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DESERT—A retrospect . |p‘F W." i“ Demorest’s Monthly.] L girl at Mt Desert, Kj|H.nui. a man or two— ■^oarsman all alert tiide aright the birch-canoe. Ik.board ride o’er hill anil dale— E, college songs that echo far ; liippmg oars, and twilight pale, I twaagiug of a soft guitar. KINGS OF THE KITCHEN. Tor Import.»,, or Master Cooks—Mainile. a»<| Per. quleiteM Enjoyed l»y Chefw. u [Philadelphia Press Interview.] I J co®k». or, perhaps it would be better to say chief cooks, receive largo salaries?” » “They receive very excellent salaries Barger than many head bank clerks or Ljight row, a camp-tire glow, chief salesmen in dry goods houses. Ln across the sun-lit harbor; 1 lie stomach appeals as forcibly as the Lptain walk, a quiet talk,— Eend of whom no chance can rob her, brain. The Hoffman house, in New , , ' pays its chief $3,000 a rear Lty costume for the Hop, Delmonico and the Bellevue of this Lre of favors at the German; city annually $3,000. That, however Cand-toe that cannot stop, Lance acquaintance with some mer-man. is only the money portion. A chief re ceives his board, lodging and wine in Lis cap for valor made, “mdlti°“rB11 of ,he be8t description, Lu piazza meant for strolling, t he Bellevue cook is also provided with E1-S midnight serenade, buml of jolly numbers trolling. Ins clothes, made by a first-class tailor lhe salunes paid bv other hotels in the Then— country vary from $3,000 to $2,000, Hing of the costumes gay, No chief of ability would take any less H no more time to laugh and flirt, f last words, a big bouquet, than the last named sum, and only then taring hand—ami Mt. Desert. under pressure. Assistant cooks, often apprentices of the chief, receive SITTING FOR A PHOTO. salaries varying from $12J to $65 per month, with board.” ■ Old-Time Method and the A*- “Of what nationality are cooks?" I toiilNhiiiK KewultM Thereof. “Nearly all of them are French. [Bradford (Pa.) Star.] There are a few English, one or two ■ camera became an alarming object German and American, but the land of ■ the artist threw a black cloth over his Gaul is the home of culinary artists. ■ami converted himself, as it were, into The French cooks are a close brother Barge glass eye. The patient was told hood. They hand down tae secrets of K move—a terrifying injunction. He their profession one to the other. They Barnestly entreated not to wink, and tile graduate under the tuition of the older ■ was the tears instantly flowed into his members of the fraternity, to whom ■nt.il the craving for winking became a they refer with the same reverence that ■m. His head was fixed into an engine ■e<l to steady it, but which in reality a young painter pays to his m.ster. Led as if it was meant to crush it, and The cooking of certain dishes, the in ■ position ho was told to loo»< happy, gredients of particular sauces, the flavor ■ think of something agreeable, whilst ing of special soups, are only revealed Kerator watched him with his hand on to junior members of the profession un Bp over the lens waiting for the happy der promises of strictest confidence, and ■sion to come into his face. It was also only when it has been decided that ■ surprising that the usual consequence the novices desiring initiation will be Kitting of this description was a likeness able to do proper justice to the making ■dominant characteristic of which was of the chef d’ œuvre." Kf acute mental suffering and consider- “In the kitchen.” continued the hotel Khysical anguish. proprietor, “the chef is supreme. In Bare constantly coming across the most deed, all over the house the chef is ■ordinary poses, the most astonishing treated with the respect due to a gen Lsions of countenance, the most melan- tleman. He has his distinct table and Igrouping. It is not the fault of the servants to wait upon him. He gener Igraphers; the sitters will have it so, Jbject to artistic arrangements. A fond ally invites his chief assistant to dine |e, for instance, imagine that a most with him. Nothing menial, it is under imque and pleasing effect may be pro- stood, is attached to his office, and i by Matilda sitting on a chair looking waiters abstain from familiarity with I Henry, who leans poetically over her. him. Cocktails are served to him when Ll life nothing could be more idyllic he arises ; claret with his lunch and Isuch an attitude; but in real life a par- any wines he desires at his meals. Lr subjection of light will not make Cooks have seldom been known to be Ida look like a West Indian negress, nor come drunkards, or even gluttons. Henry’s bowed head lead one to suppose They havo far too fine a perception of It is possible for a man’s face to consist taste and flavor to abuse either. I bly of the parting of his hair. have known a chef to invite a brother c young lady, in the resolution to look artist to dinner, and the pair have kunonly pleasing, comes out as though dwelt over certain dishes with the same nd been just about to sneeze when her ess was taken. An