Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 29, 1878, Page 13

w THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES. 13 riding around the city fora few hours the party Etopned at the residence of one of the members, and. atter rartaking of a bountiful meal, speat the evenzne i dancing, masic, cte. Prof. Russellgave & hizhly-njoyable recep- tion at bis Academy Christmas-Eve. The most notable and brilliant social event of theweek was the receotion given by Mrs. Will- jamn Blair, No. 230 Michizan avenue, Monday evening from 4 to 4 o’clocs The Unity Club gave its fifth reception at Campbell's Hall Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Watson entertained a few of their friends Thursday evening, at their resi- dence, No. 55 Flournoy strect. 3 Friday evening a brilliant masquerade party was given at the residence of Mrs. Sayers, No. 255 1ndisua aveaue. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes entertained a select company of friends at dinner Christmas-Day, ond mave a reception in thie evening from 8 to 12 o'elge )chZsrs J. Oclliz and E. L. Brown gave a Christinas dinner and entertainment to their worinen at Brown’s Mills, which was supple- mented by the preseatation by the latter of a splendid gil-palating of the elder Brown to his sons. ‘Tne fourth entertainment of the Merry Club was held at the residence of the Vice-Président, Miss Nellic Donlin, No. 258 Superior street, Mouday evenine. Mrs. T. 8. Mize, assisted by Mi A.Jewett, entertained a select party of friencs and ohils dreu on Christmas-Eve at No. 89 Indiana avenue. A trec beautifully dpcorated and hung with 2 large number of vrésents was the centre of autraction. One of the most. noticeable gifis was a span of mules to Mr. fleury L. Gay. Later in the cvening Mr. E. A. Jewert was presented with an elezant gold watch and chain, to which le icelingly responded with an ap- propriate specen. Tne Shecman Pleasure Club gave their first coplimentars party of the season to a large aud highly-enjoyable party last Thursday even- ing at Nos. 222 and 224 Twenty-second street. -* ‘The Ctalpa Social Club gave a sleighing party Chbristmas 1o Oak Park, at the residence of the Misses Guest. ANNOUNCEMESTS. ‘The leading society bachelors of tte city are contemplating a grand ball, to be given by them in honor of their jadv acquaintances. This will not co, sentlemen. The ladies will not be put olf with any such nonsense. 3 people of Grace Church (Dr. Locke’s) bave in preparation an entertaimnent to be given at fiymouth Churen, Jan. 14. it prom- ises to be an'elegant aflair, and will doubtless be largely attendea by sosiety people, who should make s note of the date. Prof: Carr will mive a private masquerade at Shrum®s Hall, corner of \\':shingwn and Green 43 streets, Wednesday . 22, “The sixteenth ar al bail of the Brotberhood of Lucomotive Engincers, Chicago Division, No. 19, will take Dlace 2t Martint's South Sido demy Tuesday eveding mext (New-Year's “complimentary bal will be given New- Nos. 180and 182 Cweuty- Year's uizat at the hall N serond sIreel er Yost, No. 7, G. AL K., ttalion Drum Corps, 1 grive their fifth reception series at ther ball, corner of streets, next Fridav evenives. ‘The St. 3 arity ball and sup- per will be given at e Sherman House Wednes- day evening, Jan. 8. ‘The net proceeds will be entirely devoted to charilg.e parcoses. - Toe Garden City Plessure Ciub will givea complimentary partyat Purker Hoat ~Year's nignt. ‘Toe new term for instruction in davcing and deportment at Bournique’s Academy, 128 Twen- ty-fourch strect, will commence for adults Fri- day, Jan. 3, ard for chilaren Saturday, Jan. 4. PERSONAL. Air. F. S. Pond was presented with an elegant Iish easy-chair by his Sunday-school class of the pre: Tarki on Christiuas. Miss Eva M. Griffin goes to-morrow to visit {fricods in Cinciunuti for a few weeks. Miss Emma Zeirler bas just returned from a three mouths? visit to Cinciunati. The Misses Burrowsare spending the holidays with Mrs. James K. Mitchell, Gaiesburz, They will recetve culls at_Brown’s Hall, wirh Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Odell, Mrs. Mitchell, and Miss Sanborne. Miss Enders left last Thursday for a visit to friends in Washinzion avd Baltimore. She will receive New Year's calls with Miss Webb, in the Iagt-nemed city. Miss Clara Alexander, of No. 395 West Wash- ington street, bas left the city to visit friends in Milwaukee. Miss Minnie Pnlker is spending the holidays with: Mrs. T. S. Payne, No. 823 West Monroe street. . Mrs. David Crawford, who has been visiting her brother-in-law, the Hon. A. Crawford, at Rinsdale, returned to the city Friday. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Darrow left yesterday morning for New York, to be absent two or three weeks. AMisses Louand Sue Walker, of Rushville, Iil., dauzhters of Judge Walker, of the Supreme Court, have been in the city several days, and iptend remaining during the holiday scasou. They are the gruests of their relatives, Mr. and Mrx F. A. Banning, of 643 Fulton street. Stiss Susie A. Hull. of Concord, N. H.. grand- daughter of Gov. Hill, is visiting her uncle, ‘Horatio Hill, Esq., No. 631 Fullerton avenue, Miss Recd, of Manitowoe, Wis., is visiting Miss Favne Tuttle, No. 721 Michieau avenue. Miss Neliic ismon and Miss May Wildman, of Jackson, Mich., will spend _several wecks with Miss Jeonie Hollister, No. 774 Michizan avenue. They witl arrive next onday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Drant, nes Pease, have re- turned 1romn the East, aid will be at home to their friends at the Burd:ci touse. Miss Ida May Robderts, ot Waukesha, Wis.. is epending the holidays with her friend, Mrs. Leters, at ber residence on Indizna aveaue. Mis; Laura Ormsby is svending the holidays in Lincoln, Neb. < 7 Afiss Iscta Barnard. of Manteno, IIL, is spend- ing the bohdays with her friends, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. St. Johu, No. 80 Douglas place. FASHIONS. HATS. Paris Letter New York Heratd. The hat of the future is ala victime. Itis pure Directoire, and its rivai is a futed, rimmed capote. Firstly, the victime. Whether the term means the hat itself, its wearer, or its be- Lolder, is not explained. [incline to the latter supposition. Itis a scooped front, partially turned up on one side. It is made of black or heige plush felt, ornamented with Prince of Wales featbers, which nod whichever way they are set, and with roses as warm iu color as the burning vows exchanged by Capoul and Heii- ‘bron at the Italiens. Just on the temple baugs 8 damask bud, whicth scems to drop from the cluster that holds up the brmn. Any mae would run after it on moticing how near faliing it is. Probably this alone has given rise to the word “victim,” for tue bome sately every day, and goes on victimizing in the sume way from’ 3to5p. m. ‘The capote is navy and Vuleau blue and scartet, and there adaanese wilt und siiver ornament onit; but the futing of the rm bas a curious effect. 