Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1877, Page 7

MYCENZE. Henry Schliemann's New Book. Dr. An Interesting Narrative of Iis Re- searches and Discoveriese New Fork Eeentng Post, The principul Titerary cventof the year 1 the publieation of Dr. Schllemann's great work, “esycenm, " which Appears simultanconaly in En- gland and In this country, bemng printed from du- pllcate plates. ML GLADSTONE . {ntrodnces the hook with a preface In which, after modently dirclafmingall title (o ba considered At for the task, he reviews In & masterly way the renults of the cxplorer's work and sets before tho reader the caxo. ro to apeak, as it siands petween Dr. Schlfemann and persans who peliove with nim that he has - diecoyered the tomba of Agamemnon and his companions, on the one hand, and pereons who donht the valldity of tho sapposed connaction bee tween the discoverica ana the Homeric poems, on the other, §ils own admiration for (ke discoverer is frankly acknowledged, —After showing that heonght to bave declined tho task of writing o preface, an one for which he was mcompetent, he Tt there wan, In ancient poeiry, a dostiny atronger than the will of gude, ~ To ‘me. on thia occasion, Dr. Schilemann 18 the vicegerent und otzan of that destiny. In view of the eplendld fervices which he has conferred npon_ciaswical Neicuce, 8 power thnt thriets arpunicnt out of court hirines me to percelve that [ caunut but ac- cede to his deeire."” MNe corcfully weighs ovidenco, however, and vesy cautlously RBFUSES TO COMMIT NIMSELY upon the maln question, He writos: “When the disclosures at Tiryns and Mycence sero announced in England, my own first Imprese slon was that a strangely bewlldered admiration, combined with o preponderance of skentical againat Lelleving tendencies in regard to thacapital and dominating subject of the Tombs In the Agora. 1 sm_bound to sny that reflection and a fuller knowledgo have nearly turned the realex the uther way. 'There are, Indeed, not only gaps to be sup- plied, but difiicultica to bo_confronted and tu ba explained, of (o bo loft over for future explana- tion. Yet the imlance, [ will not any of evidenee, but of ratlonal presumption, keema aa thongh 1t might ultimately lean toward the lellef that thia eminont cxploree has exposed to the lgnt of day, aftel yenrs, the memorials and remalns of %::\n smnon and his compantons inthe return from Y. ! Then foltowe Mr. Gladatone's admirable summa- 1y of tho evldence for andacninet Dr, Schilemann's theory, and it fsa part of tho work which adids very ‘greatiy (o tho valne and the intarest of tho whole, particularly to readers whi nowledge of the lulr‘luu ia scant or whoro memory of their clansics fs wioss-grown, To such versona it fur- nishos the needed lgnt of Homene knowledge n which 1o nccompany the explorer thrangh the totubs and treasurics which he lins aper ; Dit, BCHLIEMANN'S ACCOUNT 18 given tn the form of & Joncan], but it fas jonr- oal which has been revined very thoroughly in tho llflhl of the latest dlscoverien made aud augjestions ‘offered by #chulars nnd archa oiozlste. Dr. Schilemunu jsan enthusiast un the subject of Homerle nceurncy nnd the trustworihiness of Homer's histortcal facts, nnd wao conld easily pare don to his finy cathusinem souic nnfair twisting of facts which do not sult his theory, bul 1t f« 1ot the Jenst remarkablo or the lcast adiuirable feature of his work that wo find in it, in the hasty first rend- nk which wo have Yeen ablo togive it, no unfalr- nesa to pardon, and no failure in franknees, flo gives facts and admits their just welght, wien the, seer to bear teatimony against him, witlh ns much franknesa an if hio wax 3 dispasslonats groper for teuth and not at mll an cuthusastlc advocato of 1lomer'a right to rank us an historian. His aeguinont in the tenth chupter in behalf of his theory of Lo Smeaning of the discoverios is very strong, but at'the rame time a PRIPECTLY CANDID RTATEMENT OF 1119 CASK. An extract or two showing its general chnracterare all wo have room for: **1 have not the slightest objection to admit tunt the tradition which assizus the tomba in the Acropolls to Agamemnon snd hls cumlmnlflnl. who on thele roturn from Ilium wera treacherounly murdered by Clylemneaten or_ her paramonr Aigine thus, may be perfectly correct and falthful, lam bousid to admit this so much the more, ns we have tho cortalnty thnt, to_ ay tho least, alt the bodles in cach tomb had been burled simultancousiy. The calcined pebbles below each of them, the marks of the firu to_the ight and left o the luternal walls of the tumbe, thy undisturbed stato of tho asLes and tho churred swood onand arourd the bodlee, glve us the must unimistakabic proofs of this fact. Owlng to the enormous depilisof thero sepul- chares, and the clore proximity of tho badies to each ofhior, 1t fnquite Imposeibla that three uf oven five funeral plies could bave been dressed at differ- ent Intoryals of time {n the saine tomb, ++Theidentity of tha mode of burlal, the perfect eimilarity of all tho tombs, thelr very cloee prox+ fmilty, the lmporsibllity of admittlug that three or cven five Royal personages of immeasurablo weulth, who haddled o natural death at long Inter- vats of time, shiould have been huddled tog Iu tho samo fomb, aud, finally, the preat rew blance of all the ornnments, which show exactly tho same stylo of art and the rame vpach—all these facts are #0 many proofs that all the twelve men, three women, and perhaps two or three children, had been murdered simuitancously and burned at tho samo time.™ THE NESPECT BHOWN TO THE TOMDS through lang ages—renpect which prompted the re- peated marking of the tombs with new ston sccumuintions of debris cuvered the old on clicd In favor ol the theory thut luyal nersonaces must have been burled there. Tho svealth of suld snd ornaments in the tomb also pointa to the ltoy- &1 character of the persons burled in them, 'he Gye tomos of Alycenw, or at least three of them, contained such enormious treasurcs that thay cannot but_have belonyed to members of tho Toyol family, But the period of the Kings of My- ccom belongs to & very reniole m\lll'ully. Royalty ceased thore at tho Dorian Invaslon,” thoe date of which has always been fived at 1304 I, €. Thucy- dldes anys that it tovk place olghty years alter tio war of rl:{ which has -bven hitherio supposed to have ended In 1181 1, €. Lut in aerecment with ol archa ologiats, | hold to the conclusion that, on 1he evidence of the monumurts of Troy, the eap- turo and the destruction of that city, and conwo- quently ulso