Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 17, 1881, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 1881—-TWENTY-FOUR PAGLS. 4 HTSICAL INSTR UMENT. 8)§ S0.UOp nly house in Chicazo that has un- tedly represented as their lending ¢t one Plano—THE MATCHLESS s tho o futerrup ramen Lo W AT—conceded by the great musi- elcbrities of both hemispheres to bo Shoutn peor in thoworld. Inthe mean- Lime, other dealers have been_constantly mEing their leading plano. from ane to S her, in the vain endeavor to obtain an t that would in any particalar WRY. o fostramen approach tho Steln (Carryinstock and represent a number of gt class, medium and low-priced Pianos, jomo of which are sccond only to the Seinway. Tho city sales of Areconsummated only attheir warerooms, Yhey mever have. and do not now add ta thocostof thelr instruments, by employing orcountenancing any so-called city solicl. tors, agents or drumimers—malo or female —#ho harass 50d humbug the community atiheirresidences or pluces of business. Have continuonsly represented the cele- brated Burdett Organs from the founda- tion of the house to the present time, during which poriod they have sold up- wards of twenty-three thousand of these snperb instruments. ~ = = = [~} = =] (-] ‘; [=~3 b o Hare recently taken the agency of that marvellous instrument, the Mechanical Orguinette, their territory for ita male ex- tending from the eastern boundary of Michigan to the Pacific coast. & Occapy alargerarea of business room, em- ploy more men, and do a more extensivo Dbusiness than any similur establishmentin theland. Their position inthotradeasthe largest buyera enables them to control tho the ‘most desirable lines in cach depart- ment, which they offer to retail and wholo- salo burers on the most favorable terms of payment, and at the vers lowest prices consistent with quality. o L < =5 (=3 S = 3 R = A & Possess unusual facilities for tuning and repairing planos, organs and other muni~ cal instrugents. They constantly employ in this départment 22 tuners, regulators, piano-makers and repairers. Special at !tention given to the finest grade of work in this line. FURNITURE. £, BAMBERGER, 250 & 252 Wabash-av. e are now ready to show the best assortment of FURNITURE in the ehiy. and make the lowest prices. Wo bave tive floors, 0x130, tilled with choice Cesigns which we will sell AT A SLIGHT ADVANCE ABOVE NET COST. WANTED. “To Manufacturers. A rentlemnn of larze business experience, about o remove to Boston wouid represent some Western manutactorer. or zome ather enierprise of the right ceamcter. in that murket. ighest references. Ad- dress B ). Tribune citice. HER WISH GRATIFIED. . FIrs. Spelght Goes to the Bridewell, Mrs. Harriet C. Speizht will please accept the eincerest apologies of that reporter of THE Tuinrxe who is responsible for the statementin Yyesterday's paper that sbe did pot go 1o the Bridewell. She did, most cmphatically. She was arrestea, und she refused to be bailed out. | Ehe was bound to spend a night in a cell. She did that 100. Ehe was tined, and she was deter- “mined 1o spurn ull assistance in paging her tine that she might go to the Dridewell. Not all the persuasive elogu ence of attorneys, nor the ter- rible threats of the police, nor the entreatics of friends, mor the supplications of the Judge wko reluctantly fimposed the fine. nor tho thoughts of the future, nor the sbhame of the degradation, could sway thut resolute woman one hair's breudth from the course which she bad murked out for herself. Go to the Brid ¥eil she would, and go to the Bridewell she did. When naught but a weary juunt in the Maria™ would appease her curious finey wus taken up tenderly and lifted tw the Jehicle for the convicted, und wway she went, Jos deplcted in every Jineament of ber counte- Dance.” [n bidding adieu to the scenc of her ‘contiict with her friends, she shed nota fear. Ehe josfully took ber scat in the b £ud cried cheerily to the driver: “Sce bere, young man, 1 want you o Know AN You will bave 10 bring me back in this same A " Let it bz repeited, sbe did 5o to the The only strange poiut in the alluir Ashow the reporter could bave been So misied acd mistakeu in hix judgment as 1o belicve the Slatement that she did not succeed i getting berself within the walls of the House of Correc- -don. Aay one with hulf un ability to read hit- mag nature and its workings from tacial expres- -slon might bave known that 3rs. Speight woutd -do us e blupk plcased. When the reporicer saw .beria the cell, her angry exe in tine frenzy roll- dng, her rizht arm uplifted in_no uncertain gesture, and her mouth shut with arim de- * ‘Termigation, any one mixht have told tiat she would huve her own wuy. The patient, care- worn policeman who accompanied the Tews- gutherer to the ccll wixht be excused for suy- Jng that Mrs. Speight was 2 ** holy terror. The eccentric ofd lady was voesterday par- ‘doned out of tho Bridewell by Muyor Harrison. Bhe didn't take kindiy to prison fure. The new opera of “La Mascotte” is now Teadyand for sale at Lyon & Healy’s, price SL%. A correspondent of the Herald, who Jas seen “La Mascotte . in Paris, sa “stituted RAILROAD POOLS. The Anti-Monopoly League Begins Agitating the Subject. 4 Pointed and Stirring Address to the Railway Commissioners. Charges that Violations of the Law Have Been Shamefully Overlooked. Two Hundred Million Dollars Extorted An- nually from the People by Pools. To the Railiway and Warehouse Commis- sioners of of the Statc of Illinols—GENTLE- MEN: Your attention is respectfully called to the Fhuses caused by the pools formed by the railroad companies in this State for home traflic, as wel| west bound Ireight. By these pools the rates have been in many cases advanced from 15 10 300 per cent. For example, the rates on gr:\m from Chicago to New York, which in 1876 were 12 cents per hundred, were raised to 35 cents. In the Ilepburn investigation at Alb:_my it was proved by experts that a large profit could be made by charging 20 cents. ‘The same rates are fixed by these pools for carriage over all the pooling roads, while it is well known that a rate wbich is rea- sonable for carriage over the Toad of fl.m company having the longer haul heavier grades, and greater cost will be un- rpnsonable over another road of shorter haul, lighter grades, and less cos The burdens unjustly imposea upon our commerce every year by the east-bound pool alone hits been estimated by no less an au- thority than our Seerctary of the Treasury, Mr. Windom, at more than two hundred millions of dollars. Accepting even the criticisms and figures of Messrs. Fink, Stan- ford, and Jewett, chosen advocates of the railroads, we can plainly see that a large share of the advauce which has occurred since 1877 in the market value of the stocks of these railroad companies, and which ex- ceeds tive hundred millions of dollars, is made up of sums taken in plain violation of law, and chiefly by the agency of these pools, out of the poekets of our people. By pools, competition is destroyed, and during their continuance a perpetual and dreary monopoly is established: rates arearbitrary’; raised and lowered not with reference to cost or the Jawss of supply and demand, but at the mere will and caprice of the Pool Com- missioner. g During the administration of the majority of your Commission, this uncheeked abuse has become the established systew; and railrond companies are now engaged in extending it, and are devising plans 10 _pool the entire’ business between the Missippi and Missouri Rivers, aud even the Pacific Coast on the west and Liverpool and other European ports on the east. Juy Gould pro- oses to interest nself in the business of the Mississippi River, and in transportation v the Guif. In this event, with proper monopolies in steamboat lines upon our great lal cou- petition by the water routes will be at aun end; and then Mr. Pool-Comntissioner Fink can fix