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GENERAL AND PERSONAL.

MONKEYS are used for food in Japan.

PARIS has its Temperance Association.

DUBUQUE, Iowa, has a Widows’ Club.

NICOLINI speaks of Patti as -‘his Ade-lina.”

NIBBLING hickory nuts will fatten the cadaver-
ous. V

C0LoN.uLA. B. STEINBERGEB, of Samoan fame,
has arrived at Washington.

PLAINTIFF seems to have got the bulge on the
defendant.-[Omaha Judge.

GIVE us the kind of money that a man can scoot
to Canada with.--‘-[Chicago ex.

THE prayer of the Chaplain ‘of the United
States Senate is short and sweet.

THE Greenoackers of Michigan are to. hold a
convention in Jackson February 7.

GEORGE ELIOT’s new novelette. "The Lifted
Veil." 18 begun in Harper’: Baear.

A special feature of the Paris Exposition will be
the number of Japanese“ exhibitors.

SAVANNAH shad at $2 a pair have already ap-
peared in the North Carolina markets.

LABOUCHERE'S weekly in London, Truth. had
.3 special Christmas number entirely in verse.

CARLYLE has sent an elegant ear trumpet to his
niece, a Mrs. Ellis, of Mount Pleasant, Ontario.

Baxouuss Blunmirrr-CouTrs has presented the
Royal Historical Society with a magnificent
library. I

A CLERGYMAN in Brunswick, G9... has been ar-
rested for marrylnei 8 white inan to it black
woman.‘ '

REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER has accepted
the eliaplaincy of the old 13th Regiment, of
Brooklyn. ‘ I

A NEGRO man, his wife and child, in Clark
County, Ky., are all supplied with six fingers on
each hand.

THE Lowell Courier thinks that if the Lynn
Iasters hadn’t struck, the Lynn strike wouldn't
have lasted.

Mu. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS is very well.
He rarely misses a session of the House, and
works hard outside.

THE British Government have entered into a
contract with Col. Reynolds for the supply of a
large number of telephones.

AN ebony cofiln, lined with white satin, with a
lot’ in Pere la Chaise, was one of the gifts proffer-
ed to is popular actress in_Paris this month.

A SCHOOL for the ballet, consisting of 300 chil-
dren, gathered from the slums, has been opened
In London, for the supply of the Opera House.

MARY SIPES, who recently died in Baliimore at
at the age of ninety-nine years and four months,
had seen every President of the United States.

MRS. ISIACKENZIE. wife of the Canadian Pre-
mier. has given two gold medals to a girl's school
at Ottawa, as prizes for courses in domestic econ-
omy and plain sewing.

Tm; grandson of an English Baronet drives a
public hack in Buflhlo, and can charge as exor-
biiantly as if the pursuit had been followed by his
family for untold generations.

Janus GORDON BENNETT is prepared in case of
any future duel. ' He has bought a steamship fit-
ted to sail for the Arctic regions on the shortest,
notice.—-[Cincinnati Saturday Night.

THE copyright of the musical works of Men-
delssohn expired on the first of January, the
author's or composer’:-i privilege in Germany be-
ing limited to thirty years after death. -

THE health of Dr. Isaac Butt,Home Rule mem-
ber of the House of Commons for Limerick City.
is so bad that his attendance upon Parliament at

‘A CASIIMERE surr.

Oh, softest Cashmere, since thou art the fashion,
Tell me thy story, as we sit to-day; .
Canie’st t_hou from Tartar steppes, or plains Cir-
oassian, ‘  - I
1 Or P,‘ll_al‘dIilIl hills of mystical Cathay?
Australian walks, or Zulu’s savage strand,
Or broomy brass of lovely Westmoreland?

So soft and delicate, that English fairies
Might wear the fleecy folds; they, mayhap,
came - 4
From the green pumpas around Buenos Ayres,
Or ipountaius where fierce Ailghaiis guard their
ame. . -_
Not Jason's fleece had tale more wild. and

strange
Than thou could tell of travel an_dof*change.

Of Lonely watches and of
Of peaceful shepherds unrlerneath.gi'een trees
Of flocks kept only by the gun and saber,
Of weary journeys over pathless seas, '
. Of giants made of cranks and wheels and hands,
And wondrous dyes from far-ofi tropic lands.

Of cunning hands that wove in strange devices

Endless reliefs and borders, told on fold;
Until thy web with many a charm entices

The smile of beauty and the meed of gold.
Yet, marvelous fleece. forget each memory
In the still fairer ones that yet shall be.

When young Jeannette, with soft, persuasive
fingers,
Foldeth my beauty o’er her gcentle heart;
For Love around the maiden ever lingers,
And all sweet things in her have share and

part,
Then thy strange fate shall find its noblest place,
Blent with fond human hopes and human grace.

MODJBJSKA.

A Familiar Talk Vvith the Distinguish-
ed Actress———‘t§i hat She Says About Her-
self -——Her Theory of Stage Death
Scenes” , ~

.f1l‘1_'om the New York I-Ierald.l
.‘.‘Now I am ready to talk,” said, Mme,

Modjeska, the distiiiguislied Polish actress,

tea Herald represeiitative yesterday morn-

ing, as she gracefully bowed a party of lady
callers from her parlors in the Clarendon

Hotel. “Tak_e a chair near me and I will sit

here,” she said, resuming her seat on a sofa

by the window. ,
Reporter. Mme. Modjeska, New York

takes a very Warm interest in you. and I wish

you would tell me something about yourself.
Mme. Modjeska. We might find; a more

agreeable subject than that. ,

Reporter. I assure you that the public is

very iuuch interested in you. Tell me, pray,

how you came to go upon the stage.
Mine. Modjeska. -Fr om the age of fourteen

I said that I would be something in the world.

My mother laughed at me. and said that it

was enough for me to marry well and be a

good mother. I paid no attention to this, for

my mind was made up. I thought of the
operatic stage and studied music for some
time, for I had a pretty good voice. but I gave
that up. I then concluded to be a writer,and
studied literature.
some of my poetry (smiling); it was very
crude, and I began to think that my talent was
not for writing. My home was a great centre
for artists, musicians, actors and litterateurs,

friends of my brothers, who were artists. I

have a sister an actress. I concluded to go up-

on the stage, for I was very fond of acting.

My family discouraued the idea, but I was db-

termined, and I did it. My first husband

was-_the mauziger of the theater, but he did

not like to have me act. I was verv young

when I married. That is my son,  only
child (pointing to a young man of about six-
teen years of age, who was cutting notices
from a pile of iiewspapers at the table). When
my mother discouraged my going upon the
stage I said to her I shall be the leatliiiir ac-

tress of Poland before I am thirty, and so I

WasO

Reporter. You speak of your first hus-

band-—have you a second?

Mine. Modjeslta. Yes; he is out in Cali-

fornia. and will be here in a fortiiiglit. Here

is his picture ((l.lS[)lllyll]2' the photograph of a

remarkably fine looking and intelligent man).

He is a very cleverinau, and has helped me a

great deal in my studies. We lived very

happily in Warsaw, so that when I got a let-

any time this session is very doubtful.

