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A GOOD WORK. Physical and Mental Diversions for the Poor Youth of London. Archdeacon Farrar, in Pall Mall Gazette. Anyone who now visits*the Polytechnic on any week day evening between 5:30 and 10:30 Will find it occupied by hundreds of London youths and lads of the poorer classes, Someof these are reading books, journals, and news- papers inthe library; others are congregated classes for French, short-hand, and various instruction. Many more it feneing and single-stick, or urees of a gymnasium, and accommodation in the kingdom. Others hing themselves with tea or rtions. > of the most It has become and the most which, for ranks amo! It supplic large of boys a n with the op sof intellecti and at the me time with the ph s of recrea- toa, which in our great cities are so deplorably deticient ¢ prove how admirably the institute is its work in all di In the last | examinations of the Ids technical from ail and institutes in all the institute, which I ce Kinzdom, the polytecinic boys won our first medals for printing, plumbing, pho- tography and earriage buil out of Ave we nost equally eue- phy. Their athletic club cricket and football matehes than ie club in London. But we have not nearly exhausted the list of available resonrces offered by the Polytechnic. Last winter class tickets were issued to the number of 5.000. The hist of appl to swell, so that accomn n provided for over 8,000 atude coming winter session. The m nstitute have a lawn tennis clab, ral band, a reed and brass band, adrum and fife band, a volunteer company, a sich fund, a cireulating library, asavings bank, an accident insurance, a choral, society, a staff n ambulance corps and society, ry debating society, a total ab- , a Christian kers’ union and uring the good swim- Ev year it will also be provided with Ting bat ———— ie in England. Althouzh “time” as a test of the merit of race horses has no standing In England, a very fast Fan race often excites great curiosity among those interested. In this respect Brag’s running a mile at Brighton in 1.37 4-5 has excited great interest, so much so that The Field of the 3d be- gan its weekly turf review with the following on the subject, which shows how thoroughly un- reliable “time” in England is compared with the system of timing in this country: “The fastest time in which a mile has been galloped has hitherto been the Im. 42s. In which Aophantus won the Two Thousand and Galopin defeated Stray Shot in their match. On both these occasions the battle ground was the Row- ley Mile, at Newmarket—rather paradoxical, as the Rowley Mile, so-called, at Newmarket, 1s one mile seventeen yards in length. Buccaneer Was said to have galloped a mile at Salisbury in Im. 38s., but we have always refused to recognize J. as the surroundings of the case make ly unlikely. Buccaneer was hat short of work, he was severe course, at the running on a time very h and had virtually no opposi- tion, a Stable companion who could not make him gallop. being the best of his opponents. We consider that the best on record claimed for Bue cireumstances is not suf fieientiy authen to be admitted. Even, however, if it_were admissible, it was, if there r take in the clocking, beaten on Wed- ‘on by Brag, who is returned in yas having galloped the mile in ds., oF Inf 15s. quicker than the best Properly authenticated time. But again we have the fuct, as in the Buccaneer ease, that the horse was not extended to win. Such also, it Was the ease when Galopin de- y Shot; and there Is this to be said ne probability of Brag having ef- that he was running over the ad, and an old horse was at the end of the season virtually the | cht t Liophantus and Gelopin car- Tied in the spring, when they were but three old. In other words, Brag some twenty-one pounds pull in the over his three-year-old rivals to the . even it he nego- | ce in the time stated, the per- such it would stand out as the | would not bear comparison with hose of Dieph: lopin. Our system of timing ar: + 80 absurd as to r as it is simply Impossible 'y perform the busi- | Is not much fault to be found with the modus eperandi when horses start opposite, as inthe Derby and Oaks, but the system is altozether at fault in a race like the Lincoln- shire. the Two Thousand, the Royal Hunt cup THE STUDY OF GREEK. Is it Worth What it Costs? Prof, George 8. Merriam before Yale Alurnni Association at Sprinefield. 1 may say that I made a fair use of my oppor- tunities—for I ranked, in Greek, in the first half dozen of my class. Two years after graduation I was appointed to a tutorship, and for a year and a half taught Demosthenes to the sopho- | mores. Now, what working knowledge of Greek did I acquire through all this process? There was never a time when I could read an average half page of prose Greek without the use of alexicon. There was never a time when I could read so simple an author as Xenophon, except slowly and toilfully. For any purpose of familiar use, of unforced literary enjoyment, Plato and Thucydides, ener oe a far more the great tragic poets, are and always ave been seoled book: ue me. dean read and ransiation. I canread eek Testament—especially when h text on the opposite page. ny of you, I wonder, who listen to who all gave in effect two of the f your youth to the study of Greek, jay, or have ever had, the ability to read the easiest Greek author at sight? For my own part I do not for an instant consider the time | spent on Greek as wasted. Iam sure I owe much to its training in close application, in mental exactitude, in nicety of thought and expression. Something I owe to even that re- | mote contact I enjoyed with the fr ; Homer, the grandeur of Zschylus, the inspira- tion of Plato. I acknowledge an especial debt to the instructor who taught me to appreciate the consummate blending of passion and art in the orations of Demosthenes. Not lightly would I forego all that I gained from these sources. But I have to ask, was all this worth the cost? My years at Yale fell just at the time when American history was in the tremendous climax of the civil war. But when I was graduated, in | 1864, I believe I could have passed a better ex- amination in the history of Athens or of Rome than of my own nation. I am confident I could | have given a better account of the Persian ana Peloponnessian wars than of our own war ot the revolution. I could have told vastly more of the six legendary kings of Rome than of the first six governors of Plymouth or of Massachusetts bay. I knew something about the constitution of ancient Athens, but I could not have explained the opposing