Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1882, Page 3

From the N. ¥. Tribune. The fated year has come and gone, and the heavens have not rolied together like a scroll. Nor has the universe been swept through by tidal-waves of elemental fire, making a tem- pestuous chaos of the Cosmos. This failure of the final conflagration to come off as advertised cht not to be set down to the discredit of rn astrology, for the most accomplished star-readers of ancient times were in the habit of using this as a staple prediction. It is a proof, indeed, that the moderns follow the tra- «itiong of the golden age of Chaldean science, dt astrologer id be marked as an heter- ly ped prophet if he was ple to foretell the end of the world as often @ year. And there never was a year y portentous signs blazed lezibly of the fiam- comets which have after another Into our sys- from the abysses of the north, three conjunctions of major planets in the fol and beastly sign of Taurus would seem to have presignitied the beginning of woes, if not niversal wreck and And upon the whole : and contempt for law forees of Nature. It astating tempests in Europe and. the west, and it closes other aeross the iowed up in the and tilence y portions of our own country. eatastro- riot n with det nae th with tornadoes cha Atlantil sof the earth have been ‘Kes—the one at Sei «l the foundati German empire. ¢ dust whi seems to have ran a narrow chance dur- r we have just escaped from, are now inclined to think ptune will follow ronous perihelia. Saturn r, and therefore for two or come the earth will suffer from . of maletic planetary influences for several thousai sree that our planet ently from her various be woes somewhere between t! bat their foretellings for the tm- strangely in coniliet. Zad- -yhody to carry a prophy is pocket againt yellow | h and some other highly colored but he imak light of them, and le will be the ns of one Sort rT the outlook ‘sees showers of gore. h and sun. fumes of Volcanic chasm, ships i, raging pestilence, and id shovelled by multitudes in- The vaccination question, h tin midsummer of 1885, ¢ fires will des to tren er, will d leaving a purified earth e and healtiful electricity, haiman will be prolonged and ppiness reach its flood tide. ~All this y with the revelations which are n that stone miracle the Great Pyr- mil ding to every trustworthy compu- tation of the prophetic elements and measure- ments of this marvelous structure, where the entire sweep of human history is visibly por- trayed and emblemed in imperishable rock, the Sis to be the dawn of the Millennium a zethrouzh those everlasting ace more will point straicht to nis—again on the meridian, but be- to testify that the Old Serpent is put down at last and forever. It must beallowed that comprehensive prophe- ayings of this sort lack the element of personal «and the Id longs for the advent of er like Isaac Bickerstatf, al y it would be hard to find any more delichtful reading than Mr. Bickerstaf’s “Pre- dictions fort ar 1708, wherein the month and day of the honth are set down, the persons ud the events of the next year particu- lated as they will come to pass.” No Partridge, the almanac _maker—the jay—was prophecy concerning himself: usulted the star of his nativity and find | will infallibly die on the 29th of March x ai night, of a raging fever. advise him to consider of it and affairs in time.” And when after of doom had passed, and Partridge ded to assert in print and with natural violence of lanzuaze ti 1, Mr. Bickerstaff! turned d rebuke for his “scu d advising him to cor nought in foreign universities rous behavior from one man of | proceeded to prove by in- demonstration that in spite of the de- | iby the very terms of that denial, he nd did die within half aa fthe time foretold. A fresh id propheey and its sequele will anyone that ‘astrological science + culminating developmeat in the Switt. Itis true that Zadkiel did Let with some able circumstantiality S theater would burn up on . But Mr. Bick- the theater and the out & complete list of the nd by this time he would e been able to overwhelm any skeptical y ti onstration that he had been las was foredoomed by the some 4 spiritless substitute for of this sort to be told terrors of a universe in nindefinitely postponed. ‘sit profit after ail to eseape wilderness of fire prepared by the ul theologian only to be frozen up ice free ed by the iastronomer? The rizid computa- natical science mark out upon the lines of perpetual conzelation ched in the years to winter creeps down- Long before the its maximum eccen- hot summer will avail rit the spreading snow eap, and ston be = the ultimate station for parties the earti’s center of toward the aceumuiated weight * continents will once more Tn seas to be the theater of And in the intense midwin- om summer tourists from al in Faikland will be cool- tind ot Manhattan, or reeks of the terminal vas Central Park for blocks nite from the Al a rn in thes i The winter jon will not be youd A. DS 13. This date trolozers and others to © beginning of new hope tilar glac oo — hty "Murderers. sber murders which look more re to re hi of detinite temptations, 1 and Lefroy. Broken- both these assassins clearly have is clear that broken-down minds— ~hed from insane minds—are some of tools in the world. Insane nize and restrain. But peo- down minds, which may, at any Ate acts as dangerous or fatal «minds, if a breath of evil sug- ‘oss them, we cannot shut up é ing way like juivalent of this disease in the riroy and Guiteau. They do not ed their own actions to ‘vil, but to have been the ached ppulses—selfish Im- impulses which, had net so mach Wi them was t On sharp sensation of more than est. one indeed to which Guiteau was wsed to aserfbe a flaver of divine Both of them Lirica 4 are to be flighty murderers than as mar- authority nity. terers of the conventional, dark-souled, bloody- Purposed type.