Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1880, Page 2

Fer Tae Evexme Stan.) “DISTRUST. How few are they whom we may dare to trast ! How rare is he, who, with unwavering faith, Performs his promise and his debt repay'th ‘ow many are mere lumps of lying dust, Pierced through and through with the infernal lust Of gota; whom greed, not honor, ever sway’th; ‘Whose oath the feather of a moth outweigh’th ; For whom we feel intuitive disgust ! Give me the man whose word stands, like a rock, Firm in the shock of billowy circumstance; ‘Who never lets self-interest hide from view, Fog-like, his duty; makes no quibbling mock ‘Of conscience, nor imputes his fault to chance: Him I revere—but where is he, and who? W. L, SHOEMAKER. ——__-2+e-____ LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Free Swimming Baths. Editor Star:—During last spring 1 urged in the newspapers the building of a free swimming bath of half an acre or more {nthe northeast corner of the Smithsonian grounds, opposite the Center market, or in the armory square oppor Site, near the two great city railroads. And I collected editorials and articles from the city Papers in favor of the bath filling three foolscap pages, which I have recently presented to the Chairman of the Senate District committee, who is also chairman of the committee for the pre- vention of epidemic diseases. I accompanted these Peas with an amendment to some Dis- trict bil appro} riating $3,000, one-half to be al tothe District government, to be ex- pended in building the bath, the use of the grounds and water from the mains being grant- ed, the bath tobe drawn off and fil late at night when the pipes are full and unused, so as not to decrease the supply for general use In the daytime, a small stream only to ran in and out of the bath when Inuse. The bath to be ballt by and be under control of the Secretary of the Interior, who 1s also. to have prepared an {1lus- trated circular descriptive of the best and most economic land bath, to be supplted Db; works, rivers, creeks, dams, springs rams; such circulars to be sent to the mayors of all interior citi county-seats and principal towns in the United States, with the view of their general adoption; for the purposes of gen- eral comfort, Cleanliness, the cure and preven- tion of skin diseases and the prevention of epi- demic diseases; one thousand dollars to be ap- propriated out of the Treasury to pay the cost of the preparation and distribution of such cir- culars. To strengthen my proposition Isent for and obtained the following fact DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, (CHIEF ENGINEER'S OrFice, City Hatt, © York, Feb. 4th, 1 -—Sir: In’ answer to yours of leave to state that there were 2 baths In this city in 1s70,which cost $40,000. In 1876, 6; IS7S, 7; 179, 7, and for 1880 there Will be 8. The cost now of building Is less than $7,000 each. When in use they require 1 watchman, 2 lady and 2 men keepers each, at $2.50 per day; with an assistant superintendent, whose duty itis to vislt and examine each and every bath once a day, and oftener if possible, and Teport tothe superintendent at this office. Baths are n from 5 &m. to 9 p.m., except Sundays; en they close at i2m. Women’s days, Mon- day, Tuesday and Friday. The season begins June ist and ends about the 15th October. They are arranged around the river front, that is in the most densely populated portions of the city (3 on the North River and 5 on the East River). you may imagine their popularity, that the least negligence of anybody connected with them causes a complaint to be made to the daily press, then it is written up, &c., &c. I might also state that our cost of caring for them ts Jess than the private baths (that is those owned by individuals). It Is a rare thing to hear of a drowning case; heretofore there were hundreds of cases during the summer. Number of bathers in the 7 tloating baths for the last season: Males, 1,852,710; females, 1,028,569. Total, 2,981,279, Yours respectfully, JaMES McCaRTNBY, Sup’t. ‘The great popularity of these free baths will beseen by the great number using them, and it Will also be seen from the above that the gene- Fal introduction of baths in every city, town, and even village in the United States, by learnings both sexes how to swim, would save the lives of Many thousands annually drowned by acci- dents On the water. I now ask that Congress- men, the two Boards of Health, the School Board, the two city railroads running by the proposed bath, who will greatly roflt by pas- Sengers to and from, the B. & P. R.R. Co. near by, the public generally, and lastly, the press, the most important of all, will all’ aid in the passage of the proposed bill. There is not much me to lose to secure the bili in time for the eoming season. A. WATSON, Washington, D.C., Feb. 11th, 1850; ‘The Wages of Dressmaker’s Em- o ployes. Editor Star:—The unqualified assertions of several gentlemen at the meeting of the Work- ingmen’s Assembly relative to the wages dress- Makers pay their employés, induces me to ex- | ee the sentiments of a large number who we -been grossly misrepresented by these gentlemen's assertions. Bent on reform, they urge the press to con- demn ladies, who are themselves struggling in @ majority of cases to support large families, and, as their business warrants, are able to em- ploy girls, who otherwise would have nothing 0. My best hands receive from $5 to $12 per week: those who are learning, from $i to#4. We take 4 apprentices a year, who are required to work three months without pay, and in many in- stances ought to pay for the trouble of instruct- ing them. My employés begin atS a m., and slop invalrably at 634 p.m. . Craney instanced cases where sewing- iris were paid only $ per week, while the jonable dressmakers recelve from $5) to $100 for making each dress. If such prices pre- yall in other cities they are uukuown here. Since the decline in gold the price for making a dress scarcely exceeds one-tenth of the amount named by Mr. Craney. A. Watson, E: Jan. 16th, we beg Such: statements as to prices induce other | dressmakers to come here, only to be disap- re are already aplenty in the | pointed, as the fe City to fulfill all the ladies require of them. My sympathies are cert: with the work- ing class, and those who are from ni ob} to face the stern realities of life. As one of that class myself, 1 would seek to better the condition of our working women by givin them better wages, more consideration, an more sympathy. Among our working-women we find many who were reared in homes of affluence, and whose culture and refinement entitle them to the nighcst respect. A great many of our flourishing business houses are in charge of Women Of this class, who are doing all in their power to lighten the burdens of the poor, and give employment to the deserving. Very respectfully, MME. WASHINGTON. Professor Asger Hamerik’s Ideas of Music. (Baltimore Gazette, February 6.] Professor Asger Huamerik delivered yesterday his eleventh lecture on the history of music. He sald: ‘Instruments are divided into strimged and wind instruments, and subdivided tnto six Classes, namely, bowed instruments (the family of violins), wind instruments, keyed instru- ments (piano and organ), stringed instruments , guitar, &c.). instruments of percussion and mechanical instruments. At the head of these must be placed the human voice, the first and the most beautiful of all instruments. In- Strumental music ts a melody or a system of melodies appropriated either to a single instru- Ment or w severat together. ‘This leads us to consider it in two points of view—tirst. as single music or solo; secondly, as concerted music. Solos, whether single or ‘accompanied, compre- hend’ an infinite number of pleces in various forms and Sstyles, as studies, tantasias, Sonats