Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1878, Page 3

* A CURTAIN LECTURE. 21:30 P. M, try unis sammer? fel yoni] in vi retrene oo t= maa Atel you you will, Mr. B.* la to Newport; + fain suse, she*s to poor St knew, me ve tn the ver ircles: Isa chance that she oughtn’t tu mis I'd never ave give. that party. I 1 a thought it was comiug fo this. res have falle ‘off upon stoc r. ar, i you the girls want bew frocks, Seems to me. to be risking your money In this Way fs very unwise; And if you willdo it, why don‘t you Invest in some thing that will sise? You know how we all hate the country, Aud just be there Is cheap TP. ask us lo go there Mr, B.. Tbesleve you're aslerp (Harper's Bazar, The Latest Theory of Immortatity.* ‘Tne Episcopalian clergy have always ti so noted for their ca atismi, that some re utterances on the subject of in mortality b Rev. Dr. Shipman, rector of Christ ¢ . in Fifth avenue, rather sur. pagly cere a lean to s opinion that there is no life beyond that when a man dies he dies The Christian doctrine afutue is rejected by them as irrational ied, andt iments by which jt maust t onfessed, far fom possessing The conciusiveness of a scientife dem i nee, most Chris resent the doctrine as n. aid to ask aith. Dr. Shipman, how he hypothesis advanced by ied rationaiist of this country— may be a future state to this of which we Peat have ne > yet uncom > on living es whieh they ni In working out this act of f the spiritual world isa.w truly as this worid is, but at between the two the eon the one hand non the other. We cannot say t world is above this or below my belong to two di nee. The spiritual world, so fur as it concerns our ability to form an mot it. is to us, constituted as We are precisely what the ma‘erial world would be to aman deprived of all the five senses. A man in this wokl deprived of all the five Senses would not Know that he was in this World. And we do not know that we are spiritual world, not because ¥ Lut simply beeausé our spiritual senses are closed by this material investiiure. So [be ve that a spiritual universe of inconceiv- dle spiendor Is all around us. The apy tion which he makes of this tea to the doctrine of immertality is th nt that spirit and uot that whi ter is the perma ual world is a : that : that the isa real that the spiritual real nd from the of our beyond the grav f dificulty vanis orning mist b the sun? For m rt L hold this belief as among my deep nd most cherished conyictions, and I ak Ged for it. T thank him for the com. fort that it brings to sorrowing he I Neve in the spiritual wor sre! Heve in the world in whieh Istand. I believe tha’ in that world we allare even now, thoug ho move conscious of the fact than theunhateh, ed bird is conscious of the biue skies throug! Which it is soon to soar and sing. I betiev th when at death these masks of clay sal fali we shall find ourselves face to face with our any journeying through space witheterna! things.” her talk of this kind is or is not con with orthodox leave for the evn authorities t le. Bur we canno® ar calling at ention to it as a remarkab! & " ined methods of treating Christin tr given way to moxlern novelties—[ Son. Indecision of Character. Ofthe many eases whieh hiud+r men from attaining success, indecisi one of the most potent. y mined course marked out for themseive: uth launch out into the great ocea. of life, pending more upen chance than any fixed laws whereby a definite result may be obtain ed. Thinking to-day, perchance, to F fortune through some particu'ar ehanne! to-morrow, easily alter for some oth they pass their lives, continually varying, always discontented with the presen coking to the future for brighter days, which their ecision does not Warrant them to ex peet. How many men there are who. if se Led in their purpose to obtain a vould ultimately be crowned with success. How many old men who. if they had not so i so frequently changed heir voe: tion, would be now in the enjoyment of every nfort, gvhereas their latrer ¢ ps epembs ork-hous' jight from whieh no one is exempt an shall earn his own bread by the sweat of his brow.” Such being the e: ns not be aver fastic as to the nature of the emp vent. We were no pl: in this wo: ld fo an endless paradise, but to pre pare ourselves by hones’ lives, endless If we feel dissatisfied with our lot— in £ 3 Well the beggar— ndure it, ane console ourselves Wi h the pleasurabie re- fection that soon, very soon, all our toils and troubles and privations will have anead. Ly to divest ourselves of the weizh has put upon us. Whatever oar its duties, y submit to the Creator's goo L! “ed that our days will be more y less troubled than if we seek day day an easier means of obtaining thai from which w S parated—money. Be decided, then, in your w arse you Will pursue throughtout life. Do not, without suftcient reason, deviate fiom it, and though you should not secome a distinguished man, yet rest assuved your life Will not be fruitle condition in life let us diseha: and if we calmly wil CARBOLIC ACID FOR COUGHS AND CATARRE.— The London Medical R- cord gives ihe experi- ence of Dr. Moritz in the use of carbolic acid in eatarrhal disease of the respiratory Having had much to do with carbol , and especially the spray, he noticed tthe bronehial eatarrh with which he wax juently troubled did not oecur, and that, if ii began, it was soon arrested. A’colieague of his, Dr. Asseldeifft, made the same observa- tien. Dr. Moritz used the spray of a 2 per cent solution of earbolic acid. He first tried it en two children in whom the commence- ment of whooping-cough was suspected. After the remedy had been used two days, the slixht ecatarrh which was present came toa standstill, and in a few days disappeared. In several children with measles the cough was diminished, and the nights were more quiet after the use of earbolic-acid spray. In! two surgical patients also, whose lings were in a Suspicious state, the cough entirely disappear- ed during the frequent use of the spray. The earbolic acid does not act as a cauterant, for dilution produces beneficial action, and it i demonstra'ed that it e: S any chemical action af the false membranes, as some hive thought. urS most reasonable that it acts as a paras . detroyiug