Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1880, Page 2

WONDERS VISIT TO OTTER ISLAND—SOMETHING ABOUT SEALS AND SEA LIONS— MILLIONS 67 SSA BIRDS AND ACBBS OF EGGS—PIRATICAL POX ss. (Correspondence of Tr THE OF ALASKA, (Lat. 57 deg. Sm. north, long. 17) deg.12m. west.) Last Saturday afternoon I made a trip to O«- ter Island. This tsland fs a islet about five miles off from St. Paul's Isiand. iying to the southward and westward. It is in plain sight from this island on bright days, but thick wea- ther often shuts off the view entirely. It is a lonely spot; nobody lives regulariy on the little Isle, but there fs asmall house there in which hunters and fishermen sometimes stay when they visit the place for short periods of time to catch birds. foxes or fish. The tsland is per- a mile long and three quarters of a mile It 13 very bigh on the south side, with bold and precipitous bluffs almost impossible Of ascent; but It slopes off gradually to the north side, where the land level with the sea at the boat lar ud 13 of volcanic orig’ he shore, and seorla { over the face of the land, lovin, the mighty eruption which threw tl the bottora of the sea mic! many years ago. In places cracks and seams in the earth Of these the waters of the oc Like St. Panl and St. Georze, it even though the lattin the climate forbiddiag. There is at of haray grasses and small plas’ deal of moss mingled between, C9 rocks completely, save on the snore Wild flowers, yellow, biue and parp’ Where seen: but mot a tree, busi SEAL STEai The island stands ont Ligh and boid, wit Ceaseless surf beating eteraully agaigst 1% | Tocky sides, Ships do not go near Its shores when they can ayofd tt, becunss yas it ts danger unlawful employ meat. vessel masts were too hight to be con- cealed from the sharp eyes of ihe nr“tve people on St. # Island: they showed sbove even b bint, bebind wuilect ber captain eher. "A boat was sent swiftly to be schooner waa seized, b away from her by o: 1 her seal- 1s island we used a large w provided witp sails, a compass a d manned by 6 Alent oarsman ald a boat steerer. ‘Two boys were also in the boar. cask Of water, some tea and bread, gins and stmmunition, fishhooks and lines, blankets and other necdfal things One of the natives was named Antone, another Ivan. BULL SEALS, MOTHER-SEALS AND PUPS, We carried a | Come along the edge of the cliff above, lookin; | after a sea-iion lying upon the ‘ocks below. land (of St. George), literally fitting the air with their fluttering forms and the rush- ing sound of their swift-beating wings. It tia most wonderful sight and sound. not paralleled by enything else in the bird kingdom, I'm sure. When a ship gets among these countless flocks as they rest upon the surface of the sea, she makes a wonderful commotion, and the vessel almost seems to be plowing her way ‘hrowyh solid fle’ds of birds, a3 through fleids of kelp or seaweed When the female arries are dis- turbed on the cliffs, where they lay thelr eggs (they make no pests, but deposit their eggs oa e rock, and stand up, straddling over | them, while hatching, looking like so many bottles set on end, as ciose as they cia be stowed), itis a marvelous sight to see them take to the wing. Thetr flight mekes a broad | moving sheet of birds, reachirg from the cliffs to the water below. “A person who has also Sera this sight describes it In these words, and | his deseription ts true, for I have often seen the same thing myself: “*As we land, the arries fly from their eggs off ard around for a short distance, and then setde Gown into the sea in platoons or files, swaying hither and thither with the movement of swall anc tide, trailed out over the water like «reat whip- Watch a boat as it approsches one of these swimming phalanxes and alarms it; out the birds surest. half swinwing and half flying, making © oie like a shower of hail stones falling upon a ihe scare spreads from bird to bird, uatil hole vast flock is beating the air with thousand wings in almost vain end: rise from the calm surface: for these birds weather have great ditlicni! ‘They, bowever, succeed well and quickly when heavy sweils or little wavelets lift thom. A call, on he contrary, rises gracefully and easily from'the I once saw an arrie come up ont of the water hear the ship, (for they dive deep and swim long distances under the surface) and the sud- deu appearance of the great vessel towering above the poor little thing's head, frightened it so that tt made frantic efforts to take fight, and broke one of its wings In tue attempt, and lay Nuttering and struggling in the waves. AFTER A SEA-LION. While the Aieuts were gathering eggs I went I spled him among a lot of seals, lying with his head near the water, ready to roll himself off into the sea at the first approach of danger. Advancing cautiously, under cover of the rocks, I got within thirty or forty yards of the levia- than without being discovered; but as the ant- mal lay with bis head close to the rock, I could not see him well enough to fire, except when he raised his huge body, uneastly looking about for the enemy, whom he evidently smelled or hua ‘or to in atill in taking flicht. We pushed off from the Cove Landing p) 4 hear the village, hoisted sail, and were soon out of the Uttle harbor and in the o ea, WIth a | fair wind blowing. We sailed past the long reef, where millions of seals,—Dalls, mother seals and “pups,” or baby seals—were lying upon the rocks {m masses, covering acres an acres of ground, and almost touching each other as they ley or moved. All the while th se, Alling the alr wi big cla bulls roaring : Younger males bawling lke cov ig calves, and the e It young pups “bia-a-t-ting” I lambs. was a wonderful stgut, and the sounds we curious sounds to any one who had never heard before. Besides the countless seais on sands upon thousands were swl. laying in the sea about the shores. ¥ in all sorts of positions and atl tudes—some darting through the water like a flash, some floating upon the surface, some ba!- ancing ou their heads, with thelr tails sileking Out of the water and their filppers waviag in the | air like a girl's fan on a hoi day; otuers twined their bodies about those of their fellows in play, and all seemed to be reveitng in the most per. fect atondom and indulging ta the supremest animal joyousness. Nothing like it in the ant mal kingdom was ever seen, I'm sure. The wind was blowing fresh towards Otter Island, and, filling our sall.