— London Spectator. ad the great | tides of this amount and even tides very much “KATHLEEN "IAVOURNEE? Creuch, the Co! ‘Tells the Origin oft e Ballad. ~ Mr. F. Nicholas Crouch, of Baltimore, writes as follows: The baliad, “Kathleen Mayourneen,” which ushered a once prosperous gentleman into noto- riety in the old world, was a simple portrature of a man’s feelings actuated by the devotion ex- pressed in the lyric of the song referred Tead those words, and “in my mind’s ey the scene before me—the situation, cause and effect. It was an untrammeled outpouring of a man’s soul at the shrine of her whom nature had created his own. There was no necessity for grandiloquent thought, no occasion for dra- matic display of action, no requirements of ab- ies, to make Se aE if of the public. mpressions, on horseback on the anks of the Tamar, in Devonshire. I wrote the melody and became so infatuated with my own creation that I determined to personate the hero of the song before a Plymouth audi- ence, althouch at that time commercially con- nected with a firm in London, and representing its interests abroad, previous to which I had cert rooms and theaters of the ropolis as a player and soloist om the violon- cing at the age of nine years. 1 as I was to my profession, the birthrizht of my family, [found as T advanced in life little of e:nolument was made by the labor ched to it. Like other aspirants lottery I had taken to myself a wite, n were fast gathering around ine. nee of sitnation and departure ing musie asa profession. Commer- ments now absorbed my mind, and t rm (Chapman & Co., Corn- hill, London) demanded all the energies and time I But the old leaven would burst forth, despite my obligation, and in one of these fits of abstraction, albeit a divided duty, Isketch- ed “Kathleen Mavourneen.” Thus was my cre- ation begotten. and so she became the adopted child of the world. In the Plymouth Assembly Rooms, Plymouth, Devonshire. West of England, T sang the song to lat Jiences, and within a week of its public performance I found myself engaged for two sets of concerts, and profits ac- cruing every he There was no evading the pressure, and so circumstances forced me back into my former profession, in returning to which I made a gift of the copy s. P. E. Rowe, wife of the man at whose concerts [ was called upon to sing it, and wherever I went its popularity made me a willing impersonator of its simple merits. Of Under these course its success reawakened the dormant fires of creative thought. My old associates, Mrs. Crawford, Mrs. Abdy, M ull contribu- tors to the Metropol enlisted my interestsin their lyri ritings. Itwasa union t and sentiment, and so we ther, and thus I became the prolific baliad writer [have been. During my sojourn in Plymouth I wrote “Would I Were With Thee!” Mrs. Norton; “The Widower” and “We Parted in Silence,” by Mrs. Abdy:” “Sing to me, Nora!” Mrs. Crawford; ‘The Widow to her Child,” Thomas Blake; all of them republished in this country, but affording me no compensation whatever, and in only one single instance have I received remuneration for my writings here. al- though a resident and naturalized citizen of America upwards of thirty years. “Kathleen Mavourneen” has over thirty different editions published in the United States, trom the sale of which I received not acent. So much for the want of an international copyricht law. Was this equitable and justifiable law in force at this present time, I could once more resume my rightful position, “a prosperous gentleman.” As it is, my necessities compel me to labor as a common mechanic for a begzarly stipend of less than a dollar per diem, two-thirds of my time out of employment; with this fruitful and re- munerative return I have to maintain a wifeand five children. ——__—_+e2—_____ Prehistoric Tides. At present the moon is 240,000 miles away; but there was a time when the moon was only one-sixth part of this, or say 40.000 miles away. That time must have corresponded to some geo- logical epoch. It may have been earlier than the time when Eozoon lived. It is more likely to have been later. I want to point out that when the moon was only 40,000 miles away, we had in it a geological engine of transcendent power. If the present tides be 3 feet, and if the early tides be 216 times their present amount, then it is plain that the ancient tides must have been 648 feet. There can be no doubt that in ancient times larger must haye occurred. Task the geologists to take account of these facts, and to consider the effect—a tidal rise and fall of 648 feet twice every day. Dwell for one moment on the sub- lime spertacte of a tide 648 feet high, and see what an agent it would be for the performance of geological work! We are now standing, I suppose, some 500 feet above the level of the The'sea isa good many miles from Bir- mingham, yet if the rise and fall at the coasts were 638 feet, Birminghain might be as great a seaport as ‘Liverpool. Three-quarters tide would bring the sea into the streets of Birming- ham. At high tide there would be about 150 feet of blue water over our heads. Every house would be covered, and the tops of a few chim- neys would alone indicate the site of the town Tn a few hours more the whole of this vast Hood would have retreated. Not only would it leaye Engiand high and dry, but probably the Straits of Dover would be drained, and perhaps even nd would in a literal sense become a member of the United Kingdom. A few hours pass, and the whole of England is again innn- dated, but only again to be abandoned. These mighty tides are the gift which astrono- mera have now made to the working machinery+ of the geologist. They constitute an engine of terrific power to aid in the great work of geo- logy. What would the puny efforts of water in other ways accomplish when compared with these majestic tides and the great currents they produce i In the great primeval tides will probably be found the explanation of what has long beea a reproach to geology. The early palzozoic rocks form a stupendous mass or ocean-made beds, which, according to Professor Williamson, are twenty miles thick up to the top of the silurian beds. It has long been a difficulty to conceive how such a gigantic quantity of material could e been ground up and deposited at the oot- of the sea. The geologists said: “The rivers and other agents of the present day will do it if you give them time enough.” But, unfortunately the mathematicians and the natural philosophers would not give them time enough, and they ordered the geologists to “hurry up their phenomena.” The mathe- maticians had other reasons for believing that the earth could not have been so old as the geologists demanded. ow, however. the matematicians have discovered the new ‘and stupendous tidal grinding-engine. With this powerful aid the geologists can get through their work in a reasonable period of time, and the geologist and mathematicians may be recon- ciled.