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Hall, Bp. in.; 381 West Madison street, hall, 3:30
p. m.; Ohio and Carpenter streets, Norwegian
Church. 3p. m.: Noble and Ohio street*. Temper
ance Church. 4p. m.; Green Street Tabernacle.
pr4ir Madison street, 4p. m.; 508 West Madison
street, Washingtonian Home, 7:30 p. m.; 271
Milwaukee avenue, hall In basement, 3 p. m.;
Peoria and Indiana streets, Norwegian Church, 3
p. tu.: Twenty-second street and Wabash avenue,
club-room, 4:30 n. ra.; 789 Cottage Grove avenue,
Union Temperance Hail, 4 p. m.
Monday evenine—97 South Desplalnes street,
Union Chapel: 420 Western avenue, near Polk
street, Bethany Chapel; 224 West Polkstrect, near
Hoisted; Lincoln street, near Twenty-second, M.
E. Church.
Tuesday evening—Thirty-fifth and South Dear
born ttreels, German church; 271 Milwaukee
avenue, hall in basement; 381 West Madison
street, temperance ball: Wabash avenue and
Twenty-second street, club-rooms.
Wcflhcsflay evening—Noble and Ohio streets,
temperance ’church; 87 Townsend street, near
Chicago avenue.
Thursday evening—Union Stock-Yards, temper
ance hall; Carpenter and Ohio rtrccla, Norwegian
Cnurch; Indiana avenue, near Twenty-nintn
street. Armory; Indiana and Lincoln streets,Tara
many Hall; 213 West Madison street, temperance
hall; Green street, Tabernacle, near Madison
Friday evening—Noble and Ohio streets, temper
ance clmrch. in the Holland UnKn»?c: JBl « «t
Madison street, temperance hall; Peoria and Indi
ana streets, Norwegian Church; Union street and
Canalport avenue, hall; Lake and Dcsplamcs
.streets. Bethel Home; 789 Cottage Grove avenue.
Union Temperance Hall.
* Saturday evening—Carpenter and Ohio streets,
Norwegian Church; 271 Milwaukee avenue, hall in
Dosemcnt.
LUTHERAN.
The Rev. Edmund Bclfour will preach at 11
a. m. and 7:30 p. m. In the English Evangelical
Church of the uoly Trinity, comer of Dearborn
avenac and Brie street. , .
—The Rev. J. D. Swerlnglians preaches moraine
and evening at Trinitv Church, comer of Snell
street and West Chicago avenne.
CUIUSTIAN.
The Rev. W. D. Owen will preach morning and
evening in the church corner of South Park avenue
and Thirty-third street. ' ,
—The Rev. G. W. Sweeney will preach morning
and evening in the First Church, comer of Indiana
avenne and Twenty-fifth street.
—The Rev. Ll*. Barnett, oflndiann, will preach
at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. at the church cor
ner Western avenue and Congress street.
—There will oc services this morning at the Sec
ond Church, comer Von Buren street and Camp
bell avenue, by Elder M. N. LonL
NEW JERUSALEM.
Tbc Rev. I*. P. Mercer will preach in Hershey
RalLat 11 a.m., on “The Necessity/or-audPrac
licai Tendency of the New Church Doctrine of the
1 uture Life. ”
UNIVERSiLIST.
The Rev. Snxnncr Ellis will preach m the morn
ins in the Church of the Redeemer, corner of
Vest Washington and Sangamon streets. In the
cvenm" Prof. Maimor lectorea on “The Song of
Solomon.” • _ „
—The Rev. Dr. Ryder will preach at St. Paul s
Church, on Michigan avenue, near Thirty-first
.street, morning and evening.
UNITARIAN.
The Rev. Brooke Ilcrford will preach moraine
and evening in the Church of the Messiah, comer
of Michigan avenue and Twenty-third Street-
Evening subject, repeated by request: “Man's
Part in Evolution.” , . • .
—The Ucv. James KayApplebee will preach at 4
p. m. in the Third Church, corner of Monroe and
Cafim streets, ou “Death in Adam, Life in
—The Rev. James Kay Applefccc will lecture at
Hooley'sTheatre at 7:30 p. m. on “The Sublimity
of Sclf-Kepresglou as illustrated by Enoch Ar
den.”
—The'Rev. James Kay Applebee will preach at
XI a. xn. at the Fourth Church, corner of Thirtieth
street and Praino avenue, on “ Religious Value of
the Evolution Theory. ”
—The Rev. Robert Collycr will preach at Unity
Church, on Dearborn avenue, in the morning cn.
“Serving God Gladly,” and in the evening on
“The Secret of the Keys.”
REFORMED EPISCOPAL.
The Rev. M. D. Church will preach in St. John's
Church, on Ellis avenue near Thirt y-seventli street,
iu the morning, on “The Sin of Korah Modern
ized, ” and in the evening ou “A Lesson from the
life cf Joshua.”
—The Rev. F. W. Adams will preach in St.
Matthews'' Church, comer of North Clark and
Centre streets, iu the morningon “ Soul Culture.”
' —Bishop Cheney will repeat by special request
this morning the sermon of last Sunday morning
on “Our Work and How to Do It,” Evening sub
ject: * 4 The Burden of the Scornful.”
—The Rev. J. A. Fisher will preach in the Church
of tbc Good Shepherd, comer of Jones and Homan
streets, at 3 p. m., on “Man, the Temple of
God.”
—3l l. R, H. Burke will preach in Grace Church,
comer of Royne aud Le Moyne streets, in the
morning on “The All-Important Question” and
in the evening on 4 4 The Decisive Answer.”
—Mr. C- JiL Gilbert will conduct services in
Emmanncl Church, comer of Twenty-eighth and
Hanover streets, at 7:30 p. m.
—The Rev. C. G. Trusdell will preach morning
and evening in St. Paul's Church, comer of Wash
ington and Carpenter streets.
CONGREGATIONAL.
The Rev. E. F. Williams will preach at the
Forty-seventh Street Cnorch at 10:45 a. m.
—The Rut. C. 11. Everest will preach at 10:30
a. to. and 7:30 n. in. in Plymouth Church,-be
tween Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets.
Evening subject: “Boldness Wins.”
—Prof. Hyde will preach morning and evening
in Union Park Church.
—The Rev. C. F. Williams will preach in Oak
land Church this morning.
—Tne Rev. G. H. Peeke will preach In the
Leavitt Street Church morning and evening.
Evening subject; “The Scriptural Idea of the
First Man.”
—The Rev. Arthur Little will bold sacramental
services in the morning and preach In the evening
in New England Church, comer of Delaware place
and Dearborn avenue.
METHODIST.
Sirs. J. F. Willing will, preach in Emmanncl
Church, comer of Harrison and Paulina streets, at
10:30a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning subject: “A
Christian Hero.” Evening subject: “Quenching
the Spirit.”
—The Rev. T. V. Marsh will preach momingand
evening at St. Paul’s Church, comer of Maxwell
street and Newberry avenue.
—The Rev. JE, M. Boring will preach morning
and evening in the State Street Cnorch.
—The Hev. Dr. Williamson will preach at the
Michigan Avenue Cfanrch, near Thirty-second
street, in the morning and evening. 3loraing sub
ject: “The Law of Christian Courtesy.” Even
ing subject: “Nineveh.”
—The Rev. T. P. Marsh will preach at 10:30 a.
m. in St. Paul’s Church, comer of Newberry and
Maxwell streets, on “Compensations.”
—The Rev. It. 13. Sheppard will preach in Grace
Chnrcb, comer of LaSalle and White streets, in
the morning on “In Memory of Christ,” and in
the evening on “Elijah.”
—The Rev. M. M. Parkburst will preach morning
and evening in the First Church, comer of Clark
and Washington streets. Morning subject:
“ Atonement. ” Evening subject: ‘ * Deborah. ”
—The Rev. S. McCbesucy will preach morning
and evening in Park-Avenue Church, coiner of
Robey street.
—The Rev. E. F. Crowcn preaches this morning
and the Rov. O. P. McCool this evening at the
Jackson-Street Church. corner of Oglesby.;
—Dr. Thomas prcacnes this morning and evening
at Centenary Churcn.
BAPTIST.
The Rev; N* P. Ravlin preaches morning and
evening at No. 381 West Madison street.
—The Ucv. J. W. Custis will preach in the
Michigan AvcnucChnrch,ncarTweniy-thira street,
at 10:30 a. m. and 7:43 p. m.