—a “mutton-leg’—it sent the graceful boat swiftly through the water. We neared the land, seals and sea-lions were seen on the beach, and myriads of birds on the cliffs or in the air. We hauled down our sali and landed on the rocks. ‘Tue surf was dashing white against them. Antone, Ube steersman, Guided the boat into a lierte bight which had been used for the before, und we Jumped ashore and hau her out of the water to keep the way h dashing her to pleces against the -pointed rocks. ‘Then Antone took bine and crept softly along towards where Monstrous big sea-lion lay dozing near the 3 eds Anfoue kept himself bid behind he was withla tweaty or thirty creat beast, then fired. but without fatal effect. The sea-lion extended bis powerful n where the to do, roti and swam away. i surface to breathe or cast an ‘ds Bis enemies. The native hunter had fired too high, probably, and missed als game. ile 10) crest falien when I asked him. “Ant didn’t you bring down your sea-lion?” Then we took our “traps” out of the boat and carried them up tothe ll te house, a rods away: from these headq' wards brap<bed out and spread over the t The house has tn Ita stove for cou for sleeping, a table or two, som stovls. saelve- anda closet. There are two littl: rocms an twosmall windows. We found coal at haai and drift-wood on the beach near by, an‘ soon had a fire roaring in the st< is ath Was foggy and the day raw avd cota. Som> of the n: $ Went to the cliffs fur eres o'ner commenced shooting birds near tiie house. ‘The birds of Otter Island are ten umes, ves, forty times, ag bumerous as those which Make their jabitat on St. Paul's Island; this ts probably because the high cliffs there are so much better ed to nesting than are the lower ill, they number rast flocks of St. George's Island. There are about these tsiands gulls of two kinds, arries in vast numbers, choochktes, (@ Russian name.) sea-parrots or ns, ks, Crested, horned and white- ; Shags or cormorants. ducks. geese, and several other kinds of birds, which I may tell you something more about. THE WAY THE NATIVES SHOOT THE BIRDS is very simple and interesting. Sitting right down on the bare ground or on a stone, the gunner, with his shotgun fo his hand, walts for the birds to come flying over his head, and When within good shooting distance he fires “on the wing,” bringing déwn his bird nearly every time, which falls at his feet or within a rodortwoof him. Picking the bird up, if it is Bot dead he puts its skull between his teeth and crushes it, so as to put an endto trs itfe. Then he holds the dead bird in one hand above his bead, shaking Its wings to attract other birds cireling about in the alr. and making a low whistle with his mouth. This de generally succeeds With the gnils, which sat! round and round, and poise themselves in air overhead, looking down curiously at the hunter with the bird in his bands Napping tts wlogs. Tae guo- ner ag: eS, bringing down another bird. So the sport goes on for hours, the gunner foading and firing where he sits on the ground, scarcely moving @ red away from hts first po- Sition. In this way he soon gathers a3 many birds as a good-sized boy cancarry. The Aleus with me—three of them only having guas—zou dred birds in the course of a few | @ kill a thousad in here they are bees Ina hive bodies would recovered ) and eggs wita 3 hick as AN ORING EXPEDITION. After this natives started out to the ore eggs. I went with them, carrying ©. One of them used a long pole, vance on the end Itke a pair of ‘aps for picking up the eggs, With d standing on the edge of the Ould reach far down and seize the eggs one from the nests, drawing them up reach of ap attendant, who would put toa basket or Dex. And so the opera- them tion proceeded Ul two large boxes had beea Nited. Ali this time the poor mother birds would be flying about tn distress, crying and re- turning to thelr robbed and empty nests ever and anon. Some of them would stick to their Rests so close that the hunter almost succeeded in Vrwotes the clamps about their necks and picking them up like Another boy pursued a different plan of taking hyp He fastened a long and strong rope about body under the arms, and while a compan- jon, standing on the clit held the other end, he let himseif down the side of the precipice eggs, calling out or palling on the e wanted to be helped up. Tals hazardous feel “ticklish” to be dangling at a rope’s end =, & precipice 300 or 400 er Tope when Ww | | i | work; it no doubt made the boy | and muttering “Sweet on the | every now ‘and then opening his We soon reached the isiand shore. As | Wee Darrow fox trails beaten out in the suspected, though out of sight. I did not dare to move from my place of concealment. lest the Sea-lion should see me and be off before I cox get a“bead” on him. Just then a native boy for me. I motioned to him to walk Carefully along in the direction of the sea-lion, to make him lift himself up above the rock that con- cealed him from ie, and give me a chance to fire. The boy did as I wished, and the sea- lfon’s body very soon projected itself into view as he roused himself to the approaching danger. He was too much alarmed to stay in that piace long, and made for the water without “stand- ing on the order of his going.” _ My oniy chance was to fire at him as he moved; but the shot, if it struck, did not disable him, and he got away into the sea. He kept swimming around ina circie, a little way from the shore, n a dazed Sort of way, with his head abo’ ae capaciou mouth as though he was in pain. Perhaps my shot went into his head or throat. The skin of the sea-lion is so thick and tough that 1t takes & powerful rifle tosend a bullet through it. I used only a smail-caltbered carbine. ‘The Ilon finally disappeared. He must have weighed more than two horses of ordinary size. The natives continued to gather eggs till after 9 o'clock in the evening (it was stili quite light) and then we all went back to the 7oine (house), drank more chy,and went to bed,intending to be up and start for St. Paul's Island at 7 o'clock the next morning. THE RAIDING BLUR FOXES. Before returning to the house, however, I Made the complete circuit of the island, follow- ing the cliff margins, and observing the count- less nesting birds on the rocks below. The chance to do this coutd not be surpassed;I e7uld look right down into the nests of a thousand birds at one time. All along the cliff ge ds sod. $0 often had these wily and persistent eneintes of the birds trod the ground in seareh of egzs and Water-fowl. The boldness and temerity of these lttle blue foxes—the only wild enemy of the bird life on these islands—i3 astonishing. They will dash at a full run from the level ground above right down the face of an almosi perpendicular cliff, snatch eggs from the nests, | or seize the birds sitting on them, and carry them back to the top of the cliff, where they letsurely devour them sitting on the grass. Isaw lots of empty shells and birds’ feathers scattered about. You can almost always see foxes hanging about the cliffs watching chances tosteal eggs or catch birds. They are very bold, and don’t run far away even when a man ap- proaches. They will stand and bark at you, and sometimes follow you, coming up behind you within a few feet even. When chased they run inio thelr heles among the rocks. One of these fellows put himself fn the path Tight before me, and I sho neck. They are wise and threé foxes have been known to drive a young Seal before them to thelr holes, making hin peecnce and at the same time making him furnish his own transportation to the poin" of execution. The next morning. July 4th, was windy, and the sea was too rough for us to ven ture outin our beat. So we had to lay by til 4 O'clock In the aiterncon, when we set out for St. Pau! with our plunder and spoils. The wing as stiil blowing fresh. the waves were pretty high, and the surf roiled over u3 sometimes: but we made the voyage sately in ourstaunch beat, under oars, as the wind was in our face, ) orclock we landed in the cove at St. ul's villege, tired, hungry, cold and wet. (For Tse Evenine Sran. ROCK CREEK. Alone I wandered wild Rock Oreek to-day: But how alone, when Beanty cheered my way, Love, Poetry, and still-sugvestive Art? Indeed, ‘tis not alone, alone to be, Such fairy music winding through the heart, Such ever-changing charms of scenery ! And Memory's mosses, too, from long ago, On all thy rocks, thy trees, luxuriant grow. Here found my boyhood holiday delight, Bambliug thy emerald, flowery, curvii Or up the ¢iant steps of some steep height, shore, Till Robin