Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 21, 1877, Page 10

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JULY a, 1877—TWELVE PAGE ny The Unknown Eros; CATHOLIC QUARTERLY REVIEW ly & Mahoney, Mhiladeiphiay. Con. English “in ‘Their Continental Brother Avarian: §°The Frame~ The Chareh te New Pabilen- hy the Rey ¢ Tinins af Ephesn Laws of Connecticnt. by Ir. Re W. Thompron on wil Power,” by8, DB, Roman Forgerice,"” by the Very tl . Corcoran, D. D.¢ *\Book-Natlees, TOLAS for Auguet idenmmet. toll Number" (Scribner & Co., New York). The literary contribntorsto this number ace hate Trownlee forton. Ahby Morton Diaz, BE, BT . Henry W. Lonefellow, i. Hey Joel k At. Stockton, Celia Thaxter, Aunt re Bs ner, idiehar Proctor, Sarah Winter Keltogs, Tr tC F, Gitozer, ant By ft Alty NAOCRNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCt- CES duly ienry C. Lea. Philadelphia, publisher; Dre, Feaac Hass and 1. Minle Hays, fuitora). The’ present namber containa fly original articles, wertdes a **quarterly summary of the Improvements aud dlecoverles {n the med- jeal acionces, AMERICAN BOOKSELLER for July 16 (Amerl+ ran News Compang, New York),, PHARMACIST for July (Chicago Coltege of Phar~ macy). FAMILIAR TALK. ST STYLES OF ARCHITECT= URE, ANCIE Though the passion for Architecture In grand forme no longer exists, the structures of former tues atwaya interest way and ace full of fue struction when carefully exainined, The great charavteristl: styles of European. civilization have been nine in mumber, and miay be arranged fn three groups, us anetent, medieval, and modern. The ancient are the Egyptian, Greek, and Roman; the medieval are the Byzantine, Sara- conic, and Gothic: and the modern are the Renalesance, Cinguecento, tind Lonis-Quatorze. "These different styles exten over a period of more than 4.500 yearay—the anclent having — occupled - about year, from the carly blstorie times to the fourth century of the Christin era; the medieval, about 1,000 yeara, Irom the fourth to the four- ywenth century: and the modern ozenpying the Just tlve centuries, Ttimust be sald, however, thatthe last threo centurics have produced nothing in Architecture to compare with the sr years, because the great nations In jod have Leen engaged with the strife for freedom, tor comfort, for Intelligence, and the wealth necessary to create tie wonderful structure. of carher times fs now possessed by the people. instead of being: under the controt of rulers. e should be distinguished by its own Lb oby its resemblance to other sivles, Eyyptlin architecture te the oldest, and its constractlon the most {mimense ti Scholars have not been able orkin of Egyptian Ar- nd they belivve it to he a purely: original style, whicn grew with tho elvilization of Central Mfrlea, paseed: through many condl- tions to the culminating port of perfection, aud tell the power flint creatud ft, to its: present, duct and partial rain, The renmiuns ot 6: grauteur conslst of tem. ples, palaces, and tontbs; al their great art. charactert tire and grandeurof proportion, sl icity of purta, and coatiiness of material, Every precaution’sceins to have teen used to make them endure forever, and: their mussive- nese often absords the mind of the tue dent oor traveler, to the exclusion of the ono lees wonderful perfection of thelr urnamentation in both form and color, Gheir gerantic forma are in perfect harmony wilh the monotony of the landscapes wich they vary, and thelr great siadewe and cvol depths give The greatest comfort under the almost raln~ Tess «ky of the valley of the ower Nile, yptlan ornament wag alinust always sym~ bolicid.—ita forme being taken from Nature, and convenUonallzed under priestly directions, to an bert to express various thoughts of the national religion. ‘That portion of the ortin- Thent Which was simply constructive bid, it ts true. no hidden meaning. ‘she papyrus-plant of the Nile suggcsted many” of the roluins,—the root forming the base, the stalk shaft of the column, and the full-blown r, with additions of sinaiter plants, the capital. “thistype was varied and arranged with an Incenuity wukoown to other nutlons. | When the shatt of the Egyptian column: was efreular, It was made to sfiggest the trisngular shane of the papyrus-reed by three raleed Ines, which tivided the. ciremaference equally; and, when the columa was formed of four oF elght shafts bontud together, each one of theee had a sharp: tdge on ite outer surface, reminding of the papyrusang) ‘The repr 2, oy T ntationa of actual things, so often found on the walls, ns arenes from do: je Hfe., various processes of mantifacture and of lator, or the making of offerings to the gous, fre all conventionalized in form, as enjoined hy ricid priestly rule. No exact detinention of the human body was allowed, but the firnness of Eeyptian drawing has seldom ‘olor was also used convention- alls, the primaries, red. ¥ Huw, and blue, de- fined by black and white, being the most com- mon, and not too glaring for the sbalows re- cesses of the punderous buildings. Green was also need, especially pon representations of Totur-leaves; and, with less taste, ia Jater times, purple ant brown took tts place, The lotus- flowers, slightly conventionalized, symbolized, with the papyrig, nonrishinent for the bounty and mind. Feathers, represented in the cornices of bulldings, were embiems of soverctanty; the mgzag tynilied the waves of the Nite: the scarabeus represented immor- tality; the winged globe, placed so frequently over doors and windows and in passages, and often having an asp on each side, is sipposed ta have symbolized the creatlve, protective, and Uistributing powers,—the globe tndlcating the aun, the wings Providence, and the gasps Mon- archy. The Egyptian sphinx was always mote, and {s believed to. represent the combinntlon vt phyalcal and intellectual power. The sytnbolical pictures were almost Infinite in number and variety; the designers hud wonderful ingenuity fn arranging ornainent, and obeyed that law of decoration which Pens beauty by causing atems and yeins of feaves to radiate from tho parent branch in tangential curves. Assyrian Architecture is believed to have been iormed on the peculiaritics of the Egyp- tian. Creek art, aleo founded on that of Ecypt, de- veloped Im an original direction, ¥iz.: aymmes try and regularity, —the perfection of pure form. Its ornamentation was neither constructive nor symbolical, but purely esthetic, and could have been removed from the beautitul structures on which it was placed, leaving the structure the sane; as, Inthe Parthenon, the sculptures of Phidias were a magnificent ernament, but the Parthenun was perfect without them, ‘The raiuiess climate of Ecypt nected only the flat roof, but the rainy season of Crecce de- maniled the sloping roofs, and the resultin gable gave rise to the pediment and the friezey— both the foundation of ao much beauty and so mitch ornanicot. Of the three orders of Grecian Architecture, yiz.3 the fonle, the Dorie, and tue Corinthian, the Dorle was the style which was carried by Greck thought to that perfection which many succecding ages have tried valuly to imitate. It has remalacd for our own time to ascertain the roportions of that marvet of bullding-art, the Parthenon. So delicate are these proportions that the eye could nut detect them; only the must accurate teasirenents have ascertained thut the columns of that building are not bound- ed by straight lines, but by a very delicate hy- perbolle curve, which it) has never been possivlo to imitate, though the exact propor. tion of this curve or awelllng of the column Is known to be 1-550 of the entire helgnt. The same nicely of proportions, and adfustinent of parts, was carried through all the pest archl- tectura) prodtictions of Greece, and used in de- siyning their oruninents, Thu most characteristic Greek ornaments were the well-known fret or tabyrinth, the wave-scrull, ogecs, channelings, egg-moludings, and those more elaborate ornaments