1t is pinched 1 aud out, then lined with brizht eilk, nnd therv 1s a plisse all round the curtam. THE WINTER FAN. The winter fan is becoming a piece of furni- ture. ‘The Iatest Las a Knob hanale, which bolds powder and puit. Cnder one of the side staves is conccaled a mirror; and under tbe othera seent tute and pocket comb. This fan is 50 Kight and pertect that it has been brougnt in the “Review of the Year,” played by the best Boulevard actors ay the Varetes. One of the sriistes who inad had the honor of au encore re- appeared Wilh a fan gtucik in her back bair in- stcad of a bigh Spanish comb. The others are .Japavese fans, made like screens and used ss e THE JAPANESE CRAZE. To imitate a lady straight from Jeddo and to look like vne of tue Mixador's subjects is to be extreme bon ton; therefore <oiree and dinuer Tobes are exotic 1o inaterial and design. Sowmety ‘will be perfumed with sunial essence, its fiuger- nuls are 1o blush, and its face-powaer 10 be tinged with a delicate yellow. Hair must nos be ~forgouten. Werd it to1all off heads would be the more fashionabdle for this loss. Small wies wre in demand, but whea bair will not fall off, &nd not ail the ineredients sold bv perfumers will not make it, their _curls are patted down snd frizectes are coaxed wn place by Pompuifan marrow bands that bina heads in shape. A hing can here be griven. A Jady not bavinga hatala victime wizit wave her fair on the forehead uuder a rim turned back and faced with velvet; tuen 2n ostrich tip or wore could be piaced on one side close to the hair, leaving the slowing velver quite free; a band of 20id braid should ruu jn and ouvof the wavy,bair; tue baci saouid e iree in o bair bag, “but run through with Neapolitan tortoise-shell pins. LADIES' FASHIONS. U.roers Busar. Fur-trimmed costumes are being made for midwinier weather. The fur borderis placed on the luwer skirt fastead of a Sounce, and also 25 an edge for the overskirt or potonaise. The Scoon-siivs in gray-brown shadesand thecolored tvux bordérs arethe furs most seen on imported costumes. The materials’ for such suits are among the richesy favrics, auch as velvets, brocaces, and sativs. As yet lew cloth suits Lave been trimmed with' far, and indeed the weight of the cloth s sufliclent without addiog thag of jur borders. The latest importations have costumes of plack orof brown velvet and brocaded satin combined and bordered with otter or with lynx fur. e skirts are straieht around and cotirely withous drapme; the lawer comes . skirt is of velvet, the upper one of brocade; the border of fur is from four to six inches broad. Above this is u basque tha is almost as lor behind as a polonaise, and this is draped in tl back in bouffant pufls; the frout is shaped like a cuirass basque. Some of the forms ace of velvet and others of brocade. Plain veivet skirts, short and round, without asinzle flounce, are very popular with silk or with camey’s-liir overdresses. Economical la- dies welcome this fashion, as very little velvet is required. The round skirt is made of thin silk, or perhaps a luss expensive fabric, and the smooth ail of the velvet, finished separately at the edges, like 2 flounce, yet cutirely without zatbers, 15 18id on from the knee down. The upper part is concealed by the overskirt, and "'f. appearance is given of a whole skirt of vel- vl New mornfog dresses for brides are made elaborate by mavy pleatings of white Breton lace. Brocaded silk is used for the greater part of the wrapper, and side pancls, orelse the mia- dle forms of the back and of ‘the front, arc of plain sitk, completely covered with horizontal rows of Breton lace In the smallest knife-pleat- ings. The largefigured brocades of a singzle color are used for these -rich mowns. Dark garnet and other red shades arc preferred for the camel’s-hair wrap- pers; Chuddab shawls that have not proved saiable are made up o such morning dresses, and trimmed with a border of fur. Cream- white Chuddah is lined with dark crimson silk with fine effect. At the furnisaing houses are excellent Japanese robes 1 long sacque shapes for dressing sacques,jthese are sold as low as §3, .yet_are of geuuine Indin cashmere, or else Cuddah of coarse quality, wrougnt lightly on the cdges in Oriental work. They are offered for either fadies or gentlemen, and come in dark drab or gray shades. ORTH. Paris Correspondence New York World, The bridal dress is of white satin, the front trimmed with Valenciennes lace in the style of Louis XVL, and with garlands of orange blos- soms. The corsage i3 high and the veil will be of Brussels tulle, trimmed around with Va- lencieones lace. ‘Then there are a short dress of black dames with bouffant tunigue; and @ robe de chembre of the style of the Directory in fantaisie. white, with antiqne Luttons; and a rote of velours rouge, cus cn Pritieesse and trimmed with old Alencon; and a Tobe of black satin, tue jupe very simple and trimmed with garlauds of black-jtu pearls, the corsagze open in front and behind with arlands; anda grand duiner-rope of sappbire-blue satin with side trimmiugs in old’ damask on a silver ground, in the style of Henri Quatre; and & Detite robe de diner in white moire, striped with black and trimmed with black grenadine and white satin, Lbe body trimmed with old Mechlin lace; and 2 costume of velours faconne a bou- quet, with 2y e jupe aud pardessus; ane a redingote of black setin and a traveling costme in blue Lyons satin,—in sbape Javeuse and skirt turned up in front. But do not think that Worth bas exhausted his acrze even on these charming creations, For close by them I sce, made for Miss Catbarine Wolfe, of New York, also_a superb robe in ve- Lours Jrappe rouge, made d paner Louls XVL., trimmed with old poiut lace, the corsage dec- orated with diamond buckles, a la Louis YV, and 3 blue broche satin rosc, the front trimmed with Mecblin Jace flounces, the body open, tie skirt trimmed at the foor with three plaitings of coral-color, blue, aud viel or ; and 8 morniog robe for the house of black ‘embossed with gold, mace in one picee a la princesse. and with antique buttons; and a_robe of maroon satin and velours fanta’s’e, red with_flowers like toc old kabits Louis X V1., and made 1o the same shape, but all of & plece, with old dia- mond buttons and flowers embroidered on the velvet. Nothing can excecd the beauty of tins costume. Ana yetit is bard to call it finer than a costume de visite, also for Aiss Wolfe, of ve.ours rouge, Louis XIIL, trimmed with chin- chilla in thie style of the Directory, and with a manchon of trimmed velvet. SOCIETY TOPICS. We learn from good authorty that some of our Chicago ladies are coine to Washington to # receive 7 New-Year calls with Mrs. Ruther- ford B. Hayes, at the White-House. 1t is said that the very ceutre of the carthis the only spot where one can be merry all the time, aud the reason is, that, as science tells us, everything there Joses its gravity. 4 Yes,” observed a friend the other evening, “ ghe certainly is very highly cultivated. She is very stylish, plays well, sings well, talks well, dances well, aud rides well, und succeeds ad- mirably in private theatricals. In fact,” he added, “ she's just the kind of « girl you'd like one of your friends to marrs.” * Then you wouldu’t care to marry her?”’ suggested Caus- cur. * By no means, my dear fellow. What 2 ooking for is a realnice girl.” Boonets of black, marine-blue, garnet, and bottle-ereen velver are enlivened for evemng wear by the msc of cream-white. pale, rose- colored, or c'el-blue velvet, or plush for trim- ming, with ostrich-tips of the same coior. Wednesday evening—Our piano_arrived safe- Iv. It s anupright, of the mugnificent Hallet, Davyis & Co. make, ‘direct from W. W. Kim- ball’s. We found at this gecutlemnan’s estab- lishment, corner of State and Adams streets, a display of pianos and orzahs simply superb. This Hallet & Davis instrument, of whica ke is sole general Western azent, T believe to be the moblest triumph of humau invention in the line of musical mechanism. 1 bave the evidence of iy own senses for this belief, aud 1f that is not enough, there is the indorsement ot such artists t, Ferdinand David, Aut, Beudel, Strauss, Joechim, Gotischalk, and other masters. The Hallet, Davis & Co.'s new uprizhts are a mar- velous combination of beautiful workmanship. and richness and durability tone. We have also ordered onc of the new Kimball Silver Bell Orchestral orzans, We hear of these instru- meuts almost_everywhere. Thes appear, al- though but a short, time before the public, to have enchained allke the admiration of musical connoisseurs and amareurs. ¥ Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has just been elected honorary member of the Carriage Build- ers’ Association. Holmesisa pood felloc and an ax-lent afterdinner speaker.—Zuriugton Hawkeye. The Hawkeye spoke the truth that time. He knows how to dasher head and let loose bus shatts of wit fa tip-top style.—S8t A~ baus Advertiser. And all beeause he lives in the Hub.