Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 28, 1878, Page 10

.11:452. w. at Room 10 THE CHICAGO .TRIBUNE: SU Y. JULY 28, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES. tain an abstract of the depositions of a multi- 10:39 2. m. Choral evening prayer at 7:45p. m. The congregation of All Saints® will worship at the Cathedral to-day. —The Rev. Sameel S. Harris will officiate morn- ing aid evening at 3t. James® Church, corner of Casa and Horon streets: Communion at 8 a. m. —The Rev. M. C. Dotten will officiate in the morning at Trinity Charch, corner of Twenty- #ixth street and Michizan avenue. Communion at 9:30 a. m. —The Rev. Francis Mansfield will officiate morn- ang and evening at the Church of the Atonement, corner of Washington and Robey streets. —The Rev. J. Bredberg will officiate morning and evening ot St. Ansgarins' Church, on Sedg- wnck street, near Chicago avence. —The Rev. Clinton Locke will oficiate in the morning at Grace Church, on Wabash avenue, near Sixteenth street. Communion at § a. m. —The_ Hev. Thomas K. Colemau will officiate morming and evening at St. John's Church, corner of Washingion street and Ogden avenue. = —Tbe Rev. Arthur Ritchie will officiate morning and evenine ot the Church of the Ascension, cor- ner of LaSalie and Elm streete. —The Rev. C. 5. Lester will officiate morning 2nd evening at St. Paul's Church, Hyde Park. —The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood will officiate morn= fngzand evening at St. Mark's Church, corner of Cottage Grove avenue and Thirty-sixth strect. —The Rev. Henry G. Perry will officiate morn- 1ng and e\’cn,‘i‘:gll St. Stephen’s Church, Johnson strcet, near Taylor. —T‘l’z:lllsl. L’nmcr Pardee will officiate morning and ef:n?w_ at Cfllvflcr’ Chnrfb. :‘:TS".“"““E‘ t. Communionat7:45a. m. ’ef'l%:kkee’;.! "i'!.!h" Morrison, Jr., will officiate morning snd evening at the Church of the Epiph- any, Threop strect, nesr Monroe. —‘Phe Rev. W. Petrie will omciate morning and eveningat tae Charch of Our Savior, corner of Lincoln and Belden avenues. BAPTIST. The Rev. A. Blackburn will preach at the First ‘corner of South Park avenue and Thirty-frst street, in the morning and evening. —The Rev. E.C. Mitchell wili preach in the Michi- pan Avenue Church, near Twenty-third street, at TR a8 m. _“The Rev. R. De Baptiste will presch morning and evening in Olivet Church, Fourth avenue. "Cfhe Rev. E. K. Cressy will preach in the Coventry Street Chuich, corner of Bloomington road, at 10:30 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. 2 The Rev. N. F. Ravlin will preach at No. 381 West Madison etreet morning and evening, Even- fug subject: **The Social Character snd Personsl Friendships of Jesus Chrst ™ The Rev. A. Owen wilFbreach in the Universi- ty Place Charch, corner of Douglas place and Jihodes svenue, at 10:30 & m., and the Kev. E. C. Mitchell will Jecture in the eveningon **Under- ground Jerasalem. " 'The Rev. Jotn Peddie will preach in the Second Church, corner of Moorse and Morgan streets, 2t 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. The Rev. J. A. enry will preach morning and evening in Dearborn Church, on Thirty-sixth street, “'Phe Rev.G. W. Northrap will preach morning 20d evening in the Fourth Church, Washington and Paolina streets. e —The Rev. C. Perren will preach in Western Avenue Church morning and evening. TThe Rev. C. E Hewittwill preach morning and evening at Centenmal Church, Lincoln and Jack- eon streets. “The Rev. R. P. Allison will preach morning and evening in North Star Chureh, Division and Sedawick streets. - —The Rev. E. O. Taylor will preach morning and eventng in Central Church, 200 Orchard street. “The Rev. W. J. Kermott will preach morning and evening in Halsted Street Church. —The Rev. Lewis Raymond will preach in the’ South Church. corner of Locke and Bonaparte streets, at113. . and 7:45p. m. “Tne Rev. Galusha Anderson will preachat 10:30 &, m. in the Uyde Park Church. PRESBYTERAN. * The Rev. J. B. Walker preaches at the Reunion Church, Fourteenth street, near Throop, morning and evening. —The Rev. A. A, Pfanstich] will preach in the church corner of Noble and Erie strects—in Hol- Jand in the morning, and in English. i the even- ip, E’l‘he Rev. S. E. Wishard will preachat 10:45 in the Forty-first Street Chburch, corner of Prairie avenae. —The Rev. Arthur Mitchell will preach in the First Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Twen- ty-first street, av10:30 3. m. —The Rev.T. L. ’atton will preach morning and evening at tne Jefferson Park Church. ] —The Rev. J. Maclaaghlan will preach morning and evening st the Scotch Church, corner of San- gemon and Adama streets. g ir. J. A. Montzomery will preach in the ‘morning at the Railroad Chapel, corner of State and Fourtcenth streets, and the Rev. Arthur Mitchell in the eveninz. “Tne Rev. J. B. Worrall, of Louisville, Ky., will preach at 10:30 a. m. in the Eizhth Church, corner of Waehington and Robey streets, —The Rev. J. M. Gibson will preach morning and evening in the Second Church, corner of Mich- jgan avenue and Twentieth street. The Rev. Mr. Noyes. of Evanston, will preach at 10:45 2. m. in the Fourth Church, corner of Rush and Superior streete. 7 “The Rev. C. L. Thompson preaches in_the Fifth Church, corner of Indiana avenge and Thir- tieth street. morning and cvening. Evening sub- jeet: **Manhood." —The Rev. W. C. Young preaches at ]0:30'5. 1. and 7:45 p. m. at the Third Church, corner'of ‘Alhland and Ogden avenues. % “The kev. W. T. Meloy preaches morning and evening in the First Cuited Church, corner of Monroe and Panlina streete. 4 . CONGBEGATIONAL. The Rev. C. E. Wright, of Austin. Minn., preaches at Union Park Church morning and even- me. —The Rev. W. B. Wright, of Boston, preaches at Plymouth Church moining sud evening. ‘—The Rev. DeWitt 8. Ciark preaches at the First Church. corner of Aun and Washington sirects, morning and eveniog. —The Rev. S. H. Peexe will vreach at the Leavitt Street Church in the morning on **The Sigh for Rest, " and in the cvening on **The Bibie as a Source of Individual Power.™ '—The Rev. Ezra Tucker, of New York City, will preach at the Oakland Charch this morning. —The Rev. C. A. Towle preaches at 10:45 8. m. ana 7:45 . m, in Bethany Church, gorner of Pau- lina and West Huron streets. " R METHODIST. The Rev. John Williamson preachesat the Mich- §gan Avenae Churcn, near Thirty-sccond street, Thorning and evening. —Dr. Thomas preaches at Centenary Church this morgizg. Song service in the evening. '—The Rev. W. F. Crofts preaches morning and evening in Trinity Charch. ne Rev. S. 1. Adams preaches morning and evening in the Western Avenue Church. '—The Rev. C. B. Eboy preaches mn the Free Church, No. 49 North Morgan street, morning and evenlng. i '—The Rev. M. Finity prea the Rev. 5. W. Pattenat 7: enue Church. —The Rev. J. ML Caldwell preaches morning and evening in ths Ada Street Church, between Lake ana Fulton streeta. —The Rev. M. ML Parkhurst preaches morning and evening in the First Chuzch, coner of Clark ana Washineton streets. —The Rev. E. M. Loring will preach morning and evening in the State Street Cburch. —The Rev. T. E. Clendenning will preach at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. in the Langley Avenue Church. —Tne Rev, 8. McChesney will preach in the Park Avenue Church at 10:30 8. m. and 7:30 p.m. BEFORMED RPISCOPAL. The Rev. F. W. Adamepreaches this morning at Ymmanuel Church, corner of Centre and Darion streets. Subject: ‘‘God's Secret, and Who Knows It." Me preaches at the Church of the Good Shepherd at might. Public baptiem after sermon. —The usual rervices will be heid at Tillotson’ Hal, Englewood, this morning, o —Biehop Cheney officiates at St. John's Cnarch, Ellis_avenue near Thirty-seventh street, this morning. - X —The Rev. M, D. Church preaches at Christ’s Charch this Ilmmmf. Lishop Cheney in the even- ing. Subject: **A Sword that Wins the Day. ™ —The Hev. P. S. Morgan preaches in St. ;’mfl'n Church, corner of Washington and Carpenter stroets, morning and cvenior, : —Mr. R. H. Burke will preach at 10:45 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. in Grace Church, corner of Hoyne hea at 11a.m., and » in tho Wabash Av- and LeMoyne streets. Morning Eubee The Reformed Episcopal Church: Its Principles and Objects.