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AKTIClrATIOK.

"IH take the orcbarJ patb.-ebe said.

Speaking lowly, nulling slowly :

The brook was dried within its bed.

The hot inn flung flame of red

Low in the went forth she ed.

Across the dried brook-conrse she went,

Singing lowly, smiling slowly :

She scarcely saw the snn that spent

It's fiery force in swift decat

fche nerer raw the wheat was bent.

The pw'" parcha. the HiMKomn dried,

8ingiw lowly, smhinif slowly :

Her eye amidst the droagbt ericd

A mmffifr j.leaauce far aod wide,

With roses and sweet violets pied.

It.

DIS APPOINTMENT,

Eat homeward coming all the way,

Sighing lowly, pacing slowly :

She knew the bent wheat withering lay,

Bhe saw the blossoms dry decay,

She mUsed the brooklet's play.

A brerz had sprung from ont the south,

Ent, siehing lowly, pacing k.owly,

She only felt the burning dronght ;

Her eyes wen hot, and parched her month :

Yet sweet the wind b'.ue from the south !

And when the wind bronht welcome rain,

Btill sighing lowly, pac'i'g slowly,

She never saw the li.'tirg grain,

But only a long orchard lane,

Where she hai waited all In vain !

Xnra Pn-.

THE CRACK IX TJ1E DOOR.

The prettiest house, prettiest garden,

the best servants, and tLo largest back

acceunt in X belonged to Mrs. Mehita

ble Armstrong, widow. Some people

also declared that she was the prettiest

woman in X., bnt these were not the

other women. They said that she had

red hair, and was too fat, and what the

gentlemen saw to admire in her they

could not Sliest etc, etc. ; but, ray it

as often as they might, every man in the

place was Hetty Armstrong's devoted

servant, friend, and, a dozen of them,

her lovers, also. A bright, dashing,

warm-hearted woman she was, as merry

as though she Lad never known a care.

Not that she had forgotten tho love of

her yonth the gallant, Waek-eyed cap

tain, whoso ship had gone down in mid

ocean five years before, and whose pic

tured faco lay near her heart eight and

day, sleeping aid waking; bnt the was

too full of life and hope to live entirely

in the past, and loved neither Lours of

melancholy, not what women call "a

good cry." To forget all sorrow, if she

coald, and to be as happy as she might,

were tho two grand rules of her life,'

and, therefore, people who did not

know netty Armstrong thought her

heartless, and made a grout mistake.

They called her a flirt, and that was

not true, either. She only flirted with

those who began the gnme first, and

that a woman had a right to do. At X.,

if a gentleman called t wice npon a lady

his attentions were said to be "very par

ticular;" "if ho saw her homo from

meeting," rumor declared that they

were "engaged;" aid if he Fpent an

evening witli her, they were " to be

married next wetk." for certainty ; but

Hetty Armstrong was somehow iiot in

cluded in tho general rule. She had

determined to do as she chose. She

went everywhere with every unmarried

gentleman of her set. She'was friendly

when site choso to bo, and flirted when

she liked. After setting gossip afloat a

dozen times, she gained her point, and

people left her alone. It was Hetty

Armstrong's way, and no indication of

matrim&nial intentions. Tor years gen

tlemen hannted her parlors, escorted

her Lither and thither, sung with her,

dance 1 with her, confided with her. and

adored her, and village gossip Lad not

not married her, until suddenly a f tran

ger made his debut at X., and set the

tongues goicg beyond even Hetty Arm

strong's power of silencing.

He was tall, lie was handsome, Lo was

comparatively young. He Lad just that

touch of exquisite about Lira which is

bo charming when "a man's a man for

a' that ;" faultless in toilet, faultless in

manner, education, accomplished alto

gether, ho openly 11 icg himself at nttty

Armstrong's feet and declared himself

her admirer. Of course we do not mean

to ray that he ruined tho knees of Lis

faultless habiliments by going down

upon them.ori'i any other way conduct

ed himself as did the knights of old when

heart smitten, but, after the manner of

tho nineteenth century he declared his

intentions eiuite as openly.

He sang to and at the lady. Tie

hannted her parlors like a well dressed

fhoht. He wrote poetry for the "L'im

nary," addressed to II. A. and signed

C. P.. Ho breathed deep sighs and

gave eeifc ghraeen, and said tl i:igs Unit

rv'ght Lave double meanings. And

this nr t f r n week rr a month, but for

n year, at the end cf which time Hetty

Armstrong began to understand that

she was expected by everybody to ac

cept Ciarles lioktwood whi n he offered

her his heart nu l hand. Meanwhile,

the soft eyes and sweet voice, tLo deli

cate at tentiors, and the winning songs

of her admirer were not without their

cftVct upon Hetty Armstrongs heart.

It began to bo en?ciour of certain

tremors and !l itterings in Lis presence.

Her cheeks flushed as they had in girl

hood. Her dreams were not tho sober,

practical dreams which nature tit fiv

and twenty should alono indnlgo in;

and as the days relied on tho ft-It more

conscious thai tho "Yes" which whs

expected of her would bo easily uttered.

S!io tried to bo prndent and judge

the man carefully. The result was that

she declared him to bo " an sugcl." At

last Hetty Armstrong fairlv let go cf

the rudder of solf-wiM, to which ho had

clung so Ion;?, and allowed herself to

drift down the tide of circumstances

which were to lead her into tho arms of

Charles Kokewood. Sho ftlt that life

would bo happy with such a bosom to

repose upon, and began to weuider

whether it really was necessary for a

widow to be married iu peatl color when

white was so becoming to her complex

ion. So ma'.ters stood when Christmas

drew near, and with it Hetty Arm

strong's regular Christmas eve party.

All X., or nearly nil, would 1 there ;

even tho Kev. leather Paragon, who

amiably forgot to say that he disap

proved of dancing and charades when

Mrs. Armstrong declared that "the

adored them." It was always tho mer

riest party of tho season at X., and

this time 'Irs. Armstrong decided that

the would outdo herself. There was a

tbish more of coquetry ia hor dresfi ; a

dash of extravagance in tho supper ; 8

glitter of rare China, and a perfume of

rare flowers in tho parlors just as they

Bay wine warm up tho wifs and fancy

does lovo at times. All things would be

brighter, fresher, more sparkling, just

now, thought, or rather vaguely felt,

the woman who had just began to know

her heart, and thought 6ho knew an

other's. Sbo stood, in Ler rich drCBS of laco

and silk, flow, rs in her huir and on her

bosom, Kforo htr guests arrived,

lxfro her gr:to liro in tho parlor,

when h.iuo t;o touched her on the

shoulder, uul, t iming, sho saw Charles

Kokewood,

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By HORSLEY BEOS. &

Her face wss a little paler, her eyes

more earnest in thoir look than usual,

and a sort of happy terror hung upon

her as she guessed why lie had come so

early.

