Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1880, Page 10

* -and Eighteenth streets, : i } | i Ce cee a) 1b Company hns already resumed work. In -giving the history of this interesting art, the Borton ‘Journal says: ‘Tho process of hellotype printing was brought to this coun- * try by the enterprise of Mr. James R, Osgood, “who secured the patents for the United States atthe end of tho year 1873, when he also BO: cured the services of tho inventor, Mr. Ernest Edwards, to superintend their working. Tho first pictures offered for salo wero views ‘of the burnt district caused. by the fire of 1872, and a map of the same Tho first pictures now produced by tho Company im its now printing-office are views of its own burnt district. ‘The reproduction of some 200 or 300 of the fea: fag subjects of the Gray Collection of En- gravings? was the first serious effort toward making the process an art edttentor, and whatever may have been the failingsof some of these crude hinpresslons, thero can be no doubt that, aga means of art cdneation, no effort could well have been more sucecsstul. ‘A desire for a better knowledgoof the higher branches of art In engravings wily ongen- dered, which to<lay canbe traced In many important directions, ‘Tho success of this tibllention Induced Messrs. James R. Osgood E Co, to follaw out tho same ino In other directions, and thelr efforts have resulted In the issuing of a large catalog of art works, which have met with great stceess and favor. Among them may _be mentioned the works of Minty Drer, Correggio, Raphael, Land- > seer, Millais, the great composers, the great - artists, and Hosts of others, the last notnbio being. Darley’s fiustrations to Hawthorne's “Sentlet Letter,” of which one edition had been sold ,at Christmas, and another »was.in preparation at the timo of the fire. ‘The motto of the Company lins always been to acquire aud use tho best processes for all Kinds of photo-nechanical printing, so that all of Its customers might feel that not only * the best but tho chennest process would be , used for any work tlicy might require, or that if thelr work was not suitable for repro- -duction by photography. they would be di- -reeted elsowhere. In fact, thoy have done only suitable work, and that tho best known methods. With this end {n view, the Company has acquired o large number of patents, among which may be montioned the original hellotype patents, the direct trans- fer patent, well known os the means of pro- ducing letters in fac-simile, Hdwards’ dye patent for printing from Bointing with colors solublo In water, the patent for the Wood- bury process, Woodbury’s photogravure pate ent, Rye’s Lichtdruck patent, and many. others, They use a still Jarger number of processes, Including hellotype, photo-lithog- raphy, rellef plate Work of ull kinds, Inelud- ing zinc etching and photo-engraving} also, the latest forms of photo-nechanieal printin, practiced by Obernetter of Munich an othor European experts.” _, ART NOTES. A Commission has been formed in Paris for the purpose of organizing 1 museum of casts from the antique. The right wing of - the Trocadéro Building 1s to be used for this » PUTpOSe. ‘The Louvre was closed to the public during the Inte snow blockade In Paris, ns all the at- * tendants and servants were required for the cwork of removing the snow from the roof and windows of the building. Tho Antwerp School hns just lost ono of its most eminent artists in the porson, of dnecob Jacobs, who for a long timo past has held the post of Professor of Landscape and aaninihl ainting at the Autwerp Academy of * ‘The American Architect and Building News, in its issue of Jan, 17, contains an iustration of St, John’s Roman Catholic Church, now bullding on the corner of Clark In this city. ‘The es tmated cost of tha building ig $120,000. . A painting by the distinguished French artist, M. Feyen-Perrin, has just been bought by tho French Government. It deals with issame subject a3 Rembrandt's celebrated *®© Anatomy Lesson,”—that is to ay it repre- ‘sents the well-known surgeon elpenu dle- secting a corpse before his pupils. ‘To the present exhibition of the London _Water-Color Society tho Princess Loulse contributes a number of sketches of Cann- dian scenes, which show, says tho London ‘Times, that “she, at least, has followed a - Royal road in art, which does not dispense with close study and hard Inbor.” Four ‘views from tho courtyard of the Quobec Citadel, “In particular, honestly hold their own ‘among the skilled professional work with whieh they are hero surrounded,” ‘This is all the praise and comment that she guts, Tho historical painter, Christoph Nilson died nt Mimich on Dec, 10. Ile was born a Augsburg in 1811, During the years 1841-744 he painted the thirty-nine pictures from the Greek War of Liberation, as a typo of the German “ Befretungskriege,” from the car- toons designed by Peter Yon Hess.’ Ho also adorned the magnificent stalreaso of tho State Library witti an allegorical composition of his own fnvention, and, in union with other artlats, executed tha series of frescoes ufter Kaulbaci’s drawings, which King Lud- wig I. arranged for tho decoration of the ox- -terlorof the new Pinakothok, but which have now almost wholly, fielded to destruct. {vo climatle influesices. "The most famous of his original. works Is his serles of composl- “Mons from Schitler's Song of the Boll,” SCIENCE. How THE EARN WAS FmsTt MAPPED OUT. What these enrly maps were we do not know, but can form a reasonable conjecture, The earth at that time was supposed to bo afiat.circular plain, or disk, the broadest * part being from east to west, which was en- _ Urely surrounded by an ocean, or great rlvor, " Unat washed it upon all sides, In about the ‘centro of this plain Greece was supposed to be situated. ‘The great central sea of tho In- habited region was the Mediterranean. The ‘farthest polnt known at the west was tho Straits of Gibraltar, then called the Plilnrs of - Hercules. ‘The southern part comprised the ‘north of Africa us far as tho deserts; while the region north embraced the countries ‘bordering upon the Mediterrancan, and an unknown hyperborcan land forthor to the north, withthaEuxine and Caspinu Scasatthe northeast, ‘The farthest eastern point known was about the western limit of India. This wns whet would then be contalned In a map “aga representation of the earth, The sun ‘Was supposed to pass wider and around this dlat plulu, which was then the mode of ac- counting for the changes of duy ond night. fhe spice beneath was supposed to be a reat vant, called Tartarus, the abou : ile of ‘ fhe spirits of the wicked umong men, as the ‘region corresponding to it, above the plain, ‘was the heaven, or abode of the gods, ‘The unknown region boyond the Pillars of Her- cules was filled pp with creations of the fer- > tile imagiuution of the Greeks, ‘To tho north- west ond north were the Clmmeriaus, uple living in perpetual difriness, and the * Hyperboreans, a race supposed to be exenipt , from toll, disease, or wars, who enjoyed life forathousand years in a state of undix- turbed serenity. ‘Co the west of Sicily were _the enchanted Islands of Circa and Calypso, and the floating Island of Kalus, A litle to “the north of the Pillars of Hercules was the ‘entrance to the infernal regions; and fur out «Jn the: Western Ocean, beyond {he limits of the known earth, was the hoppy region