the proty-or. ganisms which constitute the fundamental 1 the false membranes, and which exis in the cireulatory system, since the local alter- “tons are more thau the expression of zymot ie inhuence, OvvALOFF,” said the c evening, as the two sat <mokin on the “teps of the duca! palace, “ what sort of a snide rooster is that Beaconsfield, anyhow? “Sire,” returned Schouvatoll, as he struck a ar, the other ent cigars match on the sole of his paten® leather boot, ‘I | could puli the wool over the home seeretary, could close up the eye of the new secretary for India. and I might even get Salisbu' Where the hair is swt. bat Beasonshed Io man who won't } mae him with = Did you d | bee ach be; ged that they would ta | been getting worse and worse, t | the person’ | appeaicd te the contemp: of Ha livelihood, velihood. | comely bul sterh sha!l be shortly and eternally | | A FRAGMENT FROM TWO LIVES. One wild blustcring gat not many years ago a stage-coach made a short detour through one of the mountainous regions of Pennsyl | Yania, and stopped at the house of the preach- | er. If was an old brown house at the foot of a Sterile rock, seemingly as remote from eivil- | ization as the heart of an Arabian desert. The | Rey. Paul Hume had already spent there, so far as vitality went. the best_ years of his I He had been of late glad to find the old rebel- | lious longings, the fierce ambition, even the fretting discontent and latent hope for the fu ture, tecoming moie dim and duli, and he be- fan to believe as the years went by he would he able to live out those allotted fo him honor- abiy at least, and in a m had given up the old foolish fondness for put- ting fie and fervorin a tong Sanday dis- course. Hie was quite cunteni tat sume of his congregation should sleep quietly through the sermon, und others ruminate over what- ever fleshly'a; gravation or joy that was ‘heir minds. Probably his sole spanion, even in the degree suited iy, was’ his serving. woman Hay- aight-featured, sical teat iv n to bursts of religious eatau that om a measure relieved the dai cLotcny of the life they lived there aon ove her raya ougl t to have known her master bei van to lieve he would reitt-e succor t ure, and it was {00; her te shorten the chain that b door Uae tight in Mareh when tae dey asure resignedly. He sry care Of a sick passe! r. 1 the last ten mniles, and,“seeiu’ there way no Ae, hor hespital, nor nothin’ hand he had ade boid to letch her to the parsoi’s house ui Hapa: shock the crimson turban on her ine kgyption head, and declared it was no business to risk his life wi h pe:- ilential fevers. * kyenassh spoke, however, the parson had umoosed he chain, and gone out in fly scauc gown and close cap to the coach, aud iifted the poor won an out in hisstrougarms. Hasar fovowed bin and his burden up the stairs, vad as the light from her candle fel upon tausied | curls and braids, bits of ribbon, and a joag of embroidered lace that hung from th: dof the sick woman, a gold chain about her neck, and other persoual gewgaws that ‘ar, She mut- tered to bersett that her master had had quite encugh of these miserable flummeries for the rest of his natural life. ‘The lady's trunks had been bumped in after her, and presently they had to be pried open, lor the |; By aps and eyes were closed, aud she could not teil Hagar where the key lay to th it Hagar went to work with vre the preacher had sd- ded y cob aud started otf on his tive- m across the mout un fora doe or, ar had put aside the ribbons and bits of eveling adommiment for a long white musiin be. which struck the preacher's heart with o Jsomehow, and made him speed the pony ouks way old Mr. Hume, ukty, Ts and disorders h prth a dozen ordi ry stiiioners, aud that he had le counted upon her inexiremijes ot and trotting over to Mr. Hume's t urning.on his way from the setiing of broken bones, the dos know if he ght about thy Tie sick lady's. wrists dup with cooling herbs strength of some healing decoction of Ha the surgeon's nostrils, The pu) the eyes were dilated a little, aad a er flush burned in the sof the unfortu traveler: but the docter declared that Huge Was doing wel!, and, with good care, ina week or so the journey could be pursued. | Chen, With acuriousand inveluntary air of adinta- lion, the doctor jooked agaiu at the patieat, | aud Went upon his way: it was pot often, in region like ‘his, one could look at a pre:ty oman, or well, and the good uld ty be biumed for that linzering glance of his upon poo: Mrs. Delplaine, As yet the parson lad been aione cone raed for her safety for many days it did not vccur to him th C ion of his enest appe ued to. any at ave pity aud rev. erener r strougly disapprov-d of fen ciaims, especially When the owner red to ada to them by frivolity of dress or demeanor. lady, Who felt that she owed, p life io these good pes- ie’: pened her heart to Haxar, erailabour her long journey from Where she lad lst her hus- 5 S since, and had longed to come home East, but dreade she might, the dr 'y Waste of miles Hagar knited s: rently she lis er, absorbed that the miniscer he traveler Mrs. e Was too ill to be left long alone, a gat had her how vld duties to actend to, so that the minister was often com peiled to bring his book, and make the sick toom his study. 17 amber, which had been semewhat bare and desolate, suddeay bees me giowing and warm. cortiast: with the room ou lined with moth eaten volumes with umulating dust. 94 light wraps a s should be taken from her trunks to soften the glare at the windows, to add to he ity covering of her bed, to h leathern back of her le atmosphere of th is ing, ana the hungry soul of the Rev. Paul delighted therein, without Knowing why. He was walking just now in the big glooniy room below, the scaut tails of his threadbare coat flapping in the ebill air of March, but his soul Was Warm With the memery of the last hours he had speat iu that room Aud Mrs. Deiplaine, poor Mrs. Deipliine, havin: hing ese to think of in this queer, pict degion, being somewhat appaided yy the biz sterne hillsund the gray gloomy sk bieh her crimsou shawls couid not alto- w | gether shut out, having nothing else to thiak of but the tender interest that this hag- rd, but handsome reeluse of a par son tock in