^Domestic (fi co no inn. 
CONDUCTED BY MARY A. E. WAGER. 
ABOUT BREAKFAST. 
Notwithstanding the trying hour at 
which this meal obtains in most rural homes, 
and the unpopularity in which it is gener¬ 
ally held, we aver that the breakfast is the 
keynote to the day. If one gets up “ out of 
sorts,” which is not infrequent, a good break 
fast will put him light side out. The matron 
who has on a clean frock, a white collar, and 
her hair snugly coiffured will be sure to have 
her children with fresh, sweet faces and 
brushed hair. An unwashed child at a 
breakfast table is too much for good nat ure. 
Any mother who permits it lacks the first 
element in common sense; and any father 
who allows it deserves to be a hopeless, help¬ 
less subject to the pettiest sort of petticoat 
government nil bis life. But what of a won 
who drags his slow length along, out of bed 
to the breakfast, with his hair in furrows, 
and a yawn “ yawping” at every point ? It 
revives ft refrain in the Litany! 
But, to breakfast. We know a man, 
something of an epicure, whose model break¬ 
fast consists ot hot griddle cakes, fried 
potatoes and superlative coffee, with maple 
simp and butter included. The English¬ 
man must have ham and eggs,or beefsteak, 
coffee and hot rolls. The Frenchman makes 
a breakfast on a biscuit and chocolate, or 
cocoa,Which lias gained largely in apprecia¬ 
tion within the past year or two. A Ger¬ 
man is satisfied In a similar manner, only he 
must have a glass of delectable beer! All 
nations quite agree upon one. thing, and that 
is that a variety is not essential for breakfast. 
In the matter of beefsteaks, cooks serve us 
to two dishes — one a tough, dry, leathery 
article, cooked in grease in a skillet; the 
other a delicious, juicy, inching, nutritious 
article, broiled over a bed of hot coals, and 
which puts the Grossest man in a saintly 
humor. And just here we beg leave to sug¬ 
gest that when you buy a stove have an eye 
out for a fine gridiron. Such visions of 
broiled Chickens, and lisli and wild game 
docs a gridiron suggest! it is a theme quite 
worthy the verse of a poet far above “ Gifted 
Hopkins’” caliber. We know that cooks 
complain of the trouble of using them, which 
is very much like a woman we know, who 
would never use a clothes-wringer, because 
it was “ such a bother.” 
The most economical and nutritious 
method of cooking eggs is to boil them in 
the shell and eat them from the shell; or, 
breaking them in a cup, slightly beat the 
meat with pepper and salt, and eat with a 
spoon. 
A successful breakfast begins its existence 
the night previous. If vegetables are to be 
boiled, they arc prepared for the kettle, 
(never left to soak in wa ter,) meat, sliced and 
coffee ground. 1 n cold weather the crockery 
should he warmed,so as not to chill the food 
when placed on it. 
A Sunday breakfast might be distinguished 
by a change of fare. Toast, nicely treated 
and served hot, is good to carry to church, 
as it does not Invite sleep. 
Any meal loses much of its enjoyable¬ 
ness if served in the same room in which it 
is cooked. Most of the modern built farm¬ 
houses arc fashioned so that the cook-room 
is distinct from the dining room, even if it 
is very small; and a cook room should be 
small, and marked “ Priutte ” on the door; 
and any man, woman or child who dared to 
enter without a special permit from the high 
priestess within should expect a threatening 
look from t he front end of a domesticated 
rolling-pin. As for cats and dogs wil bin the 
sacred limits, that admits of no question. 
It is an unpardonable outrage on decency 
and cleanliness. We love those dear at¬ 
tache* of home, but we sympathize with the 
young man who preferred bis rabbit and 
his — hare separate. 
This eating and cook-room talk is sug¬ 
gested by the fact, that we have known of 
not a few farm-houses, where it was cus¬ 
tomary for the family, when alone, to cook 
and cat and live, or try to, in the extreme 
rear of the house, in an apartment designed 
originally for wood. This is a woman 1 * freak, 
forever. It is not uncommon to hear farmers 
say: “ If I should add to the rear of my 
house every year, my wifi- would follow me 
with the cook-stove.” 
It is a great mistake a housewife makes in 
thinking anything good enough for “our 
folks ” and nothing too good for visitors, or 
keeping such “ nice, spare rooms,” to the dis¬ 
comfort of the every-day inmates. If wc 
lived in a house with one single room in it 
too good for our daily use and enjoyment, we 
should vacate at once, and go anywhere to get 
away from such humiliating surroundings. 
