Evening Star Newspaper, October 7, 1871, Page 2

MY SIRTHDAY. ~~ Beneath the moonlight and the snow Lies dead latest if ‘The winter winds are walling low dts dirges in my ear. I grieve not with the moaning wind As if « lows befell; Before me, even as behind, | 5 all is well His light shines on me from above, His low voice within— The patience of immortal love Ontwearying mortal sin Not mindless of the growing years ‘Of care snd loss and pain, My eyes are wet with thankful tears For blessings which remain. If.dim the gold of life has grown, T wilt not count it dross, Nor turn from treasures still my own ‘To sigh tor lack and loss. ‘The years no charm from Natare take; As sweet her voices call, As beautital her mornings break, Astair her evenings fall. Le watches oer my quiet ways, Kind voices «peak my name, And lips that find it to _ Are slow. at least to blame Bow softly ebb the tides of will! jow Belds, ance lost are w: Now lie bebind me green and still Beneath a tevel su Bow hushed the hiss of The clamor of the thi ow old, harsh veices Flow into rhythmic party hate, ks the «pirit’s temper grows oft im this etill airs Scmewhat the restful heart foregoes Of needed watch and prayer. ‘The bark by tempest vainly tossed May founder in the calm, And he who braved the polar frost Faint by the isles of baim. ‘The outflung heart of ‘Than pleasant songs in indie ‘The tumult of the truth. | ner changed. He | scropulons. Conv’ | the means, he was | offered him a fiver to to deal, ¥ end Justified to if him, starv: he would refuse the C3 a ly and if you asked him to inv ngage i rottenest of rotten would U4 the money with the eagerness amiser. He was sanguine to a degree as @ necessary consequence moet uncertain in his sptcie To- day he was full ot hope, life, an piness; to- beet haha lle wg on + Monday comedy, Tuesday frag: edy, comedy once again, to followed on Thursday by tragedy as before! As he sat facing me at m: ‘ast table 1 could see by his uneasiness that to-day was devoted to the tragic muse. “You don’t look well, old fellow,” said L after he_ had been served with brandy and soda. “ What's the matter!” «Oh, ing,’ he replied, “only the African Soap. Company ‘limited’ has come to griet.” « How was that?” « Well, a miscalculation—merely a miscalen- lation. By my figures two hundred and forty miliion pounds of soap shoald have been pur- chased by the natives per annum. U hepa: the beggars refused to wash, and thus our sal were very limited. You see what with our off- ces in Lombard street, and our warehouses on. | the Thomas Embankment, and both our staffs, the expenses were rather heavy. “ How much did you sell?” “ Well,” said Harry, with a laugh, “entre nous only a pound anda ‘of brown Windsor. A chief bought it nm came back clothed in his war paint and armed poisoned Beat for the weary bands is gvod, With o Kind of poisoned tomahawk to'ask for'the ‘And love for hearts that pine, on Jdidie ae But let the manly habitude How much did he give for it? Of upright souls be mine. as uh, ee ee oped Heat mingo that Mow from heaven refresh, his oldest wives. But there, the matters over. : id wir: 2 ” api let the Weakest of the flesh The company was wound up yesterday. ong SC DESO “Nothing, Hr, absofately nothing,” replied And if the cre must fail of ight, arry. with a “T have the grandest Make clearer still the spirit’s sight, chance in the 8 fortune and ‘More fine the inward car ! can't move in the matter ly from want of Be near me in mine hours of need * What's the idea?” aS ne « Sioenmssupe 2d my fend, mage cp ihe hills ag terlously, * ee wid = fo he 9 = best 3 Whittier in October Ati “ ‘What is Slocum-super-Mare?™ ——__ -+ ee - “You mean where is it. Why it’s the dearest HOW I LOST £40,000, | Setans) * SRSE cote "Just the pace for my ’ = « What's notion?” A STORY OF SLOCUM-SUPER-MARE. a Batak Bosiosneenee intoan English Dieppe, And then a lecture PA L - How THR £40,000 Cane TO wz. muper Mare Te iat "By degree ya « What boots will you wear to-day, sir?” asked and I gradually Ry Ferrant; coming into my edroom in No, | found sayeelf growing and yet in- St. James's street, on the 23d of May, 18. | terested in the fate of Slocum-super-Mare. Af- When I say my servant I mean the general valet an hour's con the to all who five in the chambers. lation | of several schemes of a startling character, allowance to every rwasa ninthofaman | H: for a second said: and a thirdlof a page. us in the morning, brushed our clothes, and | filled ee wit — water. He wa ofa | page acted as our Ganymede, us the matutinal soda and Grundy to weleeane” Post,” | and the early breakfast. “ What kind of a day is it?” I asked from the depths of my bed-clothes « Rather dull just now, sir; but I think it will lear up.” « Risk the patent leathers.” said I, drowsily. “ Open the window in the sitting room, and call me again in half an hour.” “ Yes, sir,” replied “my” man, gathering to- , gether my clothes, and arranging my tub. | “ By-the-by, any letters!” “ Two. sir. “ Allright. Iwill open them at breakfast.” “ Very good, sir,” and “my” servant left the room I may mention atonce that my name is Cha Smirks Gerald. I generally sign myself S. Gerald or G. S. Gerald. [object neither to the Charles nor the Gerald, but I admit the Smirks is rather atrial tome. At school I was chaffed out of my life about my name; at Oxford my name could never be alluded to at the Union Without producing shouts of laughter; at my office (Her Majesty's de- srtment for the regis tration of buttons) my name is the standing joke | of the place. It’s very annoying, but it can't be helped. My poor good father, when he selected the unpleasant title. acted on behalf of my best interests. A very distant connection of ours, idless and wealthy, was | me ot Smirks. Poor fel- low, I have often pitied him. Fancy what an ugh go 1 His case was worse than mi! i hide the Smirks under an obliging “ S, was forced to use the name in | after him. I remember him | in my early ¢ hildhood as a fussy, peppery little man. He used to dine with us every