—Boston Post. Ueiza good spokes-man, aud never gets tired. The urivaled stock of jewel found at Peacock’s has recently been lareely augmented by reason of his hav d per express a choice lot of new goods, purchased to imect the demand for holiday trade, but not_re- ceived §u time to be displayea prior to the 25uh, in conscquence of the snow blockade on” the Eastern railways. His stock is now complete— being matehless in every respect, including the largest -selection of ladies’ stem-winding watches ever expibued in Lhis city. A novel jewel-case is in the shape of a table wich foldinz-leaves. Pressinz upon the ouiside ot the centre of the table, it springs up and re- veals the receptade for jewels. It s in silver with Japanese decorations in gold. Fipe Russia and seal-skin card-cases ere o specialty with Merker Bros., manufucturers, No. 88 State street. “Cheir assortuient of cholee jeather wuods, including finest pockethooks, is alwavs complete. They are copstautly at work on noveltics. * Alittle Brighton girl went with her mother ona visit to a fricnd’s bouse, aud listened with frreat delight o ber hostess plaviog the piano. When the air wes concluded sne delibl:l‘utcl?' banded the surprised lady acent. “ Why, ma,? ghe replicd to the remonstrances of her shocked parent, “we always give the orzan man a ceut. and Mrs. plays so mueh gooder than him {7 Those Jadies fond of delicious perfume, Ax the bulm of a thousand flowers in bloom, $honid never fail. when oat upon a tour, 7o visit taat inetlably-swect bower . Kept witn McCage & Converse, Tow on view— ‘A cozier retieat fairy never Knew. The leading depot s of Dr. Price For his extracts of everything that's choice; ‘And where Tequisite oods in ladies’ wear, And gentlemen’s, too. unsurpassed elsewhere, ‘Are kept and sold—Fashion's popalar retreat, Madison, corner of Peoria street. A voung lady advertised for o maid. One ied, and, in respouse to the inquiry whether she replied: *“Ob, so quick that to dress vou every duv in haif an 1o half an bour!’ reiterated the +and what shall Ido the rest of always to be hour,” voung lady ihe day?? Our sister cities are rivaling each other in flne publie: buildiugs. Now it is Toledo who has reared a palatial edifice oo the corner of two of her most promiuent streets. Werefer fo the new Produce Exchanze. This mazniticent buildingr is fittinely described in the Toledo Commercia’ as the palace business house of the West. 'The frescoing is a work of art in itselt. The reoresentations are highly artistic and very appropriate. ‘Lhey consist of agriculture, coni- merce. shipping, and cmblems of the principal industries of the city, and it is a yerituble fact toaz 1t is the finest work of its kind ever done in the West. The artist, Alminy, may well be proud ot this masterpiece. A letter written from Paristoan English mag- azine jn 1790 speaks of 200 kinds of boanets. T'nis is within 350 of the number of styles ex- hiibited at the present day. Mauy of the old masters mede amusing and curious blunders fo their works. Tintoret represented the “ Israelites Gathering Manna,” armed with guns. Uigoli paluted the aged Simeon at the circumcision of Christ with a pair of spectacies on his uose, aud Rubens commit~ “behind and on the si mitted the same error in Lis famous picture of “Mary Anointing the fect of Christ.”” At the recent Paris Exposition the Wheeler & ilson was grandly triumonant over eignty corpetitors, receiving the onlvy grand prize awarded sewing-machines. They sew anytaing from gauze to lieayy leatber, and have un abso- Tucely silent feed. J. L. Flannery, 155 Sate. A raw recriit who taok occasion to keep out of harm’s woy during the first_battlc betiween the English troops and those of the Ameer, be- ing reproached for cowardice, sald: “I'd rather be a coward all my life than a dead hero for ten minutes.” In worsteds and koit moods H. H. Cady, 42 East Madison ‘street, unquestionably takes the lead. his emporium being daily thronged with purchasers. The demand for ladies’ and misses’ lioods 1s unprecedented. “There are -people who live behind the hill,” isan old German proverb, which means that there arc other folks in the world beside your- self, although you mav not sec them. Young ladies and geutlemen will do well to commenge the new vear by becoming mewmbers of the Bryant & Stratton- Business College where they may secure o busiuess education that will make them independent for life. Al)'ulm'.: ofticer thought to puzzle the editor of Lz Figaro by askinz him when two men of equal age and rank met, which should be the first to bow. The editor calmly replied: “The more polite of the two.” Nothing is more attractive to callers on New- Year’s than a finely-furnished table. Fruit- plates, glassware, and fruit-centres in great va riety at Ovingron's, 146 State. Among the novelties in evening dresses is the revival of the Pompadour and Marie An- toinette overdresses, with louz bodices rounded over the hips, and slightly draped and pulled Bein the new year right. In other words, do, 10t buy a piano until vou have first scen Jultus Baner & Co.’s new favorite “Bsuer™ piunos, sold very low at 263 and 265 Wabash uvenue. A Yankee from the v-oods of Maine, who had been abroad, boasted to his friends that be had visited Queen Victoria. “Did sne ask yvou to stay to dinner?” questioned one of his hea 4No, she didu’t,” he answered, cmph: “\Why not?” was tne next question. ‘ Becaus it was washin? day,” was the conclusive reol The sale ot beautiful Wakefleld rattan rond for Christmas more that doubled the Company expectations. For New-Vear's aifts you will find a full stock at 231 State street. My dear Julia,” eaia one pretty girl to an- otner, “ can you make up your mind tb mary that odious’ Mr. Souff?’’ * Why, my dear Mary,” replied Julia, 1 believe 1'conld take him’at a pinch,” Hnsbands and sons ran enjoy théir evenings at bome, Akam’s parlor billiard tables will furnish necessary amusement. Prices, S1 to $20. C.G. Akawm, inventor, 23 East Adumis, A good man is like a strong silken umbrella, —trustworthy, and a shelter when the storms of lite pour down upon us. A mere walking-stick when the sun shines,—a fricnd in misfortune. For fine steel engravings, panel pistures, and pictare-frames, at moderate prices, o to Charles Brachvorei's, 261 Wabash avenue. - Little David, when told that God had senta new baby to their house, said: “I don’t see why He Wwants to crowd 11s 50; many houscs ot none atall, and now this one makes five at ours.” Consternation among the bair-dealers is caused by the wonderfully low prices of all hair goods at the ** Relinbie ™ Hair Store, 157 Wabash av. The mouth is the frankest part of the face, It can the least conceal the feclings. We con veither hide ill-temper with it nor good. We may afTect what we please, but affectation will not belp us. Ladies, you will bave no comfort in riding unless you procure one of the new foot-warmers at the hassock factory, 363 Wabash avenue. Caroline yon Beethoven, the nicce of the great composer, is to receive hereafter, by order of the King of Bavaria, a certain percentage of the net profits of every performance of * Fidelio at the Royal Theatre at Munich. Ladies, to select fine cloaks at very low prices, goat an carly day to McCabe & Converse, cor- ner Madison and Peoria strecis. ‘'t heir immense stock of cloaks, dolmaus, ete., is being rapialy closed out. Toe Princess Emna, of Waldeck, who is about to marry the old King of Holland, isa graceful, warm-bearted little person, with bright eyes and a piguant face. p Tke “‘Marquis of Lorne” and *Fashion Scarts are in great demand. An elecant line at Cobb’s, norchwest corner Clark and Madison. . A sailor beinzon trial for stealine a blue coat, his counsel argued that it was a plain case of ballucmation, as his client evidently supposed Limself to be “on the deep blue seize.” Procure_your calling-cards for New Year's at the West Side Librars. “Your Judges have sentenced you to death,” said a friend to Socrates. “ And kigs not Nature passed the same senteace on them!” quietly re- sponded the sage ola_philosopher. Heatina stoves at and below cost for thirsy