Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1880, Page 10

“10 miles trom thelr conrse by not, having inns: ters possessed of this knowledge, Nowa days, meteorologleal Informiution [3 as neces nary to tho navigator as his sextant. tn South Tantttucies the storm. passes in the sane way toward the South Pole, by way of a weatern bend, only the elreular motion is Favoracdy and tho southwestern is the stormy fi FLOWER TOURNAMENTS. dlovoted partisan of the Comte de Chambord, Should a mun of letters be preferred, itis attite probable 2M, HEN DE Hons a ee ne are we” | Laude Wiuten, Sen'teretiya | a , INES M '" alan War—Two Terrible he has written a tragedy whieh had fn very Blunders. long run some _yenrs ago at the Theatre Francais.— La Fille de Roland.” With the profanity of most Anglo-Saxons, The Vacant Fautenil in the Acadeniy Jeoufess I hate a F tragedy, ‘The min PARIS. 4 — Wi tor of wasters~Cor Uimself—depresses ealeueuted yearly ne Coulpuaes In the thine —Who Will Obtain the Cov- me. Rachie would send mo to sleep! Vind of the Troubadours it possessed an endowed eted Position? the rastiness to hear, much of hin ata the, As for M. Henri de Bornior, thought hls tales at amitat bn of fo lnigh orton Ishon el not eto see two plays of his In a week, Wenri de Bornier and His Trage- wonder whether nhs new trngedy -e Attila ” 7 —will beng suecessful as “ba Fille de Ro- dios—Two Theatrical Jon? Phe plot (if the published newspaper: Scandals, revelations be trustworthy) is not of the most asely alirring, but tha verses ave snaked to te jn : Deadhnirable. Here Is 2 rough outline of the Spretat Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, story: -slttlla, the ourge of Gad,” 1y at Panis, Jan, W%—In the death of Jules | the opening of the play discovered in hls Favre, France has Jost a great orator, and an | camp, impatiently ting whether to mints honest, though most unfortunate, man. In} ty, and whom to ani He asks counsel of in, | tw 8 Royal prisiners KI f 1870 he had reached the apagee of his career. brook ts Koval Orato fie te dine From the time war was declared against | question is put to them whether the happy Prussia, his star paled, At the outbreak of inde Hliall be. (emmoriey tio slater, wt fe y ver, 'T' EMperor Valentininn, or Tdto f the Commune, it sunk forever, ‘The story of King TT Vee at France As it happens, Hts the 4th of September fs so well known that I Ne 4 -g | two advisers are In love themselves with the zee only enti a faye aint. ave rete very two Princesses singled out by AMA, of the Sedan disaster had hardly got to} Ench of the selfish wrelches naturally docs Paris when the popular wave, sweeping tho His leat to fury ope passion of the praichlens , ud Fel 5 ’ tn from the object of his partie 2 HH RR RE second Eunviren ti and towards the Indy preferred by his fellow- erals, high and dry on the trencherous cel, monarch, of Political Power. Jules Favre prociniined F 7 acres 4 "the duwnfall of the Empire, Jules Favre (ruore auttell for a comedy tate itt realy deereed the birth of the hird Republic. | five—nctually five—acts, terninated sudden- And Jules Favre, with Jules Simon, Leon y by ie death af ZH Lau wot surprised Y hat the Comédie Br se dee! Gaunt FAA ROR HR Al aieet uct work, Ittsto be produced ut the Porte St. Martin, however, shortly, with Damalne— Government that aysumed the noble—but, | jy whe played the Grotesnitc clmerican In alas! empty—title of ite id coun sie Moinhy ein ths rll 1 att “ Q@OVERNMEN’ F & NATION DE- uinaine is fat, not to sny vil oss 8 eae ee FENSHe? RATIONAL hatha regal or serclule i Mle aly ir wetting, Opinions, of course, are divided, and will | thd be ls rather thove than below tie nee Jong be divided, ns fo the wladom ormadness | HINT 30 he NIU he at eee te tO of the resistance that followed Sedan, ‘There | have beet a small man, and whom we may fy no doubt, however, of one thing: Itsaved | reasonably suspect of having been, bilious, the national honor, if it doubled the nattonal af de. Bernice will, be fortunate if he is dlanster; and, though [t led to a financtal ceter 5 loss that scemed almost rulnous nt the mo- is being aia? pussipel! abOUES i green ment, It served a useful purpose by revealing | rooms and erawing-rooms. Mme. Tenrl the unsuspected resources the French could | Chabrillat, the wife’ of the young and sue- fall back upon, To Leon Gambetta belongs gout sane of the Aandi Coullyte, tine rightfully any gratitude France may enre to | Justappiled to aw courts for y " soy ¥, separation. tn this ense, at feast, the erin bestow on the Government of the Natlonal inkhenuse of tho inischter seems to be ML Defense, Jules Favre and Jules Shuvon, shut } fmile Zola. (CN. B.—Pray don't take me too up in Paris, did little good and much mis- | literal) M, Heurt habitat Inst, year pro- ebfef. Gambetta, who hind, as every one re- | diced M, Zola's assumtnolr.t dou, know iembers, been dispatched to the provinces | Whata "lity It was, Apparently * TiAsson- by batloon—Gambetta was the soul of tho molr’ did Tittle for the morals of the people, It was discovered, first of all, that thers were reslstance.’ It led, ns we know, to nothing in | murderers among the “supers” who played particular. Jules Fayro hadPundertaken the | in the ieee at ae Aubin. ad relenlg ales res i! tae! y and CLG, Now would appear from geivanel tera meting I ee Ghee Mnie, Chaballlat's petttion, that the Ambigtt manager hhnself was corrupted by the too: things grew desperate, he proceeded one day | Teaitstic, Reallsin of M. Z0l for he Is ne- to the Chateau de Ferrieres, where ho had | cused of having, early in the carecr of that memorable und melancholy interview | the melodranin, fallen’ a vietln = to the with the fron Count, charms of one of hls own actresses, dsereet- * q ‘ _ ly ailuded to as Mile, 1.30; and, says Mine, TISMATICIS AST) FANTE Chabrlilat, from that day day forward he has were ns differentns any two statesmen could | altogether’ deserted his hearth and hone, be. The one was as hard and stronens the | The petitioner, who ts 5 daughter of M. Can- other was emotional and—ns a consequence tin, the manager oF tie Roittion, aie only —wenk, Both were, In thelr respeetive married i M. Chabrillat about elghteon ways, trite patriots, however; and, for my | Another distresstng scanial: Mme, Fayart, vart, Leannot bring myself to make merry | tho eminent soclotalre, of the Coméiio Fran- over the tenrs the senthnental Freneliman ala lias been obliged to tener tise roslinin shed In that Interview. The German was | ton, which ina been accepted, 1c Wi - aes na Wiese vatindes > dled with debts. and her creditors were an pitiless; and Jules Favre refused to treat on | pvesore and offense to the Theatre Fraucals, his conditions. “Not a stone of our fort- | Mine, Favart does not altogether withdraw resses,—not an Inch of our territory.” That | frum the theatre, of which she has long been was the phrase, (think, If, in the sequel, | one of the greatest ormnments, She goes fortune had favored “France, the words | down n step, however, and becomes 8 pen would have made the utterer of them more | slonnaire, witit a fixed’ salary of 10,000 trates, famons than all his previous acts. As It wis, | Last year, as 1 wrote to you the other day, they. ritlned hh. Not one stone, or ane | she made 60,000 francs, fortress, or one inch of territory was ylelded. Itis worthy of remark that amongst the to the conqueror, but many stones and fort. | persona who attended : peas and many funeral paniari niiles if TUE FUNERAL OF JULES FAVRE, errltory, nint Jules Fayre signed tho