Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1880, Page 10

i aty - wheels, ‘oltfmney-pots, flour-barrels, cotta Wal rpotinsition, “oriokas and” dies’ for slafnpihg, and blankats.* t Prof, NordonstJold haa announced his in-. tention of atarting soon on anothor fourncy' of éxploration to the Sidertan Polar Sea Te Will make the, Now Sivierinn Islands, vislted in’ 1908-10 hy Efondonstroom, his base of operations, 4 * i An Imnitnse topograpliical map of the. :Klugdom of Italy, whieh has been elghteen years in preparation, hag just been fasted by. -the English, Royn) Engineer Departmont. It, ounsiste ot 47 Rheets, and is the most acen- a rate and detailed map of the petiinsula ever published. A German paper gives a almple test for the tirity of tee eatctes that If in well-pol- shen: kiiitingneedie ts dipped Into ndecp veasol- of thik, and withdrawn fn yn upright posit Hon, some of tha milk will adhere to the uy needles If water lias, in the slight st degree, been added to the milk, nohe will rematy on “tho necille, : An inipartant discovery las just been inade din the helghborhood of Elbauf, Seliw-inte. riouro, France; by M. Nouty. Ho lig found ‘amulditade of prehistorle Ainplemenis in ta sillcoons sands which form the xuibenll af the Seine Valley, between Kibaut and Rowen, Ann aingle (neal ho collected: wore than 400 among bones of large quaternary mam- mals, Thesd iniplements ore said to belong -to the palwulithic aac; thoy consist of cut :Mllnts forming axes, corr, punches, and hani- amers of various dimensions. The valuv ofa eav-horse In Paris which, from accident or ge, is no longer useful for. Darnbss purposes fs estimated at oS franes, 918,00), apportioned as follows: Skin, 18, ranes G0 centimes; fintr, t frane; blood, 6 francs 80 centimes; nails, 12 ventinies; shovs, 2 -franc 80 cetitimess yisce franc 60 ‘centimes; tendons, 80 eontlmes; jntestlucs, 1 Trane; grense, 4 franes 9 ceuthnes; bones, A tranea 80 centiines: flesk, 09 franes ‘The ullimate destination of the skin Js the Gueptts the tendons are used for pie. ‘the feet for oll the bones for ttintinnal blaek, ‘the blood for russian blue, white tho horse: ‘Devh nds tts pince a8 a piece do résistance in ‘the cheap restaurants. The Amerioun Manufacturer says: A, cstentu-pipo two anda linlf inches fn diam- -eter, carrying from 00 to 100 pounds’ press ure, Was Intd under ground about, three ¥enrs ago, encased In comuon pine boards about one ineh thick. A few days since oc- easion was had to dig up the pipe, and tha Whole Jengthof the wouden draln was found Yo be charred and apparently burnt nbout three-fourths of the thickness of the wood, tho other fourth, belng partially rotten. The ‘whole inside of the drain was tured to charcoal, with here and there spots of whito ashes, showing that tanition hud nctunily taken place. It seems probable that, if the case had not been exeluded from the air by ie earth covering it, it would have blazed gad been entirely consumed. It is generally vlieved that a stenm-plpe cannot set fire to Wood, but this case xcems to prove the con- trary, and it ny explain the origin of many anysterious flres.” A Getinnn twriter advoentes capital puntsh- ‘ment by electricity, and thus sketehes the mode of procedure: “tn a dark room, araped With black, aud whieh is Hehted by 0 ‘slnugle torch,—the chamber of exeention— there shall sland an. fron figure of Justice, With lier scales and sword. ‘Chis goddess itl catty. a powerful cleetric battery In her inside; und this battery will be cdnneeted. with an arm-chait,—the sentof denth, In front of the ehalr shal! stand the J vige’s trie Dunnl, ad only the dude, jury, and other ‘oMetals shall be present with ‘the condemned ‘during the ceremony of execution, ‘This will vohsist in the Audge reading the story’ of the * ero committed by the prisoncy, who will bb rigidly manacied to atoresald ehalrs and. When this has been done the Judge will brenk MS: rod of offlee and toas It Into one of tho Beale-pans of the figure of Justice, at thesame. thae extinguishing the salttary tarch. The descent of the pan will complete the clectrie giveult, aud shook the wretch into the next rd, —— een “MY LOVELY FRIEND, Ah oleandér-blossom Just in blooin nt Iqsotnething Nk hor radiant young fuco; His lovely fragranco, floating through the room, “Heminds tae of ber sweet, unconsetous gene. Flor rich-hued beauty, delleate ns rare, ‘That iko t riaing stat grows on tho aight, » Bhowdars ns sitnply nA A queen Wight wear: “Her robo of purplo, Knowing It her right. Bho fille hor hours with ploasant, usoful tasks, , And her waite soi! contuiis no thought of wrolg. i Her happy hoart fs ike o tilrit that basks {Jn Hoods of Hight, nud sings the whole day long, ‘ No haumhey aire and:-no unseemly pride Mur her demeanor; and no ill khe spenks, Blnee ber own lity has UE dark to bitto, Nod covéred wronyr in other lives sho seeks, J wold not havo hor burdened with much loro, «And torn with usctess doubting aud unrest, Of al} tho Wwladom fn the great world's store, ‘ Her swect content and cheerfulness are best. But {would kovp bor alwuy froo from cure, And altvay young, and beautiful, aud bright. Timo, cansé thou not dive mo a double share, ‘Aud spare ny felead from-burdens and from oy Digby EBLta WiHkxLER, The Bull-Fight Gottos Up Kepotinily - for the Amusement of Alfonso and i Mills Bride. - : From Edward Ring's Madrta Leiter, .. & daring follow-in ‘groan High white alll étockings, und n jacket blazing with gold and eek, Tin up in front of the bull, holding in hh hand o flexible tartenveloped in straw at ouu end, Quilek ns: lightning the bull Sprang nt hin, but the ran went to ono side, aud the two darts worgsticking in the anl- mal’s neok, It was ns quick ny thought The dandoritlos mule the bull erazy with rages ~ he ‘shook himself, but. they entered more deeply Into the skin; ho foamed atthomouth; jie was tertible, He ran at a knot of his enc Inivs and frightened them so that thoy Sled In Confusion, leaping the barrier, Now all the devil Ii the bull Wis roused. Ils motions * were twice aa quick ns before, ‘Thousandsof Yolces wore screaming aulvice from tho benches,. * Rafaol, mind your steps! Well! well! Muy beitt Pagitiiiol demontot dAndal anda! Now ron for It, hombre! What ‘Qn agg, burro burrito!” ‘Then a great silence fell, ‘Tho matador took a red cloak in bishand, holding concealed beneath it # sword, ahort and stout of blade. Tuy stepped erecefully, ‘and briskly to the bull, and held the red etoa! Alreatly before his eyes, ‘The bull few at It The matador nude g false stap, saved hbn- elf, and looked up, pale and quivering, to hear.a, tempest of nialedictions. The bull wis ‘after him Again, and followed him. Lightly a3 thistle-lown flew ‘to the rescue. 1 jozen capendors, who fluttered thelr cloaks in thé bull's vision wnt! he was directed from his viet. Thon they gradually brought Jim to'n standstill, nud’ the mutador came be- fore him again. Now began a terrible duel bet nN man and beast, ‘The cloth wos at the buil’s reach; he plingesd at it, and seemed to annliilate the tnatador. But'no, the man. yas Slways out of reach, and his gleaming binde gs playing in the air, The bull saw it, but the cloak wns before hlin—S-+s-t! Down camo the sword between the animal's Toreshouldors; but the bill, with a noble and Anpetuous motion, threwitontof the wound, trom whieh the blood poured in large streams. ‘To matador drew nnother sword, snd the duel began agulu. Hach tne that ia stabbed the boust but slightly the crawd cursed bint, ‘Thon he redoubled his energies + an suemed to Josa his prudence, 1: ant by. he ‘mado a ‘flying ‘lexp; every one sloorl Dy thinklug to 860 him ‘ying gored to death, But, ‘on the cotitiary, he stuod some yards away palnting-to the bull, !n whose shoulder the syord was planted tu the hilt, ‘The King ‘os lauguidly applauding with tis white- loved fund. And tho specators—lt was de. Tho Hull atruwated, but the dread. ful sword sapped hia lit eo tngud and ran, frothing) upou tho agile cloak-bearers, ‘They decuinped, but returned ag they saw tlie poor anhnal walk away a short distance and Ne down with hin tone out, “E wey tow to him and bogin to tenpt hin to renew tho contest, ‘Tuly waa moat pitzous of al!. He looked up ate With glazing yes, ont of ayhleh all brutlah mnlios hat depurted, o6 tho: great Tibet fookod wy ee tee hin. Tt wag hor rible.