Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 4, 1878, Page 9

1878—=TWELYV istie polnt of A deseription of the picl ;u’u routains the following Interesting particu- ara: The srtiet izs chonen the tims of aunsct, and the rexlon he lian sclected Hen In the northern part of the moon. e apectator 18 aupposed to be on the front siope of & mountain, the continuatiou of prising the Pin Firs, Juunipers, Yew, ete. m Every one s familiar with the aepect of these | of dentidation than can possibly be sccounted treesnr ehrubs, and with their valuable quall- | 197 b5 the condittons supuosed by the Profes- #or, "lle also adduces the presence of coarse ties. Many epecles arc in common use for the | ynajeriar, such as gravel and coarae rocks, in the ornamentation of pleasure-grounds; fndeed, | prairie-mold, and the absence of fossils In the they are regarded ns on eesential feature in | £0il and sub-toll af high prairie-lands, as esl- T washed, his rat on that same apnt y ! methods of working them, w LIPI{,RA_ I I Rl( A Thranan summier-neat and winter-cold, for ine la-t | foformed on the subject. will care to nerise. 1t “"1’ yeusy mever "Ti’f'fl'.':;"f.xf,"fl.':f'\';"{‘f' L"';::!‘;;r mavy be useful and entertaining to this last waier; rever even i il to his i | i pra for e fevdingt_Tiv Ionat vion (4 fogk sl mec 3% l story. A word migit be gafd of the air of un- N ’ wht, and o chistance s hut th tore A Five Months Voyage | i e . and cali Atoud to hita ) Feality that haunts the whole record of the ad- a Congress Inaug hfi' European _ccono- mists, 8, Meterologles , Alpine Clubs. 10, Publlc [lygiene. 11, for regulsting interna- tlona]l measures againat the propagation of epk zootics. Various otlier Congresses src belng organized, The first sesclon of the Bummer Bchool of i for hiia blersing as we 7o by, ventures of the vanncists, and of the forced | Which inthe foregronnd comen ot os & closed | o re oaekur garde 5 . | dences welghing etrongle agalnst the theor on the River. Misa Edwards wiacly begins her archeologica) | character of the humor: but wa forbear. B O e Wiib dad oo, Thn cq:k:.f‘;'ff,\:;h:m':. hn;l :Ing:- of (helr ‘Taving been® formed Dnder water. Diolagy.at the duseumm of the Pesbody Actde: Nile. Inveatigations with the oldest stractures still | - Thu book is beautifully produced by the pub- | {0 and amail craters, atretching sway to the a } e In conclusion, Mr. llay states: *That | Ty of Bcience, Salem, Mass., will begtn July 5, and eontinue eix weeks. ctures will be given on Histology and thie Anatomy of tho Verte- Lrates, by Mr. C. 8. Minot; on Spiders, Scorpl- ane, and Mites, by Mr. J. 1, Emerton} on the Crustacea, by Mr. J. 8, Kinzuley;l and on the Jiahers. The designs on the cover are novel and pleasing, and the [llustrations are plouant and spirited. selves, under the name Gymposperma. They | eome portions’ of the prairier, eszectally thote agree with the other exogencus ordersgencrally | bordering our Great Lakes and some of our riv- in the structure of their stemand In their mode | ers, hase originaliy heen swamps, cannot be ‘ doubted; but that' they are destitute of Lrees, of growth, but difler remarkably fn having | FRUBES 0\ lkuted 10 miner cautes, the abeence remaining In the Valicy of the Nile, and contin- ues them to the end fn chronological order. 1ler descriptions are minute, learned, and plet. k and | u —uniting a hiat L L rigin and The Great Hall at Karna gromin Suaition B iers pEte il tant mountain referred to. Before us,in the bls fky, hancs the mann's moon.—our carth, She rheds hor pale, ash-colored light over the rent. desolate, dead atone-fields, “Only the highest mountain:tops atifl glow in the light of the eciting ———— ENGLISII I{ISTORY. t ! n T HISTORY OF THE ENOLISH P i, —no Ionger red. ax here, hot dazzlingly white, | Daked ovules,—that Is, the ovules or reedsare | ot schich In other localities permits the growth | kower Animals and the Insects, by Dr. A, B. the Colbasal:Btatucy'e ;u‘c::-“‘rlfl‘)’xln:lr:ul';ml':"tllu:":ll‘\]::’I‘::’:.-‘n IPtht‘}firlrge‘:{ donx 1 nfm:'.m.p. M. A, Vol 1L.=Tnk :‘;g‘l'l';;'l‘“"tflfllhfllhflncfl of stmosphericab- | not inclosed in anytbing ke n eced-vessel. The | of trees alike on the nne‘;t or coarsest, the | Packard. . Abou Simbel. glons, and_ Tier eraphic powers of dellneation, ;l. :)AI\;“\' li‘fll——‘!gll?‘. “’1;»::' gum:lx,):nm:c.' . "“-‘ e frult §s a conc, and, at the base of exch ecale | sweetest or the tourest soil.”” A National Congress of Microscoplsts will lieep the (aterest ever closely and happily en- | 1200300 | o P oy Bp. 200, | hias heen deprived in this picturo of tho elfects | OF Wolch this Is composed, are twnovules, which contendut Indiangpolis on the fith ot Aneui eaged. Ay a specimen of the fine qualily of Miss Ed- : eHi Ards’ wiith extract portl 14 in Qanoeing_in Caneda-—-History - of | pieh AEGREINER it "2 next. A formal Invitatlon is extended to Micro- ecopical Societics and workers throughout the country. Arrangements are being made by tho citizens of Indianapolis to provide ample enter- Price, $2.50. The perlod of nearly a century and a half which passes under the review of Mr. Green In resulting from acrial perspective and diffution of Jight,—of all the charms of a landecape, in short, that are found In_graduations of_color, richness of tone, and softn recelve the pollen direct from the inale fluwer, | STREET-CARS UN A NEW PRINCI- wilhout the interventlon of style or stigma. . PLE, "I hio sterlic flowers open early in spring, nod the ‘The various anil long-continued cfforts of in- cones mature at the ena of the second rummer, | ventors, at kome and sbroad, to devise a plan = Jights 3 o, t te a place that b this volume Ifona of creat moment In the his- ! of varying lig 5 : R tainment far strangers attending the Congress, the Ellg'hflh P 60[)10 The gk ;:"n|;?[" han J‘ffi“lfll‘:‘;"ll ‘V'r’rll!l"::“l'ifl':l: torr of Engtand. Tho author's trestment of 1t and shadows, Iu‘{:“x'n g‘:ln\!'ne\::-nk::,ue'tlldnm:u.le‘ll:::::{:l"l;n :';‘ of street-car construction free from the present | which will adfourn In time for the members Lo Times of Ohrist. At can convey morc than s dwarfed and ‘ml|l|l.!m~ is ensentially tho same a3 that outlined In s 1 lTFn_‘—_AnY ITEM *[hcy are distributed wwidely uver the face of the | objectionable features, apipear to have resulted, | be present at the meeting of the American As- * pression, ‘o descrive it, i the aense of building ermaller and much admired work. It 1a divided ATE M8, earth, but are most abundant fn Europe, | 8t lasty quite satiafactotlly, so far asexperl sociation at St. Louls, one week later. up recognizable unuge by means of words, is fm- posstble. Thescale in too vaaty tho effect too ¢ N tremendons: the yense of one’s’ own_dumbniess, Artend Literary Gossipes=An Arab | nnd nticness, nnd_tncapacity, fon complete and A young Iady has lately taken the degree of Doctor of Jurlsprudence at Leipsic. It is the firat fnstance of the kind occurring o that city, Biberls, China, sud the temperate parts of | ments'yet Indicate, Amerlca. It is a noteworthy fact that the g Conlfers of the Eouthern llegxllnhcre—m:h a8 Combprassed alt-4s Lhd tlneiole ddopled ln The 2econd report of the Geographical and Topographical Survey of New York has been published by Mr.James T. Gardner, who has nto almost fdentical secticns; but there is room nllowed for each Lo jecelve much fuller . e nde o claboration. Tne Hotse of Y 2% | this case, and, as compared with any previous d A St i " b cha iken i | 20dmore ndcuato slabgralion. i 14ie 8! | ", imond do Arnic's booic un- * Contantl. | the Araucartas, Latacarys, Daminact and D | yhiompte o n A daclion, the. eigut.ty | e motklachatce. Doting e past yese she Dnvar---An Ancient Egyp eice; thot emptics sopi. ne it wera not only of Yok, AN g e et hish (8 (0 the DFFss OF O P, Fatoam's cryds—sra in nppearance very nolike those of 1d ; . th primary triangulation of poiots {n eleven 2 i -Con- woxdw.lbulufldv?l. .