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THE HOUSE OF CHESTERFIELD. A rntnlly That Ilns Xumbcrcd Among Its Mcmbci-H Many Gifted mid , Illustrious Men. Tho London dispatches announce that Gcdrgo Philip Stanhope, carl of Chcstcrlield, is dead, aged GG years. The casual reader of tho brief notice trill pauso only to remember that it was an carl of Chcstcrlield who wroto tho famous letters to his son, and mado his own name tho familiar synonym of grace and cloganco. But tho tlend carl represented not only the nobility of a great family; ho was tho titled repre sentative of a race of illustrious men, who wore distinguished as statesmen, diplomatists, soldiers, historians, au thors, poets, and actors. Tho wit and grace of tho best known Chesterfield caino through his mother from one of the most distinguished men of tho lime of William III. Ho was George Savile, marquis of Halifax, commonly known in history as Lord Halifax. Speaking of his deatti in 1G95, Macaulay says: "Ho was tho most accomplished, tho most enlight ened, and, in spito of great faults tho most estimable of tho statesmen who were formed in tho corrupt and licenti ous Whitehall of tho Restoration." His daughter married tho third earl of Ches terfield, and their son was Philip Dor mer Stanhope, whoso letters to Ids sou have made ids name so famous. Tho wit and genius of Halifax did aot coufino themselves to tho legitimate lino of descont, and tho bar sinister was no impediment to tliolr ricli inher itance. Tlio accomplished statesman left n natural son, by name, Henry Carey, dramatist and poet, whoso plays arc no longer played, but Iwhoso an them, "God Save tho King," will likely ho sung by millions as long as there aro English people to slug it. Anil from this Henry Carey decended, still with tho bar sinister and tho genius of (lis great ancestor, Edmund Kuan, tho famous actor. Hero is a study in heredity and environment. Chostor Sold, in his own language, "sacrificed tho graces;" Carey yielded to tho oiu'ses, and Kean was a thesniau vota ry. And hero, too, is ti study in pos nbilltics. Henry Carey was tho half arothorof Chesturflold's motlior. Sup ooso their escutcheons exchanged. Darey would have been tho marquis of Halifax, and might have been a great itatcsman, but likely enough English icarts would not now throb to "God save tho Queen." Edmund Kean, in stead of being remombercd as a great let or, wouIdTiavo been a respectable 3oer, forgotton probably with his loath. Cnostorflotd, doubtlois, would lavo had tho run of tho theaters and ;ho company of men of wit, but wo would have had no codo of elegance tnd Dolitouoss. witli ironorosltv and Morality eliminated, such as the gaeious sari has bequeathed to posterity.' Hut something of credit is duo to die Stanhope side of tho house, of which Sarey and Konn aro no parcel. Tho Stanhopes boast of throe peerages; Dhesterlleld, Stanhopo.and Harrington. Plio Hon. Alexander Stanhope was a rounger son of tho first oarl of Chester ield, and was a distinguished diploma ts t in about Queen Anne's time. Ills loscondauts were conspicuous in stato jruft, literature, and war. Tho Halifax jlooil did not How in their veins. An Karl Stanhopo was created. Tho third jurl married Hester Pitt, daughter of .ho great Lord Chatham. Their oldest laughter was Lady Hester Lucy Stan jopo. Wo all know "Tho Burial of Sir John Moore." His deeds desorved to bo re liumborod, but ho has been immortali. !d by vorso. As tho hero was dying he aimed to Capt. Stanhope, of Ids stall', ind said: "Stanhopo, remember mo to four sister." Those wore his last words. By the struggling moonbeams' misty light, and with only ids martial jloak around him, they carried the load warrior to tho ramparts. Slowly ind sadly thoy laid him down, and in die gravo where thoir hero thoy buried it is supposed thoy also buried tho love nd oxpootanoy ot Lucy Stanhopo. If Halifax gave to his grandson, Chostor 3eld, wit and oloquonce, Chatham gave als granddaughter vehemence and Horniy passion. Tho granddaughter jf Chatham, tho mistress of tho house hold of her uncle, William Pitt, tho abject of the admiration of Sir John Mooro, she displayed all tho charming (cooiuplishmenU that came with tho Stanhopo blood. But when misfortunes camo, with hor unelo det.d and her .over carried, fresh and gory, from tho tiold of his fame to his unsepulturcd zrave, tlte passion and bitterness of the ttormy