her misforiunes, and feeliag that if he bad been as hard-hearted as his housekee she might not now have bsen alive, and finding life ever so sweet in hereon val- sence, She was constrained to ask of t ‘gro Woman some hing of her maser. “ Was he alone in the worll? Had be no dred Hagar looked up from her kuitting so stolidly that Mrs. Delplaine added, “ Father or mother, wile or children?” Hagar deiberately turned the heel of her stocking before she fully satisfied the curios ity of the convalescent. “Then she vouchsafed 16 say shat he was quite alone; no father, nor mother, Ss far as she Ksowed. There used to be fe—a poor, sickly tur—but she was done gone south yea and never come back. “Did the poor lady die there?” said Mrs. Deiplaine. Hagar hesitated a minute. Then she said, “Yes, she died there, sure enough.” d how many years has he lived 1 desolate region, friendless and aloae? Mrs. Delplaine. Hagar reckoned it was a considerable time, but gave it as her opinion that some people's room was better’n their company ; and ad ling that Mrs. Delplaine was taiking too much, and thatshe had better go to sleep, Hagar went out of the room. aso, this said 5 Un consciously, perhaps, he had been listeniag for Hagar’s retreating footsteps. Wao can gov- | ern these vague yearnings that sometimes be- set the strongest human heart? As he en- tered the room his face brightened; the cay- ernous furrows in his brow seem to straighten out into joyous benignty | the very angles of his nature, sharpened by the hopeiess loneli- ness of his life, beeame smooth, and took com- fortable, rounded shapes to themselves; and he greeted the paie preity woman in the straight-backed chair with a peculiar and charming tenderness ef tone and manner, born of this new experience, that would have frightened and astonished himse! he been a looker-on. But Mrs. Delplaine was neither frightened nor astonished. She was stilt so Weak that Hagar’s harsh and abrupt replies had brought foolish tears-to her ki hee which still hung upon her lashes as she smile upon Mr. Hume. beat ge herself up to the sweet relief and comfort of his presence. She be gan to believe that destiny had determined this remarkable event in her life, aud felt an irresistible desie to further the designs of fate. She had never in her life seen any one so noble and majestic, yet so gentle and ten- der. as this preacher. She felt that she would much rather dwell with him ‘in the midst of alarms than reign iu this horrible place ;? but anything was better than to part with him. “lam glad you have come,’ she said; “I have something to say to you.” A strange, wisiful, discomfited look in his ce dis. quieted her, and she added, gently, * You will aa despise & little advice and remonstrance of mine?’ “I could despise nothing with which you you were associated,” he said. “Then listen to me,” she continued—*sit here by my side and listen to me. Iam get ing quite strong and wel. You have saved my life, you aud your good Hagar, aud the worst of it is that bow I must go away.” Here she paused, and enjoyed the sudden wineing in is face, and resolved more and more t» spare him the pang of parting. “I am going to coax you eg’ from here,” she said. “Indeed, fy r. Hume— May L call you Paul?” es,” Le replied, but began to grow pale. ‘Indeed you are quite thrown away in this place. It would be so sweet to me to see you admired and deified and bowed down to, as the world out yonder does to men like you. They love a silver tongue, do the people: Will you let_ me manage it for you? I promise you, if you will, our parting shall be brief. Tire | considerable influence, which I will wield in our behalf. You have but to be known to be dppreciated. See the good you might do, he doctor had some broken bones to set, | Paul,” she added, coaxinely. Tier face took fire as she uttered his nai preacher grew paler and paler. “T am grateful to you,” he replied. “more grateful than I ean say but I must emai here. Believe me, it is better Ishou!d remain” Mrs, Delplaine had somewhat forscea thi refusal. In her exalted estimate of his charac ter she could scarcely hope that her hero would step aside from the path he iad marked | out for himself to cater to the pretences of a woman. She yielded at onee. “ Beeause you are stubborn and proud,” sh: said, “because you cau not bend to any Weak | frivolity: and if you will not vield ‘to my wishes, there is nothing left to :ve but to sub- mit myself to yours. remain here. it maiters lit ice T live, i ountry in its way. saver ponds of Spcta. On that big stern ro the 6 aw the poor moss eri alitth AL Bel soiue Yiu lisusc, ald vid houses Can be refurnished. homespun ean i to Persian wlocous fires can i 3. Since K We Shali so your Wil, not objec son. asthe rose " “Mrs. Deipiaine!” he said, crunching the slim white hand thit rested on tre arm of the shair cose in the quivering muscles of his y name is Laura,” she interrupted neither willl go. You will take with you the only true happiness L have ever the memory of it will perhaps serve Known tom: ke the rest of my life endurable. And now let me tell you, loveliest aud most gener- an not go and you ean | why I in love in the neighborhood of the college. soon learned that her passion was feigned from the first, and th: she only married n from motives of convenience; but mine, such t was, founded upon a delusion, and nursed eral vi tinst it, how meanly and and groped blindfold 4 long been a ser for the old mockery. But it hae thost, and the time came when even the mem- ory of it was a curse. Then the cross was [ haps Leavier for her to bear than for me. Tied (oa man whose pursuits, thoughts, ambitions, 1d nor she could neither under appreciate, condemned to the propriety, antl soberness ‘allotted to the life of a preacher's even denied the comfort of w ing gay ets and apparel, often she ha: i that she envied the freedom of an Indian squow, and how glad she'd be to know nothiag thoctaw to get rid of the eternal preach- but € ing, ehi invountary shudder at the lite thé parson ed. “Then she added, with atin Ali! but she did not love you!” Mr. Hume: “and, God for i : us beth, Atl only think it rook the corps powerful iful providence—f ean bled her health and om her slavery ent to b> amused