elderly lady of larger lingering scrutiny and affection that a brtions, quite ignorant of the law of sculptor bestows on his finest produc bgraphic perspective, insists upon sitting tion. Soyer, the greatest living cook of and is represented like an elephant in a the last century, at times wept bitterly . People with turn up noses, with very because the dishes he occasionally poses, with no noses to speak of, delight served to crowned heads were not prop rcing en profile. On the other hand, peo- erly appreciated by their royal consum ecorated with four or five chins, and a ers. Roman emperors covered their spending amplitude of cheek, love to cooks with honors, and monarchs of pt their full faces. A short man insists the middle ages frequently knighted | being taken standing. A tall man will the kings of their kitchens. Indeed, in i his legs, desiring to appear an easy at- the present day, the art of cooking is B, and by projecting his boot in the not despised by the finest gentlemen. » of the lens is depicted as the possessor Our Fish House club in this city is an toot that should make his fortune in a instance. The clubs in this country iling booth. and in Europe could produce several rivals even to noted chefs.” A 300-Year-Old Bible. “And chefs in private houses?” [Minneapolis Tribune.] “Are not quite in as good a position lurious and valuable book has recently as chefs in clubs and hotels. They of I into the possession of Mr. S. A. Thomp- ten havo more to do, and less assistance. bf this city, it being a Danish bible of rear of 1585. It was printed at Copen- Their salaries are generally of the n by Matz Bengaardt, and is one of the highest average, but the men them Id edition ever used in the Scandinavian selves are seldom artists of the first ex Isula. Its history is known for the past cellence. Vanderbilt, Havemeyer and rears, having been in the Svendsgaardt other millionares of New York employ ly for that time, and it contains the fam- men of cordon bleu rank, but outside fcord for most of this period. About New York there are few private fam k years ago it was brought to this coun ilies in America who rise to the dignity ty L. Svendsgaardt, and, after changing of a man cook. Mr. Drexel is the only B several times, was recently purchased man in this city who employs one.” Ir. Thompson in Otter Tail county. “But Philadelphians have cooks ?” le bo< >k shows traces of its age, both from “Yes, women, who receive wages, prn condition and the style of its bind- The covers are of Norway pine some say, from $4 to $8 a week; and very bights of an inch in thickness, and cov- good cooks many of the women are. with hog-skin. The corner« are finished But there is always something lacking. rass, figured in fanciful shapes, which A picture by a novice may be very been battered and worn till whatever pleasing; by genius it may be wonder ry they may once have had has been lost, ful in conception and execution—but a pork is profuse in its illustrations and is few touches in each instance from the kble chiefly for these, as being well- brush of the maestro and what a dif Irved specimens of the engravings of ference I” b centuries ago. Quaint and curious are of them. The creation of Eve is one the idea being taken from the literal png of the scriptures. Adam is asleep, the Creator is drawing a fully-devel- woman from his side. A curious thing it in the sky the sun, moon, aud stars ill to be seen at the same time. Many le engravings, if not all. are made in hlance w ith modern rules of aerial per- tive, a thing not always done in works lat century. lingular fact is that in the New Testa- t there are no engravings until Revela- i is reached. The life of Christ had not gle scene, and the only representation im is where He appears to John in Rev- ons. The value of the book is not far i $1,600, anti Mr. Thompson is in com- ication with parties east who wish to base it. stirring: Times Ahead. [Demorest’s Monthly.] »re indications all over Europe which om is for the reigning monarchies, lai >1 is i republic in all but name, France te nd all peradventure, while in Bantaly and 8pain, the great body of jopuL are republicans in theory. A ige will pliably come over Europe soon r Kaiser William’s death. The kingdom *eden Is even now shaken by a popular ocratic agitation. King Oscar, a descend ed the French adventurer Bernadotte, repeatedly set at defiance the popular will (pressed through the Norway Storthing, as a consequence there is a determination be part of that nation to assert its right nst the autocratic rule. King Oscar r yet lose ,his crown if not his head, for he violated the fundamental law, by making fcme pretensions which cost Charles I. of land bis life. There are stirring time« ** for the peoples of Europe. Tarantala Iadastry. Imitating Old Hooka. [Chicago Times.] Collectors of postage stamps have long had to guard carefully against the danger of paying large prices for skill ful copies of rare issues, and now, it ap pears, bibliophiles must confront a