Sunday, I believe, to abuse our food and to b casion he was so violent poor dear mother was moved to te My father resented his interference, : rel was the result. Mf A th family “a pack of ungrateful snobs,” and w hi intense surprise was ordered out of the hou: I remember well that my father was ki usual to me on the evening of the row. man, he was thinking over my loss. He knew | pertectly well that Mr. Smirks, after the alteren me in favor of the Asylum of Idiots or some such excellent charity. As matter of fact. 1 belleve I am right in s! that my poor dear mother’s tears were comput atthe time to have cost me in round figures | about £40,000. So much for my name. As to my history it can be summed up In a very few words. It was a mistake at Eton, x failure at Oxford, and a fiasco at the bar. [ have only done two things in my life that ha been attended by the slightest westige of suceess. | T brave fallen in love and obtained a clerkship in Her Majesty’s Ottice for the Registration of Buttons. falling in love was the ysual sort pt thing. “Cupid” rhymed with “stupid” to ‘amy extent. My idol was a remarkably nice eit: tBeoreticalfy, an adorer of the “love in a col * kind of life; practically, an exceedingly luxurious young lady. We met at a country theatricals. Ste was the “first lady’ ing gentleman.” We made love | remarkably badly (even for amateurs) on thy | stage, but got ow capitally when we attempted } the thing without an andience. As she was rich ‘and I was poor, I considered the match an ex- éellent oné in évery respect—so did she, dear iri We had mapped out our life for the next forty years. We were to live in rural simplicity | in a chorming little villa smothered in roses and | stephanotis, with a town house in Eaton square, @ shooting box im the H. ds, a yacht at Cowes, anda box at the Opera.’ W mere to E cows, a number of sheep ( po Sapopoeerees complet two or three broughams I was to go in for farming, and horse-racing. My wife was to take up a Sunday-school, and to re- ceive on Thursdays. and Mondays. When I | had time, I was to go into the house Prime Minister. when my wite had leisure, ~ Was to take a tour round the world with a view to convert the whole race of manbiad to | civilization and Christianity. In faet we were | to be a quiet, happy ‘cosy couple. Now the rea- lization of this charming programme depend: upon my dear girl's father—an immensely wealthy city man. Alice wax confident of papa is 0 reason geod we are going to ite sure—to give his consent to | Upon her recommendation I | le. | | our mai 3 wrote to “papa” aon was waiting for his answer when my man asked me about my boots. Of my other successful venture—the clerkship | in Her Majesty's effice for the registration of Buttons— need say little. Ierammed for my examination in the usual way and at the usual rices. I learnt a at deal about all sorts of ings and retained my ne for ey two days—the time occupi yy my exami ma re’ the Civil Service Commisioners. 1 ninth of a man called | w asked my | sent to m; | Come, now,! hay | uninteresting spots it has been my fate to fre- | man, it’s ) “— beach, and real ‘ell, it’s po good talking; it can’t be done. ha got no capital, old man, so it can’t be I found myself sighing too and regretting the Slocum. “But why letters?” don’t you open nd, ‘alted hone om mournful si- lence. * One of them’s a dun,” I answered, gloomily. “The more reason you should attend to it at once. Civility turneth away hills—take my word for it. With some hesitation I opened the lawyer's letter and perused its contents. I started from my chair! Could I believe my eyes! Was it really true? “ What's the , old man?” said Harry, T gasped for a moment, then drank a cup of cold coffee. “Mr, Smirks—my godfather—is dead,” I be- n. wr Dear, dear,” sald Harry, in a sympathizing tone, “you knew him well—vou are of cours: sorry, but bear mp old man, bear up, we mast all come to it at last."” “Thasen't seen him since I was five years old. * Well. then, you on; “ He's left me £40, « What?” etied Harry, starting up. “ Fact, on my word.” hitn't to give way 0.” *« I congratulate you, old man, on my soul I do,” and Harry seized my hand and shook it heartily. After reeoveting myself little, I opeyed my second lette: at a disappointment! Old Mumford (my Alice’s father) refused his con- ea 8 and told me in a postcript, his daughter ladeajust accepted, a hi vice, a far wealthier suitor that I cow tobe. ‘This was a blow. I ex) ford to be barbarous, but my somebody e e's Alice’s—perfidy a great deal too much. I sat de my face in my hands. Harry bent over me, aad asked me what was the causs of my sorrow? in a few broken sentences I told him all, There @ pause—a long pause, tell you what it is, old man,” said he, at 1 know what yon want—excitement ‘apital notion, an excellent at last, notion. “ What is it?” I asked, gloomily. * Slocum-super- Mare;""ue replied, enthusiasti- cally, “That's the thing to make your thous ands into millions, and my coppers into pounds. Come, old man, let us make up our minds to take up Slocum:super-Mare.”” And then and there Slocum-super-Mare was taken up. PART IM. HOW I WENT FroM THE £40,000. When Harry Page said that Slocam-sn Mare was dreary, he told the plain unvarni: truth. In my time Lhave visited the Thame Tuunel, the Indian Museum, ay and even the National Portrait Hl the dull, quent, Slocum, with its beach of mudjand ab- surd sea, its one policeman, and its two houxex, was the dullest and least interesting. We | Teachedit by a broken down coach, drawn by one horse (lately, 1 imagine, bathing machine 4 this same line of railroad hai been constracted, I know not. The station had never been opened, and was falling into decay, the metals were covered — eae les, and the very signal-posts were out ir. “Vou sce, oid mam,” anid Harry, as we drove up to one of the two houses, by courtesy styled “an inn” (the other house had onee, so the closed shutters told us, be! to a tallow- chandler retiring from business), ‘‘you see, old just the place for us. Kaitway = 3 