fonnaed on the blossom of the honeysuckle, and on the acanthus-leaf, A very characteriatie feature of Greck ornament was tnat form of ecroll-work by which the yvarlous parts grow out of cach other in w continuous ne, instead of branching off on either side froma supporting stem, ns in tho Byzantine, Moresque, and early English styles. While the Greeks were not great bullders, but master architects, leaving us only their comparatively small temples, the Romnts, who did not excel'in Architecture proper, but were great builders, have left us not ouly tempter, Hut wnphitheatres,palnces,trlumpbal arches and columis, houses, murket-places, baths, aqite- ducts, aud tombe. ‘The Roman ‘structures are insposing from thelr immense size, but gener- ally consist of a evcurely-arranged pile of sua- sonry ornamented with Greek details. ‘The ulm of Greek Architecture was to reach 0 pericetion worthy of the gods to whose use their temples were dedicated; the alm of Honan art was to make o dlaplay of wealth and ewer: and, in time, ft resulted tn an unthink- Ing and extravagant use of ornanicntal forins, ‘The Urceks loved the subtle curves of the cl- Hipse; tho, Romans preferred the legs elegant, but more Ahowy, arcs of the circle. The details of Romun ornament were only an exagut of the Greek; but, though ‘they spor Dorte and forte orders, they made the Corintn- jon far more beautiful than when they received it from {ts originators, The onty distinet Noman order fs the Com- osite, which includes furms trom the three Breck styles, Where the Urecks used the horl- xoutul ebtablature, Ue Romans used the arch; where the Girecks uscd the forin of the leaf of the prickly neanthus, the Romans used tho more claberate form of the malils or sult acan- thus. "A favorite Roman oriament for the capitals of pillars is composed of clasters of ollve-leaves, Which show with strong effect on lofty columns, pack poxeranion of a loye-letter with such an ale de fuicliffcrence ws that") Uniler thls broiling eun,-toat Really Ishall never be able te thank you enuagh—" “There ts nothing to thank me for at oll, alr. Com ocd to the sun.” Ciutting him short without a rinile, without the peluxation of a muscle uf her face, then pre- paring to tune aways “1—f euppore Dam at no peat distance from the sen heret he beghis desperately, not ro- dlecting upon the wisdon of ins question, want- {nz only one lovk from the hazel ayes that, os yet, have so etusliowaly refused to encounter hist “Well, na. tran ishind the slza of dersey, you can hardly get very far distant fram the uelly do foul Huw stron ’ ponte la Mra, Chester's answer, yet Hn Mn Lhe pulees of the tnaty yen are ryootir the earth us with anew + they make themselves felt, even In How the cuckoo mur- vt) alomd for joy! pline reviizes, os she his we three years pust, that dune just for a moment acknowledges Keto aman younger than the parish Wvated tun a pessint farmer, be aul finally dleagreeable. rue ts quick to fallow up whate tive, How Just Sor a moment not dons th teats luv Maat ty ap ‘eelur nore quot ab solute Sir Joli Seve riptindtesinially email progress he may have Ie 8 farnsiny present experience goes, the Janes sem constructed au the funda. iat principle of leading back unwary strane eve Lo Lh which they start. ‘The a Httle larger scale, tu pati we are on--ls there Uie slightest eof its lanuing me anywhere if 1 follow 1 with persistence? Dwant to take a sketeh at yeh water of Quernce Bas," he gous my id, by this thie, Daphne's cyes tre ebyly give him back lanes for glative. * A shet of Quernee into which T can” brings! she coast of Pranee, and perhaps get one ol these old Maitello towers for a foregraund, Von egahh direct ne, dam sure, tu such a spot”? Mine question touches ber ut a yulnerabio pont, On the lowest plane, with the keonest sense Of ber shortcomings, Daphne ta, herself, un uftirt—aerl the neurest approach tu rett-forzetfulness her dite knot in watehiug Nature's shapes and hues, and reproducing then fy unnaturally aoft auuutels-suppled water-color drawings, Her oily teacher Las been her Aunt Theodora; and the Misa Vansllturt’s art-netions date from thelr echuul days. A period when young wor. ch Were wont, like Jloud's Miss “Mriseilla, tu: rough cart with suell-work, coat with red and Diu k séals, cnerust with bluu alum, atick over with culored wafers, or festuon with Hele rice paper ruses; and when woully pencil drawings, executed on perforated cardboard, held but a subordinate rank among these sfeter arts, And otfll, by some vative fustiuct, Daphne feels, ay acutely as though she had atnd- ed under pre-Haphaclita — inaster ue South Kensington, wat a pleture should bel dow dike the sharp outlines, the vivid colors whe eces it woods and lanes, how uulike the counterfeits with which abe and Miss (Uicodora Jaboriausly adorn the walls of Ficf- dela Heine, She de too dissevered trom the aurld und the world's opiniuns for the handle io a Nae to atfeet ber. Sir dobn Severne might ge Hity tines Sir doin, and bbs ttle yield him Qu preterenice in herudnd over any plain esquire, The thouht that he fs an artist docs give by B pagrport, tor live minutes at least, t er davor. Lyuu keep to this path foracouple of fields avore, it will bring you aut by the Petite Cucil- Totti, Auer that, you know Malte Hamon's lurnst?" “Mattre Hamon's furmt I am ashamed to say Lado not." Nor the But de la Rue that runs alongside the Marass¢? dir Jolin Severne is forced agalu todisplay the Froseest ignorance. “Well, of course, if you know nothing, not even the But ‘de Ja Rue, vor the Marais, Mad best = turn you jutu the high-road. Follow it straight: when once you leave the fleld: uurter of an Sour's waliing will bring you to Fiet-de-la Keine. A vig graulte house," she adds, ** deso- late Lut for the roses, with # sun-dial front, snd a troken archway.—and sca, and waste, and heaps Uf balGdricd sea-weed closing it on every pide,”? Daphne's face gets back {ts usual look of Dlauk Wearitess as abc speaks. ‘The three ancient ststes of ornament are very distinet. The both rich and wevere, and exeentially symbole; the Greek strictly eevere, but perlcet in beauty; th: Roman rich to exaggeration, though attain Ing to beauty in its best exaniples. —— EDWARD LEAT, Mr. James T. Fields, the popular writer and lecturer, whose “ Yesterdays with Authors’? is now in the fifteenth edition, has a new yolume in the preas of dames BR. Osgood & Co., which will bear the title of Underbrush.” A corre- spondent of the New York Tridune, who has been favored with a survey of the contents of the book In advance of the rest of the reading world, citcs the following sketch of Edward Lear which occurs In the first chapter, Edward Lear, It will Ue remembered, fs the author of the “ Nonsense-Books’? which have enjoyed n considerable cireulation In our country, Those who have not scen the books themselves cannot fail to have met and been delighted with tho funniest of all the funny pieces in the whole collection, berinning with the Ines: The owt and the pusay-cat went to cca, Ina beantiful pea-green boat. The verses havo heen widely copied In the newspapers, and hold most persons indebted for many a hearty Inugh: Thappened tu know Rddward Lear very well (enya Mr. Fietta}, and.am glad to Lave the opportunity of commending thie gentleman's comic books ev- ery whe: Hie is @ great, broad-abouldered, healthy Englishman, wio spenda a large portion of alnable time In making children, especini- yy. ee He l¢ the classmate and tinch-loved filend of Alfred ‘Tenneson {whore beantifal pocm tok. f. nieans Edward Leary; andif you chanced. afew years back, to ca to Farringford about Christinaa-time, you would have been like to find a tall, elderly man, in cnormons gozgles, dewn on all-foura on the carpet, and reciting, in’ the char- wtcter of a lively and classical. Mppepotamua, new nonsense-verres ton dozen children, amid roars of laughter,—a very undtgnifed position. certainly, for one uf tho beat Greek scholars In Europe, for atandscupe-painter