and couvertos, The inventor of the onata torm 18 Corelli! and of that of the con- ero, Torelil. By concerted music we under- Sta. instrumental music with different paris in W. ch all the instruments are equally obliga- to. ‘11's class comprises the trio, the quariet, the qui #t and other pieces where each instru> ment ha: ts Separate part and the symphony, Bocherini vas the first who, in iiés fixed the quartet and quintet, or chamber mu- sic. He w.3 followed by Giardini, Cambrini and Pagnan! :nd, in another school, by Pleyel, Haydn, Mozar. and Beethoven. The symphony, improved since he middle of the last century by Gossec, Wanhail and Emanuel Bach, was in tts form perfected by Haydn and in its {nstrumenta- ton by Beethoven. Otuer symphony com- posers of various schools followed, as Berloz, Spohr, Gade, Rui aud Rubinsteia. A symphony orchestra consists of violins, violas, violoncelios, double basses, two tutes, LWo oboes, two clari- Onettes, two bassoons, two French horns, two trumpets and ketUle drums. It has, during the last fifty years, been improved with four Freach horns, three trombones, tuba, harps and instru- Ments of percussion, and nécessarily calls for additional strings to Dalance. ‘Thus the modern symphony composer has at his command five colors—strings, wooden instruments, bra: and instruments of pervussion—witn all the Bub-vartety of Sades. As to the number of instruments, I consider an orchestra of thirty- fiye strings and twenty wind in frament or about sixty performers, all that 1; needed to Tender any work satisfactory uader one baton.” {Boston Journal.) ‘We alluded a few weeks since to the practice of making checks payable to the order of bust- hess men, and suggested that all Uties, whether legal or complimentary, had no p! ple business transaction. One or two corres- pondents think that these little courtesies are commendable and another asserts that the Qn 43 80 Common that to avoid It excites - To all this we have only to remark Yhat Messrs, Mr., Esq., Cot., Hon, &., are no part of a man’s name, and had better be omtt- ed. Ifyou have a check to make payable to his Excellency the Governor of theCommonweaith, 4n his private capacity, it 13a Dit of unpardon: able snobbery to write on the See of the check THE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE KINGDOMS. Remarkable Analogy Bet wee! Them. At the last meetimg of the District Horticultu- ral Society Mr. John T. C. Clark made an inter esting address upon the Analogy of the Vegetable Kingdom with the Animal He said that ac- quiescing in the declared purposes of this socie- ty “to promote, foster, and encourage horticul- tural taste and knowledge,” and being convinced that many persons are deterred from perusing the numerous scientific works on ae by the technical language employed, he shoul endeavor to present the seeming analogy exist- ing between the vi ible and the animal ee doms, in the hope that the facts presented might induce some to pursue this subject further, feel- ing assured that should they make the attempt, every step ‘they advance will convince them that they will find much to interest, instruct, and refresh the mind, and should they reduce to ractice the lessons which the volume of nature in} they will realize countless enjoyments hitherto unknown. ‘The vegetable kingdom is an immense volume, of which plants form the thoughts and leaves the letters. Its pages are accesible to all, and he who reads them will learn that they are “written in the only Janguage which has gone forth to the ends of the world unconfounded by the confusion of Babel.” How far analogy may be depended upon for aid and guidance in our researches Into the hidden or unknown of the vast field of Nature, ts e pomnt requiring to be settled. How far it is. allowable to go, and where to stop, with this mode of reasoning. needs to be defined. It will not hold, or but remotely, between anim tte and inanimate nature. If’ we examine, how- ever, superficially the expansion, attitude, pro- portion and magnitude of the vegetable king- dom, we find that there is as much harmony tn the aggregations of their parts as in that of animals. tls impossible to consider them as mere mechanical productions of heat and cold, of dryness and humidity. A spirit of lite, inde- pendent of all other latitudes, governs plants, preserves them, and reproduces them. In many cases they repalr injuries which they may have sustained, and heal over their wounds with a new rind. They are organized bodies endowed with life, with the property of irritability, and in all probability with more or less of sensibility or the power of feeling. DIGESTIVE PROCESS. The functions of animals and plants are in a degree analogous. Animals take in their food by the agency of the mouth, and prepare its digestion elther by various degrees of mastica- tion, or by attrition, as In the gizzard of birds. In this they differ from plants; but these have @ sufficient compensation, inasmuch as they imbibe their food in a fluid form, liquid or aeri- form, and consequently in a state already of the finest division. Animal and yegetable remains are their common food, and salts of various kinds their condiments and stimulants. Plants have this advantage over animals, as they ab- sorb only the soluble and finer parts of their nutriment, and their absorbing organs have the power of rejecting that which is offen- Sive—they have uo offensive matter to separate. In the animal stomach, the food undergoes an extensive change, being reduced to a pulp of greater specific gravity, and being altered entirely in both taste and odor. In the sap vessels of plants, which may be considered truly as their primary or- gans of digestion, their food, or sap, undergoes a change precisely similar. Its color and flavor are altered, and its specific ity increased. In the animal stomach, after being subjected to the action of the gastric juice, or nutritious porstons, separated, the chyle is absorbed by the acteal yessels and conveyed into the blood, and these mingled liquids are propelled by the heart into the lungs, to be there exposed to the action of the air. The vital quid now changes its purple hue to a florid red, loses a portion of -its carbon and watery particles, the former com- bining with the oxygenof the atmospheric alr in the lungs, and being breathed forth in the form of carbonic acid gas. As plants take in as food no gross fat rari aia it isobvious that no process like the billary operations Is re- quired in their course of digestion. But in them, the food or sap, p! Ing at once along the branches, is noured into the leaves, which are the very lunss of the vegetable kingdom. Here, as in the bivod, its color is changed, and oxygen emitted from it during the light hours of the twenty-four; but carbonic acid is breathed forth during the night, and at all periods, a con- siderable amount of watery vapor is emitted. CIRCULATORY PROCESS. From the lungs, by the agency of the heart, the blood is propelled through the artertes over the whole animal frame, supplying nourish- ment and warmth to all parts, and where, by those being abstracted, it is Gone converted into purpie or venous blood, and is returned by the Veins to undergo a repetition of those changes already noticed as being effected in the lungs. In plants, the sap, after exposure tothe action of the air in their leaves, is returned by another set of vessels situated under the bark, ministering tothe growth and pupae of the whole plaut. It is true that only under circum- Stances is heat evolved during the process of vegetation; but the circulatton of the sap in plants, beyond all doubt, enables them to resist Irosts. During the most intense and proloaged ‘rosts, the interior of ttees remain unfrozen, and under the meridian of the tropics, it ls as- serted that