Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 5, 1877, Page 10

THE! CHICAGO ‘IRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1877-SIXTEEN PAGES. 0 , a nn rr en Ni ‘, cH looked as though she would. The officer grace- | erstwhile a source of admiration to all guests. | was a shrewd one, bat a little fos tavitatlona ta: New (Zork tat cy of sevens] ieohed as aus is scorched, blistered, and charred, a total | thin” to deceive’ even a Wallachine . He will make s tour through the entiré south- ern part of the State, where the Union has been Planting Sunday-schools for twenty years. Mr. Bischoff, the blind organist of the First Congregational Church, Washington, D. C., was -born in this city. He lost his sight from sick- ess when an infant. He spent several years in the Institute for the Blind, at Janesville, Wis. The Rev. Washington Gladden, pastor of the Congregational Cnurch at ‘Spriugdeld, Mass., is ‘expected in the city today. He is to fill the pulpit of the Union Park Congregational Shurch for several Sundays, and will make his seadquarters at the Alliance office. The Rev. E. P. Powell, late pastor of the bird Unitarian Church of this city, writes a aote to the Christiau Iegister from Clinton, N. Y., in which he denies that he has said that his withdrawal from the pulpit was permanent, but begs that for at.least a year or two he be left to enjoy the ‘* sweet slow hours’ under his trees, and the conviction that he “‘may, and not always must.” Mr. Powell also disavows some explanations given by the papers of his with- drawal! from the denom{nation, and says: “Not being primarily indebted to Unitarian associa- tion “for 1 tendency toward inteliectual libert and honesty of research, it cannot imply a criti- cism ou such affiliation if for a time | withdraw from it. As formerly among the Conprega- tionalists { found much to admire, sv among the Unitarians I find much to honor.” PIOUS SMILES. Darwin believes that birds have religious dis- tinctions. Of course hens belong to the laity, and geese believe in immersion. Gov. Letcher, returning from a Baptist fair, ‘was asked by a friend what he had been doing. “T have been eating oysters for the Lord at a dollar a dozen,” was his reply. A Cincinnati widow advertised for “every Christian in the city’? to send her ten cents. Bhe realized twenty cents, indicating an uncx- “pectedly large number of Christians in that city. A Danbury man describes a church festival for raising money as an operation wherein one- dbaif the church buvs berries at fifteen cents a Quart and sellsthemto the other half for a dollar. It is remarked of Newark young men nowa- @ays that they show 2 decided determination to stand by the churches—particularly at the hour when the girls are coming out to be escorted home. Amember of a church in Vermont desiring “3 man from the Lord,” prayed in this wise: “Send us not an old manin his dotage, nor a young man in his goslinbood; buta man with all the modern improvements.” An old German boried his wife, and was tell- ing a sym) neighbor of her sad decease. His friend ing if the late lamented “was yesienied toher fate." ‘ Resigned!” exclaimed fhe . nest Teuton, ‘mine Gott, she had to When little Henry Augustus was revrimanded by his father for throwing stones at another bor, and told that be might be nanged some day if he was nota better boy, the Jad said be did’nt care if he would’be, ‘for then the papers would print my portrait, and the girls would send me flowers in jail, and I'd go to Heaven, and that ’d be bully.” The inferenceis plain that Henry Augustus reads the daily papers. “Are there many professors of religion at your college, James?” solemnly asked the dea- con of bis nephew, who had just got home from his freshman year. “Think not, sir,” replied James, musingly; “‘we’ve got 2 professor of Hellenic Greek, a professor of comparative conchology; in fact, professors of almost every- thing else; but (ith ‘a wink) Idon’t recall any professor of ion among the faculty.” Old tan holds up his hands astounded. Dr. Sayers is the clergyman in e of the spiritual interests of the solalers: ine Fore St. George, and he likes to tell ‘this lads’? occasionally 2 plece of his mind in the plainest terms from the puipit. So he closed upa recent sermon with the following: “My brethren, is charity sermon’ Pm preaching. 4 d you—I want rupees, and not dirty pieces of paper in the bag, having written on them, ‘Sayers, old cock, how are you!” T won't have it, mind vou, I won't. 1’ve stood it Jong enough.” Mr. R. H. Dana, Jr., told the following ‘ lit- tle si ” at adinoer party in Koston not long ago: He was passing a negro church at the North End one night, and took into his heza to Jook in. After a few moments’ observation and Ustening, he was quietly retiring, when one of . the official members” stepped up and ex- pressed regret that they could not offer him amore attractive preaching. Mr. Dana remarkea patay that it was very good, but the colored rother insisted on apologizing. ‘* Not much in de way ob preachin’, sir, only a New York man.” A lady who has two charming little daughters ‘was one night sammoned from the nursery just as sbe Was preparing them for their cribs. “Say your prayers and get into bed,” she ssid, ‘and I'l! come back and tuck you in.” When she returned, however, she found them still on their knees, andin a perfect tumult of Isughter. “What are you doing!’-she asked. “Don’t Phare know it is wrong to laugh over your pray- es “Well, mamma,” said the elder, “I guess yon'd lungh if you heard what sister said.” + What did she say, then?” “Why, she said—O, mammls, it was so fanny! ~she said, ‘Oh, Lord, for Christ's sake, give me anew green 01 1° ‘The mother was delighted with the little one’s faith, and the ‘new green parasol’? was forth- coming. CHURCH SERVICES. BAPTIST. ‘The Rev. Dr. Northrup will preach in the Michi- gan Avenue Church, near Twenty-third strect, at la.m ~The Rev. N. F, Raviin will preach as asual at the Free Church, corner of Loomis and Jackson Evening subject: **The Communistic ples of Trades Union Inimical to American Institutions.” ‘ ~The Rev. W. J, Kermott will preach in the aleted Street Charch at 11 a.m. Floral concert 87:45 p. m. he Rev. E.O. Taylor will preach in Mar- Mine's Hail, on Chicago avenae, east of Clark, at £:30 p.m. Bring ** Goepel Hymns No. 2." —The Rev. E. 0. Taylor will preach in the morning at Immanael Church, corner of Orchard 1nd Sophia streets, ~The Rev. A. Owen, D. D., will preach in University Place Church, corner of Douglas and Rhodes avenues, at lla. m. and 7:45 p. m. ~The Rev. Dr. Ives will preach in the Twenty- Afth Street Chnrch at 8 p. m. ~The Rev. T. J. Morzan, D. D., will preach in the Fourth Church, corner Washington and Pau- jina streets, at 10: a, m. —The Rev. W. W. Everts, D. D., will preach in the First Church, South Park avenue, corner of ‘nt? 8—SS. Cynacus, Largus, and Smaragdus, Phirty-first strect, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. “Subject of the evening discourse: ‘*Christianit: 4s a Social Science and Philosophy, Reform, ani ‘Tre Communion.” ~The Rev. C. 8. Smith will preach in the Sec- ou. Choreh in the evening. —The Rev. I. K. Cressey will preach in the Coventry Street Conrch at 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Comm n after morning service. +. Hewitt will preach at the Cen- tennis) Ciw.c4. comer of Jackson and Lincoln streets, morning and evening. PRESBYTERIAN, ‘Prof. W. M. Blackburn will preach at 10:45 a. mm. at the Fourth Church, corner of Rush and Sn- ‘perior utreeta. —Tne Rev. Jacob Post will preach in the church, corner of Noble and Erie streets, in Holland, at 10 &. m.. and in English st 7:40 p. m. — Rev. David Clark will preach in the Austin Dis abject, ** Satisfied in on **Pleading Before —The Rev. James Mactanghlsn will preacl Scotch Church, commer of Seuyemon eed ee wicqhe Her. Walter Bormtih will preach —The Rev. Walter Forsyth wil ‘Ragjewood Charch morn pete ing. ie sod eres - arr ion Chapel morning —The Rev. HH. Nixof, of Trenton, N. J. will preseh in ‘the. Second Charel Y Michigan avenue and ‘Twenlieth street ee ipsse am. —The Rev. H. T. Miller will preach in the Church, corner of Vincennes and Oak arennonnte 214, Bp and Prof, George L. Raymond,’ of D. mm. = Rev, Dr. Bascom, of Madison, Wie., wil preach {a the First Church, corner of tndinee avenue and Twenty-first street, at 10:30 2. mn. ~The Rey. J. M. Worrall, D. D.. will preach in the Eighth Choreh, corner of Washington and rg streets, at 10:30 4. m. aud 7:45 p.m. —The Rev. Charles L. Thompson will preach in the Fifth Church, comer of Indiana avenue and ‘Thirtieth street, at 10:30 a. m. —The ‘Rev. D. . Johnson will preach inthe First Chorch, Hyde Park, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:45 vn 2. —The Rev. R. A. Condit, of Cedar Rapids, will ‘breach at Jefferson Park Charch, corner of Throop and Adams streets, this morning. ‘ METHODIST. ‘The Rev. S. I. Adams will preach in Centenary ‘Seoeh, on Monroe street, near Morgan, morning crening. ~The Rev. W. F. Crafts will preach in ‘Trinit Chureh, Indiana avenue, “nest ‘Twenty-fourte street, in the morning on ** Christ the Light of the Homing." andat8p. m. on “The Great Dalles e —The Rev. John Willismson will preach in tn aciowican Avenug Church, near ‘Thirty-second. | street, at 10:30am. and 8p. m,. Evening sub- ject: **The D: ip ject: aughter. —The Rev. Dr. W. C. Willing will preach in the Langley, Avene Coureb; corner, of Thirty-ninth street, at 10:30 a, m. and 7:30 p. m. rene Kev. Dr. Rhea. of Cedar Rapids, ta., will preach in the Park Avenue Church at 10:30 a, m. —The Rev. K. D. Shephard will preach at the Western Avenue Church this morning, and the Rev. S. OB. Adame this evening. REFORMED EPISCOPAL, The Rev. J. D. Cowan will preach in Emanuel Chorch, corner of Hanover and wen. hth streets, at 10:45 a. m., and the Rev. R. H. Bos- worth at 7:4: pe BB. —tThe Rev. ft. H. Bosworth will preach in Trin- ity Church, Englewood, at 4p. m. —The Kev. R. H. Bosworth will pas in Grace corner of Hoyne and Le Moyne streets, 8, m., and the Rey. J. D. Cowanat in Pathe Rev. Dr. Hunter will preach in St. Panl's Church, corner of Washington and Ann streets, at 10:45 a.m. and 7:45 p. m. Morning subject: “*The Holy Communion Not an Exception to, but a Sample of, ereey acts " Eyening subject: “*The Young Man's Model. —The Reve Joun K, Dunn, of Cumberiand, Md. will preach in Christ Charch, Michigan avenue and ‘Twentieth streeta, this morning. —The Rev. W. E. Williams will preach in the Church of the Good Shepherd, corner of Jones and Homan streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:90 p. m. cuTue Rev. J. A. Fisher will preach at St. Jobn’s Church, moruing and evening. SWEDENBORGIAN. The Rev. D. Hibbard will preach inthe New Charch Hall, corner Eighteenth street and Prairie avenue, at 11a. m., and at the Temple, corner of Washington street and Ogden avenue, at 3:30 p. tm. Communion at both places. The Rev, L. P Mercer will preach in the New Jerusaiem Union “Church. Hershey Hall, No. 83 East Madison astrect, at 10:45 a. m. ‘Subject: “The New Science; Ita Field and Its Relations.” CONGREGATIONAL. ‘The Rey. L. 0. Barstow, of Burlington, Vt., | will preach in the First Church, corner of Wash ington and Ann streets, morning and evening. —The Rev. Z. 8. Holbrdok will preach In the Oakland Church this morning on **The Anchors of the Soul.” In the evening a children's praise serv- ice will be held, to commence promptly at 7:30. —The Kev. Washington Gladden, of Springfield. Masa., will preach inthe Union Park Church at 7230's. m. and 7:45 . m. —The Rev. C. A. Towle will preach in Bethany Church. corner of Paulina and West Huron streets, morning and evening. Morping subject: ++ From Christian Douvt to Christian Faith.” Evening subject: ‘+ God's Table i the Wilderness." UNIVERSALIST. —The Rev. J. Straub will preach in the hall of the Third Church, corner of Indiana avenue and ‘Thirty-firet street, at 10:45 a, m. —The Rey..L. J. Dinsmore, of Michigan, preaches at the Church of the Redeemer this even- ing. es EPISCOPAL. —The Rey. W. F. Morrison will preach in the Church of the Holy Communion, South Dearborn street, between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth streeta, at 10:45 a, m. and 7:30 p. m, LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmund Belfour ‘will preach in the English Church of the Holy Trinity, corner of Dearborn avenue and Erie streets, at 11a. m. CHRISTIAN. ‘The Rey..A. J. White will preach in the Central Church, corner of West Van Buren street and Campbell avenue, morning and evening. —The Rev. J.T. Tsaf will preach in the First Chorch. corner of Indiana avenue and Twenty- fifth street, morning and evening. MISCELLANEOUS, Dr. E. W. Stephens, of Janesville, Wis., will Jecture morning and evening on Spiritualism in No. 517 West Madison street, Bible Meeting will be held in Room 23 of Nevada Block, corner of Franklin and Wasbington streets, at 2:30 p.m. Subject of discussion: ‘The Kingdom of God, as Revealed in the Bible. —The Rev. Charles M. Morton will preach in the Chicago Avenue Charch, corner of LaSalle strect. 5a. m. Maj. D. W, Whittle will preach at . m. All avats free. —Elder H. G. McCulloch will preach at the hall No. 221 West Madison street morning and even- —The Rev. H. M. Paynter will preach in Calvary Tabernacle, No. 320 Ogden avenue, at 10:30 a. m. and at$ p.m. Subject: **Science vergus Historical Christianity.” Seats free. —Judge Layton will presch morning and evening at the Green Strect Tabernacle, Nv. 91 South Green street. a —The Disciples of Christ will meet at No. 229 West Randojph street at 4 p. m. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. Aug. 5—Tenth Sunday after Trinity, OL Pt ‘ATHOLIC. Aug. 5—Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost; dedi- cation of St. Mary Major. Aug. 6—Transfiguration of Our Lord. Aug. 7—-St. Cajetan, C.; St. Donatus, B. M. mM Aug. 9— Vigil of St. Laurence; St. Romanus, M. aun, fore Laurence, M. Aug. 11—Of the Octave of St. Laurence; SS. Tiburtius and Susanna, MM. JEWISH. Aug. 10—New Moon (Elu! 1). THE W. C. A. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cxuicaco, Aug.3.—The Woman’s Christian Association has come to take its place among the institutions of the city. It is only afew months old, but bas made rapid progress in the work. for woman. It is pushed forward by earnest Christian women who love its interests and long to see it stand as a helping haud to all women trying to help themselves. It has three distinct brancbes of work, the Employment Bureau at No. 9 Arcade court, in charge of a most efficient person, whcre girls are helped to tind homes; a dsily prayer-meet- ing is held in this room, and many are the inci- dents that mizht be related of the interest man- ifested by this poor working class, as they are taught tolean on the Savior. A dispensary for women and children is another branch of the work; it is in Pacific Block, corner of Clark and Van Buren streets. Tnis is in charge of a corps of female physicians, who give pheerfully of their time and strength to alleviate the ills of their less fortunate sisters. A committee of ladies are in readiness to answer a call from the physicians to visit the sick and give any aid required. A weekly praver- meeting is held in these rooms every Wednes- day afternoon at 3 o’clock; this the patients are most cordially invited to attend, and many have done so. The boarding bouses at Nos. 751 and 753 Wa- bash avenue are ready for occupancy. They are pleasantly furnished by the churches of the at Onentering you cannot but fec! what a delightful home this is for the weary girl who is trying from day to day to support lierself. Itis conducted as Christian parents would their own homes,—family worship each evening, Bible reading every Sunday alternoon, pleasant.words to greet them on their coming bome at nignt. The Assoviation is trying to throw around these young women everything that will tend to make for them