Chatham foil upon her, and she spurned and turned her back upon tho world sho had known. She wandered about tho shores of tho Mediterranean for u fow years, and then, to got furthor still from civiliza tion, sho sought a home among tho half barbarous tribes of Mount Leba non. She adopted tho faith, tho man no rs. and the garb of tho oast, and for nearly a quarter of a century was tho object of tho curiosity and speculation of travolors and awo and reveronco of her barbarian associates. Her lover had died surrounded by Ids friends, but witli no tlmo for tho atuiotionato and impressive ceremonies with which soldiers testify thoir grief over a doad comrade. Slid died without an early friend near hor, without even one of her own race to give her a sympathetic look, not a civilized hand to close her eyes. Tho uncouth people about her dug a gravo in her garden and laid her away, givmgno thought to tho fact that she was Lady Hester Lucy Stanhopo, of the blood of one of tho oldest ami proudost families of England, grand daughter of England's greatest minis ter, ami beloved by one of England's most heroio soldiers. But about the dead oarl across tho -water: He is a dead pier of distin guished lluenge and somo public ser yico, but among tho many erratic and gifted peoplo of his house lie is not suf liclontlv conspicuous to bo ntadu more than a text for comment. Louisville Couricr'Joumat. IfftHiiu immigration. There has been of late n slight im provement In tho immigration business of this city, but it must Have noon no ticed that this immigration has been almost wholly from one country Italy During the pat threo months four fifths of the immigrants arriving in Now Orleans have been Italians. Friday an other shipload readied here, and th( number of arrivals from that country during tho year has been unusually large. New Orleans already possesses a large population of Italian birth or descent, which will bo swollen by this now move ment, as nearly all tho now comuri havo established themselves immediate ly in tills city, and few havo left hero tc look for homes in the interior. It is only of late years that tho Italian has bccoino much of an immigrant. Until tho organization of tho kingdom of Italy the population remained at home, where many districts were con gested, witli a population greater than tho land would readily support. The first tide of emigration from the peninsula was toward South America. Somo fow of the Italians established themselves in Brazil, but the great ma jority settled in tho Argentine Republic and Uruguay. Tho prosperity of tho former state tho most prosperous just at present in our southern continent is duo mainly to its Italian immigrants. Thoy havo mado industrious, intelli gent, progressive citizens, and havo dono well in whatever business thoy havo engaged in agriculture, stock raising or trade. They coustituto to day tho chief clement of tho European population of tho Argentine Republic, and the sourco of its greatest industry and wealth. There has always been some Italian immigration to Now Orleans and other portions of the Gulf coast; but tho pres ent tido of this Immigration to tho Uni ted States did not begin until a fow years ago. It is said that tlio first Ital ians coming to Now York did so under a mistaken idea that thoy were going to Buenos Ayres. However, that may bo, they remained, and I lie tido soon set in earnest in that direction, carry ing into tho north thousands of Italians. Their trial was n hard one. The newcomers were generally poor, had fow friends, wero wholly unacquainted with the language of tlio country and unaccustomed to the climate. Despite all these obstructions tlio Italian colo ny in Now York has grown ..nil pros pored. it is nuito evident that Italy is to be come a source of largo immigration in tlio liilurc, lor it is thickly populated, with a rapidly increasing population. Fifty years ago hut fow Germans had left tlio fatherland to seek homes in a new couutrv: but tlio Germans havo sinco proved thoinsolvos admirable im migrants; anil so the Italians are prov ing to-day. Italy has pJacou no liimlranco in tlio way of emigration, but it lias been the groat aim of tho government to prevent this loss of subjects by securing a pos session in Africa of clsowhoro to which an Italian can emigrate without losing ids citizenship or forfeiting Ids tie to Ids own laud. Tills is one of tho chief aims