"I knew I should find yon also," he

said, "and I have something to say to

yon ; something "

Ihero she stopped him. " Don't say

it now," she pleaded. "I have an

evening before me which call3 for all

my calmness. If it i3 rnvthing agi

tating, I I must ask you to wait.

After these guests of mine are gone er

to morrow, I will hear yon ; not now."

Charles Kokewood bowed. "Your

will shall be my law," he said, and

took her hand and kissed it. She let

him do it, blushing all the while, not

caring now to look at him.

All the evening, after the other

guests were ; there, her thoughts wan

dered back to that moment. She know

what she would say, and she could an

swer only in one way only one she

liked him bo well.

"And I have felt ro euro I could

never like any one again," thought

Hetty Armstrong. "There is fate

in it."

But she danced and sung and talked

aa usual, and no one guessed that

was what she was dreamiDg not even

Mr. Kokewood, who, with a chosen

friend, had slipped away from the par

lors, and was smoking and talking in

the dressing-room. He was a little out

of sorts, netty. conscions of her du

ties as a hostess, insisted on being pub

lic property, and could not be lured

into a tete-a tete, and tho women who

were ready to be talked to he did not

care about. Engaged men are gener

ally known by their boorish conduct to

ladies generally. Kokewood, although

not engaged, believed himself far

enongh on the road to forget suavity,

and fell back upon cigars and his mas

culine friends whenever his lady-love

could not be whispered to or gazed at.

Consequently damsals who thought

Kokewood charming were wondering

what had become of him, when Biddy,

the waitress, mysteriously beckoned

her mistress into the hall, and, in an

awful whisper, said " more spoons were

needed for the cratne."

" Of Course there must be," said Mrs.

Armstrong. ' Where was my poor

head to so forget it ? I'll get poor

Aunt Martha's set from my up stairs

china closet. Flease wait on the stairs

until I come to yon."

And away ran Mrs. Armstrong to the

second floor, where she plunged into a

long, old-fashioned closet, and brought

forth a legacy of silverware left her by

her maiden aunt. Counting the spoons

over, a murmur of voices from the next

room fell upon her ear. At the same

time she caught the perfume of a cigar.

She knew that charles Kokewoood had

the richest voice and smoked the best

cigars of any man in his set.

" Yon dear old fellow," she whis

pered to herself, I have been so cross

to you to-night that some day I'll be as

kind to you as I can to make up for it."

Then, with a loving woman's wish to

6eo tho dear face that i3 so dear to her,

she stepped forward and peeped through

a crack in the deor of the china closet

opening into the little sewing room,

devoted for this evening to the gentle

men's toilet. Every word wns plainly

audible when her pretty ear approschd

so closely to tho crevice, and the first

word rivited her attention. Tho men

were talking of matrimony.

"It's a denced bore," said his friend.

lou are tied to a woman s apron

ptrings for life. You can't say your

soul is your own. Take my advice and

keep out of it altogether, Charles."

"Look here, old fellow," said Charles,

taking his cigar from between his lips,

"that sort of a thing is all a man's

fault. Now, when I marry, my first act

will bo to prove mjeelf master. As yeu

begin, so you go on, and, before the

honeymoon ia over the woman who takes

my namo shall know that my word is

law, and that hers must yield to it."

Tho spoons in Mrs Armstrong's hands

tingled together just then, but no on s

heard them. Charles went on :

" My wife, if I have one, shall have

no chance to show her temper. If she

does not like my orders Bhe must obey

without liking. I'll break her in jnst as

I would a horse bring hor down at once

to the frame of mind I mean to keep

her in ; purposely thwart her for a while;

contradict her ; object to style of dret-s;

make her alter her way of doing her

hair ; refuse to dance attendance at

church ; make her send regrets to pfirty

invitations when she wants to accept

them ; show her at once what she may

expect. After a while I mignt yield a

little more ; but because, you under

stand not to please her."

" T-o es," said his friend, doubtfully;

" but you can't think how hard you'll

find it ; and if you stay out late they

make such a row tit up for you in a

night cap, and cry when you come in."

"I'd manage that," said Kokewood,

'by staying out every night until day

light. The one rule I should put in

practice would be never let tho woman

have her own way."

The spoons tingled a little more, and

Mrs. Armstrong's face was terribly

flashed, but 6ho listened still."

" Of course you yield a great deal to

the woman you are in love with," said

Mr. Kike wood, evidently brushing

tho ashes from the cigar; "but

that's becanso of the romance and

all that sort of nonsense, which

dies out with the honeymoon. You can

find women enongh to write poetry to,

and to talk sentiment with, married or

single. As for your wife, she's the

woman that keeps house for you, and

the sooner yon make her aware cf the

fiict the better. When I marry, Jones,

my dear fellow, it will bo with no

Miotic idea of perpetual courtship in

my mind. I'll begin as I intend to go

on, and bo ni!ster, depend npon it."

"Bat not my master," whispered

pretty Mrs. Armstrong, "not mine."

"Mistress Armstrong, them spoens,"

whispered Biddy, at the stairs just

then.

Hetty Armstrong gathered up the

spoons which had slipped down into her

lap. Sho looked at them as sho cTid bo.

They wera solid and elegant, as was all

her silver. Her eyes glanced about the

room, which wealth and taste had made

tho pci feet ion of elegance and comfort.

Her room! She heard down stairs tho

merry chat of her guests, the sound of

FIGUERS.

music and dancing. She remembered

that in the kitchen her servants were

making ready, a supper fit for a king.

She turned to the mirror ; a handsome

woman, still young and elegantly

dressed, looked proudly back. An hour

before all this, the woman included,

she would have given to Charles Koke

wood had he been a beggar. Just a

twinge of pain went through her heart.

One tear stole down her glowing check.

Then she gave a litt'e titter laugh.

" I alone am queen of me ! " she

misquoted, and ran out to give the

spoons to Biddy.

"It was hard to find them," she Eaid,

" but here they are at last."

And she laughed a little louder than

usual, and not quite naturally.

