Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1878, Page 6

TIME’S TATEVERY. “ What do you seek my with summer ti ~ What ceekest th Alas it te net mest. [was but a re-ebud that one kissed And gave me. strance I's token crown so sweet ‘And what ix it thou searchest | n sweet maiden, te T should have misset i Are faded, and the Was long. 6 long ag “ But here perchance thou may"st have seen ‘Their petaix blown aside, And marked, with They slowly drooped, and died. THE FRENCH LOTTERY. How Prizes Are to Reach Twelve Million Vicket-Holders. {Round-About-France Sketch in London News.] articulars of the deiinite ar- rangements for the drawing in the grand lot- tery will. I think, be found correct. The prizes, which now exceed 750,000 In number, are to be wles—the great and il be ineluded all the in_vatue, and e twelve of £5,000 each; SS Will be comprised the great mass of voluntary offerings. All the 12,009,000 tickets nee of winning the “gros lots,” t will be entitled to win number of prizes. mechanical, for it has been found that 9) tickets from a numbe ‘The following divided into two In the former even witeels in all, to give out singie So there is to be and their task will be simply numerals. The first wheel will contain the Nos. 1 to 12, inclusive. and it will tell the series of the winning numbers; thus if the first number @rawn be 9, for instance, th: the first among the grand prize Ueket belonging to the ninth f The six otier wheels will eacn of them | contain the ciphers from @to9 tnetusive, and they will compose between thet different tickets. I would be a small boy st will mean that will fail to a all the figures “the combinat be used for the drawing of the gri AS soon as thi all been won t drawing for the small of these min ns them ments, So that lickets, bit a drawing for twelve prizes w each number t the first num- in the min + t the six whee’ # a8 there are must go on te 60,000 prizes, this W minor prizes alone re that date— will not be effected pove said. is t ged to win any nu carry of, if tt zes, and after that one-tw aber of prizes. It m2 all the grand ‘The magniticent oppor’ at the commts- T constrained to limit It was M. Teis- their issues t¢ his foot down at la: commissioners, the suceess of idea, were babbling going on to fifteen and twenty million: have been forbidden to more of their paper money, for it deser going to devote energies to the classification of the pri six weeks from now the with the thirteenth room or nd prizes willbe ready ese stores Will consti- other name, t magazins,” alo! for publie Inspection. tute asort of second {nternational exhi and will keep crown: HockIng to the Champ regular exhibition it has been dectded, after much part art only of the Exhibition palace is to eto the wishe: ris. backed by an deputies. the government has ed over to the Ministry of War to manent military mauseuin; another nstormed tnt ud the rest of the grour ‘asure grounds, gard t ost of the city, the stipulated, howeve reserved for a military gro cultarity of this cround will be that 10 aci it. forming part of the Exhibition re, be covered in, so that reviews may be held even in wet weather. grandiose schemes, and when I add that ux government and the munic establishing a covered «Rotten Row ‘of three furlongs in length and one in breadth, and 4 sWimming-bath of the same dimenstons, mateh with it, on the other side of the Chany de Mars, it will be seen that Paris 1s about to be ed with very notable attractions. Champ de Mars. in fae permanent exhibition and seum of patents, specimen machines of every Sort will be kept constantly facturers will fabricate thet the public. and sett t ens, avenues, government having All these are v pality contemplate romises to become a t work, and mant- goods in sight of a there and then over he covered Rotten Row and the swimming bath, they will p: ble boons to those who Li the rain in pursuing their favorite p. asantness Between Dion jcault and Sis Wife. Some months a cleanlt, wife of Dion E always an actress, ascribed her en people int ters have seen m an newspapersof a at in New York, and as ested in dramatic ma templated engagem many contradictions of tt may be set at rest. louse, New York. thority I understand that but upon her ar- rtain will be rung up upon anothe archmients and amid icuously figure. already Know something of the dit tween the author of “The The information, ho @ very fragment r. go the trouble culminated in an agreement agreeing to pay feault, aS alimony, the sum of £500, would have ended, s» far as Mrs. Boucicault was concerned, had ‘her of separation. suppose the dim ‘The wily “suecessor to s paid a few monthly or weekly ins! as reminded ¢ lu, after a de. nce to ordes his k imperious way he y the woman’ . Boucleault, be- ‘it and indepen- as a finishing of insult and nez- ment. and. it 1s 5 permitted his conse! $f business here, in the loft has, peculiar to himse —if she needs tt, ing a woman of looking upon th touch to a systematic course lect, determined to re-enter ad her art to fail an Well-known and the tnt lay. “she might have | America this Every impediment “Hud she not said a gentler of both to me the ot werth of property in Chicago and a house near Union Square Theatre drawing an annual ren of some $5,000, She legally owns the prop uc her husband has control of it, annuatiy draws the rents, puts them in his own pocket, leaving her without a dolar, I understand, continued my informant, “that Mr. Bouctewlt intends to contest her claim, but I am confident that if the matter Is contested judgment will be hers. She will fight for it, at any rate, because it ts all she has."