the sap of the Palm and other trees retain a temperate coolness. The power to re- sist extremely elevated and depressed tempera- tures fs characteristic of all aniinated nature. Such is the close similarity in the digestive and circulatory processes characterizing the members of the two great kingdoms of organ- ized nature, a resemblance which occurs in all Uhe other functions enjoyed by them in com- mon, RESPIRATORY PROCESS. During respiration, the air inhaled by animals through the moyth and nostrils, pra is tn- mediately to the lungs and acts tipon the blood. In plants, the air inhaled by their leaves operates instantaneously upon their sap. As oxygen Is the vital air of aniinals, so !s carbon! acid gas equally essential to plants. If animais be placed in a situation where they inhale pure oxygen, their functtons are highly excited and increased in rapidity, but it is an exhileration 3] lily terminating in exhaustion and death if inhalation be continued for a protracted period. So plants will flourish with an Increased vigor in an atmosphere containing one-twelfth of carbonic acid, but even this brings on prema- ture decay; and if it exceeds that proportion, destruction is more rapidly increased. During sleep animals tnhale less oxygen than during their waking hours, and plants emit a mucii ished amount of carbon during the night. DISEASES OF PLANTS. ‘The diseases of piants, like those of animus, are occasionally epidemic, and prevail over large districts, and like those of animals, are produced from contagion. ‘The cryptoganic dis- eases of plants must be regarded as contagious, since they are produced by the contact of one portion of organized matter with another The diseased cells of a plant are capable of com- municating their diseased action to healthy cells. just as the cells from an animal effected with Small-pox are capable of giving that dis- ease to another. If a healthy plant of cactus be inocculated with some fungold matter, dis- eased action will follow, and extend more or less rapidly rding to the condition of the plant thus tnocewlated. This is the case with some other forms of vegetable disease. The kind of action thus established 1s apalogous to that which occurs when a small quantity of ferment is introduced into a saccharine fluid, the consequence being the importation of a new character to the parucles of the fluid, and an entire change in the rela- Uons of its chem! n may be thus produced, it 1s not neces- sary that the contagious matter be conveyed from one plant to another in a tangible form, but the diseased matter may be conveyed Uhrough the medium of the air, in the same way as sporules of fungi, which ‘produce blights. Appropos to the diseases of plants, a note- worthy suggestion has recently been made by the well-known astronomer and sclentific w . Mr. Richard A. Proctor. @ Say “Tt is pone that the diseases which attack cultivated plants, as distinguished from wild plants, may arise from the forced and artificial conditions to which the former are subjected, just as many of the diseases of mankind and the domestic animals are induced by similar conditions. As evidence in support of this view, we are told in that in England the & hollyhock, lilies, hyacinths, verbenas, and even the hardy crocus, have been 80 extensively effected by new and previously unknown forms of disease, that gardeners are much discouraged. in regard to their cultivation.” CONTRACTILITY OF PLANTS. If motion 1s the indication of feeling, and feel- ing is the t distinguishing feature between plants and animals, numbers of organisms which have been regarded as plants might rea- sonably be classed as animals. ‘The Mimosa sensitiva, when expanded, if_one of its leaflets be slightly touched, will close It toward its fellow, and its neighboring leaflets in a very short time the mid-rib itself will bend down upon the stem. If ‘the plant be in a very irritable condition, from its functions being in a state of great activity, the other leaves will be similarly affected. Dionae muscipula has the power of fold- ing the two sides of the leat toward each other, 80 as to enclose anything between them which have settled upon its surface, and prevents the escape of an insect, which may be thus cap- tured. = the slightest touch, the two sides fold —— the walls of which seem to press more closely upon the captive the more tt gles. Any insect thus captured 1s soon and its decay appears to furnisM the ter, in , men- tions @ plant of this \d which Kept in a | Speed in pe from which ie ts 4 3 g i 8 g evidenced by the little olive-colored threads of ve substance which we find attached to rocks, and sometimes floating on the surface of fresh water ponds. These are the Confervas, ay Lease if one of the lowest and least interest- al “ Tts genera is now adinitted on all to be plants, sincé M. Decaisne’s important (odie | — be Seah of Lhe things whici previously regarded as zoop! Nevertheless, it is curious to see how much ab ‘one period at least of their existence they have ap animal nature, if the power of mo’ from Place to place is to be taken as an indi ot Such quality. It seems incontestible, notwith- standing the denial of Mohl and others, that many of the Conferva tribe, ily of the genera Conferva Ulva, and their near allies, roduce ia their tubular threads reproductive lies, or sphores, which after a time acquire power of rapid and quasi-voluntary motion * that ae and in consequence of their constantly tapping inst the soft side of the cell tt holds them, they escape into the water, and when there they swim a about actively, just like 2, ANC animacule, at last retreat to a shady place, attach themselves to a stone or some other body, lose their locomotive quality, and thence- forth germinate and grow like [gor In view oi the capability of plants to be acted upon as living bodies, jthe question arises: Are plants endowed with sensation? As they Leer life, rritability, and motion, directing their organs to what is natural and beneficial to them, may not their functions be attended with some de- gree of sensation? The want of sensation can- not certainly be proved, and to the property of contractility in the living tissue of plants, by which they are enabled to contract upon the application of a stimulant, just as the tissue of atimals, must be solely attributed their lifelike motions. While numerous plants possess the tunctions apparently Red ora ere is man- itestly an antagonism between them, and the distinguishing features between the vegetable and animal kingdoms the more readily appar where we find that where carbonic acid is ab- sorbed and oxygen given out, we have a plant, and where oxygen is absorbed and carbonic acid given out, we have an animal. THE STORM. The tempest rages wild and high, ‘The waves lift up their voice and ory Fierce answers to the angry sky: rere Domine! ‘Through the black night and driving rain Bote upon the sick ai al : o live upon the stormy rere Dor et The thunders roar, the lightnings glare, ‘Vain is it now to strive or dare A cry goes up of wreat desp: ere Domine! ‘The stormy voices of the main, ‘The mosning wind and pelting rain Beat on the nursery window pane: ‘Miserere Domine! Warm curtain'd was the little bed, Pathe etorn will wake the child” they said: Miserere Domine! — Cowering among his pillows white He prays, hie fae es dim with fright: s ir, Save those at sea hdd Ht ve ie ‘The morning shone all clear and gay Sud on gic chia atpieys > on a little cl : Aastaite A. Procter] lov tibl, Domine! BRER FOX FOOLED AGAIN. [Atlanta Oonstitution.] “One day,” sal@Uncie Remus, sharpening his knife on the palm of his hand,’'“one day Brer Fox strike up wid Brer Tarrypin right in de middle er de big road. Brer Tarrypin done heered’im comin’, en he ‘low fo hisself dat he’d sorter keep one eye open; but Brer Fox wuz monstus perlite, en he open up. de confab, he did, like he ain’t see Brer Tarrypin sence dé las’ freshit. “*Heyo, Brer Tn whar you pin dis long-come.short?’ sez Bret Fox, sezee. “* Lounjun *roun’, Brer Fox, lounjun ’roun,’ or Frou dont look ‘spruey lke you ald, Brer “©You don’ tf Brer Fox, sezee. Taryn sez. us “+ Lounjun ‘roun’ en suffer’n’,’ sez Brer Tarry- Lee sezee. Den de talk sorter run on like Ww Brer Tarrypin. Yo’ eye look ee, lgnty Ted,’ doz Bros Fo mi sez, Brer Fox, sez ‘Lor, Brer Fox, you dunner w’at trubble ts. You ain’t bin lounjun ’roun’ en suffer’n,” sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee. * *Bofe eyes red, en you look like you mighty weak, Brer Tarrypin.’ sez Brer Fox, sezee. ‘Lor’, Brer Fox, you dunner w’at trubble is,’ says Brer Tarrypin, sezee. *<Wrat all you now, Brer Tarrypin?’ sez Brer Fox, sezee. «lpuck a walk de udder day, en man come ‘long en set de flel’a-fler. Lor’, ‘Brer Fox, you dunner w’at trubble 1s,’ sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee. “*How you get out the fler, Brer Tarrypin,’ sez Brer Fox, sezeé. “*Sot en tuck it, Brer Fox,’ sez Brer Tarry- pin, sezee. ‘Sot en tuck it, en de smoke sif’ in my eye, en de fier scorch my back,’ sez Brer Tarrypin, seze. “*xikewise hit bu’n yo’ tail off,’ Brer Fox, sezee, “Oh, no, dar’s de tall, Brer Fox,’ sez Brer Tarrypin, Sezee, en wid dat he oncuri his tall “um under de shell, en no sooner did he do dat dan Brer Fox grabbed it, en holler out:— “Oh, yes, Brer Tarrypin! Ob, yes! Ea so youer de man w’at lam ine on de head at Miss Mexdow’s is you? Youer in wid Brer Rabbit, is you? Well, I'm gwineter out you.” “Brer Tarrypin beg en beg, but twan’t no use. Brer Fox done bin fool so much dat he looks lke he "termin’ fer ter have Brer Tarrypin's haslett. Den Brer Tarrypin beg Brer Fox not ter ter drown ’im, but Brer Fox atn’t mikia’ no prommus, en den he beg Brer Fox fer ter bu’n ‘im, kaze he done useter fier, but Brer Kox don’t say nuttin’. Bimeby Brer Fox drag Brer Tarry- pin off little ways b’low de spring’onse, en souze ‘im under de water. Den Brer ‘farrypin begin ter holler:— “*Turn loose dat stump root en ketch holt me—turn loose dat stump root en ketch hold er me.” “‘Brer Fox he holler back:— “«T ain't got holt er no stump root en I 13 got holt er you.’ “ Brer Ta in he keep on holler’n:— “*Ketch holt er me—P’m a drownin’—I'm a drownin’—turn loose de stump root en ketch hoit_er me.” “Sho nuff, Brer Fox turn loose de tall, en Brer ‘Tarrypin, he went down ter d2 bottom kerflunkity-blink !” No typographical combination or description could do justice to the gutteral sonorousness— the peculiar intonation—which Uncle Remus imparted to the last word. It was so peculiar indeed that the little boy asked:— i “How did he go to the bottom, Uncle Remus?” “* Kerblunkity-blink !” «Was he drowned, Uncle Remus?” “Who? old man Tarrypin? Is you drowndid Wren yo’ ma tucks you in de bed?” “Well, no,” replied the little boy dubiously. “Ole man Tarrypin wuz at home I tell you, honey. Kerblinkity-blunk !” Telephones in New York. {New York Correspondence 8t. Louis Republican } **Some far off halloo breaks the stlent atr” is a Miltonian sentence, most apt now in almost every business house of New York. Somebody will yet go crazy shouting “Hello, hello,” through a telephone, and hearing a drowned voice afar off answer, “What 1s it?” So far the telephone is a great invention, but when a conversation 1s inthe still small voice ts lost in curses. “What's that?” “I don’t hear you.” “What did you say?” “Well?” “I don’t catch you yet.” “Go ahead.” “Hello hello.” “The old thing don’t work.” “Send forthe Inspector.” is 1s about What you hear going on in every bank, broker's office, lawyer's ollice in New York. You feel like ex- claiming: “‘O, ts ne, halloed be thy name.” ‘The inst cnt ts first rate to hello through, but when it comes to the talking it very often isn’t there, But iv’s a great consolation to think that we can put our mouths to a hole and yell hello, and somebody somewhere can hear you. and answer. ‘What is it,” and then “hello” back at you. The instrument, it is said, will be of no use ina country where they can't yell. “Hello!” Truly, the word must have been born for the telephone, for when we talked to each other we said “Halloo!” but now that we elep hone it, itis “Hello.” An alarm of fire st by telephone in Brookiyn, on Monday, when a burglar, who had ceased purging, set the county’s shoe shops all on fire, and although the line was direct it didn’t get to the right ear for an hour, The tele- phone inspectors are getting almost as numer- ous as the telephones. There seems much to be done yet to get them into a state of Cees on, where you won’t get a jumbled up jargon or amufied mi which sounds as though tffe man at the other end had his overcoat mouth. The difficulty en: countered in New York, it is sald, is due to the re, of wires which come in contact with in telephonic use. Victor Hugo’s Belief in Previdence. “I believe in a Providence,” said Victor Hi to a company gathered around him in his red So- lon in the Rue de Clichy, “‘because I am a Provi dence myself.” Some one. asked for an explana tion of this curious riddle. The venerable poet a 9 ing. ‘We caught ame habe . Its death sent already cod, wi Eee rot shter Jeanne, with eyes fistening nears Her ag Toland in Her doubt said, “ Grandfather shai) no! Se decides Bo they enthe to fae, For a moment held the power of life and death RELIGIOUS NOTES. — Mr. Moody will not ride in a street-ear on Sunday. — Four Chinese converts have just joined the Presbyterian church at eaemep OLN, and one of them has taken out naturalization papers. —One of the largest Calvinistic Methodist ‘ardiff recently considered the de- — Admiral Ammen .has given twenty acres of Jand between Washington and Baltimore as‘a site for a novitiate of Christian Brothers, a Ko- man Catholic educational order. —The New York Observer offers a premium of one hundred dollars to students in theolog!- cal seminaries for the “best essay designed to counteract any of the many forms of assault upon Christianity by modern infidelity.” — The few Old Catholics in Austria are said to be greatly embarrassed. They recently ap- plied to the minister of worship for state aid, which was refused on the ground that the state could not afford it. — The Presbyterians of Cleveland are warned by the Ministerial Unionot that eity concerning the alleged wickedness of baying and reading the Sunday papers. — The Rev. Mr. Mortimer, who was prohibited from exercising the functions of a Protestant Episcopal minister in the diocese of Maryland, has gone to New York, and has been put in al of the House of Mercy, being recognizid by Bishop Potter, and fully permitted to exer- cise his ministry. — Horace Thompson, the St. Paul banker,who died a few days ago, had contributed during his lifetime over $40,000 to the chief Baptist church of the city where he lived. His will provides for the payment of the mortgage now remaining against the property. — Col Ingersoll having said that the preach ers in this country cost the people $12,00),000 every year, answer 13 made by one of the religi- ous ‘hewspapers that the lawyers cost aout $70,000,000, the © $49,000,000, and whisky $60,000,000. —About one-fifteenth of the Catholic popu- lation of this country is taught in Catholic schools, or upward of 405,000. Of this number of scholars 33,495 are in $3 schools in New York, and 23,085 {n 153 schools in Newark. There are 140 Catholic schools in Cincinnati, with 25,406 scholars, but only 16 schools in Boston. —A decree of toleration to the Baptist churches in Russia has just been published there. It provides: “1. That thelr worship 13 henceforward unhindered, and, indeed, ex- Pp permitted throughout the Russian Em- pire, “2. That civil marriage is introduced, with oe recognition of the marriages already celebrated by the Baptist pastors. —Little Henry returns from catechism. He wears an air of melancholy. “What’s the mat- ter, dear?” asks Aunt Augusta, “Monsieur Je Curé is always scolding me. To-day he asked | me how many Gods there were.” ‘Weill, you told him one, I suppose?” “Oh, aunty! T’ told him five, and even that many didn’t satisty him."