*, Up a oung Queen; she’ had taraod her ayaa uways seen ‘:-umblien o1 » Downward mde, Albany Letter to'nymtuae Courter.” : Tmot amin to-day who isa type of tho per i severing pilicosockor, : do tuy knowledge he haa Down hosictoa fur. “aomotblig™ frou the “ part evor aca SER asi ee’ ‘you aftur now?" 1 ueked. ‘ol rn bly two aura ty d trod to get nominated for the Assenbly, but I fullod. Tat year t wout for in Aldern nomination ry I n't yal A g 4 do a carpqutsroa update era PY -s buicuiality it tho nihgo a Te fomillos whard Dr. Hull's Cough Byrup Ls kept Brcrittrtars eterna col aus or Soro thrvat. Price 2 vents. | 4 of busingay,”* i THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: “LIFE AT HIGH PRESSIME, A Man's Bost Capabilities Can Bo Brought Ont Only by Over- : e work, When Yon Want Anything Done, Go Rot to Hen of ; *" Telaare, but to tusy Men, 4 ‘A Posture of Work Mekes the Montal Machinery Go Faster—Some Ro- markable Instances, ? The Busiest Mon Thoso Who Have Most Time for Extra Work. Maetnttlan's Magazine for January. How vontes It that so itimny great mon— men that have beon great benefactors of thelr Kind and have left reat works behind thom —lave had to live under pressure, with stralned energies, tind the sense’ of having foo ttueh to do? Itneems ns if men could hardly become great under the conditions of acahu, letsurely life, A man cannot run at his fastest, or whit hig furthest, in ordinary efreumstancos; he must be running fn on exelling fuce, or AWlunning for dear life, to do his best: It rarely appears what aman is enpable of till he ia put to les mettle. Novrs- alty isn wotdorful cdtientor, % wonderful enlarger and quickener of men’s faculties, We lately rend ai account of o printing-na- ehine which from eight cylinders can print and fold about 100,000 newspapers ft an hour, What but the pressure of necessity could over hays made machinery accomplish such wonders? It pects something of tho saine sort to take the most out of human facuitles. Under the pressure, the faculties become enlarged and quickened, and are thus capable of producing results that calm lolsure nover nttalns. Still it is truo that overwork fs an vil. {3 more,— TP IS OFTEN A MURDERER, Sir Waltor Scott, Sir James Simpson, Dr, Norman Macleod, and many othors certainly dtd not live to the enti of: thele days, and It wns overwork that robbed them of the tesl- “due. No doubt, as ts often said, it ts not work, but worry, that dues the mischief, But worry is the daughter of overwork; Itis hny-. ing too little time to be patient that gives the feeling of worry; it 1s having the nerves so strotehed that the slightest opposition frets them, When n celebrated editor complained of being Overworked, ovorworried, Over-Crokor'd, over-Murray'd, the firsi word of his Jamentution explained all the .rost, Undoubtedly, thon, overwork, while » means to good, is it- self an ovil, A distinguished inan-of our, Aequaiitnnes used to suy thatthe most de-: sirable condition of life was to haya just somowhut more id do than you could poss}-_ bly accomplish. Not far tov much, for that: would crush you; but enough te check tho tontency to laziness, enough to supply a per- petual spur. Tho evil ig, that itis so dittieult ‘o realize this happy condition; men who are noble to do much are usually pressed to do far too much; and the warning which so often comes In tho form of paralysis or of heart- disvase, comes too Inte to admit of a remedy. It must be Avcopted. we approhond, 0. the trie state of things, hab, while - there are evils inseparable, from high, pressure and overwork, tho best that a strong man Js capable of CANNOT HE DON WITHOUT THEM. Tet us obsorve, for example, how. esreful an overworked mon is to minke the most of his time, What an carly riser he becomes! Can anything make aman start from the luxury of a half-waking, hulf-steeping state in bed like the conviction that, if ho is not at work at a given minute, tha whole business of the day will be thrown into arrear and inevitable confusion? Dickens hus-a character somo- where who says he always gues to bed with rogret and riges with disgust, The pressure of work removes both the regret and tho dis Rist, for at bud-tine bed fs “welcome to the busy worker, whiis in the morning it ls a thief and a robber. Tow much more rapidly ono runs through tho nowspaper when thero Is but ten minutes for it; or how much mare quickly one traonsacta business, or makes in- quiries, or goes through friendly groctings, hon dozens aro waiting in tha anteroom, et doctors and Inwyers yoy. “Don't go to men of lelsuro when you want anything done,— G0 TO Busy MES,” sae whs 8 saying of tho Inte Georre Moore's, of Bow Churchyard, inmacie n busy muy the architect of f colossal business, und yet nblo to carry on his shoulders tho Interests of In- Mumeruble charities. In the United Btates they have a rule in some of their conven- tions that speakers shall not oceupy more than five minutes, If seems to many as if a sponkor would need that time at lenst to clear his thronts and yet it (s wonderful whnt can De said in hve minutes when netther love nor money gut eke out the allowance, Besides saving time, tho pressure of work makes the mentht minehinery #0 foster, The tilnd comes under an_exellement which quickens all Its processes. The steam guts up, nnd the piston files through the cylinder ike lightuing. Pleces of work have been done {n these moods that wonld not, or could not have been done under more still and quie conditions. Tf St. Pant had not led si busy ao life, his Epistles would «have borne a different chnracter, ‘hey would not | have the stlotulating panes they'have. The Tash And ripidity of the Apostic’s inind com. auunicates Itwsulf to his readgrs, ‘Tho aan thing’ ts true, Ina sense, of the speeches 0: most great orators, Such things could not bo produced In cold blood. Men * MUST NE ON WINGS todo them, If the rocket wore not dis- charged in o sort of trantic excitement, It would not describe tho beautiful curve whitch t traces. It is oortain thug the leisure which usy meU BO naturally crave would greatl; reatrict-and impalr many of thelr grinles ef. forts. Tholr work might Indewd bo dong with more tinish and beauty of detail, but it would have far less of the living und quick- ening power to whiah, very probably, its chick valuo fs duc. No donbt, {£ sober thought be the chiof thing needed In a pioes ot work, tho slowor it 1s dono the betters a judge niust be deliberate, atid solemn, and slow; bnt, ff the to iltu- Taliinto, Ww quicken, to finpol, the miu will bé all the potter of the excitémont fat comes from tho pressure of too muc! foto. ‘ Wien abla men aro urged on In this way, it {s wonderful what they.can do, even tn thir hore subscotom, Sometlines tt scums Ag UF THEY COULD NKYER STOP, Bey, go on like the Flying-Dutehms as if they were embodiments of the perpetual motion, ‘Thore is dtr, Gludstone, for exam: ple. No sounor iy he relieved of the burden of the Primfurshtp than ho