Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 5, 1879, Page 11

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JANUARY 5, 1879—SIXTEEN PAGES. BOSTON. Her Majesty’s Opera, “Carmen” or No “Carmen “Trovatore™ to the Front—Biblical ‘Dramas and the Wicked World. Sunday Waltzes and Galops-—--New- Year’s Calls and Cards, Frem Our Own Correrzondent. BosToN, Mass., Jar. L—Tne advertisements Iz the newspupers of Rer Majesty’s Opera Compavy ™ caused a flutter in the opera-zolng circles of dear title-loving Boston. Her Majesty's Gpera! What a flavor thers was in tbe smooth- flowing ryllatles! What 2 supeestion of exclu- tiveess and the rarefled air of aristocracy! The vrices, 100, were up in a very rarefied air. The orchestra, and archestrz-circle, and baleony, 33: the dress<tirdle; $2.50; family-circie, SL30; ad- snission, $1.50: eallery, 15 ceots. It is hurd times, and I dow’t suppose a person who honght ticket at these prices but feeis the stress in €ome wsy and talks about it more. Bu$ thero seenied 10 be no stint of the buying, avd Mon- day pight, tbe opening nigt, when * Carmen wus 10 be presented for the frst time lere,— * Carmen,” which hiad mude such 3 sensation in New York, with Minnie Hauk fo the title-role,— ‘" CABMEN," WITR ITS SUSPICION OF NAUGHTI- & A NESS, that in Paris had been so very naughty, but hich, in the translation for our dece nter sense, thaok Heaveo, had left ouly the suspicion,— * Carmen,” of world-wide fame, wis 10 be giv- en by “her Majesty’s company® for the fa- Yored inhabitants of Bostou. ickets tukes? Of course the tickots were What vperu-going creature, from the Beacon street youny woman to the Harvard student, would miss “Carmen” under guch <ircumstances! Let the pinch come somewhere elae:a Loz of cigard less. a new own ourzailed of sggne of ils extravagance, to pay for this fa- r=ous “ Carmien,™ with 1ts interesting sugpicion, Lz coupcon of nsughtiness. So the tickets were bought, snd the leaden bours éragwed on towsrds the welcome cvenivg. But suddenly 2 whisper zaes round,— "8 30t tooe, light and low.” disturbs this screne utaosphere of prumise and expectation. itde sling saying, “ You vays your money our chwice," turus out the deep- & The wmoncy has been paid 2lank anes to hear ** Carmen,” the mysterious snd sewi-caugity, ecut at the :venth hour ibe heroine who can alone wmake Carmen » a vossibility is found wanting. Il nes, suys the mavagement suavely; a busivess querrel, voar the disappointed, eawerly. A b= eleventh bour this springs upon the pubiic, Yeu it is asionishivg with what celerity in the briel tune tie tickets that have ieen boughz Jor +* Carmen lau been EDEEMED AT THE BOX-OFFICE. More than fialf, rumor savs. The opera substi- tuted ®as *Frovatore,” and ouly a very few hours before it Was pui upon the stage bad it been deaded upor. So, imstead of Mt Hauk in uer Gyisy role, there was Mlte, Parodi aud Mme. Labieeiie in the weil-Known charae ters of the “ Trovatore.”” The house that would bave been packed for - Carmen was only mou- erately filled tor * Lrovatore.” Even for ¢ Her ajesty’s Opers Cumpang”’ the buyers of Laraien » tickets, who coula afford but one evenin gt the lugh prices, were o swindled “ont of their se- | They bad vaid their ‘money, 4 meant to tuke their choice, in spite of ke coudticting fate bronght about by ‘operatic gtrikes. The audience tyaz iield onto bear ¢ ‘I'ro- varore* were mostly of those who could atford 10 please themselves with the cou, “¢; these Tound 10 fanls with therepresentation’of I1o- vatere,” but gave great pruise to Sizhor Arditi's »&ill as conductor i bringinze things to so sa 1actory a situation on so sk:ort a notice. And Mite. Parodi won much applause for her ear- nestuess ana the larze quality of her voice. La- biache, 00, madea strong hupression upon critics and avdience, aud the chorus aud orchestra Tairly deliwiited e wnole house. So, ou the whoie, Mr. Mableson Las not LOST MUCH IN PRESTIGE i by wrhat secied so untortunate a tfailure for the tirst nieht, for bis resources and the ability of Signor Ardiui_aud the res of the company have beeu most striltingly proven 1o be of the hizhest order. ‘Lue city is very rich ow in entcrtainments of 4 bigh claracter. At the Music-tall * there is e musical drama of “*Sauis or, the Witeh of Endor,” 1or those who think that a Scriptural story will purge - the dramatic represent- bD of all that is objectionabie. ‘The Curistian matrons” are out 1o full force 1o ihis, acd verious clergymen nave ‘Ppublicly ex- pressed their aporobation. The ditference in the prices of “this highiy-mora! Biblical drama and 1he regular opera is sizniticant of the taste or e value that the public put upon their amuse-. uent: While tke lemtimate, worldy opera @pens the purses at 33 :per head, the unworldly drama, with all the dgrgymer to tie fore and ke * Chiristian matrons™ to rally the rear, ad- Yertised resecved seats”to auy part of the. hall Tor 50 cents G Cowment is_unnccessary, for by this fact we re shown to be, spite of our Oid-South senti- Meut,—whicl, by Lhe way, some unsympazhetic suul calls **sentimental uuisance, ?—spite of our YPuritanie pride and OUR GENERAL STAND-UP FOR PROSPERITY, 2 godless community, almost, it not quite, given oFer to the worid, the fiesh, and tue Devil. Amous the other good things roing, is * The Kiege ot Jaris,” which is now on its last month. To stiow Liow ‘eiasuic bave. becowe the Sunday Teulations, there s every Sunday afternoon aod evening a the “Sieee™ whatis culled a £rand saered concerl,—one ut 2:30, the other at Last Sunday the Ninth Regiment Band dis oursed Rosuri’s March, the * Italian Prize,” clion frour *Laurtine,” from * Macbecn,” sl voucert walop, a sclection from L :ux‘)lnccn. waltz, and other strains varied with plantation songs, or per- hi2os they calied :m.-xuzinymus. Irom g:sl':e Kl‘{.\— bams Jubilee Singerst o irl. who bad passed a good e swee the late unpleasantaess in ties, returning the other Sunda rom the “Sleye,” remarked to a fricnd, with a beaming tace, “Why. Loston is.aright Jolly Place afterall; I thought it was go dreadfully Drover and strau-laced.”™ ¢ BUT 1 CHALLENGE EVEN THE DREADFULLY TROFER AND STRAIT-LACED, Which, 1ike the poor, we have always with us, ;\?m t.uf_me gaining ascendeney of the more ioerdl, { chiallengze any or all of them to wo fnto lirn-. Ldorama building and stand there in view :. wiat warvelous illusion, and Lsten to the a!nlh Resiment Band in whatever strains it 100SCS 10 play, and not feel lifted out of any Pettiness. and forvetiul of o envy, maiice, and all nn\:hnx!ublcness,” in thatjvision of a corquered fulmuny et 1o tue music of the military score. {have veL 10 see the person whose opinion i ¥orhanytiing—that is, Who has a heart and a £oul to be moved out of the ordinary—who has 01 Spoken of this warveloas speetacle and jts 2added effects of lifting gravdeur during the Tlltary music. 1 seem to see,” saida thoaght- i stwdent of history, “the wiale ust pano- fioaof Pans, and, “indved, ot France itself, " ' 1S earliest days, up through its bloody ;r‘fl!m"" to the present Republic, as i look ZLUns wonderful illusion.” Effects such as an hardly fail to be improving, even though #2110 the music of the 108, Tooking ¢ SALOF AND WarTz; u::' looking at the charge of French Zouaves, or Jis Founded soldier, or Emperor William wi o afl aod ail the’ far-reaching city, witl mfld “onal mouuments and storied scenes, the hus: worldly-minded would searcely fancy a £0 o0, Lhough the waliz-tune sounded ever Favle. The “Sigge.” I have been told, is goiug ditect from Boston, at the eud of the Tooltd, 10 San Francisco. 