Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1881, Page 7

Box Pratrep Walsts are the rage. ‘Buap Coi.aks are in great demand. Swrmrep draperies are in high favor. ‘THs new shade of red is called Gil Blas. Sort light woolens are chosen for seaside dresses. Purrep sleeves are a favorite style for thin ‘dresses. Most of the new thin costumes have puffed ‘sleeves. ‘Tue rage for steel ornaments and ombre fab- Fics increases. A Bunce « F FLowsges is pinned on one side of zece parascis. “Tee “mar‘ne” fichu of embroidered mulle 13 | erty. Sept ‘oldered mull shawls are exceed- | ‘ty for summer. “aan oe Lyons 1s superseded for summer | ‘wear by satin merveilleaux. Cuamors mousquetatre gloves for traveling are derigueur at the moment. Corps and tassels form part of the decorativ2 €ffects of most dressy costuthes. Crgam-TraTEo Lacks are abundantly used on satines and Scotch ginghams. JAPANESE D#SIGNS and an art'si’s paleite or- ‘Dament the ne.” cambric parasols. THe hearer the bangs come to the eyebrows ‘the more fashtouable fs the wearer. BLack and white checked silk neck handker- ‘chiefs are worn with traveling sults. ‘THR less cf the neck that 1s seen the prettier does the fac» of a pretty woman look. TLary stuff polonatses are worn over skirts of Ea; adere stripes or brocaded materiais. A CvT-Gta:s globe mounted on a mirror makes a pretty center piece for a dinner table ‘Ths Geasti k CoxceRrT at Lixcoln Hall Tues- day night, was resplendent with spring fash- dos. Ros pk THE and coral shades and anew” Diuish pink are among new colors for evening ‘wear. ‘Tus short capes that fall half way between the shoulder and the elbow are called “Tea Costes.” Sos of the new bonnets are trimmed entirely with flowers, which form the strings and all garniture. Nsw sash ribbons are in 7/t/er or checker Doard designs, baving ombre blocks of two dis- Unet colors. BLACK SATIN CRAYATS ate the correct thing for gentlemen at the theater and at afternoon receptions. USTHETIC dresses In England carry a heavy- hheaded flower, such as a lily, a sunflower, etc., in the hand. TuERe !s an immense demand for large Plalded ginghams, seersuckers and ‘lower bor dered lawns. QUEEN CHARLOTTE CouLARS are particularly favored by young !adies who affect the antique Style of « ress. SHrikRED shoulder capes of Surah, Freach fou- jard, grenadine or musiin are very b2coming to Stender figures. Dovers-racsp Camprics showing one side Diack and the other side gray are much used for lin’ng grenadin: s. VALDENIA is the name of a new trimming composed of lace sewed by hand to the edge of open-Work embroidery. FLOWERS on evening dresses should be massed on the left, since the escort walks usually on the right side. ‘TUCKS OM the lower and upper skirts of- cheviot and flannel sults will be the style for traveling dress this season. Har high shoes, laced, buttoned, or with Open barsover tne instep, will be much worn with garden and house toilets. A NECKLACE from Syria consists of a number Of rude representations of the human hand in Dive glass, ali strung together. Tse Washington merchants report that a good spring trade continues. See their adver- ‘Usements for bargains and novelties. SLEEVES puffed from the armhole to the wrist on some of the sheer muslin and silk ‘Sue dresses for midsummer wear. THS “ifly-of-the-valley” fringe 13 the latest - Boveity in chenille—an effect produced by pres- sure of the strands at regular intervals. A Jdetrgp Cuargav looks wonderfully pretty with a large wreath of pink shaded heath and Shaded ribbon strings of the sam? color. GLACE Or twilled shot Surah In two shades of Color willbe use i to combine with api trim Dgured foular és, dclaines, and challies, A Panis letter says that tron-gray stockings, or those of any shade of gray or beige, can alone be worn tur Walking about tn the streets. _ AN English paper advises old ladies to adopt the fashions for old ladies half a century azo, and not those worn by young girls at the same ume. STYLIsH SUNsHaDgES have “ Aryma” handles Of woven grass or reed exactly like the flae Weaving which covers the exterior of Saqut cups. ‘TUSSORE, @ standard fabric tn Indian silks, is very fashiona%le for walking costumes, and is — with either bayadere or platded Fans Matc# THe Cosrvx#, and are made of the same matertai of thedress. Very often this Gea 1s carried out with regard to the shoes or sandals. Evgnive dresses for young misses are made Princesse style, laced up the back, and are worn high in the neck with a Stuart collar and short sleeves. Very fine silk gauze gloves, as soft ana almost as thin as a spider's web, with buttons for fastenings, are tue fashionable thing for Avs ELBGaNT Pamasor of black satin is lined with old ‘satin, has an Aryma handle, while the outaite is worked witn gold thread in ver- Talcelii pattern. One of the New York papers asserts that “scallopa for the front hair are entirely gone by.” IL ts to be hoped that the patrons of } quince seed and loline will take notice, ‘Tages ts a Mother Hubbard parasol now. ‘The man who gazes on it falls into the condl- tion In which Mother ilubbard found the dog When she returned from buying him a coftin. THE UNLUCKY WOMAN Who wore a green dress Uned and faced with biue at the opening of the ‘Grosvenor gallery appears to have attracted the attention of every art critic and every re- porter present, and the London papers are full ‘Oi remarks about her. = A Loygty Har of white chip has drapery of heliotrope velvet and two long. shaded helto— trope feathers coming from the front and en- circling the crown, the potnts brought together at the back. The brim ts lined with hellotrope | velvet, slightly gathered. ZgrayR MieNon 1s after the gingham order Of fabric and comes fn Uny stripes and cheeks And in plato gray, blue, piuk, brown and black and in a pattern of shaded pink stripeson a French gray ground, whicn will combine nicely With the plain gray grounds. AMONG THE (UBER BONNETS that one sees de- Seribed in the newspapers and 1s grateful to fate for not otherwise bringing to one’s atten- Uon, is a bonnet of very dark green straw wit no trimming but five full blewn and twen ty-flve or thirty buds scattered about on It. ‘THE TERRY COUNTENANCE Is the latest neces- ‘Sity In London. it ts assumed by putting ona Oxed stare, opening the mouth and tp tilting the nose. Anybody who owned it naturally Would be pitied by an artist, but it is the per thing to wear. Toe Modijeska modu- ma is another beauty that has been lately Adopted. ‘THE gracefulvisé > of Surah or cashmere has but one rival in we fleld as*an early summer ‘Wrap, and will continue to be a favorite unt the very warm weather shall call for a lighter | Outside garment. The other fashionable man- is the Girecto’re, we'ch 1s usually trimmed sn cistorate Mmanher with jetted lace and Sma Gowns of white and tinted India ‘mull and fine Frenen cambric are now exhioit- | ed. The newest styles are called “ Recamier robes.” Trey are shirred and ‘ed and lavishly ‘trimmed with yards of exquisite lace and