The New York Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1873, Page 4

(Map Showing Terminology of the Signal Service Reports. “WORDING OF THE “PROBABILITIES,” &C. Territorial Divisions of the United States. (EXPLANATION OF THE MAP, ‘Flood Warnings and River Reports-- Other New Improvements. a te Postal Distribution of the Weather Reports. For the benefit of many inquirers in various sec- tions of the country, seeking information as to their whereabouts in the weather reports, we pre- sent herewith @ fall chart and its explanatory ac- companiments, The chart is designed to show the Signal Office interpretations and names of the dif- ‘ferent geograpRical districts mentioned in its dally press builetins, The license which writers have generally taken in giving titles to the sections or groups of States, bas created 60 mach uncertainty 1n the public mind as to what each group or section comprehends, that this map is necessary to show each citizen in what particular section he is in- cluded, and that ho may know under what head in the “Probabilities” he is to look for his own <weather, The following is a general statement of the Sig- Nal Service partition of the Onion, and of the sense in which it employs the political abbreviations in 118 press reports :— TERRITORIAL AND STATE GROUPS. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and ode Island are regarded as forming the Nev, England States. New York, New Jersey, Peunsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District of Co/umbia and Virginia a3 the Middle States; andybat part of those States lying Fevel of the Allegitlanies as the Middie Atlantic ates, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia ana nerbare. and eastern Florida as the South Atlantic tes, Eastern Mississippi, Alabama and northwestern Florida as the Eastern Gul States. Western Miseissippi, Louisiana and eastern Texas as the Western Guif States. Sometimes the South Atlantic States, Eastern Gull, that portion of Mississippi not included in the Eastern (iulf States, with ‘'ennessee and Kentucky, fare grouped together as the Southern States, Lower Lakes means Lakes Erie and Ontario, with adjacent territory. Upper Lakes means Lakes Supertor, Huron and Michigan, with adjacent territory. une: Lake region includes the Upper and Lower The Extreme Northwest includes that portion of Dakota lying west of the Missouri Kiver and the ey ag Portion of Wyoming and Montana Territo- es. ‘The Northwest means the country lying between ‘the Mississippi and the Missouri hives. r The Southwestern States means that portion of the Western Gulf States lying west of the Missis- sippi River, including Arkansas, cific States includes Caiifornia, Oregon and Washington Territory. The Ohio Valley includes the belt of country sane two hundred miles broad from Pittsburg to Jairo. The upper Mississippi Valley includes the belt of country about two hundred miles broad trom St. Paul to Cairo, ‘The lower Mississippi Valley includs a belt of country two hundred miles broad from Cairo to Vicksburg. Below Vicksburg the character of the bape a changes that it is no Jonger described as a valley. The Missouri Valley includes a belt of country 200 miles broad from Fort Sully to St. Charles, 0. The St. Lawrence Valley includes a belt of coun- try 200 miles broad from Lake Ontario to the mouta of the St. Lawrence River. Besides these distinguishing titles of the States and Territories, the SPECIAL TERMS used by the Signal Ofice in its various published predictions, bulletins, weather chronicles, &c., are thas defined :— When, for instance, it ts said in a weather report “a storm has extended from Ohio to New York.” the meaning is, that the storm has extended from Central Ohio to Centra! New York; or, if it is said, “Westerly winds will prevail from Mincsota | to Indiana,” the idea is that these winds will pre- Vail from the interior of one Staie to that of the other State named, as weil as over the intervening |. country. By the term “coasts” is usually included the Jand lying between the seashore and the parallel Tange of mountains or hills skirtipg it. In Texas, Louisiana @nd northern Florida this definition Would take in a beit of land extending a hundred Miles from the Gulf or Atlantic shore, WORDING OP THE TRI-DAILY REPORT. ~ It is worthy, 000, of public notice that the proba- “bilities and accompanying synopsis are so worded that they can be distinguished by the order ef ‘words. The Ne atin & mere summary of past weather, and begina with @ sentence employing a ‘Verb in the present or past tense. The provabili- ties are predictions of future weather, and begin with & sentence empioying a verb in the future tense, and are furtn aracterized by beginning with the title of the a whose weather ia mat- ter of prediction, When it is said that the winds will veer tn a cer- tain direction it ismeant that they will change in the direction of the hands of a watch,by which term seamen and others who give the probabilities a | daily and intelligent study will generally be Jed to | anticipate clearing or cooler weather and westerly | winds. If,on the contrary, a storm is advancing, | and the winds are put down in the report aa likely | to “buck” (i.