Hood the greenwood ranged once more! Then Verse here claimed me, Love, with garland chain And Art, whose happy student I remain. SEatos Donono. ‘No. 8 I street northeast. ——~<+2 -____ The Brothers Offenbach. {Vienna Neus Freie Presse. | Jacques Offenbach was followed to Paris in is2 by bis elder brother Jules. Jacques was then twenty-three and Jules twenty-seven. Jac- ques was restless and ambitious, and remained a young man to the end. Jules was sober, medl- tative, indifferent to fame, and an old’man at twenty. Jacques played the ceilo, and soon found himself i the current of Parisian life. Jules played the violin, and kept to his cheap lodgings. Jacques died unexpectediy in the exact /empo of his Character. Three days attér- Ward Jules followed him into eternity, and the newspapers mentioned his name for almost the first time. In iS47 Jacques became leader of the orchestra in the Theater Francaise, and appointed Jules bis first violin and vice-regent. And when dacques founded the Boufes Parisiens in 185s, the elder brother was appointed leader of the orchestra, but proved too obstinate and too ltlie appreciative of Jacques’ wicked music to long rematn tn the position. Such interchanges of sentiment as this would happen at rehearsal: “Too slow, Jules, much too slow! The time ought to be twice as fast! “On the contrary, much “But i bave com d It and ought to know!” “ And I have to tit, and therefore must — better than you! J wasn’t to be managed. If he had been allowed to have his own way, “La Belle He- lene” would have become a lady of deportment, the 0) ta an oratorio,and the cancan a dance suitable to a young ladies’ seminary. after an unusually hot dispute through one act of opera bouffe, the brothers Jules returned to study of German masters, and be came chorister of the Mannerchor “Teutonta.” He bad talent which in Germany would have developed itself. But for Paris he was wantt in the quality of th - =e oan ie jumping-jack, and could slower, if anything!” Very TOUCHING are the idyls of the country schools of Pennsylvania. A boy of twelve, whose ideas are shooting tn the vicinity of Lan- caster, recently evinced his partiality for a schoolmate of the opposite sex by dividing a huge turnip during school hours. Another Jealous very like, teased bim by rolling @iseyes 7" The got apgry and hurled his share the offender’s head. teaci above, any one of which was liable | and to stand there until erwise ordered. to hit him on the head and ak it. I noticed | The girl who had received the other part of the that this boy did not go down with his turnip, hot with indignation and anxious to on OF very far. ~—— Lae share atari ved pr Spee rt “ y cigs! ‘The jealous boy. eae nae once om, fs, y | threw her portion i ae rous on St George's island. The arries are more | flowers from one grave to another in the Ever- nu Than any other variety, the chooch- cemetery &t East New York. She was kies next, perhaps, and the gulls next. While before Justice Gertum yesterday. With the cliffs are literally alive with the nesting | many sobs the girl sald the graveshe wasdecor- birds (aries), the males fill the alr, circling | ating was her mother’s, and that she had no a ES the island in vast flocks, | means of getting flowers for it. A fine of $3 was bd Upon the water in such numbers as to | imposed, which she was assisted to pay, and birds, which take te wings v3 that she would never go again to the cometere Coy and evening, actually make a great dark gu tll she was carried there.—J. F. World, 10th, LETTERS FR THE PEOPLE. Reducing Studies in the Public School se Editor Star: Your forcible and judicious edl- torial comments, some ce, in favor of abolishing ase punishment iu the public schools of t District, have, it is hoj awakened the minds of the Board of School ‘Trustees on this Important subject. It is grati- fying to note that, at the last meeting of the Board of Trustees, a resolution for eprrmn J corporal punishment in the schools was adopted, aud referred to the committee on rules, Let us hope that this barbarism of the past may be speedily consigned to the “dead past,” where It property belongs. {t Will also be observed with sincere pleasure by very many who have an abiding fatth and profound interest tn the success of the public Schools of this District, and a deeper solicitude for the welfare of their children, who are being trained in them, that at the last metting of the Board of Trustees another resolution was adopted, looking towards reducing the number of studies and curtailing the hours of study. I believe that it may be safely asserted that all who have considered the number of different studies now imposed on small children in the public schools, and the length of time they are confined in the close and impure atr of large School buildings, will heartliy agree that the proposed reduction of the number of studlesand the hours of study is a judicious and much- needed reform. A boy in the fifth grade, under the present System of the public schools, will have at least four lessons to study at home, every night or evening, after school {s dismissed. Besides reading, Writing, music, drawing, and perhaps other branches taught during the day at school, he has as regular studies, speliing. intellectual arithmetic, practical arithmetic, geography, grammar (language lesson), and paysiology, end of these, four at least and sometimes five different studies have to be mastered and mem- orized at home dally. Considering the tender years of the average pupil, is bot tbls piling it on rather too thick? Can it be expected that a mere child can digest and assimilate such a Mass of matter, even {f a precocious intellect Thay succeed in memorizing tre severe task? Does it not justly lay the public schools open to the charge of ‘cra! ing,” as preferred by Mr. Charles Francis Adams, jr, and other able writers? Surely a little, well and thoroughly Jearned, 1s infinitely to be preferred to a mass of superiicial cramming. The maxim Lrjere muitum non mutta 1s Done the less wise to-day than when it was enforcef by Horace and Quin- tillan. Referring to the studies above enum- erated, might not the physiology be dropped from the fifth le at least, without detri- ment? With its technical phraseology and terms, it is a very difficult study for small chiid- ren, and the text book in use (Hotze’s First L' sons in Physiology) is very little less simple than Cutter’s Phystology, whicn is used as a text book in the freshman Class of many of our colleges. In the abolition of corporal punish- Mment and the reduction of the number of studies and hours of study, we may hope for a Inaterial improvement in the system of our public schoois, J. RG, Biankets for Fires. Editor Star: ‘This idea suggested itself to me While witnessing a fire in the eastern part of the city a few nights avo, and 1f, according to Your opinion, it 1s worth imparting to others, I Would respectfully ask you to have the same published in your paper. We all know that a Sreat many ives, and also avast amount of Prorerty, have been saved through the use of Wet blankets during conflagrations, and we also know that a great dealot time ts consumed in peur those articles, Now, my idea ts this : yhy couldn’t each one of our fire companies be provided with a suitable number of blankets to be used on occasions of that kind, 80 that ail delay would be saved M. UNPLEASANT IF TRUE. An Old Ti Stanle {Fraser's Magazine. In the middie of the last century the chiet of the Campbells of Inverawe had been given