A MEMORY. BY FAUSTE I. K.ENKIBH. Through the twilight el oar and golden. Comes a memory sweet ami olden. Sweet, because an essence Ungers. All untouched by Time’s swift Ungers. f ike a casket which discloses L r 'ng forgotten, withered roses. i 'ld, because the chain is broken, I -eking ue to thoughts unspoken. Once we stood mid soft w inds sighing, As the summer day was dying; With the trees around ns swaying At our feet the water playing With the branches o’er ns meeting; There we stilled our heart's quick beating. For, as from some distant Aiden, -ime a voice with sorrow laden. Tt a moment teemed to quiver O'er the silver-tinted river. Soft as stare- from Heaven falling. O'er the river it seemed calling fcb.vet-f as dreams from Heaven stray ins, It is I," the voice seemed saying. At; I know was but dreaming Of the voice and water gleaming. Eut, the words so sweetly spoken, Of thee are a cacred token. Nevermore beside the river Will w©watch the waters quiver. Or the clear rays ot the morning. All to.- purpl hillt adorning. two sweet sister, in my dreaming, iherc I sc- the soft lights beaming And when sleep's s ft chain hath bound me, Then I feel tbv dear arms 'round me Tl night seems no longer lonelv, I hear thy footsteps only. And 1 wa t through darkness dr-ar,. Though ray heart Is all aweary. Till the angels, slow descending, Summon me to life u-'er eadiijg. THE COLEAF.SE IN WALL STREET. The K< a:> iitli.s; of fju Fuilurrs- \i have \uollur I!l;uk KrliJaj !_ln. uni me >f o' not even Looked at. From the X. Y. Sun, nth. Long before the opening of the Stock Exchange yesterday, groups of brokers were assembled in Broad and Wall streets, eagerly discussing the situation. 1 hold one hundred and fifty shares of Lakt Shore, gentlemen, 1 said a heavy blonde with auburn whiskers and i will hold it if nothing is left of Chicago luit the sewers.” No reply was heard, but the portal of the Steel; Exchange was raised, and the Sun reporter was swept in with the crowd. Lake Shore, Northwestern, fcommon and preferred) and Western iron were simultaneously offered by thirty different voice:;. A thousand shares put Northwestern preferred on the market at 02. It stood at 90$ on 'i uesday. Luke, shore, from 106$, was disposed of at 93, and 200 shares ol the WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH wore sold at 55 7-8. The blonde man with the auburn whiskers soon became infected with the excitement, and dis posed of his Lake Shore. Since the day when so many unwary capitalistn were- wrecked an Hock island heals, there has been no nearer ap proach to a panic than yesterday. All Western stocks, were affected, and there was a general rush to sell at any sacrifice. Home of the brokers, in the frenzy caused by their losses,actually swore at Heaven for inflicting the Chicago ca lamity, and one expressed a hope that ‘the whole d—d creation would burn now, for he hadn't a thing left to lose.” Toward noon it became evident that tin-affected stocks were not likely to rally much during the day, and that soiin body would have to give in. Hankers and brokers rushed hither and thither, trying to sell Lake Shore, Wa bash and Northwestern at something ine, bat tl buyej 1 heir necessity and the quotations con tinued total!. line insurance stock war, iUered on the stri ct, but every body said, None forme.” At no n THE FAILURES WERE ANNOUNCED 1 L.iinbloh -V 0., 22 N w street, bank and 1 1 Min e, broker, i Anthony V. 1) Van i£i PI warty of Mi Van Dyck’s creditors l urried to his otfic*, followed by a Huu t> ri A the latter entered, one of Mr. m Dyck's friends was standing v stemmy ki g 1" c how much per cent, he, intended to P>- Mr. >an Dyck said he wanted the h‘ t 1 understand through the Sun f :l e h and id through the rascality ot a per-on for whom he had pur chased LIND shares cf lake shi re I'D, and Ton Northwestern preferred the purchaser having m conse •T' oe tue general panic repudiated the contract. Mr. Camolos, who was President of Mt" Gh. -urd, told the reporter that h had rent in his resignation. Mr. -Mu; rcc said he had nothing to sav. Ihe Stock Exchange continued throughout the alternoou the scene of indescribable excitement, and when the U or w lowered at half-past five i- and lillc 1 the streets, thinking and talking of the morrow. It was the generally expressed opinion that the worst had not yet come, and that so far M extern stocks were concerned the bottom of the market would fall out. Heitor Imagined than described. Iho reelings of a near-sighted