¢, to shift tn a direction contrary to | that of the watch hands), the reader will be ap- prised by the ward employed. By a recent arrangement the ¥ Rivet PORTS _ will, as far as possthic, my give the actual | rise and fall in the rivers, but wil! aiso give pre. monttions and predictions of changes expected. ‘Thus a rise Of the Ouio irom Pittsvurg to Parkers- burg Will constitute a descending wave, having a given altitude and @ given velocity which cai ascertained, Taking these as data, the meteo: be | 1o- | gist on duty at the Central Signai OMice ts enabled | to Compute approximately the tine at which the | ‘water-Wave Will reach Cincimaat! and Cairo the result of his computation will ve the prediction | 1m question. This new feature proposed for the tri- daily Weather reports can also be embodied in the | WSEKLY WNATHER CHRONICLE j which is now issued every day and sent regularly | by mat! to any newspaper requesting it. ‘This | curonmicle is @ complete summary of the weather aud river osci!iations during the preceding week; | and in the matter of jimportant river .changes, foods and inundations, will be received in ample | time to give the inhabitants of the great river val- | leys and agricwtural districts, especially along the | oftendangercd levees of the Mississippi, unmistak- | able and widespread | FLOOD WARNINGS. | In the river reports it is not usual to mention changes leas than six inches of rise or fall, unless atter long-contunued rise or fall, when the nav tion becomes critical and a change of less than ex inches may be of great importance to the steamboatmen and pilots of the river. These reports bave already proved of great service, especially on the Western wate substitute for the unofficial and unreliable reports of river changes made trom unreliable water ages. The water and tide wauge now in use by fre ai Office is the invention of one of its own officers, Lieutenant David J. Gibbon, United States Army, the ingenious inventor also of the electric gell-registering anemometer, in use by the Signal Lieutenant Rag ei invention of = lectric self-registeri tide gauge will greatly assist in all tidal sade flood observations, which jhave heretofore been desultory and too much in- terrupted to be of bh value. When these svarious arravgements have been fully matured by Alittie more practice they will largeiy increase the eMctency and usesulness of tue Weather Bu- vreau, TER POSTAL Lape fala aoe of the aaily weather reports and tieeg! ‘oba- vilitiés, by and tong. Bn ‘they can be made asa penetrate the interior and rural districts twelve hours after they are put on | the wires at Washington, will culation than the most si Bureau ever hoped they coul tain Ox the predictions are tel hed to certain centres in all the sections of the country, and at each centre they are printed and issued in radial ines to all adjacent country post offices within tweive hours’ stage, boat or railroad journey. In addition to these os ior increased use- fulness, which have 'y begun to take effect, the present month will see the arrangements per- fected tor connecting telegraphically the central or Washington Signal Once with the lighthouses And lie-saving stations on the Atiantic coast. This CO-OPERATIVE STORM-WARNING AND LIFE-SAVING SERVICE ‘Will enable the meteorologist on duty at the Signal OfMice to warn vessels under sail as they pass our eavoard lighthouses and the new li/e-saving sta- Spous ofany impending gale or cycione, Cag them wider cir- e friends of the obtain. At present he railway lines, Wherever | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1873~—TRIPLE SHEET ‘‘OLD PROB9S’” TERRIT ORY. RECREATIVE REQUIREMENTS, The Plan of the Prospect Park Map Showing the Divisions of the Territory Over Which the Signal Service Reports | Commissioners for Popularis- Are Distributed. taneously with the beginning of this new work the Signal Office will also begin to receive from its new stations in the West Indies tri-daily tele- graphic reports, giving the earliest information of those furious tornadoes and cyciones which, cradled and nursed in the tropic seas, are annu- ally launched with destructive and deadly effect on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the United States. Already THE SIGNAL STATIONS IN THE CARIDBEAN SEA, at Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Kingston, Jamaica, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Gaudeloupe and Barbados are