—The Rev. It De Baptiste will preach in Olivet
Church, Fourth avenue, near Taylor street, at 11
a. m. and 7:45 p. zn.
—The Rev. A. Owen will preach in Universi
ty Place Church, comer of Douglas place and
Ithodes avenue, at 10:30a.m. and 7:45 p. m.
—The Rev. Lewie Raymond will preach in the
South Ctmich, comer of Locke and Bonaparte
streets, at 11 a. m. and 7:45 p. m.
—The Rev. J, A. Henry will preach In the Dear
bomStrcet Church, corner of Thirty-sixth street,
at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
—The Iter. John Peddle will preach In the Second
Church, corner of Morgan and west Monroe streets,
at 10:30 a. in. and 7:45 p. m.
—The Rev. K. B. Hulbert, pastor, will preach
In me Fourth Church, corner of Washington and
Paulina streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. tn.
—The Rev. C. Perren will preach in Western
Avenue Church, corner of Warren avenne, at 10:30
a. ni. and 7:30 n. m.
—The Ilcv. E. K. Cressy will preach in the
Coventry Street Chinch, comer of Bloomingdale
read, at 10:30 a. m. ami 7:110 p. m.
—The Kev- C. E. llewitt will preach in the Cen
tennial Cnnrch. comer of Lincoln and JaCßsun
alrecls, atlOloO a. m. and 7:45 p. m.
—The Rev. R. P. Allison, pastor, trill preach in
the North Star Church, corner of Division and
Sedgwick streets, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. in.
—The Rev. J. T. Morgan, D. D., will preacn In
the Central Church, No. 290 Orchard street, near
Sophia, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p, m.
•—The Iter. J. C. Uaseihuhn will preach in the
First German Church, comer of Bickerdike and
Huronttreeu. at 10:30a. m. and7:3op. m.
—The Rev. L. -G. Clarke will preach in the
Twenty-fifth Street Church, near Wentworth ave
nue, at 7:30 p. m.
—The Rev, E. O. Taylor will preach in tbe Cen
tral Church, No. 290 Orchard street, morning and
evening. 7
—The Rev. U. W. Everts, D. D., will preach in
ihe * irst Baptist Church, corner of South Park
avenue and Thirty-first street, at 11 a. m„ and in
the evening at 7:30. The monthly lecture before
the \ oung People’s Association of the church will
nc given by Col. James Fairman, the distinguished
artist and lecturer. Subject: 4 ‘ The Complicity
of the State with \ ice in the Attempt to Legalize
and License It in this Country and in Europe. ”
CALENDAR FOR THE ‘WEEK,
EPISCOPAL.
Nov. 3—Twentieth Sunday after Trinity.
Nov. tv—Fast.
CATHOLIC.
Nov. 3—Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost,
Nov. 4—St. Charles Borromeo, B. C,: SS. Yltalia
and Agr-cola, MM. ’
Nov, s—Of the Octave of All Saints.
Nov. o—Of the Octave.
Nov. 7—Of the Octave.
Her. S—Octave of All Saints; The Four Coro
nati. MM.
Nov. 9—Dedication of St. John Lateran; Si
Theodore, M.
ROUND THE WORLD.
At the Universal Exposition in the
French Metropolis.
In the British Machinery and Agri
cultural -Implement Depart
ments.
Marked Improvement in the Construe
tion of Machinery, and the
Itcasou of It.
From Mexico to Buenos Ayres in an
Hour—Exhibits of the Petty
American Bepnhlics.
Antiquities and Curiosities—Architeetnral Won
ders—Ornithological and Entomological
Barrels—Gods and Guano.
Svtcial Correspondence oj The Tribune.
Paris, Oct. 14.— 1 t is always a more or less
thankless task that a journalist has before him
when he attempts to discourse on so heavy and
technical a subject as machinery to the general
public in the columns of a general news
oaper. He has to choose between the Scylia
of superficiality and the Charybdis of dull
ness; happy if be perish not, literally speaking.
But the most important point is that bis readers
should survive. Now, I take it, dullness is
far more unpardonable than the opposite
extreme. Of course it would be highly
gratifying to every one concerned If
both could be skillfully avoided;
but that seems difficult. However, we will sail
as dose to Scylia as we can, trusting to Provi
dence for our salvation.
Machinery of all sorts is very completely
represented in the two Immense galleries form
ing the sides of the Main Building in the
Champ de Mars, and, in the annexes,
GREAT BRITAIN AT LEAST
with a few more countries has succeeded in
obtaining space suflicient to house a respectable
show of the agricultural implements, steam
engines, plows, threshing-machines, rollers,
reapers, and what-not, to which she owes so im
portant a share of her wealth and material
prosperity. But, when the eye of the visitor
has familiarized itself with the bewilder
ing look of the mighty display of
mechanical inventions 'at the Exhibition (it
takes some time), it will be seen that there is
scarcely anything in it all so entirely new os to
have great interest to people who visited the
Centennial in 1576. What absolute novelty
there is must be sought for in the United States
section, —in the agricultural department chiefly,
though here, too, as I have had occasion to
observe In former letters, there is little new,
comparatively. One of the most complete and
fascinating features in the British galleries is
the exhibition of machinery relating to the
various processes of the cotton-manufacture.
The visitors seem never to weary of
watching it, although, doubtless, nine
out of every ten who stare at the beautifully
finished instruments which tbc patieut genius
of man has iuvented for the service of human
ity are utterly ignorant of the meaning of
gins and bobbins, and not impossibly as indif?'
ferent. With this portion of the British ex
hibit, however, it is unnecessary to busy you.
Steam engines of various classes are fully
represented.
THE LARGEST AND MOST CONSPICUOUS ENGINE
In the British gallery is that which moves most
of the machinery in the section. It is con
structed on the horizontal compound system,
suitable for working up to 300 indicated horse
power, with a boiler pressure of five atmos
pheres. The high-pressure cylinder has a box of
twenty inches, and the low a bore of thirty-four
inches. The engine is fitted with valves of the
plain fiat surface system, arranged so as to be
almost frictionless; and has an instantaneous
cut-off motion attached, regulated directly by
the governor, so as to allow of full boiler
pressure on the piston. The steam passages
between the face of the valves and the
cylinders, and between one cylinder and
another, will be seen to be reduced to
a minimum; a fact which is of consid
erable importance, as any engineer knows.
All the main line-shafts and counter-shafts in
the section are driven bv this engine, by means
of one enormous strap. The exhibitors—Messrs.
Galloway & Sons, of Manchester—show three
large boilcts, containing several improvements
introduced lately by the makers. More room is
now given for getting about the flues than
formerly, and the tubes are so arranged that the
whole of them arc made interchangeable, and
tbe u phalanxes ” square with the centre tube.
In looking at this engine, and indeed at most
of the machinery shown by Great Britain, no
body can fail to be struck by the exquisite nicety
with which tbe numerous parts of the complicated
invention have been made and fitted together.
This nicety—amounting nearly to mathematical
exactitude—is principally due to tbe adoption
of the machine-tool sjstcm of construction.
Where it has been introduced in its entirety,
tbe different parts of each structural skeleton
are shaped with a truth and accuracy that make
it easy to fit them one into the other exactly,
without adjustment, at the first trial.
Of machines for dressing and shaping stone
and working wood and metals, there is a fair
display; and H. R. Marsden, a Leeds engi-.
neer, exhibits
AN IMPROVED STONE-BREAKER,
with engine combined, fitted with a new patent
reversible jaw for making road-metal. 1
watched the working of this machine very care
fully for some time, the other day, and incline
to think the system sound, practicable, and hot
costly. The novelty of the movable jaw lies in
its being made with/acw insteadof in one piece.
The faces can be reversed when they get worn
down, and thus serve twice as long as in the or
dinary stone-breaking apparatus. Another ap
preciable advantage ia that the jaws, when
quite worn out, arc renlaceablc with compara
tively little casting. In the old system the
whole jaw had to be renewed.
Just outside the uely shed covering the
American agricultural exhibit ia a locomotive
steam crane, shown by Messrs. Appleby Bros.,
of Southwark (London), which has been used, by
the-by, on ibe spot, during the progress of the
exhibition works, its practical value has thus
been fully tested and proved. ; It is mounted
on a permanent way carriage, carrvlug a load of
over five tons. These cranes arc being a good
deal employed, and are gradually superseding
the band cranes hitherto used lor spechu
service or breakdown work.
Messrs. Appleby arc further represented by
several steam warehouse-lifts, and by an Im
proved pile-driver, constructed on principles ad
mitting of a lanrer number of blows being
struck per minute than could be obtained by
any other simile rope or chain system.