THE International Confederation for promoting
the observance of the Christian Sabbath has of-
fered a prize of 2,000 francs for the best essay on
“The Evils of Sunday Railroad Traffic. "

A RECENT return shows that infant mortality
in Ilollaiid exceeds that in England and Wales
by 55 per cent. This is what keeps down the‘
Dutch population. No cause is assigned.

The few Englishmen left in Plevna after the
investment established a club. With a tender
recollection of home, they gave it the not alto-
gether incongruous name of the “Ru: and Fam-
ish.”

D..\NIELTAl'.BY, of Fort Wayne. refused alms
we a trump. who left saying, “You will repent
this " Next morning his house was set on fire
from the outside and nearly burned to the
ground.

IN the Third Precinct yesterdays policeman
arrested a man who tried to explain that he was
only "weary." The policeman explained that
there is arrest for the “weary."——[l\’ew York
Herald.

Connor: WRIGIIT, of Liiporie, Indiana, has
just had his infant. child baptized with water from
the River Jordan, which he lh0llp,'l|lZf\l1lV brought
home wiili him from his wedding tour in the
Holy Land. '

Tm; Australian colonies show an extraordi-
1381‘? l'“‘0 0f bolanv. The botanical gardens are
a deliglitful feature of all the great cities , and no
amount of money is izrudged to bring them to
perfection.

THE Ilritish Mail, a niootlily financial publica-
tion, says. in a review of the general commer-
cial depression. that up to the present time the
United States seems to have suffered most and
France lieast.

Ma. CORCORAK. the Wasliington millionaire,
and his granddaughter called atapennyluncn.
house the other day and with iron spoons partook
of yellow bowls of soup. to encourage folk with
less money but more pride. ,

THE censorship of the press is actively carried
on at M.-iii:-id. Most of the Paris papers, and the
.Ifl.d€Dt':‘l?(l'(’72(‘-6 Beige, were stopped one day last
month, and the telegrams give as much intelli-
gence as the Governuient thinks proper, and no
more.

SPARBOWS and squirrels are both protected in
Omaha, and there are not less than 500 .-quarrels
now between the Knuntze Place and Pa:-kwild
avenue. There is one tree-there where they have
bred for the past twelve or fifteen years. This
year the season has been mild and food plentiful,
and the squirrels are quite fat.

Tm: last person decorated by the late King of
Italy was Dr. David Toscano, an eminent Jewish
physician of Rome, who received the Order of
the Crown of Italy. In the time of the Papal
Power in Rome. Dr. Toscano coal»! only obtain
his degree on taking an oath that he would never
visit Christian patients.-—[Exchange.

A WINTER start.

The heaven is so clear and blue,

Oh, were the earth but green!
The wind is sharp,--if mild it blew!‘
Bright shimmers the snow,--oh, were it dew!
Oh, were the earth but green!

[From the German of Plaicn , by Sylvester Baxter.

L

THE Lake George correspondent of the Tray
Times says that the hard money men of that place
have been lioaxed and swindled by the greenback
element tliereinto signing a petition which they
Supposed was for the repeal of the tax clause
which requires taxes to be,paid in gold on and after
January 1.l879,but which had another clause call-
ing for the repeal of the resumption act.

Our: of the star priina donnas of the Imperial
Opera, St. Pete:-shurg, recently took her benefit.
On lising called for the twentieth or thirtieth
time l;~ofore the curtain, sue advanced to the foot-
11l-_ll1'-S and. addressing the audience in the Rug-
8i39_1l»Nl§€ufi9ie. offered to show her Efatllllde by
singing“ a national Russian song. The song was
receivt-Cl wiih enthusiastic applause, but the
prime. donna was much disgusted when the man-
agement subsequently fined her 2,000! for "ad-
dressing the audience without permission.”

A BROOKLYN factory girl has sued her emplny.
Or for the amount of a line be imposed upon her
for iiot'makiug buttons properly. She said to the
Justice: “If I. or any of the 200 other girls em.
played in the factory, was five minutes late,a fine
of tvs-'emy~five cents was imposed. There were
various other lines; for instance, we would be
fined if we dropped a small piece of trimminx on
the floor. There is a room above the workshop,
and if any of us wished to hang our hate or cloaks
there we had to pay twenty-five c ‘eek
tor the privilege. "

B

fils knew her--her iiiiiue was Marie Duples-

do aiiyi hing like that.

go back to Poland?

either in the spring or the fall.
Poland next January.
again I shalliippear in some new parts.

ter from Dumas fits inviting me to come to
Paris and act, I said to my husband, “I do
not want to give up my pleasant Poland
home;"’ and an offer fora life engagement
coming from the Court 'I‘heat.ei' of Warsaw
at the same time, I accepted it.

Reporter‘. How did you get away to come
to America?
Mme. Modjeska. I needed rest and a

change of climate, and asked for a leave of
aipseiice. "What for?” said they. “Togo
to America,” I replied. “You jest,” said
the management. “I never jest,” I said.
And when they said, "You will be back in
three months,” I said. “Not until two
years. ’ ’ 'l‘he_v would not believe me in earn-
est until they actually saw me off.

Reporter. Their loss has been our gain.
By the way, how did you happen to know
Euglisli?

Mme. Modjeska.
it it yea)‘ ago.
time.

Reporter. Your Camille has taken the
town by storm. Our tlieat.er-goers think that
they never understood the character before.
What are your ideas of La Dame aux Came-
liiis? I)o you think that she was a depraved
creatiire? .

Mme. Modjeska (earnestly). No. indeed;
I thiiik she was a woman who went astray
merely from the force of circuinstaiices. She
Ilelfel‘ had a chance to be anything but what
she was. Her p-.ireut:~i deserted her, and she
had no friends. I believe that if she had had
the advantage of a home, she would have
been a good woman. Poor creature, I feel
so sorry for herl 1 never like to hear people
speak harslily of her. Of course, she did
wrong. but she never had the chance to do
right. See how, the moineiit she was of-
fered :1 pure love, she clung to it. She was a
realcliaracier. Isuppose you know l)umas

I did not know it word of
I have learned it since that

sis. I have just been rciiiliiig Jules Jaiiiii’s
preface to a recent edition of La Dame aux

Caiiieliii-, and I find that my conception of
the character agrees with what he says of the
original.

Reporter. ‘Your interpretation of the
(:llal‘tlclel‘ is cerisiiily much less unpleasant
than that of most actresses.

Mme. Modjesica. I am glad it I have done
her justice. I have great pity for her. Jauiu
says that lie and Liszt met Marie Duplessis
for the first time in the f0;/c7‘ of the opera,
and that they took her for a grand lady. She
coiivcrsed with Li.-zt on the subject of music
in ll inaiiiier that a.-toiiislisd him. Janin save
that she had a wonderful mind and was well
educated. He watched her at the opera, and
describes how she looked tiiroiigli her glass
at the wives and mothers sitting in their boxes
with an expression of pain ci'ossiu2; her face.
When she caught sight of the boxes in which
the women of the town sat she recoilcd in
horror. Wbiiteversiie may have been there
waiiagoed sii,-rel always struggling within
her. Some people say that I make Camille
tioo ladylike. I think not, and Jaiiin has con-
firmed my opiuiou. She was an uiiliappy
woman. and her aim s med to be to get
away from herself. She was an artist in her
way of life--—in her dress. manners and tastes
she was thoroughly refined, and she would
not tolerate a coarse person about her. She
must have been a Woman of vv onderful char-
acter, for when she died grand ladies visited
her house and paid fabulous prices for any
little thine that had belouired to her.