man, who finds he has kissed his hand to the wrong lady. The finding your pocket-book gone lin t as you are about leaving a strange iiotel, with no time to spare to reach the cars. 1 he rapidity with which fancy stocks decline, when you go in, and rise when yon sell out. i he si nsation from a lady's boot beel (present style) when siie stepson veur loot accidentally. Fhe prices charged at som >f the hotels on “the European style." Hie skill with which the “gentleman bai-;our life. ihe amount of vour cas and olumb ug bills. Ihe being asked by a person at an ouing party, with whom you arc ac quainted, but whose name yon cannot recollect, to introduce him to your friend. Miss Smuggius, who is coining i >v. rdyou. lionto'i Comm- rcial Jivl‘ Ictin. 11. tv Thought. Mistress, who hade me down to see about the bass voice sue had heard in the kitchen— Guardsman discovered! “O, you de ceitful girl, to say there was nobody here And after I’d given yon to dis tinctly understand I didn’t allow fol lowers and here you haven't been here a week Cook —“Lauks, m'ro. it must be one of the folorers as Ilu last cook left be'ind her." Tm: Bridgeport, Conn. Cartridge C mipany has just shipped 250,000 car idg< to the Kussian government. THE RUIN OF CHICAGO. Half the City in Ashes. The Extent of the Fire -Scenes and Incidents--Times Building Destroyed—No Water, No Shelter The Wealthy Become Beggars—A Thrilling Account. From the hi ago Journal of Tuesday Evening, WHAT 13 HEFT. The only buildings left intact be tween the river and the lake and Madi son street are Hathaway’s coal office, one of the Buckingham elevators, on the lake shore, and the Land block, at the corner of Randolph and Market. Not a vestige of any wooden building is left in sight, and the walls of the mu iority of the buildings in the district described are leveled with the ground. In >me instances partition walls have not altogether fallen, but rear their pointed heads high above the surround ing ruins. THE STREETS The pavements are burnt, broken ami strewn with debris- not impassi ble, but dusty and smoky. MARKET STREET. The buildings recently erected at the corner of Madison street, and not fin ished, is a pile of brick and mortar. The old Transportation Company’s wooden shed no longer distresses the j sight on the dock—it is all burned up. On the opposite corner lies in ruins the old Garden City House, which the writer saw erected twenty years ago. j Thousands will remember the old hotel with pleasure, mingled with regret fol ks loss. RANDOLPH STREEt. Eddy’s horse market, near Market street, is leveled, and the debris emits the smell of burned horse-flesh. East, the great six-story wagon manufactory of Peter Schuttlcr, extending along Franklin street, was brought to the ground. Not a vestige of Peacock’s jewelry store remains. The great iron block on the north west corner of Wells and Randolph is a mass of broken columns, brick and mortar. This building made a wreck i>f the man who erected it, and is now itself a dismal wreck. Opposite lies that which was once the Metropolitan Hotel, around the memo ry of which lingers a history of un usual interest the means which built it having been stolen from the Jewelry store of Isaac Speer some eighteen years ago. On the other corner, where stood *he favorite old Briggs House, is au un shaped mas of material, little conson ant with the comfort, hospitality and mirth for which that old hostelry was ever famous. Bleak, smoked, hollow and desolate, upon the scene, near the walls of the Court House—scene of many a distress ing and exciting trial, of local legisla tion and public business. Not only have ttie roofs “buckled,’’ but the erg tire structure looms up troth Where we write n mined monument of departed greatness. The old fence remains,with the tessellated pavements, but the glory of the tribunals and the Council cham ber are things of the past. Across the street a heap of bricks, iron rods and shatter'd ornaments ot stone mark I ire grave of the Fidelity Safe Company’s magnificent structure and the stately Sherman House. Words are weak to express the air of desola tion that hovers around this corner, so recently brilliant with business and pleasure. The skull on t!