Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1877 — Page 1

sc? VOL. XXVI, XO 23. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY EOPiNING, JANUA11Y 24,1877. WHOLE NO. 1888.

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ÜV CHAKLKSt IK K.r, Where the fallow-colon-d hill Juts aeainst a cloudy wreath jray the sky, the ground beneath White with shreds from v inU r's quill Holds a pine of elant girth All alone, a paiienc- Krim . In the jthastly cold, the dim Sifted Huht that wraps the earth; I,ike a soldl-r strictly ehareed Never front his watch to yield : Ijong a?o was hushed the lic-Kl. A 11 his comrades loug disciiar,jsJ ; Solid hangs th- i?y tear, Xamb hlsnrms wlih creeping frost, And liU m'liws four ar" lot In a bitter striie to hear: t ii n moved he kcep-'th pot. Dim of night but list'nius Mill. I,t across the lone hill full the bugles of the host. Once upon a silent day Heaved the tre 'ich breath profound, Air wh carded iuto wuml: Thus the pine was heard to say : "One by one. Though they towered high and wide, Sank my brother by my side; Kell awäy my friend of onih ; Death on th.-in had never ruth. One by one Propped my warming arm of grceu, Till I stand of branches lean ; Mralxht the woodpckr may fchoot ' Krojit ny rmwn to knotted root: All is done! 'I am past. uce I dwelt with fellows dear. Once I felt th grcm nod near; Year by year In th choir of our wood Crashed a singer where he stood. And th bongos that rain-d forever, Lowest first, then upward ever, Ou his bl. r. Me with their wide loss did sever Htill the more from things I love Into this drear air above, "J might kiAt Happy, if my shadow nt i -One deep rovf of solid cool On a wis man. on a fool, . On the lowest shape Uwu pASsed; If the sun. like t'. Is harsh air, Lingered in my scattered hair; But no grace from me descends While I dr:K to usel--s ends Mfe at last." Hcrlbner. nit I KP JIEXTIOV, Oliver still sulk?. Logan still lingers. Morton's power is broken. We shall luive a fair count. Behold the bounced Boutwe.ll. Pac kard seems to hold the tramp. Tice, weather prophet, is lecturing. "Hopperdozed" is a new word from Kansas. Returning bard Packard after a vl-it to Augur. Vanderbilt was only worth $75,000.000 after all. The gossips are marrying olT Man ton Marble. This weather is just lovely for striped stockings. , Wisconsin and Kentucky democrats epoke yesterday. Where now is the Perry that was to carry theni over? It is, alas! only too easy to find a rhyme to Xachariar. There are 3i member? of the Grant family in public office. Wisconsin democrats think compromise a cum ng device. Washington is called the political Roup house of the nation. The first letter will hereafter be dropped from Slaughter's station. Cincinnati had a fire stampede in a school house. No one hurt. In North Carolina three feet of pnow and IS degrees below zero. A Massachusetts man dug np a coffin to see if it was real rosewood. ' St. Paul Despatch: Let us have a fair count if we have to guess at it. Augnr seems to have bored a hole in Packard and let the wind out. , The report comes as near suiting everyone as anything merely human can. Milk is very pure in those parts of Hoboken where the pumps are frozen. Packard does not seem disposed to pull Chandler's chestnuts out of the fire. After the October elections Morton went west to grow up with the ballot-boxes. St Louis Times: Monongahela has been mixing too much water with its whisky. So long as Casey is willing tob made a United State senator the country is safe. Senator Sargent thinks that the bulldozers ought to be armed with a bell punch. The Rev. Bob Ingersoll will lecture on condition that only a small fee shall be charged. The Ileild says a Jersey City goat chews tobacco. Sad. Only the third week of the new year. . The only way for the committee to get anything out of Zach Chandler is to take him drunk. The democrats of the Second congressional district of New Hampshire have nominated A. W. Sulloway. Talmage wante all the actors to turn preachers. Then Talmage would have nothing to preach about. Says the Chicago Inter-Ocean: "Democratic ways are not our ways.' The truth for once let it be recorded. The stone rejected from the cabinet and supreme bench promises to Income the chief ot the senatorial corner. Does Logan forego h'a claim on the treasury these days, or does he expect the nation to pay him for working for himself? A mau named Pitt sat down aeainst a buzz saw recently in Minnesota, and jow ' he is like the pit into which the wicked go. . The choicest manuscripts of the Turkish seraglio are to be translated and published. The historians and book-worms lie low.. The Cincinnati Gazette says Logan holds a full. But when Palmer draws from the independent deck, he will hold four aces. New York Herald: Clara Lr-nise Kellogg U (said to eat onion soupfnr her voice. No wonder her auditors have tears in their eyes. The Interest in the political situation now neglects congress and the returning boards and concentrates upon the supreme court. , N. Y. Herald: From wmi of the positions that fat men now take in the icy streets one would think they had never learned to fwira. w...,. . , . mvwu m 4. i