—Lecture by Prof. Ball, of England. ——_ The Bismarcks. Mr. J. J. Weiss contributes to the Paris Figaro an interesting paper on Prince Bismarck’s fam- ily, one passage of which is worth reproducing, as the matter of which it treats is not, to the best of my belief, generally known. According to the writer, Augustus yon Bismarck, one of the Chancellor's ancestors, who afterwards rose to the rank of colonel in the army of the Great Elector, commenced his military career in_the French servi “His wars and 'tles in Lor- raine and Burgundy must have been the retreat from the Basse-Sarre on Metz in 1634, the march on Dijon and St. Jean de Losne in 1635, the advance from the Haute Sadne on Waldshut—in short, the whole series of the memorable maneu- vers of Bernard of Saxe-Weimar which had for their final result the passing of Alsace into the hands of France. A Biswarck hastaken Alsace from us, a Bismarck had helped to give Alsaceto us.” Such at least is the opinion of Mr. Weiss, and it must be admitted that his it. if not incontrovertible, has the merit of ity. The writer is perfectly fair throughout, lay- ing a thorough appreciation of the CI lor's sterling jities: “Such (he says) are the Bis- marcke—a race of Centanre and Nimrods, onir- assiers, dragoons, carbineers, ane at times dip- lomatists; skilful in promcting, measures en- peers to them, not less skilral in themselves rag Greet Me nas ea they never refuse the leap, they take & erior, peerless man would Prince Bismarck Rave been in any eountry and at period throus‘h the sole action of his inner. But ali his ancestors have bequeathed to him some- thing of themselves. A great man is, after all, the culminating point of a family. ———$~e2—__—____ After a wedding party had assembled in a church at Bloomin; u., the father of the offered her $500 if she would back out. She k the money, remained at home, and sent word tothe minister to dismiss the arsembly. woman caused & commotion at Wadena, A .. by wildly chasing a and sie eesl ue kanaeaicned a fo o , An butcher prom caught the beast, ‘The Rev. Mr. Green ts to be tried by a chureh tribunal in St. Joseph, Mo., ona charge of let- ‘@ young woman sit in his lap while teack- ing her @ Sunday-echool keesea. exhibition of pictures, two or three large works may be placed. as in the picture gallery of the Vatican, in one small room; but in private houses, and for domestie decoratidn, they should always have relation to the dimensions of the chamber in which they are hung. As large pictures always apparently diminish the size of a small apartment, smaller easel and cabi- ngt pictures have been with good taste prefer- red for contracted interiors. In the spacious entrance halls and corridors of country man- sions. large hunting and sporting subjects and whole-length portraits are appropriately placed. In dining-rooms, also, from the more massive and simple character of the furniture, a few life-sized portraits, together with, of ‘course, subjects of a cheerful and festive character, are admissible. In all cases, the juxtaposition of oil pictures, water-eolor paintings, and engray- ings should be avoided; as they greatly injure each other's effect. For the drawing-room, sub- Jects ofa refined and elegant cha: naturally be chosen; and water-color drawings would form a fitting decoration for a boudoir or an inner drawing-room; while framed prints might be reserved for sleeping apartments. We see no reason, however, why the possessor of pictures, who has a separate apartment for his books, and a conservatory for his flowers, should not also have a gallery witha suitable it for the proper display of his pictures. At all events, due attention should be paid to the hanzing of pictures. The paper of the wall against which pictures are suspended should have no stronzly-detined pattern, and should be one of uniform color (red inclining to erim- son. or tea-green, are the best colors); and if borders are introduced they should not con- | tain flow Bright carpets and all gaudy colors are likewise injurious. Asa general rule, the center of the picture should not be much above the level ot the eye. In an exhibition the picturesin this most favorable situation are said to be on the “line.” If the work bea landscape or a portrait with a back-ground, the horizontalline will require to be so placed. The artist, be it remembered, When painting his picture fixes this line (at least heore the two things, the horizontal line and the level of the eye, are identical, and he paints accord- ingly. Ifthe spectator, therefore, does not. re- gard the picture from thesame relative position, much of the work will be foreshortened. and the general effect consequently falsified. Paintings on ceilings are, of course, not subject to these conditions, thouzh they often show a yery ar- bitrary use of the horizontal line. Hansiing pic- tures low has the additional recommendation of increasing the apparent heigit of an apartment. In viewing pictures, the proper focal distance, determined by their size and style, should be ob- served. The extension and repetition of form so con- ducive to harmony is taken adyantave of in the boundary-line; thus the head of achild, or a “ronp, consisting of an assemblage of curved lines, reaches tie eye more agreeably through a cireular frame; so likewise with the repetitions of form in the