Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 21, 1878, Page 11

i . _THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE "SUNDAY. JULY 21, 1878—SIXTEEN ‘PAGES. 's= PARIS GOSSIP. City Which -Contains the -Mest Cheerful of All Earthly Visit- ’ ing Spots. A 4 Genigl Inferview with Over Three Million Neatly-Arranged Hu- man Skeletons, ‘30‘4’- Personal and 0&%& of the Republic's First Holiday Cele- bration, gow the Yankee Stomach Was Comforfed and faskee Vanily Pampered the Poorth of July. Grand Mass at the Mad- elaine for Queen Mer- cedes. ‘]713 2 " Prom Qur Own Correspondert. panss, July 5—One bundred and §fty of us ranzed io fle the othier noon within & egart vear the city walls. ‘The party was mostly Strangers,—Englishs, Spanish, Yaukees, Turks, + g nefoes, etc. Evers oue had in his or ber sieht band a lighted candle, in the left.a card Jating {hat the bearer was authorized by the officials to visit the Cataconbs of Paris. The left-handed persons Bbad their cards and endles shifted iuto correct order, and then the fieJesder, givinz up his ticket and preceded by {he omnipresent gendarme, dove down into a covered cellar-way, and the rest ot us plaved ugtobim. . ] Some unknown centuries ago the Romaus, who did everything in European cities which cangot mow be explained in any other way, seooped mlles of gulches and passazes in the socks south of the Seine. Savants say they did {hisin getting out stonc from quarries. The ssisa wood enough one, and, as Romans and pusaye-ways bave now both been long under grouad, Chicago readers might as well accept it 8 true. - Without telling anybody of the fine cellarage, early Parisians slyly paved over these strange corridors aud built houses thereon. A bundred years or more ago some of the houses volunta- 1ils took a tumble. This led to investigation; o the discovery of the passages and the mauu- facture of th@Poman-quarries theory, and sub- sequently to dumping sll the bones from . the condemned cemeteries of Paris into this vast subterrancaa labyrinth. It was to have a blithe holiday time among these bones that jnduced 1he procession of strangers that day to string dowa into the Catacombs. ‘We coiled, hugging each others’ backs, round snd round sdown a stone stairway, until at lass we were at the bottom, and . FIFTY FEET UNDER PARIS. ‘Then there was a promenade of half a mile or so throuzh various galleries of rock, from which pumberless other galleries leg. We were cautioned against branching off into any of these and getting fost, and dido’c wish to. This of the tramp ended in an archway, 1the sides of which were :miibly blazoned with picgures of big black coflns. Through this we -passed and were in, at a juwp, to the thickest of the matince. It was 0o end of thigh-bones and skulls till we couldn’t rest. Nice smooth walls of bones, enlivened by the skulls in festoons, crosses, rosettes, and other chioice desizas. Of all tne -Yorrible wuinscotings cver arranged this was Kigz. We coud just look over the top of it. and beyood, runiing out into the darkness. saw 4t was brimming over trith bouesand frarments of skulls heaved in confusedly and solidly. Oply . such skeletons as = had kept at least part of themselves in decent repair had been allowed to concribute to the front wall dress parade. All the others were jumbled— ribs, hesds, arm-joints, pelvicarches, and collar~ bopes—into tlie mass behind. This array of i end cross-bones, mixtare beyond, contipued for miles. wouod in and out, flaring the candles in the sockets of beads wlenve eyes had shone 2 hun- . €red years ago. i OVEX TAREE MILLION BODIES, what is lelt of them, werc beside and around Think whst that number means! Smite from e to-day everv buman being in New York, " Boston, Philadelphis, and Chicazo, and thé | 1 death harvest would ot equal the zhastly total of that garncred here. aris overhead bas only two-tturds'as naLy monev-grabbing, vain, unessy, living, fesh-covered skeletous as she has « ¢ strioped and silent ones in her Catacombs. The rumber is contivually incressing. OId cemeteries are from time to time cleared away, the eround being ceeded for houses for the living, and down 1nto the Catacombs come the ‘boues once 60 tenderly 1nucoed. Stacked in the Way they are here, there will be room enough for all far ages hence. In this Luddle of over three million, how strapge seems the individosl pomp and sorrow with which each one oririnally went to the gmave! There is no “ Please pass down the front aiele, vies the remajgs, and pass out at the side; friends of the deceased come first.” Here it is scutfle along, keep yvour candle alig] and don't wauder away from the beaten corri- dors unless you would be lost and starve with three million skulls mocking youin the dark- . bes . Remerber, each of these fellows fussed and retteq his years of life as consequentiully as anyof ps. “He was at times to Limself the un- Tu: of mortais; nothing ever went right with him. kmewit was because Of his own natural God- gfl'fll geniys, and was a little puffed-up deity to imeclf and famiiy. Go to tbree million of my ladies’ chembers, and tell the occupants that %o this favor must they come ac last. ‘. IN PARISIAN CEMETERIES - Iany fombs and vaults are rented.’ If 2ddi- tional rent is not pa'd when the first stipend is exhansied, out go the bodies to make room for dresh oncs. Talk aboat stealing the coppers Irom u dead. man’s eyes! It is uot haif as mcan 23 shying him out into the cold world again for Don-pavment of rent. Bones thus bounced €ventusily rest in the Catacombs. s hideous honeycomb beneath Paris s des- 1ined 10 hold the framework of every man, Famin, and child that dics within he confines. Beautiful Pere-le-Chaise .wili by-hd-bs be ¥ant for stores, dwellings, and inabilles. Then the rivs of Abelard may garnish a Cata- Somb's gallery, while miles away the skull of Telois¢ grins from one of its walls. The/ gendarmes marshaled us_throneh in 4afety, and our party was at last above.zround, ofattering for dioneér. We were all strangers, lut if some of us chance to gie in Pars we may 1neet aain and lie comfortably jow) to jowl in Catacombs, 5 i MORE DNDERGROUND CHARMS. Apermit to visit the Catacombs is nenally ac- Companied by one to inepect the sewers-of Paris, Lwouzh the {rivs src not maage tbe same day, the two systerus of tunneling are quite ais: - toct in managemcot'and locatiow. iy sewers, of course, permeate below the - ¥ everywhere, but those exbibited, the largest ones, are immediately beneath the. most active &ud imporant portious of Paris. Victor Hugo bas shown the nandy peculiari- of this feature of underground Paris in a lon that bas started the goose-lesh all over m!’