It was the merriest Christmas party

of them all. said every one of her

guests, and Hetty Armstrong seemed

the merriest there. But no one saw

her when the door was closed upon

them, and Bhe was alone in her cham

ber. No matter how brief a love-dream

has been, tho awakening is hard, es

pecially if it is sudden.

netty Armstrong refused Charles

Kokewood the next day, and the people

who guessed it blamed her bitterly.

As for Charles himself he was amazed,

and injured, and deeply grieved, for he

never guessed that his lecture on mar

ried life had a second auditor ; nor that

Hetty would have said " Yes " instead

if "No," but for that crack in the

China closet.

Statistics of Cigars and Tobacco.

From the advance sheets of the

yearly official report of the tobacco

trale, the following interesting statis

tics have been gathered. The report ia

for tho fiscal year cneling June 30,

1871, and will be completed about

March 1. There was exported from the

United States of native leaf tobacco,

318,097,801 pounds, amounting in value

to 30,399,181. During the same time

hero was imported into the United

States, and entered for consumption,

9,213,800 pounds of leaf tobacco, for

use in the manufacture of cigars, and

5,090 pounds of stemmed, or prepared

tobacco, smounting together in value to

$5,323,550.41.

During the same time there was im

ported into the United States and en

tered for consumption, 844,771 pounds of

cigars, or, at an average of eleven pounds

to athousand, 76,880,000 cigars, amount

ing in value to $3,030,628.79. In the

same period there were manufactured

in the United States, of foreign and

domestic tobacco, and tax paid, 1,7S0,-

901,000 cigars.

Allowing thirty pounds of tobacco

for every 1,000 cigars manufactured,

there was need 53,428,630 pounds of

foreign and domestic leaf tobacco in the

manufacture of cigars in the United

States, The comparison shows there

were twenty-three domestic cigars made

in the United States to every one import

ed, and the tax thereon paid, for every ci

gar that wr simported and paid duty dur

ing the same time. A close scrutiny re

veals the astounding fact that the average

nnmber of cigars smoked iu tho United

States during each twenty-four hours is

5,108,000. The following amounts

of duty and taxes on tobacco and cigars

of all kinds were received by the govern

ment for the fiscal year ending as above.

Import duty of leaf tobacco for cigars,

gold, $3,224,787.82 ; import duty on all

other kinds of tobacco and snuff, gold,

$53,181.12; import duty on cigars, ciga

rettes, etc., gold, $2,872,091.47 ; tax on

cigars, cheroots, etc., currency. $9,333,

502.24 ; tax on manufactured tobacco,

currency, $20,900,509.67; tax on snuF,

currency, $1,038,415.62 ; tax received

from all other sources from tobacco,

currency, $1 070,327 79; total amount

of import duties paid ia gold, $0,150,

CC0.41 ; total amouut of taxes paid in

currency, $33,212,875.02 ; grand total,

$39,202 920 03.

American Girls.

A French traveler, who has recently

passed some months on thi3 side of the

Atlantic, furnishes the Kevue des Deux

Mondes quite a lengthy sketch of life

and manners in America. Witiiout com

ment we give that portion of his sketch

in which referenco is mado to the man

ners and customs of the average Ameri

can girl. We imagine, however, that

the pictnre drawn will be readily recog

nized. Tne writer says : "The young

American girls only live to have the

best possible time. They aro as free as

can be. Fortunately, their exaggerated

love of pleasure is checked by a calcu

lating temperament, which saves them

from many a fall. Then, the laws of

the country protect them more eflicient

ly than ours would against the enter

prise of the male intriguer. They elo

not, however, prevent many abuses, and

fast young ladies are by no means a

rarity in the city of New York. During

the day they go with some friends, or

with the escort of him who has the

privilege to flirt with them, to the Cen

tral Tark. In winter they'go sleighing

and fkating, and air their curiosity in

all the stores of Broadway. There they

get all sorts of goods spread out before

them ; they ask the price of each, and

buy none. The impassive salesman

dots not show tho least sign of eliscon

teat. There ia a peculiar word for that

singular custom. It is ' shopping. '

Another custom which i3 largely prac

ticed by American ladies is to enter con

fectionery shops and take ice creams at

every opportunity. In the

evening the same young ladies are teen

at tho theatres and in the fashionable

eating-saloons. If a great ball is given

anywhere, you may be sure to meet

them there. In summer they flock to

watering places, such as Saratoga, Long

Branch and Newport, where several

times a day they make a display of

dresses which might ruin a score of hus

bands ; or they cross the ocean, and

astonish European folks by their merry

freaks, Many people accus;

tomed to our habits would not fancy

such girls for wives ; and they may not

ba wrong ; but the truth is that these

Sfty light-hearted and often dangerons-ly-imprndeut

girls niako, in the end,

excellent wived and mothers.'1

" Thau' lays a man who'd givo his

last chaw of terbaeker to a starvin

Granger, and then j ay hiui for spit

ting," was tho eulogy pronounced on

William Hart, of Tennessee,

COLUMBIA,

THE FARMER FKKDKTII ALL.

My lord rides through his palace gate.

My lady sweeps along In state ;

The sage thinks long on many a thing,

And the maiden mnses on marrying ;

The miustrel harpcth merrily.

The sailor ploughs the foaming sea.

The huntsman kills the aood red deer,

And the soldier wars without e'en fear ;

But fall to each, whate'er befall,

Ihe farmer he must feed them all.

Smith hammereth cherry red the sword,

Priest preacheth pure the Holy word ;

Dame Alice worketh broidery well,

Clerk Richard tales of love can tell ;

The tap wife sells her foaming beer,

Dan Fisher flsheth in the mere ;

And courtiers ruffle, strut, and shine,

While pages bring the gascon wine."

But fall to each, whate'er befall.

The farmer he must feed thcia all.

Man builds his castles fair and high,

Wherever river runneth by ;

Great cities rise in every land,

Great churches show the builder's band ;

Great arches, monuments, and towers,

Fair palaces and pleasing bowers ;

Great work is done, bo it here or thero

And well man worketh everywhere ;

But work or reBt, whate'er befall,

The farmer he must feed them all.

FACTS FROM ALL SOURCES.

THE THISTLE TAX,

The Canada thistle is gradually work

ing its way westward, having now

reached Iowa and Kansas. It appeared

in Indiana and Hlinois several years ago,

but vigorous efforts wore taken on the

part of the states, and the warfare is

constantly kept up. Men are employed

at regular wages to dig and burn the

plants, it being ineffectual to leave

them on the surface of the ground to

dry and die. Wherever the thistle gets

a foothold in a community, the damage

is equal to a tax of 10 per cent, on all

the farming land, at a fair valuation.