Welsh ancestry, four generations back. The name was formerly spelt Ap IVechgkyyubv fhert'oad. The whiskers whose incipient and elementary down adorned the chock of the Orand Duke Alexis, have arrived at, a beautiful maturity. Ckicago Times: For the Globe-Democrat's "Logan is in a tight place, but he lias been in tighter plac cs before," read "he has been tight in places before." Cincinnati Enquirer: We continue to receive authentic and accurate reKrts of the Bennett-May duel. Our impression is tlud no duel ever took place. Noting the reported flock of Jews towa.-d Jerusalem, the Philadelphia Preys is led to surmise that Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Deronda have got to work at last. Chicago Times: Of the senator? T.o were re-elected or named for re-election, Iogcn is the only one who has left his seat to personally direct his canvass. Cincinnati Enquirer: A young mau of West Seventh street lays claims to a distant relationship with Pocahontas because he u courting a girl named Smith. The world is full of disappointments. A California minister went on the stage, made a wretched Hamlet, and has tottered back to the obsecure routine of his desk. According to Pinchback. William Pitt Kellogg had to jiny $2.V) each for the votes that authorized him to try and see if he c uld get into the United States senate. St. Louis Times: If the proposed arbitration committee on the electoral count shall be established, the question will arise, how is it to be protected against bulldozing? New York Graphic: "The Oblate Sisters of Providence" are in trouble in Baltimore. Tbey will probably be helped out by the Ovoid Brothers and the Khomboid Fathers. Cassius M. Clay, an original abolitiecist.

was prevKleut vf the iüijtuvky Uccocratic lüass" convention. George w. Julian, another original abolitionist, made the principal address at the Indiana convention. , Chicago Tines: It is in the highest degree libelous, nay it is more, it is real itiean, of the Milwaukee Sentinel to refer ti the Washburne family as "the inevitable, meddlesome, ruiscbief-makifc, falamitous swine." St. Louis, republican: There is evidently "a bloody shirt campaign with money in it" f?otngon in the Massachusetts legislature, for General Jndson Kilpatrick is there putting in his work for Butler, Beinwell and company. Another preacher who begged that "because of the prevailing depression of business' his Silarv might be reduced, has been discovered. , lie is a Baptist, of Danbury, Connecticut. This makes two as far as reported.. Is it to be a sort of epidemic? Niagara Falls Gazette: There is a pretty good sized ice mountain below the American fall. The new observatory is nearly hidden from sight. On the Canada side a large segment of the Horses-hoc1 fall is darned by the ice, presenting a very singular appearance. OTE5 SCIENTIFIC. A number of Frenchmen, in a laudable spirit of devotion to science, have signed a published letter pledging them to wkl their brain, or any other part of the body, to the laboratory of the Anthropological society, as subjects for experiment and observation. M. Jules Trebeau has been dispatched by the French geographical society uion a tour of exploration into French Guinea, a country which is almost unknown. M. Trebeau will proceed up the Rirer Maroni to its source, and return by the Oyapok' or the Amazons, according to convenience. A paper read before the Ixmdon Linnean Society, December 7, on the Iridarar (the Iris Family) states that altogether about TOO species and 05 genera are now recognized. Of these, 312 species are found at the 'ape in South Africa, 94 in Kurope and North Afriea, in Temperate Asia, 82 in Tropical America, öo' in Tropical Africa, .'14 in South America. .'51 in Australia, and one in Polynesia. The crocus, iris, and gladiolus are among the most common species cultivated in our gardens. An interesting experiment has been made by Mr. K. N. Fairbanks, of Geneva. Wis., in stocking Geneva lake with food fishes. The past year he hatched out and introduced, at his own expense, 250,000 salmon trout. 12.5,000 white tish, 10.000 land locked salmon, 25,000 California salmon. öO.OOO brook trout and 1,000,000 wall ewed pike, or nearly a million and a half in all. The question as to a sufficiency of animal food for these fish is met, in Mr. Fairbanks's opinion, by the occurrence of a sort of white fish, known as cisco, in immense abundance, which can only be captured during a few days in the year, but which abound throughout the year in the deep waters accessible to the fish large enough to devour them. In a communication to the London geographical society, Dr. Petermann, the German geographer, commends in the highest terms the efficient service rendered to science by the English Arctic expedition. He considers the fallacy of the continuous navigation of the Smith sound route completely established by Captain