called Elysium, a land of perpetual summer, where A gentle zephyr constantly blew, where tem- “pests wero unknown, und wheres the spirits of thoge whose lives had been approved by ‘tho gods dwelt in perpetual felicity, Tore, also, were the gardens of the Hesperides, with their golden apples foarte. by the singing nyniphs, who dwelt on the River “Oceanus, which was in the oxtremo west, and the position of which was constant! shifted as geographical knowledge iucreases ‘Popular Sclence dfonthly. AN EXPERT ON ARTIFICIAL DIA- MONDS, _Not very long ago {t was claimed in En- Gland that a process had been discovered whereby diamonds could bo manufactured, Home of these diamonds were subinitted to Prof. Mackelyne for experimental purposes, ‘and he reported that they were not diamonds at aj, and Nuture contains an tuteresting Teter from bim giving the results of his ex- ‘piination. He says: “A few grains of the dust, for such the substance inuyt be termed, ‘were placed between o plato of tupaz—n “eleavage-face with its fine natural polish— and a polished surface of supphire, and the two surfaces were carefully ‘worked? over each other with a viow to the production of Mnes of abrasion from the particles between them, There yas no abrasion. Ultimately the pertisles ame bruised Into a pow- . ‘der, but without seratching even the topaz, phey are not diamond, Secondly, somo + paeles nore «rystulline in appearance than the rest wore mounted on.n glass mntero- acone alide and exmnined in the microscope with polarized light. They acted each and all powerfully in the manner.ofa Dirofelugent crystal, It seemed, even In one or two a! them tat, when they Iny on their broadest, atirface (it cnn searcely be called a ‘erystal- face’), a.principal rection of the erystal was jist alightly Inclined ton finttlsh side of {t in A manner tint suggested its not being a erystal of any of tho ‘orthosymimetrical ays- tems. Be that as tt may, it is not a diamond. Finally, 1 took two, of these microscopic articfés and exposed them to the fitense heat of « table blow-pipe on a bit of platinum foll, They reststed Wiis attempt to burn them. "Then, for comparison, they were placed In contact with two Ilttle’ particles of diamont- }- dust exceeding them in size, and the experi- inent was repeated. ‘The result was that tho dlamond particles glowed and disappeared, wiille the Jittle particls from Glasgow was ns obstinnte and as unacted on, as before.” Having satisfied himself that, the particles submitted were not diamonds, Prof, Mas kelyne experimented to find out what they were: “Heated on platinum: foil sovoral tlmes with ammonium fittoride, they became visibly more minute, and nv slight reddish white Incrustation was seen on the foil. | the suggestion of Dr. Flight these little patilcles were loft for tho night in hydrofuorie acl In 8 platinum cap sule, This morning they have disappenred, having become dissolved in theachd. I have, therefore, no hesitation in declaring Mr. Mac tears ‘diamonds’ not only yot to be dia monds at all, but to consist of some erystal- lized silleate, possibly one resembling an nugite, though it would be very rash to ns- sort anything beyond the fact that they con- sist of a compotnd of sillea, and possibly of more than one such compound. ‘The prob- Jom of the permutation of carbon from its ordinary opaque black condition into that in whieh It ocours In nature as the limpid crys talof diamond, Is still unsolved. That it will be solved no sefentific mind can doubt, though the conditions necessary may prove to be very difiicult to fulfill.” SNAKE SUPERSTITIONS, Barnes! Educational Monthly makes somo Interesting stntements as to the different su- perstitions prevalent among the Indians in regard to the snake. Itsays that tho stealthy character of the snake, and tho fatal effect of {ts apparently Insignificant bite, led the In- dinns to attribute to It the quality of spiritual power, The. serpent was at one time wor- shiped as a diyine being by all the tribes from Cape Horn to Hudson's Bay, and from ocean to ocean. Tho rattlesnake was an especial object of worship, on necount, itis belleved, of Its power and disposition to give warning ofits presence, thus doing an act of bravery which Inspired the Indian with admiration for his character, ‘Tho superstition respect- ing snakes was trend throughout the globe, finong savage people. In Africa the Barnvl believe that the souls of bad men go, after death, into Jackuls, and those of good men into snukes. The Aulus think that the high state of future existence of the snake {8 reached by a progression through wasps, lizards, and othor less-cs- teemed creatures, The Winnebago Indians attributed an evil suleit to the rutticsnake, but they abstained from killing it because they ferred that It wonld out of revenge send pestilence among them. Some tribes were accustomed to salute the rattlesnake rever- entially, and would placate it by sprinkling tobueco upon ft, and by other acis of friend- ship, and then thoy would secretly catch it by the tall and kill it quickly, preserving tho skin ns atrophy and os an thhect of venern- fon. Tho Dakotas had_n custom of smoking to the rattlesnake, and then praylng to It to go home and harm them not. These Indinns sitppose that if thes killed a serpent another one would coma and bite them out of re yenge. Tho Seminoles never killed any kind of serpent. ‘The mediciue men of some tribes had an ingenious instrument, made of rattlesnakes’ teeth, which they used for serateliings tho skin of their patients, Frown the fact that the Savana belleved that every animal had a soul, the efforts to appense the offended spirit of tho rattlesnake vy eatin a dog into the lake, or by shedding tho bloo: of the person who offended the sptrit, be- comes Intalligible, The Menominces used the rattlesnake largely in thelr mysterious observances, and among many of the tribes n certain part of the snake was used asa help fo women in childbirth, One method of thus securing assistance. to the woman js for her to. hold’ the tall of a rattlesnake in her hand during labor and to shake the rattle. ‘Among the Loulsinna Indians there was a custom which required the women wien ahout to become mothors to swallow the rat- tleaf rrattlesnnke, tho theory bajng that 1t enabled the birth to take place without pain tothe mother, Other tribes used the rattle ag a cure for toothache and other ailments of a sorious character, INHABITANTS OF BRITALY 20,000 YEARS AGO. London ‘Imes, Jan. 10. “Tho Man of the Cayorns” was the sub- fect of Jast night’s London Institution lect- ure, which was delivered in tho theatre by Prof, Boyd Dawkins, F.RS., who fills the Chair of Geology in Owens College, Manches- tor, He sald that, while tha rivor-drift mon and the cave mon were living in Britaln, the hills and valleys in the south of England pre- sented the same outllues as they did now. Could we take our stand In those times on Shooter's hill or on the Essex highta, and look over the Thames Valley in the direction of London, we should see a donse forest of oak, ash, and Scotch fir, and the, course of the Thames marked by Mnes of willows and alders. A fow thin columns of smoke rising ovor tho tone of the trees would. mark the eamping places of primeval man. In tho forests Wild boars, mammoths and rhinoce- roses, wild horses, stags, and Irish elks would meet our eyes, and’ in the summer time countless