theories of Jefferson and Hamil- ton, or defined the Wilmot proviso. From col- | lege, again, I carried away some slight rudiment- j ary knowledge of French—by no means enough to read a French newspaper or to converse. Of German, or of any other modern language, I had no knowledge whatever. And to-day I see the boys of the coming generation going through the same process. It is Latin, Greek, Mathe- matics—Mathematics, Latin, Greek. No time | tor history; small time for French and German; no knowledge given, no aptitude trained, save through the medium of the printed page. Must It be so forever? May we not say at least thus much: If mental discipline requires that the boy or girl study mathematics for five or six years, be it so! If discipline and knowledge of the foundations of English require six or seven years of Latin, be itso! But at least let the line of obligatory study of the dead languages be drawn at Lati —__+-e-____ ‘The Habit of Hurrying. From the London Standard. A medical contemporary publishes some sen- sible and, we fear, only too opportune observa- tions on what it calls the “habit of hurry” in modern business life. The modern man of busi- ness dresses In a hurry; he breakfasts in a hurry; he isinahurry to catch his train; he isin a hurry to get out of it. It 1s with hurry that he proceeds to his office, ina hurry that he reads his letters, that he answers them, that he passes his day, and that he returns to the station to catch his homeward bound train. All this pre- cipitation, this constant, daily, perpetual being in alurry Is altogether gratuitous, and that It is the mere result of a bad habit. Business men cannot afford not to seem to be inahurry. If one of them were to walk ata leisurely and deliberate pace to his morning train, and saun- ter through the day at the same rate, people would conclude that he had either very little business to transact, or that he was remiss and lethars in transacting it. Hence, he begins by assuming a necessity for haste when none really exists; and, by degrees, habit becomes a second nature. That there is a good deal of truth in all this nobody who has observantly watched modern ways of life would dream of denying. But in truth the habit of bustle which is so marked a characteristic of our time is orizinally set up by conditions over which men have little or no cgn- enjoy Plato—in Jowet a little of the ¢ Ihave the trol. In the case of men of business th necessarily certain days in the year—“mail” days, for instance, or “balancing” days—when there really does exist a greater pressure of work than at other times. In these cases a “push” has to be made, and everybody con- cerned in getting the work done communicates his own feverishnessto his neighbors. But such is the constitution of the human frame, such the mechanism of the human temperament, that what is done frequently has a tendency to estab- lish itself as a something that is always done. It even becomes a pleasure to some men at last, as well a3 a necessity, to do things quickly. Moreover. on the supposition that a man and the Cambridzeshire where horses start a mile away in a straight line, and the only guide | to the time of the start is the dropping of the ad- | vance flag, which has nothing to do with the | Start in any shape or form, it being only used as | keys. Under the most favor- | , the time test in Engiand is, | in the atmosphere, the state and lay of the ground and the manner in which | arace is run, utterly unreliable as a test of | Merit In the horse; and certainly, when it 1s done in such a happy-go-lucky style. one man | attempting todo that which can only be per- | formed by two, we are placed on the horns of a dilemma, and we know not which of the twain ofrecords to quote, that at Newmarket or at B bility is that Braz has cut ord, and it is greatly to be regretted that | «rary Is not enabled to verify the | without a shadow of doubt being dvantuges of Extracts, Nature.” byg Dr. Felix L. Os- fouthly ‘on to our system of cookery is nic tendency of the essence mania, the | "1 of nutritiveelements. Ours isan | We have moral extracts in the formof Bibie-honse pamphlets; language- | extracts in the form of compendious grammars; | acts under the name of 1 sti | s in the shape of oxygen- ‘al of such food-concen- | frui sed milk, ff four. But, 1. the best. In the were tanght by exai 2 esuits. Six years of rad language do not mut as much as six months of con- | tion in a liv eats Boat-racing, wood-chopping, and | Mmountain-climbing. are heaithier, as well as Mhore pleasant, than gymnastic crank-work; the | diverting incid oF sports which the Movement-cure doctor tries to elit ate are the very things that give interest and life to exer- cise. And. ons (not easy to define without the help of such analogies), concen- trated novrishment does not agree with the Bi e of the human organism. The lungs find | It easier to derive their oxygen trom woodland | air than from a ready-made extract, and the stomach, on the whole, prefers to get Its nour- ishment fn the form for which its organism was nally adapted. Want of bulk makes our food so indize le. In fruits and berries— probably the staple diet of our instinct-taught ancestors—the percentage of nutritive ele- ments is rather small, but the residue should not be called worthless, since it serves to make the whole more digestible. A large. ripe water- n contains about three ounces of saccha- nts, which in that combination have nt effect, while in the form of glu- they would produce constipation, and lence. The coarsest bran- ible, and to the palate of ulso far more attractive § but chalky aud insipid starch Preparations cailed baker's bread. —<eo_____ ‘The Farmer's Provision. ¢ Philadelphia Call. Wholesale grocer—“You seem to be laylng in pretty big etock of last year’s canned vege- tabi “Don't Intend to use them yourself, of of business lives in the country, or in @ semi-rural suburb—which {is the case with the majority—it is only natural that he should linger among his household gods till the last possible minute. It is so much pleas- anter to go round to the stable, to see how the azaleas are getting on, to count the coming rosebuds, to linger on the dewy gravel path than to be in the noisy, dirty, steaming city. Then suddenly the watch is taken out of the pocket to see what time it is, and in order to catch the city train he ‘must’ make a run for it.” The day begun in that fashion probably is continued in that fashion. The train arrives at the place of departure five, ten, fifteen min- utes late. The traveler begins to fidget and worry. He has an appointment, and he fears he will