Nares, and advocates the Nova Zeiubla and East Greenland routes to the pole. He believes there is a great open sea all along Northern Siberia; and states that Frofessor Nordensk jold intends in 1S7S fc sail right across from. Norway to Behring Strait. He likewise asserts that a Swedish and a Dutch expedition have been decided on, but that Weyprecht's plan for establishing stations in theArctic regions for continued observation is as yet hopeless of execution. A mushroom exhibition was to be opened on the 23d of November at the rooms of the French botanical society in Fans, at which it was proposed to bring together all varieties of mushrooms, in either a dry or fresh state, eatable, poisonous or hurtful .to agriculture, as well as books, drawings and engravings bearing on the subject. The following topics were proposed for discussion by the society: (1) On the development of the reproductive organs of mushrooms: What is the exact signitication of the terms yrct, cfiluhvidotportf. ttybrports, cvnidia, tjtermatia, etc? (2) Fungoid protoplasm compared with that of the vegetable chlorophylls. (3) On the classification of the agarki, and generally the relative value of characteiistics among mushrooms. (4) Study of the substrata necessary to the development of the various fungoid epecies and of the relationwhich exists between the substrata and these species, and questions relative to parasitism. (5) On edible mushrooms In various regions. (6) The necessity of encouraging chemical investigation on. mushrooms, with ' recital of the facts ascertained in this department to the present time. 7) The best processes for preserving mushrooms for study. (8) Bibliographical re searches on the mycologists of the last cen-

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Far away on drowsy pools reposing, F olded lilies touch the water's edire; There with hush arid shadow, night is closing; Urown birds nestle low within I lie sl'-. 1 Here, the sea waves moan and sob. Suowllakes whirl, and wind-guts throb Hut my Imbe lies closely to me pr-M ; Sleep, my baby; nh, my baby, rest ; Sweet, my baby, rest. Far nway In inland forests dusky, Nuts lall stillyon the mossy sod ; Kijs-ned berries breath' out irmcraiw-c musky; Lr'vimi'ig squirrels Idly wink and nod; II. re the crested breakers dash, Nrii-birds so ream and srorm-wtii-Is c'ash, Hut inj" bale lies warm upon my bivast : Sleep, my baby; ah, my baby, rst ; Sweet, 1113- baby, rest. Scrlbner lor l-Vbrtiary. THE CITY, Kdgar Fawet-tt, in llarjs'r's Magazine for t ebruai y.J When night Is on the city, nnd silence reigns. How all its dark tranquility, laihed in leep. Is like that quietude of the ocean's deep Remotely above whose realm the nrge complains! For even ns monsters lint o'er weird domains Of cold subaqueous dimness lart and creep, With In the vague metropolis wakeful keen i nose mucous vices mat ltsneari eonta ins. In fancy I watch bla'k crimes like seagrowths loom ; In fancy I view large hoiie, nrcc fair am whole. , tlrown wrecks where memory's raossa-i now nufur. Yet here and there, amid the encircling gloom, 1 know tbat some Rerene, exceptional soul Dwells in its lovely purity, like a pearl. ALL SORTS. .The House In the ttendow. They sat at peace in the sunshine , Till the day was almost done And then at It close an angel Stole over the threshold stone. He folded their hands together, fcte toncbed their eyelids with balm. And their last breath floated outward. Like the close of a solemn psalm. I.Ike the bridal pair they traversed The unseen, mystical roa I That leads to the lieautit'ul city. Whose b lilderand maker Is God. Louise Chandler Moulton. There has been a greatly increased sale of postal cards within the past six months. The people are too poor to write full-priced letters. Mrs. Amelia lSerrian, a phonographic writer, of New York, wrote the other dav the extraordinary number of l.oöi words in four minutes, an average ol 2t-Z words a minute. She wrote 370 words in one minute of the four. "The English and Americans.'' says the Spectator, "are great people, with a genius for mechanical inventions, but they can not build a theater so that spectators can get out of it, or a railway train so that i can lie patrolled from the outside, or a street so that it shall be at once silent and safe for horses." In Kngland they are getting nearer to the root of that dreadful disease, drunkenness. At a recent temperance meeting in his diocese, the bishop of Ely said he attributed drunkenness in poor men not to a desire for liquor, but to the comfort of the public house and the discomfort of their homes. The Boston Herald is responsible for this sharp notice: "If there is a big job of whitewashing to be done Doctor Deems is the man for it that is, if there is money in it. He made Vanderbilt look like a saint without half trying, but that wasn't so brd a ca-e as some. When Parson Newman returned from his tour round the world he brought in his ixtsonal baggage a cak of old Scotch whisky of peculiar excellence. There was more of