an entertainment at his castle on the banks of the Awe. The party had been broken up and Campbell was left alone. He was roused by a violent knocking at the gate, and was surprised at the appearance of one of his guests, with torn garments and disheveled hair, demanding admission. ‘f have killed a man, and I am pened by enemies. I ch you to let me in. Swear upon your dirk—upon the eruachan or hip where your dirk rests— Swear by Ben Cruachan—that you will not betray me.” Campbell swore, and placed the fugitive in a secret place In the house, Pres- enuy there was a second knocking at the gate. It was a party of nis guests, who said:—“Your cousin Donald has been killed; where Is the Inurderer?” At this announcement Campbell remembered the great oath which he hadswora, gave an evasive answer and sent off the pursu- ers In a wrong direction. He then went to the fugitive and sald, “You have killed my cousin Donald. I can not keep you here.” The Inurderer appealed to his oath, and persuaded Catapbell to let him stay for the night. Campbell did so, and retired to rest. In the visions of Ubat night the b'oodstained Donald appeared to him with these words: “Inverawe, Inverawe, blood has been shed; shield not the murderer.” In the morning Campbell went to his guest, and told him that any further shelter was impossible. He tovuk lim, however, to a cave io Cruachan, and there lefthim. The might again closed in, and Campbell again slept, aud again the blood- stalmed Donald appeared. “Inverawe, Inver- ave, blood has been shed; shield not the mur- derer.” On the morning he went to the cave on the mountain, and the inurderer had f Agatn it he Slept, and again the bloodstained rose before him and said, “laverawe, ©, blood las been shed. We shall not Zain ull we meet at Ticonderoga.” He woke in the morping,and behold ft wasa dream. but the story of the triple apparition remained by him, and be often told it among his kins- men, asking always what the ghost could mean by this mysterious word of their final rendez- vons. there broke out the French and Eog- ie Ghost Story—Dean ‘ells it Over Againe Ib lish war In America, which after many rebuffs ended in the conquest of (uebee by Gen. Wolfe. Campbell, of Inverawe, went out with the Black Watch, the 42d Highland regiment, afterward so famous. There,on the eve of an engags- ment, the General came to the officers and sald: “We had better not tell Campbell the name of the fortress which we are to attack to morrow. itis Ticonderoga. Let us callit Fort George.” ‘The assault tock place in the morning. mp- bell was mortally wounded. He sent for the General. These were his last words: “General, you have deceived me; I have seen Lim again. ‘This is Ticonderoga. The Pope’s Finances. {Condon Telegraph.] We hear from Rome that Cardinal Jacobini has been nominated by the Pope to the post Once held by the astute Antonell! and more re- cently by Cardinal Nina, who, notwithstanding his great learning and varied acqulrements, has been anything but a diplomatic success as Pon- Ulleal Secretary of State. The negotiations be- tween the Vatican and the Radzfvill Palace being for the present at an absolute stand-stiil, dacobini’s services are no longer required at Vienna, where he will be replaced by Vannu- telli, the Papal Nuncio now at Brussels. For Cardinal Nina Is destined the office of Prefect of the Papal Court—a functionary charged with the supervision of the Pontif’s real and per- sonal estates, as well as with the admint tration of his fixed and fluctuating re enues. His Eminence will also preside over a committee of Cardinals snd pre- lates, about to be appointed for the purpose of reorganizing the Peter's pence fund, the pro- ductiveness of which has fatlen off year by year | Sin the death of ius IX. It appears that des- pite the many reductions in his household ex- penditure effected by Leo XIIL, the outlay of the Holy See still amounts to nearly 5,000,000 ire annually, toward which total Papal invest- ments In forelgn stocks, &c., only contribute about a million and a halt. Thus it becomes desirable that the Peter's pence should be made to yield as much as will balance the Pon- Ufical budget, and even a trifle more, where- with by degrees to augment the capital Invested abroad. ‘The Pope silil declines to accept the income—three and a quarter millions of lire— Offered to him by the Italian government, although it has lately been proposed that this Subvention should take the form of a personal contribution to the Peter's we fundon the part of their Majesties the King and Queen of taly. As, however, the deficit in his revenues must be made up somehow, it is expected that astropg bites tothe faithfal will shortly be [pe hcter bet ns Con [Port ae Kd the commit- rred tO, W: e Object of 3 Ing this desideratum! serene Giants in ceping C: . {Council Bluffs Nonpareil. Capt. Bates and hi ie two giants who have been travelling with Cole's circus for Some years, arrived at Council Bluffs on Sat- urday evening last on the delayed Union Pacific train." The tall folks were afraid to risk their prectous ives on the water in order to reach Australia, where the show has gone W exhibit during’ the winter. at this point the large people en; two sections on the Northwestern, opposite each other. The other passengers were curious to know how the giants would manage to sleep in their berths, which are no longer than the average bed, if ag long. ir curiosity was not gratified, however, Tl Until morning, ung rise the rest. - ‘Sets to go from one end of the car tothe other, Four NEGROES were found recently in an Alabama through: meries wi wereto give ‘them at head of a grave, another wee knees at the foot, and ‘the other Mr. Frederick A. Bri New Picture at the Corcoran Gallery. ‘The following ts the artist's description of the subject he bas chosen for fliustration: “The time is that of Rameses II, the Groat. The sacred Buil-Apis was consecrated to the gud Osiris; be was Diack with a white triangular mark on the forehead, another the shape of a crescent on his right side, etc., etc. When the cgyptians su ied in finding this rare aul- mal, they celebrated the anniversaries of his dis- covery with it rejoicings and processions, He is led by a high priest, preceded by the King, Who always acted as high priest when present on great occasions, wearing his helmet and burning incense. The Queen by his side carries the sistrum of bronze, which was probably used a8 the bell is now used in the Catholic service. Dancing girls were present af, festivities of all kipds, | The sacred ark 1s borne by priests, fol- lowed by a scribe and figures bearing emblems.” It is hard to say in what respect this superb Picture is most remarkable,—whether in its learned conception and picturesqe treatmens, or its transpareat shadows. A traveler tells 13 that the scene represents the interior of the temple at Edfou. ‘There are its ponderous columns and colossal walls covered with hiero- | glypbies, and behind the yellow curtain stands | the massive shrine of red granite, dimly revealed | by the altar fire within. Mr. Bridgman was a poral of Gerome, and has brought to his subject 18 Master's accurate knowledge of th Casi oin> costumes and other accessories in the trei ment Of ancient themes, so that over .every feature of his picture breathes old Egypt's wor ‘ship of the perpetuating spirit of nattire, of ne great fertilizing riverand its vommercee, ia th various types and symbols of animals, its sacre ark bearing a ship, and the graceful blending of grain