be- bm Bp ot hed — an to suite too cousummately lover ne, anything For StwrLe Daegsses, preference 13 given abroad to nun'’s cloth, elther plain or satin. striped; and to avold the formality of rerpen- Gicular or horizontal lines the fabric 1s cut on Ds Whilst a scarf of soft-stri silk encircles ths ‘Dips and forms at the back two large loops and = apa _—_ = at cornion a waist, m the plain bodice is arranged a fichu drapery Of the same soft silk. . AMONG the latest parasols are those of momie cloth, matching the morning dresses of that fabric, another has a beaded embrolaery mid- way between the ferrule and the edges, and a third one bas the embroidery at and Close to the edges. These parasols have twelve a pe vi ty el iy wi Claw, ana gilt balls, tortoise shel, nana, pl- mento, tr on cca, and bamboo a ; Dlood for two feet of | containing both the charge | and ignited at first by the pin and afterward fonal Sport of the Sister — nnd ive Popularity. \Oorrespondence St Lou's Globe-Democrat,} ‘The leader of the cuadrilla, the great Ponci- ano Diaz, steps forward, gleaming in satin and silver, with a scarlet banner in one hand and a straight sword in the other. He 13a handsome, athletic young fellow of 27, with vrigt@eyes and gleaming white teeth and his jat biack hair ted up in a yr He waves his banner at the which charges at him; another wave and another charge, but as the bull rushes by he takes a downward thrust trom quick that the eye can scarcely follow it, but we see the sword red with its length. Diaz turns away carelessly without, looking at his victim. He Knows that thrust went to the bulls heart and the bull knows it. He stands still. humps up nis back, bi shs in a helple:s way, falls on his knees, Sinks to the ground. A butcher steps up. plunges a short knife ito the spinal cord and the bull is dead. The band eget @ lively air, three jet-black mules with n¢ jag plumes and hitched abreast are driven 1D, and they drag out the carcass with a clown sitting on its ribs. Five fine bulls were killed that after- noon, with but little to vary the program. ‘The most attractive variation was waen Diaz came out on horseback, riding baredack a Dcautiful black borse, which he galloped by the bull at fall speed, and aa he passed, before the ciumsy brute could reach him, he leaneiover and planted bis banderiilos with unerring ac- curacy in the bvll’s neck, It was a magniticent seat and Geserved the applause it received Abothber one of the band stood in front of the bull with a lance, and when tha bull charged he rant him instead of away trom bim, aad irylng a little pole vaulting cleared the animai ata boned. Ail of the bails tried to jamp over «be barriers, but In vain; all of them tried to vatt down ‘the ehelters which were placed at equal distances around the ring, and behind which the torment-r3s retired when hard pressed. Once a bull got his horns caught 1o she thick leather armor of a horse and re- snained a helpless prisoner. A las3ador threw bis Jasso over the horse’s head, and, galloping away, jerked the horse ten feet away with the Sudden vigor of a country dentist pulling out aback tooth. Hats were thrown into the riog in recognition of special feats of pluck and daring, and the 6 0) spectators evidently en- joyed and appreciated the cruel sport, and it is very popular. Even those who condemn it enjoy It. frany: of the young swells around us had tried their hands at it tn the court- yards of haciendes: one of them showed mea souvenir of a buil’s hornin the shape ot a sear on his hand; another said he was in favor of shutting up the pulque shops and opening the bull-fights. It is rovince to Larrate and not to moralize, but if I were disposed to moralize I might perhaps believe that the best wy to cure the evil is to educate the pe ple out of It, not to legislate them out of it. The Lay of the Poke. {Kanass City Times.) Ethel De Lancey reicned a aneen ‘Of highest social station ; She set the fashions. and, I ween, She set her jealous sisters wreea With euyions perturbation. Lance ad # beau, Herbert Fitzherbert Levereux; ‘Ho! hot A beau. Early in Lent this belle bespoke A dazzling Easter bonnet, And, as the sesson’ zl She hastened to the gi. “He! het Quoth she. ‘The pains ebe took that poke to preas _And shape it to her fancy No inexperienced man couiid guess. Bhe sat upon it more or less, This cunning wiss Dv Laucey, And hammered it for many a day, And slept in it, her parc ate aay; One morn she strolled, a3 wel! she mizht, Without the least omy anction, To paralize the scx on si:cht, ; Andall ‘*our set, you ow," to smite From Fifth street to the junction ; ‘The ladies sizh, the horecs # The gaming in’the cutte. cu i They cry. Under the old ancestral onk hat evening, calia and pleasant, Fat Ethel, on herhead thr poke. A strong, suspicious smei! of smoke claims Fitzherbert pceseut. Around her waist his arm he threw, That awful poke shuts oui the view; “Hen! heu” Bhe too. Farewell their little dream of bliss, ‘The silken cord is parted : The cruel poke forbids the ktss. “O, Ethel, has it come to tuis? 1 perish broken hearted!” Ana Ethe! sh. icks, “I die, Papa: See us interred with wreat eclat!™ “*Ha! ha! The Growth of the Gua. Hunting for game was practised with- bow and arrow only, until in the sixteenth cea- tury the Spaniards contrived the arauebus or matchiock. Here the match was fi.ted to a “serpentin” or cock, hung upon a ptvoc, aad brought into contact with the priming’ by a Working substantially the same as that of the modern hammer and triggor. Tnis was further Improved by the German invention of @ steel wheel with serrated edz, ftted to a Spring, and made to revolve rapidly, ae. edge cem‘bg in contact with a plecs of pyritts, and by this friction ooasite. the sparks to igaite the priming. The use of the wheel-lock for Sporting purposes was very general in the middie of the sixteenth century, and for a long Ume was not improved upon. But necesstty 1s the mother of tnvention. A band of Dutch chicken stealers or of Spanish marauders—it 1s disputed which—being too r tO provide themselves with the high priced wheelock, and afraid to use the maten- jock because its light revealea their whera- abouts to the minions of the law, abstained from their evil practices long enough to de- vise a Weapon better adapted to the need3of Toost robbers. The result was the flint lock; and the pot-hunting frateralty scored a long credit mark. The sportsmen of our grand- fathers’ generation owed the mechanism of their guns toa band of poultry thieves; there 1s yet hope for the colored brother. The flint-lock reached its perfection in the hands of “that king of gun makers,” Joseph Manton, in the early part of the present cen- tury, and It give way only to a worthy superior in the modern gun exploded by percussion. The discovery of fulminating powders and thelr application to gunnery mark a most im- Portant epoch in the manufacture and employ- mentof firearms. The charge in the gun was at rst placed above the fulminating powder which was ignited by the concussioa of an iron plunger struck by a cock. Then -this Plunger was dispensed with, and the fulminate Was simply placed in the flash pan. Tne suc- cessive steps are familiar to almost all gunners: the priming was placed between two bits of paper and called percussion pellets; the tulmi- nate was affixed Lo the breech of the newly in- vented cartridge and {lred by a penetrating needle; then came the copper cap; and then the culminating improvement of the cartridge and the priming, rim fire and central-tire principle.