>e banquet table could scarcely be more saddening to a reflective mind. Last week, high in ah, on the south east corner, stood Miller’s jewelry gtore. Wood’s Museum with its half n million curiosities, and nights of tragedy and comedy, graced the vicinity with its fair front, beneath the Colonel’s benign portrait; clothing for the million enticed the way farer to stop and buy, and vhiskey and stationery* orbiting and engraving, made this section of Ran o 1 pl l nli'eet a popular resort. This morning it is a desert. And so we could go on, down to the ke, calling up a hundred remiuisoon ofjold and cherished times and places. What memories cluster around the Matte son House, the old Garrett block, nation home of shrill voiced But ters. etc. Now the heart sickness as it sees the bitter end of all these things. LAKE STREET, From the bridge to Uh Selin sheet. Lake street wos built up on both sides "ith business blocks of brick and stone, remarkable more for their commodious ness and convenience than beauty. All are gone. The Board of Education rooms; bro kers’ offices the Northwestern Railway i ticket office; the United States anil American Express offices the. jewelry i stores of Roddiu Hamlin, A Van- Cott Cos., rtUtt others, and the dry goods stores of J. B. Shay Cos ail well known places of business, are as unsightly as a neglected grave. No building in Chicago Claims a kinder remembrance than the old Tre mont House'. Its broken walls and tow ering chimney-stack speak nothing of the elegance, sociability and comfort (1 at always met H*p ♦ruv'eler at the threshold and made a friend of him for life. From the Tremont to the Great Union Depot is not far, but its wealth of merchandise and stately edifices wore known far and near throughout the West, but the eye dims and the pulse goes slow when the ruin of this noble mart meets the eye. Names of firms who did business here might be given, but they stand engraven in the hearts of many a country merchant, who has profited by the courtesies of Lake fSt. jobbers. SOUTH SIDE. The scene in this section of the city I is too appalling to be dwelt upon with other words than those which will in the most adequate manner convey an idea of the reality, which seems beyond the power of tongue or pen to relate, i The streets that are burnt over are Madison, Monroe, Adams, Jackson, i Van Buren, Congress, and Michigan i avenue, where it vas checked, the Michigan avenue hotel being saved, j On Vabash it burned through to Har- risen street. The last house burned j on the cast side of Wabash avenue. On the west side, Dr. MeChesnoy’s (the Wabash Avenue Methodist) Church was not burned, at the northeast corner of Harrison and Wabash avenue. On i State street, 356 was the last number burned. This was the south limit so far west at the track of the Michigan Southern Railroad track. The long freight houses (in and out freight) were burned with all their contents ears and every thing as far f-mtli of Taylor and west of the east track. Taylor street, the north limit of a great lumber district was not crossed, to the south. Thus, in short, there is only one building within the limits above described which is not burned to ashes, and this seems to have escaped through a miracle —it is numbered 91 to 99 Harisou scrcet,or. the corner of North avenue. The streets which run north and south are Michigan avenue, Wabash avenue, State, Dearborn, Clark, LaSalle,Wells, Sherman, Griswold and Market streets. This section of the city contained the glory of our architecture, and the pala tial residences of s >me of our most wealthy citizens, The names of indi vidual owners cannot be given, but the prominent business structures were the depot of the Lake Shore, and Chicago and Rock Island, and Pacific Kailraao, on Van Buren, from Sherman to Gris wold, and south to Harrison; the Paci fic Hotel, which was ready for the roof, and occupied a block. The Custom House which is gutted, the heavy whitened walls alone standing, Honore's i blocks, finished and unfinished, on Dearborn, from Monroe to Adams, the Tribune baldin g the Times office, the I Post building, the office of the Steals Zeituug, and the numerous publica lions. The elegant structure known as the Lake Side Press building, on Clark, i the Young Men’s Christian Association library, the Republic Insurance build j iug, Farwoll Hall, McVickcr’s Theater, the Clifton House,the Academy of l)e- I sign, Coan Ten Broeck’s Manufactur ing Company's building on Adams st., the Palmer House, St. Mary’s, St. Paul's Catholic Church, Universalist. Second Presbyterian,Trinity Ej>iscopal ■Church, First Presbyterian Church, Michigan Avenue Terrace Row, the Chicago Club, Potter Palmer’s new ho tel (unfinished), Robert Law’s coal yard, Rogers Co's, coal yard, the I largest linns of the city, the