treaty, . " Ho was not much more, responsible for Nie Ph Gamabattendlit ok Aira. seinen ie nuttonal calamity, so far, than Gen. Von | pered that the two members of the Govern: Wimptten had beey, at Sedan; but now, for Y tt 7 oe Iifs misfortune, Teh was uuilty: of m pleco of ment of the Natlonal Defense were at direct Issue once upon the question of pence or carclesless so gross and disastrous that war, Gambelte’ was for war to the death, A CRIME WOULD, HAVE DEEN PREFERABLE, | while Judes Fayre and tho Paris section of When the urmistice was arranged between | the Provisfonal Government were, as ilstory the enemies, he forgot to fave Bourbaki's | records, in favor of abandoning a Anny of the East (then marehing towards [| hopeless struggle, There were — several Germany) included: in it, ‘Tho result was, | Ministers at the funeral. MM, Jules that close upon 100,000 French suldiers (1 for- | Ferry and Lepero were among the get the exact figures) had to cross the Swiss | pall-benrers; and Jules Simon, with frontler to eseape unulhtlatton, Taklug tt | many another distingsished man, walked for granted that Bourbaki’s army was hi- | sndly beliind: the hearse. ‘The service was cluded in the arrangemont, Gambetta sont | celebrated according to the Protestant ric, Instructions to. ft, ordering that offensive | and, when they lowered tho body into the operations should bo discontinued. ‘The Ger ) yawning nrave,.no ono uttered a farewell mang {a Bourbakl’s neighborhood of course | speech, Jules Favre, if he may sometines knew the real state of uffairs, and they disre- | lave loved ostentation, had grown to despise garded tho armistice, Gen, Cambriels dis- | [tere he dled, and he had specially requested pitches despernte messages to Cimbetta, | that no orations should be detlyered at his asking for new Instructlonsand explanations, | tomb, So Henri Martin, who had prepared Merary institution (Collega-du Gul Savior, ordojaGal Scionce),—College , pf fiw Gay Arts, as Poetry was termed, Tio college faculty consisted of sevgn: Troubadours, under a Chancellor; they ejected Doctors and Baccalaurentes, apd ‘taught tho Inws of Love (Quis d amors, algo called amors flours du gai savior) in’ thelr- pathoes and palnce- gardens, In 1328 they sent ont a letter In rhyme, Inviting all poets to be present at the oetical tournament tu be Vheld In-Toulouse, Roy's, 11s offering as a prize for tho best poem a violet made of the finest a Tho celebrated Arnquld Ridal won the prize. The magistrates of the city, who were present, ed the privitege of holding a similar nent for the purpose of encouragin ‘eversthing Inthe Mine of art which mighi serve to beautify the Sits of Toulouse, offer- ng tho same prize,--the gold violet. ‘To further enhance the glory and mamiiicence of tls tournament. two additional prizes avers offered, viz. a wild rose (eglantine) aud a inarigold (soucl), both of silver. ANOTHER 'ANTIEFAT ? REMEDY, The uso of the Farlety of sen-weed botan- {cally known as Fuéus vesiculosus for redue- ing obesity tins obtained recognition In pro- fessional cireles abroad, siys the Journal of Heatth, Dr. Fulrbank writes to the British Medicat Journal as follows: " More than fif- teen yenrs ago I gave some of tho extract in pills (four grains three times a day) toa very corpulent idy, who in three months lost three stone in welght without any change of dlet, Since then 1 havo frequently given it for redilcing welght depending on the accu- mulation of adipose tissne, and haye never Found it to fail, ‘Lhe. solid extract can he eusily, made into four-grain pills, whieh must, however, be kept Inn stoppered bottle, as they rendily absorl moisture from the alr, Tminy'say that a patient who has lately been taking itas an antl-fat, and who always sut- fered very much from rheumatle pains about tha body, has been entirely free from suet trouble while she bus been taking the drat fact which sho quite Independently noted. ON THIS SLIGUT PEG ie SCIENTIFIC NOTES, La Nature publishes tho account of anew metal Intely discovered by Daf, It resem- Dies arsenicum, If you want to see an egg walls, half filla small quill with mereury, and thrust It into a hot, freshly hard-boiled onc. Tha hotter the egg, the more rpid will be Its jumps and rolls. * During tho last twenty years 100,000 wom- en dled from eaneér In England, Dr. Arthur Haviland claims that high, dry, well-drained countries have Iittle mortality from this eniso. Yndln-rubber trees, whieh are tapped every other day, continue to yleld snp for more then bventy Sears and it is a singular clr eumstance that the oldest’ and most. fre- quently tapped trees produce the richest sap. Prof, Nordenskjold lings announeed his In- tention of starting soon on another Journey xploration to the Stberlan Polar Sea, He make the New Siberian Islands, visited an 18010 by Hettenstroem, his base of opera- ons, Lightning travels nearly a million times foster than thunder. The speed of lightulag Js so grout that [t would go 480 Uimes round the earth In a ininute, whereas the ound of thunder would go seareely thirteen intles in the same space of thie, “Thunder will take asecont to travel 380 yards, Economy Notes snys that aniline inks are now fn conmnon use, capeelally in comyte- tion with the varlous gelatine tablets for mnultiplyIng copies of written matter, Upon the hands It niakes Sanost stains, diMletlt, of removal by water or aekds, ‘hey may bo paaily syashed ont by using a mixture of aleo- ho! three parts and glycerine one part. Grope-growing In the United States. is rapldly assuming finpartanee, | From, the three fargest grape-producing sections of the country we tearn the crop for 1879 to be: Mis sourl, with 1,400 acres In cultivation, produe- ing 600,000 eullons of wine; Sundusky, Q., and vielulty, (ineluding the Lake Eric Istuuds) Dns 4,000 acres In cultivation, produchiyg 1 000,000 pounds of fruit, ant the reported quantity of wine produced is given ag 1,520,- 40 gallons: Californian has 60,000 ncres set with 45,000,000 vines, and represents in money yatue (ineluding the nnd) $30,000,000. f # , Jules Favre, nu, went away disappointed, Joseph W. Swan writes to Nature, with Gambetta, Ai lane y pitias ia ae eevee ey eee tet SELTZER, reference to Edlson's earbon horseshoe: | been forgatten! * apa aaa EE “Fifteen years ago [used eharred paper aud card In the construction of an electric lamp on the Incandescent principle, I used It, too, of the shape of a horseshoe, precisely ig, YOU say, Mr. Edison is now using it, Idk not -then steceed in obtalning the durability which L was In search of; but I have sinee mace mmnny experiments on_the subject, and within the Inst six months I have. Cbelleve, completely conquered the difticulty which Ted to previous failure, and Lain now able to produce a perfectly durable electric Inmp by means of Incandescent carbon.” The Chinese are many hundred years be- hind time in physiology, They aro prafamcds ly Ignorant of the elreulation of the blood, and locate mind in the abtomen, ‘They tench thot the spleen is the chief organin the ody, as It aruinds the food byrubbing against the stoninch, presides over the muscles, and rerulates the heat, ‘The liver controls the tendons and nails, ‘Phe heart beautiiles tho coniplexion, moves the ears and tongue, The kidneys govern the bones and hal, ‘Tho diaphragin keeps foulatr from rising tuto the throat, ‘The gall-bladder fs the sent of cour- 76; hence they tight for its possession when abrave avhunlis slain, insegining that he who ents the gall-blndder of a remarkable antinal obtalns the peculiarities of that