square or oblong aperture. Frames should harmonize in style with the other ornaments of the apartment, particularl the mouldings and cornices. Frames which project much appear to contract aroom. M: sive frames convey a painful impression of sus- pended weight; but this is partly obviated by “open work” patterns. In apartments with teral light, the pyetures should never slant as if toppling over. Pictures should not be sus- pended from one nail; the diagonal lines formed by the cord have a very discordant effect. Two nails and two vertical cords, or, what is far more safe, pieces of wire cordage. should always be employed instead of the single cord. For water-color paintingsit is especially im- portant that the frames should not be heavy or too profusely ornamented. A massive frame will almost destroy the effect of delicate work in water-colors. Burnishing small points of the frame is, however, from the sreater vivacity of water-colors. less objectionable than when the frame is intended to inclose an oil picture. The glass of the frame should not touch the face of the painting. The “mount,” or margin inter- ing between the water-color 1 its frame, is almost invariably whit might not unfrequently with ¢1 be tinted, especially if the painting is merely a vignette. For all delicate work lightin tone, a paper mountis preferabie; and. for such, a simple gold-bead frame with a gold edge to the mount next the picture is very suitable. But more powerfully and intensely-colored water paint- ings, especially ifwarm in tone, might often be rendered far more effective and harmonious by substitating a gold mount. In all cases, how- ever. we recommend to allow the artist to select or advise the choice ot frame for his own work or to let him know if it isdesired that the frame for his picture should match others, in orde: that he may palgh with a view to the influence of the frame. Pictures require light and air; the habit, there- fore, of covering up pictures in city houses during the many months that families are away injurious. Washing pt hould be Ken on a warm, othing but clean cold wa face should be wetted with a sponze or s leath but the water should neve to float. moved by kerchief. lining of pictures is often an excellent precau- tion for their pr tion. The operation of transferring pictu: rom panel to too delicate and tedious to be unde: cept fur the most valuable work: see facets = A Rat in a Beer Bottle. From the Phiiadelphia Press. A rat was recently caught by a youthful hunter of North Second street. who earns many an honest penny by selling his prizes to Mr. Cills, the serpent charmer. The latter fixed a large box in such away that the animal could not escape, and putting Mrs. Rat inside, he car- ried her new abode down stairs. The next morning five little rodents were huddled at the side of their mother. A couple of weeks passed, and the captive family were all ina flourishing condition, but one evening their owner noticed that the mother had gnawed a all hole in the side of her prison, and on counting the progeny he likewise perceived that one of the infants had escaped. nailed a piece of tin over the hole,” said Mr. ‘and was about leaving the cellar when [ heard a squeaking noise in a lot of en y beer bottles in a corner of the cel- lar, and saw in one my young rat. The little fellow had jumped down the neck of the bottle and couldn't climb out again, the sides being too slippery, I suppose. Curious to see what the mother would do, I placed the bottle con- taining the young ’un in the cage, in such a way, however, that it could not be knocked over. Later in the evening I went to see how things were getting on, and [fonnd that several pieces of food had been dropped down the neck of the bottle by the moth After another week had passed the young rat had so inere: in size that ali chance of its leaving Its erystal dungeon was precluded, and so I placed the bot- tle on one side so that the mother could feed her little one more confer She has evidently taken the best of care of it, for it is so fat that it can no longer turn around. “I was puzzled for some time as to how he got his drin! I approached cautiously and found the old rat busily engaged in. dipping her tail in the saucer of water and then shoving it down the neck of the bottle for the young ‘un to suck. Of course the other little rats have been long ago swallowed by my snakes, but the mother rat and the little one in the beer bottie Tam preserving fora while as a curiosity.” ee. — A Discount on Babies. Boston Journal, Paris Letter. Let me conclude with the recital of a fact il- lustrative of a trait characteristic in France. I am proud to number among my friends a brave house-porter (concierge) and his wife, who al- ways receive me urgeagied when I look at their lodge to inquire if one of my friends, who their employer, Isat home. The other day, missed the good wife's fuce, and inquired of the husband where she was. He pointed to the small bedroom back of the ledge. “Sh!” he whispered; ‘‘mother and child are well; itis a Hittle girl and was born last night.” I_paid him my compliments and went my way. He seemed brimful of fatherly affection.” A few days after, baving occasion to callon my friend again, I looked into the lodge and found the new mamma seated by the fire, pale but happy, I congratu- lated her on her daughter’s arrival in the world. “Merci,” she said, ‘and what do you think of my happy family?” I looked, and in her lap lay an ugly pug dog, aiperdees f enjoying re- pose beside a huge Angola cat; while on the wo- man’s shoulder nee a tame pigeon. aks ” I sald, 9) my eyes wi s That fs alt Pane tt wets our baby “The baby, Monsieur? Oh, we sent her into the country—out to nurse, you know.” “Yes, oh yes,” added the father; ‘‘we sent her away to nurse the fifth after she was born. It's pret ney 1 think.” oe Benjamin Philibert died in St. Louis. He was worth on da other notable die- tinetions were that he had not been out of the ‘acter would | ally) on a level with his eye—in fact. | THE FOSSIL SEA-SERPENT. Old Settlers