Reporter. Speaking of death, where did you

get your marvellous conception of dying?

Mme. Modjeska. From my iniiigiiiatiou. I

know that some actresses study death from
dying people, but I can not. I once made an
eugageuiciit to go tea hospilal to see a person
die. but when the time came [could not do it.
1 have read a great many medical books on the
subject, add in that way have studied death
by violence and by disease. I have studied to
play the part of a blind girl from life. I used
to have two blind persons visit me every day
so that 1 could notice their peculiarities. I
only took what was pleasant from them. I do
not like to be uiipleasiiutly realistic.

Ileporter. Had you any idea of playing in
English when you began to study the lan-
guage?

‘ Mme. Modjeska. None at all. I studied
Biiglisli for the purpose of translatini: some of
the Polish poets into that laiiguiige. ' be
world does not know the beauties of our ite-
ratiire.

lteporter.

don the idea. ”

Mme. Modjeska. I can not say; I have so

little time now that I don’t know when I can

I hope that you will not aban-

Beporter. This is your last week in New
York. Do you expect to return before you
Mme. Modjeska. I hope to return here
; I start for
When I play here

Reporter. And Camille, too, I hope?

Mme. Modjcslitt. Oh, yes; Camille, of
course, and another character of Duisaaflls,
and Phmdra, and perhaps Ophelia. I love to
Play Ophelia; my heart bleeds for her; I do
not wonder that she went mad.

Rl8P0l'te_r. Have you ever seen any one
Plilfflamllle?

Mme. Modjeska. Never. I do not like to

patien t liibor,  -

You should have seen‘

see any one in a part before I play it. I have
not seen much great acting, only Illstori ‘and
De la Porto. ,

Re.port.er.-- Have you ever acted anywhere
outside of Poland, except in America?

Mme. Modjeska. No, and it is against my
contract to play even here. I suppose that I
will have to pay a forfeit when 1 return to
VVzirsaw. I have been invited often to play

my engagement at Warsaw prevents it.

Reporter. Now that you are here, why
11013 SHIV? Why should you bury yourself in
Poland? ;

Mine. Modjeska. I have given my word——
that is enough. If I can possibly make any
arrangement to return I shall do so.

_R.eporter. Do you like to act in English? '

Mme. Modjeska.- After I have learned my
part. But it is very hard work. It takes me
five weeks to learn a part like Camille in
Eiiglish. Some‘ of the lines I say over more
than a hundred times. ‘I always read 21 play
over and I over .a.°:ain to , get‘ its full meaning
and everything I can find that relates to the
subject. I love to act; it is agreat pleasure to
me.

STURGES’ STORY.

Chit-.ago’s Expelled Grain Dealer Blames
B. E. Allen, the Iowa Banker, for His
Trouble. .

[From the Chicago Post.)

_Mr. W. N. Sturges. whose recent expul-
sion by the Board of Trade, and the circum-
_stai_ices . attending 1 the same, have been
noticed in th _ ‘taper, has prepared the fol-
lowing statement, showing his side of the
case: >-

Knowing that the general public and many
of the members of the Board of Trade do not
‘ understand the facts out of which grew the
controversy between myself and certain
members of the Board which has led to the
recent action of its Directors, I deem it but
justice to myself to briefly ,

STATE THE PRECISE FACTS.

Diirinathe mouths of August and Septem-
ber, 1874, I sold on B. F. Allen’s order, and
for his account, some 03,000. 000 bushels of
corn for September and October delivery.
As the market advanced I called upon Mr.
Allen for niiirgi-us, to which he responded
with!‘mai°gin certificates of the Cook County
National Bank, the bank at that time being a
regular depository‘ for niargins, the Direc-
tors of the Board having given ofiicial notice
to its members that the Cook County Nation-
al Bank had filed a good and sufiicieiit bond
to protect all margin certificates. On the
26th of September Mr. Allen notified me that
the bank was insolvent, and

COULD NOT PAY ITS CER'1‘IIi‘CATES.

Previous to this I had the utmost confidence

in Mr. Alleu’s financial ability, not having a

particle of doubt as to the soundness of the

bank and its ability to pay the margin certifi-
cates. When Alleu notified me of the condi-
tion of the bank there wusoiitstandiiig $365,000
of the mzirgiu certificates, all of which at the
then price of corn was absorbed in the deal.

Over $100,000 of those certificates were in the

hands of ‘brokers, and the ceitiiicates were

issued in their name; the balance was issued
in my name. The corn receipts were very
light and the market practically cornered.

Alter ll careful examination of the position

there seemed

BUT TWO ALTERNATIVES;

one to sign down or iudorse the niargiu cer-

tificates, and deliver them to the parties enti-

tled thereio, proclaim the deal Alleii’s, and
exonerate myself. To do this would advance

the market and cost the Board probably a

million of dollars. The other alternative pre-

sented was that I should stand in the breach
myself. protect all and assume all the respon-
sibility. Messrs. Monroe and Bisbee, my
attorneys, after a careful examination of Mr.

Allen’:-i affairs, assured me that, in their

opinion, Allen and the bank could pay, but
they must have time, and advised me,as their
client, to refuse to sign or iudorse down the

Inal‘9.‘in ceitificiites, default on the deal, stand

in the breach, and

PROTECT THE BOARD, BANK AND ALLEN,

which position I accepted.

On the 1st of October, upon my refusing to
inderse and surrender the certifica.tes,ch:irges
were preferred against me by twenty-four
members of the association for expulsion.
There were five direct charges made, and
after taking over 600 pages of testimony, the
Directors decided that the charges were not
sustained by the evidence, but substituted
new Cllal‘,‘2,‘9S, and referred -me to the full
Board for ixpiilsion. At the full Board no
evidence was taken,‘ but a vote was ordered,
and at that time I held the $365,000 niargiii
certificates belonging to members of the As-
sociation, which I could not surrender or ex-
plain the cause ‘of my refusal to surrender,
without breaking the bank, and causing great
loss to members of the Association holding
these certificates, which caused a most bitter
feeling against. me. and ‘

PREJUDICE CARRIED THE DAY. _
Out of the  margin certificates I paid
$102.000, saved the brokers, andreduced the
amount, by decline in market and payments,
to about $86,000.

I then called a meeting‘ of the owners of
these certificates, and proposed to place the
amount outstaiidiiig in the hands of a trirstee,
to be held sixty or ninety days, to be turned
over to owners at the expiration of that time,
unless paid before.

Mi‘. A.-‘ii Dow was appointed the trustee.
Mr. Dow did not accept this trust until he
satisfied himself by asstiraiices from Mr. Al-
len that their payment would be absolutely
certain at the expiration of the trust.

All these facts, as stated, are on record as
testimony in the case of Biirley, Receiver of
the Cook County National Bank, against me,
before Judge Gary, to recover from me the
aiiioiiiit of these margins.

The testimony shows that I never deposited
a dollar in or checked a dollar out of the Cook
County National Bank; that these certificates
were issued on the order of B. F. Allen, and
cliarged on the books of the bank to the ac-
count of Allen, Stephens its Co. Mr. Allen’s
testimony sho are that the corn was all sold by
his order, and for his account, and the mar-
gin certificates issued on his order.

