Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 2, 1879, Page 10

HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1879-SIXTEEN PAGES. _________".___\ “ BOSTON. Great Snccess of the Carnival—All Boston Applauding. The Publishers’ and Booksellers® Coming Harvest. A New Discovery About Louisa Alcott. Longfellow’s Ploasure in the Bepresenta- tion of His Spanish Student. From Our Own Correspondent. BosToN, Jan. 29.—The Carnival of Authors, whose three evenings’ entertainments have just closed, is unanimously decided on all sides to be the most successful amateur entertainment 1hat bas everbeen given 1n Boston. So success- ful in every pointof view, bothasamost delight- 1ul and artistic representation, that 8 number of ‘persons are seriously discussing the question of incornorating some such futerpretation of renowned song and story into professional work, for the difficulty in repctition of the ama- teur performance is that of all representations of this kind, ihe unwillingness of individuals in orivate life to pledge themselves to any regu- larity or certainty. Another fact will most sig- nificantly show how the Carnival “took” in Boston. 1t is to be repeated next week, and the seats have already begun to be sold at the high prices of $1, $1.50; and $2. This is in the opera rezion of prices,—a region that no other cater- tainments have beep able to follow. Let me, if possible, present a pen pho- tograph of some of these represcnta- tions, which sre just mnow - really the theme of 8 great deal of conversation. The sreat Music-Hall—a place of delight toavast number of us, simply from its associstions with 1he music and other pood things we have heard there, and not from its intrinsic beauty, for it is vot particularly a thing of beauty—had all its eevere squareness. its plaring whiteness, hidden by a background and skyscape of delicate blue draperies which brought out ihe MINIATURE THEATRES which were dotted here and there,—theatres rith curtain and footlizhts, end the rest of the appointments of a perfectly-arranzed stage. These little theatres were called booths, and each one was built for the particular representa- tion desizned to take place in it. Here, for in- stance, is the Schiller and Goethe booth, and we gee 3 Germau interior with quaint old-looking walls of wainscoted brown and gray. Itistur- nished in old-time simple German style, and at e front over the top hangs a Jaurel wreath tied with blue ribbon in- closing the pames of Schiller and Goethe. This booth was under the direction of 2 schol- arly German geptleman, Prof. Kraus, and irom the stage were griven an exquisite series of pict- ures or tableaux from Faust, and from Herman znd Dorothea. Oue of the finest effects and the best of the representations was that of the Masque of Comus. The descrintion iu the first Lisce was read by Mr. Howard Ticknor, who haes just taken up his residence again in Amer- jea after making ftaly bis home for the last dozen years. It will perhaps be remembered ith interest by my resders that Mr. Howard Ticknor was previously AT THOE EEAD OF THE FIEM OF TICENOR & FIELDS, now Houghten, Oszood & Co. After Mr. Tick- nor’s reading, the curtain rose on the attendant spirit who gives explanation of the character of Comus.” He retires, snd Comaus - enters with Lis crew, all masked with = ani- ma's’ heads, - ‘except -Comus. Then a lovely firure, the Lady, approaches. Comus dismisses his cerw and conceals himself that he may watch her. Presently, retiring, he reap- ‘peers in the disguise of a shepberd, and offers 0 lead the lady to ber brothers, from whom glie bas been separated. Accepting his offer, she follows bis guidance, and, ihe brothers ap- pearing, they mect Thrysis, the former shep- herd, who acouaints them - with Comus’ magic cup which changes the head of cach one who partakes of it to the head of su snimal. ‘Upon this the scene changes to & charming ban- quet-hall in o palace, where the Ludy is eeated upon an enchaoted cha'r, and Comus pre- eenting to ler his cup, which she refuses. It is here that the brothers rush to_the rescue, and Thrysis invokes the nymph of the Thames to Sabring,~— Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting, Tnder the glassy, cool, translucent wave, 1In twisted brajds of liles knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair. She appears and proceeds to break the en- chxotment which bolds the Lady 1o the chair, and the cartain falls amid thunders of applause. Perhaps never 50 maoy persons in the city were get to reading Milton at ope time as_just at'the present moment, with all this pageantry in their minds. * Sabrina fair,” with her “loose train of amber-dropping Lair,” is the ideal heroine of 1be nour. The very opposite of sl this stately ‘pageantry was the °* Snow-Bound » booth' of Whirtier’s story. Yet nothing was more ex- quisite and real. FUERE WAS A PERFECT LITTLE NEW ENGLAND 3 COTTAGE, * a etory and a half high, with the roof piled with £now, and icicles hanging from the eaves. From ihe ioterior we sec an old-fashioned family room with a wide iirepl: in which great iron andirens support immense logs of wood. Over 1hese swines a kettlie from the crane, and ap- ples are sputtering and hissing as they roast be- fore the fire, while big jugs of cider stand by on the table. Old-fashioncd braided mats are on 1he floor, znd in the quaint, stiff chairs the fam- il and their guests, as described by the poet, are clustered about. Herc are the Quaker brothers and sisters, with the elder " members, eome knitling, others spinning, one making tishing-rods, and the brilliant Not unfeared. half-welcome muest, Ttebuking with her cultared phrase Qur homeliness of words and ways, sat bending forward, touched by the firelight, A woman tropical, intense In toought and act, in soul and senge, with T The warm, dark, languish of her eyes and Ter tapering hand and ronnded wrist, With facile power to form & fist. Most people were sulliclently familiar with “Enow-Bound ™ to follow the nersonsges with a sood deal of accuracy, but I have been told that 1here had been a good deal re-reading since the first evening, and morc than one copy of the book has found its way from the booksellers’ shelves futo the hands of fresh purchasers. If this is 1o be the result of carnivals, of suthors, it wouldn’t be a had investment tor publishers and booksellers to join forces with OKGANIZED ENTERTAINMENTS OF THIS KIND. Oupe of the most eagerly anticipated features of the * ehow ¥ was the minuet. It was per- formed by persons dressed in the style of the Louis XIV. period. The hair puffed high upon 1he head, weil powdered and adorued with plumes and jewels, We glistening satin *petti- coats, aud the sweeping trains of the ladies, the agnificent silver-laced velvet coats, the knee- breeches, the silver-buckled shocs, lace ruflles, powdered hair of the gentlemen, made a picture which fully equsled every expectation, And Ale stately. dignificd rrace of the dance itscif ought to banish furever what somebody calls +'The German Romp.” The minuet was followed by a charming Jittie “fan drill,” so calicd. It is auother of the pretty relics of ye olden time, and was given by 1welve of Boston's pretty mirls, attired iu short Lrocade 2owns and powacred locks, in which were coqueyrishly placed tiny fans instead of combs. Since which drill not a few young ladics appear at lome with a saucy little fan tuck in their bair. By 2nd by the comb-makers will very likely imitate the fan shape, and flood the market with fan combs; for it is precisely §n this manner that numberless freaks of fash- on are 5 SPRUNG UPOXN US. Another of the preat features was Teony- sou’s * Dream of Fair Women.” As they passed iu procession they were More beantiful than dresms. In tableay, the dreamer himself lies upon o couch, and’ there pass by him Helen of Troy, nd Iphigenia, and then’ Cleopatra seated on e throne of Egypt,— quiccn with swarthy cheeks and bold, black eyee, Tirow-bound with burmng gold, us Tennyson describes her. But there was not much bolduess in the visage of the besutiful 1ace that Jooked forth from her mimic throne at 1be Carpival. ond the Fair” was “ clothed all in white,” and, by contrast, alovely wirl with blonde bair looked like an avenging sugel as ** Angered Eleanor,” in black velver. There was ““fhe Daughter of the Warrior Gladiator,” ¢ i 4 maden pare a3 when ehe went dlong zpeh’s 1owered th With timbrel and with song. - And there was Joan of Are, witha face of spirit, and couraze, and self-devotion. B Iu the Uickens characters, Mrs. Abby Morton Diuz, who bus enchanted all readers, old and young, by ber *William Henry Letters,” ap- veared as one of the most perfect Miss Pipchins that have cver been brought forward in mas- querade. Louisa Alcott as Mrs. Jarley was a fine suc- cess. Miss Alcott is tall, and naturally deter- mioed-looking,—a sort of go-ahead expression on her face and in her earriage,—and her dress % us‘mm green woolen stuff, with its narrow ] PINE STOCKINGS, SHOWING ABOVE LACED SLIPPERS, the wide white collar, red shawl, and enormous bonuet of green silk lined with pink, with 2 feather standing on the defensive, was soic- thing to be secn aud not aescribed. The cos- tume was copled as exactly 8s possi- ble from the Cruikshank _illustrations. Her remarks 8s a show-woman W copied from nobody. Take all the fun that can be found in all the stories she has written all t0- gether, and a fair idea couldu’t be given of the wit and humor that she managed 10 put into hier Mrs. Jarley. Somebody remarked apropos, “Louisa Alcott has written some very Dice, suc- cessful books for children, but 1°d uo idea that she had genius until to-night.”’ _One could m; on indefinitely with these descriptions, but must abridge the fascluating inchoation, and only touch upon Loogfellow’s “Wayside Inn, with its porch. and low roof, andclimbing roses, where the courtship of Miles Standish was por- trayed, Jobn Alden and the pretty Priscilia pre- senting a very realistic picture. An\:l’ ,mc;e was he drama of Tepuyson's **Dora,” Farmer Allen. turning Mary and $Filliam ont of doors,, and the whole enhanced by the singing of chrols -by. a male quartette at inter- Tils. The representation of the famous scenes trom the Arabian Nights was the wost Tmagnificent in point of dislay of any, probably. But the Snow-Bound booth and The Wayside Inn, where the scencs S0 familiar to us all PROM LONGPELLOW AND WHITTIER, inger perhaps longer in the memory. . N D ateh Student drama wis so_well brought out that Lonefellow is said to be spe- cially delighted with it, as be might well be. Evangeliue, 100, was finely done. The scenes from" Scott's Warerley novels were ail copied minutely from 1lic’ old .origiual plates. ~The Legend™ of Monirose was uiven in_three scenes, Aunmot Lyle singing The Orphsn Maid to Lord Monteith and -Sir Duncap Camp- bell. The sceond finds him moved to tcars; the third he is striving to conceal Lis emotion, that he mnay address her. The satin petticoat which the lovely Annot Wears was once worn by a Boston woman,—the ledy who presented the first chandelier to the old South Church. Of course there are &cenes from Kenilworth wirere Leicester, and Amy Robsart, and Queen Elizabeth “act well their parts,”” but 1 mizht zo on forever, like Tennyson’s “Brook,” in these accounts. Aud as one must draw a line some- where I will draw it here,with the final assurance that notonly were the Christian Matrons delight- ed, but ail Buston—even the naughty lovers of theatres who suecred at first aud talked of “mild little pleasures™—have given in_their edherence to this Carnivalof Authors. N.P. THE BLAIXIE CASE. Dr. Edwin A. Kilbourne, Superintendent of the Eigin Insans Asylum, Makes Some Tmportant and Interesting Statements Re- garding the Young Man Blaikie and His Triends. To the Editor of The Tribune. ELeIx, IlL., Jan. 81.—Some vindication of my ‘osition in regard to the Biaikie case scems to be called for by recent utterances of those inter- ested in the guestion of the insanity of George A. Blaikie; and especially by the strictures upon 1y conduct of Mr. Woodbridge, attorney, and Mr. Andrew Blaikie, father, of the allczed insane person. I accordingly request your can- did consideration of the following points: Mr. George Blaikie was admitted as a patient ‘here on Jan. 7, last. He was sccompsnied by his father and by Mr. Woodbridge, the attorney who had managed the sccond inquest into his mental condition. It had become well known to me, 25 a correct item of news, that suspicions were entertained by press and public in regard Yo the validity of the plen of instuity ip Dlai- Xie's case, but no knowledgze of this kind could or did detct me from a careful and unbiased con- sideration of thecase. Inconversation with Mr. Woodbridee, just before leaving the hospital, 1 spoke of cases in which persous haa been sent here on a verdict of insanity who were not in- sane, and said that had sent such per- sons away _ when. satisfied of their mental soundoess. Mr. Woodbridge then said: “Do ot sena him _(Blaikie) away, Doctor,—not right off, any wav. It will make it appear like 2 farce, and fome of the best people in Chicago sre interested in him.” T neither said nor implied to him that 1 did not think the young man_insane. I had no means of knowing as yet whetner he was insane or not. It is alwzys our custom to obtain from frienas an account of tbe previous history of any case admitted. When this was mentioned, Mr, Woodbnidge immediately stepped fn and said he would relate the facis; aud he gave the version of the case which he had already expa- tiated upon in court. ‘The young man was placed in the wards and a thorough study and investiration of his case was undertaken. A careful exemination of his mental and physical state on the following morning, conducted by myself, Drs. Dewey and Crane, failed to brinz out the first sign of any mental alicnation, as did the observation of several succeeding days. I then felt that the only thing left which it Was necessary to have in order to arrive at an intellizent and correct judgment of the case was a fuller knowledge of 1he antecedents and events in the past which might give color to the sssertion that he bad at some period been insave, il not sp mow. it was mnow scen that the history as given by the attorney was incomplete, and represented only onc view of the case, and that an ex-parte one: while doubt had been cast by subscquent developments on the inter- pretation given to some of'the facts by Mr. Woodbridge. I reason, therefore, to suppose that prudentisl motives might stand in the way of any further attempts to more fully investi- pate the case; hence, justead of writing a letter to Mr. Blaikie, Sr,1 telegraphed him, with- out piving the special reason why I wished to sec him, and upon his arrival I made a most thorough and sesrching inquiry into all facts bearing upon the mental condition of his son. ' The process was a tedious and unpleasant one. I explained this, und avologized for what might seem like impertivence, and the gentle- man expressed himself as uily understanding the exizencies of the case; and here let me say that he exagperates the time during which I kept him waiting to look at a horse, and also grossly misstates when he asserts that I have given to the world records which 1 assured him should be kept sacred. Not 2 hoe of the state- ment lLe mude to me has been given to the world; but the version of his sou’s case obtained Dy the papers was the one given by the lawyer verbatim et literatim, and wes the same he had already made in court. After 1he conversation