\wlllhlllfif!lv_flitl'alflz. honias § rnlinwc 2 c| rmes'i_nul F"f la s pie,!* which Is (n the press of G, P, Putnam's | $35°0 Shorn balf of the globe. Nome of the | Bald to lave been greatly reduced; and, by ap- | countics~embracing an sres of tian Marriage-Con Hilee In, the yeat, rlten wacqsio bacleduws the The England of Eitzabetn, The ,nulmnmo Bons, Las reached the seventh editfon In Haly. | apceies are very lang-lived, and are supposed to | bHances for husbanding the power In the récely- | squars miles—las been precisely dater- tract. ARt l‘lm’:‘:flw'ntn‘.;#aylm"“._-v:fi::‘l ‘flvxlmdfl,m Bhakspeare,—these, mtl; ot mrl titles m( N 1 Messrs, Jansen, McClurg & Co. have In press | altsin an ege of trom 2000 10 3,000 years, | Ere a8 weil as on increased capacity of the cyl- | mined. The portlon of the State thus . ) the chapters, are magnetfe, and impel one frre- When cut stralght across the trunk, it is a indere, n much greater dietance can be traversed | far covered by the Burvey oxtends {rom the muy fn the Great Hall, — Others might measure the uiith of those tramendous columns: others mint ciimb hither gnd tmther, and tind_ont points of Flira Ronnd Abont Chieago: The Pine Familye | Yivw, nnd teat the nceuracy of Witkiison and Zinckes but | could only look and be silent, Oricin of the Prairics--Street-Lars Yet 1o ook I8 something. if we can but succoed on & Kew Trinciple. a.new and entarged edition of Prol. Jordon's #Manusl of the Vertebrates of the Unbited States.” The twenty-third volume of *The Internation- -al Sclentlfic Berles,” published by D. Appleton & Co., will contain “Btudles in Spectrum Auval- o3, by J. Normaun Lockyer. Praf. Jebb Is at work on a complete editlon of the plays of Sophuctes, which will be rendered into Engllsh prose, and accumpanied by critical notes ou the texty a commentary, and tHlustra- tve cssays. Tue growine study of the Russtan language amonyg the Engiish has caused_a deraand lur an improved manual hence an English version of the Rueslan OMendorf Bies been prepared by i\‘lr"‘llcm'_y Klols, nssisted by Mr. W. R. 8. aleton, The Univeraity of Zurich has been open to women for a number of years. Prof. 1. G. Meyer, of the Medieal Faculty, testifies that he Ting us yet been abic to discover no difference between the male and feroule students n point of ubllity or appllcation, Twentv-three ladies are at present attending the medieal course at the University of Parls. ‘Twelve are Russiaus, six English, and five French, Since 1865 thirty Indles have studied medicine in Parls, nine of whom have received the degree of M. D. Mr. Georgo Waring, M. A, of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Hertford College, Oxford, died Avpril 8. Ile 1 sald by & writer in the Academy to havo been thie most learped man In Encland, and probably in Europe, His acquircments ln- cluded rare “gchiolarehip in Greek and Latig, in anvient and modern history, in general Smitle literature, in coutvoversinl theology, sod in Freuch, German, 1tallay, and panish, An Invitation Is issued toall writers of cvery natlonality to atteml the scesions of the Literary Congress at Puns, which witl be held overy other doy from tho 4th to the 15th of June. ‘The Honorary Presidents of the Societe des Uens du Lectres, Baron Toylor, Francls Wey, Jules &iman, Paul de Musset, and others, will “assist * M. Victor Hugo as President of the Congress, with Edmund About as Acting President. Houghton, Osrrood & Co. have in preas a vol- ume of the poems of Longfellow which hava been produced within the last three years, it will be entitled **Keramos.” The same firm have nearly ready the ‘*Memoirs of Willium Francis Bartlett,” by Gen, Francls W, Pallrey, #lstibly to follow the authior’s fincs of vesearch and debate concerning them, Tue vasy, trans. parent, and yet vigorous styla which was ¢ chitel charm of the * Short History of the People, hias lent its fascination to the pr work. pecullarity of the coniferons trre not fo send | Without thie air-chamoers being rechared, B shoots trom the ronts, The order fs divided | The weizht of this ar, fu its complete state, Into three eub-orders: 1, Abletine,—including | 18 1e#8 Lhan six tons,—not a_great desl more the Pinee, Firs, Larch, Cedar, Araucaria, cte.: than the cara tow geuerally usedt—and scarcely 8, Cupressinte,—compriring the Juniper, Ar- | 08Y of the machinery is visible. Elght receivers hor-Vite, Cypress, ete.; 3 Taxina,—repre- are concealed beneath the platform and seats, aented by the Yew, (inako, ete. which supuly the Jresaurs Ao % pale of atmos- Of the first sub-order we have two specles. | Pherie englues of an approved deslan,“-the The (iray, or Northern Scrab Pine (Vinus Bank. [ Whole machinery Leing under the most perfect slana) grows plent(tully nlong the Lake-shore.a f“"‘“'l‘" “l the man on the platturm, and ho few miles south of the ity, asmay be seen trom l‘_’“ ’1‘ he ’"":"’-"’"‘" of the carat will,—it the mllllmadt (ntfinc'.lllnz that w:x'flun.‘l It Isdn c""_ld"’_ged"“““ 1o run ten miles when once 3 . A4 e W [« o ~ :‘;gfi,’,l"flm Tl::-,_. DT,,S;C,%* l:;,'. A",],,r:hm:, The start (s effected. zently and without any Larch (Larix Americaua), Is found {nthe swampy | 18, bf stmospheric pressure: and the car is lands south of Miller's Station, Tne fertile cat- | Slowed ub or stopped by an stmospherie brake, Kins of this slender tree are crimeon, or red, In ‘The admission of the compressed alr to the en- flower, thiu leaves are short, and the branches | £Ines from the reccivers 1s governed, and its s vk omints nitety SrElo. i ita wopk In the second sub-order, wo have tho Amerl Y 4 3 can Arbor-Vit (Thija Occldentalls),—a small, | 6 and designcd Gepecially for this kind of car, evergreen tree, affecting swampy, and cool, he valve-movement ia entirely adjustable by Yocky situntions. It occurs sparsely at Glencos the driver of the car, aod tnrouzh It the whole snd Michiran Clty. We also have an oceastonal force of the comprusstd air i expended in giv- specimen of tho Common Juniper (Juniperus | Ing momentuin ‘“l‘l“" cars ";‘d the ntr, becorm- communls) near Pine Statfons while the J, | 1€ thus thorouehly expanded, mineics with Babing, Yar. procuribens, §s abundent on the | tho vutside atmospliere without any puling or bordersof the Laks ot Waukean, - Tue former mglses 18 0 low shrub, with prickly pownts terminating o the leaves, and large, black berries covered with SOLAR LIGHT AND IIEAT. awhite bloom. The latter hos prostrate, some- | A wriler o one of the forelgn reviews, speak- times creeplng, stems, and noddne fruit, borue | og of the nature and source of the sun’s light ou recurved, peduncie-liko branchicts. and keat, remarks: Tlac so brilllant s display Qur Jocal flora contains na representatives of the third sub-family of the Conifera, althourh nkent v by tie combiation of destructioy of soveral species ocour In the United States, It | Something, appears to be generally, ff not 1s_Lere that the curlous Oincko (Salisharia | universally, maintalned: but, as to what the adiuntifolla) {s placed,—a tree native to China | matter is or may be, and how supplied, no prob. and Japan, and oceasionally seen In American | uble determination : has yet becn arrlved at. ardens smil shrubberd The broad, fan- [ Further, the intensity of the solar #zht and shaped, petiolate leaves ol this tree resemble | heat is caslly proved, und that It “resides the leaflets of the Mafden-Halr Fern. Tho frult | chiefly, If not entircly, at the surface,~tlie lat- is a berry, ot drupe, the nut of which las the | ter also, on cluse inspectlon, being found to be flavorof analmond. Both the nut and the fleshy | in a state of excessive auitation, und cxperienc- part ol the frult and eaten du Chlns and Japad, | ing perlodical disturbances and siterations of o belug previously cooked by bolling vr roasting. | most striking character. \When, too, periodical The male aud Iemale owers of the Glnko sre | changes are seen, secular ones may be expected Lorne on