Mr. L. H. Bisbee, my attorney at the time.
testifies that after a careful exaininatiou of
Mr. Alleii’s uffziirs, he believed that all that
was necessary to secure the payment to all
was time, and advised me to take the position
I did. As a result I reduced the indebted-
ncss from $365,000 to $86,000, and for this I
stand to-day expelled from the Board. I
make this statemeiit with aview of placing
the facts fairly before the coniiniiiiity, and
have only to say that were I again placed in
the same position, I could but adopt the
same plan. I did what to ‘myself, to my
legal advisers and my best friends seemed
best for the interests of all.

W. N. STURGES.
Cliicaao, January 26, 1878.
The following afiidavit’cxplains itself:

opy-J

State of Iowa, Polk County.-—-I, L. H. Bis-
bee, being duly sworn on oath say that in
September or October, 1874, I was consulted
by W. N. Sturges with relation to his affairs
with B. F. Allen. Mr. Sturges informed me
that lie was acting as broker for Mr. Allen in
selling corn, September and October delivery,
that he had no interest in it himself, and that
Mr. Alltfl did not want the margin certifi-
cates pi'e.-ented to the Cook County National
Bank because it was not able to pay them,
and at Mr. Sturges’ request Icalled upon
Mr. Allen at the Cook County National Bank,
and Mr. Allen told me that all transactions
Mr. Sturges had were for himself (Mr. Al-
len). Mr. Allen also stated that if he could
get sixty days’ time on the margin certificates
thereon, he could readily pay the same,
providing it was not known publicly
that Mr. Allen was at the bottom of this
corn deal, and at Mr. Alleu’s requeé-it I mim-
aged, in connection with my pll.I‘l.llCl', Mr.
Moiiroc,to have the margin certificates placed
in the hands of Asa Dow, to be held for
eighty days before they were nidorscd bp Mr.
Siurges, and presented to the bank for pay-
ment.

Mr. Allen assured me in the most positive
terms that, if the certificates were presented
at that time in one body for payiiient, it
would break the Cook County National Bank,
but that if he had sixty days, he would get
funds from the East sufiicieut to meet all of
them, and go along in business. I then be-
lieved Mr. Allen’s statement to be true, and
advised Mr. Sturges not to disclose the name
of Mr. Allen as his principal, believing that
this course would result in the payment of
every margin certificate. Mr. Sturges acted
upon my advice, and before sixty days ex-
pired the Cook County National Bank failed.

, L. H. BISBEE. \

Subscribed and sworn to l)cf0l'e'me this 24th

day of January. 1878. , L. H.W1LK1usoiv,
Notary Public, Polk County.

Man’s Average Height.
lFrom the London Doctor.)

The following, according to an exchange,
is the result of the measurement of over half
a million of men as regards height and na-
tivity: The meau big-ht of the American
1udi.ani.s67.934 inches; the American white
mau, 67.672: Scotch, 67.066; English, 66.575;

afieiifilan, 66.3%.; French, 66.277; Mexican,

0

in Paris‘, Vienna, Milan and other cities, but

1

, BIIIDGING TIIE   IlUl)S01.‘l mviis.

 

-The Progress of the Great Structure at
Poughkeepsie.

A Bridge with the Longest Truss Spans in the World--Slnk-
ing the Huge Caissons to the River Bed—Wil|
New York he Benefited?

 

X, [From the New York Sun.] , ‘

Work on the proposed great bridge across
the Hudson River at Pougbkeepsie is being
prosecuted by the American ‘Bridge Company
of Chicago, under acontract with the Pough-
keepsie Bridge Company to build the struct-
ure for a lump sum, the amount of which
they decline .30 make public. Estimates of
the cost of the work vary from $4,000,-
000 to $5,500,000. The original charter
authorizing the con,sti'uction of the
bridge was granted a May 10, 1871,
and was for a "suspension bridge to be
used for the passage of railroad trains, vehi-
clcs, cattle,” etc. This charter required the
work to be begun before Jul 1, 1872, and
the hridgze to be completed an open for use
before January 1. 1876. In 1872 the charter
was amended, permitting the erection of
share piers on the dock line at each side of
the river, and four piers in the river chan-
nel,‘at a distance apart of not less than 500
feet, the piers to be kept lighted at night
(1Lll‘lII§1' the season of navigation, and a tug to
be kept ready by the Bridge Company to as-
sist tows in their passage. The time for be-
ginning work was extended to January 1,
1874, and for its completion till January 1,
1879. The corner-stone for one pier on the
east side was laid in December, 1873.

The capital stock was fixed at $2,000,000,
with the right to increase it to $5,000,000. and
with authority to borrow money to an amount
not exceeding the capital. The act of incor-
poratiourequires the company to construct a
bridge that shall serve for highway as well as
for railway travel.
meiitary legislation relieves them from this
obligation, yet the company have contracted
fora double track railway bridge only. The

long, made eiitirely of wrought iron, and
built on the rectangular truss plan. It will
be of the kind known as a "deck bridge,”
which means that the trains run over its top
instead of between the sides as usual. The
bottom chord will be 135 feet above the water,
and the side truss will be 65 feet high, making
the railroad track 200 feet above the water.
The longest truss bridge span heretofore built
is 515 feet in length, The approaches are to
be of iron spans and trcstles, with a total
length of 2,024. feet, and from 4.0 to90feet
high. That on the eastern side will run over
a thickly built portion of the town.

The end or shore piers will be built about
thirty feet back from the river edge. There
are to be four piers iu the river chaiinel. At
Pier No. 1, on the west side of the river, the
masoiiery is now built to a hight of eighteen
feet above the surface of the water. This
pier was constructed in the following man-
ner: First, a wooden caisson was built on
the shore on ways specially prepared for it,
very much like the ways on which ships are
built. The caisson is fifty feet wide, one
hundred feet long, and eiglity feet high. It
is made of yellow pine and hemlock sticks
twelve inches su_u-ire, three of which are laid
side by side to_loi'm the outside walls; then
crosswise and lengthwise, every ten or
twelve feet apart, run partitions built in the
same manner. These cut the caisson up
into forty compartments. The bottom edge
of the ends and sides of the caisson are
built of sold timber, running from a cutting
edge at the bottom to a thickness of
twelve feet at a hight of sixteen feet
above the bottom, the outsides being per-
pendiciiliir and the inside wedge-shaped.
Leugthwisc through the center runs a wedge-
sliaped section of solid timber resting upon a
sharp edge, and which is sixteen feet high and
fourteen feet broad at its top. All of the bot-
tom edges are shod with iron. and the timbers
are framed and bolted together very securely;
under each cross partition is a heavy iron
draw bolt.

The cross partitions commence about six
feet above the sides. Of the forty compart-
ments formed in the caisson twelve only run
through it from top to bottom; these are the
chambers through which the mud is dredged
irom- under the ‘caisson. The remaining
twenty,-eight chauibers run down to the top of
the wedge-shaped outside and center sections
of solid timber, and are pockets into which
the concrete needed to sink the caisson into
the mud is put. The twelve dredging cham-
bers are twelve feet square throughout their
whole length, except at the bottom, where
they flare out by reason of the wedge-shaped
sides and center piece. M Viewed from the
bottom they look like the chimneys seen in old
Dutch farm houses, or like enormous inverted
grist mill hoppers.