was finished, Mr. Blaikic said to me, ** You have asked me 3 good wmany pointed questions; now 1 should like to ask you ooe. Don’t you think my sonis in- sanef 1 replied, *“Mr. Blaikie, 1 am’ by no means certain that beis. 1 will have him under further ¢bservation and let you know.” There was notbing in the information im- parted oy Mr. Blaikie sbout his son which gave any further support to the claim that he was insane. lc had been perbaps eccentric; he had certainly impaired bis mervous forces by excesses of various kinds, but_mental defect. such as to render him irrespousible, or anything going toshow that he had been **insane for two Years,” I fuil to find. 1t shonld be rememberea. that insanity is a diseasc of the brain, and bass its attending symp- toms, and without discase ot brain there can be no insanity. *‘Disease being the basis, it con- stitutes the only line of demarkation between mmoral depravity and the depravity of insuanity.” Putting all the facts together in Mr. Blaikie's history, and taking them in connection with his mental and physical condition snd symptoms as observed by ue, there were wanting the essen- tial clements of discase and mental derange- ment which o to make up any case of insauity. ‘Ihe demeanor and acts of the gentleman eouid bLe referrea 1o plain ana adeguate motives. It will not do to take isolated facts or phenomena and interpret these as wmarks of insanity, apart from the whole con- duct and circumstances of the individual. By such a process almost any one could be made out insane, for theie is no one who does nut at times do odd, eccentric, and inconsistent acts. This it is which probably cnables Blaikie's {friends, on looking back, to see many evidences of inssnity which tbey Dever noticed at the time, 1observed the patient closely, howerver, for some days longer, and then determined to place lim in possession of his liberty as a save man, as I have no right or suthority to keep soy per- son not insene in custody herc. but, on the con- rary, would be subject to heavy fines and pen- alties for doing so. 'The patient, moreover, had come to the institution preciscly like the great 1majority of patients, on’ the ordinary verdict, making the case & more simple one to deal with than what in which there is an acquittal on pica of insanity after a- eriminal_indictment, and a mittimus “of court commits the patient to he hospital.-_In the latter case the Super- intendent is allowed very little discretion, the language of the statute making it obligatory upon him to detain the patient ‘“‘until he is fuily and permanently restored.” On Jan. 21, after two weeks’ careful observa- tion of the case, I wrote Mr. Blaikte, Sr., thut 1 should dischiurye bis sou on the following day. s that he was to be read i jon! & 1 also gave instractio: 2 fiection I decided, on that dav; bat on furthe de 2s 1 matter’ of courtesy to the famlly, (Aud l:‘g coable his _father to arrive (L K wished to do &0, to nold him twenty- Tour hours longer, and the _order was counter; manded; bat, in the meantie. Blaikie ha accidentally overbeard the attendants saying e was tobe ready to o on the 24, and ;\;a:,::mommz of L!m{ day he was fo the midst of preparations for leaviug whea informed be as to remain another day. He demurred to this decidedly, and wanted to kaow the reason of Dr. Crane, who gave him the information, but after a moment’s reflection be answered bis_ own question by saying, +1 know bow it is; you have fritten to miy father to enable him to come here forme. Now,1wact it distinetly Sderstood I will notgo back to Chieago, nor o with my father. I understand you do Tot comsider me ipsane; thea give me my * liberty 8s a sauo man. I my father .comes here to o away with me [ will leave him as soon a5 I am outside of the door.” I have alsoa note from him, stating that he wished to o on the noon train on the 22d inst., and as T had no legal control over the man after Thaving fully made up_my mind that he was oot jnsane, and recognized the foree of the position 1e tooi in regard to the matter, { allowed bim to depart. . Tmf-u w relating to the discharze of patlents, Chap. 85, Revised Statutes, 1574, Sec. 20, reads: +\Whenany patient shall be restored to reason ne shall have the right_to leave the hospital at any time, -and, if detained therein contrary to his wishes, alter such restoration . the Supermtengent shall be liable to civil action for false imprizonment.” Thisy. it _is true, applics to paticnts who are restored, but-certainly cannut apply in aless degrec to a man already sane at the time of commitment. Mr. Blaikie fmplies in his letter to Tn=m TripuNL that-1 have usurped authority and assumed prerogatives not belonging tome in presuming to pass upon the mental condition of hisson. ‘The ouly logical deduction from lis language would be that I could not have an opinion with regzard to the mental state of any person fqund insape in the County Court, or veuture to doubt the correctness of the verdict; whercas it is notorious _that in ire- peated instances persons have been ad- judged insame who were not so, and others declared not insane who were so. The cases of Blaikie and J. I. Wells are enough of themselves to show the fulsity of the jury ver- dict of insanity. Each of tliese persons were under trial at the sume time; each of them had afirst trial in which the jury failed to agrce, and o sccond in which a verdict of insauity was returned. - In the former case, it is my opinion that the first verdict was. correct; in_the other, Iam equally certain thiat the _second was in accord- ance with the facts. This is ivcidentally a grave omment upon the system prevalent in llinois of determining insanity by a jury trial. Mr. Biaikie thinks it Is time toinquire What the officc of Superintendent meaus,—whether Tie is Judee, and jury, and_physician all in one, or whether he is an executive oflicer to carryout the behests of the Court.” I would reply that the Superintendent is constituted by ‘law a judge ot the mental state of his patients from the time they come under. biscare. There- sponsibility is placed ugon bim of determining in every cuse when and how they shall be dis- charged. It has been an unquestioned right of the Superintendent to set at liberty any per- son coming to the institution not found in- sane. ‘Ihe respousibility may be a_ heavy one to throw upon one man, but it lias never been doubted that it rests with him, and, in the language of Mr. Blaikie, 1 would ask, Wuat is the office of the Superintendent if it is not to determine and pass upon the mental state of those brought to the fnstitution under his charge? 3 I have been criticised for discharging Mr. Blaikie alter two weeks' observation of his case. Dr. H. M. Bannister says 1 should have kept bim” amonth under observation; but I think the amount of time spent in the study of his condition, where he was under the same roof, and subject to close daily szrutiny, will compare favorably with the investimation of other par- ties who testified their belief that he was insane. - These gentlemen, 1f [ understand the Doctor correctly, derived their knowledee from the statements and testimooy of counsel and friends alone,— “‘not from personal observation of the case.”” If two weeks are not eoough to allow a physician, acquainted with all the testi- wony previously adduced, having a daiiy famil- farity with nundreds of insane persons, and, farther, possessiog tlic fullest account of the man’s history and pecaliarities from his youth up, and, moreover, having the patient in the louse and under daily observation,—if two weeks! time, I say, will mnot allow.a physician ‘under such circumstances 1o declare a man not insase, how much time and observation and knowledge will enable an- other pbysician to testify that the sauve man is insane,—the