Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 7, 1880, Page 10

10 Btates in the worl’, from China, the most populons down ta Holland, the least popus oun. A brass sii froin pole to pole contains: elghtcen holes, Into which the flizs are suce cesslvely placed by the players at each rovo- futon, commencing at the south pole aud moving nortinart Tho gains and losses correspond with the nature of the facts In: dicated in the sams spree Above which a flag may stand when tho globo stops revolvings, This London counts thirty, Paris twenty, and sean according to sopilation. A cont: nilne, a Manchester cotton-fctory, a grain centre, nll count for gains; while, mesting 0 Zuly oration In Afriea, a storm in the At- lautie or Pacifie, a crocodile in the Nile, be- ing cnughtin tho Polar {ce, ete. count for losses. ‘Thus, It will be seen that tho now game {s caleulated to afford considerable ex- eitement as well as instruction, ANIMALS IN A TORPID STATE. Some tle In early December, 1878, whon tho snow first began to fly, n silver-halred bat, without n place to lle dormant in for the winter, flew Into my hallway, about 9 in the evening, at Evanston, JU, [was surprised at discovering abatat that time of year, and secured ft in abox. Itwas a bitter cald night, ‘and the bat hung himself up by its claws on the edge of the box among the cot- tov, and went intoa torpid state. Several days afterward I placed him over the fire and thawed him out, He became quite lively In tho warmth, took a drop of water, and flew around the room, The following night vas the coldestof the season, and it again went Into atorpld state, and remained some two weeks Inthat condition before it was dis turbed, My efforts to bring it to Ifo on thts occasion were not so successful as formerly, After much warming it enmo to sufliciently so that two spots of breath wottld appear on the mirror when held tot. In order to get a greater amount of heat to operate on it, 1 pinced the box containing it on the ancy top of tha stove, | turnerl my back to tt, and became enguged In writing, ad written some time when my attention was aroused to a bat scent in tho room, 1 iummed around but to behold box and bat. wrapped in flames, This ended iny expe ments in that direction. Thad arrived at the following conclusions, however: That ant- tals Ina torpld stato may be aroused by an apviication of heat; or, in other words, tor- pldity is but a state of lowered temperature of the body. Lam strenmthoned In this con- elusion by some observatlons of uo little hn- portance to the topic under consideration. ‘She torpidity ot swallows has long been regarded ag a tradition, but traditions are generally founded on fact, however per- verted the faety may be. A young dian, whose word L regard in oll mittters as per- feetly trustworthy, told me that one Aprit day, while ont guiming, he treed 4 coon. He borrowed an as. wid, 23 the tree was falling, a half-bushel of swallows volled out from the hollow. In the warm sun of the early spring day many of these tuok life, and von- sequently’ wings, and flew away, And why Ot Last winter the papers were prolific with stories about the resuscitation of sheep, cows, and even nen, fram n frozen state. Indeed, {t fs no seeret of Inte xeare that the heat gent erated by a dog will ensily bring to its natitral stale a frozen limb of a man. I votleed this fact in the South: The overtlow of the Mississippl River leaves thousands of Uitte ponds full of fishes, which fn winter fteeze up salldly. Tite tishes are coufiued in the ice. When thess ponds thaw out, In spring, the fishes are liberated and fo sport- ing wbout immediately. Fishes, of course, are cold-blooded, and thay not he affected by the lee, The fact remains, however, that during the wluter a party of ns were mapping tho Mississippi, bout Cotro, In Dtnols, Kentueky, and Missouri, and that each day these fishes could be seen, fozen stlif, In the jee, many of which we ent outandexamined, and fron all appearances, were as dead as the logs that strewed the ground, But, with the approach of wann weather, pay were ag lively as ever.—Arnerican Naturalist. , SCIENTIFIC NOTES. AFrench company intends to cut a canal through the Isthmus of Corinth. It is stated that tha Japaneso Government propose to undertake a geological survey of the whole of Japan, Tho next German Anthropological Con- gress will be held at Berlin early In August next, and will be accompanied by un exhibi- tion illustrating prehistoric times in Germa- ‘ny. It3vill be closely followed by a Gcolog- ical Congress to be held In the same city. “In a papor on the detection of organic.mat- ter in water, Tiemann and Preusse consider it very probable that disease-ferments are present in polluted water, but deprecate the inferenco that all {impure water must neces- sarily -prove pernicious to health, When water becames pernicious neither the psa ejan nor the cheiist can decide, though both may point out when the water should be avoided as susplelous, ‘A paint, which is rendered self-tuminous by mixing with it a sulplilde of Ime or sone such phoaphoresgent substance is attracting public notice In London, ‘The painted sur. flaca of an object which has been subjected to the light of burning magnesiim, of the electric are, or of tho sun, will remain lumi- nous fora long thne inthe dark. ‘Pho palnt is considcred suitable for buoys at sea, signs, and a number of other applications. A:‘volume which gives 9 detailed sum- mary of the efforts to produce the electric light effectively and cheaply. hing been pre- pared by Paget Wiggs, LL. D., D, Se, with the title, “The Electric Light tn Its Prac- tieat Applicntion.” It Includes the experi- ments of Du Moncel and Fontaine, and the Anyestigations of ‘Tyndall, Houston, Thom son, and others, If describes the different kinds of machinery used for Nehting, the Prevention of the carbons for the ianps, and he tppllention of the light to nuultine and military uses, and views tho subject in all aspects. A writer In Nature says that Inthe "Life of Charlemagne,” written by Egiunrdug, one of the Emperor’s household, aectra wu pas- sage, which wo have translated, a3 follows: “In three successive years nearest to his denth [thore were] very frequent eclipses of the sun and moon, and In the sun there wore sven spots of a binck color, forthe space of seven days.” ‘This life. written between 814 and 843, and referred to by the writer’s con- temporaries, has been collated with several MSS. by tho Bollandists, who gave {tin full Ju thelr Acta Sanctorum under Jan, 28. It 1s acurious, if not n valuable, contribution to tho early h Istory of sitn-spots. puch sii tia coke A LESSON FROM NATURE, Tieaned over tha bars this morning: My heart was all out of tunes The roses my uray, adorning: Had bigbfod before the June, Bo Lalghed as f walted for Brindlo, Whiteface, and Spottio, and Bes: Old Fato bus unwaund from hor spindle ‘Tha rough threads for me, I guess, Then down o'er tho heaving moortand, Where the forest-shitdos woro ditn, The Bun came up like u yolden band pipwiy if rows noe tu chats woods, jowly it rose o'er pst Whtre cy seen river van, ' ark and na doop ng my sullen mood, Au [Uawopt to tho sea agin, ‘The grasses were laden with aweetnesa; Like stars gleaned the morning-duw} Tho wheat-boads, in golden complutoness, Dont down to tho dutaies blue, @ bees buomed wlong o'er the clover, Gathering its hidden awenta, And drinking its breath like u lover ‘Whon two souls’ ocutuay meets, ‘Tho birds thoir aweet wongs wero sloging, ‘Ti wood and wellin Pinu} Aud the buttertly, slowly w! gles Jie Might, droopa ia burulsied wing, O'er tho hot sands that aro lyt Whore tha river waywardly ylides, ‘The wind through the reeds is alghing A song to bis © bonny" bride. ‘Then up the well-bouten pathway Cume Lrindlo, Spattle, aud Bess, * Cropping tho grasses that grow round the way, Waiting now foru tender caress, 3 luid up the bars, slowly saying? J longad for thy engle's wioue, Bue sy beurt