This unwieldy mass, drawing nearly sixty
feet of water, was towed into place in May,
1877, and concrete composed of five parts of
sand, stone and gravel to one part of cement,
was mixed on the deck of a scow moored be-
side it and lowered into the pockets or tini-
ber-bottouied compartments by means of a
clam-shaped dredger. This process contin-
ued as long; as the caisson continued to sink
through the mud, which at this point is forty
feet deep. When the caisson stopped sinking
the dredger was used to remove the mud from
iiiiglcr it through the twelve dredgiiig cham-
bers, the wedge-shaped oiitsides tiirustiiig
the mud i’nwai‘d toward the center of the
dredging chambers, while the center wedge
thrust it outward in the same manner.

At each lift of the dredge five cubic yards
0.‘ mud and clay were removed. This method
was pursued until the caisson reached
hard bottom. The clay and mud was
at times so hard that the dredges out
several feet below the bottom edges
of the caisson before it was forced
down by the weight of the concrete in the
pockets.
one point than aiiotliei‘, and the caisson sank
unevenly. On the top of the caisson was
built a collar dam twenty-oiie feet liiali. The
dredging chambers were thenofilled up with
concrete in the same mzinner as were the
pockets. This made twelve columns of con-
crete, éacli twelve feet square and eighty feet
high, which rest upon a bed of concrete, fifty
by one hundred feet, which, in its ‘turn, rests
upon the hard bottom of the river. There
are also twenty—eight other columns of con-
crete that rest on the Wedge-sliziped timber
bottom of the caisson. All these masses of
concrete are bound together with cross walls
of timber every ten or twelve feet each way.
The water was then pumped out of the
colfei‘ dam and the masonry started at
a depth of twenty feet below high water.

The masonry for the pier is seventy-four
feet lone: by twenty-eight feet wide at base,
and when completed will be thirty-six feet
long by twelve feet wide at top, and 115 feet
h1U'll.

A: the present time 'there are seventy men
constantly employed at the work on this pier.
Five steam engines are also in continuous
use. All in-asoiii-y above water is of cut
granite. The Portland cement used in the
work was manufactured by Mr. W. G. Cool-
idge, the engineer under whose plans and
supervision the work is carried on. v

The elevations at Pier No. 1, from the bed
of the river to the railroad track, are as fol-
lows:

Concrete, 80 feet; masonry, 155 feet, and
bridge, 65 feet; making: atotal height of track
above the river bed of 300 feet. At the other
piers the distances will be somewhat greater.
The depth of water at this point is 60 feet,
and the width of river 2.500 feet. The bluff
on the western shore is 135 feet high. and
that on the eastern shore is 110 feet above the
surface of the water.

The caisson for Pier No. 1 had been sub-
merged into place by June 20. That for Pier
No. 2 is already down 95 feet. The caisson
for Pier No. 3 is partly comp1eted,and stands
upon the ways. No masonry has been built
except at Pier No. 1. Under the present
charter the whole work must be completed in
one year from this date.

It is claimed by the projectors of the bridge
that the Hudson River cuts oil‘ all New Eu-
gland and a portion of New York from “all
rail” communication with the coal fields of
Pennsylvania and the Great West. There are
only two‘c_rossing places over it--—the first at
Jersey City, by ferries, and thelsecond at Al-
bany, by railroad bridge. For the 150 miles
between these points there is no line of travel
across the river. The projectors say that the
section lying east’ of the Hudson con-
tains one-sixth _ of the whole popu-
lation of the United States and controls
one-half‘ of its manufacturing interests, and
that to supply this section with coal and
Western products without the expense of fer-
riage and additional handling, as well as the
waste that arises from it, or the lougline of
expensive travel around by Albany, has al-
ways been a serious problem.

'1‘hey also argue that all coal from Scranton
(the coal centre) which 9:068 to New England
must now be_ sent over 100 miles out
of in way, via Albany, or be carried by
rail to some point on the Hudson, and thence
by best up the coast, to be again carried in-
land by rail for eonsuinpitlon.

l New York city gets its cool largely from

York without breaking bulk.

Nothing in the .-upple- .

bridge is to consist of, live spans, each 525 feet '

Sometimes the mud was softer at ,

A the Delaware and . Hudson .Ca,n_al,, which“ X

route is frozen up nine nfouths in the year.
Large quantities are also ferried across from
the ra‘ilroads terminating at Jersey City.
with a large loss from the waste in liantlliizig,
as well as the_ cost ' of . trans-
sbipment. It is claimed that, when the
bridge is done, coal can be loaded at all the

- great mines and unloaded at Thirtieih street

without intermediate handling; that all

: freight brought down the Erie Railway in-
‘ tended for consumption in New York city has

only to leave the main line at Pine Bush and
pass over the (to be built) eighteen miles of
railroad track to this bridge, thence into New
The same is
true of all freight that comes down the New
York and Oswego Midland Railway. It is
also set forth that Poughkeepsie is just half
way between New York and Albany, and in a
direct line between Scranton and Boston.» A
railroad eight miles in iengtli will connect the
bridge with the Witlllilll branch of the Erie
Railway. The railway connections on the
east side of the river are now almost com-
pleted. '

A Californian Evening.

[Mi-s. Mary Hallock Foote, in Scribner for February.]

‘Toward the close of the dry season, when
brown and dusty August burns into browner,
dustier September, a keen remembrance of
all cool, watery joys takes possession of one’s
thoughts. The lapping of ripples in pebbly
coves, the steady thump of cars in row-locks,
the smell of apple blossoms on damp spring
eveiiiiigs, old mi-ll-races messy and dripping,
the bloating: of frightened lambs at a sheep-
vvashiug, and the hoarse, stifled complaint of
their mothers, minaled with the rushing of
the stream——all these , once common sounds
and sights haunt the memory. Every day the
dust-cloud grows thicker in the valley, the
mouiitaius fade almost out of sight against a
sky which is all glare without color; a
dry Wind searches over the bare,
brown bills for any lingering drop
of moisture the sun may b.-ave left
there; but morning and evening still kept a

, spell which makes one forget the burden of

the day. At siiiiset the dust cloud in the val-

fley becomes a bar of color stretching across

the base of the mountains, deep rose and or-
ange, shading‘ by softest gradations into cool
blue. I remember one sunset especially.
The clouds of dust rolling up from the valley
below were transformed by the light into
level bars of color. like a horizontal rainbow
sweeping across the entire valley; above it
the mountains rose; a wonderful variety of
constantly changing hues made them look like
something unreal. Then there came a stud-
den darkeniug of the lower part of the moun-
tains, so that the suii-lit peaks seemed to
float in the air above the bars of sun-colored
dust, with a strip of cool shadow between.
All is quiet; as in the morning,no birds chirp
and twitter themselves to sleep; the stillness
is only broken by the dull throbbiii,<.>: of the
engine, like a stifled breath, in the distant
Shaft house.