the Dorian Invasion, must havo oce currod'at & much earier date, " TO THE OMIECTION that Zgiathus, having murdered Agamomnon anil his companions, would not have given them roval sepulture, burying their ornminents with them, Dr, Schllemagn replics with o guotution from Ttomer howing that in 0 burying hs dead encintes Aglethus only_ complied with o custum of tho ficrale age, anil he udds other teatlmony in great abundanco, “Y'he book {s one of constant and perpetually yarylng interost. Kull of matter for Ir Pumud 1t 14 alan fu'l wf entertainment far tho least learncd of readers, 1t 1s a revelation of an old world, the rohubilitation of n myth, the wonder working of o genle, and whether or nat Dr. Schilonianu's dla- coverles muean precisely what he thinke that they mean, his book atiout them will Lo read with as eager and a6 entrancing intereet os 8 new volume of the Arablan Nights' Entertainmment would have been if the worthy docter had dug up such & treasure in Greece. We make room for the following desceiption of A MAUVELOUS BIGNET-IING found In the tomb south of thu Agoru, the latcst ovocned of thetombe: “*In_thixtumb was further found s gold seal ting of the sumo form, but tmore thun twic large as thoss which 1 discovered fu the fourth sepulchre. . . . Itisontirely covered with ine tagtio work,” To the left uf the ¥pcctator is repee. scnted o treo, whoso atom cortalnly rescuihles that of o palm-tree, It Afteen short branchey oo which wesce no loaves, but lare clusters of & small frait, each tor resombliug a le. Heluw the tree sta a small fewale, who X ingover a littlo backward and extends buth hier Bands just bolow tho lowest cluster of fruit, aslt juthoact of plucking it By cetcem- ed friend, u ofcasur_of Jiotany, Mr, T, Ot e henides, of Athens, woys that of ‘troes in [irveco thils treo resembles nicot o pine, bulthat as the little woman fs going to pluck uns of its frulta, the frult must necessarily be catable, and Bo thinks therefore that it niuei bo 4 bread-frull. tree, because uf al) the fraits of India the bread fruit most sescanbles that of tho tree before us, Butl do not remember having over ween tho readfruit tree ln Indle, 1 have only scen it fn Central America, My other csteemed friend, the Profowsor of Lotany, von Heldseich, of Athiens, thinks that the Mycenean urtist intended to represent hero mumply o vine laden with Biaches of grapes, and thst, merely by Wis weptitude, the Vine Lus beeo rupresented as a (hick tree; and THIS 13 ALBO MY OPINION, 44 Two Jong tresses of hair aro hunging from the 1hitte woman's head down un the buck her drees below tho walst Ls divided by two horizontat buu. into thice compartments, Emlmbly 10 wake awara of |ts richuvas; trow bicr arms there pro; {:a bands, which may be juteuded to represcut cuves. Oa the other sido of the tres, and Jeaningwith ber right arm against it, is mtting a (all woman, with pyble Urccian festures. ller oycs and het uyse projects in 8 siaizht i wi forchead, just & @ 1t on 1ho rculptures io the Partbenon; hor bead i covercd with & turban fu ning out luto s polut, frum bencatls which css of halr {8 hauging down on her backs Just sbove thix tress we iwo orosmentd on theturban, | call particular stteotion to the gurions aign just sbove ber furchead, which {8 no doubt meunt Lo represent ber disdem; but I bave not found 8 diadeus of thiv Klud fusny of the dve tumbe, The upper part of ber dress is tightly 1. ed to the Lody, but nevertbele owan's two breastsprotrudo. The lower part of her deevs s oruamented with 8 large wuwber of horizoutal ) Torw of wide pautaloous, Which end at the ankles n crescen Uer right tests on her waist, and sho holds in her up- d Uted let oty he tband three poppies, which she appears lo A TALL WOMAN, splendidly dreased, who ls lundlni ‘before hersnd extends her righi haud toward the Rowers. The Liead of this tall, stunding wowan La covercd with wsort of tarbaw, which strikingly resembles thy turbane now wora 1n Indis, with the difercuce that bero the turban runs outiuto o point, from which a long oruswent bangs Jown on the back. A further dilfervucy ts thut from the fure part of the tarhan thero projecta n eort of mark an which twoeves and the nose are well represented, hnt here this maak in 1ifted and we sce the woman's eves from helow ft:a fourth Mfference 19 the strange ornament which we see {uat above the forchend, and_which muet boa sort of diadem. Thao features of thix” womnn nre certainly mas- culine, and_her hair {aeut short, but the artist wished her sex to ba distinetly anderstoud, and gave her two large protradiug breaste, Just nbove her hreasta wr ree two horlzontal banda which may be: tntended to represent neckhncea: bt we onghi not to teave npuoticed the lone hand which hanga from hee ripht shoulder. Mer lower drens aeems n130 to he in the shape of enormously wide pantaloons, nnd from the Joine downward wo w#ee on the droen of each log five large enrved paral- lel bands, which can have no object than 1o repre- rent the aptendor and costhnces of heraitire; theso banda hecame more carved the lower they are, nnd the lowest 18 exactiy In the furmofa crescent, lelow the extremity of the pan(alonns we see {hat the woman weara ddrawers, wiich are snstened with clasps, Above Lho farepart of this woman's turban [x agaln represented oo ornament, the natire of which cannot be diecernil, **Just helow her outstretched tight ann we see anollier smal) female figure, FROBADLY A CINLD, hotding In each of ita exiended lLands an object the natnre of which wa are nusble to diacerst, amd wilch 1t scems to affer to the xeated woman, The child's head Is covered with o turban, and o long trees of Bair or some ornamerit Is hanging down ita bk, It wears a necklace, and fte dreex s divided Dy horizontal parallel bands into threo ot four compartmenta. Tho features of the child aro very cxpronsive, dust nbove the extended hand of the tall standing womat we ace two double nxva un one bandle, exactly iike those on tho Tenedian medals, but richly omamented, The sccond dunble nx 18 reen profecting on_both sides from Behind the first one,” The handlc of these axed, which runs out Into asharp polot, 1s astlstically made. i+ fichind this tnll standinz womnn siands An- other, whove drens T slinll not desceibe, as it s perfectly fdentien] with that of lier companion, and ubove the forepurt of her turban wo see the ranto strango ornament, the nature of which cane not bu recognized, Very visible I8 her Indian tur- han, which aleo termindtes fn a pmnt, sl from which o long band.