herds of bisons, like those now ranging over the pluins ot Northwestern Amerlea, In the winter wero vast nuvi bers of reindeor, and 2 fow musksheep, the most Arctic of the maminalla in Its habits. In the, rivers were ot- ters and , beavers, and explorer would ‘be startled by the snort of the hippopotamus in the reacties of the Thames neur Brent- ford. Bensts of prey also abounded, lions, leopards, hyenas, grizzly bears, wolves, and foxes. If wo penstrated to one of the camp fires we should have scen the river-drlit -bunter chipphig or using soine of those rudo Aint implements which le buried in the Lon- don gravels niong with the remains of tho animals which he hunted, Tho rivor-drift man, In the long course of ages, was su0c- ceedud by tho man of the caverns, [ike him a hunter, living on the sane animals, and more highly equipped for the battle of life. In tho course of tlme the cave man disappeared, tho climate and geography of this country became almost what {t was now, tho hunter stage of civilization was superseded by that of the herdsman und the tiller of tho ground and the manufacturer of the Neolithic Age, From the Neollthis Age down to tho present thne the progress of man_lind been un- broken In Britain and tn Europe, and tho present condition of the European peoples -was to be looked tipon as the result of a radual series of changes by which civiliza- tlon succeeded civilization, and raca suc- eoeidled race, “tho old order yielding place unto the new,” because the new order was higher and nobler, ————— TMREE CATIEDRALS, The Temple of Our Saylor, at Moscow, ts now rapidly appronching completion. Tho bullding was begun go far back as 1833, and was designed In commemoration of tho French expulsion from Moscow, Nearly 4,000 laborers, tor mouth, were employed in digging outthe ground for the foundation, it haa now reached a stage when the archi- tect can promiso {ts completion next August, fn readiness for the twenty-fifth anniversury ot the Emperor's coronation, The hight of the structure 1s 2388 feet, and the style of architecture is the Russo-Byzantine,—the building being In the form of a Greek oross, surntounted by five cupolas, one at cach corner, aud a Jargo one, or dome, in the con- tre, ‘The root and framework of the cupolas welwh 1,500 tons, and the gilding on the latter hug already consumed more than half 9 ton of gold-lonf, “Above the centre cupola ly & massive bronze cross, whioh can be scen from every, part of Mos cow. ‘Iho bronze frames of the windows, euch ning yards high, welgh nearly three tons, and tho hinges of the bronze doors have to support tive uudone-quarter tons of netal Inside, the walls are Fatecousl decorated in the usual stylo of Russian churches, and contain a number of maper pillars, each of whliloh cost upward of 2,000, ‘The total cost of this wonderful building {s estimated to exceed 20,000,000 roubles, or £2,500,000, Re cently the architect reported that ubluck of houses in proximity to the temple was detrl- et fence BUS ot Ea Ss cou! he Bynod yo! - omollai ie butidings, nck to construct In thoir place a terrace. It must not bo forgot- ton that this Ig tho second great cathedral which Russia has raised Surin tho Inst algty yrars,< fhe famous one of St. Isnac’s In St. eterabrire having een, begun In: 1819 and conseerated In 1858, after an exponditure of q ,000 roubles, or £4,500,000, A third cu- thedral, not quite so are, 1s also Hsing at. Nijut Novgorod, ana will involve an outlay of £23,000,000 before completion.—The Paris- lan, ¥ SCIENTIFIC NOTES, ’ Mr. Maclear claimed that tho artifetal din monds mace by him wore the results of thic- teen years’ investigation, Tho British Museum contains more than 200 cinerury urns, excavated from nearly 200 tumull by tho Rey, Canon W, Ureenwell. A prize of £200 has been offored by the Rov. ¥. Wyatt Edgell, through tho Sanitary In- stitute of Great Britain, fur tho best essay, that may be sent In by Aug. 1 next, on Tha Cause of Hereditary itendoucles In Health and Disease.” ‘Tho Tasmantons carry as necklaces frage ments of the bones of their relatives; and It Js stated that the widows amore. tho Anda. man Islanders actually wear tho skulls of thelr late husbands upon their shoulders, Prof, Flower, ina recent lecture on Ethnol- opy at the Royal College of Surgeons, showed the skull of an Andameso mau, to which was attached a very elegant. webbeit sling: by which it had been suspended from the neck of the widow. Dr. McCaw suggests the following formula as one not generally known for an antidote to arsenite, und claims for It preferenes over wiLothers for two reasons, namely, beeause t forma the surest antidote, and because the ngredients are always decessible: ‘Tincture of chloride of fron, ono drum; bdicarbonnte of soa, or potash, the sume; tepid water, & teacupful, ‘These are mixed, ‘Tho sesqulox- ide-of iron is immediately formed inn solu. tlon of chloridvof sodium. ‘The mixture nay be piven ulmost ab Hibituin. On Deo. 10, 1878, the first eremntion was ex- ecuted at Gotha, Nows from that town now states that during 1870 fifteen other create tions were performed, This is looked upon ag an extremely satisfactory result for the first year. The tine for the complete inein- eration of the bodies was between one and 9 halt and two and a half hours, therefore nbout two hours on the average. LBesldes Gotha, other German towns furnished sub- gets for cremation, stich as Langensalzn, bs aumburg, Neustadt on tho Orla, “Lelpzig, Preston, amberg, Hanover, Breslau, aut jenna. ‘The annual prize of 35,000 francs ($5,000), ven by the Klng of the Belginns for works of ascientific character, is now offered for the year 1831. Itwill bo awarded to tho author of the best work on the means of im- proving scnports situated upon low an sandy coasts, such ag the Bulgian ports, For- eigners, as_well as Belgian subjects, may compete, The works must be sent to the Mintstére do Intérieur,’?: at Brussels, be- fore dan. Lnext, ‘Lhe prize will be awarded hy a jury composed of four foreigners and three Belgtuns, all of whom are nominated by his Majesty. The schoolmaster ina village in Hanover holds no sinectre. Hoe is also sexton, grave- digger, and bell-ringer, Ie earns from $t75 tosx5ayear, In ono villnge the teacher re- ceived 87 cents a year for ench of his 100 pupils, $150 year from the church for his services as sexton, besides 50 cents for each. adult's und 25 cents for each child's grave dite by him. rom the State he got $83, and from the village $7.50 0 dent, witl X neres of good farming land and a house. ‘Teachers are nppulnted by the Church Consistory, and tank socintly below tho minister. Lfeut. Seaton, U.S.N., attributes tho origin of the Desert of Sahara fo tho «destruction of the forests with which the banks of tho Saharan streams were once lined. Tho lie habitants, belng a pastoral people, destroyed the forests to secure pasturage. " Consequent upon the destruction of tho forests, the peri- odical rains Were replaced by rare and short though violent storms, fie waters from which, insterd of soaking In og in past ages, silpped by on the rocky masses, coerying awvily Aes Fen supine wold aud bringing out the drying of tho springs, and, as o direct consequence, of the fiver t : The expedition charged with the Investiga- tion of the question whether it {s possible to conduct the waters of the Amu Daria into the Caspian Sen has started from