Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 39, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 March 1871 — Page 2

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Rural,

Farm

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JJf

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-.y

Bcii.dinos.—It

source of

ranch regret that so little taster should be displayed by a majority of our farmers in tho erection of building The beauty and value of a place e^n be

planncu ouiiaing—one that suggest* pleasant ideas of harmonious proportion and a fitness for the purposes intended, as an agreeablo variety to the landscape, costs no moro than an illventilated, ugly, lonesome windowed, bare, Ijoid, monotinous-looking bouse, that in summer makes One feel hot, ana in winter cold. Every one knows the agreeable sensation produced by a pleasant cottage embowered amiefst forest trees, with a cheerful variety and in?g termingling of colors, showingtbe light and shade by its irregularities. A cottage of this kind should never be painted white or black, but some neutral color, with tho trimmings white and If blinds green. The out-buildings should be made to heighten the effect by being |v.. subordinate in proportion and color to the main building.

kkio.vtion of Land.—Irrigation

may be spoken of as the art of carrying water onto land in order to increaso its fertility. Tho art has been practiced from tho earliest historical time in all civilized countries. Water meadows

ilep have boon established in this country for hundreds of years, but of late public attention has been aroused to the importance of still further extendin the area of land thus treated. Althoug drainage and irrigation appear at first sight to aim at two opposite objects— tho first to take water from tho land, and tho second to causo water to flow into it—yet they must not bo looked on as antagonistic. It indeed can readily bo shown that, while draining frees land from suporllous moisture, it is the means of causing a larger body of wator than formerly to pass through any given section of tho soil. Tho same ,, rainfall descends upon tho drained as

»I)on H'o mainlined field, but, owing to tho arrangement of underground channols, thero is. in tho former caso no puddling of tho surfaeo, no trickling over tho land, into contiguous ditches, lit evaporation is checked and tho land is dry, because tho water has quickly I, passed through il. Drainage, therefore, jj Is a means of altering tho condition of

Ttn water in the soil, rather than of doprivU-*

i,l&

the soil of so valuablo an element

it of fertility. Jly it a stagnant condition is changed into a state of movement, 4, and the full advantages of tho rain arc roalized. Without it tho land is water•M logged, and showers, which ought to _|llnd their way down to tho roots of $ plants, soak the surfaeo and feed tho neighboring gutters. The benefit of irrigation liny likewiso bo traced to tho constant change of the water as it j» passes over tho surface of the moadow, giving up its riches to the herbago near which it Hows. Thus, drainago and irrigation may bo shown to have much in common, and tho idea of their boing opposed to each other may be dispelled nay, further, as a preparatory step in the formation of wator meadows, it is often considered advisablo to undor^draln the field, thus showing that tho 'twooporations, so far from neutralizing, may assist each other in improving tho ••tup land. rtSTifrSiTWitrfV *mt The

SfB 1

roof filly per cont. inorosocure against taking fire from falling cinders, in caso of firo in the vicinity. It pays tho expense a hundred fold In its preserving inlluonco against the offocts of the weather. Tho older and moro woatlior beaten the shingle, tho moro bonetit deprived. Such shingles gonorally be00me more or loss warped, rough, and cracked application of tho wash, by wetting the upper surfaeo, restores them at onco to their original or first form, thoroby closing up tho spaco botween tho shingles, and tho llmo and sand by filling up tho cracks and porcs

In tho shingle warping.

PS®! spllp

itself, preventing Itx

Hoktkn

FurtT-TiiKKs planted in timber-land, It Is said, bear sooner than those plant•v«d on prairie-land, but tlie latter will continue fruitful inue,h longer than the firmer.

roUUTVPON pknt

of the

sv tjfvtorlbes a ell rose factory in Miatua county, in that State. One hundred er»w* we're milked. Their average eost- was The calves wore kept from five to eight days and sold at five dollar* each. The product of each cow for the season was about $W.U.