be late for it. Possibly heis. | Thereby everything is thrown outof gear, and for the rest of the day he is In the plight of Macauley’s Duke of Newcastle, whom the historian de- scribed as losing half an hour in the morning and spending all the rest of the day ina tutile attempt to catch it up. It is easy enough to see how it is that the “habit of hurry” is set up, but much more difi- cult to perceive how the setting up of it is to be avoided under the conditions of modern life, or how, when once set up, it is to be remedied: There is, however, this comfort which men of business and the working bees of society may take to themselves, that modern life yery often seems to spare the drones no less. Certainly during the height of the London season no per- fons acquire habits of hurry more completely than people of fashion. In order to consume all the amount of “enjoyment” that is placed at their disposal they must perpetually be in a hurry. How tobe in the Kow—in time; how to be back for luncheon—in time; how to dress for dinner—in time; how to reach the theater or the opera—in ‘time; these are problems ot daily, of hourly’ occurrence in the West End. The whole of modern life, whether in the centers of pleasure or the centers of busi- ness, is dominated by the desire to do too much, and the consequent necessity of doing it with precipitation. It is a horrible habit—a detri- mental habit; we had almost said avulgar habit. The whole world is in a conspiracy to double, to treble the pace. And what is gained by it? Loss of temper, deterioration of manners, injury to digestion, increase of nervous diseases—these are the natural and inevitable results of that high pressure to which we nearly all expose our- selves and subject each other. Who is made happier by it, who wiser, who even richer? Everything is relative in this world; and if everybody gallops, nobody s_ better off ‘than if eas (Aablarrer But peat consent to er would require a universal consensus; and this is not ‘attainable. . ————+e-______ ‘Woman at a Horse Sale. From the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, “The women, bless their little hearts,” said Mr. Drew, of the Van Ness house, “the women can be Just as sharp ata trade as the men. One winter I went up to Richford to buy a horse. I found it allright, but all the time I was making a trade with the man who owned it his wife kept raising an awful fuss about selling it at the figure I offered. If the horse was sold, she said, how would the poor children get to school, she would like to know; they wouldn't have the horse to carry them, and it was too far to walk. Finally, however,’ we made a trade, and I hitched the horse in a sleigh to drive home. I jumped into the sleigh, but the horse wouldn't start. Itouched him with the whip, but he merely turned around, and fixed a sad, course?” Guess they will be too old, anyhow.” ‘So T was thinking, and beside you are not in fhe business at all, are you?” “No; P'm a farmer, and me and wife have con- €luded to build a wing on the barn and take sumr:er boarders next year.” inguiring gaze upon me. I touched him , with thessme result. Then I hit him a little harder, and what do you thinkhe did? He jumped several feet into the air. I thought I waa going upina balloon. And when he struck the ground he started off ata lar Maud 8. gait. The fact was, you see, that horse h ae. hitched single before in his life. And that woman takingon so about selling hhim because the children would have to walk to School! Oh, she was a sharp one!” AN ENGLISHMAN AT HOME SOME ENGLISHMEN ABROAD. Lord “H” Makes the Barber's Ac- quaintance. Edmund Yates, in the London World. To English gentlem resident in America nothing is more galling the misconduct of too many of the “swell” English visitors. A very prominent member of the committee of the New York Union Clubcomplained to me bitterly of the behavior of some of the young English- men admitted there. ‘Why inthe world do you let them in?” I asked. “Well,” he said, “——’s name came up yesterday for an extension ot his honorary membership, and I moved its rejec- tion.” Young Lord T. went In a morning coat to a dinner party in New York, but his host was equal to the occasion. ‘Ah,” he said, “I see youdon’t know our ways. I will wait with pleasure until you have changed your dress,” Lord W. did the same thing ata very smart party at Newport. Lord M. gave a check for a considerable sum, which was returned dishon- This year matters seem worse than ever. Some of those who went west as guests in the party of Mr. Hatch seem to have outraged all deceney, and very severe reflections are made, especially on two young descendants of our emi= nent jaw lords, which they should surely, for their own credit, refute if they can. Comment is made, too, of the preposterous airs which some English and Irish men give themselves on the Atlantic steamers. Lord H. (the identical Irish peer who was thrown into a State of irrepressible indignation when by an ac- cident his wife was sent down after some lady of lower rank at a Brighton dinner-party, and exclaimed excitedly, to the consternation of the company, “Lady H. must have her rights!”) as- sumed on the Adriatic airs such as all the Queen's sons put together never gave them- selves in their lives. ‘I want a bath by eight,” his lordship said emperiously to the barber. “You can't have it. sir; it is engaged.” “But I must have it.” said this. magnifico of the peer- age of Ireland. ‘Do you know who I am?” ‘ sir.” “Iam Lord H.” ly rejoined the barber; “glad to make your ac- quaintance, I’m sure;” and in a trice the bar- ber gripped the lordly paw and vigorously shook the same. to the ecstasy of the bystanders and the ii ie disgust of the shaken. It is really @ blessing when such men as the Dukes of Buckingham and Sutherland Lords Dunraven, Elphinstone, and menof that stamp, visit the United States asa set offto the miserable speci- mens of the peerage and sprigs of nobility who bring discredit on their order there. ‘Ah, Indeed,” pleasant- eee The Lightning Ticket-Seller. From the Cincinnati News Journal, Nearly every circus advertises ite treasurer as “the lightning ticket-seller of the world,” and the gentlemen who manipulate the coin in a ticket wagon unquestionably arrive at a won- derful degree of proficiency and rapidity. Know- ing that Col. John Murray's name had figured a fot deal in this direction a reporter questioned im on the subject yesterday. “Col. Murray, from your experience and your knowledge of the subject, whom do you con- sider to be the fastest ticket-seller in the world?” was asked. “Well, that fs a hard question