Lt was possibie te 1 with the fami arge of her e suited: hy ion held a eb isvlation, sooth ud cousoie t me: audse the years went by, till you ea i Heve he got upon his feet, and bent over her, taking beth her hauds in is. His face had eraduaily ned a serenity. ‘Tecan not be sorry We have me he such a joy to me, nm in parting there is something sweet in the knowledge that you take with you some brief interes.s In my po: life. Mrs. Delp’aine’s hands trembled within his own. The story of the parson held something. sinister to a light, luxury-loving nature, A shril wind rattled at the casement: a heayy K canopy of coud had falien upon th: mountain and hung there like a pall; the h grown dark and cold. Suddenly ttle hyvel the y she turned ue tenderly; a cheek. she said, looking from the window; he Hance of color burned in t “Why shoud we part ely up in his face. “Twill not bave it so nud both our lives be spoiled? You ntt You could for her while. she lived—" “’said Mr. Hume, dvawing a quick —what is ite” eried Mrs. Delptaine | “She isdead:; Hagar told me she died bas ay No, no,” said She is hot set fit to di Then Mrs. Delpluuy sank back in her ehair, and drew ands from his. “1 would like © be alone.” she Said, anid betore he was fair ly out of the room she burst tuto passtouate Weeping; but the minister went steaigas to his study, Where he passed the uightin wake ful misery. Atdaybr parson’s door, and si hoisted to the top. HL Hume. “God forbid! big tranks we rhelped ina voile and shawled figure that seemed to the few | passengers principally made up of big wistfu. eyes. These eyes were glued to the window of the coach, and two other wild, higgurd orbs from the parson's study followed” she umbering vehicle till it becaine lost fa its to. tuous descent of the hill. appened not many year3 ago, and eemed as yesierday to the poor pirson when, upon one morning, with a trembiing hand he addressed anewspaper to a lady then traveling abroad. It contained the intelli Fence of the death of poor Mrs. Hume at ‘assau. The sole answer he received was a shabby foreign sheet, wherein among the marriages he fouud that of Mrs. Deiplaine. (Harper's Weekly. see The Use of Tea and Coffee. (The Physiologist and Family Physician. Question—Is the use of coffee and tea with our meals injurious? Answer. ney have been charged with pro- ducing dyspepsias, neuralgias and other in- jurious effects upon the stomach, bowels aud nervous sysiem generally. I quote the opinions of the following well kuown authors upon this subject, and would add that my own personal aud_professionai experience “fully coincides with the views herein presented. Dr. Johnson. sa ars’ obser We are convinced by n that very many of led upon to treat, usand sick nate and certain fruit of ulants. eribes a number ot diseases induerd by these beverages, and assures us “tha‘ they are most insidious and dangerous enemies, which slowly and sitently under- mine ‘he citadet of life itself.” T says, expressly, that eoffes has a “pernicious effect upon the stomach, bowels and nervous system generally.” Dr. Shurtlefl, of Busion, says, “of all the common beverages drank in society, evifee is decidedly the worst.”” Dr.Graham declares that “both tea and coflee are among the most powerful poisons jom.”” that “tea and coffee not only ruin the stomach, but seriously de- range the health of the brain and the nervous system. Dr. Teste says, that “coffee is responsible for or seven-tenths of the neuralgia we have to treat daily.” Question—We ofien hear the term -‘tea- drunkard.” Will you tell us what class of persons is meant by it? Auswer—Their number is legion; they are of both sexes, but more of women than of men. Instead of using tea in moderation, or as an occasional beverage, they swill it down three or four times a day, in quantides that are incompatible with health. They are as much slaves to the tea-pot as the drunkard is to his bottle, They are tea-drunkards. Tea, in anyening ut creat moderation, is a poison capable of ruining the stomach, enfeebling and disordering the heart’s action, shatterin, the nerves and ruining the health and happe ness of the victim. In tew words, without holding that the use of tea is as bad as the use of alcoholic liquors, one may well believe that the total abstinence reformers have, in their red-hot zeal against rum, encouraged an indulgence in tea-drinking which wi!l one da: have to be fought against with might an main to prevent the wholesale ruin of multi- tudes. tea-drunkard may be defined as one who drinks strong tea several times a day, who depends on it instead of food and resi for strength, and who cannot go without it without bringing on distressing sympioins. “Mr. A C. SWINBURNE was invited toattend, as representative of English poetry, the Par.s celebration of the Voltaire Centen: but was unable to be present. M. Victor Hugo has taken pains to see that a seat beside him was reserved for Mr. Swinburne. The most romantic incident connected with the celebra- tion was the formal opening of the windows of the room in which Voltaire died. The house, which forms the corner of the Quai Voltaire and the Rue de Beaune, belonged tothe War- quise de Vilette at the eet Voltalre's de, an $ losopher, she and, in memory of the caused the windows to be closed immediatly he expired, and a special clause in her wi'l rdered that they should not be opencd orde: yee @ hundred years had elapsed from tiat BROTHER JASPER, the reverend sun-moyar, 358 colored converts in his ehurel 1 tien id, Va., last Sund: ‘h in Richmon a. unday. The pool w: a small one, and when the Work was Byer the water quite dark. He has boasted that he can ut more converts under water in one day han any other preacher, black or whit. Next Sunday ei jundred persons are to be iS her, bi baptized in the African Chureh. @, but that of the Well, then. IT will also Delplaine,” he repeated, “you will not t stay. n Twas buta ladof twenty,” id the. her, nd still pursuing my — ies, 1 love With a young Woman who aries of the brain, led me Tadise; and even when the bit- Dar. | be told me D) soul said Mrs. Delplaine, with an e ve nT was tempted to dl Such misery foc he lent a datgerous onuings and diseonen! Was sity studies we the stage stopped again at the + A RUSSIAN POPULAR POE What the Russian Multitudes are Beginning to Think and Feel—Neckrassof and His Poems—A Russian Version of the Questioa “Is Life Worth iving.” (From the Conte-ap srary Review for Jane.) If ali Russia unites in lamenting over the fresh tomb of Nekrassof, as over that of her first and mos* Deloved poet. the chief reason is to be soughi in the character and tendency of | Nekrassof my be truly called a popular national poet. His pen was exclusive. | and grievances of ings e devoted to the sufferii the lower cla id hh ter ito the uw paapte weak oad che apmesed, deineiaty women | and children, commanded his sym: vhies, and le Lever tlvugit ren otras Paiatl as | of life incompatible his mu H> i Deember afer a ioag’ aat ‘li'lness which could not deptive him of his faculties, and in spite of which he esatiaued i moment. St r saw such a guhering of mouruers as on tue day of his fu wrat. every honor that could be showa to : citizen was lavished on him. All the dis ance from his house to the burying ground, hi voftin neyer touched the funeral car, bela borne on the shoulders of his numerous admir. ers. Ladies with garlands of laur ers, bearing diff ent inseriptions, went in itof the procession, which contained all the representatives of literature, students of all high schools, and even peasants, who came to bid a las: farewell to their own poet. We were told by the old generation that such a crowd had only been seen once before, at the funeral of our incomparable fabulist. Krylof. The ehurch could contain only a small pirt of those present, and the eloquent speeches pronoune- ed at the grave detained the crowd. for some hours in the churchyard, in spite of the cold December day. In order to understand move cause of Nekrassof’s great popularit above that of other contemparary poeis, we must enter into some biographical patticulars. The experien of his earlier life were closely connected with the cb eter of his works,and. Ww. th the aid of his p: nate and fiery nature, he transformed them into weapons forthe fight he ut dertook with political and social wrongs. His } athetic pleadings in favor of the people gave rise to the rumor that he belonged by birth to the lower classes. It was said that he ' mix themselves with the crowd, and ofer wine ho can declare hi h some laugh at them, the offer is to) tempting not to find others ready to accept it. The first that presents himself isa retired sex. ton, as thin as a skeleton ; the effect that happiness cannot be measured by gold, furs or precious stones, but that it consists in resignation: “ When the sun in comforts my mind, I feel py,” conclude#he. But the peasants refuse to give him this glass on which he counts, and Jaughing bid him go his way The next candidate is an Old woman, whoaf? firms that she is happy, because her turnips rown uncommonly well that year; and eloquence to depict | rinquirers do not be- | n asthmatic soldier, and eager to get a f happy. a ee (From the Baltimore American.) Professor Mallet lectured yester noon at Hopkins H. aflairs by any mea all on “Matehes”—not love osphoric kind in no way related to that of sparking that results in the tend The original discovery of fire itself, b said was a remarkable event in the history n, but the When and where are things that | lost in the depths of antiquity. If we spec. | about how ite en M lightning or e gives a speech to me and a glass of ermentative decay ht vy some that it may have come jon of the sun's rays, but Savage nations she uses muc! jarge they are, | lieve her, an y tr: this is not probable n once produced decoratcd ¥ al methods {or ca. ry.ug rliest mode of pro’ Is We have bred ale of wood speci z i viding fire artifici what is a suldier’s y In the first place,” hot good luck to have veen hout being kille 12 Alf starved in ially prepared. Piny describes in his thine vere the best kinds of wood for the purpose. A modification of the same princ ss oof strikin reek writers fell o ent in pgactice sul, on steel continu ided in some i madly, dit T not always feel ime of peace, without dying? Tot heen ernell reussion. pre flogged for great and | | 3 | steel, which th 1 all those pun asants were Con. man; nobody | exclaiined the health oa} mode of making fires, by matches dipped in'Sulphar, wseives citpable of fusing except by ean dispute thy and drank the soidie id be too long to reprodu our ingnivers heard dur travels but their meeting with a nobleman le-erves io be mentioned, as though in an exizgerated form, the presen! ituation of thy Russian landed gentry, as also the views of the au hor on that: matter. presented bere cannot be haughty; when he has convinced himself that the peasints, who dared to stop his cairiage on the road, do not mean any harm but want oniy to be enlightened on such an interesting question as happiness, he readi- ly consents to it, and, sitting down on the | giass, begins thus: “TI promised to tell you the tiuth, and yet Ido not Know how to begin. You are, no doubt, ve your learning is defect! to understand the meaning of the word noble Tell me, my friends, have you about the genealogical tree?” well Known to at we have not seen, ‘You do not underst els and flow. | shorous was discovered in 19, ng trour knew) in eprndently dis« t was only esiven ace unt of it- 1 vered long be | isat p-esen:, | to the begitmins vailing are n | is made a mateh ty tassium, sulpiny lunged into a bottle ol it woud iznit ments fu 116 phopho o sped with ch! respectable men, e, and you ought first From Baltimore to Hal or gentleman. heard anythin; “Woods and and there is no tree th. rep ied the peasant I willspeak more plainly. very famous one. CASPIAN, 3,100 tons, Capt. Trock: through two} withas ight explosi hog Cabin passage to Hal My pateriia’ tabin passage to Halifax an lite by watching his sheep and plough i ghis field. However. these tales proved to de faise, and the Russian peas intry must re- nounce the honor uf eouating the néw favorite among them. Nekrassof was born in 1821, in the govern ment of Tasosiay, and passed his ehiidhood in the country. His father, though possessing a ry seat and serfs, be'onged to the poor ty. After having's-rved in the army he = retired thither with his wife and ana sear to give a wldven, and, fa