it than he could consume, so he bartered it with the proprietor of Willard's for thirty f:allons of sherry; a barkeeper indiscreetly et the secret out, and "Hot Newman'.' is the favorite drink at the capital of cold nights. . The Japanese toilet mirror h an entirely new invention for seeing all sides of the head at once. It hangs flat against the wall by a gilt chain when shut; when open with "the two mirror leaves on either side of the head, and the third mirror in front, it forms the best looking glass that can be had, and qxiite supercedes the hand glass sd long in use. As j-et they have not been largely imported to this country, but will be shortly. A sad story of the ruin wrought in a family by an erring son comes from Washington, where a young man named Tyler, the son of an old and respected physician, has been convicted of forgery. The disgrace killed his mother and the cost of the trial ruined his father financially. It is said that William W. Corcoran will defray the court expenses, and present to Dr. Tyler the home in which for so many years he has lived. A plea for Frank Walworth, the parricide, vdio is now in the insane asylum at Auburn, it offered by a correspondent of the Albany Times, who says that "Dr. Gray, superintendent of the state lunatic asylum, is reported to have repeatedly said, and the writer himself has heard him say, that Frank Walworth never should have been sent to prison, and that his eminent legal counsel could have successfully vindicated him had the defense been conducted solely on the hypothesis of insanity. Hugo has slopped over again this time in a letter to some great unknown who has j-tarted a paper at Marseilles, His letter is as follows: Mr Dear and Valiant Poet: You found a journal. You put into it your mind, your heart, your talent. To that the people will odd success! Marseilles is a noble city. She has two profiles, the profile of Greece and the profile of France; in these two assets she expresses the republic. Where there is liberty there is poetry. You prove it! I squeeze your hand. Victor Hivo. A few days ago. says the Sacramento Record-Union, Officer Jackson met a Chinaman who had evidently been roughly used by some one, as his nose wa bleeding freely and his clothes were covered with dirt The officer inquired: "What's the matter, John?" and received answer: "Heap dam Ilishman. He hittee me down, so, von eabbe; he lun away. My nose catches heap sick." As the assailant had evidently got out of sight, Jackson kept on talking with the celestial, who proceeded to unbosom himself as follows: "Melican man and Chinaman no likee ca tehee fight; Ilishman heap likee fight; sposem take two tousan Ilishman two tousan Chanaman too, put 'em on lanch, stlip 'em, everybody catchee knife, plans hatchet. Ilishman lick Chinaman, Chinaman all go back China; Chinaman lick Ilishman, all Ilishman go back whre he come flom. ,Sabbe? I think pletty good." Nerer use a lady's name In an improper

pe.ny. Never make assertions about her that she herself would bhih to hear. When you meet with men who do not scruple to use a woman's name in n reckless manner, huu them; they are the very worst mcmlers of the community; men lost to every sense of honor, every feeling ot humanitv. Many a gonl and worthy woman's"' haractcr lias been forever ruined and her heart broken by a lie, manufactured by some villain, and repeated where it should not have been, and in presence of those whose little judgment could not deter them from circulating the foul and braging report. A slander is soon propagated, and the smallest will lly on the wings of the wind and magnify as it circulates, until its monstrous weight cruhc the jstor woman. Your mother and sisters are women, and as

i you would have their fair name untarnished, j :-nd their lives unembittered by the slanderI er's bitter tongue: heed the ill your own worn may nringupon uic mother, the sMer, or wife of some fellow creature. V hen Mr. J. T. Fields was young a classmate complained to him that lie was in danger of being supplanted in the regard of a young person of the gentler sex by a youth belonging to another ichool. who Vas daily in L'je habit of calling on the lady and repeating to her from memory whole poems of considerable length. "What would you do? sighed the lad. "Do," said Master Fields; "I would beat him on his own ground, and at ence commit to memory the whole of 'Paradise Ixst.' book by lxok. and every time the intruder left Amelia's house I would rus'i in and fire away! If you give way to idle repining and do nothing that fellow will soon be firmly seated in your place. I should not wonder if he were now at work on Thomson's Seasons, for his infamous purpose. Delay no longer, but attack John Milton alter s"iipier to-night and win f the prize above all competition!"' Ezekial began in good earnest, and before the summer was over he had memorized the whole of "Paradise Lost,' rehearsal it to Amelia, and gained the victory! A writer in the Buffalo Courier, commenting upon the applause often