It is agreed that the seed was first in

troduced, in the hay with which fruit

trees are packed. It would be better to

raise one's own trees, and have inferior

fruit, than to be thus burdened.

Granges, agricultural societies, and

clubs should make it an especial busi

ness to watch the Canada thistle.

THE GRASSES.

Dr. Bachelder, of central New York,

talks thus of the different grasses with

which ho has been experimenting :

Perennial rye grass ho considers of no

value for hay or pasture, as it will not

endure the winters ; but Italian rye

grass, he says, is hardy anywhere iu

New York, and is one of the most valu

able grasses known either to cut for

soiling or for hay. In vigor it is like

orchard grass, but it is finer in texture,

and is of the " cut-and -come-again

kind," often producing two crops in a

season and then a rich aftermath.

Meadow fescue he finds to be one of

the most vigorous grasses, adapted to

either meadow or pasture. It equals

tin.othy in the amount of hay and can

be cut at the same time. It is a good

grass to grow with timothy. Sweet

vernal grass ought to be grown in the

meadow to give fragrance to the other

hay. Cattle devour it with great eager

ness. Orchard grass alone, or with the

medium clover, is valuable, but it ripens

too soon for timothy. If cut just before

the flower-scape opens it makts a valu

able hay, but if left till it ripens its seed

ia no better than rye straw.

USES OF SAWDUST.

A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer

writes : About six years ago I had a I

saw-mill eet on my farm. At first they

washed the dust, as the sawyers called

it, by letting a stream of water run

under tho saw. As the water got low

it would not work ; then they had to

wheel it out in a pile, and when they

went away I had a big pile of sawdust

on my hands. As it was on a good

piece of bottom land that I desired to

plow, I wanted it out of my way. I

tried to burn it, but it would not burn.

I concluded at last to turn it to some

good account ; so when I put my hogs

up to fatten I hauled a good load every

few days and threw it in the pen.

They mixed it with their manure and

the cobs, and in the spring I had about

twenty loads of the very best manure,

besides keeping tho hogs clean and dry.

I use! the sawdust for bedding the

horses and cows ; I put it around my

grape vines to keep down grass ami

weeds and the ground moist. The

vines improved wonderfully. S3 my

sawdust is used up, and it has paid.

If I was to have a mill again I would

make a bargain to have the sawdust left

on the ground.

GRAFTING WAX.

One pound of rosin, five ounces 95

per ceDt. alcohol, one ounce beef tal

low, one table spoonful of turpentine.

Melt the rosin over a slow fire, add the

beef tallow, and stir with a perfectly

dry Btick or pioL-e of wire. When some

what cooled add the turpentine, and

last the alcohol in small quantities,

stirring the mass constantly. Should

the alcohol cause it to lump, warm

again until it melts. Keep in a bottle.

Lay it on in a very thin coat with a

brush. Should it prove thick, thin it

down with alcohol. It is always ready

for use ; it is never affected by heat or

cold, and heals up wounds hermetically.

LIQUID GRAFTING WAX.

The Horticulturist giyes the follow

ing formula for making Lefort's graft

ing wax, which is said to have been

highly recommended in France and

until lately kept secret: Melt one

pound of common rosin over a gentle

fire. Add to it one ounce of beef tal

low and stir it well. Take it from the

fire, let it cool down a little, and then

mix with a tableepoonful of spirits of

turpentine, and after that about seven

ounces of very strong alcohol, (sixty

five per cent.,) to be had at any drug

gist's store. The alcohol cools it down

so rapidly that it will be necessary to

put it again on the fire stirring it con

stantly. Still the utmost care must be

exercised to prevent the "alcohol from

getting inflamed. To avoid it, the best

way is to remove the vessel from the

fire when the lump that may have been

formed commences melting again. This

must be continued till tho whole is a

homogeneous mass similar to honey.

After a few days' expoonre to the

atmosphere in a thin coat, it assumes a

whitish color, and becomes as hard as

stone, being impervious to water or air.

A Threatening Fashion.

A Taris correspondent writes : " A

hint a prophecy of coming fashion : It

i3 projected in the highest world of the

gentlemen and ladic3 who create our

fashions that it may b-ecomo possible

to entirely dispense with all underskirts

vhatevcr. In their stead tightly fit-

TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1S75.

ting trousers will fee substitute d, or a

warm material for winter and a lighter

material for summer. I suppose we

s'aall not ba asked to wear muslin

dresses with these ? though I do re

member once seeing a lady at Milan

taking her coffee, on her balcony, one

warm summer's eve, in a green tarlatan

dress with only one most transparent

cambric garment beneath ; this cam

brio also being considerably shorter

than the green tarlatan dress. But in

warm countries we must excuse light

ness of apparel. But here, in our

northern climes, how will these south

ern fashions agree with the ladies'

health we will not say taste or deli

cacy ? Already our dresses are so tight

that we can scarcely tread over a gutter

and they are to be tighter still."

The Military Infatuation.

Just now Europe is suffering from

ono of her periodical military infatna-'

tions. Everybody predicts war. All

the cabinets prognosticate hostilities.

Business is depressed and stocks de

cline, and an indefinable feeling of in

security and dread fills the air. Bat

when the inquiry is pressed beyond

these superficial aspects of the situa

tion it is hard to discover aDy tangible

and satisfactory reasons for the forebod

ing. The ghost in a single closet does

not account for the universal scare.

The only facts that as yet have come

to the surface are that Germany, know

ing that France feels her humiliation

and chafes untler it and may some day

endeavor to offset the recollection of

Sedan, has increased her army to a mil

lion and three-quarters of men. All

the reserves of the empire are drawn

upon to the utmost to put the available

military forces into training for a possi

ble contingency. The experience of the

late struggle as to the value of particu

lar arms and methods of operation is

being utilized, and the nation has been

increased and made more efficient. Bnt

Germany has no foreign foe, and no

quarrel on hand. Any immediate war

with France is out of the question.