benst, The Taamantan Eramlner contains n letter from a correspondent in whieh: hy speaks of aeurlous alght he witnessed tu Ceylon. Lt is the manner In whieh Iron ata white heat fs handled by the pineleganlthus, which is kept asecret in the trade, ‘The process Js simple, Dut it certainly requlres nerve to take up a ball of nlmost quid Tron the size of a twenty-four pound shot, and hold it in tho alms of one's hand from twenty to. bvent ys ivé seconds, and afterwards ‘dellberutaly sland on it for the same time, ‘They make nt paste of equal quantities of the Murangy rout, leaves of the Bewlla and Kapukannisn plant, and the tender shoot of the: Gurulla Hnely ground with MmeJuleo; and this, ppread over the pals aid goles, makes them treproof; for, althangh you hear the lls ing of tho iron while belny earred In the ands, It leaves no imark or Injury when the paste Js washed aff, ~ Tho Sclentifa American, commenting att the substitution of elvetric machines for bat terles, savas “In '18ts the Western Union YVelegrapl But this was not the only fault Jules Favre 1 ny ae Fulity of ae Subsequently he is HORTICULTURE, vind opposing Bismarck’s plan foi $= * nines the Paris Nationat “duntds. iis: Another Pioncer Morticulturist Passod marek gaye way to “the gentleman of the | Away—A Letter from William Jack= pivernent”-on this point; and won—-S. G, Minkler on OrchardsCult- ‘TUE COMMUNE FOLLOWED. ure, There {s no reason to believe Jules Favre had og Mtoes OUD Ginn Corresvondente., any but perfectly honest motives tn eommit- | No. 13 Eranteextic Srrenr, Ciicaao, ting these two terrible blunders; but they | Feb. 12—Mr, William Jackson, one of the were none the less fatal. He lias sinve pub- : Help naked pardon of God and nate } We active members of the Alton Horticultural his mistakes; but men—Frenchmen, at least, Soclety, and residing at Godfrey, 1, has have not yet forgiven or forgotten, In | Just written me, Ho saya: August, 1871, he withdrew from the Govern- “The Alton Horticultural Society held ment, and the polltleal world saw him but | their February meeting at tho ofiies of Capt, Nttlentter. Care, grief, and remorse welghed | 5, Uollister, on the Sth Inst, but adjourned Hatnise Wire eh tones His hair grew without attending to any business, to attend white, and his face became gray and grim, | to funernl of When last T saw hitm—at a lecture of Father , THE HON, AvP. MASON, Tlyaciuthe’s,—he was but a shadow of hhn- | who dicd on ‘Thursday,* self, At the time of hia death he was a Sen- ‘i is ator, representing the Vepartment of the Afr, Muson was G0 years old, and bad been Rhone, neltizen of Godfrey for uver forty years. Ho ‘There was another reason, of which It } Was the lust member of his father’s family, would be uneharitable to Inger long, for | He leaves a witlow and marrled daughter the profound melancholy of his last years, | and many relatives to monn thelr loss, Shortly after the warnaquarrel with one of i his fronts fed to the tisclonure of His ilfelt | «df Mason was n member of the State Les- connection with a lidy, by whom he had had | lature in. 180, and was a representative achild, ‘The offense Ih this country would, | Man, and active in every good word and in the ense of alinost any other nian, have | work. Formerly ho attended our horticultur- been thought trifling, But he had ever lind . es seandal finished what the etdents in the | been through his orchards and eaten of their war had begun, and thore was an endof | frults, Itwasdue the man that the Alton Jules Favre, Society should adjourn and attend the funer- A. few words about Jules Favre al Inabody, He has passed to the other THY ORATOI, Mfe, but his works and good name are with Hits log fence: vos pel naturally erent, fe us still, nid wb the outset, ike Demosthenes, much : diticutty In speakln partly due ton Kort ot rae aaron sends the following Item on Meeouh tha troubled him, We conquered subject 0 his defects by sheer Ward work and per BALD. MILER severnnes, No speaker of this genera. | And, ag ho {sa practical growor of frult ant tion was more elegant, incisive, or | vegetables, what he says Js worth con- Totbet: AS so a pe oratory | sidering! rhetorle; but the judgment 1s too severd, 3 His style was more akin to Cleero’s than “Those who may have binekberries to Demosthenes! no doubt, however. ‘They say | Plant in the coming spring would do well to he wrote out Ms speeches three or four thes | Plant tu richer ground than 1s generally set Before, detiverin E, ther, ony. yyas the most | apart for that purpose, It is my opinion that. ay all He ver skberrle often falled to win the eases he took in hand, Hibekberntea ih the fotnre willl be ure af the h Company sont 14,450,833 messnges, E es ying « Aen cost of SUptUSGe In ISI thos went se? | Out ruroly to win the admiration of lis hear: | sua frulioe wWeene thes sane be aterenetol 070,100 messages, tt Heost of $0,160,200, In ‘ 1609 the coat of battery por mile was $1.17 1-10, fore to plant, Dlackturrity on thes pest ce broken ground, Ground where nothing else AT THY ACADEMY, would grow was considered good enough for Speculations are being huzarded about, the | them, “It Is possibla this alone muy have nuine of the coming man already, ‘Threo | been tha remote exuse of the rust and gen- men in France seem to hayo pretanent | eral deferiorntion of (his fruit for the last elalina to the consideration of the Institut: | few years. A step in the opyostt direetion a great orator, » great historlan (who Is a} could do no harm, and might dug great remarkable orator ulgo), and a event (or, to | deal of good, ‘There will bo many now put it In a more, tompernte form, & die | kinds of strawberries in the market Anguished) poet. ‘The names of thesa three | this summer, should the season be are Leon Gimbetta, Louis Blane, and Lo- | favorable; and, asa mutler of course, thors conte de Listy; and not one of then hus tho | will be more or less competition uy the ense falatest chance of being chosen, ‘That seems | may The public In general like a large, odd, but the ways of the Academy are | showy berry, aud, with few exceptions, will crooked and inscrutable. Viron's “well: | take “frait) of this kind In’ preference to known epltuph recurs to ono whenever there | smaller frultot better flavor. Probably the is any talk of new electlona at the Institut: | best of the newer kinds), us for as tented are “Ci-git Plron, que ne fut rleny the Dunean, Monarch, Kerr's Prollile, Black Pas mdme Acndomicien |" Deflanee, and Cumbertund Triumph.” “ Horo Hee Plron, who was a nobody; Thave also at my hand sone practical sug- He wasn't even un Acadeinielan |". Sestlons on The verse ts doubtful, but there fs nothing ONCHARD-CULTURE doubtful about the eplgram, ‘The Academy | from 8. G. Minklor, of Oswego, who Is ‘Treas: now, as at all times, contains some members | urer of the State. Idurtleultural Socluty, and who are ronlly worth of thelr dignity, | who js acknowledged to be one of the suc |, Victor Hugo, Littre, Talne, Jules Simon, and | ceasful hortivulturlsts of the State, and who a few more —aniong whoin Ido not include | for twenty-five years hus been an active M. Alexandre Dumas Os. Buethere are a | worker hi our State orgnnizations for the score of others in the wugust body who could | promotion of Horticulture and Agriculture, neyer have bee elected, surely, if they had | Here is what le ays: not had interest and favor to help them, | “Tho first thing to take Into conslderation What does uny one care fur MAL. Cavilller | Is tho site. This, of course, should be in eury, Marler, Ioussel, or