ANOTHER PROMINENT FEATURE
in the British section is the important exhibit
of Messrs. Aveliug & Porter, the well-known
inventors of the steam roller.: It is divided into
two parts. In'the machinery gallery proper
are two steam traction-engines and a
roller; while In the acrlcultural annex
they hold their own with lour
traction-engines and a steam reaper. A new
road-locomotive steam-engine, just patented by
this firm, is worthy of oarticular attention. The
driving-wheels, seven feet in diameter and six
teen inches wide, arc of wrought T iron, of a
new and specially strong section, with steel
diagonal plates,—the wheels being constructed
agreeably to the provisions of the new act regu
lating such matters. A winding drum, capable
of holding-100 yards of three-quarter-inch steel
wire rope, is Btted to the driving
axie when required. The compensating
gear-wheels are of large diameter, and made
from the best crnclole-cast steel. The Yorkshire
iron double-riveted boiler can be worked at a
pressure of 150 pounds; and the wbole-of the
crank-shaft and counter-shaft gearing is ar
ranged to work between, instead of in the usual
way, outside: while the wronght-iron brackets
and the By-wheel are fixed close to the crank
shaft bearings. By the new arrangement adopted
in Messrs. Avelmy & Porter’s machine, the
width of the engine is much lessened, and the
driving wheels are brought closer to the axle
bearings.
Messrs. Fowler & Sons—the great Leeds
firm—nave a small but remarkable exhibit of
traction and steam plowing engines in the
agricultural annex, the largest of which is a
sixtcen-horsc-power engine,'with several pe
culiarities of construction. Close at hand arc a
number of Messrs. Howard's splendid plows,
together with some reaping machines and a
patent stratg sheaf-binder, which Messrs.
Howard's agent is very chary of ahowihg to out
siders, as I believe I have mentioned in another
letter* The Invention !s‘ Ingenious; but
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE ; SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 3, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES.
the superiority of the American wire-binders
seems likely to make it practically of very little
Importance.
In wandering through the British galleries
you come upon several exhibits hardly classifi
able except under the heading of
“ODDS AND ENDS,”
some of them quite worth inspection. A Lon
don firm,—Messrs. William Smeaton & Sons,—
for instance, displays an admirable perfected
bath, which even Americans could hardly quar
rel with seriously. It is a combination of the
upright shower and the ordinary plunge-bath,
vltv solidlv made, and cased in neatly-polished
mahogany. There are five knobs or liaudles in
front. • "By pulling one you get
a shower; the next gives you a spray bath; the
third, a stream or douche; the fourth fills the
bath in the usual way; and the fifth lets the
water out. A “tarnation ’cute ” Yankee was
loitering about In the neighborhood of this ex
hibit the other day. After some hesitation, he
went up to Smcatbn’s agent, and remarked, in
the nleasantlv-defiaut tone peculiar to Yankee
patriots, “it’s a nice bath, but I guess we can
do better than that in America.” And then he
bought one. He might have done worse.
International Exhibitions ard wonderful
ANNIHILATOKS OP TIME AND SPACE.
Vou would have needed a irood many weeks
once to travel comfortably from Mexico to the
frontier of Patatronia. Now, without feeling a
moment’s fatigue,—without bcimr at the
trouble of making endless researches or con
sulting countless volumes,—you can get an ex
act and satisfying notion of a dozen Republics
in five times a dozen minutes.
I went down to the Champ do Mars
this morulng, armed with a heavy cata
logue, and bent ou a conscientious study
of the Italian section,—a great feature
in the Exhibition; buL as the old, well-worn
proverb reminds us, “Man proposes” only: the
rest is bevoud his control. It happened that
my road to Italy (such improbable things arc
possible in Paris) lay through South and Cen
tral America,—acircuitous route you may fancy,
though Inssureyouitls the very shortest cut from
the Porte Dupleix. Passing by a gaily-painted
railing, that inclosed, according to the official
placard, the exhibits of the Republic of Guate
mala, 1 was tempted to stray by the sight of
some brieht-hued humming-birds in a glass
case. I scarcely expected, when I entered the
tinv American court, that my first wandering
step would lead me thousands of miles, through
the Tropics,across mighty rivers and suow-eapped
mountains, through the relics of dead and gone
civilizations, to which ours arc childish; would
make me acquainted with lost religions and dis
carded sods, arts ancient and modem, extinct
races, the Old World and the New. And all in
ouo short hour. Strange,'incredible, but very
true 1
The Republic of Mexico is bounded on the
west bv the foreign machinery gallery, on the
east by'Guatemala, on the north by Denmark,
and on the south by Siam, Tunis, and Persia.
There, youthful newspaper-students, is a lesson
in geography, fresh from the Champ dc Mars,
for you. Mexico’s chief products (putting its
periodic revolutions aside for the while), are
idols, ancient pottery, cigars, vanilla, and silk
drapery.
OP THE IDOLS
a very complete collection is shown,—hideous
shapes of all sorts, the grotesque and rude es
says of infant and barbarous Art* Tiny stone
gods, of various sizes, but unvarying ugliness,—
fit things to frighten babes within meir cradles,
and j’ct oddiv resembling the very forms and
pictures children will produce so soon as their
tiny fingers will be able to hold pen or pen
cil f Most are represented sitting; per
haps it was easier to the simple artists
to give them that attitude. One, —the
most ambitious effort,—a stone image,
with a faint likeness to a man, semats solemnly
on his haunches, eternally motionless. The arms
are folded, and the eyes, roughly indicated on
his horrid countenance, arc dosed, as though,
like Baal, our god had forever ceased to con
cern himself with tbc affairs of his votaries, —a
perfect embodiment of the Divinity worshiped
in fear and trembling, doubtless, bv his human
creator. The craving for a religion must indeed
be deep-rooted in the heart o£ man if, rather
than be alone in -the universe around him,
he was fain to invent monsters like this stony
abortion, deaf, hateful, pitiless.
Near him lies another,—owl-eyed, armless,
legless, wholly terrible. One has fins as a fish;
another might be a man, though the bead Is a
dog’s. Hem is something less dreadful, —a
stone idol recalling those dumsv snow-men we
used to take delight in building up aud knock
ing down when we were boys. Look at this un
fortunate ! A fragment of a deity, with a trunk
and a head, a waist encircled modestly by
an artfully-disposed girdle, meant appar
ently to replace the traditional fig-leaf,
which had probably been abandoned
about his time by the ' fashionables
of the Heaven or Hell he sprang from. Oddest
of all. and not extremely repugnant, is a rude
sitting figure, with a liny head lost between
misshapen shoulders, arms akimbo, and legs
ridiculously, disproportionately gigantic.
The Mexicans have also sent over a number
of interesting specimens of pottery, ancient and
modern, —some mere grotesque, others (the
later examples) gaudy, meretricious, and
coarse. There are jugs, colored a dirtv
puce,* with gilt decorations representing leaves
and fishes; bowls and disbos of various
hues, from a staring vermilion to blue
and green. In no single case can you
see any sign that might lead you to say, 44 This
nation had some idea of beauty. 5 '
Rich iu interest as these things are to the an
tiquarian, most people turn from them with a
sigh of relief to a charming array of hcantifully
modcled wax figures, illustrating the different
types and costumes of Mexico. Every class of
Mexican society, wild and civilized, is repre
sented, —from the “noble savage” and his
copper-skinned squaw, to the street-venders of
vegetables, the water-carriers, the strolling
players, and the shop-keepers of the towns.
Great taste and skill have been displayed in
making these figures, aud they arc being much
admired.
We Europeans, in common, perhaps, with
many Yankees, arc accustomed to think of
Mexico as a land utterly barbarous, and given
up to adventurers. It is well that we should
remember, now and then, for mere truth’s sake,
that the country has statesmen, orators, think
ers, musicians, poets, architects, historians (and
astronomers even), just as more favored Re
publics. You may see a collection of their
portraits (cleverlydrawn in pencil) at the Champ
de Mars, which will set the doubt (If you have
any) at rest forever. Most of the distinguished
persons exhibited are—X trust—prophets in
their own country, for they are certainly
not out of it. That then© have been
great architects in Mexico, at* any rate, is plain
ly demonstrated by the water-color sketches of
A SCORE OF FINE CATHEDRALS,
shown in the same case as the portraits. Most
noteworthy arc the Cathedral of Mexico, im
mense, ponderous, classical; that of Guadala
jara reminding one faintly of Hindoo temples;
La Sautisima, with its leaning walls and towers,
its grand doorway and its quaintly-sculptured
front: Loreto, correctly classic; the mighty
mass of La Comtftnfa at Puebla; and the
odd, clumsy, rambling Soledad dc Daxaca.