an attractive Christian home. It is the aim of the ladies to become personally ac- goalpted with tne boarders, that the girls may lec) in sickness or trouble that they have friends who will be of service to them. Friday evening of each week is devoted to the members of the Association, who can spend the evening and become acquainted with the members of the household. Those who have done so speak often of the delightful hour they spent with these young girls. ¥ As young women leave their homes and come to this ercat city to earn a living and are desirous of finding a pleasant home and kind friends, they are asked to place themselves under the care of this Association, The price of board atthe Home is from $3 to $i per week. These boarding-houses were opened for the young workingwomen of our city, but as many of them are now at their homes in the country, the Association have decided for the present to admit any respectable woman desir-. ing board in the city. ‘othe numerous friends of the W. C. A. we wish to ask, Can you see these helping hands to our industrial women put away for lack of funds? Are there not many women of our city Jongins to enter into some Work for the Mas- ler? Here is one calling tor your aid. Will you not respond to the call by feuding a helping hand to this great work for women? Please remember us in prayers, labors, and gifts. A Frienp. MOSS-ROSES.. Exquisite beauties in a crystal vase, Aglow with richest crimson, deep and bright, I gaze upon you with entranced delight, ‘And press ye passionately to my face. Ye marvels of all loveliness and grace. Like water to a wretch who's thirsted quite. So are ye. O my beauties, to my sight; And, soving ye. I cannot love what's base. O sacred is the joy that fills my sou? When gazing on my roses freal And fragrant as the winds of Paradise; For ab! they hint of lands beyond the blue, The weary, worid-worn Spirit's destined goal, Where beauty reigns, and never, never dies. Bavsacner. —————_—— ENCOURAGEMENT, If, in walking adown the ai You stumble, imagine my heen or tes Stretched out in the darkness to rescue and aaye, ‘And to help yon more firmly to stand, If, in climbing the mountai; our weary ‘And you feel yourvelf falling belinda? ee oF ‘Then fancy my voice, in accents of hope, Borne down on the wings of the wind. If, fas pening the highways, discouraged and Your banuer low-trailed in the dust, Yon lose, fora moment, all faith in ‘Then remember, dear heart, Yat trust” GOSSIP FOR LADIES. Jennie, June on the Art of Dress- ing Sensibly. American Women Growing Healthier, * Plumper, and Prettier. An English Daine’s Stroggle for Positions. @Reilly’s Grievance. A FAREWELL OF THE PERIOD. 5 Farewell, my dearest! Nevermore, Hand clasped in hana, shall we together ‘Roam o'er the breezy, broad sea-downs, Allin the merry oft May weather! But then this thought occurs to me: "Twili save a trile in shoe-leather. Farewell, for Fate will have it eo, . O fondest heart! O tenderest, nearest! The hues of Spring have lost their clow— The leaf—the leaf is at its searest. Imay not wed thee, sweet—just now Dry goods and things are at their dearest, Farewell, beloved! thou art free— A fearful dearth of funds hath done its keep thee ever in my heart— Tl pit thee in my choicest sonnet; ‘These will I, love—they little cost— Not so a Paris gown or bonnet! And now we go divided ways; Dead-broke am 1—that's ali too certain; I take no more stock in bouquets, Bon-bdons, and all that goes with flirtin’. So now I drop love's pretty theme, ‘And~so to speak—puil down the curtain, —Emma M. Case in Baldwin's Monthly. DRESSING SENSIBLY. Jennie June's Letter to St. Louts Glove- Democrat. Thackeray thought men had made a great stride in‘more senses than one when they con- sented tu hide little feet and big feet indiscrim- inately in big, ugly brogans of boots: and there is no doubt that it was a larger step towards real emancipation than was obtained by the celebrated declaration of independence and equality which are foreign to the very nature of things, and uever can exist, though all the paper in the world was employed to assert them; and there is more sturdy independence about a pair of great, ugly boots than in acart-load of docu- ments. English girls and women are strong- ly ridiculed by American women abroad for their big-feet and ugly shoes, but I think it is more a question of sizeof shoes than of feet. Our girls have small enough feet, but they choose their shoes, as they do their gloves, a size too small, and atep—for they break down ina walk—as if cramped. An English girl, on the contrary, is perfectly oblivious of her fect. They do not look so dainty, it must be confess- ed, on the promenade, as those of all American girl; but then she evidently docs not take them out for exhibition on the street—she takes them out for use; and, uncovered, I have a suspicion that they would be whiter, softer, and sincother than those of most American girls, which are nearly always disfigured by corns, bunions, or overgrown joints. Shall we ever dare, [ wonder, to wear useful shoes like men, without reference to their looks? Ithink should be better pleased to-see them doing thht universally and as a matter of course, than polling a vote, for in it would be more of future health, happiness, and help for them. Not that I want women to cease to be beautiful, but one’sideas change about beauty. Take men on the average, and they are haudsomer as men than womeu are as women. They have Jost nothing :by throwing aside _gewgaws and tight boots, but they have gained much. The other day I sawthe picturesof a man and woman taken twenty-five years apart, at the time they were marricd, and on their silver-wedding day. Her face was sweet, intelligent, and honest; his. immature, and raw. But what a change in twen- ty-five years! His, noble, much handsomerthan when he was young, full of the evidences of growth ‘and opportunity; hers, weak, faded, wanting ou'line, color, vitality, nothing appar- ently behind it, evidentlya *‘ca-ed-for” woman, whose life had spent itself-in little efforts to do and be exactly like her neiehbors. Useful boots, when she was young, would have given ber exer- cise, strength, freedom, and changed the whole character of her physiognomy, besides imparting a betterlife to her children. It is a comfort to sce how:quickly American girls get the non- sense taken out of them when they go abroad for a purpose, to work and study for example, with only alittle money, and agreat desire to make the most of their chances. "In the British Museugj, in London, and the Museum of the Louvre,‘or Palace of the Luxembourg, in Paris, they may be seen industriously copying, in short, dark skirts, a blouse belted in round the waist, a dark felt hat, and hair cut short, n gloves, :and shoes of a kind that will permit them to:-walk or stand on the hard, bare stone floors.. | American girls at home are also beginning to learn that there is something in the world be- sides drtss. One, a school-teacher, wrote a let- ter recently, asking for a design by which she could make up dresses which would not look eccentrit, but which would be useful, con- venient, and available for two or three years, or until the clothes were worn out. She said she was determined to dress hereafter without ref- erence to fashion, make her garments when it was conyenient,—that is, during the months of vacation,—aud her dresses so they should be good for two years at least, using no fauciful styles or trimmings, but better materials than she had.been accustomed to use, so tbat color and texture would remain firm. She said she was quite determined to do this, and sec if she could not rid her mind of clothes. Aud a young married {friend had, with the consent of her husband, agreed to keep her in countenance by doing exactly the same. ‘That is a little bit of true heroism which a girl is working out for herself, and, as she belieyes, by herself, in a” Western yillage, where, by the way, it is much more difficult to do it than in a great city, where few know or care for you. She does not. know that not only the more sensible and iutelligent of the great and grow- iug army of professiunal women do the same thing, but the highest dames of France,—France that supplies the world with ideas in fasnion. if one will stop to think for a moment, it will be scen that the dress of a grand dame is as re- stricted in one way asthe dress of 2 working girlin another. The skirt must be long, the sleeves and neck must afford an opportunity for the display of lace and jewels, because these are her permanent means of adornment: they are not bought every day, or every weck, or every month, or every year.