™ JINDEPENDENT. Mr. George F. Coxhead will preach at 11 a. m, in Burr Mission, No. 339 Third avenue, and Mr. Georpe Quinan a1 7:45 p. m. —Mr. ‘ggorge F. Coxhesd will preach st 7:40 p. m. in mon Chapel, No. 97 Sonth Desplaines street. » UNIVERSALIST- There will be vesperand Bible sersices at 3p. m. in St. Paul's Charch, on Michigan svenue, between centh and Eighteenth streets. < —The Rev. Sumner Ellis_preaches in the morn- ing inthe Church of the Redeemer, cornerof Wash- ington and Sacgamon streets, UNITARLAN. The Rev. Brooke Herford will preach at 10:45 a. m. in the Choreh of the Meseish, cornerof Alichigan avenue aud Twenty-third streets. LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmund_Belfour preaches at the Charch of the Holy Trinity, corner of Dearborn avenue and Erie treet. this morning. NEW JERUSALEM. The Bev. L. P. Mcrcer preaches at Hershey Tall. Morning subjeet, *Breaking the Fallow Groung, 6 Reslting Viclons .and Faleo Princl- F. AL Rockwell preaches a1 M . wel cs At [0 s ‘morning and cvent by odTe Chneh; e mSC!Lll;.ANZOU!- r. siathewson preaches st the Green : T.bmu acle moming and eveniag, Sttt —The Rev. Jobn orns prea chareh, corner of Fulton and ”“9 m?ela ::xog? I emchsacn preaches at b —Dr. Duncant ‘preaches af ‘Home at 3 o'clock. W abligtann . —Mrs. J. A. Konouse will preach in the Wom- su's Gospel Temperance Assoclation Church, cor- ner of Noblc and Oliio streets, at 4 o"clock, ZMr. A. J. White will presch in tbe Christian Churck, éorher of Wesicr avenne and Congress street, in the morning on ** Joy, " and i ven- o5 - Worid apd Choreh. s =The Central Meeting of Friends willbe held at enream Buil s 5. & 1 Buil ding, No. . —The Rev. W. F. Pendleton preaches in New Jerusalem ¢hurch, corner g{ ;‘":llh Cigk! 2nd Menominee streets, 8t 11a. m. ~Elder Thurman preaches at No. 315 West Chicago avenue in the eveniog on ‘*Born from Aboye.™ —Disciples of Christ meet ab No. 229 West Randolph street at 4 p. m. opl‘i."l’.]fe‘e w‘i’ll lecture at Grow's Opera —Dr. Hall, l’1\ ‘517 Weat Madison street, at 7:45 p. m. on ‘*The Religion of the Soul of Man ss Shown Him by the Sprrits.” —'ru’e sz.vur. Grabam presches at Campbell Hali, comer of Campbell avenue and Van Buren strects, morning and evening. —The Kev. O. H, Placey preaches at Calvary Tabernacle morning and evening. THE CALENDAR. EPISCOPAL. July 28—Sixth Sanday sfter Trinity. ‘Aug. 2—Fast. CATHOLIC. July 28—Seventh Sunday after Pentecost. July29—St. Martha, V.; SS. Falix, Simplicius, Faustinus, and Beatrix, MAL * July 30—SS. Nazarius, Celsus, and Victor, AL, ‘and St. Innocent, P.C. (from Jaly 28] Jaly 31— S:i. Ahdon n,ng Senlncnc. ly ¢ Iguatins of Layola, C. ‘Aug, 1—St. Peter’s Chains; Tne Mackabees, M. Aug. 2—St. hAlvhonau! Liguori, B, C. D.; St. Ste- phen. P- M. Aug. 3—Finding of the Body of St. Stephen, Pro- tomartyr. THE GAME OF CHESS All commanieations for this department should be sddressed to Tux TLIRUNE. and indorsed **Chess.™ CIESS DIRECTORY. Cu10aG0 Carss CLTB—No. 50 Dearhorn street. Cnicaqo Carss AssooiaTtox—-Hansen & Welch'a, ‘No. 150 Dearborn street, opposite TrIsusx Bullding. Chess-players meet dally 3¢ the Tremont House (Ex- change), Sherman House (llasement), snd at 425 West Miadison street, corner of Elizabeth. TO CORRESPONDENTS. W. H. §.—Yes; sce next Sunday’s asue. M. W. G.—The solutfon you send to Problem No. 135 was polnwed out at the time the solution was published. Problems with two or more solutions are, 0f conrs: 'A. F. G.—We are under obligations to you for your courteiy. Please roturn onr thanks to M. W._for hig welcome contribution. How about Problem No. 1372 Our solvers have woke us up o the fact that if Bl. I.B 0 K 4 the mate is inpossible. ENIGMA NO. 189 From the third-prize set in the American Associs- tion Problem Tourney. BY DE. C. C. MOOEE. White. Black, King at K third King at O B third Queen at Q square Tawn at K B third Tiook at K R fourth Pawn at K second Rook at Q B'seventh Pawn at Kt third Pawn at Q Kt fourth Pawn at § L& fourth ‘White to play and mate In three moves. PROBLEM NO. 1 BY ¥R. C. A. TEREY, Black. T 77 77 39. CHICAGO. 7 hag 7 7 White. ‘White to play and matc fn w0 moves. SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 137. 5o, Biack. Bio DA ©wQBsch matesscc’y 2..Ktt0QB7ch Ki7 mate “This fu the inten‘ied solutfon. The suthor, however, 28 well gt gussclyes, overlooked the paralyzing defense, .BioK4. CLOSE OF THE PARIS CHESS CONGRESS, A dispatch from Parls, dared July 23, gives the hara annougcement of the close of the Chiess Congress. Herr Fukertort taking the {iret prize, with 8 score of 15k Fames won, and Capt. Mackenzle the nfth, with 1035, fhe result sa to the chicf prize {3 surprising and unex- pected to those In iy country who have noted the progress of the tourney through the meagre reports Which have reached them. According to the last au- thentic accounts, llerr Zukertort stood Afth in rank, and had stlll 10 cocounter Blackburne, Anderssem, ‘Winawer, and Rosenthal. That e should succeed in carrying off first honors in the face of tala formidable array {s most remarkadle. + GAMES IN THE PARIS TOURNAMENT. The following was played fn the third round, on the 24thult.: FEENCH OANE. Black—Mr. IL. E. Bird. PoK3 E2e) 21 EZoRSREARE FOLO8REE 2 2 EREETC B ool -} 29" Kt 10 )'A dectaediy neat reply to Black's last move. (b) it 18 something remarkable to Gnd a playcr of Mr. Bird's reputation falling 110 a blunder of this descrip: on. (c) Black annot take the B on account of R takes soliawea by & talies Kt ch and B 0 Q Kt 4 cl. B A fie game won by Capt. Mackenzle agatnst Herr Zukertort. FOUR KNIGHTA' GANK. t. Mackenzte. B3 B3 5 1l takes Kt i K 3 4 6. P ¢ 0K B3 7. K 10 10Q4 8.0 to takes P 9. Kt tob+ Ki 2 (akes Kt Bto K Prokt+ R0 Kt BB Q Icto gt QoK 2501003 Qo Kt 4 26, Rt K sq R0 1€ 4 Ko R2 QtoB3 Pk ite Qlokz ProRs 10K R0 K Bsq 3 to ferakee £ tal kes 10 R ioKes g Qv Kid 3 ia HtoR4 10 KtoB32 K 10 BioR2 to 3 10 K Po QoKt2 Q KBy 10 RioB4 1o Plolis Prok PioB6 ! ta Filit S 210 Q 1 4 Q10 Prolis Qto 2 o Bach K to Groxz Po wiRT Q1o K10 Ki3 fto Biollz Lo PtoKi6ch SO GLAD TO REST. Do sou not shrink from Death, Now while the lovely world is at its b From the prolidc ground the Summer 1s fllled with odor-breathing happines: Oh! can you tnru from this without a care? The wood ie filled with music of the birds, The futtering lesves their merriment express, And all the meadows are a pleasant scene Of grass and flowers 1n tangled loveliness. Did you regret, last mght, when at the ball You danced and sang, the gayest of the gay, Till shadows, growing dim upon the wall, Forowarned the dancers of the coming day— Did you regret to slip unmissed away? Oh, no! I was eo tired—thoush, when I left, Soine who came later, and danced not 5o long, Seemed to increase in mirth as I grew sad, And tho great parlors rang with langh