- {lke orntment hancs down on her back. The mask which projects frum the forepart of her turban clowely covers the npper part of her faco and her noses It contalns openings for the eyer, for tier largo leit eye s glancing out from it.” 1call very particular "atiention o the vizors 0t Uoth thess women. beeaure they give us the most unmistakable proof thal tuseks wero not used for the dead, bot thal they were worn by the living, +18he hioldelin hernplifted right hand threc objecta whuse form certalnly rescuibles that which we reo on the forepart of the turbun of the reated woman, In her left she holds two flowurs srith long stalks, which Prof. Orphanides thinks to ba lilies, From her left shioulder we see !:'(.ujtcunfl two bands, and another from her left elbow. Like hee tall com- panton; sho is barefooted, but wears drawers, sl on her Fleht foot Is distinctly visible the ornsment with which the drawers are faatened. *tSust above the strange objects which this recond tall l‘l\ndlur: woman hoids in her richt hand, we see a eurious figare holding a Jong stuil meant probably to repreacnt & Jance: her hand in shown In profile: the rest of her body, which is miven $n full viow, conslets of two circles, of which the upper one repreaents the upper part of the body frum the neck to the waist, nnd the Jower one the lower part of the body ue far as the lolus; no lega aro shown, and only une arm is seens from the back project two lony bands, — The two circles of which the hody conststs have a small horder, and ook altugethor likn shields; hut that shiclde were not intended to be represented Is shown by thetwo inilicnting the breanta, s rndely represented Ggure, in the nresence of the eplendlily-dressed woman, can, In my opin- fon, Do nothing clso than & Pathidnim of & very auctent and urimitive type, which, like that of tha cow-headed or horned ern [dols, was, on account of the sanctity attached to it, subject tu no caprico of fashiou, and remained for ages unchanged. +*'The border of the scal, between the Lalladinm umlblhe feet of tho second tall woman, is filled up by 81X ODJECTS OF A BTRANGE FORM with heads and eyes, also with n kind of helmet. From the urcat resemblunce of Lhose s1x abjects to thu Trujan idols we belicye that thoy alao are meant to represent Palladia, But Prof. 1thoun- ropoulos reminds me of the great simiiarity of theno six figures to the hranos Korinthtakon, or Corintblan belmet of Pallas Athens, a8 repre- aented on the Corinthian colns of the fourth cen- tury I €., and to the sama heimet on the three bronze busts of that _goddess, fu_ natural rizo, of which one ia the British Muscum, the second In the Ministry of Public Instruction, at Athens, nnd the third in a private he in the Pirwns, ‘Tho forepart of the helmot I8 represent- e, on the Corinthiun cotns and on tho bust of the Foldess, os drawn np. becaure sho only drew It over her faco when sho was fighting. O this fore- purt of the helmot we gee the two eyes, the nose, ond thy mouth; consequently it represcutan musk, nud gives an additional proof that it was ouslomary 1o weur inasks., "Tlo rescmblance botween tho wix futes and tho Aranos Norinthiakon 1a certainly stri kln{; tho latter wns assurediy not invented in thefonrth century B, C,, but it has certalnly been coplod Irom a very ancient idol, nand 1 have'not the #light- st doubt that the six figures represent this very sume idol, i+ Finally, wo sce near the top two waving lines which caniot possibly represent nuything elso than the rea, which 18 represented in like manner on the colns of ‘Parentum. From the soa rlses to the Teft the sun In full aplendor, tho raye being well reprenented, and to hisleft (tn the loft of the wprcintor) rises the creacent of the moon. On sco- fiz this marvolona ring, Mps, Schllemann and I in- voluntarily exclaimed, *‘T'ils ring must have been noen Ly Homer before ho described all the wonders I\Vllk‘.!l ‘tlephwstus wronght on the ebivld of Achil- ea,* " No expense lins becn spared In the publication of the work. Mapa, nlans, views, colored plates and engraviugs are given to the number of about 500: croes-references and notes are abundant; a tall analvtical table of contents {a supplemented by a well-made indox; and type, [""}"’" d presswork aro al that wancy and sklil { inenufacture can wake them, A rih binding of uniquo wtyle come. pletea the oxcellont mechanical work donw in tho publication of thls forsmost hook of tho ye Yl!‘fir}\mer, Armstrong & Co,, publishers, New orle, THE FARM AND GARDEN. Summnry of the Year—Tho Interest Demon —Annunt Inventorics—What Crops to Grow —Settiing-Up=Caunlng Corn—A Hecent Discunsion=tivlless OatsmAmorican lerks shire RecordeFeoding Mogs=Wonther, Crops, Ete, Fram Our Own Correspondent, Cuanratan, HL, Dec. 16,—Wo aro approach- Ing the end of an aventful year, and one 8180 of weneral prosperity to us as farmers, Itlstrue tlat hero und there cxcessive ralus, both befors and after planting, Injured crops, and thut, in Central llinots at least, tho coru-crop has fallen greatly bolow the estimute; vet we bave no s;celal cause to complaiu, but, instead, many things to be erateful for. We should now be- #iu to ook around, and sco bow much, it nay, better off wo are now than wa were a ycar ago. Wo should get o plece of paper and peacil, and on one sheet set down n lat of all we owe, and on anothor the amouut of credits wo have. In this should be included tho farm, and o st of all the personal property, grain, oy, and stock on hand, farmiug implements, machinery, ete,, ete, with a value sflixed, such as they would bring at a forced sale, li, after adding up both columus, we find that they nearly balance then we know thut we ure work- {ng for our creditors. On the coutrary, i the crodit side be the lurger, wo aro working for aursclves, I woowe more than we can pay, tho better way to do, in our oplilon, fs to niake an aesigument and begin over azain. TISE INTEREST DXMON 18 the one who is eating u‘) the substance of our furmers, and thero 16 o lesting-up of his de- manids, Thers 8 no doubt a great sacrifice of pridy m:ce‘-nry to bring oneself to a condition of mind in which ho.is wiling to acknowl* vdze to his nelghbors that he is worth nothing; but is better In the cud than to struggle sloug year alter yeur, puy- joir Intercst, and getting deoper aud docper futo debt, We antivipate all that may be said against such advice. Itis nlgeduo( repudia- tiou; but the namoaf repudiationfst has nio ter- Turs for & man who works agaiust boye and 10 percent. ‘The publicat large is always ready to sympathize with and aid & muy who has pecomu {ivolved through no particutar fault of bis own, or who has been overtaken by misfortune; but it hos no sympathy with a man whoattempts by swlndilug to cheat another. TUESK ANNUAL INVANTORIES are also Li"“d fur other purposs They wili show the loss or protit oo tho asticles, and the deprectation in yalus of tools aud muschinery by Use Or eXPUALIC, 'l‘he{nlm serve toremlvdone ol the number of fhiugs which sccumulate ubout & furm, knd which sometines, belug out of sight, are lust or forgotten. Wu can also contemplate at our lelsurs the foollsh outlsy which & great many of us have made for thinga wa do not need. WIIAT CKOYS TO GROW, Wo should also, fu tnis connectlon, decide what purticular crop has been protitable to grow, and sce if tho mrrnundlnfii wil justify us in extending its culture another year,” There are always two things to ba looked at befure trylug 10 rulse a crop: The frst is, Will It grow sud produce wellf The other, Can wo scll it when ouco rafscdl We ouce Kuew & wan who lantcd seven acres of strawberries ten miles vom the pearcst rallroad-depot. He didu’t make 3t pay, for the reasou that be could not got pickers when the (ruit ripcaed, sud because Be could not seil it when picked. 'These polut, were both shown to him before he ylmed . yine; but he iguored them, to bis loss. We shio therefore, look at both these points be- fore delermining uvon what we shall grow iun the future. BETTLE UP, One of the serlous fauits of mavy farmers is their seeming desire Lo avold s settlement with those they owe. ‘Thia 18 ot as it should be. (iood busiuess-men should scttle at least oncu In three monthe. long fricuce.” Squarc-up yuir a your dry-gaods dealer, your groner, on uthers s you owe. Have uteratanding of the amnunt due, so that theie may b mistake, The Lutcan mind s very e and memory meeh mese wo. A disputed ace eount fs much earier ectiled while the traren HonIs froeli fn the memory of buth parics, | than it {8 two or three A atterward, when | verhars a bric! memorandum fa uld thure Is to | reireah the memory from. A rettlinent does not always mean o puyment i fall, Lut 1t fixes a thnie Lack of uhlnrn it wil be unnceesrary to go when the account 1a pald, CANNING CURN, A New York paper says that @ More than #000,44.0 cans o .vorn are now packed in Malne unnually, and eold mevery pert of the world,— yleldiny n business to Uiat State of atout ¥1,250,000, andd efving profitehle employinent to frans 8,000 to HLM0 jeople during the” packine season.” Whereupon an fowa cditor jutipa at the followiug conclutfons * Jown fucmse, mls- ing thousands of Lushels of curn every voury buy canued corn from Maine 10 cat ta ‘winler. | I this the thrift of good sense and the manave- | ment of good brsanessment 1t would pay the State to hire a oot _pert Yanker rom Matue, and give him 210,000 o year, to como to lown and teach us to ean enough cory i sutntier- time to do us through the winter.” In comiing to a conclusion of this kind, we must glwnss bear fn mind the fact that, for every ean of corn put up in the West, one less will be required from the East. Lvery man or woman given emplogment in canning establish- menta in the West nucessitates the discharge of anequal nuwmber (0 the Enst. ‘This Isa rule that bias no exceptions. 8o lung as the mnrket ia not supplicd with a proditet, Just fo long will it puy to create new factorfes for 118 production but, where n market 13 1uil, as the canued-corn market is at present, there Is no use embarking in the canning bustuess, It wa could atimulate consumption by production, it would dot but, unfortunutely, eonsnmption is what controls vroduction, or, rather, it Js what keeps the price up :l(. that articles be grown and sold for e vroflt. quence. Asfor peor Li# Lions at Taet—torn Intobits right in the cnger, He was performing s antoals, and lust Lis temger with them, o thine no wan should ever do witha wild heast, and whipred them too wuch, They tur s hitn pucdrnly, and t) here was an end of Luets, Just as there to maost of us fellows pome day or other, -l at leact of the men who make wild beaste norlorm are fulshed by thetn, 1 suppo<e I whlenter acage one ton often myeeif.’™ Nowander he was o snd-eved man, with surl viewa of hiz probabic ultimate de: tiny, Ouce 4 young man, who had been hanging around the tiger cnges for a long while dofur chores, took it {nto hichepel that he could “perform® the ankinals, snd probably he conld nave done o, ‘The hiasts had got ueed to see- g bim around swd knew his volce, Tut tho moment e entered the cage he: lost lls conr- age, b showed ggns of fear, ol the tigers found 1 ont i a twinkliug,—the beasts know by Inttinet 3f vou foar themor kot,—snd it Thad vot ishod n Juet then he” would have been tarn timb from limb: oncofl the tigers way t petting ready to bite bis neck when I o e aean killed ints with such no wild beust ean ever be trueted, wot even the so-catled Snoble’ tion, They are ull treacherous, the femnales eenerally bl more decelttul amd neerdes than the males, The Honess §s mure lenlt to manage than the lon, the tigress than the thzer, Kindness—teat {4 anything hut apdinary kindness or Heivilite—is pbolutely thrown away upon s wild beast, Jt has otea- rlonully sumie little efTeet upou allon, hut really very eeldom, the Hon beine readly waurly st cheraiis trute, a1l lon storles and talk to stwithetanding, But with o {xrern, all affection (s s i3 as Hkely t dotng. wild -anfinals you must depend on fcer—only absotute fear. " Let the beasts kuow toat vou can anl will heat them when tieyduserve it i they will not burt you. Never trust thend for a moment, keep your ye i them il the time—not that your A RECENT DISCCSSION of this corn-cantiing husineas, whilch occurred in West Medway, Mass., hetween a numbier ol nicn ¢ alone wil have any effeet upon who were engzaged ln zrowing corn for un estab- thetn, Al these stories In buoks about lishment of ‘the kind, shows concliusively that | “eyeing anluals™ nto submission and there {8 no bl money 10 ity and, with the likell- | 1bé power of the human eve. over the livod that many others would cuguge In the | brute ereation ure sheer fabrlcations. Andasa rule, the whin is the nost eflicacious of Instru- suents {n training or subduing o wild beast. It ot b ured quickly and at once, and It hurts cvery time, o ho, bessts learn to dread it even mnore thann gun—more than anything saveared lot baror atire. *Id d more on _my whin when | go in among my tiere,” rald the reporter’s Informant, * than upen my- self. It Dwere to drop mywhip the beast