The Spaniards must be thanked for
these, though, and for much good and
evil besides. Mexico also exhibits one glorious
piece of silken draperv, intended for a door-
hanging. It is worked with extraordinary fine
ness, and covered all over with fanciful designs
in the most irreproachable taste, counterfeiting
leaves, birds, and flowers, which are varied hero
and there by arabesques and vases, in soft har
monies of blue, yellow, green, white, and red.
Price (this always interests practical people)
only 30,000 francs. Given away, in fact.
More fascinating to me, and, 1 nm satisfied,
iriorc fascinating to naturalists, than the tine
exhibit of Mexico, is the small but beautiful
show of its neighbor,
GUATEMALA.
The humming-birds which first attracted me
were as naught to what was with them. I
found a thousand brilliant songsters (bv-the-bv,
though, they don't all sing, unhappily)*such as
one sees only in the favored Tropics,—creatures
so harmless and beautiful that it seems strange
any should be cruel enough to kill them, even
to gladden the eyes of distant Paris. The
green and gold Pharomacrus raocina, whose hues
excel in brilliancy the richest feathers of the
peacock; the dclicaie-tlntud Pionus senilis snix
(light-blue, white, and green on the breast, pink
just below the tail); and a long array
of tbe pretty Ictarldaa (each little victim a
study), vied with gorgeous parroquets, dazzling
to look upon, and more splendid than the
fairest flowers. Entomologists have not been
forgotten either. Those who love moths and
butterflies have specimens of the unsurpassable
JfcrpJto godarfi, whose wings gleam rainbow
tmte«L like refined mother-of-pearl, but with
a loveliness far moredclicate; and of the pretty
blue Jforpfio smaller, but as exquisitely
fashioned as the J ioruho godarti. Or they
can admire the gigantic—relatively speak
ing—Caligo cnrylocbus. For conchologists
there is a neatly-arranged collection of
mollusc, great and small. Antiquarians and
geologists will be pleased by a case of fossils
and relics of the Slone period,—flint arrow
heads, fragments of Idols and vases, and rem
nants of uncouth instruments used in the fish
ing and hunting pursuits of long dead and
buried savoges. Finally, for the soulless utili
tarian.-Cuatemala exhibits a careful assortment
of indigenous raw products, and specimens of
the dress worn by the natives.
£ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN EXHIBITS.
Civilization has still done little for the Re
public of Salvador, close by, and consequently
(according to Jean-Jocques) it should be a land
of comparative bliss; but it is not. Neither is
it interesting enough to detain the passing
visitor long,- unless he feel a special craving to
know all about metals, grain* and wood. These
are the only articles exhibited. „
Much the same could be said of Uruguay and
Nicaragua, though, to be sure, the first is worth
a visit, if only for the sake of two extraordinary
pictures contributed by an Uruguay artist. Ihe
painting is not the extraordinary part of them,
of course. The subject chosen for illustration,
however, is. It is actually the Battle of irai
algar!
The Argentine Republic occupies more space
than any other of the South-American States
exhibiting; out It has little to show except a.
poor attempt at artistic carved furniture, a bad
harmonium, and a model of the Lucnos Ayres
Penitentiary,—an cstablishmentthat looks w\pa
ble of stowing away about 20,000 criminals at
the least, and suggestive of gloomy doubts as to
the morality of the city. .... a
As to Peru, its exhibits arc of the simplest.
Guano in bottles, moreguano, and guano again ;
granite gods, more rudely hewn than the Mexi
can idols even; skins, and specimens of ancient
Peruvian pottery. This is all. “ Only this, and
nothing more.”' ' Harrt Meltzer.
“ A TOUEIST FEOMINJIAMY.”
BY BRET HARTE.
We first saw him from the deck of the Unser
Fritz, as that gallant steamer was preparing to
leave the port of New York for Plymouth,
Havre, and Hamburg. Perhaps it was that all
objects at that moment became indelibly im
pressed on the memory of the departing vov
ager,—perhaps it was that mere interrupting
trivialities always assume undue magnitude to
us when we are waiting for something really
important,— but I retain a vivid impression of
him as he appeared on the gangway in apparent
ly hopeless, yet, as it afterward appeared,
really triumphant, altercation with the German
speaking deck-hands and stewards. He was not
an heroic figure. Clad In a worn linen duster,
his arms filled with bags and parcels, he might
have been taken for a hackman carrying the
luggage of his fare. But ft was noticeable that,
although he calmly persisted in speaking En
llsh and ignoring the voluble German of his
antagonists, he in some rude fashion accom
plished his object, without losing bis temper or
increasing his temperature, while his for
eign enemy was crimson with rage
and perspiring with heat; and that
presently,' having violated a dozen of
the ship’s regulations, he took his place by the
side of a very pretty girl, apparently his supe
rior in station, who addressed him as “ father.”
As the great ship swung out into the stream he
was still a central figure on our deck, getting
into everybody’s way, addressing all with caual
familiarity, imperturbable to ailroutorsnub, but
always doggedly aud consistently adhering to
one purpose, however trivial or inadequate to
the means employed. “You’re sittiu* on
suthin’ o’ mine, Miss,” he began, for the third
or fourth time, to the elegant Miss Montmorris, •
who was revisiting Europe under high social
conditions. “ Jist rise uo while 1 get it—’twont
takcaminit.” Not only was that lady forced
to rise, but to make necessary* the rising -and
discomposing of the whole Montmorris party
who were congregated around her. The missing
“suthin* ” W’us uiscovcied to be a very old and
battered newspaper. “ It’s the Cincinnaty
ZVwcs,” he explained, as he quietly took it up,
oblivious to the indignant glances of the party.
“ It’s a little squoshed by your sittin’ on it, but
it’ll do to re-fer to. It’s got a letter
from Payrls, snowin’ the prices o’ them
tliar hotels aud rist’rants, and I al
lowed to my darter we might want it on the
other side. Thar’s one or two French names
tliar that rather gets me—mebbee your eyes is
stronger;” but here the entire Montmorris
party rustled away, leaving him with the paper
in one hand—the other pointing at the para
graph. Not at all discomfited, he glanced at
the vacant bench, took possession of it with his
hat, duster, and umbrella, disappeared, and
presently appeared again with bis daughter, a
lank-looking young man, and an angular elderly
female, and—go replaced the Moutmorrises.
When we were fairly at sea he was missed.
A pleasing belief that he had fallen overboard,
or had been left behind, was dissipated by his
appearance one morning, with his daughter on
one arm, aud the elderly female before alluded
toon the other. Tne Unser Fritz was rolling
heavily at the time, bat with his usual awkward
pertinacity, he insisted upon attempting to walk
toward the best part of the deck, as he always
did, as if it were a right and a duty. A lurch
brought him and his uncertain freight in con
tact .with the Montmorrlscs, there was a mo
ment of wild confusion, two or three scats were
emptied, and he was finally led away by the
steward, an obviously and obtrusively sick man.
But when lie had disappeared below it was no
ticed that he bad secured two excellent seats
for his female companions. Nobody dared to
disturb the cider, nobody cared to disturb the
younger,—who it mav be here recorded bad a
certain shy reserve which checked aught but the
simplest civilities from the male passengers.
A few days later it was discovered that be was
not an inmate of the first, but of the second
cabin; that the elderly female was not his wife,
os popularly supposed, but the room-mate of
his daughter iu tbc first cabin. These facts
made his various intrusions on the saloon deck
the more exasperating to the Montmorrises, yet
the more difficult to deal with. Eventually,
however, he had, as usual, his own way; no
place was sacred, or debarred bis slouched bat
and duster. They were turned out of tbc
engine room to reappear upon the bridge, they
were forbidden the forecastle to rise a ghostly
presence beside tne officer in bis solemn super
vision of the compass. They would have been
lashed to the rigging on their way to the main
top, but for the silent protest of his daughter’s
presence on the deck. -Most of his Interrupting
familiar conversation was addressed to the in
terdicted “ man at the wheel.”
Hitherto I baa contented myself with tne fas
cination of his presence from afarr-wiscly. per
haps, deeming it dangerous to a true pictur
esque!pcrspcctivc to alter my distance, and per
haps, like the best of us, I fear, preferring to
keep my own idea of him than to run the
risk of altering it by a closer acquaintance.