—Rery Evening. — Katie is a red-headed, black-eyed baby just too cute for anyuse. The other night she closed her little prayer as follows: ‘Dod please mate me u dood little girl”—and then forgetting for whose sake, she added, “for pity’s sake, amen.”—Steubenville Herald. — The Alliance tells a good story on a Chi- cago preacher, who recently delivered a “pow- erful’ sermon’ on the Sunday papers. While Cecadling they alleged iniquities, he remarked: “Why, this very morning I read tn one of them a disgraceful scandal.” —A Welsh: clergyman, speaking recently of the exehision of religious tea: 6 schools, sald 1t had not proved an unmixed evil. Before the passing ot. the edneation act the Sunday schools had to spend much of théir. time in teaching scholars to read, &c., but now all is chadged.. The Sunday schools recelvo- scholars whose intellects are trained, who3e wers of judgment and comprehenston are en- and Ww] on caer ities ure in every way better fitted to im! © lessons of divine love and wisdom avhich t! y undertake 10 sup- ply. ‘Therefore, if BYble teaching is thrown upon the Sanday; schools, they. have material jon. — Archdeacon Denison, one of the leaders of the English Ritualists, has been so oe it is said, with evidences he has seen of the id and unchecked advance of the whole country in church matters, that he has declared his in- enuee of ceasing to ‘advocate disestablish- men: —The Bishop of Peterborough declines to urge upon the clergy of his diocese the observ- ance of a day of humiliation anfprayer on ac- counts the ree ee ae says the gre y 0 people who would engage in such service would be sober persons, and it would be incongruous for then to hum! themselves for the sins of others. — The want of Christian courtesy in some of our churches, especially in the city, is antonish- ing. In some cases even cultivated families may attend for years and not obtain the slight- est recognition. Now, there may be excellent preaching, and everything, so far as the wor- ship Is concerned, entirely congental, but what does it signify when you are no better than a Samaritan among the Jews? When a tamily bas attended a church, six or eight years and never received so much as a word of wel- come, it comes to be a little tedious. People na- turaily want to know by certain exteraal signs whether the communion of saints means aay- thing, and whether, 1f it mean nothing here, it may mean anything hereafver.—churronan. — Prestdent Seelye, of Amherst College, is not trightened by the spectres which some Chris- Uans conjure out of the speculations of modera selentists. He says In a recent letter to a for- mer pupil: “Remember that evolution, without a previous involution, is Impossible; and to de- rive reason from unreason {3 absurd.” This is another way of putting the old proverb “You cannot get more out of a bottle than was pui ito it. ce “Sadlier’s Catholic Directory” for 1830 gives asummary of statistics of the Roman Catholic chureh in the United States as follows: 12 arch- bisho} 55 bishops, 5,989 priests, 1,136 students in theological seminaries, 6,407 churches, 2,246 parochial schools, with 405,234 pupils, and a Catholic population of 6,143,222. Ht says: “On an average, one-fifteenth of the Catholic popula- tion is taught in Catholic schools. In actual number of schools Newark, N. J., takes the lead, having 153, with 29,085 pupils in a population of 175,000. New York returns the greatest number of ‘pupils—33,495, in 53 schools, in a population of 600,000. Cincinnat! reports 149 schools, 25,493 pupils, ina populist of 200,000; but Boston has only 16 schools for 310,000 Catholics.” —On making a pastoral visit at the house of one of his parishioners recently, a clergyman of Syracuse improved the opportunity to catechiso a llttle boy of four or five years of age. “ What class are you in?” said the minister. ‘In the interest class,” replied the boy. ‘* What have you learned?” Answer: “The commandments; and the creed.” _“ What, then, 1s the first. com- mandment?” ‘ Nobody shall have any gods but me,” said the lad, ‘* What is the creed?” The litle boy thought a moment, and then answer- ed, “I believe in the Holy Catholic Church, the forgiveness of sins, and the Communion set.”— Churchman, —The Chicago Alliance is severely critical of the Moody aad Sankey hymns. They are well Meant, it says, these songs; there are two or three of them that wiil live, but they are most- iy sentimental slush. The “hymns” are full of false sentiment, false theology, false figures. The tunes are for the most part ephemeral, jingly and utterly unfitted for the worship of the most high G They belong to the sam: class as ‘‘ Nancy Lee,” “Baby Mine,” and “My Grandfather's Clock;” they appeal to the same love of novelty and puerile melody, and like those inflictions will soon “stop short, pever to go again;” while “Rockof Ages,” ‘There is a Land of Pure Delight,” and" Father, What- eer of Earthly Bliss,” and other religious poems, born of true sentiment and high aspirations, will, like the immortal brook, go on forever. — Whom to elect to the vacant bishoprics is just now a leading topic in every Methodist circle in the country. In the north, the south, the east and the west local candidates aré brought forward. Already a long list is made tinged in very apparent disregard of the persons very apparen: TsOns wishes. AS for Dr, Fowler, of The Christian Advocate, The Methodist learns on good authority that he has said he ‘does not wish to be ae moted to the Coster but to retain the office of editor of The Advocate,” while at the same time “preparations are making for the liveliest race ever made in a General Conference election between Lim and Dr. Daniel Curry;” turther- more, that Dr. Curry is marae to go back to his old chair in Tie Advocate oO! "—& position to which it is believed that he failed of a re- election four years ago h his antagonism to the bishops. It is suggested by The Methodist that a “bishop of African descent” be chosen to succeed the late Gilbert Haven, since he was £0 prominently a representative of the colored race, s — The Chicago Aliance has a word anent the mismanagement of missionary societies. The revelations of mismanagement Which the defal- cation of Treasurer Demond ht to lightare iresh in the memory of all. We have beea told, it continues, tha6 the affairs of another missioa- ary- board had “been 80 . handled a few years ago that it was dangerous for one of its officers to sntagonize a aoe ae journa', whose editors. yw Of the facts, for fear of an exposé. Whether the matter has been ec we know not, but it ismot to be denied that should be exercised ii great care In the selection Of Officers of societies, and as many should be set about the administra- tion of their affairs as ate placed about great Secular moneyed institutions. A financial leak the Alliance would have sto] Is the useless “Phy are, gees THE HOUSEHOLD. Tiny HORSESHOES of artificial flowers consist of oe cae the valley, heliotrope and diminutive Tosebu For Letter ihe punroens there is eee small white wood panel having printed upon it in color ‘calendar for the year, around which be painted flowers and trailing vines or other pretty or odd design. iE “JERSEY,” now So popular in England, is a jacket of elastic cloth fitting almost Uke a g and having seams only under the arms, where it is fastened on both sides with very small hooks and eyes. An “improvement” over the original model consists in having the sleeves separaied from the waist and tastened to a seamless silk vest. Thus the sleeves afd arm- holes are as free from wrinkles and folds as the rest of the ent.