—Porest and Stream, Mosquitos in Burmah. The Burmah varietles of mosquitos are num- erous, and all eagerly thirst after human or animal bicod. Elephants and buffalo3 suffer from their attacks almost as much a3 human beings, but protect themselves in a measure by wallowing in mud or covering thelr bodies with mud and dust. At night, wnen cattle are Ued up, the Burman cultivator usually makes a fire of green wood; and the smoke to a cer- tain extent protects the animals from the at- tacks of Insects. At Maoobeng, which has the Teputation of being the most mosquite-hauated Station of British Burmah, the European rest- Cents, after 4 p. m., have to resort to mosquito Tooms—large frames covered over with net— and thus paes their time as beat they can uatil the following morning. {n some parca of the Bassetn district humane owners of cattle and E have mosquito curtains even for their ts. The Irrawadi river, on which Rag- goon, the chief town of the province, is bull Js also celebrated for the large ‘size of its mos- quitos —< the geod of a bite, eo eaters opposite Rangoon, they Particul ; aba residents here are mostly provided with mosquito rooms similar to those used in Maoo- Deng. There was a story current at the last Burmese war that a sallor on board one of Her Majesty’s vessels lying in theriver doliber- ‘ately Jumped overboard to escape the torments which he suffered from those tlny pests.— Chambers’s Journal. The Grand Duke Constantine. GLondon Globe J An anecdote, which the indefatigable Schnitz- ler has rescued trom oblivion,gives us a glimpse into this prince’s early ambitions, and is of curious interest, now that he has fallen 80 severely under Sure, and that all St. Petersburg ts wpe speculatit on the extent of ‘his comp! schemes of hig son. ‘The Gratoenie eee mad (the late Czar) was Dewalling moe his a ee ae Ay great people,” he muttered, hait B But the sentiment caught the ear rai a Couranting tena to wi and wi : “It that 18 all that botlers you my brother, say the word and I will relieve you of suo ube hr bauer ae oe a gi P te our responsibilities, was then oaly in his (Harper's Bazar.) The first warm breath of spring—or rather of summer, for it has been aptly observed that We have no such season as spring—brings out in us that nomad spirit which leads all the children of a forced civilization back to the Woods. The Indian is coming out of the ground; we are the red man for the moment, and take Sor who has a villa near the city, and who either lives there all the year round, or who yoes out early, invites her city friends to a garden party, Specifying train, boat, and carriage (or the route by the latter), and receives her guests from four to seven or eight, as the case may be, Ladies drive out in pretty costumes designed for the occasion, geuerally in short dresses, with gay oe or the round hat and feathers now so fashionable, and with the most dressy of parasols, a fan hung on the arm, and a gen- erally Amazonian or Watteauish appearance. If Amazonian, one may be sure that the fair athlete intends to play lawn tennts or croquet, to row on the adjacent river, or to try the bow and arrow on the archery ground. If Wat- teauish, her game is still deeper; she intends to sit under a tree, or to pose gracefully on a bank, the cynosure of neighboring eyes, or elge to retreat to the grove with one attendant cavaller for a tete-a-tete. Some givers of gar- den parties have a band in attendance, and Suggest dancing. The effect of music is charm- ing, but the dancing on the dry, uneven grasa of an American lawn is not always azreeable to the dancer. It a board platform ts laid (a3 at the once famous picnic grouad at aii co) the effect is very good. Lawn tennis is the favorite out-of-door amusement at the modera garden party, and the players, if well ag- quain ted and sufficiently neac to each other to form aciub, are sure to have dresses, aprons and vadges of “rival broidery.” which mark their different sides. Harper's Bazgr has been explicit in its explanations of tni¢’ beauttful, lively game, and the dresses which are appro- ridte to it. Let them be short and loose avoat e waist and arms, by all means. Every lawn should boasta lawa tennis net, ani a well- sodded turf to playon. It is amuch more healthful game than croquet, and exercises the whole figure more beneficially. Bat a garden party is for the elderly as well as for the young. The papas and ‘mammas, elder sisters, quiet girls, and the lazy of all agc8, like to sit on the broad piazza and survey the animated scene. For some who are ultra- lazy hammoeks are hung under the trees, Refreshments are spread either in the house or in tents under the trees. They are generaily eaten, however, out of doors, whether they hail, from a sideboard or not. Lobster and chicken’ salad, croquets, potato salad, cold chicken, sandwiches, ice cream and strawberries are the favorite refections. Champagne, iced tea, punch and sherry are offered, and occasionally frozen coffee—a very agreeable refreshment. Lemonade is on tap somewhere In the grounds. ‘The lady of the hous? generally receives In a dressy bonnet or round hat, ag she ts expected to be on the lawn nearly allthe time. It is better, In our changeful climate, to have the buflet spread in the house, as a shower of rain | ds sure to drive Le 9a in-doors and to ruin the i been Spread out@ide, It isan anchor to wind- at waid. Yechting ts another very favorite amuse- Ment, and the luxury of the modern fittiag up leaves alm%st not to be desired. There are yery i: ¥ more beautiful salons in Ne York than uiose on the modern yachts. A | gentleman asks a lady to matronize, and then seiects the young ladies and ge ere to form Lis party, | 18 not considered too 1 tiemen wio A sail of twely) hours long. Lunch is se-ved on doard. Those who are ilable to seasicknes3 ; should never accept these invitations, as they ‘spoil the pleasure of otners, Yourg Isdies have a variety of yachting co3- fumes, but they are almost always made of fannel, belted dowa in biouse form, and a round hat 1s worn carefully fastened. Sailing parties cn fresh water form another branch ot Mmarit'me pleasare-seeking, and Ssning 1s added to the other excitements of this delight- inl way of killing time. Fishing, fortunately, 1g @ universal recreation, and cad be pursued anywere on lake, streata, or o¢ean. All that it requires {3 a fish hcok and ifne and phlioso- phy. On some peopie’s worm3 and tes fish ‘will never fasten. ‘The luck of the thiug 13 tts