what rates he pleases, in summer as well as in winter. When these pools were being first formed in 1877 _our citizens com- plained to your Commission, and you called upon Attorney-General Edsall for his opin- ion. lle answered you that, if the rates fixed by the pools were unjust or unreason- able, the companies engaged in them were guiity of extortion. The pumishments for extortion fixed by our statutes are by fines; but they can be inflicted only throuzh suits instituted by you, No suits have been in _ various reasons may be—have been—assigned for this; but we desire again tocall yourattention to these notoriousabuses and ask you to bring the suits which you alone can bring to punish their aunthors. Prompt action on your part will save our people a daily loss of perhaps millions. The raliroad companies of New York ha not vet suffered that State to create a Rail on cven upon the onerous Y, shall name the Commission- ers! that in the absence of a Natlonal Commissiou your tribunal is to-day perhaps the only body having the power fo punish these offenses. For you, as the only trustees and guardians of the public interests, not to enforee the law is to connive at its violation. A policy of inuction is a policy of license; it is to decide for the criminals; to say to these railroad trustees in possession of our public highways, “Sap the public resources and biced the public purse at your will.” Qur people caunot, and as iudividuals ougzht not, to be driven to take tho law against these mighty monopolies, t is now about one month since you were confirmed,—confirmed in spite of charges of omissions of duty against a majority of your Board,—and_counfirmed upon solemn prom- ises of activity and efficiency in the verforiu- ance of your duty which should have borne instant fruit. ‘This fresh delay has cost the State, for which you are the trustees, many willions of dollars. ‘The quarrel for the momentof the com- panies forming the east-bound pool, due to yet unsuppressed competition of the Mis- pi route, furnishes you A favorable op- portunity to break it np. “Will you do it? What do you lack to enable you to act efticiently and successtully 2 Is the law im- perfeet 1f so, why do you not at once ask that.iv be amenaed,—while the Legislature is in session,—whilethe McWilliams bill for the suppression of pools is still pending, al- though temporarily di ted? lave you pointed out the defeets, prepared a proper bill, or given the Lewislature the infogmation on the subject which they have the right to demand ? Is your delay due to the want of money which the Legislature fails tv provide, and ha on made due representation fo the Legislature of the necessity and importance of putting down these pools? Have you ad- vised Gov. Cullom and reported to him the grnitude and character of these tbuses ex- isting in the great public interests put in our charge.—~the enormous k to the pub- lic involved in thisdelay tobring these crim- inals to justice? Why, gentlemen, vou know that they dwarf in magnitude the amount supposed to Dbe at stake in the Funding bill,—that was but ten willions in all.—this is two hundred willions a year; that was of sufficient im- portinee 10 ¢ s deep public concern—to lead to e dent—appeals u ages by the I by the Sceretwry of the Treasury—excited debates in Congress; and an extra ion to save this ten millions was only avoided by o\‘c{y ot another expedient by whici aved. What have yon done to express your con- cern this tenfold greater loss of the moneys of the pubhe,—this imperial tribute of two hundred milli levied yearly by these great through lines upon 2 euntinent; levied upon the commerce of you vwn State by pools destroying competition and creat- extortions = which alone have ing you the machinery to stop? How is it that you deny the -public the re- lief wineh is within your power? Are you e 2" Whose advice? And acting upon advi chat is that advice? Are you acting upon (Vi which is withheld from the public, and is in eoutlict with that given you by the Attorney-General 2 1t you say these gi- gantic pools which concern traftic which Stops or starts outside ot this State Is be- yond ¥ and is_gnly to be dealt With by 2 Commission, where is your authority for tais position? And why do you preserve the same poliey of inaction as to those pools which only concern home traflie, and are undeniably within your juris- dietion 2 If you are acting, not upon adviee, but upon the real promptings of the urgency of party, or of the privite interests of some man ur corporation, disaster will come. Itis with deep concern that the people note that the railroad companies which tram-, ple upon the law you should enforce, used all their influence at Springfield to secure the fi:cum contirmation of the majority of your oard, The friends and champions of thatcon- finaation are the special opponents of all Jegislation to give increased efliciency to this Jaw: the connmittee is the tomb of all such Jegislation; and in the same breath in which Vi n from the lips of these men that the i companies ought not to be subject to Governmental control; that the public ought to be satistied that they are better off than with mud-roads and farm-wagons; that *3 Whoever introduces * La Mascotte’ to the erican market will inake a mint of money, -that is certain, The nusic is even more fas- «Cinating than that of *Olivette,’ by the same Composer,” . ———— 5 The great German masters have united in & ‘neral testimonial in favor of an American alano—~the Hallet, Davis & Co tne big companies go into these pools to save the little ones trom ruinous competition,— in the same breath we are told *‘the laws now are amply sufficient to project the people if enforced.” s We warn you that the time for farther omission of duty on your part is past. You are simply a grand jury, and are for the carriage of east and | bound to prosecute suits against all corpora- tons violating the law whenever it shall come to your knowledge, either upon com- plaint or otherwise. or you shail have reason to believe that the laws have been orare being violated. £ It i5 o plain highway in which you should 2o forward and do your duty, ‘Enforce the laws or let the public know why yon do not; the people have a right to know,—the people will know just where the responsibility lies for the cuntinuance of these abuses. In our State, every person who shall be guilty of any palpable omission of duty, may way be fined not to exceed $1,000, and re- moved from his oftice, So runs the law; but this is the Iast argument of the people; and we bezyou to consider whether your further neglect to bring these great_carparations to Justice may not place you within the shot of this law. The Anti-Monoply League of Chi- cago. Enpwix LEE Browx, WiLLiaM S. BRACKETT, A. L. BRADLEY. STANLEY MATTHEWS. The Slave-Catcher Candidate for the Supreme Bench—Letter from a Man Who Attended the Connelly Trial. To the Editor of The Chicugo Tribune. Macoun, 11, April 15.—Readwz an ar- ticlo in your paper of yesterday on Stanley Matthews beinz a slave-catoher, it reminds me of the evens sthattook piace at that thme. I was present during the great trial of Will- iam B. Conuelly under the Fugitive-Slave law that created such a sensation throughout the whole country. The ecase was tried be- fore Judge Levett. Thomas Corwin appeared as counsel for Mr. Counelly. 1 remember when Stanley Matthews read Mr. Connelly’s letter in court, written to him in confidence as a brother Mason. Every Mason in the court-room looked upon Matthews with con~ tempt and indiznation when this letter was read. 1t was one ot the hottest days in the summer of 1857, and every foot of standing- room in the court-room was packed with men and women to hear Corwin's pl Ile cawe into the room und pulled oft his coat and vest, rolled up his _shirt-sleeves, and, throwing his suspenders down over his hips, for five long hours he held his hearers spellbound while he was making his plea, I shall never forzet a few remarks he made in his speech. Ife said: **\Who blames the poor black man for fieeing from the soil of his oppression? Who wonders he took refuge in the Gazette Building, when he heard the voices of the blood-lounds, the music of the drums and fife? Ile knew Churchill, the United States Marshal, wus on his track. Who blames William B. Connelly for giving him a cup of water and a crust of bread? 