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Indian Meat. Cakes for Breakfast.— 
One quart of meal; one pint of sweet milk; 
one. teaspoonful of soda; two of cream of 
tartar; three eggs; sugar or molasses ac¬ 
cording to taste. Bake in small tins; eat 
warm; delicious! 
Spices and Aromatic Herbs. —Speak¬ 
ing of the spices employed as seasoning for 
pies, galantine, &c., an author writes:—The 
best way to have these spices good is to pre¬ 
pare them one’s self. The following are the 
proportions in ordinary cookery: — Place in 
a paper bag quarter of an ounce of thyme, 
quarter ounce of bay leaf, eighth ounce of 
marjoram, eighth ounce rosemary; put the 
bag into the hot screen till the herbs are dry; 
mix them in a mortar with half ounce nut¬ 
megs, half ounce of cloves, quarter ounce of 
pepper, eighth ounce cayenne pepper; pound 
the whole and press through a hair sieve. 
Keep these spiees in a dry, well corked 
bottle. These spiees are used either alone 
or with salt added; the proportion for mix¬ 
ing with salt is one ounce ot' the mixture to 
lour ounces of line salt. One ounce of the 
spiced salt is sufficient to season three pounds 
of galantine forcemeat, 
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Beef Essence. —In low fevers and other 
forms of exhausted vitality, there is no ar¬ 
te le of food which can replace beef-essence ; 
and every housewife should know how to 
make it properly, To do so, take a pound 
of juicy beef, (the neck is perhaps the best) 
cut it very fine, rejecting all fat and “gristle,” 
and put it into a wide-mouthed bottle, such 
as a pickle bottle. Then put. the bottle, 
tightly corked, into a kettle of cold water, 
set it over the lire, and boil an hour. When 
well boiled uncork the bottle, pour its con¬ 
tents into a strainer and drain out the liquid. 
A pinch of salt may be added if required to 
render it palatable. No water should be 
added to the meat or essence. Even a tea¬ 
spoon ful of this preparation contains a great 
deal of nourishment and is borne by almost 
all stomachs. Life can be sustained by its 
use for a long time. 
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Si.amming Doors. — The noise arising 
from the slamming of doors is not only very 
disagreeable, but is injurious to the door and 
its bangings. L do not pretend to give di¬ 
rections that, will prevent doors from closing 
with violence, but only say how the noise 
arising therefrom may be partially avoided. 
At the side of the casing, against which the 
door rests when closed, glue a thin piece of 
rubber (that from off cans or old rubber 
boots will answer) or a piece of woolen 
cloth. In the absence of glue tacks will 
subserve the same purpose. Attach to at 
least three points along the side. When 
thus arranged the noise arising from the ab¬ 
rupt closing of a door will be scarcely per¬ 
ceptible.—L. 1). Snook, 
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Glass in Boiling Water.- It is some¬ 
times desired to put bottles and other glass 
ware into boiling water. This can be safely 
done by holding au iron spoon, or strip of 
metal, long enough to reach from the bottom 
to the top of I he vessel firmly by ilsside. By 
a similar contrivance hot water may be 
poured into tumblers without breaking them, 
as is sometimes seen in making that highly 
reprehensible compound known as punch. 
The reason of this is that the metal, being a 
better conductor of beat than the glass distrib¬ 
utee the beat through it more equally. Glass 
breaks, not from heat, but from the inequality 
of temperature which results from one part 
becoming hot while another is still cold. 
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Piecing Bed-Quilts. — “Aunt Lucy,” 
in the Rural of Dee. 10th, says she can 
never find time to buy calico to cut up into 
half inch pieces to sew together again, just 
to see how many she could make of it. I can 
see no utility in buying new cloth on purpose 
to cut up; but 1 do think the remnants left 
after ladies’ and childrens’ dresses have been 
cut, can be economically and advantageously 
used for piecing bed quilts, just as old coats, 
pants and clothing generally, ean la; made 
over into rag carpets that are neat, durable 
and comfortable, and which otherwise would 
only be a nuisance in our closets and garrets. 
—Mrs. . M. 8 . 
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How to Keep Cider Sweet. — A corre¬ 
spondent of the Northwestern Farmer says: 
Cider, if taken when first made, brought to a 
boiling heat, and canned precisely as fruit is 
canned, will keep from year to year without 
any change of taste. Canned lip in this way 
in the fall, it may be kept half a dozen years 
or longer, as go«d as when first made. It 
is better that the eider be settled and poured 
off from the dregs, and when brought to boil¬ 
ing beat the scum that gathers on the sur¬ 
face taken oil’; but the only precaution neces¬ 
sary to flie preservation of the cider is the 
sealing of it up air-tight when boiling hot. 