Jewish I Synagogue, northeast corner of Fourth avenue and Harrison street*, the New Club on Harrison and State, the Bige low House, on Dearborn and Adams, which would have been opened this week. All of the bridges over the riv er from Madison to Twelfth streets are burned. On the West Side the ravages were dire, sweeping away the great manufactories and mills, and the eleva tor’s ot that, section lying were burned, together with two large ice houses section C of the warehouses alone being saved. The apex of the held of desolation, which is an horizontal cone, is at the corner of UcKoven and Jeffer son streets, and from there the burnt track sweeps northeast, widening and widening for a distance of some five miles, while the distance to the lake is almost between Jetiersou and the riv er. East and west, and Nan Buren and DeKoven, the first street north of Twelfth, north and south, and from any point, can be seen a dozen or more tall chimneys marking the site of as many enormous manufacturing build ings. None of them can be named ac curatel}'. The Chicago Dock Company’s warehouse on Taylor street, and the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne Railroad. The eastern Illinois elevator stands uninjured. The walls of the Marine Hospital are mostly standing. All the bridges over the river, from the South to the North Divisions are gone. A gentlemen wo saw this morning, who bad been in Paris during the past year, says the devastation there did not compare with Chicago this morn ing Among the hundreds of buildings on Lake street that in themselves would have made an extensive conflagration, not ’even the wail* of one is standing. NORTH SIDE. All of that portion of the city lying between the river, east of Clark street and west of tin* lake and as far north as Fullerton avenue, is entirely de stn y pi the reel'd bee- of W. B. Ogden, corner Clark and Oak sheets, and nearly the glass e nv ervatory, and also three or four buildings west of Lincoln Park. Theso few landmarks are all that remain of find once beauti ful part of file iiV; even the “City of the dead the old burying ground— was not exempt from the wages of the fire, it being burned over, leaving the tombstones looking most sad. The wiml, -when the Ate 'his raging aonlh bf Lincoln Park, was so strong as to blow down shade trees, and at this j oint four blocks '"-ere consumed in twenty minutes. Ev. u the vaults were burned in the burving-ground. he drives in the park, instead of being as one* a scene of pleasure-driving, are tilled with vciiiohs carrying homeless sufferers, and wind could be Paved from the wreck Near the iuln'.tiofl of the north and south branches of the river, on the north side, there remains a few buildings, and the ecrl .I'd of Blake, While ho;.- Cos. The saving of the coal yard is as much a mystery as the lire itself. With thy foregoing excep tions the whole district north of the river, west of Clark street, to Fullerton avenue north, and to Mohawk street on the west, is one complete scene of desolation, except one block on Sophia street, and how this block could escape none cdiil' l comprehend. The northwest part of the north side, being the outskirts of that part of the city, remains. This, ho vever, is so small a part as to furnish but little house room for the sufferers. The burned district covers about five square miles. Two dead bodies were found by our reporter, but many others are reported. The general scene is one that cannot be described—language fails—the whole district being covered with people searching for what is left, and for what was buried in the earth to keep it from the flames, as was done by some. A NEW DEADER. Yesterday afternoon, when the fire was rushing southward along Michi gan and Wabash avenues like a race horse, and firemen and people were paralyzed, anew leader suddenly burst upon the scone, tjeneral Sheridan, fighting Phil, who can fight rebels or flames, sprang upon a tire engine, and made one ol those sharp, stirring speeches for which he is noted. He told the people that if they would save the city the tire line must be broken with gunpowder; the buildings must be blown up, and if they would go to work systematically he would assist them. The effect was electrical. The crowd recognizing the hero of so many battle fields, and having faith in his leadership, replied with long hurrahs, and acting under the General's orders, in a few minutes so many buildings had been blown up that the fire line was broken, and the southern portion of the city was saved from destruction. lUF. WIND. The plan of devastation must bo ac corded to the wind. Had it not been for the force of that element the ravag es would have been checked before they became serious. Bumingcinders tilled the air, flying half a mile in some in stances. The extent and direction of the fire were both determined by the wind. On the South Side the southern lim it was, practically, Harrison street.