and fong, As I slipped; wearily, from the guy throng, ‘And oh! Iiwasso tired—eo tired—toat in my bed Most thankfully wy pillow I caressed, Right glad tv pot from sight the gaudy clothes In'which I was so happy to be dressed, And know tnat I muzal rest. 1 look upon the world yon love so much As you npon the ball-room looked sast night— ‘4 «omething zrand and noisy, where I played, And dnnced, and toiled, amid the din and light— For I was not an {dser in tho field; 1 was as busy as the strongest one, . Without the strength to last me on:‘and o 1 see the merry, jostling crowd press on, And know that T am done. As from the royal, glittering scene last night Yen gladly turned away to needed rest, So 1 regret not that I leave the Earth While at its best. Cuucaco, Ill. Muue C, POMEROY. MELBOURNE Will Davis Tells The Tribune All About That Wonderful City. Its Public Buldings as Handsome as Those of Any City in the ‘World. Magnificent Church Ediflces, Infiuen- tial Newspapers, and Enter- prising People. Taboring Men and Women—Professional Men—SBquatters—Sheep—Book- makers, Special Correspondence of The Tridbune. > MELBOURNE, Victorla, Saturday, Juve 1.— This city, the metropolis of all Australia, must excite both the wonder and admiration of trav- elers from the populous districts of the Old and New Worla. It dates its history entirely within that cycle of years which is supposed to repre- sent one generation of man, aud, although it is situated in this “out-of-the-world” latitude, it certainly vies with' most of the larger cities of the world, and really outstrips any of equal population (250,000 souls) and resources that I have ever visited. If onc travels other portions of Australta first, as I did, he will be doubly surprised when he reaches Melbourne. All over this great island you =zre told (if you are disposed to find fault because of inferfor means of travel, accommoda- tion at Lotels, or what mot) to *wait until you reach Melbourne.” You hear this 50 often that you grow wearied of it, and impatient toreach Melbourne to see if you are to realize on all that is held out to hope, or to suffer still greater disappointment. The promise is not a delusive one. The city is cosmopolitan, aod everything the veriest cosmopolite could wish. It lies on a gently-undulating platesu a few miles from the head of Port Philip Bay, from which it is separated by low salt marshes, but connected with by railway. THE CITT. The port proper is called Ssndgate, and its docks and wharves afford accommodation for the largest class of vessels. Mclbourne is regu- larly laid out, the streets running paratlel to each other, east and west and north and south. The princioal strects are very wide, while none of them are as uarrow as ours, znd originally the “right of way” or alley- ways which lie midway between the great streets were intended for back-door convenience only, but the rapidly-increasing importance of Mel- bourne made property fu_the centre of the city 50 valuable that these alleyways were converted into strects, and they arc now almost as thor- oughly ovcupied as arc the larcer streets, nnd from them they take name, merery prefixing the word little, as Collins strect hos in its alley- way Little Collins street, Bourke streeg its Lit- tle Bourke, cte., ew. Collins and Bourke streets remind one somewhat of Camal street, New Orleans. in their magpiticent width. Lit- tle Collins and Little Bourks are like Second and Third streets, in St. Louis. 1n respect to PUBLIC BUILDINGS,— for instance, Town-Hall, Post-Oflice, Court- House (new buildingy, Mint, Governor’s House, House of Parliament, Public Library, museum, and hospitals,—Melbourne is the just peer of any citv on _earth. These buildings are all con- structed on a grand scale, and of the most ex- pensive and durable “material to be found in all Australasia, for the stone in sowe ot these institutions has been brought from Tas- mania and New Zealand. They use lanrely a black voleanie rock, which is tar from beauti- ful, but which is absulutely fire-proof, and far wore to the purpose in the construction of large cities. The most intense heat fails to causc the least ehange in it, and where fires do oceur in buildinus constructed of this material the walls: are never injured, and toe owners have but to build interiors. The large ware- houses, especially those for wool storaze and soit goods, are all built of this yolcanic rock. “rhe banks and insurance buildiogs are gener- ally of very ornate front aud elemant iuterior, quite like our own institutions of the same character. THE PUBLIC GARDENS, parks, and drives are all of a keeping with the city proper. The suburban towns are numer- ous and larse, and form by far the largest fac- tor in the sum of population. It scems all of the business people of the city reside inthe suburbs, but they don’t forsake the gay streets of the metrooolis until midnight. Trains of cars and omnibuses are constantly running to and fro, and the means of suburban travel are ample and luxurious enouch to make the semi- country homes very desirable. Melbourne is also noted for the number and character of its churches. ‘They are, for the most part, very imposing edificeg, aud many of them of a hi hl{l ornate architectural design. The Catholic Cathedral, as at Sydney, is now in process of construction, and the same could have been said of it any time during the past twenty-tive years. They evidently gim to Zain antiquity for their cathedrals before they get them ready for dedication. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, of course, has by far the most followers here, hence Episcopal churches are more numerous and most imposing, thouzh the Baptists and Wesleyans are possessed of no mean spirit in respect to the amount of money lavished on church edifices. Just now the city is consid- erably agitated by Mrs. Emma Hardinge Brit- ten, who lectures every Sunday in the Opera- House, until itis said that Spiritualism sore disturbs the Christian Church. The newspaners of Meclbourne are perhaps the beet evidences of the character of the veople. They are not sensational, and with Tew exceptions not very enterprising. There are four daily papers_published. here, three wiorn- iner and one evening issue, namely. Argus, dge, Telegraph, and Evening Herald. “Uhe Arqus is THE LEADING NEWSPAPCR ORGAN of sll Australasia, its circulation and influence cneml(ug throughout Australia proper, New Zealund, Tasmania, und the leeserisiands of the South Seas. The Argus Company also publish the Austra’asian, alarze thirty-Lwo-page weekly devoted to weneral intercsts, and the Sketcher, an fllustrated weekly similur to fHarper’s. The politics of all three of these papers is what is here called the Opposition,~that is, against the Governmeut aod its polier. The wealth and intellizence of the countrv are with the Argus. The Ageis the Government organ, and, beside its dally_issue, the Company publish the Jilus- irated ey, a very creditable sheet inevery way, and the Leader, 3 journal similar to the Austral- asian. The Telegraph is anew morning paner in the Opposition ranks, the same company pub- lishing the Weckly Times, while the Evening Her- ald calls itsclf independent, and appropriates items and telewrams with charming nonchalence. Chareh wesklies tvo numerous to mention. THE STAFF OF THE “‘ARGUS” is very large, and the cuterprise of the paper very much reminds-one of ourleading American daibes. II the columus of the Argus were open toas Jarze and as populous @ country gs are those of our dailies, it would rank