!' reader of **Les Miserables.” Hugo is an man, and I won’t make him feel badly by 3 descriving ihe sewers better than he has done. ¢ Uip s like the story of *Camille™; in- 2. but rather nasty. Visitors are whirled #long in neat curs drawn snd pusned by city Shbloses, who dash abead st aull yun eitber ol the blaci miriature Styx that carries the Use of Paris to the river. The cars run on Jatis, and wlide nearly the whole distance direct- - 5orer'tbe flowing mess, T sappose the swift- sbecled human horses, goinz at the break.neck ‘pthey do upon Jedees not over eigbteen g3 Wide. and sure-footed though they are, 'Usl sometimes £lio and zet slung aside into el THE DEVIL'S BROTH 2 o A Custom-House Investizating Com-~ e . could 2i0ne wash them clesu ngain. , \'fin:fld Doats, sailiug in the sweet puddle, take swors through the targest conauits and com- joln.ln celebrating the new national holiday Un the iron fencfng of Thiers' house hunra great wreath of immortelles bearing simply the word, * Absent.” . Guess what flag I saw hangiog, big and dis- consolate, from the corner of a house on a chief &venue, near the Arc de Triomphe. Blessed if ftwas not an old Confederate banner, stars, cross, and all. * Won’t some sovercizn Sonthern State please call_that Inferaal fool of an owner bome, make a Congressman of him, and save him and bis rag from being lavghed at further over here? L This wav be’ an old Parisian joke, but it was new to me—and to cabby: - Four noisy fellows hail an empty cab with the customary phrase, & Cochere, are you at liberty?” He balts, think- ingz he has a 10ad of customers, and says ¢ Yes.! *That's zood,” they ery, *long live liberty,” 2nd walk away. Cochere jerks pine kinds,of French curses at them aod drives off, 1u a former descrintion of the holiday festivi- ties [ showed that over $200,000 was wasted in this celebration 1n Paris alone. For fear some saphead, hearing that the city voted .500,000 {frapcs for the fete. and havingenouzh arithmetic i:}ll;x‘xlt;ti:]luro.knaw that five francs make a dol- 'y owl * exaggeration,” i titfle furtber. Besides Bintll explatnia THE SUM VOTED BY THE CI1Y, every arrondissement made special outlays, while nine-tenths of the citizens invested pri- vately in ereater or less amounts for fiags, fire- works, etc. Over a million francs was -thus consumed in one day and night in Paris to prove to the world that France had at last got things down to hard-pan republican simplicity. Paris Jets all her bemzars loose Tete-days, keepinz_them at other times under preity thorourh control. ‘The showing of mendicants last Sunday was conceaed, even by residents, to be .uniisually large, diverse, and cuite worthy of the day. To strangers, every third man scemed a pauper, Richard LIL., or Caliban; every third wowan aud her brood a Frochard. ‘The Church party is claimed to be particularly inimical to tbe Republic. But some of tne grandest illuminations were -those of. the Catbiedrals, aud the initials *R. F.” (Repub- lique Francaise) were displayed as freely and conspicuously on tuose structures as anywhere eise in all Paris. s i A square-built country Frenchwoman,in one of the thickest of the night crowds, hoisted her husband astride her neck 50 he could have a good sight at the fireworks. - It takes a Anon, ‘when Fortune smiled, be. Frenchwoman to anpreciate o husband and help him up in the world. . VICIOR HUGO'S * NEW POEN,” sung at the Tuileries Garden concert, sas writ- ten by him in 1831. Bul it is ringing and stir- ring desbite its forty-seven years’ sieep on the shelf, and the Republic talks about adopting it as a national anthem, > Over twelve buudred Communists, who have been sticking closely to business and bebaving themselves of late, Were blessed with remission or commutation of their punishment in honor of the nation’s new boliday. France is learning. from America that bloody shirts can wash them- selves whitc in a reasonably orief time, and that political offenders at laree are less barmful to 2 nation than when under ban. The crowds evervihere were prodigious. Ifew people got home with uniashed fect and uon- bruised rivs. TheFrenchman is rude and ram- ming jn acrowd. To be sure he keeps up a runuing tdre of “ pardons,” but, as be is always steppiug upon or elbowing aside somebody, he Is in constant need of pardoning. TOW WE CELEBRATED, The good Americans who bave died and come to Paris concluded, in return for the enjoyment they bad in the Frénch feteof June 30, 13 show. these Gallic Republican sucklings what free and indeoendent citizens of the oider democracy across the water conld do in thie way of a cele- PR Mo had & Fourth-ot 0 they had & Fourth-of-July glorification yes- terday at the Pre Catelan, a pretty inclosur); in the Bois de Boulogne. Over 400 Americans, of assorted sizes and ages, gathered i resoonse to an invitation sent out by a commitice of their countrymen. and paid $1a head for being thus cn_?unmenwd.] bere were lawn games and rossip for the older folks, and a l“unrll-;md-fixd\' sbow and merry-go-ronud for the little ones. Gilmore and his band got to the sccne toirard the close of the atternoon. Their music bad taken avother route and was lost, but the wandering born- blowers had some bars and quavers in their beads that coutdn’t #0 astray, and played from memory so well that the Freneh guests present were gracious enough to say that it"was as good band-music as they had ever heard. ‘Then a banquet was announced, and a mighty £ood one it wis, too. It wasso tempting that American manners went to the dos, and A MISERABLE SCRAMBLE for something to cat ensued. There were gen- tlemen present. It took these from one ta two hours to get enough to keep their bodies from cramping with’hunger. But the main portion of the company, realizing that their $4 apicce was to give them all they could eat and drink, squared themselyes to get their mone;’s worth. One geutle Southerner announced, often and empbatically, that he was **from Virginia, by gad, sir,” snd intended to be served swiftly and amply. There were many others like bim, and the French guests I have mentioned could not ruin their immortal souls by asserting that Amnerican table-behavior was of the kind pre- scribed in etiquette books. Suave and eflicient Rovert R. Hitt, American Sceretary of Legation and justnow Charge d'Affaires, was naturally lord of the ceremonies. He managed admirably, avd, when the diszrace- ful scenes were at their worst. so captured the sttention of the foreizn element by graceful words and deeds .that perhaps they did not see all the American piggishpess. Wken everybody's stomach was plaeged, Mr. Hite got bis unruly fellow-patriots pretty thrmly in band, and beld them in reasonably deceut order while some cart and cflective addresses were made by himself; Miaister-to-Belgium Goodloe; Cunliffe Owen, bractical bead of the British Commission; Goshorn, of Philadelphia Centennial fame; Commissioner Gen. McCor- mick; Prof. White, President of Cornell Uni- versity, and others. ERANTZ, head man of the present French Exposition, and a Republicau Senator of brilliant antece dents an did the most valuable talking. ced phrases he showed how comolete an exbibit Americs was making in the Exhibition. 1t was not merely a pleasant bit of complimentary deference to the dav and the audience. A Frenchman can flatter without lying. It was an understanding sketch of the scope and usefulness of our exhibit. and showed bow thorough bad been his study of it. .Some of the American pewsproer corresoondents, who have walked through our display in twenty minutes and fouvd it wortnless, betier 2o to Krantz and learn sense and truthfulness. The only person who. was expected to speak aud didn’t~you won't believe it—was Jobn W." Forney. Either he was oat of town or_sick abed. ~ Never but once berore in all bis life did he fail to spesk when asked. It was when M Farland—dead and gove now, poor fellow— swore before a_Congressional Committee that be paid_that $35.000 of Pacific_Mail money re- ceived from Irwin straicht ioto Forues’s bands. ‘A unanimous request went out from the Amer- icau press for Mr. Foraey to say something, but s jaw was hushed that time. Fame, by the way, is a fraud. 