unrivaled anywhere, ond the author of half-a-dozen learned quattos of travels in ,Albanin, Ulyria, | Calabria, and other Interesting | couritriest tut | what adcllcht he ta personally to the Janlority of En- xland wheraver he is anown! A fow tears ayo he Was abl lesb to build a cottage In Ravenna, in Itely, anil ilve here there a portion of the year, in order to get time for painting and study; for when he. tn in London, the little ie, whoin he passion- ately lover and cannot ithout, run after him, an they did atter the Miper ot Hamelin, to that ex- tent he has no felsure for his profession, When tt Is known that the delightful old fellow ts on hin way back to Englaud forthe holidays, many of the sreut residences are on the alert with tnvitations to sectre him for aa much time ne he can yivethem. Geacrations of children have clusiered about him in diferent Christinas scasons. “dhe dedicates hie first boos, **tiook of Nonsense, "* "To the great grand-children, yrand-nephews, and grand-neices of the Earl of Derby, the greater part of the Gouk having been originally com- ord for thelr parents,’ Trime favorite as he jaumong the Argrles and the Levonshites, he has animmense eHenteles among the poor and overs worked peasants of tarlous countries, Having been a triveler so many scars, and #o conversant with the languages of the Continent, he fs just as much at home with his fan and his’ wido gohbles In the mountaln-passes of Switzerland and Spain. ashe iin the great houses of England, Long life to Edward Lear, and continued euccoss ta hin minletry of good nature obont the world! He promised not tung feo he would come to America fore he gut tov old to eee our country; and T hope, some day rat far distant, torce him, aa fall of genial wit and drolicty, cutting up his harmless ant healthful antics for the amusement of the hoya and girlt of America, Une of tis enyings at least deserves tinmurtali ‘The world wilh never grow old." he raid, ‘tso Jong as it has Ilttie children and fluwera tn THE POWEFOLIO. The Portfolio for July has muie its appear ance, true, like its monthly predeccasor, ty its tle of “An Artistic Periodical.” Its simple cover, the first leaf of which {3 also the title= page, suggests, In ite one ornamental device, tho origin of all Art. It fs the medallion por- trait of Michael Angelo, Prince of Artists, facing, that of Lorenzo di Medici, Princo of Patrons. Art caunot flourish without genius and labor to create, und power and wealth to support, Be- tween the two medallions {sa Httlo convention- allzed tree,—perliaps syinbolizing Art, as its branches reach to the stare. A serpent eur- rounds ¢a pro- ach miedallion—that around the tile of the Duke reaching after the roots of the tree, as patronuge looks after the beginnings of great art-work; while that around the profile of Michael Angelo contemplates the feafy branches, the ornamental results, ‘The tirst article in. the number accompanica and explain’ an etching by Leon Richeton after Reynolds’ portralt ot Viecount Althoro, third Earl Spencer, usa boy of 1. The etebing has preserved the trank and sturdy look of the orgs Inat igure, which stands out well on the deeply- bitten buckground of the etching. ‘The article on Albert Durer is ehlefly devoted to his conteniporary und copylet, the famous lurcantonto, and 44a full and Iearned “Fief-de-la-Reine is your home?! suggests young Severne of. hazard, “My home, Well, just to the right on tho waste land stands no Martello tower, and froin the foot of this tower looking + across Queruce Kay towards France you will gee the view youwant. You may pass through the garden of Fief-de-la-Relne {f yuu choose. There will be no oue to interfere with you.’? And with a grave Httle reverence, with Juat sulliclent of a atnile, tog, tu show young Scverne what lier face might be under other creum- atances, Mrs. Chaster walks on, pricked In conselence, somewhat, a8 te her own lax con- duct, yet with her pulsy set a-beating not unplcasantly, with the ghost of a hope at her heart that the aketeh will not be finished, the artist yanislied forever from tho narrow horizon of her lfc, before her re- turn, “ Etta seu "va sentendos! Iandaro!”? Severne watehes her, witha fecling several degreve higher than passing admiration, until the slinduws, already lengthentug, of the nigh- est orchurd screen the ithe young figure from his sight. Then he resumes hig path, iights 9 fresh cizur, after a time drawa forth his letter faictter from bis sweethearts Daphne's intue tions «were ut fault) and with a care- less hand — tears = ucross the elabor- ately twined blue and gold tuitlals that adorn the envelope. ** My dear Sir dotin,?? Blroliing on amidst the knee-deep corn, he smokes and reads, alternately,—reada with scarce liveller interest than a inan might fcel over the Ivading artlele, out of sessiou, of a dally paper, “Mrs. Hardcastle hopes you roceived our letters und thefr inclosures safely before Ieay- fog Porta. Wa forwarded you a most exhaust- ive aualyats of Prof. Drysdule's last great work onthe TAll-Sufilel of Matter.’ Please let us kuow low tur you ‘are prepared to ce along with the Professer in his upinions, We have been to all this season's lectures ot Burlington House, and to imost of the Albermariy Street, Weunesdays and Fridays. Ibollevo the Royal Buclety will have a Paleontological course next month, Need ht that T shall fecl an addl- tlonul Interest, if that be vossible, i palyun- tology, should we be accompanied to them by ‘oll : * Fraulein Schnapper trusts you will pay atten- tlun tu the porpbyretic rocks of the Channel Yelands, and especially remark = whatever wixture of cpidote you may sco amonzet the yeins of cule-spar anil ruck-crystal, Pere haps you would pot mind makinga noteer iro, for ty sisters, if you cau across any beds sycnitic guclat “By an odd chance, it seems that wo are Hkely to meet Heat Ju Jeraey, not London. Lady Lydia Jorningham bas {uvited me for 9 fort. night's touriu thelr yacht, tho Liberta, and I beliove the Channel} Islands ure to bo our destl- nation, But plewe do nut let this alter your plans inany way. Lady Lydia and Mr, Jor- ningham aro both so chanycable that, iikeher than not, we inay start fur Norway at the last moment, aud i¢ would bu ¢o dreadsully seltiah to keep you a prisoner in Jersey on my account. “My cousin, Felix Brouuliton, is in England. I don't know whether you recollect a photo- graph of him. in my album, with poor, dear Caliph on his sboujdert Me. Broughton wishes me to suy with what pleasure he fooks forward to maxing your acquaintance, He la to be one ofthe party on board the Libertas, apie soon ty hear from you, ang that you. will not forget porphyretic tucks fur Fraulein Schnapper, Lam, my dear Sir Jobu, your yery allectivnate CLEMENTINA Hanbcastir," ‘This iupasstoned love-letter is penned tu a handwrittugiarge, clever, beautifully and finally Miegibies; just one of those semf-uusculine hhandwritings, turicd owt by the cross, witch would have horritied our ucat-ingered grand- Mothers, and which you see, at u glance, to be the vet produce of seven or eight laborious yeara of education ala mode. Bir Johu Seyerne docs nut waste more time thon {# strictly ucedfu) upon mastering its contents, ueltber duce the result of ts Jabors chill bin. is ‘The last ghovt of romance bas too long passed away out of his engagement tor any tresh dii- Hlustoument to be puasible. ‘The blood uf most Incy milght treeze @ ilttle at the vislou of a mie tress devoted to baleouroluey, aud holding atrong oplulous as to the Ali-Suilicieucy of Mat- ter, Beverue looks upon these things as ultl- mute and fucradkable facts of Miss Hardeus- viele character, and accepts them with resigua- lon. Mo fs, in truth, still at that bappy noon of youth when the shadows Ho underfoot,—hos only cast off so inuch of the boy as was nut worth the keeping! Somvbod: has fixed that he is to become Miss Hardeustle’s husband in August. ‘The Royal Soelety will give po pateontological course of Joctures to