One dav when I was lounging by the
stern-rail, idly watching the dogged
ostentation of the screw, that had been steadily
intimating, after the fashion of screws, that it
was the only thing in the ship with a persistent
purpose, the ominous shadow of the slouched
hat and the trailing duster fell upon me. There
was nothing to do but accept it meekly. Indeed,
my theory of the man made me helpless.
“I didn’t know till yesterday who you be,”
he began deliberately, “ or I shouldn’t hev’ been
so unsocial. But I’ve allers told my darter that
iu permiskiss trav’lln’ a man oughter be kecrful
of who he meets. I’ve read some of your wrlt-
ins, —read ’em in a paper in Injianny, but L
never reckoned I’d meet ye. Things is queer,
and trav’lin’ brings all sorter people together.
My darter Loocze suspected ye from the first,
and she worried over it, and kinder put me up
to this.” ,
The most delicate flattery could not have
done more. To have been in the thought of
this reserved, gentle girl, who scarcely seemed
to notice even those who had paid her attention,
was
“ she put me up to it,” he continued calmly,
though she, herself, hez a kind o’ pre-judise
again you and your writing,—thinkln’ them sort
oMow down, and the folks talked about not in
her style,—and ye know that’s woman’s nater,
and she and Miss Montmomsa agree on that
point. But tbar’s a few friends with me round
yer cz would like to see ye.” He stepped aside,
and a dozen men appeared in .Indian file from
behind the round-house, and, with a solemnity
known only to the Anglo-Saxon nature, shook
my hand deliberately, and then dispersed them
selves in various serious attitudes against the
railings. They were honest, well-meaning
countrymen of mine, hut I could not recall a
single face.
There was a dead silence; the screw, however,
ostentatiously went on. “ You see what I told
you,” it said. “ This is all vaoidity and trifliucf.
I’m the only fellow here with a purpose. Whiz,
whiz, whiz; chug, chug, chug! ”
I was about to make some remark of a gener
al nature, when I was greatly relieved to ob
serve znycoinpanion’s Irieuds detach themselves
from the ratlines, and, with a slhrht bow and
another shake of the hand, severally retire, ap
parently as much relieved as myself. Mv com
panion, who Had in the meantime acted as if he
had discharged himself of a duty, said, “Thar
oilers must be some one to tend to this kind o ’
thine, or thar’s no sodablencss. 1 tooka deppy
tatiou into the cao’n’s room yesterday to make
some proppyeitions, and thar’a a minister of the
Gospel aboard ez oner oe spbke to afore next
Sunday, and I reckon it’s my duty, onless,” he
added with deliberate and formal politeness,
“youl’d prefer to do it—bein’ so to speak a pub
lic man.”
But the public man hastily deprecated any
interference with the speaker’s func
tions, and, to change the conversation,
remarked that he had heard that
there were a party of Cook’s tourists on board,
and—were not the preceding gentlemen of the
number? But the question caused the speaker
to lay aside his hat, take a comfortable position
on the deck, against the rail, and, drawing his
knees up under his chin, to begin as follows:
“Speaking o* Cook and Cook’s tourists, I’m
my own Cook! I reckon I calkilate and know
every cent that I’il spend ’twist Evansville,
Injianny, and Rome and .Naples, and everything
111 see.” He paused a moment, and, laying
his hand familiarly on my knee, said, “Bid I
ever tell ye how I kern to go abroad?”
As we had never spoken together before, it
was safe to reply that ho had not , He rubbed
his head softly with his hand, knitted bis iron
gray brows, and then said meditatively, ‘‘No!
It must hev been that bead-waiter. He sorter
favors you in the rausatache and gen’ral get-up.
I guess it war him I spoke to.”
1 thought It must have been.
“Well, then, this is the way It kem about. I
was siltin’ one night, about three months ago.
with my darter Looeze, —my wife bein’ dead
some four year—and I was reading to her out of
the paper anout the Exposition. She sez to me,
qulet-Hkc,—she’s a quiet sort o* gal, if von ever
uotissed her,—‘l should like to go that;’ I
looks at her,—lt was the first time sense her
mother died that that gal bad ever asked for
anything, or had, so to speak, a wish, it wasn’t
her wav. She took everything ez it kem, and,
durn niy skin, cf I ever could tell whether she
ever wanted it to kem in any other way. I never
told ye this afore, did I? ”
“No.” I said hastily. “Go on.”
He felt his knees for a moment, and then
drew a long breath. “Perhaps,” he began de
liberately, % *ye don’t know that I’m a poor
man. Seein me here among these rich folks,
goiu abroad to Farce with the best o’ them, and
Looeze thar—in the first cabin—a lady, cz sue is
—ye wouldn’t b’leeve it, but I’m poor! I am.
Well, sir, when that gal looks uo at mo and
sez that—l hadn’t but Sl2 in ray pocket and 1
ain’t the durned fool that 1 look—but suthin in
me—suthin, vou know, a way back in mo—sez,
Von shall! Loo-cy, you shall! and then I sez—
rcpcatlnit, and looking up right in her eyes—
‘You shall go, Loo-cy’—did }*ou ever look in
my gal’s eyes?”
I parried that somewhat direct question by
another, “ But the sl2—how did you increase
thatf ” ,
** I raised it to $250. I got odd jobs o’ work
here and there, overtime—l’m a machin
ist. I used to keep this yer over
work from Loo—saying I had to see men in
the evenin’ to get pints about Europe—and
mat —and getting a little money raised on my
llle-Insurance, I shoved her through. And here
wc is. Chipper and first-class—all through—
that is, Loo is!” „ ,
“But $250! And Home, and Naples, and re
turn? You can’t do it.”
lie looked at rac cunningly a moment.
“Han’t do it! I’ve done it!”
“ Done It?”
“Wall, about tne same, I reckon: I’ve
figgered it out. Flggcrs don’t lie. X ain’t no ,
Cook’s tourist; I* can see Cook and give
him pints. ItcllyouX’vo figgered it out to a
cent, and I’ve money to spare. Of coarse, i
don’t reckon to travel with Loo. She’ll go first
class. But I’ll be near her, if It’s In the steerage
of a ship, or in the baggage-car of a railroad. I
don’t need much in the way of gruo or clothes,
and now and then 1 kin pick up a job. Perhaps
you disremember that row X bad down in the
engine-room, when they chucked me out of It?”
I could not help looking at him with astonish
ment; there w;.s evidently only a pleasant
memorv in his mind. Yet 1 recalled that 1 had
felt Indignant for him and his daughter.
•* Well, that dam foul of a Dutchman, that
chicf-cugmeer, gives me st-job the other day.
And e£ X hadn’t just forced my way down there,
and talked sassy to him, and criticized . his
machccn, he’d hev never knowed u eccentric
from a wagon*wheel. Do you see the pint? ”
X thought I began to see it. But X could not
help asking what his daughter thought of his
traveling in this inferior way.
He laughed. “ When I was gettin up some
pints from them books of travel I read her a
proverb or saying outer one.o’ them, that * only
Princes and fools and Americans traveled first
class.’ You seel told heritdidu’tsay ‘women,’
for thev natcraily would ride first-class—and
Amerikan gals being Princesses, didn’t count.
Don’t you see?”
If I did not quite follow his logic, nor sec my
way clearly into his daughter’s acquiescence
through this speech, some light may oc thrown
upon It by his next utterance. I had risen with
some vague words of congratulation on his suc
cess, and was about to leave him, when be called
me back.
“Did I tell ye,” he said, cautiously looking
around, yet with a smile of stifled enjoyment tu
his face, “did 1 tell ye what that gal—my dar
ter—sed to me? No, 1 didn’t tell ye—nor no
ode else afore. Come here 1”
He made me draw down closely into the
shadow and secrecy of the round-house.
“ That uicht that I told my gal she could go
abroad, 1 sez to her quite clapper like and free,
1 1 say, Looey,’ sez I, ‘ye’ll bcjroin lor to marry
some o’ them Counts, or Dukes, or poten-tates',
I reckon, ana ye’ll leave the old man.’ And she
sez, sez she, lookin’ me squar in the eye—did ye
ever notiss that gal’s eye ?”
•* She has fine eyes,” I replied, captiously.
“ They is cz clean as a fresh milk-pan andez
bright.* Nothin* sticks let’em. £h?”
“ You are right.”
“ Well, she looks up at me this way,** here he
achieved a vile imitation of bis daughter’s modest
glance, not at all like her, “and, looking'at me,
she sez quietly, ‘That’s what I’m coin’ lor, and
to improve my mind.’ He I he! he! it’s a
fack! To marry a nobleman, and im-proye her
mind! Ha! Ha! Ha!”