1saw Forney's dead-head Ex- “position ticket the other day awaiting his cull at Ieadausrters, Those ignorant Frenchmen had made it out Tor **Monsieur J. M. Farnes."” “T'nere were other litle American Fourth of July celebrations for a cent, in various parts of Paris, wita less splurge. and -more gaod be- havior. The kindly natives daniled the starry bauner frecly from “house fronts aud tous, aud probably Paris showel more American flags. that day than New York. TIE DEAD QUEEN. % Official kindness, and some cheek of my own, led to a messenger leaving at my door. this morning a great, square heht-blue card with anugly deep-hlack border, zranting me entrance 1o theLhurch of the Madelaine to hear Grand Mass for the repose of thie soul.of Donna Maria De Las 3ercedes, Queen-of Soaia. Churches, to wicked people like newspaper writers, are uncomfortable places at best; but draped in sombre hanzings with silver deck- ings, alight with low-burning tapers, and resonant with the chants of Bishops, monks, 2nd scolytes, they are likely to so bring to memory past personal misdoiogs as to render such visitors amiably miserable. But this service was magnificent, and fortune be thanked for getiing me in. °The vast interior of the Madclaine was shrouded in_nobly-draped fable and maroon veivet. A special Royal altar was erected in the centre, and this wasa tower- ine monument of choice flowers, jewels, cold and silver-blazoned velvet, and rezal insignia. It was hich noon without, but the sun was sol- emnly barred from enterfog, and the quiet light of athousand great and little candles shone sadly over the throng below, while away up among the arches of the ceiling all was blaE}: and desolate as poor Alfonso’s beart. i The superb aitar-piece, Marochetti’s As- sumption of the Maedalene, probably the hoicest sculptare of its class in_existence, was - Ettethe = f 2 Dmiley o pamuicoiris,only a Mitle of the | vathed in the uuiversal biack olours, and -3 is a5 pood 25 g feast—of warbage, 1t'| €VETY 11mmcr ol%l m{flugfl nix&cz ;]»flx:nwg o :::J dvili: i 1t ] 5 siopal, and &i 1 :eKe which most of the oid seven wonders of _ J-Meworld were playthings for habes. . [ proud of her Catacombs and sewers, Tk -dranaed horrors and flith beneath the Sudace. “They are good physical types of her Poral character,—ihis city, o pleasant and A"'flmlm: ‘without, so foul and fearful within. n';nl after gll, most men must be judged on the * arugg D1z We have got to gei below thelr 2o 10 be certamn there are no charnel-houses - % moothly-fowing corruption there. FETE-DAY NOTES. The nioblest Republican of tuem all conld not -Spanish art, with the wonders of the Madelaige’ -i:r 2 background, had. joined hands to effect the perfection of mournful display. 55 ALAS FOR THE YOUNG QUEEN ' fn whose homor like diswal pascaniry was showing _in cvery great European city at thig hour. Where she looked for a lijetime of Joyal love and joy, death cntered. Instead of ihe loped-formother's Inliaby, erim fate beld for Ter only the chants of the requiem mass. Per- |haps it was grotesque and wicked, but thinking of her inir 1ife thus clipped at its happy outset, ! of the Qucen so soon a_corpse, the epitaph of the still-born child wou'd ring in my ears: Since 1 was so quickly doue for, Lavonder what I was begun for. - - Ido not know the details of a erand mass for the repose of ‘s Queenly soul; more is the shame to me. Bat I do knor and love majestic music; and as.for the aucust trappings aud ceremonlals which fizured fo the rite at the Madelaine this morning, I know that they united a wtately holiness any earnest beauty that couldn’t have harmed”in the least the most zealous Protestant conscicnce present. £ GIDEON. INSECTS. . To the Editor of-The Tribine. . Carcago, July 20.~I meant uvever to get interested ininsects,—that is, 80 far as tomakea particular study of them. I kiew how fascinat- iog must be the pursuit of entomology, 25 of every other branch of ‘natural science, and bad felt a secret-drawing toward it whenever a case uader my eye. It isso entiting to look upon conotless rowsof thesesmall animals neatly put up in boxes or drawers, and ranging from toe tiny specimens-scarcely larger -than the bead of the pin running through them-to the mammoth members’ of the ordér measuring several inches across from wing-tip to wine-tip. The order and symmetry of such a collection attract even the inditferent observer, but on scanning it closely it is wonderful to pote the endless diversity coexisting with a constant similarity,—to mark how wide is the divergence and gt thesame time how close the conform- ance to the primitive type. It is one of the most alluring phases of Nature, this of her jofinite variation of form ard of color while rigidly ad- bering to the dominant characteristics of some especially favorite pattern. It is one of the chief charms of the study of ber works,'affording the perpetual delights of novelty and admiration. Given one form of any class of apimals or piants, and there is the pro~ foundest satisfaction in finding anallled form and traciog their resemblances and dissimilari- ties. The modifications are o’ unlimited, so beautiful, and so startling. The student ever travels from one fresh wonder to another, see- ing marvels continually executed, yet never re- peated, and each one stimulating to further in- vestization and new discovery. Nothing exceeds the pleasure of acreeable surprises, and Nature has an exhaustiess store of them for whoever will carelully explore her treasure-house. Bua I did not intend, as I said, to become in- fected with an entbusiasm for eotomology. Life scemed already crowded with ensrossing duties, and then L am not_constitutionally foud ol the crawling and flying things vopularly termed *‘bug: . They bave a vicious look with their formidablé armament of antenme, mendibles, palpi; and what not, bristling in front like §0 many spears, and spikes, and bay- onets, to say nothing of the multiform lances borne in the rear. Icannotovercome afeminine fear of spiders, nor avoid & frantic plunge at the onset of a Junc-bug, but I have learned to respect as a whole the family .of beetles. To think that there are from 60,000 to 50,000 living species according to the estimate of naturalists based npon the number of those already known ! The fact of their vast mulutude imprésses the mind with 2 certain awe. There are said to be about 8,000 'species in the United States alone. Entomologists have given more study to the Coleoptera than to the other orders of insects, hence their collections show us an immense and curious multipficity of. forms. 1 bave never vet taken to hunting the beetles much, but I have run after butterflics some- \what, and this is the wav 1 came to yield to the captivating sport. I have been engamed with the utmost eazerness in the study of oology one cprin, spending all my leisure morving, noon, and evening, in the haunts of the birds. Such a pursuit is absorbing, and when it was over, with the fledeinr of the young birds and the dispersion of te old ones, I missea the occapa- tion it haa given me, and Was at 2 loss how to reolace it. Toere were still the flowers, always lovely and engacing, but they did not affora the zest found in the observation of animal life. Nature seemed monrnfal in the silence that had fallen upon her with the gradual hush of «che birds. Tnen it suddenly dawoed upon me that in the great symphony of Nature, color. in Its season, takes up the part of sound. Whea the feathered charisters here concluded their solos and con- certos, the gay painted butterflies and the brignt-winged josects come into the foreground, and, supnorted by the humn and stridor of bee, fiy, locust, cricket, and their sort, keco the sue- cessive harmouivs rich and full until their term is also done. So the procession iv Nature moves on n one uncnding round. and spring, summer, autumn, and winler oring merely cnaoges in the pareantry saluting alternately the vision and the bearine. lInspired by this knowledge, I turned to the burterilies with a lively resolution to cultivate a closer acquaintance. The summer was already well advanced. but in g few weeks’ time I had secured a considerable number of speejes.. and found no end of pleasure in examining their structure and contetaplating their besuty. M, collectin apoaratus was rude, being such as could contrive without. assistance, but it satis- Iuctorily answered the purpose. A stout, slen- der pole, lorking at one end, was cut from a forest tree, the tips of the forks were tied to- getber, forming 2 rough =llipse, and a piece of musliv or netting was sewed tothis in the shape of & bowl or baz. With this net, two or three small boxes, aud a bottle of chioroform or ethier, I'was equipped for & trip to the feeding- grounds of the Lepidoptera. The flower-grown borders of the railroad proved ta be a favorite resort for the gamel° was after, abd there was no necessity of wan- dering far ‘to wmeet with the duferent species abroad at any time. I found the Danais Ar- thippus-to be one of the commonest birds and most easy of capture. It is a large, handsome rover, with round, entire_wings trom three and three-fourtbs to four. auda hall inches ncross, tawny orange in color, bordered and veined with biack and spotted with white. The Dapals leaves the chrysallis carly in thesumwer, and is abundant until September. It sails through the air with a siow, stately movement, soaring casily to a great heiht, yet settling down beay- ily asit alizhts as though its bulk were some- what unwieldly. 