St. Reters- burg. Gen. A. J. Gluchowski ls commander of tha expedition, Princa Gedroitz takes part in the expedition -in the capncity-of geologist. The company will first proceed tu the delta of the Ainu Daria, and then be- gin the {nycstigation of the river's coursa and of the surrounding territory, with ro- gurd to elevation, geology, ote. 1t Is con- sidered that two or three yeara will be necessary for colecting the materials to dually declde tho question. In reporting tho reception of Prof, Nord- enskjold and the stuff of the Vega, at No saki, the correspondent of the ‘North: Ching Herald notes that there was uot a single casa of scurvy during the whole voyage. ‘This, he learns, was owing to the frev uso of curlous Nttlo berry. that springs out of tho eternal ico and snow, during the short sum- mer. It bears profusely, and hasa taste like the raspberry, but more acid, «Tho frult 1s dried, and then mixed with tho milk of the reindeer, and it can be carrivd ing frozen state for thousands of miles, ‘Chore was also ued curious kind of food 3 Fade scant the while'a hide, which is pickled aud caten treuly during the winter, - The Boulak Museum [s the best history that exists of the Phuraohs, with thelr twen- ty-llve dynastics, and. the Persians and Grevks who followed them. Changes wero projected last summer which required tho closing of the musaum fora time, and the packing away of ull the valuables fn cases until the alterations were completed, ‘They were all ‘deposited in a neighboring ware- house, Butrobbers the other day broke in through the roof, and somo elghty or 100 scarabicl, of gteat value pecuntarily, and lim- possibie to replace, as they related to the early dynasties, were abstracted, although they were things of no apparent worth to an ignorant person. : —<— LAMENT FOR THE UNION DEAD. “The girl I loft behind mo" rolicd From animating drum and tfo; ‘Tho stellar onsign, fold on fold, Found in the brooze a braver life; And thousands stood to cheor and sed z ‘hose whom thoy no‘er might see again, ‘When our tough Northorn chivalry Marchal to the Southern buttlo-plain, ‘Tho monarch of tho picket-line Btwod proudly on some lonesamo spot, And deemed po mortal mun us ine, Unless ho were as fine a shut, Ah! bravo astrologers woro ye, Who read, on perry, banners blest Tho futuro glories of tho free, * Golosaal Nution of the West, = + . Who 78 wero struck by shell or shot, Perchance to earth your weapons fell; But frionds at huma yo no'er forgot, Nor waa love loat In Battle's yall. ‘Tis hard to dio in scenes of strife— No kindly friend or kindred nour To blows tlie hours of parting life, And shod uifoction’s lucent tear, mane as a p fal ore bond GH AS Tn junibta’s flag to greot, Orla inenecuaeye ‘Vo pray for kin or lover sweet, Or, {n delirious mood yo lay , Spon your quaking battle-bed,* And peas A Ielasud lips fur away,” Aa Death his stole upon ye spr Perehanco, in hospital orcanp, * ‘Through weary hours ye pined In patio, - ‘Til o'er your bodies, chill and dainp, Stolo grisly Hate, and atilied tho brain, 2 O why afo nen of gen'rous mold Su oft but dust on. toni posts thrown, Whilo thoao by Nuture aly and cold Attain to goal and mock tholr :noans ?. When comes your Decoration-Day We'll pluco the towers above your bones; Ani, aa wo godly turn away, ° We'll think not we but Freedom moans, ‘The record of our brothers doad Boois long to us, and griof has coaty Anil wo havo eworn, by ov'ry bead, ‘Tho good they argu at at not bg lost. GRAND Itarips, Mich. i re Wood-Reformy. arecent mocting of the Scottish Food-Re- form Boviuty, the company, to. tha ‘number of twonty, sut down toa repust consisting of six coursdd—lentiland barley soup, barivot-beun pics, haricot-beun omvlets with sauce, hominy a coe gree apples. ol GW! eo cooking, came to tid. por howl. * ‘ a If this should meot the eye of any one suffor. ing froin bronchitis, ‘vonsumpuon: esthou, or any pulnonary, affoction, we would refer thom to Dr, Jayne's Expovtorunt, which will, Jo ail ‘ord epoody rolief, and in moet effect a spoedy our, 5 -sunshine, THE VATICAN LIBRARY. To Be Cataloged and Opened to Explorers. What Oolden Eggs May De Foumi—A Literary Bonanza for the World. Tandon Tmen Jan, 10, A brief announcement from Romo will create nalively expectation ns tf we wore told that the Aloxandrian Library had been found hiddou In the sands, or that the town Mbrary of Pompei! had been discovered with some- thing better worth deciphering than s waste- paper basket full of school exercises,—thus far all tho literary ylold of tho buried city. Len XILL contemplates publishing the va- rioua catalogs of the Vatican Library, and has named a Commission to consider the best means of carrying his intention {nto effect, The eminent archmologist, De Rossl, 13 nssoclnted for this purpose with the existing stait of the library, and nobody can doubt the honesty of the design. Catalogs, however, aro very tedious and dlmeult operations, ‘To be of much servico they ought to be in the order of tho names both of tho authors agd of the books, or at lenst of tlio subjects. They ought to be moro or Jess descriptive. Tike nets, they ought to have Inrge meshes for the big books, and small, meshes for tho little ones; thoy ought to dive into’ volumes containing different books bound together, or with mis- lending titles, Porhaps all that fs intended istho publication of the existing catalogs ng they are. More than this, certainly any at- tempt to produce a comprelonsive catalog with the moderate and practical excellence of that at the British Museum would require Tatyana many years, and perhaps larger funds than the Pope ean command for this purpose. If this were all, wee might sit down and sigh vain for tho revelntions destined for those that coma after us, But somothing like a reading-roam is added to the plin,—s consolation tor tho living and a help to the future work. Tho Pope hns given ordery that one of the rooins of the Vatican Archives stiinll beset apart for the conventenes of those who, provided with tho requisit permission, wish to consult in the documents, If wo could under stand theso terms in tho ordinary sense, it would be enough to drive many a scholar nnd inyestigntor wild with hope. ‘To be able to take your sent In tho Vatienn, to have acecas to n entalog, or, better, to have become ucquainted _betore- hand with lls chict contents, to have the power of ordering a book or o inanuseript nud sitting for the Ilveleng day porlug over its contents, Is. a dream boyond hope. Expe- rience, however, tenches 1 men to discount largely anticlpations of this florid character. Nodoubt tt will still require great merit, some favor, and conalderable effort, to ponc- trate into the sanctum, or even the Inner court, of the Vuttean Library, : The general features of ‘the Library aro familiar te most traveled Englishmen. Tho Vatican, ag is well known, 1s one of the largest masses of architecture in the world, ‘The great Plnaza, near a quarter of 9 mile neross, iy dwarfed by, the Colonnade, the Colonnade is dwarfed by St. Peter’s, and St Peter’s is dwarfed by the Vatican. Its rooms are counted by thousands, its stalreases by hundreds, and its quadrangles by scores. 