which he shall listen with bis betrothed In July, But to-day—this hour that he ts lising and eh Joytng in June. What sane nian would trouble himself about Uhe future, when only to breatho the warm, clus- tleatr isa kind of physical pices, only to look up foto the dense bine desert of alra ream? Misa Hardcustle’s letter may be cold aa avlence,—cold as Miss Hurdeastlo herself, ‘The face that sinfled on thn not ten minutes ago(aud that hu already plans tu sce again), Wus soft 14 sumnmer, warm o8 sunshine, Not a very safe blulosophy, perhaps; bit care for personal safety In these matters is the one virtue which, at fve-and-twenty, o man cau best afford to do without, a Flet+tu-la-Relne is not dificult of Identifica- jon. “A big granite house, dvsolate but for the roves, and with sca, and waste, and hea ig halédried pea-weed closing it in on every ‘The destription would be adequate, ev © Flet-du-la-Reing” not culjagualnt moss-crust- ed letters above the cnutrauve ‘ot the outer conrt. Severne lingers na little—ilo not the surroundings of a fulr and unknown woman al- ways ¢Xereiau a certain Influence upon a mau {nmgination? ‘Then, pussing, as Daphne bad him, throw the front tlower-garden, he maces his Way amidst outspread ishing nets and beds of drying yrule tu the solitary Slartelly tower which crowns the aumtult of tho waste. Everywaere around = hita ts silencey—al- lence rendered articulate rather thay broken by the chaunel's moan, the monotonous soughing of the wind throuzh the purched grassed and a thistics that constitute the herbage of the sand hitits. He looksdewn upon the many- colored burders of Fief<lu-la-Relue, upon the patriarchal fig-tree (beneath whose shade o ribboncd ‘Cheadora Vansittart still dances in dreums to the tunes, gintdst the cumplinents of forty years ao). Hu luvks at the xpanse of tide, ‘by this tino flouding every creek and in let of Gueriee May. A few black polnts of rock, polnts that in auutier balf nour will under water, dot ita surface. If hw had only his towling-ple with = him, thinks Severne, taking out his pipe and tobaccu- pouch {n readiness tor a smoke beneath the coul shade of the ‘Tower, the had only his gun ut hand he could bring down easily cnough yonder white ava-bird—just recoguizuble by its changes of poaltion os a livlug creaturc—upon one of the more distant rocks, e A wonster sea-bird, it must be, when ono cOmes to watch it attentively; Uitting bither and thither, tua, with a quick, irregular muve- ment that dir Joby Severno's eye, well-trained in matters of sport, luils tu recognize, He tales out 9 suwall traveler's eae front bis pucker, adjusts it, looks agalu—and, with a suppre: ed ery, springs upon tis feet, “Lhe distant, quick-moving object Is—no sva- bird, but a little child? Hesitatiun, doubts as to that which ho shall do, never for yne mument cross young Severne’s: mind, Te kuows nutniny of the shore or of ite currents, bs iguorant how tar be may be able to wale, how far be forced to ewhin, cre. the pris- oner on that distant rock be reached, ‘These ure uucations that beluny ty fate. His busiuces is to suve, or altclipt tu save, the small speck of Miesatity that ust furluruly, inevitably perish without big succor, AD briet” space he lngers, steadfty taking in every detail of bis own position aml of the child's; then, retracing his steps, he ewiftly traverses the gurden of Ficlde-lu-Reine, fu a couple of tulnutes more has reached Wie mare in ot the tide, Que sulitary buat—the ** Wes- ey 7 ite will Severne forget thut name !}—is ying high and dry upon the shingiw, a heavy seavaing bout thut ik would take the strength of hulf-a-dozen men to Jauuch, No living torus is to be seen. The fishermen, for the most part, are plying their craft amoug the distant Miuvuler rocks, the old people and chitdren are belping the farmere in the bay fields. ‘The tusk that Severus has oct Limself must be achieved slngle-handed, like tnost of the tasks that are worth achleving fu meu's lives. Que toud hallug be gives iu thy vogue hope of arousing some inmate of the Heleroeu’s huts that Jie scattered beyond the orchard of Ficlde-la-Helne. ‘Then, the echoes of lis uwo voice = nioue returning reply, he walks duwa, with stout beart aud” true, to the water's edge und prepares binself for bis swinw. account of his artistle I The tw tions accompanying this blegraphy are choice and very Interesting to the students of engray- {ng and its Instory, One ta copy on copper of Durer's woodcut of Sts. Gregory, Stephen, and Lawrence: and the other ia a repradtiction of the very best work of Mareantonto's burt “€y likenesn, done in his best tine, of the hand- some and shameless countenance of the friend who later got him into trouble—of Peter the Bastard of Arezzo, the master of human impu- dence.” The first state of the orginal engray- ing exists fn only tio Known copiés,—one being atthe British Museum, from which the fa siinile of the Portfuite has heen skillfully made. The remaining contents area caret aml ap- preciatiye chapter on Turner, by the editor, with four Mlustrations,—-2 part of the series which has been tor some time interrupted; and, last. ly, an recount of the etchings of Rembrandt, as exhibited st the Burlington Fine-Arts Club. This collection {ilustrates the works of the gecat master, begining in 1633 and ending in TSHL, and has market-valuce of £30,000, ‘The concise bit Instrictive account of ft is given hy that excellent Art-writer who was recently falsé- Ty reported as dead, vi: J, Bearington “Atkin- son, OUR NATIONAL FLAG, The Mugarine of American History opens with an article upon “Onur National Flag,’ by Maj.- Gen. Schuyler Hamilton, in whieh the writer discredits the statement that there wasin the early history of the American Colonies a flag of New England with a blue field, « St. Georwe’s cross, anda green tree inthe upver canton of the St. George's cross. ¥The use of aucho flag, he remarks, “py New England would have been flying in the face of Cromwell and of the Parllament, and the Colonists never ost sight of the King's ‘comlug te his own agatn,’ as the phrase was. cott, of Massachusetts, cut the red cross out of the national flag of Great Britain, which was the fag used In New Encland, because he re- garded {tas tdolatrous, Conshlerabls commo- tlon was created by this movement, but flnally itwasdeelded that ths cross should be struck {rom all the flags in the Colony except one, which was kept at Cuatle Island for the purpose of saluting slips when they passctl. When Sir William Pepperell cantured Louls- burg, Cape Breton, June 17, 1743, the flag which he bore was the Union,” with tha motto, * Nil desperandum Christo Duce.” At the battle of Bunker'’a HIi, as at Lexington and Concord, Gen, Hamilton belicyes there were no fings in use except those which belonged tu reginents or to companies of mifnute-men June 18, 1775, Gen. Putnam Sisplaged on Pros- peet HUM, Boston, a red tag with the mottaes, *Qui Transtulit Sastinet" and “ Appeal to Heaven,” {n letters of gold. When Col. Mout- trie rezelved, Sept. 13, 1775, says Gen. Hamil- ton, “an order from the South Carolina Coun- cHlof Safety for the taking of Fort Jolinston, on James Teland, he had fuege blus Hag made, with a crescent in one corner, to be in uniform with the troops. Oct. 20 of the same year, “the flag of the floating batteries before “Boe ton wasn flag witha white croand, a treo in the middie, and the motto, ‘Appeal to Heaven.’ " Jan, 2, 1776, the Continental Union flag, com- biniug the *Uuton® flag of England with thie. teen stripes of alternate whitenud red tor the eld, war substituted for the flag displayed by Gen. Putnam on Prospect Hill alx months be. fore. This lag was used by the Colonics until dune 14, 1777, when Congress Nesolved, That tiv Hag of the thirteen Unital States be thir teen stripes, alternate red and white; that the unlon be thirteen stars, white In a blue field, representing & new constellation.” Jan, 13, WH, Congress enacted “That, after May 1, 1705, the flag of the United States We ifteen stripes, alternate red and white; that tho unton be fifteen sturs, white ina biug field." In 1817-"18 the expediency uf altering the flag was again brought before Congress, and it was tinally resolved, on the tt of April, 1814, That, from and after the Fourth of July next, the flag of tho United States be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; that the unton be twenty stars, white ina blue field; and that, on the adinissian of o new State Inte the Union, one star bo added to tho union of the flag: and that such addition shall take effect on the Fourth of duly next succeeuing such ad- inission.”? There arg now thir en stars in the unlon of our flay,—one hav! been added July 4, 1877, on account of the adinission of Col- orady to the elsterhvod of Stutes. & ART+NOTES, Tho Metropolitan Museum of New York is satd to be ino most thriving condition, and rap- idly adding to fits Art-collections, Tne Prest- dent of the institution, Mr. J. T. Johnston, has had the lberality to advanee the funds neces- sary to secure for the Musou the Cesnola col- lection, relylug upon public subscription for his relmbu nt. The treasure of Kourlum, a As carly as 16%, John Endt-" alistinet: vollection o: i] been bought for this Muscan, ‘The great Van-Loon collection of paintings— a private possession at Amsterdam—ts about to be sold, alter being in the family of its owners for about two centuries, It ts ane of the three great private collections of Holland,—-the other two being the Steengracht collection, at the Hague, and the one belonging to the descend. ants of Rembrandt's Burgomaster Six, The Van-Loon collection fs rich in paintings of the Duteh achool,—some of them of auperlor merit. It is helfeved that attempts will be made by the Kingdom of Hotland to add jt to the national collections at Atnaterdam or the Hague, tut the agents of private wealthy picture-tuyers arc already at Atmaterdam, with Instructions to make tempting offera for the choice paintings. SPARKS OF SCIENCE. FLORA ROUND ABOUT CHICAGO, Gourp Fastty.—Many of our citizens have domesticated in thelr gardens the pretty, wild climber, Echinocystts lobata, or Wild-Balsain- Apple, which grows, after the manner of the gounl of the Prophet Johah, with marvelous rapldity and Inxuriance. It is on annual, set in 8 single season the plant will spread over an immense surface, and with its dense foliage form an impervious and grateful shale for sunny windows aod walls. It deserves to bo 0 favorite among vines on account of Its delicate, thick-sct leaves, abundant racemes of greenish- white flowers, and its rank, lush development. If it have a fault, it is its tendency to usurp the entire fleld where it takes root, smothering all vegetation within {ts reach under its heavy mantle, Where {t grows unier the eye of " man, this defect can be cast- ly remedied; 9 slight © pull detaches {t from the soll, anilits career ts ended, But, when it springs up in the wilds, as in the rich low lands on tho banks of rivers, It expands without let or hindrance, and {na brief timo will monopolize every Inch of spaco for acres together. It inhabits our land from New England far tothe west of us Itis commonon the Des- platnes River; aud some of tho aimall islands In Fox River, near Aurora, ate entirely covered with ft. On the Missourl River, near Sloux City, it has taken possession of no extensive tract of wooded land which the raflroad tra- verses, aud for miles along tho track nothing can be scen, inthe summer and carly autumn, but the thick folds and festoons of Ita graceful It shrouds the earth, the berbage, the the frees of small alze, and tho nd lower branches of the monarchs of the :orest. Not a blade of grass, nut n leaf of any other plant of any sort,—herb, bush, or troe,—In visible. Smooth, continuous, tin- penctrable as a winter-robo of snow, ft clothes the soil and tho undergrowth of the forest with a unlform coyerlid of green. The effects fa wonderful. It ts like a fairy spec- tacle,—novel, beautiful, bewildering. One icuis as though suddenly whirled Into n seene of en- chantment, where the nyinplis aml dryads of wood and stream dsport ut will and indulge unrestrained thelr fantastic tricks and humors. The Echinocyastis belongs to a family, the Cu- curbitacew, whigu {is not lare, but con- tuins many very useful members. One xe- nus, the Cucumis, affords us the Cucumber and the Muskmelon, Another, the Cucurbita, yields. the Pumpkin, the Squash, and the Vegetable: Marrow. A third, the Citrullus, elves us the Watermelon and the Citrons the Lagenaria bears the Gourd and the Calabash; and from tho Bryonta and the Colocynth are obtalned yal- uable incdival agents. The species, numbering Iso about 300, are gencrally natives of hot climates. A few are found in temperate regions in Eurupe and Amerlea, but India and South America are thelr chosun habitats, Although so many fruits of the order aro wholesome for cating, 9 drastle and acrimonious property characterizes wu large number of the snecivs. ‘The secds of nearly all aro larmicss, andare bland and oily. Those of the Telfairia pectata, an African plant, are as large as chest- nuts, and are teed ag alinunds. They also yield an vil which rivals that of tho olive. Yet the ple which surrounds these sceds Is extremely itter and injurious. The dangerous principle common to the tamily exhibits in various other species ita greatest activity in the vulp {uvest- ing the seeds, It {s supposed that some, if not all, of tho siti a les have been deprived of their acrid qualitica by cultivation. Muny of the species of the Cucumis, the genus con tatulng the Melon and Cucumber, are violently cathartle, While the julces of the root of sume of the Bryonlus partake of this character, the young shoots forin WAplesonia put-lerbs, One of the most “virulent members of the Gourd family fs the Spirting Cucumoer, Elate- rium agreste, which grows wild In Souther Europes. The popular name of the plant ta de- rived from the singular havit of it has of expel- ling the sveds and fnclosing pulp from the in- terior of the fruit when ripe. ‘Tho frult. pod {s about an inch and a half Jones and ons, oat maturity, it drops fron stalk, Its contents ar: sent ont with sudden force through the aperture left by the stem. A drug ismanufactured from the pulp of the frit, which acts as a drastle purgative. Iuls eupposed that, the Metons are natives of Asia, although they have never been found in their wikl state, “The lomans do not mention the frnit, and it Is therefore Inferred that it was ofan Inferior quailty in their time, The Musk- melop was introduced Into England from Jamatca in 1570, ‘Tho Watermelon Is but little grown fn Britain; but in Agia, Eeynt, and ather hot countries, it is liehty esteemed, buth asa fruit anil as food. In Senezal a single specimen has been known to welgh sixty pounds. The Chate (Citsyllua Chate), which prod es n sweet, cool fruit alm- fiat to the Watermelon, fan natlye of Exyot and Arabia. ‘The Kankvor (C, utilixsimus), an oval fruit, about alx Inches long, with inuch the flavor of the Melon, is cultivated in India, | The half- grown fruit is pickled, and the ripe frult fs eaten raw and In curries, while oll Is expressed from the seeds, and used in cooking sud in Inmps. ‘The Cruits of several other Indian species are used as food In various forins. The family Is composed litely of auceutent herbs, climbing by means of tendrils, and hear- ing divcious ur moneelous flowers, which arc succeeded by pulpyor sometimes membrannccous fruits. DISCOVERERS OF ANJESTITESIA. The editor of the Boston Journal of Chemistry congratulates himeci€ upon having escaped, though barely, the discovery of anmsthesia. When 6 student of medicine, in 1842, he was in ithe habit, with other students, of inhaling cther frequently, for the sake of {ts exhilarating ef fects, and was more than once carried by It to the verge of {nsensibillty, He now rejoices that Ms experiments did not carry him farther, for the rather whtinsleal