is up to the neck in Homer, When people are wondering how hig gets tine to keep up his Groet, be Is out with an elaborate pam phiog on Ultrmmontans fam. Hardly ty the ink dry When o publica- tion is announced on the ‘Turkish massacres. nd, when peuple arc thinklig Wine tuirly exhausted, lie goes through an electlonear- ing campalgn I kom meteor, and delivers a buccesslon of speeches that for every qual- ity of powerltl and brilliant oratory fill te wholo world with, astonishment. Woe BUppos int in jus best days sli: lar actlvil Laynst ove chametarizad Lord Brougham, hen could he have written his papers for the Usetul Knowledge Society, or studied and Wilton jig chaplers on Paloy’s J Natural Theology” ?: : . ‘THY BPAUKS FROM BUCK MEN'S ANVILE are cquat to the chief products of ordinary oraftamen, Buteven these men would protis ably have bean vollpaed by the nallvity of the Spanish poet, Lops dp Vern. Lt was valeu- luted that 1 of his Thnes wore actually, printed, and no tess than 1,800 plays of his’ compoultlon utted upon the stage. Wer we fo Hive credit to such accounts,” Baye Lord Rolland,." wlowing him to begin fis vompositions 4 the age of 13, wo must be ‘Heys that on alt bverage he wrote mora than +000" lines oe fertility of finagination iand a eelertty Of pen which, when wo cone ‘elder the ocunpatlons of his jitens a soldier,» wu secretary, n° master of & fully, ond ao prlest, his’ headroments in. Lutin, ‘Italian, ortuguesc, aut pls Teputation for orue ‘dition, become Nut only ttuprobable, but ab- sol tsly, Aud gue may \suy physically, tm, posy{ble.! Be gS ete ‘ h such : we come mar ‘xouully 4a npeet helore up, ® cone mare It S35 S : UNDERSTAND TI PARADOX that the busiest men aro thosy who have most tine, or nt lonat moat cannelty, for extra work, The wedienl profession is full of f+ stances, It fs remurkabio that tho Ino Sit James Simpson, for instance, tn tha midst of Bn unprecedented — professional practice, should have been skeen antiqnary, and should have fornd tine to write xo many and it Marian Hetholrs, | Itls arid of thy late, Dr, ‘Adcreronibio, tint hts works on tha " Titels icetual and Aforal Powers of Man’? Aworo com: pagent {ith his, earring, AS ho was triving lo sect ns opatienta, Tho instances of medi eal mon in the hight of prnetteo, write In; papera “for the — medical; fottr- nals, or prepating professional tvorka for the press, tre very humerous, ‘Tho facule thes of such inen are so ready that in thelr thoments of Ielsure they can do more than many another mat who has no stated work atall, Even ordinary mon understand quite well how Irksome a. very sinall bltof work, Ike the writing of lettors, Is in a holiday. ding, when one Is tle hn the cauntry{ where- ax, Itt the light of one's activity, a dozen Tot tors coult be dashed off in an hour, and not. even counted tn the hard worle of tho day, An able man, In the full swing of his muni. fot Works iy like & machine that by bolts and -wheels CAN DO ALL KINDS OF RYs10N3, beside whint engages the chief share of tts, netlvity, é Nor bs aucls' life necessnrily so oppresslvo as is offen thought. Our Moker hins #0 ordored It that ono of our chief pleasures Is derived froin wark succossfully done. Labor ipso voluptns, There Is alwnys a grutifien- tlou dn "pomotliing necomplished, somthing done.” Lope de Vega, writhg his play iin i alngle day, as he often did, had ne doubt suf. fistent enjoyment in It ta compensate hin for all the coufinement and toll. Rapid workers hayenot tine to get disgusted with thelr work, as those are apt to do who broodover it, Dis- ist Is usually the product of leisure and re- ectlon, and comesat na second stage, the work be somewhat varied, the pleastire fir connection seu its ‘completlon Is varied too, Hence, perhaps, is the reason why tho total and sudden giving up of work ts often at- tended with evil results, ‘The transition froin nlife full of activity and rich In the en- joxment of sucerssfut labor to a life of abso ute idleness with no such vivid enjoyment, WAS OFTEN PROVED FATAT, Thore ly foo little activity In. the new life, aud too litle of the plensuro of activity, idleness, without the exeltement and pleas. ure of work, becomes depressing, ‘The vital forees droop and decay, On the other hand, to tho busy worker rest and recreation have w double relish, No holiday Is so refreshing ay thet in which ho runs away from his Jabors and enjoys himself in gute ndliferent scene. Swiss mountalns and Swiss alr have then o double charm. ‘Tho fiterval is too short to produce the eunul that attends 0 pers manent separation froin active pursuits, things live in the memory moro vividly than the first month In Switzerland in the heart of @ too busy life, Too much to do, besides tts direct effect on the busy worker, exposes dm to certain in- convenlences apt to excupe the notice of oth. ers, One of thera ls the enect praduced on his memory, One who leads a rushing life, who hus to hurry from one thlag to another and from one person.to another without « moment's interval, CANNOT NAVE A VIVID REMEMBRANCE of anny things that oppen In his expert- ence, Me $s necessurily Mable to forget, in a Wity that another cannot undorstand, Many fA busy physician has found himself nt tines in acrious trouble from this ease. We has made n promise toa patient, but, bofore the proinise had hardenod tn his memory, some exelting cuse has hurried him awhy, oblit- erated the {mpression, and the promise has wen forgotten, Authors’ monories have been known from 4 slinilur causa to play them strange tricks. We know nn author who wits onanatd In Lent book amid many othor absorbing occupations, Forsome weeks he book had to be fald aside, When lelstre came he resumed It, os he thought, at tho point where he had broken ft 6 nd Bot Jvough a considerable chapter, when, to his mingled amazement and amusement, he found In his drawer anothor matniseript, nl- amost precisely similar, the oxistence of which he had quite forgotten. So strange and In- crodible ure these ‘tricks of memory. thnt sometimes the imost honest of men, ff ox- ainined ins court of justice, . WOULD HARDLY BH BELIEVED, Tho non mi ricordo would hard be ae- cepted by those who have hat tittle ex- perience of the ditfculty of carrying in the memory impressions which have not had thins to photugraph themselves on Ita tablots, or have been blurred by other impressions following too quickly, “If ty busy man is guilly of some negteat, leisurely people are apt to faney an ititon- tional “slight whore nothing’ of — the kind = was. dreamt =~ of. ~ In the ense of . such on «is man, there 8 twofold reason for applylag the rule whiolt Eltzabeth Barrott, in one of her letters to ALr. Horne, thus gracefully acknowleged: “In one letter was something about neglects you told me Hoyer to fanvy 0 silence Into a neg: loct, Wns [likely todo it? Was thora any Toom for oven fancy to try? ‘That would bo etlll more Surprialts than tho factof your waking room fora thought of ing in the inul- titude of your oceupatlons.” In the “ Lite of Charlotte Bront0,” {fwe ro- member rightly, It is told hdw once, at the begtnnlng, of her Mlerary life, she took It Into her head that an ensinent publisher was dls antisflod, bucause he did nut at ones acknowl edge and answer a letter accompanying 0 manuseript. At Haworth tt was not owy to understand the ways of Cornhlllor Patar- noster Row. +. Wit CAN FANOY THE ONIM sats on the fnoo of the publisher, overwhelmed In. all Wkelthond with Juttors, manuseripts, proofs, books, bills, and businuss of very sort, at the gentle impatlenceof the lady. Most pub? lishera, and uditors teo,. have doubtless had rathor muusing experiences of tho Innocent