scparate trecs; butthe Chinese have o | also, and, if the formerwereot o regular charac- way of planting several trees close tozether, | ter, the lstter may be necessarily Iuferred; and these unite, forming one fmmense tree, | Lut, although no rezular law has yet producing botu sterilo and fertile flowera, In | been mude out for the sun, the proba- this same sub-urder belong the Yews,—large | Uity ~ of their slow varlations through aud beautiful = evergreen trees, with tbick | Jonz periuds of time fa preat, and is increased trunks, dense heads, and oftena most venerable | when wo turn sur attention to thuse other euns, age. the stars, and find some of them fucreasing and ‘Dr. Jobn Lindley remarks of the Coniferm, | others decreasing, or golug throueh regular pe. @ Gigantle lu size, rapld In growth, noble fu as- | rivds of varfous lengths, and many degrees of pect, robus® in constitution, these trees forin u | gradation o brightneas. ‘The sane may also conslderabie pruportiun of woods or plantations | be inferred from the wcological discoveries of Hudson River to Utiea, Every city, village, and hamlet situated in this ‘area” has been accurately locatea. The map accompanying the report shows that, in the previous mans of this part of the State, the citics and towns have, In many cases, been mizplaced more than amile. In fact, not a single town has been found by the Survey on the spot where it was formerly reorusented. The inteilizence of the sudden death st Rio Janeiro of Prof. Charles F. Hartt, Chlef of tha tieologlcal Burvey of Brazil, will bo recetved with gencral regret. He was oue of the most active and sccomplished menjn the service of American Befence, and his name bas been hon- orahly asaociated with tho records of progress fn this direction. Brof, Hartt was born at Fredericton, New Brunswick, In 1840, and grail- ualed at Acadla Colleze, Nova Scotin. He ctudied with Agassiz from 1603 to 1865, and subseyuently accompanied the former n hls fourney ou the Amazons, In 1870 Trof. “Hartt published The Geology and Phyalcal Geography of Braztl,”’—a work coutainjug the results of obscrvations made {u three separate visits to tha coast- rerlune, In 1875 he was appointed Chtef of the Imperial Geological Commission; siuce which time he has been engaged In prosccuting the tjenlozical Hurvey of the Brazilian Emplre. For the last six wonths he was occupied in pre- paring a report of the researchies and collections wmade by bimsell and assistants, Messrs, Derb) and Rathbup, in the work of the Survey. His deatti occurred March 18, ——————— OUR BANKRUPT CONDITION. 7o the Editar of The Tribune, Caicaco, Moy 2.—Ile was 8 prominent busines man from New Yorx. Iiis local newspaper in. formed him that sll the leading Wéstern cities wers verging on the edge of bankruptcy. o, as trade and finance were below par in Gotham, he deter- mined in the goodnees of his heart to come down and sympathize with os, As the Gurden City hap- pened 10 be the first town Le struck, he set about dealing out sympathy hiera befare proceeding el where. Wending his way toward Water street, be was rather tnken back by its Guey appesranc lowever, entering 8 well-known grocery house, he eucountered une of the partners with whom ho was ecquainted, He sorrowfully observed, **Abl 1lenry. how do you do? Thinge are awful, aln't they’ *¥\Why, hallo 1. i how js it—how's trade up East! Say, Glover, tell tho porter to get tho sty barrole A 1 sngar on the sidewalk right of Toey must get to Loulsvilie to-merrow, and ba him'preparc for anvtber order in fifteen minutes, In remembe und the Geeat 1141 at Karnak Is » suine dark corner of my brain for anlongas | have mentory, I shat my eyes, and nee U ar A[ [ were thcre,—not nll at once, in 0 pleture, but bit by bit, 29 the eye takes note of Targe objects and travels over an extended field of “virlon,” } stand snce more among those mighty columny, which radfate into nvenucs from what. ever point one tnkes them, T eee them swathed in cofled abmduws and broad bands of light, 1§ see them sculptured anid patnted with shapes of por a nines of royal names, with fiesal altare, and forms of sacred beasts, and o bemne of wisdom ami teuth. The ehafts of thess na. stand &t the foot of to be the foot, for the e pavement lics bueled reven fect below, Six men landing with exteaded arms, fnger-lip 1o thnweretep, could sarely span it ronnd. 1t eants 4 ahatdow twelve [ n breadth, —such & shadow ne inlght be cast by a tower. The capital that juts out an m"n aboveé my bead looks a4 i 1t might have heen placed there ta rupport the heave eus. 1t1s carved In the semblance of a full-blown and tlows with undyims colors, —colors that ate atill frealt, though lald on by hands that have been dust these i1, 00U yearsand more. o . How olten has it been written, and now often must it be repeated. that the Ureat ltall st Karnak s the noblest architectural work ever designed and executed by human funds, . . . It could' be dikened to this Elucl! or that, the task would not be soditicnit; ut there §s, In trath, no bullding in the wide worid to compare with it. Tie Pyramide are more atupendour. 'Ihe Lolnssenm covers more ground, ‘The Parthenon Is more beantifal, Yet, fnnobil! of conception, in vastuesy of detail, in Ill:\) tic beauty of tie highest order, the lall of Fitlars esceeds them cvery one. This doorway, these colnmns, are the wonder of the world, . . . 1t may be that raveler who finds hitmenif for the first thine in the midst of a grove of Welling. tonin eiganton feels sumething of the samo overs whelming sease of awe unil wonders but tho preat trees, thongh they have taken ), 000 years fo grow, lack the pathos And the mystery that come of hntnan lavor, ‘They do not strilie thelr roota through ¢,000 ycara of history, Tney have nut been watered with the blood and tears of millions. A'heir leaves know no soands lusa muvical then the wining of birds, or the mozning of the nizht-wind ue it sswoeps over the highlands of Calaveras, . Iut cvery breath that wanders dosn the painted alsien of Katri sceéima to echo i the sighs of thoso wao purishied fn the guarry, s the var, and under e chariot-wheels of the conquerur, ‘The common incldents of travel occupy thelr proper place fu Miss Edwards® work, und lend it vivacity and varfety, At Assouan, on the A DISCIPLE OF CITRIST, [ PINILOCHRISTUS: Mexoins oF A Discirie oF e Loup. Hoaten: Roberts Bros, Culcagod Jansen, MeChurz & Co. 12w, po. 412 We bave In this volume an effort to repro- duce the life and the times of Christ, by means of an fmaginary sutobiography of une € his contemporaries aud discipies. ‘The style chosen Ly the writer, as 1host faithfully representing the customs of speech prevailing in Judea 2,000 years ago, is formal, and consequently dull, It creeta a beavy harrler between the mermolrs aud the reader, which not many can lave the per- feverance tu overpass, (iranted that the reso- Iutton be suflleiently enlisted to encounter and subdue this obstacle, the reward fs found {n the slowly-detufled history of nn lsraclite, who, carnestly seckinmg for ‘guidance in the ways of rightcottsncss, inet Jesus of Nazareth, then in the carly duys of 1lis .\llulslr{ and, helng - stuntlyconverted to faltlyin 11is "unl, contiuued with tHim until His Cracitixion, TITERATURE. Lt T!