latter a physician in private prae- tice, and having more theoretical than practical knowledwe of the insane, and, further- more, having only ex-parte statemeuts and tes- timony? Mr, Blaikie remarks upon certain ‘¢ coinci- dences ” relating to the dismissal of his son. In rezard to_the telepram uand letter sent him, I have alreadv sufliciently explained, as ajso the tact that none of the “confidential statements made by him were given to the publie. Ihave only further solemnly to aver that I had no knowledge of the " fact that any crim- fnal suit was 6till pending in the case of his son, notwithstanding a report (ziven by other parties) that I had such knowledze had gained currency, and hence, of course, I had not the remotest conception that the Grand Jury was to pass upon the case cither the day after his discharge or at any other time. I' take this opportunity also for denyinz that T made any inquiries into the family or personal affairs of Mr. Woodbridge or his reiations to the casc in hand, as reported. I had no interest in Dis affairs, and his nsme was not mentiooed unless incidentally. A few additional words may perhaps beprofit~ ably devoted to the letter of Dr. Bannister to Tue TRIBUSE, which inavery plausible way arraigns me for activg summarily in dismissing Blaikie. Dr. Bannister mquires: ¢ Was it his duty as a good citizen, while holding such opin- ions as to his mental condition, to s¢t him fre 1s he not guilty of balking justice, and of tech- nical contempt of court#” I would answer that, sofar as any further criminal proceedings in Mr. Blaikie's case were concerned, these would be impossible until the verdict of insanity had ‘been set aside, and nothing could be further from my province than setting on foot pro- ceedings to anoul the saction of the Court. am not a public prosecutor, and my duties and functions are limited to the treatment and control only of the insame. With regard to ‘¢ balking jus- tice,” the respoosibility of defeating the ends of justice—in the opinion of many quiie com- petent to pass upon the question—rests with tihose who were instrumental in securingz the verdict of usanity, and it would be diflicult to find any contempt of court in my conduct when the Judge before whom the man was tried him- self says, in response to the question, ** Then you were mot satisfied with the results of the trisl!’" “ No, sir; I cannot say I was, nor am L. now.” In conclusion, a few general observations upon the merits of this case, Through my action in the premises I have incurred the disupproval of the family and friends of the alleged insane man, of the attorney who managed his case, and perbaps of others who were conceracd in having bim returned as insane, but no word of censure has been uttered so far as Iknow by candid or disinterested parties. I wish finally, on my own account, to disclaim all personal fecling azainst any person whatever concerned in the case, and to state that I have endeavored s far.as my ability went to act for the best 1n- terests of this hospital and of the public. EpwiN A. KILBOURNE, M. D. THE WOOING OF DEATH, [In an alley leading from one of our principal strects, the police found the body of a woman, frozen to death. Under her poor, thin shawl they found the body of an infunt, which its mother clasped to ber breast, even in death.—New York Daily.] An! there thou art sigi.ing, My poor, shiv'ring Mortal ! Sighing for more of this sorrow-steeped lifes Yet miliions on Earth are thee shelter denying— Ayo! evena crust, to encourage the strife! ¢ Hear the winds howling, Poor, starving Mortel ! Life-capping Hunger looks in at the doors Outside, the thousanda, the millions, are scowl- ing, Becanse you are hungry-—because yon are poor! Hear thy child's moaning, Thou terror-struck Mortal! | Yain are thy vleadings to Him up on highs Yain are thy vehement protests, thy groaning; Remetnber—remember—thy child, it will dis! Why linger in radness When great joy awaits yon? Hear the sweet voices from Jordan's bright shore! Accept the Haven extended in gladness, And leave crael Earth, to suffer no more! + " Lours H. MacsBaAc, —_—— * Tnique Contests. i At Waterbury, Conn., the peoplearé enjoy- ing some unique contests. A boy recently won a twenty-pouna turker by eating half a black- berry pie, with bis hands tied bebind his back, in the shortest space of time, and last Wednes- day evering ten pairs of shoes belonging to dif- ferent persons were placed in a barrel, and the one who found his shoes first received a prize. HAGNIFYING-GLASSES. The Famous Tolles One-Seventy= Fifth Objective. Its Txhibition at the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Results. Prof. Fairflel’s Discovery of an Im- portant Improvement in the Microscope. From Our Own Correspondent. New YORK, Jan. 30.—The recent exhibition, at the New York Academy of S:iemfes, of the famous Tolles one-seventy-ffth objective has given fresh interest to the improvements in the tmicroscope, and Las attracted tbe attention of scientitic men to the questionof what can be expected of such. lenses in the way of exact opticul analysis, beyond what can be accom- plishea bv a onc-twenty-fifth. It was pretty gencrally concludea at the Academy the other night—colored corpuscles from human blood oeing the test objects—that what was gained in maguifying power was lost in peaetratfon and definition. And such actually was the case with the method of illumination used by Dr. Epbraim Cautter, of Boston, the reader of the paper on thut evening. ‘The corpuscles bad the appearance of pale, somewhat faintly-outlined drawings, without relief, without structurc. PROF. I, G. FAIRFIELD, who spoke briefly to the subject of the paper, was not satisfied that the method of jllumina- tion was a sound one, and_pointed out the fact that the central rays sbould always be excluded ‘in flluminating high-power lenses, if accurate results were to Le obtained. The best method to effect this purpose was to use a condenser of coneiderable aperture, and revolve the dia- phragm of the wnicroscope until the larger open- ing cut off about threc-fifths of the light,—thus illuminatine the object by means of a parabolic scetion of the coudensing lens. Prof. Fairfield added, however, that -a power of 10,000 diame- ters possessed no adventage over a power of 2,500 in the'study of organic life. The reason was this: that the latter power was amply suf- ficient for the optical analysts of the monads appearing in animsl secrctions,—thesc monads being the minutest liviog bodies yet discovered. It it could be hioped to test the molecular struc- ture of albumen by direct optical anelysis, such lenses as that on exnibition constituted A SUBSTANTIAL ADVANCE. He judzed the ‘Tolles objective to bave a power of about 8,000 diameters, while it would require at least 100,000 diameters to make o successful attack on the molecular structure of living mat- ter,—graoting that a molecule was a real thing, and that the molecule of albumen was twenty times as large as thatof water. As 100,000 diameters could not be hoped for hy any meth- od of combining lens-systems which had yet been exhibited, the Professor dia not see any special value in a one-seventy-fifth over Prof. ohn C. Draper’s one-twentieth Beck, or the Wales onc-twentieth. From his own experi- ments, Prof. Fairticld had becowe satisfied that an objective composed of three lems-systems must always fail in analyzing power. Be could not give any optical reacon why two lens-sys- tems should fncrease both the defining and pen- etrating power of an objective, while an object- ive composed of threc showed such a remarka- ble deficiency in _both these properties. The fact was 0, and that was SUFFICIENT TOR PRACTICAL PURPOSES. The famous lens manufactured for Prof. Clark, of Harvard College;—the first