impatience of correspondents, Letters to tho auditor often run as ifthe poor man had nothin, whatever to do from morn to dewy ove bu attond to their papora., Womny be sirugelg like ad yjjtlotge inan overloaded wagon, to overtake the piles of crabbed handwriting int prose and verse that burden Is table, rauglag rom essays iu Chiness motaphysles tallnes ou u showdrop, and possibly, In regard too given paper, thinking of Inserting If In the course of the season, when down comes 9 shundering eplstio demanding why it dld not appear tn the Jest nialee Wall, the impn- tlenee Hf correspondents Is not always inno- cent, Some haven spiteful pleasure ta sting. ing the editor for “ Jelucting what the wn. happy man never asked. f ho had only (ine, he might explain things, and perhaps pacify them; but perhaps not. Editors, wo suppose, must submit to be counted ty- Tints, and probably fools to boot, by n lane proportion of tho ill-fated volunteora to whose Surbaasing nietits they are sq often Ine veterately bilnd. More ainusing are THK STRANGE FANCIES that somo porsons have us te whntoverworked Dion quay be asked to do for thom. In the very thick of tha. Amerionn War there cane to Presilont Lincoln an Ilinols farmer, tna pat state of oxeltement about a patrol horses that one of Lincoln's Generals liad ree quisitioned for the War. Tho owner wos of course entitled & colmporsation, but somu- how it hatnol come, Going to the President, bo tolg dm his story, ond was rathor oha- erined fo be told that it did pot He with hin to py, the monoy. ‘Thon, shys tho faruer, will you undertnke to write ta the Goneral: and seo thot the matter 19 gettiod properly > Poor Lincoln, who never wunted a story to help him In an emergeney, was rendy for hia visitor, | When was a‘ rnll-split- ter,” he sald, “thera Ived near us niurk young follow, the Captain of 4 Alleslesippl boat, whe could steyr a vessol over the rapids with wondorful skill, as hardly tny one efgo could, ne day, when he wits rasp the wheel with hls utinost strength, wt the most critical point of tha rapids, alittle boy camu running up to hin great oxcitament, and sald, ‘Cap'n, stop yoursiipy; - i MY APTLY JAS FALLEN OVERNOARD!!” In the "Life of Sir James Slnpson" thero fro some curious noticosof the extraordinary tings that patlenta tn the country wot sometimes ask him to do, Ones a gentleman wrote to him asking hin to send him a copy of the prsaription which he had given bhi going years befor, when the Doctor cuuld hardly'recall the man, much [esptlie preserip- tion, “Others would usk him to go te Duncan & Flockhart’s and got them soine particular meitielue, A very busy clergyman of our Acquilntance, when over head and cars with nanny things, once got a letter fromastraugor In the United “States, oxplalning that more than H century ago some ong of the name of G—— owned ronert: near Eninburg, which was Deilovad to Wave been destined by will hy a particular way, 30 that tho mutives In Amerien thought they hud gome glalin to It fo wus requested to inal ro hi ® matter, flud out ubout the will, communicate with the present owners of the proper for u just settlyment of the clifin, er to jn- have rensonablo tose & hi for $s, but that, unfortunately, Unis oe onieren a Do, ; nreasonable though It be to plague over- worked men in ig wa. it ts verve lutstests it woul for the write i SATURDAY, JANUARY 1 ing to thid such ‘men volinteering, In tho nidst of n hundred other things, to do pone useful service to the friendiess or the poor, Nothing coull have been kinder, for ex- ample, than the ner of Sir Waller Scott, writing ont sernions for n young ssplrant to. tho Scottish abstry, whoso slate of nerves maile him unnble to grapple with the task and satisfy his Preabytery, Similar, though in a quite iliteront Sphere, was tho Kindneas shown ' by Vinet, at Lau Sanne, ensant iyorian who a invaded his solttnde one Bunday morning. Overcome by toll and tines, Vinet had been obliged to forbid the vislis of strangers, and Is faintly wero gnarding iin with all possl- blo caro, ‘The woman was an intelligent, od-fenring fensnt, who had over ste- ceeded In gotting rest for hor spirits but, having fallen tn with ona of Vinot's books, sho was porsttaded thal, If Rho could only see Tim, he would be able to give ler the needed guldance, With much dlitontty she got nd: inlaston to his room. Wo can finey tho anxious rolatives enjoining her to detain Aint as short 9 time ns possible, But Vinet, When ho heard her story, was profoundly Interested, anid i SPENT THR WHOLE DAY WITH TER, up to the hour of the Inst stage-coneh, ‘The account which the woman gave te her own pastor, on returning home, was iuteresting, “Wolly” gatd tho pantor, “Hinve you been able to seo hue 8 Yes,” sho replied, at Inst I have found one Ved mo” "TGimbled youl MM. Vinet is not the nun to Hamnbty any une?? Yes, hth bled ine, and Humbled me profoundly, In contact with Wis humanity and goodness, [ foit olf my prite give way. ‘Than sho told how thoroughly he compretiended her cuse, how patiently he apent the whole dng with her and all in such w homely way that lie fult ng if lo were her brother. A few {lus after, Vinot sent hern book newly published, ag If she had been one of his chosen friends, ‘Tho anstuly of busy men to make up for fiy little want of attention to persons whom they ought to. have known. ilustrates the same aplrit of Christian chivalry. In the cor- respondence of Dr, Chalmers thore fs A CHARACTERISTIC LETTER to tho daughter of the Inte Slr Dayid Broiy- ater, in tho following terins: 10 Yourke Puace, 28th May, 1M45.—Mr DRan Miss Riwwstiat: Teun {maging nothing more mun. atrous than the stupidity into whieh f feur I must haye fallen, if {twas really you who eat near tho Modoratur's chalr thiy evening, and on whom T apecilated fn my own mind for hours an ono T oun to hive known, It is fur tho most mortifying instance, though many Buch baye oeaurred, uf my attor want of the organ of Individuality; but hover could have fangtod it poseibta that It ever could hve happoned In the cso of ono fn whom (forglyu me for saying it) L feel go much Interest. It would comfort me effectunily if xou would have the joodness to. let me know where and whon it tq that FE inay hive tho plonsure of walting Upon you. Ever bellevo me, my doar maduin, yours inoat. alfeo- tonately and truly, THOMAK CHALRENS, Of nll tha inatructive instances of busy Itves wo have, THAT OF OUR LORD fs far tho most remarkable, It ts only when we pay minute attention to the notlees of Ills‘labors that we can under- stand what n crowded Mfe We Jed. Galilee alone, through the whole of which Ie ninda several circuits, embraced, according to Josephus, 204 towns and villages? and, besides Galltes, we rend of His visithy the remote north, at Cresarea Phillppl, mul the remote northwest, In the coasts of ‘Tyru and Stony wa know of His passing throigh Samaria, of His boing on the east of Jordan, and of his belng often in and near Jerusalem, Throughout every part of this wide district, iio nob only preached, taught, and healed, but Ue had mumberless callfsions with oppo- nents; He lived under n constant apprehen- sion of attack; Ie carried on tho training of the Apostics, and, In their slawness of heart, forgetfulness, wut of faith, and personal strifes, Ife encountered 9 serious adultion to Jlis burdens, although It would be harsh to BUppose that on tho whole their compmrty-dld notebeer and refresh Wim. ‘The strain on the hodily energies fia life involving so much physical movement and labor must fave been, Very great; the strain on the nervous system where thero was so. much exeltement, and where such vital {nterests wore at stake, MUST IAVE