similar deceit, a firm in Dusseldorf having taken out a patent for its pro cess of imitating old books. They print with old fashioned type upon hand made paper, which has been satu rated with au aniline solution, and then sprinkle the pages with various dyes that give them an aged and moldy appearance. Finally, when the sheets have been liound up into a volume, the edges of the leaves are steeped in spirit and fired; and it is said that after a reprint has gone through this treatment it is all but impossible for any one, unless he makes use of chemical tests, to distinguish the forgery from an original. In order to obtain a patent the Dusseldorf firm have probably con vinced the authorities that their own immediate intentions are honest, but some of their successors are sure to be scoundrels. «•rant'« Pa««. Speaking of the origin of some names in Oregon, The Oregonian says of Grant’s pass : “When < irant was a lieu tenant he was camped there with a party of soldiers, and they got to playing euchre for $1 on the corner. The game stood three to three. Grant picked up his cards and had the right bower, ace and king. He concluded to pass, think ing he could euchre his opponent, a burly miner. The result was that he lost his dollar, and the place was called ‘Grant's pass.’”___________ I [Chicago Herald.] «King pm tarantulas and their nests has “How do you know when a cyclone is ,Tn* quite an industry in Santa Barbara, *be insects are suffocated with gas, coming?” asked a stranger of a western 1 ’htffad, dried and fastened to a card. man. “Oh, we get wind of them, was price is 50 cents each, but many the answer.____________ rlr*ds are sold wholesale for $3 or >4 per The New York elevated roads draw 1 ^hiteiaw Reid's fancies i» tn es- the line at dogs and people with big the woixb “sdition-' or “iMue " and use baskets. for "'Œwwion." The Nueces« of Co-Operative Nocle- tlea. (Demorest's Monthly.] In this country, co-operative societies have been a failure. Indeed they can not be said to have succeeded anywhere except in England, and there only in one kind of business, to-wit, in stores for distributing goods at a small ad vance over cost price. All attempts in the way of co-operative production— that is, in the manufacture of goods— have been almost total failures. Of course, companies and corporations have succeeded in transacting business, but we are speaking now of the co operation of working-people, so as to '•ecure all the profits from their own labor. The co-operative storos of England, however, have been wonder fully prosperous. At the close of 1881 tlibre were 1,189 distributive societies in successful operation. These had 573,000 members. The share capital was nearly $29,000.000 and the yearly sales were over $100,000,000.' The saving in profits was about 10 per cent, or $10,000,000. T he two largest co-operative societies in England are the Civil Service Supply association and the Army and Navy Co operative society. Tins last society employs 3,500 men and 200 women. It has been so popular that it has begun manufacturing articles for sale. The secret of the success of distributive co operation is because everything is done for cash. The stores of England pre viously gave unlimited credit, and con sequently made many bad debts, and thus were forced to put high charges on all their goods to make a living profit. The co-operative societies in troduced cash payments, made no bad debts, and thus had an advantage over the old-fashioned store. Doubtless the reason why co-operation has failed in this country is because of the one price and cash system introduced originally into the dry goods trade by the late A. T. Stewart. Selling cheaper, and being content with small profits, he ruined his competitors in trade, and by the magnitude of his transactions acquired a vast fortune. It is the cash system in the stores of our large cities which has prevented the growth of co-operative societies here. An Iloneatf l.crman'« Dilemma. [Detroit Free Press.] A German farmer was on trial in one of the justice courts the other day for assault and battery, and had pleaded not guilty. When the cross-examina tion came the opposing counsel asked: “Now, Jacob, there was trouble be tween you and the plaintiff, wasn’t there ?” “I oxpect dere vhas.” “He said something about your dog being a sheep-killer, and you resented it, eh?” “Vhell, I calls him a liar.” “Exactly. Then he called you some hard names?” “He calls me a sauer-kraut Dutch mans.” “Just so. That made you mad?” “Oof course. I vhas so madt I shake all oafer.” “I thought so. Now, Jacob, you are a man who speaks the truth. I don’t believe you could be hired to tell a lie.” “Veil, I plief I vhas pooty honest.” “Of course you are—of course. Now, Jacob, you must have struck the first blow. You see----- .” The other lawyer objected, and after a wrangle the defendant turned to the court and said: “I doan’ oxactly make oudt how it vhas. I like to own oop dot I shtruck first, but haf paid my lawyer $5 to brove de odder vhay. I