reason tut the four men who clan to have discovered anresthesin have had their Ives made mlserablo by the fatlure tu substantiate thelr richts. Iu 184, Horace Wells. adentht of Hartford, Cony, produced anes- thesia by nitrous oxide, He successfully em- ployed his discayery for the prevention of pain wh Temoelni tenth, In 1848, ether wan first used to produce ineensibility in a paticnt during a surgical operation perforined by Dr. Varren, in the Massachusetts General Hospl- . Tho ether was administered by Dr. W. T. . Morton, of Boston, why had preylo used it with success in dentistry. Dr. Jackson, 0 distinguished chemist of Houston, disputed the claim of Dr. Mprton to the discovery of the aumsthetle propertics of vther, alleging that tho suggestion of its powers in this direction had. originated ‘with him. ‘Tho controversics that ensued regarding the claims of Wells, Morton, and Juckson, to the discuvery of anesthesia, were endless, exasperating, and incouclusive, and finally drove all three of the claimants to thy imad-house. Dr. Morton so njured him- acl€ while {nan asylum as to cause his death; Dr. Wella committed sulcida in New York in 15433 and Dr. Jackson fs now a hopeless famate of arctreat for tle inaane, From testimony recently published by Dr. J, Marion Sima, it would seem that nelther of theso claimants was the carliest discover of anxs- thesia, From an array of evidence declared to be Irrealstlble, {t appears that Dr. Crawford W, Long, of Athens, Ga, produced the condition as carly as March 30, 1512. Dr. Long is atlll Mving and fn possesston of his reason; but ho lost his property during the War? and fs now, in his old age, obfged to work hard ut his profes- sion for his duity broad. It{s proposcd by the Journal of Chemistry that the medical profession of the ciitire country unite in asking Congress at its next sceaion to appropriate the sum of £400,000 to be equally divided among the faml- lies of Dra. Wells, Morton, Jackson, aud Long. AFRICAN EXPLORATION, Tne International Africa Assoclation, found- ed by the King of the Belglane, has given o strong finnulse to African exploration. In Belgium, donations to the amount of 293,000 francs have been recelved, together with annual subscriptions amounting to 102,000 franca. It ia expected that the annual incamo from Bel- sium alone will reach 73,000 francs. An expe- dition {s to be dispatched immediately to Lake ‘Yanganyika, by way of Zunzlbar, to establish stations on the shore of that lake or beyond. The British haye dissolved conucctlon with the International Commission, preferring to prosecute thelr share of the work Independent ly. Subscriptions had, prior to this action, been taken by the English Atrlean Committee to the amount of $30,000, and they ars dally increns- ing. A separate Scatch saclety is to have its headquaaters at Glnsgow. Tt will work in har- mony with the Loudon Socfety, but send out its own travelers and print its own reports. Mr, Alfred E. Craven, an experlenced Afelean explorer, hus lately atarted for M'papwa, Ho was otdedt by a grant from the English Society, and will make geographical Investigations In the Tanganyika district. Fron calculations recently instituted, it ap |, For sume distance from the shore the water {s shallow. Sir Jolin gets far enuugh to discern the child's figure with distinctuess by only wad- ingto his knees: aiter this hv has to pass through a succession of narrow channels breast devp, and then—abraptly discovers that he is out of his depth, if Daphoe, away amidst the tranquil tletds, could watch ber child's slender chanves of sat- vation! [sho could watetr how slowly tho switniner makes head agalust tho tide, how im- potent’ seems his ateength among the shoals and currcuts by which he ta beset; while still the speck of rack on which Paul stunds bevones inelantly Ices visible above the Basta of crucl waters that threoten to cugull mm (0 be continued next Saturday.) _——————— CURRENT GOSSIP. MISSING, ‘Thore'an vacant spot within my breast; Iknow not whence it came— Cannot describe ts nancleys ways, Nor ca)l tt by Its naine, Acortatn void pervades my heart, A feeling undetined, ‘That tells the story of a Jose And of a galn comblned— A sort of Heav'n-descended Joy Entwlned with sorrow deop, Bo 1am half inclined to amile, Yot halt inctined to weep, Dut sht the tenth comes to my mind, Ascones tho dawn of day; Tgaeesa certain witching Mise Enticed my heart away, 1. A. Osponxs, HAWKEYK DOTS. Burlington Havckeye, ‘The tramps complain that the women of Iowa don’t know how ta make blackberry ples as well os they uscd to. A West-Hill man named Rodolph Khanew was arrested last night for slapping his wife, We suppose he thougnt aman had a right to paddle his own Khanew. A man went to u theatre in Chicago the other night. Mu doean't remember what the name of the play was on the bitls, but all that he could: hear wus ‘'Fanal teu. cents; fanal ten cots,” The Sultan is unconsclously teaching tho lit- the Sultaus the following nursery jlogie; ‘Tuo Dan UI, You Dan UB, eu Too Dan (macn) for me, Many a swect girl, with tender, loving eyes has wept away the moments of love's young dream, whily the young man who was to tell ber all about itis pleading with the Hvery-stable man, trying to bire four dollars’ worth of horse and buggy for a dollar and a halt, When Gen. Grant salled away from Ostend, Beitannla wiped her eye, and, remembering ber Telemaque, fancied herself Calypso, who no pouvait so consoler du depart d’ Ulys: Clabe- Bemscrat. O yes, but woen tho late Rev. Lem- ue} Stratiosh sulicd from Jonululy tor Pwitalio- kal, the Sangwichers, remembering their Porkoly ainctopeku, faucted’ themselves Blakarapaxe- Meite, Who kokere nock pong de yacker- ack ea¢ necbesinatu perlksdipredykel, ‘Tut tsa well-attested fact, Mulnighton North Hil. The declining moon gleams from tho starry beavens like the suile on the face of @ jack-o'-laptern, A young man Jeans aguinst the end of the vine-embowercd porch beneath the window of bis dear, sud sings, “ O fora touch of that sult, white haud on tiny fover-throvbiug brow." ‘And then ber father, culttiug himself stealthily from the front door, shook up aud touched the young man just below the touraure with a No. 9 boot, ‘and the moun weut down fu a sea of blood, aud the pall of darkucas blutted out the stars, PROFITS OF LITERATURE. ~ Printer? Circular. Longfellow ts tudependent iu circumatances— probably worth $100,000 to $200,000; but the Greatest part of ft has come to hws through bis wife, long since deceased, who was rich in her own right. Emerson bas not made from his remarkable ttle volumes over $20,000, Hie has galued neatly an inuch more by lecturing; and yet, by excellent management, which une might not expect from the huh iMeallet, aul by a serene piss phy of a practical sert, ho continues to ive an tis small property. Bryant fs olten elted as an Instance of a rich author. Ho ts rich, but not by authorship. All the moncy he has dircetly eartied by his pen, outside of his Journal, Would not excecd, in all probubibity, a0, notwithstanding his estate is estimated at 800,000, Huwthorne was pour to his dylng day, and might -have sulfered but for his appointment to the Consulship at Liverpool by hia friend, President Pierce. Lowell I indepemdent tn cireumstances—no thanks to his fine poctry and essays, however, Whittler, like must thrifty New-Knglanders, owns hin own house, end bencath its humble roof, it {a Bald, he has sometiines subsisted—he ig a bachelor, you Know—on 3500 4 year. Holines ds well off by the practice of the med!