would faney 1 had lost oll my power, and pounce first upon the whip, then upon me. [ would consider the drunlum.rul my whip while in the coge with my oulninls as almost 8 fatal calamity. “o “traina wild animal,” sald Mr. Btjll, “you must first make his or her: nequaintance from the ontstde, doiug chores around the cugre and gettiug the anfmaly sequalnted with your fnce, and, above all, with your volee. They re- member voices mote acutcly than theydo faces; they are governud more by round than by sight. Once T bail a beast o my caze that had not scen me in my red st that [ wear when performing, When T entered with it on the brute did not recopulze me, and would undoubtedly have sprung on inc and torn me to pleces hud I not shouted to her fn wmy ordinary tone of volce, 8he remembered me’ at once and siunk down submissive.” PERDISG TIHE ANIMALS, “The trafner fecds his Lensts and gives them sama_buainess {n the vicinity, some thought it wonld not pay more profit than ordinary corn, "The fuct: {8, we are too npt to conclude that, if ten or a dozen men engage in one branel of Agricuiture nnd make it pay, 6 like number may do the same. That such (s not true of some things In Agrieulture, especially of spo- ciltics, is shown by the numerous fallurcs which annually ocenr. “IIULLESS 0ATS." We hayo been hunting for informatlon re- garding this cereal, but find lttlo that is new, ‘Ihe following from the Toronto (Con.) (Ilobe I8 lvrolmbl_r trie, if not new: *We know of no wmbug #o thorouwlily exploded asthe ‘hulless ont? Is now. We kiow that the hulless oat tnd heen grown (or some centuries in Great Britain and Ireland without ever hecoming any- thing more than a curiosity.” AMERICAN BERKSUIRE RECORD, Following the example of the Snort-Horn breeders, the Ameriean Berkahiro Assoctation adopted a standurd of excellence, aud already has one volume of its * Becord™ fn the hands of the public. A noto from Mr. P. M. Springer, of 8pringfield, 111, informs us that the second volutne is mow rendy for distribution to those cntitled to ft. The work is one of valuo to breeders and buyers alike, and every ono inter- ested In thorouhbred Berkshirea should possess 8 completo sot of the work. PREDING 11008, water.” These acts give him no hold on their Prof. Morrow, of the Industrial University, | cratitude, Lut they serve to render his fuce, s been trying an experiment of fecdlug foir | form, and voice fomiflar. They serve as an fne troductfon to tiger sagacity. But sou must al- pair of ples with dry corn aud water fora perl- ways watch your heasts well, whether outside od of four wecks.” The best result obtalne was with a palr of Poland-China ples, which, | or Instde the eage. in the time mentloned, nto six ond nine-fours “Iiaving rot nccustomed to your beasts and teenths bushels of corn, and gained eighty-ciglhit | your beasts accurtomed Lo yoti, YOUr next step and onc-half pounds. This 1s at tho fate of | ix to train them to do thefrtricks. These tricks thirteen and onc-third pounds guin to the bush- | aro very simple, but they rmLuIrc n zood deai of el of corn fed. The avernge zain with the four | time, and a good deal of whipping to accomp- air was about eleven 'puumln per bushel of | plish. corn. ‘This resuitis, of course, a great deal WThe lons ore the. smartest of the witd better than wodld bo obtatned Ly an. averago | bensts. You can tralw a lon to do the ordinary feeder. . The pigs were ynunf.v, and In just o | tricks In tndc—fumplmz through hoops and proper condition to grow rapldiy. oser gates, standing on hind lege, and 0 on— WEATIER, CHOI'S, EIC. in nbout Nve weeks of constant work, In this Tor a couple of weeks we, in Central illinols, | timetable of wild Leasts you can estimate that have been hoving nice weather for gathering | it would tukea lMouessabout aweck lourer, corn} anyl, as o conscyuence, tho crop is now | pml a leopord, which comes next in {ntellizenco nearly n‘l in the erib. ’1'lmf)‘|cl(l will not be | ton Noo, about eix weeka tolcarn the sume imuch over hall what was anticipated, and great | fcats. The tiger would take ahout seven or is the mourning thereat. 1logs are Lulng ship- | elzht weeks, o tliress about elehit or nine weeks, pod out rapidly, eaused, no doubt, in many while vou can keep on beatlng nud teaching a cases, b‘{ a dread of some discasa nnncklmi hyena for about four months before you can do them. A great deal of corn has olso been sold | much with himn, durini the past few days at from 25 to 30 cents wPhe most diffenlt task of nil to teachn per buahiel of olghty pounds, RunarJr. wiid beast s to teach him how to let youdis on e ———— him without bis catine you. Idothis cvery TAMING THE TIGER. night with one of Ui tigresses, but she don't 1iKe it & bit, thoueh sha keeps quict cnougl, for Wild-Tienst Training as a * Regnior Dual- ness”—Its Principles and Its Practice. it ogeravates Ler inwardly. New York llerald, v 2.0 . ONH GHEAT BUCCESS, WThe great seeret of tiger taming and all Ho did not look a bitlike ahero. He wasn short, rathier thin, rather palo, sad-eyed, middle- wild beast tanlng,! vontinued the thzoer tamer, ©lies fat thie Whipping of the animals—knowing ‘}m when to whip them—and just how much, ou must keep them well whipped, but i aged man, with light balr and rather veddish | you whip them citber too little or too mustache, nnd be walked townnl thocage of | much, or whip . them without cause, wild snimals, contalniug four full-grown ti- | it might bo fatal, As for lvoel- gresses (near which the writer was standing), tively taming o wild benst you can't do ft ¢l : —especlally a tiger, One or two men tay have Witl tho subdued, spiriticss, und mechauteal ir | 4org or lcsu influence over an anlmal, but 1o of on nttendant to whom & full-yrown tigress | one fa abgolutely safo with them, and no wild was an overy-day spoctacle. Tho time was 8:30 | bheast was ever absolutely tamed. Food makes o'clock in the evening, und the place was the }m m‘ue lmrlmvfimwllll‘l l“,l wlal Iuc-::v. us‘.m rear of Gilmore's garden, now occupied by tha | 1ts natural feroclty, and with a tiser it mates ™ none at il Myanfmals would teara man London Circus, this partleular portlon of tha | fynb trom limb aftera full meal just for the Inclosuro betng devotud to the menagerle. fun of tho thing, On the other hand, T would The short, thin, pale, sad-cyed man approoche | just us Hef cnter thelr cnge before u meal ns ed slowly, atooped to pass under the bars which fl{'x"n"r‘ h:" é‘;}“‘il:‘x"fl":n"'fi'flf Lt“'ur :cr'(ornl'mn:’l: ! 9 q ¢fore fec 3 ernoon. 