d’Audittret- | proximity to the dwelling,—on the blghest Pusquiler, for Indtance? Respeetable imei ground, [f pogssible,—always on ground well ocrities, atlof them, If tho traditlons of the | underdrained3 If tt iy not naturally go, It Instita( be adhered to, It ls probable another | should be made go. by ting or ditehing. “If mediocrity will be added to it presently. |'the ground ts very level, It may be thrown Some thik it may be M, Chesuelong, a gen | up in ridges, and plant the trees thereon, tleman not without rhetorical talent, and a “The ground should be—yes, ust Le-In ors, . - ErOW' et . rel : Tt will noon bo time to find # successor for ly grown. It lng been thy custom hereto- The Company have reduced this stm year by | Jules Favre year, untl, In 1879, the cost of battery per inile of wire was only $$ 1-10 cents; and now, the present cost of'supplying the cleetrie eur ‘rent is to be reduced 50 per cent by dispens- ing with batteries and using machties.” The sume paper states that there are three sets of machines and englies, two seta for working the 360 wires that radiate from: the Western Union Bullding and the enbles- of the Gold and Stock Telegraph im Now ‘York, and one set for reserve. A single engincer can at- tend to all the apparatus, which will not oc. eupy one-tenth of the space, and will not weigh within sixty tons of the. welght of present battery arrangements. - Prex and Freshy, # Proalaene. of u New England collega, after ottlng u ecut fn a horse-car, pot{ced Gue of tha rosbinen of his collegs eurtod up in front of bint, and exhibiting obvious eigns of yljaug ox hhiiarntion. A close Inspection revealod tho fact. that the stato of {nobriety was not bastily pul on (Iiko @ bat), but bad boun worn closely dike an undorsnirt) for several days. Fora few moments tho President nurveyed the undergraduite with an expression of mingled comintsorution and dive st, ang Analy be exclaimed: “Been ona Sra rhe bulf-consclous student ruliied bis straying sonsces, and, with a gleam of goodful- lowshlp fn bis oye, somewhut Unexpactedly ejue- ulated, * bo~bio—have I.” —— Avold acastive hablt of body, not only be- eutide Of the attending discomfort, but lest it engender more rerluus consequences. Dr. Jayus's Sanntive Pills aro elthur luxative or Guthartic, accarding to the dose, und may he dev pended upon to producu beltby sooreuou of ¢ tver and atomach. a peculiar reputation for rigiel virtue, The st necting, amd .more tinh. oped: have we: u goad titth,, ff not, beltor defer UIL It can bo; and deep tilth wt that. (will not. be necessary to go Into all the nilnutire about tnying out the around, “ Ag to the distance that trees should be sel, there Isa variety of aipinlaiss 1 think twenty-alx to thirty-two fect 1s tho better dls- tance. Tf trees nro set thirty-two fect, their rooty will meet Inelght years, I have tre set two rods apart each way, and th branches lave kissed cach other Jong since, “Now tho trees, Be sure you get mood sound trees, trea or four iar old (they way, bo a yenr or two older If properly parnttect). “Set the trees four Inches deeper than they atood tn tha mursery, You may ask, Why? Beeause your ground a mellow (or showkl be), ‘Tho ground settles, the tree does not. Set your trea leaning a little to tho 1 o'clock ‘stn, becatixe our provallin; winds aro from the southwest; also, pu your heaviest branches on that site, “In setting, reat care should be taken to have the roots spread out at fall, Jength, not twisted around in the hate, (DIL say hole? Your hole should be the size of your orehard.). Put the earth Inn little at a time, so that there will be no vacancies inder tha roots, Then pack the exrtl well on, the Fonts ny, stamp Mand fislsly with Ugh soll on top, “Well, what next? Much, (Ask sonic one what that means) Thorough cultivation Is one made of mufehings but Co prefer both: ilnds, “T prefer tho trunks four, and sometimes five tuches, In frees af spreading habits, “TE you havi properly set your trees, they Will not need staking. But It is the safest way to slake; for, if your trees get jeanne, towards Lake Michimun, the stn will seald the bark on. the sunny side, and you will invet with a failure, “Drive your stake on the sonthwest side, one foot Trom the tree. ‘Take your liny or atraw band: putit around your trees twist tt hard together. one foot; then open your atrands, anit putit around tha stake aud tie, That keeps the tree from rubbing the stake, “N. Do not get too many varieties, — fifteen at mast. “After-culture: Any hoed crop till the orchard comes into bearing, Buekwheat {s an excellent crop for orchards. Even {f(t ts not taken off it Keeps the soll shaded and cool, When seeded down, I nrefercloyer, It should not remain seeded long enough for the blue-grass to get poxsension. “Now, about the mbbits,. Mr. Welr anys it doesn’t kill the trees to Inve -the rabbits gnaw all the bark; but that isa mistake, in our experienc, When rabbits have the hablt of barking trees It Is quite certaln that either the trees or tho rabbits must. go; they cannot both survive. ‘Therefore we eneaut- nae the shaoting of tha nestiferous quadru- ped, You ean make soup of him if you like that kind of thing, and In due tine. your young orchard will have grown to_mittirity, —athing of beauty and a joy for years to come." 0, THE FARM AND GARDEN. Timely WMinta-An Unpopwar Law— Seraping the Mark of Trecx—Too Many Varistlos—iilich-Colored Butter Agricultural Eduention—Planting Poas—Whent-Prospeet, From Our Own Correspontent, Cramraran, LL, Feb, 12.—The “ want” of Athing is sometimes more expensive than tho artielo Itself. ‘The absence of a hatchet, AX, saw, Or sone other implement or tool, frequently enttges the Inss_ of. valuable lives and the waste of a great deal of property, aA pall of Water, if it had been ab hand, dashed upon the Names when first discovered, would probably have saved Chicago, No gooa farm- er is, dr should be, without all the tools and extra pleces that may ve needed for repalring farm-machinery, If such things are not al- ready on hand, ‘their purchase should no longer he delayed. In acountry where coal ig almost the exclusive fuel, axes are In no speclul demand, but a sharp hatehet ts often needed. ‘There should be on every farm a saw, n few chisels of ditferent sizes, a brace and bits, an Inch augur, plichers, shocing- knife, @lveting-hammer, punches for metal and tenthor; files, both threevornered and flat; cold-chisel; ananyil, or iron of some kind to be used for an anvil; 2 bench and serew; a supply of, shingle, lath, and flye or lx different sizes of nails, including»: few, “clluch” nally of different slzes; a supply of yarious-slze— earringe-bolts, a monkey- wrench, and many other things: that will readily suggest themselves, WIth anample supply of tools, and extra cleyis and clevis- pins, ete, a farmer can anyve the largest por- thon of running to the blacksmith for repuirs ata tine when he can least afford it Tt is nots good plan to walt until an article fs broken before getting it mended. ‘Take a Jookat the hnlf-worn clovisur, the eackeyes In the tugs, the ellps on tho single-trees, the ring to the neekyoke; and, If much worn, get them repaired, It is bad policy to walt until the sudden breaking, of semo of theso things causes your team to run away, with consequent smashing of the vehicle, and per- haps some broken bones of your own to re- mind you of your folly. “AN UNPOPULAR LAWL? Woe really never expected tu come’ across a man who believed that a law restraluing the cultivation of dogs, and consequently en- couraging sheep-husbandry, wrong; bit