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A Nice Sauce. —Pare and quarter nicely 
half a bushel of sweet apples, also one dozen 
quinces or less if you choose; steam them 
until you can pierce them with a straw; then 
take eight pounds of loaf sugar, ani l add to 
it the water over which your apples are 
steamed; let it scald up, then add the fruit 
anti let it remain until it looks transparent. 
Skim out and put in jars and cans, then boil 
the sirup until only enough remains to fill 
up your cans; pour it over them hot; let 
them stand and settle, fill up again, then seal. 
They are not preserves, but nicer.— Selected. 
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^jncjifiuc ^Information, 
PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE. 
BY J. H. GRI8COM, M. D. 
II. HEALTH AND DISEASE. 
1. The education of man is of three kinds, 
1st, Moral; 2d, Intellectual; .‘id, Physical. 
Moral education includes his relations to soci¬ 
ety, and his duty to his fellow men, and to his 
Creator. Intellectual education is the culti¬ 
vation <>T the mind in the various branches 
of science and learning. Physical education 
comprehends a knowledge of the structure 
and functions of the hotly,of the natural laws 
Which govern its operations, and keep it in 
health, and of the means of avoiding disease. 
2. Health is that state of the body in which 
all its organs are perfectly formed, and the. 
functions properly carried on, and in perfect, 
harmony with each other. 
Illustration*.- In a perfectly healthy per¬ 
son, the lungs, which arc the organs of 
breathing, are sound, and the breathing, 
which is their function, if full, free and 
uninterrupted. 
Digestion, the function of an organ called 
the Stomach , is without pain and carried on 
promptly. The eye, the organ of sight, then 
perceives objects distinctly and correctly. So 
with all the other organs and functions. 
3. Dimtsc is a state of the body in which 
some one or more of the organs are imper¬ 
fectly formed or injured, or in which the 
functions are disordered. 
Illustration*. — When the lungs are dis¬ 
eased the breathing is interrupted, or hur¬ 
ried, or otherwise disturbed, and sometimes 
painltil. When the stomach is diseased, its 
function, digestion , is more or less uneasy, 
sometimes very painful, and sometimes it is 
arrested entirely. When some organs are 
very much diseased and the functions great ly 
impaired, the individual is threatened with 
loss of life, and the danger is in proportion 
to the importance of the organ and the 
severity of the disease. 
4. The natural state of the body is that of 
health, and this is mostly within the control 
of each individual. Thus by a knowledge 
of the laws of life, by a strict attention to 
them, and the avoidance of all habits which 
tend to injure the organs, or impair their 
functions, they will perform all their duties 
in order and harmony, until they wear out 
from age. In this condition man is enabled 
to enjoy life to the utmost. He will have 
strength and elasticity of both body and mind 
by which he can ttffiy uwt the pari, designed 
by his Maker, for him to fill upon the earth. 
f>, Ignorance of the laws of life and health, 
or a disregard of them in habits of dress, 
food, and exercise, will injure the organs and 
their functions, and disease in some form will 
be Induced. The great extent, of this igno 
ranee, or neglect of those laws, is seen in the 
fact that it is extremely rare to find an indi 
vidual at the age of 80 or 40 years, who has 
had perfect, health all the time. 
0. When the function of an organ has be¬ 
come slightly impaired by improper habits, 
It may often he restored to health by avoid¬ 
ing the cause of the injury. The body and 
all its functions possess a natural power of 
restoration , by which some diseases are re¬ 
moved. But when an organ or a function 
has become seriously or deeply diseased be¬ 
yond the power of nat ure to restore it, death 
of the whole body will lie hastened thereby, 
unless some artificial means can he found to 
remove the disease. The Science of Medicine 
furnishes the means of arresting disease and 
restoring health to the organs and functions 
in very numerous eases. 
7. In some persons the power of resisting 
the causes of disease, and of restoring the 
health of disordered functions, is vigorous; 
such persons are said to have strong constitu¬ 
tion*. In others these powers are feeble, and 
such persons are said to have feeble constitu¬ 
tion*. 
8. Some persons possessing feeble consti¬ 
tutions have been known to attain to great 
age, and to enjoy life greatly, by a strict 
observance, of the rules of health. 