A «*oMHW»ii''aTio7» Hi the Agricultural Socletv of Mecklenburg recommends administering a bottle of strong black coffee, combined with a wine glass or 1 p\uw, though yo brandy, as an unfhlllnR remedy against £rup kind?" colic in the horse. A member Pf««"t stated in the*wunc connection that a sub-cutaneous injection

would immediately quiet all pain and cure this same disease. Tit ground selected for tho disposition of the stable manure, should be even, in order to penult trlbution of the manure on it, and thu« tKKHire the heat uniformly In thickness. Onlv In this caso the process of putrefaction proceeds regularly of the heap, and its body prove* a homogeneous character.

Ir vonr land is wet, to let e&cess of moisture, tf It is dry.

supply the deficiency.

Cbvntry Grnt/ema* savs that

John Morris, of

CaTupL^

found of late years 'JJ! poai^ and better one*, bv kMning j"J ground cultivated instead of ft to run to grass.

The

Young Folks.

ENIGMA.

The greatest curse and scourge of mod ern times A remnaitiof bftrbaric customs

surel

crim

Yet the

little attention

"r paid to the principles of architecture by the study of such works as Down•an ing's or Vaux's would not only save money but add largely to the convenience, beauty and value of the farm.

I molt

a4d greatest of all

lost $igb and mighty in the ndulge in me.

Broadcast I spread griin famine, death and woe. Misery in all her varied forms attends my onward move If I lay the labors of nation lo^.

And fell destruction, cruel unio deaih is where I rove. List to that shout, the hurried tramp of men.

Hear the loud thunder of the squad rons as they dash along When shall these sufTnngs cease through me—ah, when?

How can the rulers of the earth uphold so great a wrong.

Hknry Harcoubt.

DOUBLE ACROSTIC.

The stormy breakers dash and foam Upon the shingly beack May yon good ship, so near at home,

Iler port in safety reach.

Hark tho boom of minute guns, Of our hopes the dreadful

go knell

See, the life-boat proudly runs, O'er the dark and angry swell. 1. This is good when

a la

Irish.

quality much prized by swordsmen. At barking this is rather thickish. A stumbling-block to most High-

Churchmen. This was oft used by our highwaymen.

W. A.

Bensted.

-SQUARE WORDS.

1. Fourpence a weapon frequently readiness movable lodges. 2. A county evade to payback track fashion. 3. To tie food opponent separated rawhides.

John Jones.

METAGRAM.

Complete, I havo but letters four, My meaning's soft, I guess Mv head nriw change, and then explore,

Is just what I express My head if you would change onco moro,

A well-known herb 'twill name When changed as you have done bofore, A space of timo you'll gain Another head on mo now place,

Tho old one first rcject And should you this desire to trace, A sort of steam select.

Ohio of a

Kin

Boots.—The

Farmer says:—Melt a quarter pound of tallow, then pour It Into ajar, find add to it the same weight ol olive •il, utir let it »»t*sd ft 111: supply a small nunntlt wonslonully with a pieco or tl'iuucl. Should the lxwts bo verv vdlrtv. cleanse with warm water. it wilfsoften anv leather.

John Ai.corn Irving.

te.... ,.i eoxUNDftlJMS. 1. What goes most against a farmer's grain

Why is wit liko a Chinese lady's foot? 3. In what tree would you impound donkeys? G.

A spot on cars

vine.

CHARADE.

first

indicates,

Which you can't fail to view Discaso amongst tho feather'd tribe, From that samo will accrue, I need not for 0110 momont have

Tho slightest hesitation To say that

second

PAPER.

Charade.—Peri-he-lion. -4 Enigman No. 1.—Break. Doublo Acrostic.—^erlJJ1' thus: BrilL, EchoO, RoaN, Leal), I, NelsoN.

Enigma No.

1.—otar.

Enigma No. 2.—Star. tl Tl11'1 Oviform, Rovoal, Ever

Arithmorem.—Thomas Moore, thus nil. Hall, Olio, Mill, Aislo, Sell, Meal,

Flower Puzzlo.—Forget-me-not. itiddon Trees—Ash, larch, aspen, elm, maple, pine, fig,

The Nation

will proclaim

What's reckon'd a relation. A vosseljiow will givo my

whole,

TO ENIGMAS, AV. IN LAST WEEK'S

ANSWERS HADES

lime, "P»s»

willow,

date, oak. Decapitations.—1. bword, word. Tape, ape.