Dalzon, 192 State street. stead of leaving flowers and wreaths on the graves ol dead friends, custom vxpeets the peo- ple of Madrid to leave visitine-cards. Frames und framing at Lovejoy & Fosters. In a picture of “Christ Healing the Sic Verrio, the spectators are represented as y jug periwizs on their heass. Alvert Durer vainted the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eaen by an angel in flounced dress. A Chapin, the leading book-dealer, 95 Magison. ‘The new buttons are oems; some are made of real stones, others imitations; some buttons are desigoed In imitations of pearl tassels, othersof old silver tassels intermixed with gold; the paste diamogd buttons are used principally on ovening dresses, as a turquoise and garnets. . The handsomest calling cards are written at Tivoli Gurden cigar-store. Ooen daily till mid- pight, acd all day New Year's. A mnaughty little New York girl looked at the flushed face ot one of her young admirers. the otlier day and askea: * Were you pajuted be- forc you were baked, or are vou one of those horrid, cheap American faiences £What I'd like to know,” said a school boy, “is now the mouths of rivers can be so much lurger than their heads.” * The exhibition of ancieot armor in the win- dow of o Washinaton and State street jewelry store is said to be the best snow of otd majl-mag- ter this sioe of the Dead-Letter Oflice. The Metrovolitan Business Colleze is the leadine institution of the kind in Chicaso. 1t bas an able corps of teuchers. It is here to stay. It owes no wan g dollar. It is free, aud tuition can be paid into it without risk. Its course of study is the best. Tos rooms and equipments are the finest. Patrouize uo_ other until vou have visited this college, at Nos. 149 to 153 Sate street. New-Year's cards at Stott’s, No. 155 State street. Albums, onera-glasses, fine leather goods, etc., at prices to suit. Stott, No. 158 Stute street. % —— THE IDEAL. LWritten while wandering through_the aallerfes of the Vaticar, at Rome, 44y, 20, 1878.] There wasnever a picture painted, Tuere was never & puem sung, Bt the heart of the arusg fainted And the poet's soni was wru; Titere wus never a graud conception In the vein-d marole wroght, But the hour of 1ts inception With bitterness was fraught: For cach knew that bis fond endeavor, ‘Thouzh he strove with utmost mizat, Mast fa1] of 1ts meaning ever. ‘As darkness fails fram light, “There are wondrons colors blending, Which the world may never know; There are angel-faces bendin But for me alone they vlow: There are rapturous vofces sinclng, There are symphonies that roll— In dreams 1 hear them rinZing “hiroush the clofstors of 10y soul: vaking fond endeavor hese fleeting visions mock— ‘Like Promethcus, find [ ever 1But the vultore and the rock Cuicaco, Dee. 25, 1875, ALDERT WiLsox. — A Joke Well Turned, Shelly (Iy.) Sentinel, One nizht last \week four youus men of Simp- sonvifle went over in the Todd’s Point neighbor- hood to call on some youns ludics at the house of an oid genmleman. Aflter staving a short time they took their departure, but returned in a little while, and, either i spirit of mischief, or to uvenge sowe real or fancied slight, dehb- erately moved bodily a cerafnsarden-out- house, not ornamental but useful, to the front door of the residence. On arising the next morning, the old gentleman took in the situn- tion at a glance. “Arming simscll with a shot- grun, he was enabléd, owing to the suow which nad fallen tbe nisht brevions, to track the young med to their respective places of abode. He formed them all in a line, aud, at the muz- 2zle of his gun, marched them to. the scene of their depredation of the night previous. After summoning his dauzhters to witness the fun, Tie compelied the young men to carry the build- jng back to the point from whoich they had taken it. It wasa bitter pill. but they sub- mitted. What made the case especially dis- tressing to one of the younz men was to find his photograph, which e ad recently given to one ot the vouug ladies, couspicuously tacked oo the doof. f LEAVES FROM THE NOTE-BOOK oF A” RESURRECTIONIST. EDITED FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBGNE BY FRANK W. REILLY, M. D. [Having been apnointed Demonstrator of Anato- my 1o the Chicago Medical Coilege soon after re ceiving his degree of Jedicine Joctor, the pri cipal incidents narrated in the following came un- der the,observation, oratherwise to the knowledge, of the writer while uccupying that position. To the substantial correctness of the marrative he is willing to vouch, althongh, for obvi- ous reasons. he has dislocated names and dutes 1o eome estent. Other witnesscs to its hiteralness migkt also readily be found among the sarvivors of thoee whose names are given. Aside from this merit, however, it has neither Jesson, moral, argument. nor othier justification for ity pubiication, suve auch as may be oleaded for the intereat which attaches to the records of the res gestw lempuris acti—the traditions of the deeds and_exvious of au carlisr duy. The aorupt denouement is due to the somewhat sidden and un- looked-for participation of the writer in the his- toric, but hardly more intensely dramatic, scenes of the War of tne Great Rebellion.—R.] IN A QUANDARY., ‘They were in ¢ quandary—the members of the Faculty of the Medical Uepartment of Lind Uuiversity, as the Chicago Medical Colleze was originally styled. Decidedly in a quandary. During the lecture session, then drawing toa close, the College had been badly “scooped ! by its rival, *OId Rush.” Mony of the membersof the Faculty had held chairs In the Rush, and werc desirous of presery- ing amicable relations with the senior institntiou. In their innocence;and total waut of guile they hed “given themselves away,” in the argot of the class-room, on many points; but in no way s0 completely and disastrously as on the sub- ect of a supply Of materiel for the dissecting- room. In those carly days, and before “resarrec- tionizing " had becowme oue of the fine orts, it was no easy task to keep the busy scalpels of two or three hundrel students supplied with subjects, even without competition. But these difliculties were immensely increased when a rival institution entered the market, and bid for the services of the only purveyor of long Dlg™ then engaged in the business. Daniel Brainard—*the Count,” a he was familiarly called—was then tie famous Profes- sor of Surgery and President of the Rush Faculty; and Edwin Powell, ie nevex de son oncle, beld the vost of Demonstrator of Auatomy. Just Low it was brought sbout will probably never be known, but a couvention wus cvent- ually made between the rival Demonstrators, whereby it was aerecd that the services of the aforesaid purveyor were to inure to the beneflt of the two colleges on alternate nights,—the Rush reaping the fruits of his nocturnal toil on one night, and the Lind on the next. B “‘TURKEY AND BUZZARD.