established and equipped and occupied by the oficial observers, ern at a moment’s notize to commence their tri-aaily reports. The order to do 80 will be issued the moment the pending negotia- tons as to rates of messages are consummated with the Western Unten aud International Ocean Cable companies, TRE MAP. The main or grand divisions of the United States are shown on the map by crossed and broken lines (or lines of crosses) and the subdivisions by straight and broken lines, The division lines be- tween the States and Territories are in plain and unbroken lines. There is no distinctive name given to the States and Territories which lie in the axis of the Rocky Mountains—viz., Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Utah and Arizona—but the weather | bulletins mention them by their individual titles. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. A CrRiosiTy OF THE TimEs, says the Pall Mal Gazette, is the elevation, by @ religious newspaper, of Mr. Babbage’s “Ninth Bridgewater Treatise” into a bulwark against unbelief. The fact is, Bab- bage, whose mind was nothing if not mathemati- cal, wrote the book as @ scientific experimentum crucis to show theologians thatthe Bridgewater essayists had wholly failed in the great ‘first cause” argument from design. The book was rev- erent enough, but logical, and offended the ortho- dox world by showing that miracles should not be looked on as sudden and direct interferences. He was unsound, too, on eternal punishment. “Hell, in those days, had not yet been dismissed with costs, and it was wrong to hint at anything but the utquenchable fire.’ Now, Babbage suggested that our punishment may grow out of the indef- Pite refinement of our faculties. Says Tue Crisp Saturday Review, upon the literature-and-early-rising question :— These early risers gain so many hours over us who lie abed, in prooi of which they point out that the “Wavericy Novels” were all written betore breekfast, Very good; let them produce their “Waverley Novels.”’ But “it is the early birds who get the worma.’’ Well, for our part, they are wel- come to it; we don’t want worms. In the whole string of the virtues, major or minor, cardinal or otherwise, there is not one about which the pos- sessors are so abominably conceited as early rising. DULNESS STILL REIGNS supreme in the book publishing trade, and few signs of Fall activity have as yet begun to appear. DeMas’ LIvE was a succession of triumphs and | distresses, almost equal to those of his own adven- turers. He was perfectiy thriftiess, extravagant and foolish in his expenditure; his money was all consumed, sometimes twice over, before he had earned it, But he possessed that liberality to others which is the redeeming feature of the prodigal, and he loved magnificence, and spent his money splendidly, with the most lavish and princely hospitality. He worked hard, though way- wardiy, and by fits and starts. He loved the grand air and plein jour—words which so well express the breadth and exuberance of daylight. Ir was a Currous and inexplicable judgmeut of Lord Lytton’s that Paul de Kock was the frst French novelist of the age. QuIxsTAR,” the new novel by the successful author of “Blinapits,” is published by G. P. Put- nam’s Sons. Mr. Wixwoop Reape has published, in two vol- umes, an “African Sketch Book,” which forms a curious agglomeration of stories, adventures, his- tory, geography and criticism, Still, it is fuil of interest. Like some other writers, Mr. Reade dis- credits the statements of Mr. Da Chaillu. When he was talking to @ company Of native hunters, “a roar of laugnter,” he says, ‘followed my an- ‘ pouncement that Mr. Du Chaillu had shot gorillas himself.’ . Mr, WALTER H. Pater, whose “Studies in the Hfstory of the Renatssance,” from very interest- | ing reading, might atmost pass for a disciple of Mr. Raskin in Warmth of imagery and diction; but he is at the antipodes to Ruskin in wstuetic doctrine: The literature and art of the day are running more and more into what Ruskin calls the degrada- tion of the renaissance. Poetry, painting and criticism, the poems and pictures of Rosetti, the passionate word-painting of Swinburne and tis ; host of imitators—all teil of a moderm renais- ed | ance of the old renaissance. Nownere OUT OF THE “ Arabian Nights” nas | such @ flooa of story poured through the world as | from the life of the half-African Freachman, Dumas; the wild, lavish, extravagant and headlong genius, whose very prodigality has been made an argument of the strangest kind against bim, Mrs. Amz.ia B. Epwarps’ new book on “The Dolomites’ describes charmingly the compar. atively unknown region ef the Southern Tyrol FRENCH SUMMER RESORTS. A Series of Norman Watering Place Letters by E. C. Grenville Murray---No. 5. FROM GRAVE TO GAY. How French Speculators Build Towns by