MPOOIIAM.

Is thero a heart that never loved,! Or felt soft woman's sigh Is there a man can mark unmoved

Dear

woman's

tearful

eyo?

Oh, hour Uitn to some distiint shore, Or solitary cell, Where none but savage monsters roar,

Where lovo ne'er deign to dwell.

Thk Tiikek Sikvks.—"Oh.mamma!"

bv telling

morphia

Wastry

Ing. snboil to prevent washes. If la j*"™} ?nTTf

Ing of the crops from heavy n*i"s |f

want to be a good termor. If you want to bo rich, Thk

corn cwpproves

one of the beat for this purpose, as 11 remeii the growth of weeds, and

reprcwKNi the growtn

of his careful culture la, that hlaorchard

"I hoard

cried little Blanche Pliilpotte, "I hen such a tale about Edith Howard! did not think she could be so very

"'•"Shr^dear," interrupted Mrs. Pliilpotte, "before you continue, we will see If your story will p«s« the three hIcvps." "What does that moan, mamma? inuuired Blanche.

I will explain it. In tho first place, ly ri|{ "I suppose so I got it front White and she is a great friend of

sll0

j,jiOVV ii0r friendship

tales of her In the next nu can prove it to be

1** 4V I\ tin* I did not mean to be unkind, mftnl ma but I atn afraid it was. I should not* like Edith to speak of

1110

as I have

spoken of her." And, is it necessary?" "No, of course, mamma there was no need for mo to mention it at all."

Then put a bridle on your tongue, dear Blanche, and don't speak of it. If we cannot speak well of our friends, let us not apeak of them at all."

ITom»—A

Story rftl*

TJors.

—T**ds, let me tell you a story. Once upon a time a youth left his home, at

youth left his

sixteen years of age, to learn a tn a dirty, disagreeable trade, but his parents thought a good one in

tradeone of

his parents tnougm a gotni one a pecuniary point of view. He went into a strantre neighborhood, where his name was not known. Around his old home he was somebody's son in his new home he was somebody else's apprentice Around hie old home the doors of respectability wens open to somebody's son around his new home the doors of respectability were closed tightly against somebody's apprentice. This was a new order of thing*, and surprlsed him verv niuch finite yei when he reflected ctJolly he did not much blame respectability fbr Its self-prcserMtion. There are door* that open easily to •••fv mnwr. Tb«*e be shunned. There

«.*err comer. Th«s« he snunneo.

this respect Ts better than ipprentic«. in every village IJn»e has beem found decidedly bene- shunning—he did it, »cUI. M« inw "in.rtoSrt.nt and then sMead broadeart »hould do?" After diseasing this ground at the rate of over a hunnretl bushels per acre. Ilia ground has been perfectly undordrained, and the result of his careftil culture la, that hlaoreharu

hL been amid the din ami dirt he said to hlm- .. ti-ss'^"w*u'if

and the resuu

1 wn'1^ oti*!h

t^ j«y

-XT'

-An®*

fMPRR-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. MARCH 25. 187.

Ho, must do hojtiegan to

spico of mischief, too, something. In self-dr' read.

khip in boys eight

The pld system of apjii tfcft oouutr^ used to req« and Journeymen to Work o'clock in the evening in and after this was done it 1 to loafabout the corners* Stores, and tavern# until 9, 10, or lloclock. Torn (the boy) went to bed.

In the morning it was difficult to get boys and journeymen up to breakfast at half past sil, or seven. Tom got up at four o'clock, sometimes at three, sometimes even as early as two, in mistake, for hisrfcWas

got awake,

log* np whm te

knd from that time until the

others got up, read and studied. His morning canuie came in time to be a signal for the villagers who had occasioned to start somewhere early. He borrowed money to buy books with, borrowed others, took a leading newspaper, and in tho quiet morning hours, took in food for the day's reflection.'

This course bore its legitimate fruit. He went to his level, or rather, put himself there and he now lives in the neighborhood of the old shops, as much respected as anv one. I believe ho has written two or tliree books, and in every respect would be considered fairly up to the "Mediocrity."