—not more than once or twice in a lifetime,—and her dress must subordinate itself to them. People who, only buy cheap ornaments change them often, but real lace, andreal gold, and real gems are for a generation, and perhaps more than one. They are evidences of past claims to social position. At the railway-station of a village a few miles out of Paris I saw,a few weeks avo, a French bride, accompanied by her husband and a long procession of friends. They were evi- dently well-to-do people, belonging to the bourgeoise class. They had come out by the train to celebrate the event by a little excursion into the country. According to custom, the bride dressed in white satin shoes, but no’ cov- ering on her bead or shoulders; the other ladies of the party, in gray, black, or lavender sulk, made with demi-trains and’ basques, but per- fectly plain skirts, evidently “for ‘‘best,” most of them, years before, and kept strictly for occasions of ceremony. One, remember, was a lavender moire an- tique, of a date at feast fifteen or twenty ears ago. Yet the wearer had on a pretty lack Iace fichu, and all the party wore white kid gloves and very handsome hats and bonnets. A bride of such rank never buys her wedding dress (which is always the traditional white silk or satin, and orange blossom). She hires it for the day, having no use for it aiter- wards, and there is ao French superstition against the bride keeping her wedding dress and saving it away; it is considered unlucky. Yet it must not be supposed that these people are very poor, and could not afford to bn: dress. @ bride of whom I ‘have spoken brought ner husband a dof of 10,000 francs, and was going straight to housekeeping in a well- furnished efage above her husband's shop. In fact, they are often in possession of five times as much real wealth as we who get up frand-display weddings, and pay $500 for a reak{fast or supper from a restaurateur. A STRUGGLE FOR POSITION, London (July 18) Lorresvondence New York Tribune. Lady Waldegrave’s last Sundays at Strawberry Hill are passing; it is now or never with the outsiders, who watch and pray for an invitation to those banquets of the gods. In America there is no such thing as social jealousy or social ambition—do we not know it on the suthority of the austere critics who reproach Mr. Pierre~ pont with too much solicitude about Gen. Grant's reception in the aristocratic -cir- cles of this decaying kingdom? * You would hardly credit the tories I could tell you about the eagerness shown here sometimes for invitations. Nobody ever asks Republican simplicity in manners and—still more—in morals. You would not believe, for example, that a lady, rich and well known in some sections of London society—I say some, for there are many—could tell Lady Waldexrave to-her face that she wanted td be asked to one of those Sunday evening dinners for which Strawberry Hill is famous, in order to. strength- en her own social position. You can scarcely imagine how painful it must have been to Iady Waldegraye to decline;: plead- ing that all: her dinners had been arranged at the beginuing of the season, and that it was too late to add to the number of her guests. Still less can you con- ceive this lady, thus rebulfed, driving down of a Sunday atternoofi to the house at Twicken- ham under pretense of calling; which, indeed, her place on Lady Waldegrave’s visiting list might justify her in doing. She finds the grounds thronged with the select, who have dined there before, or are to dine that evening. She seeks out her unwilling nostess; she re- minds ber of her former request; she hears once more that the tale 1s full; nay, that ‘more guests are bidden than there are chairs for in the dining-roo You think she retires discomfited at thi That fs because you don’t know the woman. She is like the British infantry, which does not iknow when it is beaten. She observes placidly to Lady Waldegrave that possibly some one of her guests may not stay for dinner; if not, she suggests, she entreat3, she implores, that sh: may fill the vacant place. Lord Carlingford’s wife is too well-bred to betray disgust; she is, I fear, uot wholly unused to this sort of thing. She tells her would-be guest that if such should. be the case she should, of course, be happy to offer ber the vacant chair. Armed with tii torted assurauce, off goes this aspirant for social distinction; makes the round of the party; puts to each one the eager inquiry, “Are you invited to stay to dinner?” and “Are you yoing to stay?” “Presently these victims of this new in- quisition begin to stray up to their hostess, and ask, ‘Pray, why is Mrs. —— so anxious I should not stay to dinner?” The story circulates; the Jaugh goes with it; and alas! no guest departs, no chair is empty, apd the woman, whose audacity was, perhaps, worthy of a better tate, has to drive back ond dine alone in London, You think this is mere gossip, and malicious at that! I assure you it is true, and if J named the herome of my story, which T will not do, you would neither doubt its truth nor wonder what interest such a story can have furan American audience. [may add that she is a woman who, on the whole, may be said to bave succeeded and not failed in her ambition; that she goes to many a fine house, and_has crowds of smart people at her's. —"smart” people meaning, in the dialect of London society, fashionable people, and not at all implying tae possession of exceptional men- tal powers. Idon’t know that this little auee dote is much more remarkable than the shorter one, Which accounts for the presence of the samne'lady at a great party the other night, by her third petition for a card having wearied out the patience of the giver, who had sent tio re- fusals to two former requests. OUR WOMEN GROWING PLUMP. Harper's Bazar. Europeans gencrally concede that our Amer- ican women are handsome, thourh they sav they are so fragile that they early lose their freshness, and with it much of their beauty. They particularly remark the tendency of our women to grow thin with years,while we remark the tendency of their women to the avcumula- tion of ficsh as soon as they have passed their youth, and often even before that-period. While we must allow that our women are, for the most part, lacking in roundness, there are few of us, we imagine, who would not infinitely prefer the New-World slenderness to the Old- World stoutness. A medium between the two might be the standard of the becoming, and this medium we seem to be approaching, slowly perhaps, but steadily. The opinion of the thin- ness of the feminine part of the nation is based. rather on what has been than on what is. The j i our women are still too lean for but are far less lean than they were five or even fifteen years ago. act—for fact it unquestionably is—can scareely have escaped observation. It is notice- able everywhere, particularly in large towns and cities, and is due to different causes. all of which are easily recognized. The fleshiuess of a people depends largely on the age and devel- opment of their country. Where everything is new, and, in a certain sense, raw, as in this land, there is very little leisure ur repose. Our entire euergies are directed to our auyancement; our minds are absorbed by thought of the future and what it promises. We hardly take time to get flesh; we