ready made, and only waiting to be opencd, oe ‘he “real sea” was some distance off. I found Subsequently that the briny deep had contracted # bad habit of leaving Slocum and going miles away tor hours t . ‘Thus it came that at eight o'clock in the morning Slocum was a wa- tering-place, but at noon it became (owing to the ocean's small inland town, sur- rounded by mud. “+ Now, you see, old fellow,” continued Harry, “nothing will be easier than to build a hotel over there with a croquet ground, anda pleasure rden attached—then we can run up in some- ing less than no time, Marine Parade, and a Seaview Terrace—then we can build a pier four miles jong—then we can construct a theatre (en- , Sothern, and the company of Francaise) then——"" w,”’ I interrupted, ‘you know months. “ Well, I only hopeshe will,” said I, with some sharpness; Slocum wants houses badly “ You will have your joke, you dog, Mo Thad any joke, roared at waggery, my own iy and returned in the evening to London. to London. to ih HA ie A i eaithiave these." “Yo witl want a secrétary—yow can have yee wg want an auditor—you ca rother.”” “file Grote town the names on the foolscap, un- the beautifully executed title of “The Silotum-supersMare Improvement Company <i'There;* he continued, holding the fa ee Bon -o his hanaiwprk ‘about Gc course, you twat course, you two the board?” “ Certainly,” replied Harry. We will get the other n1 im the ot ime. 1° will just get "Bits printed FT i1.0u0 shares of 1001. a piewe, and we will segister the company when we have floated a few of our certificates." ‘* How long will that take?” I asked, to show that I was more or less a man of business, in pas the charming levity for which 1 was Now go on In the meanwhile I will ay Up a T prospectus, while you two gen- a ‘on with the hotel, the theatre, and all the other little matters of Slocum.” After a great deal more talk, and a little more + & month or so. sherry, Our interview came toan end, and we | were bowed oat of the Smithie presence. “Now, old man,” cried Harry, when we | were in the street, “we must get’ to work in | earnest. Gohome, pack up your portmanteau, | and I willeall for you in haltan hour. We must go down to Slocum to-nig! He hurried me into a Hansom, and, before T had time to think, I found myself busily at work atthe “drawers of my wardrobe. I "had got through uta when Harry rushed in, anderied, Pe? “ My dear boy, the luckiest thingin the world. When I left you just now—whom do you think I met?” ** Tam sure I don’t know.” “ Why, Bing, the best fellow, and the first ar- chitect In the world. I hailed him at once, and he’s coming down to Slocum with ue He has arranged to meet us at thestation. There, what do you think of that An hour afterwards, and Bing, Harry, and [, | were going down by the express to the nearest | station for Slocum. Our new friend with a small, fat man, who seemed, like a rolling stone, | to have gathered no moss. From his conversa- ons 3 learned, that although an arhieact | ‘by ion, was much giv’ Rifamiet* and © Macbeth’? at peevinaat | when no one was looking. “You see,” he said to me, as we flew along the rails at a mean rate of forty miles an hour, “I } don’t care much about architecture. What I like is a good pit and an aj jiative gallery. ert as Sere eas thing in my life in the | scene in Hamistss Ps Sune he rampart | announcement rather took me aback. “Dear me,” I observed, “are you not a little | nervous about building such an important Bisco j (or rather such an important place as the town a) eventually to become) as Slocum-super- | “ Well; I was at first,” replied Bing, stroking | with his hand the tfull x Hey persuaded t not at it? see, me to have a sho: ” “ Of course,” cried aor Na the sim lest thing in the world. All'you have got to do | is just to sketch the sort of thing it oug and then send for some bricks and a couple of bricklayers.”” said Bing, still thoughtfally; ‘you know it’s rather more than that. Of course you would like it done properly?” and he turned to me—I admitted that was certainly my desire— “¢quite so, you would like it done properly. Well; then @ fellgw under those circumstances, mind rou—under those circumstances, I repeat—a fellow ought to furnish a heap of plans. You will want a section plan, and a sort of ground- plan, and—and a heap of things of that sort. “ Well we can get lots of paper, can’t we?” Yes! it’s not that I care so much about,” re- ied Bing, ‘‘almost any panes willdo. Do you ow, I really think you had better get another fellow, I do, indeed. "I will start the theatre for you, if you like, but I think it will be better to get another fellow to design the rest.” Harry scouted the idea of aid from without as absurd and pernicious, Bing and he wanted to do his fri Would his friend be so 2 Fratetul—as to reject “the y reely proffered to him. Bing gradually gaye in before the warmth of our argaments (for after a while I felt myself forced to add my entreaties to Harry's), and at last consented “‘to have a shot at it.” By the time that Bing’s scruples had been overcome, we reached cur railway Journey’send, Gathering up our baggs deposited them in the Slocum coach, and after a two hours’ drive, arrived at our destinat We took up our abode at the wretched inn, prepared, by discussing a hearty supper of and bacon (the only focd to be obtained in the place), for the labors of the coming day. Had [ the space at my command I could All Pages and pages of this, paper with the story of the rise of Siocum. Bing somehow or other anaged to design the hotel, and a friend of his sent usa plan of the pier. The first was all | low, the second no foundation. The result ese little blemishes in construction was the hotel was nearly blown down by the wind, and the pier w: e washed away by - This last accident we considered a me of ovr principal ess, and I might bankers | ar beautifully Se . had dwindled down to r m: next to nothing. “Never mind, old man,** mentioned the melanchol, Il back again. ‘hen it is floa will get i 1 you will : ve advance look at