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-
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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 ?
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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.