tu soul-wtat was stro) ‘He content with these humble things. Ghasr Pank, Hi. Many SteaTtoN Htwerr. a Swhudling @ Clergyman,. Confidence swindlers have done much recently to ralae tholr cailing to the runk of ufine art, and one Bostm clergyman, whe perfoms marduge ceremonies fur 4 ‘utated Feu, cur testify to thelt expurtness, A thrifty youny couple asked, in advanco, tha price of the ceremony, and beh ng sutistod with uw churge of €5, werv Joined | wadlock, tie clargymen ‘Lasttly srovclue ta wituesses without extru fee, The bridegroam of- fored 4 $50 pill and received $43 in change, and the clergyman discovered the next di tliat ta $20 h))) Way coynterfolt, Bloce tha busl ful bride evolded w surutiny of her counteniucs, he Yuks pow thut she was counterfelt too, and ily 4 young rogue dressed in femaly apparel, | GOLD. Why Does the Yellow Metal Keep Out : of Circulation? ™ The Flood Which tho Sul-Treasury Has Poured Out, : @ But Which Has Mysteriously Sunk Out of Our Sight, An Impression that a Great Quantity of It Is Hoarded. ‘The readers of Tix Trinunz must have no- tieed from day to day among the paragraphs published undet the bend of the Government Dulltding recurring stataments to the effect that this day, or that day,so much gold waa pald ont, and so much taken jn. Invariably tho outzo has exccoded the income. J must havo struck an obsorvant render as singular, In view of this constant outtiow of gold from the Bub- ‘Treasury vaults into the hands of the people, that It Dip Nor FIaunE mont ae A OINCULATING iE- It must havé seemed strange to bim that, with such a flow of golit out of the hands of tho Gave ernment Into those of the pevpte, he bine self was rarely blessed with tho sight of a gold coin of any denomi- nation, This is ® phenomenon which must have struck nearly every onv. Day after day pagsea without o small tradesman oven having apy gold paid over his counter. Tho expertence of some of the larger establishments fs that hardly 30 per cent of tholr receipts are in this metal. For tho’ purpose of finding out how much gold had gone into circulation here, and, §f possible, of ascertaining what had bee come of it, a reporter first culled at ‘ THE SUD-THRASUNY, to sce what It hnd done towards popularizing tho yellow motat, He was furnished by tha Sub- Treasurer, Mr. Gilbert, with the following figures, which cover the recolpts elnce Jan. 1 of lust year: Gold on hand Jon. 1, 1870........ Transfers from Treasury Departm In four payments over the counte: $10,000. Customs. 490,000 £00,000 EIN The four payments referred to above rently the result of two transictions,—tho & deat and the sale of the Toledo, Peoria & W saw Rallwiy, 1 might be sald. In fact, that the Keene deal accounts for all four. rs It my bee remembered, brought on from New York a large umount of gold, which surfelted the market, Tho banks neked tho Sub-Trenaury to tukeitin exchuuge for greenbacks, which, of ‘enurse, It cauld nat.do. But when lurge trans- fers of funds were to be made, It cowttd not re- fuse gold. ‘The revelpts from customs are for tho most part subsequent to Nov. 1, During the previons part of the yeur greenbucks and stand- urd sliver were almost wholly used, GOLD HAS WEEN PAID OUT for coupons on bonds, for Interest checks, on ehecks of disbursing agents, of whom there nrc gome seventy or elyhty senttored all over tho Northwest, for pensions, pay of soldiers, pay of army cow tors, und Custom-IHouse employés, and forexpend|turos on the Government Build Jog. Ten per cent of gold ig paid ont all the time on oll disbursements, und, where tho payee does not obfcet, 1 good deal more, It Ils belioved that the Sub-Treusury would pay out alt bills fn gold and silver if tho payeo would tuke tt. Hankors have often declined to_ take coin on the ground that It wus inconvenient. Gold. even, is not poptlur with thou. A bank dues not like to use ndray, and that applies to gold ns well na silver in paving Sts Clearing-House balances, especial- ly ng lt is beloved that its customers prefer pa- per monoy. Tho diversified naturo of the Sub-Trengury’s Payments ghowed that a lurge amatnt of gald nd gone almost directly into the pockets of in- dividuals, It was known, however, that some Hire suing bad been tuken by the banks nt ono thne and another, and so, for the purpose of weottloy thelr views ns to whut had become of the ols ‘and tholr opinions ns to the reasons why It djd net appear in circulation oftener, the re- orter visited a number of them, with the fol- lowing resulta: ‘THE FIRST DANK OFFICIAL visited by the reporter was Mr. Lyman J, Gage, , Cashier of the First Nutlonal Sank, to whom tho, quextion was propounded: “Wl you plouse let mo know to what extent and by what menns gold [s being ctreulated?" Its being used a grent dealin tho puy-rolls of railrond computes and manufacturing eom- panies; that Ja about the only cull thore is for “Haw do the persons to whom itis pald out. Mke the golay” “The operntives hang on to it botter than to the creenbacks. Jt is displucing curretcy (i private hourds., When i min of that classy getan gold pleco ho retains it 14 long us possible, For this reason much of tho gold which hag been peauels staying out, but after awhile it will ti egin to return to the bunks," “Is thore much demand for {t from tho coun- * Nota great deal; though many of the coun- try bunks are taking some to hold in their re- BUrves.” “ What proportion docs tho gold bear to tho currency In tho payments made by rillroad and ak corporations to their eim- joy ba" bi ™"Gomo of thom tuko all gold; somo take none. T think thnt of the whole amount of money pald out by such corpaations to thelr omployéa bout 20 per cent is pald fn gold.” “How much of this goca into netive circula- lon?’ “Not much of it, Tho gold is a now thing, and, a8 Leuld before, the peoplo who get It aru hourding It.” “ What hus become of. tho large shipment of gold gent hero by Keene from New York?" “A grout deal of It has been pald out over tho cousntors; some of Jt has been distributed fn tho matural course of business auiong the banks, and partof itis stil in the bank vaults.” Mr. George I. Otls, Cashier of the Commercial National Bank, stated that previous to the ship- ment of gold by Keone there wis no surplis of geld in the Chicugo bunks. When it arrived tho unks belloved that thoy had MONB THAN THEY COULD MANDLE COMFORTATLY, and tho bankers beld 4 incelng ae Nett they considered the Fenaiilitty of depositing it in some safety-deposit vault and having cortih- cates lasued which cauld bo used in settling dif- ferences ut the Clearing-House. Jt wus agreed, however, thut tbia would not work mitls- factoritly, und It was deelded ta. reduce the amount by paying the gald, out over the counter, which resulted in aceomplish- ing the desired reduction ina few days. Of thls old Bhipmont the Commercial National Bank wid botween $450,000 and $400,000, tho balk of, which they pald out to the Chicagu & North. western and Lake Shore Hullronds, whose Pay- muasters took it around the country und pald the employs with It. ‘This Ree the gold in natal clreulation, the probabllity belng that tho peo- ye. who gut the gold In tho country parts fiwa on large extent stowed it away in thoir atock- ings, the lavariable experience @ person yvts a piece of yold he always pays it out Tast—aiyes jt up in fact as lon ta possible, iesidea tho cain diatributed thus by the rullroad compunles, cons aldcrable amount was sent by the bank {uto lown, Wisconsin, Stonpsota, and Ohin, expecintly in Northern Ohio, ‘That sectlan ot the country, not being A wheat-ralsing realon, did nut cet ivich gold from tho Bast, and thoy were very Cea to have their cotn supplied from Chicugd. aAfier the gold gut more common thore wus a tendency ou the part of large vorporntions— roliag-initis, von) com pile Iutnber deulors, and the like—to puy tholr bunds in gold coin, and this tendency ‘ia gt! prevaleut, but tho Danks now watt thor keep the gold thin pity itout. A