Illustration. —E. K., a young man, when 
about to be settled as a clergyman, was ob¬ 
jected to by one person because he thought, 
it useless to settle so feeble a man; yet by 
careful attention to the laws of health he 
reached the age of 90 years. 
9. On the other hand an Individual of a 
naturally strong constitution, who neglects 
the rules of health, may induce disease and 
early death. Great, numbers of young chil¬ 
dren, though born with vigorous constitu¬ 
tions, suffer severely, and die before manhood, 
in consequence of the ignorance and neglect 
of their parents and others. This Ls espe¬ 
cially the case in large and crowded cities. 
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There is no substance which so readily 
dissolves the gases given off from the body, 
as water. Therefore water which is in¬ 
tended for drinking ought never to stand ex¬ 
posed to the air in the living room, espe¬ 
cially during the night, or in a sick room. 
SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS. 
I1Y A PHYSICIAN. 
The oil of the Castor bean is a very valua¬ 
ble, and a favorite remedy, both with the 
Faculty and in domestic practice—favorite, 
we mean, with the practitioners, not with 
the patients, especially the little folk. There 
is a way, however, of giving it which so 
entirely disguises its nauseous qualities with¬ 
out injuring its operation, that we will give 
it for the benefit of everybody concerned, 
though wo do not intend meddling much 
with prescriptions. Here is the formula: 
Take ol - Castor oil, a lluid ounce; oil Of cinna¬ 
mon, six drops; powdered gum arable, white 
sugar, of cacti asutlicicnt quantity ; water, suffi¬ 
cient to make a two ounce mixture. 
Let the oils be thoroughly rubbed ui a 
mortar with enough of the powders to pro¬ 
duce a yellowish white mass a little thicker 
than cream. When thoroughly mixed add 
pure water or cinnamon water enough to 
make the whole mixture measure two fluid 
ounces. Instead of cinnamon, peppermint 
or wintergrecu may be used. The dose of 
this mixture for an adult, would be about, an 
ounce, or otic-half of it; for a child of course 
less. It may he estimated to contain two 
tablespoonsful, or four teaspoonsfiil of the 
Castor oil. Children take It readily when 
skillfully made, and even adults find it unex¬ 
pectedly pleasant. 
Is eases of sorc-lhroat call the best physi¬ 
cian you can find at once; for though it may 
he trilling, it may also be serious. Until tbe 
doctor can arrive, or in case you cannot ob¬ 
tain one, make a solution of sail water, ns 
strong as possible, and gargle the throat with 
it. two or three limes an hour. If faithfully 
done, this will cure the simpler forms of in¬ 
flammation of the throat, and will do no 
harm in diphtheria. ('mnmon salt is of the 
class of salts which have been most highly 
recommended in diphtheria, being a chloride, 
(chloride of sodium) and the chief source of 
chlorine in the arts. Another good plan in 
sore throat is the wrapping of several thick¬ 
nesses of cloth, wet in cold water, around it, 
taking care to put a dry flannel one outside 
Ihem. Neglecting this latter precaution cost, 
a classmate of ours a very bad throat, once. 
Poultices, notwithstanding the unfavor¬ 
able opinion of thorn expressed liy Hi r AflT- 
ley Cooper, are sometimes very useful 
things, if properly made. As often manu¬ 
factured, however, they are worse than use¬ 
less. They are useful only as vehicles of 
moisture, and may be made of almost any 
material which will contain moisture; for 
various reasons, however, we prefer bread 
and water. Milk should never be used for a 
poultice; for, besides only containing about 
ninety-five per cent, of water, it is apt to 
sour and become a source of irritation. To 
make a good poultice, lake the inside of a 
slice of stale bread, put, it. into a saucer, (or 
plate, according to its size,) and pour boiling 
water over it ; then place another saucer 
upon it, convex side down, and press them 
gently together, tipping them to allow the 
superfluous water to run off; it is then done. 
The bread should not be broken nr kneaded. 
The poultice should he changed often enough 
to prevent its drying, as a dry poultice is about 
as soothing as a piece of sand paper Large 
poultices which must necessarily remain on 
a long time, may he kept, moist by sprinkling 
the surface with Epsom salts before putting 
them on. The salts deliquesce, and so fur 
nish an additional supply of moisture. 
rt m\o Artists. 
_-T.b—. 2.:-57. t.'Z 
THE LATEST ART GOSSIP. 
BY MARY A. E. WAGER. 