and flowers, Over the pavement of the temple strewn with ig queen lead the procession, the king extend- ing a censer which he feeds. Both are sumptn- ously clad, the king’s priestly character shown inthe long transparent gauze vel! from his waist down. Next comes a burly priest leadin the sacred bull,a magnificent black ant marked with white spots, mostly concealed a crimson cloth, embroidered with various sym- bols, covering his sides. A garland of flowers hangs down over bis vast neck as he soleranly Ppieds along with lowered head, that shows a meek, submissive look, as if conscious of his sacred Character. Behind him follow two dane- ing girls, the further one gracefully waving a palm branch. | ‘The nearer one, the most proml- bent figure of all,is nude except where the broad border of a thin veil of golden tissue floating around the swaying form covers the tps and hangs below, but without concealing the shapely limbs poised on theirtoes. The lett leg is entirely bare, as are also the body and bust, turned backward, as with her raised right arm she strikes the chords of her lyre. Her black hair heavily ornamented falls behind. The warm, glowing color of this lovely figure, and the graceful sway of its finely modeled form, are entirely free from all grossness of treatment. Behind the dancers follows a train of white-robed priests, bearing the sacred ark; then comes the seribe reading ois manuscript, and beyond the prostrate forms ot worentnpers, the vista closing with a gleamof light falling upon other white-robed priests. In the left foreground is a smaller ark with forms of animals on its sides, and surmounted by the figure of a jackal. Near itis a stand of open frsmework, with a spiral wreath of flow- ers, and supporting a vessel crowned with lotus leaves and flowers and heads of wheat, most exquisitely painted. The execution of thts pic- ture combines vigor and variety of character, with thorough drawing and finish, and in that way Cannot fail to be a most serviceable study to our artists and amateurs. Cs NE SURGERY, A Detroit Doctor Who Clips the Ears of Pet Poodles. “Is Dr. Wilkie at home?” asked a representa- live of the Detroit Pos of the neat, bright-eyed little lady who opened the door at No. — Beau- bilan street, in that city. “Mr. Wilkie Is at home,” was the pleasant answer; ‘will you walk in?” The visitor entered a pleasant litule parlor office, where the signs of the canine doctor ‘were prominent in the shape of two stuffed and mounted English tan terriers, of perfect dimen- Stons, with neatly cropped ears and talls. While admiring these combined specimens of nature and art the surgeon for canines entered with a saucy sky-terricr at his heels. He was very pleasant and quite willing to give the modus operandi whereby dogs were curtailed of their fair proportions and the finish of art added to the attrrations of nature. “You must remember that I am not a pro- fessional in one sense of the term,” sald Mr. Wilkie; “this is not the business I follow. I have cut the ears off of more than two hundred dogs and rather pie myself on doing the work thoroughly and humanely, but the most of my pate 1s with dogs of friends, or parties who ear Of me through friends, and come with their dogs ready for the operation.” “Do you charge a fee?” “Not at all; not long ago I cut the ears of a fine little black and tan, and the gentieman who owned him sent me #3, A charge of $1 13 cus- tomiars at livery stables and among protesston- al “What instruments do you use?” A pair of sharp Engligh seizzors were pro- duced froma leather case, They were not un- like a barber's scizzors, and not halt so murder- ous looking as an editor’s shears. Mr. Wilkie then called his obedient skye terrier, who immediately placed himseif at bis master’s feet, his own neatly polnted ears erect and alert. “You take them like this,” making the tips of the two ears meet, “and first make a straight clip of an inch, or half an inch, and then plac: ing the scizzors at the base of the ear you cut in a diagonal line to the top with one clip to each side. It requires some experience to know how close to cut; if it is too near the burr you deaden the sensibility of the ear, and it Will droop, but if cut exactly right it will stand firm and retain its lire. When the two sides of each ear are cut the tops are joined together over the crown of the head by two silk stitches taken through the edges and the silk is then ued. The stitches remain in twenty-four hours; they are then removed and the ears tenderly washed off with warm water and white castile Soap. After that they are oiled every day with a feather dipped in sweet oil. In about two weeks they are well and sound as ever if prop- erly treated.” Bee you any idea where the custom orlgl- nated?” “With fighting dogs, no doubt. All the Eog- Ush bulldogs have their ears cut to prevent the antagonist in a fight chewing them off. It makes the tony dogs look prettier and saucier, 8o it is the fashion for them. The fighting dogs in England do not have their tails cut now, as the owners fancy it hurts ther mettle.” “‘How do the dogs regard the operation?” “They dislike it, naturally, and hold such a grudge against the person ‘who does it, and those who assist, that owners of dogs get’some friend to attend to it for them, or the % logs will not go near them afterward. One lady came here that welghed about two hundred; she had a Uttle dog in her arms that would turn the scale at two pounds. When I cut his ears she shut herself up in the other room and cried like a baby, but he behaved like a Uttle hero. Another tme a gentleman brought a dog, but he wouid not hold it himself, so he Called a strong young fellow in off the street, and he held the dog by the nose while [cut the ears; when I told him to let go the dog fell over dead; he had choked him to death without, knowing it.” “Do you cut their tails off at the same time?” “Yes; one cilp of the selzzors 1s usually enough, Sometime I put the member‘on a block and dock it with a cold chizel. A dog fan- cier as no respect for a dog that has not been clipped, unless he belongs to the hound or Spaniel breed. It ts a diploma of good blood among the sporting fraternity.” eras you only cut the ears and tails of val- uable ” | _ ‘That ‘ts all; the skin of a fine terrier 1s as Soft as silk; the ear is finer than any human ear and full of sensitive nerves. It does not injure them in the least, and improves their appearance 50 per cent. Occasionally some one wants the ears of a a mongrel cut, because he is one of the family, and the children like htm. ‘They put a chain collar on him and fancy he 1s worth his weight in gold. So he is—to them. A Rich Man’s Whims. (London Telegraph.