1tis often seen in large swarms resting at nigut, or in cold, cloudy weather, on the lowest. luliage of the trees or in the tall grass and weeds of the praities, e Very similar to the Archipous in colors and markings is thé Liminitis Misippus, but the lat- ter is smatler ic size and apnears later “in the season.” The collector quickly learns to dis- tinguish between them. The wenus Argvnnis also wears nearly the same colors. tawuy orznze ora moiden brown and black, but the under wings urc ornamented with silvery pots iwbich readily identify them. One or otlier of the'spe- ' cies arc on the wing at all times durivg the warmer montls of the year, ana pever fail to win from the collector enconiums’ upon their elezant shaoe and brilliant decoration. Next to Argyonis, in_point of resemblance, comes the genus Melitwln, tivted with varying shades of bruwi; lined and dotted with yellow and black, but never with silver. . - Thy smaller suecies of thisas of other gea- eraare a continual source of perplexity 1o o collector, whom they delude into many a hot and foitless cnase. ‘They generally fly low and in a winding, mazy, zigzag course that appears casy to interrupt or overtake, but is reallv, very difficult and batllivg. There is some plausible exvuse for losing a strong-minded, high-soaritig flyer after the wost desperate pursuit, bat to miss a diminativesnecies that keeps right abont vour feet and just out of your reach despite the wild, swilt swoops of the net, is, to put it mild- 1y, extremely discompo: s % Ab, but what mad re; I have.run on the track of these ficet creatures! The Papilios. or swallow-tails lead you as hard a course s any. pitio - Turnus, a superb fellow with yellow ugs banded with black, and expanding’ from 434 10 5 incnes, sweeps on its way with the case and celerity of 2 bird, keeping up far above the uet’s most towering reach. When it pauses to takea sip at the honeved fountain of a nee- tared flower, or stuops perhaps to tuste of some more_vulgar deposit; the opportune moment bas come for the wary bunter. - With the tac- tics of an experienced bush-ranger steal -up within net-shot, and then conzratulate yourself heartily If vou are able to bag the treasure. There are over 300 known.species of the ze- uus Papilio; but few of them inhabit the East- ern United States. The P. Asterias and the P. ‘Lroflus are common, and both are black, witn rows of yellow and blue spots on the winzs. The caterpillars of these two species are totally difcrent, although the perfect insects bear 50 near g likeness to each.other. Probably the most familtar of the Lepidop- tera are the sulphar-verlow butterflies (colias) which ocenr everywhere. They are social in habit, and are ususlly seen flitting about in larce companies. . West of the Mississipi allied | species with the black-bordered wings deepen- ing into_orange are often‘found associated witn the colias. 1 was ooce buttérily-nunting on the Ioya, prairfes, and, stopping- for dinner at a little‘country town, started ‘out upon the hich- way with my net while waiting tor the meal to be prepared. The orange-hued butterfiies, then new 1o me, were-plenty thercabonts, and very soon everything - was forzorten in the excite- meut of achase. * A small boy was along with _me, equinped like myself, and “we dashed about with headiong speed, hither and thither, back and forth, up and, down, wherever the startied S > 7 of preserved beetics or butterflies had come |, game led n, brandishing our” nets véhemently | 8s the occasion demanded. Viewed coolly it was undoubtedly a crazv-10oking picee of busi- ness, but appearances.are the last thing thought of when the sportsman’s emotions are wrought up to a high pitch, and we pushed on the hunt reckless of all the proprieties. Suddenly we came full tilt upon s woman and child fraveliuz along_a lonely road on the borders of the villaze. With an aspect of utter terror they sprang to the fence, scrambled over the bars, and then stood peering back at us to discover what frenzied work was engagiog the pair of lunatics evidently ‘astray from some asylum. - 1 could not afford to ease their minds. o stop and exnlain micht bave cost me the prize I'was_bent upon captaring, heuce I sped on in the giddy race until its object was accom- plished. By that time we were too far away to return and render apologies, and very likely to this Qay the scared parties are in_ a siate of be- wilderment over the_meaninz of that extraor- divary adventure. I have to luugh whenever the scene comes back to me, it was so ludicrous altogether, but the fears of the country-woman who knew nothing of the fun of butterfly- bunting were ot at all survrising. - I used to like to enlist youug boys in the pleasures of this pursuit. Thev are always ready to take up any branch of nataral historr, and what a capital means it presents of keep- ing them out of mirchiel. Out-of-aoor amuse- ment is_just in their line,20d this combines sport with profit_in admirable proportions. It gives abundance of exercise, - moreover, strengthening the muscles and tougheniog the cousuitutfon. Then. too, it bas the ever re- fining, sweetentur influcnces of contact with Nature. Oncof the lads most frequently ac- companying me ou my entomological excur- sfons in the days of swhich 1 am sgesking bore a hard name among his comrades, but hi‘r.bdvr ese meanor was_invariably geantie on occasions. His higher nature was calied out, his love of the beautiful, and his aspiration for knowledge, and when I noticed the ardor and determination with which he prosecuted the studv, I felt sure it would be a powerful means of lifting him up to a noble manhood. From my expericnce inthis instance and many others, I have becn couvineed that oue of the wisest tbingzs for a mother to do s to inspire her sons, and ber dauzbters, too, with- a love for Nature, and for the sciences that give the key to ber bewitching mysteries. It pro- vides the most healtnful and Leneficial oceupa- tion for mang of their fdie hours. Buy to return to my mainsubject. 