Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 7, 1878, Page 11

THE CHICAGC TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY 7; i878—SIXTEEN PAGES i3 — e ‘g"_———'fi——_——fi_————_—— © AUSTRALI 4n Interesting Letter from That : Far-Off Land. rhe Very Best Natural Harbor in the World, . pat ‘Colonial Conservatism Yill Not Allow Its Improvement. Curiocities of Railroading in New South Wales. i The Evil of Drunkenness—"The Demain” —The Herchants, Eto. pecicl Correspandence of The Tribune. STPNET, N. 8.1, May 23, 1678.—When Capt. ook sailed icto Botany Bay, he was decelved sppearznces. The distance between the wheads™ at the entrance to the bay was so puchgreater thaa that which separates the peads of Port Jackson or Sydney Harbor, that the bold explorer thought there must be more water, and deeper, within, ITe was not. lonz on the const, and it remuined for those who were . frsteentout ss. convicts to discover the fact that the finest matural harbor in the entire worid lay but seven milesremoved from shallow Potsny Bay. The settlement of Botany was at once abandoned, and_ Sydney became the great port of New South Wales, as the entire country was then called. In fact, it is only sbout twen- ty-five years since Victoria was made an inde- pendent colony, and Queensland is_but seven- tecnyears old. it sounds very much like boast- iog t0 say that Sydney Harbor is THE BEST HARBOR IN TIIE WORLD, etitisa fact. It docs not argue anything for the city. ox the Colontal Government, however. When they ask what is thouzbt of thelr harbor, one mielit reply, ** A very lucky find for you.” The pride they take in it is excessive enough to characterize 2 people who had developed a barhor, bus they or thelr fathers found ft, and it might truly be said they bave done littlo caouch to improve it. For nearly 100 years— they ave already discussing a Centennial like ours—Syducy hns been more or less of 3 port, yet a set of rocks that lie dircctly midchanncl In thelr glorious harbor stick up their ugly heads 8s 1 to say 1o passing vessels, *How 1 would like to crush your pretty fgure-head.” They have spent money enough fn puttioe up glore stgnals and maintaining an anchored lizht- ship, to warn vessels off this danger, to bave blown ount a dozen such cbstructions. New South Wales is too much zoverncd, ‘There are 100 many barnacles of a class mot too proud to attend to' light-ships sud sigual-stations, and what would become of them if the rocks and recfs on this fine coast were removed by dynamite! 4 SYDNEY NARRBOR consists of a main arm of the sea which cxtends up from the heads a few miles, and then divides mo what is called Neutral Bay, Quarantine Ground (water), Middle llarbor, and Sydney Rarbor, thoueh all collectively are knowa gen- crally as Sydncy Hurbor. Each of these branch- s hias insumerable bays and coves, generally with some unpronounceable name,—Woolloo- moolog, for instance, is'a fair sample. Each oncof these bays has vlenty of water for the largest seagoing craft. 1have no idea what area in acres the hachor contains, but in length 1 shoula judze they have fifty miles of deep . water, ranging from a hall mile to three miles ctwith all this frontage the steam- r City of ch I send this. can~ not get wharfage. 1 lies anchorca in Javender Ray, and passengers and cargo (very Iittle ot carzo unfortunately) must be conveyed o board by tenders or watermen. The Austra- Jia, which sailed four wecks ago for San Fran- cisoo, and the Garoune, which sailed for South- 120, had 1o be hoarded in And this, too, with up- wide. Add NENT MONET ¢ reply 10 any foquiry as to some imyvrovement is_not made to meet such wants is that it bas been s0, aud the people are used to it Then again, Iying in the Sy * the watermen and steam-tender owners could at the Government was oppress- Justly ol takiny away their means of sup- ing them i Sydney fs now an irregularly laid out and an irreulasly built city of about 200,000 souls; b its suburbs, the population is estimated at £50,000. The railway terminus (there is but one _dor all the railways)is distant_about two miles from the centre of business. Merchants resid- ing in the suburban towns along the railroad have to take a 'bus after arriving In town, asit weie, to get where the 1own actually is. Natur- aily enough, they want a down-town terminus, but that would operate against the 'bus-owners, “hus<drivers, and the small boys who hang on to the rear cnd of the coach and slternate blowing a whistle with . an unintelligible shouting of the route of the ’‘hus. Government owns and mapaes ail the railways, and if Government should undertake to built a road dowa to the business part of the city, just fancy thie row these *bus-drivers would kick up! The Thus-owners control all the lines by charter, and all of the suburban towns are dependent on ther. Ina double sense they may be said to “run the town.” A carcfal enumeration would placoone saloon (hotels thex call them here) Lo every twenty in- Eabitants of Sydney aud suburbs. 1 this should be called exaggerstion, it can be met with the reply that T{E EVIL NECDS DESI'LRATE MEASURES for {ts correction. Well, these *hotels? (shades of the Grand Pacific save the mark!) are the most prosperous concerns in New South Wales,—not alonc in Sydney, but in every place Tkgve been. 1 found it the same in Queens- land, and 1 expect to find it the same In Victo- riz. It is no unusual thing to sec drunken men and women stagrering about the streets. I lave ecen not a few, but a great many, nearly cvery evening I have been out. Persons who have read the pea-pictures of Iow life in Englaud, as delineated by Charles Dickens, only bave to come to this place to re- alize that Dickens did not exagzerate. I have seen a little 6-year-old mirl trying to lewd her besotted grandmother home, and that venerable woman £o drunk she conld not stand except aruinst a house-side. Women frequently appear adorned with two black eyes. Of course, Lhese are very low aud verv poor people, but they frequent the principal fstreets and wingle with the zeneral throng. Drunkenness is the saddest feature of this beautiful country, and obe gladly turns from its contemplation to a con- Fleration of sthuse features of the colonies thatit is o great pleasurc to chronicle, and sucl, oo, they are, as we in America would do well to imitate. 3 In each one of the principal cities ip Australia there is a plat of ground which is called * TUE * DOMAIN,” and which is eTanted by the Government for Derk purposés. Generally itis a stripof ground balf-amiile wide, which surrounds the city in a bollow equare, Tt is platted, shaded, erassed, and reudered beautiful and invitingin a hun- d ways. Paths for promenades, benches for Testing, and fountwins of water for driul und. Eotanical aurdens and zoological gai ;flm ere fréquently connected with them. !usomps. library buildines, agricultural Industrial exnibition halts, cricket grounds. fursery plats for maids aud chil , are ocated on them. Aud, when the cities crow Sitiall the spuce within the domain is occu- Uled, the peonle must o beyond it to build o ere it is, and thicre it will remain forever, a esslor and 4 savitarium for the poor of an overcrowded city vasy of access: lelen they have some municipal laws we .Am\d do well to imitate. If you are driving inter dark, you must carry lamgs on your was- nilhlomn'.' a white light before and a red lisht hind, to desiguate which way you_are going. 