to answer, Several claim it, but a great many things must be taken into consideration—quick calculation, correct change, ete. I believe, however, that none have ever come up to the record I made with Sells Brothers’ circus in Chicago on the lake front, on Decoration day, 1882.” “What was the record then?” “T sold 6,150 tickets in an hour without an error, and without taking in a bad piece of money. If this record has ever been excelled I have not heard or it.” ‘Are there many efforts to pass bad money?” ‘Such instances are of every-day occurrence. But in twenty-two years’ experience I have never taken but one £5 counterfeit bill. The sil- ver money I can detect the moment I get it in my hand, either by the welzht or by handling it. Ihave passed’ money back so quickly and went on selling tickets that the party would look at me in perfect astonishment and take a minute or two to recover his wonted equanim- ity. Some come back and claim that I have given them the wrong change, but that never works; as I know better. One very amusing thing has occurred a thousand times, and that is when T have given a man his change and his ticket to- gether he would stand and demand his money, not knowing it was in his hand, so quickly had it been given him. I have ‘seen fly fellows around the wagon come up and present a $20 bill, expecting me to give them the wrong change, but I would never be caught in any- thing of the kind.” “You run customers at the “TI should say so. In some patts of the south and north they come to a circus with knives up their sleeves, and as I would hand them money and tickets the points of their weapons would cut my hands. The negroes of the south are the queerest set I ever ran across. They re- member a man for years. When I had not been in a town for four seasons I have seen them stand around the ticket wagon. and say ‘That’s the same feller who was here four years ago.’ Betore a season is over my hands have corns on them trom the constant handling of silver. No, an attempt at robbery was never made but once, and that was in eland in 1880. It was after the night performance. and I had over $3,000 in my valise. Eph Sells and I were just getting off of the grounds to take a hack, when @ man struck me with aslung shot. I shot at him and so did Sells, but he got away without the money, and a policeman ‘promptly arrested me for shooting at him.” sake << How the Organ-Grinders Live. It may naturally be asked whether the organ- grinders are able to earn a living, and the ques- tion may be answered strongly in the affirma- tive. Few, if any, artisans, or even skilled workmen, can earn as much day by day as the Italian organ-grinder. Their takings, it is true, vary much according to the districts they work in and the time of year. Some organs, too, set to new and popular tunes, are yery liberal; patronized. But £1 a day is said to be the mos that an organ-grinder ever takes, while. with fome exceptions, 5 shillings 1s about the least; so that a London organ-grinder may be regarded as a fairly prosperous man. An organ can be hired from the makers for 18 pence a day, while the price ofea new organ is £25. The cost of setting an organ to new tunes fs about £4, and since novelty is essential this is @ frequent source of expense. They more- over possess habits that tend to enhance their prosperity. Content to live on plain and scanty fare, their expenses are infinitesimal compared with those of the English artisan. Many ot them live ingangs, with board and lodging at a fixed charge a head perdiem. The lodging-houses they frequent are. for the most part, kept by men oftheir own nationalit: nd the fare pro- vided is ofthe simplest description, often con- sisting of little more than bread and milk for breakfast, and maccaroni soup for supper; the whole, including bed, being provided ata charge, of about six pence a day. ~ Their occupation is by no means such easy work asit seems, the pase or opera organ, as they are called, welgh- ing from 70 to 100 pounds—no light welght to drag about all day long. ————_-e-_____ New Social Wrinkles, From the New York Evening Post. Almost every church now has its young peo- ple’s association or guild. These organizations meet for the purpose of doing two things at once—to enjoy social evenings and to get money. All sorts of ingenious devices for get- ting money are invented. Among the latest de- velopments in this direction are the soap-bubble parties, where pipes are sold and soapsuds are furnished free. The pipes are ornamented with ribbons or with hand painting. Another plan is to provide some light and pleasing literary or musical program, and then to have a lunch, which is provided in this way: Each lady pre- pares a basket of iunch for two, and puts her card in it. These baskets are then sold to the highest bidder, and the gentleman who is the purchaser eats the lunch with the lady whose card he finds in the basket. Some results of an musing character are sometimes observed, a8 when a girl's brother pays a high price tor her basket. The arrangement of the baskets affords opportunity for the exereise of a good deal of taste. Among the prettiest bask at one of these entertainments were coi mon grape baskets. They were covered with scarlet or (a! or blue silesia; the basket was Ined, and the silesig sewed on around the in- side, and then turned over the edge, instead of being left in plain folds. It was shirred in two or three ee “and then was brought down closely and fastened to the bottom of the basket; others were covered plainly, and were trimmed around the edge with the open-work paper that is used for putting on shelves. This would be turned over in the form of aruffie. The handles were covered also, and had buws of ribbonstied on either in the center or at each side. Japan- ese paper napkins were used. The luncheons varied, but usually consisted of two eandwiches— always of bread, not biscult—some delicious stalks of celery, with salt, two pieces of cake, and some truit—either grapes, apples or pears, Meaning the Lightning Red Man, ‘Who Tells Some of the Secrets of His Trade. ’ “T have seen the time I could make $50 a day putting up lightning rods. Drive up to a house and talk witha man about rodding his barn at so much a foot, and he would figure that it would cost, say, $16, and he would sign an order. Be- fore the ink was cold I would have seven or eight men, with ladders, all over that barn. They would go over it like cats on a back fence, and put points on every corner and conductors down every side. The farmer and his family would look onin amazement, and be so pleased at the improved look of