Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 22, 1878, Page 11

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES P = REAL ESTATE An Authentic Case of an Advance in Values. Firmness of Property Wanted for Use. Capitalists Afraid of Greenbackism In- vesting in Real Estate. gales, Loans, and Euilding Permits of the Week. Real Estate in Sen Francisco and Wash- ington—Bmlding in New York The unusual feature of aun advance in the price of real estate i shown in one of the sales ‘nade curing the week. A veritaole rise of price s something £o rare, ** rich, and strange ™ in these doys as 10 deserve mnotice. J. H. & J. Weil sold for Judgze Searing to A. McNetll, of Liby, MeNeill & Co., fifty feet on Michizan yveaue, forty-nine feet yorth of Thirty-second sireet, 2t 115 a foot cash. Property in that Jocality wgs sold two months ago at $50 a foot Jess, when Dwyer puid §125 2 foot for the property adjoining the above. Another ervi- dence of * IMPROVENENT IN VALUES 45 the fact that Mr. Lamv, wio bousht the gontheast corner of Mi:hiran avenue and Thir- trsecond sireet, as previously announced in TaEe TRISUNE, has Leen offered and has refused a bonus of £1,50 for his bargain. The orice he piid was 51202 foot for foriy-nine feet, fifty feet from the corner. Mr. Hall, of C. P. Kel- oz & Co., who bought the corner, bas let the contracts for his house, the erection of which iately begin. The improvements on snue, along its whole length from Tuirty-ifth to Van Buren street, have lately re- cofved considerable attention in real-estate arti- (es because their importance demended it- But the dty is developme rapidly in many other di- rection North Dearbern street, or Dearborn avenue, has been improved this season with many fine honses, and bas secured its place as equal to'the BEST OF TIE RESIDENCE STREETS of Cpicawo. West Madison street is pushing forward, and is beinz built uy with stores miles west of the Court-Houee. The extension of the West Side Railwav to Central Park, and berond to thenew trotting track, has given an tmpetus to values at the western end of that stieels Tic owner of ove of our larmest business blocks was ayproacied vesterday by an agent who destred 10 open negotiations for Lhe pur- chase of ff. ' The property was not for sale, asit was paving better then aoy oiher jnvestment the owrer could make. his agent was operat- fug for a principal who had £500.000 in bauk, gud who did not know what to do with it. With the timidity of ali ereat capitalists, he had be tome nervous about ihe greeuback agitation was afraid to Keep the mooey in baok, 10 sa sothing of losing interest, o~ to invest it in Government bonds. lie had decided to put it juto Chicago real estate. The future of thdt e felt sure of. \ DETTER INQUIRY Jor real estate. has been so oflen said to exist tbat the parase has become cant, and bas al- most Jost its meunmg. But we are assured by responsible dealers that there bas been a per- centible improvement in the inguiries for im- proved rented property, ana_that such property can now be disposed of at fur prices. Unim- roved property is dull, especiallv unimproved Pitade or suburban proveriy. The day for an sdvance in values there is still distant.” Specu- lative movements in real estate tiere are no eigns of. but rcal estate that is wantea for dwelling purposes or business uses holds its own in the market. saics ot e week beside that noted above =0 Packing Company sold to C.L. 0 417 51cet on the northwest cor- Ruteli * perof Centre avenue aud Ferty-third strect for il‘)fl 002, m L. Pieree & Co. Lave sold fifty fect o West Madison street, near Lariin, for 36.400. The property is to be improved for business. A ot 20x13) on Wabash_avenue, near Adams streer, was soid by 3. J. Flectwood to J. Scely Wallace for $10,500. Aloton Park_svenue, between Rovey and Fovue streets, 20z124, improved, was sold for Clarence I. Peck has sold a lot 25x135on Prairic avenue. improved, near Thirty-first strect, for & . T. B. Boyd £old two Jots 253178 on Indiana avenue, between Forty-secona and Forty-third streets, all cash, for $25 a foot. Tra Brown has sold sixtecn lots in LaGrange to Alice Williams for_S1,600; nize lots in La- Grauze to Tuomas Hutchinson for #1,6007 five Tots in Thornzon to Elizabeth Bircham for §5002 one lot in Lharnion to Anders Johnson for $100; and twe lots in Hzde Park for 1,200 Sold by Peterson & Bay_ for E. W. Smith, of Arkanens, to Wilkiam Eils, brick basement hou-e and Jot 385 West Huron street, for £1,800 cash. &. W. nroil soid three stonefront houses on : street, just east of Mermilage avenue, for . brick houses on lrving place, uren street, for S15.0%0. Brick on Waluut_street, near Sacramento ave- nue, for €5,000. Frame house on Warren ave- nue, near Staunton etreet, for 33,500. Frame Louse, southeast corser. Fullcrion ayenuc and Perry street. for $2,500. Six lots at South Chi- cazo, meara Rolline-dlls, for $30. Part of above were it exchisuere for an Iudiana and Mis- gouri farm, and sectioli o Iows land. SATURDAY’S TRANSFERS. The followwnz instruments were filed for record Saturday, Sept. 14: CITY PLOPERTT. North Sengamon et, 1301 ft n of Chicago av, ef. usdivaided I of 33131561 (1, dated Sepr. 21 (John Lrzezinski to ' John, SWIETSZ) < wvancases $ 550 North Wellé st between Norih avand Ea- Fenie st, ¢ £,255X28 8°10 fu, dated Juue 7 (esiate of E. 3L Kuchenoeiser to Jalia Erlen). 880 Western iy, 12 ton ot, ¢ £, 24x125 11, dated Scor. 18 (Charles J. Fisher (0 I C. Kinsley - 1,700 T nly-firet st 25 f Purpie, & 1, 165is 1t improved, duted July's. 1877 (Thomae Comnelly to John G. Earle).,.. 4,000 ‘Wabash av, 150 1t 1 of Trventy-sixth g, 1, 505207 ft, dated Sept. 21 (Kate E. Elder to lienty Cherrie). 6,800 Milwaukee av, 201 {un wof Erie st, undi- vided 3; of triangie of 1155124 fr, daied acic E. Rives et sl 10 James fuy, & 1, 455100 1L dated Aug. 16 (Nel- lic B. Purn E. T. Hushes)..... 5,250 Wainut st 123 LW of Peui e, 12 imam\crf“ ina st sf, (Gohn E. Daiton to i 1 Jacisson st 131 4110 of W 00K G101 improved, dated Gy 0 ulion 10 Margaret it, auted Sept, 21 GF Mo “Archilald McNeili) 75 McGreaorst. 5w cor of Stewart av, 1T, e 255125 L 1mproved, dated Sept 20' (i), avd J. Leckerto ¥. Kreutzverger)...... 1,680 Arcierav. ne corof Lime s, trisugie of 591:x111 4101t imoroved, datec July* 20 (1L ¥. Sheridanto Ellen Corkery).... 5,000 NORTH OF CITY LIXITS, WITHIN A KABIUS OF SEVEN 5 XILES OF THE (OULT-HOCSE. Writhtwood av. Letween Lincoln av and Tlalsted et n L, 50x125 f1, dated Sept. 19 (Anna W.'Eddy 10 Anne Carter) .. .. ... 950 @BUTH OF CITY LIMITS, WITHIN A RADIUS OF SEVEN . MILES OF TIE COTRT-HOUSE. Epaulding av, vetween Foriz-siath and . Forty-se g2, ef, SUx171 fi, dated X. Rickert to E. C. Ritkert) § 400 ARY FOR THE WLER. The following is the total amount of city and suburban trausters withia aradius of seven miles of the Court-House fiied for record aur- ing toe week endinz Saturday, Sept. i sales, 823 consideration, 4. citv limits, sales, 3: considersiion, $3.45 South of ity limits, sales, 75 consideration, $12.550. Toual sales, 623 total cunsideration, B354 BUILDING. There was an_ fncreased number of building permits iseued during the weck. The whole number was scveniy five. Some of the more important, eigheen of them costing $152,000, are as follows: B naumon, two-story brown-stone dwel 1 Jaxajle street, 10 Cost §5.000. Firt Keformed Evangelical Church, two-stors parsor:aze on Hastings, near Lafiin. to cost £2,000, I L. Smi r¥ store and dwelling at 330 and 3 e, to cost £3,500. eter Sencenio. ory icc-ouse and fer- Dearborn avenue and Che e c s&]g_“]'m)‘m In( estnut street, 10 cost . Jeninings & Co. , three-story lanndry and two- story barn at 403 and 405 West 3 Ty and 405 Wost Sadson. steet, to Charles Beers, three two-story dwelling Snneflorkncu Market street. 