el Was hot much a ubors, the peasa to run ab iily of thirteen. ehildren. pecubiary means did not allow b Aut (dueation to his iheir intellectual ny young boy Was qu neve the ex unfortunate life impressions re and it was not merely from pow my that he pict pendence aud mise. y. From his ea lest days the boy evinsed he strongest desir rhitg, and the univer. i » continually the object of his divams. But bis father, who, like many o-her miliary men, could not the use of suc Studies, Would heat nothing about this foll: Without le'ting his son finish his education, ssical eymuasiuin of Taros av, it him to st. Pe‘ersburg to ent vy sehool there Having inheriied the | ud obstinacy of his futher, die young an rebelled, set himself free and prepared If to pass the mination a the Uni versity OL St. Petersburg. The ural conse suai ce of if was that his father renounced him od denied hin every assistance The whole fortune of in the paltry sum of yer of imucina d the cruel suiferings of hil ) roubles, and his Knowledge was so scanty that he soon toad | imseif quite uni eto pass the very & “xaMination whieh in the ye; y. A 1N38 Op: he woors of the univ y- Yr this fi we Was obliged to couieut himself with a ing the lectures as an outsider, and he ha ight with the utinost poverty and want, b often acquainted with hun velled to. tis head. He hived at that time a mis mi, let by a retired soldier, arrear with his rent; the Landi y growing angry, and m pets by Which he lefi atl hy ayment of the debt. Returning hame evening, NekKrassot found the doo. soldier dented Knowing bun, and aii hat he vever had a lodser of tis ime. What was he to do, with an empty purse, on tid wet aud cold auumn nighi. For a long time he wandered about the wreeis; then, weary and benumbed. own on the'steps of a shop antl burst ie ears. Anotd beggar passing by witha bov | ook pity on him, and asked him to follow | hem. Nekiassof nO choice le sound himseif in a large room, full | a lH ages, Hees ad and write,” Said his troducing him to the company, ** without a refuge; ive aia Som trink.”” They offe.ed him a ¢) an old Woman made him a i When he awoke they had ¢ “Write me auattesiation,” sa ean’s lo without one.” Having done what she asked, Nekrassof left her, with fifteen coppers sy q in puwn } in his pocket, which she had givea him for his | pains. While a student he suhsisted od ng les sons, correcting progf sheets ani ing for the press; but ali these resources were very precarious, and he still often wanted the mer- | vst necessaries, and frequen'ly remained with- out dinner. In the meantime he beeame inti- mate with rich young men, his fellow-stu- dents, thus learnitig to measure the contrast between wealth and Poverty, and tasting of ‘he pleasures reserved to the former. Ia spite of lus poverty, his genius made him a prominent part in company; he appiec! the advantages of wealth, and determiaed not to remain forever excluded from them. He soon convinced himself that, badly pre. pared for the University studies ‘as he Was, hey were of no real use to him, aud fe ex chabged them fora literary career. His first poem, “The Thought,” dates {1 hough his “Dreams and Song peared in 1840, was seve! test critie of the epoch, id noi discourage him. t poctical talent was duly reco; urth obiained a great su he age of twenty-six sar that he coud fear reer of a journal wih the hovelist Punaiet, a mouthly review named the Contemporary, founded by Poush- sine some years before. ‘From that time till tis t is to say, during a period of shirty year: as journalist apd poet, standing at the head of the Contemporary, and from 1858 at that of the Annals of (he Country, our two best reviews. The success of his publications brought with it «large income, and the days of povetty never seturned to trouble our poet any more. Nevertheless, Nekrassoff’s personal expe- iicnces were very favorable to the growth of his talent, and ‘he would scarcely “have de- seribed with such truth and vividness the depths of human misery if he had not fath- omed them himself before tasting the advant- ages of wealth. It is true that in his prosperi- iy he did not lead a life in accordance with his theories, and that he frequently forgot the suf- ferings cf his brethren while reveling in plea- jures unworthy of his genius, but he had oaly to take up his pen to recollect the past and the dark side of life so familiar to him in his ear- iter anys The humorous epic named, ‘Who Lives Hap- pily in Russia?” belongs to the best and most original of Nekrassof’s works. The subject is the following: Seven peasants, engaged in a lively talk, get sudden ¥ puzzled by the ques- tion, “Whose life is the happiest?” and each of them expresses his own opinion. The first said it is the landlord’s; the second, the clerk's. The third gave it for the priest, two brothers for the fat merchant; an old man thought it must be the minister’s, and the seventh nained the Czar. As nobody was disposed to yield, they quarreled and fought, after which they laughed at their jolly and determined to travel and find out the riddle. A bird which they caught meanwhile promised them as a reward for its deliverance a magic carpet that would furnish them with food, gin and clothing till their return home. Thus provided, they made a solemn vow not togo back to their home until they found an answer to their question, and entered on their pilgrimage. The first person they met was a priest. They immediately stopped him and. asked the question. The priest, when he got over his fright at being so abruptly stopped, meditated a moment and answered: “I shall | tell you the whole truth, and then yon may | draw the conclusion yourselves. In what dues happiness consist? Don't you think it means a ted wor mentioned in hi » half centuries the amusement of the C7, present of good clotn, and to pieces by the beast “Certainly; ve 7 's wanderin ¢ through krow them well.” fiom my meaning. cestor who amuses i documents of two and | bu ned entirely off at yr which he g> a asafiecwards lore In 183 was invented the matel Sines, with some nges. hed its but, strange to si y nu are farcher than ever t objection to it was the a whieh it barned. lessened by th In 185 this | jJeh2m 6 not so ancient as the one on the