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Is Issued on Wednesday and Saturday of each wee*, comprising Ei.-ht Page* in each issue, or Sixteen Pwes each we k, and la the cheapest and most desirable Borne, New* and literary Journal published on the Pacific oo*-l „ „ Vena*. On* Tear V M fteml-Weefclw Union Advertising Rates. Half Square, 1 time t $1 °° Back additional Haw , « One Square, 1 time. .•••.•••••••.. } 00 S&oh additional tims 1 00 AGRICULTURAL NOTES. PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR THE FARMER AND THE ORCHARDIST. (This Department Is prepared for the S»ckame;jto Rkcori>Union by it« Agricultural Editor. _ All matter relating to the agricultural intercut will be found under this head ] The American vs. the Australian Merino Fleece. Some years since there were Rome Merino sheep s?nt from Vermont over to the World's lair at Hamburg, we think, and they sur prised the sheepmen of the old world for their great fcize of carcass and the fine quality and heavy weight of fleece. Some of the specimens sent over took tirst prizes in three classes. From that time to this America has been looked upon as an important country for sheep husbandry, and we have given to the Merino sheep a new appellation : the Amer ican Merino — in contradistinction to the French and Spanish Merino. Australia, however, has alway3 claimed to be a little ahead of the United States, or at least to be fully equal to this country in the production of good sheep and good wool. However, even the Australians are leading that to keep up their Hocks to the highest standard, in carcass and fleece, they will hive to come to America for an in fusion of new and more vigorous blood, as the following facts made public by W. G. Markham, Secretary of the National Wool growers' Association, will show : Some time since Mr. Markham received from John L. Carry, one of the most prominent of Austra lian sheep-breeder", two entire fleeces which had been taken, he said, from his best sheep, and sent to this country to show what Australia can do in the production of fine wool. Upon the receipt of the3e nieces Mr. Markham, under the direction of the National Asaociat on selected two American fleece?, and sent the four to a wool, scouring and grading establishment in Boston, with directions that each fleece be scoured and graded, and that the result be kept with great tare. The scourers were given no information as to the object of the trial, or as to where the fleeces came from. All were treated alike, and after they were scoured were appraised by competent judges. Tho American fleeces produced Si pounds, while the Australian produced but ih pounds of cleansed wool. The American wool was valued at $8 12, while the Australian was valued at SI 30. These facts be ing published, have attracted the at tention of the Australian sheep-owners, and they, like sensible business men, are acting upon it. As a consequence, Amer ican bred Merinos are earning into demand for the Australian market. Among the Aus tralian breeder who have ordered American sheep is Mr. Thomas McFarland of Mel bourne. Hearing of the above-named com parisons he came to this country and ascer tained the statement to be true, and that the American fleeces were not exceptional, ajid that the American Merino combined the most desirable characteristics of heavy car cass and large yield of fleece. He ordered two rams and two ewes, to be shipped to Mel bourne for bis sheep farms. A Perpetual Dairy. The old plan of milking cows from six to nine months during the spring and summer months, and allowing them to go dry from three to six months during the fall and win ter, is rapidly going out of fashion in all well regulated dairies, and in all sections of the country where the dairy business is carried on scientifically and successfully. The im mense loss that is sustained by the time that cows go dry under the old system of milking is equal to a deduction of a large percent, from the profits cf the business, and those j who adhere to this practice are finding out that it is impossible to compete with those who have abandoned it for the perpetual Hairy system, or the system of running the dairy the year through. Then, again, the great expense of parking butter in the summer season for consumption during the winter, including the coet of pack age?, salt &nd other materials used, added to the great loss of the butter itself, on account of its becoming rancid and ruined for any purpose except grease, must be charged against the profits of the old system. ■ People are also finding out that there is a material difference in fresh and packed butter, and they are loth to give up the use of fresh but ter in the fall for butter that has been kept perhaps imperfectly for from fcur to. six months. Fresh batter the year round can be had, and when consumers have made this fact out. they will hardly take to the con sumption of stale butter, however well pre served. There in a large class, probably ■. more than half the butter consumers, that are \ willing to pay a good advance on summer prices - for • fresh . butter • all winter, and this class is rapidly increasing. Butter makers must sooner or later conform to the demand of consumers for fresh butter 11 the year round, and those who prepare for the change, and put it into practice the soon- est, will reap the greatest advantage fromthe change. The first step necessary to a change ia this direction is to have half the cows drop their calves in the fall, and half in the spring. The next step will be ta provide stable and feeding stalk and boxes for the cows to be milked during the winter, and then will be to produce a kind of food for winter use that will in a measure supply the place of fresh grats during the summer. This can readily be done by producing beets and carrots and squashes, and abo by raising late corn for feed in green stalks, and use as long as the weather will permit, and catting up a portion of the crop and burying it after ■ the fashion practiced ; in •' France : and . ■ Germany — in trenches or boxer, so" as to keep it fresh the winter through. In this State, the all-the fear-round plan of conducting the dairy will :ost but little more than the old half-year plan, and we are well satisfied, from personal ;xperience and observation, that it will pay much better. .