BEEN EVEN GREATER And Att Ale appears to have gone through all His labor “with marvelous ealm- ness and self-possesyion, From tho nor- ratlve of Illy. Iifu, — noti fg more remote than the alr of bustle or hurry; “and be has lum- 1 And put overything in sralty hing, indeed, quite a wonderfir pect us of Oriental calin and leisure, Oww- ig to his systematls way of working, ilo wits always beforshand, always ready. Hs discourses lave w marvelously finished air, ag lf thoy had been all mutured before they were spoken. Ills very answers to casual objectors wore marvelously clean-cut and finished. | Hy never found Hiingelf ina situation In whieh Ie was disconcerted, or nt i loss how to act. And In Hs mind one thing was neyer- allowed to Joatlo another, howover full it might be of projects, or haw- ever burdened with responsibility, “The last Bcenoa of Hix ifs exemplify this orderliness and business-like composure of mind inn wonderful way. And what we have nlready adyerted. to as so olilvalrons in busy meni, when turning aslde to care for others,~— “ The mind at tolsure from {taolf, ‘To goothy ind sympathizo," WAS SINQULANLY GEAUTIFUL IN HIM, The farewell diycourae, tho {ntereessor: prayer, tho healing of Mnlchua, the loo! turhed on Petor, the word to the daughters of Jerusalem, the prayer for Ills murderers, tho promise'to tho thief, the commending of His mother to the beloved disetple,—what wondortul consideration for others did all these imply, In the intist of Tig own great agony? How well Iv know now to conqner he siinres Of overwork, and turn everything tothe highest ends of litel Mow wonder- fully tho Divino shines through the humun, will uaut overlaying it, fn that unoxampted enreer. r combs, and ornaments of every description, not to spoak of the Jowoled Mugers, One nir of solitaire diamonds alone, worn b: ‘ho wealthiest lady present, cost vver 850, But the most remarkable thing told of this remarkable dinner fa, that the figuticmath though tolling thelr wealth by miliiotis, dis- played no sfoweles=mat oval a damon stud, 9 sea) watel-ehaln, THE SPELLING REFORM, 1» Literary Tevler. hl Tho Kngltaitapoting In the worst in thd world,” “MilHons of yoara aro wasted b; in trying. do. leen ie Alitions of duilnratare wasted cioh yedr in printing and riting altent, letters, ‘Tho Amertonl Filslogionl Assoolation nnd tho lending sobolure of thy world recommend the following rics for nu spelling: T Omita trom the digrafea when pronounst as exhort, as in hed, helth, tether, wethor, ot. ®. Omit silent ¢ after o short yowul, aa itt hay, aly, liv, dutinit, Infinit, forbud, oto. 8. HOF far jh (in such words ns alfabot, fan- tom, canifor, filosory, telegrat, fysicul, ete, 4, When u word onds with a double letter, orntt tho Inat, us tn ehitl, wil, ollf, lea, tie8, cx, nd, Ota, &, Change ed finnl tot where it has tho sound of t, a8 In lusht, linprest, fixt, ote. ‘With the foregoing fort text, we wil, with tho consont of the editor of tho Review, conforn tothe rules enunciated nboy, so as to sho “how esy it enn be don,” and tet som- thing of tho present status of the reform movment, We wid like, however, ta ad two more niles, a8 follos: 6. Omit tho termination te from of such words asentnlog, Aynagoy, ete, 7. For difthonys w and oo, anbstitute ¢, Iu the erly portof the present century a purely fonetic system of orthografy was pro- posedin Englatid, wher it had meny enthust- aatic advocutes, and was lnported to Ameri- Sh wher its recepilny ‘was even more cordink, Much mony and valuable tine wer thron awa tn the vain effort to change the habits of the millions of English-speaking peple, Despite the ornest efforts of the friends of the reform, {¢ wos found thot habits and prejudices which — hind on each generation becom deeply rooted as hud our poor spellings and our devotion to the belvsts of the printers, proof-readers, aud dictlonary-mak- crs, despite ol the cogent reasons olfered for wehnnge, cud not be overcom, So the re- form seamed to hav wel ni died out. wer, however, in this contry and Grent Britaln, a smal elng of ernest, thotful men, who mentained the fit they had eshourad, and kept alive the flea of reform, In 1876, the centennial year, public attention was agen ealled to tho matter, and the Speling Reform Asoclation was organized, with the leadlg flologists of both contrles among its onicerg, At first, a few simple emondations (as catalog, tho, thru, definit, infnit, giv, hav, Hy, gard, wiaht} Wer proposed for gen: eral tise,” ‘These found Imedinto favor with thousands of pee He who had been unwilling to change their affabet and fern to spel anew, "Tho next: step was the promulgation of the five rules at the hed of this article, “for tm- nuvdlate use.” They, also, hay found much fayor among & larg clas who wer tuo Inert to Jernand adopt 4 nu orthografy, or one nearly nu ‘The Speling Reform Asoctation has also suglested other rules, which inerese very lurgely the number of words of which the apellng enn bo modified and simplified, Then, polug stil further, it has agreed upon aud of- ferud a fonetls alfabet, both in type and script, whilelr hag the necesary merits of siin- pllelty and completenes. = This it wil be seen that one may hav his chols ag to Low far he wil go in tho direction ofreform. If he chooses, he ma step at the eleven cmendations named abov; but he wil find thelr use to come go “handy” thot he wilsoon beable to kik hfs dletionary : stil harder, and adopt more nu spelings, even to the adoption of the five rules before noted, Whon he gets so far as that, untes he ts very bisy, or very indolent, or too ald, he wil go to work and fern the fonetfe alfabet and ree omend {ts use to everybody els. At the inception of the revolt agenst our cumbrus antiquated orthograty—which ean nothe culed wu system, as it lacks ol the requisits of 0 Bystein—tho skolarz, the men to whom language is a matter of speelal study, Wer tuhmost unaninitts In thelr oposition to It, ‘Thoy had hecoin fmbued with a revereng for whut had recuved tho sanction of long usage and with tho iden thas our words contalued thelr own nutoblogratios, as lt wer, in. thelr outre forms. To this clas more than ol others may woattribute tho first defeat of the fonetic system, Now, however, the sitn- aylon {s reversed, and the warmest advocates of simpliNed orthografy ar the men who ar most profoundly yerst in filology,—inas- ters. not alone of English but’ of vas rious other tungs,—dceply skilled in the lore embamed in our coplis language, For thom itis not necesary that tho word shud under. lake to lity Hts history printed within, itselt when dlyplnyed on the ritten or printed page, “The Htdle wud-be-gront men ar the stiklens for the retention of anelent abuses, Again, the sturdy eamon rensé of our peple, wha ac ever redy to apreclute and adopt whatever aplinng may tend to effect a saving of time and Jabor, and who aravers to any round. about wa of arlylng at practical regalts, his recognized the utility of the speling reform, and hatled tt ns another great step in the, workl’s progres toward better things, To BUN Up, the Vast preponderang of thy actly scholarship and the good sens of both En- glond and Atnerica ls on the sido of reforin; oposed to It ar tho ignorang, prefidig, and fn- ortla of a large cing, which must be oyercoin by the sheer force-of niunbers, ‘One great difienlty in the way of speling reform is the recognized fact that tho habits of peple cannot be changed Jno moment. ‘The mas of the peplo who hay beon educated fo spel In the “orthodox” fashiun,—that fs, acording to the dictlonary,—ar unwilling to untern What hina cost them so much time and labor to lern, and adopt, at onc, new modes. of