doan’ like to tell a lie, but I feel badt to lose der money.” Xo Mystery to Him. 1 Detroit Free Press. ] A stubbed farmer, who had come to market with a load of potatoes, entered a restaurant near the Central market, and called for a dozen oysters on the half-shell. A couple of jokers happened to be in the place, and, while one at tracted the farmer's attention for a mo ment, the other dropped a bullet into one of the oyster shells. The man gulped down one after another, until he got the one with the bullet in his mouth. Calmly and quietly he bit at the lead with his teeth—calmly and quietly he removed it from his mouth and turned to the light. “By George 1 but it’s a bnllet!" cried one of the men. "Probably shot into the oyster to kill him,” added the other. “Well.thatis amystery,” said the man behind the counter. “Gentlemen, that’s no mystery to mo,” replied the farmer, as he deposited the ball in his vest pocket. “At the battle of Fair Oaks, over twenty years ago, I was hit in the leg by that very bullet. It's been a long time working up, but she's hero at last, and I’ll have it hung to my watch chain if it costs $5.” Kissing Men. [New York Mercury.] The Russian men kiss each other ou Easter morn, and the Latin men on any occasion when seized with a spasm of ' friendship or affection. It is nauseat-1 ing. On the entry of the German crown prince into Madrid, Alfonso! kissed Fritz and Fritz kissed Alfonso, j It was in keeping with the Latin prac-1 tice that the Spanish king should sa lute the heir of the throne of Germany, j but Fritz was inexcusable. The Ten-| ton race was supposed to have evolved I out of that sort of kissing, which is an | exhibition of weakness, better called.! Mias Nancyism. Alsace and Lorraine are not likely to be retained by a kisser of men. Novel Artillery Projectile. SAGE AT A CANDY STAND. Grant anil War J. How the Millionaire Characteristic, ally Extends Hi« Baslncs« Instruct trum Hollars to Cent«. The friends of Gen. Grant through out the country may be interested to know that his private affairs are in a flourishing condition. He has one-fourth interest in the banking firm of Grant & Ward, which had au original capital of $400,000 paid in. Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., put in $100,000 and James D. Fish, the silent partner, $100,000. The firm, chiefly managed by Ward, did very well, and Geu. Grant desired to come in. He first put iu $50,000 and after ward desiring his sou Jesse to enter the firm, his associates agreed to let him put iu $50,000 more, but in his own name, so as not to increase the number of partners. While Gen. Grant takes no part iu making contracts, signing checks, or in the executive details of the business, he is a valuable man through his character aud connections, both for credit aud for diplomatic work. Be sides making large divisions of profits, this firm has about $800,000 of securi ties lielonging to it. Mr. Ferdinand Ward, Gen. Grant's partner, is worth a million and a half and was only 32 years old last week. He began life as a Presbyterian mis sionary’s son, buying and selling certifi cates of membership in the New York produce exchange. He predicted that these certificates would go up to $ 10,000 apiece. They cau be borrowed for temporary use by any person desiring to do business in tile exchange. Mr. Ward has a tine villa at Stamford, Conn., and there made the acquaintance of Gen. Grant’s son, which led up to his connection with the father. He is one of the phenomenal young men in this city. He came from Geneseo, and among his earliest transactions was selling to the region job lots of flour left over ac the produce exchange. Mr. Ward, as I have intimated, is tho son of the Rev. Dr. Ward, Presbyterian minister at Geneseo, N. Y., who was for many years a missionary to India. Rev. Mr. Ward was afterward consul there. His son never went with him to the Indies, but came to New York with the intentiou of entering Princeton col lege, but found that his instincts were toward business, and he became the clerk iu the produce exchange nnder our present Comptroller Grant. He has kept the confidence of every employer and friend he began with. Tho mayor has put into the hands of his banking firm the negotiation of the $30,000 of aqueduct bonds, and Mr. Fish, his first friend of wealth, takes breakfast and dinner with him in Brooklyn every day. _______________ [“Gath.”] [“Unde Bill” in Chicago Herald.] Russell Sage is the only man who knows how many millions of dollars Russell Sage possesses. At any rate, he is enormously wealthy. Emerging from a railroad meeting of directors the other day, in which he had been in con ference with Jay Gould aud other Croe suses, he came to a little candy s and in the street. Part of the stock con sisted of chocolate cubes in a heap. "How much are those?" Sage asked. “Two cent apiece,” replied the ven der. “Haven’t yon any for a cent?” “No, but I can break one of ’em in two." A piece of the candy was accordingly halved, and the millionaire