0d if & caliby or auy other driver turns acorner b uickly. nirht or day, e s likely to falliato e hands of a ** bobby i THE BAGING DERRICK ston, unknown thing Lere. 1t they are con- Hoating 8 building—and they build “of saad- o tltogether—they constrict a seafloiding aeoundand about the structure first which Thes bearly as much as the building itseli. sahdre so carcful here, and so_ slow and self- m“ icd, that if they would let lquor alone ey Would never have any accldents. neat, 0¥ they are advocating compuisory ed- Yho ‘0'1- _And 1 never sawa Jot of youngsters o ODl‘xcd as if they nceded it s much asthese et In fact, thie larrikin of Sydpey is a full Ty 2 L4 hoodium of our own beloved land. httle E""fllus: alike, ouly I think the larrikin is 3 Py C most alike, because me{ insult and nercn, women, and children. They bave no ,E;ct Jor sex or conditicn. mnihnvmgmum of New South Wales has el with land grants. In olden times and and coavicts were given immense tracts of land, and they fn many iustances became vory wealthy.” hein progeny inberiting ieat Tiches, became the lords of this part of creation. But little can be said of the intelligence or public spirit of this class, and 'yet in instunces they bave fncomes which reach into the millions of dollars per s, ‘The young and more active people of the colony—those who came out of their own accord after the home Govern- ment had ceased to be so liberal in the matter of Zrants—are verv severe on the class refcrred to. They say, ** Wait until the old clement dies off and thcir sons who are now learning li® in Europe come {nto the property, aud you will see a great chun%'e in Sydney.” ~There is many a sheep and cattle rafscr in” Australis who can draw his check for thousands who cannot read, aud can write no more thun his name. But overy ope of them knows ‘““x pound’s a pound.” TILE MERCANTILE BLEMENT of this country is very conservative. They cxe- cute indents larwely, and seldom carry stocks on speculation. They fret round profits, and are scemingly not very particular whetheryou trade with them or not. In fact, the tropical style of dolng business prevails both awong the merchants and 2lso among the bankers, who only get 5 per cent for cxchange on America or England.- Shipping agents furnish exchange much cheaper. k y : The speculative and nervous olement of Aus- tralia are the miners and thosc who follow horse-raciug for a living. There bas been an cnormons amonnt of gold unearthed iv this country, and quartz-mining is in its iutancy here. The'last English stcamer curried over bali-a-million In sovercigns from the banks of this country to the banks of England. They send a like amount or moreevery steamer. As in Culifornia, the patient Mongolian s work- ing over the abandoued claims, and sending or carrying his reward ‘back to China. Here in Sydney the Chinamen are Inrgely engaged in furniture-making. They are compelled by law to dress like white folks, €o sou will not sce any such looking heathens as abound in Cali- fornia. Thero are ANY NUMBER OF CHURCIES in Sydney. The Jewish Synagoguc s the most attractive-looking and most” expensively fur- nished. In fact, the Hebrews are pretty well to the front here in every way. The Cathiolics ure uite numerous, Loo.” They have been about {ty years trying to comblete a cathedral. It Das been ready for a raof twice, when a mysterl- ous fire has leid low the work of twenty years. For s genuine, old-fashiened cathedral to be built in less than tiventy years wounld be eacre- ligious. The Church of Lngland, the Presby- terians, and Wesleyans each arc strongly repre- seated, and each have large theolowical semi- paries in the suburbs on land granted them by the Goveroment for that purpose. The cloth are not all teetotalers either, though the Wes- leyans are very nearly,so, and are doing much good in the temperance causc. Since I have been here they held their ninth annual Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition, and Animal, Dog, and Poultry Show, The in- dustrial displuy was very commendable indeed for this far-away land. There were s number of American exhibits, principally of machinery. The Osborn Reaper and Binder was a regular wonder for them, and the American wagons and bugzies were much admired. But they don’t Iike to drive to the pole here,~they prefer thills and tundem borses, no matter Low heavy or un- wieldly the vebicie. There were STEAM PUMPS FROM CINGINNATI, laning machines from Counecticut, gaws from >hiladelpbia, Wamsutta musiins, and no end of Yaukee notions. There were many very nico colonial ezhibits, but not of labor-saving ma- chinery. Their short-horn cattle were as fine as any- boay’s, but their Devons and Herefords were inferior, and, with the exception of draft horscs, the equine display was not good. The sheep and porkers were fine, and it 1s certain that they will one day be great producers with a poor market. - A gentle stimulant adiinistered to the Immigration Bureau would do no harm to Australig. A funnv feature of the Exhibition to me was the fact that overy evening they gave a show, And whet do you toink the Syduayites flocked to scei—Roval Marionettes that did the Christy Minstrels! and that, too, ata time when the Original Georgias were contorting every muscle at oue of the theatres in their efforts to please. But the easily-pleased Colonials preferred TIE WOODEN DARKEYS at a shilling to the regular thing at two shil- lings. Then there were some trapeze perform- ances, and some Irish jig dances which were vile, and later in the season a concert with a disappomted Soldene bouffe artfst s principal attraction. I think it was the nimble shilling that made this really cheap show popular, for at night but little attention was bestowed upon the exhibition itself. Everybody rushed for a favorable seat from which o look und laugh at the marionettes. 1 have speat one day at their races since T've been here. 1 shall sce more of their -national sport at Melbourne, and then will probably have somethine to say about it. As 10 the prospeets of much trade betiveen the United States and Australis, it is not likelvy to change fromm tlic present figurcs, cxeept. the duty on wool is abolished. Wool i8 their staple exoort, and they say: “If we could trade our wool for American wares wo would import largely from that country; but, as it is now, we bave to pay the money for what we buy of you, and we have to pay a rate of exchange that of ifself is quite a profit.” In ancther Jetter 1 shell sny something of Queensiand, the youngest and most enterpris- ing colony in ull Australis. Yours, WiLL. ———— HUZOR. Hamlet's soliloquy—**To becror not to beer.” Water colors—The course tlags at the regatta. What the milkman never treats you to—A Bice cream. The cvening song of tio nizhtingale is nice, but the morning lay of the barpdoor fow! is nlcer. They do say that Earl Beaconsficld will marry Queen Vie. Would Jew helieve it? Disrael 100 funny to write about.—Boston Post. What is the difference between a tenant and theson of a widow! The tenant has to pay rents; the sou of a widow has not two parents. * Brazil’s Treasury is empty.” Dom Pedro, old boy, shake; two souls without a single cent, two hearts that lour for tin—but when did you start @ newspaper i—Lrookeilie Demiocrat. 1 suppose,” said little Five-vears-old, in her quiet, thoughtful way, *1 suppose there are men under «round that push I;J) the flowers, don’t you, mamma!"—Doston Transcrivt. * Jobn,” said a Coclmey solicitor to his son, “1sce youw'll never do for an attornmey, you bave no benergy.”’ * Skuse me. father,” suid Jobn, *“what T waut is some of your thicka- nary.” 2 The New York Hercld tells Stanley Matthews to beware! thet “the sword of —ocles ishang- ing by the gills.” But it forgets to remind him that the weapon is madeof —ask-us steal. —Graphic. “Tne ‘yrice of pictures im- proves with_age?? Mr. Falson says this is not 50, Hepad $2 for a chiromo six years ago, and afriend told bim yesterday that he wouldu’t ive him 20 cents for it.—Norristown Herald. Itisa singular coincidence that whenever | -trot in the thereis a pizeon-shoot or a hio vieinity, the notices on the doors indicate that all the Jawyers are out of town trying cases, or else in tiie Superior-Court library.