1{ Chicago ever en TLins the wonder, I advise it to malke much of Ior':i,m't" out all its schools and Sunday-sehools e € sierlit that has beld Bostou delighted ana Don S ithout saticy for thie space of four B Now [ am on the subject of cntertain- Oh o34 must not miss the old war-eagle at the em~°lflt'll_. Heis called “O1d Abe,” and the Gen, pelity-six battles, of whom the Rebel gy declared—say the advertisements— had rather capture that bird than a hich g knde,"—a seutimental - declaration *Tathor uDdS Very bir, but which _frives one a Tion, fly}mwuu of sense when considered se- n"‘l‘nlr ovroach of the New Year has t;ronr.vht e ques(xg{.‘x'!c‘:]r New Year’s calls in some b ! the exception of o year or ‘:l? Eome dozen years aro, Boston bas mever Iy to the custom. There are always of OVEN HOUSES it n(zo‘_'fc:lnment ofticers, but Lerond this the day ever, o lcraur ohscr\'c» . I have heard, how- Which “_merersl houses in the Maytlower circle Lomiyy 60?1011 their doors to the friends of the Gisnosmg 1o ¢ elitible * mutual # who may be Bougey gy 0, Present himself. In one of thege 2 accomplished daughter has pamntea 1o 1 l ‘Though north and south. and east and west, i Water-colors a charming picture of the Old and New Year, and inscribed beneath is Tennyson’s much-quoted poem of “ Ring out, wild bells. to the wild sky.” her own designing 1o the elect of her friends. So the New Year brines somethin pleasanter inits train than the ominous envelope orna- mented with the chalky-red portrait of T I‘[mmn Jefferson. . P GOSSI]?/FOR LADIES. . THE MARIANA OF THE NEXT GEN- ERATION. Nei rk World, ‘You come not—ah! you come not 1 watch witha weary eve From my window a8 the crowded. Balloons go floating by: Each bears its human lading, Bus beara it from me aloof, And never rattles a grapnol Upon vur lonely raof. Along its rails of iron, An hundred miles an hear, The ex-steam-horse 18 hurried By the Kecly-motor's power: 1t flashes past thy station, And away, outpecding the storm; But in the passenger-catcher 1 do not see your furm. ‘The trees are red with Antamn, But in the leaf-strewn mead. 1 miss the old, fawnliar tracks Of your velocipede. Oniy the streamlet's sighing 1 Lear, and the forest mosn, Though the ears of love are keener ‘Than any microphone. When the chi Sometimes with { I bear agam your Awuin your merry laugh; Then § sisrt op and lisidn, But 1 catch no further tone, ren toy at twilight phonograph, 1-known voice, Isweep my mevaphone. "The carbon-points ate lizhted, The ooal slobe ‘gins o, © my absent lover is colder Than 12 the Alpte snow! Buzriers more feil than oceans Have severed us apart, Aund the 3¢imeter finds no warmth Within'is jcy hearr, Tpon the wall of my chamber Tne iustrument 1 sce happier moments ‘Throt:gh which i You used 10 w Tme; er the call-bell ringeth— Nay, 0 many days have lown That e silly apider hus onilt her web phone! Bat O'er the rusting O that we two were Jyiny, That we 1 death might' joln, Te impalpable asn cremating In the furnace of Le Moyne; That we from the self-sume Brahmin's Identic finger and teaml ANzt be sprinkled upon the waters ‘il the Great Pralaya comel But, hark] what is that musi¢ Comes o’er the distant hill? Hush, iumuit of my bosom My beating heart, e still! Hark! nearer, dearer, clearer, Cuwes the 1ami r tone: 1t is my lord, my life, my lovel T kudw ais ylophone! A TENDER HUSBAND. Danbury Neis. Whan the news of the Auelphi’s explosion reached Daubury, a citizen, whose wi suiled from New York that morning by way of the boat, took the first train for Norwalk. They bad never at the best beea a very loving couple, i but they were eminently respectable. He had pursted his way und’she had goue hers, cach finding pleasure fn characteristic channels. But uow with the presence of ner death upon him, the vld tenderness with which ne had won her came back to him, and during that long and dreary ride to the seaside his thoughts were busy with the pust. He could recall with paln- ful distinctuess every help he bad refused her, every cross word he had given her, every cold- ness he had shown her. All the little acts gov- erned by petty scifisboess of which he had been guiity, and which bad passed from his memory in the dolng, nuw rose up before him as deeds of monstresity at whose presence his heart sank trembling awar, As the last traig reached Norwalk, he hurried ount on his wretcoed search, asking bere and there for intellizence of her, his white lips and trabliog: Trange testil his. auxicty. Atlas o and be found her. Not dead and mutilated, but alive and unharmed. It was a bappy meetiug,—nui demoustrative, because both were sorely out of practive jn that, but he was re- liu:’ ed of a terrible weirht on finding her as he did. W re all right?2™ he said. wered; *“I ain’t hurt 2 bit, but chtened.” “You must bave bren,—horribly so. It ®as a terribly parrow escape. Where’s your satchel? “1 don’t know. I think it must have blown overboard.” +Didw’t you have it with you?”» *“No;z Llett it on a benen, and had gone to the frout of the boat to look out on the water when tie explosion came.” *“Lhat was dreadfully careless. 1 don’t see what you could have been thinking of to bave gone off and lett your sutchel like that.! *“Why ] never had a_tiought the boat was going to blow up, aid 1¢” ‘It douw't make any_difference,” he per- sisted. ‘‘Some oue would have stolen it, as likely as uot, it the boat badw's biown up. “Thers was no gense in it anyway, and it was a foolish thivg todo. 1 dow’t suppose there's 2wy use to o louking for it now.” *1 know there mn’t,? she answered, “be- i cause I was sittiog rioht where the boat blowed L, because it was warm there.” Vell, it can’t be helped, I suppose, but it is too bad. " ‘Ihe next time you go away you'll show more sense, [ hope, than to 2o ouliivant- iug all over & boat without your satchel,” IT WASN'T HER HAIR AT ALL. Exchange. Testeraay afternoon a couple of gentlemen were walking down 3Main street, and a lady with one of these pitch-forward hats was walking anead of them a few feet. Said one of the gents, Did you cver see Lair put up in that way before?” * Upon mv word I never did. It's enough to spoil the best hair in the trade.” - “ And then the color—why, it is entirely off style.”? “ Went out of fashion two years ago.” Tbe jady ahead lovked mad enough to eat a fire-plug. ¢ 7 **And just think of charging $7 fora ot of hair like that.” I kad it ia my store | wouldn’t get rid of it in five years, voless somelunatic camealoue.”” “ [t can't, cost less than three hours’ work each day o keep the miserable tousle in order. The woman's tusband that—-7 And then tuat ladyiu front turned around with fire and fury in Ler eyes: * You miscraple puppies, 1'd just thank you | tolet my hair alone. If you dare to say another word Il scremmn ‘Porice,’ aud have you ar- rested.” As soou as the gentlemen recovered breath the Pittstoa man exclaimea: “ Your bair, madum! your hair!” “Yes, my hair. You just keep your impudent tongue ofl it.” ‘1 positively declare neither of ussaw you or vour hair."” “ Thea what were you talking about it for?” “Talfiing ubont it!” We were not even think- log about it *Then what were you talking about in that contemptible style2’” *\Why, madam, I do business in this town, aud this geotlewan deals in hair in Scranton, snd we were conversing about a Jot of bair we suaw tozettie: in Philadelphia yesterday and on which the dealer tried to cheat him.” And is that all ¢ “Upon my honor that is all.” The lady Jooked g little mollified, but re- marked with u rather scornful accent: = r‘fu'mny be so, but Idon’t believe one word of jt.” And she sailed off with her nose well up in the air, while the two_greatly startled gentle- men stepped into the National House for some- thing o steady their astonished nerves. MOSLEM DIVORCES. Fraser's Magazine, Among Moslems no * bill of divorcement? is Decessary, but only the short verbal formula of “Veit thyself, take thy