me e Lina eouspir tue latter got inyol HOSCOW wou p t e below the head of t iS fo make the burning | Wax matches, Dew a'most ont of ase, that Were so lon u ing - About this time at improvement in preparin wood wss intredu £of COMMON SA! pe mateh, so. put he more its bea sespeet and f After: ates ned at the ed leman telis them his sai the serfs had | | A Shower of <plints of the requiced leu Ty 18:0 the seeond di \ y the emancipation of lepiived him. of his power at him to his pr Keich of nis former life belongs to axes of the poem, Dt ive here an adequate idea, Even his | Wonot but sympathize witir his sor. lost splendor, he svys: ver dreained of such As ing not days The fat geese, the performers, the regiment ot ‘servauts, were all | jone Kept five cc a ers, an_upholsterer, se mnusiclans, and twenty the Speaker became silent pd, burying his face in his hands, sigh ‘Then, pas-ing to the pre esi colors. “And vow,” The pretry squire's down and turned into a he: is garden and park, his old the peasaut’s axe. ine and paratine. hing below t b reality, cipped When. relating hi eA Frenehman has 1 mons er feasts that we Th ISIS the diseovery was mad | phorous, when and lost someof its vod as others, an, ¢ | introduced the safety 1m ade of chloride of pot cassof consisied | ssitum'and sulvhide of made of red phosphe | only light when struck on a piec | Specially prepared. An Extine and doesn't stir at my sis itis not the soaud of is heard now, but that Who is to Keep wat “Ih the fields remain un Race—“The the War of the Rebellio bet they forget to whom they are mush peasaut; Tam, by 1. ineans pride . is is the power in | weep “this must have consent to sweep his fur or heat tal Is boasting, T have L ved for fo ty yeres table to find ot ween an ear of whea: or ley, While they go on. preach’ se we realty i do not Know where He has youe wey by huntin eof other men, ) What have I learned now ing my whole lif he wouid be ia 3 We do not find hin in Congress. He ly sought as a candi date for anythin a anything about hi lew away the per that it would go on And suddenly The tandlord \ what had be: ve on the point uf doin, ith the new Know not the lot of gentletoiks. a then, to be found? ng inquiries did not prove more suceess |, and they went home, without solved the rida is the color of Nekrassof’s poetry it may safely be guessed how great his must liave been on ‘he young ger became one of the strongest pillars of the realistic and radical! school, and, compared to | muse, the lyrical ani is competitors seemed si The same evolution that we have seen in the novel took place also in poetry: it was declared to be the only medium through which new ideas about equity and seven chiidrev, aud eight dollars a mouth flour takes much of i he will not last id We Will Sooa be onal glimpse much longer at this rate, a | deprived even of the oceasi | have of him. Itis asserted, and quite generally believed, ne he was quite numerous, and ered rather convenient, if not, indispensable. vas i hundred of him necessary in order to secure mere line con missions for three eminent and z When field commissions for three even more eminent and great men, upward: thousand private soldiers were It seems an enorm when by consulting the C irectory we find there are none in this proud Republi Y years ago even ear to us to-da that at one t his vigorous and fier westhetical po One theusand! was considered _8STEAMERS, &. * (UM POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS— E The Steamer MATTANG. Capt. . H. Byles, will make three 0 a.) mach Weck, frou. NOMINI PI wd one to MATTOX CREEK, at tntere netlate landings gg and retal singe ‘bart, foo. of ‘s1a0-1t os $i QUO ER aruana FORTR 44 ey LONBOR aND T WOLiCe, a AY, WEDNESDAY R LaNDines, PSON, CaptainJome wharf, term! Of Tth apaBth sirvet Ineot ears, ‘Ta m., three dues —, for' onarttown, stopping at ves each trip. 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The ‘principal staterooms are amidships. forward of the engines, where least motion Is felt, and are replete with ev comfort, having ail Isiest improvements, doul ‘erths, Catered pelle, ac. ty of tine, The cuisine hasai ways been aspecialty of this Ladies’ cabius aud bathrooms, gentlemen's smoke ms, barbers’ shops, pianos, bra ion apply it, Sland 83 Broadway, y Pa. ave., o.W.; @, W. MOSS, Adams Express, fel3-mwfem fraternity were to be propagated, the art and quite unworthy of no- ow a species of critics S by this test; these give (ie | rassof not only over all cou- over our unrivaled latter, living a epoch of Byronism, did not understand th people's woes and the radical views of our e 5 mber. There we'e p private soldie vate soldiers. There even hundreds of tiou- the genius itself bein, (yaa LIN: who measure preference to temporaries, _ They dug trenches ; constructed loug lines of breastworks, | then, when an enemy came within siz veeause the | they climbed over them nd went outside They worked and watehed and Cooperating with great and er € since passed to their rewards and another, these private netimes rendered ver! ig ereat battles. Oh,t useful service ey Were useful. even goné so far as to ut them the hardly have been carried to a successful ter- They were really quite useful. And now they ar looking back alsand colonels should have sur Providence, ever nh great and ‘gi 1 care of these gr It is a very curious fact that just as the ns gt p such a Turore over English styles the Engli gto adopt some’ of the most prominen S lo road gear. known that Eng.ish ea eit noted for their bulk and weight, while the dis- linctive characteristic of Ame; s been lightness. | wrights could not turn. out because their native woodsare of an inferio: quility. Itissaid that they are now import- American timber. American manufacturers are in many stances increa-ing the vehicles to satisfy the wants of those 2 who have got the idea that a co: carriage to be elegan: must b2 heavy. land the heavy vehicle was more appro; ‘or it corresponded with the greater we! lish horses, as compared with Aineri- ngennity has met are now made in thi- country to show the fancied heavy appearance without being in reality heavy. another curious fact, wzZlish are be- Nekrassof never ceased to labor | bh Zuglish wheel- ndful of the