™ The Arcadian simplicity of this arrangement was marred, however, soon after the opening of the session by a serius of the most untoward in- terruptions, and which, by some strange coin- cidence, alwuys occurred on the nights allotted to Lind. 01d Hans, the resurrcctionist, reoorted, time after time, the most hair-raising storics of his narrow escapes from capturc, as his excuse for failiner to keep the tables of Lind’s dissecting- room duly set torih with the funeral meats nee- essary to sate the students’ appetites. Finally, stungr to action by thecommentsof hiscolleagues and by the rapidly-waning class,—whose de- sertiog members found usbundant ahment at Rush,~the Lind Demonstrator ivsisted on ac- companying Hans upon one of his nidnight {forays in propria persona. Whetoer the charze of bird-shot. Isboriously picked, next day, out of the skin and super- ticial fascia covering the giuteal muscles of the unfortunate and adventuresome Demoustrator by the Lind Professor of Surgery, Dr. Edmund Andrews, was thereip deposited by a Rush student ‘masquerading in the guise of a “‘wateher,”” and_whether such phiebotomy was countenanced or suggested by the Faculty of Rush, are questions which furnished theses for very animated discussions among the haud- ful of embryo medicuses who still eathered around the sparsc-sct boards of Lind's dissect- ing-roout. A CHANGE OF BASE. Certain it is, however, that the exhibition of this precipitate of lead, and-the subsequent three weeks’ experience of the unlucky Demon- strator,—which, by the way, was the reverse of ascetic,—furmshed the Faculty with what it deemed tundamental reasons for declaring his seat vacant; a conclusion to which he—prone e le ventre—was, perforce, alter the extraction of the remaining perlets, compelied to yield s pain- {ful asseat. The witty, bus. rather Rabelaisian, verses, renerally attriouted to the ready and rufous Professor of Theory and Prictice in Rush, and sung with great gusto by the varfons “rangs” or **seis” in the dissecting-room of that devil’s tattous, beaten Witn old fewurs and ossa Tumeri, probably Hive yet among the traditions of thecollege; but the refrain or chorns ouly is remembered by tais yeracious chronicler: Ubi est ille Demonstrator? Deinde iteratum est ab omnibus, Cum cachinnatione Undulante ‘Treoidunte Strepetas NoX EsT ISVENTUS! A pronounced sageestion of the Upium Eater in the above—see his paner ** Ou Murder, Con- sidercd as One of the Fine Arts "~—is probably the cause of the retention in the writer’s mind of this chorus, which muy be frecly reudered thus: Where. O where is the Demonstrator? (bis.) He drove off in his Doctor’s couoe— Gone to get an air-cushion! A NEW DEAL. As before remarked, the members of -the Facalty of Lind, though assciobled in the ereen-room, were decidedly in a brown study. Attempts at wit fell flat. No responsive smile wet the casual remark that this want of sub- jeets made the present subject a grave affair. The faflure to raisc other people’s bodies bad had a anifestly-depressing effect on their own spirits. In sbort, the inaugural cffort at estabiishing a new era in medical edu- cation, through a systet of graded instruction —which was the raison d’etre of the Lind— scemed about to abort atthe very inception of zestatiun. It was very obvious that prompt measures, such as woula effectually prevent a repetition of this seasow’s disappoiutment, muse be at onee rosorted to. A promising vounz zraduate i the office of Dr. N. S. Davis, was fivally selected to Al the vacant Demonstratorship; and, on his avceptance, he was instrucied that the prime requisite of his officewas an abundant supply of mater.e: for the next session. A MAIDEN ESSAY. He was no novice, as it suosequently trans- pired. Oue of his amatenr attempts, -in com- pany with Prof. Freer—at the time fliing the chair of Anatomy in Rush—~had shown him possessed of the requisite pluck, coolness, and ingenuity. In a scason of unusual desrth, canseq by the illness of the regular purveyor, it had become necessary that the Professor should take the fleld bimself; and our hero, who was then a studeut in Freer’s oftice, found himsaif and his preceptor otie dark night on the wronZ side of the fence of the old City Cemetery on tlic North Side in the scetion known as *Pot- ter’s field. The * stiff " had teen successfully exhumed and deposited in the shrubbery near the fences the grave restored to its usual appearance, and the tools deposited in the chaise, when a couple ot policemen and the keeper of the cemetery werc heard approaching. Frecr's- horse was a good stepoer, and thict minutes after saw the couple in the old St. Charles* saloon, enjoying ot whisky punch and stewed oysters under the kindly ministration of ** Mat Conley. About 3 o’clock in the morning, after a care- ful reconnoissance, they secured their booty, whieh was set bolt upright bewwesn tiem onthie ceat of the chaise, and hastily driven Lo the colleze, where it was deposited ut the bottom of the sbalt leading to the dissecting-rovm. WHY THEY VACCINATED. About noon the doctor and his assistant re- paired to the colleze for the purpose of Inject- ing the cadaver. To their horror and dismay, when it was tumbled out of the sack, it was found to be that of o cese of confluent small- ox! p’nmse among the older readers of TuE TRisGSE who can recall the minor sepsations {ustitution to a ghastly, accompaniment of - of the period about 1855-'56, may remember the mysterioussolicitude of certain phvsictans on the subject of vactination.—how every one Wwas urzed to submit to thévperation. and how, al- though small-pox was by no means prevalent, there was an unaccountable interest mani- fested in the disease. The explanation may be found in the above incident. Dr. Freer and his student sported new ward- robes; the Doctor’s chaise was sent off into the Couatry, no one kuew whither; and Freer, and Herrick, and Blaney, and Jolnson, et al., went abont vaccinating right and left, gratuitously. OF INTEREST TO POMOLOGISTS. To disoose of the corpus delicti was the most embarrassing watter. But itwas quickly solved by Dave, the student, who packed it in a whis- Larrel aud cacked the package 1n the middle of an orchard at Jefferson, beloazing to Mr. John Gray, afterwards Sherilf of Cook Coumnty. If John bhas hitherto been unable to account forthe abundant fruitaze of a certalu group of apple treos, of the Esopus Spitzeubertr: vuriel.i’. in his orchard, this recital may heto him to dlear up the matter. So Dave—now Dr. David E.—was the new demonstrator, and he set himself at once to a survey of the situation, It was clear that no furthier dependence could be placed onold Haus. From eighty to 100 new subjects would be necessary (or the next session; and it was of Vital impor:ance to the success of the new col- I‘E]_'u that Lhere be uo furcner illustration of the **woodehuck story?” 1n the history of Lind. . i OLD CAMP DOUGLAS. Revolving the matter in his miod, the young Esculapius next morning took his accustomed way to the wards in the Rebel hosoital at Camp D'nm:las, then pretty thickly occupied by the sick and disabled among the Fort Douelson prisoners. He had been made an Acting Assistant Sur- #eou at the camp so recently that, hitherto. the freshness sud interest of the duties had not worn off. But -to-day be was preoccupied; and the ward-masters, a5 they attended him from cut to cot, might have cXcusably supuosed, in their ignorance of medical terms, that un epi- demic of constipation had struck hfs patiente,— }fiugax;l(ror‘;d:::{; guqlllcuuy with which he per- nctorily addes e ‘siugle word e to - his clinfeal record. % Hermeth N At last bis rounds were completed, and with a few absent-minded directions to the hospital steward and apotheeary,—which those fanction- arfes judiciously ignored,—he was uabout leav- ing for the city again, when an orderly deliv- ered 2 message from Dr. Winer, the senior Surgzeon of the Camp, Who requested his at- tendance at the dgad-house, to perform a pdst nortem on o recent interesting case. As he entered the rough wooden shed, where the last oflices were performed prior to the burried sepulture in the fast-growing trenches in the City Cemetery, the solution of his dificulty flashed across his brain. One, tiwo, three, four,—he bastily counted up, and bad alrcady mencally secured the thirteen stark forms awaiting the coarse pine boxes called, by courtesy, coflins, before he answered the salutation of Dr. Winer and remembered the cause of his summons. Itis to be feared that the jearned exposition of the pathological appearances bis swiitly-plied scalpel soon ex- posed fell on uclistening. cars. But his atten- tion was fully alive when, at the closc of the autopsy, and Wwhile returning his instruments to their cases, he heurd the following collogu; Orderly—*The Quartermaster sends s com- phments to Surgeon Win od begs to say the requisition for coffius is informal, and will pe returtied for amendent 0s so0on s the Decessars entries concerniug it have been made in his office.” Surzeon W.—* And when will that be, pray??’ Orderiy—* Couidw’t say, sir, exactlys but it won’t probably reach you until to-morrow.” Surgeon W.