Trouble with Knssia she may have pro

vided ehe provokes it. Trouble she

may have with Italy and Spain and

France if she attempts to bully the

college of Cardinals into electing a Ger

man Fope. And she may have trouble

with England and Russia if she insists

on absorbing Denmark. But there is

no legitimate occasion 'for war and no

reason for this enormous increase of her

army. The other' nations have natu

rally enough taken alarm, and begun to

increase their armies and navies too,

simply because Germany has increased

hers, and to-day Europe has larger

military establishments than ever be

fore in a time of peace. The posses

sion of the instrument is a temptation

to use it, and such splendidly equipped

and thoroughly drilled armies ere a

constant provocation. Considering tho

poverty of Europe, the oppressiveness

of taxes, the degradation end Buffering

of the lower classes in every nation,

these enormous military establishments

are terrible perversions of power and

property. It is only necessary to think

of the industrial force represented by a

million and three-quarters of men in

the most productive period of life to

see what a drain Germany is making

on the resource of the nation. And yet

every soldier has to be supported by

the productive energies of the yourg

and old, the lame and the infirm, the

women and tho children ! We have a

great deal to complain of, but it is mat

ter for congratulation that we have no

great army to support and no military

infatuation.

The Piano of the Future.

A new thing in music ! It has re

cently been ascertained that by the ap

plication of electric communication any

number of pianos can be performed

upon simultaneously by the person who

touches the keys of the central one. It

is proposed by this means to fill every

nook and corner of the centennial expo

sition buildings with melodies. In fact

the discovery or invention, whichever it

is, was arrived at by some genius who

was delving about for something with

which to create a centennial sensation.

The idea is, of course, a novel one,

brims over with suggestiveness.

Let thero be a mammoth instrument

located in a city upon the same princi

ple aa our gas tanks and reservoirs.

The community might tax itself for the

purpose, and issue municipal mnsic

bonds. Then let there be a musician

engaged both day and night to manipu

late the keyp. By a system of tele

graphic connection every parlor that

could boast of a piano would echo the

refrain. The flow of melody would, o

course, be subject to some sort of valve,

and could be turned off or on at pleas

ure, just as we do our gas and water.

A meter might bo so constructed as to

indicate tho number of feet of music

furnished at a given time. Truly, an

era in piano-play ing is drawing upon

us. When the thing is all perfected, it

will no longer matter whether or

not we have musical sons and

daughters at home iu order that we

may have music at homo. Serenading

will be discounted entirely. When

bed-time comes, a full bead cf Straus,

or Vedi, or Donizetti, or Offenbach, or

Will S. Hays, might be turned on, and

as the Bweet sounds filled the house

from garret to cellar the whole family

might be wafted serenely into dream

land. But if about midnight the cor

poration musiciarjs should take a notion

to try a little Warner, whatahowl would

startle the dozing moon I

Mart was the proprietress of a dimin

utive, incipient sheep, whose outer cov

ering was as devoid of color as congealed

vapor, and to all localities to which

Mary perambulated, her young South

down was morally certain to follow. It

tagged her to the dispensatory of learn

ing, one diurnal section of time, which

was contrary to all precedent, and ex

cited tho cachination of the seminary

attendants, when the children perceived

the presence of a young quadruped at

the establishment of instruction. Con

sequently, the preceptor expelled him

from the interior, but ho .continued to

remain in the immediate vicinity, and

tarried in tho neighborhood withont

frotfulness until Mary onco more be

came visible.

Over-Exercise.

uymnasuc training nas received a

temporary back-set by the death of

young Cashing from injuries sustained

in the gymnasium connected with the

Boston Institute of Technology. Of

course, his case was somewhat exception

al, and abuse furnishes no argument

acrainst use. But it seems to be a law

of human development to push a par

ticular tendency to an extreme, regard

less of consequences, and thento push

the opposite tendency to a similar ex

treme. A few years ago the Graham

fever swept over the oountry, and

hundreds of people dropped the eating

of flesh as poisonous, and starved them

selves on hard bread and cold water

with a raw turnip now and then by way

of variety, the good ia the Graham

system was turned into evil by abuse.

Hydropathy was an invaluable discoV'

ery in itself, but no sooner was it found

that a class of peculiar cases might be

benefited by a treatment of cold water

than the extremists set about soaking

and bathing 'and showering and pack

ing and douching everybody for all real

and pofsible maladies, and doubtless

hundreds of people had their vitality

quenched and washed into their graves

by the unreasoning application of a

method which is admirably suited to

particular cases and constitutions.

Half a century ago systematic physi

cal exercise was hardly thought of, and

students, clerks, and people of seden

tary habits and quiet pursuits suffered

for want of muscular development and

activity. Physicians and health re

formers preached exercise to people

who could not afford horseback riding,

and had not time to walk enough to get

the exercise tfiey required. The gym

nasium grew out of a necessity. But

like other needful and useful things it

has been carried to an extreeme, in many

cases, which has proved injurious, if

not fatal. The notion has gained cur

rency that exercise is a good thing in

and of itself, and when a person has

exhausted his vital forces by brain work

it ia only necessary to exercise his

muscles in a vigorous way to regain his

equlibrium. Expenditure of neive

power must be balanced by aa equal

expenditure in muscular activity, and if

tho time is shortened the action must

be correspondingly increased in vio

lence. The folly of this notion is ap

parent when it is remembered that the

system is a unit, and the vital force ex

pended in one way cannot be recovered

by another expenditure ia a different

way, any more than a man regains

the money he expends out of one

pocket by spending an equal amount

from ."mother. It is constantly forgotten

that recuperation requires rest as well

as exercise, and that every tension of

the will should be followed by a pas

sive condition. Modern life is an ag

gregation of activities. Everybody is

on the jump. The faculties are strained

to their utmost tension. Study, and

business, and pleasure are done on the

high-pressnre principle, and the sane

intensity of movement is carried over

into recreation and appears in violent

exercises in climbing, rowing, ball-playing,

and the performances of gymna

sium, it snouia ne Dome m mma tnti

the antithesis of action is not action in

another way, but quiet and passive re

pose. The vegetative processes must

ba respected, and the jaded faculties

niuEjfc bo given time, for recuperation.

The thing wanted is not a crusade on

calisthenics and the gymnasium, but a

wise discretion in their use. We have

learned how to make a perfect horse

and ox and hound ; wo have not yet

learned how to make a perfect man or

woman. In this respect the wise old

Greeks were far ahead of any modern

people, and it would be well for our

teachers to borrow a hint from their

methods and experience.

Grecian Brigandage.

Writing of brigandage in Greece, the

Cincinnati Gazette says: "The main

object of brigandage is a financial one.