1 would have done as much for a dog. When that biack man’s spirit goes to God, who gave it, the voice of the bloud-hound, the music of the drum and fife will not be leard there, nor will Stanley Matthews be there to el force the cursed Fugitive-Slave law.” Those wio were present declared this was the greatest effort of Mr. Corwin’s life. Mr. Connely received a sentence of three weeks in the county jail. The ens of Cincinnati carpeted his cell and took him a library, and furnished him with all the delicate edibles the market aforded. W. 0. B. VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Miark Benublen’s Flddle. T the Editor of The Chicugo Tribune. CHICAGO, Aprll 16.—Just before the light- hearted, jolly old Frenchman expired, be asked for his flddle. Pluying oune of the lively old tunes nearly through, be hunded the lustrument to his son, saying, “Take thet to * Lone John'™ Mr. Wenuworth has the time-honored relic at his office. SATGANASH. Lougfellow, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. CAICAGO. April 16.—~Which of Longtellow's ** Tules of & Wayside Inn ' are transiations fromn foreign tongues? 1s the “Saga of King Olaf” a literal transintion or i3 it ouly an aduptation like some of the others? LEx. [Lougfellow's *Tales of a Wayside Inn,” in- cluding *The Sagn of King Oiaf,” are most of them the poet's versions of stories which he found in Bocecacclo and Scandivaninn sources. Noneof them are literel translations.} The Cousta Jepson Fund. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Ca1CAGO, April.15.—1 presume a number of citizens, of whom I am one, would be glad to know what has become of the money contrib- uted for the prosecution of the Cousta Jepson case. Please throw some light on tho. matter {f possible. Respectfully yours, ARY BENNETT, 13 Willard place. [The money rulsed for Cousta Jepson was i litile over 390.- It was intended 1o usé it at tirst tohire a luwyer to look after her interests. After the cesc got into the bands of o Stale’s Atiorney, thal was unuccessary. The crime was alleged to huve been commitied June 0. From that time until December the trial of the case was constantly postponed. The State mnkes no provision for tho support of ‘witnesses who are destitute. aod in this case the police thought it best to keep the girl out of sight where the prosecution could not get ather. Tiie money was, therefore, used in paying her board and {n buying for her certaln necessary clothing, of which £ic was utterly destitute.] Another ¥Protest. To the Lditor of The Chicago Tribune. CnIcAGO, April 16.—Isce by the papers that the railroads are about to add one mwore nuis- ance to the many we now bave, which is to place cobble-stone pavement in the tracks, which will mitigate the puin received when riding on a corduroy. Chicugo cfty railway track, as the noise will deaden the feeling one hns when riding on the cars. Having traveled for my health in California and other States, I found San Francisco, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and New York to have the worst cobble-stone paved streets in the United States. and before adopt- ing this kind of puvement for Chicago the City Councl]l - should send a cowmittce 10 these cities and Htnd what cbjections there -are to it. ‘The refuse of the street will settle down between the cobblestones asit does between the blocks in other stone pavements, #s it does In New York and other cities, endangering the healih of the people. OF all the cities 1 bave visited. taking everything into consideration, Chicago bas two miles square of better pAvement thun any otber cily In the TUnited States, exceptiug Detroit, which is ot cedur bloes. The public iood requires n smooth, noiseless puvement, where the material construcnon is plenty aud cheap, as in this city, and not one that has” been abandoned for many years by all the European cities vALID LADY. AN IS % Coblle=Stonen. To the Editor of Tue Chicago Tribune. CmrcaGo, April 16.—~The question of per- mitting the strect-raflway compunies paving between their tracks with cobble-stones will ceme before the City Council as a special order for tinal action on Monday evenins, April 18, at 8o'clock. This is the third attempt of these corporntions—made rich at our expense—to forve tuis fntoferuble nuisance upon the resi- dents of streets cecupled by their trucks, and wo are about tired of it. The greed of those horse- car monopoties wias never more strikingly {llustrated thun in thetr persistent attempts to compel tho use of cobble-stone pavements on streets oceupled by them. Already possessed of privilezes which buve made the par value of their stuck many times its originul cost, and which, with all its” water, readily scils at trom 190 to 30, they are suil not satistied. Be- cause the use of cobblu-stones would suve them & little mouey, and stll further increuse their dividends, all” otber interests and rights must stand aside, and they expect the City Council to o their bidding. If these streei-ruilwny com- panies cunnot do A paying business, and use tho Sume pavements between their rails that prop- eriy-owners use on ‘the remainder of the street, there are numbers of people who will be very glad to updertake the business, subject to tho conditions fmpesed by n reasonable regard for the rights of property-owners, When the resi- deuts on a street want cobbie-stones they will suy s, and until that time it is u picee of shame jmpudence for the companles to attempt to force it upon thewm. These corporations vould not ve luid a rail cn these streets without the con- nLol a majority of the property abutting on them, and th City Council would be acting in very bad fuith with us if, after grauting these corporations the frauchi: asked for in their petition for right-of~way, they should now, agaiust our repeated remonstrunce, strike out the one essential condition on which we con~ sented to sign their petition, and_ which the City Council embodied in the ordinances grantin thelr franch! Aldermen representing tho street raflways wiil vote tor the ordinance. Al dermen representing the property-owners of Chicgo and the residents on these streets will vote against it, and the vote will be watched with much interest, and the record will not be forgotten. AN OLD SETTLER. —— ; A DRUNKEN SPECIAL. Friday night & party ot mea in Denny Sulli- van's saloon, on Stute street, were exhibiting coins, und Charles Zimmerman put a §20 gold- picce on the counter. A man named Charles Clark took the coin and enjoyed the fun of see- ing the owner bunt for it. Then be returged - 1&° to jts owner. bout two hours afterward Andrew Hal a special officer employed by the Chicago & East- ern Illinois Railroad, took -it into his heud that Clark ought to be arrested. Accordicely Haley, who is suid to have been well in liquor,took Clark intow. When the party reached the Armory Ha- ley certainly was drunk.. Yesterday morning he called again at the Armory—drunk agein. He made himself so disagreeable and so bebave that tho officers felt compelled to Jock him ufil. The star which he wore was taken from him,and if justice be done Mr. Haley it will be conferred upon some man who can wear it with more pro- priety aud decoru WHAT GREECE GETS. Description of the Slice of Turkey Awarded to Greece. LoxDox, April 14.