fow days ago the Commercial Nation! Bank had pald out all tte geld but €40,000, and Mr. Otls sent out a boy to thd out where more could be procured, and soveral bunks wero Ylaltod before It could bo got, which showad that thers [a no Jonyor any surplus in tho bunks, Mr. Olls expressed tho beller that quite a large amount of gold iy being clrenlated from hand to hand fn tho vity.. This was shown In the dally deposlta of rotuilers, alinost every one contulne ing a little gold nmong the other money, The wuld {9 thus being returned to tho bank vaults, and, Unless the banks continue to pay {t out Trocly, it will bo lurgely removed from’ utroulus don He believed that more gold wus wanted by the West, as tho country wis willing to ub- sorb a great deal moro than had been supplicd, West and sonth of Chicage tho demand for gold was steady, put the banks could not alferd to pity the oxptess ohurges, which, being moro than twhoe as inuch on uw sum of gold ta on an equal amount of ourrenoy, checked the cuttow of — gold into | these parts, ume — parties, howover, hud the gold shipped tether thigh tho Pust-Ottoe ‘hes pertinent which took it as Courth-cliss matter, this way tho gold was shipped at lesa thun half the cost of exprossing; bit, although this included the foo for registration, yory tow peu- No wate: willing to take the riak of shipping by ' Asarulo, he belloved the gold coin was VERY WELCOME 70 THORE WO WCRIVED It, and that oven a Greenbucker will stow tt away fn bla povket and keep tt thore until hls green backs are ull gono and hoe ie obliged to put It ugaln into clrouladion. Itwas, in tls opluton, a welt itl it wold isto beun fuporiunt purt of the creating ined of tha country, It wus just so iutivh inilution, tnereulnyg ipo o, og that when wouey circulation in the beat manner possibl an tuflution, in fact, that jobedy: couht object, ‘0. To whut uxtept the geld would (nully nt tatn olreniution could nyt by foretold, but if the pulunce of trade botweon the United Stated and ‘Eurdpe canthuued for y your or two. in favor of this country the umouné would oortatnly be fms Inenge, ee dr. B. Ettllnger, Cuspier of tha International THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES. Hank; snid that hia cxperionco wont to ahow | the absence of our scorehing heat. In Parla GOLD WAS KOT POrULAN AN A CIRCULATING MEDIUM; In fnet fale niiols cub ot five towhom {t wag affered would decling to necept it, on necount of tho Rroator casa with which greenbnoks wero carried about. He vonaldered that the fssuing of tho gold hit been a great benefit to the coun trys nait hnagiven great rellef to tho greenbacks. Asn ride merchants did not nek for gold, and the bank conseqientiy got in more gold than it could pay ott, “They wero tn. tho habit of pute (ing tho woid thus accumulated into bags af $5,000 and $10,000 cach, Which, bearing the bank eal, vlreulited among, the banks in tho dally scttloments in the Clearing-House. Ho did not believe that the gold fn circulation amonnt- ed to more thin S percent of tho monoy clrens lated in Uhfengo. and that, 18 tong ns thoro was au nbundance of xrecnbrieks, and people know that they could get gold for them when they wanted, they would prefer puper money, Tho Cushfer of the Union Nattonal Bank re- ferred the reporter to the Paying Teller, Mr, Jahn J, P. Odell, whe said that gold was not neatly eo popular as the greenbacks, The peo ple wero 80 wi toned to the lightness and compactness of the latter that they did wot. wol- core the gold, He believed that n very large proportion of the recently fasted gold had been converted Into sayings by those who Et it. There was something about a bright gold coin which netunily made people save who had never before been” know to de so (A inan Ido get on handsome $5 $10 gold pleco and put It thls poeket and keep iL there us long aa possible, Constdernble gold was bein, pad ot by the puckurs, “ome of whom had vero ainounting to $25,000 n weel, which hey eettled in gold cain. He holleved that gold wil grow 1 popularity ns the meuns of handling: it grow more commonly understood, large wimoune of it. will undoubtedly go into the country: parts when the Lambermen get puld tot thelr winter's work, aid tha length of tine tint this reniting in cireulation will be a fage oritorlon of how tho country people Mke tho coln, When the gold was firal fxsned the banks had gotten over making the heayy puyments for the year, and henee they were rot ble to sond ft Inte lr. culation, and besides they bil ng applinnecs wiih whieh to handle it quickly and well, ‘his cone didon of atfairs had been improved upon, hows over, and he expected that when the lumbermen come to be paid the banks would bo able to pay outwith cage the we drafts upon tholr gold whloh wonld then be nude. : Mr. Orson stulth, Cashler of the Corn Exchange National Bunk, stated that, in his oplulan, gold wis GAINING A SURE FOOTHOLD as deireulating medium. People objected to it at Nirst, pushing back tho gold coln and nekeing for currency in ite place, but that feeling hi rently dimlyiuhed, and gold was now eirculat- ng Ii the city ten smnlbextent, and was grid unily working Its way Inte the country, where ita sold and tneting circulation will be found, Ne believed that gold was bound to become a pernancut means of elrculation, 15 the Govern- ment would keep sending It along, and tho peo- ple would bave to take It. Mr. James D. Sturges, Cashler of tha North- western Natlonal Bunk, snid that they were pay- ing outa good deat of gold. Among thelr cus- tomers were to ntianber of manufacturers and athor large employers, who tok a grent deal of oll, Sepant ie that tholr operntives Hked ft, In fits opinion [was only the difiiculty of bandling and enrrying it which prevented fis cireuluting na free, currency.” He Illustrated tho alti culty, nection with speele by stating thut, while $5,000 In greenbucks contd be ensily stowed nas, about the person equal amount of Rut welghed over 268 01 8 troy, A 1ittle over wenty-two pounds,—altogether too ecumber- gpmo it lond to be carried with ense, On tho other hud, 35,000 in €5 gold pieces could be counted more ripldly than tho aume umount In 33 bills, and after wis count~ ed thero «owas a chock avaliable by comparing the size of the different equal ples Into which tho gold was aepurated, which was of grent advantage. Apropos of this cheek, Mr. Sturges stuted that tho now dollar failed to present this advantage to those handling It, as tho coins minted at Philidelphin were of differ- ent thickness froin those minted at Carson. a making a difference of $11n the hight of # pila oftwenty, Though furefyn to tho subject. ho waa Informed the reporter that the Eoglehman Morgun, who had been employed to get up the dle, had als br aruamntced to Insert the Initint of his nume tipon the lower rim of the neck of tho Goddess of Liberty, and also te bring ont the figure of tho British Lion among tho fulds of the Goddess’ hair, S Mr. John De Koven, Cashier of the Merchants’ Nutlonal Hank, stated that the bank was payiug outs good deal of gold over tho counter, an that a tere amount of it had gotten into tho hands o! PEOPLE WHO HAD NOARDED IT, and thus removed it from circulation. Still a lire quantity of it had gone inte general elreu- Intion. Not much was going into tho country, When gold begun to elroulate there was quite a demand for it frum the country banks, but when: tho custuniers found they could gat ull of it that thoy wanted the demand fell off, and had not aines been revived, The Cushler of tho Fifth National Bank stated thut thoy were recelying and paying ‘out a great dent of gold over tho counter. Very little gold, however, was sent to the country, us the exe press charges on the coin were so heayy.