—{London Letter, A Misttar AVERTS A MURDER.—A Rushville, pone the love of Miss HORACE GREELEY. Seme Fresh Anecdotes About the ‘at Editor. [New York Lettter to Chicago Tribune.} t must have been a year ago that I seat the Tribune several stories of Horace Greeley, whica | [ personaily knew were authentic. Since thea have heard a good many others, whieh in turn | two outet the lot, tn addition to being fresh, are worth while telling at this time. The eecen- trie old gentleman and mysclf rarely came in | contact to any great extent, because whenever | inced to be near enough to notice his pecu- | Harities he was usually so utterly engrossed in | Whatever he chanced to be doing that he was Leha obilvious to all surroundings. But I can reme: ber one incident, which, althongh rather en- barrassing at the time, has furnished food for many a hearty laugh since then. I was just going through the door which led into the big back room of the Tribune office one day, when slap-bang! I collided with somebody. that wasn’t the worst of it. The somebody uded to had stepped unon my foot and almost we-Ineat a part of that mem- Al au ground into sausag ber, whieh contained upon its surface a partte | ularly violent and aggressive corn. It was an agonizing moment, and inthe pain, which fairly I damned akspeare would observe. When I straightened up, you may imagine my horror to see that the person 1 had been anathmetizing was none other than Mr. Greeley. 1 could have sunk through the tioor with mortitication, and I stood there walt- | Ing in a sort of dazed way for the volley of pro- fanity which I felt sure would come. Bur it | doubled me up for an instant, I— roundly, in good set terms, as W. | didn't. The old gentleman settled himself bac adjusted his spectacles upon his nose, and, with a broad grin upon his face, addressed me thus: “That's right, bub. If it hurts you, swear like h—Il; / would:’ Then he paused a moment and continued: “Human nature is human nature, good, just d—n me again! There's nothing iike it! Balm of Gilead And he patted me Kindly on the | bub; and ff it does you any | ts nowhere.” shoulder and passed on. Mr. G relative who hi one tine or another in an unpleasant’ wa When he was savage, he was savage all o | and anybody who ran against him at such Umes was likely to get hurt. Man or woman, it made no difference to him. I remember one of his nearest female relations, of whom he used to speak generally a good wom! the d—dest fool that ever lived.” And suppose he really loved her in his own fashion, | as well as the generality of men love equally near relatives. Well, once upon a time this “good woman” d from that photo- ph she had a large erayon portrait made. It ne part of the artist. ween a crate, But, bless her had a photograph taken, ‘as not a happy effort on In faet, it made her look like a cross bet conin-plate and a verry soul, she didn’t know it. She thought it wi work of art, and felt proud of it. So she gave party. for blushing. praised the p awhile Mr. Greeley arrived, and was e | up to the easel where the portrait mined it carefully, took off his glass turning toward tus host piping voce of hi nave been heard you were d—d ug) ware!” Then he shambled out of the roc exclaimed in the ki un thing. But one of the very best stories Lever heard | | Samnel Sin- aree- SS Indnager oF the 7ri- peley went to the nd the following after her and bring her home to New York. Now, it there was one thing the old man hated, tt was the sea. The very smell of water made him } less, he obeyed his wite’s stomed to obey her every whim. In due time they got back to Gotham, . Suclair received word Greeley was not feeling well, owing to his nd had decided to stay at home for the Inclair was going to Wash- : valise in hand, ‘he ealled at Greeley’s house an hou or two before the train was to start. He found the of him ¥ clair, wh ley’s life, \ bane. Or West spri s told the other da during the latter part of Mr. S the busi $ winter M niles for her hy she sent fork ‘rT husband to com: sick. But, neverth call, as Le was acen: ) and that morning M th, ne, In the even’ ington on business, old man in bed and actu suffered terribly from s out and all the way ba other membe lly very fil, havi ess all the w He was alone, thi | nurse was somewhat atient hadn't a stitch of clothing on his person. arring the sheets and quilts. “Sinclair My trunks haven't arrived yet, and 1 hs it a d—d night-gown. sul Why not we: bed. “Ob, T expect to be out to-morrow, and I want | that towear then. Il ged after Md slept in it v Sinclair made a bolt for the art he wanted wthe biases would it After some rummaging he fotnd it. and helped pedily fastened up one of the the old man put fton, It was at the neck, and the ‘nurse. t Wrists and irfed to button it. ‘There, however, he stuck fast. The ends wouldn't meet by fully two inches. He tugged and twisted to lis ut- most, but it no go, Still, as the patient said nothing. he supposed tt ought to be fast- ened, and redoubled his efforts for that pur- pose. For about 20 minute Then he said: ten.” su he labored without