Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 11, 1878, Page 11

AIGHTS WITH STANLEY. qho Man Who Cut Africa in Two the Present Pet of Parisian Din- ner-Givers. 1y Eveaing and Sssemblage That Droke Dewa His Beserve and Warmed the Cockles of His feart. ther Evenings with Feet Touching His Uader the Ma- hogony. goe Ssnce for Those Who Have Sauced Him, with Incidental Di- gressions, What He Looks Like, How He Acts, and What He . Says and Does. From Our Own Corresnondent. #uass, July 2.~The host rapped the pearl sodle of his frait-knife on the table and said: w]t¥ss & peronal pledre by me 10 nearly every eman present tbat there should be no formal toast and no tiresome talk here this ering. But 1 know you will be glad to Join pela wishing good health, and many years of 1, to our dear guest, Henry M. Stanley.” ‘The speaker was Mr. Hitt, American Secre- of Legation at Paris. The scene was a et dinner 8¢ his winsome home. The time s weli along in the evening, at the close of a et <0 judiciously planned aud supebly gerved that gentlemen present of twenty years™ ity with the most distingnished of Paieian tables had declared it one of tne cnicest 20d most artistic entertaiuments of lives. Tne company was literary ad scientifie, cighteen gentlemen having pen called from the English-speaking eindos of letters and science fn Paris to meet 1od kmow congenially the host and guest. To gy thelist included Prof. Barnard, President of Columbis College; Commander McNair, of the Tnited States frigate Portsmouth; Gov. Cumberlsin, of Maine; T. W. Iiggin- gon, of Boston: Morton McMichacl, of Phila- delphis; Prof. Hilgard, of the United States Cosst Survey; Mr. Whiting, of the London press; Edward King, of Massachusetts jouraal- tstic renown; apd Prof. Davidson, who has beenenough of an explorer to havea great American mountain named after him, will be to indicate exactly the eminent character of the p?\!..}?.smley aceepted the cheery words of Mr. ‘Hitt and the sympathy gleaming from the eyes of the others, and scemed to know that here all tarts were kindly toward him. Resting his essily upon the table, and remaining mlortsbly in bis chair, he wandered verbally away into an hour of as fascinating chat as ever dropped from the lips of returued adventurer. inany lsnd, fo any ace. It was o speech, Heaven be thanked. It was 20 lecture; no harungue. They say Stanley can doany of these tolerably, some of them perfect- Iy. But this pieht be driftedaway as uncertain ol where he would land as thonzh he had start- / eifora lost oratorical Livineston. He plainly mesht to merely sav, * Thank you™: and, in- siead. slmost. 1aid open bis heart. The zood- willof all present, and perhaps the Chateau Lsfitre, bad thawed him through and through, 30d be talked on and ou, an after-dinner essay- 1st from whom even Macaulay might have caught s point or two. “What did he say?” Howcan I tell? Who imows what_the delicions wind savs when it sweeps gratefully over the brow of the heated . refreshing, and perbaos giving him a wld! Heaven forfend tnat apy phonographic peacils waggzed that night. The talk was to listen to; mot reoort. . . Bnt its gist was of the speaker’s moving acci- dents by food and field; o1 the uncouth way in which be bepan to be somebody; of histwo marvelous journers into and across the black ~continent; Of bis tilts with kinky-haired savages dn Africa and straight-haired ones in American end English newspaper offices. Queerly eoough, to look at the man’s wrought-iron face and danger-grizzied hair, ®as, underlyiog and permeating bis wncle conversation, evidences of his extreme seositiveness. {t was plain to see that this - who had consorted fearlesely with Spunish bendits aud Carlist vagabonds, and who ad wilked unblanched into the heart of 3 hundred Titlages in mid-Atrica, could quiver Toder the petty-sting of some ten-doliar-a-week &ibbler, ’ Sunley is phenomenally sensitive to criti- dsm. Ihate o say it, for anybody knows that wshow a ticaa tender spot in a lionside is gaply to invite the little pest to redouble aavity. It is so casy after Napoleon has cross- el the Alpsto say that he winked at agirl fomewhere on the route, and that his moral character §s therefore not what we have aright 1o expect. from a genius. i niance with Stanley, after irst great trip, I had noted to wiuce under the newspaper eng. Mecting him the present time and sub- sequently, 1 saw that waile bis soul and body hardened in the schoot of astonishing expe- iences, that old raw place was almost as lar from callous as ever. e knows by heart the many mean things said of bim, while the myr- iad of kind words spoken and deeds donc in b behalf ecemn not half so “green fn his memory T wished this remarkable man to_remember me 1 sbould Llackguard nim; fact and decency, however, drive me the other way. 1 biase called bim **a remarkable man.” He Jooks it} nss proved it; and is Probably in what writig { have ever done, little witl be fouud to eeuse me of gush or hero-adoration. But one man is not as zood as another any more thanheis tall, or rich, or mean ns avother. gammunx{UQ equality doces not exist in nature. bis man Stanley ten years agowasthe cheapest kind of a reporier on half-pay in Western Amer- fca. Today the Primce of \Walesis his friend; Eoglich flunkeyism brealts its back aud knees bonoring him ; the savans of the world take him Tespectfully. by the hand; he has pot half cnough eveniugs in the week to accede to em- {nent dinner invitations in Paris; be is listened o eagerly by the best brains of txo continents, 20d Bouura are surmng in upon him from the most conservative scientific bodies in the world. The only opposition e has is from some part of the profession he bas mloritied. He is hated chiefly by men whoare sore because excher them- selves of their paper didu’t have a band in that ¥ondeful work of cutting Africa in twain. kes alive, everybody cannot be a Columbus! « Anybody could *1iec was uuneces- “He has been in ode cry. ‘bave done it 7 i mu:hcr.) slly eruel,” fsa_third.” some girl scrape ¥ is the fast. Was it Juck that Jed nim to be selected for the second trip? Was it luck that made him grive anead and smasn qow obstacies that bad Jorever blocked the cause %of previous explor- e! Could anybody not uniting the heart of o2k with the body of iron, the ambition to win, €L to organize, faculty of managing irre- ressible men, end personal force requisite to Iy or cajole the worst of eavages, have gone tbrough Africa’ Eneland biad for Years been Picking men of the most pronounced capability inthe way of endurance, iutellect, exceutive ueryy, and high enthusiasm, and sending them %o that country with plenty of assistants and money. But they all gave up the job, or died xx;“’ will idiots manufacture detraction? g of all things is success. Stanley set out wfind Livingstone. He set out to walk across Usknown Africain the broadest part. Greai :‘;flbg;:‘! failed at each many times before. e They sav that, preferring to kill the otber low ratber 1han have the other fellow kill Be made Coroner’s subjects of murderous ficans. So wropg jn bim, that was. He 0ught to have let them butcher and cat him, then the Enelish bumane societics would bave voted him a kindly disposed but quite uu- mitigated fuol. His orders were to_cross_Afri- 25 veacefully if possible, but 1o cross Africa. The records of the journcy show that the less Allling he had to do the nearer he approached e eud of the task. This proves that the Cen- i can is teachable. Taey found in Stso- ¢ 8 man who. if killing was to be done, pro- toget the drop on them every time. \ere are no newspapers in that nobappy land, Lut the tidings that a short, square-buit white I0an, handy with his nfle, was smonz thew, Seems 10 have traveled fast, and in due time Sianley rescled the sccond ocean alive and se- One other thing that worries his critics is that Lie has g somic zirls aiter