— From that it swept northward as long as there was any thing for it to feed upon. Had the wind been in the opposite direction the fire would not have ex tended farther north than Harrison, and might not have got below Twelfth street, on the South Side. In that case the business part of Chicago would have been saved and nearly the entire residence portion of Smith Chicago laid in ruins. The loss of property, considering the South Side alone, would have been less. Then, too, the whole North Side, and an immense area o.i the West Side, would have been entirely spared. The loss on the West Side would, however, have been hea v ier. The packing houses and elevators would have suffered far more had the wind blown from the north. The groat apprehension of the day and the night was, that having done its worst north ward, the wind would shift and com plete its work of desolation. Had such a change occurred early in the after noon of yesterday nearly the entire city of Chicago would have been in ruins to-day. Considering that Un wind is very shaky, especially herea bouts, there was good reason f>r fear ing the worst. The wind lias subsided now— at least it is no longer a furious gale. WATER. The scarcity of water m the city is one of the most deplorable and alarm ing features of the situation, as in the event of other tires, occurring in any part of the city distant from the river or hike, the most deplorable results would be inevitable. For domestic i purposes peifsslfe must sock, for some time to come yet, their water supply from the lakes and artesian wells. It is most fortunate now that in ttie days of Chicago’s prosperity so many arte sian wells w.*re sunk, which will now j be of inestimable value in supplying the demands of the community. The wells are located ns follows: The one j in Lincoln Park, not far from the main entrance, Kimball’s well at the termin j tiou of Milwaukee avenue near Fuller j tou avenue, the old well on Chicago avenue a little west rtf Western avenue, i One in Hombold Park. We learn, later, that a large force of mechanics from the NorthwesternMan ufaeturing Company are at work on the pumps at the Water Works, and before many hours the city will be supplied,lay hand power, with sufficient water for all ordinary 7 purposes, if used with the utmost economy. LAWYERS. Asa specimen of what the legal pro fession of this city lias lost, we may state that Gen. H. N. Eldridge, of the firm of Eldridge and Tourtelotte, the attorneys for Field, Leiter ss fho theory M centrifu gal force, and once down to earth again the thought how sweet it is to grovel here below suffuses your countenance with a grateful glow of loving appreci ation. A Startling Railroad Adventure. Parties who arrived at Terre Haute hist week on the Evansville and Craw foi dsville railroad, had quite an adven turous hdf. Wh n n the train was mid way between Decker and Fui'cMl eta tions it was met by the most tremen dous hail-storm. Such was its force that the engineer was obliged to stop the train. Hail stones three inches in diameter ratth and down upon the coach es, knocking the window lights from the cab, and demoralizing the head light of the engine. The engineer and fireman wore obliged to seek refuge by hugging close to the machin ery. The storm, though severe, wav} of brief duration, and when it had stopped, the train moved on. When nearing Sullivan, the engineer discov ered a brilliant light ahead, which was caused by the burning of thirty cords of wood which was lying close to the track. The train backed down to a station three miles away, and then re turned to the scene of the conflagra tion with a gang of section men who at once set to work to extinguish the flames. The engineer then backed his train away from the scene some dis tance, and after the door ami blinds of the windows had been carefully closed, he let on a full head of steam and went past the tire at a speed of fifty miles an hour, the heat being so intense as to scorch the sides of the coaches as they passed, even at that high rate of flpeed. A correspondent of a scientific