4 divilia Uio-¢age (l" the slgers from the mass of | Lo Ty ired t6 keep them withont food for four humanity, aod then quietly commenced to clean | days, crossing from Englund to France, aud yet tho cage contalning the huge beasts, disturbing | 1 performed them before Ifed them on 1ho oceasionatly, a8 he did so with his broom, the {c‘mnh drllv.l“l)u Bun'd:n{ we ;lltltc"?u; feed llll‘L; occupants, who, however; scemed lo pay a8 icress o o 80 us th Keeh Tom R Jittlo attentlon Lo i us b paid apoarently to | Froqns! fl:gl:"‘lmpfilx‘é'r'.h““{';?é;,fi"’“i}“ efure thom, although they could bave “clawed" | amount of food has very littlo to do with thetr him at any moment. Thinkiug hin to bean | behavior. Thirst excites them more than hun- ordinary attacho of tha circus, thewriter sald | ger. Eachof my tigers drinks ubout a pail of to the man, biall Jesting: * You seem to know water nday and consumes about ten pounds of the beasts pretty well; but do you think you kuaw them well eoough to trust your hand {o- aldo the eage, as you do your broow 1" “Well, [ should hope I aid,” repiled tho man quictly, “sceinzas Iwill lavoto trust meat. “T'here fs this difference between a tiger and 1lon, " safd our encyclopiedin ot wild beast lore, A Jion wiil tear you out of spite aud temyer occasfutially, but a tiger uttucks you vuly tor sheer lave of blood. tiger's claws, too, ure cven sharper than a llow's, - The leopard's my whole body lusido thecage fua few min- | 'claws aro Itessliarp, whilo o hvenals foot s utes’ like o dog's, clawlcss, the hyena's strong The writerlooked at the sad-oyed manin [ point belus ke a scoldlng wotnum, In the aw, Having now pretty well exhausted the sub- Ject of wild beast tuming and trnluing, a con- uding word may hero ho sald as to the_poy of the professionul wild-beast tamer. This 18 wmuch smaller than is firnuul ly supnoscd, rang- ing from $150to &100a month, " Coneddering the risks of life ond limb these men daily tuke, aud the fuct that there are not ity of them witugether In the world, this would seem scanty compensation, But the muen themaelvea seen- eod satlatied, and theru sppearsto bea wild bizarre fascination about this wild beast life, which, like the Jove ol art fu a fine artist, iaits own, even 31 §t is ofteu Its only reward, e aG— MARINE. AMARINE DISASTERS, In the opening of & previous article oa fbis sub. Ject, an eeror by the compusitor made it say that the loss of the large stmr Luc Lu Belle, some years slnce, bad been ¢‘satisfactorily esplained.” It should Lave sald, autl It is now repeated, that tho causes which led to the disaster referred to wero invested with & mysterions character at the time, and have so remslacd, investigation elciting noth- ing but » mattor-of-form verdict, Tho Govern- ment local {nepectors, who alt iu judgment upon cases of the kind, cannot open the mauth of those who, through sclf-Interest or through tustruction, are notified that 8 wise discretion in thelr state- ments is very desirable, **Dead men tell no tales,” aud * bere the survivors are quito as . reticent, ss ihey go abunt with "live compreased, & typo of lockiaw burn of marine dia- maters whero great futerdets are favelied, “Of courso tbis refers to officers. tutho crew i less degree, while passen) are quito frec in divulg- fug tho little they Lave been allowed to learn of 1ho trouble. With tbe great malority of travelery Lnowledye pertaluing lo tho boat which carriv wonder for & minute, then *‘the situation™ broke upon bim. ‘This weck little man, whom he bad Leen taking fora subaltern, was thoe kiog himself, the ticer Lamer, the wan whose regular business 1t was to go twice n day Into acage holding four full-grown tigrosses, any oue of which four could kill and eat himn at auy moment, ‘Yo meek little feliow was Indeed w specialist,—a speclalist whoso line was truly pecutinr, and, thereforo, truly fntercating, Notouw man inamillion canentera tece's don, asn regular thing, and couie outof it again, ’Txm particuler tiger tamer who guve this particular inforniatioh was named Alfred Stlil, and wes born in London of Qermau parentuge. Ho dnitied, whes 8 boy, luto s situstivn with a nan who bought and sold wild suimals, sl then, joininga lraveliug clreus, wandered n actendanco on & pair of lons. Tho number of Huns was then fucreased toseven, aud with thes kiugs of the desort Mr.BHl becams thorougbly famillar from the outside of the cages. A DEBUT IN A DEN OF LIONS, Tho first time bu entered the den to make thems performy was, of course, o incuiorsble epoch of his life. ] expected 10 bo torn ar cut Ly the beasts,’” sald Mr. Btiil, alluding to his portion of _this experiences, *“and 1 was very nervoys. I ex{mwd to coma out of the cage bleeding, 3f not dying, and [ wade up my mind that if snything happened to we this rst tine’ it should'be wuiy last time; Iwould never re- reu tho attempt. But lu?' cmployers said tLat £ 1 got iu suy trouble whth the lions they would sce we through my hospital expeoses and would continue my wages. 8o, although § sbhook all over iuslde, I Jooked as bold as ulion, and 1 went ju the cage befory the crowd Justasif 1 bad btfn u:lcu to ll.( ‘The llona 'l;e mlv'lt‘:{ first rate. I made my performanco pretty sbort, was o1 by iy employers, and bave never | them beconics cuibodied In tho uuderstaudiog that L%g@fl:‘-’flfl:gm:’:i ‘.'i"fwf' 12 P A ":g .“l.hl:vl g" “‘ud thing is holler," be it & windbost ur & ‘ou _must huve kuowu soms famous lion hllx:g‘: 'ml' tiwer tawmers ju your tune,” remarked "?’:‘f‘fl“;’:,::g ',‘:::%E{I'"‘,‘,hé‘f‘;'::"flf“:" el i3 0 of the grealer neasure of salcty for 5 Oh yes," said Mr, Btill, #Ihave met Tom | Kuman life, and Jt s bot denicd that pational Yovia: Batty, Luces, Crockett, and Juhn Cooper. I | lation hasserved this purpusata su supreciable de- worked for a while under Tom Batty, He was { gree. Fire-extiuguisbicrs of th patented and une » good wan in his way—dido's know what fear | patented tvpe are provided,—~chemical macblues Snd water-pampe, Useful Or usel the Steame duclared to was, but somehow he lad mno luck N g bo the cause, d awupervislon given them. T e A b ull the thme SELUDE | fleams l:xe-‘cocd ro attached (0 (bo botlers for ibe 4 {3 40 Of gbting Sre lu the bold, Lifo-preserve e Of varfous palterne arc 1o the stateruoms at other svailable poluts upon tho boat. Yawl-boats aod [ife-boats rest upon the harrl. cano-deck, thelr carrying capacity presumed o be uplimited, 1 one way judgo Ly the crowds of pea- plecarrivd on mome Occasions. All enomerated berv and much more of less woment conforws o sasctentitled ** An uct