him. Well, beautv Bas chiased bravers in every clime and ceptury. Desdemons loved Othellotor the gangers he had #een, and heloved her because he koew when . behad got a zood thing. Those who do not i 1ike Mr. Stanles on this aceount have ooly to do C deeds as hehas doneand feminine ‘ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE ‘SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES adorers shall Stré:z t}:em‘ . riain writers think it pretty to stab his m;mry accomplishments and styles this man g‘ '0 can talk ‘and write in Eoglish, French, panish, aud goodness knows how many kinds of Ashantee! "I only know that his published letters and books tell the truthful_stories of iravels more entrancing than Marco Polo's; that they are the records of mighty acnievements re- ;Ited in uch a simple, hearty, undersiaudable l‘:nshlrm that some ol the foremost seholars of foarove read and reread them with continually ucreasing delight. The first account of his ‘end!cgnt‘: wfih l{i;\-ilnzs‘.nn vas turzid and straio- , but al a y work oe nsl’zrg;lxmblc‘ ter literary work has oeen . There is too much twaddle on this subject of “pure Enghsh.” A word or & phrase mn’v be a TYery good on, even though Chaucer never used it. “Some writers, who are consequential in words but featheryin ideas, think it damosa senteuce to say it contains an exoression that is i modern.” That such words as *tignore,” reliable,” “predicate,” “ovation,” and some otliers that figure fu thie pedantic indez expurga- forius of drowsy writers are necessary and valu- able, is patent alike to sense and reason. To be sure, they cannot be found in the Wrckliffe Bible; neitber can *Jocomotive,? 1t is yet problematical whether the house is not “ belng built.” If the house is building ™ itscif, thera 1s no need of paving carpenters, and the battle is fizhting, not the soldiers; the race is running, not the horses. It is better cuphony, but rough on the real participants in_the cvents. If one of these dilettante ever gets a counterfeit S10 bill pacsed on him, he will tind out there is such 2 thing as **bogus.” 'But to Stanley acain. I saw him at table, playing the host, two nights after the memora- ble” gathering at Mr. Hitt’s. This was at the dinner @mven by himself to two dozen fricnds at the Grand Hotel. I have met him in parior, library, and elsewhere since, under . circum- stances that were good for noting his traits, wanver, and habit.Other writers have marked Liow, under the terrible duys and nights of that last’ African journey, his young bair has half- Wwhitened. I think his eycs’ nave also bleached. There fs that singular uniformity of tint in the whites, iris, and pu=ils you may study in wide- awake animals. They tell of being open more thau shut; of danger always near. They look at you calmly, but not trustingly. They bave learned ro believe that treachery is the normal state of every form ot life, and that a resolute, successtul man must always be ready to repel atack. . The Stanley tace bas grown perfectly hmpassive. He stops short unconsciously in a laugh, and the features barden as though they feared you would try to take advantaze of their owner “should they for an instant betray the {act that a heart lurked behind that stouy mask. 1 have seen the same 100k settle over Grant’s face, and bave marked it in successful poker- plarers. Yet Stanler has taken, with all adaptability, to the amcnities of European social fife. Ile entertaias handsomely, carries hmself with a mixture of London bauteur and Parisian aplomb, and If he Zoes ayain {o Dabomey can make Chestertields of the hich-toned uatives I{ they will let him. He will never be 8 drawing-room dawdler, but can always remain what is vastly better, a person with a courteous, manly bears ing, whose face is sphiuxy but attractive, and whose physique becomes the dress-coat as well 85 jt did the explorer’s jacket. They accusebim of conceit and bounce. It is his right if he chooses. Yet it has been curious to see ghat he_evidently thinks James Gordon Bennett, Jr., the most finvortant of living men. The employe—that’s another good prohibited word—though praised and feted by the greatest of earth, cannot sink his awe for the cmoloyer. It Stauley has a 2ood opinion of himself, hic has 8 better one of Bennett, and true couceit never allows a master. Stanley to-day really believes that Bennett is more entitled to ecredit than hiwself for the discovery of Livingstone and the bisecting of Africa. Stanley bas the gift, common with remarkable mep, of calling pertinently tomind the men 2nd incidents of the past the instautau occasion arises. He has the perfect memory which of itself alone has oiten made success for the owner. “From Chicazo?” he savs. the minute of our mecting at Mr. Hitt's, ©Writing for Tuz Tris- UNE, too! Howis Mr. Hall? 1met bim some eleven vears ago in the Indian country. An excclient French and German scholar. Knows Italian also, if 1 remember rightly. An able ‘mewspaper man that Mr. Hall.” ” Tueo he spoke of the fancy Metropotitan Club that had enter- tained him”in McVicker’s Theatre Building on his return from the first African jaunt, and re~ called the name of neariy every person whom he had been introduced to there. With others at this dinner be was equally definite in bringing up old persons and svenes, and at our after meetings,:when gentlemen and ladies whom he had casually known years azo were refntroduced, there was always swilt breol of the accuracy of the Stanley wemory and juds- ment. A person or incident never gets cob- ‘webbed iu his mind. Healey, best of portrait painters, has just finished a fine picture of Mr. Stanley. To be ‘painted by Hezley is regarded fu Europe as in- contestibie evidence of greatuess. Heloves a shining mark as fondiy 3 does Death. i Stavles’s present bours are those of rest. It is a brief breathing time of day with him. ‘There has been but little lounging in the thirty- five full years of life he has compassed, aud no- body begrudees him the pleasant respite he is now catching. His lust book shows tnat just one year ago, the night he gave this diuner at the Grand Hotel, be was away fromt his party in the core of Africa, pearly starving. It was Toots, acrid berries, and roiten water with him then. Let us all praize the good fates that are now giving him Timbales Mayonnaise, und Xeres Perhaps in anotler year it will be Greenland’s stale pemmican aud walrus biub- ber. Gipeox. EUROPEAN GOSSIP. TIIE T'ARIS BOURSE. Paris Correspondence Detroit Free Press. I went to the Bourse at high noon. It js a massive structure, built after the model of the Temple of Jupiter Tonans at Rome, sur- rounded by a spacious portico, with a-colon- uade of sixty-four Corinthian villars, Its great interior space has 3 handsome vaulted ceiling, painted sv skillfully as to resemble bas-reliets. This interior, on the ground tloor (to which the publicare not admitted), bus a circufar, railed- off spave, surrouuding a round white stonc slab, which is also railed-iu, and into this “penetralia? the sworn brokers or “‘agents de chaoge.” and their uniformed messen- gers, who take thelr communications to the outer crowd and to the telegraph, aloue are privileged to evter. Outside this railingis o series of coops or pens into which the common s herd. A spacious gallery runs around the hall, from which the public may eojoy the exciting scenes below; and on medallions over- head are the names of all the chief commercial cities of the world, with whom this Bourse communicates, while the clock in the nall sets the time for all Paris. About half an hour be- forc the opening time 2 company of good-look- jng amd _bandsomcly-umformed municipal ruard marched into the open space, where they were drawn dp and remained lookmz quietly on the mad scene that followed. Next [ heard a sound like Joud chanting iwith a'stentorian chorns frowm a corner of the nall, and fancied thes