we haye seen the man, and heard hha talk, He Informed us that the Dog awIs a wrong huy, and yery unpopular with farmers, A dog 1s ono of tho greatest alds that a farmer can have, while it does not pay. to ralse sheep, ‘The soll 1s too wet in this Staite, so he said; and large flocks cannot, be made profitable because they ret the scab, the foot-rot, or souwather disease. Tle uduultted that sheep. sometimes pald big dividends, and that they ent shnost alt kinds of weeds; but they lind niwnys to be xunrded, When asked why, the old nian was foreed to adinit that It was tu keep the doga away, It wasin vain that we explained to hint that 16 was not so much to protect the present owners of sheep—be- cause thelr numbers are few—that the Dor Taw was enacted, but to encourage others to go Into sheeprralsing without having to wateh prowling curs; he porststed Ine his statement that the dog was the most yaluahlo anhalt of the two to the farmer, it isa pity that such men exist to pervert publio sent{ nivnt, and raise dogs almost under the shadow of our Agricultural College, SCRAPING THE DARK OF TREES, The Gardener's Monthly says that * Thero ‘fare still dseusstons ug tu the value of serap- ing off the loose, dead bark of trees. Faw of those who spenk agalast it xeent to have lind practical experlence In the case, ‘They ar- gue thatit Is *Nature’s plan of protecting: trees from cold? ‘Those who have tried scraping off this dead) bark and washlng the atenis donot talk this way. If Is an excellent practice to produce good trees.” Tn this wo agree, and wo iddvise owners of old mossy-grown trees to serape the bark, aud thon apply a contin, of elther lime ora weak solution of potash—say a pound cli solved In six gallons ‘af water, "The good effeets Wil be atonce seen in the growth of the tree, ‘This work, to be effectual, should be done now, or before the snp starts. TOO MANY VAILETIES, At the late mecting of the Northern Itnols Hortleultural Sovlety, S, Hinkler, a vote eran orehurdist of Kendall County, sald that, experience had taught him that ten or fifteen’ varieties of apples were suliclent for any orchard that was planted for profit; and that, to sell well, au apple must have a red akin, Mr, Minkter’s expertenco tullies with that of every other orchirdist who grows apples for profit, It makes n vast diterence in the price Whether a car-lond of apples, when sent to market, 14 made np of ong Variety or of a dozen, Fifteen varieties ave suficlent far a family orchard of 200 trees; yet we haye hown ten, when selecting an orchard, to get as many kinds as thore were trees, : WIGHE-COLOKED UTTER, Fashion decrees that butter, to be “gilt- edged,” must ‘ellaw, Color is not wholly the result of ‘feed, ag butter from the milk of some cows [3 always of a ght olor, Many butter-mukers use the Juleeof carrots, others the oC egy, te Lupart the proper color Both of these substances can be depeiled on for only a short thie, ax the color fades, Comnstalks, and carn or cornmeal, fed to cows, usually tend to make thebutter yellow; but a great deal even then rests with the cow. Woe prefor white butter to that eulored with any substaney, be it carrol, egg, annatto, or any of the perfected butter-colors, so-called. ‘There 1s, however, Nile use in trying to clange fashion, Says Mir, Geddes, in’ the Rural New- Yorker: “The deniand Inthe market was for colored butter, and it must be colored by feed to the vow, or artliieladly when mak hi. He had eaten butter In Philadetyhia that had cost $1.15 per pounds and on the table that butter showed the carrot-fibre with which it had been colored. People who wanted to ent thelr carrots In ae way and pay $1.13 per pound, shoutd bo given the privilege they do- manded, Tho next day, at the suing table, he had eaten butter that coat 50 cents per pound Y, And, for his taste, It at the corner are was Intinitly au . AQHICULTURAL EDUCATION. Tho man who oxpects that a foiur_yenrs’ course of study fn nn Agricultnral College nctical farmer, iy greatly the most sensible state- ments on the subject that we haye recent- Chase at tho Nebraska State. Fair Ho patel: “* Eduention in ev aris and sciences, trades, ant will ft him fora professions, Is valuable only ns itis puraned with the inten: tion of nequiting knowteidze for the actual benetits it confers,—tho ulvantage It gives Its poseessor Over thosd who have hot secured it. ‘The modern method of studyhy through the medinim of books, and by the alt of professors, so-called, is all well the student lias been a practien) en 80 that he can appreciate the subject hich his thoughts are engaged. And itmay be of Mitch servies to the tian who afterwards become: wine only, but tn a mers graduate College to support, ron books, or the tratuing of his tifors, the necessary knowledge to enn ble hin to auecessfully conduct an ordinary farm, 1s siniply preposterous, lea knowledge of echomistry and of the nature of soils, and thotr relation to ver: and may have continued his answer abstruse avestlons as to the adlaities extatlig between tation and animal developmen I find, If he concludes from this he ean rin a farm, that he fs sadly mistaken. the callings to whieh man has ever turned his: attention, farming requires the most actual practleal experlence, tom In the New Engiand time, as it is said, of sending the dull bays of the family to college, and putting the bright ones to work on the farm, was 0 se A boy of ordinary mind can be e the standard of the so-called learned profes- slons, or to follow the routine of the pro- fessor’s chair, but tt takes a bright brain and an energetic hand to so mange the sol to make it a willing, profitable servant,” PLANTING PRAS. We trust that every farmer who reads Tire have a good vegetable-gurden fou Many farmers negleet’ this inost valuable adjunct of te farm, and lose Many gardens that we notleed Inst summer had a slugie row of and from thls a sup- White he has rescarclies wn! are tates, in the olden lots of gratification. peas a rod or two lon ply was expected for man could lave eaten the whole crop at one Peas should be plentiful garden, If: they get ripe, or there are too iuany, eut thens at the ground, and feed them fs The Revel New-Yorker, from caroful tests and inquiry, confidently reeomments to its readers the following pens ag aimong the * most desirable in cultivation: “For earliest, Early Dan O'Rourke. garlivst pea and the poorest. ton) bears balloonish pods, but the vines are. prolife, and the peas 1 For ‘second, ently, tle Gem Is beat. nieking about one week tater than Dan For an carly pea that grows to such a hight that tt does not absolutely re- try brushing, and for gener! excellence, generally placed’ first. aAinerfean Wonder matures at about the same thme, and is the only variety that disputes a claim to the first place with the Little Gem, Chenipion of England fer for tho main crop, and British Queen for Palladetphiw is tha and ugeniy we pre- WHEAT-PROSPECT, Since our last letter was written wo have vistted several Helis of wheat and made a person extinnation. the fields visited have been greatly daunged. ns of the plants have, in some places, Hed by frost; but this Is nothing, 28 the plant nearly always dles down to the sur- face unless covered by snow; but the pluits Jook grear and healthy, even on round that is quite wet, ‘There fy plenty of ine yet for the crop to be destroyed; but. there is no need of worrying about It. fact that we noticed was, tht, where the drilis run north and south, tthe pkints were Jess Injured than where the drills run enst and west, Careful inquiry among