- - . . • Preventing Smut in. vfheat I' is P'.etty generally believed by wheat farmers that Milestone or sulphate of copper will prevent smut in wheat, at least farmers quite generally practice rolling their seed in this mixture before sowing, and believe it pays to do so. It is well, however, sometimes to have a thing that is generally believed proven, so that the belief may amount to real knowledge. Professor Blonnt-, of the Colo rado State Agricultural College, has been experimenting with wheat to determine whether there is really any virtue in the blue stone to prevent Fmut in wheat. He culti vated last year 71 varieties of wheat. One half of each variety of seed sown he wet with sulphate of copper before sowing, and the other half he s-nvei j dry. The Prussian, White Chile, and Canada Club smutted from both the wet and dry seed. Eleven varieties from the dry peed smutted, but not from the wet s?ed, while twenty varieties did not smut eitner from the wet or dry seed. This was as to eleven varieties proof that the blue stone is a good preventive of smut, and confirms the general impression of its efficacy for this purpose. ■ ■ - . . Prices of Jersey Cows. The Prairie Farmer gives an account of a sale of Jersey cattle on the 2Gth day of Octo ber at Dexter Park, Chicago. The cattle were from two herds, one bred, in lowa City, lowa, by Judge B. C. Luce and son, and the other from the herd of Mo?e3 Ellis of Fram ingham, Massachusetts. They were all regis tered cattle, or were entitled to registry. The lowa cattle were in good trim and condition, but those from the East were not looking well after their ride on the cars from their home to the place of sale. There were of the lowa herd 27 cows sold at an averse price of 0159, and the average of all the cows, heifers and calves of both herds sold was SI2S. The bulls did not sustain as good prices as the cows. We state these facts for the benefit of those who think of buying Jersey cows either for the dairy or the family. These are not extra prices, but they show the appreciation and value of this class of stock in the best stock market in the United States, and they show that the prices of this class of dairy cows are not depreciating to any extent. Russia and America as Wheat Compet itors But a few years ago Russia was looked upon by America as a formidable competitor for supplying Great Britain and the wheat buying countries of the eastern continent with wheat. This year we have sent wheat to Russian ports to be consumed by Russian subjects. This has been brought about by two causes : One the slack and slovenly man ner of Russian agriculture ; the other the ex tension of the area of wheat crown in the United States. Our own people were some what surprised at the first announcement that Russia had to buy wheat of America, but the Russians were also dumbfounded, and scarcely believe the truth yet. Our wheat growers may feel a just pride in this histor ical fact, but they should not fail to draw from it an important lesson — that any soil by long-continued culture in wheat, with poor cultivation, and without feeding, may Ibe exhausted. Let us be stimulated to avoid the danger which threatens every country when farming is not done with an eye to the perpetuity of fertility of the richness of the coil. Wlit-n the American wheat crop gives out there will be no other resort. Curing Cheese. The best method of curing chees; is still an unsolved problem, although it has been worn nearly threadbare at dairy convention?, agricultural institutes and in the columns of the public prints. It involves .-dentine prob lem?, which are still engaging the attention alike of experts in the dairy and the labora tory of the chemist. Investigations thus diligently pursued will hardly fail to evolve important and valuable facts. In the first annual report of the Cornell University sta tion, there is an article by Professor S. M. Babcock giving several experiments in curing cheese, He says : "A new cheese, when taken from the press, is composed, essentially, of the same constit uents as the milk from which it was made, the chief difference being that the cheese con tains less water ; of course the more soluble parts of the milk, as the sugar and albumen, are largely removed with the water. The small amount of milk sugar retained by the curd is usually at this time converted into lactic acid. The casein is now tough and in soluble, and the cheese has no marked flavor or odor. This, however, i 3 not long the case. Changes commence immediately, and under favorable circumstances the casein loses, in a few week?, its hardness, becomes soft and waxy when pressed betweeu the fingers, and acquires the flavor and odor peculiar to a ripe chees?. . During this time the casein has been largely converted into soluble albumi noids (peptones), but there are also formed small quantities of leucin, tyrosin, ammonia and often butyric and other fatty acids." Prof. Babcock then takes up the theories of rennet action. The fermentation theory is not demonstrated, and the digestive one ap pears to be but imperfectly sustained. It has been supposed, and is still believed by some, that fat is in gome way generated by the process of curing, but the evidence thus far is not sufficient to sustain the supposition, which is based on loose reasoning rather than on facts. The percentage of soluble albumi noids is regular and materially increased. But, says Prof. Babcock, " nothing has thus far been done to show the action of the atmosphere, or even of rennet, when other agents have been excluded, after the work of coagulating the milk is competed, in the experiments described in the following pages, to determine some of the effects which these produce on the fat and casein of cheese." For this purpose, cheese was placed in air-tight receivers and the air analyzed from time to time. In every case the oxygen rapidly disappeared, even when an excess of oxygen was added, while large quantities of carbonic acid gas. were set free. To test, whether oxygen is an essential element in the curing process, portions of curd were prepared, some of which were freely exposed to its action, while others were : entirely excluded from it. . The results of the experiments go to show that little or no . flavor is developed in the absence of oxygen. Many cases were found in which the casein was well ' broken down without having any flavor. "It was never developed where oxygen wag excluded." On the contrary (says Prof. B.), "cheese of good flavor is often found in which the casein is hard and insoluble." In conclusion, Prof. Babcock says: ...