The robbers are iu want of money, and

the best way for them to turn an honest

penny is to steal it. When they cap

ture travelers they help themselves to

watches, money, and jewels, and any

thing else that may be of value. But

the end is not yet. They take the cap

tives into the mountaina and hold them

for something more, and they aro care

ful to squeeze out as much as possible.

If the victim is a wealthy nobleman or

some ether purse-proud aristocrat they

think it will be worth about 10,000 to

release him, but if he is some ordinary

mortal with no influential friends in

Athens, a hundred or two hundred

pounds will be sufficient. The foreign

residents and travelers who happen to

be in a Greek or Italian city when ran

som is demanded for some unhappy

wretch are frequently compelled to raise

money to meet the demand. There is

a great deal of complaint at this, and

much of it is well founded. 'Why

should I,' said a gentleman to me in

Naples, 'be compelled to pay some

thing every little while to get one of my

countrymen out of the hands of the

brigands? I wouldn't venture whero

the scoundrels could catch me, and I

wouldn't allow any of my friends to do

so if I could prevent it. But along

comes some reckless fellow I never saw,

goes into danger, and is captured. Then

I am appealed to on the ground of hu

manity and all that sort of thine, and

asked to help release him. It is his own

fault if he is caplured.' If he had stayed

away, as I do, he would have been safe,

and not compelled to appeal to strang

ers. If a man meets with an accident I

am willing to help him, but I think it

hard to be asked to contribute for a man

who has deliberately and with his eyes

open walked into trouble.'"

The Travels or St. Anthony or Tadna.

Curiously enough, the missing frag

ment of Murrillo's " Appearance ef tho

Infant Chriet to St. Anthony of Padua"

has turned up in New York. The prin

cipal figure was cut out from the pic

ture, brought to this city and sold for

$250 to a Broadway picture-dealer.

Fortunately the dealer knew the work

and was able to secure it at once, and

ho has honorably turned it over to

tho re presentativo of the Spanish gov

ernment residing in this city. The

original theft was, morst likely, commit

ted at Seville by some of the Spanish

banditti and Bent to this country in

charge of comrades. It seems to have

got into the oountry without detection

by custom officers by being packed in

small compass. In a damaged condi

tion it has at last been rescued, and St.

Anthony of Padua, after more adven

tures than usually fall to the lot of his

associates in the calendar, will find his

way back to the shrine from which he

was torn by sarcrilegious hands.

Malleable Glass.

The French journals contain an oo

oount of experiments made with a new

kind of glass so perfectly annealed as

to have lost all brittleness, wherefore

the inventor calls it, justly or unjustly,

malleable glass. His name is De la

Bartre, and the experiments were made

at the workshop of the railroad com

pany of Pont d'Ain, said company wish

ing to ascertain the value of an inven

tion which at the present day is exciting

a great deal of interest, especially in

such pursuits where glass- is exposed to

a great deal of strain and danger.

A pane of common glass a quarter of

an inch thick, of which the borders were

supported by a wooden frame, was laid

on the ground. A copper weight of

four ounces was droppep on its surface,

elevating gradually the height of its

fall. The glass broke at the shock

caused by two and a half feet of fall.

In place of that pane another, half as

thick, was substituted, of one-eighth of

an inch in thickness, of the .glass tem

pered after the new method. The same

weight was dropped, raising success

fully to the height of the ceiling of the

hU, without causing any damage to tho

glass.

The experiments wero continued out

side the building, and the experimenter

climbed on a ladder leaning against a

wall, to let the weight fall. It broke

at a fall from seventeen feet. It was

then proved that the tempered glass

does not break by shocks of longer or

shorter duration, as the common glass

doe?. It is broke in a great number of

very small crystals, resulting from its

new molecular disposition. When

thrown on the ground the tempered

glass rebounds, giving a special sound

like that of the fall of a sheet of metal.

The observations as to its resistance

to heat have caused another series of

experiments to be made. A strip of

common glass was laid flat over the

flame of a lamp. At the end of twenty

four seconds a sudden noise told that

the glass was Bplit. A glass annealed

according to tho new method subjected

to the same conditions resisted indefi

nitely. It was taken and plunged in a

pail of water, put again all wet above

the flame. It was in no way broken by

the fire.

Patents have been taken in France

and in other countries. A society was

formed at Bourg by the aid of some

friends, who have offered their testimo

nials to the inventor. The buildings

for manufacturing this kind of glass are

in course of erection. '

We add to these details, given by tho

local journals, that the inventor pat

ented his process in France.

The claim of his invention is : As

soon as the malleability begins the glass

is thrown at once in a greasy, resinous

or other r.ubstance, previously heated

to various degrees, iu proportion to the

nature and quality of the glass on which

they operate.

The Radiant Can a';

A Venetian correspondent sajs : " It

is a triumphal hour we live while drift

ing down the Grand Canal between two

lines of palaces whose facades have

given whole pages cf glorious form and

color to Buskin's poetic prize. It is

here we see to the best advantage those

bowildering facades thf t look like lace

work wrought in variegated marbles

the clustered windows, each one a pic

ture in itself, windows that are scattered

all over the great houses with a diste

cardpf old architectural laws that is at

first appalling and then delightful. We

see the stately palaco where Lord Byron

lived for a time and the grand, gloomy

chambers, with a broadside of windows,

that have tales of sorrow and of blood

connected with them. We see the tall,

narrow, and exceedingly picturesque

home of the unhappy Desdemona, and

in another canal we are shown to or

three palaces that are 6ftid to have been

inhabited by the Moors. We float

under the great Kialto and its stone

arch of seventy-four feet span, thirty

two feet ia height, and covered by

a double row of pretty little bootbB.

Under this broad arch our voices ring

aa if we were in some hall, and here

often of a night barges filled with

singers congregate and give thoir open air

concert to a river full of gondolas and a

quay crowded with listeners. Ahundred

Japanese lanterns swiag over the water,

and when the last chorus is raised, blue

and red lights stream up and down the

river and flood the gloomy old houses

with lovely light. Ob, there are festi

val nights in Venice ; this is the perpet

ual carnival of the Adriatic 1"

Changing tho Earth's Urograpliy.