I leave you to imagine all the hardships, if vou can, of the situation and would ask you what you do from four to six o'clock in the morning. Those two hours, rightly used, will oe worth more to you than you can possibly conceive. When you wake up, get up instantly. You may bring excuses for the other twenty-two hours, but those two you waste, if vou sleep them. "Midnight oil" is a humbug. You go to bed in the evening, when you are tired, and set your mind to work in the morning, when you are rested. Guard your character in the beginning, and in the end it will guard you.

To tell you the fate of other apprentices, who loafed theevenings, and slept the mornings away, is not my intention. Try Tom's course for one year, and you will find your pay in genuine happiness. Your usefulness will increase, your self-respect will strengthen, your mind will develop in harmony with your bodily growth, and your whole being will march along the upward pathlrejoicing.—New

bune.

York Tri

A GUN THAT KICKS ITS OWNER OVER.

A professional critic ought to bo preeminently lair and iust. Otherwise his criticism'is a mockery of the judicial function.

The Nation

"is nothing if not

critical." But take one of

The Nation's

criticisms, and weigh it at its proper worth. It says, "Thus far tho tendency of tho Woman's Rights movement has been to swell the ranks of feeble orators, third rate lecturers, sentimental politicians, and tricky speculators." Now, in what sense is this true Take tho Christian religion, take Republican government, take any great idea or movement which ever came into the world, and

The Nation

might justly say

of it, in the same phraseology, "that it has swelled tho ranks of feeble orators, third rate lecturers, sentimental politicians, and tricky speculators." But has

a right to condemn Christi

anity or Republicanism because these incidental outgrowths have attached themselves to it like a festoon of |Yui gusto a Southern oak? Has tho man's Rights movement developed 'feeble orators Yes, but al orators and \ye believe thatd

anTs enrranc man's Rights

seme: movemen

"third rate'iecturers?" Yei, on tho other baud, all the fir?t turers in the country are, without ception, in favor of woman's rights irt proof of which we have only to pota' Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward.Beecher Gcorgo William Curtis, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and othera--to sav nothing of such women as ElizaSTh c«W lu'i" wtri£sx°

Mary A. Livermore, Anna E. Dickinson, and others whom

Yqs.

The Nation,

but it also arrays under its bai lor many of tho most philosophic str esmen of the ago—as, for instance, ie Justice Ohase* and John Stuart

The Nation's

The Nation,

okntlkman

to say, hart

h(,

of n,0(» trees yield an annual income ol dwe, and a OTcr

jttrt like yon—

is-

113raging allusion to a special case at will that journal please answer fofos

tho question, "How largo a propoi of 'tricky speculators' does it sup se to bo in favor, and how much larji a proportion docs it know to be aga Woman suffrage?" Indeed, it ur tingl answers tho latter question n, in referring to tho Erie Road, it rs that "Fisk's predecessor or pionee mis-managing that corporation pious and wealthy church niei r, who 'manipulated' other peoples erty entrusted to his care as dext

never been fair towards the Wo Rights movement—not even thou editor of that journal frequently tho chief richness or his pages contributions of gentlemen well ri as advocates of woman suffrage

«h Age.

Drawer that recently in young man was being examl the trustees of the towns* position of scbool-taacbei these officials asked the qnt "Mr. E do yon world is round or flat "Why, Sir," implied tl "some people believe on some another and ni flat, jfiuf

WHOM shall they marry. A mother whose healfc yearns over her children as none but* a mother's hoart ean^finds herselfit middle age a widow, with femito Qf gfowp-up daugMertte jf Jf W

Dwringlhe jpr&of iilhndW the/lrere shelteredlivaSfomiZj ittwliieh alt was done by both {Mi-eots to throw acdund them th6 charm which endeated' therii to each other. All that was evil was carefUltalmbtout all that was pernicious In

dooks,forbidden

to enter. That

which was "pure, lovely, and of good report" was cherished and when tnese girls gi^ow up to womanhood, they looked ipoii life with an enthusiasm born of innocence and hope, and they went forth to meet its allurements witheager and expectant natures.