- "The high flavors peculiar to the best factory cheese are only developed in a warm, airy place. .. A caring room should not, however, be kept so dry that the cheese will lose its water very rapidly, as in this case, although a high flavor may be obtained, the casein will not be thoroughly broken down, and the cheese will be hard and indigestible. The J breaking down of the casein appears to be caused 'by some >. agent contained in - the . rennet, which . in many . particu lars ' resembles an organized ferment, that acts very slowly when the amount of water present in the cheese is le-*« than the casein,' and stops its action entirely when' the casein is in large excess. A good illustration of the fact that cheese will not cure when deprived of a large part of its water is furnished by the formation of the rind, this being com-' posed of a thin layer of casein which haa par tially dried before the curing has made much progress. A rind will not form on a cheese kept in a moist atmosphere, nor on the cut surface of a cured cheese. 1 I believe that lack of wa ter is the chief reason why cheese made from skimmed milk is so difficult to cure. C Analy ses show that, although the percentage of wa ter is usually high in such cheese, the ratio of water to casein is much lees. than in cheese made from whole milk." ,- . PARISIAN PECULIARITIES. ■ •;■■ -■-.•, : .- >■-'•■< . ..>.--.-. ■ ] £CEt:E3 CN THE OPINING \ DAY AT THE 1 LOUVRE. V < ■ ■ - ■ ■ . i Some Insids Dramatic History Concerning- ; Plays and authors— A Kew ' : Melodrama, ' - : Paris, October IS, ISSO. More and more do the "opening days" of the large dry goods stores of Paris be come an important event to the coquettish Parisienne. A short time ago the fact of an " opening day " to take place at a stated time was announced by placards attached to the buildings themselves ; but little at tention was paid to. these posters, and crowds came and went according to their urgent needs. But since the four or five great rival stores have extensively adver tised that on that clay the price* of the articles would be diminished, the ladies have found it convenient to attend to their wants on that occasion. Now the "open ing day" takes place j at all these large stores at the same time, and the amount of exercise a searcher of advantageous bar gains gives herself in rushing through the day from one store to another may possibly be imagined. The " opening day " for the exhibition of winter goods and fall fashions took place on Monday last, the 11th, and no one outside of Paris can realize the state of excitement of the fair buyers on that occasion. • THE LOUVRE Had advertised in all the daily papers that on that day all persons who would pur chase, Eot as heretofore for the sum of twenty-five francs, but an object howso ever minim, would receive as a present a handsome chromo. Smaller . establish ments, in order to compete with this great attraction, and not altogether lose their custom, announced that to each buyer there would be given a surprise— a small box containing some object of slight value. The Bon- March?, less given to charlatanism, merely advertked that on the 11th would take place their " opening day," when all winter and fall articles would be much reduced in price. The desire to get some thing for nothing, is wonderfully strong all over the world, or else flattered by the idea of being the recipient of a present from the corporation of the Louvre, a3 early as 8 o'clock in the ■ morning a battalion of women stood before the doors of the large magasm ready to lay siege to it if necessary. The early and first besiegers were of a particular class, j composed for the most part of shop girls on their way to work, of women employed in various establishments, and frugal, eco nomical house- wives who constantly dream of bargains. The clerks were taking their early breakfast and the impatient grumb lings of the buyers who found no one to wait on them produced a hum throughout j the building as of enraged bees. At about 10 o'clock the bourgeoise appeared accom panied by her daughters, and considering she had accomplished a tour de force in having been able to dress herself, breakfast ! and be ready to begin a shopping expedi tion so early in the day. Ten o'clock fur Paris shopping is considered so early an ; hour that those who arrived at that time were exceedingly astonished to find the j citadel occupied and slight chances of their obtaining any of the spoils. Those who came did not seem disposed to go away and the crowd grew. denser and denser. In the afternoon the elegants arrived, ! probably not so much in search of a , present from the Messieurs of the Louvre as to hastily possess them selves of the nouveautei of the season. They continued to come until circulation i in the interior became impossible, and the ! policemen on the sidewalk stopped all those who would enter until the same number came out. As each object was bought and paid for, the cashier handed to the buyer a small ticket varying in size and color, ac cording to the object purchased. One had then to mount the handsomely-carpeted stairs and pass along a corridor, when he i came across the various inspectors, to the number of twenty or thirty, in dress coats and white cravats, all STATIONED IN A ROW, And seemingly amused as they scanned the faces of the persons who passed before them. They indicated to the buyer by a motion of the hand where he should apply for his present, according to the ticket in his hand. Those who purchased for over twenty-five francs received a chromo of im mense size, all of the same subject — une heure MB" representing a very pretty young woman in a , boat, surrounded by swans, and framed in the green foliage of the bank. The picture is very pret ty, and remarkable in design and color, something entirely unexpected, as gifts usually of that kind are of little if any value. These pictures will of course ba framed and hung on the j walls of the customers of the Louvre in ; commemoration of the generosity of its \ owners. Every one who purchased any thing was given a chromo, varying in siza according to the amount of money ex panded, but as to whether they also were une ln-urt mr hi lac or as to what composed the subject I was not able to learn. The anxiety of the buyers to obtain their prize before they should be exhausted caused them to push and squeeze through the crowd with a strength scarcely consistent with the reputation of the weaker sex, and in a manner suggestive of little dignity. j It was impossible for those who wished to j buy a certain article to approach the coun- ' ter on which it was exposed, and in the crush and