speling, which wil compel them also to lern a new alfabet, or o part of one, and to attend riting school agen, ‘To affect thts clas we tinst offer the wef none eleven emenda- We havo fianeed at somo of tho phenomo- na of that busy mode of Ifo which seems to be more cominon in thie age than In most that have gone before, It hug its drawbneks and its dangers, but tg not without compen- sations, and even blessings, W. G. Btaucre, a A Obriatuing Dinner. New York Sun, * 'The following ts the bill of fare of a dinner furnished on Christinas Day from the Park Avenue Hotel to an opulont resident of the Filth ayenuo; Crome do Volatile, ¢ Bnutinaroncy,. HOOKS chuy tks, Touches wux ennmpiqnons Olives farcies. “Tumatos, Pianehioly Dorn do Hautnon, Mimboau, Pommes én Aurprisax, Conouibroa| ‘ AsV Tee Filot de bunt in Uodard, Supreme ay, dito gu erence, NCIC ES, Roudin ds chapon, iohelleu. Jute de rede yout, luxence ‘Timbale a le Parisienne, Tera-| pang. le a Chatosu Yquem insomnia du amon Bhere frals,| navel iSteindorger Cabi- bet, jChatoau Latte, Champagno, | Pri- uve Bek. i, UAOH branchon, PMS MO TIT Pain de vol wile, Munnrguy, Gatontine do perdi, aur socte, Canvas-back quel. Latiue on|Clos d'Vougeot. Mayunalse. Tu m pustding au Bit boyau,” Grouto de oriehe av ru ne. anaes Plocos mon ‘ue. Bonbons. |Coynao, 1205. Ui rule Fromagon "cate. ituttands, 1a. Export dhimergivora aud diners-out and Bistrononists and epicures will Sppreelaty thisiménn at tts true yalue; but they can form but 4 feoble Mea of Its oxtenslyeness, oven whon told thut the strawberrles cost 15 centa apiece, and thet thers was an ample supply tor the twenty-eight guests who sat down to dinner, Each ménn enrd cost for the paluting and Mlunlnating none $15, not to count tle vost of tha red groagraln satin seurfs, half a.yard in Jongth and w quarter of go yard wile, to which each card wis ate tachud, Kuch card is its Spproprlatg de. rive ry 8 aUr| ue Beal. nux aseortls|Johaunisborger, rude, sgn, conveying a delleata complinent to tha individual ipuest, ‘Tho table, covered with gorgeous nuimted —pleces, was a glit- tering mings of Baccantt, glasa, silver, gold, Savres porcelain, lowors, und fruits, Tha auind of an artist in such matters drceted all the details and arranged the whalu sorvicu, ‘Tho reoul, a magnilicent gpartinent nineteen feot a rty-two foot, with ity wally glow tng with plelurea by tho best artlsts o Ku- rope and Aimerion, hadé all. Its winulows dee- ornted with Christnas garlands, und in each whidow 9 white dove was suspended, np iY batly futtering into the brilliant! ait ate lowing apartinent, Tyre exotjes decorated he vonsales, sldeboardg, and other furnitures, ot the Eyal, ‘ag well ny the table, ‘Lhrea hun. dred dotinns was expended with ono florist Alone for this part of the entertainment, ‘The gentlomon of tho party (lt was ouly 3 family ulfair) wore attired of course in the ephventional black fufldress ele fore man of socluty, but the costumes of the Judics wore superb, . All teary full qvonlig taticta; delleate-colored - élika,* aatins, and velyots with any gun tlty ot gonulne Haoua aul around the brilliant circle glowed and tsha over a nilltion of dollars In, diamonds, oar rings, necklaces, crosses, peudants, bricelets, £ES tions, and such simple rules oa Hey. can be brot to coincide with, even if it be only 9 portion of those augjosted by the Speling fte- Torm Agsvolation. «In other words, to renely the public at larg and Induee them to cobp. erats with the reformers, tha forward stops must bo gradual ones. It is not nocesary, tho vory desirable, that of men slid tako tho gaine stops. Every wort purposely spoled in Son toriuity with comon sens rules, and th violation of the dletum of the diction ary, {§ an advocate of further reforms, Every perlodical or book which habitually drops 0 silent or usvles letter is doing good work in the rite direction, ‘Then tet us not be disenre aged ‘Lhe furnalists, who represent and lend public opluton, ar themsulys becom: acquainted with tho reform, and many 0! thon ar giving it cordial and harty support, every to the ad option of corected” speltigs, Such representatty furnals as ‘Lue Ciicvdo THIBUNK, New York Home Journal and {ne dependent, Utica (N. <3) Herald, and many othors wr proving tholr faith by thelr works; and the nilontiun, whloh shat rolese our chil: dren from the bondage of obediens to the be- hosts of speling-books and diotlonarles, Is drawing near, ‘Ty tho young men and inaldens who ar so anon to becom the leaders and workers {1 this bisy world of ours, thor fy now offered 9 roliten oportuntty to mike #wark, so thas. sho world shail be tho better for thelr havin; ytd. Uf they wilorganize and set to work with a determination that they wil do olin thelr power to affect the droping of even a smal percentage of tho useles: Yetters with which weare burdened, they wil in hata decals necomplish mere good than he who wing a hundred battles or miases as hundred millions, Ech stlent lotter In our ritten and priuted language represent, In tts agregate use, Many Vertra of useless Tabor, Now, wil not tho present generation do at loust a part toward tho work of IIfting from the sholders of our futtire peplo the wnenled-for burden lid upon their sholders by Caxton’s Dalek printers and that savage okt Tory, Dr, Jatin sony — WRB, a THE JUNIATA, ‘Thero’s a atrange, wild river, a awitt-fowing atreim, + sae goer He ated ttatn wagou liven 6 born of & foun oF , jcam, Sparkles light us the thoughts uf o atdetiamer- dren, And [tioups down the mountatas In glee. Tta lifo it has drawn from tho crystal snows Whore the lingering sunbeams Post.” . I Anehreathou the sweet breath of an alr that i : ows = Ing fureuway land whoro the codar ithe taste rhdig bluo of tho Wout. ee How madly it $ Ita bosom 8 an Thuy te the rooke ny ae The Shee are mlguing thelr saddost farc- To thy brooks os thoy dush down the deep, Aud jolt in the murmuring roar,’ Dut lot At hus ted from the hills. by the Wert, nd tte current a mighty and fire 7 How frece ste. tho lales thut enjewel Its bronst} iow irae Uke g stream from the Land of the -Aait dashes tv musioond song, ~~ of blue, I will wander wi oR ths ur ty Hh a Flow on fa bouuty—tivw frees, + Np musio.i9 ature rival forme. ef ' Thy swecl, tit low -inurmuring roar, Anw Auuon, Mich., Jan. 14, 8. J. DW, ‘Thor. , 1880—SIXTTIN PAGHN, THE SOUTHWEST. How an American Bhow Was "Bust- ed” by Patriotic “Greasers.” Somo Informatton as to to'Slorra Mojas da Mining Roglon of Mexico. Dfought in Texns—A Comparison Botwoon That State and Missouri. Spectat Oorrespondence of Tra Chteago Tribune, Fort Wortt, Tox,, Jan, 9.—The arrival in this clly from Mexico of Frank Taylor, Mark Grayson, and Lou Mandeville, propris- tor, manager, ond ngont, respectively, of the jute Internattonal Show,” gives your cor- respondent the followlng facts in regard to TNEUL TROULLE 1N ONLHUANUA, MEXICO! Tho “International” was a show of spe- clalty performers, traveling by wagons and. hacks of thelr own through Mexico. In November Inst the management, formerly Spanish, chinged,—Frank Taylor, a well- known showman, buying the oonecern, and adding.theroto tho Sonora Cornet Band and pantomime troupo from the Paelfla Const. Mr, Taylor engaged as dls mapnger Mark Grayson, an actor and showman Bf consider- able ability, most popularly known as tho author of the sensational draina, Moxico.!