paper •says: “I once had occasion to ex amine the bottom of a mill pond. I constructed a float out of inch plank, I sufficient to buoy me up; through the center of this float I cut a hole and placed a blanket over it, when I was en abled to eleaily discover objects on the bottom. lam satisfied that, where wa ter is sufficiently clear, this plan can be 'successfully used for starching for lost bodies and articles. I would suggest that this experiment be tried on the sea for I am satisfied that, in a ship like the Great Eastern, where an obser vatory could bo placed at the bottom, with sufficient darkness, by the aid of glasses we could gaze down into the depths of the sea, just as we new survey i the starry heavens at midnight,’ A Palace Sleeping C ar Blown Up. A Pullman palace sleeping ear was blown up while standing on the track at the west end of the Central Railroad Depot in Detroit, about five o’clock, p. m., Friday, The Free Press gives the particulars thus: The Crescent,’ like all cars of the kind, is heated by steam, there being a furnace and boiler situated in the cen ter of the car. About half past four o’clock, the conductor of the car, which was to run out in the evening train, went in, saw that the boiler was in or der, and then started a fire, stretching himself out on the cushion after ho had done so. Whether there was a lack of water in the boiler, or whether it generated more steam than it could bear, is nut known, but it suddenly exploded. The boiler was blown through the roof of the car, shivering the timbers and ceiling for a distance each way. Portions of the car were blown out, and the conductor was pitched out on to the gravel so hurriedly that he had no time for in quiries. Hot water was thrown every where, enough striking the man to make him feel lively for half an hour, and the bed-clothing and cushions were considerably injured by both water and the fragments of the boiler. A piece of the boiler went through the side ot the ear close to the conductor's head. The damage to the coach "ill reach several hundred dollars. A Lost Hirer.” A leading article in a late number of the St. Paul Press, gives the following mournful account of the condition of things at the “head of navigation The Mississippi has almost dried up. The majestic river, whose magnificent volume two thousand miles from its outlet, has been the theme of the tour ist's admiration; so broad and deep that it seemed some grand estuary of the sea mi which the navies of the world might ride has shrunk to a mere rid iculous creek, and its thin and attenu ated current crawls lazily, as if it wore ashamed of its shanks, among low, red, bare, and submarine ridges and beaches of sand that have hefer peen the sun before, so far as hu man knowledge gue'q since God separa ted the waters from the dryland The water lias never been so low within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, i Herds of cattle bask in the sunshine on the dry bed of the great river ten or fifteen feet under the level of the waters i where a few months ago great lleetof steamboats rode at will. Boys with their trousers rolled up to their knees j sound with their feet the grand myste rious depths which have engulfed so: many wayward boys and hapless men whom accidents or rashness has en tantrled in the strong, swift undertow lalucatiOl! Russia. The Russian government evinces a praiseworthy desire t< raise the educa tional status ol its empire, which, to judge fr°m the statistics published by the Board of Education, recently ap pointed, seems sadly needed. The number of persons enjoying school ed ucatiou amounts, in Siberia, to one in 664 in tim south-western provinces Kietf, Podolia, and Volhyiiia—to one in 532;’in the three old ItusHau provin ces possessing no school boards, to one in 471 in the thirty-five old Russian provinces possessing school boards, to one in 168; in the kingdom of Poland, to one in 31 and in the Baltic pidvihces, to be one in every 19 inhabitants. The difference in the several provinces is greater thin any one not acquainted with Russia" bfo would have anticipated. The superior ity of the w est over the cast is more considerable still than the above fig ures would lead one to believe, for a great falling ofi' in school attendance has I cor* observed since the carrying out of the Imperial "kase prescribing the exclusive use of Bussiaii the language for teaching. Especially m Lithuania, the rural population dis covers great aversion to tlie Russian ized schools.