{]l;‘: TTIIE]‘rYF By A ; 3 NILE, uge B e Ahthor of °» Uniraiden Peaks o Unfrequented Valleye,™ ete, 1 ith Upwards 51 Seventy 1liustrations, Engrased on Woorl by o enkao, After Finished Drawings Execnted on the Spot by the Anthor, * New York: Serlh. ner, Woitard & Annstrong. Ghlcago: Jansen, Mcvinrz & Co. 8v0., pue 782, Price, $12 The journey up the Nile has for many ycars becn 8 tnost approved trip among English and Ametlcan travelers; and ambitious authors smong them have described it distiuctivo featurcs over aud over again, in avery variety of style and device. ‘The scholarly, the ldle, {be romantie sight-acer, have cach, times with- out number, sought tu convey new fmpressions of the lovely scenery, the Lnposing rulns, and tie enchanting situation in o dahabeoval, wilch take the lappy tourist's lfe on tic Nile one long day-drcam of delight, ) tie mass of literature they have produced, world which habitunllv stay at home, con- tent to view torelgn scenes through others' eycs, has Jearned the history of Nile voyages untll it has Lecome utterly weary of tho hack. neved thenme, To fuvest 18 with fresh fnferest would seem to be an fmpuaaible deed, requisiivg the tnaglcof o genuine miracle-worker. But there aro miraclc-workers here nnd there smong maukind, even at the present day, and the wonders they perform are auite as fnexplicable as the raluing of Samuel In the presence of the miterable and distracted Sanl. Genmus 13 the great wizard {n our enlizhtened aze; and what marvel daro we say s beyond its power of achierement? We have proof n thu volume before ns that it can rehearse the old, old story * of travel on the Nile with such charms of ‘mau- ner, by such alds of learning and of art, that we forget it has ever been nurrated before, nnd JLOW 1S IT? THE MATCHMAREIR. Dy Ncarnicn REYNoLna Author ot **Charles Auchester,” **Counter. arte," ctc. Phijadelphla: ‘' B. Peterson & l’lm!. Chicagu: Jansen, leClurg & Co. 12mo., np, 300, Price, $1. It 1s a fact well kuown to thoe literary world that the remarkable novels, * Charies Auchest- er' aud **Counterparts, were written by Miss Ellzabeth’ 8. Sheppard, the daughter of an Envlish clerzyman, and a woman gifted with a ganfus for musie as well as for writing, She dicd fn 1502. The cditlon of *Charles Au- chester” Prlnlcd by lUarper & Bros In 1862 bears on the title-page the pseudouvm of E. Berger,—n uom de plume under which Miss Sueppard for o thme concealed her [dentity, In thie face of these focts, how 13 1t that Deatriee Revnolds Lotaly styles heraclf, ou the nowe- leaf of the novel hefors us, the author of ¢ Charles Auclicster,” * Counterparts, cte.? Wit the MeNALLY & C T "0 TIE SUMMLR-RESOR'L Norri- WEST, Illustrated. Chicago: Rand, McNally reos nstructed and entertained as thouzh b norder-lite between Ezynt und Nubiy, the ven- o e subject of tuln saewolr. distineuished Lime | n Ativated countrioe, and of foresta whera | tirere having becn formerly glaclal aes fn the | ¥ ERROTuE! You out Lere, & e atry It travorscs and portrays iad been | $ieimunly (overnor of the Gistrlet was, Aecordinse | WiEnOM . WRIGES, SELECTIONS TR TiE | sell s u soldier during tho late Cislt War, The [ Nufure remalys in tetwnerate countrlus in n gav- T b hore Dotwme s | ao T ek e lleartl of yuur dspraalog candition aopened up only yesterday. to custom, entertstned on board the daba- LIFE AND SERMONS OF THE REV., DR. | vrofits which may accrue Lo tho uuthor from the | age atate.”” 'I'heir timber and eccretious are of | other known cause cauul to oroduciug the ef- **Walter, make out a bill for —, L —& Co., By the merest chunce Miss Edwards founa | beeyutt vefousioe to her party, There faa | JOUN TAULKIL ‘!l“‘l‘;f‘"“ Roberts Bros, Chi- | sale of the buok will be dedicated to the widow | the utmost value to mankind. Under the | fecte observed. Kuch, fna word, {s the great | for thocss load of Java coffec we shipped il cazo: dansen 0, 250, i, 15 UNITED STATES, AT COMMISSION INTEUNATIONAL “EXINDITION 1870, touch of pathos ns well as of the marvelous in Lhis hittie elreumstance happening ut the close of his viaw: Teaving the cabin, t our rases, which stoad wear the door. W told hiw they had been given to us by the Bey of Hrmeit. +*1Jothey grow At Erment?™ he anked, examin. Ing them with greac curiosity, ** How veantifell Why wiil they not grow In Muatat ** We rigueated that the ellinate was probably too hot for them, lis stooped, intialing thoir per- fumo, Ho looked puzzled. % “Wilioy nre veey wweet, ® ho sald. ‘tAre thoy roreast® Tho qrieation gave ue a kind of shock. We conld hinrdly belfese we had reached aJand whore roses were unknows Yet the Governor, who had smioked o roasewater nurgile, and drunk roxe. sheroet, and eaten conservo of rosed, all ms_days, reconmzed them by thoir perfuno oaly. He o nover been out of Assonun in iils Jife, —uot cven tw far as Enment, and he had never scen & rose in Llvom, ‘I'he woadertul nlay of color over the Eaynte 1n landsaape 13 o constant source of juv to this artist-anthor, whose eye and hund buve been tramed cqually swith hee mind, Her puges are contiunally udorned with brilliaut passuges which owe tuc’ belig wholly to L senative- ueas to the charm and tnu diversity of tints tiat palne the borders of the Nile, Iu the midst of a hot, tedious exsursion, tor the pur puse of galulug au exionded view, tho wearied, ruuuuz vedesirian dous not omit notice of the vely lues of the barren sull over which sho travels, = The heauty of the sand [ls her connent| more thun repays the faitlme of clmoing It Kutooth, shiceny, sattuy; #230 as clumond-dusty sapple, undululing, lutiinoun, it liew 1 the most exquisite curves tid wicatha, Hiko u suow-deift turied W guld, Jtemodelnd by overy bieatis tuat blow Qver.varyimz sutface nresents an endless | delicato gl ‘there lives e scalptor wno coulil render those curves; ond 1 doubt whethor Turnee lamseif, bu Its tendorcat and wabtiest mood, cunld hove dona justice 1o thosu complex graya and amburs. The colossal statutes fronting the rock-zut templo ut Aboo Slmosl are tug oecasion of o fine struln ot eloguent writing, whlen we canuot and children of Gen. Bartlett. The third clition of the Hoo. Charles K. Tuckerman's admirable work on **The Urecks of To-Day " will be put in linmedlate circuta- tlon by (1, P, Putnam’s Sons, The uuthor was formerly United States Mindster at Athens, and fs now a resiceut in Constantinop! reek edition of Lis book as been lately published, in_the prefacs of which the translator save: ¢ Tn this book every Greek muy see himsotf as iu a mirror, and may, with ]nlufllhlo pride, note the merits nnd progress ob hits beloved conntry up Lo the present time, as sct forth by an fu- partial loreigner.’ AN ARAB DINNER. ‘While Miss Edwards, the nuthor of the admi. rable book of Nile-travels reviowed In adjacent columns, was studylng the ruins at Luxor, she accopted an fnvitation to dinc with the British Cousul, o genial and enltivated Arab, who had traveled extensively in Europe, and.fuently spoke several languages, In this entertaloment the host conformed rigidly to Arab custouws, probably thut his gueats might observo the pe- cullar table-ctiquette malntoined among the better classes, When dinner was snuounced, cach guest o turn received o dash of water upon tho hands hield over a biass cwer, and a towel, which wus to be retained during tho meal, $nthe ventro of the brillantly-lighted dinh rooms stood o round brass tablo witha rafsed rim, and tor ench persun were placed o choir, o linge block of bread, a wooden spoon, two tum- biers, and o bouquet, **'To uight we are wil Arabs," palid the Consul, Mustapna Aga. * We driuk Nilo water, and we cut with our tingers."” The dinner wi llently - cooked; the courses were quickly the dishes were liot, and vach was suecessively placed ulone fn the middlc of the tavle, LForan accoutit of the munner of eating, wo borrow Miss Edwards' lively description: Each dl})pcd Lita own spoon In tho sonp, dived fn10 the etewv, and priled off vleces of sk or lamb pames of deg, fur, pine, and cedar, the woods | problem which yet-awaits solution. of the various species are Known fu commurce, and are of service for DOMESTICATION OTF ANIMATLS. thelr soft = texture, frm gralm wud | 1y an pnteresting and instructise lecture de- . ! g f\xlf:fi?,:sn ‘R‘,‘,‘fil&y nmfi‘,’,",‘.uh&h: h:g hes 301 divered recently at the Londou Iustitution on =200 feet, and the colusal siza ot the Redwoods of Calie | the history of the domestication of antmals, fornlu ace well known, Tho Dammara of New | Prof, Rolleston gavo it as his oplulon that mam- Zealoud attains a hizht of 200 feet, and ylelds | i1y were domesticated loug pefore birds; and o light, -compact wood, tnaf Is fuvatusble for > the manufacture of masts. Tha wood of tno | tEb of the maminals, the dog was the first do- Cypress s of cxtroordinary duralility, while | mesticated. the pig the sccond, aud the ox tivaf thy Devdar of Tidin I8 almost. tmper. | the other: in " other words, that the ] rat»s of Constantinople, which | first animal domesticated was domesticated Ishable. The gates of tinople, h Lors the weas of use and thne [ 88 W0 u"l’fflg e hulutt"h m‘(’"ll seconil llon; ¢ ] ot purposes ol [0 and e rd as a heast o !,‘?