1000:{5 000-5! 2 Treat & Folz, three.story brick dwelling at 167 Rush sireet, 10 cost $12, 000, Patrick Kecaan, two-story dwelling on Ohio, near Franklin, to cost $2,100. d\:;l;fil::! '}IDI‘A’!:.!‘HXI, ';;EO three-story stonc-front gyellngs 372 aia 25 Tadioms ireer, o cast ‘Chicago West Division Raflway Comosny, two- etory barn on the comerof Ogden avenueand Thirtecnth street. to cost S¢,500. John Giboons. two-story dweliing at 125 Huron strect, to cost $2600. Julian S. Rusey, two_three-story stone-front ear Chicago ovenae, to cost §7, 3. 1. Clough, two-story fce- 237 1545 State Btbest, 16 cons Bh. 000 A dat LOANS. The loan market is approaching its dull scason, when the cessation of building deprives itof its brincipal customers. Daring the last week there were np notable transactions consum- mated. The prmewal activity of the market Bow consists in advances for building improve- ments at moderate expeuse, maioly dwelling- houses costing $2,000 to ¥5,000. The losns of the past two weeks footed up are: \ This week. | Previous week | No. . Amount. {|No. dmount. Mortgsges . 19/ 11,154 10 5 44,850 Trust deed 89 152,704}| 90 248 801 Total ... .|108] 8163,858(| 10| $283, 251 SOUTH CHICAGO- Arrangements are now being made for the erection in South Chicawo, in Lhe vivinity of the Rollmg-Mills, of sixty to seventy-live dwellings for the accommodation of the workipgmen. ‘T'he cost will range up to 500 ead REAL BSTATE IN SAN PRANCISCO. The Aita Caaforna is acvotiog its editorial energics to natching speculations, especially in miving stocks: and, by way of showing how speculative Californians are by nature, gives a sketeh of the real-estate speculations in that city. The purchase of the Yerba Buena Cove water lots was the first notable specuiation of San Francisco. ‘There were not flfty acres of level land in 1847 in the eirquit bounded by Tel- egraph Hitl, Clay Street Hill, and Rincon Hill, and so the shailow part of the Bay was re- sorted to as the cheapest place to et building sites. The actinz Governor, Gen. Kearnev, gave his approval, without any Jegal authority to the gate. The lots brought $60 each. The purchase, the difa savs, “was’a wild specalation, based on the exped o that San Francisco was to Dbecome the metropolis of Califoruia, but good luck saved the speculators. That unexampled and most. wonderful gold discovery within three years converted the insizdificant village into one of the leading seaports of the world, and at the ity siip sale fu 1853, lots alongside uf those sold six years before brought two hundred U es as much. The rage for lois increased with the poputation, and to them the first millionaires of San Fraucisco owed their fortunes. The fluctu- ation which nccormpanics speculation has been a prominent feature of tue San Francisco real- estate market. There was a fierce rise from 1543 till the end of 1853; a serious decline for meutiue rouw oo tevnth street, 10 eust 510060, \L. il. Gaze, Lio-story siore and dwelling corner -of I_M\ and Market streets, 1o coet $3.500. Newkerr 2state. one four, six € ory dwell- ngaand seven bars on the soatheast corner of the next five or Sis yearss then a new risc, which continued about ten years; then apanic, causing a dedline from which much of the outside land has not yet recovered, after a lapse of nine years.” INCREASE OF BUILDING IN NEW YORE. The amount of building in New York for 1878 surpasses tuat of uny revious year except 1871, and that was the_ heaviest building year in the nistory of New York. The number this vear will be 2,000 builaings. aa the cost $20,000,000, equal Lo §30,000,000 expended before 1575, This activity of building is regarded by the Herad s sufficient to confirm the general beliet that the hird times are over, as real estate is always the interest that recovers latest. The amount of money put into buiiding in New York in the Jast ten years is $280,000,000. - The “flag " busi- ness bas been overdone in New York.. Builders DLave put up tenement houses aud cailed tnem French flats, but the public refuse to be spared any longer. A demsnd Nas sprung up for cheap and sub- staptial two-story-and-basemeat houses that can be rented within the means of young clerks, salesmen, and mecoauics, and_hundreds of this (lass of houses, hitherto almost unknown in New York, witl be put up next year on the cast side of the upoer end of Maohattan lsland. SAN FRANCISCO BUILDING SUCIETIES. There are twelve building societies in- Califor- nia. The protitableness ot these associations is shown by the following comparative table of ‘the earnings ot seven of them. The first column gives the time each society has been in exist- ence, the second the profit per share, and the third the monthly percentage of profit on the fovestinent: Profit Per cent. Name, -~ Montha. per skare. permonth. Standard. 39 S13. 1. Pradc.. Mutnal, Home Metropolitan rench. - West Oakland. N WASUINGTON. The dullness of business in Washington is shown by the fact that the number of reat estate transactions, which bas steadily dedined for the past seven years, reached last month a emaller totl than in any previous month for twelve years. 3 HUMOR. 11’ Erratic Eaorique’s firm couviction that everv beau named Sam wouldn’t care to be call- ¢d a Sambo. Yor a married man, Don Cameron is_remark- ably quict. 18 it possible the Donna runs the establishment? S . The Rome Sentinel observes that immediately after every hard wind farmers come into town with choice lots of fresh hand-picked apples. The Free Press is of the opinion_that a man who gots a suow-ball o the wouth cumg awiul near sceme a white swallow,—about as Dear as be ever will. : . Inafew weeks the breach-of-promise case of the Widow Olrver will be tried, and it is said Simon Cameron has written Kearney inquiring it he has any new expletives to sell- The Picayune believes it will not be long ere the railway-conductor will be calline ouf Al aboard for Jerusalem ! Excursion-ticket to Betblehem!” * Refreshments at Golgothal” s Want yer stove put up, ch1” said Scrogzins to his wfe this morning. _ * Well, where Is it} Trot it out. 1'm ready. Oh! you want it black- ened first! Well, I won’t do that. Dllputit up, but aamflle clean it 1" A man who suddenly comes in contact with a lamp-post or a big tree knows more about the Stars and the heavenly bodies in o twinkling of the ¢ye than Pror. Proctor will know if he lives antil Ben Butler is elected President. The Hawkeye says: “ Lightning never strikes twice in the same place, because it doesn’t need Tom The same holds ood with regard to the than who continually wants to borrow money. I's no use striking twice in the same olace. They were looking at the fall style of bous nets. ~Said she: **Oh! dear, look at that bird in the crown; what a pretty bill!? And vecause he turnca away, wipea his eyes “with bis haud- Kerehicf, and murmured, ‘1 shouid say it was A pretty bill,” she became melancholy, and toreatened to leave him and go home to her mother. & \Yhat to Teach the Boys™ is the title of an article going the rounds of the press. There is o mecessits_for leaching boys bow to lawe dogs, sling Kites, or break window-panes; put Shew it comes 1o teliing what is the best hand, B of Jacks or'a pair of Geuces, or DOW many a pail 2 Amaundments there are, the pareuts may. be cousulted. Cart Pretael. Vinnie Ream Hotie announces that, notwith- etanding she is married, she will continue to de- vote herself 1o Art. The country was uoping o this talented woman would conflne bersell To the production of a few works of Nature. Holmes remarks oo the wouderful provisions of Nature. He says there is not even left 3 nar- Do creviceundera flat_rock without a_tin black bug prepared by God to fitt it. It is the sawe way when vacancies oceur in Shrievalty positions. 