—belng Wt the mitio of about $1.0) por $1,000 for gold as against 40 cents per $1,000 for greenbacks, HORTICULTURE. Effects of Climate on Horticu Pursuita—What the Doctors, Protens- ors, Judges, Presidents, and Practical Mortleulturints Sald on the Subjectat the Mceting in Galesburg. From Our Own Correspondent, No. 18 Esoutrentn Stier, Cimcaco, Feb, &—The January meeting of the Gales- burg Hortleuttural Soclety was held Inn, 20, at the residence of David Sanborn, Gales. burg, the report of which we have received, sent, 1s we guess, by Dr. umphrey. Tho wevting wus 9 spirited one, from all Indica- tions, and it is certain that the Horticultural Society of Galesburg does not Inek for cult! vated talent, for among its membership thera are doctors, Professors, ministers, bankers, Judges of courts, and Presidents of colleges, —not a few of them highly cultured men. Of course, the dlscusstons cannot help being Interesting and sclentific, and they aro more or less practical as well. ‘The discusston on this ocension was on THE EFFCTS OF CLIMATE ON HORTICULTUR- AL PURSUITS. The discussion was opened by Prof, Stand- Ish, Ho sald: We may say that Morticult- ure depends almost wholly on climatic influ- ences, We mny say the necessnry elements are a deep, rich soll, well watered and well drained, gufliclent sunlight and ralnfall, without extremes of temperature. With these conditions anda skiliful hand, the waste winces of our Earth may be made to bluysom asthe rose, But {t was from a different standpoint that le desired to discuss the Auesttott. Ha wished to tread more on sclen- title grounds, but not so much ag to be tedl- ous. ‘The word climate ts from the Greek “kilma” or Latin “ellma,” whieh signifies shape or incline,—comlng, no doubt, from the Iden of the early Inhabltants that the Earth gradually abaped or Inelined from the Equa- lor to the Poles, 1¢ was afterwards ised w slenify 4 belt or girdle, Referring to the five continents (including Australia, six), he showed how they were constructed on one common motel—high borders and low centres, und belng baste shaped, Ue sald: In North America tho Rocky Mountains are on the West the Appa- Jnchiin range on tho east, with the basin of the Mississipp! in the centre, So lt ja with other _countrles,—high borders and low cons tres, It isalso a universal Jaw that the highest bordeys or mountains fae0 tho largest oceans, This arrangamunt expecially und wisely adapts the continents to the abode of man, What would be the effect wore the highest Mountning on the east coast of America? The long rains coming by the winds blowing from the east, northeast, and southeast, the vapors belng condensed by the high ranges, would fall upon the mountains, the winds would puss over without moisture, and tho West would be a desert, He spoke of how the climates of Europe and America are modified by the Gulf Stream, of which he gave an hiteresting account A factor {1 ellmatology is the uavequal alae tribution of heat north and south, On this polite anong other things, ha snidy The sotherinul Equator is orth of the gvo- graphical Equitor, The cause of this Js of Sn ustronomien nature ‘The isothermal Ines north of the Equator—the nes around the glohu where the climnte is always tha Bumne—ise run drreguarly, On account of the shape of the Eurth’s orbit, the Sun re- malns seven days longer In cach year north of the Equator than south, the north being consequently the warner, In about 14,000 years Unis state of things will be reversed, Anothor cause 4s evaporation, there he ing more evaporation south than north of the Eauntor, making It consequently culder. The coasts of Callfornta and Oregon are, owlng to the Gulf Stream, mueh warmer than the saine latitude in Japan.’ From tho same cutixg the Allautls Coast ty calder than the Paejile by 10 degrees, Among other ellmatic Intiuences ty vurlety of gurfaeo and of soll, a8 well as high mounialnsand forests, Tn relation to unt arty of clinate, Arago suys that, for the fast thirly centuries, Pales- tno has enjoyed av uniform elhnate of 70 or 7 degrees. “his ik not go, however, fn Western fiirene Where hortleultural pure suits tlourish,—the fact being that uniformity of climate Inn cowutry Is no indleation of Its adaptability to Hortieatture, England Is, In sonia respects, more adapted to Horticulture than Atuerlea. They have better Jawns, One cause Is thelr large ‘supply of molsture, and ther also haye better taellitles for watering thelr lawns and trees. There are certaltt causes which produce climatic changes, and noclinate fs adapted to Hortleulture that does nut possess the vont itlons mentioned, Dr. Humphrey spoke of the freat ins portance of the subject, especially in view of ha faot that so lnraea class of our people are ongared in hortionltural pursults. He sald: Climate affects tho interests of these people, from tho growlng of orchards down ta the sniall fruits. This is especially trae. of the latter. Some varieties of strawberries will not grow here at all, while they flourish inthe East, Aun. other kinds are grown here with success, The auccesstal growth of raspberries and Dlaekberrles seems to bao confined to speelal pleces of soll that possess the proper conditions. Suceess of Horticutt- ure does not depend wholly on the soll— heat and moisture alsa being essential fn uatrating, the Doctor stated that Hunboldt in bis Investigations found among the mount- ains plants conmuion to all climates,—those sun! Me found in tho warm countries at tho foot of the motintaing those common to the Temperate Zone, further tp the side; and those tnethgetrotis ta the colder climate, near the top, The ellmuthe influences prove that mnecesstil in Horticulture requires » NO per L to suceced by the cultivation of a pa nis kiod of fruit, Theres should bo a variety, tat some may succeed each year, ent and moisture, belng easantla, should be supplied ardielally, if no natural supply can be had, Plants hive a regular developnient whieh re- qulres particular conditions to complete, Dr. Uutemaw,Prealdent of Kuox College, was called on far remarks. He spoke of the somewhat painful fact that people, if they ayer amotnt to inielt, must be, Inn sense, apectullats: 1. @.,1f one would know much of any abject, he ninst devote a lfethne to, it. Itis painful beenuse of the narrowhg of the mind sure to follow the study, of a sper elalty, le spoke of the feeling of sndness with which he always found himself in a Jarge lbrary,—-conselous of the fret that, une idler the most favoring elreumstances, we must cle knowing companttively nothing, Dr. B. then proceeded to state n fret dn ree gard to Horticulture that came unter his ob- sorvation, He would glye litte the Society for what it_was worth and tet them specie Tate on It: Ue was born in New Jersey,—that long, narrow State, with one of the principal citles In tha United States at eneh end, and which was finely foented fi reference to 4 sure market, Years ago it was tho orchard of the Kast. For years peaches were a sire eri ‘The trees fairly graaied under the weight of luselons frait, and inthe summer of Ist three stenmers: Pile between the elties of Burlington aud Philadelphia Inden with fruit, Years ago these orchards per- ished, and without apparent cause, On the other hand, when the pench-orchards were prosperous, tho soil was seanty, aud the ayer= | age corn-crop from ter to fifteen bugliels to, thenere, By fertillzing, the soll has become rich; the sine region at country fs a perfect garien, and large fruits grow nbundanee, Good soll seems to be an essential to abun- -dant fruits, as well as heat and motsture. ‘There appears to be an almost spiritual afing My In plants for tho particular soils upon which they feed, and, if thequalities required avo wanting, ft seems like taking oxygen from a humnn being. Dr, Haumphre; ata he thought the answer was In the statement made that the soll had been enriched to the extent stuted by fertillz- ing, He thought the change nde in the sofi had probably destroyed the conditions necessary to the growth of peaches, Prof. Standish stated that It fs well known that plants after a time depositin the sol a olson that destroys {ts power of nourish- ng the plant, which might