This is a failure. { you.” He lay back on the pillows for afew moments, as if thinking deeply, and then, sitting bolt up- rignt, he brought his fist down upon the quilt, and exclaimed savagely: “It ever Mormonism wor! Tl be d—d if I don’t hav of my shirt: Neal Dow on Spurgeon. [Letter to New York Witness. I know a famous London preacher; he’s ceedingly fat; hi: is big and flabby, with much ex or putty | Veins swelled out, with intense eagerness, as le leans over his plate. He wants strong be with bis dinner, and nothing less than a quart after, will suffice, with astiff glass of brand) and 2 eouple of cigars. He says empl “J can’t eat my dinner without bee This was at a teetotaler’s house: the h . “We have none, we are temperance p: ically “But I can’t eat my dinner without beer.” Instead of saying, for your dinn where they keep Deer, for youl” have non my friend lost his head tn the prese of thisgreat London preacher, and looking at his wife, staanmered out, “My dear, won't you send for some bee But it will be all over town In an hour.” * But you had better send for a bottle.” «Send for two bottles,” said the f. don preacher, and they did so. This gu mained ; to breaki: next day—three meals—and consumed in that time fotir quart bottles of strong beer. a pint of brandy, friend w and “a pint of sherry; and my sso deeply that he fore. He prayed and prayed. and sald a loud Ame: ” “Then, without rising trom his knee. he reached forward te the grate, struck a mateh a lighted his ctgar. The call for charity in th hy | sidered uncharitable? He justifies his personal habits by sayin that he cannot keep up to lis Work without brandy and beer, and he’s siek with plethora and ts off to the south self on wine and to- } and gout half the ye: of France to macerate I bacco—wine being a ver light Upple for hin He defends drinking and smoking in his pulpit | and the people bear itt this vegetable in wint not 2 pl v change are demanded, they are greatly relished Every family that has a litle garden rt enjoy the luxury with very little trouble. All | that is necessary is to bu a frame of coarse | boards, cover it with a close-titting glass sash, and place it in a sunny spot, somewhat pro- tected. In this plant the lettuce sets about six inches apart, in ground, and kept them properly watered. They will grow all’ winter | and in the ea spring will form beautita! large heads to encow the appetite and grace the table. ‘The earlier in the autumn this operation 1s begun the better. The Brown | Dutch and Hammersmith, green, are the | best varieties for winter use. seeds should be sown in September, and are so hardy that. if ge in a sheltered Panton oe protected loose covering of straw and evergreen boughs, they will stand the winter well. If | transplanted in a cold frame, as above, they will do better and produce more —— delicate and larger-heads.—{V, Y. Her v Hed several I had forgotten. One or D out ef { Ao letics stop in the fall at Cambridge, generally eeley was particularly severe on his . I don’t suppose there is one of them not felt the weight of his tongue at 1 ne purpose of showing if to her inlends. ‘vhey came in swarms, and without ture to the skles. After carted ‘ood. He rab- bed them, returned them to his eyes azain, looked at fhe pieture a second time, and then, it that it coud ier the impression that he had said a good Sof the family being either ill or away from home, and so Sinclair determined to pass the night with him, giving up, for that | time, his trip to the capital.” Presently Grerley wanted his back rubbed, and the impromptu urprised to find that his said he, tn that querulons whine of his, *I'mas naked as the day I was born. ren't x this?” pointing to the garment he had taken off before getting inio 1,in due time his luggage arrived, and ! plied Greeley, with exasperatins “I knew it wouldn't. The fact is, 1 ld button the infernal thing myself. But you seemed to enjoy it, so I didn’t disturb ! past as this, wife to take care ression as if it were a mass of douzi He eats like Dr. Johnson, the fronta! | send toa grog-shop for veer, ous LOn- the IY ashamed of his pot! has not forgiven himself In the morning he was asked to pray, and he | did, ina tone of familiarity 1 never heard be- case, It seems to me, is Wemendous, and if ave not the quantity in stock necessary ty ver all that—what then; zare we to be coa- out with exqulsite taste, and called in al his office, and there she lies—a: WINTER.—It is so easy to have '¥ Unat we wonder it has lace on the table of every farmer. In summer there are so many delightful vegeta- bles that lettuces are rarely eaten, while in Inter and early spring, when variety and HARVARD'S CREW NAMED. Carsmen Who Wan: to go to Euz- land. OPENING NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE OXFORD AND EXD YEAR | DEEMED PROSABLE—FREPARATIONS AND TRAIN- | CAMBRIDGE OARSME: A CONTEST } ING OF THE CREW. Correspondence of the New York Ti 2s.) CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. Dec. 3.