4 Go to the ant, thou slugmard; consider her wave and be wise,” is all_weil enough fora proverb; but what would we think of & person Wb acceprod the advice, and spent his time crawiing into the sugar-bowl, and exploring the backs of girls at picnies? # STANZA. Yice is a monster of such hideous mien That, did we see lim with a vision freed Of biindness he imposes—1f were scen In tacir true cotoring sur every deed, Nor ever i by his delnsive meed— < Ther sure were many hoara in which were rife The rankest discontentment, which wonld breed Most eurpest longing to surmount the strife, Azd taste the weets that biess tne betier walks of ife. Ciuzeaso, il B. e ———————— The Good Time Coming. Jfomtgomery (Ala.) ddcertiser. George is 2 leading colored politician fn one of our counties and is a chronic candidate for the Legislature. His platform this year is as _fol- lows: “1'm gwinter pussa law fur de- gubner to_pay ebery mun $100 when lLe gets a maule | stole; $5 when a nigger takes his hog or co¥; penltentiary_ex- pense and fix it sothe thicves will grieve terdeff and I'm gwinter bust no de over 'morse of conscience.” GOSSIP FOR LADIES. LOVE ATTER MARRIAGE. "Tywas not when first we wed, wy own, my lovel ‘Not atthe planting of the nuptial trec, That life with us did smooth and pleagant "moye— That hesrt and mind did each with each agree. Thon hadst thy fancies, whims, and stubborn waye— 1, too, from blemish was not wholly free; Thou lodked for wisdom 1n my lonzer dayéd, But vainly sought what youth denied to thee. Yet wandered not our steps too far apart, way: Perverso the hiead, but ever sound the haart, With plenteous teara to waeh all stains away. Oar children—ah! what happy omens they, Angels of peuce and hafvingers of joy— " Turning the gloaming into verfect day, Parting the virgin gold from base alloy. Ia thee, their mother, wond'rons -chonge Was wronght; ) Thy slumoering virtaes woke Lo cager life; Nobler thy aim, and hizher now thy thought; strife, Our carrents mingle in our children's blood; Our fentures blend, our dispositions mect: Our tho s together seck their common 200 Thas hath the union of thy life with mine Outzrown the slender bonds of Insy and vow; Thus doth the épirit with the fora combine To make all reat, earnest, Jasting, now. And g0, my own, my love! though far from me, ‘Space nath not power our being to divide; Iam where thou art; thou art still with me,— In form, in spirit, ever at my side. X PREVENTION OF FLIRTATION. « New York Times. nose-breaking process. wife died, putting wife for nearly five months. The most noteworthy plan which was cver de- ol faithiulness was tried by a Califorman resiging in Bevicia. Two ble beauty and a well-earned reputation for flirting. She had never been accused of any really im- wnoral act,—such a cloping with a poor man or imposter,—but, being_extremely fond of ad- miration and suciety, she was the centre of u group of young men, who were curreutly said to bask in er smiles, thoueh there is a differ- ence of opinion among scientific authorities as vised for enforcing mal vears ago he married a widow of remal to what constitutes basking. The latest busband of this charming woman isamanof a partcularly jealous disposition, cide, in o very brief time aiter the honcymoon. He was well aware of the diflicuities of his posi- tion, but calmiy determined to prevent his wife expressed for him. ful, were 1alse. cret, and he felt well nssured womld ecnable bim to repress tendencies on the part of his pride. ‘[he honeymoon was passed fn traveling from place to place in the Stute of California, early, put his wife’s eutire ber tecth with him. Tears, to thus prevent any shedow of discord from blighting their married havoiness. For the next turee months-toat unhappy wife sence were politely told that she wasnot at home. Obviously, this was tbe only course which she could pursue. Every day, when her busband went to-business, he carried her teeth with i, and she would sooner nave died than to have shown lerself in a toothless state. Every evening her teeth were restored to her, husband’s presence. in wonder at her absolute cessation of dirting, completely subjected. wife was put into his nands. It informed bim eloped. both of whose less had been shot away. thelr way to the East, where cork I tecth can be had at a few days’ no of mau. MESTCAN BEAUTIES. Corvespondence San Francisco Chronicle. the conquerors. would or could have resisted. types of guera: tinct characies is white as alabaster. white, padidness. The lurge, aud lustrons, eyes are they have auburn or golden hai women. Styic of beauty. Tall and graceful, with richly rounded busts and symmetrical forme, and siep as ltbe sund elastic as a fawn’s, they move about, the very symbols of the poetry of mo- tion. They have something n their manner the higher classes of Russian women, and whom they greatly re- " r like the gueras, live mostly in_ the interior. woerc the climate is more mild and genial, while the dark races in- and stvle” similar fo semble. The rubas, habit the hot regions alony the coast. A CINCIN = GRASS BEAUTIES. Feminine Correspondence Cincinnatt Commercial. Girls everywhere are pretty. else; meither more nor less so. lace. sary to the suoport of life. every nigat just pefore they go to bed. ‘ad for tac digestion, though, to do that. Nor failed full soon to seek their homeward Unselfisn love took root, and left no place for To Jead thelr steps aright, together tend our feet. Varions crude and unsatisfactory schemes for the prevention of flirting on the part of married women have been tried from fime to time. There was a man in Jowa who cut off his wife's beautiful yellow bair, on the pratext that it was a vain and unchristian adornment of her person, but really in orderto preveut her from receiving visitors until the hair should grow again. Tbis, however, seriously impaired the wife's value. and was merely a modification of the savage Another man—a Chica- go person—constantly spread abroad rumors that his wife was suffering frum diphtheria or searlet-fever; but, finding that there were young men who could not be thus terrified, he finally contrived to have her inoculated with small-pox. For about a week he enjoyed the success of bis ingenious plan, but at tie eud of that time his him to the expenseof a funeral, and the aunoyance of beloe without a and his scquaintances prophesied_thav the wid- ow wouid drive hun to insavity, murder, or suk- from flirting, and was swrengthened in that de- terminstion by the open pity which his friends 1t s0 happeoed that he nad learned, ttrough some occult souroe, that tho widow’s teeth, which were marvelously beauti- He was the oaly buman being in Benicia who possessed this terrible se- that it gl firtinz fuiure and 10 0PPOTLUNILY WaS Fiven to the Wil to in- ‘dulee her foudness for society other then that of her husbaud. On the very first morning after the pair returned_to Benicia, the husband rose t of tecthin bis pocket, and coolly informed bLer that hereafter De should never Jeave her alone witnout taking cotreaties, and threats bad 1o eect upon him, and he earried off the teeth, remarking, as he went out of the door, that it Wwas his duty as a husband to guard hier from the approacies of designing men, and was never seen apart from herhusband. Scores of young men wio cailed upon Ler in bis ab- and she was permitted to reccive-calls in her The whote town as-10st and bundreds of busbauds were ready to offer unlimited wealth to learn how she had been so Last week, whiic the husband, with the teeth in bis vocket, was 2bout to leave his place of busiuess and to return home, a note f{rom his that, weary of nis intolerable cruclty,-she had 'The compunion of her fluzht was a m;.