1t was my purpose when I bezan to give o brief sketeh of oiie most notable species of butterflies, but how can_this be done in a limited space, when there are in all above 3.500 in the United States? The whole family jucluded some years azo abont 5,000 species. An Enalish- edtomologist has stated that, on an averaye, there are six dis- tinct inscets to every specles of plant. Mr. Horris regards this as an -overestimate, for our country. He bases this opinion opon the - conditions in Massachusetts, where, accordiiz to the catalogues mage” out wore than thirty years awo. there were 1,200 soecies of tlowering plants and 4,500 species’ of fusects. The statement gives an idea of the abundance of insect-life on' the globe. But it is in the Tronica that the bntterflies attain thelr greatest development. Within the Equatorial Zone they form the most prominent group in the animal kingdom. = Every traveler there s attracted by their wooderful size and splendor of color- ine. - A comsiderable proportion of the species zre very lurge, measurinr not uncom- monly from six tv eizht inches across the wings, and their flight is slow aud- near the ground, hence, as Mr. Wallace states, these hoble insects reatly look larzer and_are more conspicaous than our native birds. Next to their size, their dazzling hucs attract the observer’s attention. Instead of the generally sober colors character- izing Northern species, the Tropical buttes flies are adorued *‘with the most intense metal- lic blues, the purest satiuy ereens, the most gor- geous crinsons, not ju small spots, but in large masses, relieved by a black border or hack- ground.” Some are gay with * contrasted bands of blue and orangs, or of crimson and green, or of silky yellow relieved by velvety black.” Otuers agsin are powdered with scales and spangies of molten silver or gold, or bave ‘“‘chaugeable bues ke shot-silk or richly colorea opal.” Tailed wings ure very common in the tropical families, in some the tails beang broadly spuon-shaped and in others lone and pointed. ~Io manv cases the tails are double and triple, and in others. thev are immensely elongated or elegantly curled. Some ol the laree-bodled, stronz-winged species produce 3 louder sound in their fight than that of the humwing-bird. There is no group of insects so destructive to vegetation as are the butterflics while in the caterpillar state. Mr. Trouvelot ascertained by experiment that & single silk-worm will.eat, 1n the tirty-six days which bring it to full erowth, 120 oak leaves weighing three-quarters of a pound, and wiil drink half ao ounce of water. 1bus, the food taken during this period weizis 6,000 times more tha the primitive worm, Ac- cepting this as an example of the voracity of caterpillars. and considering the fact that each female burterfly usually lays from 200 o 500 eggs, we may conzeive of the amount of vereta- tion required to sustain the muititudes of their oprozeny brought forch every season on the fave of tne earth. Lo the perfect state, the butterfly is a harmless ivsect, having. o brief oxistence, and taking but littie food. 5 A WORKINGWOMAN. THE FAVORED ONE, On ivied porch, a gladsome sight— Mother and cmldren fair; Tywo blithe toys, one gentie g, With sun-kizeed, goiden huir. 1 wonder which of the happy three Shares most of ** Mother's " heart? Yon know? Then tell me e’er the fonr From yonder porch depare.| T'va asked the self-same question, friend, ‘That you've just put to me; . And what she answered t the time “who were sharcholders in the West New Jersev Tl now impart to thee. 4*YWhich of the threo T love the best?™ She »ald, while to her cyes TUprose a sud and wisttul look 1 met with some surprige. *The favored one yon wish to know? - That would be hard to teil: 1love, as only mothers can, My Percy, Will, and Nell! ** But there's another far away, The brightest. merrieet one, ‘With lauchine eyes and nut-brown halr, Unlike their locks of sun. ** He was =0 restiess c’en my love His lonzings could not flli§ He turned him from bis boyhood's home— 0 heart of mine! be still! .+ *“He was not gentle like the rest, My proud and headstrong boy; ‘He gave me pain, lfe cost me tears, While they gave nsught but joy. ** Yet, through the darkness of the night, * The brichtness of the day, Tmiss the flower of all the flock, The boy that roamed away. 2 *'For o1 T love my wanderer best] God lead him home some day, Child of my pravers, cbild of my tears, Child of my heart for aye!™ = FipELss. — ADVANTAGES OF LIVING IN A FLAT. To the Editor of The Tridune. CmICAGO, July 20.—We have been frequently asked, Why we iive in a flat? Nor, the question in my mind is, Why does not everylody prefer a : fat—especially one on the Lake-Front? We do not live here to save money, as 1 have never.found extravagance or economy to be an eptdemic of location, but to save something more precious thao gold,—my wife's health and strength. Ido not refer to livin 1o a few rooms where one stairway serves for yoursclf and vis- itors, as well as for your grocer, butcler, ice- man, milkman, cte., but in a first-class apart- ment; aud the distinctive feature of an apart- ment proper is the’ possession of two separate entrances. Your suite must bave its main en- trance from tne elevator and also a rear. stair- way and treizht elevator for the accommodation of those who supply your table and kitchen with necesseries and luzures. Ooe can spend just a5 much in an apartment as in a large house Ii be chooses, but witn in- finite saving of care and exertion. The most important consideration is that therg are uno stairs to climb. If you live above the first floor there is the elevator always at command. - Your kitchen is & marvel of convenience. Apertures in the wall conduct the ashes and garbage to unknown rexious below, where a *sable son of Africa’s shore ” consigns them to utteroblivion. This same *'sable” is also subject” to your call in case of chanzing about of faraiture or othier Leavy bousehold duties.” - - At one side of the kilchen there is an appa- .ratus for drying the clothes by steam, free from dust and soot. Hot water is “supplied from the basement ‘throurhout the. house, so that one can oobtain it at any time of day or night with- out the nced of a fire in the'kitchen -range, which is an inestimable benefit in case of illness sometimes. In the winter your:halls are .warmed by steam; and when the feathers snow falls sou .ruddenly dissppcared. and has never been heard may sit snd enjoy the sight without a thouzht as to.now your front door-way and path will be cleared,—vou simply know that it- wul be done. The janitor, at the main entrance, uards yoi from the army of peddlers and bezgars, and we .brother who Ci2d twenty-dve years 3go..A: have calculated that, by this' slotie, we have saved ove-third of the time of . the maid whose duty it is 10 answer the door-bell: So, if: time is ,money, we certainly save some. And so, In ourairy “flat” we rest secure and free from balf the cares of housekeasing, and when - we wish to go from ‘home a few weeks we merely close the door benind us and know that it is w.ll guarded. and koow that thieves will not break through and sieal. These are some of the reasons why we prefer Jiving in a ¢ flat.? . AX F. HARTLAW. SOME CURIOUS PERSONALS. Tho Newspaper Agony Colimns—A Batch of Interesting Advertisements from ' En- glish Newspapers—Bits of Family istory ~Lucky Poople Wiio Get Unexpected Leg- actes. Mr. Bdward Preston, the anthor of “ Unclaim- ed Money,” writes as follows to an English Jjournal: Cnder the head of ‘*Advertisements Worth Preserving,” the neiv periodical Social Notes devotes weekly a page of its valuable spaee to reproducing from the leading London newspa- pers next-ol-kin and other like advertisements. ‘That such advertisements are really worth pre- serving I veoture to think no-one can doubt; they are sometimes of a very romantlc churac- ter, besides being of the ereatest possible value to persons wnose eves they fail to catch at the time of publication. Many fortunes have been claiied, and many missiog relatives traced, by means of a newspaper advertisement, aod 2 summary of such notices for the past vesr may pussibly prove substantially interesting to some of your readers. ‘Ihe numoer of such advertisements (omit- ting repetitions) was about one thousand; but, as many persous are often nawmed in one adver- tisement, it may safely Le asserted that several thousand families are intcrested in these notices, of which the following are the most curfous and