were opening the serviees with o hymn. but it was only the auctioning otf of railway sharesand the buls of the purchasers. As 12 o’clock ap- proached a helter-skelter race 100k place to se- cure favorable placca at the railing, and in the covps and pens, and to hanz on to them. A belf rang at_the precise stroke of nwon, and the French Drews, Goulds, and Vauderbiits, all dressed in - the heizht of fashion, took their places in the jnncer circle, and straizhlway went cach other, while without and around them commenced a furious riot, which you wouid bave thonght a first-class row were fl not that each oue of the mob bad ared-covered note- book in his hand in which he was writing away as hard as he_was able, sbile he velled” wean- while with_all the puwer of bis lungs. The vaulted ceiling above swelled and reverberated the wild clamor. Men used eachother’s backs and shoulders for writing-desks, aud empha- sized, sometimes, with stamping feet, us if they were so lany Dancug Fauns, some- times with slaps on the nearest couvenient bald beads, and I noticed that the heads of three-fourths of the brokers resembied Heaven, at least in one respect, that there was no dye- ing or parting there. Some of the Howling Dervishes yelped out tbeir bids like curs, some boomed thiem out Jike bulltrozs, and there was ove red-polied chap in the central soace whose bair bristied with excitement like a porcupive’s. Acrazy little man, with a big bat and 3 shrill, Tesonant voice, who danced, sesticulated, and screamed like a Bedlamite, when he scemed to tuink more force uecessary 1o accom: his purpose, waved his bat, and then flung it into ! the air. The coops and pens surrounding toe central inclosure were filled at onmce by a welldressed and carcfully-barbered crowd of shricking, cesticulating maumen, pevned in so tizht that they scemed like bees in a bive. 1 expected to see them fly at each other’s throats, and rend each other's bair and garments every instant. An Eighth Ward cau- cus was a Sunday-school or 8 prayer-meeting in com| n. Pl waser that the Tower of Babel was built with but half the clamor. _lad I not witnessed the Roard of Brokers in New York. T should bave taken this for a serious ** emeute,” and expected to see the guands draw their sabres and charze and disperse the raving lunatics. It was amusing to watch a pale, cxhausted, earewarn official, who seemed to be charzed l oe theirs faster than they can | with takipg note snd keeping record of the howls and yells, as he worked sadly away with unmoved meln, looking as if the grasshopper was a burden. He might as well have tried to record the howlings of a pack of wolves. A fat fellow, who seemed to be his deputy, oi'ed "his notes profuselv with his per- spiration, earninz his bread by the swecat of his brow. Some excitin: war-threat- ening news arrived, and then the yells redoubled, and each broker danced like St. Vitus, sud moved his arms aloft }ike a semophore. 1n the zulleries where I stood well-dressed women arouna me got into a quiver of excitement over their ventures and_chances below, They flut- tered their pretty skirts about, aud tossed their ribbons as madly and wildiy es the men in the ring below, and vented their emétions in shrill feminine velps. But women are always more furious and reckless thay men, when once they learn how. And there were even two or thres black-roved priests up here, who waxed guite nts rest. eager and demonstrative as the Bur I believe that indifference to filthy lucre is mot a clerleal characteris- tie, except among the barefooted Frunciscaus. The row increased until the brokers gou speech- less and hearing became impossible. and then they got down to dumb-show aud made barzains with their fingers. The floor was strewed with torn paper like Vallambrosan leaves. If they had procigimed the Commuue and had all burst into singmg *Ca Ira,” aud proceeded to dance the *Carmagnole,” and to wuillotine the weary clerk and the fat one, it would have seemed ex- actly “en regle.” - None of these fellows could have beenconvicted of murder before a Michizan jurs. A plea of insanity would have held in every case. Threatening complications of potit- ical “affairs and lnpending war had made the bidding exceptionally lively. Ana so they call- ed this % transucting business,” and_thus mill- ions of franes passed from hand to hand. OPERA AT POMPEIL “ london Telegravh. A curlous item of operatic intelligence reaches us from Naples. An cuergetic impresario, mnamed Luigni, bas announced that, after a lapse of 1,800 years, the theatre of the City of Pom- peif will be shortly opened. The inaugural en- tertainment will be *La Fizlia del Reg: mento;” aud the manager, while respectfully soliciting a continuance of the favors bestowed in old tiwes on lis predecessor, Marcus Quintus Martius, lastens to assure the publicof hig determination to make every effort to equal the rare qualities displayed by the aforesnid Quintius in the irst century of our era. In this siuzularproclamation theremay be aconsiderable infusion of that burtesque spirit which is as stroug among the Italizus now as it was in the days 0! Boceaceio, and in_ times far anterior to those of the ‘‘Decameroun.” The French are a witty people; the English when they are not erumbling can be boisterously jovial; the Span- fards are gravely, and the Americans sardonic- ally humorous; but the [talians are essentially aod traditionally a comical people, delighting in every species of racy merriment, sraceful bul- foouery, audacious parody, and. ingenious &)_mtzic;\l jokinz, Thus Signor Luigoi, of the ‘catro Reale, Powpeil, may, to a certain extent, be making fan of his pairons. Strolling dramatic and operatic companies, aud open-air s f whith the auditorium is often a nillside conveniently sloping to a erassy ¢, and the actor’s tiring-roomn the nearest vineyurd or olive-zrove, have always been cou- monin ltaly, cspecially in summer, when the hieat renders the ordinary temples of the drama absolutely unbearable. These al Jfresco per- formances, especielly the lyrical ones, are aften the droliest entertainments imaelnadle. Opera seria and opera bufa are attemotrd with equal antrepidity by tne trouve. Thus it is not un- usual to meet with & Lucrezia Borgia past 50 years of age, with one exe, and 1o voice Lo speak of, while_the gallaut aad comely Gennaro is a red-nosed veteran with a wooden leg, and the sprightly Vago Orsiniis a portly matron, and the mother of the prima baferina. Tuese little shortcomings fail 1o trouble the audience in the slightest dearee. They have paid their money —from twopence-halfveuny in the gallery to sixpence in the stalls—to be amused; vhev kuow the music of all the operas by heart; and there is often as much aud at feast as good sing- ing before as hehind the curtain, which, inan open-2ir theatre, is merely a cheerfully con- ventional fictiou. It would consequently not sur- orlse us to learn that the energetic Siguor Luigni has st most received permission from the police to give a few performances in the cool Gf the evcuing in one of tue ruined theatres of Pom- peii; and that ¢ La Figlia del Reugimento? is maly intended to divert the foreizo sicht- secrs who flock to to the wondrous disentombed ity, to the very existence of which the majority of ‘the Neapotiian populace are completely hi- different, simply for the reason that a money payment i<, except on Sunday, exacted at the turnstiles with which the Municipality of Na- have discreetly hedeed the place round. Pom- peii has become as tnuch au exhivition as the Crystal Palaze, and is to be scen for a counle of lire a head, guides included, just as the Falls of Moutmorency, in Canada, are **on view™ for a quarter of « dollar. ¢ ENGLISH SLOWNESS, Olfre Lopan's Londun Letter (n Cincinnati Enguirer. “Yesterday I had occasion to go to Bell, the chemist’s,—that renowned little physic shop in Oxford street, where