\,n “We have offset my teeth azainst his legs,” said the note, **and we can overlook ench other's pecu- liarities.” By this time the guilty par are on ¢xs and false ce; aud the deserted husband is convineed that to keep u willful woman from flirting is beyond the power All the social upheavals in Mexico for the last sixty years have failed to mingle the blood of the Indians with the blue blood of a certain ele- ment of their conquerors and descendants of This is the guera eclement, which has held its own invioiate amidst the sureing passions surrounding it, amidst tempta- tions which nothing but a hauglty pride of race ‘There are two <. The first lfas some very dis- ics. The face is spirituelle, and has that subdued expression which invariably results from religious meditation, and in color Tue flesh is faultlessly tinzed with a refined but . hehlthy usually dark, and the hair abund- anu and black as the raven's wing. The teeth and perfect, and white as snowflakes. The “rubia,” or second tvpe, are superb speci- miens of womanhood, and are so called because ir, which In some instandes runs into a flaming rich redcolor. Tae eyes are often deep blue, and soft and entreat- inz in their expression. The flesh has a sunset tinwe to it which indicatcsa more warm and sensuous nature than that of the paler-hued Near the town of Awrua Caliente, State of Sinaloa, there i= a village of rubias, the youne women of which are matebless in toeir NATI WOMAN ON BLUE-" The Blue-Grass girls are just as pretty as they are everywhere For the rest, they dress themselves very nicely and carefully, paint themselves about four times as much as any other giris in these United States, and Jace themselves to death as only countsy grls can Lord, how those young ladies were squeezed in! It was istressing 0 look at them, for it kept the observer painfully wonderiug bow they ever tound room {n thelr stomacns for | f1e*Fitouwh the Z0o, “and should see a tizer that modicum ot fried chicken which is neces- Mavbe they take off their corsets and lay in a good square }ne’aél v 1 wotlld not be o mean as toreveal the secrets of mv sex as concerning paint and pearl-pow- der, if, in this case, they 1ouk 3py pains to cou- ceal the matter themsclves. The Blue-Grass Seautics db not toke snch pains. They dab white-lead powder all over their facesin little pats and patches quite a3 thickly as if they were to rub their faces ina_flour-barrel, and leave it s0. Theydab a huresploteh of reaon their cheeks, and then draw a vail overit all. Tne plain fact is, that this thine looks very disgust- foe to stranger eyes. It is €0 queer to see fair, pure young girls stand in a tier four of tivedeep before a little eiznt-by-ten looking-glass, and paste their fresh: elear skins with poisonous powder, after the maoner of certain city women who aré not at all pure. One girl whom I saw I shall never forget aslongas Ilive, and I can never think of her witbouta shudder. She was not pretty, tobegin. She hadarough, yellow skin. and 2 big, bony nose, like a mule’s.. Over this nose and her cheeksshe had. plastereda cosmetic of that hideous, lisid-blue tint. wumich unis- takably denotes the presence of white lead. Meanwhile, she had negiected to put the white poison on her neck and behiud her ears. Con- | sequently ber nose and checks were the color of skin-milk, while her cars and neck looked like gole-lenther. 1t was truly horrible. 'The popu- Jar name for pearl-powder in Bourbondom is “yhitening.” The most anxious inquiry that amtates the gentle jeimale breast at a fair in the Biue-Grass region is this: **Did you bring aoy whitenin’ with you?” Phe Kentueky beauties have’ nice features, and beautiful, delicate hands and feet. Buuthe inevitable result of their, tight-lacing and ot Dlastering their faces witn poisonous cosmetics {s. that they are sallow, wrinklied old women at 30. - They may hang me with their corset-laces if they like, but the truth B the truth, A Wwomun who takes proper care of her health and her mind will be as beautiful at 35 as sne isat 20. T¢ i o fact the young ladies oi Bourbondom. us el gs elsewhere, do not scem ligely to learn. AN OBTUSE MAN. 5 \ Exchange. She was a stslish young lady about 13 years old, and to accommodate a triend she took the baby out for an atring. She was wheeling it up and Gown the walk, when an oldish man, very dea, came along aud fnquired for a certain per- son supposed to live on thas street. She nearly velied her Liead off trying 1o answer him, and Tie lvoked around, eaught sight of the baby, and said cc chifld, that; I suppose you feel proud of him?" s [y isn’t mine! " she velled at him. «Boy, eh! Well, he looks juet like you.” ]t isn't mine!” she yelled aguin, but he nodded his head and contivued: whwins, eh! Where's the other one?™ Despairing of making him understand by word of mouth, she pointed to the baby, at ber- self, and then shook her head. “Yes—yes, Lsce; vother iwin in the house. Their father 18 fond of them, of course!” She turned the cab and hurried the other way, bat he followed and asked : «“Do ttiey kick round wuch nights?? «] tell yon "tain’t mine!” she shouted look- fog very red in the face. %1 think you're wrong there,” he answered. «Children Drought up on the bottle are apt to pine and die.” She started on g run for the ate, but before sbe had opened 1t he came np, and asked: 5% ffire to spank 'em onee in awnile, I sup- pose?’ She made sbout twenty gestures in a hall & minute, and he helped the ¢ab through the gate and said: «Qur children were all twins, and I'll send my wj[c down to give you some advice. You see—"! Buat she picked up a fower-pot and flune it at him. He jumped back, and, as she entered the house, he called out: “Hope iusanity won't .break out ou the twins!? ALWAYS FALLING TO PIECES. Burdeite. The woman who is always falling to pieces came to the station alittle late, and had to make o rush fur the train. When she reached her seat her hat fell off. She got it on, but it toppled over to one side, and, when she tricd to straighten it up, her bair came tumbling down. She lost her ticket twive before the vonductor reached her, and would have lost it again if he hada’t taken it away from ber. She reached up to put a bundle in the rack above ber head, and burst the collar-button off her duster, and stuck her fingrers on four pins in ber dress belore she coutd find one tuat she dared take out to repair the damage. Then, just as she thought she bad got confortably settied, her little hand-valise, packed to bursting with enongh rhings o load a Saratoza trunk to the muzzle. exploded, and she nearly worked herself into fragments getting it topether . sgain. Toen, by = the time - she got the valise shut np, her hat tumbled off'acain; and, by the timeshe got th at straightencd back into its place, ber bair tumbled dowa again: and, as soon s she got her hair twisted up, aod oar- pooned in with & couple of bair-pius, the valise went off; and, when_ she ot off at New Prague, she