* After the change of management, Grayson caused the Amerfenn flag to ba hofsted at the centre-palo head, in Hew of tho Mexican en- sign, which had been flying under tho ol’ management. Everything went smoothly throughout the State of Conhulla, and a big business was dona; but, on reaching the State of Chihuahua, to uso Mr, Mandoville’s own phrase, “The Greasers commenced rais- ing h—li; and, from the time the State was entered, almost dally the management were given notices by the “Pronuncindos” (tho State belng in revolution) that they must haul down tho Star-Spangled Banner, ns thoy would not allow it to bo dung 80 boldly to the breezes in that Stato. No attention was pald to these notlitentions, and nothing of moment occurred until Dee. 0, when, In San Diego, 9 party of armed “ Pronunciados” marched to tho pole upon which the dag was erected, MAULED TH FAG DOWN, nnd threatened death and destruction to the entiro outfit should it be hoisted again. Mannger Grayson, at the tlme this was done, was absent In an adjoining State, mak- ing arrangements for our renioval, Upon his return he “astonished the natives” by immediately hoisting the old flag once again “to its place. And onco again the ‘Pronunelados” — appeared on. the scone, ordering. town, and-ndding Insuit to injury by, demanding the substitution of thefr flag in Its place. Gryson, dirawing © six-shooter, threatened tw shoot the first man or beast that ndvanced one step toward the hallurds,—telling them that Jt was an American show, backed by Ainerican capitals that Amerienns proposed to run It; and that, nas they had complied with every legal and reasonable demand of Mexieo, they had a perfect right to fly the fing of thelr own country, The sambreroed oficer commanding the dotnelinent made answer and sald that, only day or so be- fore, their troops had thrown the flag of the United States in the American Consuls face Vity of Chihuahua, defying that fune+ tlonary; and he proposed doing tho sama thing “to Grayson tnless he “cheesed the racket,” laid down his arms, and forever held his peace,—ending up by ordering the tly pulled down, Grayson stood his’ ground, find, as tha advanced, fired upon them, ‘The shot was iminediately returned by one of the soliers; but, fortunately, shot Proved effective, At this juncture a higher “Pronuncindo ? oMelal appeared npou the scene, and put n qguictns upon further proceedings by order ig the soldlery away. But lt was only the hl that precedes the storin, After the’ per- formance that night, what seemed to whole regiment of soldlers came down on them, demolishing the tents, smashing up the wagons, and the company BARELY ESCAPED WITH THEIR LIVES, Mr. Taylor settled with all his people, and furnished them with transportation to the yhuce of thelr original enigaurenient, Mr, Mandeville thinks that some highly patriotic Mvxienns prompted thts trowble In retallation for Grayson’s bitter Jinndilng of the Mexi- cana In fils dramaof " Maxice.” Frank 'Tay- lor gues from here to ly homo In San Fran ciseo; Grayson leaves shortly for Chicago, and Mandeville for Now York, ‘There ls con- siderable feeling hore over this affalr, and there are many who wish they had been b Grayson’a Bite when the “Greasers” ad- vanced to hnul down the fing, Gore—Mexi- can gore—ts all they ask, and nothing more, . As a great deal Is boing written about the BIELNA MOJADA MUNING REGION of Moxico, and muny persons are engorly secking after the truth concerning theni, your vorrespondent inado it an object to In- view sevoral gentlemen who have Focontly returned to thiv qty from that reglon, and elicited from thom lio falluwing fuels: They loft the “Fort” on tho Sth of October for the Slerra Bojule, via San Antonio and Eaglo Pasg, reaching the now El Dorado on the 2iat. Setting busily to work, they surveyed the various mines, the couutry about, and thered specimens of the ore. ‘They In- forined your correspondent that about 180 mines havo so far been located,—that fs, up to tho date of tholr departure, which was about five weeks ago. Only two small fur naces had been erected, howovor, As to wa- ter, which has boon reported senree, thoy any there Is abundances for ail present puirmoaes. Tho populntidn of the village that IS Sprung up at the mines embraces about 600 Mexicans and 60 Americans. ‘Thesa live, or rather exist, in small houses bullt of mud, BO common thronghout Mexico, known 04 adobe houses, Of the mings already located many can be purchased at from $10) to $500 “ench, THE BLANCA is deemed tobo the richest. Thoyreportagrent Inck of necommodations there; and a good bourding-house, they say, Is needed bidly, and would pay. vof-tallow is used alto. thier for cooking In the piace of Tard, andig iard to gut at even 75 centa per pound, ‘There ia no bacon or tinm to be had beyond the Rio Grande, No Aimoriean tobacco” can be ab- tained at the mines at all, and It would bring afinont any prleu fro the American lovers of tha weed who are congreguted there, ‘The lmpresslon that it ts dangerous to neither travel . in Mexico, these = guntlemon stite, iy erroncous, ‘They made tho trp by themsvives, and” experienced no ciflgitlty whatever, and notone death was chronicle nt the mnes during thir stny there, fey aro well satisited that the re- glon is rich In ailver,—fully up to the reports olreulated; and, so soon a4 they can close ip their husfness here, thoy witl supply them- selves with miners’ tools, and return to em- bark regularly tu the business. DMOUGUT IN TEXAS, e A correspondent writing from the dr; rogion In oxi says: Kwe have ant no rain wince tho Ath’ aay of Inst dfay, and but two sincu the lilh day of | Fub- ary, 1878, Cofton Is averaglug about ono bale to. every fifteen avress corn Abuut twenty binhels por dere. ‘Times aro awful hard here, and pro- le aro loaving ‘Voxas by tho thousand overy day. I never veforu hound of tho ilky, All tho gtook-mon have sunt their cuttlo off to. water: and grasa, 20 or 00 milus, We huul evory drop of water we waa two inilea, and carry all tho stock ta that place and wuter thom fram tho spring, [would Ike to see some fresh Tonnes. gocnm come vuit hero and try thisdry vountry, Ont thoy would let tholr oyertasting sinful curso. rest upin it forovar, ‘Texas ia uu tho deo}lne, anu wt ho for several ware, on nasil jor thas fo bad orup-y ours; ans is probablo ‘sul MMlother your will yiult (eas did this youre Tho foregoing is from p St. Louis (Sfo.) paper, ‘Tho writer yery judictonsly avolds Aivlans the locality of this fearful drought. ‘hat the season ling been dry buough, is In- dleputablos but that It has been go dlatstrous as fy represented does not need denial, This county: qyarrant) {ydn the centre of tho dr belt, and has suffered ay much a8 any; yet ft will maka nore cotton, corn, wheat, rye, oats, barley, or potatoes to the acre, than the county in which the foregolug is published ou sstmituated. ‘The truth of the muttor iy, that the sofl of this country will make a better yiekt with ono rin & year thin the Missouri lands will with @ svason made to order. Wo pulls woul he med a short ante t9 lave hauled water [a spme. por tions of ‘atlas in 1874, When the alluttest breeze rulsed dust from the bottoin of the wells. Without raln ‘Texas ts better than BMlssourt with a deluge, 0. W. 8, a “|” Pe Mfowiaty Great Work, .. : trutt Free Breast A dame well Mong tn years yesterday got a Michlgun ayeuue car with o pound of F with clean ten under ona arm and nchromo Under thy other and she was hardly seated before men feaned Jor ritand anid: i ‘ ef pardon, but have you any o to my Inspecting that wrorle of nr sctons Sho handed i over, nna he looked af k closely for n long time, and thon sald: “How beautt{al and Wfellke? itr ivy fet tie Taliall liava at lenst threo of thet? beautify oil palntings, I don’t want to Ree é fnwportinent, but may Lask it you purine that | benutiful minsterpleca ‘for less thay, A “Y—ves,” sho admitted, “All perhaps they mado a discount fq order to. secure