‘;‘_ le'xlllnj:wfe;lra'»h, ‘:;?13' rl::um u;’.f In?:«?:«::’:i burden, though nné which was atterwards found roducts of the Contfers. The bark of the "'muu"{"'r“if%mn“fxauu:“h'fi '.':"nm?y(.“ femlock and the Larch posscas trong tan. | 18 u beast of - burden hin en supplied by the ulhe powers. An extract of the brauches of | horse. Vrof Rolieston sald that it was ditlicurt Yhie Hemlock sl the Spruce makesn refreshlng | to concelve how mancould Lave made any prog- be 2 ying,— :::l,“,‘&'.‘;‘,’;.t’,',,,’,‘,‘::’;.,’.“:,’.’:.‘J.:,::,‘u‘.:.,,{:',';.'és. that the uthization and -discipline by man of some countrics. ~Finally, we may mention { Of the predutory lnfl.lucll,s of " lower tuat the Conlfers are of 1o sinall service u ren- | onimata fs wnw"‘N{ by Prof. Rollestou derlug the soll fertile for other Liuds of veweta- [ 04 the Arat ‘sten for man o towards a tion, by the docay of thelr leaves, and reslnous | 1f¢ higher than tho predatory life, In other exeretions. words, the delegation of your own least noble mlv;k l!o a crbenlurckmx:’uh‘luu: Jh::ll:?n‘yn:xr— ORIGIN OF THI PRATRIES. self uf any lgher kind of work, Is the tirst step » o] & S toward thic delfberate_encouragament of your The orieln of the Frairies 1s a queation over | SWERLHE Q0™ Uk fa o ricelpta worth which geologlets have speeulated loug wud | pomembering, says an exchange.. We only fruitlessly, ‘Ihcy have accumulated an im- | wish that the division of labor waa inore fro- mense mass of literature upon the subject, but qnlm(“v! mulfll:;ll brymléml: [{:!‘L:h;-‘: éfin'.'"‘a {:; . 4 ut of a e the disputed polst peinnin to-tay. oe l,n F o K:rcdu-ry customs thay by fotrinsic aptitudes. sottlement o8 ever. 1t {s the opinlonof Prof. Leo Lesquereux, one of the most eminent scien NEW PROCESS IN STEEL CASTINGS. and undoubtedly our best authority upon fossil ‘A J. Nollls, of Plttsburg, bus Inveuted a new and sume branches of recent Botany, that the process for making stecl eastings of Irreurular abscuco of trecs upon the plaing of the West, | ghape; which conststs fn Imprexnating the inold as in the plalos of South America, Europe, and | wiel combustible material, which becowmes - Auty, Is owing to the presence fn the soll of an | pited by contact with the mefted steel, and excessive amount of ulmic acid, and also to lts | keeps it Suld enough to penctrate to the remot- fmpalpable finenesa, e belleves that theso | €8t corners of the mold, and 1s also a preveut- morning. Sellle K— & UB——'s matter of $,000, and have them cash tho check fruin D—— & Co., Toltdo. What did you remark, Mr. Bamat™ s+New York sympsthizes with Chicsgo in this terrible trial, ~this struggle aguinst hopcless bank - berselt fn Calro ut. the beginning of the Egsptian scason fn 1878, 8he hod left England early In September for a fow wecks' sketehlng {o Central France, and, pursued by coutinual wet weather, had passed down to the Med(t- ermancan shore, and there hastlly declded tho question whether to meck tho sunshine in sexlons farther south and east, or to take her {dle brushies aud dripptine umbrellas at otics back to Enrland, by steaming out of tho port Erindis with the vessel's prow turned Epypt- ward, Thua f¢ Nterally happened that sho took refuge fn tho home of the Phnraohs ns one might step uslde “into the Burlington Arcado or the Passagre des Panoranus, togetout ol the rain.” “The result of this acident ot travel s & work on the existing monumcots of socient Egypt which whil rank with tho most valuable productions that have been ealled out bythubcxu:m: allurement and inspiration of ect, Iwards prosceuted her travels and re- searcties alonz the Nile with the diligence of the thorongkzoing student and the en.hielum of (ke prolessfonal artist. The Journey from Cslroto Atco Shinbel and return vias performed i the datisbeeyal, and with the utmost leisure donsible within the Muits of the navimablo season, Nearly flve months wero spent on thu river; and they were months of very busy work tovestizating ruivs, taking notes, making eketency, aud reviewine tha worka of - caller Awanps, Giovrs N V1. XXVIL Edited by Fu. Chietf of the Bureau of Awardd, adelphia: d. B, Lippincott & Co. Chicug Jansen, McClurg & Cu, e pansed to look 1 don't—know. Charley, tell tho men np-stairs wo'll need 'em till 10 o'clock to- night, and have the buy sent to the bank. There's $1,500 In greenbacks and 8700 in silver. Toll nim ta be ure{)nl bow be carelesst, . 1 don't underatand PERIODICA NORTH AMERICAN York). Contenls Its Deathiostruggl Ill; Senator T, ignty of Ethice,' b ur Commerce with ¥ CEIVED. May-Tuno (New you, Mr. 3 **Why, look at the condition you Western folke arelIn. Look at iho state of— % *+Alil Johnny, going out collecting? Well, 1 want you tostop wien you roach 81,300, e you aro suro to get u lat of spescle. Porter, lay vut 250 pounds Oolong tea, 100 pounds Gurman chuco - late, three dozen Loxes orauges, and have tua Amet lcan Exyress call early Mon l{ them. Walter, send an order to Buriings bueiela of polatoes, and tost, Paul for rels pest srinter wheat. Ilave the bookkeeper put an ad tn THE ‘Unisens for an assistant tovkkeeper, Wemust find oul whether wo stamd $u,000 or $7,000 abave luwilities. Alr, und to the Shermau at i to-morrow afternoun. abull be angaved bere till 10 to-night. Goud night,” “*Thunder!™ exclatmed the Enstern nian upon reaching opennir, **if thisia Western buukruptey, 1'd like lo bay It up 8t 00 cents on the dollur.” FLiz VamLano, —— RUSSIA, BEWARE! {a nmirisw rYR10.] The meteor flag of England 18 floating on the breece, And her iron walls are guarding Tler cmuptro on the seas. From India’s teeming mililons Fiock the Ghourks and the Bikch, To rully ro! i ‘That waves o'el And sl DBritannia’s stalw: From the Equator Lo th Are gatlier|ng In thog As Otd Euglund calla the rol Tho blood-ret tull of hanar, ‘'he tul] of the true aud braye, ‘Whose fathers foneht and dled for Bez il she's mistrees of the wave. Crenture?* a dehate by the R berd, 1, D., and the Itov. O. B. Frothinyham; “'Ihe Irrcpressible Conttict Undecided,™ IIK Ecnator A, Camerun; **Chineso Inumlyration. by M. J. De 'Ihe Phonugrapli and Jts Fu- ture," by Thomas A, Hdiwon, the v I L ** Contemporaty Litoratiy Bell, Now Yorlk), M ‘—May (Amerlean Mise aciation, New York), Anrll (Speangtatd, 1LY, LITTELL'S LIVING AGE~Currcnt numbers (Lits tell & Uny, Hoston). FAMILIAR TALK. ART GOSSIP, The statue crected by the University of Pavia to Volta, the cloctriclan und Inventor of the Voltale battery, was unvelled on the 23th of April, A vellar has been uncovered in Rome, bring- Ing to lcht o thousond vessels used for va- rious chomieal parposcs, Inscriptions on seve eial hundred of these aiford valuable Informa- tlon ragarding tho buslucss terms of tho an. clent Romuus, Ono miillon five hundred thousand dollars morniug fue 0 tor 175 Ezyptlan travelers, historians, and archeolewdets, Wecks were spent where the ordicary tourlst |3 ntlsiea with daye or hours,—given tsthu study o8, lo of the remuing of the tomba aml témpl ralaces and citles, seattered along the sertd ullez—. From dawn until dark, the indefat ble fnquirer futo the {flnu and. the motlve of these crumbling witnesses of u natlon's buricd history was wundering through thely preclucts, pizetug over their inseriptions, copy- iug thelr. hleroglyphs, und ponderiie their mys tery, When the'journey wus euded, a year was devoted, in the quict of the study, to & further Increase of the sunterinls that bad been collect- ed by the eifted writer into @ barcative of stngu. | . The urtfste who wrought tha orizinal statues | cuy™tho rouf has leaked 8o’ badly that the in- oruurbreads Mednwhile, Mustushi Aa, liaeun, | tormation, sovered wilt coultied: water, which | guced by thls process. ‘Incy may be forged it guldes them ot fo freadom, To knowledye, and Lo W"" They know full well sla usaian yoke ‘Monna poverty, aud crime, Aud ignorsace, aud serfdom, Anllhv drear Biberian uf 'They'vo heard of the xof And the kuout, and the rel loar, And they'll din before they yiold taeir land. ‘To the deadly embrace of the Bearl 3 Deware, O huughty Muscovite! 