account for tho destruction of the orchards, 2 Judge Lamphers then read a very Interest- Ing paper upon the anbet of the variety and interchange of the products of the enrth, and their himanizing effects. We have spuco only for one extract: “This difference of products, and our tastes, desires, and appetites, aro the great. nrovidential Tevers of the Untyerse,—tho rade-winds and the gulf-streams. of the worl, ‘Tho wite work) is ransacked to gratify our appetites, and milous of peopls are constant Si cmploy ed in colleeting and distributing the yarled products of the Karth. Mexico craves our apples 18 miteli as we, In turn, erave her oranges, lemons, and ineapples, ‘That which was ones a luxury beconies, by daily use, 2 necessity of life, Mow could we lve without the fragrant Young Hyson, Oolong, and Imperial; ani, hetter stllf, the rich tayors of the guod Olu Government Jaya, aud the stronger Mucha? if we would have’ the Greening and the Spltzenburg in_ tholr preatest excellence, we must send to Now York for them; and we know thate correct tuste and good judgement compels the New-Yorker to send to Tlnols for the Bellflower and that delicious apple that so forcibly reminds us of the loves of David and Jonathan. All these differences in kind and quality fead to interchange of products; and stich interchange leads to diseovery, to travel, to Intercourse, and to the enlargement and liberatizing of our idens, Intercourse tends to wear olf the rough edge of chnracter, ta remove prejudice, and takes the conceit out of us, We find everywhere soinething to admire, and can Jearn some thing of value from the verlest savages, ‘This Intercourse fs n sort of universal sol- vent. Like the atmospheres that takes -up, distributes, nud equalizes the exhalations and perfumes of the Earth, intercourse distributes to all the thoughts of the race, and ineasura- bly compels ench people to adopt the best habits, customs, inventions, and thoughts of the most advanced peoples, If wo could grow cheaply at our own doors all the varied. products of the Earth, the greatest incentive discovery, and Invention, and Inbor would bo withdrawn, and wen would retrograde into. priinitlve. savagery. Interchange of products ling ted to Inventions to chenpen and expedita such interchanges. It haa glven us the steamship, the railroad, the telegraph, and the teluphone. If necessity Is the mother, variety of products, coupled with our appetites, ix the father of inventions, It hus necessitated a vast nultipliention of man- ufuctured goods; and thesa in turn have led to the invention of Inbor-saving machinery, and goneruily hava added to ‘the comforts and enjoyinents of iife. Interchange of products fives vigor, energy, and enterprisa toa people, It hulds the ambitions conquer- or Jn cheek, and Is a bond. nieen by humanity to keep the pence; for how can we have those much coveted products if we destroy the people who produce them?” =O, L, B, nee THE FARM AND GARDEN. Deloyed Work=—Sowing Grans-feed— Vorelgn Imuilgrants—Prepare for a Change-Small Karming—Dolotorious Vinegur—Nanuring Orchurdse—Annual Crops of Applos—Whont Injured, Fromm Our Otor, Correspondent, Crampaion, Ill, Feb, 6—At Inst the people of the West sre getting a taste of winter, which will enable them to finish gathering the corn, of which thousands of neres still remain unpluecked; to haul out. and spread manitre on orchard, meadow, or studdles haul a supply of fuel for the apring season, wlien bad roads and a press of other work will prevent It. ‘The farmer who per- inita oven only tolurable roads to keep him from taking advantage of his opportunitics, is a laggard, and deserves no sympathy if his work gots the start of him. Let the mows be filled up, and fodder be drawn In from the fleld; and, if thera is any teaming about the place that can bo dong, do lb now.. Noone can tell whethor we shall have good roads agaln for two months; therefore, uso them, SOWING GIASS-HEED, February ts regurded by many of our large farmers as the best timo to sow grass-secd, especially thnothy, It ly ulmost certain to do well If seattered now, It fs much nicer tohavea Nght snow tagow on; it enables ond to gee tliat the sved {3 spread evenly, but that is all, Blue-xzrass muy also bosuwed at thisacason aspwell as ‘at any other, YOURION IMMIGHANTS, An extensive farmer sald in our presence, ‘a few days ago, that he was opposed to en- couraging forelgn immigrants, and that he ald not propose ta “cut his own throat” Tiolng salicited ta explalu, he sult: “Every foreigner who comes to thls country and ens gages in ngricultural pursuits benclits every class but the farmers. ‘Tha merchant, wane ufacttrer, mechanic, bitteher, baker, and printer are directly benelited, They all sell htm something. But le comes in direct competition with us ds furmers; he can Ive cheaper than we lean; his family are all obliged to work and help pay their way; they Hive on what yoy cannot sell, and dreas on nothing, We cannot competo with dt is useless to talk about living as -they Ilve. “We cannot delteven if we would, Wo have something to tive for besites eter nal work, ‘Then, consider that uvery for- ¢lgner brought over redyces the niunber of consumers on the other side, ard we are doubly harmed,” ‘Pheri some loyle tn our friend’s rensoning, lnrge Influx of population, say a couple of milton Jn one year, wo should feel the effect at onegs but Ict them come i hindred thou- sand per year, and we should not natico It, egies! zon A CHANGE, The past year has been ono of prosperity for tho West. Good Snes and tolerable prices have made us forge hard th great many men have pald debts nnd inortgnges which they never expected to got ridof, Already the feeling of speculation las Invaded the country, and moro debts are be- Ing made. Many nien seem to forgot that there may be a’ change, and a big ono too. A fall crop of the ecreals in Europe and a fair average crop here mean low prices for the leading articles of farm-proditce, eapu- elully such ‘as ara exported, ‘The consuiup- tion has not increased ns fast as the produc- tlon,—a fact that itis best not to forget too soon, Whilo all classes of manufactured goods have gong up in priece,—quite fre- quently, too, without any cause except i speculative one,—and manttfactitres are run nltug day ond night, yet, when the mnorkets nre filled to repletion and the reaction comes, we slut see some more hurd times. Thevery. fact. that Raoul are enhiauced ht price Is of Itself an indlention that consumption will wease, or aM least be reduced to tho lowest: posslble quantity; for it isa fuct that buyers beHave that prices must come down, and they buy accordingly, “SMALL FARMING? It {s rarely that we nre abla to get tho actual feures of the fucome off a farm. ‘The followlng ligures are from the Farmer Clty: fournat, and tho farm fs one of forty-eight neres owned by 8.8, Capen, near that place. ‘The work has been done by one man, who it must. be conceded was a faithful worker, The following table shows the smonnt, round numbers, realized from, each kind produce during the past seaso: in of 120 bushols of potutoo: Sweet potatoe: Ty Pop-corn,.. Making 8 total of,....sc1svccssecsseeeese so In addition to the above muy be enumer- ated pusturage for three cows, three horses, tid forty-three head of hogs; the butter, milk, eas, and produets of tho truck-pateh, used’ by’ three families; also, about $100 worth of nursery-stock,—making a sunt total that few farms o£ 100 acres will bent, This result. 