the old barn that they would not kick at the number of points. Then we would go off without collecting the bil, and in about a week our col- lector would come along with a bill for $387.47, and the farmer's note, all signed, and demand the pay. The farmer might faint away, but he had to pay it. Oh, of course, if he seemed hurt, we would throw off the odd cents, just to showa Christian spirit. But the con- demned newspapers have kept talking about highway robbery under the disguise of lightning- rod peddlers until it is as much as a man’s life is worth to go through the country on a light- ning-rod wagon. Actually, they chased me out of Dodge county two years ago with doga. At least I thought they were after me, but I found out after I got out of the county ‘alive that it was 8 pack of hounds peloneing to Van Brunt, of Horicon, after a fox. But I want to Bay to you in confidence, that when I heard those hounds ang saw the menon horseback no streak of greased lizhtning ever made better time than I did with that lightning-rod wagon.” ope ee 24 O'clock. JOHN FORD'S OPINION, Well, wife, while down in town to-day, Zheard by chance the strangest thing; *Twill come to pass, the people say, ‘Tho’ trouble it is Sure to bring. Our time-piece there upon the Wall Must go (It gives me quite a shock); You see ‘tis of no use at all— *ErCill soon ve 2A o'clock. Weill breakfast then at 18 sharp; At 191 must take the train. What oddities. Ican’t help harp On what ts sure to turn the brain. But Labor's wheels will still gO. On wages there will be no lock, ‘Tho’ this old world at last has found ‘It has a 24 o'clock. Dear Sue, maybe you have forgot Our wedding, twenty years ago; "Twas 12 when parson tied the knot, Tho’ now It seems It was not so. ‘Time’s river flows on mighty fast, And each new wave seems but to mock; For, wife, we've had to find at last ‘We wed at 24 o'clock. Our Maud, who'd like to cad till noon, Now rising on the stroke of 6 Can have her share of sleéping soon, And doze ti1118. What a mix! But when young Lynn comes here to call, And stays like Patience on a rock, *Twill throw a shadow over ali— 80 late the hour: 13 o’clock. And meeting hour, which always came So regulariy at halt-past ten, ‘Will never seem again the same— A sort of 22 Amen, Dear Sue, this thing Is certain sure ‘To soon affect both you and me, For our old clock there Is no eure; It and the Future can't agree. ‘Tho’ some folks learnedly may speak Of Greenwich time, and this and that, It Is our century’s strangest freak— A queer, diurnal tit for tat. We're told the world improves with age, Our ship at last has reached a dock Where change in all things 1s the gauge; *Pewill soon be 2 o'clow ristowon Herald, ——__—..,, rio Model Dwelling for Poor People. New York Letter in Boston Journal. The first experiment of the Improved dwel- lings association in its attempt to provide build- ings which shall at the same time afford de- cent homes for poor people and pay areas- onable interest on the investment to the owners, hasresulted most tayorably in New York. A number of gentlemen forming the association were convinced that such buildings were possi- ble, The sum of 250,000 was subscribed for the purpose of making the experiment, anda block was put up at First avenue and 72d street. The building was thrown open a year ago and almost immediately filled with tenants. There are accommodations for 218 families. Last week, when I made the establishment a visit. there were 206 apartments occupied. As the building is only *six stories high there is plenty of sunshine and light falling inside the large court, upon which face all the inside apart- ments. The rents vary from $7.50 a month for two good-sized rooms on the top floor to $14.50 for four rooms on the lower floor. ‘There is not aroomin the whole building which nas not at least one window upon the open air. Each apartment, no matter how small, has its private closet, running water and au ash shute, into which all ashes are poured. Upon the top floor I was shown a superb laundry, with hot water, which is at the use of the tenants, each tenant having achance to wash one day during the week. The bath-room ismanaged so mewhat on the same principle, the tenant receiving». bath ticket once a month for each room they occupy, and as many moreas they want at tencents apiece. ‘The bath-house is as neat and as Inviting a place scan be foundanywhere. Ae all the bath-tubs may be taken at the same time a pretty waiting- room is provided, where magazines and papers: are on the tables. Theclub-room ofthe building {is one of its greatest features—a handsome, nicely-furnished room, where 50 persons can read or play games. It is lighted by gas and heated by steam, and is open to all tenants every afternoon and eyening. There is also a free circulating library of 400 volumes. The halls of this model tenement are lighted and heated, but the tenants are required to sweep them out. No tenants are allowed to remain ‘unless they are sober and regular in paying their rents. The result of the first year’s working is that the investment will pay about per cent interest. Compared with what the poor people of the city receive for their money in the w ‘ay of homes these model apartments are superb, ———____ 9. An Old Greeley Anecdote. The following, which is characteristic of Hor- ace Greeley, is good enough to reprint: Shortly after the passage of the fourteenth amendment, a movement in which Mr. Greeley had taken considerable interest, a large darkey, who had called several times at the Tribune of- fice, came into Mr. Greeley’s room while he was busily engaged in writing. Now, if there was any one thing that was well understood around the Tribune office, it was that Mr. Greeley was not to be interrupted in the midst of an edito- rial. When he was seen to be busy, with his face close down to his paper and his pen ranning rapidly from left to right across his sheet, no one around the office had the hardihood to speak tohim. But this colored gentleman marched straight up to his elbow, and, with a large gold- headed cane under his arm anda fine broad- cloth coat buttoned close around his breast, he broke right in: “I say, Mr. Greeley, £ thought T would call and talk with you, sah, about advising the culled people to study de sciences.” Mr. Greeley’s face assumed 9 nearer proximity than ever to the paper he was writing on, and his hand kept going across It from left to right with greater rapidity than before. The cheeky freedman was not to be put out of time in this Way; he therefore spoke again and in a louder tone than before: “I thought I would ask you,” he continued, “to