1t Brituin is slow (o muve, No coward fear restralns hef band, An thon know'st well she'll I:WVD. T Gut vncw burled from bor lips, gradually became fnvaded by aquatie plants, | futo sny shape byu blll&'klm“-{l. and, when wurn stidzes, rushes, grasses, ete. The slow decom- [ out by use, converted ioto smaller articled, such position of these plants, mostly geing on uuder | as tools, kuives, ete. wnx‘:-lr, ;Tcneil n‘ nlnmu' ‘;z( »mn, hll.nc.k wald, urgely mpregnates with ulinie DRIEF NOTIS, ackl, ond, thouzn neltaer true peat 3 . Tor briie mold, partaking of tre nature of butn, | The German Alpine Club has a membership The Bneness of the partieles composing this | of uearly 7,000, and an anuual Income of 40,000 mold coused it to be packed In @ tight-pressed, | murks. Tho chiel objects of tho Boclety are to ompact whichy wien finelly dralucd il | eroct stelter-nute fu tho Alps, malntain cons. '.i.’b‘.uh‘c" . I rulll:mlfm.m“"Trr::xlx‘n'xlxl:xn:&nml‘!x:?: muvications ovur the pasies, and prepare maos nva Misd LLdwards) were embarrassid by no dif- cultles of focus, damited by no ditlicult.es of, tcale. Glantu thomsolves, they stimnioned. taese Klanty frow out the selid rock, aud endowed them with_supethuionn strengih and ocauts. ‘lliev wought no quarsied blocks of syenita ur granito for theie work, ‘Phey fashivaed 5o models of clay, They took # moutits, nod fell npon st bhko Tit: ant hollowed aud chierpy-atone, and te agen to filteen spaclous chambe tha beart of 13 then # pice towards the ny tore off an espuclally choico worsel now und then, and nanded 1t to one or othicr of gacete, ‘o cat grucsfuily with onc's o 148 e art: to eneve witn them wkillfully s u weience. None of us, 1 think, will wcon forget tne wonder- 1al way 1o which onr ho<t attacked and vanquished the turkey,—a soltd colossux, werghing Lwenty potnge. nid roasted to perfection. Nalf-rising, he inrned back biv cuff, poised his wrisl, and, driving Tin foreiinger nud thumb deep iuto the’ Lreast, brought ont o Iong, strngy, smoking fragient, which ho depositod on the plute of the writer, Thus began, the turkey went round the table ainfd wuils of laughtur and was punlshed Ly euch In d” dnlh and clegance, and tau water-wolor 'rmn:: exceuted on tie spot by the puthor ere transterred to swood b{'u skilltul engraver, e atumost talent of thy ttterateur, the paint- enaud tho scholar was lavlsued upon the con- Suuction of o book which rellects hishi honor upon the versatile author. ‘:fi‘amly any uttention s pald by tho wrlter 4 ‘ nutural nistory of Exypt, \Whereveranl- .na ‘4 ur vezetation add an element of beauty to dene, or malic o pronunent liguce In the fore- Eruund, the fact Iy noted; but turtier attention teror decorations und tho celting are fo duvger of dustruction, A loau-exhibition of furniture, cabinot-work, and orunmental wood-work, will' be vpened in the Bethnal-Green Museum, Louvdoun, May 1. A seleetion of furniture from tho Roval Palaces wlli, by permisston of the Queon, be fuctuded in the exhiblition. A curlous dieplay in the Parls Ixposition will be that belomning to the Prefecture of Pollee, and embracuss the portraits of wil the Licuten- nienof after er. Unogreat sl sad they B hewed oul of thod (ke tugged precie und cut four huye i never necorded. them, n speaking of the g e B D rretecrs uf olless colice- | Lamie 'Tia WA which followed bx alwave the Jast | Lesquercus tiuds ono reson why tregs haye uot | of the Gurmia sud Austrian Alus. n hutjed from bor ibs, Ledive's garde \ ey siatues, with their duces totus airlee, —tiwo to * ' > il " | dish sceved ut an Evyotlan or Turkish dinner, | covered the prairies as they have otber lands, . 11, M. Stanloy hes been clected an Hon- Fhe stern, 3 that the n-mm‘ut{'&’ff,,‘,‘&‘#:' i ‘“;t’?!.'{.'i.‘}i?:{ thu_riznt and two to the feft of tho dvorway, — | tion ot the porieaits of crlmnale; and a-repto- | R0 2R G20 DRng™Cere ehmned, and e | A fres acerss ol oxygons bs csasentlal to the ve, r. 1t Y Aud nne-foiieth of all Earth's peopls tuero 1o keap walch to the end of 4 P Nothug fn Ezypiian scalpture is perhaps quito 0 wonderfil wd the way in walch thess Aboo Simbel artinns dealt with the thouswuds of tons of matertal to which lue{ hiera gave ntmnn form. Conwummnto musters of eilect, tney know preclacly whattu o, any what to lenve undose. Theso were porirait wtatucs; therejvre thoy finlshed t10 ductlon of the varlous lustruments used by thieves tn the vractice ol their profosslon,— such as pleenforks, crowbars, Jeunmics, centre- bits, cte,, ete, At the late sale of Capt, Lukis® small collec tlon of old blue und white ching, st Clristic's, in London, the prices realized were extruor- Will echo it, near and facl No tust nur respils wiit thoa know Pily 81, Steinno's dead la ohattered, Ti)1 thy treasurics ars cxbausted, And thy fiying armies scatterea. Wlhien the bullifog on rm bis grip, 1y deatlialuna 18 n; 8o England will peve leld f Correspondlng Member of the Royal wiuntion of sceds of arburescent vlante, This OTALY ' i taimot pebetrato and efreulate throngh the closs | Geological Boctety, and is to recelva tho thunks wold of the prairics in suillcient quantitics; | vf the Councll for bis African discoveries, He licne theie treviess condition. It Dhas been | received a medsl from the Soclety In 1873, and uried, by the oppoucats ot Lesquerenx's the- | ys, therefore, disqualitied from receiving a shin- ory, that frees will grow successfully when | {lar honor §n rewurd for his achievements o his planted upon the pralrics Lesquereux re- | last tour of exploratiou. siweets were put upon the table, The drinks throughout were plain water, rice-waler, and Jemwande, Nowe native musiclans pluyed fn the anty-room during djuner: snd, when wo ruse from table, we washed our hands us before. :':n:lulluy fect, and beurs hlossoms of such stzo v sulur as we Jn England can form no idea of, ‘N'l(lw large trees o1 1t, both hiere uud at Alex-, b lf' that stemed s’ {t hending beneath o bl of cringon stara, somo of which cannoy 4¥e measured |os: O RT dhe Hrsibey less than twenty-two fnches in ANCIENT MARRIAGE-CONTRACT. But this Is almost the valy note i | lead; tho hiy b th li from the wel a8 #poOk( the cutire bouk of eapuct ? 1 | hieady up to tho et poist csistent with theie | Gingry consldering the hard times that prevail | At the April meotlug of the Lundun Soclety | plies that artificlal plantt e chie atural g Oue inch from speken, wit, puclal uterout to” the bot- | piee. it tho trunk wud o lowar hanba, ey | Englaua ae well as Americs. | Five huwtboso- [ of Giblial Archeology, tho v Teaiulation of an } coulittous ol tho prairicsull, lv excavating 1t fa stoted fu Vattire that, upon most of the At ker callant wny, DoN YourE sodo'd pattern furs brough -tk of paly blue, with silver cavers, fetched 81,1504 a stnele one, with deep blae gronad, and wootlen covery brol 23,1503 4 seeoid ane, with cover, brought $3,230; aud u third, 83,430, A pulnting of the ** Roval Fainlly Assembled {n the Green Drawing-Roum nt Windsor Cass tle " hiag lately been comuleted Ly Mr, Lachlun MeLachtan, 'Thic urtist has been several years enzaged upon the work, which 1s exveated with eapevial retereoce Lo its reproduction by engrave g and photograohy. ‘The canvasis ubout seven- teenand one-half feet wide by nine und _one- hulf high, and the figures are Nle-size. ‘Cheac are divlded Into four groups, amd compriss the Queen, her sons and daughiters, sons-u-law aud diuenters-lu-daw, two caildret of the Prince of Wales, two of the Crown-I'rlncess of ierinany, and one each of the Princesses Alico sl Helena, Consldering the dilticulties waiel the artist cucountered Ju composing w work of 1t size und churacter, tha plece Is regarded us sin- fiulr 1y successful, 1o {3 to bo engraved In 'aris, Tho water-color drawingzs and ofl paintings by Turner contalned 0 tho tamous Novar cotlecs tioy, recently sold in London, brought remark- sbly bigh prices, Among the drawings, the wZurieh? Jetehed €6,0005 the Chain Brage Over tho Tees," $7,100: ** Knoresborough," $3.800: and "Lmvmun."