—.New Javeie Itegister. Little Binks (to unsteady party who had Jurched heavily asainst hin)—*1 ber your ardou, I'm sure, but I'in_very sbort-sithted.” pated stranger—¢ Do’ mensh't, shirg I've met goo’ muny ehor'-sighted peovlesn morn; bu’ Yowre firsh gen'isti made 'shiv'st poligy ! Mr. R. A. Proctor, the astronomer, relates that not very long ago, in an essay about spee- trascopie photogranhy, be wrote about * lines, band: d stric near the vidlet end of the spectra.” The rendering the printers ¢hose to adopt was this: * Links. bouds, and stripes for the violet kind of epcctres.” MORACE'S XXXVIIL ODE. Ihate the Persian pomd, O hoy— For me the sherbet hath no joys But in the shade it zives me cheer ‘To rest at ease, And, with my schooner in my band, Sing songs of my dear Fatherland, And quaf the cool Milwaukee veer, . And nibble ebeesc. —_———— Ignatief and Palmerston. Xese York Times. Gen. Ignatieft, Jike other eminent Russian diplomatists, 1s a master of that uscful art of repelling intrusive curiosity which distinzuished his great rival of 1855, Lord Palmerston; and the exploits of the one in this line are as famous in Russia as those of the Jatter in England. On the day of Palmerston’s sceund election, a buteher, who taok the lead among the Radicals of the borough, came forward and vociferously demanded what were **bis Lordshin’s potitical intentions!? ** My honorabie friend in blue,” answered the Viscount, *bas asked a straight- forward question, and shall have a straight- forward answer. te wishes to know my po- 1itical mntentions, and I reply that Iwon’t tell bim.” The crestfallen batcher slunk awayamid 2 universal roar ot laughter. On another occa- ston. 5 casual acquaintauce of Palmerston came 1p to him, and said, in 3 would-be familiar way: «Well, my Lord, what news from Paris{ How do we stand with Louis Napoleoni” ** Really, Mr. B—," answered the Premier quictly, “I capnot say. I bave mot scen the morninz papers,” A similar story is told of Gen. Ingma- tiefT, which, whether authentic or not, is £o thor- ouzhly characteristic of the man as to be well Worth repeatinir, A inquisitive correspoudent, who had sucteeded in obtaining an introduction to the General ut an eveniug party, attempted to ““pump™ him hy suggestivi a political “situ- ation » resembling that of the moment us elose- 1v as possible, sud then saying, with apparent fraokness, My opinion of such o statc of things would be so and so,—what would your Excellency sayt” “I would say ‘Good morn- ing,’” anawered Ignatieff, bowing aud turning away. THE BIRDS. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cm1cAQo, July 6.—As I sat, just now, weary- hearted over oue of the defeuts that come to all of us repeatedly in the conflict of 1ife, the song of arobin from a trec near by arrested my at- tention. Itwas o sweet, strong, soaring out- burst, climbing, leaping, towcring heaveaward, as though it would scale the utmost bounds of the spirit’s aspiration. Lile a psalmist, like a prophet, as a veritable preacher, that little bird sang, while his notes dropped on my wouuded heart like balm. Joyous and sunny though the strain was, it was more tenderly solemn than any sermon. ‘The very essence of saintly teach- ‘Ing was distiiled fnto its substance; and then it was 50 charmingly, cnticingly delivered! Cour- age, patience, hope, cheer, and brave cndeavor were the thrilling burden of every accent, and they lifted the listener’s soul aloft with them to that high plane where victory is one with peace. As I yielded to the soothing infiuence of this unconscious tutor, and gratefully acknowledaged the power for comfort and encouragement in its glorious unthem, I was stirred with an oft- felt regret thay so few people appreciate and accept the ministry of this singer and his fel- lows. Men gather in churches in answer to the demands of their religious nature, and visit the opera and the concert to be diveried by music full of human imperfection, while thelr cars and hearts are shut to the melodies blending hymn and gospel shich the birds pour out in their happy season. There is no effort, no art, and never a discord nor a faiiure, in their untaught minstrelsy, and it {s laden ‘with blessed meanings to those who listen with the heart opea to its subtle conununication. No matter whether we are adherents of evolution or of theology, we may cherish the beautiful and harmless fancy that the birds ara esoeeial- ly created to make the earth beautiful, and that their peculiar service is to warble lessons of love and duty in the ear of mankind. My small city garden and the grove adjacent are the resort in the different months of the year of an cndless troop of these welcome visitors. 1t is hard to choose when all are dearly loved, yet if I have a favorite it is the robin. His vowe is the first heard in the spring, and it is the Joudest and mcllowest In the ep- tire bird-chorus. And there is so much ardor andzeal in his singing! * Never give up! Try alittie longer! There’'s an outlook abead!” are the Inspiring terms of his epfe, and he rings all the possible changes on them his tuneful tbroat can render. He is awuke with the earliest bird in the morniug, and goes to bed with the very latest, and is rarely subdued by the worst of weather. It is s siznal which ennounces the coming of spring and of the dawn, and the departure of the summer stormn, sounding his vipes lustily on every oc- casion. Truly a havbinger of good tidings is this super’ chorister, bringing grateful proph- s of returning life and lizlt, and calm after noil. ‘This is why I love the bird, why I turn. e v note of s ringing carol, why it'is to me like the bugle’s flourish, which Ieads men forward with resolute step to the fieid of battie. There is another dearly prized among these winged warblers because It comes back to us in the carlicst days of spring, ushering in with its soft, low voice the whole train of sweet sounds which betoken the uwakening of earth to new life. 1ts coat s dipped in the azure dye of the heavens, and hence it gets the name of the blue- bird. It has endearing domestic babits, and is foud of making its home in the vicinity of man. Ahole in & fence-post or In a decaying trec affords sn sceeptable place for its domicile, but we put out a small box desizned expressly for it, and, hanging this in a tree fronting the windows, have the life of a vair of the pretty creatures continually before us, They are never bere many days on their return from the win- ter's migration before the box is appropriated and they are absorbed with prepurations for nest-making. During the weeks when the birds are raising their youws family, we often take the box down gently, 1ifs off the lid, which is movable, and jook in to sce the progress of af- foirs. Sometimes ouly onc or more sky-blue eggs are lying on their sincoth bed of hay; sometimes the little mother is brooding over them, and will not Ieave her post, although the tremulous - fiutter of tho breast und the quick turn of the eyc to note every movement betray Lier decp auxicty: and sometimes again, the partly-fledged young are tanzled in a fluffy heap, with five wide-open bills emitting flereo hungry cries and showing the Incessant gap the busy parents toil from morning until niwhe to fill. Tt is a beautiful example of domestic felicity which the blue-birds present to us, so loving are the parents toward each other, so happy in their united dutles, and so patiert, and willing, and fsitkful in the arduous care of their offspring. ‘Thosc are very hard-working days when they ara furmshing food for a ravenous family, and [o- deed the whole period of houscholding is one of self-denving labor. Yet the soft, cooing voices never Jose their coasing sweetness; never cease to express the loveliness of an mmiable dfsposi- tion. The life ot a blue-bird isall gentleness, with one notable exception. If an intruder of his own or any other species approach his nest, the male