eepectal attraction. Vienics, from the basket of bread and cheese teken upon the hiil-side, to the tnree weeks’ scjourn in the Adirondacks, are of co irse among the best of all summer amusemeats, and Io @ country so wild as ours they are espe- Clay enchanting, as the botanist, the forn- lover, the ornithologist, and the entomolozist can each pursue his favorite pleasure as he watders through the woods. Few people but are bercfited by a day 1n the open a'r. Nature ever fatlsin her program; sue always gives us more sights and sounds ‘than she promle7a, It is a cheery spectacle at a watering-place to see a” group of young giris in stout snoes and strong plain dresses, with tin boxes iu their hands, and gord serviceable buts on thr heaas, going off for a ramble in the woods. Of the m@nster picnic we have not so agreeavle @ remembrance, but to thcs? who like them they are certainly to be commenied. Her:eback-rid:ng 18 Low a very fashionable Summer recreauion, and we have alread, alig- deu to the Lunting manta in a p. a3 Lun. ber of the Bazar. A young laJy suou'd learn to sit square upon the saduie, acd t9 rae with @ light nand on the reiu; sli's ioul4 also iearn tobe independent of tte s’ p—Hever (0 be dependent or her foot. Her tight touca on | the month @ thoroughbred conirais niu bet- ter than aby forex. ‘The modern hadt« Is made Very thort, just to cover the foot. AS ail Young ladies now Wear & neat boot and pantai ons under the habit, there 1s no fear of any uxv0=6, and the terrible danger of the long hab t 13 avoided. The catcalug of the habit la a; 33- ing wheel 1}: .3 led to dreadfut accidents No young lady without excellent nerve sioul. try to ride, as hervousness, a scream, or a 1033 of Self-possession is almost sure to frighten the horse, and to lead to accidents. Tae curd bit, the pommels, the stirrup, are but adjuncts wo Safety; the principal rellancs mit ve oa the Tider’s own self. Archery, that graceful remnant of the fable of Diana, is so far on tne high-road toward be- ing fasbionable that a meeting of the Grand National Archery Association of the united States was hel‘ lately in Brookiyn, and a na- tonal tournam. at arranged for the ith ot July next. There are clubs in 21 states, Including California, The Archery Club meet at the Pros- pect Park grounds. Gentlemen shoot at double ees. ladies at single ends, 36 arrows at 68 yards. The club hasa foundation of $1,000, to be raised to $3,000, and 509 members. Toe bows abd arrows can be bought at the places where lawn tennis outfits are purchased, s0 we may definitely hope that the game of Kobin Hood and Maid Marian, the prettiest of all out-door sports, may be one of our familtar belongings, The going to the races has been since the days of Horace a very tamiliar and favorite Pastime. “Some love to gather the Olympian dust,” says the elegant oman in one or biz odes, The New York : .ces at our beautiful Jerome Park are in y sense fashionable, sey, abd delightful ‘ue equtpages, the well- ressed women, the j-esh green and the per- fume of lilacs, the urderly crowd, and the splendid horse, all n1ke this a summer pastime of the best. The givat admirers of horses fol- low the races about from one watering place to another, and are sure to find a crowd anda very arecable excitement wherever the races are. About New York the lovers of racing have ‘the privilege also of driving through the beau- Uful Brookiyn park to the race-course at Coney island, breathing that flne sea air, dining after- Ward at the Brighton or the Manhattan, and then returning to the city by moonlight—a day of perfect enjoyment. the races are now conducted, betting being forbidden by law at derome Park, and the horses having no great ‘Work to do, but allowed short heats, it is thought by the humane to be shorn of almost all the hurtful practices which once made racing 80 obnoxious to the thoughtful. It 13 merely an excuse for a picnic to most of those who attend the ladies’ meetings. Walking parties are now amongst the sum- Maer diversions practiced at the White aad Green Moustains, and at the smaller sea-side resorts, There is no more healthful thing for young ladies, if not carried too far, but there 1s danger in excess in everything; too much bath- lng, Swimming, borseback-riding, walking, or skating 1s Woree than too little. Bathing and swimming of course come in at the sea-side pl | Madd a Every woman shouid leara to swim. t is & very easy thing to save one’s life afver having learnédto swim—an almost Impossible feat in the water before having learned that simple accomplishment, At Newport last sum- mer @ young married pair went out into deep Water in their own yacht every day, took ‘a header” into the Atlantic amongst the por- endcanionn a halt-hour’s swi Biistolel ul nnrtind ace Cas TI from the sea”—this familiari ‘witiy which our modern Venuses lay their ate hands on the mane Of the sea-monster, and tame him 10 their ‘We can not follow ail the who are at the ate Mousa a3 amongst the summer, - jj f é perfection Care = ‘oung Fish. to those who are determined not to be pieased. {Gentieman’s Magazine } ; Seth Green makes following reply to orscbacr Haig. GHving. Nshing safder sae: | Passing on to the materials out of wnten our | Pusey inquiries made of kim by correspond. tes, dinners, and moon- | surnames have made, we must set in the > Het TPA gaianet, eat, arts | St lace tae namer of Yownm unger and | qf MB STAUB ated he umn oy ma ‘Under the feudal Jan ‘Detter yuild a tank or and keep lawn, It does seem as if 'a person of contented Seanicns nusurniie not do tod fy! gave names to their owners, ung them large! ‘mind could get through oné summer, wile at markets and other pubite g ey shame, them In the waters to'be laces Dearing same yLism: y bdenet Interested, A Talk About Bows and Arrows. | names were often distin by Senne ye oo poe sige mgt = is niet {Dr. Carver in Forest and Streant 5 ee Sea ey eee Tioed & Res & yoke aac svtachod to & which, Cae aa Rasrver, a8 he deposited & | from city vo elty, associated by new heigntors | #2,70Ul And salmon families, lasts, about forty whole sheath of brightly feathered arrows on | with the places they had traveled from, came | state hatchery we care for the young fry until a table, took off his umbrageous felt, and drew by the names of those places, ‘Uhe sac is absorbed,"and then they are Ay to up a chair, “I must be shooting something or | |,With Cognomens drawn from names of | be deposited, and the sooner the better. Walle M 1g | Places are to be ranked those created by the | the sac is on them they do not require f 3 other all the time. If it isn’t a Winchester, situation or ciroumstances of dwellings, The | put atter this is gone they need something to a bow and arrow. l'retty, they are. But most | jutting cliffs, the alry heath, the sheltering sustain them fod. apd They can take care too fine! Fancy thing, these arrows, for hand- | oak, ash or elm, the “brook that pabbied by,” | of themselves much better than any one can some young ladies to shoot on