with the lead- ing papers of the world &s 2 newspaper. As au organ it docs now &0 rank in respect to the country it represents. In each of the suburbs there are oue or two papers published, some daily, but most of them weekly. They simply rebash the news contained in the Argus and Age, and recite local gossip, relying on local pride and neighborly interest to give them- sup- Dort. TIE PEOPLE. If, as the bard suys, **The proper study of mankind is man,” there is a wide ticld for the student here in Melbourne. One will first won- der how the people here manage to live so well und work so little. You cannot do, nor have done for you, 2 lick of work before 9 a. m., and. after5 p. m. you are in the game fix. Common day-laborers work from 9 a. m. t0 6 p. m., and havg a half-holiday every Saturdny. The work- inghen are much worse here in respect to their clamor for riznts than with us. They are sus- taining the Governwment now with their fran- chises, and the Mmistry is trying to sustain tnem by dosing out public work, tor capital has wholly withdrawn itsell from the market, and is seeking other fields for investment. THE LABURING-MAN in Australia is Jarzely from the great cities of England, and he came here originally because he did not like work, and because it was believed he could pick up gold anywhere in the colonies. ‘When this belief was dispelled by a little hard erience, he drifted into the old habits learned in England, and set about collectively to devise “ways and wmeans ™’ With the least possible ex- ertion, and 50 you can’t step on the street with- out being accosted by a dozen cab-driverss 2light from a cab but that a bevy of fellowa will strive to carry yourghand-bag; carry a package, however slight the inconvenience to you, with- out meeting at every stcp some lellow big enough to split rails who wants to carry it for “thrippence.”’ All this and more; when thous ds upon thousands of acres of rich land are lying uncaltivated, and the Government pledged by law to give actual scttlers ten times as mucn land as many a New-England farmer has grown rich from. While the laboring-man—a 1mjsnomer truly—is so little worked, THE LABORING-WOMAN is very much overworked. To the man's eight Tours the woman works from ten to sixteen hours for miserably mean wages, and it would scem as if whatever of prosperity has come to this country owes its origin and support to Nature and woman. - ‘The commercial man of Victoria is another being. He is usually very keen, quite a gentle- wan, and as courteous and obliging both in shops and large warchouses as one could ask for. Their trade generally returns large profits, und they live and dress well. They are not 5o enterprising us are American merchants, nor yet so bustling and active. The large establish- iments are scldom distinctive, but epguge io deal in general merchandise. Thisis o resuit oceasioned by the DEALING IN SUPPLIES for the large stock stationa aud mining camps, where everything in the way of merchandise {8 needed, and where but one merchant is wanted by the station or mine owner. 1nstead of fllling orders from different wholesale houses, the merchaut prefers to keep a gencral stotk him- sell. Thereare some very larze wholesale dry gouds, hardware, and liquor houses here though, from which the general merchant stocks up in- stead of importing direct. There are two music- stores on Colling street which, to my mind, have o superiors, if they have equals, on earth, They erew out of an_inténse rivalry, and they stand now as white elephants, - some- thine mot mow, nor likely to be, necd- ed. The manufscturers of Meibourne are largely Scotch and Yautcee, and one may visit sugar-refineries, woolen-mills, iron-works, foundries, reduction-milis, ship-yards, stearine and candic [actories - (the Centenpial prize is owned here by the Apollo Candle-Works), agri- cultural-machine depots, ctc., ete., which will challepge bis admiration. In every factory an American {3 sure to have his uational pride tickled by the honestly avowed tributes he will hear spoken in favor of the manufactories of his own country. THE PROFESSIONAL MEN of Melbourne are & very numerous class. The physical doctors are all grouped in one guarter —Upper Collins street, or Collins strect east, and they are certainly smart-looking men. The Jeral doctors scem to thrive, and itlooks as if they understand how to make out fec bills, if nothing else. The bankers must make a great deal of money, for thei buildiogs are all of the most expensive charac- ter, and it is not an unusual thinz for the more important banks to have five or more branches in different parts of the city, besides branch offices in each town of any importauce in the colonies. The squaiters, unlike our people of that de- nomination, are {u every way the lords ot this country. _‘Taey are for the most part sous of wealthy English merchants and manufacturers, who are unable to purchase enough of land at home to establish a lnuded estate, but who tind here in Australia an opportunity to buy enor- mous tracts of land for a very little mouey, on which to lay the foundation for a magmiticent estato for their poaterity. To thbis they seud their sons to raise = | SHEEP AND CATTLE, and the enterprise is so remunerative that in'a few years they have morc money than they know whatto do with, and_tbus, according to its populution, Australia furnishes more trav- elers and tourists than Aoy other country, and thiey are nesriy all squatters. who have pleuty of money, and on the backs of whose sheep more mouey Is continually growing. They re- side in Melbourne in grand style, but make pe- riodical trips to their stations. Large numbers of pative-born people (Co- lonials) are engaging in this business also, and the wealthy bankers, mine-owners,and mer- chiauts, are establishing their sons in the stock- ruising districts. THE WOOL GROWN NERE is said to be flner tuan that produced else- where, and the clip 1 pounds is something enormous. Thé present Government nave en- acted some laws which the squatters consider very unjust and onerous, and the’ deadlock ex- istig between the capitalists and laborers, L. &, between the opposition and the Government, is working a deal of harm to Victoria, aud is driving large sums of rcady money to South Australin and Queensland, in wihich young colonies the hoodlum element lias no existence. ‘There is another class- of men in Melbourne whom you would not recognize as a class except vou should happen here during u week of racing. They are THE BOOEMAKERS, C and they are quite respectable in point of num- Ders as well 2 in general bearing and breeding. They do not confine their operations to Victoria alope, but travel all over the colontes and give and take odds on every race-course. Taoeir favorite method s to lay odds that your favorite will not win, and they commence opera- tions as soon as nowminations are made, which is many months before the racing takes place. ‘Ihus they have, such chances with thom as the drawing of a horse, its death, or any other cause whoich may prevent its running st all, beside the chance of a iarge field against one horse. Thevy offer - tempting odds, and make large sums of money. One, a Yankee, pamed Joe Thompson, lives in one of the most clegant houscs in Melbourne which he built from the proceeds of one race. e calls it Don Juan House, alter the name of the horse which won for him. Some of the finest properties in the city are owned by professionsl bookmakers, built with money won from wool-growers who delight in backing their