one-twen- ty-second, by the way, ever manufactured,— yielded, according to that: accurate worker, a ‘power of 3,500 diameters. Dr. A. G. Harriman, of Boston, has the only one-fitieth in the world, as well us the only one-seventy-fifth objective. ‘Fhe formzr has a power ol 5,600 diameters. ‘The investigation respecting the structure of eolored blood-corpuscles, . upon which o paper was recently read before the Biological Section of the Academy by Dr. Lewis Elsberg, was con- ducted with aTolles one-t¥elfth, huving a pow- er of 1,000 diametcrs. Inremarking upon the points of Dr. Elsberg’s paber, Prof. Fairfield gaid be had been aware for-more than two yoars of the phenomena déseribed, baving published them in the dfedical Record more than a year previously as phenomena constantly associated with the dissolution—or resolution into other forms—of bload-corpuseles. Bui he had never foand any such structurcia fresh corpuscles {rom healthy animals. As’the whole question TURNS'UPON THE PROPERTIES OF LENSES, it will beinteresting to note that the celebrated one-twenty-fifth in the collection of the late Prof. John . Busteed, and the Wales one- twentieth employed by the late Dr. Stunley, have both been brought to bear on the question raiscd by Dr. Elsbers by one of our most ac- complished microscopists; Prof. David C. Com- stock. The resuits vbtained were entirely negatived. Prof. Fairficld’s views were based upon the concarrent testimony of a wide-angle Powell & Leland one-tenth, a° Hartnack one- twelfth, 2 Wales one-sixteenth, and a compound one-tenth of very occuliar construction, in- vented by himself. This new objective has been carefully examined by members of the National Academy of Sciences, and pronounced by them the greatest advanee in optical analysts since the discovery of the priuciple of the compound wmicroscope. Knowinz that many of THE TRIBUNE readers are interested in the subject, I obtained from Prof. Fairfield A DESCRIPTION OF IIIS INVENTION. ‘The construction is very simple, aud inyolves only two lens-systems, preserving all the work- ing prooerties of the original one-tenth upon which it is based, wnile exceeding the Tolles one-seventv-fifth .in power and definition. The stracture of the surface of the blood-corpuscle is by this instrument distinctly showa at & pow- erof 10,450 dinmeters, such that a single cor- pusele fills the whole field of the instrument, with the exception of a very narrow margin. That is- to say, while the diameter of a blood- corpuscle is about one-three-thousand-and-two- hundredth of au inch, the diameter of the pen- cil of light transmitted is one-two-thousandth of aninch. The field of the Tolles leas is larze enough to contain five mrll)usclus. Prof. Fair- field’s lens differs from all hizh-power lenses yet attempted, tn the use of a small condenser, donble convey, interposed beiween the two lens-systems iu such o' manner as to increase the illumination, while at the same time imn- mensely increasing the angle. Of the two lens- systems, the first is mounted neeative, the con- vexity pointing inward ; the second positive, or with the conver surfaces pointing downward to- ward the condenser. THE CONDENSER is alareer section of 2 ephere, of exactly the same formulary as the several lcnses of which each Jens-systewn is composed. The optic pen- cil travels half an inch after passing through the first lens-system.. Its middle rays are then }gkcn ap by the condenser and coucentrated. The second lens-system reeeives the concen- trated peucil_one-cignth of an inch within the proper focal distance of the condenser,—the re- sult beinz a width of angle that bas hitherto been regurded as entirely unattainuble, and a power that js equally astonishing. The arrange- ment is one of go singular simplicity that the wonder is thut it should pot bave oceurred to somebody vears ago, instead of beingleft tothe lust quarter of the Nincteenth Cenfury. ~ Prof. Fairfield is now applying the principle to a v-fifth objective, with the expectation 1z a power that will test the question of the moiccular constitution of albumen by direct optical analysis. -Should this experiment suceeed, it will be one of the most importaut contributions to Science which the present cen- tury has furnished. H. G — How Smelts Are Caught in Maive. ' Delfas: (Se.) Journal. On the coast of Maine smelts visit the rivers about the 20th of December and remain almost all winter. For about two months they take the hook readily, and are caught in considerable numbers throtiga holes eutin the ice. Former- 1y, ou cold days, it was very severe. fishing with- out shelter, except by piling up cakes of ice, cvergreen bourhs, ete. Last winter one of the fishiermen made a canvas tent, and it provea so comfortable that i5 bas now become the uni- versal castom o fish in them. There are now on the ice, above the bridges, two villares of these canvas houses, much resembling au lodian encampment in winter guarters. A Tight wood- e frame, with a sharp roof, is put torether, and the whole covered ‘with a light . canvas or cotton cloth. In some instances the covering is painted, the bester to resist the piercingz northwest ‘winds. "The ordindry tent is about ‘six feet sapare; oceasionally one is lareger, for two persons. ‘Che interior is provided with a stove, and a bench upon which the angler sits while fishine. “The'whole rests upon runiers, and can be easily moved from place to place, When the fisherman reaches the ground he cuts 2 hole through the ice, places his tent over the same, builds a fire, closes the door, drops his line throush the hole. and waits for bites. Euach man, uses four lincs. The bait veed m th(s. viclnity is the clam worm, whiclt is f{'um; m"?t\' clam flats. The upper end of_the lise is {ast- encd: to a rack above the fisherman’s heat, while the hook is from six tolen feet below -‘he surface. ‘Iic fisherman sits on his beach beside the stove, and patiently waits for e fish u; bite. There is not much skill in this kind o! angling, for when a smelt takes the hook the motion of the line conveys the fact to the fisher- man, and he quickly hauls him in. ‘The fish bite better oh cold..stormy days. Fromden to fifteen pounds is a fair day’s work for one man. REAL ESTATE. An Improvement in the Inquiries for Real Estate~Purchases by Small Capitalists for Investment—Actusl Transactions Not Nu- merous—Sales, Loans, and Building Per- mits of the Week—Yesterdny's Transfers. The real-estate agents report a week of en- couraging inquiry with a growing tendency, on the part of small capitalists, to invest in real property. Transactious are: not numerous, be- cause these buyers insist upon low prices, and holders are more independent than they have been. OFFERS ARE NOW REFUSED that would have been accepted thankfully six months ago. In one case $60 a foot was offered for a picce of property that the owner tried in vain tosell Jast year at a much lower figure. The offer was refused. The bid was immediate- 15 raised to $S0 a foot, and that was refused. This instance is one of several that have come to our knowledge, and shows the firmer ten- dency of real estate. B. F. Jacobs has sold.ten acres at the corner of Paulina and Forty-seventh streets for $10,- 000. Ira Rrown £old 2 lots in Park Ridge to Thomas T, Jones, $600; 1 lot in Park Ridge to Willism Smith, $300: 2 lots in Thornton to Grace Ham- mond, $200; 16 lots in La Grange to Alice J. Williams, $1,800; 18 Iots in La Grange to L. Krous, $1,500; ¢ lots in La Grange toJ. Ww. Lode, $500. . In the sales of the week were 25x100 fect on Clinton street, northwest corner of Taylor street, with building, $3.275; 20x106 feet ou West Lake street, west of Leavitt, $2,500; 2075 feet on Randolph street, east of LaSalle. with building No. 153, $48,000; 24x123 Itw'(. on Forest avenue, near ‘Lhirty-fourth street,¥improved, $7,500; 25x160 feet on May strect, morth of Twelith strect, improved, §3,500; 21x105 feet on Robey strect, north of Chicago avenue, im- proved, $2,400; |ln:&)rcm(sus 339 South Leavitt street, $2,400; 25x100 feot on Milwaukeo ave- nue, vear Houston strect, improved, $5,0005 5x1783¢ feet on State street, south of Thirty- 2,000; 25x13¢+ feet on South Clarlc_street, near Eighteenth street, $5,000; 125x150 feet on Weed street, nmorthwest corner of Dayton, $10,500; 22x90 feet, im- proved on dJeflerson. south of Muxwell, $2,500; 75x100 feet on West Lake street, south- east corner of May, 85,320; 72x100 feet on Grove court, east of Orchard street, $3,500; 10 acres at the southwest corner of Forty-scventh street and Paulina, $10,000; 18}¢x80 Teet ou Schiller street, east of Clark street, improved, $4,000; 25x110 feet on South Dearborn street, near “Thirty-first strect, improved, $3,750; 44x122 feet on West Washington street, east of Page street, fifth street, $4,000. p . B. Boyd s0ld two-story and basement brick dwelling and lot 25x125, No. 1135, Forty-first sireet, to J. Foster, all eash, for $2,700; six- room cottage and lot 33x14f, No. 1103, West Washington strect, Thomas Burrows to Mary C. Weir, all cash, for 32,000 A =ood proportion of the laboring class that used to patronize the suvings-banks are now putting their money into lots. Several new manuflacturing concerns east and west of this city are now looking up quarters for factories here. There were ninteen building permits isszed during the week, among them one io Allan Pinkerton for a two-story stoue-front dwelling on Lafin near Adams, to cost $4,800. There is a steady bussiness in : Persons desirous of purchasing a home are 1nvited to call on E. A. Warfield, at No. 183 La- Salle street, to examine plans and specifications for some very elegant houses which are to be crected on Prairie avenue, just north of Thirty- first street. These plans ore by Messrs. Whee- lock & Clay, architects. They have been sub- mitted to arcbitects in Boston, and by them pro- nounced to be models of all that is necessary to make a perfect house. Each house bas a front- age of twenty-four feet and a depth of seventy- three feet, containing parlors, library, reception, dining-room and kitchen, all on one floor, with five sleeping-rooms above. Basements contsin billiard-room, laundry, cellar, wine-cellar, store- roowns, and steam beating apparatus for each bouse. These houses will be_erected and sold for the actual contract price, adding the prescot valuation of the lot. Parties purchasing these houses can have ten years inwhici to pay for them, by paying the rate of 6 per cent interest. These plans will be op exhibition:at the office of E. A. Warlield; Financial Agent of the Union Mutual Life-Insurance Company, No. 133 La- Salle strect, Monday, Tuesday, snd Wednesday of this week. - Pleasc call and sec them; ladies are especially invited. THE LOAN MARKET at nnchanged rates. The loans for the month of Japuary amounted to $760.560. Among the loans of last week was §25,000 on the Catholic Cemetery property for five years at 7 per cent, £12,500 on the Lutheran Church at the corner of Tric and Dearbarn for five years at 6 per cent, §12,000 for five years at 7 per cent on property in Block 23, Assessors’ Division of 22. TRANSFERS YESTERDAY. The following jostruments were filed for record Saturday, Feb. 1: s CITY PROPERTY. ‘West Washinzton st, 100 ft ¢ of Lincoln et, n f, 20x124 {1, improved, dated Jan. AL G. and B. Gardner to John C. lowe)... o eesseessesse e Sedewick et, 375 ft s of Blackbawk st, e 1, 25x124 ft. dated Jan. 31 (Ludwig F. Eilert to Martin Haller)....... . Sloun st. 141 ftw of Elston Road, s f, und 3 of 89x125 ir, dated Jan. 31 (Martson & Hicks to G. A. Aeppli).... * Wicker Park st, n e cor Robey st, 8 w f, 25x15G ft, dated Jan. 29 (Franz Schack 10 Mathias Schulz) . ¢ esetaces nass State st, 281 ftn of Sixteenth st, wf, 36 x170% f1, dated July 1878 (John Garreit to William F. Le: e ereee 6,000 Clybourn av, 372 ft ¢ e of Uerndon st. n Tef, 245195 t, duted Jon. 13 (Hemry -~ Stefit to Franz Friedrich) o Ohio st, 1 w cor of Pine st, & f, 50x100 ft dated Feb. 1 (cstate of J. D. Cole to Carrie A. Mears).. Newberry st, 377 ft W e f,2115x100 It, dated Jan, 18 (Lerrick Stovens to Marearelh Jueger). May st, 195 It n of West Twelfth & 2531603 ft, dated Jzn. (Willlam Schaetler to Elizabeth Bnscher).. . 3,500 Tywenty-ninth st. 83 ft ¢ of Calumet av, § 1, 25x100 ft, dated Oct. 14, 1878 (Tenry . Caldwell 'to Albert K. Halc). T 1,800 SOUTIf OF CITY LIMITS, WITHIN A RADIUS OF SEVEN MILES 0P TUE COURT-TOUSE. Forty-third st, bet Lawrence and: Cham- plain ave, 5 f. 179x125 ft, dated Jan. 40 (Josepn $.” Johmston to Mary E. KellOgE) cevn veee - -'$ 3,700 SUMMARY FOR TUE WEEK. ‘The following is the total amount of city and sudburban transfers within a radins of seven 3,646 1,900 1,999 800 2,000 1,500 miles of the Court-Iouse fildd for record dur- ing the weok-ending Seturday, Feb.1: City, sales G2, consideration $202,333. South of city limits, sales 9, consideration $19,950. Total sules, 71 Total consideration, $222,373, - —— THE GRAVE. [Transtated from the German.) The grave §s deep and quiet; brink ingpires with awe; 1t veils witli darkness over A lund which none e'er gaw. The nightingare's sweet einging Sounds not within its hall; = Aud Friendship's roscs only Upon ity mosses fall. s he hands; ‘The solace that they scek for 1s found in otaer lands— Beyond the vale of sorrow. levond our earthly night, Whiere one long, glad To-morrow Shall wrap them in its light. © The orphaned ones lamenting Shall reach beyond the grave; From out its darkness rises The daylight that they crave. And 50 the longed-for quiet ‘Abides no place withiu, ¥ Till through the dark, dark portal . Alan goes that rest to win. The poor heart, worn and weary Iy many storms beloy, Attains’the peace so lasting, When pain it may not know. Aapisoy, Wis. 3any G. O'SmERIDAN. —— A Flush Fepian. Mike McDermott. a coal-beaver, was picked up on the street in Brooklyn, where he layina druoken stupor. When his pockets were search: ed at the Fitth Precinct Station-House $1,011. were found on him. It was said that McDer- mott drew the money from a savinzs institution -that day with the remote expectation of joining some Fenian expedition to Ireland. GOSSIP FOR LADIE IN A PARIS RESTAURANT. N1 € Runner s whe Midwinter Scribner. Igaze, white thrills my heart witt: patriotic pride, Upon the exqusite 8Kin, rose-flushed and cresmy; The perfect little head; on either ride Blonde waves. Tke dark eyes, vaguely soft and dreamy, Hold for a space my judgment In ectipse, Unti), with half a pour, supremely dalnty, «+ He's reel mean [M—elips from out the sirawberry lipa— «0n! ain't het" ‘This at her escort, youthful, black-mustached, ‘And diamond-stundded—this reproof, whereat he 1s not to any ereat extent abashed. (That youth's from *‘Noo Orleans * or **Cin- innatty, " . T'm lliul:ltgl "But she—those dark eyes doubtfal strike Her sheroct ics. o o Won' tonchit. « o I8 induced to. i 3 Result: **I'd sooner, cat mince-ple, Jim, ike We nsed to."” hile then my too-goon smitten ol recants, T hear her Tejond discoursing with mach feeling Of tailors, and a garment he calls **pants. 1 note mto her eyes a softness stealing— A gliade of thought upon her low, Sweet brow— She hears him not—I swear, 1 could Have cried bere— o The eacort nudges her—she starts, ond—** How? The idear!” “This was the finishing and final touch. 