} Some few weeks & well-to-do burgess of Vienna died, leaving the whole of his property away from his natural heirs and to the son of a retired Austrian General with whom he had 7 been personally unacquainted during his life, yy nthe sole ground, Huly set forth in his will, that the Christian name of the BOY eee man in question was identical with When the ipa after proving the will, visited the testator's dwelling, accompanied by a legal official, in order to take possession of the prop- erty bee Venoy ae to him, his attention wa3 first ‘ory of securities. Upon e safe, how- ever, It was found to Ronben noel its correct drawing, its marvellousiy fine color, | oe leaves and lotus flowers, ameses II. and | | able subtlety that t RELIGIOUS NOTES. —The debt of the Third Baptist church, Germantown, Penn., was paid last week through the efforts of’ Mr. Kim! —A Philadelphia publisher recently recetved I aT ea aaa moral tone?” oe opti — In many of the high and grammar schools some portion of tne Bible, and required toshow a general acquaintance with It. — The Church News, published in Baltimore, has changed its name to the Protestant Eptsco- yet Church Nevrs, and increased the number of 18 pages from four to twelve. -~The general convention of the denomination calied Christians was heid tn Loutsville, Ky.. | last Week. They number about 690,000 commu hicants in the United States. Delegates were Present also from England, Canada and Avs tralia, — The Beptist w Aly Femarks with consider- he brethren who have been able to attend political meetings, gaze at toreh- light processions and do considerable shouting besides, cannot consistently plead the risks of bight alr as an excuse for absence from prayer- meetings. —Nobody need be discouraged by the thought that he is of no use. The National Rapist says: “Men who are worthless ehureh for giving, for labor! for helping, Yet. dise frustrate a ing house. — Ap arlicle in the Pittsburg 7 ™m Advo cate upon the disesia ment 6 Epgland sars: ‘Phe end of tt established church of England ist acceptable to the generailty of serious Of What r the good of ute | cuurch and the Roman Ponttfi- cate. we shali never rest in the preseat state of things, nor shall we cease, a3 we have not ceased “hitherto, to reclaim’ what by fraud and deceit has been stripped from the Holy ee.” —‘There is no body of men of equal re- esd and equal heipiessness to the clergy of the Protestant Episcopal ehurch of this land.” said Dr. N. H. Schenck, in the late piscopal convention, and he added: “And be- tween the upper and the nether millstone of bishop on the one band and a vestry on the other hand many a clergyman has been crushed.” —The Christian Union says: “The Presiden- tal excitement 1s not useless; notwithstanding its incidental evils, it is the salvation of the nation, It saves us from the siagnation of in- dividual selfishness; it stirs the whole nation with a cormmon enthusiasm; it broadens, deep- ens, widens. It educates; it turns the whole nation into a debating society; 1t compels men to think who never thought before.” of the Romish priests suggests to the New York Evangelist the desirability of a physical par of candidates for the Protestant ministry. “It some patient reader would search the records of all religious bodies, and then gather the para- grepbs which detall the bre: would be a ‘hospital report’ quite alarming in its extent. Who ever saw a sick Romish priest, that Is, one slender and enfeebled save through age, and unable to respond to the calls to oftici- ate? We may recall one, possibly two or three, invalids ee the officials of that church; but the vast majority of their number are models of vigor. It they carry the matter too far, prefer- rbg an unspiritual but stalwart man toa saint- ler but feeble candidate for orders, we err on the other side, and allow men burdened with the weight of disease to begin the work of the ministry, trusting to the Chance that they may outgrow their dangerous symptoms.” —A correspondent of the Richmond Religions Heraid 13 displeased at two young Baptists, who, when they recently preached for Lutheran clergymen, wore the surplices which were in regular use by those gentlemen. He qaotes what Spurgeon Says on the subject: “I would say, if I might, to young Totnisters, do not preach in gloves, for Cats In mittens catch no mice; don’t curl and oil your hair like dandies, for nobody cares to hear a cOck’s voice; or nobody else will mind you. Forever away With surplices and gowns and all these nurser: doll-dresses—men should put away childlsi things. * * * Besides, where's the good of such finery? Except a duck in pattens, no creature looks more stupid than a Dissentin; preacher in a gown which is of no manner o1 use to him. They must be weak folks indeed they can enjoy his sermon.” of the Episcopal church have as a relief fund only the income of an investment of $13,000, this, said: “A chaplain of the United States army, the peer of any scholar on tulstloor, who, had he remained in the army, would béfve re- ceived a pension when disabled and his widow be pensioned after him, gave up his position with a salary of $2,000 a year to accept the po- #700 a year, and he did this because he believed that he saw the vast fleld opening, and that this work could not be delayed for a day. That brave brother aled suddenly, and the widow of that brother would now suffer for the neces- sarleg of life had 1t not been for the pittance of $100 a year.” There are in the Episcopal church in this country about 3,400 ministers. It 1s easy to see that there is not room for many of them on the list of beneficiaries of this fund. — The Rey. J. Hyatt Smith, who has just been elected to Congress from Brooklyn, where he defeats S, B. Clittenden, has hosts of friends in this city. He was for some years pastor of the Eleventh Baptist Church, on 12th street, where he always gathered large congregations. Some- what over a dozen years ago he went to Brook- lyn, where he has ever since been pastor of the Lee Avenue papust Church, which 13 one of the leading churches in tae Baptist connection. Mr. Smith has never been much ofa politician, butis known as an eloquent preacher, a popular lecturer, a diligent Ss and a gental conver- Sationalist. One of his strong points is his ready wit. His first speech in the Houss will be looked for by his friends with great interest. Mr, Smith trains with the “ open-communion” wing of the Baptist Church, and 1s a lover of liberty in all things. It ts not aire that he will resign the charge of the Lee Avenue Church, but rather that he will go home on Sat- urdays to preach during the session of Congress and return on Monday morning.—Phila. Tins. — Agnosticism, the fashionable term for all manner of religious skepticism, has lately been a theme of discussion by the English bishops. The Archbishop of York in the conclusion of a paper on the subject said: Let us not mistake a momentary disgust at the disputes of religion and at the poor results of metaphysical inquiry for a call to abandon all but material specala- ons. Let us not rail against selence, for the knowledge of the laws of matter 1s valuable to us as far as it goes, and its reach is great. But Science asks too much when it requires the ab- negation of all other knowledge and bellef. To any teacher who demands it we ceo that the nature of man is against it, the history of our race is against it, the aspirations of the race forbid It. You offer a charming vision; all knowledge shall be certain and clear. But when we learn the price—that we are to sacri- fice the largest portion of the domain of con- templation—we decline the bargain, and go cn our own way —The Rev. H. L. Kutehin, pastor of the First Baptist church, in Waupaca, Wis., resigned Jast Sunday after telling his congregation What he really belteved. “I believe,” he said, “that the Old Testament is merely a history and in a great deal of tt there is no need for apy inspiration. I don’t believe God wants us to entirely exercise faith where there is a pos- sibility of knowing. Men are inspired now as well as In Old Testament times. In relation to the Atonement, I believe that Cnrist by his life and teaching {s made unto the world a moral force leading humanity on to the truth, and that all truth centres in Him. I believe in conversion. In relation to future puntshment 1 &m not sure as to its duration and the ulti- mate outcome of it, but Ido believe in some sort of punishment after death. I believe that God will never refuse to listen to a cry of re- ntance that comes froma contrite heart. I eve when sin ceases to be, hell shall be no more. I believe that God is compassionate and loving, and I do not believe in a, hell of mate- Tal R —The Rev. Dr. 8. K. Lothrop, who was Dan- 1 Webster's pastor in Boston for more than th years, says in a recent letter, concerning ts ete to Mr. Webster on the in England the oider pupils are examined in | | Christians, aud 13 not. 1 the masses of the Eng j — The Po © address contains this pass adtil of our duties, — The uniform health and excellent physique | king down incl- | lents Into one mass of statistics,” Itsays, “there | pea \ don’t have your own pretty self in mind at all, | who want a man to dress like a woman before — The aged and poverty-stricken clergymen , Bishop Whipple, in advocating an increase of | sition of a theological teacher with a salary of | THE UNINVITED GUEST. {Bila M. Baker in Harper's Young Peop'e.