bestowed upon vocalists who have not even the rudiments of vocal art at their command, and the compliments lavished where severe and decided criticism should be used, truthfully remarks that injudicious amateur praise has wrecked many a fine voice, liecause of its great influence, for with superficial natures it takes root easily, but it is eradicated rarely if ever. To sing well is an art that is only acquired by diligence in study, intelligence in receiving instruction and application to the established rules of music. No inheritance . makes an artist, neither does nature leave her defined laws to perform miracles; we must therefore acquire any art by work. To sing for the pleasure of those who enjoy our voice and take pleasure in the revival of memories which songs excite, is a precious privilege, but the voice and education required to do that are not to be presented to the public, neither is the public unappreciative if it finds no merit or satisfaction in such a performance. Dr. J. M. Toner, of Washington, has compiled a list of theaters, churches, and other !mblic buildings which have been destroyed y lire within the memory of man. lje goes back to the year Mtf It. C," when the temple at Delphi was burned, and in the year :iö5, when "the aspiring youth' fired the Enhesian, Dome. The table includes the following notable conflagrations, with the dates of tkeir occurrence and the number of lives lost in certain cases: Church of St, Sophia, Constantinople, 532 A. D. : St. Paul', I-on-don, 1137; St. Paul's and GO other chnrches," lornlon, ltfiG; Drury Lane theater, London, 1G72; the Flemish theater, Amsterdam. 1772, 700 lives; Trinity church, New York, 1773; the 'Saragossa the?.ter, 177 S, 400 lives; the theater at Montpelier, 1783, 500 lives; Ixndon bridge, 112. 3.OJ0 lives; Chestnut Street theater, Philadelphia, 1820; Park theater. New York, 1S2I; Bowery theater, New York, 1H23; theater in Canton, China, 18t5, 2.3O0 lives; Niblo's theater, New York, M.; church at Santiago, Chili, 18W, over 2,000 lives; Niblo's Garden, New York, 1872; Saragossa theater, 1872, 000 lives, and the Fifth Avenue theater. New York, 171. The latest report Rave-th number of the lost by the Brooklyn theater lire as 24. , During the long winter ordinary evening amusements lost their charms to the children. So a neighbor nnd myself invented a new plan for the entertainment of our large families. Every week we have one evening that is called "Story Night." On this evening each person present tells a story, made up for the occasion, or gleaned from readings. The youngest member opens the entertainment, then the next older, and so on till the father, mothers, aunts, uncles, and visitors, if any are present, teil a story. Ijtely, since the children have been in school, they frequently select poems from their reading-hooka and recit them with appropriate emphasis and gesture, or write out a story and read it. The evening spent in Wiis way is quite the pleasantest one of the whole week, and looked forward to with anticipative preparation by every member of the two families. If any one chooses to sing a song, or play an instrumental piece on the piano or organ, that Js gladly accepted in lien of a story; but no one is exempt from contributing something to the common fund of entertainment. It is wonderful the improvement manifest in the ability of the younger ones, and the elder ones, too, in narrating events and handling character. Criticism of the kindest, sort, and all are entertained by the e Sorts of the others. A principal reason why comparatively few young men succeed, is because of their impatieuee of restraint while familiarizing themselves with the details of their vocation, The aim and object of the average young man of the period is to be at the head, or at least a jartner in a business. Hence it m that at fifteen he is constantly on the eager search for an increa.eof salary, and not unfrequcntly sacrifices a position of great ultimate success for one ot far less promise, but which offers the temptation of an immediate advance in wages. The boy who is surest to succeed is the one who when he desires to become a clerk or salesman is willing to begiii at the bottom of the ladder and work his way to the top by slow and patient perseverance; , who U H3 ready and willing to perform the duties required of him for$300 a year as though his compensation were five times that amount; who is not a mere eye servant, but diligent, active and useful, whether the master of the establishment be present or absent, who displays as much interest in kis employer's business as though it were his own, and who is conscientious in all his dealings with enstomers. Such a young man will win the confidence not only if the partv he is serving, bat of the buyers also, and" the result is thaf in process of time, if he has capacity for the! business, he becomes an indispensable, ami generally has it in his power either to command a place in the - iirin or a salary that will repay hira for his faithfulness to tluty.