tucked the gasping vaise under her arm, and tried to corral her toppling Lat and wan- dering Alair with one hand; and, as she went flutterine and stragelingioto the depoty one couldn’t hetp thinking tnat it would be safer and more convenient to run, ber in sec- tions and flag her against everything. I bave scen this womun on several otner trains, and e hus never peen able to keep herscli to- wether. She keeps you in a state of agonizing suspense, for - you pever know where she I3 going to give way next. A STREET-CAR INCIDENT. Cincinnaté Breckfast-Tadle. Awoman sitting near the front door was taken suddenly {ll,—so very ill tbat she bad no alternative but to hang her fair head out of the window and part company with her breakfast. The passengers, one and all, seemed to sympa- thize deeply with the woman’s distrass; and, when she said to 8 man on_the iront platform with a cigar in his mouth, “I wish you wouldn’t smoke that cigar, sir; it has wade me awiul sick,” they looked as though they desired to scalp the fellow. Doubtless they would have bounced himn from the car, had be Ttiot, with a most bewitching smile, showed her that the cigar had nescr been lighted. It Wwis too much for her.. Sne waltzed down through two rows of smiles and two Tows of as beautirui tilters as ever rode on a June breeze in the neighborhood of Fifth street. FEMININE NOTES. *Lnke away woman, and what would follow? ‘The men. A rural inventor has patented a padded fate- top to facilitate courtship. A young lady, being asked by a rich bachelor, «1¢ not yourself, who would you rather bet” replied, sweetly and modestiy, “ Yours traly.” A tiny thread of gold supporting & solitaire diamond is the latest style of engagement-ring. 1t is so everlastingly sweet and 5o easily broxen. The woman—and all of the sex do—who slances under the bed at night before retiring, evidently has in mind the proverd, * Look before you sleep.”—Philade ph ¢ Buvet.n. A Frenchman has come home, and finds he has been made the habpy facter of twins during his absence: *‘Woat a misfortune thal 1 wite shousd have been contined during the Ex- position. Everything has doubled.”’—FPars Char.aari. A girl in Kentucky struck her croquet-partoer on toc head with a mallet; brain-fever set in, 4nd the youns man nearly died. The girl was Yoot under arrest until bis - recovery, and _when e got well she married him, and now she's sor- ry he didu’t die. What a volume of domestic misery these two little lines contain: **Stx million bottles oI hair- restorative were sold in the United States last year.” But as long as birds muke nusts we suppose people will love and take the conse- quences.—Caicmnat: Breakjast-Tae. Victoria is reported th have szid not lone ago, when ste bad given an order to one of her do- mestics: “Iam Queen of Great Britain and Emoress of India; but [ have not power enough to make one Of my servants put coals on the fioeif she nas been hired to look after the bed- chambers.” George, who bas just engazed himself to the girl of i lieart, breaks the Lappy news to his friend Jack, wno bas beeu married some time. Jack—* Ab, well, my dear feliow, marriace is the best thing in theé long run, aud I can assure you that after a_year oriwo a man gets used to it. and teels justas jolly as if he never married atall.” « can’t hold this baby any longer,” called out the young husband and father: ‘its get- tine too beavy.? ‘- Pshaw, Edward,” replicd a mnfficd voice from the other side of the room; +you used to bold me for hours and never com- plain, and baby is bat asa feather compared to what I was,” *1 was a fool.” said Edward. And she was too steepy to dispute with him. «Suppose_you were out in & junele some- where,”” sud Strobel to Billikins, whoile watk: tome charging dowa upon you, with rur up aud Cosath open, whacwould beyour ficst tnougiit?”? ¥\Well, { ratner think.” replicd Mr. B., “*that for about two seconds I'd conclude Martby Ann’s mother had just got back trom her trip to camp-nieeting.” It would be a comfort, tnoneh, when 1 found out I'd been mistaken about it.” ARCHEOLOGY. The Collections in the Peabody . Museum at Harvard. Discoveries in Kentucky Caves, and What They Teach. Hound-Builders, Lake-Dwellers, Pre-Roman [tal- ians, and Americans Who Lived Before _ the Glacial Epoch. What We Know About Them, and How We Know It Corsespondence New York Erening Post. CAMBRIDGE, Muss., Sept. 17.—The last new bullding of consequence erceted at Harvard University, aod the latest sddition to the .U versity’s means for suientifle study, is the Pea- body Mugcum of Archoloiy. CTRIOUS STONE-AGE BREVELTIONS. Darinz 1863 larze accessions® were made, Tnotably the very important serips of Gabriel de Mortitlet, made in France, and of Wilmost J. Rose, made in Denmark, each of which con- tained fmany hundreds of specimens, and illussrated prehistoric time n that part of the world, from the earhiest evidences of humanity in the quaternary period, through the ** polished- stone ™ age, up to the time when bronze and copper implements came jnto geseral use. These, with * previous materials, mave the Museum one of its most important requiré- Inents, namely: the means for muking direct comparison between the stoue age of the Old World and that of the New. The anatogy which from the first was recog- pized is most striking, yet there are wide differ- ences. The resembiances grow larzely out of man’s necessities in _ his primitive condition for similar kinds of instruments, and thedifferences as larpely from thematerials at hand for making thew, Tne prevalence of fiints, chests, and norn-stones fn the Old World naturally led to the process of chipping as the more cominon method of working materials; while in the New World the prevalence of primitive rocks led to the process ot pleking aud_grinding. Neither process was used exclt , however. The perfectionwhich the art of chipping stoneamoug The Indiaus of Alaska attained was nearly ¢d by the aborirines of Deamark, for in- Vaurying modes of lite caused differ- en Oue fs struck by the superabundance of spear-pofats in the Danish_collection. In the French and Swiss coilections, both these and Lhe arrow-ncads are searce; while in North Awmerica arrow-heads far ouinumber other forms of reiics. This results trow the fact that the ancicut Danes were mainly tishermen, while the ancestors of our red men derived — their sup- port from bunting chicfly. 'WUAT TAE SHELL-IEAPS REVEAL. The Museurn at this time was eariched by the v « vases from Slanor Castellach,—whose Itailay researchis have si bekome celebrated throuch his display at the Centenpial Exhibition and In New York,—and by valuable aceessious of North American an- tiquities; wlile the shell-heaps seaitercd slous the New Enzland coast were thoroughly scarch- ¢l by the Curator and_Lis fricnds, and many specunens preserved. These shell-neaps abound particulurly on the shore of the ocean from Cape Cud northward, and, like those of Florida, owe theironin (o the eastaway refuse of Indian villazes, it was the om of the Indians to resort every autumn to certun spots on the coast, and pass the winter there, livio largely upon shell-ish. The shells and other kitchen-refuse tossed aside, in the course of successive . generatious, formed deep beds, in ~ which® were found 10 be buried large numbers of miscellancous relics lostor discarded, and che bones of many ani- imals. The exploration of these sillaze-sites has Dot only thrown much light apon the histors of the aborigines, but has proved nigbly interestinz o the zoosogist,—proing that animais and Dbirds now