fot patronage. Perhays ‘on got it'for $4,500, Cheap enough, Twig had o intltion dollars. How © do’ revel | these detleious Inndsenpes 1? _ Tho woman, fouked from her ten to thy ploture, then at the man, and her eyes berg, ulge out. in astonishinent, “Yes, this is, indeed, 1 itsterploce,» te alghed ns haheld tt u p No ove but a tag of reflnement and culture could linve Belecf edit, Pray, madani, lot me ask IC you recog, nized the handiwork of Gonzla de Moria ah 43 Soom! nd you Ritw 1b?" “Oh, yes,” she replied, while her eyy grow larger than ever, “Tf T had $5,000 to spare I should try purchase it of you, but ng itis 1 ean oniy wish you much £9¥ over its possession, i you noticed thaf trac in tho nckearound>” “ ¥-yes,” she ungwered, ng she leaned fo, ward. How wonderfully true to Naturot ‘Thy knothole there wis never exealled by hand of man. I alwaya identity the wor, of Gonzin de Morin by the knotholes tn ty trees. Will you bear that in mind In Your future selections 2” * Yea, sir, and Lam very much obliged.” “And in tho foreqrount| yen observe a cow standing under a tree, ‘This 180 tree with, enkany knotholes, but what follaget Ant if Tonly had monoy—maney to enable ine ty Indulgo my tuste for sugh exquisite thingy See wiint n cowl Sco that expression of con. tentment in her facet Observe the inwosit: curve ot those horns! Hore 1s tho figure [ was looking for. Ahi it 1s 9 4. "Tuts coy ives four quarts of milk per day. Gon ¢ Moria always marks tho quantity of milk on every cow, ind customers thon kkovw wis they nro buying If i should send a friend to Yourto buy Utls pleture for $3,000—, By nol You are ablo to hold it, You cannotte tempted.” “Vd sell for——,!" “For $5,000,"\ho Interrupted; “bu I cannot‘ ralso that stat dt foreground is an opening In yout Know ‘what fs in there??? No “A Juel” he hoarsely whispered—a fy, contalning o remedy warranted tu tuke 6; tes ag freckles, ‘Try it onco aud be co. vineed Hicsank back and shut his eyes. Shest up very straight and seemed to reflect. She had moles and freckles, but it was nono o is business. Preauntly she stood uy, ray the bell, mashed the chromo over_his' heat and walked out without. a word, Every na Tnughod but the man with his eyes shut Ue opened them after the cur started, looked down attho ruined chromo, and sadly sighed: “Ahl masterpiece of Gonzia de Moris Baal, that such a fate should come tp Nee. ARUN THROUGH “EGYPT.” Porsonal, Polltical, and Agricultural Notos, Speciat Correspondence af The Chtcago Tribune, DANVILLE, Ill, Jan, 15.—During tho week Thave been down in Southern Ilnols, ot “Egypt, as tie native Democrats Ike to have It enlled. The people are distressed with 9 mud onbargo, and 1 dread uncer talnty as to tho outcome of tho Maine wily understanding; for your Southern Iltinols farmer, merchant, or lawyer Js 9 poilticlan by tnstinet, always ready to foln issue and discuss the ovents of the hour. FIFTEENTIE DISTRIOT, Tho breach in tho ranks of the Demo: raoy, Which caused the Joss of the Fit teonth District and tho election of For syth, Greenbackor, to Congress, Is now about closed up. George Wendling, the principal disturbing clement, has left the district, and lives in St. Luuls; Tom Brewer, ‘ere hee ran the rocks, by of Cumberland County, draws off In fayor of . Edon; and Edon hiinself, during theo past atx monthy, has been materially assisted in hfs candidacy by Congressmen Morrison, Sparks, and ‘Townshend, who urge tho Fifteenth District Democrats to harmonize on Eden and return hi to Congress, ThisSvill un doubtedly be done, € SIXTEENTH DISTRICT, In the Stxteonth District Sparks lias ef fectually disposed of the oppusttion wich wns ¥o extensive in 78 as to require two Conyentions before he could quict it. Doug: Ins Holles, Judge Bryan, and Foulke ote not in tho field, and tho Roy, J. W. West cott will hardly get tho twenty-fye dele tes out of seventy-ono which he td the Inst thne: Mr. Sparky hat made a good Deinocratic Congressman, and lately hos been vory busy healing up old wounds, To is providing for his needy cut aiituents, George Gundlach, who ran as de Democratie enndidate for Stata Treagurer iu 1870, having been appointed Suuseintondal of Agriculture to sume Dakota Lndinns, at several ather Democrats fixed In clerkships at Washington. fn reporting Sparks’ enue pal In’%8 LU wrote: “Hardin Case, edltor of the Carlyle Unten, has managed Sparks campaign and won the victory.” Mr, Case is one of the hivirs to the Cleveland Case _estale, and this windfall will virtually make Tfardia tho boss of the district, SEVENTEENTH. DISTRICT, ‘Tho only possibility of getting ‘ Bil" Morrison out of Congress ls fo: hguclanty hin for Prosidont, and te this end 8, ML Etter, ex-Suporintendent of Pablla Instruction, |i bending wl hls onergies. He Is writhag aul talking up Morrison in pyery dlreetion, but so far as Teould iearn, In St. Claty- County Morrison's strength for the Presiieney fs putiat nil, Col, Slorrison hag ambition, but itis not that vaulting kin which o’erleap itself, Ile will bo hid own sueeyssur In Cow Uress, . BIQUTEENTH DisrRioT, ‘Tho Republicans, such men ag Cols, Will and Brown of Massie, Clem and Kirk hinn of duckson, aro very ‘proud ut thelr young = Congressman’ Jolin Be "Thomas, andl owl give ohn # cordial and —unnuhnous —renomlation, Nor'is there much difference of opluion a ta the proper 1 mocratic candidate, Having tried aw vers nud politicians to thelr diy guat, the Bourbons now fi ge a rely the arture, ‘Lom Hatlidny, funtor in the welb mown firm af Haliday Brothors, of Caly contractors, steambortinen, bankers, inet chants, ete. will be the nominee, ‘Cho Hak day brothers are Wealthy and vory populat In Southern nots, und the Demberaw ex pect to aval themselves of these things will ho a hard fight between homas at Huillday, NINETEENTI DISTRICT, It seems that FM Youngblood’s proposed candidacy against Congressman,Dicle Turn shend is alon paper. Jiave been agsure by leading Democrats in Jefferson, Hamilton, and Gallutin that It would be extremely doubttil lf Youngblood could carry tls own county, Franklin, aguinst Townshend, df. ‘Townshend stands very high as a iman ands Democrat, and he fs afso quite wealthy. lle will certalniy be renominated ante cto for ny Republican will care to contest agatns such fearful odda, 4 * PRRSONAL MENTION. M. M. Pool, of Shiwnhectown, twieo a con teatant’ for tho Democratle nomination fot State 'reasurer, and favorubly mentioned it that connection this year, destres It to uaderitood that ho is not tu the fleld, He siys he ts young enough to walt til 1 when to Presidential” canvass woul enbarrags hin shoulil he be sagnitnaled. " 1 found ex-Congressiman 8,5, Marshall # AfgLeansbore quietly dozing sway the boun In hiy handsome and” well-furnlshed omy: 3g was frank and gental na ulways, thoust gradually withdrawing hhuself fromm the eX eltements of pallies. Ils wants no wtlee ihnself, though he atill dreams of 1 posit! Denoeratlo victory when the «anelen reyhuit ag ho knew It at Washington will be restore Upon State pollites he hud no purtial cous tons, Gen. Black's Bquilation by the Dowoenay for lovernor, he though! woul & strong one; Gen, Parsons woul proves youd Greaney and Judge Caton's woul compel the Kepublican: purty to put up 6 mo LATS, i “THE WHEAT RNOSPECT, i, athe oldest Jubabltant over romombers ¢ a BSeON roinlsing a senso for Ww! From St, Louls to Shuwnaetowa the Inne seupa is, loxlay, As handsoine ag it is ulowy tho Chicago, Burlington & Qulney Raliwsy, InJune, One is never out of sight of the grocn fields of wheat, Inone hour I count, ed Seven corn- fields of last fall put dove 2 wheat, 6 8 auTeAKY Ww! creased one-thifd at luast, Puociom id