—N. ¥F. Post. Hanoine Up Coats.—A heavy garment, like an overcoat, if hung by the loop at the back of the collar, will soon stretch out of shape by its | own weight. To avold this, various devices | have been made, some o§ wire, and others of wood, A piece of hard wood, long enough to reach from the outside of one sleeve to that of the other. will answer the purpose; it should have a hole bored through the center, or a loop of strong cord to it by upon the nail or hook. Under-coats and vests many be hung in the same way. For the “best sult” this little matter is of considerable importancé to all who desire their coats to not be full in the back of the neck, and therefore, out of shape.—Ameri- can Agricniturist. WasuING BLACK Prints.—For some time past I have been wearing mourning prints, and I have had an opportunity to notice the’ differ- ence in the looks of goods from the same piece, which can only be caused by the manner they are treated in washing. I am quite satisfied with the looks of mine compared with others, and as the question fs often asked how I keep my btack dresses so bright, I will give ray mode of doing them up: 1 strain my boiling suds, after the clothes are boiled, so that there will be no lint in the water, then put the black dresses in, and give them a thorough washing with the atmospheric washer; then drain them out, and rinse in clean water; running then though the wringer, I dissolve a bit of glue in two or three quarts of water, and dip the dress, then take it out and hang where it will dry as quick as possible. When ironed no one would ever think that it was not a new dress.—Coun- (ry Gentieman, ETIQUETTE IN CALLs.—We receive many in- quiries in relation to the etiquette to be ob- Served in making calls. For the benefit of our young friends we venture to present a few sug- gestions: It is of little importance about the “cards, coat, hat, gloves and cane.” If the vis- itor is not well known it is best to give the ser- vant at the door a card with his ad plainly written or printed thereon. A dress coat is only important at wedding or other full dress _recep- tons, or where the visitor {s invited to dinner. Hats, overcoats and canes are better left in the hall. A courteous address, a deferential man- ner, a well-informed mind, and common sense enough to make a short call (say 5 to 15 minutes for calls of mere ceremony, and 20 to 30 minutes with intimate acquaintances), will leave an Bey impression, which cannot be made by the most elaborate Aisplay of artificial airs ac- quired from rules of etiquette. There is no more Uresome bore, none harder to entertain and more welcome in his leave-taking, than one who mais it the study of his life to be fashion- able, visits by the book, and never seems to know how or when to go. any book of eti- quette fecently issued will be sufficient to give any sensible man a sensation at the stomach akin to sea Sickness upon 15 minutes perusal.— ~ Fe Journal of Commerce COFFEE IN TyPHOID FeveR.—Dr. Guillasse, of the French navy, in a recent paper on typhoid tever, say: offee has given us uphoped-for satisfaction; after having dispensed it, we find, to our great surprise,that its action 1s rompt as It 1s decisive. No sooner have our patients taken a few tablespoonfuls of it than their fea- tures become relaxed and they come to their senses. The next day the improvement fs such that we are temp! to look upon coffee asa specific against typhoid fever. Under its influ- ence the stupor {s dispeiled, and the patient rouses from the state of somnolency in which he has been since the invasion of the disease. Soon all the functions take their natural course, and he enters upon convalesence.” Dr. Guil- lass gives to an adult two or three tablespoon- |. fuls of strong black coffee every two hours, alternated with one or two teaspoonfuls of claret or Burgundy wine. A little lemonade or citrate of magnesia should be taken dally, and after a while quinine. From the fact that malaise and cerebral symptoms appear first, the doctor re- gars typhoid fever as. 8 ous disease, and e coffee acting on the is larly in- dicated in the early stages before local compli- cations arise. THE FLOWER GARDEN.—Most flower seeds are good for more than one year. Asters, stocks and some other sorts are worthless the second season. Of a large number of varieties, a por- tion Ne aes at nd rea pee avery centage, such as phlox, verbena and many others. Seeds saved in. a favorable season, and properly dried, will, of course, re- main goed longer than those saved in an unfa- vorable year, or carelessly cured. As a rule, round seeds are good longer than thin, flat ones, and many of the smallest are good as longasany. Old balsam seeds are generally acknowledged to be better than new. Last summer, in the garden of an old German lady, Isaw some flowers from seeds brought from the old country sixteen years before. She had petunias, portulaca and gourds.—J. B. Root. How TO EXTEMPORIZE RaDISHEs.—Radishes may be grown in a very few days by the fol- lowing method: Let some good soak in water for twenty-four hours, then put 2a bag and expose ftto the sun. In the course of the day germination will commence. ‘rhe seed must be sown in a well-manured hot- bed, and watered trom time to time with luke- er. By this treatment the radishes short time Bones. a sulficient bulk and Ee geod to eat. If it be required to get good radishes in winter during the severe cold, an old cask should be sawed in two, and one-half of it filled with good earth. The radish seed beginning to shoot as before must be then sown in, the other half of the barrel put on top of the full one, and the whole of the apparatus carried down into the cellar. For watering, lukewarm water should be used as before. In the course of five or six days the radishes will be fit to eat. ‘TERRAPIN STEW.—Did you know Jeemes? Not Jeemes Buchanan, but Jeemes Prosses? He used to keep a cellar somewhere on Market street in Philadelphia years on years ago. deemes was a good colored man, no heathen, but they do mas that, like those old fellows who had to be paddied across some river béfore they got to the good place,and wasobliged topay the ferryman for their passage. Jeemes got a whole saloon berth to hisself on the boat by just showing a can of unstewed terrapin. I ave been saving up myself for this here stew, awaiting for cold weather. You can’t enjoy terrapin unless the day is nipping. Tempera- ture and terrapin hand in hand. Now, as to your terrapin, bless you! there 1s all the dif- ference in the world in them. The more north- erly ts the foreni ground the better. You eat a Florida terrapin; you needn’t despise it, for terrapin is terrapin anywhere; but you get a Chesapeake one or a Delaware bay one, or, bet- ter still, a Long Island one, and there is’ just the difference between $10 a dozen and $36. Warm water kind of washes the delicate tlavor outofthem. Don’t you let Mr. Bergh know it, but your terrapin must be biled alive. Have a good big pot with a hot fire under it, so that he | shan’t languish, and when it’s got on a full head of steam pop him in. What I am going to give isa receipt fora single one. If you are awful rich and go in for a gross of torrapin, just use your multiplication table. ed ae pane as he eter in wah ee and a is iiippers; when they when you try ‘em with your fingernail he is good. Open nicely with a knife; billing of him discolates his snuff-box. Pick out every scrap of his meat, there ain’t over much of it, the more the pity; the most is in the jintes of the le and the flippers; but if you want to commit murder just you Smash his gall, then