Puffery. BOHEMIA IN ETRETAT. Editors and Actresses Holiday- Making. Wild Table Talk and Mad Dancing Below the Sea Level. Errerat, July 10, 1873, FECAMP TO ETRETAT. If might advise a tourist anxious to see many varieties of Frenchmen in a@ short time would recommend his starting from Dieppe, branching off to Fécamp by way of Rouen and then following the coast ine to the west, through Yport to Ktretat, as I have just done. fécamp will attract, and maybe detain, the tourist who loves old-time Frenchmen and can accommodate himself to the language, manners and dlet of fifty years ago. Beer ig not esteemed there, liberal journals are litte patronized and foreign papers are almost un- known, Fécamp is one of the only townsin the north where I have seen Frenchmen slake their thirst with currant syrup and seltzer water, and considering the fatal eect which British or Stras- burg ale is apt to produce on the French mind, making it turn by turn uproariously hilarious or stolidly addled, it is a comfort that tne visitors to this one place at icast should cleave to the prin- ciple that Frenchmen have no need of mait liquors to make them lively. That competition in holy water, though, is a sorry business, and the sight of three old ladies returning to the hotel this morn- ing with a quart bottie of each sort of water in their hands set me musing on the possibility of a third miraculous source being some day started by a believer with an eye to profits and on the consequent bewtider- ment that might thence accrue. As it is, Lam told that purchasers mingle the waters from the two sources together and ascribe the honor of all good results that may attend the mixture to both springs impartially; needless, to ada, however, that the proprietors of the springs take a diferent view of the matter, anathcmatize each other mu- tually, with @ vigor that must be bracing to the nerves when the weather is cool. The better to mark their antagonism the one has set up as legiti- mist, the other as a Bonapartist. MODERN ANTIQUES. Before leaving Fécamp | visited the manufactory gf the Benedictine liqueur (the rival to Chartreuse for those who think that Curacoa and Maraschino are not enough for @ man’s wants) and the Mu- seum of Antiquities thereto attached. Itis in the Rue Théagene Boufart (lormeriy Rue Aux Yntfs), and ought to be seen jor its rich collection of monastic relics, drawn mostly from the Abbey of Fécamp, There are carved oak stalls, chalices, stained glass and much beautiful furniture of Louis XiV. and Lous XV. reign, but Americans should be cautioned against being led away by their admiration of these things Into buying any of the reputed relics offered so plenti- fully for sale in all Norman towns, A manufactory for relics exists at Pantin, near Paris, and itis thence that most of the old morions, breastpiates, buhi cab- inets and even the galleries of family portraits that stock French country houses are derived. I know @ Frenchinan who made his fortune on the Bourse and soon after invited me to what he called his chateau, in Louvaine. It was a new built place redolent of fresh paint and varnish, but contained antiquities enough to set a curiosity shop waiking. After showing me tankards, swords and battle axes which his noble aucestors had used, he halted with much emotion opposite a breastplate with a hole tn it and exclaimed, “The founder of our race wore this at the battle of Agincourt and let out his gallant heart’s blood through this hole.” I happened to be conversant enough with archeology She Is eloquent on “Titian’s country,” and artists should be delighted with her book, which ig won- to know that this particular fashion of breast plate was not worn till two centuries \aiter Agincourt, And gg to the gallagt peart’s blood of my host's ancestor, my opinion on the subject were too delicate to be imruded. The man was descended in direct line from # pork butcher of Louis Philippe’s remote reign; bat on finding bimself at the head of a check book he’had tacked a barony to his name and endowed himself with Pantin bric-a-brac, just as he had clothed his manly soul in conservatism—for the respectability of the thing. He has been ruined since by the wary but when he turns up again! expect to find hint witha newset of armorand to learn that the founder of his dynasty let out his blue blood at Crecy through the crack of a helmet fashionable in Francts First’s reign and fabricated out of cab horse shoes under that of Thiers. A JEW’S OPPORTUNE WIT. Coming out of the Benedictine Museum pause & moment opposite the house No. 9 and admire the wit of a Jew, who was-very pearly hanged over the doorway, in the year 1825, but escaped by his pres- ence of mind. He was@ pedier, and had shrugged his shoulders at the legend of the Precious Blood, just then in more repute than ever, for Charles X. haa