} on, tight tt f foes, and Bonny. Took. for So Many potat ant nny, look- lug On with interest from is high chair by the fre, remarked, “Full, mamma; ain’t it?” | "Yea, Taddie; ruil as ft can held-—just like our | house.” | “How it spatters and bolls over, mamma!” jouse spatters and boils over with “And our | Us, too, wee one.” | _ Sure enough the Donaid dozen did live insuch a small tenement that it was a puzzie how they | ever could ali get packed into lt at once. But | then early in the morning the father went oat to his work; Alec followed to the shop, Jeaate to | the store, Nickie to sell morning papers, som: to school and some to do errands, ull bouny and the baby would be lett alone with the mi Tr. Then, shutting the door after the iast.sie would say, “Do you see how they all boll away, Bonny?” and she would sing merrily as ste scrubbed, swept, and cooked. She did not sing so often after father Donald fell one day and broke a leg. Nor did she ful the kettle of potatoes as full elther ofer (hat. Mr. Donald lay helpless, and worried about the place he feared he should lose. | “But lve worked for the house till it could not work anywhere else. romise to let me Back again whe 4 ar the vest With an easy mind,” said the sick man, getting fevered and flushed. ad,1 can’t have you fret so,” spoke bis | Wile at last. She took down her bonuet and | shawh “Pi i ask the master myself. I | don't beite refuse a woman, and you such & faithful hand. Bonny ts so gooi he won t be eny trouble to you, and Ill take the bad; £ 0 Bonny climbed up dy the window, and | Watched his mother and the baby “boil away” ike the r Then Bonny played by himself a long W ted to hin. He built a cure tower wilt bls blocks, like the tower he could see shoo lig up above the low roofs. He changed the blocks into street cars, and dragged Ub up and down the windo: . He thumbed his torn pleture-book; he thumped his rag doll. Gettiug Ured of all, he flattened his dear ittte | Soft nose agatast the e, Watching the p tramp, tramplag by on the brick sidewalic | the carts, drays, carriages, that clamp, clamped over the stony street. He liked this, and crooned over to himself, contentedly, tunes that were no tunes, and words that he le up as he weut along. But Ume went on, and sttil his motber did not come. Bonny grew hungry, and crept down to ask papa about Papa was lying quiet and breathing heavily. Bouuy had tatrly | Sung Ms father to sleep. It occurred to Bonny, as he tiptoed back, that there could be no good reason why he should not go and find his mother, or else Jeante. Nickle, or Ted. Jeanle’s old red cape hung in | the corner; quickly he threw 1t over his yellow head, and holding it fast under his chin with one hand, he lifted the latch and stepped forth. | He walked siowly and thoughtfully off in the @irection he had scen bis mother take, with | short, nippir steps, like @ meditative chicka- biddy's. He had not a doubt that he should come to some member of his numerous family before long, but meanwhile he was thinking less of that than of the sights by the way. Tivo boys were racing velocipedes. To Bonny that was a splendid sight, 5 “] wist had a velehorstpede,” he whispered’ with a pensive air. Ou an@ on he piodded, blissfully bewtidered, absorbed iu these enchanting visions, until he | found bimself before a caterer’s show-window, | tempting with crisp loaves of bread, daintily | frosted cakes, and unspeakable cookies, tarts, | jellies, “Oh my! oh my!” cried Bonny, beginning at | last to remember that he was nobody but a lt- Ue hungry boy, “I'm huvgry—I'm so hungry!” | | While he stared with all his longing eyes, he heard these words spoken loudly right by his | Side: “Come on, vhen; we shall be sure of a ood dinner.” Bonny turned round. Two men In tall black hats were striding by, and one, as he spoke, slapped the other on the shoulder. | The invitation was not meant for Bonny at all. | But that did not make any difference to him, He slmply received the idea that if he followed these two men he should get to adinner. So he pressed sturdily after them. He had to walk last, and sometimes he almost lost sight of them in the throng. But Bonny was so hungry by | Uubts time that he was very much in earnest. He | did not stop to watch the people, nor to look into any more shop windows. It was really not | | long before the two tall hats were seen turning up some low, broad steps. | rents The panting Bonny, | ‘, tugging after, followed unnoticed through a wide door into a vast hall, all paved with marble, | | Quite confused and out of breath, Bonny sud- | cenly stood still. Where he had lost sight of the two tall hats and the wearers of them he did not know. ; “Seems ike another out-doors,” the child | thought, looking up at the high ceiling: “but | Where's the dinner? There 1s a dinner; 1 smell _ it; It smelis Seems to me I never did | smell so much dinner in my life.” By this ume he also became aware of a cheer- full Clatter of dishes and voices; and following the sound across the wide hall, he pushed open | @ great door that stood half ajar. Sure enough, | there before him lay table atter table, adorner | with spotiess linen, and — temptngly not only with flowers and its, but with plenty to eat. How should little Bonny know that this was the day when the grand new Metropolis hotel first opened tothe public? How should | he know that here were all the mighty men of city—merchants, editors, ministers evea— with their wives, met together by Invitatloa to celebrate the dedication dinner? You see, the; | bad not invited Bonny; nobody expected hi | So at first nobody noticed bim as he slipp. | noiselessly in. ‘The tables seemed so full of people that Bon- ny had to walk up the room to finda place, A jueer hush fell on the Clatter and the chatter. eople dropped their forks. They watched this | little fgure with the sunny hair, the happy face, the shabby shoes, the turnbled check aprob, that dragged after it the well-nigh for- | gotten red cape, and at last mounting into an | pet ed chair, sald with a sigh of satisfaction, | and in a very clear voice, “I want dinner, | please.” | Bonny glanced around him. He thoug | everybody looked pleased, and catching the Gye of a lady who bent toward him, he smiled back a eal friendly smile. This lady was the first to | speak to him. She crossed eagerly over and | said, “ May I sit besiae you, dear? I knew a lit- | Ue boy once with yeliow hair like yours.” | Bonny never noticed that she had tears in her soft eyes now. “I Uke your hair best,” he answered, half | timidly, haif frankly. The lady’s hatr was very dark, ‘and she wore in it a splendid yellow | flower. “But, please, 1 am so hungry! MayI have ainner?? Before the deny, could answer, a stout gentle- | man came hurrying up. “Well, well, let’s see about this,” he began, in a rollicking tone, “Shake hands, Uttle stranger. Se you came to my dinner, did you?” Bonny dropped bis head. He was rather afraid of the loud-voiced man; but the lady hom he was not afraid of sald, re-assuringly: Phis is the man who ee the dinner, little his is his house; he'll be very good to you, never fear. came, I was hungry, and I came. The host cleared his throat, and id. heartil; expect you, that’s a fact; but we'll give you just as good a Ginner, for ail that, A dinner?