1t is an Italian palace soaring to the skies in front; a gathio fortress In a gloomy dell be- hind. It cannot have leas than a mile of marbles, from tha humblest of Ohristinn epltaphs to the finest works of classic an- tiguity. ‘These and the wnsitrpassed r jeture- pulley aro frequented and del iptited in, Vis- tors from all nations como and come agnin and never leave without. n. searet hope that It isnot the Ingt tlme, Tho Library thoy visit once for all. ‘They wished to seo it, and now they have seen-it, ‘The famous Vatican Library $s an Interminable suite of apart- ments lofty as all rooms are in Traly, deco- rated with old frescoes, sulliclently igiited, and full of large presses, capable of holding, not to say burying, any quantity of books and maniseripts. Ordinary visitors, nob armed with ‘speclal introductions, pass through rapldly, noting only what catches the eye, an: old man or the ratsing of an obelisk perhaps. ..\Whon thoy have passed through, it occurs to them how few ‘people they, saw,—no stuylents, seareely an attend. ait.’ It {4°a catacomb’ thay" have been’ ex- ploring, ‘Thore are, Indeed, side doors and pnasages, but they revenl nothing. ‘Tho im- immense corridor rings now and then with the bird-llke chatter of an American party, ovi- dently bent on tilgnelling the surrounding loom; but-1t is the Middle Ages, and ages fore them, that wo have been descending to,and the light of day begins to bo appre- eluted. A scholar, of course, has deeper thoughts, and knows that this cave is only the vestibule of fairy paluces. Could he have the key to open its doors, and the lamp to light its ways! Something like that 1s Pyomised, aud will it now bo fulfilled? Vint dreams will there now be of mislaid or forgotton Codices; of Homilies and Exposl- tlons written upon obilterated books of Livy, or treatises of Cicero; of unique and price- Jess treasures overlaid with rubbish! A rare instinct guides some men stralght tothe very nest where the golden eggs le. Submerged fora fow miniies in tho Vatican Library, they. would reapper_at the surface with a handful of pcarls. What, perhaps, ts more hopeful, practically, is that the chief troas- ures of the Mbrary may now be published really and to sone purpose by photography, It would not be a work of much timo or cost to produce In this way true facsimiles of the Codex Vaticunus of which two great scholars have published coniiicting and xtill iupetfect copes, But there aro munusoripts of Virgil and of Torence of about tho same dato, and of Cicero probably older, [t would add something to the charm of these writers {fone could seo them insomething appronch- ington contemporary hand. This Photog: raphy only can give. The manusoripts Ne within thé finest sunshine in Evropo; and the Italians know how todeal with their own Home now for 2,000 years hins been tho most continuous thread of history, and the centra of tho widost raniffications in the world. It hina had successive but never- ceasing relations with every people and part of the civilized world. In this Island there is not a town, hardly 9 village, that ling not heen tho subject of correspondence with the Court of Rome. ‘Tho monastic orders were the Popo’s militta, and pvery, “religious houso” was subject to the pecul. ar jurisdiction of Romo—Indeed, a part of Rome transferred to this country. Where jas this vast history gono? Where ara the docuinenta, the correspandence, the charters, tho bulls, and the judicial records of the in- evitable quurrols ?” Our Reformers destroyed all they could lay thelr hands on here, but what they destroyed were either our own archives or the dooumonts that had come from Rome, ‘There. remained, what was out of thelr reach, the lettera and other doctt- ments sent from England to Rome, and much more likely to tell tales of English corruy- -tion tian of Roman. ‘Thors could be no reason why these should. not survive, or why they should not bamade uveeasible, . Many 0 cupid by ee ad 4 canis h i" ont jc 001 je who won ive on cod” deal a find the his. ry of thelr predecessors, What manner of men wore they thnt built and inhabited those walls, and what kind of life was it they sus- tained under circumstances now presentlig some dificulty? With all our f{mmense re- sources in tha way of books, newspapers, roada, railways, and general enlightenment, fg lurge part of our educated classes declare {t utterly Impossible to pass the winter in mos; parts of this country. Flow dit monks and nuns doit, within the very sane walls, and with fawer expedicnts for killing the time? ‘Then for the pelty differences with the lords of tho soll, tha secular clergy, and all the native courts, whether ought to Bishop or of, tng ome have the record of all this history trans- ferred from the Lateran to tho Vatican, Even if much has disnppeared, much ought to remain, Rome would be interested In presoeving fits own story of the continunl loud between the Tiara and the Crown, But the Vatican Library bas been contributed from many other sources than Rome her self, Tho greatest collectors ln all ages gaye or bequeathed thelr Hf accumulations to Rome, as the best ami safest depository. Pos- albly oven to this day these acquisitions have not been fully’ explored, for ibrarlang are always short- ed and overtaken y thelr Increasing work. It will be something if Leo's duafgn tukes away some of the mys tery now surrounding the Vatican and ro- yeuls the openings that may one day be fol- lowed Into its pricolesa mine, ——$——_—— Terrible Destructton of Jack-Mabbite by Oo! Hyer singe the cold sup, iis Washoe and fasta gtaatie Metre whtat haye ruled considerably below. their usual market prices, Bill Jackson, who has beet out hunting and }rospecting fora week or ten days past, tells n remarkable story In connection with the bountiful supply of Tabbits which the Indians are at pecan fur- nishing, A few exe ago he vistted King’s Cailon, and. there, he asserts, he found aeres of fack-rabbits frozen sti! on tho irom Hathor than shoulder the responsiblilty of tho remarkable statement, tha Appeal gives the yarn in Jackson's own words: “You see, the cold snap drove the rabbits into tho cadons out of the wind, One moon. light night Leame across a drove of over 500 making for the eafion. ‘Chey wero all hud- dled fogethor, Felting ag much warmth as possible from ench others’ boilics. ‘The drove wore Packed, together ng closo ns the threads ofa freely, earpet, and as they moved along they fovked like a big army-blanket drawn over the ground, I fired into tho drove with a shoteun, elglitorten dropped, hut the balance elosed raht up and passed onas before, ‘This drove were making for Ash Cafion, Tdidi’t think at the time ex- fetly what was up, but a few days ago I was wp In King's Cafion, and there T saw a sight which was tho most uncommoncat thing I ever glued my. cyes to. ‘Thora were tho tabbits—acres of ’em—all huddled together {na bunch, and packed like sardines, and avery binsted one of om froze silt, a a wedge. I turned up the edge of tho mass with my gun, and broke off a slica wilh ndozenall stuck together. Presently some Indians came nlong and began to yell, ‘They concluded they'd struck a meat bonanza, and they've been luggin’ of the rabbits ever since. That's the reason rabbits aro 50 cheap around the town, Why, out fn the brush you ean find whole gnngs of tem standin’ on thelr hin: Jeg and frozen stiff, I shot.a single one the other day, sposin’ ho was alle. Other hunters report thousands of frozen jack-rabbits in Carson Valley, although none have ns yet ylewed the astonishing, sights described by Jackson, Hank Monk, corrob- orates Jackson’s yarn, but says that tho present crisis inthe affairs of the jack-rab- ity isn’t to bo compared with the een destruction of the animals in 1809. Ho its: serts that "every darned rabbit on the earth was frozen stil.” Yesterday morning Hank had more about rabbits: “That's all true what Jackson says, but he hasn’t told half, Yesterday [seed hundreds of them rabbits thawin’ out. Tt isa hard fact. Whenever the sun hit’om hard they'd litnber Up, give themselves a shake, niu aklp way for the ‘sagebrush. Littlasugarand git, Guess I willy THE FARM AND GARDEN. ‘Tilo in Roads—Tile on the Farm—What It Costs to Haiso Corn—Worins for Poultry—Dogs vs. Sheep—A Scason of | Discontent. From Our Own Correspondent. CHAMPAIGN, Ill, Janu. 23.