the place—say, isn’t it improved’ Slocum certainly had grown sisice our arrival. We had built houses and a hotel—we only wanted a few people to live in them, and the thing would be complete. “Look here,” said Harry, ® f have got a firs rate notion, I say, why shouldn't we give a pie nic down here of all the people we know? wou'd be great fun, and do usa deal would get people to talk about the pl company ¢an pay for the affalr— floated.” No sooner said than done. I must admit that Alice's perfidy, and the dreariness of Slocum even in tts new apparel had rendered me melan- choly, and I hailed with delight the notion of a little gaiety. We made arrangementswith the | railway company ty run a special train right up to Slocum, hada chef down from town to loo after the food, and a pyrotechnist t0 manutac- ture some fire-works. | Never shall I forgt the day. It really was | very joliy. There were about a hundred of us present, pretty girls who strolled about the muddy beach, and hungry matrons wo looked sharply aiter the dinner: In the afternoon we danced on the new croquet ground, and at night we hada grand display of fru d’artifice. It was very jolly indeed. i Tam sorry to say that our entertainment did not do the town itself much good. In spite of the cheering of the grand piece in our fireworks, the device “ Prosperity to Slocum” in seven colors, the place received no visitors. Ireturned to town tired and dispirited about a week after our picnic, and with my return my story rapidly Teaches its conclusion. I was sitting once more in St. James’s street, when “my” man brought me a letter. 1 opened it cagerly, and read it. It is as follows: ———Street, E. E., 8th June, 18—. “My Dean Sin, “ According to your request, I have been through the accounts of the proposed “Slocu super-Mare Improvement Company (Limited).”? ‘They amount to 39,9981. 12s. 2d. I have included my Own charges in the total, as I find it utterly impossible to foat the proposed company owing to the present tightness of the money market. ** Believe me to be, sir, * Yours most faithfully, “J. Suita. “©. 8. Gerald, Esq.” In three words—I was ruined! * * * * * * About three weeks after the arrival of Smith’s be paid a. Noy, It ood: it unwelcome letter, | was strolli in the Ken- sington Gardens. I was ve hed and list- less. I sat down after a while on one of the gar- den benches, and d wearily into vacancy. nes Ihad sat there, when I felt my arm touched, and turning round found myself face to face with Alice—Alice the perf- dious, Alice—alas! the beautifal!—I got up to 8°; On, Charley,” she anid, “*I am 80 sorry to way adn’ you write te ino, ond tell an ctlabegt it? You have never one of my let- acto bed bre reed 1 te — whén you are engaged to Ar I know not how j i & 5 | ve ‘ee a rome that ?” she said, with a blush; {sm not cngeged, bat om LARS at edi ite dmarry ae, dear girl, and have been j 233 i Fi i it i Ei bE t to be, | has | work-room, he works by the light of a spirit- | enamel, which is colored this time, and lets a | varying from ten to fifteen franes, and a ch “A. Queér Uld Pteacher and His Queer} Changes in Pronunciation. A f the Republi: | see om ey Engi ate fation by corres t of Springteld cam pronunc . by writes from 1 Hampshire: Xooaieas , gives some amusing instances Not many years ago; a preacher, whom the | of the that have taken within the call “Elder Randall,” but those who are two or centuries. * Living,” sx ~ it “Old Tom’ west tate Budget,*‘in the of with a ’ mate ‘there was seized with a iy this the case with which often inflamed him to ce—end | Mr. Ellis deciares re composed and sang @ hymn, with such | (himself no exception) who know pre- devout nnction that numerous words roiled wi own unciation is. We the and gown the gorges and were | fancy, however, that we do, and assume, hea the yalleys several miles dis- | out of the matter, that our fi fant. Tha’ “many queer about | of a hundred years ago pronounced fh this plovs olf cove, who went the way of all) very much as wedopow. We are surprised then flesh ed ninety. In | to learn that a man of that period would have two ears hy 1883 he published a book “for the enlighten- | talked of his etitertainment ate gooldsmith’s meat and salvation of the rising gonora- jot Room, where he sat in a cheer, and was tions,” entitled, “The Farmer's Meditations; or, | obleeged Yor curtesy’s sake to eat some cow- Shepberd’s Songs,” ‘a yolume of poems,” the | cumber which was offered him in a greet bow! hee informe us, “which cannot il toamuse (o~ in ont;) or that Milton a hundred years th the aged and the youth, and lead the candid earlier would have spoken of the consay reader to admire the productions Etonian | man’s centering to dip his berd in biling water: farmer's unpolished pen.” This book did amuse, or Shakspeare a century betere him would have and at one time was very popular. Some ot the quoted from himself “own toock of matter, and | old folks even now believe his hymns to be the ‘a baste that wants discoorse of rayson.” or incarnation of saintly grace and poetic beauty. spoken of his own plays (ay—modern eye) of Many of the verses put to blush every gifted Hop- ‘Midscommer Neckht's (guttural ch) Draim,” and kins seeking since the poetic muse. Reasona- “Loer’s Labber's Lost.” ‘These instances will bly enough, then, I find few poets among the suffice to Indicate some of the notable changes | granite hills. Ithink many of the verses rere | in English pronunciation within a period of too spunout to the time and rhythm of a spinning- , or three hundred years. They are, however, | wheel or the clack of anold-fashioned loom. He | much greater than any which existed between | reels off fifty-seven verses, giving a ‘‘description the thirteenth and sixteenth century; inasmach of the horse, with an account of Alexander and as the vowel sounds of the earlier period were parte,” which commences thus: — the same as those of the continent generally, “ God of wisdom and of might whereas in Shakspeare’s time the divarication I view thy wonders with