bought it. He is careless as to dress and rural in countenance, so that his manner of purchasing excited no surprise, except in several spectators w ho recoguized him us the Wall street celebrity. To them his caruful saving of a cent indi cated characteristic parsimony, and be fore night their account of it had been carried by brokers’ tongues all over town. Nevertheless, Sage is a philan thropist. He has given $150,000 to Cornell university, he is a liberal con tributor to charities iu his home city of Brooklyn, he is a financial pillar in Plymouth church, aud iu other ways privately and publicly benevolent. How do I reconcile these facts with his dicker over the candy? Simply by calling your attention to the impor tant consideration that they are all outside of Wall street neigh borhood. Ho leaves sentimental softness behind when he enters that precinct of hard business. It is as though he deposited his heart in some safe receptacle on starting for his daily struggle for more dollars and took along only liis head full of brains. He is nota bly exact and just in all his dealings. His written agreements to buy or sell stocks—technically denominated puts and calls—pass current in Wall street like bank notes among merchants. He is au arbitrator among speculators, too, and his [[off-hand decisions are seldom appealed from, so sound and respected are they. It is high praise of a Wall street operator, all things considered, and I would not like to bestow it reck lessly, but I really do not believe that Sage would have divided the piece of chocolate unequally if the cutting had been left to him by a blind dealer. It was in business hours, the spot was within business limits, and he was in stinctively extending his business in stinct from dollars down to cents. He was fresh from the absorbing work of bargaining and scheming over the whole Delaware & Lackawanna railroad. Could he be expected to instantly throw- off the money’s-worth-and-more-if-possi- ble spirit ? Looking at the subject in that reasonable way, it is fair to acquit Russell Sage of meauuess in this pur chase of half a square of candy for a cent. _______________ Fremont'« Duel and Candidacy. [Croffut in Chicago Tribune. ] The other evening I met Mr. J. C. Derby, the veteran publisher, who is about to publish his reminiscences under the cover of “Fifty Years with Authors.” During the talk conversa tion fell on his rather remarkable in tercourse with eight of our presidents. Ho told an incident about t*.e first Re publican candidate. “When Fremont was nominated,” ho said, “I wanted to issue his biography, as our house had been in the habit of printing the lives of presidential candidates. Casting about for a while my choice fell on John Bigelow, editor of The Evening Post, a paper which, formerly Demo cratic, had become Republican. I made an arrangement with him to do it. But The Tribune was also a power in the country at that time, and Charles A. Dana, its managing editor, was very much in earnest for Fremont's success. I wanted The Tribune satisfied with the biography; so it was finally agreed that Bigelow should write it and that Dana should see all the proof-sheets, thus bringing their joint shrewdness and prudence to bear. Tliis project was carried out. Every thing went harmoniously until the work was half done, when Dana re turned a set of proof-sheets which gave an account of Fremont’s duel. He thought it was not best to allude to tho duel at all. It was a foolish inci dent of the candidate's youth; millions of people were opposod to dueling, and many would not voto for a duelist. Bigelow insisted that a biography should be veracious and complete; that nothing should bo dodged or concealed; that all that he had put into the book about the duel was historical matter, well known to his enemies, and if left out would lx> quoted not only against him, but to prove the untrustworthiness of the biography. Dana pleaded that if the duel episode was included in the book Fremont would lose the whole Quaker vote and would be defeated. It was in cluded, and Fremont was beaten. But he made a splendid run and consolidated the Republican party. I doubt if any body else could have polled more votes. Ao ln«lde Clappers. [Nt-w Orleans Time»-Democrat.] I have not seen a bell yet in Japan that was supplied with au inside clap per. Even the bells that serve as fire alarms in the cities are simply l>ells or gongs, against which some wooden or metallic object is pushed. These temple bells are rung by means of long wooilen beams, hooped with iron, which swing by means of ropes sus pended from the belfry ceiling, and are pushed back and forth by native». The belfry always stands apart from the temple._______________ [Chicago Tribune. ] Herr Krupp, of Essen, has just taken out a patent for a flat-headed artillery projectile. It tapers slightly at the butt, and not only pierces the plates Egotism. more easily than the pointed kind, [Exchange.) which are apt to deflect when striking iron at certain angles, but it is