Every evening: repeats this silent symphony
of color, and every day it seems like seine-
thing one has dreamed of. ' The rose and or-
ange and blue have faded into the same dull,
gray pail, which, to the valley stretched be-
neath, is never anything more; only those
who see it from the hills know that sometimes
this pail is a robe of glory.

We rode home one evening across the low,
bare hills beyond the Mexican camp. It was
duping the “earth-shock weatlier” (as the
miners call those last, dry. lurid weeks be-
fore the early rain-fall), and one of the dull,
red sunsets, peculiar to that season, had been
flaming on the sky and mountains; its linger-
ing glow colored the edge of the early moon-
light. The soil here has avermiliou tinge,
which is stronger after sundown; it was in-
tensified that evening by the flush in the sky.
There was no positive light or shadow, only a
pink glow spreading over all the wide laud-
seape, except where the canyon held its
glcoms, and above it a young moon slowly
brightened in a sky of twilightblue. It was
in sentiment like ‘William Morris’ poetry. I
always think of it as the “land east of the
sun, and west of the moon.” W’liile the
moon is young and her light faint and pale,
one can scarcely mark the time. when the lin-
gering twilight passes into the soft, dim ra-
diance that spreads like a spell over the val-
ley, across part of which lies the shadow of
ajouutain. We can not see the moon itself,
only its light. The mountains opposite re-
main always sbrouded in silence and mys-
tery. But when nights come for the full
moon, the place is a paradise; in the fore-
ground the wirding trails with black masses
of shadow from the clumps of live-oak cross-
ing them, the dark mountain lines rising
grandly on every side. the mysterious depths
of the canyons, the lights of the Mexican
camp scattered over the bills, the closer clus-
tered lights of the Cornish camp on the lower
range, the wide, dim valley below, and the
far-ofi‘ barrier of mountains.

The Vatican Library-—A Vast Tomb of
books.

A writer in one of the magazines says:

Passing down the right colonnade of St.
Peter’s the visitor reaches the chief entrance
to the Vatican, the Scale Regia,a gigantic and

higlily-adorned staircase leading to the audi-_

euce hall. After traversing various broad
and interlacing passages, one comes into a
corridor 2.000 feet long, in the walls of which
are set 3,000 slabs, covered vvit.h ancient in-
scriptions. This is the famous Lapidarian
Gallery. The friigmeuts of pagan origin on
the right are confronted on the left with early
Christian epitaphs. While walking through
this gloomy corridor toward the heavy iron
doors near its further end, one can but feel
that the striking contrast between the patron
and Christian epilaphs forms a fit approach
to the balls which eiitomb that vast collection
of heathen and Christian literatures, the
“Librziria Vaticzma. ” The scene bursting
upon the view as the visitor Bill-Pl‘s‘ this library
is one of ideal splendor. Imagine a griiucl
ball over 200 feet long, divided by seven large
0l‘lltlllIGllt8d pillars; its walls and higli arched
ceiliiiirs decorated with graceful frescoes and
illuminated in gold and brilliant colors, its

, luminous perspective extended to a junction

with two long traiisverse gzilleries, each as
richly adorned as the main hall; the whole
displyaiiig a line of over halfa mile of magnifi-
cent paintings, while in the recesses are
shown collections of costly and royal presents,

vases of malachite, po‘rcelaiu, and alabaster,

mosaic tables, cabinets of enamels, carvings
in ivory, and uumberless other precious ob-
jects of art. There is no visible suggestion
that these halls are a library. Nowhere is a
book to be seen. Yet these galleries hold
more than 125,000 books and manuscripts,
comprising many of the rarest literary treas-
ures of the world. But all are locked up in
gilded and decorated cabinets, and seem to
be made as diflicult of access as possible.
Only one small obscure room is assigned for
literary work; and this is open but three
hours in the day, and from these days are ex-
cluded all the numerous Church festival
days. The Vatican Library is a vast tomb of
books; the tomb is a splendid one, but its
decorations and external beauty by no meaiis
compensate for the entombment of the treas-
ures which it shuts up from the public
use.

Marriage Broken Ofl‘.
[From the Messager Franco-Ainericaim]

In one of the_districts of Paris, which we
will not specify, the following scandal oc-
curred a few days ago: Two parties, engaged

to be married, presented themselves belore '

the Mayor. It was what is commonly called
a rich marriage, or a marriage de conve-
ataitce, which the relatives never fail to call a
love match. At all events, in this case, the
relatives, witnesses and friends joined heart-
ily iu wishing the young couple all manner
of joy. But, alas, there is many a slip be-
tween the cup and the lip, as the poet says,
and the young man was destined to find it so
by sad experience. ‘

The moment the Mayor, proceeding ac-
cording to the forms of law, announced the
civil record of the happy pair, it was dis-
covered that the bridegroom, although born
In Mulhouse, came into French territory
without having ofiicially declared his choice
for French nationality. By this plan he na-
turally thought that it would be easy for him
to avoid military service in France, and, no
longer living in Alsace, to escape the German
military law also.

Ouhearing this announcement the com-
pany signified some di satisfaction, and one
of the witnesses, a well-known politician,

declared his unwillingness to serve
in the matter. The confusion may
well be imagined, together with the

delay of the ceremony while a new witness
was being hunted up. At length he was
found, and, in spite of the damper which this
incident threw upon the party, the ceremony
was recommended, and the Mayor, thinking
that this trouble was at length ever, put the
following formal question: “Miss -—-—-. do
you consent to take Mr. -—-—- for your hus-
band?” “No I” cried the young lady, and,
turning to the astonished young man she
murmured, “I shall never be the wife of a
man who denies his country in order not to
serve it!” Then she fainted.

 

‘Idle Rumors of is .*(.‘ompromlse-—-Coun-

domestic afi'a,ii's of the former Mrs. Hicks and
her venerable spouse.
generally circulated on Wall street and other
thoroughfares down town, asserted that Mr.
Thomas Lord.’ the ea,v.'et'ly sought bride-
groom, bad at length emerged from his mys-
terious retiremeut for the purpose of seeing
if a compromise could not be effected with

and his bride had been present at a confer-
‘cues held between counsel in the morning,
the newlv wedded pair being represented by
an eminent member of the New York bar.
As the lawyer alluded to was Mr. Charles
O’Conor, aflerald reporter called at that
gent1eman’s office later in the day, and as-

to regard the matter as a controversy in

'of have taken place to-day without your

LORI)--Hl~CKS.

eel for Mr. Lord’s Relatives on the
Sltuation——Add1tioua.I Affidavits Filed
Yesterday.
I From the New York Herald.l
_ Rumor was a2‘:illl busy yesterday with the

Areport, which was

his relatives. To this end it was said that be

certaiued from his clerk that Mr. O’Conm_'
had not been down town for some days
past. The reporter subsequently visited the
oflice of Lord, Day & Lord, counsel for the
children of Mr. Thomas Lord, Sr., and with
Mr. George De Forrest Lord. of that firm,
the followiuir interview was had:

V Reporter. There is a rumor in cireul'at.ion
that Mr. Lord, the husband of Mrs. Hicks,
attended a conference this morning, looking
to a compromise with his children. Can you
give any information on the subject?