squeeze bolts of satin, silks and velvets were thrown down and trampled under foot ; the stairway became bo densely crowded that j voices screamed it was giving away, when several women fainted and a fearful panic ensued ; other I women climbed up on the counters, scrambling over dress goods and fancy articles, : and one, trampling under feet laces, feathers and flowers, screamed from j the window to the gendarmes to come anil , draw her out. .The confusion and pania j was .' . SOMETHING TERTUBLE, And it is a question as to whether the own ers of the Louvre were politic in thus drawing together such an immense crowd. I know some American ladies who went there for the purpose of making important purchases, such as satin dress goods and so on, and would not have chosen that day were it not that their time in Paris is lim ited, but they left j without buying any thing, glad to have escaped from the con fused mass |of human beings with Bound limbs. At the Bon Marche there was also a great crowd, but circulation wai possible, and the customers seemed to be those whose bank accounts were solid and their purchases serious. ■ One thing ; agreeable about the Bon Marche : the clerks, women and men, are of a superior class, intelli gent, : patient and polite, . and then they have pretentions to good morals, which is not the case with the Louvre, whose moral atmosphere ■is entirely different. 'p Forty thousand chromos were given; out in one day by the Louvre. ' .- * >. : .s. i: I Although the \ majority of '■: the theaters have reopened this fall with new i pieces there has been nothing very 'startling or important, as well-known | names jin dra matic literature do ? not \ make * their v ap pearance until late in the season.' Recently a three-act comedy by Messrs. Gondinet and Margaliers $ was -, represented at - the Vaudeville. The first representation is al ways a great gala night for . the literati of Paris, to whom tickets ' are : sent as invita tions, and lon J this occasion , the j name of Gondinet \ had | excited • the curiosity of a great number ' of his admirers. - .. Mr. ' Gon dinet is a writer of a great deal of talent, whose genre is eminently Parisien ; he con fines his ■ efforts entirely to ' comedy, and the criticisms of his ' contemporaries are good-humored and witty, i- Lately the name of Mr. Gondinet is seldom seen unaccom panied by that of another author unknown to the public; in fact having for con.c time ceased to compose original comedies on hi» own responsibility, owing to age, mental sterlity or other causes, he has instituted himself special guardian of the Vaudeville and Gymnase Theaters, that no young au thor can, without the greatest difficulty, enter, unless Mr. Gondintst opens the door to him, "'.'■-. Unknown authors who .:•,;■ [, \ . BEG FOB A HfiARIXG : Carry their . manuscripts to . the distin guished comedien, who flourishes his pen throughout, a touch here and a touch there, and placing his name first in great letters carries it to the manager, and after wards divides the profits with the original authors. Such was the case with regard to "Jonathan," a comedy ; containing an American character very well drawn, and which has proved one of the greatest suc cesses of the Gymnase Theater for years ; it was the first ttfort of two young authors who found the door of the theater barri caded by the body of Mr. Gondinet, ant) appealing to him, he added a few words here and there, accepted a third of the profits and monopolized the lion's share 01 the honors, f The last piece is called " Lib grands enfants," and treats of divorce, but whether in favor or against it is difficult to discover ; the characters, however light and unstable, are rendered interesting by the clever manner in which they are _ brought in contact, and the amount, of wit which pervades the entire play. A NEW MELODRAMA, By Messrs. Dennery and Bresil, made its first appearance at the Ambigu Theater night before last. Mr. Dennery occupies the same position in melodrama as Mr. Gondinet in comedy ; his name also seldom now appears without being ac companied with that of some : un known young author,' but unfortunately for this last, his name is always more diffi cult to retain th*.n that of the known dramatist. Mr. Dennery is well known throughout America, a.* he is one of the authors of "Les Exiles," as well as other not less interesting dramas. This last piece is peculiar, and requites a greater tax on the imagination and good faith of the audience than is generally the case in melodrama. The events pass under the reign of Louis XVI. an Officer of the marine is not pres ent at his post during a battle on the Astree, attacked by a flotilla of pirates in the Indies. No trace of his absence, he | supposes, could remain after this disaster. j Armand de Maillepre reaches France, where he again see 3 his father and mother, who believed him engulfed with his brother in arms, and it is they who are to judge of ; his conduct. Ho went on land the even < ing before the unexpected attack upon his vessel, authorized by his commander to re main there until the following morning. In the night a great fire lighted by the re bellious slaves spread over the dwelling of the Baron d'Armagny, whose daughter he loved; he hastened to the field jof , disaster and succeeded in saving I the fair Henrietta. But, in the mean time, I some one stole his horse, and in order to return he was obliged to surmount a thou- Band obstacles placed in his way. When !at last he arrived at the shore there was ! no longer any bark, the Astree was far out '■ in the sea where they were already fight ! ing. He sprang into the water to swim, but the tea threw' him back inanimate on i the sand, and when he came to the Astree had disappeared. THIS LOYAL SOLDIER, Who feared to have forfeited his honor, needed the acquittal of his parents ; tie | Count de Maillepre opened his arms to him, the child whom he thought lost was found, the officer who judged himself a deserter was absolved, and he could be j come the husband of her whom he had | saved and who also had returned to France. | In the midot of this happiness scarcely got glimpse of, there rose up under a false name a rather mysterious creature who had also arrived from India, and whom they had received generously and rather too i easly in the midst of the family. This i Diana is none other than the daughter of ; a Portuguese, chief of the pirates who mi i fested the coast of India, and whom Mr. De Maillepre had had brand led and whipped in the pnblio "place." This , Carbaeena had since died, leaving only this daughter, who in herited the savage instincts of her father. She did not enter this family but for the purpose of avenging the death of her father. ! The ship's book of the Astiee had fallen into her power, and on this book the cap tain had stated the absence of Armand de Maillepre and dishonored his desertion. To make of the daughter of the condemned Carbacena the daughter-in-law of the Judge Maillepre by marrying his son is the bar gain which she tranquilly proposes to Armand to destroy this accusing page. The Count offers Diana his entire fortune in exchange for this leaf, which would be in the eyes of the Council of War the death warrant of the officer, signed by his own commander. Diana . refuses, and if the next day she is not Armand's wife she will i place the accusing proof in the hands oi I the "Criminel" Lieutenant, who will the better do his duty since he aspires to the hand of Henriette d'Armagny, promised to the officer. In the middle of the night Armand wanders across the garden of the chateau, near the pavilion which overlooks a deep ravine, and which is occupied by Diana. Suddenly a fearful : specta ■ cle . . rises up before . . his eyes ; . he sees his . father enter the Creole's room and strike her with his sword, then raising the inanimate body of Diana, jhe precipitates it into the ravine, and j moves away with fixed eye and grave and ! flow step. Will this crime, which delivers them from a mortal enemy, remain forever unknown? No, daylight soon came, the victim groans and sighs, wh«-n she is heard and succored. They bring her before the family, her eyes already nearly closed by i death. She, however, finds sufficient force ! to rise up and point out to the " Criminel " j Lieutenant the author of the crime, who is no other than the Count, but Armand j throws him3elf before his father, and cries j out, "It is I ! ; lam the assassin I" Why i docs this guilty father then allow his inno j cent son to accuse himself? It is because he is ignorant of all that has passed. He went to sleep broken down with sorrow, and had seen in a nightmare the council of war condemn his son to death, and near the condemned, triumphant, that monster of a woman, his denunciator. He had seized his sword, and in his somnambulistic sleep had marched straight to Diana's pa i vilion and killed her. The father, uncon scious of his crime, believes his son to be guilty, and considers • him crazy ■ since •it is difficult for , them .to understand each other. At last they are withdrawn from this cruel predicament . by Mr. de Malesherbes who, descended ; from power, indulges in a botanical emollient on the grounds of Maillepre. ,He only knows, and he arrives in time to say so and arrange everything, that ] the Count is a somnam bulist, because he still bears on his hand a wound from a saber cut, which he received sometime before from . this i " dangerous sleep-walker. In this genre of drama, which has made the moat solid reputation of Mr. Dennery,' an improbability j of this kind lis j not rare, neither is it unusual thanks to the cleverness of him who risks — to see it accepted by the public. ; This trick of dramatic prestidigitation has again succeeded | once more. ;'• The sleeping-act, the preparation of the scene of the | som nambulist's crime, and the great ; talent of Lacressonniere, decided its success. ",'.." ■ : : Sarah Bernhardt left Paris for Havre on Friday last, and sailed yesterday (Sunday) for America. They say that she is accom panied : by two ' American > newspaper.' re porters, whose business it is to comment on all her movements and give i a descrip tion *of ? her slightest j acts — even •to the elevating of her eyebrows. : ! • Val. : M, The Queen of England,' in \ her \ excur sions, is very imprudent in regard to going out in bad weather. STREET AND STAGE. A STROLL ON MONIGOBISRY STREW AND WHAT ' WAS B£EH. Way Women Look Into. Certain Windows —An Aiternoon \ Concert — How ' to " Make Eyes"— ltc. ' • San Francisco, November 10, 18S0. . ■ , There are days when nothing seems; to happen/ and yet wLen you look back at them everything seems to have happened ; —lazy days, when you stroll about scarce caring I your direction, . when people glide by and events occur as in a wide-awake dream, and you look idly is out from a daze at it all. "Sir," the tongue says, " and madam, yes or no," and the sound appears to come from over yonder some where a mile away. Taking myself by the hand I have been about town lately, and yet all the time I half questioned if I were about at all, instead ot lying on a loungo in a : sunny room, . seeing in a tangle of dreams these every-day things which seemed to tak^ en a sleepy drunkenness and jollity as seen through my strained eyes. It was on a Wednesday afternoon and I turned into Montgomery street. The Masonic Temp'e with its statue of the homeless woman and child, the Tucker clock, the | Hibernian Bank, street cars, lines of people, a gamin at my eirle, thrust ing matches, pocket combs, neckties and pins at me, and a flower man at the left, cr^ss and spectacled, but dumb as to the pretty secrets of his trade— it all looked like one of Toby Rosenthal's many-figured paintings. A book store seemed to shadow forth in bright array liter ature dimly tempting in ghostly covers. "An Earnest Trifler," read one, and.it seemed I had heard somewhere of a young girl who had written it and sent it forth only in after- astonishment to fir.d the peo ple high in her temple of the f,0.1s reading it, admiring it, wondering who could have written it, and bo finally taking her by the hand and lifting her up as one of them. "A Fool's Errand" and "Bricks With out Straw" jostled marvelous tales written by our Walter Scott, and good-humored Mr. Pickwick, jolly as having just lunched, smiled broadly from a steel engraving. JUST OPPOSITE, A large frame of photographs exhibited pretty women with chins in draperies of lace or looking over bare shoulders, and prettier men in a high state of toilet. Far ther along long plate glass windows exhib ited reading rooms of hotels, with boarders challenging attention in tipped up chairs, their hetls on a level with their heads. A great, puffy, flabby man came by, looking like a porpoise, and behind him a neat and dandy little woman, with looping of cable cord on her dress. I wonder idly if they dream they see me, too. I notice every woman glances in the windows of men's furnishing goods. Do you guess why ? Because the dark cloths behind the plate