- cal professiun, by tnurrlage, aud inheritance, al- beit not by pocnis, lectures, nurely nor * Autu- crate of the Breakfust-Table.”” All that he lus written lias nut brought him $25,000. J. G. Holland is frequently tamed as an au- thor who has ainassud wealth. Ls books have sold as largely us those of any American writer, and whatever may be thought of hts ability he atll! las a vast constituency. Hois not at oll rich {n the New York senso; he may be worth $200,000, but most uf this he got by bis partner ship tn tho Sorlugueld Ltepublican. George Willa Curtls 1s dependent on his salury from the Hurpers; ao is Mr. William D. lluwells depende: n ils editorship of the Abantio; Bree Marte, ft. B. Atdrich, daines Pare . Trowbridge, R. 1. Stoddard, ‘T. W. son, manly fugitive writtny. A VISIH-STOIY, 8r, Lovts, July 14,—Zo the Auitor of the Globe. Democrat: On my return to 8t. Louls from Quincy, Il, where 1 havo. been attending to some buslness, I tiasten to inform you of a pe cullar natural curloslty that ia now at Quincy, and which will shortly bo exbibitod {n this clty, Yesterday morning a party of ive gentlemen started upon a fishing excursion from Quincy, up the river toa bridge which cro the Mise sissipni about one mile north of thatety, One of the party, on his frat cust brought to the aur- face’ a pecullar fish, whieh I will endeavor to describe, and which must attract tho attention of naturalists In this and every other country. It weighs elguty-two pounds, hos a welllevel- oped human hea: a Feet head of straight, bluck hair, and tts ceneral features would indi- vate a consideraulo amount of intelli. gence, After urvat dilticuity wo aucvees ed ta landing it into the boat without injury. and brought it to the Missouri House, on Main street, where it wus scen by a great wuniber of the citizens, who cau vouch for tho truth of im: statement. But, one of the most wonderful things of all, x Vortuguess gentleman happened te be passing at the tune, and heard it uttering some sounds which attracted bls attention, and he wus completely avtonished when he found, the fish was ably to couverse in the vernacular of bis childhood, and by his interpretation we were crabled to \earn something of his family . history and genealogy, which hus been handed. down to bun by tradition. Some 50 years. aga a Portuguese ballor, who had been brought up Jn the bustuess of cural aud pearl thobing, cot overboard ina storin on the Puctile, made the acquacntance of a Mermaid whuin be met in the Auuntic, and established =u colony ou a coral reef on the coust of Floritla, and ‘this strange creature traces his origin back to that cxtraos- dinary union. RATS SET A STEAMSINIY ON FIRE. San Franciaco Chronicle, The Pacifle Sail steamship Gravada arrived yesterday from Panams. A rumor was circu- lated yesterday that the Granada was a few days ago act on fire by one of the Chinese crew, but a Chronicle reporter, after a thorough luvestixe- tlon, found the report to be ungrowded. There wus afire, however. At 8:15a, m. on Monday last, while the ship was beating agaist a heavy wind aud rupning sca about forty uilics off Point Concepcion, some Chinese sailors, who wery asleep La thelr pears thatthe expense of dispatching a wo) equipped exp dition from Engiand may ju corded at about £1 10s for each heat mile traveled in Africa, if the expedition recurs to the place whence it set out. In thronen fonrnesa the expense fa in many cases near, wico as areat. Beveral routes are proposed for exploration, which comprise an axgregate leneth of 7.700 geographieal miles, The cost of tie's exntoration, according to the above eotinate, will be about $380,850. THE PLAIN OF ARRIO, A description of the plain of Arrho—n to. markable district In Abybainia—is giver, in the Berlin Zeilechrist der Qesselachaft fur Brdkunde by Dr. W, Schimper, who has resided there for fifty years. Tho plain bering avout two days, Journcy 8.8, E. of Marsow, and extends along the base of the mountains of tho Province of Agame, It ts depressed below the level of the sea, and from it all Abyssinia fs supplied with salt. ‘The plain (s regularly subject. tu remark. ablo physical changes, which are in brief thus deacribed: < ‘ ‘The annual rains which occur at the time of thy diry wearon on the plitean lve enflicfent meetney tocanse a chemical action te take pluce in the ma. terinln gathered In the depression. Stud cones four to ten feot in halght, are thrown up, from the topsof which emoke, and sometimes even flame break out. While some are rising, others sink an dinappear, to ho thrown upayain in altered shapes, fo tliat the whole district neema to boil, This a pearance continues until the end of the rainy n won, or, more correctly, till the whole district jg Honded: with water, which thon comes down fq torrente from the plateau, and which pate an eng tu the commotion. At the end of both rainy rea. sone the water evanorrtes from the floodet coun. try, which then appears covered with a bard, coutee-grained salt, ‘ BRIEF NOTES. ‘The great Moscow Polytechnic Museum way opened on June 12 by a special mecting of the Society of Friends of Natural Sctenve, In bringing before tho Zeolugteal Socicty of Franco the discovery of another mammoth ja the ico of Siberia, M. Bayle advance the theory that these aniinale were not natives of Siberia, ‘but had becn transported tilther hy strong cur Tents from the Itnolayas, . An account was lately given, In the Janestili Gaxelte, of the apparent suicide of a dor,—the animal plunging into the river and holding ty head under the water until life was extinct. Ip altel to the circumstance, a alintlar tnetance is recalled by Forest and Stream, where a tog drowned iteelf to escape physical agony, having lad both forelegs broken, and suffering in tensely for several days. The Nubian Railway, from Want Halfa to Dongola, {s slowly progressing. Tho first sec. tlon, from Wadi" Halla to Sigyaya, in| Wadi Sarros, hus heen opened to trattle; and sume 6,000 men are at work npon the second sectlun, extending to Akasha. A bridge ts to be built ackoss the Nilo at Koye. The railway belongs to the Government of Soudan, and, when con. pleted, will have a great influence on the de velopment of commerce, A correspondent of the Bulletin of the Nuttat Ornithotoyical Club relates that a House-Wren (Troglodytes) neden) undertook to bull’ Its neat this spring in the nozzle of a pump that was in duily use. [t was repeatedly found that the pasaase of the water was obstructed by tho In- roduction of sticks Into the nozzle, with which the bird was atteinpting to construct {ts domi eila, Finally the pump was abandoned to tho Wren fora couple of hours, at the end of which tlno {t was completoly closed with sticks, Three times thp nest was destroyed before the poratering ttle builder would abandon tho ucallty. —— THE OLD ROOF-TREE. O that grand old tree, with its lvy-covered bark, And [ty boughs drooping down to the door, Whore the glance of tho sunveam came shimmer ny throug Ant flecking the whitc-sanded floor, Where the bright birde carulud thelr beautiful Inys, And the aqultreln chteped tortdly In gles, And tho songs of my childhood rang merry and gay, As wo dinced ‘neath tho ivy-grown treet QT loved thattroe with Its softly-slzhing Icaves, And the hum of the whispering vines, And the feathery mons we could now and then ace Whers the tendrils of ivy entwined, Tloved It when awiftly It awaycd to and fro, And klesed the wild storm In Ite glea; And [ nover bave found a place dear to my beat As that houses ‘neath the ivy-yrown tree. Thavo loft that tree, and the ivy, and the moss— Left them tnero in thelr glory and prides And the boughs stit! droop tu the low-arching oor, 3 And the Ivy still clings to its side, © ft eeems like 8 friend as I think of {t now, Ike a friend { shall nevermora seo; Fora strange group aro there—other children at play ‘Neath the boughs of tho darling old tree. Citicagy, duly 19. Miu Matte hatch, were awakened by smoke. At the samo time the watch on deck discovered dense snioke fssulng from the bateh, An agite Mongol ran abalt aud informed First OM: Ilart that the ship wason tire. Shmuttancoualy the boatswain, alaoa Mongol, Violently rung the fre-bell, Firat Otleer Hart ts afraid of fire. Ife has been burn ed out several tines, and was on thedapan when that steamer was “burned off the Chincso coast about two yearsagu. He bas Cor years made it his habit to have the hoso placed’ on the deck every