FOtt THE LADIES.

The Old Problem. AM NOT T1IK LR.VT KM K.V U ISASnl NO OT TKO-K AKKECTI.NO L.VhOR AND CAI'ITAL. I work In a shirt factory, And earn three dollars a wek, My employer's a Christian, Kubicuud, round and sleek. lie wears respectable K'asss On his benevolent nose. And trots, In his meek drab galter. Into tirlndf r & Co.'s. He lugs the unwilling (;ofx) Into his daily nflairs, a.VK srraee both before and afi-r. And the longest kind of prayer. lie subscrilies to a score of missions. And enjoys the chairman's Wp At the annual meeting of the , Society for Lost sheep. I ply the weary treadle From dawn to twilieht srrav. t YamjMsl, and stifled, and hungry, For tilt j cents a day. The days to eome are no brighter Than the evil days that were, And my two square Inches of mirror Hay to me I am fair. And I must go dressed like a woman Out of my scanty pay; Mr. tJrlnder, you "know how I manage On my nfty cents a day. Thus I am going hell ward, Fast as a woman can go, And straight from the highly mcrul Kmployraent of Grinder A Co. Possibly God looks out Over the dark, sad eit v ; Does he look on me with eveK Of anger or Infinite pity? Inexorable belore me 1 Jes the life of the merciles ureet; Liquor, kicks and curses, , Darkness and cold and sleet. ' .So peihapsmy firxt lnsktllTa-uT Of ftie tteriml Sleep Will be had in that coney refujre Krected for Lost Sheep. Hut, O Charitable tirinder, Mow mueti less would It eot. Instead of hunting for Ixt Sheep, ' To save sheen from being lot. Some loVely imitation jewelry is made I it tiny teathers that gutter like gems. 1 Mrs. 8. S. Cox is as witty and accomplished as her husband, and a good deal handsomer. Hyacinth leaves cut off close- to the bulb, and covered by leaf mould in a -aucer placed close to the glasj will in ten weeks develop bulbs of their own. Mr. Hootbrcnk produces new varieties by crossing the sap. N. Y F.vening Telegram. Mrs. A. W. Tucker, wife of the rnitaria7i minister at Peterlioro, X. II.. has been asked to preach for her hu.sband when he needs relief. It almost seems as though the congregation think it would lie a relief to them to have her preae"h frequently. j Mrs. Klizabeth Goose, otherwise "Mother Goose," died in ttonon in 17"7; and here is the Ilev. J. I- Manning, pastor of the new Old South church, asking that a memorial statue should be erected to the venerable lady in one of the squares or parks of the city. Tribune. - - f The IiOndon Athena?um deals severely with the New Kngland rotrrle of female authorsincluding Miss Alcoit, Miss Fhelj, Mrs. Whitney and Miss ivlge when it says that iheir ideas all run in the same groove1, and describes that "groove" as being "the common use of a certain set of vulgarisms,'' Miss tfruith, daughter of the late Rev. Dr. W. A. Smith, of Virginia, is in Knglan. teaching a theory of the nervo'is system, in which, she says, there is a law of harmony. In order to be always young, one ninjt rie at half-past 4 a. m., walk a niiie, breakfast it half-past . a. m., dine at half-past 1 p. ni, sup on bread and water at ' 0 p. m., and retire at half-past 7 p. m, She ie keeping herself young in appearance. . '.: ; j Mrs. Vanderbilt, the first wife of Commodore Vanderbilt, kept a tavern for some years in New Brunswick, N. J., with thrift and sncces, in the intervals of bearing 13 children.! At 3. by her labor added to his, he was worth $30,000, and branched oat into larger enterprises. Mr. Vanderbilt married again at the age of 76, and to" his second wife, a southern ladv, is attributed the founding of Vanderbiit university in Tennessee. Woman's Jonrnal. . , , , Miss