—There is no doubt that Greece has virtually accepted the proposed frontier, Ier reply to the proposals of the Powers was delivered to the foreign Min- isters in an identical note. London Spectator, Aprit 3, The Eastern question has once more reached a critical stage. The Powers, hampered by the secret designs of some among them, and by a dread of letting the waters loose, have, it is asserted, receded from the Berlin decision. They have ac- cepted a Turkish proposal to give Greece Thessaly, instead of Thessaly and Epirus. ‘They assign, indeed, a morsel of Epirus, but they stop far short of Jannina, and do not even concede Prevesa, without which Greece is never safe. though, according to one account, Prevesa is to be dismantled.- The gain to Greece in territory Is considerable, but she does not acquire the most important of Greek eities, Jannina, or the wmost threat- ening of Greek fortresses, Prevesa, or the most necessary of Greek provinces, Epirus, where the most warlike section of the race reside. It now remains to coerce Athens into accepting the terms. 1t is believed that the Court will yield, but it is far from cer- toin_that the Greek people will, and itis greatly to be hoped they will not.” The time seems to have arrived for them, which ar- rives to all nations, to show that it is dan- gerousto betray them, If they taite Jannina and keep it they will be safe for a century, and will_be heard when they claim to be the only legitimate heirs of Byzantium,. If not, they will remain a small und powerless State in the Balkan Peninsula, WIHAT GREECE ACQUIRES. 1f the inhabitants of the ceded territory can be induced peacefully 1o pass under the rule of King George, the Greek question is finally closed. ‘I'nere is no reason to believe that much op}msltinn will be made. The boundary which Turkey proposedand Greece aceepted, starting from the Algean at apoint three miles south of Platumona, keeping a southwersterly course to the peak of Mount Kritiri, then trending away to the uorthwest until it reaches a point on the Conference v, passing down six milesto the west vo until” it strikes the river Arta, and so arriving at the gulf of that name, in- cludes the whole of the fertile plain of The: saly, and only I s to the Turks in Epirus the wountainous and barren portion which lies to the west. Of all this region the in- bitants are mainly Greek. In”the western t of the plain, indeed, are Mussulman peasants, whose swarthy complexion and Tartar - cast of countenance show ly that they are not rencuade s or Slavs, but genuineOsmanlis. They are, in fact, the descendants of colonists who came from Asja Minor at the time of the con- quest under the commaund of « chicftain called Turkhan Bey, and who were settled liere as a barrier against the marauding ten- dencies of the neighboring Christian_moun- tainee: As they eamne chiefly from Koniah, the ancient Ieonium, they are known by the nawme of Koniarates, and_ they have still re- tained many of their ancient virtues: but the political hostility which has long existed be- tween them and the Greeks, has developed among them a spirit of fanaticism rarely found among the genuine Turks of As Minor. Throughout the rest of the Thes: lian plains_the Jand is for the most part the praperty of Mussuhman Beys, but the peasant oputation which cultivates it is Greek or .0-Vlack by nationality and Christian by religion. Accarding to statistics reported by the London Times. the four districts of Southern Thessaly—Armiro,. Phersela, Kar- ditza, and ‘Tircalla—eontain in_ round numbers 200,000 inhabitants; of whom aboutl 180,000 are Christiaus and 20,000 Mus- sulmans. _Of the Christians, about 3 per cent are Viacks and the remainder Greeks. estates with a Christian tenantr) At the time of the Crimean var all these estates were the property of Mussulmans, but now eigity-six have passed into the hands of Christians, and twent. en are owned by Christians and Turks joint- ly. This shows eclearly that, though the greater portion of the land in Thessaly be- longs to the dominant the soil is rapid- 1y passing to the more frugml, laborious, and enterprising rayah. When the territory ses under the Greek.rule the titles of ny of the proprietors~yill be contested, many of the tehiftlyks, notably the big- gest and best, were formerly village com- munes, and were confiscated by Al Pactia, of Jauing, and afterward sold. The fields still retain the nawmes of their previeus. pro- prictors. whose descendants now cultivate them us tenants, and probably some families are still in possession of their ancient docu- ments. Ilowever this may be, hopes are en- tertained by the people that the wrong done may one day be righted. PELION AND OSSA. ‘The boundary also includes the hilly strip of country which separates the great plain and the nort...ru portion of the Gulf of Volo frowm the gean Sea. To the south of Olym- us, and separated from it by the famous vale of Tempe, is the gray peak of Ossa, from which runs in a southeasterly direction the Pelion range. The einl]u:t of ** quiver- ing with foliage,” which Howmer applied to Pelion, is still applicable. The hill-sides are still covered with oak, beech, elm, olive, weeping willow, cypress, arbutus, myrtle, and laurel, and in the orchards and gurdens of the picturesque villages is to be found abundance of walnuts, chestnuts, fizs, pears, mulberries, and peaches. The vi among the most flourishing of | Turkey, not un account ot the fertility of the soil, for there is much less arable land than in the plain, but on account of the enterpris- ingr character of the inhabitants. — "These are all Christian, and thoroughly Greek in Ianguage and sentiment. Thoiygh they habizually complain of the burdens lnid upon them, they are quite aware that they possess more freedom and prosperity than the great majority of their fellow- rayahs. At the beginning of the present century they had an extensive woolen and silk industry. "Ihe beautiful woolen fabrics of Ambefakix, for example,—a smail town on the western slope of Ossa,—were well known and highly prized in_the markets of Germany and Hungary, and the manu- facture gave employment to nearly the whole of the population. Nosw times are changed, and the native industry bas been destroyed by the great factories of Western Europe: but the people have retained their enterprising . commere spirit, and_many natives of Zagora and the neighboring vil- Inges—not to be confounded with the Zagori distriet in Epirns—are to be found as small traders and merchants, not only “in the provincial towns of 'Iliessaly, Macedonia, and ‘Thrace, but also in the great conmercial cities of the Tevant. Many of these return home when they have made a modest fort- une, and those who settle permanently abroad atten send considerable swms to their native villages for cducational and benevolent purpo: here is every probability, hen, that the inhabitants of “the ceded terri- tory_will submit cheerfully to Greece. Among the Kleits of Olymous, indeed, thereis likely to be discontent that they stand beyond the bounda 1In the first years of the present , when the ideas of Greek independ- epan to dawn and Ali conceived the {)rojech of using the Greeks for throwing off iis allegiance to the Porte, he opened nego- fations with the Kiefts and Armatolis and called his inveterate enemies to his assist- ance. e did not sueceed in is design, but the bands which he had at first brought into existence by his persecution, and afterwards roused to united action by h 5 call, beeame the nuelens of the armies which afterward fought in the War of Independence. At the conclusion of the war the Armatolis and Kl disappeared, and siuce that time the police of the mountain has been intrusted to Albanian guards; but the old spirit of inde- lence has never died out, and every suc- ve effort of the Greeks to little Kingdom has found a sy among the mountaineers of Olympus. e ———— The Washinzton Style. Washinaton Kepublican. “ Boss, I've come up here from Texes Lo strike the old man for an _ollice. I'm poorer tban nine Xind of cuts! Can't you lend e n quarter, tiil the dend-lock is broken:” * Renlly id the astonished citizen, feellng in his pocket and holding the silver piece ctantly in his hand. +1 don't know you!” “'S nodiiference. ['ll ben rich man next year,and then—-"' The smile of encourngement _that fifiowed drew the quarter. and the gentfemun from Texas next res marked, ** Think 1'll go and wrap myself around something humid.” e —— Too Curlous. Galteston News. “ Mr. Gilhooly,” said & diminutive boy witha handful of bills. * when are you going to pay s bill for them boots you got on?” * How old are you, sonny?’ ‘““Ten years old."" “Go tell your pa you have §0t tdo much curiosity for | 5our age.’ 'THE GERMICIDE. A New IMachine for Killing the Germs of Disease. Interesting Experiments Under the Au- spices of the Board of Health. The Philosophy of the Plan Explained with Diagrams, ‘‘The Tribune?’’ Expert Not Satisfied with the Results Shown Him. Mention has already been made {n TAE Trra- UNEOf the experiments made during the past week in the Patmer House, with a view to prov- Ing tho auti-septic powerof the “Germicide, " un apparatus for the destructlon of disease-bear- g lseterin in water-closets. The experi- ments were conducted under the supervision of Dr. It. S. G. Paton, chemist of the Ilealth De- partment, assisted by Mr. B. W. Thomnas, microscopist, and the following re- ports aro the result of the tests: The report made by Dr. Patton to tne Health Department Is quite lengthy. It opens with u demonstration of the theory that the preatest danger to health fs not tv be apprehended from a swiftly and treely-flowiog current of sewage, but rather from stagnating fecal and other effete wmatters prone to or undergolng decompo- sitdon. An experiment by Dr. Franklend, chemist to the River Pollution Commissioners of London, is deseribed in which n quantity of a stranz solutlon of lithic chloride was pluced i a snaflow busin and aciduiated with bydochloric acid; fragments of white marble wern then added. and a paper tube five inches in dinmeter and five feet high wus placed vertically over the basin. So’ long ns the effervescence continued nbundance of particles of littinum were visible in a Bunsen flume beld at the upper end of the tube. A tin phite tube thrce inches in dinmeter and twelve feetlong was now placed in such a position us to brink oue of its open ends over the top of tho peper tube. The tin tudo was nearly horizontal, but slightly inclined upwards {ruin the puper tube S0 us 1O cause n wentle draft of air 1o pass through it when it was slightly heated externally near its lower ex- tremity. A Bunsen fiame pluced at the end of the tube furthest nway from the effervescing tluid showed that the suspended particles of so- Iution of lithie chloride were not perceptibly Jes: nuIRErous thun ut the mouth of the paper tube, neither were they much diminished at the fur- therend of the tin tube when the hizht of the puper tube was increased to 93 feet, which caused Prof. Falkland to tnink that THERE COULD BE LITTLE DOULT that these particles which had thus been carried ulupg by a gentic current of uir for a distance of 21 feet” could be similurly conveyed to mueh Ereater distancos, Pref, Falklund drew the following conclusions 2310 the bebavior of tlowing sewpge from these experiments: : 1. ‘The moderate agitation of a liquid d not ‘cause tho suspension of liquid particles capable of transport by the eircumumbient alr; and, therefore, tho flow of fresh sewnge througn u properly constructed sewer Is not likely to be attended by the suspensfon of zymotic matters i the air ot the sewer. % The breuking of minute gas bubbles on the surface of tae liquid conscquent upon the gencration of gas within the body of_ the liquid 1511 putent eause of the Suspension of truusport- able tiquid particles fn the surrounding air, and therefore when, though the Staenution of Scw- age or constructive defeets whicn allow of tho dctention of excementitious’ mutters for sev- eral days In the sewer, putritaction sets in, and causes the generution of guses, the suspension of zymotic matters i the air of tho sewer Is ex- tremely tikely to occur. Dr. Fatton imitnted Prof. Frankiand's experi- ment with the following apparaut e 4 @ R is an upright tube, five feet bigh end five fuches in diumeter, open at both sides. Bisa tintube, twenty feet lonyr and three inches in dintnerer, supported uearly bor- izontlly from thw edge of I3, and heated for a short time by & spirit- lamp (1) in order to establish n current of air tnrough jt. Into A —u beuker glasss—were placed the literie enloride, hyderchlvoric actd, and marble, and by muking vse of the Bunsen lnmp (E) and the spec- troseope (F) the same resuits as se- cured by Prof. Fraakland were ob- tafned. FROM THESE EXPERIMENT: Prof. Fraukiand argued that di ense-germs might easlly Le cur- ried off into the ntmosphere by the bursting of the large bubbles of sewer-gas, to whicb, or o the dis- cease-germs alone, or to both to- gether, might possibly be attrib-- utable the many sicknbsses now: charged freely to * bad drainage. Many yeurs uwo it was proved dircct_cxperiment that tho ord| nary § trup, tilted with water, was no_preventive of the passage of sewer-gas into our homes, and ‘in order to prove this Dr. Putton fit- ted up.the following aspiration ap- paratus: A ropresents o panof the water-closet fnto which was_fitzed, air-tight. no fverted tin fun- nel B, Fisa vesselat first filled with water, so that, when the stop-cock G {s opened und water allowed to trickle out. afr must be drawn throush the S rup C, the funnel B, tne tubing D, and the liquids in the U tubes E E in order to il 1p the vacuum formed in the upper portion of . When these U tubes are filled with solution of ¢ of lead, gud the air from the sewer wn throuzzh thém,the presence of sulpbureted rogen will be shown by a_brown-blacic pre- clpitate appearing in the fiquid. “When they are filied with Messler's rengzent and this ir ngain drawn through, anmonta, if there, will show its presence by changing the liquid to o yellow- brown color, or throw down a.bright réd pre- cipitate. Iu the cxperiments Dr. Paton con- ducted he obtained decided evidence of the assuge of these gases through the water of the E'Fin into the liquid of the S tubes, aithough their odor by the ordinury method WAS NOT NIFEST. Dr. Paton then describes in his report vers carefully the experiments with the same ap- paratus, which, he clunned, resulted in the pros duction of two' sets of sumples,—those which were secured whilo the germicide was not in the trap, and those which were secured when It was, These were banded to Mr. Thomas, the micro- Ecoplst, whose: report (given below) sets forth thut the samples takea while the germicide was not in use were livior with bacterd, while the others were nearly free from the living ore gurism Dr. Paton explains that the use of tne wermi- cide is 1o produce a_constant stream of solution of chloride of zinc into the pan and trap of the closet and an intermittent supply of thymol, - an_ exceedingly powerful nerinl nntiseptic, und adds that In his opinion zine chloride will not only prevent thedecomposizion of fecal mat- el but will also render innocuous those which bave nirendy decomposed. He sums up his opin- fon of the * Grimicide™ by stuting that he be- Jieves it * to be singulerly approprintely named, aud to perform ull that is said of 1t— anti- seption.” TIHE REPORT OF DG. DE WOLF 1s ns follows: HEALTIL DEPARTMENT, April 16, 18%0—To the Public: Some two weeks since Mr. E. I Mallett, Jr.. of New York, called my attention 1o ao up- puratus desizned to supply” a constant and uni- Torm quantity of a solution’ of chloride of zinc to the watcr passing into the basin of the ordi- nury water-closet bowl. The results to be ob- tafned by the presence of (s mineral salt were said to be the entire _antiseption of the water, und the destruction of all orgunic