judgment with sovereigns. I suppose the GENERAL DEPRESSION inall classes of business will affect the book- makers also. In fact, if very hard times should come on the colonies, despite the fact that the gentry of the land patronize and make fashion- avle ield eparts, the jolly bookmaker may find ‘his oceupation Zone. -1 doubt if it rises again with a resival in trade, as revive trade must sooner or fater, for 3 people who have made such remarkable progress in thirty years cannot long be kept in the background. WiLL. ——— Dlcchanies’ Wages for Eighteen Years. Boston Journai. In the course of arecent lawsult in New IMa. ven, Conu., some interesting and important facts were disclosed bearing upon wages in zen- eral, and upon carpenters’ wages in particular, during the last cighteen years. The suit was brought by a carpenter to’ recover the balance aue on an unpaid wages account extending from the year 1859 to the fall of 1876. The agreement. was that his _employer should pay for his work at the prevailing prices, and, as the pavinents were made piecemeal, without any settlement during the whole time, the account naturally became a long and confused one. It was sub- mitted to the consideration of a committee of carpenters, who prepared the foltowing table of carpenters’ wages, which was put in evidence on the trial: March 1, 1859, to No to Mar Sent. 1, 1801, Dec. 1, 1861, to March 1, 1862 March 1, 1862, 1o Nov. 1, 188 March 1, 1863, to March 1, 18 March 1. 1864, to March 1, 1566, March 1, 1866, 1o March 1, 1867... March 1, 1867, to Sept. 1, 1867.... May1, 1868, to Dec. 1, 1838. Dec. 1, 1808, to March 1, 1869.. March 1. 1863, to Dec. 1, 1869. Dec. 1, 1808, to March 1, 1870 March 1, 1870, to Dec. 1, 1870 Dec. 1, 1870, to Jan. 1, 1871 March 1, 1871. to Dec. 1, 1 1571, to Jan. 1, 187 0 Feb. 1. 187( ), to Oct. 1, 1876, ‘There i8 no reason to distrust the accuracy of these figures, made up by careful, compctent meu. Nordo wesee why the state of thinzs they represent should not be substantially rgn- resentative of the current rate of wages in most of our. New England cities and laree towns. Like them, New Haven isa large manufacturiui place in proportion to the population, and the pay of the laboring element is a factor always felt there tobe of decided importance. The ommission of certain years in the table we pre- sume is due to the absence of reliable statistics for the same. Oue curious circumstance dis- closed in the table is worth the attention of ail Iaboring men. In 1861, the War year, the aver- age carpenter’s pay was $1.75 per day. lmme- diately after inflation began to tell upon the currency and upon all articles of subsistence.. 50 thav most of the latter, involving ncarly the whole cost of 2 mechanic’s living, was about double, And yet it was mot iill March, S\A‘1 that the daily pay of the samc mechanic rose more than 25 ceuts avove his daily pav in March, 1861 That is the ipevitable cficet of cheapening a currency—it inflates nearly everything else” before it does labor, thus compelling the laborer for years to pay a toll on all be purchases, while tbe capital- 15t is thriving on an easy system of markiug up his goods. That state of things, altbough it might bave been mitigated, originated in theover- whelming Dnecessitics of civil war; but what would be thought of the sanity of aworkingman who shoulid try to revive it now, when we are so close upon the condition of normal soundness again? As to the present fizures of the New Haven table, they would seem to indicate that the workingman is a little better off ihan he was in 1850. His pay is o little hizher, and the vrices of most living articles are about the same. Taxes are somewhat higher. Probably a greater dif- Terence in the cost of supporting a Bmily—s . ress, and we sbal mechanic’s or anybody’s else—is to be tound ratherin the style of liviog than in the mere cost of househofd necessitics. We have all gony ahead in style in the last twenty years, avd it is hard to come down to just requircments. But in this, t0o, the people have made decided proc- vet see the equilibrium re- stored. RN IO ey SEA-SERPENTS. 17 the Editor of The Tribune- Cricaqo, July 27.—The anoual revolation of the months has again brought round the season when fabulous stories of the great sea-scrpent form a part of the sensational materisl of the current newspaper correspondence. ‘The pub- lic have become so aceustomed to the perfodical Toax upon this subjeet that the idea of 1t hav- ing a poasibly solid foundation is entertained by very few persous. And yet there is 50 much grave testimony to the appearance ab various umes in different parts of the ocean of a gizan- tic * monster,” which observers have universally pronounced of serpent form, that naturalists are inclined to grant that there may existio the vast rezion of the sea some specles of huge marine animal still ucknown to science, whose rare occurrence has given rise to the marselous literature of . the ‘‘kraken,” the ‘‘great un- known,” and the * soe-troiden,™ or the ** scourge of the sea.” No more romance and superstition have been interwoven with tales of the great sea-serpent than with accounts of the devil-fish, and until very recently it has appeared just as improbable that one of these prodigies should have a vertt- able existence af the other. When Victor Hugo wrote “Ihe Toilers of the Seca.” only a dozen orso years ago, his fearful picture of his hero in the horrible embrace of a malevolent Briarcus risinz out of the waves, was regarded as the wildest ficment of the imagipation. Neverthe- less its foundation uon actual fact has since been perfectly demonstrated. Fishermen have many times encountered when out at sea a monster now known to be a giant octopus, but ‘their carlier reports of the wonderful beast were credited to an excited fan- ¢y, coupled with a love of the marvelous. When at last parties on our own coast were able to capture portions or entire speeimens of the levi- athun, and bring them under the inspection of naturalists, it was conceded that the ocean conceals 1o its depths ani- mals of quitc as formidable a size and disposition as that fizure¢ by the great French romancer. Specimens of this cephalopod have been taken on the Ameriean shore which had arms Ineasuring forty-two feet inlenzth; a body having a girth of five feet and s length of fiftcen feet; n parrot-like beak the size of a man's fist; eye-sockets four inches in diameter; and suckers on the arms, by which objects can be grasped with a death-like tenacity, measuring two inches across. In amore orless mangled state they have been brought in by seamen who nave found them entangled in fish-nets or stranded on the shore, and the stories of des- perate effort required to overcome them are now known to be true. The fishermen who have had their bouts encircled by the powerful arms of one of these enormous cuttle-fish, and bave faced the great, greenish, ghastly eyes glaring at them in malignant fury, would doubt~ less consider M. Hugo’s description of a fight swith the devil-ish a vivid sketch of a very pos- sible incident. Runors have for some years heen procceding from South America to the effect that a mon- strous underground creature had been from time to Lime observed by the inhubitants in the southern provinces of Brazil. In its progress beneath the soil it is said to throw up furrows three metres broad, and even to upturn trees intercepting its march. Many persons_testify to having seen the apimal at different times, and describe it as nearly 8 metre in thickness, of various