your ter- rapin is sone forever. Watch ‘close for eges, and handle them gingerly. Now, having fo him or her all into shape, put the’ meat aside. ‘Take three So you must have them fresh. Boil em and mash ’em smooth; add’ oRtnae a ae mnful Cy Leer flour, ree tablespoonful cream, and pepper, pepper to a terrapin is just depravity,) and two wine glasses of sherry wine—wine a8 cost $2.50 a bottle ain’t a bit too good. There never was a votega in all Portugal that wouldn’t think itself honored to have itself mixed up with a terrapin. ‘Now, you want quite a quarter of a pound of the very best fresh butter, and oe that in a porce- lain covered pan and melt lt first—mustn’t be browned. en. it’s come to be ofly put in your terrapin, yolks of eggs, wine all. Let it simmer, gently, gently, Bo! up two or three times does the business. What you are after is to make it bland. There ain’t nothing that oust be too pintedin a terrapin stew. It wants tome a quiet thing, a sauve t! just pervaded ‘With a most beautiful natural terrapin aroma. ou must serve it to the le that eats it on a hot but the real thing 1s to have ic ina chad and though aman oughtenter to be selfish there is a kind of divine satisfaction in eating of it all up yourself. But there won’t be never another Jeemes Prosser! His secret died with him.—Bob, the S2a Cook, in New Fork Times. GLIMPSES OF Home Lira.—So much to do,” is the unceasing cry of ‘women who pte- tend to labor. Part of their excessive labor isim- by fashion, but perhaps some of it might removed by greater economy both of time and r. Economy is ‘not: sti ‘but making Storeng tare to best account. Not only in dress ‘hor may wishing to ‘somy acceptable forthe table not_ too Expense, nor too Peay aed ‘Dat a from Cong ity of to for puddings with us, because we think they are good. For the: we. take sour with a tea- salt tirsnorts thi ot the consis: of col tency ther ist and bake quickly. % pote tmit naga Tae then band Johnny cake, made in the same way, only thickened with cornmeal instead of shorts,mee: my views of what a Johnny cake should be far better than one made hard and crusty with Falcon ne led ally makes its appear- ance n our table, prepared in the fol — way:—Beat up two or three ass with a =. salt and some pepper in a shallow plate. Dip the bread in this and fry in hot butter; serve while hot. Another way to fry bread, which I like rather better than this, 1s to dip stale bread for a minute in water, then fry, merely salting It. A ‘way to use dry pieces of bread is, after panera ores Rae ee in the soup a moment, then serve. By way of making custard when in a hurry is to beatin a quart bowl three eggs, four table- spoonfuls sugar and a little nutmeg: fill up with sweet milk. Put a little water in a kettle, setin the bow] and cover until it boils. As soon as the custard begins to set, take it off. If it boils too long it becomes a 1 like this full as well as floating-island, but that looks so nice, and I_ make it occasionally, as follows:—Put a pan of milk over the tire and let it boil; beat the whites of four eggs to a froth, adding some white sugar. Let the whites of eggs scald fora moment in the mtik, remove them, beat the yolks and two teaspoonfuls sugar together; stir this in the boiling milk, turn into a shallow dish, add essence of lemon or sliced lemon with ‘sugar, and spread the_ whites over the top; ornament with red and green sugar sand put on in flowers or spots, or drops of jelly at equal distances, Cheap minute pudding may be made tn the 1oHlowing way:—Into a quart of boiling mi k sur four well-beaten and four spoonfuls corn-stareh or six of flour. Eat with sweetened cream. Or thesugar may be put in the pud- ding, when tt 1s good without sauce. The corn- starch should be moistened with a little cold milk before putting it into the bolling milk. Cheap cake:— One egg, one cup sugar. butter size of an egg, six spoonfuls of milk, one cup our, flavor. Good for a loaf-cake,or may be baked with three layers and cus or jelly put between. Jelly and chopped raisins are very bice to put between the layers.—German- nen Telegraph. . MUSICAL iND DRAMATIC. — Manager Daly, of New York, continues his crusade against ‘-dead-heads,” and sends to ap- plicants the following card: “Mr. Daly's com- pliments, and regrets that he cannot comply with —-—— request for complimentary seats ‘ rug: the present pressure of the paying pub- —dohn McCullough was playing “Damon” recently in Syracuse, and in that part of the pay, where “Damon” says: “There is not an honest man in Syracuse” an excited individual in the parquet jumped up and yelled out: “Yes, and d—n it, you can include Utica.” A company recent!y organized, now in stern Virginia, from all accounts are playing “Drink” to Such ‘an extent that when evening comes they are not fit to play anything else. —The Castle-Abbott kiss in “Romeo and Ju- Het” received four encores while the troupe | were in Kansas City, and then the artists were Lot exhausted. — It seems that the season of grand opera in Lordon has atendency to diminish in length. This ‘year Covent Garden will not open till April 13, and Her Majesty’s not till May 8. In Uhe days of Lumley the opera season gan in February, or at latest, the first week in March. —The Imperial Theater, London, after the Withdrawal of the pantomime, will be continued as an afternoon theater, under the manage- ment of Miss Marie Litton. At Easter, “AS You Like It” will be erica and Miss Litton will veagay the part of “Rosalind” to the “Orlando” of Mr. Kyrie Bellew. A néw comedy by Her- men Merivale, entitled “Love for Love,” is also promised. Merivale’s “Lord of the Manor,” which Is founded on “Wilhelm Metster,” has LOt proved a success. — Mr. Henry Irving, in an article on “The Dearth of Dramatists,” attributes the scarcity of good dramatic writing to the fact that aspir- ing dramatists remain feolishly in ignorance of the technique of the stage, and send their efforts to the manager, expect eon to adapt them sor the purpese of production. —Gilbert and Sullivan’s new opera, “The Pirates of Pe 7 was produced at the Broad Street Theater, Philadelp! Monday eventng, before the largest and most fashion- able audience ever gathered in the theater. The papers are unanimous in pronounciag it a suc- —Two American plays are to be produced (his year at a London theater, the Gaiety. One is “The Mighty Dollar,” with’ Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence; the other, “The Gilded Age,” with Mr. J. T. Raymond as Colonel Sellers. —M. Charles Lamoreux, lately conductor at the Grand Opera Ho’ 4s making preparations for a series of moneter classical Cancarts to be given at the Trocadero Palace in May. Oratorios and symphontes will occupy the principal part of the programmes. —Mr. Bartley Campbell, who has been here this week, says that he quitted and turned his attention to play-1 ee by the ad- vice of the late E. L. Davenport. He also says that Longfellow having seen ‘Fairfax” at the #oston Park Theater, sent to him a letter, say- irg: “Ihave rarely been so entertained, and I see in it the promise of an American.dramatic iterature.” — Maggie Mitchell says that she first produced -Fanchon” February 23, 1861, at the St. Charles heater, New Orleans. Charles Pope acted Eandry Barbaud.” The play was translated jor her from the German by Mr. Auguste Wal- .cauer, of Chicago, in 1860. The original, as all readers know, is George Sand’s novel. Miss Mitchell has played *‘Fanchon” nearly 4,000 umes. —W. D. Eaton, a Chicago newspaper man, has written a play that actually can be played, and moreover is played. It was put on the stage in Boston atthe Gaiety, and became at ence all the rage,—in fact “All the Rage” is its Lame. The Gicbe traternally pats Mr. Eaton on the shoulder. —Lina Tettenborn, as “Katrina Munch- hausen,” in the new