of tho present government; and should it succeed, there is little doubt of Italy establishing a strong colonial empire, after tho manner of Rome of old. Tho Italians from tlio earliest times have been excellent colonists; and there is no reason to doubt tite r colonizing capacity to-day. New Or leans Times-Democrat. VIVISECTING A CALF. Prof. Curtis Vet-forms tho Oporntlon In Order to Show tho Action of tlio Heart. In tho prcsonco of a big class of students which filled tlio amphitheatre of tlio upper lecture-room of tho Col logo of Physicians and Surgeons yes terday, Prof. J. G. Curtis, lecturer on physiology, mado a novel vivisection to demonstrate tho action of tlio heart, about which thoro is considerable diver sity of opinion among tlio great physi ologists. Prof. Curtis holds that tho heart shortens. It became old Janitor Mike's duty to keep his eyes pooled for any of Borgh's men who might be pies cnt in a disguise and put a stop to tlio demonstration in its most important stago. When tho coast was clear anil Miko satisfied himself that only those who had business in the locturo-room voro thoro. Prof. Curtis began his lecture. Ho discussed tlio merits and domorits of the famous physiologists and tried to show that the heart really sliortonou, by reading from accented writers wlto had mado a number of experiments to support their theory. Before ho finisli- oil speaking lour ot his assistants olail in rough bod ticking gowns dragged in an unsuspecting calf. Tho calf was placed in a V-shaped trough ith four stout slats nailed to tlio top and bottom, two on each side. Straps field the an imal motionless Sponges saturated with etlior wero clapped over tho ani mal's nostrils and soon reduced it to unconsciousness. Then Prof. Curtis kol.ed a long, koen-odged knife and made an incision extending from tho head down to tlio belly. In a few strokes he cut nway tho hide, and with an instrument like a pair oi pruning shoars ho cut out tho breast plate, ex posing tlio lungs and the heart in its sac. Tlds was carefully removed and then the students mado a rush to seethe effect it had on tho calf. There lay the heart, bobbing about with every respiration tlio animal made. Whon tho lungs wero lillod with air thoy almost entirely covered tho hoart, but during the expiration it camo into view again and its action could closely bo studied. With a nair of delicate compasses Prof. Curtis followed tho jorky movements of the organ and measured it in several positions, show ing that in oystolo tho icart was a tnllo shorter than during diastole. Tho calf was kept alive just an hour, which was tho tlmo tlio lecture lasted, and just before it died Prof. Curtis tied the aorta, the main artery, at tho point of its attachment, and, with a single stroke of the knife, cut tho organ out and pinned it on a board between two rows of long pins, in this position, outside tho body tho heart made about a dozen beat's, and it became even more plain than before, by observing its & li mit on between tho plus, that it short ened when contracting, resuming it! normal ti.o at tho end of tho beat. Xcw York Wor'd. IVING WITH A BROKEN NECK; A Itcinnrltnblo C'mo In n llroolclyi Hospital That 1m Attracting Much Attention. Tho attention of medical men ant experts nil over Brooklyn and New York is being attracted to tlio extraor dinary case of Joseph Somcrs. who ha? been living for over thrco months will a broken neck in thn Homeopathic hos pital on Cumberland street in this city. It is not at all likely that ho will re cover, but whether ho lives or dies he will long servo as a most interesting il lustration of tho error of tho widely prevalent notion that a fracture of the spinal column is immediately fatal. Somcrs was a laborer. On tho evening of tho 8th of last October, while undei tho inlluenco of liquor, lie stumblco backward down an areaway. Ho wa taken to the Homeopathic hospital in an ambulance, where, upon examina tion, it was found ho had received so voro injuries to the spinal column, near the nape of tlio neck. There was n deformity a ridging of the skin that showed that tho bones of the spinal column had been displaced. This de formity was reduced, under pressure, in much tho fashion of setting a broken linger. This appeared to somewhat re lievo tlio pain, which was, before that, very intense. During two weeks Som crs was completely paralyzed below his neck. After that ho