germs coming in contact with it from the sewer aic in tho plpe below #nd conneeted with the bowl. Thuvenevergiven theindorsementof my name ton single oue of the@nany methods and svsiems designed to accomplish this purpose and which have been brough to my attention during the past four 5 2 Mr, Maliett ented to me S0 many letters from mnedical gentiemen with whom [am nc- quninted fo_New York, commending him and his process. that 1 felt obliged to investigute his eclaim. I therefure_requested Dr. Puton, Chem= jst of the lenlth Depurtment, and Mr. B. W. ‘Thomas, President of the State Microscopical Society, to undertake the work. Their reports were recelved this morniog, and, covering a week's Jinbor, ure of so much ioterest that Ldo not hesitate to #ive them to the public. ‘They emphasize the following tuct, which is i nmendure new to me—i. e., the readiness with which orranic germs pass through the water of’ u sewer-trap, and are throwu off from the free surface into the atnosphere of # rovm. From the experiments detalled by Dr. Paton and Mr. Thomus, and meny of which L wit- nessed, I must coocur inthéir opinfon thal as At present constructed and used. traps, however well supplied with water, can only act as & very temporary obstruction to the passage of dis- ease germs into .our homes from the sewers ‘with which they are connected; and agalt, that it {s entirely practicable torender the water ia these traps 50 pertectly asoptic as to destroy all discasc-DeRring germs that come in conotact witb it. Tcommend the system of Mr. Mallett 23 practical, economicnl, and_ scientific, and be- tieve that it it were generally introduced intv “tho homes of our city {t would not oniy profect ench houschold so connected from whatever dnnger thero {s in sewer-gas, but {t would aiso render the air in our sewers aseptic and pure. Oscar C. DE Worr, M. D. Commissioner of Health. JIR. THOMAS' REPORT. i The following is the report of the microscop- st CHICAGO, April 15,1881.—~Oscar S. De Wolf, Com- missioner of Health, City of Chicago—DEAR Str: Your noteof Wednesday was handed to me by Dr. Paton, who also puve me six vials, marked C1,2,3, and P 12,3, of which, inaccordunce with your request, assisted by C.S. Fellows, Esq., [ have made a carefully microscopical examina- don. The contents of all these vials was swarm- ing with lifc. but the organisms found in those marked C contained more of the larger formd than was found In those marked P. InClwe found bacterium termo, B. uloea, B. lineold spirrillum, etc., and inunense numbers of smulier organisms, havdly more thana point of lght un~ dern 1-12 immersion lens with Cocculars. C2 was ubout the sume 25 C 1, but in C3 we found considersble more organic hfe. Vials P 1,23, contained uenrly the swmo organim as the above, but mostly of the smaller forms, and were much’ less numerous, Dr. Paton afterward ave me six vials marked respectively C 4, 5,6, and P 4,5, 6. which we examined with much care under o 1-15 Wales objective, showing muny ap- parently dead orgnnismssimilarto those found in tho first serles of vinls. In C 5 we found noliv- g torm, but {n all the others of this series we foand a Very few that zave evidence of lite, and these cun probubly be accounted for by the ex- posure of the tluld to the warm and impure #ir of the room {n which the examinations were made. T, D. Willinms, M. D.. nssisted us in our cxamination of the last seriesof vinls. Most respectfully yours, B. W. THOMAS. DI WILLIAMS' REPO) To the Editor.of The Chicago Tribune, CnicAGO, April 16.—In accordance with in- structions received from you I huve completed wmy fovestigations of the aileged merits of the *Germicide,” an instrument placed on exhibi- uon in the Paimer House for the purpose of destroying the injurious effects of sewer-gas emnnations, and I have tho honor to report as follows: The “Germicide” s an automatic device, whereby un antiseptic is continuousfy conveyed into the trap of u water-closet, and from thence into the svil-pipe, for the above-numed purpose. The antiseptic used in this instance is the one known to sanitarians as chloride of zinc. Re- iurding the eflicney of this metallic sait for the purpose, these gentlemen exhibiting the *Germ- ieide” cluim for it what others claim, and nothing more—namely: that when brought into contact with decomposable organic substance cbloride of zine acts corrosively upon the albuniinoid structure of the suld substuace, and thereby delnys the process of putrefactive «fermentation, which, if allowed to oceur, fur- nishes ns the result thereof a gascous compound termed sewer gus. Sewer-gas contuins, as also does the atmos- phericair we breatoe, the water we drink, and the food we cut, thousands and tens of thou- sunds of the spures of the lower form of life 1ermed bucteria i Of those fiving forms maakind actuglly knows nothine. We sitnply Know that these forms ex- st; that taken as u wholo they spring into ex- nee {n the presence of and simultuncously with the decomposition of organic structure; thut In substance bicteria are of un aibuminous nuture, and thut their substance is probably cue to the immediate presence of nitrogenous mat- ter, possibly to the presence of albuminoid an- mobin, which IS everywhere presont in u less or sreater guantity, - It 18 further claimed by thesc gentlemen, as it Is by others, that these Jower forms of life when brought into tact with chloride of zine are vicoaally if not actually destroved. To recapitulate: In bricf, irst, tho device known s the Germicide is_presented under the claim that it is news: second, the chbloride ot zinc 25 nu_antiseptic i3 presented under the clim that it IS not news third, that thechloride of zinc will, through the aid et this antomutic device, preveut the formation of sewer-gus and destroy tho discase-breediug germs that_are said to be present within the sofl-pipe, and wkich may pnss through the trap futo tho water-closet ubove. 1t is of the supposed merits of the latter claim that { speak, Under the direction of Prof. E. J. Mallett, Jr., (New York) the Board of Heulth of Chicuy: Yepresented by Dr. R. S. G. Paton, bave ju completed series of experiments’ in ordér to demonstrate the presence of germ life within the soil-pipe and the etfect of chloride of zine on bacterin when brought into contaet with it through the agency of the devico known as the germicide. 1ipon an invitation extended by the Commis~ sioner of Health to Mr. I, W. Thomas, who was assisted by Mr. C. 5. Fallows, and_myself, speci- mens of a fluld substance placed in our hunds by Dr. Paton were microscopically. examined by ch and found to contain myriads of bactecia. Subsequently other specimens said to have been treuted by nn nnteseptic, through the meaus of the germicide, were ulso placed in our Bunds by Dr. Paton which were microscopically examined and found to be, practically, free from bacteria. Now, if my opinfon fs asked in reference to the ~ (Germicide,” taken as n whole. as to the fact if it nctunlly does possess uny merits, Leun slmply answer ihat I do not kuow; if I am asked it the * Germicide " as a devico is prac- tienl in its construction, if it will continuously and autowaticiily do that which is clulmed for ft, I must agzaiu answer that L do not knows if 1 am nsked it the amount of chioride of zine here used will accomplish the object here cluimed, shall also be ubliged to answer that Ldo not know; in fagt, in reference to the entire sub- Jeer, Tonly know one or two thirgs—namely: that the two #eries of fluid substance placed in the hands ot the microscupists dia difter as al- dy described: that no_evidence was pre- 1ted to e showing the fact that decomposi- tion had been arrested, or that the formation of sewer-gas conld be prevented by tho use of either the device or the chemfctl, or that dis- ense-breeding germs aré destroyed, o sanitry desideratum of tar greater importance, i my opinion thun is the