—Out-of-door ath- about Thanksgiving, but this year the mildneis of the weather bids fair to give a season longer than usual to the devotees of the oar, the bit, and the foot-ball. Foot-ball matche3are played, (vith results not altogether favorable to Har. yard.) the practice of the candidate3 for Univer- sity ball nine is kept up, and the erew,no mat- ter how cold, rainy, dtp their oars beneath the surface of the Charles. The bieycle and the pedestrian may be seen on Pleasant days, anywhere within 10 miles of the colleges. Every one, in short, who takes py cal exercise shows his preference for pleaty air ret com of room over dhe crowded quar- ters an regret of all, and especta! thatthe new gymnasium was not finished fall; but although the work has been since frost came. and although the rafters are nearly all in place, so that the building will soon be roofed, yet there is several months’ work to be done. and it is safe to predict that the building will not be ready, at least for gen- eral use, until the next academic year. It possible, however, that the room which ts de signed for the use of the university erew may put in such a condition that it can be used for a part of the winter. The idea of sending a crew abroad next sum mer meets with so much favor among all con- nected with the college that every reasonable facility consistent with the purposes of the in- stitution will be afforded the members of the crew in their preparation by those In authority. The prospects of the Engiish race are discusse with considerable interest by the students. Mr, Roberts, the treasurer of the boat club, tn ac- cordance with the vote of the students, has written to the offigials of the Oxford and Cam- bridge University Boat Clubs for the purpose of opening negotiations for a race on the Thames next August. The general impression amon? Harvard men is that a favorable answer will b> returned. This impression is strengthened b the expressions of several English unlve men who have given their views on the subj James B. Close, the famous Cambridge co: particular, said at the dinner given the Ha crew of 1878, that in his opinion a race could b> asily arranged with one of the English ere and that he wished that one could be Cam: bridge, but that in all probability Oxford would be the winner in the Easter mated, and thit with her Harvard would row, and not with Cambridge. A race with Oxford would better suit Harvard men. Graduates of tea years ago have still a keen recollection of Harvard's deieat in 1569, and as one of them told the writer not long ago, they have walted pt- Uently for the advent of a crew that they cont) contidenuly send abroad to uphold the reputa- Uon of * Fair Harvary The 1Sis crew the regard as the first wh! appeared sinc 1869 Worthy of thelr support, and It fs their a. termination that Uus crew shall attempt aza what the gallant isé9 crew failed to accomptis During dhe fall, six of the isis erew have rowe | regularly in the barge and shell. Legatea Stow are not yet committed to row, the because he thinks that he has had enough, and the latter because he lac! mission of his Bi ever, that both these men w and thus Harvard las good the same aquatic re t New London, Tie substit tater and Pa last year nd have let > of these two, Richud Trimble, with the crew. Fra ain of the Trinity Coil England, and now a.m ool, has been loking aft ded vh 1g exe- ention of the various parts of the strok Mr. Peabody has kept in condition. roy single scull almost every day, besides o ally going out with the + ‘var ‘ble that in the failure of on Peabody may on. At all is connection w him eligible to the erew. {the cre during the fall has been light. Tae d rowed varied from two and a half to four mile this row, with an eccasional walk, is all th. has been done. This winter tii Ww oWill go Into more careful training tn thelr baat -hor sand while Che Englishmen are roy thelr college races and preparing forthe anni Amerieans wi ydraulic rowing-machin have left tiem before English rowing season Is over. for this reason—becalise the sherew won) have to keep in traiuing fou months long than usual—they will not want to make a match with Harvard fora race as late as the aseat in the boat > Will be oa faced of Ausus n 1869 they watted until ti hof August, and it Is thought that, inas- Buch as they Were successful in hat year, they are willing to give Harvard another chance, 1 matter If they have to incanventence themselve 5 by si itis the expectation of the Har vard crew to finish the home 3 by July and then sail ». The ist of August, thea will be the e € that they could row in England with ir chances of success. he races with Cornel and Colin have been So much discussed, are ranged. It is noticeable Uiat, ualess a chal- lenge Is to be aecepted by oue of the Eagusi crews, Harvard men do not seem eager to roy either of these colleges, fecling that they have no issue with them. and preferring to encoun- ter Yale only. If Cornell and Columbia are rowed and beaten, the Harvard crew will not claim the tile of champions, but, in the event of thelr going abroad, will go simply as the Harvard crew, and as the Harvard crew the. Inight go to row against an English crew eve if beaten at home, although on this point boat- ing men at Cambridge are not so sure. The finances of the boat club are ina prosperous condition this year, under the Supervision of the assistant treasurer, Richard Trimbie, ’s), Through the exertions of Frank Donaldso: the senior class, the faculty have given per sion tothe Hasty Pudding ciub to give a seri of dramatic entertainments in Boston in ald or the crew. These theatricals will take place in Union hail, in Boylston street, on the evenings of December 