extinet, like the great auk, were ance commonly used as 10013 and showing that otti- re, like the walrus and eIk, now restricted to parrow regions in the far North or distant West, once rangl throughout the coast-region of the Eastern States. TOW TUE LARE-DWELLERS LIVED. In 1572 tac very valuaole *Clement™ collec- tion was derived by purchase for the coilector in Europe. Ur. Clement devoted bimself forseveral years to the inve tivn of toe prenstaric Qwellings in Lake i and the collection is nearly jects illustrating that pec {llm These old inbabitauts Jand, perbaps forced to du €0 by evews udopted + & sal it not wholl; vowfort- able, way ol livi Some distance from the shore of the shatfow lakes they drove piies, upon which their houses were buiit. No doubt these were tolerably substantial —structures, well roofed, and fully cavable of keeping .oub the cold of 4 winter among the Alps. Many of those bousts, being planted cluse together, would be joiued by &_siugle platfora:, and the Wwhole counected Wwith the store by a narrow brideee, which could easily be destroyed, or pus- sivly lifted, in case of bostile avtack. Under- neath each house might have been seen the i Jug-out " canoes, and the racks on which were hune toeir fish-nets, made of the flax they cul- fivated on the shore, together with toeir Gshicy: Spoars, Their heavy tools were almost wuol of stone,—axes polished like elass, set in bundles tade of partof a deer’s antier, and of various forms; hammer-stones for pounding; wedges for sphitting lumber; beayy mauts for drivinz Diles: flint Spears suitableto bo fixed in a stronz pole-bandle; arrow-points for huatin . For Jighter objects, the borns of the staz and roedecr were =~ em- ployed. From these.they furmed handles for Tiir axes, burpoous, ciliscls, bummers, awls, eic., aud sockets for setting these fiplements T woodco handles; made from them rings, pendants, boxes, AriDKInL-cUDS, urK and spear points, needles, pivks, erc., ete. The horns of the deer tribe scem to have been a mine of Inaterial to these Jacustrine artisans, aud, from veiue allowea a longer life tuan umuw, the ant- Jers attained a gigantic size Dever seen ab vres- ent. 'The teeth of animals were bored and worn s orpaments, as our Indians wear bears® tevths but come invisors were put juto handles and nbed as knives, the hard cuttiug edige baving been groumd sharp. FILE ROMANS WHO LIVED BEFORE ROMULUS. “When one reads Livy, and trics to peuetrate tothe era of Romulus and Remus, be feeis that those vrecocious youngsters siood at very besnmning of “autiquitv.” Durig the Peavouy Museum received from Dr. G Nicolue- et, in lualy, a larze coliection of skulls and of fliut aud stone inplements which lons precede the founding of Home. Tne gravelly banks of the Tiber at Ponte Motie yielded to Dr. Nicolucei's searching inauy fragments of flint which bear the marks of uu- man workmanship, aod waich are accomuauied by the teeth of tne extinct elephants aud rui- noceroses with which these aboriginal Indians were coeval. Then above them, less corroded by the eclements and of more recent date. are Rnives, scrapers, spear-heads, and {TTOW-DOILS, of far better desicu and more finisied wor- Tansinp,—showing progzess in the race as arti- sans. All Ttaly and the neighboring islands af- fard similar arebcological materwls Fev 1t is oy a fow years since Mommsen. the German bistorian, said that “uothwg his yet_come Lo light which would justuy us in concluding that the existence of man in Jtaiy is of older date thau the koowledge of egriculture and tbe smelting of metal” At that moment tue British Museum contained in its rel- i from the Etruscau tombs s prebis- toric arrow-poiot sei_ia gold. Way did the clever goldsmuth of Etruria take such 0 Dreserve this? Becauge these g arrow-beads and the celts had even tben long been kuown in Italy, but were supuosed to have ramed down from Heaven, and were venerated by all medieval Italians (as they are to this day by the peasantry) as_powerful charms. ‘The ancient Prhsbitants of Italy were not lake-dwellers, but lived in erottoes and ehelcered valleys amoniz the rocky hilis. AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES. But the attention of the Museamn was not con- fined to European archology. although’every effort bad alwags been made to gt #vod repre- S otative series from ull purts of the world, 1u order that the science might be studied com- paratively. Daring its whole ex:s : Pieular attention has been paid to the o American_archolozy. Prof. Wyman ex: plored the mounds and shell-heaps of Fiorida - in the most tuorough mauner, proving that the anciens fohabitants PE""Bat region were canmibals - ou occasion. Patumm and others excavated the sheil-tieaps of toe ‘North Atlantic cosst, and brougnt to lizht many new frcts. in zooloZy 83 well as cthnology. Prof. Shaler presented an interesting collection from the lime-stune caves and the grave-mounds of rentucks, which irst directed aitention to district woich has since \jelded rare resuits. The collection of Henry b Fhoreati—~ine Hermit of Concord,” wio never scemed to have to searca for Irdiao im- iements—was devositea by tne Boston Society s P Natural History; and ~specimens ™ flowed S from all parts of the country. pasticulurly those illustratine the “Lite of tue Moand- Builders,”” whose gigantic carthwork shape of mounds, embankments, raised plateaus, walls of masonry, ete., arescattered allthrough the Obio Valley. ' Several special explorations were also undertaken at the expense of the Museam. WIHAT WAS FOUND I¥ KENTUCKY CAVES. On the 4th of September, 1574, tac death of Prol. Wyman occurred; aud, soou after, Prof. Frederick W. Putnam, Permanent Sceretars ol the American Association for the Advancemens of Science, and a gentleman enjoying a hizh reputation in all branches of natural history, was placed {n charge as Curator of the Moseum. He at once availed himseli of the friendship_of Prof. N. S. Shaler, State Geologist of Ken- tucky, to secure the facilities ol toe State Sur- ves in carryingout o long-cherisned purpese, pamely, the exploration of the caves which abound in_ the limestoue mountuns of that Stare and Teanessce. In this, with the help -of funds furnished by the Museum, he was emi- nently successful, and some very interesting disclosures were brongat to light. "The rellesof aborizinal life were found in three sets of cir- cumstances: in rock-shelters (. e, where overhanging ledzes had formed s netaral roof or shelter tor residence),in caves, and 1n graves. So little is known of the use of caves in Ameri- ca, in comparison to whnt has been similarly ertaiued in Europe, that especial attention was paid to their expioration. ~Ser in the neighborhood of Mammoth Cave Weided im- portant resutts. In nearly all ol them, bodies in o more or less periect State of preservativn, remains of clothing, uteasils, implements ot art and serienlture, and weapous, were col- lected. Tnatsome of tnese caves were used as places of at least temporary residence, Prof. Putnam proved most conclusively. His ex- ploration of Salt Cave revealed a new phase of American archieology. This cave approaches the Mammoth Cavé in the size of its avenues and chambers. Througnout one of the princi- pal passages, for seversl miles, were 1o be traced ancient fireplaces, both for nearths and liznts. The former were indicated by circalsr arrangements of flat stones, and the presence of ashes, charconl, and calcined bones: for the latter purpose, small piles of stones_had _been made, with a bole in the centre of tie pile to receive