Rhoda Broughton is snubbed by the Spectator thus: "'Tis a pity when charming women talk of things" that they don't understand," said an old song " truly, and the pity is all the greater when the things in question are such as they could not well understand. There are passages in Miss Jlroughton's novels which constantly remind one of that delightful French story of the little girl w,ho, in making her first confession, detailed to her spiritual director a whole series of atrocious crimes, and wound op with the avowal, "Et puis, vwn jtere.je md cusc (V avoir tue mon aslitrnarie en diM'f." "Jenny June," the New Yck correspondent of the Baltimore American, writes as follows: It is not doubted that Miss May was sincerely attached to Mr.' Bennett, and that she is broken-hearted over the incidents of this unfortunate affair, home think that it is interference which has done the mischief, and that after all and after awhile the marriage will quietly take place. But this is hardly likely, and pity it is that it is not likely, for it might be salvation to a man who possesses naturally many fine qualities, but who, taught irresponsibility because he was a man, and left so young in uncontrolled possession of limitless wealth and the sovereign influence of a great daiy paper, would have been almost superhuman to have withstood the danger to which these circumstances exposed him. This is what Mme. Caplin, in her new work, entitled "Women in the Keign of Queen Victoria," has to say of her strongminded sisterhood: "It seems to me absurd to talk of the right of women to engage in any profession or occupation; the prime question is, are they fit to engage in it? Are they not whining and crying for something to do, and . ncele ting the things which lie close before them likethebaby crying for the moon while he allowed the dog to run away with his bread and butter? They are contending for admission into the professions of law, divinitv and physio, and overlooking the arts which Luve garnished their tables and rendered their homes beautiful, and by which a comfortable subsis tence might be obtained." No wonder women have weak lungs, and every ill that flesh is heir to, when they (.trip themselves of their warm, thick clothing worn during the day, and array themselves in gossamer fabrics, with no coverings for neck or arms, and this at night, in tne dead of winter, when even men shiver in their flannel -and broadcloth. "Why," said a doting mother of her delicate girl, out for the first season, 'IJewie takes off her flannel fchlrt whea 'the' ocs to a' puxtyl'' Alia I

thought how many girls there were who .only wore little cambric apoloeies for body coverings, I know a beautiful woman i wife and a mother, wh.vte health is a constant source of annoyance to herself and anxiety and expense to her husband and she told me she had never worn a flannel in her hfe. "They make one look so horridly ugly and bundled up," was her excuse And so she would go out in the bleak weather with only cambric covering to her delicate limbs, nnd thin soled French ealf loots, and lisle thread tokings. "oh I can't wear thick soled boots," she ex. Iaimedthey are so fearfully unle.votning to the foot, and they spoil a person's walk. Washington letter. Mother Goose thoroughly deserve a statue. It thonld be in bronze, and a riot k of listening children should be gathered around her. "Mother Goose." however, was the mother ot the Klizabeth above referred to, who as early as 1715, married one Thomas Fleet a printer, Rev. Cotton Mather officiating A babe was born to this union, and then n.