— i\'' n Ifnff (vazr-ttr. A Sensation Story Spoiled. The story that a sou of Aaron Burr by a quondam belie of Washington firrx 1809 resided out ur 'muo where under his mothers name, and had bee" lately interviewed by some enterprising re porter with result of an expression of immense disgust on the old gentleman's part for the injury done his maternal by his paternal prog' id*<•*. is rudely punctured by a San Francisco f-h‘dg rind. This man of facts and figures shows that in 1809, when Vice-President Burr is alleged to have ruined the bean ty in Washington, lie was neither Vice- President nor in Washington, his term having expired in 1805. and he being j in Euf'Ope four years after. Further still, saith Oradgrind, being not cou eoutent with this one vindication, it is unfair to allege the Hamilton duel against Burr. Both v: or*- military men both believed in the code o'f honor, “and if,” said Gradgrind, Burr had failed rvtead of Hamilton who then would have been the slave; and mur derer? The Sage Hu*!! Lands. It i said that the sage bush lauds of Nevada, y/birb have been popularly supposed to be worthless* for agrieultli ra! purposes, have all the elements of fertility, and that in the valleys of that state lands which but a few months apo were covered with a heavy growth of sage bush have this season yielded magnificent crops of clover, timothy, and alfalfa hay. The Kono Journal says that the cereals yield on these lands quite as much per acre as the richest California soil gives; while the vegetables grown in Nevada are far su perior in every respect to those raised in California. Shade and ornamental trees of the kinds in common use thrive there; but the culture of fruit trees is not entirely successful, though the raising of fruit cannot be consid ered a failure. Encroachments l.'pon England. It is an old story that an American in England is afraid to get out of bed in the morning lest he should step off the little island and fall into the sea but if the encroachments of the sea are not stopped by means of a wall or something of the kind, the old story will one day turn out to be no story, but melancholy fact. H. Strickland j Constable writes to the Times to com j plain that Auburn village, the property l of his father. Sir George Cholmley. is now one or two hundred yards out at sea, nothing having been preserved I from it but one of the village church bells. If the sea carries oil people's 1 property in that fashion, it is no wou der that Mr. Disraeli describes it as the I “melancholy ocean.” Evening callers, this season, must i get used to the rule ex early coming i and early going. Several prominent young ladies in New York have formed j an early closing protective association. They admit no one later than 9 o’clock, and send every one off by 10. They say, W hen we’re out almost every night dancing till all hours, we want to get some rest when we get home. 5 Miscellaneous Items. Henry C. Jaitkett is going to Europe for the winter. Tue war damaged ti e French rail ways $16,000,000. Autjany ladies in the first circles smoke furtive cigarettes. Kick birds are seriously damaging the rice crops of North Carolina. The Colorado narrow-gauge railroad achieves thirty miles an hour, easy. A single firm of furniture manufac turers in Vienna employ over 4,000 workmen. Seven women have entire charge of ns many lighthouses on the Atlantic const. A German chemist says that a man would die in 22 days if forced to live on broad alouc. A Massachusetts psychologist has mesmerized an inebriate out of his ap petite for liquor. Aeter the ineffectual application of five pounds of chloroform, a horse died in lowa, raging mad. The Worcester Silk Company has received an invoice of 3,000 pounds of silk direct from China. M. Thiers has had his salary increas ed to $120,000 a year, together with 832,500 for contingencies. About four hundred and sixty tnr keys were driven sixteen miles to market by a Pennsylvanian. The. brewers of Vienna and neighi?