Mr. Lord. I don’t thiukthere is any truth
in it. I can not see how there could be a coin-
promise, as there is no controversy in the
matter. ’1‘he proceedings inaugurated are
simply intended— to protect Mr. Lord himself
and to save his property from being squan-
dered. The press, heretofore, have seemed

which Mr. Lord’s sons were pressing some
fancied claims against l1lS.7pl‘0]_3t3I‘l3_V. On the
contrary, their position is only that of chil-
dren who are called upon to determine
whether, after having seen Mr. Lord throw
away a large portion of his estate, they will
calmly sit still and see him waste the remain-
der. Some . of the newspapers also seem to '
ignore the circumstance that ‘proceedings of
this character were actually contemplated
months before Mr. Lord’s marriage.
ARE THEY IN FOURTEENTH STREET?‘

“Have you ascertained definitely where
Mr. and Mrs. Lord are at present.?'”

“Well, you know, in our proceedings We
believe them to be in Fourteenth street. ’ ’

“How long do you think they have been
there?” ' ' .

“I believe they have been there all the
time. Mr. Lord had not previous to his mar-
riage with Mrs. Hicks spent 1 night out of his
own house since 1872,‘ and his physical condi-
tion is such as to make a long journey impos-
sible.”

‘ ‘Could any conference such as that spoken

knowledge?”

-‘I think not. If such were held without
notifying us it would have been a very extra-
ordinary proceeding; I am quite satisfied
that nothing of the kind would be.done, and
in this opinion Judge Fullerton, whom I have
just seen, coincides with me.”

“Do you know who the counsel for Mr.
Lord is?”

‘-‘We can only conjecture who his counsel is
likely to be, as no person has yet appeared on
his behalf. It would not surprise me at any
time t.o learn that Mr. O’Couor was retained_.
but ofliciiilly we are entirely in the dark as to
who Mr. Lord.’s counsel may be.”

SERVING THE SUMMONS.

The return of the Sheriff, certifying that he
had complied with the mandate of the Court,
and had served the summons _to appear be-
fore the Lunacy Commission upon Mr.
Thomas Lord, Sr., by leaving one copy of
the same at his house in West Seventeem.h
street and another at the house of the bride,
was filed in the Couiffy Clerk’s oflice yester-
day, togetber with other RIIIORVILS connected
with the case. Sheriff Reilly makes afiidavit
that he believes Mr. Lord to be at No. 10
West Fourteenth street. and ‘that the col-
ored servant refused him access to him.
Deputy Sheriff Cooper makes afiidsvit that he
handed the summons to the ‘colored man,
Thomas Dyer, who, he was satisfied, was en-
deavoriuer to conceal the fact that Mr. Lord
was then in the house.

Among the affidavits filed is one made by
Mind Henry Lord, and dated January 22. It
res. s:

Henry Lord, of said city, one of the sons
of said Thomas Lord, being duly sworn,says:
My father’s habits have been domestic, and I
know he has not spent a single’ night outside
his own house for several years until his re-
cent departure. He always manifested affec-
tion for his family. On the 31st of December
last, after dressing himself in the morning
and taking his breakfast as usual, he went
out in his carriage without saying where he
was going or bidding his children goodby,
and deponent has not heard from him since,
except by letter to depoueuton the same day,
addressed to all his children, saying he was
married to Mrs. Hicks and would return
on January 4, before 3 p. in. Deponent
further saith that he was at home on the date
mentioned,expecting to see his father return,
but he did not come, nor did he send any
letter or other message to inform de-
ponent or other members of his family
where he was or the reason of his
continued absence, or when he would return,
and that from that day until now-3. period of
nearly three week-—depoiient has been utterly
unable to learn where his father is. Depo-
neiit further saith that his father was ex-
tremely infirm, and was suffering from phys-
ical dlrficulties which would render it almost
impossible for him to travel to any distance,
and he needed assistance in the ordinary op-
erations of his toilet.

The affidavit proceeds to state the depo-
nent’s belief that his father is concealed at
Mrs. Hicks’ residem-,e.aiid that his reason for
believing so is that, ‘ “unless it had been the
purpose of those with whom his father now
is, and must necessarily have great power
over him by reason of his physical and meiital
difliculties,that he should be kept concealed,
his said father would have long since either
returned to his home or have communicated
with his cliildren, or have taken some notice
of the proceeding.” ‘

Mining in Arizona.

’ l’From the San Francisco Call.l

I mentioned in a previous letter to the Call
that a gentleman representing Eastern capi-
talists had been here,-along‘ with certain well-
kuown San Francisco operators. The latter
came to look at several properties that had
been bonded by the own‘ei's to speculative
middle-men. who, when. they tried to sell
their rights to city capitalists, had set them
forth in a very fascinatimz: light. The claims
when examined did not come up to expecta-
tions, and so were condemns-d—-pa.rtly be-
cause they were not developed enough, and
partly, also, owing to the prices asked being
more than they were worth. But in looking
around for a day or twothe represeutat.ivcs of
the East and the West fiuallv pitched upon
the same property, and invested their means
in purchasing it. ‘ Under the general name of
the Byron and Bixby mines, I have twice al-
luded in the Call to the mines just pur-
chased, and I am glad to see that the favor-
able opinion I gave of them is confirmed by
others who are known to be com-
petent judges of mining property. It is
the intention of the purchasers to erect a
complete quartz mill in Globe City, and
place it under the control of a first-class mill-
man, well known in Eastern Nevada. The
lodes are numerous, and show fine bodies of
high-grade chloride ore. The success of the
mill is practically an assured met, and the
time is near at band when any man having a
claim that yields $80 or $100 ore . can make
money by working it——-a thing which hitherto
has been wholly impossible.
I learned from VVilliam Hope, one of the
pioneers of the district, as he passed herea
day or two ago on his way to '1 onto Basin,
that Dr. O’Dougliert.y and others had found
a grou of five mines in that region. He
shows me alist of assays ranging from $120
to $2,000 per ton, and gave me several hand-
some specimens of the higher-class ores. It
appears that four 1,500-foot locations cover
the entire outcrop of rich ore--there being no
great mineral belt as in Globe District, but
rather an isolated group or cross veins on a
single hill. The new district bears the name
of the range of mountains it is found in-—tliat
being the Mazatzali Range. 1 am glad to
know that the O’Doug'herty brothers have at
last found a property that is likely to make
them rieh. They have done a large amount
of dangerous exploration work in this Terri-
tory, aud well deserve success.
Before I came to the Globe District. I had
the impression that its lodes were very small
and most of them quite rich. This was alto-
gether a mistake. Its lodes armusually large
-—-that is, from two to twenty feet, and

width, traceable for many miles. Near the
larger veins of medium-grade are are some-
times found small streaks of rich metal, but
they are so liable to be dug out that no
great dependence is placed upon them. The

 great mines of the district in future

of $70 to $100
edr1\l’;’liell caplitallis abundant.
‘ ere is a itt e vein on the

slope of the Apache Mountain northe
trict,vvliich I notice is incorpor-l
000,000 of capital f
ledge was carefully taken out to

Ithink it might be possible, E-Raeart 
years of hard work, to get, . 