pother, and it was to quiet them that Thom.3 louuicr-in-iaw went around eroning those vague nonsense ditties which had come down from uncounted generations. Thomas protested against the racket, and when he failed to silence the brooding old hen of mother in-law he wrote the verses down and printed them. The little pamphlet was one of the first books printed in this country, and bears on its title page "Songs for the Nursery; or. Mother Goose's Melodies for Children. Printed by T. Fleet at bus Printing House, Fndding lane (now Devonshire street,) Boston, 1719. Price two copiers." It was purely a work of derision of a mother-in-law, but it paid. The Elizabeth Goose to whom She Tribune alludes wa-j Feet's wife the daughter of Mother Goose. Will some of the Boston papers tell us Mother (loose's first name and wh.it sort of a person sh was? Graphic. ritLSS OPI.MOX. Kansas City Times:' It is arousing tubehold radical congressmen throwing themselves into the Jast ditch in defense of state sovereignty and state rights as represented by the foulest of all state wrong, the usurping Louisiana returning board. Boston Post: It is a comfort to know that Mr. Wheeler felt in full sympathy with Mr. Haves the moment their hands clasped. This electric f uion of soul, as each man stood gazing into the eyes of the o;her at the rail- ' road station and" feeling every inch a president (by the grace of the Louisiana returnir.r board), must have been a sight for gods and the hackmen. Nashville American; A colored meeting in the north recently resolved that "the negro is forbidden to form any alliance with the democracy." They did not intend it but tjiey very tersely told the exact truth. The power of a netr" master has forbidden and constrains more harshly than ever the old master, and bulldozes the unfortunate who does transgress the command. New York World: The eruccessful forgery. 00 the New York Life insurance company raises a question about our current methods of doing business. If we insist upon doing it rapidly we run the risk of doing it recklessly. A man whose business is so important that he can not hend a few sq?:are to ask about a check for $64,000 offered to him by a stranger should be doing a very large' business indeed. Washington Union: . This is luv-ing strange, that the confident Chandler, the childlike Chandler, should be so embarrassed after answering one question as to hesitate about responding to a kindred and inseparable interrogatory, and also require three working days and one Sabbath day to reply. The safest plan for Mr. Chandler to adopt will be to utilize that humane provision of the law which relieves a man of the di.-wgreeable obligation of self-crimination. . Baltimore Gazette: One of the most disgusting characteristics of the republican party is that outrage and bloodshed constitute its' nutriment and sustain its vitality. The iJbandlers and Mortons rejoice with the joy of ghouls over accounts of the killing of negroes, and investigations are managed not to ascertain the truth but to accumulate political capital; and what an amazing sort of political capital it is. If they can show that a republican administration fails to protect life and property, to repress disorder and enforce the laws, that is assumed to be an argument for maintaining that corrupt and inefficient administration. Detroit Free Press: The statement that the Lake Shore railroad company proposes to regard the breakage of the Ashtabula bridge as an "act of God," and to refuse therefore all payment of claims for damages, lends a new aspect to a calamity which startled a continent. t is unquestionably in the power of the company by its refusal to put claimants to great cost in making and establishing their claims.and the prospect of such cost will undoubtedly deter many from bringing puit It is to be hoped, however, that somebody will have spirit and means enongh to contest this sou. less plea of the railroad corporation and secure a judicial decision of the question whether the accident was "inevitable" or not. St. Louis Republican: Adding Chamberlain's unwilling testimony to Col. Hunt's official report, and the republ ican plot is clearly revealed. The administration leagued with Chamberlain to carry the state for the republican ticket by promulgating audacious falsehoods as an excuse for military interference. There was no insurrection, no disturbance whatever; yet this carpet-bag governor was able to garrison South Carolina with federal soldiers, and when beaten at the polls bad these same to uphold his usurpation. It is a record of infarajr from beginning to end; and yet the republican party support it, applaud Grant for his share of the work, and proclaim Chamberlain a martvr in "the cause of God and humanity." When will this wretched faree be played out, and the actors in it hissed ofVtlto stage? Charleston News and Courier: With the indignant query of the Richmond Dispatch before our eyes, "What kind of southern men oppose the bill?" we are loath to 'saythat the new Paciric railroad bill, in oar humble 'udgment, is worse than the old. To amain line of 1,200 are tracked 1,2.50 miles of branches, whose partial or entire uselrssnesn we have snown. The government is asked toguranty 5 percent, interest on bonds to the amount of $3a,000,000 for the main line and $37,000,000 for the branches, and assumes an annual liability for interest of nearly four million dollars. This is a big haul. To the proMsition to puurnmv the bondj fr the main line from Fort Worth to Fort Yuma we might givevand will try to give, a qualified support: bat the brsnche we can notjjtand, unless th democratic policy is "to go in for the Old Hag and an appf upiiauou,'-