“t-'-.‘lw. Ot_the oll { Nouron sud Joux HALDEWTON). New !."\.llz}‘f:,;n 1,‘:{’;‘5"‘.&“&3 -.T{&:’,i‘"’r,‘ifiw\‘fi' ki G, P, Putuew's Sous, Chicagos damren, | (oumie 0 TRt Naris Viace Ventee, Mctiurg & Co. Jimu., pp. 23, Frice, 35,00, | AVRBUREY 0 L ae] ey .3:355 The natie of a popular writer uttached to this | $7V0t o o 4 The eutire list of Turuer's works at Lhis sale book wiil stiract inore thau oruluary attentlon § realized §285,000. Au English critlc says of the and agtading the mold, it 18 broken un, und d abundautly acceasible tothe 0XY osphicre. I‘n the 1 4 lurge broportion of ulnte aeid io pratiie-soll, Prol. Lesguereux fluds o Havs of rullway fu and around Londoy, several hundred tralus aro running daily, at Totervals varyiug from three minutes tobalf an hour. Duriuie some portious of the day, as mauy us soventy-five u'-‘mnl run lt,hrmn‘xhd\'r’w'.(.‘lupn&a'z} aevond reason for the ubsence of srboreseen Junction statton o an hour, and between atation. The Tamurac, e uays, {3 the only sud 1,000 {s the dally aggregute average, of otr native species of trees thal can grow i On March 4, the severest thunderstonn ever peaty soll, Prof. Alexamder Wiue! exucrienced 1o the northwest ot Ieeland was re- who tisputes this last ussertion,—de worted by the observer of the Meteorolozlal the \\'Illulr. tiie Tupelo, the Wat Statlo ‘The thunder and lightning coutinued Awmerican Arbor-Vite, and othier trees ourlsh | fncessantly for two hours and a half, accom- fu swaps and under water,~aud, i tact, o | pan at intervale by bsil ond raiu. - Thunder- just such conditlons us wers prescuted oy the | stol in lcelaud have, during the past thirty- prairies, according to Prof. Lesquercus, (o U threo years, nessly ail oceurred fu the winter process of thelr tormation. 1t s imipossibl months, with the spacu ut our vonnmund, to present ey o a0 abatract of the arcwmonts twed by Ly seie | o A plan for 8 voyaze I']';““";‘:,"‘H" :’&'.""‘-u“"{.m cotisl I the advauce of biw hypothesia, aud in | ¢ e (u' "“; oh mvm- Ty 15, G the fts defense azalust untagonisis; but ble latcst "'1'03 f"fl“ 0 BT axieot oser Uaven paper on the ehiuct fs prescited u 1ho flrat | Perioc of Ae Volume of Frof, Wortheu's lieport un the Guo- | iothar’ More thun hitt bf this s s (600 Togieal Snrvey of Iliots, aud contains his oploe | (80 O cauipoed with books, collections, ete., lm;‘.‘.'fl.:“;lxl;' wumber of the dwerican Natural. | 804 the objoct will be instruction rather than 40 Mr. O 1% Floy renews toe vontest over the | Slsbl-aeelos. .orlgin ol the prafrics by endcavorine to refute Mr. Lugger, the Curator of the Marylaud the theories of Prof. Lesquercux., o proffers | Academyof Selences, left Baltimore early in 1o comyectures of hiv own on the subject, beiug | April with the intention of msking Natural- conteut 1o produce evidenves discrediting those | Nistory exploratious 1o the West [udies and In Which we Lave in 1he abuve paragruhs at- | Demarara, lo fs sent out by the Academy, tempted to reproduce. Mr. (lay asserts thut | but will esdeavor, while mwmplbhlnfi the forcats are nOW freely Crowing ou lands form- | waln vbjects of his wission, to secure liviog fng 10 4 ereat exient? i the same way that | plants 1or the cunservatory of Druid Hilt Purk, Prof. Lesauercux subposes the praitive- to | und zoological speciuiens for the Jobus Hop- Lave orfginated. He cltes nuwerous obscrva- | kins University. tious, aud states that they could bb multiplied, | ppe jotal expeuditura for the malatenance of ¢l sintuenque polnt of view, ~ As decoration, it wos ast gun ‘s necessary that they stunhl give size and digoity to tne facwde, Bverythlog, conscquently, w4 here sunurdinated 1o tne genoral - cdrct of breadih, of massiveness. of repase. Cous sidered this, tho coloas ure a tramph of treatment. Side by wide they stt, I.l ul and mne —thiclr fuet « listiv apset, thelr hanus resting ele knecs, thapely thoingh they uso, eia Jooks searcely inferior in glethlo the columue of Karmak. . o . A recenl willer who bringe souny proctical knowledge to bearupsn the subject, J¢ of opintun that the Egyption sculp- turs did nut even *pomt’ thelr work boforehand, 31 a0, then the narvel I only so much greales, Tho men who, working 1n o coazee and itisble a usteriat, could not ouly vlve beauty uud _faisn to heads of this size, Lot coulid with barcarle tnole hew them outab Initiv trom the natural rock, were the Michusi-Angelos of their age. The care which the author bas expended upon this compend of ber studles tin Egypt does not stop with the letwrpress, “The engravings are exquisite specimens ot their art, aud the naps are stullarly well dove. Egyptian cmblems wud Bieroglvplis form the desigiis on the covers; and, from cnd 1o end, the bast workmaushtp i3 apparent {u the constructiou of the buok. Euyptian Controct ol Marriago® was preseuted by Eugene Revillant, ‘The onglool of this curl- ous document, which is umong the treasures of the Louvre, Is written {n the demotie character upon a sall sheet of papyrus, It bears the date of the year B3 of Ptoiemy Phlladelphus, and the contracting purtles ure Patm, son of I'chieikhious, und Taoulem, the daughter ol Rebu, Fho terus of the deed express with great particularity the umount of dowry re- quired on both sides, sud the provisions inade i case of repudiation. — Then follow a declara- tiou of the rizhits of the children which may re- sult from the marriage, and a promise securing the payment of thgmother’s pinanoney, couched i these Worda: *“Thy pocket-muney for one year I8 bezldes thy tollet-money which I cive thee each vear, amd it is thy right to exact the payment of thy tullot-money, und thy pocket- Inouey, wiieh are to be pliced to my account, whicli | give thes, ‘Thy eldest son, my eldest sou, shall be the helr ot all my property, nre: ent sud futare, I will establish thes as wite.! EGYPTIAN **ANTIQUITIUS.” The Couts und Araba dwelllog on the baoks of the Niie drive a thriving trade fn Egyotiau antlquitics. Credulous truvelers, esger t accu. mulate a store of these precious relics ol a perish. ed clvilization, sustain the traflic, despite the wigtlanco of oflicials und the prohiditton of the law, The greater part of the urticles which thus chenge hiands ure of wodern manufacture, and so cunulogly made as to deceive uny but a hot, snd ti ollowing passage: Av with theao 1 . wau frugments of the old tongue, so "l““m:ur‘sm. Hubducd apain and ayali by in- Mib ppardes; Intermxed foe centuclos togotier Lloog: o iclan, Perelay, Greck, Itwnan, aud Arab 020 comi i i¥e® Uicsy Huteropeneous elsmantu tn e Emn mold, reverts perstsiently 10 Uio earty 11 ey Femaing Egy puan t the last. So straoue sty L;'uuur of uatural forced. ‘Fhe wun sud and ey S0 domsui on special’ breed of ten, DUl peap epjiqale N0 utlur, | Furoign revidonts cau- arear chliduen b thy countey. . the Tathing Whick {a consldervd tho heaittinest pait of nflml;m;:uuuuul::uixu Of 20,000 persons ini a0 of leu years, {0 fear onu s burn upon ihe voll, Childeea ot 3a shon dime way p Egyptian mothr will dis olf I Iy e ey In earlv infancy, unlees brought up s 42010 Rative fastion. “And 1t 1 ailirmed of the fhiq dants of mlscd marriages that, afiee Yo eliurhgietieration, tha furcign blood wecms to Teatarey lnlw Wolls the Irails of the race are Toed i thelr orlginal purity. 