—"D—n this red tape. They'll let these men rotin the camp while thes're making cntries and references. Here, clerk! Make out 4 new -requisition for thirsecu coflins for immediate use, aud see that all formalities are complied with."? ORGANIZING THE EXPEDITION. Somehow Dave found it convenient to spend most of his morning in and around the Camp after this: but when be beard the orders siven for the transportation of the bodies to the cem- etery as soon ufter 3 o'clock p. m. as possible, he lost no tine in secking his buegy. Those who met and recognized him on his way back to the city put down his reckless driving to the score of advertising effect,—*‘exoects people will think he’s been sent for in a case of life or death. Too thin for such a youne man.’? Dave’s miud was 0o busy just then to worry about what peopfe- might think. Tne jecture- rooms, etc., of the college were in the building formeriy known 15 Lind’s Block, on Market street, und over the store now, as then. occnpied by Fulter & Fuller. Thither be at ouce pro- ceeaed. Making some hasty vreparations here, in which sundry carth-stained saciss, spades, pickaxes, augers, and ropes, plaved au junpor- tant part, he next drove to the offices of two or 1bree prominent physicians, where he held ear- nest bug subdued convérse with the young gen- tlemen sopposed to be *‘readinx’™ thercin. These terminated to his apparent satistaction, he next drove over on to Chicagzo avenue to the house of Owen McCarthy, a local politician, and devout worshiper of the memory of the “Lit- tle Giant.” ‘To prevent misapprehension, 15 should here be distinetly stated thatOwen hed not the most remote jutimation of the part he was made to play in the drama enacted that night. PORTENTS AND OMENS. But Owen, in hisignorance of their intended use, was oply too ziad to furnish a wagon and one of his best borses to the college where his son was o student. He even offered to go him- self to assist lin the removal of the specimens. Had he known the character of tbe ‘‘sbeci- mens,” and whenee they were to be removed, the physical integrity of the applicant would have been in serious danger. 1t was about 8 o'clock at night, cold, raw, and starless, when the wagon with its three occu- pants left the college building. Crossing North Clark street bridee the sharp crack of a pistol was heard a block or so abead. Hurrying feet, a sursng, tast-swelling crowd on the corner of Kinzie and Clark,—* a manshot in that saloon,” —and the trio drove ov, one at lesst of the number feeling as though the mark of Cam were already on his bow. Too late for omens new, thouzh; and the good horse was pressed 20 his sharpest pace, ull hands cuger to_ leave fiue seene of the murder behind as speedily as possible. i ‘Uut Chicazo aveoue, past the Water-Works, and down on to toe sandy beach at Lilis D erv, belore u word was spoken. wheeling grew _heavy, and, as the trot subs into a walk. voices were found, subdned, it is trae, but business-like. Plans were talked over, dutics assigned, und, by the time the pest-house was passed and the wagon wus winding through the sund dunes and still lingering snow-drifts on the lake-front of the cemetery, 1 feeling of confldence had begun to manitest itsell. ANOTHER INVOLUNTARY AGENT. A northeast wind, blowing direct from the frigid surfaces of an icebersz somewhere up in Manitoba, was sdmirably adapted to carry sounds inland to the ears of the keeper at the recciving vault; andeven before the traps were unloaded from the wagon it became evident from the restiveness of the horse, his stamping ana snorting, that he couldn’t be ket there un- til needed. So Dave finally decided to drive back and leave him in charge of s oearest ucquaintance. Casting —about in his _mind for 'the most nvail- able guardian, with sublime sudacity he hit Gpon the Rev. Robert Collyer, who thiea lived on Chicago avenuc, near Dearborn street. What his tale to the Dominie was is unknown; but the charee was sceepted, and 3 promise wiven that if any inquisitive policeman ** wanted to knovw, you know,” why that wagon was hitched there, he was to be told ¢ that it was 2l right.” If the pastor of Unity Church should cast his eves over this column of THE TRISUNE this morning, it is to be hoved it may not disturb his equanimity too severely to learn hosw e was thus unwittiugly made party to a resusrection- fzing expedition. A DESERTER. To his rapid walk back Dave’s mind was busy specnlating on the progress theremaining mem- bers of the party would bave made during his absence. Judge of lis dismay and disgust whep e was met at the gravesacd feoce by Mr. Y—, with the information that §— had “funked” and cleared out soon after the wagon was driven off. A hurried consultation resulted in the de- cision to make the bestof it, get what they could, and try it azaln. Dividing their forces, Y— took the morth half of the cemetery aod Dave. wel south, in order ‘to thor- oughly reconnoitre the ground, appoint- ing the space in front of the recely- ing vault ns a rendezvous. In abouc twenty minutes they caugnt sizht of each other ap- proaching from their respective directions. Everythiog, evidentiy, was clear; snd - Dav, s coming out into the upen, was hastening toward ——, who had stopped in the shrubbers. J'AIME LE MILITAIRE. Suddenly the doctor’s sharp eye caucht sizht of arow of dark objects ranged side by side in {ront of the vault. One, two, three, four.—yes! there were thirteen coftins lying unburied on the oper space. For amoment he paused—but, os he stepped for- ward to zet 1 nearer view, the measured tread of soldiery broke on the solemn stiliness. **Hale 1" _ Acrash of grounded arms, a pause, a creak- ing and clash of iron gates thrown hack, a few short.steru words of commund, thie riythumic ic- tus of cadenced footfalls upon the loud re- sounding stone sidewalk, and then, but for a basty retreat jinto the sheltering gloom of u ncighboring tymbstone, Dave's career might have been summarily ended by a volley from the ready Enflelds, whieh were acain grounded with a crash, this time not a dozen paces Irom his hiding-place, by the guard sent up from the camp, by ordler of Col. Mullizan, to patrol the cemetery during the night. (To tue of thes der, waiting for the next installment ) feaves, "1t won't oo half solungas it s compupion beforg’ they recmed to Dave EUROPEAN GOSSIP. THE ARENA AT NIMES. Herper's Mayasine. Two of the erates of the old city still exist at Nimes, offering some fine marble sculptures; but when one bas been here and there sbout the old ¢ity, and seen all its antiquitics, be returns arain and again with growinz interest to a con- templation of its magvificent ainphitheatre. It is sliahtly clliptical iu form and smaller than the amphitheatre of Arles, and perhaps inferior to that in purity of style, but its situation makes it, on the whole, more attractive and cheerful, and it could once seat 25,000 spectators, which is quite np arwy. Each division of seats— oue for the patricians, another for the equitari, or knights, and two upper tiers for the plebeians ~had its own vomitorium, or exit, with distinct corridors, aud these are all yet in good preserva- tion. So enormous is the strenath and so massive is the coustruction of this edifice that when Charles Martel expetled the Saracens {from it and filled the corridors with wood, and tried to burn it down, he was unable to make aoy perceptible impression. The arena is still used for bull-fizhts on fete days. I witnessed a speetacle of this sort fn_that ‘place which ina remote way seived to zive mean idea of the grandeur of a gladiatonial day, or a tight with wild beasts, in thiose by-zone times, when those vasttiers of marble were thronged with myriads robed fu purple and zold. There were about 6,00 present on this occasion. More, probably, woula have attended if jt had been a regular buit-fight justcad of a cow-fight which was offered on the bills. _ Bat, if less exciting, there was nesrly as much fun in the spectacle I saw there. 