farmers indlentes that inany of them were nore and that flelds whieh hought to be kill We do not find that frightened than hurt, two weeks ngo were aro now putting on n green thit and promise v ———_— SHORT-HORNS FOR DAIRY PURPOSES. Prorone, WII! Ca,, IL, Feb. 10—In your tysue of Jun. 31 there Is a short account of the proceedings of the Wisconsin Dalryinen at Elkhorn, one Item of which I desire to. A paper was read advocating tho uso of the Short-Horn euw for dalry purposes, course of the remarks which followed, the optiton was advanced, that “Lo maintatn the ayolrdupols of-the Durham for seven or eight yeurs Was not -compensated for whon sho This Is to any,.that a cow of the siwall dairy breeds, which lias been bret with the sole object of milk in view, Is more profituble In the end than o cow of the Dur- Kham breed in which the milking qualities are Not only so, but tho enso of fattening and the better price ob- saliued for the fultened animal on necount of superior size, welght, quality, and appearance front.n buteher’s stantvolnt, both fall to make good the suppused deflelency, ‘Lhis claim ds x common one with the advo- cates of the smaller, special dalry breeds, It seems hardly possible that tho common ob server, Who knows something at least of the qunlittes of the variotts breeds of cattle, will recelve this as truth, without arigid serutiny of the grounds upon Whieh sucha claim must rest. 1t Is not intended to question the supe rlority of thaworsey cow for butter, but the broad claim referred to, Nor is it my Inten- tlon, inteed, to discusa the Inttor, oxcept so for as it ts indirectly connected with ‘the In- terests of farmers in general. As far ns ft interests dairymen alone, I Tenve it to ‘thom Mr, Editor, Is It, to .bo -taken intepest, Is Inde went to beef.” strongly developed, ranted that tho date dent in the yiatter of dalry-cuttle? If not, st trig that the sinaller breeds of dalry-cat) tle are the most profituble for any other men, | the average farmor? If is the most profitu- average farmer? It Is theyobser- vation of the writer that dalrymen who breed thelr own milking stock haye been, wp to the present thane, rare indeed. The mafority of the dalrles as they exist at present wre made natlve,cows purchased widen $y not without Its ndyoestes that adafrymen keep up the supply of their dairy by continual purehnse of fresh cows, and fattening and turnly cease to glyo a pro! Whatever thelr pract! ron the farmers, of when they ituble flow uf mui. ees in diferent com the fact remains that good mileh- sale to datrymen, and prob- I. ‘Phat is to say, that the dairy Intercat fs not independent In this re- 8] and itis not reasonable to suppose that it ts elther probable or WH! not be likel Butter-makors wi ably always) wi Cheese-mimutaeturers mille to enlves, have plenty of milk feed to calves. But one-half the calves front ear by yenr, will bo bull-calves; igent dutrymen are breedth proved stock, where they do breed, L not want to vraetieally throw away this half of their yearly inerense, They will to rulse theni to a profitably age, and getsome return for their extra milk, Lut what ara dersey graded steers worth, as compured with sueh graded Short-Jlorns as he Stock-Yurds of Chicago? i a numeraus cliss of ereamerles, Who take thelr mil have Tt manufnetured Into b row thelr steers to full want 0 steer to be farmers who Ilve near miatitrity, and they, worth sumietiing when ratsed. But there ty niways a percentage, fenmles of any first-rate milk pay for thelr re: renter oF les: ‘These must be made to arin fn some Wily, farmers {ny general, who are Keeping fromsix to twetity cows, and not patvontzlng dairies, but who manutacture helrown butter, ane to their calves, and half-dozen ta an eveis selling them for stockers feed, what breed of cat- Uefs most Hikely to meet thelr wanta? Jt dof any desvription, what feeder enres to fatten any but those steers which Wil wake a good wolgl and uppearanes in the Btock-Yards, and se! what do farmers want? Of the Ine reody thoy want the one which will ost verfeetly the two profitable tles of 3 and beef, "The guecesses of he Durham ¢attle in theso poluts have proy yoked the keen opposition of various riya) nevertheless, Increasing ‘Tho enormous ox- tension of the Western cattle business has Me buef-producing breeds a gran @ success of the Herefo: year fottening their tar-londof steers, oF to men who buy and cattle within the past fow years lina been largely due to this fact. It has not been due to any generally recognized merit.as a milk- Ing breed, although, itis elalned, fnstances are not wanting of good miletpsows among them. Unless they, by future attention to this pulnt, develop greater milking powers, they will not compare with tha Durhams in meeting tho wanta of the nvernge farmer. io fell Is atl] open to thom to demonstrate thelr prac: tieal stiperiority. In Devens, and perhaps olstelng, the ‘Durhant cattle have, In the contbined qualities, generatly unsuccessful competition, ‘There are men who, Having And, ns for thelr beef quulittes, tl seen only such branches or families of Short Vlorns as have been bred with apie reference to beef, whl be dlaposed to deny much ex- ecllence ns milkers, Some breeders have sy tematiently dlycournged the intiking quall- thes until the dam will not give sufletent. to ralse the calf, white the heef-produelng (ual el, Such breeders will be likely, In tho near fut- ure, lo ehange Hholesimoelien on this polnt, flower popular estinina- for, whatever the wants of the Western: r, the average farmer must have milk ites Nave wot been materially bere or reap the results 01 thot ar us well ng beef. Butthere are plenty of Durham cattle to de found whose mitking qualities have been and strengthened, and na bull stock will _as certainly stamp this istle upon his progeny as he will tho superior form and quality which are reck- leneles, | In always been, eneaurn from sw characte oned among thelr many excell Meu the Durham enttla have noted In Bugland cheese Is uncerta! good beef-cattle are always profitable. Dalrymen cannotcomplain if their supplies come from fine milking Durham stock, so much more profitable to other men, Mnsteat of from Jerseys, ete, suited onty to fauey dairymen and village families. Yours truly, Arnpent C, FRENCH. NEBRASKA. A Business Boom—Salo of Lands— Graiu-Production — Population —Thoe School Systent—Immigratlon—Coni- parisons With Kankns. Spectal Correspondence of Ihe Chteago Tribune. Omana, Neb, Feb. 8—L lave Just re- turned from a flylng trip on the Union Paeliie Rutroad, golng os far west as Plum Creek, Nesrly sx months had elupsed since my last trip, and In the meantime a “boom” had struck the State, “Everywhere were signs of prosperity; new houses have sprung up on every hand; new Mnes of railroad have Deen bullt, or old ones extended. Tmmlgration has continued steadily through tho winter; and now the Govern- ment and railrond Jand-ofllces are crowded day and night by those seeking homes in this State. ‘The Government land fy being taken up very rapldly, snd those wishing to get homesteads and Untber-elnius will find It to st to enter*thelr claims as early 3, 08, thd longer they watt, the far- ther they will have t0 gu to get desirable lands. Leavitt Burnham, Land Commissioner of the Union. Paeliie Rallroad, Informs me that thelr sales for January, 1880, were newly double those of that month In any other thelr Inte ag posslb yenr, and were as follows: Acres Bold... sees es Amount for which 6 Avorage price por ner Nunsber of purchaser Average neres to each,. ‘ ‘The inerense {n