it is saia Queen Eliza- ‘beth bought her pills and ber boluses, the only R0t on carth, it is solemuly claimed, where drugs of the uttermost purity can be purchased, —and, while there, a party of Americans came in with a prescription which they wantgl put up and sent at once to the Langham. While the white-aproned pestle-pounder went into the back of the shod to see about the preserintion I geeted my acquaintances (for 1 kuew them). While we were talking the drug-clerk came hem till 6 0’clock back and said it would ta) to compound that.preseription. As it was now 10 in the morniug, the owner of the prescription (it was that_well-known wag Harry W.) said he was afraid of jarrinz the establisiment by such enforeed expedition, and that, rather than a8 that, be would prefer they should deliver the compound a month henee, when he returned from the Paris Exposition, at- which time his wile would probably be quite recovered, il she wasw’t dead. The elerk stuck his tongdc in bis cheek in & wageish wag quite in tent with the gravity of an establishment which physicked Queen Elizabeth, and said: “Why, sir, there’s one ingredicnt will take six hours to infuse.” Waoen we leit the shop our Louisville friend said: I was onthe point of replying that I should thmk an establishment of their im- portance would keep such things ready infused 1or use at any time; but I instantly saw that that would be a foolish comment.” 1t is there, prohably, where the great.reputa- tion of “Bells™ has'its eource; mot ouly on account of the purity of the urugs they use, but particularly on account of the extreme care Wwith which every ingredient, of every prescription is compounded; fresh infusions are made to mevt every oceasion, and the accuracy employed is as sreat at Bell’s as it s at the Bank of England, “Slow and sure ? is their motto, and it's a good ane, toe, for all_peonle who Keep shop where they are licensed to sell poisons. Nevertheless, English siowness gives rise to very funny complications somctimes. Ameri- caw busitess men can’t understand it. Tt begins at the breakfast table in the morning. You go to table and urder the Dplest possible break- fast,—ham and e thins and coffee. Min- utes lengtheu Mo quarter hours, quarters into halves, halves into three-quarters before you get whnat_yon have ordered. As for those mud Americans who go in for a breakiast such as they are used to at the Brunswick or the Hoft- man, in New York,—chicken croquets, stewed potatoes, and things of that kind. why, dinner will probably be ready before their breakfast is. When you niake any complaint, the answer is, “Kindly order your breakfast the night tefore, and it "will then be ready at the hour you npame.” But apart from the absurdity of order- ing your breakfast for tbe morrow while the dinner of to-day still undizested, you may ot know ot what time you will be u for break- fast. If you don’t you must wait; that's the English plan. FRENCII TOYXS. Edward King writes to the Boston Journal of a species of industry in which the French exeel; and in which they are well represented at the Paris Exposition. He says: “In a corner of the immense Freneh scction, not far from the “Gallery of Labor,’ is the group devoted to a branch ot industry in which the French are mas- ters, and which is constantly obsersed by faugh- ing crowds. It is the spot above all others to which a dyspepticvisitor should first ro. There the iozenious Gaul Las shown what he can ac- compl i making toys for children. Surely there nevea was so much ingenuity expended before upon such Jittle matters. In one room stands a little theatre, on the staze of which an oredestra of moukeys, richly costumed, per- forms a selection of pleces ot music. These automatous arc'almost astonishing cnough to make one beiieve in black art. The leader sesticulates trom time to time, and then ad- dresses himself with true artistic earnestness to his violin, and his musicans play with fecling and taste, which might well make the Tziganes euvious. In a wiiiature pond near-by,a woman, | dressed in o loudsome bathing costume, is swimming. Were it mot for the Lifliputian proportions of this rival of Boynton and Webb, it would be almost impossible to imagine that it is.not a human being. Beneath a wide- spreading oak are seated haif-a-dozen prerty grls, dressed in the rayishing costumes of Louis- Fourteenth’s time. Beside them fs & young cavalier, who salutes them civilly, then hands them a basket, from which they take the oro- vision necessary for & picnic. It is magic, you are fuclined to say; vet it iS really notbing but mechanism. Pass o little farther on and you sce a fragment Of tha Jardin d' Acclimatation. The animals are. shown eneaged in eating, in nourishing their youns, orin soliciting food trom .visitors. The top elephant slowly moves bis trunk throuzh the grating, takes a tov cake [rom a toy girl’s hand, eats it, flaps his huge cars in token of sutisfac- tion, and passes out his trunk for * more.’ The giraffe craues big neck and looks oot comically upou you. A sorcerer could do no more. This® mechanical world is as natural as the real oue, And the doll houses! Andarmies marching, counter-tnarching, storming fortitications, and firiuz mimic cannons! * Verily, one cannot help recalling the remark which the satiric Voltaire put into the mouth of his Prince of Babylon: “"The French are children of the good God: I love to remain bere and plav with them.’ By no meaps forget the toy corner at the Exlubi- tion. Volumes might be written about it.”? AN OFFICIAL BALL IN PARIS. Zucy I, Hoover's Paris Lelter 10 Bultimore Guzette, The Marshal and Madame de MacMabon were present, the latter in pure white, a garb that she is cxtremely foud of wearing, though it is very unbecoming to her short. stout fizure. Mme. Borel, tne wife of tne Miuister of War, and consequently the hostess of the occasion, 8 very pretty brunette, with rezular, delic: features, was attired in cream gauze, over silk of the same shade, profusely dolted with small bouquets "of artiflcial flowers. As to the rewmainder of the lady guests, there was the usual display <of handsome toilets and of frowsy onts, Lbe proportiou being about equal. One very *stunuing” roilet was composed of bright scarlet velvet, profusely trimmed with white lace, and a more uosuitavle garb to wear to & ball in tie mouth of July can hardly be imawined. ‘The sentlemen, however, far outskone the ladies in the watter of dress, all the officers of the French army who happeu- ed to be in or neur Paris being present, sud it being de riguenr that on such ogeasions they should appear in full uviform. Conscquently the rooms were gay with scarlet trousers and gold-braided “voats, and fuiriy glittered with epautets and decorations. - A group of Arab cuiets frow Algicrs, Who are in the Freach service, forined a noticeable feature of the cven- ing, as they all wore their picturesque native garb. Some of these dusky ‘arriors are ex- tremely handsome, one of them, with his clas- sic features aud meluucholy durk eves, beiug the very image of Edwiv Booth. Among the fetw Americans present were Dr. Edward War- ren (Bey) and Mrs. Warcen, Miss Mildred Lee (daughter of the late Communder- in-Chief of the army of the Confed- eracy), -Mrs. Hooper, of Yhiladelphis; Mr.” Norris, of the same apd Mr. James Hodges, ot Baltimore. “The ball was kept up to a very late hour, the * German being begun 50 Jate as 4 o’clock, Madame Borel decluring that it would be too large it it were commenced any earlicr. Obe of the most curi- ous features of the entertainment to trausatlan- tic eyes was the cstablishment in the garden of & pavition in which beer and cgars were sup- plied to the gentlemen fuests. Now, the cizars arcall well euough,~—but beer,—and in elegraut, refined Pans, too! Verly, the innovation was a. startling one. % RED TAPE IN RUSSIA. A story i3 current in Moscow, apropos of Russtau official routine, which, whether lit- erally true or not, certainly illustrates to per- fection the character of the prevailing system. An operatic star of some note, connected with oneof the principal Moscow theatres, wishing to make a short excursion into the couatry, went to zet her passport countersizned by the lotal authoritics. The presiding officiul received her politely, and, baviny learned ber pus inquired for her ‘*written petition.”