grass plats at | the waysde crucifix, the rustic grange, or ford, | take care of them, and especially an experi- straw targets. pall i Indian eater o eae eee = and zany wes are vers enced hand. I have known of many instances I T—m: inches—and names—vi in a hun¢ . tried es mock. Up to the bow it fairly hums | ways as thelr special characteristics differea— | Sere. Bey care to tethers the oats draws it cl when he lets Itfly. An Indian arrow Meg ebay cut in behind the baro—that is to say, the ones they use in hunting—gso that the blood can flow, otherwise the wound would spoil and swell. ‘The fighting arrows are nasty thi The barb ig 80 put on the shaft that when It hits you the steel, the Old hoop iron, stays in the flesh when you go to pull out the arrow. Daar sakes, what ugly woundsI have seen them make! An Indian boy begins to handle a light Dow when he toddles, maybe at four or five years, His bow ts taller than he is. He shoois at almost anything around the camp. When he !s 12 he uses sharp arrows, A boy must bs strong at 18 to use a man’s bow. Now. a white man who takes an Indian bow for the first time has all he can do to bend it. Ib wants some strength, but more knack. The bow is made straight. When tt 13 strung the cord, evea when in tension, almost touches the bow. If is thick, some four and a half to five feet lonz— that is, their huntiog bow—and has extra stiff- ness by having stnews pasted on ft, I have seen We-shessa-has-ka—that 1s the Long Maa— and he was the best of the Ogalalia Stoax. Kill an antelope with his arrows .at 125 measured yards. We-shessa-has-ka was nearly seven feet tal, and a good Indlan. On horse back, broadside to a buffalo, I have more that once known that Indian to send an arrow through a big cow. ‘The arrow huag out on the other side. ‘The dow for horseback and for War 18 a trifle shorter, and may be stiffer, Yoa do not draw the arrow to tne eye, but catch aim as I do when shooting from the hip. That can be acquired only by long practice. The string Is drawn by the clutch of the whole fingers, though some of the tribes usa the thumb and three fingers. The long man could shoot an arrow in thealrout of sight, and 80 can I (the doctor pointed to an arrow buried up to the feathers in the celling of our offize, nis own peculiar ornamentation of the Forest and Stream sanctom). I think that in a couple of months { could get into perfect practic2, for I used to hold my own with any Indlan on the plains. Sometimes, atter I had been shooting with my Winchester, an Indian would coma up and show his bow, and tell me his bow was ‘muchee ;’ but then I used to take his own ‘bow and beathim at it. “To pass away the time when I was at the Breoklyn driving are I bought an Eaglish bow and arrows of Holberton, and soon got into the trick of it. I hit blocks of wood throwa into the air quite as often as I missed them. The Engilsh bows and arrows are fancy, but good. J would rather have an old Sioux one, made of hickory or ash, but the bo3s bow I ever owned was made of buffalo ribs. An In- dian carries bis quiver of arrows over his right shoulder, so that he can get his arrows quickly. When he has discharged one arrow, with the Same raotton that he uses in puiling the string he clutches another arrow, If he shoots 100 yards he has three or four arrows in the alr all golng at the same time. It’s great fun shoowng ata bird witha long tall that files over the prairie. Knock out his tall and his steering apparatus Is gone. I have knocked the tail out of many a one. and so caught him in my hands when he tumbled.” Degradation of the Rody. About six hundred years before the beginning of our chronological era, a speculative philoso- pher of northern Hindostan set about to inves- Ugate the origin of the sutterlags which so often make human life a burden instead of a blessing; and, falling to trace these allitctions to any avoidable cause, he took it 1ato his head that terrestrial existence itself must be an evil, and conceived the unhappy idea of eopine @ cru- Sade against the love ot earth and the rights of the human body, as distinct trom a supposed preternatural part of our being. His success haa been, beyond compare, the greatest calamity ‘that ever befell the human race since the days Of the traditional deluge; not only that the doctrines of Gautama bore thelr fruit in the utter physical degeneration of his native country and the populous empires of Eastera Asia, but, seven centuries after, the essential a ines of Buddhism, intensified by an ad- mixture of Gnostic demonism and Hebrew my- | thology, were preached upon the shores of the Mediterranean, and 1ovaded the paradise of the Aryan nations, A mania of seif-torture and miracle-worship broke out like a mental ept- demic, and, at the very tlme waen the influ- ence of Grecian civilization began to wane, the new creed spread into [1aly, and tae friends of stiency and freedom were con- fronted with the fearful danger of an anu- natural religion, What that danger meant our liberated age can hardiy realize unless we review the fate of those nations to whom galvation came too late; on whose destiny t curse of that superstition has bean wroug! out to the bitter end. Tue attempt w carry the theorles of the Hebrew fanatics into prac- Uce led to a state of affairs against which the unpossessed pare Of taaukind had to combine in Sheer self-defence; the maniacs were overpow- red, but only after a struggle watch has tram pled the chief battle flelds Into dust, and not before they bad turned the Mailterraue:n god garden into such a pandemontum of madness, tyranny and wretchedness, that the lot of the African savage appeared hav°n in comparison, The annals of pagan de3pot.sm furnished no Parallel to the pages Staimei with blood and tears that record the horrors of the inquislto- rial butcheries and man-hunts of the middle ages—Dr. F, Le Ostcald, in Popular Scene Monthly, Misled by a Pattern. (Brookiyn Eagie] _ “Is there any truth in this story that Mr. Garfleld has killed Senator Conkling 2” inquired Mrs. Spoopendyke, fitting the sleeve into the armhole and running in the basting. “No!” ejaculated Mr. Spoopendyke, “Where'd he get that? Mr. Conkling tias resigned, but e ain’t dead.” “Tread that he had got into some difizulty With Mr. Garfield, and Mr. Garfleld had dragged him al! around by the ear, and finally they nad to take Mr. Conkling away to save his life, though he died atterward.” “Who sald so?” demanded Mr. Spoopendyke, “Where'd you read anything like that ? “I read iton a pattern that Mrs. Wiaterbo- tham loaved me for an overskirt. I’m sure it’s 50,” replied Mrs. Spoopendyke. “Get the pattern,” said Mr. Spoopendyke, “Show it to met” Mrs. Spoopendyke unroiled the pattern and commenced to read: “«*The complications at’ Washlagton have as- Sumed the most exciting shape. To-day the troubles between Gartield and Conkling cul- minated by Conkling seizing him by the throat and holding on while the crowd yelled with gouees. Twenty to one was offered, but Gar- field rematns firma and declares that. the admin- istration will not yield. This position aroused the crowd to frenzy. Its sald that Conkling Yeally desires to :<t{ra to private Ilfe, but that planted his adversary’s ear and diagged im around until the friends of Conkling were compelled to interfere to save the Hye Uning’s fe, He was taken home, but died in afew minutes.’ There!” said Mrs. Spoopendyke, trlumpnantly. ‘I told you 30.” “Show me!” said Mr. Spoopendyke, jumpin: up and seizing the pattera. “Where d’ye fin ce dod gasted nonsense as that? Where is “There, it begins under the rufie, then it Tuns over on the band and down on the gore, and ends here on the plajting. I knew I’dseen it,” and Mrs. Spoopendyke smiled pleasantly. ‘What's the matter with you, you maasly idiot?” howled Mr. Spooyendyke. is Where you get your polftical information, 13 1t? ‘This the source of your intelligence on national affairs? All you want is two more patterns and a bald head to be a constitutional lawyer! ‘Three overskirts and a pair of tacies would Make you a supreme court j 1 What d’ye ‘think this is?” Isn't ft right?” faltered Mra. Spoopendyke. “Did you read from the ruffle over to the band and down to the gore —” “Yes, I ald, didn’t 12” squeaked Mr. Spoo- ndyke, “and go did you, dlan’s you? Dy you ow what you've got here?’ Ge Isn't it a pat——” Pattern—I mean the print! Garfield, parc about Conk- dog fight out on Long Ww? Think you can. understand it, now I’ve explained 1tto you? Ob! youcan! You’vegot brains! Syme day 1'm going to run a pipe in your ear, and starc & phosphorous factory !” and Mr. Spoopendyke ee oa of the room, leaving it strewn with attern duse. “‘T don’t care,” sobbed Mrs. Spoopendyke, ‘1t Tead all right, and the skirt fitted so nicely that I sy were put together straight. ao it was so perfectly natural any- Garfield an ‘tors to the inhabitants of houses placed near or amidst them; and like others, these names ba- came hereditary. The Atweits, the Brookers, the Bygroves, the Gombses, the Greens, the Moores, the Nashes, the Redctijfs, the Rudmnans, and mapy othera among us to-day owe their family denominations to the source we refer to. occupations and offices hava, ag everyone knows, given family names to large numbers, The ‘familar Smith 13 the most Prominent example of the trad>names. Tue Registrar-Genera: has shown by his figures that it is what it would be expected to be. the commonest surnamein Eoglandand Wales; and Tavior, a kindred cognomen, stands fourth io pone of frequency. Tne thatcher who sheltered our fathers from the storm; the flesher who fed them; the crowder who fliiled for their entertainment; the showler who cov- ered them tu their last earthly resting-place— each has bequeathed the name that his calling gave him to descendants who are amidst us to-day, for any London directory will dlsclos: Thackrays, Fletchers, Crowthers and Suovellers Some surnames of the occupation class, as Qookson, Htidson, Serardson and Wrigh?son, indicate that thelr first bearers were Gistinguished. not by their own trades or callings, but by those of their fathers. Baptismal or personal names constitute a third great fund from which the necessities of family nomenclature have been supplied. They have become surnames, not only in thelr com- plete forms, but in the many familiar shapes which usage may have assigned to them—as the monosyllabic appellatives once current in the Workshop or on the farm, and as the affection- ate diminutives that found favor In the domes- Uecircle. Thus with the everyday Richard “From the name proper,” says a Careful student of parish registers, and an Interesting writer on sumnames, “we get Richards and Richardson, Ricks and Rir, Rickson and Ricon or R Rickards and Ricketts. From the curter or Diccon we derive Dicks or Dix, Dic Diron, Dickens or Diccons, and Dickenson or Dieconson. From Hitebin, once nearly 38 famillar ag Dick, we get Hitchins, Hiichinson, Hitchoock ana Hitchcor.” Most surnames of thé familly now under consideration add to the Personal names on which they are based el her the se “gs” Or the more expiicit “son,” these being the Saxon i prefixes “Fitz” and “A! Ap” (from Mab- Son) are respectively Une Noreaan and Welsh. But some are devoid of any such explana- tory modifications, There are, for example, ancient Anglo-Sax0n names now exlstiti as SUrnames in tuelr original shapes. 0: these it 1s conlectured that in post-Nor- man days they were revived by persons ot An- glo Saxon origin, and adopted by them as famn- ily surnames in deference lo ancestral memories, Of the Orst transmitters of patronymie sur- names iu general,{t may be safely assumed that they were the s/ay-at-/ioii-s of thelr tamilties — the domestic and unambitious ones who were content to tread quietly in their fathers’ foot- steps. While the enterprising brother traveled to a distance, and acquired a surname, perhaos from the remote town or shire of h's birth, With which new associates identified ht while the brother of strong SA seized his favorite occupation, aud extracted from It ‘bis distinguishing appeliation—tne least san- guine, ieast original of the three, betook him - Self calmly to his father's business, was natur- ally called merely (he son of his’ Jather, and handed to his descendants a surname based upon that father’s baptismal denomination. The remaining cognomens existing in Eag- land ceem to have been very variously derived. Personal characteristics; tue animal, vegetable, and mineral worlds; incidents of history; ab- Stract ideas; symbols; social ana domestic rela- Uons, &c., have supplied or appear to have sup- Dited them. But in famtly nomenciature—and especially in that branch of it of whtch we now Speak—It ts emphatically true that “things are Dot what they seem;” and the name-lists formed im deference to the sem)lances of their compo- bent denominations are found to b3 much bat- Uered when etymology has been broughtto bear upon them. The Mikado’s Transformation, (Japan Weekly Mail. Just fourteen years ago the Mikado ceased to be a terres tial divinity and became an ac- live power and a visible presence among his subjects. Had he been required to parform this new role after years cf habit had adapted his feet te the traditional groove of apatheu: On, It is not Imposslol2 that the change at have proved unendurabie, aud tnat to the Many aiMculties with whic1 h!s ministers have already been called upon i) grapple, might be superadded the embdarrassme :5\ of selvibg & puppet Prince aczording to the rorms of resporstble procedare. Fortunately, how- ever, the Emperor approiched his unp: task without any of the prejadicss itence, and ia the coaviction this the fons Cf the past were incompatible with the necessitks of the futare. He ereded—thoroughly suceeeded’—in taking an « firotive place at the head of the state acd in cnforming to the strangely ngyel circum. stances of his altered relations with the outer world. Not without an effort indeed hag the transformation been accom- Piished. In the beginning i: seemed as