the State’s yield of nimost marvelous, as follows: Wheat aud corn, invrease In 1870 over 1877 40,000,000 bushels, and in nereage 1,030,000 acres, In- crease In 1879 over 1871 75,000,000 bushels, and 2,800,000 neres, * ‘The present population fs estimated at 500,- 000, with an expected Increase this year of at least 100,000, From a statement published by the Union Pacific Rutlrond Land Dopartment, I gatbor the following facts: LANDS GRANTED TO TIH UNION PACIFIC RAII- ROAD COMPAN’ In Nebraska, nearly (ucres),.. In Wyoming, about, In Utah, over... eee 3,000,000 tn Colorndo, nearly 700,000 In tll, OVO, ..2sereeneeee 400,000 OWARACTEN OF LANDS, Of which the Company have sold nearly 2,000,- Pannen At an average price of about a from wi goad Innd yet unsold. Some fiets ngs to the school-system of Nebraska, taken from. tho officlal report of the Superintendent of Public instruction, will no doubt Interest many of your renders, copoly those who purpose lnimigration to h 5 States ‘The officers aro; Superintendent of Public Instruction, County Suparintendents, Dis- trict Bourds, ‘The schools are::‘Ungraded, district graded, city, Stute University a Lincoln, State ‘Normal st Porn. Char ituble: School for “Blind, at Ne- braska City; Institute for Deaf and Dumb, Omatias Reform Sehool, Kearney. In cuiition, there are County Institutes and Associations, Normal Institutes, and Stute ‘Teachers! Agsochations, ‘The seliool-revenue consists of the followinc: A local tax of from 10 to 25 mills on the dollars a State tax of one anil on the frand ussessment, for interest on the perma teachers’ wages only; nent school fund; moneys reeelved for lense of school lands, and Interest on school Innis Bold; no ceriatn fines, Heenses, ete, ‘The setiool-noputation fs 125411. ‘Tenehers em- ss ungraded schools, 3710; grad- he i ployed, 3 ed, 0. over 2, and the produ fund over $2,000,000, which increased during 1870 $500,000. ‘The school-revenue for the ky year from all sources was over $1,000,- . ‘The tnerease has been us follows: 1870, ey 7 oe 8 education! endowment Sure Ive seloal School-dlstricts,. Children, fowlng ts the. repor' den emigrant business from Marely 1, 1879, to the clogs of the year: Kowarded to Co- lumbus, Neb, 4%: Omaha, 3 Grand Island, Wahoo, 168; Schuyler, Keawney, 283 North Phu Créok, 8;—tolal, 1,415. Natlonalltty Roleuwlang, 807; Germans, 24; Swedes, 2105 Danes, 14; Poles, 12555 Norwegians, 575 Ausirinns, 65; niclinh, 135 Swiss, 80; Duteh, Ms Trish, 105 Russians, % > ‘The ‘followlng comparisons were taken from the report of Willlam G. Le Dug of the Agrlenttural Bureaus Ransas fu 1870. planted to corn 2,718,760 acres, from wiileh was realized 80,710,740 Dusliels—an ayernge of thirty-three bushels fo the nore. Nebraska in 1870 planted to vor 1,525 feres, producing 68,522,100 bushels,—an average of forty-five bushels per aere, Kansas in wheat—1,64,000 neres, produc- tng 18,059,060 bushela,—avernge eleven bush- els, Nebraska tn whent—1,154,310 neres, pro- dueing 13,048,703 busliels,—an average of 11,0 bushels to the acre, ‘The postal Fecelpts from Nebraska in 1870 were $01,868; 1 1879, $254,051, But enough of dry details, The weather Benen through the winter las been plens- MM Devomber wag \the most disngreeuble month, being very cold; but the ronds haya been good ah the thie, There 1s nomud jn this State,—the soll ds pecuttar in that re- spect—and Jnall my journeys through tho State, atall thies of the peat Thave rarely seen bad roads, ‘The soll, although porous, pavks when traveled upon, and the roads #oon become aintost ag hnrd as aconcrete pavement; and, when ral, comes, It drains readily, TY, SustwaL, —— Miding Seven Yours ina Sycamore Tree, Midway 4.) CUpper, . Since giving an agcount Inst Weck of tho large sycamore tres on Bir. 3, 3. Harpers pluve, we have leurned that tts history is even more tutors esting than wo supposed. The man wha made it his place of refuge was Named Charles Colatan, ond was on uncle, and not grandfather, of higry Colaton. He waa the grandfather of Abe Porry, the trainer, and.ulud of Luke Rtwokburn, the Versalllea barber, and was at that timo, nearly: sixty yours vyo, tho carriuge driver of Lord Robert Alexander, Sr. ‘Taking offouge at sumo- in he informed tho bouwsy girth that bo ine tonded to drivo tho carrluge over 4 precipicy, and KIN bis innster, She reported whut’ hi Deen comniunlented to ber, and Charlos wus gold toa Southorn trader, ne stated. Iv was shippod Bouth, where ho picked cotton hilt a day, aud knecked bis averyeer in the Lend with a'hoo. inlkers in tines past. Dell, in lis his tory of Shori-llorns, is said to stute that, be- fore they beenme famous as nw breed, thoy were known as the best milkers In existence, Bul Short-Horn breodera throughout the country might hear abundant testimony on this point, and the columns of tha Netonat Live-Stock Journal witness from tims to thne the reputation of this breed as milkers, avhere all breeds have been tried, and where datrying {a no new business as tn Amerlea, the Durham iy yet the most popular dairy cow. Farmers should consider cares fully before committing themselves ton breed of cattle which can but partinily meet thelr demands, ‘The preuitabtenms ‘of butter wad n and variable as yet, but Racaping immediately, ho made Teky, and tone Fer Tan the eee ey 8 Rene whore he Ilved coven yeu botory hace, ploee beonmne known. “Ho wan tiken totr Inge rallies jail after being oaptured, wher Vase contined for somo time, “Ho was ntti! bowght by Mr, Mites, wha ‘then owned (ere place, and atalater dato wus went at rally since whioh nothing has been heart Me ART IN NEW Yoni. Thirtconth Annual Exhibition Amerlenn Water-Color Suctetyent! Victures Khown by Shirlaw, wre Votk, and Beckwith, of Clicnge Bpectat Corresponitence of The Chicago Trin New York, Fob, 4.—Chicayo hus always a arent inturest in tho olforts and the exhibition of the Amortean Water-Color Soelety, and ist glvon thom more generous support thay m4 othor ofty outaldo Now York, and you wil, th at fore, bo glad to loarn that the thirteenth anmey exhibition of the Svolety, Just opened Were tho 2d inst. [an marked ndvanco on all Previ exhibitions. It Is lurgor, better, and moro fi ising In ovory way; not only is thoto great in creano in tho number of works shown, but me improvemont in tho quality of tho work; : from overy point of view tho exhibition ts full of gratification and of hope to tho Artista them, selver as well ag to tholr frionds nnd to.the ar, loving public. © ‘THR UBUAT. REORPTION and private view, which takes place antghtortey before tho formal pentag, was 1 most enfoyayh affatr. The Academy of Design, at the Grae of ‘Twenty-third atreet and Fourth avenue rented by the Boclety for thelr anutal exhib tlon, was brilliantly lighted, and chotecly iceo, rited with plants and shrubs, and Mited by 9 p, m, with a cheerful crowd, just largoenougy, nnd, not too largo; ap that ono wis not tunpleasanily impeded 1 his tour past tho walls, and cou) get good glimpses of tho pletures without “shoving” or being shoved, ns 1s the ease with nearly alt “ Orst nights." ‘Tho Soclety docs wel} in Keeping up its reputation for being scloct ty Its fnvitations. None but artista, art critics and thelr Intimate friends are blidden to thie privute view, “No Ludles” $s platoly printed on tho card of Invitation, and what the assemblage uty logd In brittianey by tho absence of women, and of their tolleta, 18 perhaps mora thin wads up by the aana gene, the gentality, aud the une hampored enjoyment of the men, Cirgars and elgarets ure freely found about, Heer tloystrum, the key.