marriage portion, aond go.” A wife may thus be repudiated twice aud taken back, but, if the formula have been pronounced a third time, she can only be re- covered after a fullyconsummated marriage with and divorce from another husbend. This latter condition sometimes results in awkward contretemps. The person chosen to play the pare of intermediatory husband is generally the oldest and feeblest poor man that can be found- for 1 ““cousideration” he consents to discharge the provisional function, and cngages to di- vorce the lady on the morraw. But it occasion- Another voung lady has be- thought nerself of seuding New-Year's cards of o e e i ally baprens that tne Iaithless old sinner, hay- inz pocketed and earned his fee, refuses to surrender a pretty and wealchy bride, or only does soaftera much longer usufract, than was bargained for and for a further considerahle DMoliey ransom. s may readily be suoposey, such a condition ana its” incidents have weizht, With evep the hardest-tempered husbands, and €o-act with other considerations to protect wives against the risk of talak (repudiation) except for frave and sufficient reasons. Certain 1t is. that, barring in such cases, divorces are now quite as rare among the Moslems as among the Christian subjects of the Porte, and a. hundred times less common than among our *more civilized !’ selves. Before the Cadi, however, as before Sir James Hannen, the law in this respect favorsthe wife less thau the husband. The Jatter may brave social feeling and cut the conjugal knot when he likes, but” the wife can only regain ner frecdom on proof of positive -treatnent or on one or two other grounds of complaint, and even then at the cost of abandoaing her dowry and troussesu to her peccant husband. FAIR AMERICANS ABROAD. * Corvespondence Paris American Register, I was seateain a coupe at Dresden; it was iwo yearsago. An American lady with her daughter zot in just at the last moment before the train started for Prague. The mother was avparcatly 40, tne daughter half her age. So Soon as the crain bad searted the daughter ook 2 good looy breath, and said, * Well, I think it auybody ever dia Dresden thorougnly, we bave.” The mother replied, “I think we ought. T'wo whole days to a little town like Dresden!” The daughter said, “ I thivk I saw every pictare in the gallery.” The mamma smd, *1 dido't miss a' single thing in the *Green Vaults.’” | copy verbatimi from my noie-book. Now, if one had given years of close study to art, and, bestdes, ~ was an artcritie, he might se Dresden mod- crately well in eix months,~provided he was very industrious. Last winter, when I was in Rome, a wide-awake and agréeable American lady, with a_typical, self-assertive, mother- dominetring, but bright und charming daughier and a remarkably pretty nicce were at our hotel. Tuey would drive toa picture or a sculpture pallery or a chureh, rush in and rysh'out. ~ Five miuutes did St. Leter’s! Half an hour the Vat- icau! I wasatthe Villa Borghese whew they alighted, and said, “I will wait and sce them leaye.” They were off again in seven minutes and thirty seconds by the” watch! ‘They spent three-tourths of their time in shopping. Ac the end of three weeks they departed. At Florence I heard tacm say complacently, “It there is ything in Rome we did not see it is something not worth seeing,” These were not iznorant nor stupid people. ~These stories are only interest- ing because their authors were perfect types of alarge class of ** Americans Abroad. A SPLENDID WIFE. Ezchange. We once kncw a man who was always prais- ing bis wife. On the corner, down the street, av the Post-Office, at the race-track, in the skat- ing-rink, at the theatre, in the sal—that is, at the choir-mecting, he was alwayr telling wnat a bappy man he was, just because he had such a splendid wife, and be talked every man be met intv a perfect frenzy of envy abous her. Well, onc winter morning when it was not yet too light to make one appear overly ostentatious, we sneaked juto thac neighbor's yard to steal a lence-board for kindling, and nad to wait betore we could sufety obtain it uutil that man’s wife came out and sawed a couple of armiuls of wood, shoveled out three suow-paths, fed and groomed the horse, and cleaned out the cow- shed, and then when she went ioto the house and we heard her call to ber husband tbat the sitting-room was warm enough for hitn to dress inif he waoted to et up now, we were so amazed that we forgot what we were waiting 1or, and went back and kindied the fire with a corn~cob and g pint of kerosene. THE LITTLE MAIDEN: Boston Transeript, ©One may as well be hanged for a sheep as for 2 lamb. “Ounce upon & time there lived o maiden,”—and a very charming little maiden she was, by the way,—with whom it was Caus- eur’s good fortune to be acquainted. She was staying with ber parcnts at a weil-known hotel in Washington, and in no way could an evening be spent more pleasantly than in promenading its hialls in ber company. One evening,—it was rather late,—just in the midst of & most inter- estiug conversation. there came an fnterruption iv the shape of 3 messenger from the young lady’s mother, beariog o summons te come up. Atuirs at once. Causeur saw the sittation, aud Wwas abour to take x hasty leave, but t) “litle maiden” took his ali-to -willing arm, saying, **Matlier’s as mad as she can be, and we mav a5 well walk round the iall once more.” And they did, twice. A PLEASANT EXPRESSION. Norristown Herald. A young mau from the country was in town yesterdag, and be entered a photograph gallery to bave bis picture taken. After seating him, the overator told him to assume a pleasant ex- pression. “Thinic of something cheerful,” he said; ‘“thiok of your girl.” A terrible Scowl took possessiou of the young man’s face, and Jumpiog up be exclaimed, *7Think of the deuce! Sbe went nome with another fellow last mght, avd she cag go to thunder, for all me!” He evidently thought of ier, but the pleasad ex- pression was not forthcomiug. FEMININE NOTES. A prima donna is paturally a timid creature, for her art is alawys in ber throat.— Puck. Unless lovers bave passed to theffourth and last degree, they lind a fire i the parlor quite necessary now. Some gracciess scribbler declared that the Marquis'of Lorne is the only man who ever swore alleziance to his mother-ic-law. Mem. by an Old Maid—* What? Z'Homme propose! That’s nousense, goodness knows. The mischicf is that man does not propose.” ZLunch. Extract from a romance: * With one hand he held her beautiful golden héad above the chill- inir waves, and with the other called loudly for assistauce.”” " The safest plan is not to kiss o baby of the femiuine persuasion uniil it attaius the agze of 36 years. Fhe cartilaze of the nose is much steonger then. A Western paer wants toknow why R woman always sits on the foor to pull on her stockings. We sunouse it 15 simply because she can’y it ou the ceiling.—New York e News. Caoada voets are cudgeling their brains for rhyines to Louise. **Sneeze ” i3 100 nasal, st grease ¥ too plebian, * frewze ™ top cold. and “eas * not to be thought of for a moment, Mauy aman who is yearning in his fumost soul for huckwheat-cikes of a moraing has found the simplestatemnent, My dear, 1 priced some sealskin sacques ou my’ way home to- duy,” to act like a charm. A yourg couple were found out at the front gate one cold night tuis week locked in each other’s arms. hey saia the combination was lost, and they ceuidn’t @et it. beeause the Jam- tor was asleep.—.fcGregor News. Snodkins (who Is escorting o meeic maiden of the Port to her home): ““ Haven't we wof most to your housc?” Meek maiden of the Port: +0dear, no, Mr. Snodkins. We passed my nouse an hour ago.