glass combine to form a very fair mirror, and any woman can catch an idea of her own style in general and her effect upon the strange eye by this, as it were, window view. The current seemed to set hurriedly further on, and when I reached Piatt's Hall, I was caught by a circling eddy of skirts and drawn in. A man looked out of a little square window in a box-office, and his eye said, persuasively, " Four bits, you know ; but you can have a box for SO." In the same language 1 said I wouldn't have a box, and en tered. Somebody thrust me a programme, and a messenger-boy in white cotton gloves, which were meant for style — mile too big — wafted me toward a chair. The im passible woman, who always trips the light dance upon air in theater scenes was pres- j ent, with a lyre in her hand, and what seemed like an immense brass baud tilled the stage." I said to myself it must be j AN AFTEitNOON CoNOEKT. Portraits of Liszt aud Wagner, by Knnat-h, lillcil the proscenium boxes, and fiddle bowa rose like a young forest and queer - curled brass instruments rose and shone behind the footlights. Two elegantly-dressed ladies, with diamonds, talked German at my right, and I had the same tongue whisperiug in gutturals before and behind. 1 spoke to the lady on my left, and she could speak nothing but Ger man. How straDge to know only strange languages, and I wondered if perhaps we didn't all think in the same. However, I oifered my neighbor my opera-glass in En glish, but I think she looked through it in German, for she seemed very foreign in deed. How clumsy and out-of-the-world those people look who come to us out of the other continent, although they have lived so much nearer the altar of fashion than we. But watch them and see hoiv sprightly and graceful and stylish and trim they become as they grow gradual!}' Ame ricanized. 1 saw twenty music teachers, all foreigners, at that matinee, and the hand some but vain old gentleman whom I saw at the carnival flirting with six Tintern Abbey girls, two at a time. A handsome old man can be twice a3 wicked as a younger one v. ho has neither graj hairs nor experience. About half past 3 a great many school teachers came dropping in. A lovely yeong girl with blue ribbons and eyes to match »at with her head a little drooped listen ing half to the mu3ic and half to the gan tleman by her bide. She seemed to rind both pleasaat. Htr hair was brown, and done in braids looped in two at the b:>ck, with one braid across, aud a gold dagger thrust through. It was smooth, natural and gloEsy, and not many women now adays have giossy hair. It is usually roughened and made harsh, uneven, and perhaps cr>ar-:e by the severe regimen it undergoes. My programme. said Beeth oven, Wagner, .Meyerbeer, Wieniawski and Saint Saens, and I dreamily rose to the occasion. I wondered if the half hundred musicians play ing that grand march time as if they wero inspired and had their souls in the clouds, ever descended to sausage with garlic and beer. In the mean time EVERY FIDDLE COW Came down and went up together beauti fully, and by and by that young genius, Leopold Liehtenberp, came out. His had a great shock of hair, cut ala musician, and he was somewhat awkward, but his bow went over his violin strings just so softly and easily it made you think of a young girl dancing in silken shoes, and all the mea back of him who had geeined in spired a moment before watched his man ner so eagerly, and never took their eyis from his rigr:t hand. By and by there was » graud " poeme Byrnphonique,'' whatever that is, but it was grand, with such a rush of harmony now and then as made the hearer forget for a moment all elso. Isn't that what genius is?— to be able to trans port the hearer, the reader or the looker-on beyoad himself ? By and by we all went out slowly, and by some m^aus unaccount able the handsome old man had found out the lovely young girl with forget me not in her eyes and was helping her into a uarri age and the young man whispering in her ears was gone. IT WAS JJIOHT, When in the came still, indolent way I strolled into Baldwin's Theater, whose pre vailing red does benefit to every complex ion. Some vulgar people had a box. They were dressed in very bright and a very great deal of color ; they laughed and talked constantly, and not one of the party wore gloves. A young girl, the moet deliber ately made up person I ever saw, sat in the front row and made eyes at the house. Do you know how it's done ? She gat very far forward in her chair, wetting her lips fre quently and turning her glance over her shoulder at her companion, whom her po sition brought just back of her. She rolled herdarkeyes slightly upward and performed evolutions, a sort of little drill with them, now closing them slowly witli a melancholy droop, now opening them very wide and winking rapidly, which gives an appearance of brilliancy ; then half shutting them, as overpowered with langour, autl softly and slowly allowing them again to unclose. The whole maneuver is very ef fective, and is a dead set at "the house." My old Frenchman eat 'way back, aud my companion, an habitue of the theater in early (iavs, remarked : " Why, that old man waa ynunjf, gay and Btylish » hen I first saw him, and debonair as the most debonair young fellow litre. He always went to opera, and in my opera days I Lever failed to meet him when I went. He was a good critic, too, and a fair one now, I'll wariaut you." The play was "A Golden G.ime," a queer hojge-podge of in cident with nothing particular to recom me.nl itsjlf, aud serving to introduce two rrentlemen who have a perfect right to take the road with a play if they cuoobe, but we have tetter actors already with D 3 who have not yet looked higher than the support they fuvmeb So ably, Mr. Ken nedy, for iu«tance, supported then gentle men, aj>.d his quiet air of at home-ness on the stage, his perfect ease and hia mastery of the minor part intrusted him made him at once of equal interest with the stars. When he takes the character of a fop I was about to say he wears an appeariiice of the most natural idiocy I ever saw, but instead of saying so I'll tell you A C.OOD JOKE They used to have on Howard Taylor. Everybody knows Howard Taylor here — managed ".Snowflake," wrote "Pigenn," edited the Vallcjo Chronicle, and is talking of an Eastern trip with some original plajs. In an amateur entertainment, a long time ago, he represented the idiot witneF3 in the play ot thnt name. On his appearance a young miss who kr.ew him was delighted. " Law, ma !" she