OUR PECULIARITIES.
tttax O'KulI Vnyn Ilia O.mi'llmenU to U
liHliitpvniwblv 8Ittoon.
Ameriuau iiousos nr lurinsuod very
luxuriously, and for the moat part
with exquisite taste. Hero you soothe
Hiuuonce of woman in the ttmiillor de
tails of life; indeed, ul every stop you
take you e that woman has passed
that way.
The luxury displayed at receptions.
dinnors nnd dances surpasses European
imagination. At a ball jriven in New
York in the month of February, 1388,
he walls were covored with roses,
which did not cost less than $10,000.
When one consider that the supper,
and evory thing else, was on the same
scale it becomes doubtful whether such
luxury is to be admired. I wns pres
ent one evening at a dinner giveu in
the large dining hall at Dolnionico'a
restaurant, in New York. We were
oighty-soven guests at an Immense
round 'table. The center of the board
-was covered with a gigantic star of
flowers rosea, arum lilies and helio
trope. At that season lilies were worth
a dollar each, and all through the win
ter the price of roses was from a quar
ter to two dollars apiece, according to
kind. The Americans at this feast es
timated the star of flowers at six or
seven thousand dollars.
- At a dinner party given recently at
Delmonieo's, I heard that each menu
had a chain attached, consisting of
pearls and diamonds, and valued at
$1,000. j
In houses, in clubs, in offices, one
can not help admiring the ingenious
forethought, the wonderful care with
which the smallest wants and the
slightest conveniences of life have
been studied; it seems as if there were
nothing left to desire.
It is impossible, however, in speak
ing of American interiors, to pass over
in saence a certain eye-sore which
meets our eye at every turn.
' The most indispensable, it appears,
the most conspicuous at any rate.
piece of furniture in America is the
Bpittoon. All rooms are provided
with this objeot of prime necessity; you
find one beside your seat in the trains,
under your table in the restaurants:
impossible to escape the sight of the
ujtfy uteusiL In the hotel corridors
there is a spittoon standing sentinel
outside every door. In public build
ings the floors are dotted with them,
and they form the line all up the stairs.
The Americans, used to these targets
from the teuderest age, are marvelous-
ly adroit at the use of them; they
never miss tneir aim. I saw some
really striking feats of marksmanship;
but perhaps the best of all at the cupl
tol in Washington.
The Supreme Court of Judiciary
was sitting; As I entered an advocate
was launching thunders of eloquence.
All at once he stopped, looked at the
spiMoon which stood two yards off,
aimed at it, and Kerrron craahk
ptu! right in the bull's eye. Then on
he went with his harangue. I looked
to see the seven Judges and the pub
lic applaud and cry bravo! Not
murmur, the incident passed completely
unnoticed. Probably there was not a
man in the hall who could not say to
Limself: "There's nothing in that, I
could do as much." From Max
O'llell's "Brother Jonathan."
1 uuc, uuwovoi', was more easily saiU
than done, especially as the nuns wre
becoming so exoitod that they might
momentarily have been expected to
resort to the argument of nails.
1 he Biege lusted lor three or four
hours. News of it flew about the
town, and bands of young men,
scrupulously neutral, watched pro
ceedings from the bars of the outer
gate, Eventually the Jesuits yielded
and the nuns occupied tho house unt'l
a new convent, entirely to their tiwH
was erected for them. Youth's Cow
pauiou. ,
LAW ADMINISTRATION.
BESIEGED BY NUNS.
A Curiou Incident In the Early History
of the Canary jfolaudn.
A curious tale of a besieged and
conquered monastery belongs to the
early history of the Canary Islands,
and is retold by Charles Edwards in
bis recent description of the isles. In
the early part of the eighteenth cent
ury there lived in Orotava, on the
island of Teneriffe, a convent of Do-
. imnican nuns, who, after some years
of ease, had the misfortune to be
burned out of house and home. They
went into temporary quarters tor a
year, but became dissatisfied witn such
unconventual walls, and began look
ing about for a permanent abiding
place.
At that time there was in Orotava a
house of Jesuits which had lost its
former importance, and, though com
modious and healthful, rave lodging
to but two men, the rector of the house
and his assistant On this mansion
the nuns cast covetous eyes, and soon
resolved to appropriate it One
morning about forty of them advanced
against it, by strategy induced the
Jesuit brother to open the outer gate,
and then, trooping into the court
yard, fell on their knees, thanking
God for thfsir preliminary success. In
vain did the two monks reason with
them on their scandalous conduct
They merely held their ground, ex
claiming: ' '
"Father Andrew, this is a large cage
for so few birds!"