—Harvard Crimson, A very diminutive specimen of 2 man lately solicited tic haud of a five, buxom girl. “Qf. n0,” said the fair but insnlting lady; “I can’t think ol it for a moment. The fact is, Jolmn, you are a little too bir for a cradle, and . liytle o0 stuall to 20 to church with,” If the young ladics have the least lingerin Tespect Jeft for the elasticity of a young xirn:lu’g arms, they Will sumuarily shoot those big leather belts that uow eucircle their iwaists, Wihen the boys want to buyr s Lorse-collar, they'll £0 out in the barn.—Ezchange, The fellow. whose burning love shove through his eyes hadn’t the fugredichts of paracrapher in his make-up, clse he would not have' fely grieved when his sirl mischievously charged hig: Wwith look-warmuess, She was the betrer funuy mau of the two.—Fond du Lac Leporter. Sam_recently ot married, and told his wife that she might retain all the change which dropped on the floor out of his po What was his astonishment, -on Mouday morning, to find no money in his pants. Ll bias sinee aseor. taed that his wife hangs his pants upside down, A echool-girl of tender years thus writes to a boson frieud; * Dear Susan: Ishan’t attend sehool azin until T Get soime ew cufls, collars, and Jewelry—dear Mama agrees with me that iz is my Dooty to take the shine out of thag Upstart Mary Jones, and U'lldo it it I neyer leara nothuing.”” Being recently asked by an elderly pentleman of a matter-of-fact ture of mind what sort of a mirl a certain young man, a mutual fricod, was engaged to, Causeur apswered that she was very highly spoken of by those who knew her, adding that be_had been told_tbat she and her future husband, iustead of frittering their time away in Irivolous amusements, were seeking to improve their minds by reading the classics to- cether. *Classics be hanzed!” broke fn the old gentleman, somewhat irate; “they'd better be liugging each other!” Which shows how little the generation that is passing away knows of the delights of “culture.”—Losfon Tran- script. ihe sruests are requested to come aud be weizhs ed, a proceeding to which some seriously object. Thes then in their own handwriting bave to re- cord the full details in a book kept specially for the purpose; they write their mames. date. weizht, and_costume Worn at the time. Thus youread: Heavy walking-dress, tea-xown, vel- vet dress, The heavy ones generally attribute some ot the fault to the garments. 1t is an in- tevestine hook, containing as it does antographs of many long since passed away. Lue urawir-room s a particularly pretty room, fult of furniture, and every available cor- ner is filled with gizantic flower-zlasses full of Pampas grass and everareens, Here the zucsts assemble before dinner. The dining-room ovens out of this room. The dinner-table deco- ratious are noted, and are all arranged by the gardener, whose Laste is very zood. The bowl- ing-alley, in close proximity to the biltiard- room, {5 inost pooular. The Princess pluys ve: well; while those who have-no taste i this way sit in ua tittle aote-room, comforta- bly furnished wish two long low s tees aud rockingchairs, and from which You command a g6od view of the zame. Outof the drawing-room, on the obposite side to the dining-room, is a small situing-room fitted with bookeases. 'Beyond this is the Prince’s own room, quite fuil of beantifu) thines. Here he EUROPEAN GOSSIP. THE AUSTRIAN PERIAL RESI- DENCE AL ISCHL, Zondon World, You happen to have a friend among the per- sonal attendants of the Kaiser, who shows you the royal apartments. Those of the Emperor are simple enough. Two large plain rootns, covered with Indin mattiaz and simply fur. nished in dark, sover-looking walout. By his bedside stands, before a priedeu, a silver cru- ciflx with ivory Christus, the £ift of is father, the late Archduke Franz Karl, on his firgt com- munion, as the 1nscription at its base tells you, and which always accompanies him on his travels, On his writing-table are Iying some coarse Virgivia cigars—for be is aa foveterate smoker—and on ashelf above is a well-worn and few militeary cap, 2 books in several languages. Amonz them you re- | 2nd the Princess always breakfast, and here, on mark two or three in English, or his | 1B Jth of Novembernd the 15t of December, are laid out all the nunvrous birthday presents. I the Princess’ private apartments up-stairs it will suffice to say thac 2 prettier room than H. R. H.% own boudoir, or sitting-room. was never seen. Al che visitors’ rooms are perfect, nor are the servants’ comforts neelected. Muajesty is au accomplished linguist, corridor divides these rooms from the spar ments of the Empress, still, in spite of her ri ini family of grandchildren, a celebrated beauuy, Tere is imverial splendor enough. Anre-chath. bers filled with choice cx]z):icg, Louis-Quatorze Immnediately after tea and coffee (when there furniture in white and flu_d, rooms mw yose and | jgy party staying in the bouse), the Prince sits biue and pale-ereen sills, Aubusson carpets, | down to-his whist in the small room leading ot grilded mirrors, curious cabinets,.2nd, what most ajtracts your motice, a v«:r)"‘linn coltection of waterolor drawings of “T¥roiese scenerr, of the drawing.room; and the Princess adjourns to the bowling-lley, where two little boys, at- hred in sppropriate costume, are in attendance In one of the anterooms is Iying, on v I dfldc"_s‘{“ - ‘m:\:, “m. i {:. \svcl:d back the heavy balls and set up the blaode English mastill, 2 preat | Tne earg, consi favorite with her Mujesty, and hier companion in | the Penee mfm‘x‘:fi i‘;f . ‘):fiflf»flrhéznfif nvt\lil.bn g all hier journeys. ~ He is supposed not £o be pro- lavely room luxuriously furnished for rea pars ficient fo German, ut least the Empress may of- es. ten be beard tatking ro him in Enelish of cu | D%, T08 purest aceent. This roval and_imperial houne nas a special attendant devoted to his service, 1 srayly-dresscd Moor, sent as a present to the Empress_by the Viceroy of Egypt after his last vislt to Vienna. As you leave the villa you notice alarge swing, with which the royal ehil- dren amuse themselves, aud grazing in 2 pad- dock ure some lalf-uozen Hunearian mares, who furnish the Kumiss for the Emperor's dili- | cate chest, ‘Lhe flash of a chasseur’s white plume comes in sight, and 8 moment_ after their Majestios drive past. you o uhieir way home, in a low open usual Sundav-afternoon_ walis, with all the guests, nousehold, and_children, com- prises Visits to the gardens, the dairy, the farm, and the kenuels, and aiways finishes up with the stables. The company consist of very much the same set each vear, with occasional additions of forcigners. ‘'here are also geaerally one or two very zuod whist-players, DYING IN PARIS. DBaltimnre Sun's Parts Letter. I have,and jndeed many others have, pletured something about the exvense of living in Paris. Few of us eay anything about the expense of ¢arriage, drawn by 2 pair of grays. A tall, | dying here Iwould earnestly ¢ v bearing, 1| dy 3 y commena to all sparo wian, of saldierly beariug, in thelight-blue | cieo e postpone their dying until they uniform of an Austriun General, who does not look much over 40, though he is nearer 50, with sandy hair cropped close to the head, and turn- g an fron-aray regulation military whiskers and mustache, small, restless eves, and the blune features and beavy lips which distingufsh tie Hapsbure family. ‘This is the man ‘whom, thirty years ago, a blaods revolution called to the throne of Austrin. His uncle, the late Emperor ferdinand, forced to abdicate, named his nepbew, then a youth of bug 18, as his suceessor. That he has so long held in el eck the clashing clements and bitter jeal- ousies of the half-dozen nationaiitics which con pose his dominions, says much for the patience, tact, and dogged spirit of hard work