In society they met those who flattered and admired—men of high mental culture, and wide political and social influence, but whose moral natures were depraved, yet who had tho skill to conceal,in the presence of these pu*e-mind-ed maidens all traces of the wrecks they had become both morallr and physically through yielding to the lower appetites of their natures.

El loquentlyand well did theso men talk in the presence of the fair girls whose love tliey sought to win. Not a word was breathed to them unbecoming the purest minted being. How then were theso unworldly young women to dream of acts which sliould evoke horror and disgust where they now felt the sincerest respect and most genuine ad-

They I

miration. They had neither father nor

brother to shield them. Who was to

draw back for them tho curtaiu which shut out from the public gaze, the mbling hell, and the victims of these so called "gentlemen?" Who should open the doors of apartments where the "frail ones" of society held receptions which these men attended? And who could ever disclose to these unsuspecting maidens the depths of vice, degeneration and shame into which tlieir suiters had fallen, and yet who in society were all "honorable men."

Is it not a sad subject to contemplate, that so many of the men of our country, have so lax an idea of virture, and that our girls, comparatively innocent, should become wives of men of this stamp?

A young man who would reply to the seductions of syren, as a certain youth did centuries ago, "How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God!" would be laughed at by the young men of this enlightened age called a "spooney," and "green," and I fear would be very hard to find at all.

I ask in all earnestness, what right havo men, who have yielded to social sin so common in fashionable life, to bring to their homes pure-minded, delicately roared girls, who turn from them with aversion, if they knew all?

Young gVrls, be not in too much hasto to marry. Strive to get an inside view of your suiter's moral character before you trust your whole futuro in his hands. Young men, in tho words of another, I implore you "keep yourselves pure for tho sake of the women who will one day love you."

[From the Newmark (N.

J.)

Ho cou

nian.

bjing

foreign born, may contemn but wlori their own countrymen delight to holer, Has tho Woman's Rights movement developed "sentimental politician?

onoiiarter inonkov

tbeiiuu

ill

Has the Woman's Rights mover nt developed "tricky speculators?" as, if wo may believe

Advertiser.]

A FAM1L GENE A LOO Y, ACCORDING TO DARWIN.

If there be any truth or sense new and wondesful theory adviy^F.hc bv Darwin, then the genealogical^^ particular family tracodVlable

Sht the time of the tr monkey .to man, ^^nsition nuld bo the

asmth2*2°"of

ono

the ct

the

ly and impudently as any pedlar banker." The allusion is to Mr. I Jl Drew, a well-known Methodist. *, if

in its complaint at it

Mrs. Woodhull, makes her a if the wliolo Woman's Rights move

whv should it net in tho samo its "complaint against Mr. Drew, him a tvpe of .the whole Met it church? The truth is,

The

out the parents

ancestors^

as the son that Rodinka

seventh-eights

in'hi,croIK)rtio.n

i»v»rtiyi hl»

»"'P08ltoii,

novor

lnter ho

in hnTvWhich

The Natic

W!1S

ty, an

ty •'niien'n?,

P°r,the

#,lm?st

the hoind^on^Tw

some, h»w

In Alabama]

THE DEC A OFEMPIRES. Tbe maiestic shade»|»f Assyria, Babylonia, find Persia, nio.^s liko phantoms across the dim ipaces of Ancient Ustoigr. That tbnr flourished for wllBe ami then lapted into obscurity, woifnow' froui m«ny records but the caiiUs of their ftill remain undiscloeed. uThey had, probably, no principle of cohesion btyond the temporary success of some great military family* and when that came to an end as in the cases of Sardanapalus in Assyria, and Belshaanir in Babylonia, the whole empire dissolved into choas. Those two mighty agglomerations of varied nationalities split up into fragments when their respective capitals were destroyed, and their military strength overmatched. The ruins of their palaces and temples have been unearthed in our owu days but we still know little, and shall "probably never know mocli, of tho general social condition wl\ich existed beneath the magnificence of royalty, and the splendor of aristocratical and priestly castes, Doubtless there was a back-ground of poverty and discontent behind the for Dives always at the gate. But wretchedness possesses few means of perpetuating the memory of its sufferings, and the relics of the past show little but tho pride and pomp of Eastern courts, anu nothing of the accompanying misery which" may have contributed to their fall.