—In accordance with a request made editorially in Tims Trine UNE, We make the following report of a pleco of road underlaid with stx-inch tile: ‘Tho tile were placed in the centre of n street two years, for two purposes: first, to drain a couple of cellars; and, second, ag an experl- ment to sce of what benefit they might be to thestreetin a muddy time. The street ts one not yory much used; therefore 1¢ does not show what offect the tile might have under less favorable circumstances, There 4a no perceptible effect upon tho surfaco where {t Is stirred by pnssing teams and veliicles when the surface !s wet; and the streetis justas muddy as any other where thore ara no tiles, Tho soll 1s so impacted, where it is beaten down by hoofs and wheels, that water does not permeate through St, ‘Tilo Jald down in the centro of ‘a track or orturnpike would, in our opinion, be so mucli expenditure for nothing. Placing it in the ditches beside the rond, to cnrry off stand- ing water, must of necessity be bencfelal, In the major part of the West, where tho soll Is not sandy, thero can be no road mado of the soll that will remain hard’when mixed with water, 7 TILE ON THE FARM. We fully agree with your Dwight corre- spondent, that tile are a source of pleasure. A few days ago we walked over what was formerly tho bottom of a wide slough, but in which a six-inch tile now reposes threo feet beneath the surface. The slough was formerly almost.a quagmire. A week before ‘our visit, wlillé tho.. ground was frozen, » heavy rain fell, and water ran over tho sur- face a foot loeb. At tho time of our visit, the surface within two or threo rods of the tile was dry, and did not adhere to our boots. Elsewhere tho surfaco was quite muddy, ‘Pils tile received tha drainage of & quarter- sectlon farm, its several branches belng over aintto long. There is not now, since it has beon Uled, an acre on that farm that cannot ve plowed and cultivated within any reagon- able time after the ground settles In tho cretofore, with the headlands required for turning on two sides of o main ditch and its Jaterals, not less thon ten. acres .went to waste every season. Tho propristor will grow enough on tho reclaimed land next year to ay all the expense. Anothor thing’ is cer- ‘ain: that with ago the benefits: of tlle-drains will be moro apparent, and their action will be quicker; becnuse, as the pores of tho earth become open toward them, the water will find its way down from tho surface with more rapidity, Ina late Issue of Tire Trinune it was stated that thore were twelve tle-factories in the State. ‘I's was clearly amissprint, as the: are reckoned by the dozen. ‘There are glgh' of these factorfes located in this county, and more are in contemplation, WHAT IT COSTS TO RAISE CORN. Tinrdly any two farmers agree upon tho actual cost of raising and marketing 9 crop of corn. Erobably some of the large farm- ers, such na Sulllvant formerly was, could approxiinute very closely, because everything that entered Into the expense was pald for In cash. ‘the ordinary farmer, who uses his team for other work a portion of the time, fs unable to tell’ just what the costis. Mr J. B. Porterfield, of Sidney, Chainpaign Coun- ty, has recently undertaken to. make an estl- mate, and the following dra hig figures, on the basis of $1.50 and $3.50 per day ‘for man and team: AL $1.00 Al$?.50 Plowing one acre... Harrowing or dragy Planting one acro, Rolling ono gor 1 Cultivating, threo tines, one acra, 60 Cost of producing one acrs.. Shucking and cribbing ono ac Bholling 40 bushels, 1}30 por bu, Houllag to market at so ‘Taxes, per ucro,.. ‘Total cost.of one acre. Cost of producing one busl Gathoring,sholling,andmark'ting 7 404 udOssssnieeseseeste ages H 14 1 Total cost of one biabel.,..... 12% 18% ‘This 1s figured upon a basis of forty bushels por acre,—an amount rather above the aver- eo of most farms in ordinary sensons. While the above represents the cost nt the market-price of labor, yet It must be remem- bored that, if the producer performs the work himself, he fs ont of pocket only a very small portion of the amount in cash that fe set down as the total cost, ‘WONMS FOR POULTRY, : Saysa correapandent of the Poultry-Yard : “Thave often heard the remark, that If all the conditions, ag food and warméh, could bo supplied to our fowls In winter thot thoy enjoy in summer, there would not be a senrelly of eggs annually, Now, why can We not raise Insects in winter far the heus? —such food boing necessury, A friend has suggested the method following: Obtain a parent stock of menl-worms, and continue reeding them until the opening of spring brings carth-worms, To breed meal-worms we inuat first get a sinall supply from a akery, or some place where flour is ex- tensively used, a8 a parent stock. ‘Then, taking an earthenware jar of good size, we fill it partly full of old meal, broken crusts, and old jeather, and, depositing the worms within, cover the top with oldrags ateoped in ale-dregs or old malt, to ald for mentation. ‘The jar should bu set ins warn place, and after a week or two we shall fd that the worms have increased enormously, nd we havea supply of ‘fresh meat on the hoof,’ that the fowls will find very appettz- ing.’ These worms are very clean-luoking, white objects, and as well favored us the ctackers eH are bred from. ‘Tho natural craving of aft fowls {s for fresh incat durin; the cold of winter, and jn no forin can, thes better obtain It, - It is generally easy to fini & warn) corner by tho stove or furnace, where hov{nstidious nose will be troubled, It ls only necessary to supply the proper temnpery- ture, and we can ev! ently, Tulse worms a8 well as greenhouse plants,” Boas weve SHEEP, ‘This Is not probably the most susplclous season for discussing the merits of a Dog Jaw, because the Legislature ts not in eee THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES. slon. It will ba a long tli before our logis- Intors bring themselves up toa polnt where they will vote for some effective Inw that will discourage the breeding of dogs and encour axe that of sheep, Col, Seroges Introduced a UM for such a faw at tho last session of onr Inughed at by a majority of tha members, and mide a butt of for the would-be Witticlems of the “smart Alecks” of tho ies: ‘Tho ques: tlon does not resolve Itself fit a simple pay- ment for loss of sheep by dors; but how many men would raiso sheep, tn addition to those now itt the business, If there were no dogs? It Is to eiLoouraite othety ty raise flocks of from twonty to a hundred,—a nine ber that ean be supported by most farms with hardly any nddittonal expense, Thore is no question of the proflt In Rheop; but no one