Several projects which are likely to

change the features of geography to

some extent have been furnished the

American geographical society and are

worthy of notice. The Suez canal

alreaely successfully carried oat has

separated entirely the continents of Asia

and Africa. The Isthmus canal, be

tween the Pacific ocean and the Ca

ribbean sea, will, in like manner, when

completed, divide the North and South

American! continents. The propoeed

Maryland and Delaware ship canal, to

connect the waters of the Chesapeake

and Delaware bays, by the Sassafras

river, will convert the large peninsula,

150 miles long from north to south,

and over 65 miles wide at tho widest

part, comprising more than three

fourths of the state of Delaware, the

counties of Northampton and Accomac,

Virginia, and nearly all that portion of

Maryland on the eastern shore an area

of little less than 5,000 square miles

into an island. Another ship canal is

to cut off tho peninsula of Barnstable

from the main land of Massach. Both

of the two latter enterprises, it is

thought, will soon bo accomplished, as

tho benefits to Amerioan cemmerco that

will come from thera are most manifest.

A Georoia farmer guards his Rmoke

house with a circle of i ixtdeu boar tiaj s.

VOL. XX. NO. 30.

Important and Interesting Discover

of Art Treasures.

Rome Ltttir to tlie Lonilon Timee.

There appears to be no limit to the

wealth of art buried beneatn the ruins

of the ancient city. Ou Tuesday last

some of the woikmen employed in clear

ing away a quantity of fallen walls and

debris for the purpose of leveling the

newly marked out streets npon the Es

quiline, split off a mass of earth with

their wedges, and, f s it fell, out rolled

a female head of great beanty. The

cleanness of the fracture across the

neck, and the indications that the place

had never been disturbed since ruin

covered it, at once aroused expectation

of finding the remainder of the statue

or bast, whichever it might be. The

archioologiCiil commissioc immediately

set its men to work, and within a short

time a second head the portrait of a

man was found, then the beautiful

nudo body of the first, and directly af

terward its legs and plinth. A new

Venus of the pnrest Parian marble had

been discovered. By this time it was

dnsk, but the men had become too ei

cited to think of leaving off. Of thair

own accord they got torches, and con'

tinning their work on into the night,

found a bust of Commodus, altogether

unique in art.

On the following morning a draped

female statue, broken across a little

above the knees, but without the head

and neck, which had been sculp

tured separately to fit into the

drapery, was first discovered, and then

two statues of Tritons, as far as the hu

man portions of the monsters were con

cerned, that is, down to tho hips. They

had not been broken off at that point,

but were terminated ia such a manner

as would lead to the inference that the

tails were originally of broEEO. Next,

tho head of another Venus was found,

and immediately a considerable portion

of a semi colossal statue of Bacchus,

which would also seem to have been

formed of different materials. The

portion discovered consists of the head,

the right arm, and the whole of the

front of tho body down to tho hips,

The back was evidently cut awny at the

time when the work was sculptured, in

order to fit it into the drapery, which

was probably of bronze. The left arm,

broken off at the shoulder, has not yet

been found. On Thursday morning a

second draped female statue was discov

ered, of which, like the first, the head

and neck were sculptured separately,

to fit into tho drapery ; then two male

legs, which, from the similarity of the

marblo to that of the head found on

the first day, probably formed jiarts of

the same statue ; and, lastly, bo far as

the excavation has been carried, the

heads of two female statues in all, six

statues, a bust of Commodus, a head

of Venus, and a male portrait head,

and two legs, apparently portions of

the same statue.

The gem of these pieces of sculptnre,

all found together within the space of a

few square yards, is tho Venu, as it is

called. Its only claim, however, to be

considered arepresentatiemof the Paph-

ian divinity consists, like that of the

Capitoline Venus, in being perfectly

nude ; but iasteal of being a statue of

a fully developed woman, it is that of a

lovely girl of seventeen. To use the

words applied by Winkelmann to the

Venus do Medici, " It is like a lovely

rosebud bursting into bloom," and

might not inappropriately be called a

Psyche, did not the style of art suggest

an earlier period than tho date of the

fable. She stands with both feet npon

the ground and close together, the left

a couple of inches further back, with

the heel very slightly raised. A moment

before sho was erect, but she has

dropped into an easier petition, with

the left knee bent forward and inwards

against tho right, ner left hand is

resting on the knot of hair at the back

of her head, while her right holds tho

fillet she has already passed ireveral

times round it. In doing this sho has

swayed a little over and down to tie

right, bringing tho left side forward.

The shoulders are well set back, and the

face is turned to the right and a littlo

downwards, showing from the front not

quite three quarter view. The result

of this action is the most beautiful flow

of lino from every point of view.

The modeling is perfect, tho contours

have that delicious softners given to the

gradually increasing fullness of ap

proaching development, together with

all the beauty, charm and sweetness of

youth, virginity and innocence. Alto

gether it is the most perfect representa

tion of pure, unconscious girlhood I

ever beheld. On the ground at her

right is what appears to be a perfume

box, ornamented with flowers like

daisies, and npon a blender kind of bol

aster, upon which her drapery has been

thrown. This, of course, Berves as the

support to the statue, but does not

intrude as clofcly apt a the leg as the

vase and drapery which support the

Capitoline Venus. 1 may bo somewhat

unduly impressed by tho first Bight of

this "thing of beauty," but I am

inclined to think that it will take rank

above the Medicean Venus. Judging

from tho execution, which is slightly

unequal, and which, though good, is

inferior to the beauty of the conception

and modeling, here can be little doubt

that the statue is a copy, b .t from a

master-piece. Tho marble, as I have

raid, is Parian of the rarest quality.

The statue is broken across tho neck,

below tho b ft and above tho right knee,

and abavn the 1 ft ankle. The nose is

slightly broken at tho tip, and the

right arm has not yet been found.

TnE queen of England's daughters

are examples to the rest of the fashion

able world ia industry and taste. At

the royal Swiss cottage each of the

princesses has a garden which she cul

tivates with her own hands. They have

learned to cook, and they frequently

sit down to a meal prepared by one or

the other. Louise, wife of tho marquis

of Lorn?, is a clever artist.

A wee hit girl ia Cusco, Wis., while

at the breakfast table, a lew mornings

since, made loud and repeated calls for

buttered to apt. After disposing of a

liberal quantity of that nourishing arti

cle, Bhe was told that too much toast

would make her fiick. Looking wist

fully at the difih for a moment, ehe

thought Bhe saw a way out of her diffi

culty, and exclaimed : " Well, give me

annuzzer pieoe and Bend for the doctor,'

SAYIXUS AND DOISUS.

A DOCTOIt'S IIOHV.

Mrs. Rogers lay in her bed,

BndaR0d ml blistered from foot to led.