12 and i3 and on tie afternoon of December 14. There will be two changes in the three performances, at which the glee eiub will sing. Until the letter to England has beea heard from, of course nothing will be done t)- Ward next year’s races; but in the meantime ail Harvard men who are interested hold the:- elves in readiness to act, and apparently theic seems to be little doubt at Cambridge and Bs- ton that next year will be the liveliest for Ha ~- vard in aquatic matters since 1569. ot Sarah Bernhardt and Her Pre: Coffin. Sarah Bernhardt objects strongly to the ia putation of singularity, and yet, ir it were n> rude to contradict a lady, one would ha‘ admit that she sometimes does eccentric thin ss Her latest proceeding 1s to have herself pi graphed in her cofin’ ‘The coftin has long b a part of the furniture of her home, and a v beautiful thing itis. Itis enough to ma‘ long for death. It was originally a pres: from a friend, who has spared no patns tn mi i‘- ing it worthy of the lady’s acceptance, has since been largely embetlished by cipfent. It was a faney of hers, which s shares or might have shared, with the & Admiral Lord Nelson and with others of Lie great, to have her last lodging constantly in > view, and, as it were, under repairs at the hauds of the prospective tenant. Whenever she b had a bit of lace to spare or a new idea in qu ing or embroidery she has put it Into the coffin. For a long time she used ft as her bed, but that practice was finally abandoned, at the earnest Solicitation of the doctors, as tending to hastea the ppprac of the moment when she would have to take it for good and all. Musing of late on that moment and Its incidents, it occurred to her that it would bea good thing to leav explicit directions for the manners of he. funeral, and so she forthwith laid he; Leo ee to “tix” her in pictorial biae’ and white for the purpose of exemplity- ing her testamentary tstruciion. ‘Fae min Mrs. Gamp might put !t, “the sweetest corps. Only four copies were made—for strictly pri vate keeping—but if the public could see one of them, which it never will, it would insist oa there being a thousand. The coffin {5 half smothered in flowers and branches of pa'm, most artistically rey oat and tt is placed on an ineline,so as to it yon to have good view of the occupant. She ltes on a pillow of white satin; she is robed in cashmere, and her bire arms are crossed meekly over her breast— Ophelia, going to her grave. The eyes are closed, all the feattires beautifully com- Everything ts done to Sega the idea that death ts but a long, dreaml sleep. Ask me why the greatest actress in F: and way to a throne of genius, should have suc) eee I must frankly admit I cannot tell you, reis only this to be sald, I think: her very delight in her present of glory makes her morbidly sensitive in 5 tons as to the future. Death is ever in her thoughts, but not So much the death of her body as the death of tame—that terrible forgetfulness of a great and once popular name of which she has seen so many examples in her theatrical career.—{fich- ard Whiteing’s Paris Letter to N.Y, World, Once More the smile of Majesty itself is to ladden the hearts of the histrions, On the = Sane tear eer es and she concealed her luncheon Btnree | tar me are er arg Ne ree | ta'r men! eviscerated school books fastened together with | death of the Prince Consort the Queen has not rt or windy the weather, datiy | close alr of the gymnasium. It 13 te | ly of the class of 79, | in | Couldo | ton, sai | ing ust donned | looking particularly sprue: him aman was walking and showering tobace > | | Juice on eith esentation which she had | on ambridse, 1) | asa less ainiable inan would have d& ni | simply ard Deshon Baude P, “81, have been work- ing during the fall, rowing ‘ts @ tine ded polish in | | lowed to be chool makes | don, ably macerated into a pulp reached the ‘opposite extremity. Once safe inside him, Thotionless and blest.”—{Popular Little Stage Stories. SHAKESPEARB at a transponiine theater in Lenéon: tone: Lud! The Duke of Buckingham ‘as har- ed “AS ‘e? Be hevings, then hort with ‘is bDiarsted "ead!” A Bap actor to Macready:—“ Mr. Macready, you don’t seem to remember me. Tonce played | Arm strong, D. fago to Your Othello at the Bath Theater. ly to Dad act Virgenins th the line, “There ts no public virtue left in his feet, exclaiming, “No, Utiky either.” TitkObORE THOMAS at one time had consluded to give an orehestral concert in a Michigan vil- | lage. The advance agent, with a great flourish ot trumpets, heralded the approach of the great | musical organization, He paid his ey ee Ss to inquired of him whether the chances were good for a the chief editor of the local paper and large audience. ‘The editor replied: * Well, unless this Mr. Thomas has two really first el: end mien he won't draw mueh in this tov ae proceeds of the entertainment were ve ht. r, EDWIN FORREST was at one time rounding the Horn on a voyage to San Francisco. He was Ferry, € Eb wave” in his most sulphurious style. The cap- | Gordon, J. B. tain of the boat, thinking to moillify the trage- | 4 dian, approached him and began extolling a | Hamlin. salior’s condition. “Why, Mr. Forrest,” sald he, , “I love the sea. 7 tind everything vongental | 11 about it. Indeed, as a youngster, I took to it as dreadfully seasick, and was storming up down the