which baye carried him through diflicuities and danvers et furtber on in the world. A man is “ruined for life” it he dies here. It is the most ex- penglve place in Europe to shuffle off this mor- tal coil. Dow’tdo it. Live and spite the doctor and his aids-de-camp, the werifaca- teurs des -deces, the funeral furnishers, the cemetery-vampires, and the epdless accessories that deinand endless francs. The expense to bury one §2ad mad io Paris in a day would comifortably supriori a whole family of four persons in America for six months, “alive and kicking.” ‘The red tape, the black cloth, the fuss and the feathers, in the most modest styvle will absorb nearly $500. From_the hour that Death comes in the honse nutil he zoes out where o man of more brilliant ability and im- | 9520, Mammon is actively dancing at- pulsive character would have failed. ife is mus- ;L;ggi‘g“ g on l};‘m«ml o mob surprised fsix Luropean laneuages, s e 2in to fee fepofaly Juronean du o o the | Tk way - wvedf. mae Tean @ jel hearts of his subjects by addressing depurations 1rom Hungary and Bobemia, from Austrian Po. Jand and Creita, each in their mother tonsue. In spite of his almost proverbial misfortuge in war, he is personally very popular all over the Empire, and no one who witnessed the eothusi- astic welcomne he received as he drove _througn the brilliantly illumiuated streeis of Vienua on the twenty-fifth suniversary of his accession could doubt as to the place he holds in the ear:s of his people. i At Ischl the Emperor rises with the sun, and, after a cup of coffce and a Kipfe!, starts off in a old undress uniform jackciand o forasing cap, with a thick stick for a companion, on a sol- itary hour’s ramble in the woods. ‘Towards § the Imperial courier arrives from Vienna, and some time is spent iu_attending to dispatches ana papers of State: for Francs' Josepa holds the strings of two or three portfofios in his hands, and is anything rather than a crowned puppet. Thew, if the wealher be tine, he Lreakfasts with the Empress and his chil- here. The details of these expenses, however scrious the subject may be in every respect. presest nesertheless some amusing traits. For example: When in the bil} of items you see *tears, francs,” “sseepers, 10 francs.” and srearets, 25 francs,” vou are inclined to laugh. When you see a sliding scale of erict repre~ sented by social classes, and pomp and show, empty carriages, and much mourntul shams, youare forced to smile. When you get those Ing sheets of letter-paner, lettre de Jaire Tart, with solemn black borders and the rolite sen- tence of invitatfon done in colendid flour- ishes of lively lithoeraphic letters, and com- mencing: “ Yousetes pre dussister auz convot et service de, ete.. and when you sce a long Jist of names, of family, relatives, and friends, also beautifully flourished, you are amazed with this Qocument being so hysterically verbose, humor- ous and jokishly iuclined, for frequently some of the possessors of these names are thousands of miles away, and perfectlv janorant of the dren in @ pretiv garden pavilion whicn | death of the mourned oves. 1 could fiil commnands mugnilicent views over the Valleys | & ccule of = colamns “of the _Sun of the Ischl and the Traun. At4 he dines, wen- | With the deaths of “Les Pompes Fune- bus,™ a wholesale and readv-made erally en fami'le. Prosaic and’ matter-of-fact as the Emperor lgoks, there is a'tonch of romance about his marriage. The Emoress Elizabeth is his cousio. Her.eldest sister,'now Princess of Thurs-Tagls, was destived for the lmperial throue. But the young mouarck, on Boiug to Munich to visit his intended bride, was so siruck with the beauty and charms of ber younger sister that, alter a ball at the Schioss ot her father, Duke Max, he presented the simple younyr Bavarian Princess, then a mere girl of 16, with a bouquet, telling her that she was thenco- forth Empressof Austria and Queen of Bohemia and Hunpary. Chamois-iting and decr-stalling sre the chiet out-door amusements of the Courtat Ischl, The beaters start long_ beflore dawn, and tue eame is driven past the Emperor and his party, statioved at given spols in the woods. The courtiers, courtier-like, always yield his Majesty the pas and feave him the Hrst ‘shot, which may perhaps have something to do with the numer- ous trophies of the chase which adorn the Kai- servilla. With a =ood gluss the chamois can otten be seen clambering liizh up on the rocky patehies among the pine-covered mountains round Ischl. But a solitary hunting exoedition, wita no companion but bis favorite Jager, rifle in hand, deep into the wooded mountains aud solitary valleys which stretet round the Imperial domain in every direction, is more to the Em- peror’s taste. Dressed in the rough costume of the Tyrol, they will often make ursions ot two or three days’ duration, slaying the nizht at some distant cnalet, where the only fare, bt the grame they brivg with them, is goat cheese and milk, with black-looking bread, tuc rank of their eucst being sometimes quite upknown to the peasants who give him shelter, Un a wet eveolng, when the little theatre is ooencd, you may often enourh sce the Em- peror there. Abd 2 quaiot sight it is: the Di- rector of the small provincial company receiv- ing the Rogal party ac tue door with a puir of lighted candies, which shake rathe: isibly in lus hands, and an apology for evening dress. There tne Ewmoeror, still houored with the hehbted candles even in his box, will sit for an hour or two listening to scream- mg farces and renderings - of “Trape- zung” and *Gerolstein” which would amaze M. Jaeques Offenbach if he could but hear them. Sometimes he will drive with one of his equerries, or the Crown Prince Rudoiph,—the late Archduke Franz Karl, his father, was often bis companion at such times,—to some little out-of-door cafe, anule or two from Ischl, aud sit for Liulf an bour under tie shudy trees. sip- ping his coflee and smoking his long Virginia cizar, among the little throne of chance visit- ors, with all the Gemuethichieit in the world. Ileis saluted with quiet respect; for the Auseri- ans never mob Royalty like an English crowd. ©n Sunday tne Coure always attends mass in the pretey viliage caureh, aud noue more devout thun bis Catholic and Apostolic Majesty. burying and burial-furnishing establishment at Viliette that has a monopoly. of Going *the dead business.” Tt does “a roaring trade.” and divides bandsome annnal profits to the share- holders in sums of millions of francs. Itisan excellent institution, combining system avd promptness to a marvelous degree, and employ- fng thousands of professioual *mourners,”— tearful personages ready-made or to order. The buildine alove at La Villette is larger than anv public edifice in Baltimore, and has every. appli- ance. from mearly one thousand 'saddencd black horses to millions of immortelles, that may be required for every grade of funeral. The men are trained by yeriodical lessons in the various exoressions of *“the depths of grief suitable for® funerals of hizh aud low degree, and, thourh they are vroverbial talkers smone themselves, a smile or cheerful expression of face while on duty would involve immediate dismissal. The master of ceremonies, or ordon- nalenr, is a dramatic personage, dressed like the Spealker of the British House of Commons, or a superb flunkey, in black, with 2 massive steel chain and round cape, in addition to his black. silk stockings, patent-leather shoes, and brizat steel buckles, cutaway coat, and the geoeral Court costume. fle moves ‘about with more case and grace, and more importance than the famous priace of pew-openers in New York— Browu. He fieures largely in the bill, as does everything,—the grave being the most ex- peosive item of all. The oniv