Some of the more reasonable mem
bers of the sisterhood explained that
thfty were really in need of a dwelling
x spacious as this, and that they did
not propose leaving it The rector, in
despair, fled iuto the sacristy, from
which retreat he exhorted his col
league to be of good cheer.
Tationce, brother," cried he, "and
do your best to extricate yourself from
thwa.Jadi:"
A GUmpa at Nm of the Peculiar la
tltutlun of Colonial Lite.
The sentiment against lawyers was
at this time nearly as Btrong In Vir
ginia as in New England, although in
the former It had sprung more from
experience than from doctrine. Epis
copacy, unlike independency, was not
hostile in spirit to the legal profes
sion. But Virginia, it would soom, was
a prey to a band of unscrupulous,
broken-down attorneys from England;
and the extent of the aflliction-apiwars
from the legislation on thoir account.
In 1643 an attempt was made to reg
ulate the practice of law by a syBtem
of fees, licenses and oaths, but without
avail; and two years later it was en
acted that "mercenary attorney s be
wholly expelod from such office." As
In New England, the expedient was
adopted of allowing a magistrate or
some one from among the people to as
sist parties in pleading causes. This
plan, however, was soon found un-
jatisfactory, and a second attempt was
made to regulate, rather than exclude,
the practice of law, but, as before, with
out avail. In all persons, attor
neys or othors, who should assist in
pleading causes for a comon8atiou
were made liable to a fine of five thou
sand pounds of tobacco.
Fortunately, these worthless adven
turers confined their attention to Vir
ginia. The middle colonies, at this
time, were not subjected to such visit
ation. In an account of Pennsylvania
and West New Jersev, by Gabriel
Thomas, published in 1698, and dedi
sated to "Friend William Penn." is the
following naive observation: "Of
Lawyers and Physicians I shall any
nothing, because this country is vory
peaceable and healthy; long may it so
continue, and never have occasion for
the tongue of the one nor the pen of
the other, both equally destructive to
men'8 estates and lives." Against the
attorneys, the lawgivers, apparently,
deemed some special precaution neces
sary; for the Fundamental Constitu
tions of East New Jersey provided that
ill parties might plead their causes
either in person or by friends, no com
pensation being allowed.
With this practical exclusion from
the colonies of men educated and de
voted to the law, there was of course
much crudenesa in the eariy judicial
systems. From devotion to particular
religious theories, or from the ten
dency in new communities toward cen
tralized government, the colonists dis
regarded an important English preco
ieut the separation of the judiciary
rom the executive and the legislature.
The highest court was identical, in
Massachusetts, with the Legislature,
and, in the other colonies, generally
with the executive. The very men
that sat on the bench sat also in the
executive council and in the legisla
ture. As a result, the distinctions be
tween law, morality and religion were
onstantly overlooked. Not merely
man's relations to his fellows, but even
his relations to his God, were pluced
within the province of the Legislature
and the courts. To take a striking ex
ample, blasphemy and idolatry were
capital crimes at the same time in
Massachusetts and in Maryland. In
Virginia, one neglecting the daily serv
ice of the Established Church might
find himself sentenced to the galleys
for six months. If he did not attend
the Sunday service, he might need to
prepare for the next world.
The men who presided ' over these
sarly tribunals were as much a product
of the times as were the laws they ap
plied or the justice they dispensed
Legal training was, indoed, a rare qual
ity. But usually they were "able and
judicious persons," according to the
equirement of the Virginia statute.
They came chiefly from the ruling
lass the Independent oligarchy in
Kew England, the gentry or planter
class in the South. Their deficiencies
r.d eccentricities were overlooked by
the people. The judgments of John
Winthrop, the Puritan Governor of
Massachusetts, and of Thomas Olive,
the Quaker Governor of W est Jersey,
were equally acceptable, though deliv-
jred in the one case from the platform
of the Boston meeting-house, and in
the other from "the stumps in his
meadow." It was reason and common
tense, not legal precedents, that the
udges consulted, considering each case
u of novel occurrence. When these
simple expedients did not sufficein
cases of doubt or ef other perplexity
application was made, at least In Now
England, to the ministers. Frank Gay
lord Cook, in Atlantic.
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