commenced to slowly regain sensation in his limbs, but only to a slight extent, so that he has never possessed what a healthy person would understand as feeling in Ids leers. So completely has tho lower part of his body boon overcome by tfiis paralysis that tho hospital physicians, in testing tho condition of his nerves. havo tickled tho soles of his feet with pencils and havo pricked tlio skin sharply with pins, without producing in mo injured man any sensation oi pain. He can just manage to distinguish which foot is being tickled or pricked and that is all. The doctors have mado several unsuccessful ellbrts to find out tlio exact naturo of tho injury to the neck. Somcrs can use his arms a little, can talk, can move Ids eyes and tongue, and his digestive organs aro not im paired, so that ho can cat whatever food happens to striko his fancy. His brain has not been afibctcd nnd he hangs, fully conscious, in this condi tion, between life and death, waiting for tho latter to put an end to his suf ferings, which aro severe. Dr. Pcrsifor M. Cooke, ono of tho hospital physi cians, says that tlio man cannot recover, but that ho may linger along in this way for a long time. Dr. Lewis, the surgeon of tlio visiting stair, wlio has tlio caso in charge, is of tlio same opin ion. So is Dr. Willis, who was tho sur geon of tlio visiting stall' whon Somcrs was taken to tho hospital. Thoro novorjwas a caso like it in tho institu tion. A reporter yesterday sought Dr. John G. Johnson, tho export in spinal diseases, and asked him: "How can a man live with a fractur ed or broken neck?" "Ilo can not," roplied tlio doctor, "except under certa.n circumstances. If tlio spinal cord is much injured tho person must die. Tho spinal column," picking up a huge medical work, and opening it at a cut of tlio human back bone, "is a very delicato and wonder fully constructed piece of mechanism. Tlio" top bone of tine spine is called tlio atlas. On this tlio head rests. Tlio next bono bolow is called tho axis. It lias a tiny projection, no bigger than a tooth. On this little projecting bone, that you could break with a slight blow from a tack-hammer, is pivoted the at las and tlio head. Through tlieso bones, starting from tho brain, runs the spinal cord. All the nerves of organic life start from tlio brain through tlio spinal column. Tho backbone is composed of a good many small bones dovetailed in ono to another. Tho slender cord.'" ho added, pointing to a largo colored chart, "which is called tlio spinal mar row, is a tolegraph wire, as it were, carrying tlio current of life from tlio brain to tho body. It is more than ono telegraph wire it is a bunch of wires. Ono wire transmits tlio power to see, another the power to feci, another tlio power to hoar, and so on. Now, you can cut ono wire without cutting the others. You can paralyze tlio lower limbs without removing tlio power to digest food. But it doesn't take much, 1 assure you, to injure tho spinal cord that tho heart suddonly cease to beat and the lungs stop their functions. One of tho nerves which forms tlio spinal column Is what is called tho pncuino gastrio norve. Piieumo refers to the lungs and gastrio of tho stomach, and the nerve carries tho power to perform their duties to both the lungs and tlio stomach. It is evident from the de scription of Somcrs' condition that his pnouniogastrio nerves has not yet been injured. "Delicato as is tho spinal cord, it can bo laid bare to tlio air without receiving anv injury. P.eces of tlio backbone have boon removed exposing tho cord, tlio place has healed and no harm has resulted. Even a temporary pressure, it it be not severe upon this life marrow, can bo recovered from. Or it might bo possible to expose tho cord and insert tlio point of a needle in the marrow without producing fatal results. This would depend largely, however, upon what part of tho spinal column was taken for tho experiment." Tho doctor, In peaking furthor on the subject, said that death, should it occur in Seniors caso. would, it is like ly, bo tho result of othor complications arising from the patient's coulinemout, from his exhausted vitalitv, and from causes secondary to the original injury to tho spinal column. Brooklyn A'ciyte Tho Sunny South Ahead. Goorgla man Talk about cold! You folks don't know what cold is, Omaha Man-tOh. come now! "No, you don't. 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