deck, berating “lite on the oce: a matter of choice.” “I don’t believe you, s ejaculated Forrest in reply; “There never was as a matter of | cheice, and that was Noah, for if he had re } mained on shore he would have been drowned. C. W. CovLDOCK, now one of the best old men but one man who went to sea on the contemporaneous stage, once met Mc Kean Buchanan in New Orleans, a quarter of century ago, and at night, after the perform- | Kir! ance, the two would piay poker until the small! anan proved invinci- | ble, and Couldock withdrew after having lost a pretty round sum. Buchanan was about to | McDonaid. | start for the west, and needed a letter of Intro- | in manager and applied to hours of the night. Buc! duction to a ct who wrote the following: My Deay —: This will be handed you by } MeKean Buchanan, He plays “Hamlet, beth,” “Othello,” M: Richard,” and “Poker — playing poker the best. Sincerely, ©, W. CovLpocr. Actor stopping in Louisville a few wee ago, gives this reminiscence of Forres the members of which 4 best “old men” of the day. M—— was very and, while otherwise perfect in figure, his leg was knocked In at (he knee, while the r one was entirely straight. One’afternoon M_— nding on the stey the other up and saw —, and, turning to a comy Look there at M—'s legs! By G they look like twenty ninutes past si THE SAME AcToOR told of poor Eph. Horn that one da y he was strolling down Broad neatiy-laundried shirt, an: Fr Side, a globule of whi passing hy sulrt fui Tal in the place where his diamond pin ; fsad | shontd hav posed. Instead of growing angry, | WV ne, to the stranger and his defaced shirt front ery hand-ome and cuff buttons to matel stepped up lating marked. Louisville our-Jour, The Structure of a Horse. His nature is eminently courageons, witho ferocity, generous, docile, intelligent Dy alm In his structure, the rulir do; charact may be said in one word to consist in obliquity— ading bones in his frame are set ob- all the Hauck or nearly so, and not at right angle: Ilis head last few v shoulders take become the dorsal vertebre, or backbon which end, In their turn, with another cur forming the tail. His shoulders oes ba more than those of other quadrupeds, raditis, oY Upper part of the foreleg. in the hind-quarters, the hauned ts ly to the true thig¢ SO, agai t oblean . the thigh, at the sti Joint, to the upper bone of the hind lez, whte kes another angle. ‘The tore form so large a portion of at the hock ma and hind-quarte the entire lene’ h that a horse, though lengthy animal from the front of the ches: to the ‘Kk of the hauneh, is comparatiy ly very short in the actual back or“ ‘Then his h are inch bent and his paste Jointsare rather lone. andagatn are set at an 2 gle. succeeded by a slightly differentangle int firm but expanding hoot, thus completing Ui beautiful mechanism which preserves the Irom jar and Insures elasticity in ever: an animal destined to carry weight. and dergo rapid and continued exertion—a comi - n not existing In any other quadruped ty hing like the Same de: precisely for the purpo: given to man. At prese xbout his head, every ree, and fitting h for which he w 1 we have said notit are capable of being moved separately in ev: direction, and every movement Is full of 1 ing and in sympathy with the eye. ‘The prominent, full and large, and placed late 50 that he can see behind him without turai his head, his heels being his principal _weapo i | of defence; his nostrils are large, open and th: ible, and his lips fleshy, though thin, and ¢ quisitely mobile and sensitive. The large, op: nostril Is essential to him, asa horse Dreati solely and entirely through it, being physicatiy incapable of breathing through his mouth, a valve in the throat actually precludes hi: from so doing; hence the mouth of a horse, wit! out a bridle in it, is opened only for purpo: 3 eating and biting, but never from excite: or from exhaustion, like that of most ote quadryj except the deer species, The 1i< are, perhaps, even more characteristic; they his hands as well as part of his mouth, and the horse and others of his family alone use them in this way. The fox, the sheep, the goat, ti» deer, the giraffe above all, and, in fact, we horse, either bite their food directly with tic believe all _graminivorous animals except t teeth, or grasp and gather it with the tonga- Which is prehensile, and gifted with more less power of prolongation, but the ho such powers, as thes to be struck with the extreme mobillty, and the ps are endowed.—(Mayazine of Art A Strange Creature. Down among the seaweed stems and point t 1 and disentangle some of them. We shall then lic: » y, India-rebber-li <: substance, which might well be prononneed » sea string and classed with the long tratlias weeds among which we had found if. Aso. string it is, but not a weed; tn fact, a livin; i , capable of consuming the prey it Inclose5 folds. From tweaty i) thirty feet is no uncommon length for this ar:- rocks we perceive a long, black, tangled str. like a giant's leather bootlace set to'soa us trace it in tts various folds and twis in hand’a tough, slippe within ‘its treacheror ful, animated fishing-line to reach, but its dia eter rarely exceeds an eighth of an inch. It Q as 2 (his a mouth, however, capable of considerab! tention and holding power. What can ar more innocent than this delics looking creeper trailing here