Itandaged And blistered from head to t e,

Mrs. Rogem waa very low.

Bottlo and saucer, rjioon and enp,

Ou the table stool bravely np ;

Physio of Ligh and low defrree ;

Caomel, catnip, bourse t te ;

Everything a body conld bear,

Excepting light, and water, and air.

I opened the blinds ; fie dy was briirU.

And God gave Mrs. Roger som liglit.

I opened the window j tlio day wa f;r,

And God pavo Mrs. Rogers some air.

Roltles and blieter, powders and pills,

Oaitiip, bononet, symp and senilis ;

lings and mouicines, high and lnw,

I threw them as far as I con!d throw.

" What are yon doing ?" m.7 patient cried,

" Frightening death," I ccolly replied.

" You are crazy ?" a visiter said ;

I flung a bottlo at her head.

Deacon Rogers he came to me ;

' Wife is a comin' around, ' aaid he,

" I really think she will worry through ;

She eool.Is me just as she used to do.

All the people have pointed and slurred -All

the neighbors have had thoir word ;

Twas bettnr to perish, some of Vin say.

Than to be enred iu anch an irregular way."

" Yonr wife," said I, "had God's good care.

And his remedies light, and watr, and air.

All the doctors, beyond a doubt,

Couldu't have cured Mrs. Rogers without."

The doacon smiled and bowed his head ;

"Then your bill is nothing," hesai 1.

' God's be the glory, as you say ;

God bless you doctor; good day good day."

It ever I doctor that woman a.-ain,

I'll give her medicines made by men.

A ood name will wear out ; a bad

one may be turned ; a nickname lasts

forever.

It is better to bo aloue in this world

than to bring up a boy to play on tho

aceordeon.

A hook has bee-n published called

"Half Hours with IuBccts." The au

thor was not a regular boarder A". 1".

Mail.

A mas may be properly said to havo

been drinking like a fish when he finds

that he has taken enough to make his

head swim.

oAQrrx MitXEtt cut his hair on re'

turnirjg to Lemdon, but preserved bin

peeti a individuality by donning gretn

pantaloons.

Tiiebr will be two eclipses of tho sun

this year, one on April f, not visible iu

the United State, and another on Sep

tember 29, visible east of tho Missis

sippi.

Thekk is nothing half to sad in lifo

as the spectacle of an auctioneer at

tempting to eell $15,000 worth of good

to an audienco whose aggregate and

tangible assets foot up thirty cent.

It looks a little Btrange to the Mis

souri traveler who knocks at a door to

have the man open it, push a shot gun

out and inquire what's wanted, bnt tl e

owner of tho shot gun knows his busi

ness. Some physiogomists ssy thut the back

of a man, his head, etc., show his real

self moro truly than his fate, with its

trained and conscious expression, iu

which ho seeks to reveal or hido such

parts of his nature as he sees fit.

TnE Titusville Courier says that tho

production of petroleum in western

Pennsylvania during tho year 1H7I

would fill a canal thirty feet wide at tho

top, fifteen feet at the iwttora, seven

feet deep and over seventy-five miles

long.

OtUNeiF.s are now raised in such quan

tities, and ef Bnch excellent quality,

in the neighborhood of Galveston,

Texas, that the importation of tho

fruit, it is thought, will shortly ceaso

at that port.

A EAitT boy in Nevada has lo hair,

and the doctors Bay he never will havo

any. Perhaps the Almighty hns

changed the Btjle of getting up tho

masculine human in view of the well

known modern propensity of wemen to

jank something.

Tub St. Lawrence county (N. Y.)

dairymen have btMa discusning tho

length of time a dairy oow should g

dry. After two hours' debate a vot.J

was taken, which resulted iu a six

weeks' vacation for each dairy cow,

beginning with the first of January of

each year.

Uecii-e ron Gm r ran r.EAnr I si:

To any quantity of glue uno rotanon

whisky instead of waUr. Put both

together in a bottlo, cork tight, and put

t away for tureo or lour iays. it win

then be fit for ns without tho applica

tion of heat. It will bo found a tist fHl

and handy article for every household.

TnE Chicago, Hock Island and Pa

cifio railroad company has created a

department of aurgery " on their

road. The department will Iirvo the

supervision of all cases of injury by

accident, and will attend to tho brokn

and bruised bodies of tho patrons of

the road. Good ide, but not ft cheer

ful one to elaborate.

" A CLEnoYMAN " ruggests ocean im

mersion as preferablo to cremation H

says: "Funeral steamers might bo

provided, which, proceeding to a dis

tance from land, could deinwit tho re

mains beyond tho reach of desecration,

and whence injury could not result to

the living."

CiiAnr-E.s W. ru-MMFii, a Newark

N. J., society-duck, had to pay Miss

Grace E. rinmmcr, a belle of the Mnio

city, for "hugging her on the parlor

sofa, kissing her every time they met,

and going to Bleep ou her shoulder,"

tho net sum of 85.0(H) ; but, as this sort

of thing went on for sixteen months,

tho bill was not excessive. Nice girl,

Miss Plummer.

Tnis is the way one char sinps the

first verse of Jerusalem, ioy huppy

homo : "

Yiii- ln sah-lot'K, Yi-o-1'i-sli-!ciig,

i-ming Jih-c;i o pan-pii ;

Ling-cong z' '" ''- "

l't-u ngo ziu gyi en-wo ?

The choir io which wo now refer Is

oomponed of Chinamen ; but there are

plenty of American choirs that can ning

it just as badly.

An observing Frenchman thus writes

of what he saw in this country: " lu

winter evenings, when there comes up

one of those dense fogs which aro ho

common over iu America, it is no un

usual thing to meet in thentreuts a mno

carrying a lantern, which resembles

one of onr magio lanterns, lie st lcta

frequented spot, and when tho crowd

becomes dense around him ho turns his

lantern towards the lowering clouds.

At that instant, rs if by mimcle, the by

standers behold in the midet of the

heavens, which do duty for a enrtain, a

gigantic advertisement reoommeuding

some dry goods establiBLmnt or cloth

ing store. The second example is more

simple, but not less ingenious. One

often passes on the Btrctt a citir.cn

walking rapidly, and treading with all

his weight on the sidewalk. You draw

near, and on the asphalt, in the trace

left by the footprints of the personage

in question, yon read an advertisement,

printed in clear and elegant characters.

The man was a walking advertisement,

and he wore shoes with nailed letters t.u

their solos. " .