think and fret oif that which we have acqhired, instead of acquiring more. Our women do not perform so much physical labor as our men, but they work longer in their way, and worry more;and anxiety or any form of mental disturbance insures mvazreness as noth- ing else does. These live too muck through the mind to live qui through the dy, and the bouy: uence. Tn the Old World everything is tixed. ‘The future isnot lik-iy to be different from the present; there isemall occasion for wistfalness or solivitude. Material conditions are not usuatly so favorable there ag here, but tuey are permanent, and by their permanence, especially by the clear undez- standing that they are so, they beget content, whence adipose matter. American women neither work nor worry as they used. The Ke- public is more developed, things are more set- ted, somewhat of the European fecling is creep- ing into the national mind, and less thinness is the result. American women take vastly better care of themselves than formerly. They have more ac- uaintance with hygienic laws, and hold them in far higher esteem. The days when they exposed themselves to dampness and wintry coid in thin slippers and silk stockings; when they ab- stained from flannels vext the skin; ‘when they pinched their waists to semi-suffocation; when they sacrificed comfort and health to what they conceiyed to be their appearauces— those foolish anit unhappy days have goue for- ever, bave barely been Known to the ris.ug gen- eration. Our women now have no mawkish and morbid notions as to themselves; they no Jonger think that tobe unhealthy is to be at- tractive; that individualism and interestingness ous; that pale faces and vom- are tokens of beauty. Tney dress j they wear thick boots and’ warm clothes in bad and cold weather; the How themselves to breathe freely, and they find their looks improve, not injured, by the whule- some change. ‘There are exceptions, many of them, doubtless, but the rule is as we have described, and the exceptions are constantly diminishing. It may be safely said that all sen- sible women are beeoming, if they have not yet become, converts to nature, and that they heed her behests, recormzing the great principle that what is not natural cannot be beautiful. Littie more than a quarter of a century ago young American women were ashamed to show 3 hearty appetite in public. $They were infected with the Byronic philosophy: they wanted to be spiritual—as if all true eplritanliey, did not rest, on sound vhysical conditions—and to look ele- gantly wretched. Many of them had half their wish; they looked wretched, but vot elegant. ‘They were charged with drinking vinegar, eating slate-pencils, and committing other monstrous absurdities. They may have been unjustly ac- cused, but their theories warrant the accusa- tion. All such nonsense belongs to the past. American women to-day eat os much as they Want, and more wholesome food than they once ate; they walk more, court the open air, cultivate their bodies as well as their minds, believe in perfect digestion, unbroken eleep, the glow and glory of unblemished health. No wonder their proportions are fuller, their cheeks more blooming, their eyes brighter. their steps more elastic, “The growth of the country and their common sense are serving them gen¢rously. The scrawny, callow, peaked woman, if she be educated and’ fairly placed, will ere long cease to bethe typeof the middle-aged American woman, With the steady growth of the Re- public, the increased ease of circumstances, and their complete health, American women will be comelier and rounder now than they have been. External and internal conditions ‘assure this. They are not likely to become gross, as 80 many of their European sisters are; the character of the country, its institutions and its atmosphere, with their own temperament, will preserve then: from that. MRS. O’REILLY'S GRIEVANCE. New Fork World. Mrs. O'Reilly came into court muttering. She stepped through the gate which bars the en- trance to his Honor’s presence muttering, and even went so far as to shake her fist at the good-natured old Court officer who toddled up to ask her what her business was. “Pil show ye pfwhat me business is: git out av me way, ye murtherin’ ould deeperado. Do Ye want to be afther assaultin’ a paceaple, dacent woman right in the prisince of his Worshup up there, too, on the binch?” “But, ma’am, 1 must know your business, ma‘am,”' urged the officer. deprecatingly. “I don’t see any needcissity for dthat ayther, an'if ye come pokin’ dthat red nose av yours into me busincse 1'll pull it, I will, an’, pfwhat's more, I'll make ye baldheaded by the loss of that lock of air yer so proud ay.” This last remark was a cruel reference toa single wisp of hair trailed over the shining pate of the officer with elaborate care. ‘Bat——" bean the officer. “DH but you,” said the frate dame; and she fully retired. “Yer Worshup,” said Mrs. O'Reilly, flashed with victory over the policeman, ‘is there any justice ter be had in Jefferson Market Polace Coort? Because if there is I'd like to hey Mrs. O'Toole locked up in the State’s Prison fer five year. Now Mrs. O'Toole ye must know, yer Worshup,” continued Mrs. O'Reilly, leaning comfortably with ber left arm resting upon the Judge’s desk, and fanning herself with the Bible used to swear witnesses on. ‘ Mrs. O'Toole is second cousin to Barney Fla’rty, who came from County Cork a year ago next Easther. Now, Barney Fla'rty is well enough, an’ bis mother, she that was McCarthy, { knew well, sor. Many is the time we've played togither in the ould counthry, an’ a foin Jady she was, sor, havin’ the risimblance to her sister, who was no relation, owin’ to the fact thas ould McCarthy marred a widdy. wid one daughther. Yiss. indade, en’ McCarthy was a broth av a bi, so I’ve heard me father say; ay course, through my not having been born until afther he died, I don’t remem- ber much about him; but for ail dthat, sor, the McCarthy family always bore a good ame, sor, an’ Dennis, the father av ould’ McCarthy, was the?}—— © But, Mrs. O’Reilly,”’ said his Honor, “ did T understand you to say that you wanted justice on Mrs. O'Toole? ‘+ Dthat's it, yer Worshup; dthat’s just what I come afther, an’ its nothin’ liss dthat will sat- isfy me, an’, as I was sayin’, the father ay ould MeCarthy ?“— “ Excuse me, madam, but come down to busi- ness. What about Mrs, O’Toole!”? “Ain’t [a tellin’ you; ain’t I thryin’ to give ye the facts av the case!” “ But what has Barney Fla’rty’s grandfather £ot to do with this case?” “; Dthat’s just what I’m after thryin’ to tell 0. “TI decline to hear anything more about Den- nis Fiatrty's grandfather.” “Well, thin, I euppose I can't git justice in this coort, but, ef Lwas to die to-morrow, Td have dthat ars. O'Toole brought up in dthis coourt ef it took me a hundred years.” and so. saying Mrs. O'Reilly left the room as she en- tered it, muttering. i * FEMINE: NOTES, Acynic describes marriage a3 an altar on which man lays his wallet and woman her affec- tions, A St. Louis man has invented a looking-glass which makes a lady seem to be standing on her head, and she can thus easily see how ber shoe: fit.—Detroit Free Press. im : M. Ernest Reyner, the music critic of Les De- bats, says: “Iam always pleased when I see a young lady devote herself to the study of the harp or the violoncello. It is one less to play the piano.”” < A magistrate in Towa refused to fine a man for kissing a girl against her will, because the complainant Was so temptingly pretty that nothing but an overwhelming sense of its dig- nity prevented the Court kissing her itself. When a woman wants to kill a tramp, she is always careiul to take the brickbet that keeps the Kitchen-door open, or some other old thing that is of no particular value or consequence; but, when she gets mad at the man of the house, she. is fust as liable to throw the best China sugar-vowl or the nickel-plated cake- basket as not. 5 “If youare stung by a wasp while picnick- ing,” says a Houting item, “apply the end of a cigar which has been chewed for a fey moments to the wound.” Young ladies should remember this. and always. chew the end of a cigar a few moments, and place the “weed” in their p cts before starting for a picnic. The chewing Process wil] make them 60 sick that, they will not want to go to the pienic, and thus they will escape being stung by a wasp.