the bundle of dried fagots, perhaps smeared with greasc, which were to_be lighted. Bundles of these fagots, tied up with twisted imrk, were found in several places in the cave: any cane-reeds, probably of tue same character 13 tiose found in the Mammoth, Snort, and Grand Avenue Caves. were also very abundant. Penctrating tbree miles from the entrance into Salt Cave, a chamber was cntered where toe dust of unnumbeged years tay thick upon the rocky floor. Here to human bones were found ; there is every evidence that particulur caves were used - exciusively as places of sepulture, while other caves, 8s in this cse, served s places of habitation; but in the dry soil were countless imprints_ of the sandaled feet of the tormer race which dweit in these subter- ranean homes, and all about lay the evidences of their workmanship. Here some of their grass-woven sanoals, woro through at the heel and on the ball of tlte toot, bad been castaside; there lay a discarded mantle of cloth made of fine shreds of bark dyed in dark and lizot stripes, and showing where it had once been Deatl; mendeds while on every side were frig- ments of bark c¢loth, packages of bark thread prepared for weaving, torn bits of frinze or fassel, dishes cu from wourds, arrow-heads of fifut, pret'y shetls, boréd undoubtedly for use gs ornaments, and other relics of the aboriginal household, Careful examination of the whole warrants the opinion that this was an agneul- tural people; that they frst used the caves only as places of bumil, wrappinz the oody with the knces drawn up to the chin,” mammy: fashion, in blankets ot bark, and laving 1t y in the innermost deptus of these caves with the objects of its early aflection, its weapons, and perhaps some tood placed near it: but that afterward, possibly under the pressure of that iuvasion of 2 more savage people from the Nortn which seems to have caused the extérmination of the earliest iubab- itants of the Southern valless, they resorted to the caves for secrecy and safeti, until com- pelted to abandon the countrs altozether. The use of braided grass in the manufacture of sandals and other articies of clothing, and, jn- deed. all the remains, indicate an anuguity far roater than anything we know of the red ‘ndians inhabiting thal region at the time ofits settlement by tie whites. A VERY REMARKABLE DISCOVERY. At Pagevilie, Monroe County, Kentucky, an- other extremely interesting discovery was made by Prof. Putnam in_tne shape of grasesofa peaitar character. They were on the brow of a Ll in theneizhborhoo: of a pumber o1 mounds, undoubtedly made by the same race of Mound- Builders whose exiensive orks are well known througnout the Ohio Valley; yet spparently the graves had norelstion to the mbunus. Many of these graves have been vlowed over, and human boues from them waiten the field for half an acre. Two sepulcares, ho: found undisturbed. The circular, four o five fect In'di: three feet deep. "One retully upencd and its eoutents taken out. Ttese consisted of parts of fitteen bum: cletons of Various ages, and sowe potiery Le grave had Leen : digzing & hole nearly wrealar and abuiit tare Largré slabs of lime- stoue, bro: ¢ distance, bad then becs pluced aronnd the hole, zad the beston had buen carelu i with thin shate, brought from : about balf a mile . The bodies had cvidently geen ar- Tin a sitting posture azainst the upriciit slubs, and all at one time. ‘I'ne eartls had been thrown over all, aud a few small flat stones placed above. This class of eraves is unlike snvining herctofore dt bed. and, while it is Qifferent from anythingz known among the In- dian tribes, it is equally distinet trom the burial customs of the Mound-Builaers. The extreme care and labor with whicn the graves had been made, their very larze namber at this place, and the fact tnat & number of bodies of various azes were inclosed at the same time in oue grave, give o n for much specutation. ‘Meanwhile the collection in the Museu:m grew rapidiy tnrough gitts, purchase, and exchange, including speciniens of prehistoric life from ait purts of the world,—especiaily from Soutis Aweriea; puotograpzs and casts of unique ob- jects of arclieolozical luterest in loreizn Musenms and American private cabinets; and a Yery larie accession of_dresses, utensils, imple- meiits, Weapous, aud other things manui ctured aud in use by the savage tribes of the world {and particutarly of this contiuent) no¥ in ex- isteace or only ately become estiuct. Material, Woich it will soon be impossible to obtain, has thus been accumulated for the advantage of future students. The cataloue of the Museatn Dow embraces something hike 12.000 entries of spuciwens, coneerning the wost of wuich inter- csting details are recorded. PEE-GLACIAL AMERICANS. Perhaps the most momentous of these addi- tions, aithourh certainly not tne mnost interest- fugr t tue casual glance unacquainted with their sienillcance, are the trays of *pakieoliths 7 dus Wip by Dr. C. C. Abboit at Treaton, N. J. Dr. A bott bas exbumed an astoutshing quantity of comouratively modern Indian relics upon his farin, and some years azo the Doctor began to hud very rudely-caipped forms of stone which undoubtedly were the work of human bands; and these oceurred deep down in giacial grayels. Furilier investigation showed that awong these implements, 8s more and more were brought Lu light, there was o strong unifornity, and a constant difference from’ sny nccidental fract- ures ot stone. It would be diflicult to describe {hew. There was arude resembiauce in shave and contour to the conumoner types of modern stone implements, but they were evidently the Worlcof the very bewinners in arg,—aparentices in the work of avilization,—and they bore npor them incontestible mai of a vast an- fiquity. As the evidenee accumulated that these erude weanous of a forgotten rice werc really of human workmaoship, and that they Dbad notbeen drifted into the gravels wherethey were found by any subsequent operatiun of pature or accident,—a couviction whicl was supporied by the judgncnt of the must cow- petent geologists,—tle conviction forced itsell Lipon the fuder’s mind that the men who made tnese Weather-worn, rougu jnjgements must have been in existente betore the formation of the gravel-bauks, and hence must bave been at least coutewporary with the icesbeet waiel, during the glaeial period, capped the Tlemisohere. Sacha discovery as this, w: Igely to be followed by corroborative evi from other parta of the couutrs, wil torow great light on the abo 1 this continent; and If it everis proved, as has beew sugzusted, that the makers of these palizo- Iithie, glacler-puried fmplemiuts, driven south- ward by the advance of the ice:sheet. followed it northward azmn to Pecome the aucestors one great provlem i3 the present Eskimos, sotved. SONNET. You ask me where T canzht theze fancies wild “That lead me o'er the warld ko cold and wide. 1 canignt them ail from Nature, waen a child— From the soft Summer-air, sud from the €unny side O the old Atlantlc, whose hillows Jow and mild, In long. green bills, cune rolling to my fect, S the sone my soul ow deems 0 Sweet. Pesuawht them from the sy waen in the bay 1 vocied fn my ozt with the wind and tue waves, e matched the shipp:ng, through the 0ng Ty, iliting the monnds of mourn-ed mlilions’ graves, As heedlessly they sped upou thelr way. From mountatns grang, from forest, and from sea, ies came, 1 know not how, to me. These fancie: o b to e —————— Recent Singuiar Accidents. g A Dayton (0.) clevk sticed off the end of his nose with m(s ‘razor white shaving himself; toe Sudden faliinz of ashell startied him into a0 involuntary —motion. In & Painesville (U.) * Crricaco Ciress Cuvn—No. 50 D: amatenr base-ball zame, A. C. Jones broke: his arm above the clbow by the simple force of throwing the ball. While pouriog Babbit-metal into the bearing of a thresoing-macnine at Con- stantine, Mich., the molten mass exploded, burning 6ut both eves of Charles Greensides. Marion Jerralds of Farmington, Mo., struck at his horse with a rope. but missed the beast and gave himsell a fatal blow. Colored Mary Hollis ?f i“%az Vista, Us.filshum:u so_lustily in a Metholist meeting that she was taken viole: ill and sgon nmzd‘.uj RERYBIEE THE GAME OF CHESS Al commuateatio: addressed to Tt Tus il for this d2partment should be Ne. aad ta bred - Chess.