* My writteu petition!” cried the lady, *I bhave nowe; 1 never knew that anything of sthe kind was required.” * **Not required, madomef On the contrary, nothing cau be done withont it.” *What am 1 to do, then!’" **Notlng easier; be rood enourh to take this sheet of paper, and write according to my ..ctation” The spplicant obeyed, and trauscribed word for word a foripal petition re- questing leave of absence from the city for a stated time, which was then duly sizned, folded, sng scaled. * And now,” quoth the- man in oliice, ** you have only to deliver it.” ‘To whom, pray?” *To whom,” cclioed the of- ficial, with 3 sHght smile at the absurdity of the question; “ to me, of course.”” The document was accordingly handed across the table. The great man adjusted his spectacles, broke the seal, gravely read over nisown composition {rem beginning to end, folded and decketed it with methodical slowness, and then, turning to the imuatient artiste, said, withan aic of ol- ficial solemnity: “ Madam, I have read your pe- tition, and regret to tell you tout I am unabie to grant it.” REAPER-TRIAL IN FRANCE. Inspatch to Londan News. Parts, July 24.—The Minister of Commerce and Agriculture, the Chinese Envogs, the Red Indian Cuiefs, the Arab Sheiks from Algeria, the Commissioners to the Exhibition from the United States, Evgland, and the British Colonics, and the principal exbibitor<of agricult- ural_steam implements, were prestnt at the reaping mateh ut Mormant, about twenty miles from Paris. Forty-three reaping inacnines com- peted, sixteen of which werc French, thirteen English, eleven American, two Canadian, two Russian, and one Swiss, The winners were M Cormick, of the United States, and Walter Woods, of the Britsh_secct! match was followed by a dinner to 400 persons in _a _tent, Where the Minis- ter of _ Agricultafe and Commerce, in proposing the Marshals health, said he did not so much drink to the illustrious soldier who bas passed his life_in defending his couiry, as to the irresponsible President of that Républic which, by its moderation, wisdom, aud cconomy had healed the wounds of war, and raised France from her disasters. M. Oscar tte drank to bis Alzerian brethren, and in complimentine Mr. McCormick madea grace 1ul aliusion to_the okl friendship between the United States and France. At the couclusion of the bauguet M. Teisserenc deBort announced that M. Chertemps, a distineuished agricaitur- ist, on whose estate the match took place, had been made au ofhicer of the Legion ot Honor. IAMBURG FLOWER-GIRLS. Ewma D. Soutmeiek in Boston Trazeller. These git]s wear loug red or blue stockings and low slippers. Their dress skirts are sbort apd shirred a long way down from the waist, and very likely itis a bright skirt with dark blue aprou, which is shirred iu the same way, and reachesalmost round the body. Theu there is a white waist, with _full slegves reaching part way down the arm aud turned back like a deep cufl; while over this is worn iu iront, rom the neck to the waist, reaching nearly from arm to arm, a very gay and higbly orvamented cheu sette, the foundation of black 4 great deal of twsel, o, in S0 silver ornaments. Over the ba ting jacket just hiding the ed; piece. ‘The head is covercd with a straw shade bat, but of peculiar shape, such as canuot be deserined, baving a bluck band crosswy the crown, and put throu: ther sidv, just above the ear lead, the strings tying under the ciin. As an ornament, 1 suppose, there stands out from the back of the hesd an mwense bow, with lonir euds, wlich is so stif that it must be made of tin or plaster, and is black, aud crimped to ha the appearauce of ribbon. These girls, when 2 hotels witn flowers 1o sell, ook very attractive. Some of them bave very pretty tuces. —r—— TO A FRIEND. 4. v. a.] < Life's greatest boon, those friendships formed That pever do depart— That warsle luke the voice of song, Sing sweetly to the heart. The rarest @fis of God 10 man Are friends that 're tricd and true; And here Iet me nOW recognize **One of the chosen few.” May all the sweets of Tife be thine— Its pleagnres, not its pains! May theev ere long wake inta rong Love's pure and holy stratn: And, as you journey on through life, May Angel-harps attend, And may you never know them less Thon I wisk thee, my friend. Ern D. TURNEY. ——— Across Purposes. Cincipnati Times. In the case of tie Dickson livel fo the Police Court yesterday the small boy who carried the uote made it quite amusing for the audience and provoisine Lo tbe usualiy placid Prosecuting Attorney. The examination was in this shape: “Where do you live!” «“Right across the street from Mr. Dickson.” «\Where aoes Mr. Dickson live?” “Rieht across the street irom us.” «But that ain’t what 1 want,” and the Pros- ecutor began Lo grow red and perspire; ‘“tell me where you livel”” ] live with my mother.” « 2ud where does your mother live” Then the Prosecutor swore out a habeas corpus agalost the witness and served him with a man dsm us. i tou to visit relatives. THE SOCIAL WORLD. A Sudden Outbreak of the Wed- ding Fever. Parties, Festivals, afid Receptions—- Personal Notes. CHICAGO. GARDINER—WALE. An anostentatious wedding took place at No. 65 Twenty-sccoud street, the residence of the bride’s father, Dr. E. M. Hale, st 11 o'clock yesterday morning, at which time Dr.J. C. Gardiner, of Madrid, Soain, though an Aweri- can, was married to Miss Frances Hale, by the Rev. Dr. Locke, of Grace Episcopal Charch. There were no guests present save the relations and a few of the most intimate friends of the family. After the ceremony a wedding-break- fastwas partaken of, congratulations were paid, ete., when the young couple took their de- parture for different points in the East. They will sail on the 29th for Madrid, their future! home. They were the recipients of many costlv and useful presents. BLAISDELL—M'CONNELL, A quiet but very stylish wedding occurred at the Church of the Ascension, corner of Elm and LaSulle streets, at high noon last Tucesday, the contracting parties beinz Mr. Anthony f. Blais- dell, of St. Louis, and Miss Mary McConnell. The Rev. Arthur Ritchie performed the cere~ mony, fn the presence of the relatives and im- mediate friends, aiter which the party procecded to the residence of L. W. McConnell, Esq., brother of the bride, Dearborn avenue and Schitler street, where they partook of a wed- ding breakfast. There was a large list of presents. Mr. and Mrs. Blaisdell left that afternoon upon an extended Eastern trip, in- tending to return to St. Louis, their future bome, ubout the first of next month. BUCKINGHAM—CLAUGHAN. Miss Emia Claughan, o well-known society young lady at Lake View, was married last Wednesday eveniog to Mr. John Buckiniham. “The ceremony took place at § o’clockz in Trinity Episcopat Chureh, the Reyv. M. C. Dalton ofliciating, avd was witnessed by-a large num- ber of peopie. The ceremony concluded, the bridal party and members of the family re- paired to the residence of the bride’s parents in Lake View, and, atter a tempting wedding supper, 5. Buckigham lele for au extended wedding tour 1o the seashore. COUFFER—PRATT. Married, Tuesduy cvening, Aug. 6, at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. William E. Couffer to Miss Carrie Louise, youugest daughter of C. M. Pratt. THE ABT SOGIETY visited Geneva Lake Iast Thursday and Friday as the guests of Mr. N. K. Fairbunk, the Presi- dent of tne Socicty iter supper at_the Whit- ing