exchimed, "don't Mr. Taylor look natural? Why, I'd know l.im anywhere." Being lazily attracted by the wonderful newspaper advertisements (reader, go thou and advertise), I went in to see another new play on Monday night, this time at the Biishetreet Thea ter. It was blood and thunder, gallery di light, knives and pistols, improbable ro mance, virtue victorious, and health, wealth and happiness at the close for everybody but the villain, and he w *■ out and shot himself — in short it was old days rtlivivus. and I ftlt myself ye again as I looked and listened. We seen so much of the society drama lacea, its jewels, its high hf<- and its very distingue heroines, that it is positive en joyment to ait down to the old style of exaggerated fortune and misfortune again. By the way, in these traveling combina j tions did you ever notice how much better I in their line the men are than the women ? In thi3 "PhuMix" combination, now, ' there isn't a woman above medioc- I rity, while the men ure all good. I Did it ever strike you what a ghastly tiiing it must he to be a dra matic critic ? I cannot imagine going in to see a funny play or a tragedy, to take any interest in it whatever li it's business. Fancy going to the theater every night in the week — why, it's like partridge for steady diet. Criticism, however, nowa days, would not have been digaitied by that title in the tinifcs when criticism was criticism indeed. Just now it is a little light, frothy gossip, seived up with a sauce that has a tinge like the " kick " in champagne, but "'twill serve," Dr. Lord, who has spent nearly half a century amidst the romance of history— the queer, quaint little man, with ft voice iikea file, a gesture like Ralph Emerson'?, and language like Macauley's — has come and is almost cone. His lectures have given us an impetus toward A LITTLE SOLID RKADTS :, And for that the Lord be thanked. At Mrs. Wm. B. Carr's the other night he de livered his kcturs on Richelieu, and Mrs. .Murriner sang. Tickets, §2 50 — admit one. But it was "the cause, oh ! my eoul ! !I I believe it was to buy a new church car pet. I went in to a Scandinavian enter tainment the other nii;ht., given for the benefit of the Old Folks' Home. I spent »n odd sort of an evening. I met my man, who looked like a porpoise, and in his wide collar that night he looked like a great, gross, overfed woman in a iuff. The Scan dinavian language sounds like throwing rocks, it is so abrupt and jagged. The children were all out, some ot them asleep in corners, some held in laps and on shoul ders, but most wide awake and in the way. How foreigners do take to children to be sure. The German always h.is his at his Sunday picnic ; the Scotchman dresses his in the tartan aud carries them to his Cale donian ball, and the Irishwoman takes hers to the funerals. "If you pieaEe 'm, I'd like to take Mary to a funeral this afthernoon, " said a woman with a brogue to the school-teacherat noon. " She'B been ailing lately, and I'd loike her to be goiu' on the ride fur the counthry air." Fancy going to Lone Mountain for your health ! Kate Heath. PARIS NEWSPAPER WIT. X. is iii the habit of pa«,siDg every Sun day with his uncle in the country, whose heir he is. On Sunday last, while at din ner, the old gentleman haa an apoplectic tit and dies almost instantly. X. is desperate. " This is terrible," he cries ; " I had taken a return ticket, and it is only good for twenty-four hours ! " X., who has not been rich long, has one of the nobbiest of turnouts, but dees not manifest any desire to invite a friend to take a drive with him. "Whj the deuce do you put on so many airs?" asks a friend ; "you never ask me to get in." " My dear fellow, if there were two of ua in the carriage how on earth would people kuow to which of us it belonged ! " A gummy is on the point of marrying. His uncle proposes to make things agree able with a settlement of 200,000 francs ; the young man insists on having 400,000. '• Come, uncle, my dear uncle," says the young man, his voice trembling with deep feeling; "surely you wouldn't wish your nephew to be desiring your death for a miserable little 2C0,000 franca ! " In a German city, where a sentinel has been posted in front of the bank as usual, the corporal of the guard, on going round to relievo him, is astonhhed to tind him doing sentry-go in front of the Mont de Piete on the other side of the square. The sentry is asked why this 19 thus. "Great Moltke, Corporal," he answers, " there's nothing of mine in the bank, but my watcli is in the pawn Bhop. That's why I have mounted guard over it." When the Duke of Gramont was French Embassador to the Italian Court a lady of somewhat dubious reputation had herself presented to him, and wa3 received politely but with perceptible coolness. The visitor affected not to notice this, and expressed a hope that she might have the honor of be ing received by the Duchess. M. de Gra mont made no answer. " Mme. la Duchess, I hear is at home every Wednesday, per sisted the visitor. "O, my dear madame, said the Duke warmly, " people exaggerate so " A gentleman and lady are dining to gether at a restaurant, and a young man who is sitting facing them pays the lady the passing tribute of a etare so pronounced and prolonged that presently her escort loses his temper and remarks, haughtily : " Will you be good enough, sir, to inform me why you stare at this lady so persist ently?" "Because she is so charming, sir," replies the stranger, blandly; "and I should like to know what else you would do if you were in my place?" The lady lays her hand soothingly on her compan ion's sleeve : " Ssh. my dear ! Don t let us have a scece ! The gentleman is per fectly right ! " Do not, if a gentleman, leave the hat in the hall when making merely a formal call. If the call is extended into a visit, it may he set aside. Whether sitting or standing the hat may be gracefully held in the hand. THE QUIET HOUR. THE "TANGIER'S" ' PARADISE OF CHA RADES, EIIIGItfS, ETa ' v ij [Contributions to this department should be *d , dressed "^uiet Hour," Kkcciu>-1 Writs upon but one side or the sheet. I Accompany ail contributions with the answers, the true name, . and pogiomoo mlilreca. Contributor* will rtioeiv* . advice and assUt&nce, and ire pri»ileKOd to en; i in courteous criticism of the productions pub )isbed.l • Answers to October 3Ot!v 840. L L O B LOZAN BAN N 850. 1) DID DAVID DUE S B E D DISTANCED DISINFECTED DISINTERESTED 1 851. Constantinople. 