calcu Professor—“Egotism consists in con lated to hit the ironclads below the stantly talking of one’s self. It is a very bad habit for a young man to get water-line. into.” Student—“Oh, I see! Then Grasateoppero. you would have a fellow admire him [New York Herald.] self in secret. Well, perhaps yon are In one district of Yucatan in a fort right; but I can’t understand why a night there were killed 30,000 pounds person shouldn't share his pleas of grasshoppers and over 11,000 pounds ure with others. ” The professor did ! not pursue the subject. of locusts. Honnil to Nee the ProeeMMlon. [New York Journal.] A wisp of a boy waited in Fifth av entie, New Y’ork, Monday afternoon foi the procession. He was clubbed by a po liceman for not getting ontjof the way. He was kicked by a colored major’s horse. A hook anil ladder wagon knocked him down. Three companies of Jersey militia marched over him. He made his way through the crowd which skirted the sidewalk, cuffed by this man and jostlod by that, and got to a fence iu front of a Fifth avenue house, stood ujMin the top of the fence, which was about half an inch wide. He was thinly clad, and as the rain came down grew very wet. When the bands came along playing "Red, White and Blue,” “Marching Through Georgia,” and “I Never Drink Behind the Bar,” the rain ceased to him. He threw up his ragged hat. Tho rain dripped off his clothes as it drops from an icicle. Ho was soaked with rain. He hurrahed aud shouted in the rain. Ho was oblivious of the rain. To him it was an Indian summer day. When the Volunteer fire men appeared he was beside himself with enthusiasm. His wet clothes were as tight on him as his own skin. He jumped down from his perch anil ran into the street. He caught hold of tho rear part of Big Six fire engine, just behird the tiger, and marched, thrilled with happiness nt touching the engine U ith his hands, all the way to the Bat tery. When he was coming back a heavy artillery wagon ran over him at the Bowery Green and mashed him into tho mire. He was pulled out and ran away covered with mud, but full of joy- '_____________ RAPID TRANSIT IN NEW YORK. The llrouilHuy I nCersronnd Itallroad the Next t andidule for Public Ap proval. [Croffut in Pioneer Pre*-. [ Rapid transit in New York still clamors for solution. The elevated road, with all its dodging of equitable taxa tion, is an untoid blessing to the city— so great a convenience to travel, aud so striking a lienetit to property, that liti gation against it has ceased almost al together. But it is insufficient—quite insufficient. For five hours of every day it goes crowded, and does not begin to accomodate those wishing to ride. And these are tho very hours that measure the need. As the strength of a chain is only the strength of its weak est liuk, so the requirements of up-and- down travel in New York is measured by the thousands that stand on plat forms lietween 5 and 7, uuable to get on the trains. Moreover, these roads are running to their full capacity. They cau run no more than four cars to the train, and the trains cau go no nearer together. What next ? More elevated roads are objected to, because they are really an eyesore, are somewhat dan gerous, and use up valuable ground that is needed for the wagon-way. The next candidate for public ap proval is the Broadway Underground Railroad company. This has a charter to construct a tunnel road of two tracks from the Battery to the Harlem river, forking at Madison square and passing northward via Madison avenue and Broadway. It has given a bond to the city to finish this road as far as Central park by January 1, 1887. and the money is promised to complete the l»ig job by that time. But the company is going liefore the legislature this winter to ask for an extension of its powers—the right, namely, to lav four tracks instead of two, the middle pair to be for express trains, going at the rate of forty miles an hour, including stoppages. In order to do this tin* whole of Broadway must bo dugout twenty feet deep and arcaded the whole width lietweeu the buildings, the upper roadway, at the present level, being devoted to its present uses. The company claims that it can daily carry a quarter of a million passengers, or as innuy as all the public vehicles put to gether now carry, and this is probable enough. The chief objection hitherto made to this plan is that it would injure build ings on Broadway, that the jar might shake them down. M. C. Smith, the president, ex-Secretary Windom, Jerome Fassler, of Ohio, and William J. McAlpine, and the Baron Blanc, civil engineers, have been to London this summer, examining tho underground road there in its bearing on this diffi culty. The road passes under all sorts of great buildings, including hotels, churches, and a large hospital, goes under th<‘| great thirty-six-ton monu ment of George IV., within six inches of the masonarv, under hundreds of tottering old walls; aud yet Mr. McAl pine tells me that it has never cracked a bit of masonry, or had a cent of