—Til Warrant you we will: and upon my word, ladies and gentlemen, I rather think the Metropolis Hotel is honored to have the chance.” Never, never had Bonny imagined such a din- | English and Americ Bonny looked up then, and replied, simply, a | while he patted Bonny’s curls: * Well, I didn't | ner as he ate that day. The who sat by his side cut up the chicken, and helped him choose among the lavish dainties that the host kept insisting on having brought for him to taste. Hungry? It seemed to Bonny that he never tn this world could be hungry in. His innocent heart ran over, and he told his new friend, the lady, all she asked him about his sick father, his Ured mother,the littie tenement that was like the kettle that all botled away, and the big family that crammed it so full when gathered together. But one thing neither the jady nor her husband, who filled Bonny’s pocket With pennies, nor the host, could succeed in finding out from him. This was where the little teuow belonged, and how to return him to his home. Street and number he knew naught about, What was his name? “Bonny Laddie.” “Oh, John.” What kind his father do? “Oh, nothing; Giated with any calling exoayt with Niosion ts ith any exce] iekle’s, as they found by questioning. That Nickie ped- diea and that Bonny when he was er, he was very positive about. i fed the host, “we'll try Se OF ae Gan ade a ae ig by the r when they may! it this brother of ‘his ‘the Jong time round the ‘The company sat for a long Rat cane though he understood little of the speeches the toasts. all eyes were agatn turned oe ‘ieman rose and sali: the dusk, the fog, and the rain drops that began to fall However, be a4 the questions that Laddie had s 7, Abd in @ Very SUOrt Interval a car iare bad Deen sul |. the host had s:owed aw init a iS basket hastily led wi chotce remnants from the feast, and Bnav Laddie was rolling toward his home in char, Of the gentle st T lady and her husbaud Was there ever in the most agitated of ket- es such bubbling and bolling over as ta piace Inside the crowded Donald tenement that hight? Had not they all been breaking their loving. anxtous hearts about Bonuy Laddie, and lo! here he was, safe in the old red 5 smiling and shining as usual, and rather myst: fled at having such a fuss made over him. The stranger lady, promising Bonny (0 com> again. made haste to go away, but before golng She had time to wonder at something she sa, Why did Bonny’s tired but biithe-iooktay mother give the lady's husband such a sad, almgst fearful, look? Why did he seem coi fused, and golog over to the sick man, Say, Will Teconsider Unat matter, John. Test easy?" 1 You may Afterward she understood. When John's mas- ter had that afternoon ecurtly Donald's petition, and let her go away di ointed and distressed, earnest. ple: had copsidered bin! aint of his own 5 own nothing of the clean,crowded household, G nothing of this d laddve who Mrs. ad been taken from BEECHER sTOWwr, ity for “Uacte Tom's and fis The Opportun tabi ne editors goed spect self at tu at t she set up. ins, 1s supe to and. by strix- moment by & tf h critical picturesque expression of publig opinion, may insure a easure Of success asters IM their ge 8 Mrs. Stowe totled Wriling very moral essays and very proper lil. Ne stories, Which no doubt sweetene : a New England spinster oa the chanes rd Beaconsiield, comes in_a lifetime, he was asked to write a epectal javery story” for the National an ado. itionist paper published at Washington. Mrs. Stowe accordingly commenced “1 ncle ‘Tom's Cabin,” which made a decided Lit, though tf was not Ull 1552, when the tale wes published in book form, that Its success began to attala gigantic proportions. In the space of threa Years and a half 213,000 copies were sold In tue United States alone. In England somethings like 200,000 copies were solt {n about the same period.” With . the book was univer- in sally popular; in Am it evoked rather mlogled feelings, and It Is questionable whether Mrs. Stowe woud ave been perfeculy safe in South Carolina toward the close of 15: Uncle Tom has been transiated Into 20 lw guages, Including Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Jay ssian and Welsh. There are li diferent German and four French version The influence of thelwork can searcely be over- estimated. Mrs. Stowe spoke the slave's para- ble in @ manner it had never been spoken bo- fore; all the world lstened, wondered and wept; and this lady was to have the crowning glory of helping to liberate another country beside her own. The present Emperor of Rua- was among the earliest readers of “Uncle m” on this side the AUantic; and the peru sal of the story 1s sald to bave made him tal the resolve that, come what might, he would do his uttermost to root out slavery from his own country. This may be an American legend, butit contains nothing intrinsically improba bie. To these who know the senstilve nature of the Czar, nothing will seem more likely, An Americanized Parisian. ; the daughter of the President, American ways altogether, aud wiil walk and ride alone, much to the horror of the aristocrats, and even republican papers of Parts attack her for infringing on long estab- shed customs, They tell some very amusing ries about the young lady, and the dim: 3tfes she encounters “in carrying out hi Americanism. For instance, no respectabie French woman foes ou the street alone, either a gentieman (relative, of course.) or a Servant must accompany her. A foreigner can de this rule with safety, and every day you me in viris by themselves, bat their nationality is so evident, that it protec's them where a native would be tusulted ri and left. It seems on a number of occas’ that Mile. Grevy, when walking alone, h: bien accosted by her too gallant countrym but, instead of losing her temper or being frightened, she hands them a visiting card to enforce her slatement as to her personatiry, and then begins to barangue them on the beauty and (propriety of wom2n walkt unescorted, and on the folly of a man presi n- ing for that reason that she fs not all si should be .The novelty of this proceeding ts rendered more striiiny because waparalleled In the ang of French history L WASHINGTO! Saturday, November 13, ISSO. §2To obtain any of these Letters the applicant mnet cell for VESTISED LETTERS,” and ¢ive nS s ‘TOF LETT! the date of this list. $2" 1f not calied for within oue month they will be sent to the Dead Letter Oftice. LADIES’ LIST A—Alberts Bertie; Andrews Ce: line W; Austin Elie; Adams Hatti zie; Alexander Mrs: Adamson Mary J; Allans Jenui‘e. B—Brooke Adsms Ow Mav. 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