The evident enjoyment that he took in this,
and tnc quiet ignoring of anything of a moral
quality in his daughter’s sentiments, or in his
confiding them to a stranger’s ear, again upset
all my theories. I may suy here that it is one of
the evidences of original character, that it is apt
to bailie all prognosis from a mere observer’s
standpoint. But I recalled it some months
after.
Wc parted in England, It is not necessary,
in this brief chronicle, to repeat the various
stories of “Uncle Joshua, * ? as the younger and
more frivolous of our passengers called him,
nor that two-thirds of the stories repeated were
utterly at variance with my estimate of the
roan, although I may add that 1 was also
doubtful ot the accuracy of my own esti
mate. But one quality was always
dominant —his restless, dogged pertinacity
and calm imperturbability ! c * He asked Miss
Moutmorris if she ‘‘minded’ slugin’ a little in
the second cabin to liven it up, and added, os
an inducement, that, they didn’t know good
music from bad,” said Jack Walker to me.
“ And when he mended the broken lock of my
trunk, he abtholutely propothed to me to athk
couthiu Grath if thee didn’t want a ‘kdoricr* to
travel with her to‘do mechanics,’ provided
thee would take charge of that dreadfully deaf
and-dumb daughter of bis. Wothu’t it funny?
Really he’tb one of your characters,” said the
youngest Miss Montmorris to me as we made
our adieu on the steamer.
lam afraid be was not, although he was good
enough afterwards to establish one or two ot
my theories regarding him. I was enabled to
assist him once in an altercation he had with a
cabman regarding the fare of his daughter,
the cabman retaining a distinct 1m-
prcssion that the father had also ridden in some
obscure way iu or upon the same cab—as he un
doubtedly had —and I grieve to say, foolishly. 1
heard that he had forced his way Into a certain*
great house in England, and that he was Igno
miniously rejected, but I also heard that ample
apologies had been made to a certain quiet,
modest daughter of his who was without on
the lawn, and. also that a certain Personage,
whom I approach, even in this vague way, with
a capital letter, bad graciously taken a fancy to
the poor child, and had invited her to a recep
tion.
But this is only hearsay evidence. So also is
the story which met me in Paris, that he bad
been up with his daughter in the captive bal
loon, and that at an elevation of several thou
sand feet from the earth he had made sonic re
marks upon the attaching-cablc aud the drum
on which the cable revolved, which not only
excited the interest of the passengers, but
attracted the attention of the authorities,
so that he was not only given a gratuitous
ascent afterwards, but was, lam told, offered
some gratuity. But 1 shall restrict this narra
tive to the few facts of which I was personally
cognizant in the career of this remarkable man.
I was at a certaincnicrtainmentgiven in Paris
by the heirs, executors, and assignees of an ad
mirable man, long since gathered to bis fathers
iu Perc la Chaise, but whose Shakspeare-llke
bust still looks calmly and benevolently down
on the riotous revelry of absurd wickedness of
which be was, when living, the patron saint.
The entertainment was of such a character that,
while the performers were chiefly women, a ma
jority of tnc spectators were men. The few ex
ceptions were foreigners, and among them I
quickly recognized my fair fellow-country
women, the Montmorrlscs. •* Don’t thay that
you’ve theen us here,” said the young
est Miss Montmorris. “for llh only
a lark. Ith awfully funny! And that
friend of yourth from Injianny ith herewith
hith daughter.” It did not take me long to
find my friend Uncle Joshua’s serious, practical,
unsympathetic face in the front row of tables
and'-benches. But Deside him, to my utter
consternation, was his shy and modest daughter.
In another "moment I was at his side. u I really
think— l am'"afraid —” I began in a whisper,
• that you have made a mistake. I don’t think
yon can be aware of. the character of this place.
xour daughter -42
M Kern here with Sliss Mootmorris. She’s
yer. It’s all right.” \
[ was at my wits’ end. 'Happily, at this mo
ment Mile. Kochcfort fronl the Orangeric skip
ped out in the quadrille immediately before us,
caught her light skirts in cither band, and exe
cuted a pas that lifted the hat v jf roin the eves of
some of the front spectators andyulled it down
over the eyes of others. The NMontmorrises
fluttered away with a haU-hystericaV ffiagle and
a half-confonnded escort. The modest-looking
Miss Loo, who had been staring
quite indifferently, suddenly stepped\forward,
took her father’s arm, and said
“ Come.” \
At this moment, a voice in English, bn'i un
mistakably belonging to the politest natlas iu
the world; rose from behind the girl, mimi.sk-
Ingly. u My God lit is shocking. Ibloosh! 10
dammit!” 1
loan instant he was in the bands of “Uncfe
Joshua,” and forced back clamorin': against the
railing, his hat smashed over nis foolish, furious
face, and half bis shirt and cravat in the old
man’s strong grip. Several students rushed to
the rescue of their compatriot, but one or two
Englishmen and half a dozen Americans had
managed In some mysterious way to hound into
the arena. I looked hurriedly for .Miss Louisa,
but she was gone. When we had extracted the
old man from the melee, I asked him where
she was.
*‘6h, I reckon she’s gone oil with Sir Arthur,
1 saw him here just as I pitched into that dam
fool.”
“Sir Arthur?”
u yes, an acquaintance o’ Loo’s.”
“She’s in my carriage, jnst outside,” Inter
rupted a handsome young fellow, with the
shoulders of a giant arid the blushes of a girl.
“It’s all over now, yon know. It was'rather a
foolish lark, yon corning here with her without
knowing—you know —anything about it, you
know. lJut this way—thank you. She’s wait
ing for you,” and in another instant he and the
old man had vanished.
Nor did 1 see him again until be stepped into
the railway carriage with me on his way to Liv
erpool. “ You see I’m trav’lm first class now,”
he said, “ but goin’ home I don’t mind a trifle
oxtry expense.” “Then you have made your
tourl” I asked, “and arc successful? ” “ Wall
yes, we saw Switzerland and Italy', and if I
hedu’t been short o’ time, we’d hev gone to
Egypt. Mebbco next winter I*ll run over again
to see Loo, and do it.” “Then your daughter
does not return with you?” 1 continued in
some astonishment. “Wall no—she’s visiting
some of Sir Arthur’s relatives in Kent. Sir
Arthur Is there—perhaps you recollect him ? ”
He paused a moment, looked cautiously
around, and, with the same enjoyment he had
shown on shipboard, said, “Do you remembdr
the joke 1 told you on Loo, when she was at
sea?”
“ i'es,”
“Well, don’t ye say anything about it now.
But dem my skin, if it'docsn’t look like coming
true.”
And it did.
THE GAME OF CHESS
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addressed to Tub Xiunc.vß. and Indorsed **Cbe.is."
CHESS DIRECTORY.
Chicago Chksa Cluu—No, 50 Dearborn street.
Chicago Chus* Association' -Hansen A Welch’s.
No. 150 Dearborn street, opposite Tuihv.vk Building.
Chess-players moot dally a* the Yreuiont House (Ex
change; uad Sherman House (Basement;.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Z. H. O.—The answer to 81. 1..8 takes K InEnlgmj
No. 110 la Q to Kt 3. _ 4,
PROBLEM NO. 152.
BT MB. W. A..BUINKMAN. GUANO RAPCD3, MICH.
Black.
\IM S III’ ■;
iia m wm
. m UP WM W.
« fm ip mk &
|L
iiH Wi .111
White.
White to ptav and mate In three moves.
10BLEM NO. 15a
SOLUTION TO PJ
White.
1.. to K Kts
2. .P to B 4 ch
3.. to K 7
4.. mates
2..8 to K 7ch
3.. to B 4
4.. mates
:nigma no. isa
] Black.
1.. Any move
SOLUTION TO E:
White. I
1.. to R 3
2.. Mates accordingly I
CHESS INTELLIGENCE.
An adjourned meeting of the C. C. A. will be held
on next Saturday evening. All members are requested
to attend, as Important business will come before the
Club.
Capt. Mackenzie Is projecting a Western trip, during
which he expects to visit Syracuse, Auburn, Rochester,
Buffalo. Cleveland, and Detroit, and perhaps Chicago.
Cincinnati, and Sc. Louis. Upon his return he expects
to go East as far os Boston. The exact date of his de
parture is not yet fixed, but he will probably start In
about ten days or two weeks. —Turf, 28/A.