lenghts, sud having -a snout like o pig. Fritz Muller, a noted ‘Germen uaturalist, now pursuing explorations in South America, Das transmitted what accounts he could gather of this wondertul earth-worm—called by the natives “ Minhocao ¥—to Nature, and the ed- jtor of this scientific journal, instead of szout- ing at the reports as unworthy of considera- tion, swrests that the animal may be a relic of the colossal armadillos which in past geolog- ical epochs were abundaot in South Brazil. Some of these ancient armadillos were ten feet in length, and others were as large as the ox or the rhinoceros. It has been supposed that this giant race of prehistorical agzes was long ago cxtinct, yet the ences alluded to tend to show that their deseendants may still exist, and, inhabitinz an unexplored district, have eluded the observa- tion of science until tins late day. If there be animals of cousiderable magunitude dwelling upon land which have hitherto escaved the vig- ilance of learned investizators, how likely it is that the fathomless depths of the sca still hold within their shelter creatures of a strange type and colossal size which man has yet to find and classify. 1n thelight of the maryelous dis- coveries and inventions which mark the progress cholars bave learned to beslow in rejecting any new annouucement of fact, however opposed it may be to their precon- ceived notions. 'he bistory of the great sea-serpent, like that of the devil-fish, is not of recent origin. It goes_back to tie time of Pliny and Mareus Aurelius, both of whom describe an amphibious reptile inhabiting the Mediterrancan, and attain- ing such dimensions that it _could find room to disport only in mid-ocean. Fables of the kraken na the soatrolden very early crept into the my- thology of tne Scandinavisns. In Northern Europe a beliel in the existence ol these huze marine animals has for centuries remalned un- shaken. The Norwegian peasantry hold to the traditions concerning them which have descend- ed through gencrations, their poets bave re- Jated them in majestic verses, and their writers ed them in serious history. In 1755, Pontoppidan, Dishop of Bergen, published 8 “Natural History of Norway,” in which the many reports of fishermen who bad seeu the soc-trolden off the coast ‘of Norway Were carcfully presented. A length of GO feet was attributed to the reptile. *“with a head closely resembling that of the horse, black eyes, and a kind of white mane.” Hans Egidius, an ‘Arctié navigator, describes, {n the narrative of his second voyage to Greenland, in 173, the appearance of a serpent in histrack whichreared its head above the waves to about hall the bight of the mizzen-mast. In 1503 an animal of similar aspect was descried by some fishermen off the Isie of - Stronda, oue of the Orl»:ncg's. and in 1809 a clergyman dwell- ing in the Lebrides saw an avimal in the sea, of serpentlike torm, which he estimated to be " from seventy to eighty feet long. The crows of 2 number of fishing-boats caught sizht of the same creature, which caused great trepidation among them. A huge and strange marine monster {re- quently appeared off the coast of Massachusetts iu the suminers of 1815, 1517, 1819, ete. 1817 the Linneau Socicty of New England pub- lished a report of the sworn testimony of cleven witnesses who had seen the auimal near Cape Auu in Augustof that year. All their accounts agreed as to its serpent form and its dark- brown, mottied cotor. The estimates of its lenzth varied from 50 to 100 feet. Oncof the most interestivg descriptions of this curious visitor as it appeared in the year 1517 was publisbed in the Boston ddvertiser Nov. 25, 184S, It consisted chiclly of a letier dated 1820, and writteu to a friend by.Col. T. H. Perkins, of Boston. The author stuted that, to satisfy himself concerning the alleged appear- ance of a sea-serpent in Massachoscits Bay, he went to Gloucester, where it. had frequently hibited itself, and was soon favored with a si of it in the harbor. 1t was moving rapidly in the water, the bead and about forty feet of the body veing visible, and a considerable wake in the rear showing that its whole lenzth must be much greater. “I bad a fiue glass,” writes Col. Perkins, *“and was within from one-third tohalfa mile of him. . . . There were a freat many people collected by this time, many of whom had before secn the same object and the same appearance. From the time [ first saw him until he passed by the place where T stood. and soon after disappeared, was not more than fifteen or twenty iinutes.” Col. Perkins repcats in bis letter the state- ments given to him by several respectable per- sons,—some of them his acquaintances,—ot the aspect and_action of the animal as viewed by them. In Auzust, 1319, the serpent was arain scen off Nzhant. An cye-witness, de- scribing _its appearance 8t that time, jo the United Service Journal, savs: *‘Thad with me an excellent telescope. When I reached the strand I found many persens assembled, and goon afterwards Wwe §aw aopear, at a short dis- tance from the shore, an animal whose body formed a scries of blackish curves, "of which T counted thirteen. The monster passed thriceat a moderate speed, traversing the bay, whose waters wrthed in foum under its larze bulk. We could easily calculate that itslength could not be much less thar fifty to sixty feet . . . This, at least, I canaffirm. It was neither a whale, nor a cacbalot, Bor any stronz sonfeary nor any other epormous cetacean. None of those rigantic animals have such an undulating ack, L “The archises of the Town ‘of \Piymoath con- tude of seamen who have at time or anoths enjoyed a view of this mysterious inhabitant of the ocean. All agree remarkably rezurding its serpent form and enormons dimensions. Some testily to its tranquil state and others to its swift_transit through smooti waf.ersci and all together furnish a mass of curious an impres- sive details. Off Nahant the great sea-serpent was sgain seen in July, 1833, in calm weather, its curves being * perpendicular to the surface of the water,” and its cye *brilliant_and glistening.” ‘fwo years later Silliman’s Journa! of Science contained a notice of a similar monster which came in view of an American brig on her way from Boston to New Orleaus, and again, in lati- tude 843¢© and longitude 48° west. On the 15th of May, 1833, a party of five British officers encountered the wonderful amphibian while off the const of Newfoundland on s fishing excur- sion. An account ot the circumstance, sizned Dy all ihe parties, was published in the London Zoologist for1847. It states that the gentle- men Wereamusing themselves, while procecding to the fishing-ground, with watching the gam- bols of an immense shoal of grampuses, when a scaman sitting to leeward callea out, “0, sirs.look here!" The party Instantly gazed in the dircction pointed out, and, to quote from the narrative, At thedistance of from a hundred and ffty to two huudred yards on our starboard bow, we saw the bead “and neck of some denizen of the deep, precisely like those of a common snake, in the act of swimuing, the bhead so far elevated and thrown forward by the curve of the neck as_to enable us to sce the water under and beyond it. Tho creature rapldly passed, leaving a regular wake, from the commence- ment of which to- the fore part, which was out of water, we judged its length to be about eighty feot; and this within, rather than beyoad, the mark. | We were, of course, all taken aback at the signt, and. with staring eyes and in specchless wonder, stood gazing at