and there the heaving water swells and flows as the tide comes in. Let an unwary tube dweller, lulled into a false security, stret “1 forth its tentacles to meet the welcome way and a pointed head is adroitly insinuated The mouth effects its tenacious grasp on the yielding tissues, and the tenant of the tube be- comes food for the Nemertes Borlaasi, for suct the name of this cord-like freebooter. Mr Kingsbury appears to have more than ordinary interest in the habits of this strange creatu-é Speaking of it he inquires:—“Is it alive? Ir hangs helpless and motionless, a mere veive: Sane across the hand. Ask the neighborins des that the fry of the rock-fishes, or pu ina vase at home, and see. It lies motionless. | trailing itself along the gravel. You cannot t where it begins or en It may be a strip of anne! dead seaweed—H. manthalialorea—or Chor: a res) or even a tarred sti . So thinks the ittle fish who plays over it till he touches at last what is too surely a head. In an instant a bell-shaped sucker mouth has fastened fo its §ide; in another eon one lip, a concave ce a tapir’s (another in- stance of the repetition of forms), has clasped ut in vain. He D vith such a the most admired, a woman who has won her fishing-rod as the skill of a Wilson or a Stoddard never could invent—a bie Aimee) with licate fly- rods, which follows every lunge, shortening and lengthening, slipping and t1 round every es of gravel and stem of seaweed with a tir- ing drag, such as no Highland wrist or step could ever bring to bear on salmon and trout. ‘The victim is tired now, and slowly yet dexter- ously his blind assailant is feeling and shifting surel - end down into the sffcy aehni eae he His place ts lost arnong the cous, fad he i prox mol : jong before be has double proboscis, just If elasticity beyond that of the most Educator. _ The of this country is now Jas erable, and is fast | Keifer, J. W., growing, OFFICEAL DIRECTORY Of Senstors, Represeatatives, &c. their Resiaences in Washing:on. A. Wheeicr, President, Rigus House. lowa, 1124 Vermont R. 1, Arlington Hot Lathrop, William, I.. Remember you? I Barnum, W. H. onn., Arlington Hotel. Bayard, Th os. F., Del., 41 assachusetts ave! Ky., 204 Pennsylvania avenue s.¢. one time playing STACU: Y. Inthe drama oc- , 601 18th st. Dw. Miss., ~—— Burnside, AL E., RL, 1823 H st. nw. ., 1214 New York avenue. S., 1213 N st. nw. -» 131 T St. mW. 20l., Arlington Hotel. Wich., 411 4th st. nw, Coke, Richard, Texas, Conkling, Roscoe, N. Conover, 8. B., Fla., Willard’s Hotel, | Davis, David, Ti, arcely had the tragedian sounded | Bruce, B. K., wlien a man In the parquet sprang to y fino nor in | Martin, B. Market Space, 1500 T st. now, tional Hotel. Arlington Hotel. L., Mass., 4 Lafayette Square. Md., Baltimore. s .. 1121 T st. new. E 7 W.. Conn., Gray’s Hotel. Edmunds, G.F., Vt. 1411 Massachusetts avenue. MeKinle | Money. if. D. W!, Mich., National Hotel. Ark., Riggs House. .» Willard’s Hotel. .n. Hannibal, Me., Willard’s i 515 11th st. now, nk, W. Va., National Hot Ga., Arlington Hotel. F., Mass., 919 T st. now. etord. Hill, Benjamt Kan., 814 12th st. naw. ational Hotel. cor, N. J. ave. & Bst.se. aa Hotel. ‘a, 1314 10th st. new. tropolitan Hotel. Y., West End Hotel, Ind., 610 14th st. now National Hotel. Arlington Hotel, | Pugh, J. 1. MePherson, J. R.. | Maxey, S.B., Texas, 413 4th st. navy. | Merrimon, A. | Mitehell, J. 12 | Reagan, J. H.. Texas, 1607 T st. naw. | Morrill, J. S., | Oglesby, R. J. «| Paddock, A. 8), Ne At one | time the tragedian was traveling about the country, supported by his own company, amon: —, one’of the tat, | Ransom, Matt W. 610 14th st. now. Neb., National Hotel. Sampson, of a hotel, basking in N the sun, when Forrest chanced to stroll by ts ide of the street. Forrest glances. rlington Iotel, Col., 1011 M st. Spencer, Geo. E. Just in front oi much obliged—got the | er, Pa., 120 C st. s.e. | Stewart, J | Aiken, D.WaslG, | Aldrich, William, Til, 1228 Tenn., 420 10th St. nw. Hamilton House. Arlington Hotel. rlington Hotel. shington House. N. ¥., Ebbitt House. Re sil 9th st. now. d, If at- tL as affectionate as the | tkins, J, D.C seLon With a subtle curve of the | Balloy ebrie of the neck, which, at the another subtle curve before thes | Townshend, . Ohio, Sone resonal Hotel. an | Vance, RK. B. he sev- | Van Vorlies; pula, or shoulder blade, being oblique to the humerus, Which, in its turn, 1s oblique to the Riggs House. Florida, 1326 F st. now. I Waddell, A. 19th st, new. [avenneny | Wait, ew York avenne, ria, National Hotel. 915 G st. nw. aston Hotei. Walsh, William, Md., | Ward, William, Warner, 1 Watson, Riggs Hon: addle place.” TIL, 923 7th st. naw, mys y ie rb of | Browne M., tot | Buckner, A. H., Mc undy, Solomon, » Metropolitan Ho! Y.. Wa oS 11th st. naw. >| Butler, BF Cavell, GC, part of whieh ts equa’iy characteristic,” His well-shaped, delicate es | th Carolina ave. s.e. Tenn, 902 Hest. nv 601 Isth stn. Arlington Hotel. 1.cor, 14thst. & N.Y.ave. | . TIL, National Hotel. Ky., Rigus House. Caswell, LB), Wis ee ae ee, ‘| Chatmers, J. a Chittenden, S. B., N.Y | Clanip, William, Mai fayette Place, erman House. George M. A | Clarke, J. B. ; Clark, Rush, To | en Hleister, 10 Indiana avenue, » 1507 H st. nav, than, MO., Riggs House. Pa., Metropolitan Hotel. Michigan, National Hotel, eo » FLD. ope | Theo. F. Shuey, | Covert, J. W. Ohio, Ha milton House. ; John J. McEthone, 131s Vermont a tongue has no such function, and, therefore, n> ‘exas, Imperial Hotel. Towa, Ebbitt House Washington House. hie, 1309 F st. nw. Cummings. 