delizht: which now characterizes us had fair set in, for Each insect thou completely drew, a—ah and i—ee were on the way to get the Aud few/ that wings the airy biue.”” modern sounds of these letters.” j This is the best of the fifty-seven verses. Mr. Ellis, the Budget thinks, ‘‘Has proved that } ofa In fourteen verses concerni ‘the “subtile mer- the long a of the fourteenth century was our a amie | im father, and long ¢ our a in Mary, the long : “ a Kate— our ¢ in me, ng o the o in , but we | bhp Bote her hana beg lg A | doubt whether he has satistactorily proved the jatee: long u to have been the u of the French fut aed sn wise oe mbt "be onlin autenn | Agnin, we believe with him that the ea was then ronte. the ai in sail, cu the co in moon, but question | whether the ai in fair was the ay in aye. We — | have, however, no space for criticism. The can- In Baverhih you now reside | clusions above, which we consider satisfactory, to fard by the sea’s old rolling tide,”* | Say pothing of others, ebviously indicate a te. He gives her lots of advice, and tells her about | markable difference ‘between the long-vowel the people who «in crowds do throng the secs | sounds of the fourteenth and nineteentit conta. fe giver his | Hes. They lead us, for instance, to prouounce axe close | a y as ray |, time as teem, please as plays-, $F REN of | cath mn Geestie Beek oa Pela ball ae beat ae Shak: 's time these sounds, according to Mr. Ellis, for the most ; but “age, reed, fool were Beginning to) have the ¢ sounds: time had the Scotish sound of fevm, on its way to the present full diphthongal sound, mouth, He say: ly child. you've left Etonian hills, ling « and gurgling rills: tian sam active lump of clay, Borax trom the carth. Ris'aneient root Allively twig oF sctiveshoot,® He rehearses from youth to old age, and then és : was mouth (ow in iow)as well a8 mouth, and Feiseteme iene | Raneend Gator) Hence Hamlets Toke te e feel le in yu) For lack of s lose command. this: baste that nts di) se Of rayson ‘The head once "i with golden locks Be they as pure( French &) as grass (arace.) Requires the wool of fleccy fcks’” A broken tovice, and his whole Soonction shooting An s0 on. He writes sixteen verses about | wiih tink rt. <The Ox,” ‘analyzing ite sorvices and various Gran cake ciesenomeee bay of srasbioe. designs of its body. This is the funniest of all. | — Mr. Ell 8 discussion of the puns in Shak- speare in thelr connection with the pronuncia- m of the time is acute and amusing. He shows, for instance, that reason must have been rayson—raisin in ‘were reasons as plenty,’ &¢.; perce one—person, proving that one was then— ‘own, not wun, as at present.” New Developments at Pompeii. . ‘This year the excavators have been at work down the street of the goldsmiths. The work is | begun at the top of the soil, sixty feet or more | from the level of the streets. ‘Trees and vegeta- tion are cleared from the surface, men with igns He telis usin the introductory remarks that he — his little book “to improve the beauties of the mind,” and hopes “none will expel it from his door, until he’s read its pages over.” In the closing, and ‘‘one hundred and = poem,” he dedicates the book to his “Heavenly Father,” and asks: “Ki it safe, through squally weather, Fectieatay aaah aee He thinks “the critic, who's annuller, (this rhymes with color) best to let his book alone,” and so we obey. He is like the orator who misquoted the poet's lines, this wise: ‘“There’s : : picks and spades loosen and throw ont theearth, | Sees agi Ne oe COM Shabe | Ea treope ot Glack-ayed, Samay cuetel ene with baskets and paniers, bear it away to the wagons. Arrived gown to the roots, the work- men proceed more carefully. Adepts crumble | the scoria in their hands to find antiques. How Eyes are Made. “ What do we think of this fellow?” asks the oculist of his client. ‘‘ Study his features, his et Kly what you think fis | From the hollows of every chamber they clean ook. ana Salah Garecntonene poring | Out the ashes with great precaution The | usually under some little emotion.’ «Well, | Objects are thus found exactly as they were left in the hurry and confusion with which the occupants escaped. Most houses can | | be recognized tor what they were. Inscriptions | | on their walls, signs on their pore! carved | emblems (proh pudor) at their doorways, tell | their story. Thus there are private mansions | and taverns, workshops and laundries, dancing halls and bagnios, indiscriminately lighted upon. | Wall paintings, sometimes of great excellence, | are found. "The diggers uncovered one this summer—“Bacchus aud Ariadne”—tresh color as a new picture of Bierstadt. ‘The young | | Wine-god, brown-faced, lusty and cinctured with vine leaves, is regarding a spleeping girlon | & bank with rapt admiration. Her fair hair, | beautiful figtire and drapery made the tresco & masterpiece for drawing and coloring. Cover- ing one side of the dinin Jean, reveal your secret to this gentleman.” Whereupon Jean introduces a Knitting needic under his eyelid, removes his eye, places it in the hand of the astonished spectator as uncon- cernedly as though it were a shirt stud. How is it possible to resist such a demonstration ? ‘These gentlemen charge from 49 to 50 franes for aneye. The manufacturer of the Rue du Temple has an entirely disferent way of doing business. He is generally a man pretty well informed; simple, polite, a little of an artist, a little of a workman, and a little of a tradesman. He scarcely employs either apprentice or assistant except When he receives a good order from som: naturalist for animals’ eyes for his collection. All day long, seated at a table at one end of hi in | | se dine c | d room opposite the orsdicke, tho mnnterials used’by ins tris anes | Jeti, it was always in full View of the diners. In | fission. "He takes a little enamel, melts it, and, ; ‘Ogarden of this house the workmen sho | us holes where trees had grown, and a mu fountain tha by the aid of a blow-pipe, blows it until it bi comes a small ball at