of ore-bearing rock for each dollar o
value. Yet I am not quite sure on tho
It certainly is the smallest thing
name of
rated at so high figures.
minds me of agood joke that was
Prof. Sillimau in the Reese River E;
some thirteen years ago.
riding up the slope of Lander Hill

pany with several mining men, who
ing two miners at work on a windla
distance off, he called out. to them:
mine is that?”
answered one of the then.
your incline?”
reply.
splendid; getting bigger and richer!»
time.”
“Half an
“you mean half a feet.”
dry humorist, “half an Inch. and‘
bigger and richer all the_ti‘me.”‘
lode I allude to in this district gets
and richer all the time,” there is no
what it ultimately may become.

differs in nothing in his personal appqa
from his fellow Moiigoliaiis, and 
proprietor of a laundry on Ninth stre
Chestnut.
. that the laundry business, which is fee
vertised by Chw You on a single si,<.rn,.
a blind, and that the wily Celestial do
certain drug, which, when coiisumedl
form of vapor, incites intoxicatiomihe
mom of dreams so deliciously sensu-o
they would have made the Veiled Prop
Khorassan mad; in fact, it has been ’
that Chw You traffics iunepenthe, aiidt
hisplace the..membei's of ‘li-is race in
delphia, and others who are given-
opium‘* habit; resort for iudul,<.>_;en.ce 
seductive sedative.
air of mystery, and is just such a. Q;
would be selected for dark and niidnig?-lrfi
sipatio-n . ,
city. Ninth street,between Market and 
_, nut, is one of the most dismal avemj‘
Philadelphia. On the West side the first-;’,
of the new granite post office buildinggi
only object, and after dark‘ it is as dre‘
the Tombs and as black and misty J
plains around the pyramids.
and especially women, shun it.
a public lamp on this side of the str
extent of the entire block.
life visible are the three or four nigh
men who make it a, stand,
neighiiig and pawiug of the miserable
they drive, and the only lights vi.-lib‘
those emitted from the smoky lant
tached to their wretched vehicles.
haekman,
called, is not a pleasant creature to enco
at
is studiously avoided at all times.
business

has only two saloons.
corner of Jayne street, is closed at nig _
and the other, which six or seven year,
was kept by the famous sportin g man 0
Bonnoll, and was the resort at that ti

kept by a German, and does little or u
ness after dark.
as dull and dead to human life as the
grown avenues of a deserted village.
this time, however, that the establishm
Chw You beams
comes brilliant compared with its
roundiiigs.
beneath a trunk store.
obtainina‘ ventilation and light is tliro
cellar door, the narrow windows of
are carefully covered? with strips of
calico.
--has been divided into two apartments
rear one being boarded and protected: hi
talus over the single door from the I
the curious.
generally be found in the from me
customers bearing bundles of dirty
linen are seldom seen to enter or -1
place. 0
hidden recesses of the den, and to 
secrets, armed himself with a par--e1*
when he visited Chw You yesterday, .
told by that individual that he '
washee any more. ’ ’
there; no makes money washee; too
Cbineem-.inu’s, too many Ilish. too many
lies . ’ ’ Chw You studiou.-sly endeavored to eg
the visitor from getting a view of theiiiif
room.
furniture consisted simply of along ta
which Chw You says he formerly used
ironing purposes, but which he has rece

converted into a bed. and a few chairs. , 0
residents of the neighborhood say that
place is an opium den, and that every
it is filled by fifty or sixty Cliinaiuen
resort to it for indulgence in their fa
form ofint.oxica1.ion. Last night it was 1
up as usual, and in a single
sons of the moon were observed to dive
its depths.
however, who guarded the door, 
probably being in attendance upon his:
tomers,
Whose complexion was not of the co
yellow chrome and whose head W8‘
dorned by a queu. ' The den was illumf
until after midnight. .

Modified Low-Neck Dre-sses—-A R1 '

to the regular old-fashioned low-neck, M
bids fair to hold its plaice after giviiigwf
long to high necks or square necks for‘?
occasions. .
of tulle when too trying, but a few words

by a clever French woman may help to
the doubt often felt by a woman as to w
she shall follow the dictates of fasliiojli
choose for herself what is most becoming
desirable.
say about the clinging style of dress now vi
and the disadvaiitage of every one’s folio
the same strict. fashion.
woman study her own style, and then f 
out some particular idea which shall al

have in view her own advantage or disatl
tages, so as to show them off or to hide 1:,
as the case may be; and she adds that 0
of wearing a low-neck dress is uiidersto
very few women,as tact alone will set it '
an right in that respect, irrespective
dressmaker, the fashion, and her own
most wishes.
he kept in slight by those who have no
set. down. 3
a slightly rounding back, together wit w
chest exact a waist cut lower in front th

the back, while this rule maybe reve. ;~
for an opposite build. Thin and high all
ers should never be seen otherwise ’
covered by a
rounded
beautiful framed as in the oval of a low:
waist.
throat, the full and well-shaped tliroat I
left entirely uncovered, while a thin.
will require rows of pearls or stones 1
tings, or a pendant necklace; and a lot. I
der threat is much enhanced by a velvet
ribbon with a single clasp, or a jewel in p
In the matter of sleeves, also, if then
short and fat the sleeve should be repltw‘
a slight frill of lace; if it is long and
short full sleeve, made like a pull‘, or ,
sleeve is best; but if the arm is well pl:
tioued it ‘needs no adornment and ii)!
uiicovered. as nothing is
when found, more beautiful, than a p
rounded arm.

from tee clergvnieii of his diocese a v
ful and delightful gift.
carriage and a pair of lIOl‘S8.‘~‘; and t
Bishop is said to be exceedingly please

the circulation of the blood, an uniisturallj
ted condition of the physique, indicating 111%,
current is deficient in nutritive proportion:
haggard look. inability to digest food, lost‘?-
tlte. sleep and strength, and a sensation of
languor.
diets of approaching disease. which will “
attack the system and overwhelm it. if itr-13‘
up and fortified in advance. Invigorate. 
low of time, making choice of the greatest
agent extant. Bostetterls stomach Bi 1

one or two are from seventy to 100 feet in y,

381% 1

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A Philadelphia Opium Den
[rroin the Philadelphia Tlmes,]

Chw You is the name of a Chinama

who

It has been hinted for a Ion



The place itself b

Although in the veiy hearts“

Pedest:
’I‘here‘§

The only

the oee

The 

or the “owl,” as he is

any time and his side of the

is done on

The street at uighti y
3
with light an
located in a.

The only m

is

The cellar——originally one large

In the day time Chw Y

A visitor, curious to exp

C
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You said “he onlyl :1

 

It was obtained, nevertheless.-

half hour ‘ "

A little weasen-faced China,

0

.5,

refused admission to

to an Old Fashion—-A French W0 
Observations.

|Il’rom the New York Evening Post.l ,
We have to chronicle a very marked :

They may be modified by ,

'I‘liis_Freucli woman has inn;

She would hav

 

in
She gives one or two h’

High shoulders, she says.

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square neck; while

slioulilers are never 1

In wearing ornaments aroun

more rare. 1"

BISHOP FOLEY, of «Chicago,

’I‘liis is a 

The Antecedents of Disease- or
Among the antecedents of disease are life

 

All these may be regarded as pm‘?

which has given health and vizorto myrtle
and debilitated. which is svouehed by
analyststo be pure as well as efiectlvc.
lntmwl! nopulu-_ in this country. 
used Ibreadaud which mu been for f,