dam age to pay, and that the trains of a road under Broadway will cause less vibra tion to tho buildings than is now made by a passing omnibus. The rejiorts of the engineers will be laid beforo the legislature, with maps illustrating and substantiating them. A Daring Ncliool Teacher. [Detroit Free Press.] The town of Shenandoah, Pa., which was recently burned, though a place oi 12,000 inhabitants, is not down on the school maps. At Wilkesbarre, Pa., a school teacher undertook to remedy this defect by setting her scholars tc seek information in the reports of mine inspectors, newspapers and people in town. The facts collected by each scholar were then read aloud to all. Of course it is hard to believe, but it is as sorted on good authority that the chil dren took more interest and showed more enthusiasm in this work than they did even in respecting the alphabetical list of tho rivers in llindooHtan ami ol the mountains of South America. Of course, too, there is danger of the school teacher's dismissal for wasting her own and tho pupils’ time, but that is one of the risks of the business. If teachers undertake on their own resppn- sibility to excite tho minds of the schol Etrypt's «¿litnntlc Task. ars, to loosen their grip on tho text [Pall Mall Gazette.] books, to set them to investigating and There is something unspeakably gro observing and thinking for themselves, tesque in the attempt made bv the they must also take the risk of running pigmy state at the mouth of the Nile to against routine and red tape. establish a gigantic empire in tho heart Menton*« Advice. of central Africa. The restored govern [Exchange.] ment of the khediye is altont the weak E. I*. Weston, the pedestrian, is in the est power in existence. Yet it is bent upon attempting a task from which habit, bv his own account, of giving wholesome advice to tin- British aristoe England herself would recoil. The Soudan, it should nevor bo for racy about their diet. He occasionally gotten, is as large as India. It stretches dines at the tables of the great, and 1,6<M1 miles in one direction and 1,300 in makes comments on the viands some another. Unlike India, it is inaccessi what in this style: A lady who sat next ble by the sea. It is inhabited by war to him, and to whom he was a perfect like tribes of the same faith; it has stranger, expressed a desire for heel neither railways, canals, nor navigable well done. “Excuse me, miss, but you’ll rivers, excepting the Nile at some get no more nourishment out of that than periods of the year; and its only roads out of chilis and shavings.” Mr. Weston are camel tracks. From first to last it is not without hopes that he will eventu has never paid its expenses. The at ally reform the dinners of the peerage, tempt to hold it has cost 50,000 lives at and persuade “our old nobility” that least, and the net result is that we are half-cooked meat and » walk of 501) waiting anxiously to know whether or miles in 100 days, make the summit oi not Col. Hicks has shared the fate that human bliss. has already overtaken C'apt. Moncrieff. Nilsson. To re-establish the authority of the [ Gatb. ] Egyptian government if Egypt were cut Nilsson has made much monoy, but off bv a ring fence from the rest of the her marriage was not fortunate in a world would be difficult enough, but worldly point of view. Her husband what chance is there of success when was a speculator, who took her money the dwarf at Cairo insists on carrying and lost it, and went insane. What re on his shoulders the burden of foreign mained his relatives endeavored to get. She also lost money in American in empire ? _____________ vestments. She is making money, and JelT Davis to an Editor. it is to be hoped that she is more than [Chicago Herald. | independent. A little of the peasant W. J. Lampton, a Cincinnati journal adheres to her. Whilo singing in New ist, recently wrote to Jefferson Davis York this winter sho has once or twice claiming relationship. He received the rebuked talk or noise ot the stage, and following good-natured reply: “Some shown that the extreme north of Europe years ago a correspondent endeavored has hotter blood than the south. to tract; my relationship to King George Mary An4eman'a F mcb , III., connecting therewith a theory that the writer anil myself were the proper Olive Logan writes from London heirs to a large fortune in England. I that the talk of 5 o'clock teas is Mary replied that I must surrender all claim Anderson's statuesque poses. Gossip to the fortune, lieing quite sure that I has it that she frequents the British was in no degree skin to George; but museum and learns of the sculptured an editor is a different thing, anil I shall Hebe an<l of Helen the secret of their be very glad (that fortune in England charm; of the Nereides, the swan-liks not considered) to t>e assured that I am gTace of the movements of ses god • relative of yours. In the meantime I desses; of the various Venuses, the lost am very respectfully yours.” I art of their wondrous -fascinations.