feels that it 14 safe to embark any capital In a buslicss whose profita ure subject to be re- duced to nit by so insignificant: and worth- less an antinal as at log. In this county there should. be at lenst asmany sheep 13 Ywonles but thore are not one-tenth as muny, Ye have frequently heard men express therm selves us anxtons to keep a flooke; but some neighbor kent ndog, and that was sulicient, What other business, let us ask, would sith nit fora moment to such constant danger from any souree ? ~ A LESSON OF DIRCONTENT. « “Now 1s our winter -of discontent," or words to that cffect. ‘Tho highways are im- passable; the fields are too soft to permit stock to run over them; and a general feel- ing of dissatisfaction porvades overy one, Stil, a great deal may bo done now to render our work tghter when springopens. Repairs may be’ mado on the tools and machinery, wagons painted, gates hung, trees ‘trimmed, dltches Spened, mid many other things ‘done that readily suggest thoimselves. Let us not sitdewn and grumble at what we cannot help, butde the best wo enn to prevent bad rons and wet Iand in future, Ruran dit. THE FIELD AND STABLE. Hitter MUk—High Feeding—A “Lump? on tho IMp—Othor Answers, From Our Own Correspondent, y JANVANY %4—The following comes fro) Fulton, Kalamazoo County, Michigans “Vereninawant I have a cow that be- en giving milk that turns bitter, some time n October Inst; and slice then It haa grown more. bitter, so that the cream ‘nud butter partake freely of the flavor. She mnkes at tines asort of wheezing noise, and lately I have noticed » white, cheesy, or stringy sub- stance when first commencing to milk her. Can you give moe any idea what the trouble $s, and what to do for her? Please answer, and obliga VA. B Answer,—The various anomalies of milk manifesting themselves by an absormal or vittated quality must be divided into two elnsses. ‘Those presenting thomselves imme- diately ns soon. ns the milk has been drawn from the cow,—before it has been poured ontof the pailorbeen mixed with tho milk of any other cow,—{t must be supposed, havo their source In a morbid condition of the ani- mal organism; but those which make thelr appearance afterwards—not immediately— are due to other external causes, which act upon the milk while oxposed to the alr. Asto “bitter” milk, two kinds may be dis- erlminated, ‘Tho mllk of cows may have o bitter taste ff tho Intter receive food which contains bittor plauts; or if diseases of the liver are existing, which provent o proper secretion, or discharge, of the gall or bile, ‘Tho other kind of “bitter”? milk has usually a sweotish-bitter taste; and {s all right, 6r normal, when drawn from the cow, but, if left. standing a short (time inn vessel, it be- comes bitter. ‘The cream of such inilk js not separated uniformly; 13 sometimes of a normal, and sometimes of s dirty peu-yellow- ish, color; and contains numerous alr- bubbles, and frequently drops of fat (butter globules), on its surface. ‘The taste [8 nt first apecullar sweet, which goon thanges to bit- ter, Tho casein, or curd, lias the same queer taste, and fs abnormally luose, or at least not ag firm and solid as it ought to bo, 1f tho milk is left standing for some time, It will get avery unpleasant and rancid, and nally putrid taste. Butter is obtalned only with dificulty, or not nt all; and what ty obtained js Topy. or silmy, has a ‘disugrecablo sweutlsh-bitter taste, and wiil soon become rancid. If the milk ig used for makis cheese, tho Jatter, too, haso bad taste, an cannot be used. ‘As far as known, such an abnormal sweet- fsh-bitter taste of the milk is. produced only by external influences, and 1s sometiines de- yeloped ff the milk is kept in damp collars, ill-ventilnted, close, and wiclean milk-cham- bers, {n cloge und damp bedrooms and dwell- ing-rooms, cte, Lt seems to be caused bya ferment which, once present, will Infect all the milk and cream keptin the game room. The exact nature of this fermentum is not zee definitly known; It Js probable, though, hat the wiiole process is dito to the presence of microseople fungl, or bucteria. ‘Howover this wnay be, {t lus been observed that the iwflk of some animals becomes sooner and more affected than that of others; and that the quality of tke food, to, Is nob without influence, 10H FEEDING. “ Cotumnus, Wis,, Jun. 10.—VeterInarian: I have o horso that ts alck. Ho hag some discaso or other of the Addnoye. At times he has a discharge from his urinary passage, and it has o ye strong smell, Abouttwo months ago ho had n spell of innking water very frequently; that Is, ho urinnted about three or four tlines in halt n day, a large quantity ata time, and very clear, Tie 1s 10 years old, weighs 1,065 pounds, works hard, and is well fed, and very high-spirited. t would Ike to Know what js the matter with him, and what treat- mnt to use, Ho does soma hard pulling; perhaps that las somethtng to do with it, Ho gets nearly twice the feed of his mate, but sUll is losing flesh, DPleago answer through ‘Lie Trung, and greatly oblige “An OLp Sunsenmer.” Anawwer.—It ts possible that all that alls sour horse is too much heavy (nitrogenous) food, nd too hard work, Itis very often that a horse loses flesh ff fed more tian he ts able to digest, and that a reduction of tho food will deeldedly fmprave his condition, Such a reduction, of course, must be © grad- unalone, Yousay your horse fs sick; if he is,—that ts, slek in the usual sense,—I am not able to base a diagnosis upon your descrip- tion. Sick horses ars usually nob worked hard,—at least, should not be,—and are not aptto be high-spirited, and to eat nearly twico ng much food as thelr mates, A LUMP ON THE HIP, STTAMMOND, Jin, 14-—-VETERINANIAN: Thavea fine young mare thathas a bard lump on her left hip. It is about as large ab a hulled walnut,- Itis not sore, but it looks bad. Whutis the best way to remove it? Answer through your Paper, Respectfully, “RP, SPENCE Answer.—You fail to say whether that “dump” you speak of Is on tho skin (0 wart, for instance), or bencath tho skin; whethor itis embedded in the connective Hssuo an movuble, or attached to the bone and im- movable, ete,; 80 you cannot expect me ta give you any specks) navien as to whit to do, forcover, 18 the removal of such o “lump” will probably require a surztcal Operation, whieh yeu very likely are unublo to perfornt yourself, It will be best that you have the case examined and treated by a regular vet- erlnary surgeon, 4 Answer to G, W, Teer, Colon, Mich.— You aro right ‘The repeated cleaning, especially if not done with great care, hus caused the disordur to become worse, You may apply once a day a mixture of ollye-oll and Iime-water, cqual parts, ‘i VETERINARIAN, A WINTER'S TALE, A boy onco took it in hia hoad Tuathe would oxerviso his sled, * Ho took that ied into the roa And, fond a-iasaay how he viata, And, os ho alfd, ho laughing eri “ Whattun upon my arise And as bo laughed, before ho knewed, Vo from that sliding sled wus alude, “ Been, the slab whorohe wns laid ‘They carved this lino: ‘Phis boy wasslado,” —Kanscs Otty Imes, _——— The Spread of Education and Liberal Ideas. “Tils Grace the Duke of Poplar and Bermond- sey: “Just look at these bags you lust built mo, Bul peat J'ovor see such boastly bagy tu your Mfey Tehall always be yes to coms and dine with you, old man, but (il be banged If you aball ever measure me for unuther pale of bugal” air, Sulppo (of Suippe & Bon, St. Jumce utreoty~ “You've always grumbled about your ag ou call ‘um, wyer since you wore iny fug at ton; and at Christ Church you were just as bud, oven though iny poor dead old governor used to come all the way down to meusuro you himself. It ain't tho fault of tho t ny dour Popsy—it's the fault of the legs inaide ‘em! Bo poe Up, Old Sao are and jets doin the the mised vo us SLAttle Billog,' Punch. - 2% fealslature, and nar its pasanges only to bo" THE PUZZLERS! CORNER, {Original contritmttons will be publisheq thia dopartmont. Correspondcnta will Ploagy sond thelr real names with thelr noma de nddrosaed to “ Puzzlers’ Commer.” Avotd o leto words ns far ns possible, Answors wi) be published the following week.) ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLES, No. 1,043, 1 by Poo G@ N&IR AK Ro L u B 8 “boo R 2 0? T BRY HOO Rn No.0 =) No. 1,007, ae Abracnd: WERKE racaabres RON No. 1,048, BEND A musoum, No. 4,018, No. 1,049, AP'S E 8 | pacham, Bptherven Ames eR Ge [Chaucer “lee aP REE — No. 1,040, Lion, here, x ‘i 0 Pinatore. weasel, bison, land PERSPECTIVE CUBE—NO, 1,081. oe eee He eH * * ' # # * * * * + ore 8 eH HH * * * * * * * * * * * * ee eee eee * * * * * s+ ** ; ee eee ‘The upper Uno, a travolors Lua line extending 5 downward from tho {nittais of the “oper Hine, 4 guard; tho IIne opposit, the lis -roop tho low or line of this squara, nino times repented. Thy top Ino of tho noxt square, separating; tho ling oxtoniing downward from the initfal letter of this line, shattered; the line opposit, welcome; the jowor line, severing, Tho top diagonal ca tho loft, littmorista; tho ono nepaely ta. ‘sound, Tho lower luft dingovul, poverty; tho one op. posit, to ring or tinkle, M.A. WB, JAOKEON, Mich. RHOMBOID—NO, 1,069, 7 Across—To fortify; a farm; a craft; 6 mustey instrument; oniulon. Down—In Eff Altch; 4 Tucasure; a period of timo; an insect; a vowel, aud a word menning begono; a a tran posod; a srolphts a musical syllable: in Comet, NELSON, II TAD Mzas. . DIAMOND—NO, 1,063. ‘i In Aunt Lucy; toentrap; a fair; a tal soraft; a pronoun roversed; in Garth. pie Caro, Ih SQUARE WORD—NO, 1,054. Aprecious stone; an inclosuro; an oxclamy tion; smuller, Aunr Lvor, Curcaco. SQUARE WORD—NO. 1,065. Hydrophobla; a treo; a writing-tablet; an ad versary of man; ovoragainst. Cu + BEE OMARADE—NO. 1,068, SBinple Simon went n-fishing for to catch 4 whalo. ‘Well ho knew that only wishing were of no aval; ‘To cateh ine ae he coveted some plotting would entall. Simple Simon feil to thinking—Iittle art had he~ of tories of tho fishermen who one, two, three at sen. Quick as thourht, “T havo it!” cried ho,-—resch: ing forth his bund, ; For he pebole: o Moorish trinket,—"' now a whale And Til hold'him charmed and docile, and of naught afraid, Cappuroa) y, tho merry clatter my eagor beating . made,’ ms Simple Simon watched and walted—vatn was his ‘Touch ns eidilled as that of Orphous on bia wor ‘ol “Could not make the. whole cnohanting—sad, thst he should fail! . : And sccond, third was nevor first, and known to entch a whale, Drxon, Ill. ENgNA CHANAGBA . NUMERICAL ENIGNA~NO, 1,057. My 1, 6, 8, is 8 girl's name. %» My 1, 5, 6, 19.0 girl'a nome, My 8, 6, 2, ig a girl's namo, ‘My 4, §, 6, {6 a girl's namo, My 6, 6,1, is. a girl's pamo. My 6, 6, 8, fa 0 girl's name. My 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6,18 0 girl's name, My 6, 2, 8, 4, 5, 1, 18 a girl’s namo. My 8, 2, 6,4, 5, 3) (sa girl's name. 1,5, 8, 2, ia 8 man's name, My 1, 6, 6, 3, 18 2 man’s namo, My 8, 5,1, 2, 1s.0 man's nume, My 6, 6, 8,2, aa man’s name. Furaon, Ul, NUMERICAL ENIGMA—NO, 1,058, Tam composed of six letters, and ama thief in the candlo, My ie zt hs pen instrument af torture. Ly 4, , 8, are pant Beawang, iP Mr. 5. Ue CORRESPONDENCE. *” ‘. Tho Dromios, Galona, Ill. pince the pust Inswers in Iino from tho star tothe *eland” 1 thelr usually faulticss mannor. ‘Tyro, city, thinks himsolf quito an nstron® mer, but couldn't make out Punch’s star. He had beat luck with tho last fivo in the list. F EB. F. K., cit; fees for tho answers at once an gots awa} Pade om all, from the stur of Punch tothe animals of Hal Megs, and evidently felt pilcased whon the Job was hed, for ho writes: * Tam better now." Punch, Urbana, Itl., had, considorable trouble with the yowel-healer of Nulsonfan, tho curlor ty-shop of ‘Towhend, to suy nothing of ove ct twoof Tyro’s poots, but finally workod queall tho answers correctly. & Henida, Champaign, Ill., was the first in the ted with his answers, hia jottor boing dated Buturday oyoning. ls roplies to tho question propoundod were tho propor ones, un Healds woes to tho hoad of tho class. Mr. B, Us, Steward, Ill., thonght tho purie looked ‘ousy, and detorred work on them tll Jute in the Meck. Ho found his miatuko whed ‘Town. ‘he waa only able to answer Nos. 1,045, 1,046, 1, 1,019, and 1,080, Later came answers to 1/0H'and 1,017, ‘Enona Chanagra, Dixon, IIL., passed nothing 19 tholistin her reviow, of tisk week. ‘Tho star appeared to the ludy of about the sixth megtk tude in point of dininess, but grew more lumin ‘ous by closo obsorvution. Miss E. O. has an 6 osllent charade {u this number. Coochto, Burlington, Wis,, hus a word of com fort for 'Towhcad, and pho puta it thuswise: Town Y's gontio muse, ho says, cannot live (Don's sing Ve Pour) Hor nad remains” we will ombalm and sive To "A piusouta,’ - In answering Mr. i. F, K's “Pinafore,” & writear + {Tho boy who wentto school, and with a pla ald fool Wished bo ne'or bud sgen a pin a fara tie prod, and wot ao muck 0 fod. 1,040, aot ‘That ho novar thougut to ery * Eaoure. Miss Coochle also answers Nos. 1,047, Poplar, Oshkosh, Wis., sonds some scattel anawors, hor sucedss Lelng with Nos, 1044 (I the last four, ‘Tho lady gives expression to! “pheoliuka” in answer to Towhead’s rhyme I'm ful of trey and vengeance dire ‘On ‘towhvad 1 would wreak! i Bis crimo In thls: 31a caltod moa ‘‘ala"t ‘Ttow dared he thus to speak? OTowusad! Let ino rub ‘our Drow, deur litle bubs eure must cause you troub- Jor {A will take a club ro tim rub-a-dubl) on come, O ularintug bubs © wubdys bubby, bub! ACE Who “lives up here. Wie ‘ Bismarck. vt The German Chuncollor fills a considerse” spave 1 BL. Hiusen’s * Coullases do la Diy Lome {o,"" In ono passage the writer sayst Close o servers have not fulled to obxerye thut Pr his ‘Bismnrok’s policy hua often been guided ban re Le own porsonnl eyinputhies and a carer for instance, bl antl-Austriun polloy befo resulted to i great oxtent from tho humiliatlee ho bad euifored ut the tine when ho was P ea Minister at Frankfort, and tho coolno:s of Felations with Prince Gortschukort dates Ti, tho diplomatic incidents in 1b75. ‘Tho Reetar the cuso In bis interior pollo. M. de Dismar hovor forgets or forgives an fnjury, but Dairy sues hia cnomios with the inout extrac, tenacity, even when they aru pluced on the ye eat steps of the sootal ladder. ‘Thus, for Inst sonmetresses ur Srauiig inden have been P! be cuted und condemned for offenses against i) Chancellor; and incre than 8,000 Journullst i Gormany huye beeg at his Lee prosetical and punished. Ho takes cara it theso Fel ane pene uro treated us burshly as poss! ey ‘als jing thom treated exactly a8 common cri ert Clorgymen, editors, noblemen, are act 10 aod paper Hees mae papior-macho olgar-caseh, rr] alnitlar. {nélpld ocoupations; thoy, can only: tholr friends and relatives rarely,