play “Go West,” has proved a big success in New York. The play Was run seven weeks, and is still drawing crowded houses. — Certain vulgar paragraphers of the western papers have indulged in impertinences of their sort concerning Mrs. Scott-Siddons and the As- bury professor’s denunciation of her evening dress. The lady says: “Neither I nor my mode of dressing, I think, require any upholding trom Americans at this late day, after so long and faithful friendship has existed between them and me, as @ Woman as well as an artist; but I do feel the indelicate manner in which these would-be wits are handling this eubject, the more so that my natural protector is no longer by my side.” — Dion Boucicault writes to the New York Herald, suggesting that every theater and music hall in the United States should devote the iith of March next (St. Patrick's day) to performances in aid of the Irish relief fund. He aiso proposes that 100 gentlemen, of whom he efiers to bé one, shall each contribute $100 weekly, making $10,060 to be sent every Satur- day to ireland. — An ingenlous western manager has a drop curtain representing an enormous bonnet, with sprays of flowers and drooping plufmes. This is let down on the play early in the ‘first scene, and 1s kept down all the evening, and the audi- ence, secing about as much of the play as it is accustomed to seeing, goes away delighted. —‘ The Galley Slave” did a business of $5,600 a week at Hooley’s, in Chicago, anda date in March has been secured fora reproduction of the play. John T. Ford is eis ing a third com- pany, at the head of which is Miss Rosa Rand, lo play this plece through the south, at kichmond this week. —Adelina Patti’s engagement in Paris begins ;Saturday, with “La Traviata.” Nicolini will not sing with her, his absence being stipulated in her chpagemenit, but his place will te filled by thetenor Saville, from Vienna. The bari- tone will be Broget from St. Petersburg, and Vianesi will conduct. Mme. Patti will only sing two nights in each week, Tuesdays and Satur- days. ; —A company has been formed in San Francis- co, under nent of L. E. Granger, to lay “ Among pons,” @ new plore by Ni aia cl ,, and Will shortly come east, own east- ern mani rop is the leading t us — Miss Neilson Ottawa, week in Brooklyn. Monday she appears at the Bee Ce are see has rs a tohis tation, Orange Island, -I bert: Pouisiana.’—John rh acts all cir ed “Dri = u Is pervat w ED Widow Selot The Boston Pingfore Company will rea] im Brookiyn, at the Academy of Music, on Sora rhe. . 8. Chanfrau was in C! at Hai pater, last week, acting “Kit."——G. Williams, in “Our German Senator,” acted at McVicker's Theater, last_week.—Br. Campbell's a! “The Galley Slave” has been, well ye GY week just hb ——Gi Pennsylvania.—Kate was, in Toronto. 7, Raymond 13 on roroptors Ohio, and Maggie Mitchell is 1a Hiesoart~ Hankin and party are in A Valuable Device. ‘The Milwaukee Sun says Mediti has ti vented a device to prevent market-men_ fro1 for fresh ones. The inven- proposes rubber nest of every hen, with a movable 4: ed with indefble ink egg, as is well known, she kicks slightly with her hind leg. An electric disk ts arranged so ‘hat her foot touches it, when the stamp turns and then revolves, » The hen then farmer’s hired the stamp, which m each evening, after the hens have retired to their downy roost, with roosters, the date of the stamp is changed to wing day, and the good work goes on. In this way there can be no cheating. to the grocery and ask for fresh grocery man Says he has some eggs of the vint- age of January 29, 1880, for instance. You look at them, and there are the figures, which can With this method ft fs an object for the aad eggs, knowing that to- the hen laysan the ink =. date on the goes off about her business, irl removes the s ready for another. stamping the man to get. rid of merrow may be too fe. ‘The Weather and Health in Europe. Reporter. } over all Europa this winter, beginning early and lasting with continued severity. MTect health has been trying. of all the large cities show an Increase In the annual death rate quite striking at times. Rome has reached 35 and 40 per 1,000 per year. in Naples a malignant fever bas been prev At the health resorts on and near the i iviera cold r.1us, ght snows and dim) days At Berne, one hospital réecetved Christmas fifty patients suf- tering from severe frost bite. In Paris the } leatlons ior entrance to the hospital ceaber were one thousand a week In ex tke accommodations. Slesta has been friz fully ravagrd by hunger and typhus. as also ireland at one extremity of the continent and ‘Turkey at the other. ly, a Rome dispatch to the Loncon The accounts frem Terra di continue to be terrible. Thi seventeen communes lieted numbers 92,382 pel 840 had been attacked by fever up to the This fever means fam- ical ical has pretatied t on the public The mortality reports have } revatled. in the week be’ 15th of December last. The government ata A Gem of Oratory. {Cumberland Old Democrat,] The scene was the council ch: where so many buds of ger and faded before an unappreciated au: ‘The subject under discussion was whether a cinder Walk should be laid from Ann to Ste- Wart Streets. Mr. Hurley took the floor, and said, Mr. President tht: matter. My constituents in that Section can- not go to church on account of the mud: are Cut off from the res of a cinder walk; they some are Presbyterian: amber, that spot pd is a very important desire to —— chureh; is, Some are Lutherans some Methodists and some are Catholles, but allare voters, and the spring election 18 ap- a man, who works a voter yet but je will vote our at one of our hotels; he will be In the spring, and hi ticket if you give us this cinder walk. tous unanimously. I care not what course others may take, but as forme give me this cinder walk or give me death.” The cinder walk was voted unanimously. ly Groaned. In this country, no ‘matter where, reside two lawyers, ho matter whom. Suttice to sa! lawyers’ are young, genial and lore, and as such are occasionally in criminal cases of small Ume ago, no matter when, professional duties called ‘them before a certain justice of the ice In the county. Qne was to prosecute and The case was conducted ty, and the court, unac- customed to such, beamed with deep admira- tion upon the young lawyers, ‘The time arrived for the prosecuting at- lorney to deliver his speech, and he waxed eloquent on the subject of carrying concealed and made movin; re the other defend. with sk#l and. abil and was happy. appeals in the bly affected the court, who wept muchly, and mentally vowed Vengeance against the culprit. All at once, however, and from some unaccountable cause, its eloquence suddenly ceased. His left leg seemed to be troubling him beyond meast and he affectionately and groaned dismally 100k towards the door, as if he desired earthly things to be on the outside, All at once ‘he mystery was cleared up, An innocent re- volver serenely glided out of the pants leg on the floor. The young attorney was incontinent- the court, who had been revolv- ing in his mind the propriety of sending for all the doctors in the neighborhood, was astonish- ed—wiped his eyes and ahem’d ominously. The attorney was unable te offer any excuse, tly fined him $25 and cost, {1 be more careful. jy floored, and und the court and hereafter 82" Wendell Phill = says thatthe man who Greams of Grant asp! ring to be a dictator wou lave awakened Noah with the ery of *Fire IST OF LETT MANTING IN T. WASHINGTON a Saturday, February Lith, 1880. "To obtain any of these Letters the must call for ‘* Lert! ot called foe wip one month they will be LADL AqAckirs Susan ed eae zio LW Mra: Breath- Mollie, rs. fane; Brown wry Mary Mrs; ‘ Mrs; Mande. Site: Coleman ‘Mildred; Gi Mary. 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