from foreign marts Sweet joya ure brought 0 us, At lnst, hen life is ald, And vanished aro its dreame, Will proxpects beight or dark unfold? Wil hnrw cummers 1itt thelt fronded palms 1n low horizour of fair sas of gol Ur yetery's volcoless night enfold Us {n Its dublous arws, And leave a cold, Dead past? The heart Troe fay can know Only when {leaven secms near. And faith scen a horlzon dawn and glow Deyond the scenen that fade and disappears Whei heavenly hills beyond carth's ranges low Lift their gold saminits fair and clear, And Joy—thotieh earth tury scra Aud falls the snow— lmpart. —Ilezeliak Butterworth The Greut Shipwr 1 the Arctic Scas, Neiw Uedford (Hass.) Standard. The effects ot the dsaster will be to reduce the Arctieticet next year to n very small number of vesselg, the business bheing prosecuted only by the most enterprising merchiants who are? willing and able to run the preat risk, nsus, surance oflices will not care to take it. There are only two or three vessels now i port suita- ble to seud to those seas, Two vessels are now on the way out. und 8 merchantian on the way - to San Francisco from this port, is fitted to oo uorth i 1t is deemed odvisable, and with those ‘which eseapod muy form the entire fleet. Suine ships now ut sea may also be ordered north, ‘The disaster Is only paralicled and exceeded by that of 1971, the news of which reached this city on Sunduy evening, Nov, 5, 1871, annoutc- ing thot of the Arctie flect of forty-one vesa thlrl3'-\w0 had been abandoned, only nine b Baved. Of these vessels, twenty-two helu; to this port. valued ab 1,097,000, mostly - sured fu local oftices, The catch on huard the ahandoned vessels at that thoe was W5 harrels - of sperm oll, 18,605 barrels whale ofl, agd j0u,« 00 pounds bone. New Bedord (Nave.) Sereury. As to the effect'of this diaster, the opinfons of the best judges nro somewhst divided. It Is clear enough, however, that the prices of whale- Lone fmust wdvanee. The stack uow [u the country Is about 80,000 pounds, and a8 the price has of late been slowly advancing, it cannot fall to go sl higher. It {8 not expected that = the prices of oll will be 8o wuch affecied. Sperm ol can hardly feel ft, und, wiile a small advance. may be looked for in whate-oil, there are so maty substitutes for it which can be used on a pinch that the rise cannot be very great, The stock now on hand amounts to-about 16,000 tiar- rele. The prices of menliaden and ather fish- ofls may also be slightly affected, It must be* remembered, bowever, that In the natural course of trade the olf taken by these last ves sels would uot reach the market for sume mobths vet. Anotber result will probably boa material risc in the value of whale-ships. "These veasels ean hardly be replaced Ly purchase, and new ones vannot e bullt for the smounts at which they are valued. Bome of the Cnptains of theee whalers evidently anticipated the pos- afbiity of having to spend the winter in the fee, from the fuct that they nsked for extra fares of brend ond molasses, and an extra quantity of conl, This was given them h‘y their ugents, and the awners of some of the sth Inform us that enough has been put on board to keep all those lelt with the ships till spring. e Eclipso of the Moon, Phtladelphia Bulletin. Mulling (s entlrely bald, with one exception of asingle Jock, whilch he combs carefully aver the slile of his head. A short time ngo” some youuue Indles usked him for his photograph, and {usl for fun he hind a pleture taken of the top of his head. About a weel afterward he went past the photographer’s pluce, and noticed an ine- mense erowd studylng o pleture in the window. 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