Jerome Thompson’s three pictures “The 
Old Oaken Bucket,” “ Home, Sweet Kome " ami 
“Paddle Your Owe Canoe"- are on free exhi¬ 
bition at 83 Fifth Avenue, Under the courteous 
supervision of A. !>. Frye, Jr. Our Rural 
friends, visiting the metropolis, can enjoy no 
better sight-luxery than iu viewing these paint¬ 
ings, which are such faithful t.raufurs of rural 
scenes. The “Old Oaken Bucket" la a perfect real¬ 
ization of the poem of that name; and “ Home, 
Sweet Home" comes us back too many years 
to the lowly llniteiied-ronfcd < offline, where pop 
pies grow in conjunction with the cabbage patch, 
and we played with the chickens in the sunshine, 
while the old mother lieu whirred out her 
feathers at us in a great rage. “Paddle Your 
Own Cunoe" represents a young Indian rowing 
Ids canoe up a Minnesota river. 11. has a free, 
vigorous, self-helpful look about it that is re¬ 
freshing. The llora of t hat country is well por¬ 
trayed. Mr. Thompson has a farm up in Minne¬ 
sota, where lie spends ids summers. The first 
two named pictures are chromo-iithographed, 
by it New York firm, and admirably executed. 
The Chicago Academy of Design has very suc- 
ccasfwlly Inaugurated its third annual opening. 
The nnmberof pled urea is not- huge. New York, 
Pittsburg and Montreal artists are well repre¬ 
sented. Among the water colors, Mrs. Murray’s 
“Glpsey Queen "stands pre-eminent. There are 
twenty-five portraits ; among them a number by 
Mr. Phillips, which go far in pronouncing him 
one of the boat portrait painters in Chicago. 
Tbe Pittsburg art i-.ts do themselves great credit. 
In sculpture, nothing excels Launt Thompson's 
marble bust Of Will. Ctlllen Bryant. Mr. Thomp¬ 
son has reproduced it in plaster, collossal size, to 
be cast in bronze for Central Park. It is marvel- 
onsly wrought,, in that it possesses a. power and 
fascination tho living head could scarcely sur¬ 
pass. Launt Thompson is now in Europe. 
His bust of Bryant is tlic property of N. 
K. Fairbanks of Chicago. Mr. Diehl’s “Af¬ 
fection," which is tho name of the painting 
of tho naked hoy at the Academy Exhibi¬ 
tion, although exceedingly well drawn amt 
plainly rendered, lias shocked some of tho 
prudish men and women of the Garden City to 
a critical extent. C, Diehl should congratulate 
himself on his success. 
Rothkrmel, President of the Philadelphia 
Academy of Fine Arts, has finished a paint- 
inn-, designed to bo a companion piece to 
Huntington’s “ Lady Washing Ion's Reception,” 
which was purchased some years ago by A. 
T. Stewart for twenty-tlvo thousand dollars. 
Rot hurl 11 el's picture is called " Reception ,u the 
White House during the Administration of Lin¬ 
coln." It contains seventy portraits of tho most 
eminent men and women who gave dignity and 
grace to Washington society in those days. In 
the foreground at the right of the picture, Gen. 
Grant is introducing his wife tu the President. 
The drawing, grouping and posoot' the figures 
is easy and natural. Some of the portraits are 
very good nod most of thorn recognizable. Per¬ 
haps tho most intellectual facets that of Grace 
Greenwood, and the most classically beautiful 
that of Mrs. Stephen A. DoUkIhs*-\\ iUIams. The 
art ist has been at work on it over three years, 
and it is valued the same us Huntington's,and 
is to be engraved. 
Frank Leslie has published in a heatilifiil 
manner his report on the Fine Arts, as exhibited 
al the Paris Exposition of 1S<!7. lie was the 
United States Commissioner for that- Depart¬ 
ment, and, judging from his report, was emi¬ 
nently lifted foi that service. He credits East¬ 
man Johnson's “Old Kentucky Home" and 
“ Marla Stuart Hearing Muss "as being the best 
American figure pieces on exhibition. Wicr’s 
“Cannon Foundry at Wont Point" attracted u 
great deal of uHeuUou. 'There were t wriily-tlve 
nnl.ioimlit.Ie9 represented In the Department of 
Painting; total number of pictures, 3,001: by 
artists, 1,103; tho number of prizes awarded, (17. 
Of those, France received.8a. Holland-, Belgium 
4, Prussia and Northern Germany 5, Bavaria 
Austria 3, Switzerland 1, Portugal :i, Norway ti, 
Russia l, Italy 4, Turkey I, Great Britain 4, and 
the United States 1. 