bird becomies instantly the firiest of belligerents, and it is » remarkubly stout fizhter that cun hold out agaiust uim. Even the English sparrows, those hmpertinent foreigners which are popularly supposed to drive all our native sbecies before “them, have been several thnes drubbed soundly this scason for venturing into the trec where our blue-birds have set up their Lares and Penates. - I watched these contests, be sure, with great_ansiety, for it was a question involving a good deal of per- sonal feeling “whether my blue-bird tenants were to be wickedly ousted irom the home where they rear under my eye two or three broods every season. Next to the blue-bird in my affeetions is a dusky-feathered yet whien would very likely be destitute of attraction toa stranger. It is a near relative of the rustic Phabe, which it closely resembles, and is_known as the wood- plabe, or wood-pewee. It is usually of a shyer nabit than its cousin, keeping chicfly among the loftier trees of the erove and forest, but after the 1st of May it is a familiar visitor in my neizhborhood. Daily it comes into my garden, and, alighting on the stick prooping up a fuchsia, pursues its hunt after jusects. And this is an exceedi curious operation. The first time Lobserved it,—now many years ago,—I was struck with aumazement at what appeared an aqmless, lunatic proceeding. *Is it possible that virds go mudt? ked mysclf. ** Are the, nfeebled intellect whic s or inisfortanc of their own may un- happily throw off its balance! ~ Ave they sun- ject to some strange dizease which afllicts them with epasms, and is this pewee suffering from such involuntary couvulsions¢” 'Thus I pon- dered as I watehed the bird in utter bewilder- ment. Now Iunderstand that it never has its wits g0 well sharpened as when it is performing the singular gyrations that, in the beginung were a puzzle to me. When eager for a meal the bird swoops down on its perch in my garden—an upricht stiek about_the size of alady’s little finwer oifering the slight cnd as a point of support—and presently darts out like an arrow a brief_dis tanee, turns likely enotgh two or three some: saults, and glides” on to_its perch again. moment later ft isoff in_another dircetion, whirling about, perhaps tumbline over and over, and back to the perch as before. This odd ocl cupation it wiil keep upsometimes a hatf-hour to- gether, maling its sailies towards all points of the compass, and varging its flights with an in- finite varicty of graceful evolutions. It reminds me of the play of o fish in the water, the bird cutting the air with many a dive and sweeping, wavilg movement pecaliar to the swimmer. The object of eech short, swift exeursion is an inseet scen in flight which the bird is sure to ptare. I have Seen it pursue its game in this mauner, undisturbed iu the heaviest rain-storm. But it is not merely the queer sportsmanship of the fyeatctier which {ntercsts me in the wood- pewees it is above 2ll the exquisite tone of its loug-crawn note. This prolonged melancholy cryis sosadly, plercingly sweet onc involun- tarily bolds the breath to catch it. It is repeat- ed frequently through the day and unil late in the. twilizht, aud is the most appealing and uilecting ery I have ever heard. It wonid seem to come from 8 breaking heact, * from the depths of some divine despair,” only we know it is the mode Nature has taught a bappy lictie bird to express 1ts joyful emotions. Ihave said so mich already of the wood- pewee I ean give but a word to its nest, which 1s 0 most dafuty structure. Built on the upper side of a dead limb fu some towering tree, it is covered outside with dried lichens so carefully - giued together the whole looks like a knot sticking out from the bough, and would never be discovered were the bird ot seen above it. And the eges are ag lovely a8 the unest which Jholds them, being a rich” cream-color spotted with brown. The * little chippy may be too homely a bird for most persons to admize, but I love it because it hops in a friendly, trustful mauner about my yard, and ventures to pfck up crumbs close by inec doorway. It is an emblem of humility with fts unassuming dress and wnan- ners, and, therefore, bas its usefal lesson for us. It makes its nest in some low bush, and its ilve tioy eggs of deep sea-green, with a cluster of brown dots ou one end, are beautiful as any jewels a Queen may be proud of. A few summers ago I found o nest of the clip- Ding-sparrows in my narrew domain, and, as I pecped into theneat little mansion, lo, along. with the lawful inmates thzre was en ege of that arraut shirk, the cow bunting, which habitu- ally throws the care of ler young upon sowe small bird to whom shels ib no wise related. Aud here, u mile within the city’s lnits, the trickish bunting had traveled to impose oue of its progenv upon our littie sparrow. 1t was not the first tine by mauy that I have caught the cow buuting fn this unnatural practi As T write, the clipping-sparrow trills its merr: rattle. It is not a melodions song, 1acknowi- cdge, but it is so light-hearted I greet it witha pleased recognition. Another of the little vocalists, conspicuous just at this season, is the vellow warbler, which way be heard among the trees in the most crowded streets of the city. Its short, sharg roundelay is brimfull of business. It plainty tells the listener it Is (oo intent on the “work of life to pause for mere singing. Dut, s it searches among the leaves aud twizs for the minute worms and insects that aflord it sub- sistence, it tosses off arapid strain to let you know its whereahouts. Itis a winsome bird, Dbeenuse it 15 s0 busy and so cheery, and because. it carries into the very heart of the town Lhe freedom and the freshness of the woodlands. Frow the uncasy way onc of the species flits about the branches of an oak tree on my prem- fses as I pass auear, ullering quick, anxious cries, I know it las its pretty pensile nest hung 1 u forked twig somewhere in the vicinit: 1 have begun to grow wearlsome, I fear,in this talk about my beloved carolers, yct in any mention of my favorites I must not omit the common yellow-bird, which every one_knois by its lemoncolored sult sit off with black velvet. This is ouc of the wer- fest, most. _frolicsome, and_ rollicking sorites of the whole bird-tribe. Life seecms to Do in its expericnce one long play-day, for fam- 1y cares arc put ofl so late—uatil the middle &I June and thereafter—that itahas nothing to do but to rossip and sport with its companions. And how it does chatter, and call, and sing to the troop of idle mates always about it! No tongue could rattle on faster nor with anythiug Jike the deliclous execution, Only the bappy 1augh of childhood equals the charm of its iu- nocent, hearty abaucon. Sometimes, lke a throng of lads and lussies Jet out of school, they tlock into my garden, awing on the clothes- line, balance on the flower-stalks, trip among the tree-boughs, and hold a perfect jubilee. Whnat amuses them is cvidentty a very slight matter, but they malke the most of it in har- monious concert. When all is over, away they 2o with a skip and 2 bound, too buoyant with flun and mirth to make steady work of cven ing. ’Is there not a rich source of pleasure open to us in the study of thesc interesting creatures? Ilave I not said cnough to show how inspiriting nd impressive their music way be to those who will learn to interpret it? Birds are a cheer and a solace fn silence or in song, and one never tires of observing them, for there is always some new movement on their part full of i ificance as of beauty, and some fresh morat to be drawn from it that applics to human lives. A WORKINGWOMAN. LEUROPEAN GOSSIP. A FANCY FAIR IN PARIS, Carrespondence New York Times. After several postponements on account of the weather, the Kermesse, in aid of the “Friends of Childhood,” came off on Frida last at the Orangery of the