glittering pageantry has his Lazarus at

Tho decay of the Roman Empire is within the "broad light of history. It proceeded not so much from bad laws —for the laws were better than those of any other ancient state—or from tyranny (for when once a nation had submitted to the imperial eitglos, tho Roman rule was fair and impartial), as from the sheer impoisibility of permanently holding together such a vast accumulation of distinct countries, and so many widely-different races. Rome trained and nourished a number of nationalities, some of which, in timo, surpassed her in strength—at least, on their own ground. As tho future nations of Northern and Western Europe grew from youth to maturity, Rome nerself was passing from maturity to decropitude. Tho governing classess became efl'ete with long prosperity, with tho traditions of dominion, and the routine of power. Indulgences in sensual pleasures sapped the forces of tho state, and a soldiery, devoid of the principlo of citizenship, became the masters of those whom they affected to serve. Yet for how long a period did tho Roman Empire last! and what a grand, and, in some respects, bencfi-,. cent fact it is in the history of'" world That City of tho Sovoi^^J'.1!0 spread tho civilization of G»*v

"id of spectacles.

on all fours

j0noovenfng,

cl i, ."J „f

lrv!^d,r«P -it?Kl/ai in it, h'ould sit in a 7,

iui

happened to meet in

jj® it, just a» if ho liad boonmii"

M. MONKEY STOliY.

nftted to

fjh.ul frequently seen

tikeln'

th0

men-

gr?at countrv*-kitelien

H"ai^

a'l

UP»

An Ki.kphant on a Strike,

luckv there are no trades' among elephants, for an elepha strike" is as destructive as aS 1 unionist. An elephant emplo the Government of India, in teak-loirs, tor the forest departc the Anamallay Forest, lately about a suspension of the on 1 fbr about a fortnight. He knocking down his keeper, bi lv did not kill him. He then the huts of the keepers, wh« and families were driven into gle. He displayed his skill 1 down tho huts, smashed up and implements, and destroy* titv of provisions stored brother-elephant*. After kc settlement In alarm for so days, he was shot in one and then caught and chained

o*tinct

The ^^Mh!i°TVbe

with^Ki kT"

wa"

the nnd son of Koboo' a full-blnn«l.».i I ft /r,.v ,^becjiuso he I of tlio inm-i/r.,! ...n, yf ar. ItiHDito cannot help

WbeifheTrtL'* ovprj'ip ofl,*h o'ther

eves, as in

^s^PIwrtunl'- flea^y ®*(*!pt'at

was Still he clambered I

b-'

Trn» ji-ivirai nini«oirat«^,|,j^

the wiSheJ^^P^^riihVo^ wood-f screwed ofl?

the

«ne. He come

of the

grnt«

car,'°natod.

^-aSSafiS

and 7^.'^

uroTe

trouble-

had only

In .»£ „f„£n^nt

Way dit«m«at. If uTho™ I schmtsp, m|Tif« gir mc lnmbmtit itf

merchant of tho

take down

•"•Presence, and 1.

i&r*

Hail

c°ip1n

1 funeral char^"^.,T'a8e8

tnantically.

.fc

half the globe. We nra#^~

Hills

"THEEYE OF THE EAGLE.

enormous elevation will perceive

see

aai h'hT'h?',''" «P '»erof«rmm,ieatl" his »lgbt to dlStanw InTmlSSM "nd«

nt all. A scientific

CLARA LOUISE KEU^BG. It is always pleasant to hearof the prosperity of Mil Kellog£viW, because she is our eountrytramioi, and second! j|, because she has reached her present •minenco 'liy sheer hard work and Yaintee pltick. Tho geniusof song camo toller, not asa good tairy smoothing ajtyy difficulties and fflllng life with pleasure and sunshine, but as a stern mistress, exacting severe labor and liberal of sharp rebukes. The voung girls first attempt was a failure her second was a little better theresuit of her third would have discouraged any singer not freely endowed with enthusiasm and courage. Good judges, indeed, were prompt to appreci«to the purity and sweetness of her voice, ana to predict for her a bright future but tho majority of Academy audiences are not good judges, and Miss Kellogg was never fairly valued by the public until she was seen as tho Margherita of Gounod's "Faust." There was a delicate grace, a poetic feeling, a sweet, appropriate simplicity in that personation, which fairly enchanted us all. That was seven years ago. Sinco then many good singers and' some few