—Louisville Com- anercial. “O dear!” said she, sweeping away with her broom, “what shall do? Here it is 11 o'clock, and I haven't this room swept, the beds are not made, and the breakfast dishes are yet to be washed. O dear! was ever woman’so much pressed for time asT am!” Then she suddenly stopped, leaned on her broom, and listened tor a helfhour, trying to catch the.points of a quarrel which was going on between a married couple in the next-door house. The study of feminine character is a hard one.—Philadelphia Builetin. ————— WISCONSIN. ‘The Duty of Republicans in the Approach- Ing Campaign. To the Edltor of The Tribune. Manison, Wis., Aug. 3.—Now that the day has been decided upon and a call made for the Republican State Convention to put in nomina- tion such men as shall be deemed most worthy and best able to lead our forces to victory, we expect every individual Republican to make the matter a subject of grave attention. For many years there has been a set of chron- ic grumblers who have harned upon the cry of Regency, Rings, and Rascals, and made that an excuse for not taking an active part in party- bolitics,—tlaiming that the whole thing was “run” by a few, and not in the interests of the people; that ‘slates? were made up long by- fore the Convention convened; that delegatcs were but tools fri the hands of a few unprinci- pled men; and that “cliques” and “rings” ruled supreme. Whether or not there was just reason for such sweeping assertions, we have no desire to argue at this time; for, no matter what grounds of complaint ticre may bave been in the past, there certainly promises to be no occasion in the future. Our Federal office-nolders, who are debarred from taking an active part in certainly the next campaign, will only be too glad to make way for gach and every one who wiil bear the brunt and beat of battle, leaving for them only their indi- yidual work in currying out the sense of the Convention. ‘There seems to me to be no good reason why the Civyil-Service and Southern policies ot Presi- dent Haves—fully indorsed, or again, bitterly de- nounced, as they certainly are by so large a number of honest men—should for one moment deter any true Republicans, those who act. from” principle, from joining heart and hand their efforts ‘to _ continue Wisconsin as one of the foremost Republican States of the Uni Let time be the best test, as it will certainly work out the true results springing from these measures of the Adminis: tration. And, in the meantime, can. any honest Republican conscientiously lay a feath weizht in the way of the successful carryi out of Republican principles, or refuse to battie bravely in their defense? | There never has been atime when united ef- fort would be more manty or noble. We are proud of Republican — Wisconsin,—prond of the glorious results achieved under the Republican banner. Under it there have been battles won for the right, and long marches made over the ground of enlighten- ment, improvement, and reform. Stall we for- get and forswear our part in the accomplishment of the noble work. lay down our arms, and join the forces wit! vm we have blattled, and whose hearts to see our ranks broken and our leaders ed and powerless? Let it not be so. Let it rather cive us renewed strength, od nerve Our hearts to greater achievemenis. Do thuse who have for years louked forward tosce this very thing come to pass—tu we office-holders no 1 tuking the lead and dic- tating to the mavority,—fully realize that a at —responsibili rests upon them? oO excuse Will id as excusing them from active, earnest work. If there have been mistakes, or even willtul, flagrant wrongs, committed in the past under the name of party, it isfor them to rectify the one.and guard vigi- lantly against the other. Their wish is gratified, and, in the coming State Convention, every man may stand un- trammeled in his efforts to carry out the * will of the people.” And that that is a fervent de- sire for the successful forwarding of Republican principles and Republican interests, there is no joubt. How shall this be accomplished? Not upon the day of the Convention, by any means, There is work to be done by somebody long before the ith of September. “We trust that every Senate and Assembly district in the State of Wisconsia will see to it that they can point with pride to their delerates to the Convention of 1877. Let them send men as. thelr representatives who, kuowing their duty, will perform it,—men who are fuily alive to the responsibility of the day and hour, and are familiar with its necessities. The preliminary work must be conscientiously performed, that the foundation may be wortiy of the more showy structure which ‘rests upon it. Then, when all this is done, we hope to see in the field a ‘ticket which will command the confidence and respect of the entire. Republican party, and, besides that, will strongly appeal to every honest, thinking man outside,—a ticket composed of intelligent, honest Republicans, whose sole object and ambition are for the good of the people and the best interests of our be- loved State. Such a ticket we bope to sce; and, with an carnest, active campaign, and a full vote polled, a Republican victory will be gained which will forever place Wisconsin outside the roll of “doubtful” States. Ventas. seat A Fine Dining-Room Destroyed. San Francisco Chronicle, July 24. magnificent dining-room of the Lick The , House isa ruin, Its Corinthian architecture, wreck. The eleven-pauel pictures painted by Thomas Hill and deemed his masterpieces are ruined. The mammoth mirrors are cracked and smashed. The -elegant chandeliers are things of the past—one has disappeared, having fallen with the ceiling; the other hangs amere skeleton of glass pendants. The roof has vanished, and he who now stands in the din- ing-room bas the sky for a ceiling. The tessel- Jated floor. 2 mosaic of rare wouds, is splintered, stained, disfigured, and will have to be relaid. ‘The polished doors are _blistered, and the scroll work on the picture-frames, ‘the -handiwork of James Lick himself on his own patent scroll machine, is irretrievably sacrificed. In one corner of the dining-ruom ts a pile of rab- bish, consisting of tabtes, chairs, carpets, and table-ware—all to be classed under the lca of debris, Above, the linen-rooms and similar apartments on the back or Kgarny-street side are completely burned out. On the Sutton~ street side rooms were flooded with water and the ceilings and carpets were spoiled. The damuge will ageregate $50,000, according to the estimates of the Lick trust. The work of re- storing the ruined portion of the building to its former magnificence las been placed in the hands of architects, and will be commenced at once. CURRENT GOSSIP. “MY GIRL.” 1 think of her, ~I often do; T love her.