it for full Dbalf a minute. There could be no mistake, no delusion, and we were all perfeetly satisfled that we bad been fayored with o view of the true and veritable sea-serpent, which had been generally considered to have existed only in the brain of some Yankee skipper, and treated asa tale not much entitled to belief.” But the effcet of all previous stories of the “great unknown’ was as nothing compared with tlat produced by a narrative contributed to the Loudon Zimes of October, 1545, by Capt. Meinbae, of the British frizate Dacdalus. = Popu- Jar curiosity was wreatly excited by this rela- tion, and, the trathof it being questioued by the 'Admiralty; the Captain oflicially reported That, on the réturn voyage from the East Indies, while the Dacdulus was not far from the coast of South Africa, he and other officers in com- mand saw an enormous serpent rapidly ap- proaching the ship from before the beam, **with head and shoulders keot about four feet con- stantly above the surface of the sew, and, as nearly as we could approximate by compariuz it with the length of what our maintopsail-yard would show in the water, there was at the very least sixty feet of thc auimal a fleur d'eqi. . . . It passed rapidly, but so close under our lee quarter that, had it Leen a man of my acquaintance, I should easily have recognized his features with the naked eye.” "This report was corruborated by Licut. Drum- mond, the officer of the watch, who, however, differed considersbly from Capt. McInbae iu bis description of the monster, which, he says, * was going_at - the raze of perhaos from twelve to fourteen miles an hour, aad when nearest was perbaps 100 yards distant. In fact, it mave one quite the idea of a large snake or ecl” A fizure of the scrpent as_sietched by Capt. McIubae wds given in the Jilustraled London News of Oct. 28, 1348, and another was als0 published from x drawing by Lieut. Drum- mond. The statements of these gentlemen were the subject of a great deal of discussion, which filied the newspapers for the tfme belog. Prot. Richard Owen, the eminent physiologist, took up the controversy; and in an able article set forth his reasons for doubting the existence of a great sea-serpeut. Chief of these he urged the utter absence of any Temains of a recent murine eoimal of the character ascribed to the one in question. - This negative evidence was declared by Prof. Owen to be stronger against the actual existence of the sea-serpent ‘‘than the ‘positive statements which had hitherto weighed with the public mind in favor of its occurrence.” . It was the opinion of Prof. Owen that the creature scen from the Dacdalus was a seal or a sea-elephant, and his article closed with the assertion that g 1arger body of evidence from eye-witnesses might be zot together in_proof of ‘ghosts than of the sea-serpent.” Capt. McInhue imme- diately replied to rof. Owen, averring that the animal under dispute was neither s scal nor a sea-elephant, and that he was under no excite- ment while looking at it which would induce an optical tlusion. Scientitic and secular journals of England con- tinue to record in successive years fresh apoear- ances of the sea-monster, which were strongly attested by officers of the navy and merchani- marine service, whose word could not_be ques- tioned. Finally, in 1833, Capt. Fred Smith, of the ship Pekin, published an interview which ho had obtained with the great serpent ten years before. Descrying the animal from the ship, he immediately dispatched a boat to examine it at close quarters. By this investization the object was found to be a gizantic picce of sea-weed, which in the distance assumed the likeness of a snake. This account of Capt. Smith’s was ac- ceptea by maay as a sutficient explanation of all the marvelous stories of the gigantic ophidian. The statement of Capt. Smith, however, drew out & prompt declaration in the London Times, from an officer of the Dacdalus, that the crea- ture seen by Capt. McInhac, himself, and others, \as unquestionably a *living_animal, moving rapidly through the water against a cross sca, and within five points of a Iresh breeze, with such velocity that the water was surging under its chest, as it passed along at a rate ‘probably of ten miles per hour. Capt. McInbae's first impulse was to tack in pursuit, but he re- fiected that we could neither lay up for it nor overbsul it in speed. ‘There was nothiog to be done, thercfore, but to observe it as accurate- 1y as we could with our glasses, as it came up under our lee quarter and passed away to wind- ward, at its nearest position being not more than 200 vards from us; the eye, the mouth, the vostril, the color and form, all being most distinetly visible tous.” o o . ‘Among the men of science who could not re- gard the matter satisfactorily disposed of was Mr. O. II. Gosse, an accomplished - naturalist and the author of numerous books of travel and histories of natural scicnce. fu 1860 he brougbt out a work cotitled the ** Romance of Natural History,” in which the principal testimony for and agninst the existence of the great sea-ser- pent was candidly arrayed and exumined. o His treatment. of the subject was skillful and fair, and ended in the conclusion that the object so often scen, under very diverse eircumstances, and stul with a remarkable uniformity of aspect, must be regarded as a living ani- mal, and that it is probably & mod- ified form of the Secondary Enaliosaurians. That the remains of the monster have neyer been met with is. according to his arzument, no more sinzular than in the case of other larce marine animals, sinzle specimens of wbich have been discovered, while no relic before or since bas occurred to hint their existecce. The noted instances of the toothless white whale of Havre, stranded on the French coast in Sep- tember, 1525, and the upique whale (Diodon Sowerbyi) cast on the Elgin coast, are cited, with others, as illustrations in point. Tn support of his theory concerning the sea- serpent, Mr. Gasse adduces the testimony of Prof. Agassiz to the possibility of the present existente of the Enaliosaurian type. Inn letter to the Zoologist, Prof. Agassiz is represented by a correspoudent as saving that “jt would be fn precise conformity with anal- ogy that such an animal should exist in the American seas, a3 he¢ had found numerons in- stances in which the fossil forms of the Old World were represeuted by living types io the New. He instanced the zar-pike of the West- ern rivers, and sald he had found several in- stances in his recent visit to Lake Saperior, where he had selected several fiches belonging to genera now extinct in Europe.’” 3 1¢ is Impossible in a limited space to give more than a meagre omcling of M. Gasse's bypothesis, omitting many interesting and val- uable points, but it may be mentioned in con- clusion that his position has commanded the respect if not the sanction of scientific men. Two ctchings adorn the Portfolio for July, one by F. L. Dapont, after *The Gleaers,” by Jules Breton, & picture now on exhibition .at The Paris Universal Exposition, and regarded by the crltic as possessing a bich order of merit: and the other, representing the Castle of Edin- burg as seen from a high point in the distance. A third importaut pictorial attraction of the number is a photogravure by Darand of Unger's etching of the recent * Madonna and Child,” by Knaus. 