commendabls feature of these ceremontes is celerity, and the sooner such are got rid of the better. THE PRINCESS ALICE AT HER FA- THER’S DEATHBED. In the notices in foreizn papers touching the sad death of Princess Alice of Hesse we find some touching incidents concerning her tender care of her father in his last moments seven- teen years azo. She was beside his dying bed— his nurse and comforter—during the last four days of his existence. On the last Sunday of his life, while he ureed all the rest of his familv ~to attend Divine service, be hegzed this favorite child to = stay beside him. He made ner place the sofa upon which lie Iav so that he might look out of the window at the clouds. and said he wished her to play for him upon the niano. She obeyed, and knowinz he loved certain hymns, she sane them without his asl Wheu she turued round ghe saw him Jying with his head back on the pillow. His eves were closed. aud bis hands folded as if in praser. e remained some min- utes in this position. the Pricess thinking hé had fallen asle Suddenly he ooened his eves, and smiled us hic looked at ber. _** Were vou asleen, dear father! ™ said she. No, mv lore; but I had such hapoy thoughts. I could not bear to disturb them.” Duriog his illness he ans anxious to talk of his condition, well knotring from the first there was o hoveof his recovery. e liad many last wishes to cxpress, and many THE PRINCE OF WALES’ COUNTRY- HOUSE. directions to leave behind him; but he London Vunity Fair. could not talk freely to the Queen, ‘The Prince of Wales' cotntry-louseis a pretty | who refused to believe he was m any daneer. His dauzhter felt that the task of receiving his Iast wishes must be hers, Neyer, in his presence, did she permit herself to shed one tear, nor to speal in a broken voice. She sat veside his pillow, listening earnestly to all he said to her, ofzen singing him the hymn ke losed, and, when she could bear it no lonzer, she would quictly withdraw, without visible emotion, and, having closed the door of the sick-room, would seck refuge in her own cham- ber to relieve herself by sobs. Soon, however, sue would be again beside ber father, the only sign uf her Iate outourst being her increasing pallor. two-mile drive trom Wolverton, in Norfolk, through a quantity of young plantations, in which the Prince takes much interest. On the left you pass a picturesque building catled * The Folly,” furnished with areat taste, and where shooting parties lunch once or twice during the season. The entranceto Saudringham js through the famous Norwich gates, and so throush a fine avenue of limes. The houseis o model of comfort, The large hall which you enter on arriving s fitted up as a dining-room, with a piznoforte, easpchairs, and two large writing-tables, at one of which the Prince usually writes his - letters on his return from shootivg. Behind the piano are aguantity of toys for the children to amuse themselves with at the * children’s hour” after tea. Here at 5 o'clock the tea-tabie is placed in the centre of the hath, and is _presided over by COMPLAINT OF NATURE, *Ah, wo is me! ™ aith Mother Earth: +43T{s ever thus Fince my day of birth: I've been warmed and petted in Summer's glow, “'hen coill'd and folaed in Winter's snow. Tiic leaves of the forest have gone to rest. But they'll ind no warmth in my icy breast, For the F ngz hotds me with bolt and ehain. the Privcess in the lovehest of tea-cowns., It 1s & ~nl 5 ® e 2 pretty sizht to see her surrounded by Ler | Abme! wiITeverlook young again?” three. fittlo tirls, who lcok like tiny fairics, %o, wo {s me!" gaith the murmuring Stream; +4 My ripples are silent, us in a dream. T try to move and Fcrinrm my part. Rut a hand of ice iy holding iny heurt— 1t holds me close in a fond embrace: And the willows with suzuish are interlaced, 3 aw their life and strength from me. and who run about to put * papa’s ™ letters in the laree pillar post-boX at one end of the hall. Toere are generslly four or five Jarae dogs o add to the cirele. In this same hall the balls take place. The flooris excelient, aud the 1nusic is up-stairs in a gatlery. A the balls the supper is'gerved at 2 humber of round tables, with oue 10 one down the side of the room. Af Cavistmas the ball looks like a large bazar, beiug then fiiled with the most costly and beautiful tables, with a larze Christmus-tree in the centre, and objeets all around the sides of the ball full of presents for the houschold and visitors. Their Royal Hiighncsses arrange these will I ever be free! **Ab. wo is me!" srith the dsing Year, hie #nows [all fast on a savle dier. ‘The tlowers are dead, the birds have flown, The light and warroti of the Summer's 2one; Lut the Barth will wake to ity yonth again, The stream be free with the Sumimer’s rzin, The flowers bloom, the wiliows weep, - presents all tuemselves, and no one is permitted | While I, enroll'd L with the azes, sicen.” to enter till the evening. Some few years back | 839 Laxy Steezr. Ebiz Anrz. e —— the pentlemen of the household mave the Priuce on his birthday 8 handsome weigh- | Treatment of Small-Pox in the Olden Time, iog-machine, which has ever since been A curious old custom still lingers in some of hooored ~with a conspicuous place in | the ‘more secluded parts of the country of the corridor passing alougside the hall; and reg- ! placinz a patieut suffering from small-poxin a Ularly during each party, generally after ten, | bed with red hangings, It would be lnteresting. 10 kuow the oririn of this eustom, ond how long it has been in vogue. The tradition thst red is good for small-pox is at least five cen- turies and a balf old, for we read that Johu, one of the sons of Edward IL, was treated for the disease by beinz put info & bea surrounded by red bangings, covered with red blankets and a red counterpane, bis throat being gargled with red mulberrs wine, and the red_juice of pome- eranites being given him tosnck. This was toe boasted prescription of John of Gaddeaden. who took no small credit to himself for bring- iug his Royal patient safely through the disease. ———— CURRENT GOSSIP RHYMES WITHOUT REASON. New Yirk Wortd. A Hunter. who was a Wayfarer, In the desolate Plains of Sahara, To feed his Wite Moll, Shot two Gous with one Ball ‘And carried the Gous anto Mary. A Widower-Wule, with a tear, Said. ** Won't you trust me for s Bier? But the Undertaker. On tick wouldn't enter, And bade him walg off on his ear. A Lion proposed to lie down ,With a Lamb; buc the Lamb, with a frown, Said, the mill-en-ni-um’ Tp to date had not come, Besides, he bad Business Up-town. A Boa-Constrictor espicd A Poopular Preacher, and tried, His Gestures to copy, But, waen ready to stop, he 'Was in knots that could not be untied. RUBIES. Zondon Court Journal, The ruby is so called from the redness which commonly characterizes this exquisite gem. Like the sapphire aud the oriental topaz, it be- longs to the class styled corundum, the mem- bers of which ace atike in composicion, though different in color and quality. The true ruoy; or red sapohire, is said to be the most valuable of gems when of large size, good color. and ree from fault, g0 that 1t excceds even the diamond in value. It is harder thap o=~ ~ther known substance except the diamona, h alone among precious stones it will not cut. is susceptible of electricity by friction, and re- tains it for some hours; it also possesses dauble refraction in a slight: degree. . Occasionally speciwens are asteriated, as in the case of what are knowo as star sapphires. Though it cannot be fused by itself, in combination witha flux it wnay be nelted into a clear elass. Mr. Strecter describes its color 2s carmine, cochineal, or pigeou’s blood, and rosebud, often with a play of violet. The finest rubies are found