extraordinary: ‘The creditors ot Henry Stuart Duncombe were souzht. the said Henry Stuart Duncotbe being recarded by the Court of Chancery as dead, from the fact of his not baving been heard of for upwards of seven years. Should he be alive, he is entitled to about £350,000, part of his father's cstdte. A person last heard of at the “Jim Crow Dierings "’ was inquired for with reference to a Scotch auccession case, and aclew was desired to the relatives and property of an eminent photograpner who dicd at Rome, and who is believed to huve had real estates in Cumberland. Intimation was given to per- sons supoosed to be resident in America offer- ing payment off of a mortgzage dated 1SL: d seveyal liberal rewards were "offered for coples of next-of-kin advertisements. Sir John Benuett thankiully acknowledged his unknown {ricod’s generosity and ‘‘honor» in the restoration of his “lost property.” Sir John’s gratitude was enhanced by his entire in- ahility to determine to whom to attribute this act of kiudness. Information was souzht as to the son-n-law of J. H. Bockhorn, bocn in Han- over in1754; and the heir of a sweep, who died in 1854. was also souzht. In Mrs. Helen Blake's case, where £140,000 went to the Crown, litiga- tio bas resulted, and further claimants are in- quirea for. The nephews and nieces (believed to be resident in India, Tusmania, sud the United States) of a gentleman who died in Ire- land are inquired for with refereuce to an Irish probate case, and the representatives of persons Society in 1692 were jnvited to send in their claims. Among ing-relative advertisements, . it would be ditlicult to lind a rhore touching one than the following: * HANNAIL A.—Will yonsend your mother any part of your dress you left home in, 50 that I may know you are alive? A wariner named Eastbam, swho went to Aus- tralia thirty vears ago, is eutitled to property by the death of his mother; and three sons who went to Van Dicman’s Land are also entitled to property. IL D. M., of Ledbury, Hereford- shire, is requested_to scad his address to ——, “wish fall particulars of his_present. position, occupation, it married, any family, ete.” Let us hope these inquisitive queries were ad- dressed by arich old uncle to an expectant Tephew. The relatives of a lady who had died suddenly in Paris were desired to communicaf¢ with ao Inspector of the Detective Department; and %Too100 Bychan and Tinkey” were makiog ausious ioquiries for “their lost uncle.’ in- formatiorf was songht respecting the property of E. Green, who died in Jamaici fn the early purt of the Dresent century: aud an owner - was sought for 60,000 rupees 1eft by Michael J. H. Unclaimed monev was due to the next of kin of two persons,gborn in London in 1763 and 1766 respeetively; and Matthew Haod, who went to tue United States in 1845, aund hus unot since been heard of, is * wanted.” The following is unique, and I give it in cxtenso: MYNTLYND. ~BEENO. —HEISTEN. —At last, 1 thank God, £ have it in my pawer to inform_yor that Ishali be in a position to pay yoa £6,500 within te nexttwelve months, and the remamder of the amount I owe you early in the year 1879, A son resident in Australia is wanted to ad- minister to_his father’s estate, and 8. H., who sailed from Sydoey in 1875, s caruestly request- ed to write home.” Dan Mullizan” wants to know Pat Duffy’s address; and Harry Williams’ nicee Sally wishes to see Emma about propercy. Mrs. Riley, dauchter of the late Mr. Henchy, Q. C., is requested to call on her solicitor, and sbe will receive good news; and James Tapoit, late Master Lightermaun at Brentford, notifies that e is still living, that be is in his 85th vear, and would be glad to sce or hear from any of his old friends. The following is Isconic, but the news con- veyed is eminently satisfactory: SENOR—The descendant has squared all. Te- tornat once. Allissafe. Here is another strange atnouncement : MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED—V. Pressick emigaited to Texns abont forty years ago, sup- 0sed.to have lefu wife and children, Was mem- Ber tor one sesion of the Texzs Lezistatare, He of since. IHis heirs are eutitied to his property. The heirs of John Jackson, born in London or Glougestershire in 1803, were informed that he died in 1876; that be had in‘a trunk the lik ness of a ‘brother and brother’s wifc and two children; thac he left §6,000 in money and $6,000in property; and that furtber informa- tion could be had of .~ A niece will hear of something 10 her aavantage on commaunicat- jog with her_uncle, and the relatives of a lady who was born at Eastbourne in 1806 are sought by the French Consul. A husbund who, shortly alter marriage, sevarated from bis wife, was io- formed tnat she had died, leaving property: and the next of kin of George M. werc wanted with reference to £2.000 reduced. The mate of a vessel, who had not_been heard of since 1801, had been remembered by his zunt; and a Jo- seph 0., who bad cmierated to Australia tweoty years ago, is eatitled to property under i fatber’s will, « Dear Perey ? is informed that “Some one loves bim too dearly to let him o 1s & common sailor, butwill try and _ get him placed ona good ship.” He is entreated “not to go away without wishing his distressed parerts good- by.” Numerous notices were issued by the Bank of England anthorities as to retransfers of stock or dividends from the Commissioners for the reduction of the national debt,—claim- ants having appearcd. Tae beir at law of the Chieralior Francuis de Rosaz was fuquired o, owing to a dispute as to the Chevalier's very whimsical will. This gentleman soent the best part of bis life in bunting up missing heirs at Jaw, auddicd worth £40.000 personativ. John Rudsdell (descendant of Sir Joseph Rudsdell), 2 pauper of unsound mind, died fna work: house: his heirat law is entiticd to estates of considerable value; and the next of kinof a persou who died in the City of London Alms- houses were'also souzht. The following is from the Scofsman : NAL—Janet Newton, daughter of Jobn Xf&gfi?lmvnle Inthe Seventy-ninth Highlanders, fast seen at Montreal about forty years g0, when 3 years old. will hear of somethiog (o her -advan- tage on applying to —. Should Janet be traced through this adver- tisement the news of a lezacy would certainly be unexpeeted in her case. The dr{"sccudnms of Mary and Joyce Shepherd, daughters of Henry Shepherd, a vintner of Lon- don'in 1713, are interested iu £20,000, and J. 8. Tate may hear of somie money left bim by ap- piying_at A handsome reward (£200) W35 uffered for the address or proof of death of a Captain in the Hussars; if the notice should meet his eye, he wasmost urgently requested to communicate with his sulicitor. ~Claimants were wanted foran estate in Jamalea. and the next of kin sougnt of a private in the Royal Marines. A nerhew who went to visit his uncle. in 1571, and has ot since been heard of, i¢ enti- tled to'a lezacy, while Edward W.,'whois sup- posed to_have gone to_America, is interested in feasehold property. Trwenty-fonr cousins (one belicved to be a resident at the Cape)are aiso interested in the residnary estate of a relative. The following is suggestive of a family feud» JAMES YOUNG NEVER HAD A WILL—It was Petets. Cardinal S.. Upper Plain House. and Ad- miral $., Lower Pitin Ilouse, - chanzed it from Peters to Young. ~Whea they chaned everything in 1844 they had no more right over me. - The heirs of & lady named Bonthron or Jolly are entitled to considerable heitable and mova- ble property; and a son will find it .to his ad- vantage to communicate with bis mother, who is now & widow. THe heirs ot two persons who emigrated to Texas are wanted to claim money in the hands of the Unpited States Government, and two brotkers—aPolice Serzeant snd 1 8ol- dier—are wantes! £ claim the esiate’of another s . plumber aud a e'azier is interested In £1,500;. 