852. Idiocy, Idol- eves. Deities, Arcuate-^ 553. ULAN S ESI A M () D U S i\l KBIT SABOT 854. Canton, canto, cant, can. 855. Honesty. New Tangles. SG3. Hour-glass, by Hattie Heath : Across— Extended ; birds; to lika; a child's name; a letter ; a plant; a mineral ; three homed ; a tuning-path. 1) wn-ln Amethyst : an exoluna tion meaning behold ; a writer for (^iic& Hour ; a river; riches ; classical name ; to teaae ; an abbre viation ;in Rscord-IJkion. Lower half— In Ame thyst ;an abbreviation ; a man's name ; a man's i.-.'ii! ■ ; a pile or trap; Anslo-Baxon for a went meaning vast, (Treat, >::<:.; a miueral ; (read upward) an abbreviation ; in i !:■> ko-i;,\:on. CectriUword — what we would like to own. 864. Square word, by H. E. P.: A boy's Mint- ; twenty pence ; an injury. 865. Square word, by Gospel Swamp : A starting-post ; a medlsj ; helps; not to win. SG6. Charade, for my old friend Trinity, by Utah : Ah me ! how memory loves to Drug The rosy hours of early sprinrr. When gaily bonnding from the whole, s I hied me to the village school. Bui siSWi *',"•' •>■>« done its won*, • •.•2e . mm<j up» ted io.*Gs !'%■>•< A»ce«* S'.ii^e l wsj "m, Mid teccauT* 1 6-.i»;..i. s- s ;v. E:::-/.-; b£;Moir£M*g?e*;; My nrsv .. ih Kury, bntSwj :□ Jit: ft, My aeiMind is in bdou', ' not iarmo^ My third is in you, but not m i 7., My fourth is in cakes, but not in pie , By fifth iB in where, but Dot m why. My whole is a email animal you Lave often seen-. BGB. Beheadings, by P. M. S. : Behead a kind of fence and leave the Mifnll«l port of a sharp tool ; again, and leava i Welsh word ; again, ami leave a command to cattle, ami curtail once and leave the same. Answers to Correspondents axil Correct Solutions. E. C. D.— 858, 859 (in part), 850. E. 0. D. says she regrets that H. H. misunder stood the spirit of her letter. She had not thought of charging our tauglera with intentional urikir.di:es9 toward Polly. She only thought they were quite forgetting her (Folly's) personality in their criticism of the awarding committee, and that the " bitterness" referred entirely to Polly's feelings. If she used the pronoun " they" in an offensive sense she withdraws it, as she meant only to save multiplication of words, and used "Quiet Hour" in the sense of "Tangien of the Quiet Hour." She adds: "From Hattie Heath's letter I shall cull only her words of kindness and praise, and with others spoken by my prized impersonal friends of the ' Q. H.,' lay them lovingly in the store-house of memory." A i« Trinity says the answers to 5 43 and 848 are very much out of his way of thinking. He answers 851, 553 (in part), 857, 858, SCO, SG2 (in part), 859 (wrong), 862 (right, but varied. ) RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. In several Ritualistic churches in Lon don, on a recent Sunday, the congregations were requested to pray for the repose of the soul of the Rev. C. P. Lowder, late vicar of St. Peter's, I iundon, who wa3 an extreme ritualist. The Christian at Work plunges into dog gerel as follows : '• There was a physician named li tlmm, Who wrote arose and poetry by tomua. ' J. Edwarda,' he Haiti, ' Lost his orthodox head : ' That mistaken physician natued Holmes." It ie proposed to erect a statue at Zurich, Switzerland, in honor of the reformer Zwingle. Eleven thousand dollars have already been subscribed, and it is sug gested that on the Ist of January, 18S4, the four hundredth anniversary of his birth, the statue be unveiled. '•; V A gift of $50,000 has been made to the fund for the Melbourne (Australia) Cathe dral. It is intended that the edifice shall be the grandest one in that part of the world, a?d one which will compare favor ably with the costliest churches in any Protestant country. The $50,000 vass con tributed by an anonymous giver. The Suffolk West Association (eastern Massachusetts) has decided that a positive belief in the endlessness of future punish ment is not absolutely neooaaar; for ad mission to the ranks of Congrc national ministers, and that each case mv._ be de cided not according to abstract principle?, . but according to its individual merits. ' The Christian at Wort. :' sugirw -. that Dean Stanley's projected visit to tb coun try is to gather statistics and oil ■: r in formation regarding the working of the Episcopal Church when dissociated from the State, which may be useful to Mr. Gladstone in the inevitable movement for • the disestablishment of ~ the Anglican Church now looming up. '■■■' The University of Cambridge, England, has issued the list of the divines who are to preach before it during the ensuing aca demical year. Singularly enough it docs not contain the name of the moat popular of all the preachers that ever occupied the - University pulpit Canon Farrar. This, it is said, is in consequence of hia discourses on the Eternal Hope. Denominational Divisions IS" SCOT land. — Professor A. JJalrnain li.uo ■ of ' Scotland gives the following brief explana tion of the denominational divisions in his own country : "The doctrine, of course, is the same ; they only differ in a few questions of church government. The Freo Church of Scotland admits the right of the State in molding certain forms ot church government, but has resisted the manner of interference. It has always held to the opinion that the State interferes too much with the liberty of private judement, and hence has separated from its dependence ■ and support. In its principles the Free Church of Scotland resembles very much the Presbyterian Church of America, which in its action and deliberations is entirely free from tho interference of the State. , The Established , Church of Scotland, of course, enjoys the full privileges of church protection. Tho . United . . Presbyterian Church of Scotland denies totally tho right 3 of any interference on tho part of the State with church government." Blood Poisosino.— Dr. Wilm3, the late distinguished and beloved German surgeon, came to his death by a pitiful road. Just m he completed an operation, his assistant accidentally : pricked him with "a needle ; under the thumb-nail. * Dr. Wiluis treated the tiny wound as all , surgeons know how to do— yet in attending afterward upon an other patient, a particle of poisonous mat ter found its way to the wound. About an hour later a tierce burning set in, and the experienced operator, who knew every phenomenon of the human organization so exactly, told his colleagues that blood poisoning had set in. His friends believed 6 that the means which he used had expelled the poison, hut Dr. Wilms himself was less sanguine. lie had just reached hk fifty- eighth year.