freat

ones have passed across our stago, ut Miss Kellogg still remains our favorite Marghertta,theacceptedstandard by which wo measure all other representatives of this dearest of lyric heroines. It is not only that in form, and fiice, and action, and intellectual comprehension of the character, slio fulfilled our idoal,but thero was an Indoscribable quality in hor voice that accorded porfectly with the doep, mysterious tenderness of the poem and tho droamy spirit of the music.—Scribner's for Aprtl.

TRUTH IN OPERA.

O110 night wlion Carlotta Patti was in Brooklyn sh« sang with Ferranti. Just as tho buffo singer was loading hor out of the door upon tho platform, some one in fhe room behind nim cried out that his coat had burst at tho seam in the back. It was too late to recede, for tho audienco had seen him, and the two singors advanced to tho footlights. Buc the knowledge of his mishap took all the humor out of Ferranti, and tho duet (which was sung in Italian) was sodolofully devoid of tho usual humor that Patti noticed it before they were half through, and sho fitted tlio following words to it in Italian "What is thfc matter wtt-fc yon tonight? I don't nndcEsVJiiA' your norvousness. Nobgdv ^giis nt you." 'reupon Ferranti, in mellifluous '^frltono, and equally mellifluous Italian, responded

By tho Virgin, I havo burst my coat.

Every

,eOj01

pvcr

an up on os she spread so nigiir1^concrete which When she failcd^^"y centuries back, clen collapsojjjj^it was not by any sudago accelqJ^H't *y tho slow decay of viccs whiPrated, it may bo, by those davs ofij^h wore inherited lrom lier The d®i^hauglity strength and youth. lighM^^lino of Romo was like the twiof a midsummer day—long, lutous, regretful, passing into darkss by soft degrees and infinite modi..nations of dccay, and not seldom kindling into fresh flushes of vanishinir clory before tho coming^ of tho night. And that the dark ages were not utterly dark, was owing in the main to tho light reflected in many places from tho sunken ompiro

body, will laugh when I

am going oft." At the unexpected interchange of personal focliugs, Max Marotaok and his orchestra began to laugli immoderately. Then tho people in tho seats, seoing tho orchestra and tlio artists laughing, joined in themselves, and tho merrimont presently broko out into applauso all over the house.

Ah," said 0110 of tho Brooklyn paners. "there Is always somothlng majestic in Forrantl's singingof that song, Peoplo burst into sympathetic laughter, without being ablo to toll why.

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the

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to him .- and a person^" wi'th"flat

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fiKwwcssion of tho wnii r.iT^i round or Mat »iuU oyett

Mv LoviJ*' Wnre. nex week and hav fn'riri-JP

den hushof allnn-J ir0

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»nd stay omo herearter A ih ,Lra,n altered man. I want^wH»n!

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yew why shouldn't we^kTvT as we usel ter whon other gether in tho whnliv jlned toIVc jln«li t.J, of".»dIoclt yew ever jaw ^iety, but if tie wollap yow lik?fi«/°r

comin

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him forth

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but like some oth-

orne

f"f

curred at^ew OriMn '!!hl'U^!!r when a box of drem^mlS6

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was met at (row

York

P*? the

the red man

second vol-|

umo of Scrilmm's Monthl»/, beginning with May and ending witliOetobor, wilU bo ono of tho finest volumes of illustrated miscellaneous literature evor is-g.

The publishers announco tliat ifiiafel'eature of tho editoral de r-

Jporne and So'dotT''

renders of

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ho following, which is °f

Thanks to ire every

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marked adhorenco o/itm il'r1!116

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who

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subject for a fow min,!ti» vT

In^utious individual LVoke hav. ..

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•en somo '»ut with|

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you,""was the'ienir-rv/rr7', ,"W to tell any suchl/nrv

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easy

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who