write an editorial advising the culled people to study de eclences.” Still the great editor wrote on. On the third Tepetition of the remark Mr. Greeley lald down, hif pen, and, looking up hastily, exclaimed: “Go away! Go to h—I! over into New Jersey and go to raising potatoes!” The colored man didn’t trouble him any more. 2 eee “The Smell of 11.” An Irishman was recently installed ina Boston oll store as a roller of barrels and a pumper of the slippery fluid into casks and cans. He tis apt and bright, and has made himself useful and familiar with the store and its Godel among other things, thetelephone. He lssome- times trusted to answer calls through that in- strument. Saturday morning Pat was busy as usual, and for the moment everybody else was absent, when the telephone bell sounded. Pat wiped his olly hands and took up the sounder. He soon fot the name of the person desiring to speak with the firm. A sample of a certain number and grade of fish ofl was wanted. Pat stepped to the shelf and got @ phial, then back to the telephone and shouted: “Here it ia!” “But send it over.” came back throt the instrament; ‘‘we can’t tell whether it sult us till we see it.” Here was w dilemma. Pat conld not leave the store to carry the sample of oil over. But his ready Irish wit was equal to the occasion. He uncorked the bottle, lield it up close to the transmitter and shouted: “and can’t ye tell by the smell of it?” RELICS AND RELIC HUNTERS, Unauthenticated Curicsities Dear to Odd Collectors, The dealer in curiosities was turning over with marked suspicion a large group of “relics.” “A curiosity.” said he, “is interesting in itself; it means something. But a relic is almost always a worthless fragment. It is the thing from which the retic is taken, not the relic itself, which is interesting. The genuine relic hunters, though, are worth knowing; fanniest chaps you ever saw. They're a race of beings by them- selves. The man who sent these things here for me to buy says he's got seven boxes more of the same sort, the collection of a lifetime. Look at this chip, marked. ‘Piece of the first sleeper laid for the Hudson River Railroad.’ On the man’s list it is entered, ‘Bought 1859—50 cents.’ It may be genuine—that -is, if the company used elm wood for their road—but if this chip is worth fifty cents, the whole sleeper must be worth several hundred dollars, and the company ought to saw it up and sell it. There's no logic ina relic hunter. The one who traveled all over the world and brought back several trunks full of noses broken oft from ancient statues, had a definite idea. His followers are curiously diluted specimens of their predecessor. “Some of them, however. have specialties not unlike that of the nose breaker. One of the liveliest of the relic men collected the hats of celebrities. I don’t believe he would have given a dollar for Napoleon's gray overcoat; but the hat of a President of the United States had for him an almost priceless value. If necessary, he was ready to suborn a great man’s servants to get the wished for article. Some years ago I saw his collection. His finest speci- mens were, at that time. placed upon the heads of plaster busts, and arranged in long rows. He afterward discarded this mode of arrange- ment, owing to the singular discrepancies which often existed between the size of the two articles. He told me that he had tried scraping down the busts, which were generally much larger than the hats, but the result was to give a peculiar appearance to his collection. One or two of his hats, notably that of Thomas H. Benton, were so small as to create a doubt in my mind as totheir authenticity. I learned atterward that hotel servants and others used to palm off their own hats upon the collector. “One of the greatest troubles with relics is that they seldom bear the least evidence within themselves of their genuineness. [ have seen in my day several hundreds of the pens with which Walter Scott wrote ‘Waverly,’ and in the old country Bobby Burns’ drinking glass might al- most be called astaple article of commerce. When my poor father first took me into busi- ness he gave me an awful tolking to because I bought three locks of Byron's hair from a relic collector, although I only paid sixpence for the three. The trouble was they were all of differ- ent shades. Poe's hair ueed to be sold largely, but you can’t dispose of it now unless you mount It yery expensively in old gold; it takea best in mourning rings or pins. There was so much of Poe's hair sold that the relic trade in hair has suffered ever since. There was a time when a hair relic hunter would make an effort to secure a lock from the head of a great man, ge if the latter died as bald as the American eagle. “Bless me, if here isn’t one of the twenty-five million canes that have been turned out of the Mount Vernon manufactory. It is marked ‘From the grave of Washington!” And this tellow wants 2 for it. What's this? ‘From the Colosseum, Rome.’ How's that for arock? Here’sa rag ‘cut from the dress of Mary Antoinette as she was being led to execution,’ and this hard-look- ing napkin in a glass-case is marked dipned in the blood ot Lady Jane Grey, executed in the tower of London, August 22. 1553.’ Value, €3, Tsee. Now, sir, if you'll just take a look at that pile over there, which I haven't examined yet, you'll see a glass tube, sealed at both ends, and containing a burnt stick. Wait a minute and Uli tell you what it is without reading the label. It's a ‘piece of charred fagot found on the spot where Joan of Arc was burned.’ Ah! [ thought so; I've seen cords of them in my day. This is the most precious lot of played-out relics T've seen for some time. Yet there are people in this city who are looking for just such arti- cles, and will pay heavily for them. any relic hunters go in only formementoes, and a precious lot of rubbish these mementoes almost always are. If a man has a fancy to gather a flower from the grave of Keat Rome, or a few leaves from Dryburgh Abbe and makes upa little album, it is well enough, But an idiot who goes around with a hammer chipping off pieces of famous bridges or churches, and even gravestones, ought to be sent to a lu. natic asylum. I know a man who has a collec- tion of bricks. Some one gave him a Babylonian brick one day, and it set him crazy. The second brick came from the Old South Church in Bos’ ton, and the third from Independence Hall, Phil- adelphia. He picked up enough of them in Rome to build a chimney with. Two years ago he got into trouble in Pompeii for taking some rubbish from there; but when the authorities found he only wanted a brick