Tuileries. Tts suc- cess was complete; the receipts were enormous. The cloudless sky and the bright sunshine al- lowed the putting on of light-colored toilets, sud wherever you turned there was a gay vision of white gowns and spring bonnets. Darlsian charity is inexhaustible, particularly when its right hand can know what its left hand does, and there is something inconceivably attroctive to certain classes in belng able to point to some worthless triflo on their etazeres and say that it Was sold by rome great personage at five times its value. ~The history of faney frirs is thesame everywhere. Pretty “women with fashionable names are selected by the promoters to hold the booths, and the unwary visitor Is stripsed asif he were in aden of thieves. But they were uncommonly _attractive, these nminiie highway robbers, and_nobody seemed to regret the snares and pitfalls which besct his overy step. You escaped from Seylla to fall into Churybdis, end rather courted danger than soughit to svoid it, and felt sorry when you were usterly ruined, that your pockets were empty. Tlow was it possibie, us you passed along the Tow of stalls by the waterside, to resist the attractive offers of those lovely enchantresses, reernited from amongz the fairest sirens of the noble Fpubourg and the Haute Financel A dreadful Londres cigar of unquestionable Regic origin cost only 20 franes as u genuine Havana, sud found purchosers, usdid everything clse that was offered, aittough I did hear one erusty old bachelor decline to take a pair of socks at 5 francs, on the excuse that_he nlways carried a second pair in his pocket. There wus a stall for Oriental trifles kept by Mwmes. Maguan end Haritolf; 4 toy #hop presided over by Mmes. Rtoussel ' ond Heimandel, where swimming dolls bad an_immense success with the children; the Princess of Arenberz upd the Vicomtesse de Grammont sold vorcelain und faiences; Mme, Otard and the Marchioness of TRove were in cliarge of the stockings and knit- ted goods, and 2 daughter of the railway King, Baron Hirsch, was ready to deck your button- hole with u rosebud or a sprig of beliotrope for alouis. Of course, whatever was the original pricc_of anything, no charze was ever piven, nor, I may add, ever exvected. All who went there went to spend, and such an atrocity us a bargaln would have been hooted. ‘Then there was a charming dairy~an Arcadinu dairy— where fresh wilk was sold in opal-colored glasses, with silces of black bread nicely but- tered by the fair handsof the Countesses of Larochefoucauld and Montebetlo, - All thecows ‘were trimmed with ribbons and rosettes, and the ladies wore Gainsborough hats, whiclt, par ;mremhcsc. are tobe the sununer fashion. A ittle furthier on there was *heer_at discretion and at reduced prices,” which, I need hardiy sav, was n delusion, for nothing here was ne- duced except your purse whew you had run untlet of ‘beaming smiles and _enticing ilunces, Close by this the Tombola, with _con- tributions from artists like Detaille, and Voil- crnot, and Gustave Dore, ana a host of _others, amonir whom were the names of Sarah Bern- hardt, with a sca-piece, and Louise Abberna, with 2 medallion in_bronze. Even the proud Duechness of Magenta had unbended. frowm her dignity as lady President, and had sent a Sevres vase, which stood by the side of Pro- tais’ inature soldiers and a pen-and-ink sletch by Worms, Then there were the thea- trea; one where Judic, Theo, Dupuis, and Danbray sung and acted * their gay repertory; the other built expressly for the artists of the Theatre Franeaise, whose services are always ready when their aid is asked to do a work of Of Got_nhd Croizette, Theron Broisat, Ssrah Bernbardt und _Febye, praise is superflious; they were at the Theatre de T'Hotel de Burecene, as they are, vightiy, fn the Rue Riciielien, equal to thelr reputation; when they are on the stage there s no scope for criticlsm. But, if less correct. it was -awtully jolly at the Pont Tournaut. Three younz gen- tlemen, well known to the fashionable world, one of them under cover of & mask, stood upon a platform outside of the tent to call ‘up visit- ors, as at a country fair: * Come up, rentlemen and ladies, come up, come up; you' must pay your moncy hero'and everswnere. We are here 1o drain vour pockets—and fill those of the so- ciety. There are phenomena here of the first class, extraordinary imitations of our best actresses. Judle’s vortrait is excellent; who wants o sec the portrait of Mme. Judiet It Suly costs 20 francs—wio will give a lonis for the exhibition ¢ Thereunon the Diva appeared, and half a dozen gold pieees fell into the hat of the man in the maslk. “She is only in wax, gentlemen and Jadies, but she swifes for 40 francs; who will give 40 francs for a smilei” Again the colleetion was a_good ane. **Shelli laugh for 100, continued the amateur. clown; & who will zive 100 francs for Judic’s laugh?' Hall a dozen spectators did, aud the pearly teeth of the lively netress, who could_scarcely restrain her merriment, were displayed fo her adorers. “ Next, ladies and gentlemen, is the efligy of the celebrated Theo, who will excute for your benefis vne of the cleverest tricks of Robert Houdin. Come out, Theo, and show the honorable society tour de pussc pasce, for which only 3 louis ore necessiry; iho will lend 3 fouls!”” Half-n-dozen people volunteered, and a roar of lsughter Dafled the discomlfiture of & worthy gentlemau from across tne channel, who was weak enouh to show his astonishuens on learning that the clever trick was the passage of the coin througzh an embrofdered bag held by the popular’ artist, into a near box, labeled “ Contributions to the Fund.” "The fcte bezan at 2 o'clock, and was in all its splendor at 5, when the Marechale appeared and spent her money withagrenerous hand; but,although there was a slight falling-off in_the attendance abous dioner-time, 1t was resumed with even greater animation as night came on, when the spectacle upoy the terrace. brilliant with Chinese lanterns and Venetian Jlights, and peopled with zav cos- tumes and lovely. faces, was worthyof the brush of a Fortuny. However, fizures are more elo- guent than words; the ale of tickets realized 0,000 francs during the dav, and 25,000 in the evening; the Thesire of the Hotel du Bour- gogne, 16,000 {rans; that of the Pont Tournant, 1,705; the dairy, 2,850; the flowers, 3,400 frans: the cigars, 2,800; the buffet, 3.160; the Tom- bola, 5,000 fraucs~in all, about 130,000 francs in aid of 'the fund for the rellef of necessitious children, originally instituted by a few lenevo- lent ladies, who cstecem that in the distributlon of atms there should be wo distinction of per- sons, but that need, not politics, should be the guide to charity. A DUKEDOM FOR DISRAELI. London Spectator. The Berlin correspoudent of the Standard telegraphs on Wednesday o story of tne Con- grress Wwhich i worth more thana passing note. On the arrival of Lord Beaconsfield at the *“Kafserhot,” hewas preséuted, on behalf of the Crown Priucess, with 3 bouquet of flowers, in the ceutre of which was a strawberry plant crowned with a single large strawberry. Ger- man courts do not pay honors of this kind with- out cousideration. The Crown Princess is but Just returned from London, und it the story 1s true, it can have but one signification—that Lord Beaconsficld, if he returns successful from tke Conuress, having made a peace and seeured some sort of scenic triumph, is to be made a Dulke. The statemnent, which has been whis- presgion, and cooling. The machine is not ns complicated or expensive as those in use in New Orleans and European clties, since those baving 3 productive capacity of five tons a day can pe made for about $3,500, thoss of ten tous fur $5,000, and those of twenty tous for $9.000. The five-ton machines are in use on the Cunard line of steamers, and one of thetwenty tons capacity 18 now