of Monmouth County. ‘The National Question. Eagle. From the Brooklyn “My dear,” said Mrs. Spoopendyke, as she | What a Cincin PROFESSOR LOCKWOOD ON REPTILES IN GENERAL. | Wiped thecorner of the baby'smouth, and curled AND THE MARLBORO MONSTER IN PARTICULAR. | up a roll on the top of its head, “why don't you From the New York Tribune. The announcement that bones of some gigan- tic reptile have been dug out of a Monmouth county mar! pit is never a startling one. This +} is classic ground for the Palzontologist, and an active man with a shovel is never in that | COUTt and tells right out what hethinks of hypo- he isn’t disturbing the remains of some monster | ‘étlcal questions and heads, and knows by the who once made thetold cretaceous sea boil like spot. These marl beds are deposits of that ancient sea which rolied over so much of this continent, sweeping from New Jersey to Texas and up the Red river valley to the flanks of the Rocky Mountains. The marl derives its value as a fertilizer mainly from the one, two or three per cent. of phosphoric acid which jit contains, and the phosphorus is mani- festly derived from the phosphate of lime in the bones which were buried in this spacious cemetery. The New Jersey end of this graveyard has been worked longer than any other area, and theremains of the various rep- tiles tound here are constantly referred to for comparison in works on paleontology. Exten- sive discoveries in the west have been more re- cently made. but these old settlers of Monmouth county were able to hold their own against any “dragon of the prime” in this age when the race of reptiles reached its culmination. The differ. ent orders of these saurians have been pretty | thoroughly studied and ciassified, but there is @ possibility of exhuming some new | and therefore when it was announced last week that a sea-serpent with an equipment | of tusks had been discovered in Marlboro, resentative of the Tribune called upon sor Samuel Lockwood, of Freehold, to ascertain what the find really was. Professor Lockwood, who is a fellow of half a dozen learned societies, and a recognized au- thority in matters of this sort, alluded with | some disrespect to the amateur i | | decorated the old serpent with tus furniture which only belonged to im the mi pe and of a more recent | this Marlboro reptile was an et away from when alive, He was between 70 and 80 feet | ‘h, about one-third of his longitude being abroad, flattish tail, constructed of chevron- shaped bones. so as to make it a valuable engine of propulsion when nsed as a scull. mals of tween the tip of his muz | head was a di of four or five feet. It is possible that tHe specimen belongs to le and the back of his | j all talking at once and getting along pleasantly, The data | * urnished by the relics would imply that be- | go and be an expert?” “Don’t you know? An expert who goes to pee Just when a man is crazy and when he isn’t.” “Anything particular the matter with your head this trip?” roared Mr. Spoopendyke. “Been ling some old cook book lately? What're you taiking about? What dress pattern have you got hold of now?” “I was reading about Mr. Guitean,” Teplied Mrs. Spoopendyke, “and I thought how much better it must be to be an expert than to know anything about the case! That's why I asked. Ifa man knows anything they always prove that he don’t, but if he is an expert, he just swears that a man who bothers hin is crazy and that ends it.” “I's'pose you_ think I’ve had so much experi- ence in idiocy at home that I could make a for- tune as an expert,” sputtered Mr. Spoopendyke. “I tell you they are intelligent men. They make | up their minds and swear to their opinions, ac- cording to law. When the revised statutes at large provide for me as an expert, as they pro- vide for idiots, lunatics, habitual drunkards, and married women, I'll go into the business!” and Mr. Spoopendyke winked at himself tri- umphantly, as he thought over the last shot. “Well,” rejoined Mrs. Spoopendyke, bridiing indignantly, “if the revised statutes provide that way, they ought to be shut up. They've no business at large. I didn’t know that th experts were legalized. I supposed they jut went there to help their friends along.” “No, they don’t either!” retorted Mr. Spoop- endyke. “They go to swear whether the man is insane or not.” “But what do they want to drown him for?” argued Mrs. Spoopendyke. “There they were when all of a sudden Mr. Porkhill and Colonel Corker and Mr. Savage throw Mr. Guiteau into the dock!” “Drown your grandmother's hind leg!” howled Mr. Spoopendyke. “What d'ye think a law dock Got a notion it’s a meas! scum on top of a two inch mud | puddle with a fence around it, and a Congres- i appropriati navigable? It's pen, I tell y ff pen in the court room, where they put prisoners! Guiteau both- ered the ex se bed species, but perhaps the 1 too imperfect to deeide this. It is cer ever, that it belones to the genus Ciidastes, | | many species of which have been determined, | | and Whieh have been abundantly found in the | west. Ch auras, or tie great lizard Meuse, described by Cuvier. reptile. however, was of a with sliorter he nd stronger jaws. Both belo er of Pythonomorphs, | Ke-like sanrians, which were the genuine rpents of the period. | The most wonderful fact in connection with | ‘se Monmouth marls is that y many of the river The European more chu ky build, th representatives of so animal life which are now, witi all the less species they embraced, absolutely extinct. This was the age of the glorious Ammonites, not one of which has survived, and of the Nautili, of which but two species ‘are found in modern seas. Of the six great orders of Rep- ti ns, representatives of bui two survive, so destructive to animal life was the emergence of continents and the change of climate at the close of the eretaccous era. Ot the reptiles, the order occupying the highest rank was the | Dinosaurs, who well deserved the epithet | “terrible.” Professor Lockwood himself’ dis- | covered the remains of a coluseal specimen of | the order in a clay bank by Raritan Bay. | This monster walked about without a cane feet on his hind legs, which were 13 jong. Inattitude and construction th was prophetic of the coming ostrich. N rank were the Pterosautia, or flying expanded wings of some of these pleasant creat- | ures measuring 25 from tip to tip. Below turtles, with which the Jersey waters and sho were populous. In this very Marlboro pit P fe ckwood once found the remain , and so strong th such a thing ean be imagined as ex- | hose days, might have been driven over it without disturbing the creature under | the dome. Lowest of ali were the Pyt morphis, to which our serpent belonged. 