for Lbe better protection ©f passcoger-steanicrs ou vur lakes snd rivers," or words to thut effvct. Then there 18 Lhe Gavera. ment safely-vahhe, & kind of savinge-bunk for sleam, whers the drafts are **lLonored” 10 & aféty *-limit only, a8 perteat. Auotber **safo. bites und scrutches. Ho always came out of bis tusales first best, though. Iemadea lion know tbat Lo wss boss. Jack Cuoper wasa frut oo tamer, 100, but cool aud gulet. e raveled ip EFrunce with Myers' Circus. Mo was bitten very bud ouce, and was fu the hos- 112l for wonths. Crockeit was wLundonfavorite n his day, and then there was a Miss Dare who weot into' s Mou's den, Dare waa not ber real name, but she deserved ft, for she was daring, too danog, for ouco she forgot to walch Ler Mons, and wos ucarly torn to pleces tu conse- ] ty " contrivance 1s tho ible plnz.' The key 10 the wnlvo mentioned f kept share sxeept 1 caerg where more thay opdinars confidence 19 re- poeed in the engineer. Where Itis adjustable by the Inspector hin discretion is too often gaugad by the npecerstty of the awner ae, for cxample, the bojier thronzh Inng nsagr and fepuir« may not be sale with the degree ol pressure allowed, [f s carcful and cunscien- tions tan have It tn charge, he may fnd 4t danger. oue. Under the circusmelances he sheuld Le, or rather he 3+, the most comprtent Jnege of fte condi- tion. 1le t3kes the firal oppurtunity ta sek for re. nire, |1cia infarmed there io **ne time for that n tha tunning searon,” The local inspeetor ie seat for. Ile way or may not make an nepection. He otten thoo he Intier counrse, lie finde 3t sastly more comfortable to decide the cane, and make ont hi« **permit™ on deck or on the dack, than to bi: nowing about outs! ard in- walr of n 'dirty steams-botler. 1ike a Hariford boller- ineatanee gent. Usneily b can Sod a nsn who will " +ttake her “out' “sud ask no ques- tions, n response o the carefnl man's pintest, he may adiost the Governnmient 10k-LOX t4r five fourids [oa pressnreto the square inch. **Alltizht™ fathe phraec now, and forth. with the pew uficer in chatee goes azain with **the pitcher to the well™ out upon ihe nasty decp, | §Lmay prove the **ance toa often."™ but it it breake or *-sust~" there fullow= but o transient renmation, a eort of fnquest, and arort of verdict whichi fids na one 1o blame, This i no fancy sketch, 88 only two monthe since in tnis harbora competsnt engincer was **aliowed " to take him- rell out uf the way, andasubetitale wae found, Tt not o trace of Inepection upon an nnseaworthy hojler was insjosed. Anything like a review of tho steam marine fleet which wowid pasw carclasaly the **Ineibly plug" would fack coneletency snd complelenate, LTka n nonitor wittout a tarret would be a steam otler without its fusible plug—in the eye of the aw. ‘fravclerson our lakes muat have noticed the prominence accorded it in_each steamer's framed certificate, Thia fmportant diplomate 2 time. ionored thetie of the rarine colloeaand the doctors tuereln, Whatia the fusible pluict It le & rmail rhl'.‘ Loit of soft metsl screwed into 8 thresded hole prepared for §t. It §« placed at some point apon the builers In the vicinity of the smoke-box, where, 1f the equilibrium of safety 1s dietorved thronglt Jow water in the boller. the con-enuent Inceenes nf temperatnre will canse tho ploz to e by the ranh and whistie of steurn through the pasenze, The only apology for mure thun pas tmnartance given it roference 1o it here i the taw, Apart from this, itis usually voted a nuisance, and romething mote thun an oficiai squint by the Snapector at this “4little joker™ woula detect a ping whicl ix uny thine but fushle: in fact, composed of o mefal which would reslst a temperature that would burn or melt boiler plate, Thro arc hetter low-water nlarme than (ke fusi- Yle plug contrivances which the steamboat lawa dn not mention, Among the moel rellable ls the old-fashioned pauge-cock, which to the trafned i e, e the water *‘foaminz™ or #oll "This_fs not the department of this paper which adrertires Jow.water alorme, or mnch might be rald in favor of several of them, . The dircussion of tere In the ateam fleet, nnd ibe naturo of the grentest perils which menace human life by wuter, together with the st advisabis micans to meet and enanteract puch dan- ers, b2 the puramonnt object of this diacusrion. tcaiming, they, with an nlusion to the fuade. qate weans provided for changing from he low to the hivh pressnre operative in_emer- gencien **outs de. " it mast b snld that low.-prex. wure beam-chgiies are in the same fixas are the proneller tnachines. That v thelr exhauat-nipen are rizidly fixed. anil there in but one way in which $he eteam canld gel out In working high prossure, The ancedate In_ whicl a Scotch machinlel just +sut of s time, * and who was anxions togotnsea, fizures n, will hest fllustrate this point. aun- die, mon.*” saut **Auld Donakt. the Insnecto “\wehaur, noo, laddic, diz the steem gang il when it gangs frac_the cylinder o a Juw-preseul e ginet” **Whanr diz it gang?” said Eandy: zues 0of, shul Xne, nae, mon: that'll nac deo. ' said Do Ye mann dee betther nor thnt, mn baien, Oy. woe), " said Sandy, acratch- 1ris T8 head, +* het buggers aboot 411 1t tins its way oot, Tismirring here the question of Inadenuate pro- vislon, or eather the lack of any recaution at atl, for the particular strait referred to, the matier of spphiances and equivments against two great dan- gerv, those threatened by great irake and by Ore, are now In order. The modern Ligheprewsure steamer has, for thio purponc of prunping out, the englne blige-pumpe, one of more. ‘Those fitted with hulxtinz machinery have foma eccentric bat- rel yumps capalie of good rervice, Many of thetn fiavo syplion discharges,—pipes which, reaching Intn the bllge-wells, are operated by 8 steam- blast which expels the “alr and “cau the water (o rise and be thrown erboanl, Thero i also the common brake-pump operated b hand, while the untfit most relied npon for fire {n tho **pony * stcam-pump, - In oo many cares its want of capacity makes It ifttle more than a boller- Teeder, Too emall a size Is purchared for service. This completes the sum total of zervice and fires Nlmlvlnn& apparatus on high-pressure steamers. A portion of the rame is roquired by law, the re: malnder belng supvlied for convenienco snd the #aying of labor, Lowspresnure steamers, whilo posessing all the ncen pamed above, have an additional puinp r **bilge injection. ' [t is uscd only In times of otaolute danger, whero watce I muking so rap- idly an (o threaten the extinguishinent of the firen, At -lmlm tho outalde Injectlon, i8 shut off, anid the waler for condensing the steam I8 faken from tho hold, and thus goce overhoard, counteracting the lenk so farnsite HRIM!