1 services are ali perforin f in his case by the lips; and no horseman, wid | has let a favorite horse pick u; | food trom the palm of his hand, can have fati Danford, Lorenzo, O1 smallarticles «f | Davidson, R. H. M., Florida, National Hotel. the sensibility and delicacy of touch, with whic hee Riggs House. Va.. New York Avenue Dunnell, M. H. 725 SUL St. nw. aN Arlington Hotel, R. 1, Wormle: Errett, Russell, ns, I. N., Pa., 50 Ind., 910 F st. n. 8. C., National Hotel. Thomas, Ohio, 41 Felton, W. H., Georgia, Finley, E. B., Ohio, 614 13th st. Rav. Forney, W. H., Ala., Ebbitt House. Foster, Charles, Ohio, 1407 F Franklin, B. J., Mo., 411 4th s Freeman, Chapman, Pa., 920 17th 5 New York avenue n.w. Fuller, B.S., Ind., 509 E st. nw. Gardner, Mills. Ohio, 318 Indiana avenue. , Ohio, 1227 I st. naw. 508 13th st. nav, + 929 K st. now, "a. 229 ISU SL. S.e. | STIEAL ——— ARD TIMES!—Purchasers who want to rave | ational Hotel. ts | Garth, W. W.. Ala. Gause, L..C., A Gibson, R. L., La., 1325 K st. nw Giddings, D. C., T Glover, J. M., Mo.7332 C st. ny Gunter, T. M., Ark., 234 3d st. naw. ‘ugene, Maine, 1408 I st. n.w. Hamilton, A. Hf., Tnd., 334 C st. now. Hanna, John, Ind. Hardenbergh, A. Harmer, A. C., Penn., 1312 F st. nw. Harris, B. W., Mass., 18 Grant Place. Harris, H. R., 713 12th st. now, N. J, G2i 13th St, National Liotel. Metropolitan Hotel. 5 9th st. Dow, 1S ith st. n.vy. Villiam, 11, 1203 Kansas, 1311 H St. nw, MO., 225 3d st. nw. . Til., 503 12th st. Dw. Wis., $12 1sth st. n.w. .. Vermont, 917 G st. D.w. Henderson, T. J., Il, 211 3 rth Capitol st. nw, National fiotel. Ketchtley. E,W. Kenna. J. E.. W.Va, 126 New York ave. 1v. Ketehom, J. HL. N.Y. 1329 K st. a, Killinger, J. W.. Pa.. Riggs Honse. Kimmel, William, Wa., Rizes House, Knapp. R. M., IL. Metropolitan Hotel, Knott. J. P.Ky.. 10s F st. naw, +» Conn. Hizrs House. ¥.. 9 $26 F st. . Ligon, R. F.. Ala. 508 18th st. now. Lindsey. S. 1 12th st. nav. Lockwood, DN. N. Y.. Riggs House. Loring. G.'B. Lafayette Square, Luttrell. Ls nt Place. enue, ) = 1407 F Majors. T »., Imperial Hotel. Manning, Van H.. Mliss., 33 B st. Marsh, B. F.. TL Mayha Me : MeGown, J. H.. Mekenz Monr WW. R., TIL, 26 Bst. me, Mass.. Riggs House, Miss.. Ebbitt House. Neal, H.S., Ohio, Noreross, A., Mass., Oliver, Addison, Iowa, ONeill, Charie Overton, Page, H. F.. Cal. Pattervon, G. W., N.Y. Patters M., Col., 122 Peddie . Ne J, Riggs Hi Phelp: mies, CONN., 454 C St, n. 00S HE St. naw, Phillips, W. AL s hist. nw. Po | Potter, ¢ ew York avenue. Pound, ‘ 14th st. naw. Poweis, Maine, Riggs Hou Price, Hiram, lowa, 1213 F st. now. Pridemore, A A, St. Mares. Rainey, J. 1. Randolph, J.T Rea, David, Me Washington House Reed, T. B.. Maine, si0 Z 5 ‘a., Arlington Hotel. ‘Onio.. Arlington Hotel, Mass, 1 naw. Tenn., 222 New Jersey s X., Metropolitan Hotel. ‘ational Hote Robbins, W. Roberts, C. B.. Ma Robertson, E,W. Kovinson, ¢ Robinson. Ross, Miles, Ryan, ti House, Hotel. and F st. naw. National Hotel. * st. nw, rd’s Hotel. Metropolitan ote! Texas, 599 4th st. n. Sapp. WF. Towa, Milton, Oh! ‘ Shallenbe Shelley, Singleton, ¢ Stephen St. Rw. Maryland avenue vc. 120 st. nay, ‘Tipton, T. Townsend, Amos, Obi ‘Townsend, M. 1. Tucker, J.B. ‘Turner, omas, Ky., Riggs House. ‘Turney, Jacob. Pa., Metropolite 405 Tih st Veeder, Walker, White, I, Whitthorne, W. C. i4th’st. n. 612 141 ww. w York ave. | Wigintor - nw, Wilhtit nw, st. lw. dt. MAW. A..N.Y¥ ton Hotel, Wilson, Benjamin, W. tional Hotel. We I Y D St. new Wrei Nevada, Ebbitt House, Wright, Yeates, J Young, Arlington Hotel. 1403 New York avenue now. Cannon, 6. Corlett. V pbs, Orange, Washington, 226 2d st. ne. National Hotel. Martin, Mo Arlington Hotet. . New Mexico, 1216 G street. Arizoua, 909 16th st. nw. + uns, Cler jompson, Sere W. Field, Doorkeeper, 5 . Steuart, Postmaster, Alexandi OFFICIAL REPORTERS OF DEBATES. SENATE. D. F. Murphy, 314 C st. nw. 4 5th st. naw. Edward V. Murphy. 217 A st. se. Henry J. 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UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTIO: Oven Have a Miuuioy Disvumnuren. LOUISIANA STATE. LOTTERY COM- ‘This institution was porated the legislature of te state for educatnnaland chutes Purposes in 180, with @ capital of $1,000,000 to Which it has since added s reserve fund of ” Tre Guinn Sinors: Neatunn Daawincs Will ake woe Isouthiy.. Ii never scales or pst yuo Stthe followins distribution” GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT, during which will take place the EXTRAORDINARY SEMI-ANNUAL DRAWING, At New Orleane, Tuesday, December 10th, Under the personal supervision and management of Gen. G. T. BEAUREG: ), of Louisiana, Gen. SUBAL 2 VARLY of Viren om ING BUIT for $9, just » BBE ean Sl exe E. 8S. BARTRAM, (Late or New Onvears, La) SARTORIAL EXPERT, AND “TAILOR OF THE PERIOD.” Now with GEORGE T. KE 414 Ninth street, ees w= MASSEY & €0.S PHILADELPHIA x ALE, XX ALE, XXX ALE, ke, Constantly in store and for sale in Casks and Bottles, by the Agent, SAM'L C. PALMTR, ia Capital Prise of Stoo 00 2100,008 gaol pea Be 3 Large ‘of 30.000 OOD Large + ao ot 4 Prizes of 25,000 Ea | Prizes ot 100,000 A Approximation 2, Approximation 26, Approximation ae .T. BI UBAL ‘office of