1 features foreshadowing snakes are particnl food whole. and und animals whose di own, they. i prov big mouthful aj ey have therefore been provided with in the bou eof the upper jaw open theirmouthsas wide as pc sible they can spring the Jaw. upward at this extra joint, and make a still more roomy pas- sage. Our Monmouth serpent had a double- jointed jaw of this dilatable pattern. Again, | after a shake has seized his living prey, it would be embarrassing for him to open his mouth to | take a more comprehe hold, for a diso- | blizing animal would take ntage of the « portunity to retire. To guard azainst such accident, the snake is equipped with a smnaller. supernuinerary jaw inside his upper one, whicit he drops on his prey to detain it while he takes a fresh hitch. Our Monmouth serpent was fur- nished with this extra grapnel jaw to aid him in the process of ingestion, so that his general maxillary make-up plainly shows what he took for dinner, and how he took it. A thick, fleshy tonzue would hardly be tolerated in a mouth where spacionsuess was a prime necessity, and, reasoning from analogy, we may that this member was slender, as it is in true snakes, and capable of being neath: away in a cavity of the lower jaw. Lockwood pictures the reptile, therefor represents him as ploughing through tie s with his head litted high ab P waves and bi i bifnreated and ‘ He was probably not highly intellectual, as his brain-ease w: nparatively “sinall, and the epithet **soft-pated” could be lit- | erally ied to him, for the forward part of b head was not ossitied. His impelling . mainly furnished by the tall, was increased by | four paddles. the upper bones of which were short and of imme se strength, and perhaps | concealed in his side, leaying exposed only the jong hands and feet. The ankles and wrists, however, had no rotary movement, so that the paddies could move only in ene plane, Un- doubtedly he had basking habits, and when giutted with his prey he would retire to some | shallow lagoon and snooze in the warm water s head turned to one side and his tail | ling, it. it Prof. Cool of Rutgers College, this specimen, The const: jon and restoration if he is to make anything li) ered | itable exhibition of himself, for his remains are incomplete and fragmentary. If properly | “restored” a roomy cabinet would be needed to | contain him. An Indian Imitation of Guiteau. A correspondent of the New York Herald writing from Denyer, Col., of the southern Utes, tells the following characteristic story, which bears a singular resemblance to the case | now on trial in Washington: “Whether the crank system is being introduced in these say- age tribes along with other customs of the | whites, or whether the spirit of Guitean’s evil | genius bas flown westward is-a question; but last week anaflair occurred sion ieee savages that takes rank with the action‘of Garfield's as- sassin, and, sinzular to relate>the Indian who committed a foul murder claims that he was but acting as an instrument of the Deity. For some days in the early part of last week Alhandro, one of the principal men ofthe southern Ute tribe, who occu) the position of lieutenant of the Indian police organized ‘by°€ol. Page, and | who as sub chief ranks ‘to Ignacio, was | very ill—In fact, so nigh unte'death that his de- mise was hourly expected. A council of medi- cine men was held, and it was decided that it was acase of ‘Paw-a-canty,’ tite Cte word for ‘bewitched.’ This decision'réndered, Tar-aah, the bosom friend of Alhandro, proclaimed that he hada message from the Great Spirit that Chief Sar the handro’s author «of malady, must die by his 8) hand, in or- der that Alhandro hous five. > announee- | ment having been made, mounted his | horse and Sete: oe =e pean Behe h’s tepee, then ‘a word, and in the 2 of Savanach’s wife‘and two sisters, aed two shots throuzh oe eee ee brother chief, Killii im instantly. e singular result ofthis acion was the anon instantaneous éon- astes was an own cousin to the | 1, | and overriding th these came the Crocodilia, resembling our aliga- | 12" ele UE ert era, tors, and cuirassed with bong plates. Accordins | [? Ae OS Ue ae to modern classification, anotier order, tie | 5) pcan turn abowtes Gor eens. ris al Sauropteryzia, came before the Testudiuata, or | °" urn and turn about? Got some kind of } | would ‘on first. | would pres hesita | cor and I felt insulted. | Thomas, sf | ance wa: 2 Mrs. Spoopendyke, didn’t they put Mr. Scoville and Mr. ‘¢, too? They are trying to bother the perts just as much as Guiteau did. They n't let the poor men alone.” “Don't you know the difference between a erand a criminal?” ripped Mr. Spoopen- dyke, “or is that too tine a distinction for you ? Reed and Scoville are defending Guiteau. ~Por- ter and Corkhill and Davidge are prosecuting e w him. Of course his lawyer will’ cross exainine the witne: inst him. But it’s no use to explain anything to you.” “I understand that much,” returned Mrs. Spoopendyke, “bat I don’t understand what Judge means by pitching into the lawyers The first he ar that he is an asymmetrical, ‘n he'll be put in the dock with Guitean, will go hard with him. 1 tell youa judye can’t be too careful how he beh ’ and Mrs. Spoopendyke pinned the $ around it’s legs and smoothed knows the e: yelled Mr. Spoopendyke, unable* for an instant to throw his feelings into any co- herent form of speech. “You've You're a whole barrel of canned judiciary! you