—nbove which, on i little sheit, are threo dolla’ thy heds, flenished and imnde pis realistic style that would bave delighted Ae henrt of Misa denny Wren, with tho legend Hobol,”" on nminiuture sign, that tha Brcie law may be safely defied —a nent burlesqia on the cuatomury evaslon of the New York Itcan, >In the coursy of thoevening a chotce kite tle supper Ss served, with tho accompaniment cf the biumeless clarot-punch. Everybody now smokes, and ctiticiam, Jeat, ana chiltl aro ex. chinged through the clouds, which serve butte, atimutato the vision, ag well'as. the wit, of your true artist! By MW o’oloek tho guests begin quietly to drop iway, fn the bost of moods with the Soelety of Water-Color, whose generous hoe pitallty has given thom so delleht ful an cventag and purveycd so plensantly to all the senses, THESE REUNIONS OF ARTISTE and of their frlends are becoming more fre quent here, a8 the urtiats thomselves grow {n numbers and in organizntion, Not until Intely have Amortean artists begun to form a class by thomselves, as thiateluss exists in tho Continental cities, Thoy have hithorto, In. our society, been of itand a part of J ag individual mesipers— with a great denl of fellow-fecting among themselves: for thalr brother artista, but with little fifo {i common, ns shown in clubs, in_classes, In the atelier life, such as wo lind In Paria, Muntely and other art centres, OF bite we have been fultuting this desinible aystem of fellowshfp, and what with the constant {nilux here of young Americans fram the studlos of tho Otd World, bringing thelr tustes and habits with thom, and whit with tho formution of various clisses and elnbs,—such ns the Salma yen the Tile Club, aud othors.—our artists ure orming a stratum of thelr own in onr soclety. It is wellit should be so; by belug thus thn togethor, n stimulus fa given to thelr ym puthies, thelr friendships, and thelr efforta; cach one $$ Hfted outof and above tho dull daily round of isolated surdlo work; a heulthy rivalry ja erented ayulust the old mea bound Institutions and traditions Inevery way, In those numberless cuses w! organizi« tloh is so important, thoy ure able to achieve moro than over before, “Touch-your-elbow, comrades," i4 tho secret in the victories of peace no less than those of war. And whut thooutshe world mung in varions ways thore 4 no need ta describe to those who have had glimpses of this aweet and joyous Mfe_ here or fn tho Continental cities, while to those Philistines who eare not (or ne It would bo quite ont of place ty broatheot pe ih AS TO THE PICTUIES In this collection, {t would be impossible to give, after a first view and Ina hasty letter, any just eritictam., ‘Thore {8 muoh that fs good—gor not only In ftsolf, but In tho promige of better in the future—that to speak of thom, In deri ++ 4,800,000 ¢ 4)500,000 hich they have realized over $8,- 500,000,—and ive nenrly 2,000,000 acres of would almost demand a reproduction of the very handsome and complete catalog Issued i tho Society, and woutd Include ml the usual well-known naincs, with those of many new and meritorious men. Tho sew views ‘nuturally ‘eateh one's eye on tho walls of ah water-culor display; fur, with Its necessary: Hmitations of muterial, (anc ia miore ensily obtained {1 water, colors; nnd the tone of a damp atutos phere, of gray. seas, of “dell gray skica.’ lends lteelf al inirably to reproduction In tholr washes, The lnrge- View, and poveral smaller anes-taken from the noble bay and hurbor of New York of Mr. Honry Farror, the Secretary of tho & clety, naturally attrnet one at once, Mr. dumet C, Nicoll, the former Becretary, fas, in Nae Hint,” one of hig admirable stidles of cea, and crag, and coast, and shows himsclf almost equal: Wy strong In two capital views of woodland and forest, cuted * Burned Pines? and “ Peekskill’ And among tho muny sketches of coast end river Mr, Francia A, Silva shows his keen ale servation and pructiced hand [1 threo large ¢- amples, In which hie halds: the mirror up ta €a> sida nature. «ind somo of your + YOUNG MEN FRoM cutoaao show well in this colleot(on, and nro indeed, i every way, coming to tha front yery rapidly, You know already what bus been dou by Wale ter Shirlaw and by Mr. Enrlo; and Mr, Douglass Volk, aon of your sculptor, and Mr. J. Carl Heekwith are working steadily Into reputation. Hoth have lnrge gliwes,—the, former at the Cooper Institute, tha fitter at that young at Vigorous institution, the Students’ Art Leagie, und both are doing good work {n oll, thelr chosen metier, ‘drop into water, however “in a friendly way. nt thes, and fre repre gonted on tho wills of thla ‘collection, Mr Neekwith'a “Scherzo” is n tonting female figure, with waying arms and towing drapery Instinct with Ife, and motion, and grace, a showlng tho brillant and nasunad touch of tbe perfect dranghiginan, Mr. Vatk's stolen Fee lelty shows un i drowsy oll butler, sleeply off he elfou the wine ho has uppropriate from the well-.lled table of his master. Tables and chair, and all, neo fitting for tho tmedlers room and In keeping with the great oll tt plice Aling the bickground. ‘This threplace and chimacy-piece are copied from ane of Thee Yamous old ones ft tho Musde Cluny’ at Vatlt, wud make nn admirable setting for dls char lug aketeh, IT 18 INTERESTING TO NOTE how these quant bita of turchitocture, of Inte: rors, hy old houses, In the streets how te most ondinuy seenes In tho daily life of thes young artists on tho other side,—ure brought over hero on tholr ennvages ind niado a busting JOY tous, to Whont thoy are ao far nway Bnd se fur beyond our datiy Ite. Tho old aiarket of Bh Gormutnedes- Pros ta commonplace enough te those who daily past through ft; but here Lad bit of It, with Its shabby old fonntaln In the ce tre, put’on paper by Me, Jultan Welty with 2 Keen neyo for (ta picturesque points. wid sure a hind, aa to transform ft for 1s “in something rich and strange.” And Mr. Thea dore Robinson; of Wisconsin, gives ns me thos shabby little pousant yltia, whont we my have stumbled over In the atreels ar on the ol bride nt Gréz, on tno edge of the forest 0 2 Fontaineblem ves hor fi a charming aketels fn which overy Ine shows power und reliant pronilge of what ho {fs going to do, 1b, E. ot MAID MARIAN, Leantng againat the stilo sho stands, Mald Muriia with sweot oycs of brown, With wind-touched tumples, aud Idle bands, And hatr that f3 golden aus roynl crown. Whut are you dreaming of, brown, brown ¢ ‘That look'v'er tho flelds with a far-off look gt sunching Salling from Autumiukies, jading the mendow, and bill, and brook? ulin, vote ory of Sumner OF tie duy that Isooutng Hike somo Old Lea, Faltoring under the frost and rime? What ure you brooding o'er, red, red mouth? Was the Buna tid fate or tubo 0 yout Was tt languld with fragrance of tho Routh, Or did the storm-vlouds covor the blue? Adi still, whito hands, was tt weal or WO. up ‘Pogt you! dealt to a heart whieh In wget y' younw hourt beat mth a Or throvbing with rapture ae momories West? AL who cau tell? Your face {sso cath Hut your oyus ure so duek, aud. your lips sore? sons ib wake benoath the bal of’youra, were he tying dowd oe yee DuLICOLe ——————— Poll’s Inference, es A" pretty Poll,” who bad been taught toseere ts Minster, fell foto the pands of w bie who resolved fo break up tho bird's bad Hable To offect thla, every time be utterad an OM pits ducked th cold water, und thon S by fy ne day, whe 1a WI from tho ettouts of hls puntahinent, a bet Sp chickons that had got ratn-goaked was P or at wi Ri fald, wotta youu y Dd little fools! bee Meo ing, hey?