'hhee xl‘ulfzmumlm\ population of Egypt regard bl rfi.mu\'cnerluun all wembers of theie Sy 0 have acquired a reputation for peculiar setup by tlsun casy matter for s Moslem to oo “muruulm. und thenceforeh secefve the Iul?..u Wi homage of the sinple-minded d"mcrhn of Mobammed. Several of these Edwany, 4y uuder the observation of Mise ll-wm.j" but thu wost curious vxample of v W;l seen near Forshoot. The wanner talne hhl is candidata for divine lionors waln- e Sullitshin 13 thus deliucated hnx.“h:“ thiy freencry fy left behind, snd ihu 007 cx ey, 26410 Cecoine flat aud bare, we ee, (o urprive, o TR ezl .llnwxnn."wnnnum- 1o be u very A carions fact In ethmology s related in tho Il tho last man got burst, alaks forover In night. . Eb wanp W, Larrey. — Thiers. Vibert's gflnunz of **The Apotheosis of Thiers,” to bu exhibited io the Paris Salon, 16 o Liesole proportions, and represents the mortal remuina of the departed patrfot Ivlug In state. The head, seen fu profile In the bloodiess rizidi: ty of deail, Is au excelloot likencus., About his bead ave grouped tho many decorations with which bls own _country aud "the soverelgus of other natlons had honored him. At his feet stands & young woman ju black, her drooping hicaid s covered with o mourning-vell, in her buud she supports one eud of a large French ag, wiich falls down vver the corpse, It Is the Youth ol France weepinis at the feet of Ler be- Joved dead, Just ubove the citufalque ap sugel with gilded outspread wings poluts upward. Iu front of the Lody are scattered ju great profu- slon crowns of stcthysts, oue besriug the mot- to, “To the Presldent of the Republic.” Iu 1ho distance is represented a tupercal-car drawn by plumed borses, aud fullowed Ly & muurnlu‘F multitude. At the right, in the foreground, lies the form of 8 slaughitered woman, & victhn of aavsl war, _Beyond, Mout Valerien sud other lorts sre dischargiug thefr cauuon. The move- meut is dramatic uud the execution s worthy the fwas of the artist. A CANOE-EXI'EDITION, CANQEING IN KANUCKIA: On, Hiars a¥p 3is- UATS, AVLOAT AXD ASHONE, OF TUE BTATESN TUX EDiToll, THE ABTINT, AXD TUE SCRILSLEN, Recorded by the Commodore and thw Loos > Dotheboye' Hall, Dotheboys® Hall, with sll its horrers, stands revealed In an Eoglsh law court. A young hedl ol (e yeap S, Verchod on the top of a dust- | 4o It; but we fear it will dla: y i ¢ ¢ thed © o toshow: 1, That even nurshes may bu 1 | g, Congral-Park Slensgerie, New York, during uld ‘tescher (na 2 cate & i prove dlsappoluting to | series of Turners otfered on this occasion, that | pructiced eye. Be tho demaud what it may, cr-grown. 3 ‘Tt the diatribution of forest- 4 lady, who had beea oug Y] ol e \oawern k. Tho ercatute to el | yoen"tho gencral reader and tho professional | they were tuo most maguiiiceut und the'nost | saya Miss Edwards, thu crafty matives aro pre! e ¢ o elution (o that of snceat | LTy wuiounted to #1134 —belug 4,000 Jews | LS cloot fu North Davouabrs, found that Y Lau to 1930 Ouly 825 was expeuded for the wampe. The various polnte i Prof. Les. | h3uh % ;i . (‘luflu{u'nhcnn arc taken up by Mr. Hay, sud | PATchase of auimale. A vumber of Btarlings ewtad e aa Tutercatiug ‘but nov wholly de- | {Sturnu vulgarie) and: Enghily Fhensgats weto cisive wuuner, A3, for instauce, It wmust be ’n“";‘:."'l:l"."l;n; t:x“rtm . #L‘.‘:;";l" ittt demonstrated that forests are bow growing on ",'{ o the et Baned hay will lauds forming in ccuctly the same way, sl uot :’:m;“ thls spring. ! o great exicnt lu by same way, that Prof iy Lesquereux sup;oses Lhe pralries to ba Tho series of Covgresses thus far arravged to orlzivated, in order that this pulus sball co tako pace in Paris during the Exposition are ss cluslvely tell agaiust tus Lypotlicsis of tae lat- | follows: 1, Agriculture. -~ 3, Metrical aud Moh- [ « etary, for the udoption of a universal systew. 3 Prof. Lesquercux considers that thu prairies | Epecial Cougreas fur duterwining a uiversal have been altered, from the level outllus they | teasure of thrcads of every description used lu uriginally prescuted, by the action of wate textile fabdes. 4, for the protection of lltesury, and offers plausible reasons to prove this poi sriistie, sud Jindudtrial property, palents, cic., tivw. Mr, Hav declarcs that, to produce the e etea b dor provident Sustituticus, Lie, Ure, ag- Leie bequality Do catstiug 15 the surlace of | pculicne, e, lusuvances. Uy Puiloluzical. 7. canoelst. It purports 1o be o veraclous | 1Rrereatiog examples of our greatest master i ever seen, of likely tobo secu, in an guctiou- lustory of a canociug expedition in Canadiav | yoom, Nay, muruy,-lhfl callections, public waters, uudertaken by four gentlemen, part of j or private, which contaln ¢ne Hic of whom have expericoce fu the art of ther, ore but two or three at the inost. whilo the Fest seeein o be mere ovices. The [+ » » 4t tau hordly be ssld toooften that routc pursued by the party 13 mot de- | 1BC HIORG valug of such subremao art It would fined by tho mestion of the Dawes of stresms be difticult for any geueration to overestimate,” or plutes; therefore tbe untraveled puohe | At the same salo ‘of the Navur coliection, tho Wi uud’ s fpossiole o follow tue | bortrait of v3lrs. Stustope,’ by Sl Joshus touristy, elther through the exeraso of the fu- | Reyuolds, brought $3,0,0. agivation or by the help of tbe stlas. "Il ot A Junar landscape bas been painted by Olary course, detracts Jargely trom the futerest wokch [ Wiogler, ot Welar, who wus led 10 tho choice the miajority wlzbl otherwise liave 1o the nar- | of this whgular subject by readiog Nasmyth rative. Then thersisa ereat deal of spice | sod Cerpenter’s work oo tha woon. The srtist jiven to the dscussiva of the reladive roerits of | §s sald to bave produced w pamting which & difurent styles of cauocs wbd of tbe Leab | both true 1o Sclence sud adwlrable irom an art- besides twenty girls, thera wero tiurly toys in the school. Al the boys slept fu one reom, the capacity of which was ut evouxbh fur ive. T yuung {ndy bad to wmake the bedas fu ths boys’ Gortaftory, which was the only place thoy bsd for waahilug; snd, as there were only fos Ls- sing, hialf of thew vften weat down dirty. Tae sheeta wero onl{ changed twice fn onu-balf yeur, sud wheu weasies-aud otber sliuesics mun-exl uo doctor was called fu. The youux teaclier bi to sleep tn the sawe bea with four otbers, aud when an lufectious disesse broke out they all caught it. Beveral pupils carried the luluctiva 10 thelr bomes. Althoust the bouscbold con- sisted of veventy persous, ouly oue fetuulo sory- aut wus kept, aud sogictiies thore Was DO scrwe snt at ull wured to meet Ib: Thutnwues §« ust too heavy, nor Cleopatra too lignt, for them. Their carviigs jn old sycamore- wuod. tbeir parceinin statuvtics. thelr hkmfilrvhnd lhuestone tablets, are cxecated with a ekill that detes detectlon. ' As jor genuinu scarubs of the bigbest autiquity, tbey are lurued out by the gross every seasun. Engruved. glazed, and adminlstercd to thu turkeys in the forw of taluses, they acquirg by tbo simple process of divestion s degive of Yenerableuess that is slmply chsrmiog. SPARES OF SCIENCE, FLORA ROUND ABOUT CHICAGO. Tus PiNg FamiLy.—The Covifere, or Coni- fers, ure & wust uportant erder of plants, cow- " - luelancholy posturs that e chisapans r".'.","f“,}" Buwaie foLie cago st the Zoological Urioguy #1X OF clzat Atubw, cue of whom Lndipinied frow bie cawel for toe pusbure, Dus round aud stastug at hizi, much us the uauile staudy and vlarce at thy wpecimon fu ¥ burc, lcauwbilo @ eirange excite- * ot atung our crew. Lhey crowd Lo ¥ shout; Wy geaticulate; tue captain tau woved s hand: all eyes Eheykh Seleem?™ crics " b !, frou below, 3 s Sneyhh se ’t{:«;\-:nud Ut thgs 1t o ot n JL‘:::;'- but a te oy oy u‘x Obly & man, but s sumi. Holicet of eardey wieat uf the irty, walte-pated, white- bered, beut, and kuotted up, le the erdea wither RV B el = L o Sk s oo