House Mr. Fairbank took the Society out fora rideon his fine stewn yacht toe Cisco. During the ride severul stops were made in frout of residences on_the luke shore, and a song rendered by the Society; returning about 12 p. . to the hotel, where” Brother Waitjng bad provided ample accommodations for rest. Some of the “boys,” Lowever, not_having had enough of the luke as yet, indulged in 1 swim “while all the worid was sleeping.” Alter breaklast Friaay moraine Mr. Fairbank again touk the party on board the Cisco. and a tGur of the lake was azaiu made, and thorough- Iv enjoved. At 6 p. m. the entire varty partook of a’ supper Ir. Fairbank’s residence. lu the eveniny the Cisco was awnin boarded, and the thne given over to songand serensde. Eversthing that would float was_brought into requisition by the people, and, if one shouid Jjudee by the storm of bouquets falling ou the deck of the Cisco, the people of Geneva Lake cujov music, the Society may well feel proud of their visit, and especially ol their President who so bandsomely entertaised them. SOCIAL NOTES. A Jawn party was given upon the grounds of Dr. Brown, at Irvine Park, Friday evening, the proceeds 6f woich are to go toward erecting 3 parsonage. It is rumored that Mr. E. J. Ovington ana Miss Mary Barnes, of the West Sfde, are en- gaged. " ‘I'ne Exccutive Committee of the State Indus- trial Sehool for Girls re talking about having a mounlizut exeursion for the benefit of the insti- tution. Tue Farragut Boav Ciub will give an excur- sian Tnesday, A 20, leaviug Goodrich’s dock at 3 elegrant steamer Menomiuee, arriving av Highlsnd Park about 6:30 p. m.. where supoer will be served at the Highland Park Ilouse, zand returning home by moon- light, leaving at ahout 30, aiter spending the intervening hours in danc- ing at the hotel. The boat will reach home before midnight, and arraugements have been effected for a supply “of street cars and stages upon its arrival. Refreshments will e crved on board, and a string and brass bund will accompany the party. Althoush the Me- nominee will carry nearly 600 persons, only 300 tickets will be issued, which will only be sold by members, it being desizned that each member shall insite a friend or two. The arranzements are in charze of Messrs. Alf S, Porter, Clinton B. Hate, Veruon Booth, George L. Blodgett, and Frenk S. Webster. The Saturduy Frening era'd encourages its lady acquaintances to join cooking clubs, offer- iz as an induzement that every member tnus far reported is cither marricd or engazed. Prof. Martine's reeular weekly hop ocearred at the verside Hotel last evening, and was, as e aunual picnic of St. George’s Society was held Wednesdav at Woodlawn, and was more private in its nawre than heretofore, couse- quently more enioyable. SR Miss' Mary E. Cberry, of New York, who is spending a few weeks with her sister, Mrs. John Zunruarman, at Oak Park, will give an enter- tainment, consisting of select readings and reci- tations, for the benefit_of the First Congreza- tional Church of Oak Park, Thursday evening, ju the parlors of the churen. A bachelors’ party was given Friday evening by Tony Anguera, at his residence, No. 240 Park avenue, to the crployes of the house of W. W. mball, the occasion being his 424 birth- day. The guests began to assemble at’ 4 _o'clock in the afternoon, aud smoked ciwars under the shade of the trees on the lawn, and slaked their tlirst with mues of coul ale. Later in the evening they amused themselves at games of croquet, pigeon-liole, and cards. At So'clock a champague supper was ser ‘The party broke up about It o'clos spent a very enjoyable cvening and wished their host mauy happy roturne, - Mr. Anguera is the oldest employe in Mr. Kimball’s s , haviug entered it twenty Tears azo. Hle is popular with his associatss. ‘Ihe ladics of the Baptist Church of Euvle- wood gave a lawn festival Thursday evening on the Hieh School zrounds, wnich Was a novelty and a sucee: Between three and four hun- ared people visited the grounds dur- fnr the evening. - and were entes tumed by vocal and insurumental music rendered by a ounber of ssional voluu- teers. Oue of tue principal eyents of the i fairy dazce under tae dirccuion of nbush. A very pleasant surp: party to Mr. B, F. Corev, of Englewood, was enziucered by a party of ladies and_gentiemen from Chicago la<t Wednesdar. _They-arrived on the uoon train and proceeded to spread a large extension-tabie with the gGod things which they brought with them, and then invited the host and his fumaly {o dinner. The aftcrnoon was. spent in an agrecable manner.and the party returned to the city in carriages about 7 o’clock in the eveniog. ¢ 4 ext Thursday evening, at the residence ot _the Denie’s mother, 45¢ Hurlbut strect. The Res. Dr. Henry, of Quincy, L, will perform; the ceremony. PERSONAL. s » Mr. C. R Barton and daughter, Miss Carrie, of St. Caroliue’s court, will visit Oconomowoc his week. ‘ ISf)l. Fred D. Grant, who has been to the “Far West? for two mouths, returned_Wednesday, accompanied by Mrs. Grant, who joived bim at Mackinaw. whére she bas been sojourning for everal weeks. . E"C:m:. and Mrs. (:h:\rlcsh B Saratoga and Long Branch this " varty composedof the Misses Barrows, Miss i Miss Fannie Gould of New York, Mr. . D. Bangs. Mr. Rubert Hymao. Jr., Mr. William Getcbell, and Mr. Will Burrows returned to the city Tuesday after a most delightful excursion Lake Zu B w)li’;s Lizzie A. Klaredeparted for Philadelpbia where she will be the tuest of t Thursda e Forsstall. Thenee she will zo to Bos Davenport, Is visiting friends Miss Jenaie Hollister, of Michigan avenue, is t Oconomowoc. \ir. Edar L. Heaton is among the visitors at Ocozomowac. Miss Reiser, of i in this city. Mr. Robert Scott, of Carson, Pirie, Scott & ., and wife returned home yesterdy moru- Ing after au extended sight-seeme trio through England, Ireland, France, and Scotland. f Mr. Charles A. Theyer will leave for Mar quatte Thursday. where he expects to spend W0 weeks pleasantly in ishing, boating, cte. A D. Ellis and family left their home in Ellis Park last evening for an_extended trip East. They wil visiy the White Mouutains and all the princial watering places ou the sea shore. Judse 8, M. Moors aud family are visiting {riends in Kentucky. M. Frapk G. Hoyae, the Eood-naturcd Quar- termaster-Sergeant of the First Reguaent, re- turned last week frowm a vacation in Loulsville, where he has been baskine tu_the wiarm smiles of the bellesof that city and New Albany (par- ticularly the latter). Mr. Charles L. Bonaey will leave for a month’s tour through the New Englund States. Mr. Georze Peckham, of St. Louis, formerly asrell-known society youug gentleman of the Weat Side, this city, will arrive_this morning, and will visit bis parents at St. Carotine’s court for a few days. A, N, Kellogz and family, who have quite re- cently returned from a sojourn in_Miuuesota, lett “Thursday evening for a week’s abseuce East, via toe St. Lawreuce River route. R. B. Bacon, Esq., left this week for the East, apd it is iatimated’ that he wiil nat_returd aione; in fact, it will be “Mr.and Mrs. Bacon bereafter. 3 Irs. C. R. Hastings, Miss Hattie Hastings, and Jliss Lucy Aldrich, accompanied by Mr. Edgar French, have gone East, via the lakes, for seyeral mouths’ pleasure. Misses Emma and Alice Goodiin, of Ellis avenug, are now at home, after rusticating in Tutoam County with fricnds. Mrs. J. 8. Wheeler and daughter Mav, of Mason City, In are_the guests of Mrs. C. S. Squiers, 1613 Wabash avenue. Atrs. W, M. Dandy, wno has been visiting at Whitewater, Wis., Tor several wecks past, re- turned home last Saturday week. Miss Carrie Welley has gone to Charles City, Ia., for a short vi Miss Rose Mol of Michizan avenue, will teave for Oconomowoe this afternoon, and. will visit Mrs. George Scaverns for 4 weck or ten days. dir. William Mehle, one of the *salid » younz ?ncudol ew Orleans, is *visiting Chicago for & ey _Mme. Eugenie de Roode-Rice left Saturday nignt for n visit to the East, and cxpeets to re- turnabout the 1st of September, to resume her n.:uslufl duties 2t the Studio, No.'152 State street. known in the social circ] ot the South Side, left Friday mornine for Waukesha. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ezan have taken apart- ments at Highland Hall, Hizhland Park, for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. William R. Page are sojourning at Oconomowac, . e Mr. and Mrs. Frank T. Bliss and Miss Alida C. Biiss, of Morris, Iil., are visiting for a few days at the residence of Theodore T. Bliss, No. 631 West Madison street. ‘ Miss Harris, of Laporte, Ind., is visiting her cousins, the Misses Blair, at 274 Michigan ave- noe. Misaes Agnes and Essie Burtis will spend sev- eral weeks i Sheboyean. ® Mr. Wilbur Hagaus, of Efmburst, is en route homne from Paris. d _Mrs. Louis Benedict and little daughter are visiting friends in Elgin. Miss Rosina Hooley and Miss Pussie Conley :l;e zvlslllng friends in the western part of the ate. Gen. Parsons, of 8t. Louls, is in the city, a guest at St. Caroline’s court. _Mr. Chartes A. Thayer, accompanied by his sister, Miss Florence, will leave on the Peeriess this week, aud will ‘visit Mackinaw, St. Marie, and other places of interest on Lake Superior. Lieut. George T. Lovejoy, of Company H, First Remiment, has returned from the East, ;v:nm he has been spending bis summer vaca- ivn. Jiss Sadie Bigler left Chicago last Thursday evening for New York, from which city she will sail Aug. 14, ou the Cunarder Scythis, for Paris, where she will pass two wouths. Toomas R. Jenkins, Esq., President of the Farrazut Boat Club, returaed from Europe Wednesday. g _Mr. and Mrs. Heary A. Blair left for - Lalse- side, Wankesha County, Tuesday, to spend sev- cral wecl Miss Gertie Garduer returned last Monday from Missouri, where she has been visiting Miss Rosa Moor. Mr.and Mrs. George Wilkins, of Syracuse, are visiting the latter's sister, Mrs. 8. P. Dewey, at No. 410 Weat Monroc street. Dr.and Mrs. J. S. Mitenell returged Thurs- day from a fcur-weeks' trip to Naatucket, Martha’s Vinevard. Mr. Frauk Gilman, who has been absent io Europé for seyerul months past, returned last weck, much improved in health. Miss Aonie Mix, of Waukegan, is visiting her cousin, Miss Clara Brown, of Englewood. Mre. John T. Brewer, of Moumouth, Ti, is visifing friends in the city. _Capt. E. R, P. Shurlyand familyare sojourn- ing au the Higland Park Hotel. Mrs. 8. A. L. McClure aud Miss Mary V. Mc- Ciure, Mi: Mamic Stansberry, of Baltimore, are at the Woodruil Hotel. Miss Anva Kendall, a society young lady of Grand Rapids, is visiting Miss Belle Warrea at Geneva. The Rev. John Donnelly, former pastor of the Englewood Baptist Chureb, sails for Enrope on the 20th of this month. Mr. 4. H. Veeder, of Englewood, has returned from his trip to Montsna inuch improve Miss Nellic Fuller, of Benningion, N, Y., is visiting friends at Englewood. ., Miss Antis, of Morris, fll., is visiting her ¢Gusin, Miss Nettie Southard, of Englewood. Miss Nettie Smith, of Euglewood, has return- ed home after a brief visit of three weeks with friends in Michizan. My. Eddie P. Eames and_his mother, Mrs. M. C. Eames, of Blue Island, have returned from a vcri' pleasant trip to Vermont. Mr. and 3rs, George E. Cox, nee Lehman, have returned from Oconomorwoc, and are resid- (2!.' at the Hotel Brunswick, where they will re- ceive their numerous friends, NEW YORK. TATS, BONNETS, AND RIGBONS. Svectal Correspondence of The Tribune, * NEW York, Aue. §.—1he last styles in milli- nery are by far the most elewant and satisfac- tory that the scason has produced. It often Liapoens that, after ranning through a course of absurdities, fashion settles down and offers something very attractive. The little close boanets, the brilliantly-colored flowers, and the rich plain satin ribbons meet with most ent hu- stastic favor. Butitis a factto be deplored, thousrh not ignored, that these styles, charming as they undeniably are, fail to be becoming to the majority. Indeed, there are few ladies who can wear them withimpunity, although many do wear them. Ladies who have large faces require adistended brim. For them are selected either bonnets having a slanting open front, to be filled in with face-trimmiugs, or the cver-pleas- ing coronet style. For carriage wear, broad- brimmed hats or the very close bounets are se- lected. The former are obtainable in an almost countless varlety, and baye either sloping crowns or larze square ones. Ail kinds of straws and fancy braids are used for these hats, and in the city is an establishment where one can have made to order a hat of anv shape aud of auy variety of braid to match one's dress. Black and white straws, sometimes having a -braid of yellow throuzh them, white, pearl- gray. or very light brown, are the ordiuary colors in demand. = Al these broad-brimmed _hats arc wonderfully pliable, and the bruns are often Lent in the most coquettich and picturesque shapes. These bats arc trimmed With the agest ribbons, cte. A vew and handsome ribbon of soft and flex- ible texture has palm leaf or Oriental fizures in the most brilliaut colors. Plain satiu ribbons are also excessively used, and a fancy exists ior double-faced ribbon of satin and eros-grain. Flowers are used in profusion, and these ars oftener blossoms of the -most gorzeous tints thar of the softer and more dehcute hues. Smafl aod very full ostrich-tips are much used, and these, too, show the popularity of vivid colors. - Poppy red and coral are the favorite selections. For Indics who object to all this blaze of colors there arc the stylish Eoglish walking-hats of biack straw and chip trimmed with mottled ribbons. These are usually wide and very soft, and have a ground of black or some dark rich color, upon which are most minute desiwus in the deen-toned l'ersfan tints. Black and colored grenadines of fancy patterns are much used for trimming sun-hats and hata for balf-dress duty, A very stylish bat for this purpose is a broad-leafed bat of flexible brown straw, with am outside trimming of fancy gren- adive. The left side of the brim s curved amainst the crown and ornamented with a large clusterof crimson and yellow roses. . A VERY CHARMING NAT shows a shape receding rapidly from the cdgeof the brim to the too of the crown. It is made of very coarse white chip, and has the brim borderca by a - string of white pearl beads. Fine pleatines of very vale biue crepe lisse are placed upon thecrowe, and across the top of it passes a handsome ribbon etriped with pale-blue satin and black velvet. The pe- callarity of this ribbon is, that its stripes are lengthwise. A profuse garniture of fine black and white flowers covers nearly the whole front of the crown, and imm:dl:ltelggn front is alarge square bow of the striped ribbon. This stviec of Mr. Watson Blair and Miss Mamie Blair, well - n hatand trimming is much admired by young tnatrons, and is becoming to most faces, Inside trimmings in bonnets are no longer much es- teemed, thoush oceasionally secn. rull fine 5ushfl5‘n( crepe lisse are usually selected when face-trimmings are worn. A very stylish bon- Detisof pewl-eray chip, having the brim in {ront_only enouch elevated to admit 3 frill or ruching Of black lace. ~ Thers is o dainty cape tormed of rows of the chip meeting those of the crown at right angles. This cape aud the edzes of the brim are bordered by o striog of oblong nearl beads of the sume shade s the chip. A broad gray satin ribbon, gros erain on one side, is arranged in an odd and stylish man- ner A chain is formed of a continuous series of ribbon loops, and these pass all around the front nud sides of toe crown. Above these is & circlet of palerav ostrich feathers. Long strings of satin tie beneath the ieft car in 2 bow with very short ends. This fancy for strinss stifl cantinues for unabated in spite of its dis- comfort at this sesson. They are pretty and ag a rule becoming, though they do not add a charm Lo every face. A very lovely hat is of fine ecru chip, having the siightly- projecting brim faced with pavy-blue velvet. The outside garnitureconsiste of a narrow white satin ribbon and navy-blue velver, witha full wreatn of small white and ecru-colored blos-. soms. ‘The face-trimming i3 formed of full ruches of crepe lisse. and at the left beneath the brim i3 a bow of blue and white with short {ringed cads. - BOOTS AND SHOES. : Never have the Little Goody ‘Two-Sh socicty had such daintily-shod fect to exkibit.