1t dead, his next of kin are entitled; and a - taitor, , who lelt Abergavenny in 1840, is entitled toa share ot £2,000. 3 Hugh Edward John H~—, only known to many persons’ as the ** Whistler,” and in the Babit of. frequenting_public-houses, is among the fortunate ones wanted for * something to x.hellr advantage;" and a nachine-tool maker last beard of in’ New York Is entitled to one- 1fth of his father’s estate. The personal repre- sentatives of a solicitor are entitled to partic- ipate in 2 sum of money now divisible; aad a nephew—last heard of at Queensiand—is fn- terested In his aunc’s estate. Daniel Matthew Mautthins - Charles Heary George Place, 2 private saldier, is wanted for Something to his advantage;. and the relatives of the mate of an American vessel, wrecked last year, are aoxious to hear from him, Laree re- Wards were offered for coies of missing birth, marriage, and burial certificates, including one for the marriaze cernficate of 1 lady who is Teported to bave eloped with a baker1n 1782, . Another 1ady was informed that she could ob~ tain possession of *+a verbal bequest of sandry chinaware, etc., made to her by a gentleman who died at Greenwich in 1844”7 In sddition to the forecoing multifarions notices, the Treasory Solicitor advertised for thenext of kinof between twenty and thirty persons who had died intestate without knowa relatives. Estates thus reverting to the Crown pere estimated by the late Queeis Proctor ta ring into the Nation xchequer aboul £10,000 a year. U If these jottings should convey the news of & “wind-fali™ to any of your readers, thev witl bave served a very useful purpuse. Persons with- and without “expectations® would do well to glance daily at the **agony columns of the leading newspapers. In them thers is always sometbiog curious, and the news of & substantial legacy has often repald the reader. ———— DEALING WITH DRUNEARDS. The “Hlabitual Drunkard Hat” in England. New York World. In the course of the debate in the House of ‘Commons on the 3d inst., when the Habitnal Drunkards’ bill was read a second time, some curious and finteresting facts were cited. Dr. Cameron said that the report of the Committes summed up the intormation which had been 1aid before them, by stating that confirmed and habitnal drunkenness soon passed into a condi- tion of disease uncontrollable by the fndividual unless by extraneous influence; that the dis- ease, If treated on this theory, was susceptible of eure; that the averare number of cares were rom 33 t0 40 per cent of admissions; and that the cores were as complete and permanent us of any other form of disease, mcn- tal ‘or physical. The reason the propor- tion of cures were ‘mot greater was to be ascribed to the want of power to induce o&z‘omuel persons to submit to treatment for B8 requisite period. - Two classes of patients were to be dealt with,—voluntary patients and. those sent at the fnstance of their friends. Of 6,000 cases it avpeared that 94 per cent were voluptary patients; for in tbeir lncid intervals babitual” druokards would, in many cases, do anything to have themselves reclaimed, so anxious were they to be- restrained from what they knew had brought them to ruin. But be- sides these there were the dependent class of habitual drunkards,—tbe father or the son, for Instance. In the case of voluntary patients au habltual drunkard mignt 2o before 3 magistrate and sizn an undertaking to rewain ina given Inebriate asylum for a definite period, and the magistrate, after satisfsing himself that the drunxard understood the effect ot tnisundertak- ing, would countersizn the docamen’, the e ffect of the proceeding betng that the applicant was no longer a free agent, but had to be subject to the restraint he had engaged to submit to. In the second class of cases, the relatives mizht go before a Magistrate and obtain a summons re- quiring the habitnal drunkard to appear before the court. Every satezuard was provided against say ubuse of power, and the power of liberation was griven first to the Manager of the Asylam, with the consent of two Justices of the Feace. Tae evidence showed that there existed ‘a very close analogy between habitual drunkenness and the various for ns especially of mental dis- ease. He would not discuss the question wheth- er dipsomania was a vice or a disease; but there could’'be nn doubt that babitual drunkenness closely approximated to insanity. It had been suowu tuit 20 per cenc ol Enghish lunacy and 14 per cent of American luvacy was due to habitual drunkenness. That statement was borne out by the last report of the Lunacy Commussion, when - it was said that drunkeoness was the most prolific_cause of insanity and directly responsible for 15 per cent ot the entire number of lunatics inthaasylumsof Enzland and Wales. The hereditary tendency to lunacy was also fre- quently the effect of excessive drunkenness. In some cases_men who had hitherto been sober and steady became suddenly intemperate’ after a sunstroke or after receiving a blow or wound. ‘There wes 2 monomaniacal character about the offenses committed by mauy drunkards ia their cups. From 184 to 135 one woman was com- miited 137 tumes tor being drunk, in which con- dition she invariably smashed windows, and at last she drowued bherself. Anold soldier who was wounded in the head stule mothing but bibles, anl was transported for the scventh theft. Another man stole spades, a Wwoman ghoes, and 2 man was transported for the seventh theft of a_tub, glthough tubs had nothing to do witn his ovcupution or prospects. All Dr. Cameron asked was power to apply & rational remedy to a aiseased condition of the system. Ther¢ was pothing new. or startling ‘in what he proposed, a3 there werc a number _of institutions already in ex- istence. In Edinbure. the Queeusberry House refuge had existed since 1572, and, the lodge since 1866. Taere were also several in London; and how much they were wanted was shown by the fact that at St. James' House, Kensinaton, there were reccived in ten months 410 applica- tions for admission, and an asylum for females received 547 applications in the first nine months that it was opeo. But the institutions bad not had a fair trial, Decause the paticnts who entered them feit the craving for drink just at ihe time when it was necessary to restrain them; and, 28 they coald not be restrained, everything that had been done was undope. In the United States some States bad passed laws anthorizing detention, but these had been declared unconstitutfonsl, and bad pot been entorced. Nevertbeless, from 33 to 40 per cent of permanent cures were. cffected. Out of 111 cases treated at Ediuburg thirty-seven cures bad been effected, and care was taken o this return to eliminate temporary cures that had not been tested by the “lapse nf ears. 'The articles which- bad been written by r. Bucknell, the Lord Chancellor’s visitor, as the result of his visit to the United States, were marked by strong prejudice, as when he went 5o far a3 to say that hie was “out of all patience with maudlin sentimentality.” Dr. Bucknoell sugpested that the best thing that could hap- pen was that the drunkard should ruin himself and his property pass into wortbier hands. Dr. Bucknell’s statements called forth the most conclusive replies. It was safd that Dr. Buck nell’s reports werc founded on suocerficial and limited information, and that he had not visited jidest areams of enthusiastic supporters. Careful inquiry sbowed that 60 ver cent of those who had passed through them continued t0'be sober persons. . Sir U. Kn)?