or two and was willing to pay well, they settled amicably. He always carries a heavy steel-bound trunk with him, and he ad his peculiar curiosities have caused muth anxiety among custom-house officers. He told me the other day, with great solemnity, that two of his valuable bricks had been broken by an inspector. One was from the Column of Trajan, and the other from the fine old Roman triumphal arch in Marseilles. He used to hire men to pull them out for him while he remained in a doorway at a convenient dis- tance. By the way. the old gentieman lost a box of fine old bricks a year ago; it was thrown overboard by some sailors, who thought it was dynamite. “It seems that a stowaway had screwed the cover off in the belief that it con- tained gold. He then made a confidant of one of the sailors, and persuaded them that it was an explosive. They promised him food for the voyage if he would throw the bricks into the sea. This collector's brick from the house ot Columbus was lost in this way. “The most costly of all the col!ections of use- less things lever saw was one which consisted wholly of what purported to be the bones of celebrated men. A man who eyer gets this mania Is incurable, and will often go without the comforts of life to gratify his craze. Of course such collections are seldom heard of, for the practice of robbing graves is dangerous. A Canadian gentleman who used to call onme twice a year for fine ‘rattlers'\—that’s what they call these cheertul relics—told me that he got the taste through hearing in his youth a graphic story about the stealing of abone from the grave of the Rey. George Whitefield, the cele- brated English preacher, who died near Boston a few vears before the revolutionary war. I sup- pose this Is true. At any rate Boston was con- sidered at one time headquarters for dealers in first-class ‘rattlers.’ There is not now much call for them openly, except among collectors of morbid articles ‘connected with great criml- nals. The Canadian once had a bitter fight with a fellow collector, who, on visiting him, found in his possession the skull of Gen. Kleber, who was assassinated In Cairo in the year 1800. Now, as the visitor had himself procured in Egypt, at great expeuse,a skull of the general, the col- lectors became highly excited, and an anatomist was cailed in. Science decided that one of the skulls contained a piece of integument whose chemical changes proved it to be considerably less than six years old, while the formation of the other not only showed a decided Egyptian origin, but contained the teeth of a person of twenty years. Kleber was about fifty. Butthe funniest part of it, though I did not dare laugh over it when the report was made, was that one of the collectors had been cherishing the skull of a woman. It is very singular how easily relic hunters may be fooled. Neither of those two men would buy any of the religious relics so common in Europe. But take almost any kind of a bone, boil it carefully to take the fat out, dry it for of old family Bibles. He told sometimes found old bank In them; but that circumstance had nothing to do with his buying the books, and he is nota Jculariy religions man. The collecting mania seemé to be in the family. One of his brothers ie said to have a sampie of hair from the mane of every great race-horse in the United States. “The most determined relic hunters are those who look for morbid curiosities. Anything that has be:onged to a criminal {s their delight. Those men are a distinct species of collector. The central attraction of their mass of relles 1s the skull of some distinguished murderer. One of these collectors belie¥es sincerely that he pos- sesses the skull of Robespierre. I have been told by two dealers who have lately been look- ing over the English cnriosity shops that three or four London collectors believe they have the skull of Guitean. Some of them have boasted for years that they have the skulls of Eugene Aram, Jack Sheppard, and Jonathan Wild. Itis true that those skulls are locked up in the anat- omy college or some place of the kind, but the collectors boast that their particular skull was obtained by a neat plece of substitution, ef- fected by some hypothetical Janitor. who, of Course, Feceived an enormous price for the worl that he had ee A NEW INDUSTRY. Peddling Sawdust to Mect a Long Felt Want. From the Milwaukee Wisconsin. “S-a-w-d-u-: st “What's it worth?” ‘Thirty cents a bag.” “No. Can get it for twenty.” The above conversation took place this morn- ing between a man who poked his head into a barber shop and the proprietor of the place. A Wisconsin reporter was receiving the finishing touches of a good shave and the barber ceased his scraping a moment totalk with the fellow at the door. ‘What do you use sawdust tor,” in- quired the reporter, as the shaver returned to his work. “To dry the floor after scrabbing it,” Was the reply. “It is the best thing in the world for that purpose. It gives the tiles a gloss that nothing else can approach. All of the barber shops that have marble or tile floors and Tmany with only wooden ones use it. Then it is used by many to fill spittoons.” “Does that man make his living peddling sawdust?” “Why, I should say so. He sells it for 20 or 80 centsa bag and has lots of customers. Be- sides barber shops, it is used by all of the sa- loons and there are nearly 1,000 In this city. The most of the meat stores use it. 1t ishandy and conventent to buy it by the sack and se nearly everybody patronizes the peddler. Sometimes the price is higher, sometimes lower. Occas- jonally I send to. factory near here and they charge 5 cents tor a small pail full. Yes. itis a peculiar business. How true it is that one half of the people don’t know how the other half live. Sawdust peddling is one of the latest in- dustries of ail large cities and It Is a good one where there ain't much competitio How to Mix Paints. From the Journal of Chemistry. The following table, the source of which we are unable to trace at this moment, though we can vouch for its trustworthiness, will be tound serviceable, especially for amateurs, as showing how simple pigments are to be mixed for pro- ducing compound colors: Buff.