1 rose, and took no further observation. Ilove my country **just about " a4 much— 1 bave for it £3 high a yeneration— As 3 man whose fathers fought for liberty, Whose veins conduct the blood of Commodore Peri ¥, can. : Bat she was quite tao very awfally American. BUSINESS VS. SENTIMENT. Detroit Free Press. While a family from some one of the back counties of Ontario were in Windsor yesterday, on their way to this side, a citizen of that town, who was never known to smile on the outside, looked over the family, wagzon, and the long- haired ponies, and beckoned the wile aside. She was the driver of the team, and it Was easy to see that she run the family. “Going over to America, I supposc?”’ began the citizen as she followed him to the walk. ¢Ys, going rizht over now.” she answered. “You have heard of the new law, of course? You will have to set 2 value on your husband and pay a duty of 10 per cent on him.”” N1 “Fact. The law just went into force yester- day. How much do you value him at” «\Well,” replied the wife after some hesita- tion, “*Jobn bain’t of much account, and that’s a fagt. He's luzy, and he caw’t plan, and bar- gain; and get along, If I've got to set a price on him, I shall put bim in purty low. Let me call him.” The Jathy-lezged husband came down off the wagon at her call, and she explained the case to him and added: - *Now, John, you know you.wouldn’t brine six shillings i yon were put up at auction, and you can’t expect me o put you in for any ereat sum.’ *Waal, Helen,” he slowly answered, *‘I know P'm kinder sick, and tired, and lazy, and T don’t suppose 1'd bring much ~of a price these hard times, but I'm the father o’ them three chil- dren, an’ you can’t say I wasever crossand mean to you. Ikinder hate to be valued same as a scrob calf, and yet I hain’t worth as much as a good colt.” The woman seemed to turn the whole case over in her mind, and finally said: ‘¢John, I kinder like vou in pite of all, and the children all like you,’but when it comes down to business ind 10 per cent that's another thing. I'lI split the difference’ with you; 1’1l put the priccinat $3 and add two more for sentiment. Iso’t that fair?” “That’s plenty,—more’n I expected,” he thankiully replied, and there was a_sweet smile of satisfaction on his face as he drew his long legs into the wagon over the tail-board. BEAUTY AND THE BIRDS. The London fashion journals announce that in Paris as well as in London *Fashion now draws largely on natural history for her ornaments. A few years ago it was considered doubtful taste to wear a small caterpillar on an artificial flower, but such scruples have vanished, and lizards and flies of all descriptions are seen on bonnets and muffs; even ministure squirrels and mice are in.preparation for orpamenting various accessories of the toflet, and large birds serve as motifs for the decoration of evening dresses. The peacock dress is one of these nov- elties; the material is white satin, and the pan- iers take the form of two wings, cmbroidered with silk and chenille, the design being peacocks’ feathers; the train is of the same form as the tail of the handsomest Lird in crea- tion; the fron: is ornamented at regular intervals with plaits alternating with rows of fringe, and the low-pointed bodice is made with embroidered bretelles; the bend-Gress is a dizmond peacock, with outspread tail sparkling with emeralds and rubies. The swan dress is anotlier novelty made of white satin, and made with paniers embroidered with white chenille, and lavishly trimmed with white lace. This toilet was dispatched by Mme. Duboys for the Corenhagen fetes. The same dressmaker has likewise introduced the butterfly dress in the patest blue Levantine silk with tablier of old- old silk, and the paviers embroidered with multicolored jet, the design of buttertlies beine carried out in the most delicate manner, with the smallest beads. If well carried out there is marked originality about such dresses.’ Al this is very well; but there is another not so0 pleasing side to th2 victure, as appears from the following letter published in the London Wourld of Jap. 4: “L can hardly believe it! But 1 have before me a letter, written by 2 entlemen of good faith and position, to n local paper in the Western country, crying shame on a lady who appeared on the 30ti of December last at a faocy ball attired as *Win- ter *; the emblem of winter being robin skins sewn on to a white dress garnished with fur and holly! Is it possible to couceive such_senseless cruelty or such & want of tustel It is lucky for that lady that she did not attend a juvenile ball in such a costume. Assuming it to be true, the pets of our chiléren and homes must have been decoyed and brutally butchered to make o coquette’s holiday. I suppose the next thing will be an arranrement of Kkingfishers for Miss VAfry; and every cockney suob’ Wil van *fire a moon’ will be prowling about our rivers' pits ind islands. May Riparius be there! Every- body has scen the frequent appeals of ‘The Baroness’ for hospitality toour young feathered friends. And yet the incident I quote took place not 20,000 miles away from her Ladyship's favorite seaside winter resort! Down with these, what Dentham called, Phthisozoics 1" EKISSING THE BRIDE. Sucramento (Cal.) Union. Justice Alexander was called upon Saturday morning to unite in wedlock, *Melican fashion,” Ah Yung and To Yiog. At the conclusion of the ceremony the Justice sugzested that, in or- der that everything should be done stictly in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 500,000 of the Code, it would be incumbeunt upon the bride- groom to Kiss the bride then and ‘there, or get some onc else to doso. The bridegroom, who had no idea of taking the Judre’s hint as to the “some one else,” quictly intimated that he was willing to do all nccessary kissing, but he pre- ferred to have the Chinese spectators of the wedding invited out doors first, as they did not consider it the right thiog osactly to kiss one's wife before folks. The Celestial spectators took n walk for a minute or two accordiogly, and the new-made busband cave his wife 2 series of such carnest smacks as to' lead to the belief lgut he bhad been waiting monthg for a good chance. Priladelphia Press. Tothe Editor: Wil you pl::{;r: Yiform 2 renderof your valuable paver if it id customary and proper for the gentlemen invited to be presentat o wed- diog to kiss the bride immediately after the cere- mony has been performed? 1 expect to attend a wedding in a few uays and desire to know. . 3 Darey. This depends in o great measure upon cir- cumstances. It the’ bridegroom is a big, healtby fellow, or a little fellow with big spunis, we advise younot to fuol around the bride, We don’t, however, say that it isn’t customary and proper to kiss her, but the' newly-made hasband might disagree with us on this_ point. At all events, unless the bridegroom is deaf as well as bliad, it will be safer to~ either beut or chloroforn him insensible before attemptiog to ‘;‘:‘fiu mbslb'(nniiuaw wife r‘my lip. - 1t will ‘also be visuble to first ascertain her senti Lméridy entiments on THE TURKISI WIFR. ¢ The Tarkish wife is notaslave; thechief fault to find with lier 1s that she has too lofty a sense of her own dignity. An . advocate. of -female rights would kave some difficulty in persuading her that ber lot was oitjable; she his ncrer en- vied the emancipation of Christfan, women, Whose free waysshock her; whilé she has poticed. that they get much less respect from the men of their faith than that which js invariably vouch- safed to nerself. She veils her face with no more regret thana Western lady unveils her shoulders. Turkish women are mot sbut ub. - much later either, if you Know . faith than oral rhetoric, They go out when they please, arf thetr odalisques i rich,” or holdmmg horcel dren by the band: and thelr magoie vy 8l the bazars, for they arc modv tales Wherever they pass, men of all creeds n‘ce‘!' aside deferentially. If a husband mem);;fiIl wife fu the strect, he makes 1o sizn of repses tion. It heperceives her halting before g gees er’s