1g probably not exceptional, save inthis: that an account of sales was kept. It would have been more satisfactory had an uccount also been kept_ot the ex- penses connected with It, The farmer who owns eigity eres, and feeds, clothes, and schools fils children, and has a conple of hundred dollars left. ns the result of @ gen- son’s work, Is fortunate,, He does better than the average working or professional mnn, who puts on more style, but lias noth- ing left at the end of the yenr to show for it, DELETERIOUS VINEGAR, But a very small proportion of the vinegar sold in groceries is fit to be taken into the Linnan stomach. Sulphurice-acid and gli cose enter Inrgely {nto Its manufacture, Ins stead of cider or pure spirits, The demand is for something sour and cheap: und, When ademand exists, 0 supply is certain to fallow, Persons who desire to know whether the vin- egor they are using Is pure or not, can sathsf themselves by the following shuple analysis: Purchuse from any druggist five or ten cents’ worth of murlate of baryte; drop ao few grains of it in a glass containing the vinegar to be tested. If tho vinegar {sim pure It wi) Immedlately turn very white and inltky, and a white preeipltate will form on the bottom of the ass. If pure there will be no change in fis appearance, If horse keepers would take the precaution to test their vinezar the sale of Impure vinegar would soon be stopped, and denters would be compelled to purehase a puro article, MANNING OMCHANDS. It_{s nerhinps safe to say that not one or- chard In ten $s given any sort of | stlin- ulant, yet the owner isdisappolnted if It falls io produce a gootl crop every year. A} other erops are strengthened by the. addition of manure to the soil; In fact, no farmer expects tiuch of a orop unless he gives his land rest, or manure, A tree whose rots permento overy nel of soll within a radius of twenty feet square, and whose top covers an equal fren, cannot sustaln life, growth, and an- nual crops of frult without belng supplled with food. A correspondent of the New England Farmer, writlng from a_ section where one would suppose the valuo of orchards was bust understood, suys: “The Inw of nature pppited to npple-trees is as true as that which governs corn -or Wheat, or anything else that grows, Living plunts that produce fuod-crops must be fed. omething cannot be obtained from nothing. Apple-tracs robbed year after your of frult which has been created from anexhansted sof] (and poor, defaced, second-class frult it must. bo) grow ny upon land whieh has been pastured, or trom which the grass his been mown every summer, that lus not, for a period of ten, or fifteen, or twenty years, had wu mouthful of any sort of food whatever, ex- cepting that wrung from s hard soll,—we say appletrees treated in this manner will re- sent ft and stop Ylelding fruit, ns they ought to. If anything is oxpected of thom, they inust be fed; an ean hardly be too forelbly Impressed upon tho minds of the class of orchard-farmers of whieh we have spoken, that there Js nothing 80 food for old, run-out, exhausted orchards, as iberal feudtng, & generous quantity of substantial manure.—ashes, phosphate, yard, or stable manure, mulch, or whatever in the way of compost the farmer has at hand, Re- meinber that Iberal feeding, with pruning and a good care of tho trees, will do much to rejuyenate all old orchards. Apply the dress- ing Uberally at any season when convenient, if not done Inst fall, do it the coming spring; follow it up yenr after year; feed your trees, nnd in return you will obtain from them a larger sree. of apples, as they take a new lease of Jifo from your generous feeding,” ANNUAL CHOPS OF APPLES, A Pennsylvania correspondent ot tho Country Gentleman, In writing on the sub- fuct, in regard to annual crops of fruit, says “Tf tho fround {s not cultivated, or Is poor, the blossoms all nature, start trult, and afull crop requires nll the strength of the tree fo mature It, and new branches for noxt year cannot grow untll next year, for tho crop of the thon following summer, Thus one year istaken up in mukingacrop, the noxt In cronting a foundation for another. A frost to kill tho frult one year will only uke the next year a prolific season, If not agin Injured by that cause. [have seen an orehard In Southwestern Missourl In: which patatous wero cultivated every year, ‘Tho ground was oa rieh gravelly Toam, and manured bealdes. ‘The trees in that orchard bore heavy crops avery year, without ony trimming ar other care,” WHEAT INJURED, Wo have made ditigent inquiry among farmers from all parts of this county durin; tho past week, ani the report fs, that wheal has been considerably hurt during the past two weeks, Some go so far as to predict only half a‘ crop, but the real amount of damage cannot be ascertained until spring. Ronan Jay ee A Dog Bathing-Mastors From “A Faithjut Briend," in Bt, Nicholae for Frb- rary. Our falthful friend Jota powerful dog, ved with us on the Navesink Highlands, One wun mer wo bad 2 bright little fellow, who, although not inthe lexst vicious, yet hud a boy propen sity to dostroy, and to injure, and to lnttict pain. Muster Willlo loved Jet deurty, aud yet he would peek fn torturlug the pationt dog outrageous: y, striking hard blows, punching with sharp siloka, pail pulling hulr crpelty, One summer's afternoon, det wus Aine. mm the front plazen, toking «wap, and Willie vans ont and nséaulted hint with anew carriuge whip, which hud been Jefe lu the hull, Jot knew the child ought not to hayo the Whip, 80 be ent and cilled the nurse's attention, as he often did when the children were into mlschtef ortdunger, But the gitl did not vo head, us she should hayo dono, ad Willie opt on following Jet from piece ta. place, ? Ing the lash vigoraiwly, nding bo was ert to deul with tho vase himself, Jet quietly tald tho. young one onthe Hoor, carefully took a, nod yelp in the gathers wf bla ttle frock, titted lm clear, aud guye ihn a hearty, sound: shak- Ing. Thon ho took up tho whip, tvotted of to the ten with Tt, camo back, stretched himself » tho shade, and Gnlwbed bis nap. ‘The ¥ ventloman did not interfere with him » wad aver afterward troated bim with gbeut considerntion. Nothing detighted the dog more than to go inte tho water with the young fils and to avo the buthing-suits broughs out alwiy's put btn in the highest spirits. “The ebildven culled bin “the boss of the bathing ground,” ind 4a be wits, us be made ull haude do Just sy he'plensed. ile would tuke them in and bring them out again, na ho thought ut, Cre there wits no use In resiete je, him, ag he could master hult a dozen at ance, lu the Water. No oue coudd yo boyoud curtain bounds, olther, bnder penalty of being brought back with wore bilo than ceremony. But, Within the propor Hinita, be never Uerod ot help ing tbe bathers to bave a good timo, frolicking: win thew. cart ying thorn on his Inde, towlug om le 10) @ 0! hia shouldorg, and plyyiug leay - og, = — Should there be a PARIS. Mayors and Ministers in France— Debate in the Chamber ° of Deputies. Hi M. Taino’s Reception at the Academy ~What He Had to Say of Mme, Recamier, Abinospherle Mroelties” in Paris—Dramatie sand Husical Cossip—The Income of the Comedie Francalse, ‘ Spectal Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, Vattis, Jan, 16.