1t was advertised as a course libre,” winch meaut that all who chosc could enter the arena und join in tbe sport. The. cows, if not us dangerous as bulls, were of Spanish breed, and by no means to be despised; if their horns. had not been dound iu felt, more than one cham- pion would have fost lis life jn the arena that afternoon. Between the hornsa rosctie was firmly bound, and te lucky fellow who could tear it off won a gold piece and lots of applause. Many a daring voutt licked the dust that day. Several had their shirts torn off, and receive very severe blows 1 the buck, which dounbtless carned for them plenty of cheap and whole- some advice when they ot home. One was | pinned against the wall between the cow’s horns and bad a very narrow ¢seape. Some- times there were nearly 100 men in the arena at once, and this was one reason why none were killed outright, for as soon asone sportsman was knocked over all the others rushed in aud diverted the attention of the poor infuriated brute, which would fually get completely waorricd out and batlled from the constant rusa of one and another. Thus the large number of mén in the arena served as @ proteccion rather than an locrease of the dunger. The prize was wou three tites in succession by one - man,— young, Jitbe, handsome, and_apparently made of steel and india-rubber. He had a genius for that sort of thing evidently; but [ could not help thiokiog how like that was to the game of life,—noW many try, how few win! The view in the zalleries was scarcely less an- imated. On the shady side of the areva the throng was gathered from every class, from the English nobleman to the lowest cauaille who could muster a few sous to pay for a back seat. Brilliant costumes and clegant toilets were not wanting to remind one of the scarlet tozas and magpificent women of olden times. The vo- Iuptuous and almost imperial beauty of some of the fair dames ot Nimes coliected there in that hour ncver sarpassed in the brightest days of ancicns Rome; and indeed it wus Roman blood that gave to thew atiery and almost fierce solendor, sach as may be rivaled but cannot be trapscended out of tue soutn of France. There were also prescat some fine speciticns of mazcu- line beauty, The people of Languedoc and Provence, if less intelleciual-looking than those of other parts of France, certaioly present one of the noblest types_of pbysical beauty the wortd has seel Throughoat this multitude the most vir intercst in the game became more and more evideat, stimalated somewhat, pechaps. by the absinthe, eau-de-vie, and_coffce, which were industriously circulated by little, bareneaded Ganymedes, who attracted my attention by tbe way in which, waiter and glasses in band, they walked and balaneed them- selves on the beveled edge of the wall 1 front of the lower tier. But the interest and excitement culminated during the recess devween the zets, if one may 50 express it. The gate was unbarred, und a mob of boysand youths rusted fn to_participate iua seene which Was evidently 3 customary part of the programme. For a faw moments tacy seattered about the “arena in search of coins which might have been missed by those to whom they had been throwu. Suddealy one of the spectators hurled a circular cake iuto the air, sud it fell spinuing joto the arenu. ‘fhis was the signal for one of the most extraor- dinary repetitions of the Kilkenny cats’ reht that éver was seen. Aenand boys rushed to- gether iu perfect bedlam ot coufusion, each try- ine to seize the cuke. It wastorn iutoa hun- dred fragments ina monment; and now there rained a usil-storm of vopper aud silver colus, Dbonbons, cakes, iotves of bread, aud fruii, thrown by the spectators, who were aroused to the last pitch of excitement and mirth, as the mulutude of men and boys scrambled togetber inan inextricably tangied massof electrified humanity, every atom yelling, howlinz, strug- cling, pulling, tearing, ing, leapiug, pound- ing, and lurching with the cuerzy of firhting demons, faces flushed, noses scratched and and bloody, hair pulled, and clothes torn, and yet througi it all entire zood humor. Never iu ibe roughiest football match that Ibave w nessed did I see anvthing to aoproach the ra ness and roughuess of this .remarkable aud blood-stirring spectacle in the arena at Nimes. ¢ DR. QUIN. 10 Yook World, We have heard many Americans of distine- tion, and who have mingled in some of the best socicty in Eugland, ask who was Dr. Quin, with- out whose nume no dinner-party at Marlborou:h House, or the Duke of Cambridge’s, or Stafford House, or in fact any of the leadinz houses in London, has long scemed complete, and whose death was chronicled but the other day. Dr. Quin, to use the phrase applied by Sydney Smith to Lord Canping, was “*a consummate diner-out.” Ever since the days of Hippocrates it has been a ruling maxim of the medical oro- fession that the charfu of a cheerful and win- ning wanner goes 95 far in the sick-room as all the -ingredients of the pharmacoowmin. The rivals of Sir Henry Halford iu Lon- don and Sir Heory Marsh in Dub- lin_ used to shruz = their shomiders aud whisper that they owed their riscto nothing olse.. And when it s remembered how many malades imaqinaires there are- in this world, ecspecially among the rentler sex, who are de- lighted 1o pay a puysician for softly eliding into taeir room, feeling their palse, and giving them half an hour of agreeable and brignteninug o =i, fi will be ot once scen what ap_influcnce is { excrted by a man like Dr. Quin, who had no supcror 1o agre..ent and that fuscinatin of manner and aad-css which Lord Chesterfield re- garded as the n:vst valuable of all human acves- ories. He wus oue of the most agreeable racon- teurs and ‘*“‘consmnmate divers-out™ whom London bus scen since Mr. Canmng. e was of lIrish parents, but educatea at the Edinburg _schools * of medicine. He in- herited that sarcastic and _ apparently uncopseions Wit which i3 charactenstic of his countrymen, and his father was celebrated ut the Irish Capical,in those bright days of mirth in which Curran, 253 Dushe, and Langrishe slione, for brithant seyngs. It is told of him that, once bewme present at a small dinoer party, he wzs requested to pronounce upon the merits of a peculiarly delicious pudding, toan im- meuse slice uf wuich another guest bad just neiped himseif. ¢ Pray.* asked 3tr. Quin, luok- ing first at his neizhbor’s plate and theb at the aish, “whien is the puddinz#” Dr. Quin, bis son, was 1o London what_Sir Philio Crampton was to Dubfin society. The both had joyous annat spirits. ay endless fund of ancedote, ond aay, reckless wanner, With even ia sge wuch affectation of youth, which always difTused an atmosohere of pleasantness abour th They were both acensed of being turt-hanters. Of i ip i said’ that he weot up to his er ut Kivgstown 1o wish 2 departinr Lord Lieutenant grood-by, and up to his neck to zive welcome to the 1acoming. Dr- Quin’s bright, winniny maaners at once marked, him for advancement, sud he was. when very young, selected as travehng physician to Prince Leopold, afterward King of the Belziaus: and subsequently was named by Lord Liverpoo! to. succeed Mr. Barry O*Meara, of **A Voice from St. Helena” renown, as medical adviser Lo Na- poleon, who was fretiing out his life ucou thas arid rock. But the news of the death of the fallen Emperor on the 5tk of May, 1621, o the very eve of his departare, frustrated this pur- pose. However, he bad improved every appor- tunity offered bim. and te was some tis appointed plysician in ordinary to the Du of Cambridge. This otfice famlliarized with Royalty, and he became the cheri fricod of the presenr Duke of Cumbriise and_of the Prince of Wales. Nn diuner at the Duke’s chambers in St. James 8 party at Sandrigbam was compleic witi- out *‘the doctor’s™ presencs.. His ehtery man- ner and gitts as a raconteur made him a special favorite with the young, When White” Club in 1850 was voted £0b old, most of the mem- bers, though gay in their youth, having faiien iuto the slippered vantaleon, Dr. Quin was with Count d'Orsay, Lord Cantilupe, Lord Dudle) Lord Robert Clinton, zad Lord Clifton. 