'Lhe principal articles in the number conttnue the account of **The Schools of Modern Art in Germaoy,” by T. Beavington Atkinson; “Notes on Edinburg,” by Robert Louis Stevenson; and the biozraphy of Turner, by Hamerton. Ina brief sketch of Breton’s delineations of rustic life, the writer re- lates an amusing anecdote illustrative of the bodily vizor of the French peasant-women, which runs as follows: ** An intimate friend of the writer of this note happened to be crossinga bridge near a country-town in France, when he noticed a fine, strong peasant-woman coming in cne direction, and a~ smart-lookinz littie eolaier in the other. The soldier thouzht he would like to give the woman a kiss, which be did just when she as half-way over the bridge. She selzed him by the beit, swunz him over the parapet by an effort of her powerful arm. and held him Suspended over the water, coolly tell- ing him that it Le did not apologizs she would. drop him into the river. He apalogizeq. alarming and slightly ludicrous nm'_,:"‘h which she replaced him where he wag by and let*him g0 his way.” = iore A WorEINGwowyy, THE GAME OF DRAUGHT, - ‘Communlcationsintended for TiE DEAvGT? By, should be addressed to 0. D. ORVIS, fmm‘ Chicago, TIL. s, 3 For Publisher’s price-list of standard woy game, address the Drauzht Ealtor. 12 00 thy CURCKER-PLATERS' DIRECTORY,. Atheareum, No. 50 Dearborn street, PROBLEM NO. 76. By C. Herrzz, Cuicago. Black. 2/’/@3%%/ W i V1 7”; i v % 7 2 ‘White to move and win, T POSITION XNO. 78. By C. HerTer, Chicogo. Black men on 10, 11, 20: kinevon s, 17. White men on 22, 23, 23; Kingson 12, 13 ‘White to play and win. TO CORRESPONDENTS, H. C. Chipman—Correct agaln. C. Keyser—Attended to as requested. E. H. Bryant—Recelved with thanks. W. B. Fonviile=Thanks for the {nformatfan, P. V. Suter—Thanks for the corrsctions comeofte, .7, S.—Your posltion Is rather light weleht forthy paper. Tiobert Dickson—Both. the moves you ref ‘perfectly sound. J00 T towg g H. F. §.—Your 1918 move {n Problem No. 74 st e of e (1) s Mool Tof & draw. > o 4 &t 8 Y. B, Hall, 4r.—The varlatlon lanot In A. . P. Yoy il A4 1t 1o Spayti's Gamo of Dravghts, var. i i second move. ‘George Conway—If you had not reverscd the numtery o ton 10, Brobicm. Nor e Bave been correer. ‘W. J.J.—Your sclution is correct. (2) @lad e Tons wiience s B Zempting (nvitation is placed on tle. ; ~+The Malden of the Ml "—Your neatittle prodien & 1g accepted, and shall Frace our colnmn at an esriydsy, Shaii B pienscd to have you contribate ofien. James Pelletier—To be tused monthly, commencsg séptt: Adiron Frank A Fl:zzmr&&'sg)% £ nue, St Louf 0. (2) 22 3t 8 mo1 "a5d Lody s considered a locer. 1ol 1. J. Rrown—Your name Is duly enrolled amozgtiy PoRAErons array of sensiblo leadime chocker lgtarls B SubocEibe 10 THESCNDAT TRINUNE OB acoumtat fhe'Checker Bepsriment. () When you sty Eago don't fall to callat fhe plarers’ headauan, g 176 Gur amateurs & specimen of Indina chectes, i CONTRIBUTORS' CRITICISMS. - - Will Tryssain ssys that **fn Game No. §of Hefter-Reed match games, at the forty-Gfth mere. gy’ P s IS 0 613, "T510 for a Sk Mr, J. W: Howley and Mr. P. W. Sutersay “itx: &3 ‘Prohiem 73. by WIHf Tryagaln. I8 oaly a draw aherat, '35 and not a binck win: At the elxth move. for 131§ Dlay 11—7, S1—22, 21—17, 14—21, 3—18. Dravn.” Mr. John H. Crocker writes that **in GameXo. at fortleth move 22—18 winsat once, AL, fa dolatin 1o Problem No. 70, near the close of varistlaa (i posisian 18 as follows: Black men on 10. 18, i 6. White men 0n.13. 16, 21, 25 Kingon7. K2 Plags_10—14. ond_white wins. Would ‘not draw?" Auswer: White would repl CHECKER CHATTER. et 8 . g | on. e intends vl a3 the about the 20th of August. Afr. Wyllfe {8 grow(ng childish {n hisold days. O of the conditfons In his fate visit to Perth was. thatoe games shonid be sent for publication tos drugis column, which he holds In great disfavor. The colamy etlil lives notwithstanding. — 7urs. Following are some of the recent scores made by ¥r. At Perth 103t 1, and 5 crmes were drawn: at . Edinbure he vor §§ 46. 10802, and 6 games wers_ drawns a¢ Galasbiels be Won 66, 10st 0, 32d 3 games were drawn; At Broughty- Ferry he won33. 108t 0, and 1 game drawn. An Eastern excnonze thiaks. that it r. Reed of i Pitisbury, wouid onlv defear the Muggrlges, of Buf- & falo, hie would_not want fur backers 3o play any onela thiscountry, That 't what Dothers Recd. De ¥ amply badked by his numerous Pltsbarg simirers, £ s particalarly destrous just now of hearlog, trom cine one who will play him a moneyed match without &k~ ing about 1¢ all summer. “There 1anota ity In the United Statesthat bt B more wrangling on the champlonship qrestion thaa the City of New York. Attempts have been made to ore- §ze'a tournament to declde the question, but hsves- B ways fatled. It liss often been asked who s the cham: plon of the clty? aithough (¢ bas not fora numberof B Jears been delinitely decided: still, there are serm) Players who lay clatm to that titie. It isa well-kfom. fact that when a visitor comet to the clty, and wailo meet gur beat player, he s invariably faifoducelio X, John Dempater. Jr., and John has opeal laid cisimis that title. Now, we know o player in thiscliy whols Filling to piay t-John " a match for but ot fer the champlonship, as John kas o legal datm tothss tile. Alio.If any resiilent piaser of thils clty willcoa out and claim thé champlonshi nile! that hiosa man he will back against. for noslesisa § $100 n_side, any one who will lay ciaim to taat title—~ New York Seotsman. i Irox Ripoz, Wis., July 22.—To the Draught Zditer of The Tribune: Mr. J.th'L of Burnet, challeaged me to play Afty games of clicckers, which Was uy. Cepted, arranyements made. and a match of 8ty dednitély specified. Last Friday we piayed thitesa § gemes with the followini Tesult: Kegser, 3; Klrk. % dud 7 games were drawn. M. EIrk play lonxcer, though urked to o so. doned the match, or, {n other worls, 1y out.” I claim to be the winner of the matc! Tefer the wholc matter for. your deglsion, W give n next lssue of THE SUNDAY TRUCYE, The corrcctnean of yoer clalm depends upon terms and conditions upon which the: match wi i¢ ?ll d. If the maich was to take places elther st Irom. 2idie or Burnett. commenciniz on 8 speclt . ad to contipue froin day to day untll the sy game played. xul Mr. Kirk, withont a good snd saf Pendon, refused t0 g0 on with the matcn after pitfiss thirteen zames, then yon caa claim the stakes, i and the match. it isquite probabdle. Thoweryer, that M Kirk has reaxons not stated [n the bova letier foede- Cilninz to continue the mateh, and until s copyol 18 § articics coveralng the match is piaced at our it will be imposstbie to render the decision equired. SOLGTIONS. SOLUTION TO PRONLEX X0, 75 By Charlie Hefter. 1417 9— 2 26-19 = I:u—m Ium - 11 wios GAME NO. 227-DENSY. Plaged fn elght minutes between essrs. Truss B4 Loberts of Mlnncwua. GAME X0. 228-DOUBLE CORNEE- I F S New SoE, payt 17- 19 |18-7 i-18 3-11 2514 13-3 D—13 "E‘E I;b—lg 3t 24~ S m @ [si-zh |prw- 118225 gz [Bleck o 6—10 | wins. 23 15—19 -22 i @ Corrects Drumniond's game 34 var, M. 86 wid move. (b) As played by Drummond. NO. 223—BRISTOL. Ii Tryagain, Chicago. 3~ 6 9— N P 13 L 5 Reed beat Hefter. . (3 Orixinal wiih Reed, 2-7; 22—17 belg theus B 1inc of play- (1) y 26-33 -17 3128 22— 6] 2@ @R RSN lo-woen (b) A pretiy and aimple ?g_‘w. 21 (@ @3-2 [i-0 |10 (20 o—m-‘ 7 )i 5—9 [lo-23 159t (nf . () Reed stated that this would draw, but Tthiok above = sare win. e (3) 22-17. WIIl any one show a draw? @ 1t 26-2 or25—22, 1718 wins. 1—6 (9 Becd Suaks this v, LS s 1o ending was i this, The pocition befus very oritical, 1 WhKSY ) 2 w23 i : 7= : 118 ‘r) 1t 2016, 11—2¢, 27, e-1% 7-1L n nEAaEER e an kv R [ 1 t