in Ava, Siam, and Pezu: otbers are found in Indis, Ceylon, Bra- zil, Australia, Borneo, Sumatra, aud some places on the Continent of Europe. ‘The Bdrmese wines have long been famous; the working of them isa Roval monopoly, and the Kine nas, among other titles, that of Lord of the Rubies. The Brazilian ruby is declared to be pink topaz, inierior to_the true ruby, yellow m its patural state, and colored artificially. It is, un- fortunately, beyond the power of ordinary chasers to pronounce sny critical opinion upon rubies, excent as regards their appearance, size, and color, the best being that known as pizeon’s blood, which is a pure, deep, rich red, quite free from blue or yeliow. Speaking of the value of the ruby, Mr. Emanuel observes that the rare occurrence of the desired vivid pigeon’s-blood color in 3 ruby of any size causes the price to iucrease in_an tveu greater broportion than the diamond. For stones of the finest quality he supplics the fol- lowing valuations: One carat is worth £14 to £30; one and a half, £35 to £35; two, £ to £807 three, £200 to £250; four, £4C0 to 2450. Under one carat the price ranges from £2 to £3 per carat, and over four carats what is called a fancy price is commanded. After all, perhaps it nay be suid of rubies in gencral, that when they exceed one carat in weizht no definite price can be iven as a guide to the purchaser. Mr. Streeter states that when a perfect ruby of five carais is brought into the market, 8 sum several times as great as that offered for a diamond of the same weight will be bid for it ;if it reaches seven carats it is zslmost invaluable. Xet rubies of a much greater size are in cxist- ence. An Indian Prince had one of mear twen- y-four carats, sud it was bought for 156 ponnds’ weient of gold. Catharine of Russia had in her crown a ruby as large as a pigeon’s egz; and there is said to have been one in Paris which weighed 106}¢ carats. That of Catharige ap- pears tobe stil in the Russian Treasurv. Others might be mentioned, especially that among the French crown jewets, which is cut into the form of a dragon with outspread wings. The first specimens, of course, are the monopoly of Princes and persons with prineely fortimes. Even these may, nevertheless, be sometimes decived. for we are told that tyvo large stones shown as rubies among ner Majesty’s jewels at the Exhibition of 1862 are simply spinels, and tierefore neither rare zor precious. Rubies may be faulty,—in other words, may have flaws, specks, a silky or milky aopearance, or a tint which is too dark, or tco light. Buc fashion foes for somethiog, and voliet or pale- colored rubles msy sometimes rise vers mwuch in value. The least liable to fluctuate are those of the renowned pigeon’s-blood hue. ‘The best _rubies are usually cut in the mixed or half brilliant style. but_when silky, iraper- fect, or asteriated, they will be met with en cabochen, or with a rounded top, like carbuncles. Imitations of the ruoies are made, and for o time look well, and evon real rubies of small size have baen produced artificially. The ruby may beset either alone or in groups, or in conjunction with other precious stones. Few jewels have 1 more admirnble appearance than those in which a large ruby js surrounded by diamonds. When set round with pearis of fing quality the offect is also admirable, though soifie object to it, as they say toat the red of the rubies detracts from the miore quiet lustre of the pearls. We do not think they look so well in connection with the emerald, the sappuire, or other colored gems. A PIMPLE ON THE NOSE. DNenver (Col.) News. 1t is 2 sad thing for & man to lose a character for gobriety and steadiness, alter spendine half acentury in acyuwiring it. Bat an amable cit- izen of Denver—a gentle, praceable man, who reads the News everv day and goes to church on Sunday—unfortunately finds hunself in that predicament. About a week apo 2 pimple com- menced developing on the tip of bis nose. and to that soul-harrowing aftliction he owes all the troubles of his life. It bas bereft him of the public coufidence, converted his haopy home into o howling wilderness, and made bim the miserable object for storn to point her slow, unmoviog finzer at. The oririn of - pim- ples is a curious phenomenon; they ae- velop slowly. The first iudication of their presence—especiaily on the nose—is a taint cardinal color icately diffused over the glutinous muscle on the tip of the olfactory apparatus. Uniess closely examined it might be wistaken for a whisky blossom, and it is from this very natural mistake that the gentle- man fv question 1s suilering 8o severely. It was first noticed by his wife, who called his atten- tion to it with the remark that a man who had a helpiess tamily and an amfable wife could not afford to spend his time and money in hanging around saloons aud in beastly dissioations. * But. wy dear, what are you talking about " “";I"lmt’s right, sir; get mad,—tire up and beat me!” “But, my dear—" *Oit, I knew 1t would come to this. I was warned agaiust you thirty vears ago, and if L had heeded it then I should nmot now be a druukard’s wife.” “ What is it you say? Confound it, I don’s understand you at ail ! ** That’s it, Mr. S.—zo on—complete vonr cruelty at once—strike me down at your feet— smasi the furniture—abuse the children. Oh, T kuew R would come to this ufter a while,” and the poor woman gave Lerself over to an agony of weeping. Stunned, bewildered, and half insane, Mr. S. seizec his hat and rushed out of tic house. At the door he met the minister. The zood man was starcled by the apparition of the angry mua dashiog past, and lieard a muttered cu, the purport of which he failed to distinguish. It it bave been a groan of acspair, or it might Lave been an oath. ~ Bat Le saw the foflamed countenance and the anery sose and bLis sus- picions touk defivite shape. Proceeding with his call. he fouad the weeping wife, who con- firmed bis worst forebodings. Mr. S. had been ariniting to excess of late, and had commenced ta abuse his family. - ‘Che winister at once convoked an assembly of deacons and laid the matter before them. It was all done in the strictest confidence, but in an hour the news had spread through the town. Mr. 8. was a marked man, and that aw/ul nose, Zrowiug angrier in its crimson hue, contirmed tue rumor and sealed his fate. ‘That was a week ago, and ever since Le has been busily engraged ip picking .up the stray threads of bis character and making a public spectacle of his nose, in proo! that it was only a pimple after all. PROTHER GARDNER’S VIKWS. Detroit Free Press, “ Gen’lem, if you see a pusson rushin’ *roun’ de world enveloped in & diamond pin’ 2o’ an ulster, am dat any sign dat he pays tuxes, rents madam, @ charch pew, an’ brings his chil’en upin de way dey should go?” Brother Gardner looked dowr upon the sixty- four faces in the orchestra chairs, but not a voice responded. | “* When you see a pusson seated in o sky-blus catter, pushin’ de les over a fast horse an’ lookin’ outer his lett eve asif he bad de bulge on all de co'ner Jots in town, am dat enny sizn dat 8 single grocer would trus’ him for a box of sa’dines or & peck pf carrots? The etder Toots heaved a deep sigh, and Huckleberry Jones silently scratched his off leg below the kuee. 5 **Wheu a man takes up fo' seats in de kyar, pushes folks aroun’ on the market, elbows aroun’ de City-Hail, an’ gits de fust place at the stamo-window i1 the Posi-Offie, am dat enny tign dat when it came to the pull he’d give half 8 dollar’s wortn of wood ter keep an orfun assvlum from freezin’ to death! Doan’ you Llack folks gt dust in yer eyes! Dar’s a hieap of sand an’ sawdust 10 dis woruld dat passes for sugar to de man walkin’ by, out when you come to de pinch de_suuwar ain’t dar. De saw- dust bulsres up au’ the sand ereeps_out, an’ you am dis’pinted an’ diszusted. 