1 Committee appointed to start the celebrawe Coventry Club, which was placed in tho cent: of Piceaditly, overlocking the grecngarks, whien had such a brief but bnlliant life. Fraucatelli was the chef, and the suppers at tie Coventry became the rave. Lausquenet was played there the live-lons nizht, 2nd prodigions sums were won and lost. It at last found the fate of all such fast clubs from the Cocoanut to Crovk- ford’s, tell -into « decline, and finally passed away. Dr. Quin was over 80 when he fouud a tranquil close to bhis pleasant kfe at his chambers at Qucen Aunne’s Mausion. I[n Lou- don society his well-known face, form, aud figure will long be wissed. TITE CYPRIAN DAMASCUS. W. Meptcortn Dizon's letter to shenchestsr Ezaminer. Nicosia, our Cyprian Damascus, Is a labyrinth of alleyy, winding under minarets and palms, in and out umony an endless serics of fountains, orange<clumps, and olive-grounds. Ouiy a na- tive of the town could find his way from gate to mosque, from coffec-house to bazaar. An enzi- neer, whose tents are pitched outside the west- ern gate,—which might be called King Rienard’s Gate,—telfs me that e took a whole fortnizht to lcarn his track from the cump outsile 1o the konak inside the walls. lmagine how the stranger of a day taust feel in such a maz:! Hizh walls inclose the streets,—high walls of sun-dried brick, browmw™sod forbidding to the cye, but pierced by archways here and there. These openings:lend into yurds and gardens, having a rude und far-away resemblance to the courts of Scville and Damas- cos. Here. in truth, you find no marble pasc- ments, but to make up for the lossof art you have » more luxuriant neturc. Palms bardly live in Seville, and the pomegranate of Dawas- cus pales before the same fruit in Nicosiu. Some “of the doors are left ajar, permitting feminine peeps at the new masters of the place, as they dash past, booted and heimeted, taking no no- tice of the dust and heat. Nicosia has belonred to many lords in turn, and her inhabitauts have bad to look on the1aces of many strangers, from the swarthy Persian to the pallid Frank, Some feminine curiosity may be expected and foriv- en. Thepresentcaseisnew. O alltheirmuasters, Syrian, Greel, Eepptian, Persisu, Macedonian, Roman, Byzantine, Eogzlist, Saracen, Venctian, Turk, the English arg the only masrers who bave staid sway 700 years trom the Nicotians, and then come back to them in greater sireagth than cver. We are mot 8 people who have waned like other masters of the land. ‘That we have been with them aforetime they are well aware, since certain villages ou the way from Limasol to Nicosia bear toe stamp of English names. - | Uur track was marked by deeds whieh have outlived the memory of crusaiing Kin: Venetien Pretects, and “Turiish Idutess: Numes are lonzlived In Cypius, as iu ¢ ortion of the East. At many of the archwuys o tuese walls stand Cypriote dumsels on 1he * watch. Venetians never cune back. Crusaders never came b What are these Enclish ike, +who cameinto theircountry lonzago, left bereand tiicre a twan behind thewm, and vave now retur- e Lo rule them s 8 Frupkish settlement for o second time?! . As we avproach ‘the Moslem women druw their yashmaks round their faces. Even<the . Greeks affect to shun your maze. The hittle ouss cither dart inside or lude their heads in th: motaers’ iapa in oraer to eseape toe evil eyl But all are moved and curious, and excited by our presence in their strees. Sometimes the doors arc silently put to s You et near; not always, and, in truti, bot oiten, 1ur the naties of botit races, and especially the Moslems, look on you as friends. - A trickle of water can be heard io every yard, whiic dates snd oranucs rise above every wull. Arches ran along thrce sides of the inclosed space. Under these arcues ou the grouna floor lodge the came, mule, 2od ox. Every family has a palm-tree, almost every one has 4 garden, and not u few have a water- wheel. Above the arches live the family, the female members in a quarter of thewr own. Men are content to lodge like shepherds, near their mules and cattie, while their wives and sisters sleep in chambers lookinz on the aranze trees, within hesring of the water-wheel. Wom- en of all ages, vlothed in sea-green, pink, and orange garinents, sic. under the tress, droning their native sougs, while their busy fingers draw and spin their native silk. Ventas and balco- nies hanz above the streels, luring in every Lreath of air. The jalousies are dowr, but you are made aware by echo of whispered words and sound of feminine laughter that the pative crit- ics ore ut wwork on your pale face, puggeree, and riding-bouts. ‘A hundred aleys, windiog under minarets and palms, in and odt, among an endless series of fountains, orange-clumps, and olive-grounds, make up the labyrinth of Nicosa, this Damas- cus of the Sen. One feature of the city sepa- rates Nicosin from the Syrian Capital—tho want of any street that, even by the courtesy of Orientals, could be called “'The Straight.” . STORY OF A BROOCH. Puris Corresiondence New York lerald. There is a brooch in the window of one of our best jewelers to which a urious tale is at- tached. The breastpin is nounted with great art and set with gems. It ig divided in four parts, and shows four twisted, bent, snd blunt ordinary pins under a transparent cnamci. Where were these four found? What were they used for? Did they hold a fichu, shawl, ar flower? The poetry of the brooch had to be looked into, and tne following had been ascer- tained: A foreizn Count was years ago hurried one night out of bed and arrested for a political offense. . Ere bis dreams had been quite forgot- ten he was dressed by those wno nad spled out his abode and drageed lim to prison. It hap- pened to be ratker o ark one. .The day ater the oecurrencebe began to think how ternble it would be to Hve long {n such a location with notbing to do, aud as he thouzht he rmmbied about his coat pockets. While dofme dizcovered four pins which he had stuck in the lining of one of his frock Lails in case « require one. He beld the four for sope moments, then flang them rizbt und lefe about bis narcow cell. It was a qaiet one, buz, listen with all the intensity be could, tnere was no way of knowing where they had falten. Tlo therefore went down on alt fours and cursfully felt about, sprawhng in every di had recovered them. Then” be aunother exciting hunt. did six and seven times o d: slcepless for six fong years. Napoleou dicd, then Victer Enmanael. and the Count setat liberty. The four pins were iept, 2l Comtesse is to wear the brooch they © sbrined in. This story ooly teache st take an foterest in lite, and the mo-t citing ‘the best under the pressure of o ‘The Comte has refated that tad ne Just ou his tour pins he could not have endured tivity. Each time he flung them about fancied they werc quite lost, and the ardor which he crawied over his nude floor to that of the chase. Books, papers, and were denicd him. e — Digging Graves in Advance. Stanticae (Win.) Filot. The Village of Kewaunee is uoted for peopls of provident babits and wonderful forethougat. They geoerally rake time by the foretock, ai are invariably, ‘Frzpuu! for winter's cold ur sui mer's heat. The villaze sexton of that putting little faith ju tue sigos that the connur winter will be an unusually mild oue, and, per- haps, knowing from experience that, grave-di ging through “triple-folds” of frozen ground is attended with move labor than a Colsulute in a warm climate, has deived into the ground in advauce of Jack Frost and has prepared six bomes for as mnany persons, who will jomn the ranks of the silent majority beiore the robins will sing their. welcome to the spring of 1875. Hamle's grave-digger, with bis wheezy laueh and his jests on skulls and dead men’s buccs, bad not haif the_professional pride. of bis brother of tne spade in Kewaunee. He preaches in a tonzue that all can understand, sod peuple in Kewauoee' will be godly while the gruve yawas for taem. 3 [ he ™