night at 8o’clock, Rushing forward hue found that the ship was Indeed on fire. The Captain was tustantly notifled, and Hart, gctz. ingan ax, chopped « hole in the hatch and called fora emall-sized volunteer, A China- man, stark naked, sprang forward, and Hurt onlered him to take the hose and go below and extinguish the fire. The alinond-cyed tar bound a wet towel over his face and oboyed with alacrity, and Hurt, who Is o large mau, en- lnrged the aperture und followed, Seven China. men went down after him Ike monkeys, and the pumps were manned. The engine was stopped, and, ceasing ita task of driving wheels, commenced forcing water, By this tine the passengers, alarmed by tho unwanted tumult and the clanging fire-bell, wera hud- dled, half-naked, on the deek in a pantie, Tho women shricked and the sterner scx felt de- eldedly slinky, The exploring squad below decks groped thelr way through the aulfucat- {ng smoke tothe store-room ti the foretold, whero they found the fire, The pumps were already working, and in three and a halt minutes alter tho alarm water was playlng on the flames, und in three ands half minutes more the blaze was extinguished. ‘The origin of the fire was certainty very curious, Ln the store-room waa a barrel of inatches in paper oxce, Tats aro remarkubly fond of phus- horus. ‘This autre taste caused the fire. it wns found that rats hud guawed thelr way through the walls of the store-room and into tho matches, amd in thefr nibplings at the lucifers the attrition of thelr tocth izmted them and ereated the blaze. Insurance men state thatthe majority of the instances of fire by “epontaneous combustion” are really caused by rate nlubling at matches, ORIENTAL GAMBLING, Lanton Ginbe, The “rentie Hindoo” and “mild Mohammo- dan”, have, It seeing, invented between them a perfectly novel sort of gambling, Inone quar- ter of tho interesting City of Ajmer thero is a house occupied by some sootheayers who aro eredited by the public with the faculty of fore- ing changes of weather, Thoy are repre- ted to be remarkably accurate in their pro- dictions, owing to tong practice in thelr profes- sion, Outuide tho residence of these worthy accra a crowd of natives assemble every day for the purpose of betting on the chance of a down- pour, After the. straight tip’ bas been pur- chased fromnone of the prophets, the buyer commences bellowing, after the manner of ‘list men" on English race courses, that bo willtake or lay certain odds about the fall of rain within a given time, The ordinary quotations aru aiztcen to one avainst heavy rain conlug down within twenty-four hours, elght to one against alight shower happening, and longer odds in both cases a6 the time ts reduced, When the weather happens to to exceptionally yariable, thy whole street becoincs blocked by au excited throng of gamblers, and the prophets do a stnart business in “straight tps? ta} pears that the svers themselves very often joln in the amusement aud back their respective opinions with the greatest pluck. -As the hour approaches for the majority of the Lets ta be decided, the more nervous gamblers are heard offering thelr chances of winning at a beavy Giscount. ‘This allows the the weather prophote aR opportunity of “hedging wt considerable advantage, aud it frequently happens that the book of an ould seer will «show a certainty of galu, whether rain falls or not. WHERE AND HOW CHEAP CIGARS ARE MADE, New York Tribune. ‘The room was low and long, with four win- dows on the north side. Near ony of these win- dows sats womnan about 40 years old, bunching cigars froma pile of etrippings cluso by. At suother window were two men tuishing the cigars, aud tn the further part of the room were two beds aud a table with dishes on it. While tho men in regard to the cheapness with which {t was possible to manufacture clyars, the door opened and a ragged Mttle girl eutered with a dirty canvas bag on her arm, the contents of which she emptied into a barrel near the door, She then sat down and commenced to strip to- bacco from the pie beforo mentioned. ‘The man whe did tho talking was very loquac‘ous, and stated that he could purchase cigars for about $7 a thousand. He said that the wrappers used were of Western tobacco, whie tho fillings sometines of a imuch Wuer quality."" To Iustrate thls late ter assertion he showed the coutents of tho bar- rel to which the little girl had contributed. It wos half flied with o inasa of what might bo called varbage, culled from tho atreets, and consisting of scraps of brown paper, cabbage leaves, and civar-stumps, sume of which were nodoubt stumps ul Havana clears, ‘The man- ufacturer then took lis customer into another roum opening trom tho stulrway, where there was a kettlo {19 brick fireplace, and a plank on which were spread out the gleanings from tho barrel, assorted antl sepurated to dry, He slowed bow the burnt ends of stumps wera cut off and the remainder wnrolled; how dricd cave bage leaves, bolic with tobacco stems and sa- mach Icaves, could be converted Into “very iis tobacco," ond closed his explanations by axtel- {nthe virtues of the tonka beun, valuri ammonia as flavoring extracts The ri sald he thought ke could make some urrunge ment with him in a few days, and then with- irae to continuo Jils researches 10 elgar manu facture. “ALL BUSTED TO DEATH, Detroit Bree Brea, About Do'clock yesterday tnorning a boy ran up toa policoman standing on Moproo ayenue, ond called out in an excited voleo: “Vuine on—vome down here—hurry ap!" “ What's tha row, boy?” calmly tuquired the ofilcer, ** Man bustod all to death down herol"” “Shoot” “Yea'r! Ho drank two glasses of soda-water end busted up likes biler! I stood right there and saw the wholo ’sploston.” ‘Now, boy, you go back and ace lf you were not mistaken,” sald the olllcer, “If there's a dead nan there I'll go down. Sco if tho Coroner is there, and Lt any officers are around.” The boy rau back, and after belug absent about A{teen sninutes he returned at a slouchy galt and explained: a “T got the facta alittle mixed, The fellow called fur two giaanes of soda, put em away 33 foat as be could, und then dtti’'t have any money to pay. Lthouglt the soda busted bini up, but ‘twas the soda than who did It. fle hauled off and be drew back, and he shut his jaws, and be busted that stranger in memory of "7, Hu juct came to his senses os | e t there, and he’s roll- ing bis eyes around and sticking out his tongue and purtending that he's made at least nine cents out o’ the performance. You'd better go down and draw him iu fur forgery.” A DISTRESSED NOBLEMAN, + Brtdgenort Standard, Atramp came along the other day, and con- fided to the impressible better half of a farmer on the road that he was a Cuunt, who was tray- elug through the country inthis humble way scekiug atrue heart which he might win dud take back with himto share the reVenus of his immense catatesin Italy. He begged that oho wouldn't mention the fact, as it aiicht iuterfera with his cherished plan of being loved for bi: self alone, She promised not to saya word about it, and fuyited the Count to stup with them all night, giving him tho best bed in tho houso and the scat nearest the beefutcak at the supper table. The meal was quite a revelativo to her ju the matter of the table habits of the nobility of Europe, but the discovery ste made in the morning wae still a greater eye-opener. His Lordship had depurted in the small hours, taking with him, probably as cherished svuuvc- nirs, the larger portion of the bed-Hicu, the farmes’s best bouts, au old horse-piatol, aud half a ham. He lett o dirty, trawling, inis- apelied uote, stating that he ‘inuet awuy, as bis paselonate tovgiugs for the trite Leart of which e was ever ju search would not let bim rest un: tilthey were uulted. ‘The farmer loaded lis whot-t nu, took the road, and was gone two dayy, but didn’t flad the Count. Hu must have gous hammocks oves sho curward * the pretended dealer wes tulking with one of © back to his estates tn Italy.