ca the icy insensioility could not be laid aside, and those foreigners who in the early days of our residence here had the honor of being admitted to the Imperial presence found it dificult to reconcile uhat statuesque imperturbability with anything but the idea of @ puppet set up to take the place of the Sacred Being not yet sufticiently humanized to endure the aspect of humanity. ‘These, however, are but memories growing fainter’ day by day. They were succeeded first by fored3dings; sub- sequently by astonishment. Something it was thought must pappee ome indescripaole re- vulston of national feeling or some disturbance of social equilibrium—when the keystone of fealty was struck away, and the Sacred Being men had worshipped for twenty cycles, laying aside his divinity, showed himself to be ot tas earth, earthy. Public opinion, however, proved to be completely at fault. The faith en which the loyalty of the Japanese people rests showed itself to be independent of form. Almost before the reality of the metamorpho- sis had been fairly crediica by the outer world, We were bewildered by the extraordinary spec tacle of proietaries and pariahs gazing nncon- cernedly on the “Dragon’s visage” of which they had hitherto known nothing save that its aspect Was accounted fatal to human vision. Some good folk were seriously scandallzed by this suddenly developed spirit of irreverence. It seemed to them that the demon of revolution was abroad, when the Emperor’s presence elicited from allens Gemonstrations of respect denied to him by his own subjects. The truth was that Japanese had for the most part no hats to take off, and belng dented the privilege of rubbing their foreheads in the dus’, all that remained for them was to adopt the negative course of doing notaing. Whether they regret- ted or rejoiced at a change which enabled them to take thelr own share of the road whoever happened to be thelr feilow-traveier, and to keep thelr doors open even when’ royalty paesed, there ought not to be much difficulty in conjecturing. But they sought for no further ivi ‘The phantom of democracy, which, ng 20 political prophets, had been evoked. beyond the possibility of exorcism. never as- Summed any tangible shape, and society moved quietly along tn its old grooves. Meanwhile we cannot doubt that the Em- Peror, unhesitatingly as he has adopted his altered role, must have found the new char- acter very dificult to sustain. Everything that he was required to do he has done with grace and dignity. Inauguration of public enterprises, reviews, receptions and so fort, have constantly been honored by his Sorel and he taken his place in the coun chamber, not perhaps asa ruler with active functions and original project Beh no longer an ideal, head a uropeats dense ts erned. he nas romalned @ European sense 1s con a3, almost a8 much secluded as ever, and to ex- pee that it could have been otherwise would ve been scarcely reasonable. His conduct in — Matters was altogether are visible, Of its former stren; sions—from whi that the frequent much y's fashion of ‘life Is ae that of an English or French potentate, mad3 without flounces, the outfit lasts a dozen ‘make ves iberihavepiniy of Une do thelr husbands? ‘O Very small, and they are very lable to lose them all.”— Syracuse Courier A Study of the Woodcock, {Maurice Thompson in the Chicago Tribune. }] There 1s no common game-bird whose habits and manners are so imperfectly undersioo1 by Sportsmen and naturalists a3 those of th» American woodcock. The “crippl»” or marsh tulckets in which the bird is usually fouad, as Well as the semt-nocturnai Ife of the bird itself, render its study a matter of great dimi- culty. For a number of years I have exnaas‘ed every Means to acquire, by personal obser Uon, a correct knowledge of the woodceck’s habits, and I here give such notes as seem. fo be new, along with a general description of the bird’s mode of life. Wilson and He have given the most reliable general descrip Uons, but they, together wita Audubon aud Overlooked some quite character- istic attitudes, and have nowhere found auy Suggestion, in the sketches of our artists, of certain habits pecullar to the bird. On a number of occasions I have ciosely observed the woodcock’s system of telegrapay. The bira’s mandibles are furnished with ex tremely sensitive nerves, so arranged that When the point of the Dill rests upon the ground the slightest sounds are conveyed to its Drain, Standing upon the water-saturated earth of a spouty bog, our bird utters a faint, keen ery, scarcely audivle at two rods’ dis- tance, then immediately lets fall his head till ‘the Up of his blil touches the ground and lis- tens attentively. If nls mate hears him she re- piles, puts her blil on the ground and listens in turn. So the love messages go back and forth as long as the birds have anything to say, ‘This sort of thing usually happens in the soft twilights from May te the malddle of August, though occasionally I have seen and heard it in the broad light of a summer day. Ia June, 1565, 1 made tbe following note: “To-day sketched a Woodcock in the ‘listenlng attituds, ‘Shall try to get further studies.” Five years later I succeeded in getting three more sketches, and last year (1880) I got four more, Many Of these ahd kindred sketchas have been obtained at the end of tndeseribabie care aud labor. The woodcock 13 89 suy, 80 at- tentive, So sensitive, that the least sound will Cause Il to skulk and hide—a thing tt does with even greater cunning and success tan the quail, The only way in which I ever have been able to get near enough to the bird to sketen its natural attitudes has ben vo crawl on the wet ground through tangled weeds and sbrubs until 1 reached & biding-place on the border of its feediug range, and there patiently and silently wateh for its comtng. Tals I have cone over ana over again for days togetuer before getting a single sight of the bird. The woodcock in captivity is little lke the wild, wary bird of our springy or spouty lands. His attitudes and modes of feeding are, when cramped io a cage, ilfeless and utterly different from those of the active fellow you pursue in the exasperating cripple of his wild haunts. 