the end of the instru- ment. This ball is destined to represent the white of the eye. He next takes some more layed in the midst of a flower. evidently been in ‘anic storm buried ers, decorators and cleauers were mias- ituation. Dinner, however, had not A solitary ‘pot stood on the onze dish, upon which was # ood waiting at drop of it fall upon the summit of the cornea. Gently beating it at the flame, it spreads out in a round spot, and eveutually becomes iat, and resembles the iris. A darker spot of enamel placed in the same manner in the center of the ris Smitates the pupil. The ball is now detached from the blow pipe, cut to an oval shape, and smoothed at the edges, so that on introducing beneath the cyelid it may not wound any of the smaller nerves. These eyes cost no more than trom twenty to twenty: can quite comprehend, as there rent to pay es of a liveried cyclops. ‘The manufacture of artiticial eyes is both dif- ficult and tedious. It suits alike both men and women, and many of the latter succeed well in it; it is, moreover, one of the best remunerated of art industries. Most ot the work-people paid by piece-work, that is,so much per did the loaves atter great m nt. sleep is ottenim- | possible, but if there is diversion in muscular | Pecupation for a while, refreshing sleep will fol- | ow. Rachel. the greatest tragic actor of her day, | on returning to her rooms after a theatrical per- fs | formance of an extraordinarily exciting charac- | Ot | ter, found most rest in changing the furniture of | the room, or from one room to another; this had the double effect of diverting the biood from the | workman will turn out hiseye per'diem. Ot receive trom the Jarge manufacturers a shar: the proceeds arising trom the sales of ey ufactured by the have to take 3 eyes not approved of by the customers. ‘These they put on one side, to serve for their stock in trade when they eommence business on their brain, and of giving exit to the nervous exe.te- ment through the muscles. | Some persons, at the end of a pu | lic address, | own account. find themselves in such a state of mental exe One of these collections forms a somewhat ment they canuot rest, especially as the curious sight. Reposing upon wadding at the | mind will run back on the periorman ing bottom of @ drawer are several scores of eyes, | round in a circle all the time. Such should go ran; d side by side, and exhibiting a singular variety of expression. Some are small, others | large; some black, others blue, hazel brown, | 1 light brown, bluish, and greenish gray i at once into lively company, or engage in active | exercise or exciting work; if these are not prac- ticable, the perusal of ‘a newspaper or book nearly | of short sentences or proverbs good all brilliant; all have a tixed stare—all are, in | Cuitmree’ CNenCes OF proverbs ls a a fact, looking you through. On one side are | Jf from any cause a man feels himself almost | laughing children’s eyes, next to them the | exhausted mentally or muscularly, a cup of lot, | Nquid-lookiny of young girls, the lan- : ~ black tea aifords an instantaneous and most | delightful reliet. It very tired, physically, lie on the back, knees drawn up, the hands clasped above the | head, or resting on the elbows, the fore-arm at | right'angles, and the hands hanging over by the | es qrdtren of bse deen, ‘eyes with an amiable or sinister expression, severe official eyes; then come the old men’s eyes, slightly ‘filmy; and in @ corner are ‘the worn-out eyes—eyes that have been alreai used, and have béen returned by the custo: as models to make other eyes by. ‘The enamel eye, after being exposed to the action of the at- mo=phere for some months, loses alike its color and its lustre, and becomes opaque-looking; a thick, dingy coating of solidified humors spreads over its polished surface, and it hasa glassy look, like the eye of a dead person. “Touch them, you will do no harm,” says the oculist to visitors, just as though it was a collection of coins or mincrals they were inspecting.—_Manufacturer and Budder. Alphonse Harr's Latest Witticism. Alphonse Karr contributes the following to the Univers IUlustre. It is supposed to be a dialogue end of the wrists. Some persons are best rested by lying on the face for awhile. Sometimes persons become tired and restless in bed, being waked up, and | cannot get to sleep again. Rest and sleep may be often had by getting up and using a | TOWEL BATH | thus: Take a towel, dip a corner of it in water, cold or warm, as is most agreeable, lay the | dampened part flat on the hand, and with | mouth shut and breast protruding rub the whole suriace of the body, fast and lard, as far | ascan be reached in every direction, and then | go to bed again; the feeling of refreshment and vigor, from such an operation, properly per- formed, is oftentimes most agreeable, to be fol- | between a group of heroes—dwellers in Pluto's | lowed by quick and delicious sieep, provided dark dot in—who bave just heard a recital of | the mind is not bent on disagreeable topics. If the French war from a defunct soldier ot Gam- | 0, it is better to get up, dress, and go to work, betta: or take a trot on a horse, even if it Leonidas.—“ Why, with those new arms the Persians would not have taken five minutes to at mid: | } get rid of me and my three hundred heroes.” night. | ‘These turmoils ‘and wrestlings of the mind at night must be terrible-—Hall’s Journal of Health. Hercules.—‘‘ I should like to know what good oe ees ee my strength would be in dealing with people Mearcoucenient dae tatoos ear nS Comal yar of our summer waters than the pond ily Samson.—* And what a pretty figure I should wee cut with ny donkeys Janne ny, 1 | team ary pom Charles ay.—' en at ‘ontenoy, . took off' my hat, and said, ‘Fire, gentlemen’ of oe Be cuties, end where the water the French Guard.’” Count d’Hauteroche.—‘ And then I answered, returning your salutation, ‘Fire, gentlemen of | Sduatic plant. Itis not difticalt the En; army, we never fire the first.’ ” often it am ‘ Lord There's an end to all such Piso nao cotuceret ge > chivalrous y fre now atsuch a dis- | More frequently attempted~ The root tance as to render the voices of the combatants | a large as # man’ inaudible to each other. Why, with the new sys- In the fall, tem of artillery, we cannot with the eye bgp oe the uniforms of the troops whose guns decimate | jt, putting. out 5° 11 to put ina Conde.—‘‘I don’t see now how it would be pos- | ¥®! sible to throw my truncheon into the diteh, and not already su charge for it.” rootin any soft —— Metin Oocles4 Ales: heroic time ix | Recesary them pants oaaahe : pa ‘abriige they not be washed out during the winter. four men. °The Curatii would have | 4 Pond upon the lawn or near the farm-house made short ‘armed with chasse- | C8 have no more beautiful drapery than these pots.”” lilies. — start ae and cover ed i iu | if it may be | enjoyed by eve: | unpleasant results—Germantnen T: and are h | notice that the principal and accrucd ix | as follows = | | Baoe are quite the | bouts; hang @n the sewing machine | and they catelymany Scraps which =e | wise be Wasted. Frertens.—Two cups of thin, sweet cream, four Sap, one dewser: ful ‘of sugar, the same of salt, ove-balf teaspoonful soda, flour bough to make a thick qatter; fry in hot lard. Lae Puppr@.—Six lemons, a pound and a halt Toy 4 ‘eggs, leave out the whites IL Ca iguod ot batter, bent the sugar w ther; then he Temons and -_ A Stnstitc?e por Muck or Caran.—Beat ‘Up the whole of @ fresh e pour belling tea Over itgradually, to prevent its carding. it is difficult from the taste to dis- tinguish the composition srom rich cream. Bouzp Pears are eaten with roast meat instead of apple or cranberry sauce. Choose fair, smooth ones; put them into cold water and boil’ them whole, withoat ‘and without sugar. Itwill take an hour or an hour and half, accor ding to the size of the fruit. Tomato OmeLer.—Beat up six eggs, mix two tablespoonfuls of flour with a little butter, aud add some salt aed pepper. Peel four tomatoes, and chop very fine. Stir all together and fry Oyster omelet is made in the same way, “substi- tuting a dozen chopped oysters for the toma- a basin, and then To Pickts Rep Canpace.—Take a head of the darkest red cabbage and slice it very thin, shake on it a little coarse salt, and let it rest twenty-four bours to drain. Boil an ounce of lack pepper and an ounce df allspice in a quart of vinegar, and when cold pour it over the cabbage; then pack it close and keep it well , cover j Porter Toxove—Remove the tongue’s rind cut = peat it in a mortar, as fine as is pos- sible with the butter, and the spices beaten fine. | When perfectiy pounded, and the spice well blended with the meat, it into small potted ns, and pour ¢! butter over the top. A ittle roast veal added to the potted tongue is an | improvement. Gresy Conn CakEs.—Mix a pint of grated sweet corn with three tablespoonsful of milk, » teacup of flour, a large teaspoonful of melted butter, a teaspoonful of salt, a little pepper, and sue ee Drop this mixture by the lar ful into your frying-pan and try brown; use butter for » Ti served up with meat for . A Panton Vixe.—To grow a very pretty vine from the sweet fo, put @ tuber in pure sand or sandy loam, in » oases boa. and water occasionally. It will out tendrils and beautiful leaves, and will climb freely over the of the and upward toward the to; of the window. one visitor in a hund but will suppose it f be some rare foreign plant. | Tae Ear wpyrmearens § heat is the best . Apply a warm poultice or warm oil to the ear. Rub the back of the ear with warm } laudanum. In case of a fetid discharge, care- fully syringe the ear with warm milk and water. | | on. em till are nice In all'cases keep the ear thoroughly cleansed. Relief is often given by rubbing the back of the ear with a little hartshorn and water. To Kzxsr Tomatoss ror Winter Use.—By the following method we may have tomatoes ail the year round, which can scarcely be dis- tinguished from those picked freeh from thei Dissolve a teacupful of salt in a gallou of wate: Pick ripe tomatoes, but not over-ripe, leaving a little the stem on. The tomatoes must be kept well covered with the brine, and they will keep till spring. AUservi Recrre.—Rub four parts by weight. of yolk of eggs, in @ mortar, with five parts of glycerine. Thiscompound has the consistency 'y, is unctuous, like fatty substances, but is easily removed by water. Applied to the skin it forms a varnish, which effectually prevents t action of air. It allays the itching in cutaneous | action, It is unalterable, and can be expose! to the air for an indefinite period. | Sricep Arries.—Eight pounds of apples, | four pounds of sugar, one quart of vinegar, one ounce stick cinnamon, half ounce of cloves. | Boil the sugar, vinegar, and s)ices together put in the apples when boiling, and let them remain until tender, (about twenty minutes ) Take them out, and put them in a jar. Boil | down the syrup until it is thick, and pour | it over. | Sort Currse.—Take milk just as it begins to turn sour; pour over it about one-fourth its bulk of scalding water, beating the milk with a spoo: at the same time, to cause the whey to separat en strain off ax much ot the liauid as possi ally washing the curd with clean water. Adi a little salt, and you have a palatable and very bu ritious article of food. i Arriy Drariixes.—As the season for ay dumplings {+ now near at hand, allow me liberty of saying that they can be made so tha every one. even of delicate d'gestive powers, can | eat them with impunity. Of Course | am saying nothing but what every good housekeeper 1 ready, when I recommend that the do So called, should be made of ab» one part flour to six parts potatoes, boiled and mashed thoroughly and every lump remo It makes a good paste and the dumplings c: one without the fear « ist after raph. 87 Pfetdstrassenersendahnwagen is German t short” tor horse-railroad. &7-Omaha bridal couples indulge in two 4 lars’ worth of carriage ride as a wedding tour 1 here? bonds herein-below designated. known ss F: twenty Bonds, will be paid at the Treasury of United States, in the City of Washingt, on afver the lay of December next. and that t interest on satd bonds will cease on that day. ‘Th is to sax, Coupon Bonds known as the first Act of February 25,1362, dated May 1, 1352, 1 to 90899, inclusive, of $9 each. mo v2 oe “ Low + | red Bou ds of the same Act— inclusive, of $29 each, oe Lo a law os U« sum » 2806. nad wow The amount ontstanding (embrace! in the numbers asabove) is one hundred million , $100a0M0)) dol wupon Bonds of the Act of February 25. 