en route for Rio Jaueiro. Ice an by this process b made at a cost of $1 per on. REAL ESTATE. Notable Improvements of Michigan Avenune Real Estate~Payments Good in the Loan Market, but Loans Iuactive—Sles of the Week—New Subdivisions — Lonses—Stimu- Inting Effcct on West Slde Property of the New Trotting Pork. In the loan market business continues to pre- sent the dullness which has characterized it for mauy weeks. There is no demand for moneyv even at the present low rates. Payments are zood, and in amount are in excess of new loans. The following were the principal transactions of the week: Adams street, south {ront, between Clark and Dearborn streets, 22x198 fect, $11,500; threé years at 9 per cent. Prairie avenue north of Twenty-cighth street, west front, 192x1813{ feet; also Wabash avenue "between Tweuty-ninth sud Thirtieth strects, east front, 152x181%4 fect, $30,000; five years at 7 per cent. . pered about for some time, is not improbable Lauxe street 80 feet cast of Fifth avenue, south in_itself, for the court has shown 0% 35 515,005 3 u disposition to honr the Premier. The pufe | [£08% 20X150. fect, $15,000; three sears at 7 per cent. Ademand roto for $7,000 was secured by 70 acres fn Sec. 1, 36, 14. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT FOR THE WEEK ENDING Tie, whether favorable or hostile to his policy, will not eare what title he takes, thinkinz justly that 2 manwho made en Emperor may weil makie 2 Duke; and he himself has of late years aisplaved a thirst for social precedence and dis- Vouy O uinctions. ‘The privy seal gave him for a time S 5 dueal precedence, und ho will enjoy the super- | zucsrumentel— — 2o || 257 acssfon of the class which,of all others he scorns with the deepest contempt—the Enalish aristo 2 e "’"""""l ”"[ Calderalin. cracy—the burbariaus, **who did not conquer | Trust-decds| 101: 207,698 1483 439.095 the land and do not defend it,” “who know but. | Mortgnges. | S Ao MES iR one language and never opena book.” ‘There | e . will beut certain loneliness in the position, too. | Agstegate..| 1243 233,531)| 180/S 487,555 In the history of England since the revolution, the Duke of Beaconstield will be, with one exception, the only man who has cver risen by Parliamentary talents alone from the Dosition of A commoner to the highest rank of the peerave, Charles Montaeu, ncrles the greatest of purlinmentary ficures before Pitt, died only an Earl, though his descendants are Dukes of Manshester. The English Dulkes, 8s a body, arc tither the de- scendants of great feudal nobles. like the Dukes of Norfolk or Northumberland; or of Kings' mistresses, like the Dukes of St. Alban, Rich- mond and Grafton: or of great soldiers, like the Dukes of Marlborough and Wellington. The Duke of Portland, who seems to be an ex- ceotion, descends from o favorite of a King, though n 1most Wworthy one, rather than an En- glish statesman. The other mun i3 Sir Thomos Osborne, the Tory Yorkahire 'Squire, who, pos- sessing searcely any special ability save that of Mr. Disraelf, the ability of managing Parlia- ments, rose under Charles 1L, James T1. d William to be Earl of Danby.—he skipped, like Lord Beaconstield, two steps of the ladder,— Marquis of. Cacrmarthen aud Duke of Leeds. Releases ... (T SALES OP THE WEEK. Thero bave been the usual number of city transfers, and suburban lots bave a_semblance of activity. Severalof the lutter have changed hands at the usual prices, which speaks well for the present condition of the market. It i3 not probabla thiat matters will bo much worse than at pre: Molders are not much disposed to subrnit to any turther reduction. The new sub- divlsions, mada for the purposc of sale, number forty-seven for the six mouths ending June 30, against fifty-eight for the same period in 1877, The present year shows a fargo fulling i fn suburban_subdivisions, proving that _this species Of - property i8 luss iu favor than city lots, the subdivisions of the latter numbering abous the same in each year. To beget a good demand for suburban lots there must be a liberal deduction made by the rall- rond comoanies in the matter of fures. At present rates there i5 u positive disadvantaze to city people insclectivg a residence in any of the towns contiruous to” Chicugo. The follow- g were the princival sales of the week: No. 102 Thirty-ifth street, 203126 fect, sold Tor $3,000. Ellen_IKcenon sold to Robert T. Pettibone lot on West Adams strect, 40 feet west of Hamilton ayenue, north {ront, 40x107 feet, with fmprovements, for $7,000. 3 Lot on West Twellth street, northeast corner of Cabal street, 223100 feet, tmproved, 36,200, Lot on Upion avenue, 115 feet west of Gottage Grove avenne. south front, 605100 fect, with buildings, § 3 Lot on 1yde Park avenue. 60810 fect north of Brook street, west front, 40x140 feet, im- proved. $11,000. fa J. Henry & Jacob Weil hgve sold lot “an Michigan avenuc, north of Eighteenth street, front, to Leopold Bluwm for 3263 u front OTRELLO AT ROME. “ Qthello,” with variations, has recently heen enacted et Rome. Guiseope Varani, a tailor ln the Via Rosa, assumed the title roles his wife was a Desdemona in tragie fate, but not, alas! in purity; and the Jago was a young servant girl, whom her master reproved one day for Ievity of conduct. * L have done no burm,” she replied, and then with a sigoificant expression added, * aua if I have, T am unmarried; I haye no hus- band, lke some other persons.” -Jealous by nature, and loving his wife passionately, he bewan to make fuquiries anong his friends. 1i suspicions fell upon Enrico Fiorentint, avd to put his friend to the test, he invited him to o supper. Having taken two mea iuto his conddence, he ‘contrived to have the conversation shifted to a domestic trazedy in which 2 husband was betrayed by his best fricnd, but no change came over the face of Fiorentini. Varini was reassured by his fricad’s conduct. The next day S the domestic, dropped other insinuations, and the husband’s foot.. R. T. Martin has s0ld his lease of the building No. 154 Siate street, o slated warchouse, and has leased one of the laree double puildings on east side of State strect, on private terms. SATURDAY'S TRANSFERS. The following fnstrumeuts were filed for record Saturduy, July B: _ 2 crry propknrY. Wright st, 176 ft ¢ of Union st, 8 f, x90 suspiclons retarned witl Fodoubled force. He | Wishier, 171 5065 hit upou the common expedient of a pretended | (It Julg 5. - B, journey fnto the country, and remoined coy- | Weit Indiana st 7afteof Magst n f, cealed at home, maklug no discoveris. Was it | caunl st, 275 {18 of Stautecnih st o f, possible, he asked himself in the morning, that | 251100 re, dated July 5. Sl LSO lic bad been tormented by a_shadow, and that | Orchiard st, 240 ft & of Webster av, e f, 24 his wife was true to him. Ilc mot Sara and x00 ft, dated July 5. 804 asked lier wliere her mistress was. _ She did not | Eiston road, 108 1t n of Clyboura placry know; ber mistress had depxrgc'(‘i very !c:}rlyd 5:.2: 3110 1t, with boildirgy, dated 4o saying she was moing with a fricn e £ e “cemetery 'of the Campo Ve- | Fien soid 1080 of Civbouru plice, rano. On hicaring of so unusual an expe- | Jonoms . o oo gl B, 000 dition, all Verani's doubts cume back. e | west Van Duren 5t 130 fi . s questioned the girl further, and told him that | "y, s f, 73135179 fr, dated May 31, 5,057 his wife and Florentini bad been a long time to- | West Indiana st, 180 fcwof Désplat aether tha day before. Maddened by the idea &t, 8 1. 20x70 {1, dated June 5 . 