_' will atlaw, It is an effective pump for such tervico, tut it ean well be snid that the entlro outdt, as enntmerated and cambined, falle far ehort of the re- ufrements ofien demanded fn_times of peril. Warking tugether, the cntiro range of thoso smsil- bore pumps are equsl only to emergencles of vr- dinnry occurrence, Without Imposing harsh conditions upon the owners 0f arge passenger-ateaniers, —~who are of- e raed too hearlly through the (ricke of **fn- ventors," who ancceed in receiving Guvernment indorrement, adoption, and countenanco for thelr contrivances,—it can be juslly nrzed that au cn- Tsrzed pumping pawer for heir boats would be an advisable method of insurance and rafety, 16 & sniling vesscl le to be pumped out, 8 wrecks iog-pump Is at once placed aboard of her, and the sruflest of theeo In e in equa) to the entire dis- charge-capacity of the entire ist of bumps upon seaters, 3t will be contended that wrecking Pumps require botlers too iarye ard cosly to be counted in with a new outfit upon & mer. Room for snch an arrangement, howevor, all un deck, wonld not greatly interfere with the space re- aulred for freight.” Fome boate are proy! {ndopendent ar **pony ™ bollars for holsting wther purposes, This boller could be reudily bullt in the first place for the very important business of driving & *‘siationary® wrecking pump of large capacity. Even if the fires In the main fnrnace were extingulshed Ly o riolug leak, Ao resvico of & g wmcklnwmmu Iteclt and ita furnace on the main deck would save u boat from foundering in nine cascs out of ten, ‘To save them from stuking, steauers bave oftenfbeen beached. ‘The espcuscs Attendant mpon geiting them off wunld, in computing the average experience in auch casew, purchnse the wreekinganvaratus refer- red 10, many times over. The work of getitng a »ail venscl 0 shore in child’s play compared to the Tabor of doing similar work for a steamor, When the steambont laws demand the erection of 8 mualn ing putmp on all parsenger ateamers. the mis- pologivs for such arrvice so laruely now in 111 ho dispinced. A delnsion and s snare, they but duplicsle on grest stoambwats the {dentical contrivances used twenty years ape In nvery fow cascs i8 there a dectded Tmprovement, the result of good Judgment on the part of owners, Whoare s daw unto themselves. Vacuum pumis 0f Jara. capacity have beun tried on some Lunts with good resulta: but it remalus doubtful if, fAiret cust convidered, there can b a cheaper inveatment thon & powerful wrecking-pumnp with builer. ~For fro sorvice, apart from chemical machines, it will be fouud that juvestment 1o a small boil thoght to bn capable of buing tranaforn rood’ fre-engine, o ofien proves a ch Dest fa tho cheapest, — ——— gudden Change of Natlonality. Aorrisiown flerald. Turkish beggars—~sutlerers of the present war in the East—have put {u an anpearunce, One of these mendicants presented himscl{ at thy doorof an up-town residence s few mornings sitice, with his hat extended fn & supplicatory waunier, and muttering * Atlub Bishinallah golosncs rustachuk,” or something that wav, When & cross dog eame up and selzed o mouth- ful of bis bagey breeches, he exclalmed: it out o thut, {a dirty brute, or I'll kuuck off the head o' yel” Hle kuew thedog wouldn't un- derstand the Turkish lunguuge, IMOLIDAY BOOKS, « Oranges, nlligators, little ne- groes, pawpaws, and a small girl whoso tomper-index points in un- ceasing variation,—good, bad, and indifterent,—these are the ele- ments of * One Happy Winter,’ (16 mo., pp. 240, Lockwood, Brooks & Co,, Boston., $1,25,) The Hap- py Winter is one spent in Flovida, and it will give Inquiring youth a very pleasant st comprehensive iden of that sunny dreamland,”— New York Tribune. At ull Bookstores. #The Little Brown Ilouse, and the Childrenwholived in it isthetitleof a charming book, by Mrs. D, . San~- ford, whose former holiday books, ¢ Pussy Tip-Toe’s Family, and ¢ Fyisk and His Flock,’ have made her hosts of friends. The new book 1s filled with the kind of pictures children love to look at. The story is told agreeadly, and its incldents are such as children delight in. It isone of the best gift-books for the little Jolks that has yet appeared. . T.{filfl}E.\CLE. GREAT NATIONAL BBAY SHOW GREAT LAND SALE. etton! of Pastare snd Farming TLande 11 fae: In. a JOHN M, WOOI.;’ 7, pewif e e 2> BAZAR S I SR P DEC. 19, ONE WEEK, Hynmsiet. Toots open (M2 o 0 . m. Tt e e 34, 8w My A1 1,000 REAL LIVE BABIES, l('é 21, Range 10.” HEA TR W R b of Lande that wiil mako , will Le 10 inhe hikhest hidder on liec. 10, the County Hoose, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, ‘to commence at 10 v'clock, E. €. MILLER, Agen Terifn, Wiscon MILLIONS OF FUN, $3,000 IN PREMIUMS. Admiesion, ! Children, 35¢. MOTHER GOOSE SOIREE, Comle Pantamime nnd Tahleanx! Art Stadies In Cluasle Stniunry? Specin e thouss 3 sceneryt ISCELLANE Tnder the irection f \ir. Bartlett, who s already INDIA PROOFS ONLY, wonderfully succeeded Th tnaay nf the Western cltfes, and the succcsslul manngers of THE RCTIEIFLY DALL, for the rnent of the Unity 2 vl Sciiool sad the Clicao Homsonathia L, Thursday snd Friday evenlogs & Enturany Matinen les. 8 e 8 to eltlier entertalment will he ex- o sofd ut the Hatl Aov.Orice afier 12 o'elock morning. Drc. 18. oniy 5o Coute. Resetved or Childtan to tne Mailoee, 23 Ceats, Fint st rerved. McVICKER'S THEATRE Eagtern_and A limited number of MEMOIAL vm’f{i#::;m"""'""' 50 of the CcRATENNIAL EXHINITION, d In the certine: of awarf, are WWhich was Incorpor naw offered for sale at the principal ar 1) bpokeinres, e e RrAYing on sicel ny'the RATIGNAL DARK on stee] e K [ N, LT R R T R New Furkr AR OFPIcR 07 COMPTROLLER OF THE CURREXCY, WAST: ee. 2. 15T, “Kotiee Is hereby iven to nst the Trind Nationa! 2y clatma aos X iank of Chicago, 1), that the same murt be entr| e 1 o amegn b ik eeeiver. with the tesnd wfri il SIDONIE, F T Rualoned e o 12 e or Etenio; R UL Comptroller of thi rre; and'gt, Matinee Prices, Married Flirt. 27 anid 30 eta, “4Eidunte innst be withdrawn after the present week to make room for the ORAND FAIRY EXTRAVAGANZA AND SIMPSON & CO., _Monday Eveatug, Liec. 24, HOOLEY'S TUEATRE. “HORGAN PARK MILATARY ACADEAY Morgan Park, Cook Co, lils Koxt reeston A first-clase Prenatory Schonl for Tays. Positively Last Week! 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