® l hood manufactured 300,275 barrels pf lager-beer during the month of July. The maximum sum under the money order treaty with England is fixed at. ten pounds sterling, or SSO when issued in this country. The largest cotton mill in the world will commence operations in Norwich, Conn., in a few weeks. Its capacity is 110,000 spindles. Ole Bull continues seriously ill in Maine, and Iris friends fear that he may not recover, owing to his age and his impaired constitution. Any hard steel tool, says the Boston Journal of Chemistry, will cut glass with facility when kept freely wet with camphor dissolved in turpentine. Claparede, the French Swiss natur alist. who, apropos of Darwin, said 4 ‘he had rather be a perfected mon key than a degenerate Adam,” is dead. A little girl of 13, in Illinois, has been presented by her father with a small patch of 7,000 aero;-, in a corner of his back yard, to play at gardening in. A Miss Nichols, of Plaistow, N. H., has been presented with an elegant gold watch and chain, as a recognition of the fact that she is a model Chris tian woman." The Scientific American states that thousands of pounds of butter are daily sold in the city of New York, which are adulterated with a substance made from cotton seed oil. Lucy Ames, a fragile damsel of Washington Territory, is seventeen years old, only weighs four hundred pounds, and measures sixty four inches around the shoulders. “The little Mortara boy;” about wiiom Edmund About made such fun, seems to have turned out badly. He is now under arrest on the charge of mur dering one of his servants. The newest word out is itzecuintepo izoth, and it means in English a man who can’t take a joke, and “gets his back up at the merest tnfie. Its Mexican definition is a hunchback dog. They have Maiden Assi Vi iliiCC Com panies in Denmark. A father may de posit any sum at the birth of a daugh ter, and the child receives during her minority four per cent, annually; at eighteen she comes into a higher in come, which is increased at sti ‘*-d pe riods through life. The most extrusive preparath have brcit roude for observing the coming total eclipso of ih sun in Deeeinlier.— Lockyer and Jan sen will both be on the ground, with a number of other ex cellent observers. A complete set of In* (vnmeiits have been already sent to Australia from England. A man recently came to lus death iu a curious manner at Venice, Italy. Ho -viic standing near a bronze automaton, which toiled the time of day, with his head between the b 11 and hammer.— The hour came around without his no tice the automaton struck one, and knocked his brains out. A minister asked a little boy who had been converted, “Does not the devil tell you that you are not a Christ ian V “Yes, sometimes.” “Well, what do you say to him?” “1 tell him,” replied the boy, with something of Luther's spirit, that whether lam a Christianoi uot.it is none of hk bus iness.” A maiden lady of a certain age ac counts for the augmenting redness of her nose by asserting that it is caused by the reflection from the red brick house opposite which glares savagely iu at the window where she embroiders. Stic lias a spiteful nephew who thinks it may be traced to “something in her tea. The Connecticut oyster dealers have entered into a combination to put up the wholesale price of the bivalves 30 cents per gallon, binding themselves in SI,OOO bonds to live up to the agree ment. Ihe advance applies only to the New England States, so that the Fairhaven men will continue to sell to New Yorkers and other outside bar barians at the old price. A fac-simile of the London Gazette of 1660 has been published in London. It contains a full account of the great conflagration in that city from Septem ber 3 to 10, 1666, when 13,200 dwelling houses, 87 churches, 6 chapels, 4 bridges, 3 city gates, the Exchange building. Custom House, Newgate prison, and Guildhall were all de stroyed. The Mont Ceuis tunnel having be come so positive a fact, the French are figuring on the cost and practicability iof a railroad irom Baris to Pekin. The project includes the tunneling of the Balkan mountains, building a bridge across the li llespont, and undermining the Himalayas. The cost of the sub terranean work alone is estimated at about $45,000,000. A Madrid correspondent writes that bull-fighters m Spain are growing so scarce that there is much difficulty in procuring them for the exhibitions of that city, Granada and Seville, Prices have been largely advanced for picadors and matadors; but still the supply is altogether inadequate to the demand, which may be considered anew twi dence that the brutal sport is declining. The French expedition to the North Pole with the Boreal is about to bo carried out in spite of Captain Lam bert's death. It would indeed be a touching sight for gods and men if the commanders of the Boreal and Polaris should meet in harmonious discovery in the long coveted bull’s eye of the little Arctic circle aad celebrate their triumphs by a grand feast on whale's I blubber and sea biscuit.