—yes, and dearly, toog T told a friend, —he said he knew My Girl. T asked him who rhe was. Said he, **Why, Clara Belle Roxana Lee,” **Ko-rect," suid I. ** Hoorah!” said he: My Girl: “‘She's fair,” said I; ‘tshe’s fair,” said he. **She's true,” said I; **you bet!" said he. **She loves.” **She does, —not you, batme": My Girl! ‘‘Loves you! Why, no! that cannot be.” ‘+ Ag sare as my name's Mick Magee; And, if you don’t believe me, ace ‘My Girl.” He called her by her own sweet name; She sprang into his arms, aflame. And where was I? Out in the rai My Girl! Tsished and sighed for weeks and week: I browsed on naught but green, green leeks: Am convalescent now on Heals: My Girlt Cmcaco. Joseru D. TurNer. A TRAMP’S VIEW OF IDLENESS. Puck. He came in slowly and laboriously, as if five tons of weariness were weighing down his spirits. : He dropped heavily into a chair, sighed sev- eral four-fuot sighs, and then bombarded us with the following conundrum: ** What is idleness? What does it consist of?” “Don’t know. Never experienced it.” “ Now, some people would call doing nothing idleness, wouldn't they?" “ [sunpose they would.” “Yes; andtbat’s where some people make a mistake. There isno such thing as idleness. No man is ever wholly idle; if his body isn’t busy, his brain is. 1 know tnat if a man sits around and shows a disincliuation to work, Yolks will call him a tramp and a ‘cucumber of the ground,’ as Saakspeare says; but it don’t make any difference. It isn’t so, and I can pro- duce plenty of proof to sustain ‘the position 1 take in the matter. Now, for instance, who ever heard of Napoleon getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning and starting out to the field with a hve over his shoulder, or chasing a side- nill plow around a field fourteen hours a day? Did Napoleon ever do that?" “ Never heard that he did.” **No, sir; he labored with his intellect, and when he had any real work to perform, thou- sands of men were ready todo his bidding. ‘That’s the sort of a man Napoleon was. He never sawed « cord of wood or did a hard day's work in his life; and yet he was never arrested for vagrancy, and no interfering policeman ever came nosing around and told himto move along or the hand of the -law would snatch him to the jug. “Then look at Diogenes! What sort ofa man was he? On the unbalanced ledger of his- tory do we find on the credit side any entry of this kind: **Diogenes, Cr. ‘uy one day’s work, “ Nothing of the so fozenes was a man who took the world The only thing he ever did that we have any record -of was roam- ing arpuud the streets oi Syracuse with an old tin lantern in his hand. He pretended to be looking for an honest man. More likely he was mayping out a free-luuch route. So much for Diogenes. “Now turn over another page and_glance at the portrait of Sir Isuac Newton. Wasn't he a thorougubred tramp? Ali he did was to sit ut in his gardeu under an apple-tree, smoke bis old clay pipe, and build castles in the air, One day an apple fell off the tree and struck Sir Isaae square in the eye. The circumstance made him famous. Why? Because he was a genuine, philosophical tramp, and tuok things cooliy. When the apple hit him he didn’t get mad and throw three-cornered Greek words around through the atmosphere, or anything of that sort. He simply. picked the apple up, looked it over earettlly for worm-boles, and slipped it in his pocket to eat after supper. ‘Ten he began to_wonger way the apple didn’t go up instead of failing down to the ground. You see, before that be had never paid any at- tention to che matter,and he didn’t know whether it was the usual and correct thing for fruit to iy off ata tangent from the earth when it be- came detached from the tree, or to come down, like Col. Crockett’s coon. He determined to investigate. So he hired a small boy to climb the tree and shake, and he watched till every apple fell to the ground. -None of them Yew up. Sir tsaac was satistied. He had made a great covery. The next day he cut out a basswvod model of an apple-tree with a hall-grown pippin just in the act of starting on a voyage to the earth, and sent it on to Wash- ingtun_and had his discovery patented. This made Sir Isaac a noted man. When a little thing Ijke that lifts a an up and plants him on the pinnacle of tame, isn't it an encourage- ment for us all to sit around and wait to be hit by-sometuing? {f £ wanted to, could go and work for a railroad at 35 ceuts a day, and board myself, but 1 won't do it. I'l hang aroun-t and wait for an opportunity. My intellect will have a chance to’ show itself some time; and if You hear of anybody waking tp and startling: the world hin the next fifteen or twenty years, you! know it’s me. ‘Ta, ta.” And the weary man arose and slowly glided forth—never, we hope, to return. 28, 8 aves eon GL OO! COSSACKS AT OLTENITZA. Ottenitza Correspondence New York Herald. It was with an approach to excitement that we, who had no other occupation ali the fore- noon than shifting our chairs around the corner of the cafe as the shadow moved with the ad- vancing sun, saw a crowd of infantrymen gather at the door of the little shop opposite and heard the noise of a dispute within grow louder and louder. Discussions between the soldiers ana the natives are not by any means infrequent, and if there had been any other diversion i should not have paid the least attention to the one of which I speak. However, when the Mayor of the town—~a short, thick-set, active little body, who now finds no other fila for the exercise of his authority except the ever-recurring differences between the citizen and soldier—went across the street through the blazing sunlight and mingled his high-keyed voice with the chores I thought it time to investigate the affair myself. The situ- ation was too ludicrous. There stood theshurp- featured shopman, his dark eyes fairly flashing with rage, flourishing a large Sausage at a mild- looking infantryman, who on his side hada piece of the same kind of sausage, but only about a third.as Jong. I thought I could see a hint of a smile under the soldier’s white mus- tache and atwinkle in his gray eyes, but until the Mayor has summoned the Goldneh from his quarters opposite, and the shopman was paid and the crowd dispersed, I had’ no idea of the cause of the dispute, being totally unable to seize enough words of the jargon of Russian and Roumanian that was flying about to make one complete phrase. © At turned oitt that the soldier went into the sbop witha couple of co:nrades to buy asan- c. He made his bargain, put the sausage under his left arm, and took out his purse to pay for it. Before he put the money down he asked the price again. ‘Four francs,” says the shopkeeper. ‘ Four francs for this piece of bad sausage.” yells the soldier, holding out to the astonished native a piece only about one third of the whole sausage he had that mo- ment stowed ander his arm. ‘Take your d——4d old sausage, you thieving native,” and he started to overtake his comrades who were by that time half way up the street. But the native was too quick for him and held him until the crowd gathered and the affai minated as L have described. The itick The two comraics had, in accordance with a previous agreement, taken the opportunity while there was a dispute about the priz . to cut off the longer part of the sausage which'ap- peared from under the soldier’s arm behind,and made their way to the camp with their booty, This mild soccies of robbery is not rare, and one must sympathize with the soldiers more or ies3 in their attempts to get even with the natives, for in-all matters of trade the soldiers invariably. get worsted. The:r paper money is taken for only two-thirds its real yalue; the moment a soldier enters a shop door the prices rise 2 or 3 per cent or more, and it is generally “Take it or leave it” .ith :the shopman, who takes ad- yantage of tne necd of the soldier to drive a sharp bargain. Very few cases of open rubbery have come under my notice, and the only in- stance of skillful thievery that I-have heard of will well bear relating. An old peasant had just come to town to buy groceries for the week, and, naturally envugh, waiked down the street with a little self-con- ess at the thought of having a purse well ith Russian ruubles, the result of the sale of his last load of hay at the eamp. Before he had reazhed the shop, or bad even had time to take a glass of rakiin the little groggery, ha was met by a Cossack, who, without any cere- mony, fet! upon his neck and kissed him with effusion, exclaiming to the astonished peasans in broken Roumauian that he Icuked so much lixe his old father-away off on the banks of the Don that the impulse to embrace him -was ir- resistible. It seéms that the sentiment was contagious; for the peasant, after looking at the