2,100 that while he was wat ng ut-home and becom- | Ashiand av, 150 ft 8 of -)n1 son 8t, » ing conviaced of his wife's Innovence as he saw | BOSHOX {t, dated June 20 5,300 her quietly zoin and out_ snd tinally retire for | Cumplell av. 3054 I & of Wost Adame the night, she had taken the opportunities of | 5 ¢ © 20530 I CHQIRNM B, © o DO scelng her lover elsewhere durine the intervals, | "S57107, dated Julz 5 NS i SUMMARY FOR TUE WEEK. ‘Lo followiuz s the total amount of city and suburbsn_transfers within 3 rudius of seven miles of the Court-House tiled for record dur- ing tho wetk endine Sutusags, July 6: City sules, 50; consideration, $127,203. North of city timits sales, 15 consideration, 81,184 South of city limits sales, 10; consideration, $16,0i0. West of city lmits sales, 1; cousideration, £330, “Total soles, 62 fotal considerution, 31 BOILDING. A number of fmprovements worth mentfon have been undertaken this summer va Micbigan avenue, which are makiug permanent its place 2s one of the finest, i not the finest, residence -streets i the city W. D. Wells, of Milwaukee, is buildinz ove double aud two single housss on the southwest corner of Michigan avenue and Harrison street at g cost of 3! for the corner housc and $16,000 for the other two. South of these houses, Mr. 8. B. Cobb is putting in the founda- tions for two houses, to cost 225.000. The house on the corner will have a brown stonc front, and will be ricnly fuished. The other houses wili have limestone fronts. C. B. Blair, Presideut of the Merchauts’ Na- tional Bank, is building, ou the site of the ald Blaiv bomustead, turee frst-class stone-froat houses, between Harrison and Cougress streets. The cost will be about §25,000. George Steele has_recently tlnished two Lrowu-stose fronts, just uorth of Lightecuth street oo Michigan avenue, ut a cost of about $18,000. W. D. Baker is crecting a stone-front house near Thirty-tirst street; A. O. Slauglter, the bauker, is putting up a first-class brown-stoue Be resolved to plate the watter beyond a doubt. Hesent for his wite aud her lover, led them down cellar, drew a_kuife, and fell upon theta both. The wife recovered from her wounds to coniass her guilt, and the husband was cou- victed of murdering his_friced. Vhen the ver- dlct was announced ou May 35, the prisoner lost his reason and weat raving mad. DISAPPOINTED WITH MABILLE. Paris Corresnondence Detroit Neus. At 11 o'clock the curtain fell, and just to finish in the day, and tire oursclves out a little for a good night's slecp, we went in a party to the Mabiile Gardens. o sce the can-can danced in all its original splendor. They charzed us five francs (31) each for udmittance, and, after sccing all that was to be ‘scen, we felt that we bad never been worse cheated. The garden itsell was the only thing worth seeiny. It was indeed beautiful.” The trees were all filled with lizhts. Scores of arches of as jets appeared in every direction. The dancing floors —there being two of them, onc outside, in the garden, and the other under cover— were uoeither of them very large nor well k The band played good musie, awd oceasionzlly two or three setsof hired dancers—ugly American and English girls and zar-lookin young men—would stand up for The girls beld their dresses alittle ely, aud kicked up their heels ocensionally, but that was ail. We all awreea that the quan- tity of feminine les to be seen was ridiculous!: small as compared with the price we had peid, “There were o grea Inany women in the garden, most of whom were hagzard and ugly. There Syero s great many men there, too, and they were mainiy old valdbeads. The can-can, as T bave seen it daneed in the theatres of New York, and even in Detroit, is a hundred times more artistic, graceful, and wicked than that which I saw lgst night. 23,842, Kelly has under way » foe mansion iu the style of o Freuch villa on_the nortbeast coruer of Michigan avenue and ‘Thirty-sccond Atrect; on the northeast corner of Michigan aveuue and Thirty-third street, two double brown-stou: front liouses arc.now beinz finished, and on the southeast corner of Thirty-third Lears Corith will erect a tirst-class house, A WEST SIDE SPURT. A good deal of stir has been made in real estato on the West Side, just west of Central Purk, by _the announcewment of the plans for a Trotting Park iu°rhat ncigbborhood. ~This park i5 £0 Le bonnded on the cast by Central Park, b the west by Crawford avenuc, by. Madison Srect on the north, and Harriso Street on the fouth. The stands and other buildings to be WHISTLER’S BREAKFASTS. The breakfests of Mr. Whistler, the Awmerican artist in England, are safd, by a writer in the World, of Loundon, to be great in little sur- prises. To such an extent are these carricd “ that one feels not only that the appearance of a deviled Colorado bectle tay be reasonably ex- pected, but that the peculiarly-insiouating man- ners of the host mizht even induace one to swal- Jowit. No such sacrifice, however, is expected 8 ol one, every succeeding dish be aspmgxn:nu crected on it will cost abo'ul. ,000. as it is o 1: and the three expectant, wold- | The West Divisfon - Gity Railway —tracks fish, as they swim to and fro in the flower- | Will be carried out _bf:ou;l the strown Japanesc bowl in tie centre of the | Pork, and _cooncctious will aleo e made between it and the steam raihways cnter- ing the city, so that out-of-town visitars may have ready access to it. A demand has beea created for adjoining property for saoons and and other buildings for the use of sporting mer, and several negotiations to purchase are ander way. The trotiing park grounds and bulldings are to be mude ready as pear Sept. L as possible. table, must be in a cerfect flutter of excitement (if to be excited is wivea to fishes) as _they wonder whether a savory morsel of Baltimore chicken (served up with hominy and hrealsauce), a straying tomato, an_€rrant mushroom, or an insubordi- nate ground-nut, wilf next fail accidentally to their share, ns plates and dishes are hunded in quick succes sion across the hospitable board by the cuthusiastic host and his goodly company. The bu eat cakes generally come last: the are hrought in furelays, und are consumed by thie Qisciples and ediirers of Mr. Whistler and his school with seatiments vers nearly upproaching to religious reverence. selonyz spparently to the same fuwily as th A porous, and butteruds bnt their flavoris eatirely a thing aparte, purticularly when caten with treacle, which, it seems, is their natural accom- paniment.” LEASES. W. L. Picree & Ca. have rented the northwest corner of Michigan avenuc and South Water street to Sherman Bros. & Co., of Milwaukee, manufacturers of spices and soays, und thirty adjoining fect north, for $4,5%0 a yeor. e e TRIOLET--THE MISTAKE. T thought it was 3ay, And it chanced to be you, Clare, Forgive me—and staz! 1 thought 1t was May. Dleas the cork, rziny day, And the entry-way, t00, Where LS 08 io Sison, Clare)” nced 0 be—5on, Cla datite TO% [oLudt. w. ——————— Bismarck nnd the Turkish Representatives. It is not strange that Prince Bismarck heaped reproaches upon the inoffensive heads of the Turkish representatives at Monday's sessions of the Congress, for he gave them a curt recep- tion when they mrmrived in Berlin, and has shubbed them cver since. - Mchemet All and bis colleazucs were the last to rcach the city, and when' they werc ushered into the Chaneellor's roow, they were greetcd with & decidedly gruff, * You are ratber late.” Me- hemet All, who was once known in Germany as Karl Detroit, reminded the Crancellor that they ————— Ice Made by Stenn. Cinctanati Commerrial, Yesteraav morninz, sbout the time when our merchants “most do congrewate st the Fourth Streer Rinlto,” when the’ thermometer was at 92 dep., s massive cake of steam-made fce was exhibited tothe gaze of the public un the side- i fu_front of A. H. Pounsford’s houkstore. The eake was in cubical form, of ervstal clear. ness, compact, and firar, sud weighing atout 14 pounds, For three hours it stood in the sun exposed upon five sides, and was fonnd to have melted only about one-half an inch on each stde. 1n the centre of the cube was 2 card on which, through a thickness of several inches, was plain- Iy legible the namne of A. T. Hodder. £5q., who witnessed the process of manufacture. ‘Tweaty- four hours® time is occupied, and a powerful steam-engine, with ammonia us o chemical agent, subjects the water to volatilization, com- front. house near Thirty-second street; David. had met with rather adverse winds in the Black Sea. “Yes, " “was tho reply, still more grus, “ThE winds [n the Bluvk Sea aéew 10 Lave bace preity steadily azainst you of late.” THE SOLAR ECLIPSE. Proparations for Obsorving the Fhename- non—Purtles of Obuervers to Be Sent out. Wasamvetoy, D. C., July 8.