1t's kinder hard to Bev to eat cold turnip when you know dat de fom’ly nex’ doah am luxuriatin’ on sweet cake an’ turkey, but it de turnip am paid for you deedu’t fear for your digestion. 1 expeck dat de varafter am de bigwest fing enny of us hev XOE to Work fur: an’ I'tole you, bruaders, dat big seal rings a0’ pants cut’ twenty-two inches across de kull am nowhar’ 7longside of a kin’ word a0’ an honest heart,” A ‘CHRISTMAS JUBILEE." Sacramenta Pager. A rather rongh joke was perpetrated Christe mas Eve upon a citizen who had been attending a turkey-rafife, ana fter frequent efforts findlly succeeded in winniog a turkey. He bad, mean- . while, been getting into a good fix for a ** Christmas jubilee,” s he expressed it, ana by the time he was ready to start for home it was 2n open guestion whether the turkey was not fully asable to carry him as he the tarkey, However, he started,” throwing the fow! over his shoulder aud holding on to its legs. A scamp in the party, seeingan opportunity for deviliry, took out his knife and stole r:p behind the earrier of the turkey, as he coustructed a rail-feace along the sidewalk, and cat off the un- fortunate fowl’s head. Of the course the bird fluttered ana strugzled, but its owner, not sus- pecting anything wrong, merely chaoged his maoner of hoidiog it, and finally hugged it close to hig breast, sud thus couveyed it bome, Ar- rived there, he carefully piaced the tarkey in the cnicken-coop, "and got to bea as quictly as possible. ~Yesterday morning his wife happened to notice blood upon bhis hands and face; aglanceat his clothing snowed that it was in a terrible plight, and she aroused him hastily, fearing that he bad been wounded ia a fight. Not more than half awake, and the other pretty boozy, be could not comprebend her in- guiries. He insisted that he had not been in a iiicuity, but bud speut the evening decorously aud pleasantiy, and returned home early and perfectly sobér.. But the blood! 1t was bevond bis comprehension. Still, he had ta say some- thing, and he declared toat bis nose bad com- menced bleeding just about tae time he mot home, and probably in the darkuess bis gar- ments were soiled. Mis wife tuought it very singulur, but she conld ot sce that there was any other way it could have happened, if he had not been in afight. He effected adiversion juss then by telling what & fine turkey he had won at aTaffle, and advized her to go and feed it and be careful it dido’t get out. Anxious to see the prize she hastencd to the chicken-coop, but when her eyes fell upon the headless fowl, frozea sofid, she went back to the house dnd commenced an orativn to her husoand with the expressive wards, ** You dranken beast.” FOREIGN VISITORS TO ENGLISH . SHRIXNES, Almost immediately after hec arrival in Lon- don Mme. De Stael is said to have determined to visit the tomb of Richardsom, for whose works she entertained an enthusiastic admira- tion. *¢ Richardson, the great Richardson,” the head waiter of ber hotel, to whom she applied, said to himself; ‘‘the lady surely cannot mesn the great tavern-keeper in Goveat Garden, for ‘Pve never heard of his having dicd. Ob, it must be Richardson, Goodluck & Co., of Cornhill, -Ila, yes; Pveno donkt she’s got some claim on the estate of thc senior partuer, who died some time ago.” So the lady was dispatched to the office of the firm in Corphill. Arrived therd- she passed by young clerks, und addressing herself tou grave- looking man, perched at a hizh desk, said: “I wish to see the tomb of Richardson.” The gen- {lemau, opemog his eyes widely, exclaimed, * God bless we, ma’am, our Ar. Richaroson was mever betzer in his life, and has just driven off to the country.” - You misapprebena me, sir, I mean the divine Richardson.” ™ O, a clergy~ man; Ikuow none of tbat name.”, “No, sir, mot & clergyman, Clarissa’s Richardson.’ “Really, madawn (ussuming rather a suff de- meanor), we are Dot acquainted with any ooe conneceted with a lady of toat name.” In despair she rushed oug of the shop, and espying a book~ seller, once more souzht the desired 1o~ formation, and at length gained it Hurrying' off to St Clement Dane’s Church abe silvered the sexton’s palm, auod accompanying the man, lantern in hand, tor the shades of evening had failen, dronoed on her koees upou a mud-covered stone, beside the parish pump, bearine the long-sought name, and. kissed it. ?u the right hands, the scene wounld make a good pictare. A somewhat similar inck dent occurred much more recently at Wakefield, in Yorkshire. The servant of u clergyman there told him that some highly-respectable louking people desired permission to see the housc. =~ \thf. on earth do thev want to see the house for? There’s nothing whatever to see; but by ail meaus, it they wish it.” ‘They eutered, bow- ¢q,’looked around, seemed immeosely fntercst- ed, and preseutly he heard something sud as to wondering whether it was mucu the same as in Goldsouth’s day. They were, m fact, traveling Americans; who had fruagined that the house was the seenc of the * Vicarof Wakefield.” N QUIPS. Bar silver—* Sample-room” change. Absolutely false—A set or artificial teeth. Frauce doesn’t need any Rhine, because she has ner Rhone. ** Into the chaws of death,” said tte man who feil amonyg the tecth of a buzz-saw. If vou want to kaow what new books are out, just #o to u circulating Mbrary end try to bor~ row them. 4 v ** A-Ripe Old Drunkard *’ is the title of 2 new temperance novel. It must be somethiog of a mellow drammer. = By the use of the microphone you can hear the rope walk or the butter fly.—Boston Globe. Or tbe gum drop. “ Keep your patients alive,” said an old doc- tor toa graduating class of students; ‘‘dead men pay to blls.”” [ presume you won't charge ansthing for Jjust remembering me."” said a one-legzed sailur to a wooden-lew manufacturer. A man was boastinz that he had an elevator in his house. * So he has,” chinned in his wife, ** sud e keeps it In the cupboard in a bottle.” A mnnafacturer of artificial flies had a fine ex- biot at Paris. Thus o loug-felt want-at the summer boarding-house will be supplied by mau’s genius. . o * There is no mistakinza real gentleman,” says the New Orleans f“cayune. ** Woen ne approaches a frec-luuch table e aiways waots s napkin and a chair.” The civilized Indians of the Cherokee Nation are organizing a brass brod; so there will be no further use tor the quotation, Lo, the poor In- dian, whose u-toot-ored mind.” A sybarite Is already ecstatic at Prof. Edison’s electricdivisibility discovery. He thinks cigars will be made with the spark in them. When you nip the point off they will lizht. A Michigan farmer writes to the Faenlty of TYale: *+ What are vour terms for a year? " And does it cost anything extra if mv son wants to learn to read and write as well row a boat #? A Western_paper apologrizes thus: . In place of * Mayor N. wus tight last evening beyond a doubt,” please read ** Mayor N. was right,” ete. The composttor that did the mischicf has been asked to remove bimsell. Just while we think of it, why didn’t the in- dividual who invented button-holes et up sometbing equally durable to Hi into them$ We have yet to run across the first button_that would hold oat with half the persistency that the hole would. —_———— CLoups. The clonda are ships of sowy mist Tpon a wsie of amethyst. Slow drifting to the disiant West: - ‘Their freight—my thonzhts—are borze to thee, Oser the smilinz Summer-sca, Unto your realm of perfect rest. The burnine.sunset’s glory pales 1In rosy blustes on their eals, As far the stately squadrons ride, Waftsafe. O verfumed breezes fsir, ‘Those precious cargoes thronza the air, ‘To where the maiden duth uoice. & PauL F. Browxz.