lately come to the throne, and the Jesuits ruled men’s souls and bodies The good folk of Fécamp took immediate measures for lynching the Jew, there and then, with the leather strap that girt his pack, and the noose was already round his neck, when he roared to be allowed to dip his ips in holy water from the source at No. 10 rue de VAumone. His request was graciously acceded to, owing to the remark of somebody present that the water would probably choke him. But the infidel had no sooner drank than he tossed both arms aloit and vowed that he was cured of a chronic rheumatism that had afMlicted him for ten years. The miracle was too good to be lost, so the Jew ‘was released on promising to be christened the next day, and he disappeared mysteriously the same night. His name was Jacob Cohen, and it is to be hoped that he succeeded in life as he deserved to do. HOW WATERING PLACES BECOME FASHIONABLE. Leaving Fécamp by diligence at two you make your triumphant entry into Yport twenty minutes afterwards, and find a cosey little town, built of flint stone and bricks, and sheltered by the forest of La Hogue—propitious te nutting, picnics, rambles by moonlight and tramps. For allthis Yport is well nigh deserted, and the reason is not far to seek. Yport is unenterprising; Yport has not yet em- braced the worship of Bunkum; Yport is still wait- ing for a speculator who shail buy @ few acres of its jand and raise the value of the same to a premium by advertising Yport on the fourth page of Parisian newspapers and getting journalists to write up its jDvigorating climate, the balminess of its breezes, the moderation of its lodging-house keepers and the panaceal properties of its salt waves. That is the way towns are made, and when you get into Etretat, towards ,four, you find a place which has made {ts way in the world like patent pilis or specific oils for curing broken legs, marsh fevers and colds in the head. Etretat was. nothing thirty years ago, and tt is not much to look at now, but it ig as full as a sardine box, nevertheless, for half a dozen journalists of name have been piping its praises m the year 1843 down to the present date inclusive. Alphonse Karr was the first to start the chorus; Villemessant, editor of the Figaro, joined in lustily; Dollingen, the advertising agent, built himseif a medieval ruined tower in the place, and presently Offenbach, the composer, arrived took to writing bis operettas here and made the’ town tuneful to men’s ears and hearts. This recipe is very simple. The moment you attain to @ certain degree of popularity in French literature, club together with a few more illustrious persons like yourself, buy a tract of rock and shingle cheap in a fishing village, and baw! persistently that it is the healthiest sea-nook in France. People will flock up fast enongh. First they will come to see yM@, who are cele- brated, then to see and re-see each other. In course of time you levy rates, build acasino, bringa few actresses down to give theatricals and fancy dress balls, and, as Frenchmen follow actresses aboat as files do sugar, you may go to sleep with @ quiet consctence and dream of quarter day, You can manage almost aswell If you are a doctor in good practice, and one in Paris bas entirely built Trouville by the simple expedient of telling his laay patients, “1 know of no place li ke Trouville for @ good complexion. [fyou want your hair to grow, go to Trouvilie. Believe me, Trouville never fails to rid you of the gout,” and so on. A LOW-LYING WATERING PLACE. Coming from Fécamp into Etretat is like walking straight out of a prayer-meeting into a dancing pooth. Everybody here hatls more or less from Bohemia and loves that checkered land. There fs no restraint and nota glum face. Journalists swarm, actresses fit about in troops, artista walk about with white umbrellas over their heated pates, and pianists cool the fine trenzy of their brows by trying to catch skate by a torchlight, though I believe the skates are a wary tribe of fish and won't bite. Yon are not supposed to possess a silk hat here, and a vist- tor detected ja gloves Would be banded over to the contempt of future ages, Wide-awakes and sim’ M-panamas are the rule, along with shootings eoats and waterproois; the ladies practice ab. stemiousness om @ heroic sczte and only change dresses three timesaday. The town is pleasantly flanked by two'cliffs, and offers the unusual advan- tage of standing: below the level of the sea, so that in 1842 what little’ there was of is then was clean swept away by @ flood like bread crumbs off a taple- cloth, This imparts to high tides, gsies and simi- lar entcrtainments @ degree of interest which does not always-attend them.in other plases; but a po- litico-economist proved: to me by a xb this after- noon that a-ravaging flood could never occur here again. quite believe him, and can well picture the man retreating before a headlong: surge and Shouting :—“I say there, you're advancing contrary to all the rules-of algebra!’ Indeed, I have always thought that algebra would be the finest thing in the world if you could only teach it to equinoctial tides, steam boilers and explosive chemicais as you do to schoolboys. SOCIETY AT BYRETAT. Ido not think tnis is quite @ place to bring your wife or daughters to, uniess,in @ruth, you enjoy the privilege and excitementef being marszied to French wile, I noted the conversations at the table ,@’hOte dinner, ana found them to consist of M. Belot’s “Femme de Feu,’’. the Shah’s diamonds (ever engrossing topic), a rise im the price of trumes and the humiliation of being governed by an um- breila (1. e., @ man of peace) instead of by a sabre, thatis @ man with a military belt round his middie, The diners were for the better ‘t exhaustive though by no means exbausted leader writers, who would cheerfully concoct an article at a moment's notice on any topic you would suggest, from the lgst cataclysm in the planet Mars down to the working oi the American constitution. They know America full well, and are aware that the tn- habitants ot New York dress in yellow nankeen, live on peaches and sherry cobblers,and comb their hair with a bowie knife. ‘the fashionable | bathing place of the United States is under Niagara Falls, and the popular pastime a steam- boat race down the Mississipp, each boat burning bacon hams to make it go the faster. As to soctal customs, every citizen in.the States has as many Wives as he can keep, like Brigham Young, | and the next candidate for the Presidency will be Mr. Barnum, who stands a good chance, however, of being defeated by Dr. Mary Walker, of the Woman's Rights Convention. lent one of these good iellows a NEW YORK HERALD, and he grap- pled at once at the “Personal” column in your advertisements, which highiv delighted him.” He was @ good linguist, speaking werman like a Spaniard and ingiish lke a Dutchman; and I found that he translated timber post as timbre FRANCE’S INSTRUCTORS ON THE RAMPAGE. The Casino of Etretat looks like a pie that has been Sat upon, its squashed roof being due to the picturesque instincts of the inhabitants, who feared Uhat if the building were reared too nigh they should be excluded from all view of the sea. Like other casinos it has its concert, billiard, reading and card rooms and a terrace, where a man with @ preposterous voice howled a dirge about the woes Of Poland this evening, while rows of us were. digesting dinner. [thought of giving him a franc to go away, but discovered that he was a bass of the Paris Opera, who had sung to please a baliet dancer with a carnation 1m her hair, and I rejoicea that I had not been carried away by my generosity. At nine tae main room was lit up, fiddies began to squeal, and I learned there was Lo be a ball, though no man had thought it worth while to don a dress coat. [he ladies made up for the omission by Streaming im presently dressed, or rather un- dressed, in the height of the prevailing mode, and Paul Juillerat’s “Valse des Feuilles soon got the better of leader writers and artists, pianists and politico-economists, who had come with any thoughts of being lazy. Now it occurred to me that il you were to take a sub- stantial British householder irom Clapham or any other eminent locality and lead him, say to the Brighton Pavilion, remarking, “You see those men with wild hair skipping round that room with actresses, ballet girls and music ball singers. Weil, they are the men who drive you to make war, vot invest, bay, sell, shriek, groan, be virtuous, indi nant, philosophical or mad. There you have thein all—the writers on your best papers, the gentie- men whose learned views on current events you purchased for a penny or three pence, as the case May be, every morning, and whose austerity of principle is a constant subject of amazement and gratidcation to you.” The British houscholder would collapse without loss of tume at such @ har- rowing picture. Not so his. French brother. The French bourgeois who finds his way to Btretat, like a Jebusite among the Philistines, looks on without perturbation of spirit at the antics cut by his in- structors. It pleases him to think that these gifted beings, who pelt him with their prose, splash ink at his prejudices and riddle his government with quills are men of a ltke ciay to hi i, and, indeed, in many respects less reputable members. of the community than he, He shrugs his shoulders and goes home feeling the taller by a cubit for the diminution which joarnalism has suifered in bis eyes, and you may be sure that he concindes a treaty bargain with bis inner self, vowing that be will no more let mis opinions be supplied him by Men who tread the ways of