—Mix white, yellow ochre and red. several days by gentle heaf in an oven, and color it yellow with tumeric and Vandyke brown, and you have a fair basis for a dicker with the best of the relic hunters. The inscrip- tion must be very carefully made on old vellum, and odd private marke, partially obliterated, must appear here and there on the bone. Some dealers use @ mixture of a mineral acid and water on parts of the bone, to make them crum- ble easily. The articles must be kept in heavy glass cases made for them, and, if mounted, must show costly work. The price asked must be large, and rigidly adhered to. These devices may appear immoral, but it is better to use them than to rob a grave. “Of course most of the relic hunters alm to t a general collection. They will take a bot- le of water from the river Jordan, a piece of rotten stone from Vesuvius, gulf weed from the Atlantic ocean, or a piece of old bark from Hyde Park. With equal calmness they will break a piece of stone from a statue or a public building; they would steal a great man’s hair brush, or spilt off a piece of mahogany from his writing table. A list of their varied collec- tions would be rather long for the average com) ot 8 man’s life. Even the specialists would make a tremendous list. Ihave known men who took a shell ora pebble from every well-known beach they ever visited, or moun- tain they ever ascended. One of them had a stone from the streets of every important city in Europe. The number of collectors of pipes is quite large. A Brooklyn minister a hand- some collection of meerachaums. I Knew one gentleman who cared for nothing butold clocks, and another who had between three and four hundred old-fashioned eye-classea and specta- cles. A man who lived in Broome street several years ago delighted in an enormous collection th Chestnut.—Red, black and yellow. Chocolate.—Raw umber, red and black, Claret.—Red, umber and black. Copper.—Red, yellow and black. De ‘White, Vermilion, blue and yellow. ‘White, yellow, ochre, red and black, —White, yellow and red. Flesh.—White, yellow, ochre and yermilion, Freestone.—Rte |, - black, yellow, ochre and white. French Gray.—White, Prussian blueand lake. Gray.—White lead and black, Gold.—White, stone ochre and red. Green Bronz ‘hrome, green, black yellow. Green Pea.—White and chrome green. Lemon.—White and chrome yellow. ae miestone watts, yellow ochre, black and Olive.—Yellow, blue, black and white. Orange.—Yellow and red. —White and vermilion. Pearl.—White, black and bine. Pink.—White, vermilion and lake. Violet, with more red and white. .—White and madder lake. Sandstone.—White, yellow ochre, black and rei Snuff.—Yellow and Vandyke brown. Violet.—Red, blue and white. In the combinations of colors required to pro- duce a desired tint, the first-named color is al- ways the principal ingredient, and the others follow in the order of their importance. Thus, in mixing a limestone tint, white is the principal ingredient, and red the color of which the least is needed. The exact proportions of each color must be determined by experiment with a small uantity. It is best to have the principal ingre- lent thick and add to it the other paints thinner. ————~+. Fortune and Rank. Samuel Johnson. In civilized soclety we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion ot mankind. Now, sir, in civilized society external advantages make us respected. A manwithagood coat upon his back meets with a better reception-than he who has a bad one. Sir, you may analyze this and say, ‘what is there in it?” but that will avail you nothing, for it is part of a general system. Pound St. Paul's church into atoms, and consider soy sin- ge atom; it is, to be sure, good for nothing. ‘ut put all those atoms together and you have St. Paul's church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant. In civilized society personal merit will not serve you 80 much as money will. Sir, you make the experiment. Go Into the street and give one man a lecture on morality and another a shilling and see which will respect you most. Perhaps he who has a large fortune may not be so happy as he who has asmall one; but that must proceed from other causes than from his having the large fortune, for he who ig rich In civilized society must be happler than he who is poor, as riches, if properly used, must be pro- ductive of the highest advantages. Money, to be sure, of itself, is of uo use, for its only use is to part with it, When I was running about town, a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty, but I was atthe eame time very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people laboring to convince you that you, may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be, and yet they all wish to be in his place. Wednesday Whatnots. “How long have you been married?” asked the clerk at the hotel desk,as the elderly bridegroom registered. “Two weeks.” replied the happy man. “Front!” cried theclerk,“show the gentleman to parlor B, Fifteen doilars a day, sir.” “Third wife,” calmly said the guest. “Oh, excuse me. Front, show the gentleman to 824 back. Take the elevator. Four dollars a ‘week, sir.”—Burlington Hawkeye. Member ofFrench Legation—“I no talk og laise vera yell. Ven I pay ze wine, vat I zay Congressman—-Yon say, ‘Come,let us smile.” M. of F. L.—“ ‘Coom letismile,’ vera goot. Ven ozzer man zay, ‘Coom letismile’ to me, vat I za) zen?” Congressman—“Then you say, ‘Wit epee M. of F. L.—* ‘Wiz plaisir.” But it I pot want to ‘smile,’ vat I zay ven?” Con- gressman—‘‘What are you to say when you don’t want to drink?” M. of F. L.—“Oul, oul.” Congressman—“I don’t know. I don’t think there is any such expression in English.’ Philadelphia Call. A San Francisco man advertised for ‘820 red- headed girlse—must be good looking;” and not one response was received. A few days later he advertised for ‘320 golden-haired sal and before the was out two hours the street in front of his office was crowded with Just the style of beauty he desired.—Bismarck Tribune. a“ A New York paper speaks of the head var- nisher in a piano factory. Has it come to this? Must the bad-headed man become heir to this additional i? But it head varnishing is to become fashionable the varnishers must take up their headquarters in a barber shop, for bald-headed men will oid ep pomed factory to have their heads varnished.—Oil City Derrick. “What is the worst thing about riches?” asked jean Beane on feed pie Ted themeelves wings and fly away,” prom; re- plied the boy at the foot of the class.— nati Saturday Night. “A Brave Girl” is the title ofa new book. It is presumed that a mouse is the villain of the story.—Bismarck Tribune. “Are you going to play the plecolo to-nlet?” asked ot member of te rao of ante. begin with.” The polo” pla was carried: out on a shutter.—Oil City AXFRS SARSAPARILLA WORKS DIRECTIA, and promptly to purify and eurich the blood, ime Frove the apyetite, strengthen the netves, and brace up the system. It is in the trucst sense an alterative medl- cine. 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