want now isa red labelon your back and marginal yates to be a dod gasted law y! If you'd change assista once a month and win four cases during one term of fice, youd only need three deodands and a plug hat to be a district attorney! You've got There’s nothing more to be said on ive youa black petticoat with siveves to it and a wart on your nose, and you'd oniy want a restaurant in the basement and | the idea! idea that he isa dod gasted work on el quette, with mottled leaves and a yellow bind- nd Tommy from you he pr witted wou and re. tl e next door wouldn't e told of it more times than she makes a” all right,” rejoined Mrs. | 3 at 1 scot | Al the public y those were his views, nz the prosecation to s vs before his condu him. i drew off his clothing sol-} the pieces into diiferent corners; to bed with the stern refiection mne people only needed sic note book fall of bad lectures ites to be a modern law school! ‘t care,” muttered Mrs. Spoopendyke. ose experts, and I wish my husband » into the bus y may not hang uiteau, but they'll find the jury insane, nd Mr. Porter will h: ‘© look up some other kind of a job, for th can’t last forever.” With which satisfactory solution of the na- tional complication, Mrs. Spoopendyke un- dressed the baby, dropping the pins where Mr. poopendyke would be sure to find them the moment he stepped out of the bed in the morn- Dg. and he the err Patti Tcits of Her Grievance at_ the Messiah Oratorio in Cincinnati. m the Cincinnati Enquirer. rriving at the stage door, I found Miss Cary there and the other soloists. Much to my } surprise, it was being discussed who should go I expected that. some one in authority Mr. Pendleton, the president, for instance— ent me to the audience, and while I hardly knowing what to do, Mr. Whit- ss Cary by the hand and walked on L assure you I was astonished. Mr. soniething about my going and took my hand. I drew it i as I could, and, in anger, on the stage alone, leaving Mr. Thomas follow. T assure you it was the rudest, most discourteous treatment I ever received in | my life. I ever before allowed to go on a| Fr taxe. Thomas said next ;away as quicl ve on the first nicht alone in my life. | Well, all the other soloists aken their seats when I arrived. Mr. nding on his platform, waved h 1, ‘Madame Patti, that is your se y had taken my seat,'and Thad do but take the only seat left. I teel y ynant about the way in which I was thrust upon the stage, and think I was most. discour- treated. It was not only that I was Patti, but my dignity as a lady was in- sulted, and I can never forget it. And I censure | Miss Cary for her conduct, too.” Her next griev- homas’ fast time in the accompani- ment to “I know that my Redeemer liveth.” She sang from a score presented to her by Jenny Lind, and speaks of it in this manner: “Here it is,” (as she tripped across the floor to an adjoin- ing room and brought the book.) ‘See, here is how Jenny Lind marked the score forme. See, thes the breath notes, here is her writing, and here, too, is the score of ‘I know that my | Redeemer liveth,’ written by Jenny Lind on this piece of paper. There are the words written by her, and [ sang the solo from this bit of paper Jast night, holding it in my book so,” (showing how she did it.) ‘It is said by some that I did | not know my score. That Is quite funny and ridiculous. itr. Thomas took his time so fast I could not do myself justice. See here! The had hand and | the secret has beeu conifigled, tells it to his riz | hand neihbor, and so on, all around the table Preventive Efficacy. Dr. Maley, of Cincinnati, telis an interviewer: Thave passed through several epidemica of small-pox during the last fifteen years, and have “What kind of an | concluded that pure cowpox is the only sure means of preventing that dreadful disease. I have found some trouble with the use ot human any other constitutional infections, can be trans- mitted from the young heifer, and medical science will fully indorse this opinion. The young aforesaid animal, from one to. five year is dieted and kept solely for this purpose, ar perfectly free from any pulmonary difficulty. ‘There seems to be an opinion ; revating am some of our pre that It is injurioas to health to vaccinate with cowpox. perience I have failed to discover any injurious ts from its use. Aft of five it is serting virus take and I believe that medical sci these views, Almost every one has a theory as to a preven- tive of smailpox; but Lam a firm believer and advocate of Jeaner’s ideas, and no one is safe from the ray of the dire scourge unle: properly protected by non-humanized_ vacein: tion. To speak plainly, in order that our peo ple may hly understand what tube calosis is, I would state that tion in the lung tissue, contai: cles of pus, exciting inflamation in the adjoi ing tissues. This disease is very simple in its character, and the human being, as well as t animals affected with it, may live to an ad- vanced age, unless there are certain other coin- plicatic Incident: during the conversations with the physic , interesting little facts were re lated, not pertaining directly to the topic unde discussion. “Why do you always select the left arm as the place for the vaccination, doctor?” asked the scribe. “That is a very convenient place, sir. The muscles of that arm are not used to So great an extent as those of th cht, of course, and then it is very easy to have the arm to perform the i Sut that is not the only place we x very frequently.” “How does that happen? “The subjects are always females. A great ) jonable ladies, who appear at parties jow neck and short sl their beautitul arms that they are horrified at the idea of scarring the skin of their arms, and they ask to be vaccinated in the calf of the leg. And then it ofte pable mam- mas bring the! vaccinated in the same location, intend ® beauty of the girl's arm shall be preserved ntact.” “Do number of them.” <> A Few Parlor Games. games that follow are not ail of them par- but they are very pleasant. and are quite worth trying: THE CaT. Have you seen my cat?” es, I've