ti ression. Unfor- tunately, nothing ts long-lived here below, not even the resentinent of a thoughtful taxpayer. When your bourgeois returns to ris he will bat dimly remember the cancan danced dole, of the Cigare newspaper, with nerve, of the Folies Comiques playhot medote will continue to lead him by the nose, as he has done heretofore, to the greater glory of reck- less wars, loose ethics and periodieul revolutions, Yes, yes, M. Plumedoic and his friends are the real | masters of France, and those affable ladies yonder are the masters’ mistresses, Take thewa all in all they have tneir good qualities like other folk and Would sell themselves dear if bought at their own valuation. But the first duty of man ts to prove M. Plume- Cas: his sense of enjoyment in life by making a holiday of it and ‘soning and whil ‘ance pays the a) o—ag | able exercise, filling the mind with pleasant Fr debts which ber journalists have helped to heap on her these ami triots waltz happily to the strains of tour ‘aaales, @ clarionet and two cor- nepeans, B. 0, GRENVILLE MURRAY, ing the Park. ne Croquet Ground as a Feature—How It Is Appreciated by the People of Brooklya— Croquet sthetically Regarded—A Fow Useful Hints to the Com- missioners Park. . y In the report of the tandscapé architects and Superintendents of Prospect Park, daved January, 1868, occurs the following paragraph, setting forth, in part, the purpose they had to view in laying out the Park to provide forthe recreative require- ments of the people. 4 We quote :— There is no doubt that the more intense intelleo- tual activity which prevails equally in the library, the workshop and the counting room makes tran- uilizing recreation more essential to continued ealth and strength than, until lately, tt generally. has been. Civilized men, while they are ground against certain acute forms of insidious enemuet to melt health and happiness, ie! \r an and against these the remedy and preventive can- Not be found in medicine or athletic recreations, but only in sunlight and ‘such forms of gentle ex- ercise as are calculated to equalize reulawom andrelieve the brain. " Re The visitor to the Park of to-day cannot fail to be struck with the admirable manner in which these ideas haye been applied and developed, in’ noting its great popular use in various modes of quiet, healthful enjoyment. It is not proposed: af this time to enter fully into an examination of. all the ‘eer RECREATIVE RESOURORS of the Park, although there is tn the examination of such, valuable suggestion for our own Park Com- missioners as to supplying much-needed facilities for outdoor exercise and amusement of a healthful character to the rising generation as weil as to the class referred to in the paragraph above quoted. A single example of the better ap- Ppreciation of the needs of the people, and how these may be supplied, which prevails among those having the control and management of Prospect Park over those simuarily in authority over Oem tral Park, will show our,shortcomings in this re- spect, And nowhere 1s this more noticeable tham iT * THE CROQUET GROUND i at Prospect Park, which affords the opportunity jor such pleasant reunions during this delightful! season of the year, when, the heated period of the day passed, the sun casts pleasant shadows across its trim-cut, lawn-like grassy surface. Sheitered from rade blasts on one side by a bold cliff, itis fringed on the opposite side by a grove of young trees, already affording fair sheiter, but which, im their maturity, will give it all the beauty of a syl- van bower. Concerning the game of croquet itself it is not necessary to enter into particulars, indeed it ts doubtful if the best croquet players do not remain: for ever ignorant in that respect, the attraction of the game lying in its LAE hi thus realizing in another sense the profound pl jophy of nin tain Cuttle’s remark, that ‘the ment of an serwation lies in the application thereof." so } with croquet. A man may be an. Adept in the use of the mallet and move the balls! about as if they were trained to obey his will, and yes be an indifferent croquet player ; in fact,’ ia-) |, differewt. The same may be said of a young Fe ‘although @ strict sense of justice to the feminine! party to the game requires us to add that the cases: where she jails in Soxpartness are few and iar between, Mer strong points ia 2 THE GMB are its dissractions, and these—if she have butam; average pai wer, if not, her male opponent wi and'then theinterest intensifies—she manages wit corsummate skill and adrojtness, The looker om\ views this with @ calm epittonen bys perhaps cyni cally, or mayhap enviously, get the gay groups be- fore 'bim, or her—for this observer we nave, instanced may be of either ats Lo} their distractions, are unconscious or’ unconcerned as: to the critical. or