-eshmdewonh instanced a case of a man in Cuiester who had been convictea sixty- three times, and who out.of twenty years had spent during that time ten and a ball years in prison. This man_muast have cost the public 4300 or £400. Prof. Leone Levl, in his evidence before the Committee of the House of Lords, stated that the number of habitual druukards had increased and was increasing cousiderably. He stated that the number of male habitual drunkards charged with the offense of druuken- nessin the year 1865 was, in round pumbers, 13,000, but that in the year 1875 the number had risen to 34,000, and that the numover ol lemale habitual drunkards in 1543 was 4,000, but in 13575 the pumber had increased to 13,000. Taking 1nto account the focrease in population he said that way an increase of 70 per cent. Dr. Playfair knew a case in whicha person who was desirons to be reformed of his addiction to inteniperance went to Atmcrica Jast vear inorder to get himself under restraint. In this country there was no fostitutfon to meet nis case. ————————— ‘“SPRING'~ SECRETS.” As once J paused on poet-wing In the green beart of 3 grove, T'met the Spint of the Spring, With her great eyes 1i¢ of Love. (Asvlums the success of which had surpassed the ¥i She toox me pently by the hand, ‘And whispered in 13y anxious ear Secrete none may understand Till sbe make their meaning clear: by the primrose looks 50 pale; o \’hy the rose is set with thorns; ht c nightingale W%imn’:!?m ‘darkness mourns and motrns. She ceased: a leaty murmar signed Softly thronzb the listening trees. Anon she ultered, eager-eyed, Z These ber joyfal myateries: " How the angels, as they pass, - With thelr vestare pore sad white, . ‘et the shadowy Zarden-| oTonch the lilies into ighY, - -, with hidden hands of love, - mcnxde the throstle’s wavering winge; ! - Botshow thetr faces bright above, .. iack sings. . “’a;nbgtuarnem”b Ozly where the —The Ayumar of **Songs addressed o TR Teinuxe, and ladorsed. THE GAME OF CHESS Al communicaztons for this department should ba **Chesa.”” - CHESS DIRECTORY. Cri0480 Cxxsh Cuga—Na. 50 Descborn sireet.. | AGO Crzss Assoctation—Hansen & Welch's, No. 150 Dearborn street, opposite Taiagw Bullding, it e oy e Tremaat House (Ex. Maation'street, corner of Hilzapech, " 0 L0 West - TO CORRESPONDRNTS. R-S.—The Pawn mast be takea tmmediately if at all. ENIGMA YO, 135. % From the second-prize tet in the Americsa Astocts- ton Probiem Tourney. e Wh BY MB. W. A, SHINKMAY. - hite. Black. Eineat @ Bsixth Kb BERaTE R | BlamaK g Blishop at K third Enlxht at Rk Knightat K B arth Kaight at Rulghtar QRytbird | Fawnatk FawnatK Kesecond | Fawnat K B 8k ‘White to play and mate In three moves. & PROBLEM NO. 138. BT 30t W. 4 SHINENAN, GXAXD RAPIDS, MICK. — B R TN, Z L% =~ N A\ | L ‘White to play and mate in two moves. SOLUTION TO ENIGMA XO. 136. Black. rrect solution to Enlgma No. 138 0 Henfamta and b Burve: aiy, 120 received from SOLUTION TO PROBLEM X0. 338 PRV . 2.INiates accordingly - : Jonnson, Grund Bapids. Mich.; Ki., Tamer, Il - 1..Any move THE PARIS TOURNAMENT. Fleld and Farm. c o Turf, We publish below the second bet former. by one ot Eenalz aad Rosenthal, tn whic the regretted because of the depressing influence an event like this must have had upon his after games. Had StacKenzle won this game he wonld have started out on even terms with one who {s acknowledged 10 be ona of the very atrorgeat piayers {n the world. Thesame may be of Mason's first game with Blackburne; here Mason had &s -*dead™ a draw 3a ever wasseen upon 3 chess board. All that ‘was necessary for hlm kecp his K ‘off his Q L. For tuirty d Known this and avolded It; yet. by 8 pervenity which {s inexplicable, he made the very move which formore than three hours he hed been -~ exerting BImself no. to make. ; Whe shall say there 14 not **luc o5 % + in¢ From a carefal examinatfon of the games recelved, we can say that It (s our Impartial judgment that our regrezentatives have not been out-played. and that thelr miafortunes must be ascribed Lo some other causs than Jack of abillty o cope With those whom they have as yet encountered. The game referred to 3iason and Dlackburne wasa mere fest of plys durance. Owlng to some errom o transcribin scorc by Mr. Mason. we are unable to p fgame at present. _ The foltowlng, however. Is the tion aL the seventy-0fth move, asters long series of objectiess and useless moves: Biackbarne—K 8t G K- 3, Kta. QB 2. P QRGQKIS QLEBL & Ko, and K R3. AL at Q% BatRa Fawndat QK3 Q 3. It s obvions ason: 4. KD5 KEti aalKB thiat ilackburne can only win by being. allowed to plant his Kt atQ Kid: Mason having to play, moved K Q3: thus, by a blunder, waich & - Kook player would not bave committed, he fafled to secure 13 waich would have placed bim even with Black- * borne fn the frst round. Fame.s Q' gaoolt. Sason losc the exchsngs by an oversigt, though Winawer before hada sifzht supeciority. “Mackenzie won his firs: game with Zuk- ertort 1o aix_hours Gabhing It up With 8 beausitul manenvre. In the second game. MacKenzle opened with his favorite. Ry Lopez. bub 1% was drawn la Jows than two houra. in thethirdronud Hizson alsplayed some of the skill with which he s been credited. do- Roseathal In the Arstgame by & fine sacrifice vf game_tios:nthial was game with Andressen: one of these. with notes by Mr. Steloltz, wil be found below: the other we hope o give next week. 1a the fonrih round Zukertor: bea:_Mason, sud_Clerc woa of MacKenzle, on the first day.” The cable gives ugre- sulis up to July 9, Winawerleading, 9% rames won, 244 lost: Mackieazle St ames won, 63§ loat: Mavoa, & Woa. 8 10 it ‘We append the detalled score, a5 tar as known, from reilable sources: 5 = .ig 3iz Taxes. 3z g Anderssen.. |- Is Birc Blacibarse Ciere. GAME IN THE PARIS TOURNAMENT. (Second gume between MacKeale aad Boseathal June Whi '-‘D—‘C M Biact ) i apt. P 2 Black—M. Rosenttal. QKtioB3 CtoQ R Briohs takes B toK2 LK% t1w QB4 Ptakes B tics 0 K toK S8 tco K B takes Kt Pk B ok 17..QK o Qg AL 10.. K takes B m..nm(&; ' 2i..KBto R3 =2..Rto K K3 23..K to Kt 5 (o) I 28, %‘lkfl(f’ LRSS M.BOR3I mQuE s 30. w4 31. Bwfil BBoRS ..RtoK D4 SeRuKe BB P 351G taxes B 36..hto 12 7. toKéch 38. QoK BB (D Drawn by perpetual check. t pives White the advan Q a¢ once ls very mag for B3 A precautionary move, to conlias the sctios of ofce of two otlier moves to defend bis K B o AR R O IS PG B4t In the latter casa the foliowing probabie coarse of play broduces an even £ n.rors 248 takes P 250 K takes K& 3 Bopeicas: a3 1t 1K KE b1 while the Black B com mands the diagonal it now does, s, exm:m:l{ hazardous. Mr. Steloftz in his letter to the Fleld says of this ““He wasa pawn anead, aod bad the sdverss R confined on the K side. -Instead of belng content with thissuperiority, he endatgered his own K to win the exchange: but even after that he ought to Bave wou. if he had adopted,the right. measare I an extremely dimcalt position. " (hy Perhaps Q Q4 here ls 1ho **rizht meascre* re- ferred to 1n the Lust pote. 3 (1) If White Interposes B. Black checks with Qat Q 6. xod sfter the exchange remalas with two pleces sialost the £ R, with ibe better game. OH! WEEP FOR THE LIVING. & When von gather around my dytag bed, And sadly whisper. **She is desa!™ Weep not. dear (riends, that 1 am goné, Bat rather lift yoor voice in song, - That my wesry hands at lenzih have rest, Folded crross my pescefal breast; That oy sening feet with work have done, Their eacthly pilerimaze bave ran. Oh! ween for the. llrlng. but not for the dead— .ol no bell above my head- : 1 hear a 523 and heartfeit moan, The cry of a mster left alone, - ‘While bigh above comes the glad refraln, The song of one who i3 free from pafn. X 1 besr athwart the evening-alr -~ The a0b of s widaw yoang and islr: Wil Jow. bat clear, l;hje echoes o 2 +A song of triumph and joy from him. Vi Oh! l‘l'x“v for the Mvine.: bat not for the dead— £ Toll no bell above my ss w7 By TR B Cmicago, July 18, 1578, Tauns USNDERRILE -