universal destruction of bacteria. Yours respectfuily. T. D.”WILLIANS, M. D. —— Recollections of Carlyle. Mrs. Murcus Springin Harper's Buzar, TIn 1846, after we were settied in our London lodgrings, we sent a letter of introduction for Marguret Fulier, Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Spring aanid 3ou, 1o Mr. uid Mrs, Thomas Carlyle. They called, and we were out; but soon & note came invitiog us to tea. While Margaret aud L were taking off our wraps, they opcned the parior door and asked Mr. Spring in. Seeing one grn- tleman when they expected two, they Supposed i1 was the son. \When we eatered, and thoy snw that ucither could be the mother, they sald, lauzhiog; “We thought we were to see elderly people and a son; we are giad that you are young.” > ,\hufguret Fuller related some droll storics about people, and Mr. Carlyle laughed heartily. is nugh was shuply delicious. ife suid thaton their way buck from Scotlund they attended one of Father Muthew's temperunce meetings. e spoke enthusiastically of_ th& man's power over his undience, und of how he drew the helpless, unresisting drunkards forward by his magnetic fervor to Sirn the pledge. He tolil of one_poor old womnn who hud been petsunded from ber geut Into the :wisle by some powerful word. Thensne retrented. again was driwn forward.and again und amin drew back, waverng between salvationon une side and dumuation un the other. At Inst the effcctive word was spoken, and the poor ereature sprang forward. and suved soul. After we left’ them Murguret snid, went to see it lion, und [ bave seen u lamb. Oze evenwg Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle and Mazzini cume to_tea atour rooms. Mrs. Carlyle and I were talking on one sido of the parior, the othors on the other, when I beard some growling trom Mr. Cariyle about the ignorunce —and brutishuess of the slaves, and he declared that since they were contented 88 sluves they were pot fit for frecdom. 1 rose to cross tho room, when Margaret laugbed and snid, “1 have been woundering how long Rebecen would bear it 1 reminded him of the severo pepaliics which -yet could not prevent the slaves from learmog to read, und how, in swite of gunrds, fetiers, frozen feet, aud blood- hounds und yreat hardships. thoy constuntly cs- caped into free States. There was no Fugitive Sluve law then to he thrown into my face. We told bim stories of futelligence, patience, and courage in these fugitiv il of which he listened. often saying, heart: 1am glad to hear it His modd was quite chunged when he rose to band us our cups of tea. When our litile boy said, ** Good-night.” and Kkissed all the others. he stood hesftating i mo- ment, not knowing exactly what to do with this strunye mnub: und Carlyle. looking at bim trom under bis eycbrows, smiied the sweetest of smiles, and opening his urms took tha little fel- fow to his heart. Mrs. Cariyle, sitting by me, and looking at this picture, sald: “How I wish we bud such a cbild in_our hou The cvening, which at one time looked ratber stormy. ended most cordially and happily. Our stay in London was brief, but vetore leay- Ing we_dined at the Cartyles’. Five hours at table, Carlyle full of talk., George Lewes was there to draw bim out. and to “cheer him on und to talk splendidly himself. That was ar buppy, encbunted time. Carlyle ruled sbout et aud poetry. unule fur of Petrarn, Luura, Joceacclo, und others. He said: “There was Hobert Burns, the greatest mao that ever lived; he sat and sung, bothered his bead over his poor excise accounts. drank whisky, and broke his beart at Inst.” Some- thing wus sald about Elizabetn Barrett and Rob- ert Browning. Carlyle said she had sent him two volumes of poems; be sald he wrote Miss Barrett that *If she bad noytolag to say she hud better put it into plain prose, 20 2 body could understand it, and not trouble berself to make rhymes. Bat,” he laughingly said, * the wotnan felt so badly about it that I had to write again.”” Doubtless be put in that second letter somne of bis great Scotch heart. While taking coffee in the pariar after dinner, Mr. Carlyle saton a low scat by the fire, and talked pictures more wonderful than anything in his **Freoch Revolution.” And when we came away that night Margaret said, “Now L have seen the tfon.” Some one - talking to Carlsle of Margaret Fuller’s Intellect and attainments he said: “Yes, yes, that Is well; but does she take care of her stockings?' I canld bave. aaoswered that she did. She was like the Iady in the old play, who, planning now she should keep the affec- tion of her husband when she found one, said, | *1 would every duy be us clean as a bride.” After eight years we were again in London, and we reccived kind_messages and invitadons from the Carlvles. We were zlad to sce his | lovely eyes, to huve his warm shake of the hand, i and to hear ngnin his pleasant voice with its7 hearty I am gind to see you.” I can hardly’ betleve “that the tail, " large Scotchman ¢ could bave dwindled into the prototype ™ of the pictures we séc of him now. He charged Mrs, Carlyle not to It me leave London unzil T had taught her how to make's *Jobony Cake” I therefare had one on my table the "duy she and Mazzini cume to dl 3rs, Carlyle came in the morning and stald untit night, und much Interesting talk we bud She wiis & lovely, zracefvi woman, and made the houge in Cheyne row bright with her sweet ! presence. She loved to talk abnut Carlyle, and told numberless stories ubout bim in a_most cbarning mauner. Tha licht went out of Car- Iyle's life when bis wife died. ———— e Euglish Country Life. Correspondence San Francisco Nets Letter. My bost was u wealthy Baronet, M. I%, pro- prixtor of several irge estates fn various coun- tics. Lnst year he entertalued me near Tun- * bridge. in Kent, famous for its spriugs, of which you will read 50 long nyzo 0 when the Romans tovaded Briton. This year it was m lovely historic Warwickshire, “tecming witn. objects of interest to the seholar und admlrers of nawre Dbeautified by the art - and labor of centuries. ~ The guests were nos tiffied to _arrive on Monday evening ar T o'clock, and to lesve on Iriduy. The old buronial munsion fs distunt two miles from the . ailway station, where we found carriages awaiting. On_«rriving. the host and bostess greeted us at the door very cordially, and led the way to a large reception-room, where tea was served in the Russian mode, and we wera told_thut the dinner-hour is S o'clock. Thera are forty-five suits of apartments on tho second and third floors, and the very courtly house- keeper escorted us in turn o those assigned. Prowptly at the designated hour all assembled in the drawing-rooms, nud_without special in~ troduction treat eich other w3 acquuintances. Such IS the Freemasonry of English society. _When the butler opeus the nou signs the wentlemen to the ladies, who walic arm-In-nrm into the banquet bail. Bebind each guest stands u serving-man, silent ns a mununy, in brave livery of zold and searlet, or purples pumps with lurge silver bucl stockingy and ariers, powdered hair. The dinner Is of ten or tweive courses, with appropriate wine. Allissocial and_chatty for an nour and u half, when the ladies- rise ana retire to the drawing= rooms. The gentiemen ure then served with stronger wines, and, ufter balf un_hour or sq, join the ladies in music, cards, und conversa- tion. Tea and bonbons are served. At 11 o'clock the fadies g to theirupartments, and the rentio- men. i Inclined, to u cosy or the housekeeper's sitting-room, where they smoke and bave grog. This may run into late_hours, und it sometimes Buppens that eentienen are tardy at the break- fust-table. There i no fixed hour for the morn= ing repust,—rom 5 to 10,—und no servauts stop atiout tne brenkfast-room, the gentlemen sers- ing themselves und Iadics, in most part, from. the sideboanls. 