Wc extract the following from the biographical notice
of Capt. Mackenzie in the Westminster Papers for Oc
tober: “The American chess champion is a scion of an
ancient Scottish family, and was burn near Aberdeen
on the 24tb of March, 1837. When about 20 years of
age he was gazetted to a commission In the Sixtieth
Rides, and, after serving some years with the colors In
India, made his first appearance in the chess arena In
that paradise of the soldier, the gay and festive City of
Dublin. At that time (i 860) the Dublin Chess Club
numbered among its members amateurs whose chess
force was second to none m the provinces. Sir John
Blundea und the Rev. Mr. Salmon had not then retired
from the practice of the game, and the Kev. Mr. Mac
donnell was rapidly developing the qualities which have
since placed him among the foremost players of our
time. Even against competitors such os these the
young Lieutenant displayed remarkable chess power, -
and the London Tournament of 1862 afforded him an
opportunity of pitting himself against tne greatest
master of the art then in the field, Herr Andcrasen.
lie entered the handicap tourney, receiving from the
Prussian champion the odds of pawn and move, and
from Messrs. Medley and Deacon the odds of the move
only. He won both games of Andcrssen, won two and
lost one with Mr. Medley, and won two and drew two
with Air. Deacon. Of the fourteen catncs he played in
this tourney ho won ten, drew two, aud lost two,—a
score that, it Is hardly necessary to any. secured the
first prize. In the course of the year 1862 he bad played
a series of shcnmatcncs with the Rev. Mr. Macdon
nell, tne gross score in which showed a majority in
favor of the latter,—seven games to four, we believe;
but in a match arranged between them, and com
menced In the December of that year. .Mackenzie car
ried the victory with a score of six games to three and
two draws.
* 4 In the year 1855 he settled In New York, and, be
coming a member of the Chess Club In that city, met
over the chess-board the best plavcrs In the States.
From that year his career is an uninterrupted scries of
victories, presenclngauch a record. Indeed, os no player
save Morphy can claim to have surpassed. Mr. Mac
kenzie’s victories In America were as follows:
“ i. Won the first prize in each of the annual tourna
ments of the New York Chess Club during the years
1*65, isfifl, I*o7, and IfeGS.
"2. Won five games to one draw In a match against
Mr. Kelchclm. of Philadelphia, In iB6O.
**3. Won seven games to two draws In a match
against Mr. Kelchclm, of Philadelphia. In ISO 7.
‘*4. Won the first prizes In two'tournamcmshcld in
the Cafe Ktiropa, New York, In the years I*6B and ions.
“5. Won the first prize In the Brooklyn Chess Club
tournament in the year IBoh.
“0. Won the first prize In.thc second American Chen
Congress (.Mr. Morphy was the winner la the flrat).hcld
at Cleveland In .December, I*7l.
•*7. Won the first prize In the Third American Chess
Congress, held at Chicago In the year XS7*.
“4. Won the ftrst prize In the Cafe International
Tournament, hold In New i'ork m the year 1476, the
other prize-winners being, second, Mr. Albcroiil;
third and fourth, a tie between Mr. 11. £. Bird and Mr.
Mason.
“Capt. Mackenzie's successes In Paris bare been so
recently chronicled in these pages, that it Is unneces
sary to recite them here. Suffice It to say that he de*
feuted the two principal prlze-bcnrcrs. and when,
through his accidental sort of draw with lierr Pltachel.
his score was tied with that of Mr. il. K. Bird, he
won the two deciding games, and carried oil the fourth
prize.”
SIMULTANEOUS CHESS.
The humorous side of chcas is often lost sight of.
Many persons who practice the same with silent gravity
arc unaware of Its possessing any joking tendencies,
and la their Ignorance they suffer loss. To a face
with loose, risible muscles one would think
a '‘simultaneous performance ” ought to be
a most trying spectacle. Charles Lamb would
have considered It a highly delectable
entertainment, and one can Imagine him afterwards
describing In stuttering accents tiow he had seen a seri
ous-looking gentleman walking solemnly up and down
a room for live mortal hours, doing nothing but moving
so many pieces of wood about on two dozen chequered
Ittards. Meanwhile the performer and his victims
would have no idea hut that they were taking part In an
Important trial of skill. Self-conscious gravity on the
one side and submissive silence on the other would he
the prevailing features of the occasion, But la these
irreverent days a different state of things obtains. The
walking gentleman often jests wildly on his beat, and
onou there arc heard bursts of mirth «s he administers
a waggish mate. Sometime*, however, the operator is
himself operated upon, and then the delight U great.
The following amusing chesslkin which came off during
one of the simultaneous performances at the City of
London Club Is on instance in point. The mishap oc
curred to a first-class English pla£C£ r . < wo
conceal for his feelings’ sake:'
ibet declined.)
Black (Mr. s. J. Stevens).
1..
2.. »
3.. toKr.
4.. to U 3
6.. takes P
6..
7.. to Bsu
M.. 8 takes Kt
(King’s Garni
White (Performer).
1.. to K 4
2..
3.. takes QP
4.. to Kts (Cb)
r»..P takes P
6.. to It 4
7. .1* takes P (ch)
8..
ft..lttakes B
10.. Kta
11.. R to B sq
12.. to B 2
f)..(2 to It s (ch)
lU. .(* takes KP
11. .Q takes Kt P (ch)
J2..11t0 Kt 5 (!!!)
Edison’s “Neuralgia.”
. Boston, /Jerald,
Sunday morning at 9 o’clock Mrs. Edison pre
sented the Professor with a new edition, bound
in baby clothes. The baby weighed twelve
pounds, and is said to have manifested remark
able indications of precocity from the moment
of birth. The boy kicked lustily when they
essayed to dress him, evidently preferring the
costume of Eden, and performed other antics
indicative of the intellcctnal indcnendence
which distinguished his inventive father. How
ever, that affair was managed after a two hours*
struggle, and the little fellow greeted bis
paternal ancestor in the daintiest mnslm, with
ruffles and fnrbclows, such as only a mother’s
fancy can imagine. The Professor began to
mend from that moment. Mrs. Edison suspects
that his improvement is due to the excogitation
of apian for introducing a battery into the
baby’s lungs, and making him cry by electricity.
or for lighting him by some such agenev tl
Professor disclaims anv such intention.'
veutive minds will always bear u little
lance. aarT efl*
Comraanlcatlonslotemlet! for Tub Osim}*-. »
should hi* Addressed to 0. D. OICVIS. p o t»
Chicago. 111. '
For Publisher's prlce-mt ot stlailnra wo-ti
game, address the Uranttht Editor. * va
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
J. D.—Solved.
F. J.—Solution received.
Merritt French—Both correct.
W. A. Booend—Price list mailed.
P. J. Hickey—Corrections appear.
C. L. Jewett—Subscription received.
U. D. Lyman—Problem at hand; win coaelv wn«
published. u T
J.^McCue— Tour method of solving problem Nan
S. S,—Both solution* correct. (2), ThoieMmM»i
problem* will be ever so welcome. Ksmessai
J. D. SconlJer—Price list sent bv mall. (2.) Ton
lutlon Is correct, o.) Books mailed In New VoflL
H. F. s. -Thanks for the Carnes. (2.) Howtheoo,
tal strain necessary to produce that pun will not b 5»
you the brain fever. •* n
David Millar—Thanks for the game. CM Bam*
Authors for Black’s third move gives 10—14, u-13. SJ
4—B. The 3— B move you suggest Is not given
A. S. Chapman—The opening* yon name in n*
largely treated Id any book. Some of ibe ahla rS
trlbutnrs to this column will very likely fomUh S 5
from time to time on the Switcher. Kelso. Denar rd
Alma games.
CONTRIBUTORS CRITICISMS.
Our correspondent. Mr. P. J. Hickey, says tbttlh.
R. E. Bowen has written him as follows: ”Ats»
more of your game No. :TM. 23— 1:6 for IS-**?dnn.
Wtlilaci Strickland Cross Book vor. 553. Also rats
at Bth move. 22—17 for 29 25 draws, n. Borland Ch
Book var. 691.” 1 overlooked both of these tlnvia
the time of writing. Mr. Bowen’s letter ataosedat
sd far as showing bow easy •• *tls for one to •rr." nJa
1 heard from him. 1 thought Game 274 wax oaJt»
-solid." Such Is life! ™.
The gold medal offered In the CUpvrr ProblemTw> ;
nament was won by Mr. J. D. Janvier, of Newcutia
Del.