1 were issued iu tour distinct series. Bonds of t first series (embracing those described above) do not | ye seri sicuation upon them. while those and fourth series are distinctly | ‘eof the bends. nit curities forwarded for rede ised should be addressed to the “ LOAN DIVISION,” | Secretary's Office. J. F. HARTLEY, * | sep2- lawl & Weotw Secretary. HE SONG GARDEN. _ ANNUAL SALE 40,000 Copigs A series of Music Books adapted to Schools of all n itwelt. grades. Each book comple | By Dx. LOWELL MASON. | THE SONG GARDEN. First Book. Fv im hers. with a variety of easy and plewsing songs.socts. THE SONG GARDEN. Second B In addi tion to a practical course of Tust it contains achoice collection of School Music. 1 Culture with [ilustrarions, Exer Solteggi. &e., it contains New Music adapted to High Schovis, Seminaries, &c..... S100 Sent post-paid on receipt of price. ©. DITSON & O0., Boston. DITSON & CO... New York. | | GENERAL BowaRD, | INGTON, july 21, 1372. Sir: re for sume time LIFE in my family as» wash, BALM OF and have found it all you mf am glad to i article that \- Gentiy doing somuch goods Yoursstraige ss °™ 0. 0. HOWARD, Brig. General U. 5. A. Laver from JUDGE whee 4 of U. 5. Sxvrems idee =m e gees: DRY GOODS. EX6tisu corron saxetixa. E THOUSAND YARDS of the above goods im 9-4 and 10 4, and in sheets by the pair Every yard of these goods is worth fire yards of the best domestic gos S {Will be sold at less than the golit cost of importa tion. JOHN T. MITCHSLL, __ 931 Penney ivanta arene SPLENDID STOCK 1s72 FALL AND WINTER DRY GOODs, JOSEPH J. MAY, OK SILKS. PARIS PRALER IN ALL REIGN AND DO. MESTIC PRY Goobs VE., BETWEEN Ore aNd LOra ers, ode 1s71 We are griveke a BLACK ALPACAS and BRAY! MOHALRS. and haveconstantly on band all oualities ae excellent goods, from @ conte to L258 or * cek jebrated \vravds — Bi ote, ™ Lrish avd French P. Sattinets. new colors, Serges and Epinglines; Colored hs; French Merinos, flue All Wool Plaids, in Great variety A All colors of Sitks. Sitk Nets and Velvetenne cat | on the bias if desired. fine White Flamnels and heavy Fiannele, Blue. Soariet, er do: Opera Black And White: Water proof Cloakings. all qualities. tohardson 's Le heavy and fine, Tabie pena Rentios gta Wier Ons ss Sheng pen Sheets: and Towelings, Blankets, Qallte, ‘out Sg eg Farren . Bates, XX, and other good iow Linen, Comforts: Cotton Shirt: And M . own to be the best in the *u “Bogliek Crapes: hem fine Drape Veils, Hantkerchiefs. ok Kid Gloves. Ac. &o. S7 THE LOWEST CASH PRICE is matkedte plain articl Mi varsicle. JosRPH 3. may. NEW stoex, NBW GOODS, NEW PRICES. BRODHEAD & 00. Have opened a new and elegant stock of FALL AND WINTER DBY GOODS, at their new store, 1208 F street, between itth and Lith streets, at PRICES LOWER THAN EVER. ita Cotton, Zic.; Anfroscoggin, Ie ; Ble. Wamentts Ov gant Paris Kids, $1: Conte & Sterli Sooat os gd nes, ail % - of harente. Pall and exam th Te; Plaids, Cashes ree, Aly . kinds of Drees Goods, at a bargain AHEAD 5 F street. between (anrers = CARPETS! CARPETS | CARPETBIN! MESSRS. WOLFORD & SHILBERG Desires to call the attention of the geueral publicte ther NEW B8TOCK oF FALL CARPETS, Comprising of ENGLISH BRUSSELS. THREE-PLY INGRAIN RAG AND HEMP CARPETS, which are ely to be sold 2) por cent. leas than at any be the city. Prices ranging from 25 cents to $1.73 per yard. ALso, an endless variety of FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY-Goops, is offered at the - LOWEST MARKET FIGURES. A call to this extablishment is rompectfully solicited 82 KEMEPLEK, THE ARCADE. BT ty treet, Tsien, wele-tr c* RPEETS. Dane k. JAMES B. DODSON, S19 MARKET SPACE, NEAR CO! AND PENNSYLVANIA AY gE, DESIRES TO CALL THE ATTENTION OF HIS FRENDS ANDTHE GENERAL PUBLIC TO HIS ELEGANT sTOCK OF DOUBLE AND SINGLE. WIDTH VELVETS. DOUPLE & SINGLE-WIDTH TAPESTRIES. ENGLISH & BIGILOW BODY BRUSSELS. The supply of eters Goods ts neme in part: Magnificent Silk Pinu K-ps. tn all oulors and style Lente Curtains in ever Wainut Kow-wood wud and Hooks to bie OF Cloths, in tone ‘ocon Mattings. in all widths: Biair Rods. Stair Pads. and Carpet Liningss, hhis stock lias been selected with the great ext care rt te of Chede Kinds aud wil * or furnishing honses ut h thi as above mentioned.em inspection of the gouds is solicited JAMES B. DODSON, $19 Merker Shane northwest. variet sF15 lawew | NEW Gooubs to». YRS GOULD— imc NAN Wes Baking tic. and $1: Bi Australian Orape. 00 Poplin Al Heavy Pepline. vic. All Wool Satine ss ow t Plants, ‘ala. wich Lustres, Silk’and Wael Popling: ‘Binck Silke, Black Alpacas, Black and Colored Velveteana, many other i tabrice at fair prices. Buawie, irom Sic. to 3 RUANE ETS $312 $18 pox pair’ COTTON GOODS OF ALL KINDS AT a B PROFIT. FLANNELS, CASSIMER! 10- MEEY GLOVES, NOTIONS, aud FANC’ ere “WOOD AND COAL weoeo pst MARLOW'B WOOD AND COAL YARD, Corner 7th street and Canal. On hand and to arriy: eral cas of the anality of RED and ITE As OVAL, of all sizes. Also, large stock of WOOD, sawed and split, or the atick = 87 Reduction made to parties peat supply. All sales guaranteed to give catire isfaction. ST Orders afl prom; ho pesmi": tmatpaoaeasamaend os" a5w ween DIRECT FROM VESSEL ENGEL'S PHILADELPHIA La Oo.) PHILADELPHIA ALE and CATAWBA len: = ATAWBA, WINE, (in founte and lay yt a oe ERENOH BAKE«Y po F. ‘soe torn sresre aka Celebrated Joc" po French Paris Joco’s Bread and Batter Borel: and Ternisuec a satie~ Velati's Confectionery, 616 ich strety teh there, = ae” pearG. Orders can be