seen your cat.” One player say The next replies: “Do you know what my cat is doing.” “Yes, I know what your cat is doing.” “Do it.” And then if the player neglects to purr or scratch, she pays a forfeit. Ofcourse, this game may be varied considerably by choosing any other animal. THE INTERRUPTED REPLY. . The company are seated in a circle, when one whispers to her right hand neighbor. Say that she asks: “Of what use is a book?” The an- swer would naturally be: “To read.” But in- stead, she asks another question of, her right hand friend, and = when the questions have gone around the circle, the orig- inai question, and the last answer are given aloud—of course producing much laughter among the party. PUZZLE MUSIC. One player leaves the room, and the rest de- termine on something he mustdo on his return. Say he has to dance around the room to discoy- era hidden person, or to touch a particular ob- When he enters he is informed by song or no when heis near or far from his object ; ing becoming louder or soft- sor recedes froin the sol- le trouble this may be made a . It is, in fact, put a mod- nursery frolic: “Hot Boiled eration of the old Beans and Bacon.” THE TRAVELLER. The traveller leaves the room, and then the company determine on the country he is to vis- it, and prepare accordingly. Say he is to guess Germany, you have a student, with a long pipe, a book and spectacles; Turkey, a lady ina tur- ban, reclining on a sofa cushion; Lapland, a tent with natives sitting round a fire. This be made by a few chairs turned upside down, anda table cloth thrown over them; thenatives wrapt in shalls, ete. The travelier comes in at a given signal, and must guess the country shown, or pa forfeit. THE KEY OF THE KING'S GARDEN. The plan is for one to give a semgence: “I give you the key of the King’s garden.” The next person repeats the words with an addition: “I give you the string that holds the key of the King’s garden.” Then the third adds: give you the scissors to cut the string that holds the Key of the King’s garden.” A fourth: “I give you a patent file to sharpen the scissors to cut the string that holds the key of the King’s garden.” A_ fifth: “I give a box to hold the patent file t& sharpen the scissors to cut the string that holds the key of the King’s garden,” and go on till one player fails, and pays forteit. THE SECRET THAT TRAVELS, A game of the simplest character, but which among young poeple will often be found to af- ford genuine amusement. It has its advantage —that any child can join in it without having previously possessed a knowledge of the pastime. The players sit round a table; or, at least, dispose themselves in a circle. One pl: er starts the game by whispering a sentence in the ear of the player on the right hand. This sentence is the secret. The player, to whom circle. The last player repeats aloud the sen- tence ashe understood it.and then the first player gives out the sentence in its original form. As a general rule, it will be found that in passing from one to another, the words have been so altered as to be almost unrecognizable. Sg eae A Victim of a Practical Joke. Another victim to the reprehensible practice of practical joking has paid for his credulty with his life. The other day, as the French bark Felix was approaching the port of Marseilles un- der easy sail, a negro belonging to the crew sud- denty clambered upon the bulwarks and plunged into the sea. Although the vessel was promptly hove-to and a boat put out in search of the unfortunate man, who was known to be @ powerful swimmer, all efforts made to rescue him from a watery grave proved fruitless. In- quiry among the crew respecting the motives of his suicide resulted in the following painful revelation. He had shipped in the Felix score is written largretto, and he took it an- dante.” Rosa Bonheur. Rosa Bonheur is below the average height of her sex,but she is robustly and broadly built and carries her head with an air of freedom, and when a younger woman, almost of defiance. The carnation has Hea left her cheek, and her comely face speaks of health and vigor. Her hair, however, is fast turning Gray, and she still wears It cut and parted like a man’s. When in | her studio and at home her attire also follows | to such an extent that he that ot the sterner sex; but, as a clever contem- porary remarks, “her face restores a perfect womanliness to the whole figure—small regular features, soft hazel of scchemsl a dignified benig- nity of Wg espana manner matches the face. She a low pleasant voice. and a direct sincerity of speech free artifices of compliment.” she Paria she dresses in the uniform of her own sex; but she never cating the custom, terferi thereby ing the Magetinegf Arte at Mozambique, as an ableseaman, and his ship- mates, learning from his own mouth that he had never before made @ voyage to France, agreed to persuade him that human flesh, of the negro ; wealthy Frenchmen that he could not fal "apo arriving at Sar seillea, to be eaten. plot Es Soon Rete apy poor he was asa at some fashionable Marseilles restaurant dermined his spirits and i f SEF by his own act rather than encounter mal fate —— This e F i ti | Gi lH ; j { z § : ty e558 HE : [ mati Doctor Says of Bes | WW AYO Yr lymph, but never have experienced any bad re- | sults arising from the use of pure cowpox, and | believe that no disease, either tuberculosis or | In ail my ex- | my opinion that she should be used for mil | Buk purposes, and it would not be healthy t went Tt Virus taken from one after this ag Pani this age it seems impossible for her to be af- | AB fected with any disease of the Tangs; and if | es tuberculosis ex. t is ina very mild forin aad | BIRENCY NS—NEW TERM IN 34 can not possibly aff min in- io pom and Bveriier Clie. little infant daughters here to be | that | nt | | eae ice, Binein advantases 3 a" | [JMVERSITY OF GrORGETOWN, “2 LAW COLLEGE. may elect), ‘ particulars apps to ' DENNIS, Seoret Tenman Buiidling, 1425 New York avenue city. 4 | SPECIAL sr. 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