—Congress ap- propriated §3,000 for the purpose of observing the total solar cclipse to fake place on tha 20th of July. Assoon as the money was available, Admiral John Rodgers, Superintendent of the United States Naval Observstory. began to make preparations for as fuli and - exhaustive observations as the meaps at his disposal warranted. These preparations are ‘mow completed and the observing parties will soon take the field fully instructed as to their duties, ana the work carefully mapped out and divided up among the differént observers. The polari- scope and the spectroscope will be used to ex- amine the corons of the sun during totality. As the duration of totality will not be more than three minutes in_the Northand two and alalf fu Texss, all the observers will bore- quired to work very rapidly 4 order to obtsin the required observations. .. " Five parties of observers will be sent out from the United States Naval Observatory under ed to this fnstitus - tion, who will b assisted a Sampson, Licuts. S. W. Very, C. W. Bowman, ot the Naval Academy, aud Licut. E.W. Sturdy, now stationed a1 the ‘Naval Observatory. The tollawing is a list of the partles seal out from or assisted by the Observatory and their proxts mate points of destination: Prot. Newconb, Comumander W. T. S8ampson, Lieut. Bowman, aud Johu Mefer will lo-. cate at Creston, Wy. T. ‘The folfowing party will be statloncd at Lus Animosor La Juuta, Arizons, to be definitely determined hereafter: Prof. Al flall, Erof. J. A. Rogers, Prof. A. W. Wright, Mr. W. ¥, Gardoer, and Mr. . B. Wheeler. The next party locates at Creston, W. T., and is made up as follows: Prof. Villun Harkness, Licut. E. W. Sturdy, Assistaut Astronomer A. M. Skinoer, Messrs. L. E. Walker, A. G. Clurk, sod Prof. O. H. Roblnson. At Fueblo, Col., taere will also be statioued Prof. J. R. Eastmun, Prof. Lewls Boss, Assist- ant-Astronomer L. M. Panl, and Mr. H. S, Pritchett. The following party will be at Central City, Col.: Profs. E. S. Holden, Lieat. E. W. Very, C. §. Hastings. Me. L. Trouvellot, of Cambridge, Mass., ac- cownpanied by his son, will gro to Rawlings, Wyo. Ter., to 10ake o drawing of the corona. Mr. G. W. L, of the Nuutical Ainunas offive, will be statfoned on_one of the imoua- tains in Colorado to make drawings of the corona. Prof. Ormond Stone, of Cincinnati, und Me. Winslow. Upton, of Cambridis, will observe the eclipse from the lofty peaks of Colorado. Gen. Myers and Prof. of the Siznal- Otlice, and Prof. Landley, of Vitisburg, will go 10 Pike’s Peak. Many distinguished Euglish astronomers and M. Junsen, the famous astronower from Paris, are coming over to observe the eelipse. x —— *'8LOOD! BLOOD! BLOOD?!? Ts the Editor af The Tritune. Cricaco, July 5.—Apropos of the soecial published in Tre TRBUNE of Juue 3, regasding the probable preieditation of the assassinution of President Lincoln, [ send yon the following Macs, which appeared fn a New York papera few months previous to the traglo death of the President. | koow not by whom they were writien, o5 they appearcd under a nom de plumes but the senttments thereln expressed certainly seem diabolical -enough in their character to have proceeded from the heart of o would-ba maurderer; and whether or not J. Wilkes Booth might have bees the author of them is of course merely o matter of conjecture. The picce war cotitied THE WALPORGIS DANCE AT WASHINGTGS. The night was heavy ana mirk, The moon shone dusky-red, The utr had un odor of sulpharons smoke And of corpies newly dead; And ] sz, io fact, or dream, Or both coutused in one, A dance, and a revel, and maniac roas, ‘Too bideous for the sunj - . Andouof it came n cry': ** Blgod ! blood ! blood! Let the witches’ caldron boil, With u nation's tears for water Biood! tlood! blood! Slabk: To sprinkle the Banzry soll For the carnival of sliugnter!” Beneath the caldron cracked A pool and whitl of flumo; Aroand the calaron gambol'd and howl'd A crowd without 3 name— Fierce war-zealots and prenchers, contractors, thieves, sites, rs, und pi Aund still they c! **Blood! blood! blood! Let the heil-broth sputter and boil, With 2 pation’s tears for water! I}lood! blood! blood ! Slabuy and thick as mud, o sprinkle the hunzry Soil For the carnival of siauzhteri™ Nakod, obscene, and cruel, > Tuey screamed, and gibed, ang roared;™ - ._ They knew their God was the Devil, Their King, and Chief, and Lord; And they wors] !FEd at his footstool, And satd: **Thy kingdom come, ‘When the world snall be to the strongest, H And be ruled by the beat of drum, Drum-bect and flash of cannont " Elood ! bloed? blaod ! Let the witches' culdzon boil, Vith a nation's tears for water! o 4 'Blood ! blood! blood! Slabby and thick oy mud. T eprinkle the hunzry soil For the carnival of slaughtert” One, tall, and bony. snalank, Stood forward {-0m the reat, And wld g ribald story, With 1 lecr to give 16 zest, And said: *-Our fre burns Teebly, e must pile it up anew; . Tell me the fuel to feod it witn, Ye fends and comrades truo I And thoy sbouted, with mad rojolctum ““Lilood! blood? blood ! Let the witones' caidron boil, With a nztion's tears for watet! Blood? Yluod? bload! Siabby and thick as mud, To sprinkle the bungry s3il For the curnive) of slaughtert” He cut down the Constitnfon That grew so fair and well, And chopped the gracious tree to logs To feed his re of hell. He tarew in the crackl With a satiafled **Ha 5 Reason, and Houor, and Justice, Liberty, Rigbt, and Law; While is greedy comrades shonted: * Blood! tlood! blood! Let the witches' caldron boil, ‘With a natiou's teare for water! Blood ! biood: blood! Staboy aud thick 08 mud, To sprinkle she buggry soil For the carnlval of siaughter! ¢+ Lot the old men die in their beds, Lot the children grow arnd thrive; o blood of the young and strorz, To We crave it, and will bavo it, Thonsh the wives bewail aud monru, Thouzh the mothers £ob in angulsh Q'cr the grxves of their early-toru. Mix the aferbirth of a natioa? Blood! blovd ! blood! Let the beli-troih sputter and boil, Wirh u natlor's tesze for waterl Blood! blood! blovd! Slabby and thick as mud, To sprinkie the hunscy so0il For the carnival of sfaughter!” What more they did and satt New times may render pliing T, if retribution come nat, Gibhet and rope are vain- T And ¢ With & nation’s tours for water! ilood ! blood ! bluod? Slabby nnd thick as mud, § R0 dents. and traubles, snd tolla, And the carnival of slaughter. - ————— Curo for Grouchitls, Laryugitls, and Quinsy. Mr.’G. A. Sala, in & recent Jilustrated London News “Ecoo,” writes: “Until two_ or three evenings siuce I had vever heard of the treat- ment of bronehial complaints by the external application of the most precious of mesals. 1 was talking to an Ameflcan gentleman on tho subject of bropchitis,and spasmodic asthma, when hie said, ¢ Why doo’t you try o gold necke let? I have worn one, my wife has worn onc, my children have worn such necklets for montbe together. I have recommended the rewedy to hundreds of my friends, und io no case have I found it fail as'a cure for broochitis, laryngitis, and quinsv sorc throat.” Ho went oo to siy that the necklet should be worn so -just as to be coneealed, in the case of menfolk, by the sniri-collar. It should not be so tight as to fo- convenience the wearer, but it should be mads to press flat on the throas.” £ e i A A A