During two days’play at Falkirk, Mr. Wrnie weatj
and drew 7: total. 50 games. He was to play next in
Posaiioork Institute.
Mr. Montgomery rather turned the tables on Mr.
Tamer hut week. Scorn Montgomery Toner A
drawn 7: total, 25 games.
Mr. John Dempster, of New York, visited Newark
recently, and played five games with Messrs. Symocda
and Hayward, of which the. New Yorker won four, ml
the Newark gentlemen only made one draw.
Black.
1.. to K 4
2..
3.. moves
A match of twenty games for £4O and the champion
ship of the West of Scotland was oiayed recently be
tween Mr. William Brydca, of Glasgow, and Mr. Rob
ert Sceeiu. of Rilblrnle. Mr. Steele resigned at the em
of the sixteenth game, the score staaillng-Bijdea, 5;
Steele, 0; and 11 games were drawn.
The Newark Call says: —lt sccmsrhcrels noendto
Mr. James Reed. He Is after Mr- Priest again, sad
from his letters we should judge that he Is anxious to
recover the laurels aud that be lost on the Jut
match with that lie cow oilers to play
Priest at Pittsburg a match for a stake of S3OO. tad
allow $25 for expenses. From a reliable source wears
informed- that the ’Delaware Boy’ will accept lha
terms and play somewhere about the holidays.”
If 1.. K takes P
2.. moves
3.. mores
SOLUTIONS.
aoLtmox to peoulxh 50. 89.
By W. K. Aoooct,
22—17 • 123—32 21—23 32-2?. 119-18 .
30— 17—14 115-19 ;18-19 White
31— 110—17 123—16 ’25-21 j vfeHL
solution to rosmox so. 83.
Between Sanders and Katford.
10-15 121-2 T.
18—14 J 29-22
GAME KO. 277-CROSS.
Br Sir. P. J. lllcKey, Dabuque, la.
11—15 19—15(a) 1 C-10 39-23 9-14
23—18 11—19 15—6 } 7—lo 25-21
B—ll 22—15 1 t—lo 28—21 (1) 18-25
27—23 12—16 ;32- 27 3 7 7—2
4 8 25—22 :jt»—ls '23-19 13-23
23—19 16—19 27—23(b) U*—l* -rj -
10—14 24—20 B—l 2 j 21—17— 17 2»-30
10-io 2-7 pn-itf 7-n -T-ii-"---
14—2:1 29—25 !12—19 19-18 Dr*fß.
26-19 9-13 |26—23 5-9
7-14 31—2 S 119-23 116- 7
115-24 I - [H—l3
123—19 [ 10—*15 [22—15 ilo-*?
Brava.
5- 9 13-8 I 7-10* 18-13 I WB.
is—24 123—19 ! 20—16 lie—ll I wtat
(a) Hefter says this loses, bat does It? .
(bj Corrects Hefter, lie plays 2672 a. and Black vta*
CAME n 6..
Bjt Charlie Bel
Reviewing the criticisms. made
•‘Bowen’s Authors.”
ll—ls ne—l7 | 1— 6
23—IS 114—18 30—2 G •
3- £4—2o «—II
27-23 2- 7 24—19
4 123 —24 115—24
23—19 j 9—13 123—19
10—14 '17—14 18—23
10-10 11-15 26-22
14—23 10—10 j 6—10(1)
26—10 6—15 '22—17
7—ll 132-28 13-22
(a) In Game No. 274. Hickey pi
man and allowing White to Arln.
(D ,
*7-10 1 3-10 16-0
14- 7 22-18(2) 125-22 1
25—13 10-17
10-17 21-U
21— 13—IT
7-10 14- y
14- 7 17—2
3—lo 0-*,,
29-25 23-28(1)
.V- y 6-2
25-21 2S-9J
•h-13 Drawn. •
1»-U Strictliot
ays 23-27, glWngUil
(23—26 {l3-2 ?
22- (1>) 118—15
Urawn—BonttJ
(b) Bicker gives 29-25 and loses. See r u. (3j«
Game No. 274.
>l—l7 1 * o | ovol 123“26 (c) 125" S(I
’ (c) Try 11—15 for a Black”win. B. wlna-Hlckcj.
(3)
22—18* 113—22 118—H* I 0-1 S
(•) This and note (c) correct Tor. (7) of Game No. 214
9 —14 (6) 18-19 7—16 10-17 :
18—11 21-JO 25-21 71-4 32-M
9 —15 7-11 2-7 «-»(=) i‘B- 3 '
22-17 27—24 27-23 22-I< (d) 25-
■l 9 5—9 1— 3 19-33 W -!_ 3 1
25-22 22-17 30-25 28-19 14-•
B—II8 —II 3-7 11-18 18-23
29-25 31-27 21-14 24-19 }J"S
11— 18 11-16 9—lß 15-24 _
17-13 20-11 17-14 28-19 1- j 3^-
(d) Shows how Hickey’s s-10 more could lute ICO
drawn. (Mr. Hickey also saw this later.)
(c) If 16—20.. 25—21 draws.
16-20 1 6-10 ; 23-32 27-23
32-27 (b) 26-22 (g) 19-12 «- 3
12- 19-21 32-27 23-26 .
22-17 |24-10 1 12-8 *- 8(1,)ll^a.
. (f) 23—17 drawn—Brown.
(g) 25—21 drawn—Bowen.
(h) Correcting my former play. nA te (It
Hickey's correction of var. CO Came
Is good, but one win Is sufficient. HU correct!
(5) Is by Janvier. Hls play on var. (4) can oen»«
easier by n-t— 2o ut ninth move.
(«) ~ ia
15-19 4-11 .12-13 110—17 »-«
24- 27-24 23-25 21-14 £%*
13-13 11-13 j 3— 3 1- 6
13-15 32 -27 24-20 22-17
3-14 3- 7 | 3-1.1 1 3-13 fcS
22-17 23-22 123-11 126-22(1) }7 {J,
7- 10-23 1 7-10 16-20 (7) 15 g" .
25- 30-23 . 31-23 21-24 £!
8- 14-11 2—7 7-11 ,
15— 3 23 —14 117—14 114— 7 Ulff’h
(1) A Tarmtloa from rellctlcr. _ ,
10-13 111-21 121-27 15-22 I*™"-,
27—24 |25—21 122-18 121— 6 JSSiBI,
In sending In corrections, I liope the critic
when they correct the author and ' VIC c -
As th’ unrestful tide that brings up to the'
Far from some broken ship out on the deep.
Fragments of the wrecked and shattered
Which fain the hungry waves of thcßcawooio
Bnt for the mighty winds that ever more,
With strong, wide wings, bring surely to tb«
The treasures scattered by Its own wbd hanu.
E’en so the wind of Somnoa, searching o er
Th’ uneasy undulations of the mind,
Unfts up whatever fragments it may und AeJ
Of broken thoughts, or hopes, where u
wrecked .
Boon the dim. sweet sea of Bctrospect,. _,
And bears them back to the dark, dead lana
—Land and Water.
Streams,
Where, lying strewn upon its shady shores.
They form the bright mosaic of onr dreams*
J Milton L. 3*“"*
Nevada Obituary.
rtrainiaiyet.) Enterprise.
At a dead-fall:
“Hello, Jim!”
“ How are you, Jerry—take sutbmj ,
“ Heard from yoar brother lately ■ ars
Bill, old plzenl” . Aw hft
“ Well, yes, not d’rectly. Yon know
in the boss and cattle business in lew-*
operations extended over a large. ihef
didn’t require much capital. One nigh*
took blm in. There were eight of em
end of the rope and Arsenic Bill at J tDC —-and,
He couldn’t keep his feet ncra
When they raised him be passed out ,
barkeeo’r. two whisky sours.” ‘ :
THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS.
CUKCKSIK-PLATBIU* DIRStftORr.
Atacnioam, No. 50 UftarDora street
PROBLEM NO. 90.
By J. M. Jenkins. DeKalb.HL
White,
liP lip illlp 's%s■'
ijjii.
wm Wm Rl
Mg ■ g
Black.
Black to more and win.
POSITION NO. 9d
By B. fl. Bktajtp, Wavcrly, la.
Black men on I. 4. 9, lu, *27; Klurs, 3, so *
White men on 13. is. 21, 22. IS. 31; Kina. 15 ,.
Black to more and win, ■ v
CHECKER CHATTER.
i 10—10 i 3-28 IBtaek
|23— 7 { I WIBI,-
•II (2)
•19
CROSS.
fter. , .
oo Ills corrections ot
DREAMS.