Cossack for a moment, cried out that he called to miod the pride of the family wao was away with the Roumanian army at Kalafat, and the Cossack had to endure the embrace in his turn. This could not last long, of course, and alter an exhaustive struggle to exoress his juy in a language that was almost entirely unknown to him the Cossack took his leave, promising to see his adupted father in a day or two. When the simple old fellow went to pay for his tea and sugar he found he had no purse. He went immediately to the Mayor, but his would-be son could not be found. HAWKEYE DOTS. Burlington Hawkeye. Why is a boil like the Grand Union Hotel? Because we can’t get used toit. (If we are let off this time we'll never do it again.) Mr. Beecher’s hay-fever is worse this summer, and his religious friends will be pleased to know that he is down on his sneeze more than eyer, Missionary work has made but little headway among the Caflirs of Africa. The depraved say- age always feels in the missionary’s pockets for whisky, and, when the good man tries to talk to him about religion, he says he. never did Cafir such thing. An old soldier has been passing some homely criticisms upon one of Mrs. Buatler’s battle pieces. He says the men’s faces louk too clean after a day's fring. For our own part, the greatest fault-we have to find with the battle pieces of our great artists is, that in too many cases the uniforms appear to have been made with some vague intention of titting the sol- diers who might wear them. We don't know how it may be in.other countries, but in the United States army 2 Quartermaster who would furnish a uniform that would tit an infantry-sol- dier any better than it would fit a cow, would be instantly dismissed fromm the service. This is a strict law, and there has never been a dis- missal under it. Aman out on West Hill was grievously tor- mented with a Thomas cat. And he determined to slay thesame. So he caught the cat, put it ina bucket, covered it with a beand, intending to sit down on it, intending to Sli the bucket. with water, and thas drown the T.C. But, a3 he sat down, the active prisoner pashed away the board, and, when the man arose and saun- tered into the house to luok for the * Extract ot Witch-Hazcel,” he could not tell whether he had just sat down on 2 stove-lid, or mere'y slid down a shellbark hickory tree and lit in a goose- berry bush. And, that nieht, a worn, suffcring man. lying on his face trying to sleep, sizhea a3 he listened to the mocking smiles of a twelve- pound cat peiting the lambient moonlight on che woodshed-roof. EVENING ETIQUETTE. Malnte the hostess by saying, ‘Cully, how's his nibs?” {t has an off-hand, informal pleas- autry about it that makes everybody feel easy. Irthe evening is warm, shout ‘Whoof! as Fou sit down, and inform the company generally that you do not wear flannels. (Unless you do; then own up like a man; don’t lie about it.) Make mysterious references to sundry and divers good times of a wicked natu ‘ou have been having with several good young gentlemen in company; and endeavor to leave the impres- sion that the best and bashiulest young gentle man of all was awful drank, while the rest of you were only a little drank: If a young lady takes her place at the piano to sing, it is your duty a3 a gentleman to accom- any her with a very bass “com-pab, com-pab, | bum, bum, bum;” especially if you have a voica like acrow and cannot sing a note. When the Judy is through, you should whistle the refrain for your neighbor who may not have heard tae song. It lends an air of easy elezance toa gentleman to chew his toothpick all the time. Lf you have forgotten vour own, borrow some one’s clse. Take out your tobacco-pouch (sou should never attend a party without it), and make as though vou would take a tremendously lange chew. This is irresistibly fanny, and never fails to make the ladies, who cannot chew, very en- vious. { A YOUNG Inquisitor. | The other dar, in an unguarded moment (says ahumorous writer), 1 accepted the charge and custody of a young gentleman who wore gaiters and a King CharlesII. hat and feather. His sponsors in baptism had given him one name—cir- cumstances another. His latter appellation is “Buster.” His age, he informed me, was going out. When he made up his mind that we were tobe left toxether he eyed me malevolensly a moment, and immediately commenced the 1: lowing system of torture: What was my fame, and my brother's, and my father’sname,und why? What was the reason if! did't have any little boysI didn’t have any little girls? All this put in one question, with no stops and a gradast nflection. Was them buttons gold in my alceve, and why? How much did they cost? Did they cost 3150? If they didn’t cost $150, what would be the price ofa gold house, with gold furniture and @ gold staircase? Did I everseea house with these auriferous peculiarities? No? What, then, woutd be the cost of a silver carriage and gold harness? What, then, wonld be the cost ofa leaden carriage with an iron harness? Aad why? Did I know why the lies walked on the ceil- ing! Could I walk on the ceiling? Not if I had gone t. in to hold my head and another my legs? Why couldw’t I? Could I if I wasa giant? Was [ personally acquainted with any? Did [ ever see them eat? What wus my business? Did I know any stories, and why? ‘This afforded 4 plan of reiiet. Tinstantly started in the history of my previous life and adventures. [ in- vested all my _ relations and _ friends with supernatural attributes, and made myself a creation something between Genius and Kobinson Crusoe. I made the most uston- ishing voyages and saw the most remarkable occurrences. I drew liberally from the “ Arabian Kights” and “Baron Munchausen.” Whenever I saw the open mouth ‘address itself to motion, as though *twould speak,” I brought in a rock, or aJinnce, or a casket of diamonds, and took away the unhappy cbild’s breath! In the midst of an animated descrip- tion of the Hourhound Islands and adventures in the damp caves, where the candies bung in long stalactites, the parents happily returned. Thurriedly received their thanks and left. But { have the secret satisfaction of knowing that. all that pent-up torrent of questions burst on the unhappy father, and that geographical in- uiries regarding the locality of “Floating sland,” the “ Blanc Mange Archipelago,” and the “Valley of Cream Cakes” will be hence forth nis dreadful lot to mect and answer. AN ATTRACTIVE OFFER. Here is an attractive offer for some exter- prising individual. It appears in the Gazette @ Stalia, published at Florence and Rome: Any man. widower or bachelor, wo Is at liberty to dixvose of his person and his hand, aod wko de- sires to change hiy solitary life. may’ present bim- self at the addrces below if he suits the require- ments, and may rely upon hearing from us. The candidate to the position of my son-in-law mms? have'at least a good-looking exterior: must have gone throngh the four classes of a zymnase, or have Teceived an equally good education at-home; must give proofs of affection for his wife, whoin he will choose from among my three daughters; and must, furthermore, be in all things obedient 10 and never Raineay the will of her parente. We do not require riches, but the persons who take up my offer must’ be more than 24 years old, and not be nnder any form of jndicial censure, Any religion except Jewish will be accepted. ‘The dowry consists of money gnaranteed by the Bank of Nezrik &Co.. and can be drawn out in the course of tho farst month of the honeymoon. The total of the ages of my three dangh ters is 107. Come. look, and take. Rassia, Province of Kiew, District of Lipovetz, Village of Salohicoooka. Abaxo Ivanskr- A Pennsylvania Dntchman, who married his second wiie soup after the funeral of the first, was visited with;a two-hours’ serenade in token of disapprov: Be exnostulated pathetically thus: “{ say, bgy3, you ought to be ashamed of yourselfs to making all dis noise yen der ‘Yas a funeral heieso soon.”