4 skeicu ui Uscevia iD Siison and a picture of him in the freedom ef the everglades would ee together just as a sketch of a Captive and a picture 07 a Tree woodeock would contrast with each other. In huating with the long bow, I have usually killed the woodcock on the ground, it being almost impdssible to shoot him on the wing with this weapon. And so it has happened that another of the bird's pecullar attitudes has come under my observa- Uon. When fiushed, bis tlight 1s strong, but rather short. When he lighis he runsa iltile distance and squats flat, usually wilh his tail toward you. Then, in order to segor scent you easily he throws back his head so that his bill stands up vertically and his eyes shine like black just above the butts of his Wings. If the day is a little dark ne will se3 you before you see him and will spring the air at once. On the other hand, if is bright and you have the wind of him you may get close upon him before he files, He often erects his bill thus while stan1- ing, and sometimes the mandibles will bo stparated as if about to utter a cry. The wood- Cock while feeding is very active and axile. Groups often are to be seen on weedy, loamy Spois in the neighborhood of woodlaad springs, where each bird 1s intent upon extracting from the wet soll the worms, grubs and aquatie larvie which therein abound. I kaow a saser blufl, whose top is carpeted with blue grass and sbaded by @ giant pin-oak overlooking a Lt of sprouty lana, where broad-leaved weeds ald rank water grasses grow in bright tufts or tuseocks, Where every season some wood- cock come to feed. In the cool shadow of tne oak lle upon the grass and peep over the verge of the bluff aud look down upon the bir Whenever the Uttle marsh 13 shaded ebough fo bring them out. The efes of the Woodcock are set so high and at suca an angle in hts head that he seems habiiuilly to stare at the sky. The pecultar dark crescent on his cheek adds somechiug aln3t slaiscer ty his expression. Like 80 many aquatic and sem! ayuati: bird, the woodcock has a “teevering.” unbalancea Way of Ullting up and down as it walks, a pecu- oon ell most strongly marked in the sandpipers, and indicative of a fickle and changeful dispost- tion, Most of the woodcock kilisd for the mar- ket are taken when their pium: is thin, scraggly and dull, and when the birds are in their very worst condition. The flaest speci- mebs are taken in the south, just before they ‘tart on their northward flight in February and March. They are then neither poor nor over- loaded with fat, but sleek, | ae full of life. I once killed afemale on a slough in northern Georgia which weighed eight and one-half ounces, theigh rather thin of flesh. Woodcock are famous gourmands, Their di- rgans are so powerful that food is d! oie i ge sony with ee pire aie ty. Hence it was long supposed that they live€ by sucking lquid sul from the earth in which they bored. Within the limi of 24 hours a healthy woodcock will swallow abd digest six or eight ounces of worms, rubs and larve. Often while in m; mock In the odorous southern woods ave heard that woodcock makes ground. The nest of this bird issimply con- structed, and usually itis placed ina rather exposed situation; but I have sometimes found it hidden away in the flags and riparion weeds along our western brooks and spring streams, Where it locked the very ideal of a ‘beautiful bird-home. ‘The male 1s very attentive to his mate during the incubating season. He some- umes risea by a spiral flight vertically toa Mule height, where he pauses and balances in the air fo, & moment, and then drops hum- ming Co the ground near the neat. Tennyson, [ believe itis, who notes asimilar habit of the snipe in the verse,— “Ibe swamp where hums the dropping snipe,» While suspended at the higaest point of this hovering ilight, the woodcock’s wings are slanted — and his bill and legs hang down, giving nim a very ludicrous appearances. # may aan staling, ud = <7 —} rge Wi Grasshopper of the south ani west has this same habit of suspending Itself in the alr fora time and then falling straight Gown to the ground, The Texas Cattle * Drive” Present Year. of the The great berds of the cattle ranges. of driven northward through western Texas are Tho total 1s 331/200 need, x oe ne which number, rer ent the total annual cat represent ‘Texas, a8 many are slau! many ‘are st very great. list is that of artes head. 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ALFRED WOOD, Secretary, ap80____ 618 Lith street, opp U.S. Tressury. on 8 FORTEESS MONKOE AND Lite SOUTH Ee ONKO ‘ EAMEK GEORGE LEARY, ying the U.S. Mail > : ox DAYS at 5:30 p.m, SATURDAY: st6 p.m. stopping at Piney Point aud Point Look- out tat arninet, Nor- ing and i jeaves folk on WEDNEMDASS, FIADATA ond BUN: DAYS, at 4:00 o'cleck p.m ning with Mi 1, Isel. Excursion tickets will be issued, good for Monroe and Nor- 22 four days as follows Firat class fare to out... Sneed es Broond-ciass, each way. Staterooms, $1. Meals, 750. ante, cea terrors “Hhnrael satis Setar tor- sve.: W. 8 Koose's cigar ds; wt ps ara hotels; H. B. Polkinhorn, next to Oity P.O., and ee ee OHGE MATTINGLY, Sant. W. P. WELOH, Agent. apa, yeecaanTs 4ND MINERS TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. OUTSIDE LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN BALTIMORE and NEW YORK, Railing days from Baltimore—E) WEDNES- DAY snd SATURDAY, at 4 p. ms from foot of Spears Whar! (near foct 8. Gay, street.) rom New York—Every THURSDAY ana SAT- UbDAY, at 5 pm., from Pier $9, Kast River (uear foot Clinton sireet.) Elexant parsenzer accommodations. Lowest rates freight cuarantesd Rates of pasrave—Firet clase, 86, including meals and stateroom bert Stecrae #3. meas if dee ired, te eal. i ALTINORR, BLD. —— GEO. H. GLOVER, Aart. 3025 Pirn 49, East Kiven, N. ¥. YEW YORE-ROTTERDAM. The first claes Steamers of this Line, STERDAM.” “ROTTERDAM,” “SCHIEDAR," OW; 4 Csrrying the U. R. Maile to ihe Netherlands, tosve Rises pores Brooklyn, regularly, on WED- Firat Uabin, 860-870. 24 Osbin, 850. Bteerage, HH CAZAUR, General Anent, oF South Wit , corner New ¥o.k sve. snd janiT ‘Ldth et. Nenthwest. YoxacEEs To Evnors. 3. W. BOTELEB & 808 ——— ‘Tickets ta this Dis- INMAN STEAMSHIP OO. Parties pr: to visit Burope can obtain all -_spl-3m _ W. BOTELER & BON. ORTH GERMAN LLOYD— STRAMSHIP LINE DUTWEEN New Yous, Haven LONDON, SOUTHAMPTON AND BREMEN The steamers of y will call EVERY SATURDAY from Bremen foot of 34 street, Heboken. Rates of passawe:—From New York to Havre, London, Beuthampton and Bremen, first paid steerage cortiicaten: Bas, For fre. of pase ri 2 dace apni is ORLEAOITS CO) Bowlin Greens New York; WG METZEROTT & OO , 925 Penn. ave., Agents for Washinyion janl2 D Ling. Ce NOTICE. LANE ROUTE. THE UN. STEAMSHIP OOMPANY aRD iMITED. BETWEEN NEW YORK AND LIVERPOOL, CALLING AT OORK HARBOR. FROM VIER 40, N.K.. NEW YORK. Samaria..wQues., 31 May.) Alveria..Wed., Bothnia....Wed., 1 June |Neytuia Wed. Gallia......Wed.. 8 June |Parthis..Wed., 29 June, Marathov.Wed., 8 June.'Bothnia..Wed. 6 July. AND EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM NEW YORE. RATES OF PASRAGE. $50, 880 and B10, according to accommodations. ickets to Paris, £15 adéitional. iketurn tickets on favorable terms. Peerage at very low races bte-racetickets from Liverpool and Quecnstown, and all ocher parte of Europe, at lowest rates. ‘Through bills of laden given for Belfast, Gias- gow, Havre, Antwerp snd other por.s ou the Gon- Urent, snd ‘for Mediterranean ports. For freight avd passage apply st the Company's office, No 4 Bowliny Green, or both stesrawe and gabin to OTIS BIGELOW & OV., 605 7th street, aula yEKNON H. BEOWN & 00., N.Y. PIANOS AND ORGANS. panos. mia rR PIANO8, SIDNEY T. NIM, PIANOS, Warercome: No. 483 7th street morthwest. OBGARB, OBGANB, * OBGANS, ORGANS. Open Evenings until 8 :30 o'clock. wll