- Many shoes are as elaborateas the bonnets, and even those intended for the plainest uses’ ars highly ornate. For all shoes intended for street. purposes is selected French kid for the foxings, or the soft-dressed pebble_zoat may ve chosen. Both are uch admired. The uppers may be of Metalasse cloths or the tine black und gray checks.: Or ladies who desire a perfectly harmonious en— semble may, with all propriety, nave the uppers made of the materinl used fn their costumes, —thus plain and stamped velvets, satins, etce. Al wulking-shoes should bave the box-toe. Comfort always requires this, and now that fastion lends its weigiit to the side of ease, the: are universatly worn. A very funny, bat with: rather pretty, shoe is a Very fow one, with a reg- ular Chiuese box-toe and a Louis XV. heel. Across the Instep runs a strap, and the back of the shoe extends and forms a_strap, which passes around the ankle like the old-time chil- dren’s slipper. This vers fancy shoe may made of any material, and should always hive the ankle aod instep straps embroidered. Pru- -nella and coarse linen slippers are much affected tor moruiog wear. The latter should be bound around the edges and have ribbon-bowsof a color to match the toilette with which they are worn. The prunclla slippere, which are a blessed reliel to feet always weased o stifl dress-shoes, are usually made iith three narrow straps across the fostcp, each oue ornamented with little daisies of "cut-steel. Black satin slippers are much in vogue, and, for my own part, I think they are by far the loveliest shoe that can be worn. They invariably fic beautifully, are so trim, and have an air of elegance that is very delightfal. They-may be plain, with oniy a botv of French lace with “a handsome bucldy in the centre, or they may be embroidered with jet, which imparts a_very haudsowe appearsnce to both slipper and foot. Ladies who have a taste for cmbroidery, and who have hitherto swelled the army of their younz clergyman’s slippers, can torn their talent to better account (it it be not heresy to couusel the transfer) by embroideriuz a dainty “soulier” for theai- selves. The liocn slippers may be made ex- tremely pretty bya little pattern in embraidery, wrought in linen flogs. With a ribbon binding, and a pretty rosette of a color to match the toilete, one has as pleasing a stipper a3 can' be desirea. ‘There are various new shoes and slip- pers, distinguished by many fashionable names, that' recommend themselves, chiefly by their nomenciature, to a ¢lass that admire everything yerv new or very showy. The tompadour, for instance, is” @ slipper of silk or velvet, richly embroidered with stik or chenille, and Daving a thread or tiwo of gold or silver mingled init. One very elegant slipper of this sort was of maroon velvet cubroidered with silver and. small seed pearls. This isto be worn with a totlette of marvon velvet aond garuitures of sitver lace and pearl galioon. These metal lnces are gaining much favor in Paris, and the dress [ have mentioned s a creation of Worth’s magical genius; and many.toilettes trinmed with gofd and stlver lace will be displayed at the fall openings. Matmie 8. SOCIETY TOPICS. The American who ordersa glass of lemo=- ade in Paris must pay rent on the glass whie using it. American beef and American girls, both \e Tooking for a murket, cross the ocean by every 7 gteamer. Lady Carrincton has surprised English fash- ionables by setting out on her honesmoon tour wearing for ber traveling-dress a very simple print. i 2 Actuat business is now as fully illustrated in the new exchanze rooms of the Bryant & Strat- ton Rusiness College as in any business house in Chicago. Visitors are weicome. Tell a woman that England had changed to & Republic, the Sandwich Tslands bad sunk, and Lake Erie ad dried up, and she wouldn's ex- hibit balf the intercst that would possess her over the statement that something had at last been invented to remove freckles. The event of the season at the Chicago Nata~ torium will be a public exhibition of prize swim- mitg by the lady pupils next Saturday morning. A number of valuaole prizes will be awarded for proficency and prozress. Tickets forsale by the Ladies” Committee. “ **Ah,” sighed old Simon Cameron, ns he *saw his son pull a missive out of the breast pocket of bis coat, wuile an exoression of dismay crossed his face as his wile snatched it ana swept indignantly ont of the room, ‘“tbe dark- est hour is Just before Don. He forgot to mail that letter.” Edison’s new phonograph, now on exhibition, is marvelously clear in its epunciation, and a reat adsance on the enrly machines. ‘The Canadians wonder at the condescensicn of Lorne in accepting a position in the Domin- ion, but they should remember that tne youngz man gets the ocean between him and his moth- er-in law. Personal—Mr. E. IT. Kellorg, Superintendent of Acencies of the favorite old “ Home " Life- Tnsurance Company of Nes York, has zone East in the interest of that Company. The persistent wretch who is always asking, “1s this hot enough for you!” will get his re- ward one of these days. When a dark-com- plexioned old person, with horns, shall lead him i, erying “Is (his hot eunough for youd’ Lie will uuderstand all. Only thirty days more of the reduction in prices for P.Keller's fine shoes, at 41 Monroe street, opposite the Palmer. ~The Japanese can make good turtle-soup from the ola rinds of Aweriran hams, yet we speak of them as flat-headed heathens. Riverside-Hotel hops continue till Sept. 1. Most young men canafford to wear a cane. It Is an economical zarment; no buttoas fying off, no seams ripping, DO rents oceurring, nor holes weariug through. Long live the inventor of the catie. A wornan has to settie a man’s colce with the white of an egy, but she can settie tis hash with 8100k — Henpecked Editor of the Glasgow Times. Fashionable mothec—* Maria, I'wm almost dis- couraged: how many times have 1 told you not to say tater, but pertater ™ A man in Detroit has recently favented an ap- paratus for arresting sod_ extinguishiog sparks. Are the girls goicg to stand tbaté—Cincowmari Suturday Night. e ——— *“AND MINE IS THINE.” My sonl Is ant upon the sea - With thee, And lost. forever fost o me ! Last nigit d seard a tane 1 knew— A slow, old tune. that swunz upon The seale, and coon was laintly goos, With every dear, lost hope of you. This swinzing #0 broughs back to me Of thee A rweet yet perilons memory. 1t was s eusy (0 azain ‘Walk in that dim old music-hait, And hear the souz swing oat as thea— 1t 13 %0 casy to recalll My son] ahsil ever yet be thine~ No fine Of dnty, or v law, incline 4o druw it back, my love, from Loee. The daye may Ioiter 1o the end— Whethet you reek. or scek not me, My dexthi-atrung purpose sbali not mend. Mylove, my love, have pity here: So drear The earth--uo fair the ses, and clear— What wonder if my aoul go out¥ Among the ships, and cling to thee? Wnat wander IF it deift aboat 1a bitnd wists for etczutiy? Life is 50 lonz~life ls so long! , tus song, Caniit 2o forti devold of wronz, To pluck thee by the heart, and twine 1ta petting. gricred toach once azaia About thy sout? For **Mine is Wine " Through datk and Jizkt—as now as then? Luzre M. Scasxipax.