—Another unseemly squab- ble In the Chamber of Doputices hins just drawn attention to the anomulous position of French Mayors. There ara about 90,000 of these diguitartes In Franee,—one for each Commune,—and all have, apart from thelr purely local functions, others, «which they owe to thelr dependences on the Profect of thetr Department, and, to go Aigher, on the Minister of the Intorlor, who of course fs tha literarehfcal superior of ull Prefects. Tho Minister of the Interlor can,‘ by a few strokes of his pen, determine the dls missal of fourscore Prefects. Theso fourseora Prefects cnn, In thelr turn, by naddress- Ing damaging reports to the Alinister, bring about the revocation of the 90,000 Mayors, A French Mayor bas three sep arate charactera,—one that of nny private in- dlyidual, a second that of the highest dig- nitary of the Commune, and a third purely: political, as the representative of the Goy- emnient. By accepting his post UE SELLS UWIMBELY TO TH GOVERNMENT. Tt matters ilttle if his opinions are of the de- alrable shade,—tf, for Instance, he is Repub- Neat when the Government of the country Is Republican; but tt does matter if the reverse is tha case, Witness the story of the sixty- elght Vendean Mayors who were summarily dlsinissed a few weeks ago for having taken part ina silly Royalist demonstration made by ML Baudry d'Asson, the Deputy, and somo Royalist friends of his. It was not asserted that the demonstration in itself was iNegul,—for ft was private, and the persons present, —_ though they were numerous, had all special Invite- tlons. Neither was It shown that the sixty- elght Mayors’ hud attended in thelr oMiciqt characters, .At all events, they dld not wear the scarfs of oflice, Nowinally, they werent a private meeting, as private cltizens,— though really they could not shake off thelr political allegiance to the Republic. They may have enjoyed the perfect confidence of thelr Communes; indeed, tho presumption is they did, They nay, by attending the meetings, have been giving honest expression to the foollsh sentiments of themselves and thelr fe]low-Vendeans. But they were dismissed, Jukt the sane, on the gronid that thoy- hau! inade a seditions and rebellious muuffosta- tion, Yesterday M. BAUDRY D'ASSON brought the affair before tho notice of the Chamber of Deputies, In tho slinpe of an “Interpellation” nddressed to the Minister of the Interlor, ‘This M, Baudry dAsgon Is not an extremely’ Interesting person, Hie $s perhups ‘the very dullest man Inn partleuturly dull” Chamber | of Deputies, What sinall_ notoriety he enjoys he owes to his pleasins habit of Interrupting at every possible Opportunity: In fuet, he ts tho Royalist equivalent of the Bonnpartist Paul de Cassagiunce—minus tho talent. As usunl, he zave his intorpeliation the most offensive form he could, All he got by it wus tio calls to order, 1 vote of censure, and the rejection of tha resolution he proposed, by 407 votes to 83, ‘The defeat of M. d’Asson personally is of no earthly consequence; but nso farasit reatirms the anomatons and vicious principle that Mnyors are polltical functionaries, it is worthy of remark, Be- fore the French constitution can reasonabl retend to being squitebla and Sheral ‘it wifk have to abolish those’ usoless (and, ludeed, vositively misehleyons) agents, the Pre ects; and, above all, tv make Mayors what they ‘are fn Eny land,—purely joer) digni- tnrles, freely elected, and entirely inde- pendent of polltical systenis and authoritics, While this matter was being wrangled and Jangled over at the Patals Bourbon, a core- inony of exceeding Interest wag taking place at tho Institat, where M. TAINE, tho briltiant critic and essayist, was offictally “reeelyed” Into the body of the forty Academlo Tnmortals. The announcoment of the reeeption had _ attracted an unusually jntellectual and_ select audi- ence, In the case of .M. Taino the Interest was certalnly easy to unilerstand, The Mlustrious Forty would have amuch better chanes of being remembered by pos- terlty than they at present lave, most of thom, if they were all as renlarkable as the new-comer, Possibly he owes his reputation a litte to what he has not done, and es- pecially to his consistent and sensible ab- stention from atl Intermeddling ju politics, Hts claims to honor arc purely based on his Iterary and artistic powers, As an arterltle, ho has fow rivals, As a writer of tho French language, he is. by most coim- petent Judges considered inferlor ‘ ouly ‘co | Renan, For my part, should rank him, as to mere style, lower than elthor Ronan, Jules Valles, or Octave Feulllet, Hippol: yta Adolphe ‘nine is rather over 50 yeurs of oge. Ito was born at Vouziors, small town In the Ardennes, and reeclyed hits education partly at the College Bourbor and qeruy at the Méols Norman, of which he was ha wmost distinguished pupil, even ta tine when it bousted the presence of such tal- ented men as Franclsyuo Sarcey, J. Welss, Edmond About, and Prevost- Paradtol, Had he been so minded, he could haya anade his way to fame, on leaving the Ecole Normale ns a Professor; but the. University had fow charms for him, and, to the diemay of the respectable pro+ fessorlal goutlemen of the Sorbonne, enrly in his career ho published several, volumes in which he pitched most unneretfully Into the sMiveraity system and traditions. “Les Opinions “de M, Graindorge,"" und seyoral volumes of art-erlticisms, quickly WON HIM A NAME, to which new lustre was added by his cote- brated “Notes sur MAngloterra’™ and his “Hbstotre de le Ditteratura Anglaise,”—two works which, go far ux tie Eo, are emhient ly worth reading, ‘Pho “Notes” huve one great good qualily far too rare among most so-ealled obseryets of foreign customs, Lt was oxtremoly Impartial, Ifenot very pro- found, an ave both Englishinen and Frenehnen a ty usteht Into the ways and eharaeter of the Byttish “upper ten’ thous 7 Tt is hard@ M. Talne's fault that saw o frac of Mnglish sockety while fie was In EnPfand, What te did see he deseribed with clearness and ability. The “ Notes sur PAngleterre” found probably a8 many readors In England aa in France, and had uv great deal of deferential eritlelsm be- stowed on them by the leading London organs. ‘Fis wil seem natural enough to those who know the work,—for lt 1s, In. the man, highly Hatterlny to British prejudices, vh the newly-congse ies inet secont work 0} ernted Acadenfean 1s his Inquiry Into “ORIGINES DE LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE,” of which only two volumes haye so. far a) peared, ‘hese have, however, brought down much Radical wrath npon the author, Taine 13 in no Way Inelined to view the “heroca’? or monsters of tho Ievolution with wndituted admiration, He considers thelr achiovements with dlapassionate erit- ieinn, and often enough condemns them with dowurlelt sigan AML ‘Talne had arather mild sort of 4 Tine mortal” for g predecessor,—M, de Loménie, chiefly known as the author of a conselens tlous History of the Mirabeauy, which ho nyyer talshed. It was hard to get up a very a wing paunegyric of M. de Loménie; bat the etstom of the Academy fs inexorable, Like the Iawof the Medes and Porstans, If changes not. M.‘Cuine read through the works of the defunct “ fnmortal,”” and pro- +} duced # onlugtuin yesterday that was eertalne ly oloquent and Interesting, though not sa much from the subject us from the treatment of tho subject. Incidentally, It cqutulns a fino sketch of f MME, DE RECAMIER'S BALON, which deserves translating: : “Tt was alogular, and -Judeed unique, To get to dt you. hal o Anta w fur from vlugant quartier, a good way from the centre, nid—-—whut fa stronger atill—juto a convent, For alx or geven yours visitors hui to ascond ty the third floor, by o steep stulreasy, after gle i ue wore abto a rest enashyes Ons! a n » Uneosnfor! io avartment, When thoy wore transferred — aubsequently to the ft toon, salon did not become much more sunny? though it was more comntartabte nny dd A portrall of Mie. ito Stitel by Géractt® portratt of Chateaubriand by Gero ie 4 pleture of “Corinne at the Capitol,” a hg and n plano wero Its chict adorn tt Nothing striking, irritatini, or very salts was thore, No one dined thore: hoanee fe) there to conapires no one ted to fecen newsehoolof Hterature there, Tt way it arendezvous for polltlelans of the opinion, nor for men of letters of the school’ The lady of the house was greet her hair had been white for {toon years: she was getting bind. Until her rouge however, sha had been the most bende woinnn of her century, She had taste ing of her grace, and her purity been sullled by the falutest: bre ple ne There was it ever-ren ng sweetness about ler goodness, The dei excy of hor, tack Was only equated ty ue strength of her feeling. Under ret régime she had preferretl tho vunqatahe Under nono had she fattered thevieun Her fulthfulness to her friends had rough about her exile by the First Napoleon, Lay i. on, when the Princes who was to hecine Napoleon IL lay in prison, she wet tovie intat at the Couelergetle, She was ior spe i" Ang the last years of her life tn eonsating ‘ entertaining poor