jealousy eyes which them. It is ple feces however; where ope’s heart has not been a of all sympathy with humanity's softer emotions, tor watch ome Of these croquet pasties, the ladies—- girls they are mostly—tastefully attired in lignt Summer costume, moving about’ with that noe springy mevement so murked a-characteri American women, an undulating in both illustrating every pose of the figure, the freedom from fashions frequently fantastic, deforming devices which fortunately finds favor now in theirearly school experience and is fast obtaiming neral recognition; while their male companions, tne objective bat not ob- jectionable feature of the hour, display a like im- petuous activity with kindred ee Bhd they do. their knightly devoir. You might thmk it would: be pleasant to listen to the interludes of conversa- tion between these different parties who look so vivacious and smile so brilliantly and whose ring- ing la ter. sounds so ‘cheerily in this else quiee pastoral scene; but, reader, they are ONLY FLIRTING, and their light badinage, naving its charm for them, alone, would not interest you. If you have ever flirted, then “you know how'lt is yourself;” if you have not, then you would not appreciate their taik, The game and its peints are, of course, touched upon immediately, but this seems of minor importance, or of merely: affected interest. It affords, however, its other resources asid ree- tures of life apart from its- daily struggle, affording healthful exercise in the open to those most in need ef such stimulation, The croquet ground in Prospect Park has been largely used this season, showing the quick appreciation of the people of Brookiyn of the opportunity thus afforded them, an ppie- ciation that vould be rapidly shown im New York did but a similar opportunity.occur there. Nor is. this sense of benefits bestowed confined to the dweilers in the neighbornood, but irom all over Brooklyn young peo le hie thither to enjoy this favorite recreation. It is by persons from the more distant localities that the grounds are most freely used in the afternoon, the younger sod notsier groups then predominating; but in. the evening, when long shadows are cast upon the lawn, state- ler groups appear to share tn the enjoyment of the hour, These reside mostly in tke vicinity, and to them the Park is as their own grounds, with the same homelike feeling in its uses, Wil the Com- missioners of our Park take notice ? WATERING PLACE NOTES. Crab Orchard Springs, in Lincoln. county, Ken- tucky, ts claimed to be the most celebrated water- ing piace west of the Alleghany Mountains, Judge Platt Potter, of Schenectady, is at Com gress Hall, Saratoga. Henry Clews, a Wall street broker; is taking bis ease at the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga Springs. Colonel Robert 8. Tod, of Lexington, Ky., la ae the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga. Colonel Tod is: @ brother of Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the President. Ex-Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut, is passing his fiftieth Summer at Saratoga Springs. It is said that during half @ century he has never Missed & season at the Springs. J. B. McCullough, editor of the St. Louis Repub. Ucan, is taking @ short vacation at the American Hotel, Saratoga. Mrs, Samuel Medill, wife of the Mayor of Chicago, will remain at Saratoga Springs about two weeks, | when she and her Basband will depart for @ Euro- pean tour. Recorder John K. Hackett.and William H. Van erbilt, son of the Commodore, have returned ta Congress Hall, Saratoga. Hon. Charles RK. Ingersoll, of New Haven, Conn., is seeking retirement and rest at the Clarendom Hotel, Saratoga. ‘The new United States Hotel at Saratoga Springa: has reached the third story. Judge Pierrepont has been spending a few days at his highland home up tbe Hudson River, The President declines the invitation of Governor Straw, of New Hampshire, to accompany tum on.& visit to the Isle of Shoals. Boys are. deprived of the Privilege of bunting birds’ nests im the White Mountains. A law of New Hampshire imposes a dine of two.dollars tor every egg destroyed belonging to robing, thrushes, larks, bluebirds, sparrows, Martins, Woodpeckers, bobolinks, yellow birds, linnets, fy- catchers, warblers, plovers, yellow legs, sand suipes, partridges, grouse, quails ax wil pigeons, Edward Minturn, of this city, has escaped from the toll, bustle and excitement of the metropolis and sought refuge at Congr Mall, Saratoga, Rev. Sidney A. Corey, of New York, tas returned to Congress Hail, Saratoga. The Rockingham (Va.) Register says a company has been formed, with Paul W. Latham, of New York, a8 President, for tke purpose of improving Lowman’s Springs, near Rowley, Va., by the erece tion of huildings safieientiy extensive to accom modgte 1.000 visitors,