stall and wazing significantly at silks er than he can afford, he must possess his g it in resignation, muttering * Mashallahtn Ty reapect for women prevails 2130 in the homy s circle, and it comes naturally to the Mnasnlm: who has been taught from bis boyhood to be. have courteously to the softer sex. " The Wegs ern conjugal expression about “wuringm' breches ? bas its Turkish counterpar 1 b phrase to live under the skipper ; ind it oL oc feared that not a few Turks koow the pasy, of this implément of uxorial persuasion, ,{ strect-porter once came before a Cadi to com. olain that bis wife trounced him'too frequently, +Sec what mine does,” answered the mapje trate, opening his guwn and sbowing some weals on bis neck and shoulders. **Co thy’ way, sun, and thank Allah thou art luckier thap L3 VERSICLES. . AN DIPENDING EVENT. He was sitting by the fire, With Marier, A And toward her every momenthe Drew nigher, Till her chair did interpose, ‘When he kissed her on the nose— They'll e married: when this sloppy” weafhesy dryer. = WIY OE DID IT. Mary had a little Jamp; ver, all ecrene, ned it, for he did not . W‘I‘z-m‘ sny caccag seen. st maies the youtn love Mary so T'Hl tell you—she's o catch; TRy And be put out the lamp yoo know, That he mizbt strike a match. . WIAT'S HIS NAME? 5 4T hat makes your lips g0 awlal sore® Asked Sarah's cross-eyed pap; ‘And Sarah to the old man said ++ it's caused by a small chap. Then Sarah’s youngest brother, As yet unknown 1o fume, Looked Sarad in the eves and asked: ““What is the small chap’s name?* 2 SOME QUERIES. 15 tay blush. with roses mock, Boueht at three-and-gix per box? ‘And those 1ips I seem to taste, Are they pink with cherry-vastet Gladly I'a the notion scont— Answer me, is't 80 or not* Maid of Gotbam, come, 1o larks, For thy sboulders lcave white marksy “rell me, quickly, teli to me, What 1#'really real in theer IWOMAN’S DEVOTION. 3 ‘What (says an excbange) is more beautifol than the life-lorz devotion of womeni . Poety have sune sbout it und novelists have written about it since the world beaan. An instance (f it comes from Washington. —Six years ago Charles O"Brien was at a_picnc with bis wie, when a ruflian insalted her. O’Brienshot and killed the offender. e was sentenced to be hung, but the aseravating circumstances behg taken into consideration, s penalty was com- muted to imprisonment for life. “I'her the trug goodness of the woman whb coused hissadfate shone forth. For six wholc weeks sne refused to be comforted, until some one told her tha the life sentence of her husband amounted tos divorce ; so, with firm resointion, she cheeredup ber desvlate heart and got married aguin, The President has just released O'Brien, and he now sues for the recovery of lis danghter, Rosa OBricn, whom the inother, oow 3rs. Hazel, desires to retain. It must have sweetened the’ hours of O'Brien’s imprisonment to kuow that his wiie felt so badly about bim that-she was forced to remarry. -It shows what a woman s willing to suffer for a poor lost hosband. ~ A SINFUL 'POSTURE § AGO. The following law and law-case, taken from the records of the New Haven Colony in 1669, are strange reading in thesc times. The statute says: * Whosoever shall inveigle ordraw the affections of any maide or maide-servant,-gither to himself or others, without first eaining the consent of her parents, shall pay to the planta- tion for the first otfence, 40s.; the second, £4; for the third,shallibe imprisoned or corporeously oupished.” "Under this law, 2t a Court bend in Muy, 1069, Jacobeth Alurline and Sarah Tuttle were prosecuted *for setting down on a chesile together, his arm around ler waiste, and her arme apn bis shoulder or abeut his neck, and continiting: in fhat binful posture aoout half an hour, in_which tyme he kyssed her and she kyssed him, or _thev kyssed one another, as je witnesses testified.” 200 YEARS FEMININE NOTES. A fixed fact—One that gets in a woman’shead. ‘When a man has no mind of his own, his wife generallv gives him a piece of hers, It takes a good deal of grief to kill a woman just after she has got a new seal-skin sacque. | *James G. Swisshelm” is what an Illinols weekly paper calls her. Such is yemme.—Bostin. A music-seller announces in his window 8 comicsong: “Thou hast loved and left me for ten cents.” . : A Peekskill beau has just made the startling discovery that a girl’s ribs run up and down. . O£ corset so0. The married man who goes away from home to visit the _club-room, sometimes has the clab ;broom to visit him'in retura. i ) A Professor at Vassar, who hasa classof brillisut feminines says ** it takes a hero to face a she row.”—New York Graphic. : “You ought to husband vour coal more,” said the charity woman. *Ialways does. 1 maks Lim siit the ashes und pick the cinders.” q Mary Aon says she doesn’t know anythinZ about boating, but her younz man toid hers smack on the lips was a beau trace.—Cincinnati Limey, There are two periods in_a woman’s life whea she does not like to talk. When ong is we never kner, and the other we bave forgotuen.—fock- land Courier. ) 1 ‘The wives of fifteen of the present diplomatic corps in Washingtou are Auserican gurls. . Tuis shows how American industry is ruuning out fareign gouds. 5 While a Massachusetts man was on his knees praying, his iusane wife kitied um. The idea thal he Wwas wearing out his pants at the knees was more than her bram conla stand. The meanest man lives in Crawfordsville, Ind: He stole all the wood his neignbor’s wife bd sawed und split daring the day, and then invited her husband over to spend the evening. “Your late husband, madam,” begon her lawver—** Yes, I kuow e was always fate out o’ nizhts, but now that he’s dead don’t letus upbraid bim,” said bis charitable widow. 1’1l see you later,” says Smythekins tohis wife, as he started for his lodge. * And noe well off,” answered she. Swmythel at10. “ Oily and pomade are no longer used on the hair.” " This is a seosible ediet of fashiop. Hereafter a young man’ can help a young lady to say nothing in particular on Sunday evening without bavivg his vest soiled. Ten thousand doliars in bills were found sev~ edup in the dress of a womau who recently di in Norton, Mass. Now, hereatter, 1if you Ses Dum with his arin ronud ber waist, don't jmaz- ine that e is prosoccting for Ler deposits— Philude!phia’ Bulietin. ? . *+Beg pardon, sir! But I'yc just caught theso iwo young rascals making 4 slide iu front 0 your doorstep, and tliey say as you gave 'eut permission.’ *It's quite correct; [ did, police- man. ~The fact is, I expect my mother-in-law 1 luncheon.’ "— Punch. A retort courtcons—New parlor mai #Here’sa letter, ma’am, if you please.” N mistress: ¢ Tray, Mary, are you vot accus- towed to see letters handed on a tray? New parlor maid: *Yes, wa’am. But I didu's know you was."'—Puuch. The day before 2 Turkish girl Is married she: is taken to the bath by ber lady fricads and Tumps of sugar are broken over her Lead as 3 forevast of the sweets of matrimony. A year of o afterward ber husbaud breaks the wholo sugar-Lowl over her head. A lady taking tea at 3 small_company, befoZ very fond of bot rolls, was asked to have up= _othier. *Keally, I.cannot,” she modestly re- plied; ‘“Ldon’t know how many | bave esten already.” **1 do,” unexpectedly cried a juvenile upstart, whose mozler had alfowed him 2 sedb at the table. * You've eaten eight; l’ve'beed countin’{” Que.of the saddest Ijizgual ‘mistakes op record oceurred a few evenings ago in a Jocal 'prayers meetioz. ‘Iie buli of thé audieoce copsist: of elderly females. A worthy printer, with more rose to speak, with the remark that be probably could not_do_ as well +as the old hands about him.” The elderly fe males, being hard of hearing, understood bich to say * old hens,” and he waspromptly austled out.—Cieveland Plaind:aer.