'The ocracy and middie classes do 1oL catmuchat their first menl— €zzizs, toust, muilins, cold ments, pastrics, and tea, rarely volfee. That over with, 1t is liberty kall) Each diverts as inclined. Firstly, there is read- ing and_answering letters: the London duilies, and various magazines und reviews of the days the libeu picture-gallery, hot-nouses, and stubles. The gentlemen genernily go shooting in the preserves, where the peasants bent up the me—partridses, phes tures, rabbits, and they stand in the opening, Kiiling ch skill in marksmavship. 1f they oelack. the servants bring lunch- stay after con, or they return Io the mansion end ‘join the ladies who huve not zone driving or horschuck- riding, atavery generous lunch. Our upper- cluss English cousins nre fumous trenchermen, and astonish you at the races and picnles with their prowess at eatlng and drinking. The gnests conduct thomselves ns if at home, without restraint or ceremon the host ead hostess nuver Intrude or worry, leaving you In perfect freedom to pursue your humor, Every- body is supposed to kuow besc how to_enjoy himsclf. Acquaintances formed thus are like tkose of tho ball-room, and do not wurrant their reacwat: of course. friendships and intinmcles often come of them. - Durins the day ull are in plain dress. to be laid aside ut the sucrament,— the dinner hour. Wilh small varations, each day Is but the Tepetition of the vrecedins’s » occupation, and to those not to the manor born some monotonons. Charudes, - im- promptu tableanx, reading, ete., help 10 pass the evenings. Ou Frulay atternoon the guests hie nway to their homes for a few days’ rest be- fore remewing at another country house tne same diversions. In otd times it was the custbm 10 fee liberally the servants on leaving, and the pecunious gicsts of wit und celebrity were sometimes furnished by their hosts with money for that use. But that §s_past. like may of the olden fashions of merry England, and a guinen or two handed. tothe buter for distribution sullices. i ———————— How Different People Sce the Moon. The French astronomical Journal, Ciel et Terre, | for March 15, contains an article on **How Dif- ferent Peopie See the Moon.™ ‘The disk of the moon, s 1s very dpparent, is not_of uniform brightness. but is diversitied by dark areas here and there. These durlz ureas are sourrauwed as 1o represent the €yes, nose, and mouth of n buman being, and the whole disk represents passably sell u bumnn fuce, Not all people, however. can see this resern~ bh.aee. Seme who cannot see the {uce can see o man and & woman carrving Detween them a” Dbucket of water. The mnn stands- on the lett side of the disk. the Woman on the right. To some the dark spiaecs appear W have the same shape us North and South America, as if the Western Continent wero retlected in the moou. The Tarturs see none ot these, ‘but thelr * man in the moon™ i3 wood-vutter, beariug on his back a buge bundie of wood, and supporting himself with a stafl. The Japanese sco the torm of n rabbitt in n sitting posture, His lonz ears stand erect, and before bim 8o lurge mortar. 1o bis forepaw he holds u pestle, with which be is grinding rice after the manner ot the Jupanese. The Emperor Rudolph,who vften observed the moon with the astronomer, Kep- fer, saw upon it the imaze of Ty, The wn- clents recognized tho resemblance of tho moon 0 the humau face, for the historfan Plutarch wrote a treatise contrudicling that vulgnr ided. *Great fools,”. suid he, *ure they who think thut they see a fuce on the moon.” That which they think they seeis an fllusion. It iscaused by fatipue ot the eye. which makes light and shade where there is only uniforwmity.” | How greatly he was mistaken wius shown sftec- sards when the tetescope was fnvented. Tader the powerful ey of this instrumeut the surfice of the moon exhilits anything but uniformity. It equals inroushness the rouchest portion of the eurth’s surfa Huge mountain craters are seattered over the disk, and within many of these are smaller mountains, Deep chasms and high ridges are abundant. From some of the mountains long rays extend in every direction like streams of lava. . The telescope dispels all those resemblances which "are so apparent to thoe nuked eye, but even with this aid not all people sce alike. Ono Ifkens thie moon 1o a green cheese, while another thinks it resembies w body of water frozen over with tho riflles on_its surface. and the cruters are ait-heles in the ice Another simile, per- haps the most ridiculous of all, is that of a pot of boiling musn. the cruters being the bubbles of ufr s they come up and burst on the surface. Some see only a cold, desolate, dead planet, in- Ccapuble of supporting life of any kind, while others see valleys. streams, canals, and other ° characteristics of mother earts. g A Curious Frial in France, & A curfous triul at the Paris Court of Assizes was concluded on the 30th ult. The accused, who i3 3 years of dge, was « person callioe ber- sclf the Haroune de Livernitre, néo de Gravas, of stylish appesrunce. She wasuccused of baby-. stealing and false declarntions. The London’: Times Suys that n 1867 she wus condemned; un- der the name of Martin. to u yeur's imprison- - ment for obtaining goods under false pretences, | and while in prison made the nequaiutance of a certain Mme. Bonton, who bad Leen sent therc for selilugr 1 photogTaphs, and *ho was captivated .y her grand irs. On leavinz St Lazare the - actused went o stay with sume. Bonton, and while there formed the scheme of warrying Mme. Bonton's son, u boy of 17 years of “uie, With whow, bowever, she set up nouse without marringe, Sme. Bonton not being well dis- pused townrds her guest's project. The ac- cused did not abandon the {den, and soon _sit ulated pregnancy, followed by a preteaderd con- © finement ut i concierse’s ludge, and the actual production of u newiy-born Infant to a bappy futher. She bud obtined the child through tao | agency of anattendantat @ lyiog-in bospital ¢ from one of the patients, who, however, was sutficicatly Intcrested in her offsprim to wish to + have news of it from ks adopter. The aceused, baving zot possescion of the child, did ticr- self up to look pale nod wwk, and so’ returned bome and went 1o bed. The district doctor called, the chilil wis regissered, and young Hon- ton discovered an extrsardinary resemblance of the child to_ his motnes, Mme. Bonton, B0 was duly informed of it. e agreed to change © nis anme 1o M. de Gravus and _Set up *“a.com- foctable bome for aged gentlemen,” und evers= thing proceeded quietly, except that the child died. The Infant's mother meanwhile gt bav= ing received the promised news, communfeated with the police, and, on the nccused ut length writing to her unnouncing the death of the child. the police were able fo diwover ber whereabouts nod arrest ber. She was alio ac- cused of stenling wootner cblid fo u simitar wey, xiving herseif out us a midwife who was charged by o husvand to find o baby to place Ly the side of his wife, who was certain 10 bo contined with 4 stillborn child. What bad become of this child hud ot been discovered. The necused stuted that she was a dramatie author, had written books, and taught English. She declined to state her orliin und antecedonty in order to save the honor of tho famlly. Her Eusband, she suid, was dead, but she bad three children. one of whom was 15 Sears ot age. At this part of the Interrozutory she much affected tho uudience by shedding abundant tears and sobbing. Her children were in France nt her father-in-law’s. In s} she went to London and on her return she bad considered hersel: unwortby to see thom. The jury found her guilts with extenuating circumstances, and shy ‘was sentenced to six years' penal servitude ans ten years® police supervision. 3 — — Pashence is a good thing for 2 man to hav but when he haz so much ov it that he ka1 fish all day over the side ov a boat withowm eny baiton his hook, lazyness is what’s the matter ov him.—Josh Billings.. £