™ DIRECTURT. Cnezaco Cizss A3SOSIArION: No. 130 Dearborn StF2et, oppos! Cless-play=re meet daliy claige), ~hermau Hoase ¢ Mudison'street, coruer of Eifzav TO CORRESPONDENTS. R. W. E.~Castling In problems Is ous of date. Kt.—Try Kto K 4._That, we belleve, Is the contia- uatiGn to the Moves O SULesL. F. B.—You are correct.” 12 takes B. followed. it K takes I, b7 I¢ takes kG, seeins ibe proper defense. B hs Tromoat House (e e, wud 3t 42 Wase ENIGMA NO. 146. [First Prize In ltalfan Tourney. ] BYXR. G. B. VALLR. White. Black. King at Q square King at Q ifth Queen az K nizhth Booiac G Behied Kovxat 3 B third Kazht at Q B efsich Pawn at & R fourtd Pawna: K Balvti Pawn ut K tund Pawnat Q Kt sccond PawnatQ Kt oitth Kook at G & ufih BishopatQ B sevond Rishop ut Kealxih Knleheat Q Afcn Pawn at K Kt slxth Pawa aL K B second I'awnat K seventh Fawu at Q Bdith ‘White 1o play and mate fo three moves. PROBLEM XO. 146. BY MR, W. A. SHINKMAN, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Black. White. IWhite to play sad mate In three moves. SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 144. . o LR 3..Mates accordlogly Correct solution w’ Prodlem No. 144 recelved from E. 1t Burpnam, E. Barbe. Bercmun, W. He ] Gvlogton, aad C- G, city. s Kt., Taroer, Ll SOLUTION TO ENIGMA NO. 144 White. Black. BtoKB2 J 1..Any move Afates accortingly Correct soiution to Ei 0.'it. Benjamio. E. Ostawa. L. K ville, 1. Mr. Filward Himes, President of the New Orlesns Chiess Cluo, and oe of the contestants in the [at:ra- tional Pustal Tourney, died in New Urleans un the st inst of yellow fever. The propositior mentioned fn this column several weeks ago 1 regard (o 3 playing tournament for 3 Toual Chsmplonsalp Tropiiy Eas met @ith genceal favar, and uon the return of Mussrs. Mackenzle and Masod it 13 llkely €1t steps will* bz taken towards issu- Tog & programme uzd selec:ing a place Of meeting. Ont of eleyen scts entered In tue Britwh Prot Asoctacton Tourney, Just concluded, elght tave owad to contain nsodnd proviems, Safeh lenls Fesl- Inineter Peoers to remark: ** When will broviem coni- posery tade the lesson W heart that_accuracy i foundaiion upun which their coneeptions should-va Teaied, and that without thacquallty the edisce I3 worthiesa.” Alost chess players aro sware that two of the fets whieh ook prizes In the American Assaclslon fours ney have since proved to e unsound—tue Tourth asd il prizes, by Messrs. Coates and HAWIINI=a Mot sinzular cireamstance when It {3 coasidered that Licy Sore pubilshed In varioas newapapers aud subsesuent: 15 1 ¢ rrnt. and succeasfully resi i army of solvers. Se partiesy imiuitice of Award should recons{d orizes o the rem 1. SUC1 3 Coupe We LIIRK |5 LY. vo e Toonly Gioinary t Waic Shir rd to give competiiors a ¢haz sets, and fo ths e seed stiice the deciaton of the Ju. 0% of the unsuccessful corjecls e i published, anG the Commiitize cond Bamily e expected fo rend:ran linpartfal awasl, esea 1 1t Would cousent 1o SCFYVE uuder e clrcumatancs. ‘ THE INEXUAUSTIBILITE OF CHESS. To estimate the actoal number Of ways of playing few moves is beyond the power of caleaiar ‘of an approximaifon v 13k zing a varinzon of escifot tiie upenings as siven in v, we find that the firss player has an Average of 2%, 30, und 3L wavs S Dhvias the kecond, third. and fourth imoves Fo- snectivel 29, 31, and 32 belnx the correspondiag Bumber for the second player. Of course no players have a cbol { tweuty muves on thelr ISt inoves. 2Fhe Dy potiiesls -t the nuinbers of ey k. each move {3 always tne same what. the preceding inoves may have heen, and that the foregolng fygures e Thoss numbers. tue numbers of butslule Ways BT luxing the Jirse for moree cnly O each e e SR R | R L Shy ome. were to yisy 'withoui ecossation. 8% 203 rate ot one set a mindte, 1t would tase Lim mora toan (0,000 FUArS to 20 through tem all. 1t would be diicult to say whethier the above cumber 18 fo ex- Peasor deficit uf the true ope. DUL peTnaps we may safely wiirm that {Cis not likely to beout more than b ot clther wag. Wheu we hear in mind st The namber of possibie ways Incressed forinany 1aoves. some thirty fold for eaca move added, it plain v of waysof plaving cwensy of Lalrt 116 19 50 jreat us (o uLLerly tratween Lhe tmagloation. Mo doubt the rario of Lo the possible BUMUGE Of Moves BL every roflb after cvery allowance has ¢! fact, the variet{es of piuy stlll re< Anihony, Of, A., Barrister-at- er's Chronicie. - CHESS IN PARIS. Tiaedin the tle match betweea Messrs. Zakertort and Wiaawar, on the Z7ch of July. The nofes &re by Mr. Pottcr. tlon, bus 10 et somech suwmber s very slmpie. e iTnsp, the plausty stage 18 naualiy szt been wmaile for th L0 eNorMULI. Law, i the Ches: Beset £ k=] 4 E53EEE, B 13 sy . WK ¥ FioQ3 ) K toQ s 3400 mElfinc'b ) 9..Q v K3 el 49--QE0E 250 drawa by perpetaal check. (x) toyes, iike doge. bave thete day, and anparent'y. o 0 Yates B is goinz to fall lato distavor.' Laec it et I (Re Fueld that Zukertort conslders the ifne o b pied azatns: )y Rusentlial—G Kt 1§ D EL 71 Q4. B10 Q3 B taces Kt BORYerE 2 Pio B3 0 Pio K B 1o O N dipores of the “auack fosugurated by e Yakes P, Such may be the ‘e, sud It B i1 e uar t0 e, hut unfurtunately |y own con- o iom does not hold water efther. L whilbe re- v thiat L Insisted upon A 110 B 4 09 being far Ttlor tod b take K & 2y glving Whits » kreac tnze, Thatopinloa =ppears o be erroceony, fur A Wicknurme Dluts ot 1o e the foitowiag Am- e tmetliod 2 replyiug, gives Black an even g 46 B ity I nut W= BAYINLAKC, €. 7., NI 10 B4, Ko P K o BroKta, 10 £ uked Kt, QI takes 10, 11 P takes Kt, 'Q takes P, ezc. ') Necosary. nu doust, wnd beinz so It labota proat tha & B 10 B4 14 a0t 8 wstistactury defeate. zud e thas conclusion we shall prova.ly be driven [ tue e ilint my thesis vUEVives my ancumeng.—ag oc- CMfrence nut uansuRl 1D 1AUTE ImI0CLa0E MaLiers taad ense, "e3if be piay B to Kt 2. White might perhisps (n that care dertve roine beucAt from Kt takewk . %d) I to & 1 3 secms a0 advisanle precau fon bere. ) Bib K5 would scem to be bls bes play 3t P70 e cheese In that, trap {y oo small fo7 the hook, 11 It caxes P eh, K takes 2, 22 Rt o B 5 e, K to Kiiakes Q, itio K Lg%, 241310 13 sy (Deat), K takes I ch s Ky VA allows White to mualock his position o the ZLos wlde, and therefore Gashi ot Lo 1 plaved it e AnY Drefatosy move worth mekiD.o R 10 1 i T toning 10 K U 4. would appaseatil be 8 very foud contiguation. h) 1210 KI »g ~eem3 preferable, bat. presmnably. e h‘l”YlIflDx[ Q:g 126, which 'u:l;:’:u,flf’ l’ll:él;:":fl{l‘:; o oless the Queens S, 3 03 e e with 13 sdficwaat aiesi(onabie: how= ever. 2 ‘(c:uAn Ingyous concelt. but whether 00a35Q 0 2 5 is doubiful. : h, \.‘IIIIIL caplzal siroke putsan end toa Zam> this has beee futl of minute butl laraslog dullentiies for Doth partics- i ' i i