Chatcaulrtand, wha W grown old, nelaneholy, and We Fron the greatest opulenes she had stink ta Comme fortune without Feplning, ". aud to retin the ¢lite of” pore sha had but to rt ahi 5 Tf you saw her onee, you longed to seo he always. Uumuanity Is not nwa sti or 86 gross ns ls stipposed, A hidden if stindt I Ltowards fleal characters, Whe It perceives ane, It falls on fits Kien before it, Tho pollticlan, to his own AURA HOD forzets his ambition, ‘The man of Tele forgets his vanity, The min of busttess forgels his Interests, Unseliisiness grony easy to him, He feels the port and the Kkulghtawake In him, and ts lappy ti hil devotion, Ile feels n3a Dante ora Pirar TUB WEATURR in Paris lins not yet extiansted Sts virutencs, by any means, We have had almost ese kind of atmosphere atroctty this winter, 4 the words of 1 obscure poet, often quoted: “ First it rtined, and then it blew, And thon it frlz, and then it snow, And thon thore wasn shower of ral , And a ft friz and snow uyzain,” ‘This titted our bad ense exuctly up t day last, when we had anew valuta is shipe of “verglas.” It Uhawed 3 iitletn the day, and, when tho fee and snow hat melted, stildenly froze again. The result was painful, The streets were as glass dangerous and unwalkineble. At it yim trale had to cengeabrubtly. Cabmen gayeup plylng for hire, Omulbuses and trams ceased runing, and -foot-passengers found lt nex to hnpossible to make _any way. If you Dad passed through the Placo de In Coneotdy on Tuesday night, you would hayy see, about fifty omnibuses, carringes, aml other yehleles blocking the road, where the had been abandaned, purely and shinply, Up their drivers, Thonsands of belated poles. trans were —unnble to regaln their homes,—and many husbands went astray, Nothing lke ib had been seen {q Paris ‘siggs the memorabio eweYear’s day of “4875, ‘Tho devices —_resortal to by the Ingenious people who were obliged to get home were often remarkable, Sone wrapped their handkerchiefs round ther boots. Others calinly took their stockin: off, despite the cold, and put them outside thelr shoe-leather, In. the fallaclous hope of acquiring firmer foothold. Muy canie to, aricf. At present we arg sufferiig from the comparatively “mild annoyances of chill damp, dirt, and stushy streets only; but anticlpite another return of frost. SEVERAL NEW PLAYS have been produced at the theatres. The most {mportant, perhaps, Is the dramatic verston of Albert Delpit’s novel, “Te Fils de Coralle,” which Is helng played at the Gymnase —to-nleht. Sardow’s’ “Daniel Rochat” 1s likely: to be mounted at the Theatre Francals in -a couple of months hence,—say on the 10th or 15th of March apropos of the Francals, do you know how mitch the unfortunate nstists of the “ Touss of Molidra” make In the course of n year? The figures for 1870 are instructive: Gop, the doyen of the Cam: pany enmed the respete able sum of 70, ranes; Coquelin, the elder, made 69,000 francs; Delaunay, 68,000 franes; ‘Thiron, -Wornis, Mnubant, and Febvre, mide 60,600 franes aplece. So mued for tho gentlemen. Now. for tha niles Sarah.,.Burnhardt.-poekuted 62,000 francs; Madeleine “Brohan, '60,000- francs; Mme Favatt;-60,000 francs; Croizette, 55,000 francs, When you come to reflect that 0 French Arclilshop earns only i 000 francs per a num, a Marshul 80, francs, a Conselller WEtat 16,000 francs, © General and an At milyal 12,000 francs, you will probably cone to the concluson thnt the lot of an actor la France {s not quite wnienvlable, F ‘M. Camille Saint-Silens’ new cantata, “Ls Lyre et Ia Harpe,” was given with great sue cess ab the Concert Populatra last Sunday, Mine. Lermens Sherrington, came over from Englahd on purpose to sing the lending at in it, and shared in the trinmpl, Felk clen David's “Desert” is to be the _ntiractilon at the next Con cert Ponulatre, Later on we are promised three remarkable novelties: Schumann's musle to “Faust” (whieh has never beet played here): anow cantate — entitled “Diana,” by ‘MM. Benjamin Godard; aad the musle. of M. Reyer’s opera, “Sigurd, with fragments of which we are already o auainted, Wagner's “ Lohengrin” is to be ‘again performed also, -At the Chintelet, Bertioz’s “Damnation de Faust” holds the bills stil, Hanny Menr2ns EDISON EXPLAINS IT. Ills Now. Electric Light Graphical)’ and Preclsoly Described. From His Patent-Ofics Aypiteation. Bo tt known that I, Thoins Alva Edison of Menlo Park, Now Jersey, United states of America, have Inyented an smprovement Ia eloctrio Inmps, and in tho mothod of man facturing the entno (case No, I6y), of wbled tho following Is a speciilention; The object of this inyention 1s to produce electric lampt giving Ngbt by incandescence, whieh lamp havo bigh resistance, so as to allow of ths practical subdivision of tho eloviric light The invention: consists inv light-giving ce bon wire coiled or arranged in such nm inancel 45 to offor great resistance to the passige tho electric currout, and, at the sume tlt, presont but a slight surface from which redit tlons can take place, The fuventian Curthet consista In plactoy such burner of great resist: ance Jn a nearly perfect vacuum, to prevent of {dation and Injury to tho oontuctor by the tt mosphere, the current bo conducted Ino th Yacuur-bulb through platinn wires sealed Ino tho glass, Tho invention further consistain the mothod of manufacturing carbon conductor ot blab realatanico, 20 as to bo sultuble for wivlog ht by denudesushao, be Ueretatare light by Incadescence hus been al : tained from rody of carbon of ane to four ot resiatines, placed In olosed vossvls, 1 whlch t : Minospherie air hus bean roplaced hy Rares ths do not comblne chomleally with the carbon «+ The lending wires baye always i that thelr resistance shall be many tines Ie thin the bumer, and, in yoneral, the nies ot prising workers kaye. buon to reduce u restatunow of {ho oarbon rod. The Re 4 vantages.of following this practic airy (hat wlump baying but ono to four chins reslsan cannot be worked in great numbers io nuuttips ure without the employment of niutts conduct of enormous dimensions; that, awhig 19 tbe He resistince of tho lunp, the onlogs wiceg mi of Targa dimenslons and good conluctery ond a glass globo cnanat bo kent tit at the uco Where tho wires piss hand are: ements honce the oirbou ts ennsnmed, becuuss tht, mnttat always be a perfoot vacuum fo reader curbon stublo, capeelully when such eal win in muss ond high th eleotrtonl ror stances | ‘Tho wo of us lt tho reculyer ut the wt pherig pressure, although not attacking ty curbon, serves to destroy It in time by irs Hd Ing, or the attrition produced ty the rapid Por say of tho ale [east] over tuo slightly eoherers Ulghly heated surface of Uho eartian, | F mre te versed (hls praction, FE have discovered md oven a votton thrend, “properly earbonlzed ae Placed In a sealed glugs “bulb exhausted tv ha millionth of on atmosphero, olferd Ono 100 to 600 ohms ‘resistance fo the purity of the SUrTaty aud then ds ytaclute stable at very. Ch tempernturess Hate tho thread bo coled asa spiral and corbon! a or [fany Sbrous yexutablo substance wilh ave a ‘carbon realtue after hunting 11 4 Cee chamber be go colled, us much as 3,400 cfuns slstuneo can be ubutined without presenting, radiating surface greater than three ixlelt of an-Inch, TE have curbontzcd und used iT and Hnon thread, wood-spiints, papers walled | various wuys, also Iumplinek, planta carbon In yurtous foring, mixed with Cate “a rolled out into wires of' various leusths Mametors, - le ———_—. Who Will Woar the stocktugs? 5 Wallpuall Review (Landen). . Taw at Sinyth's hoslory manufactory, at Bal briggan; sdino two montis Agu, 1d dozen Fy oF dlocKiugs belug mady of acurlce threw Mt large higt white clocks, But the ase), thelr construction wus this,—that the foot dual women's aizo, tho Jog wnurmvus, WUE Tey enough to reach ta quite tha top of my FR and Faland ve feet two. ‘The manor platued that.no garters wero fistends oper wits for w house ta New York. heen hinge, +