wants of a owing nation, undoubsly took at men, and in its y that the cou from a lack of eminent men kind o the private soldiers and let them wander. And so they ave all gone. Some of them died. Some of ther and moved out of the world, to settle upon tracts of Government land, where the Indians could get at them more easily. Soi and weight of (heir Some of them got Some of them are driving f them weut away and didn’t But all the same, and itseems dreadfully loue- this want, and vehiei ir presen address Norice. With the view of diminishing the chances olision, the Steamers ‘of this tins take a ——* 4 . nT alae uy the out S PAASAR' ew x oF crossing the meridian of 60 at 43 “tia the homeWard passage crossing the meridian OD yma of 6O at 42 iat., or nothing to the north of 42. c TISH AND NOKTH AMERI Be OY AIL STEAMSHIES OAS SETWEBN NEW YORK AND LIVERPOOL, CALLING 4T CORK HARBOR, From New Yor, From New Yore, “Buseia. .. W: Ma: ‘99 | “Russia... Wed. And every following Wed! from New ¥ By sare? i A GE. 100 epyrding to accommodations, _ *No ‘Wed.. ge Wad. July st ork, steamers not 5180 gold, according 10 Tickets to P 15, gold, additional, Revarn Glcteta on tavorabi ae erage at very low rates. Btosrage tickets from ‘and Queenstown and all otber parts of ven for Belfast. Giae- bills of Rete ed For treight and apply at the Company's Mice, No. @ Bowling Green, or both avin, to SF 18 BIG: 'W, 05 7th street, D.C. ey Bike. @. FRANCKLYN, Agent. N.Y, —————— n connection with this is well Known that ia Great Britain fora great many years there has been a heavy tax on all four-whéeled carriage without ibe nu. There used to be so Burlington Hao! AnovT Canaky Br part of the case. lace the cage so PIANOS AND ORGANS. while the tax on two wheelers has beea litte or nothing at all. This had the etfect of bring- ing two-wheeled vehicles into popular use wherever they could be purpose. Without the excuse of economy, iwo- wheeled vehicles are the ones most favored in his country at the present day. {n Europe Wheelers are used for an: even the fransportation of dogs to t iY utatecs or market stuifs. Yet this is the kind of vehicle that has become popular and fashionable of late in this coun- try.—[ Montreal Herat that no draught of air Give nothing to health: canary seed, water, cut! el-paper or sand on the floor of the c: A bath three times a we room should not be overheated—never above seventy degrees. When moulting (shedding warm, avotd all draughts of air. nty of German rape seed jixed with crackers grated fine, is eed at a certain hour in the morn- ing. By observing these simple rules birds may be kept in fine condition for years. birds that are sick or have lost their song pro cure bird tonic at a bird stom. Very man: keep birds who mean to give their pets a! Ubings to make them bright and happy,and at the same time are guilty of great cruelty in regard to perches. should be each one of a differentsize, and t smallest as large as a pipe stem. If perches ht sort no trouble is ever had rd’s toe-naus and of all things keep thi an strike the bird. birds but rape and efish bone, an made to answer the Pianos. feathers) kee} za littie nad | EX eke Pramas a Speotabtys it motte fT SUMNER Sire A Vovpoo Doctor.—The negroes of the South Carolina up-country have just had an iience with a voudoo docto: r. Pickney Wallis, colored, at- also colored, in the prings, and declared interesting ex It seems that tended one Steve Brown. neighborhood of Chicks 8} that his patient was infested with frogs that ited their eggs iu his heels, being induced to do so through a charm wrought by_ four other darkies. 0 to relieve him. Steve was relieved and went back to work, the witnesses testifying that as each egg was taken from his mouth the ard to croak in his stomach. is was thus established in fam: for the time regarded by some of t! rehes in a ca) are of the ri about the bi growing too long; | @ perches clean.— A Bap Eco. in Des Moines phone, modelled on hone, by which one old, n intelligent farmer living | has invented a hen» ¢ principle of the tele- reliable hen oceupy- citizens as a peace, wealth and honor? Now, hear how I pass my days.” After that introduc ion, the | priest relates how he istroubled every moment _ ‘with calls to baptize, to administer the com- munion, to marry and buy: he tells how badly heis pald since ‘the nobility donot live any more at their country seats, how the peasants _ laugh at him, take for a bad omen their meet- | ing him—in a word, how little peace, wea'th and honor falls to his lot. The truthfulness of the tale is so evident that the a:lyocaie of his hay pine:s feels very much humbled, and the lest is forever dismissed from among the candidates lor fortunate life. After thiv first failure our travellers arrive fens ama etadite, Gc us) all jemsel ve and more or ese drunk. Thi fi less is sight being very tempti they asked the magic carpet tor gi ‘aud having enlored, tt, feel the wish to return home to thei wives; in order to hasten that moment and fulfil the rash vow given, they ng @ central office in th least nan Hampio e nests about tl upon another p: rward and ignominiously that of a white man who had inhisstomach. W: contained a pilot snake and a in his stomach, and that the chasing of the former through the ‘ed the Chuetention: ie ie Pe I FI on | jeaving the other fowls free to lay eggs, scratch and eackle Ae fast Lr Leghiag! contains thi ment of eggs, Prat office, by r issettied. The on! tried his arts, h fter The case was fy ” eangtaaon i oe conse ly trouble about the machine is thatit sits so hard it hatches out the porce- lain nest egg alon; othe: fite farmer has to e er has it This lington Hawkeye. mazes caus | char ne ould ne 0 n te doubt, the form ef a mob, and = endangered, fi va ry et mn glass eyes at train a ‘dog to lead it expensive.—[{ Bur- idence was restored once the community.—[ Louisville Oourier- | Tue LOXDON SCHOOL Boanp has r to teach girls how to cook. One of the ers is to give lessons in Paragraph from Clevel everywhere’ ns t ‘$750 iter employed by the bord t looks terest teachers lood and its preparation, nd. Si Twei pu strong; to be a good teacher IANOS AND ORG. Pix ANS SEIVED FOR REPAIRS AND VA) ra or on SIURAGE Uniuek — NISHING, INSURANCE at reduced