CONSTANT Mayer, an Americanized French 
Artist, has finished a large picture which is 
mimed “Good Words,” and which is valued at 
eight thousand dollars. It represents tt church in¬ 
terior with the subdued light. streaming through 
a chatted window and resting upon a fashionable 
young Indy, who is giving Scriptural instruction 
to a group ol’ poorly clad and forlorn looking 
little girls. The toucher has a serious, earnest 
expression—one of thosogond kind of faces Hint 
is quite reliable, but lucks the subtle essential 
which can only render it either haudsomo or in¬ 
tellectual. Mr. Mayer hag a health lid and com¬ 
prehensive appreciation of little girls. He 
paints them well. The largo girls have grown 
beyond his comprehension. 
Pranu of Boston has made full chromo-litho¬ 
graphs of thirty-four paintings and hail’ chro¬ 
mes of twenty-seven pictures. The highest 
priced one is after the late J. Morvolllier'H "Sun¬ 
light in Winter." Oncol’ tho best is after Allied 
Lih-rsladt's “ Sunset In California.." It is quite as 
good, and really softer In shadow, than the orig¬ 
inal whose valuation is placed among the thou¬ 
sands somewhere. People with small purses and 
a love for pictures can but appreciate tho art 
of chroruo-l 1 thography. 
There are one hundred and seventy girls in 
Hie Cooper Institute School of Design, which 
opened October I, and closes June i. There arc 
thirty-fivo pupils In Drawing, twenty in Hie En¬ 
graving and Designing class, and eight or ton in 
the Sculpture Departments. The instruction Is 
grid nitons. There is no provision for teaching 
boys engraving. Tho young lady students have 
an “nrttot-in" look, and are more than ordinarily 
tine looking. 
Larkin G. Meade, Jr., who bus boon selected 
In build the National Lincoln Monument., has re¬ 
cently returned from Italy with his wife. She 
has large black eyes, fair complexion, am! a tall 
queenly figure. When Mr. Meade married her 
she could not speak English, nor he Kalian. 
Mead Is a Vermont man, below medium height 
and weight. Ho is a promising young artist and 
his marriage was a pure love match. We shall 
expect something lino from this inspiration, 
HfWRr C. Bispham, a New York arlist, having 
executed u fine oil painting of tho celebrated 
tiottor Dexter, which fins received the com¬ 
mendation of sotno ot the best, judges of tho 
school Of Art, presented it to Gen. Grant, who, 
in a pleasant note of acceptance, pronounces 
“ the likeness perfect.” 
There were seventy-five pictures, tho works 
of forty American artists, u t the Paris o.\ position. 
The only prize awarded, and that, of the second 
class, was to Church's " Niagara," which is the 
property of J. Taylor Johnston, of New York. 
The award was the artists’ medal and live hun¬ 
dred francs in gold. 
It. P. Gilley of Manchester, N. If., has ft like¬ 
ness of Gen. Enoch Poor, hisgrundfutber, which 
was drawn by Kosciusko on the fly-leaf of a 
hymn book, during sendee in a church at Tren¬ 
ton. Tho picture possesses both artistic merit 
find historic interest. 
An Album containing fine steel engravings nf 
Giuthe’B “ Female Characters,” from tho original 
drawings of Wm. Kaulbaeh, with explanatory 
notes byG. H. Lewes, and all in beautiful attire, 
can bo purchased for eighteen dollars. 
CHICAGO is tho only city In the Union that van 
boast of an art Journal, It bus tin enterprising 
and successful editor in the person of Mr. J. K. 
Ait.kcn. It is published monthly at. two dollars 
per annum. 
Hiram Powers, tho sculptor, has returned to 
America after many years residence abroad. 
IDs statue, “The Greek Slave," Is owned by A. T. 
Stewart. 
A. T. Stewart lias ordered a largo ideal pic¬ 
ture representing tho emancipation of tho Amer¬ 
ican Slaves, from M. Toon of Paris. 
Dore drew the dead face of Rossini in black 
and blue crayons. 
William Bradford's groat picture “Crushed 
by the Iceberg*,” is in Boston. 
Gov. Ward of New Jersey possesses the largest 
collection of pictures in that State. 
Goutit/s new Art Gallery, on Fifth Avenue, 
opposite Delrnonlco's Hotel, ls opened. 
There are over two hundred and fifty pictures 
at the rooms of the Brooklyn Art Association. 
