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THE GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT. good, and 
- all round 
Probably, the finest and largest Railroad say . j .* j3 0 
Depot in the world is the Grand Central, on " ’ 
East Forty-Second street and Fourth Ave- '' 
nue, in New York City, representations of / 
which we herewith present to our readers. / j 
shop beside the liquor shop? Suppose, as 
you go by the post-office, you say, “ Come, 
boys, come in and take some stamps.” 
These stamps will do your friends a real 
good, and will cost you no more than drinks 
allround. Or go by the tailor’s store and 
say, ** Boys, come in and take a box of ool- 
to rainy days, unless it is in the rainy season; 
the roads are surprisingly good, the country 
inns are clean, the beds good, the food abun¬ 
dant and almost always well cooked, and tlio 
charge moderate; and the journey by rail 
from New-York to Ban Francisco, which 
costs no more than the steamer fare to Lon- 
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>viiicii wu iiurovmu piuocut vu* »» o-uuio. —=? 
The Victoria Station ill Westminster, Lon- / 
don, and the station in Turin, Italy, are I 
secondary in size to this great structure, ■ : 
which Commodore Vanderbilt, the Rail¬ 
way King, has recently caused to be erected 
for the accommodation of the t raveling pub- 
lie of the Metropolis. This depot was com¬ 
menced on September 15th, 1SG9. and on Oc- I - • ■ 
tober 7th, 187L the first train left the build- ‘ 
ing. The depot is 240 feet wide, by 696 feet • 
in length; it is made of stone, brick, iron, 
and glass, with wood for insido finishing. 
Ten millions of bricks were used, and the 
house covers four acres, and has two acres . 
of glass in the roof. There are 182 windows, . j • j gfe i 
41 doors, 18stairways, and 2,000 gas burners, j ; a? 
which are lighted by 25,000 feet of electric : i.!*- 
wire. Fifty intersecting railway tracks di- 
verge from the building, covering a yard fji 
of four acres. This depot serves as a junc- rl 
lion for the Hudson River, the Now York 
Central, the New York and Ilarlem, and m 
the New York and New Haven Railroads, jf 
On the Hudson River Railroad alone, 11,000 
passengers are daily conveyed, employing 
100 officers and clerks, 90 brakesmen, 29 bag- 
gage men. 20 conductors, 200 engineers and _ 
firemen, 18 women to clean curs, 20 porters, f , Iv 
etc. Thu interior of the passenger room, lars.” Walk 
whore the cars arrive and depart, is impos- generous, ar 
iug, as the illustration shows. Trains are have?” Wh 
constantly arriving and departing, and so treat to drin 
admirable is the system, everything moves and propose 
like clock-work. Or say, “ Bo. 1 
There are lOOoffices in the building. The “I'll stand a 
offices of the Hudson River and New York How does 
Central Railroads are on the west front of into a habit 
the building; those of the New York and drinking? 1 
Harlem, on the southwest angle; and thoso asked to, wh 
of the New York and New Haven are on the When a man 
southern front. Tho business and reception and indebte 
rooms of tbo Presidents and Viee-Presi- current in y 
dents of tho several connecting roads are so in the use 
situated on the center of tho western front, very best is 
Mr - J. C- BcrcKHonT, Superintendent of the in hand to h 
Harlem Railroad, and still a comparatively of hand in h 
young man, was the architect and engineer perance .—R 
of the building and its dependencies, aud is _ 
entitled to great credit for t he fine arrange- TRAV 
ment and completion of tho gigantic and 
magnificent structure. Mr. Char 
-- in Harper't 
THE USE OF EARTHQUAKES. California 
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NATIONS, TAKE HANDS! 
Nations, take hands! The centuries past 
Have known too uluch of crime; 
Shull hate and war forever last, 
And steep in blood all time ? 
Pah! Christiana alauKhtcrlng Christians still— 
At length that trade should eenso; 
Men can do better things than kill, 
Ranked In the wars of peace. 
Fling by thy sword, O suffering lands! 
Brothers at last, 111 love take hands'. 
Nations, take hands! 
Peoples, for conquest do you long ? 
Sny, hrothers, that's untrue. 
You, plundered slaves ; your despots’ wrong. 
Charging their sins on you. 
How long, 0 used and flung-hy tools ! 
For emperors will you war, 
And fertilise tho earth with fools. 
At word of king or osar? 
Deaf to the calls, O wiser lunds. 
Henceforth In lasting love tako hands! 
Nations, tako hands! 
800 a now earth, a happier dny 
For man than yet hath shone ! 
The thunder-clouds of war away. 
The. earth rolls smiling on. 
Millions, tho rifle laid aside, 
Now bend to forgo or plow ; 
The eraJtsmun’s triumphs how they pride— 
Harvest their glory now. 
U 11 taxed, unfearing, happy Innds, 
For good In lasting love taku hands ! 
Nations, tako hands! 
(Our J^torii- 
GRAND 
CENTRAL mCPOT. 3STJEW YORK CITY. 
The usefulness of earthquakes, wasafav- i 
orito subject with the late Sir John Her- < 
sehel. Ware it not for the changes in tho . 
earth’s crust which are constantly being ef- , 
footed by the action of subterranean forces, j 
of which the earthquake is the most active § 
manifestation, there can bo no doubt that 
the action of the sea heating upon the laud, 
together with the denuding power of rain 
would inevitably cover the entire earth with | 
one vast ocean. “ Had the primeval world | 
been constructed as it now exists,” says 
Sir John Herschel, “ time enough has elaps¬ 
ed, and force enough directed to that end 
has been in activity, to have long ago de¬ 
stroyed every vestige of land.” Mr. Proc¬ 
tor shows most clearly tho beuefloeut man- g 
tier in which the restorative action of tho 
earth’s subterranean forces is arranged. Of 
course every upheaval of the surface must 
be either accompanied or followed by a de¬ 
pression elsewhere. ‘‘On a comparison of 
the various effects, it has been found that 
the forces of upheaval act (on the whole) 
more powerfully under continents, and es¬ 
pecially under tho shore-lines of continents, 
while the forces of depression act most pow¬ 
erfully (on the whole.) under the bed of tho 
ocean. It seems as if nature had provided 
against the inroads of tho ocean by seating 
the earth’s upheaving forces just where they 
are most wanted.” 
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THE CUSTOM OF TREATING. 
If I could persuade all tho young people 
of Elmira never to treat each other, nor bo 
treated, 1 think one half of the danger from 
our strong drink would be gone. If I can¬ 
not got you to sign the total abstinence 
pledge, binding until you are 35, I would be 
glad to have you promise three things: 
First, never to drink on the sly, alone; sec¬ 
ond, never to drink socially, treating or 
being treated; third, when you drink, do it 
openly, and in the presence of some man or 
woman whom you respect. 
Now, boys, if you wish to be generous and 
treat each other, why not select some other 
lars.” Walk up to the counter, free and 
generous, and say, “ What style will you 
have?” Why not treat to collars as well as 
treat to drinks? Or go by a confectioner's 
and propose to chocolate drops all round. 
Or say, “ Boys, take a newspaper.” Or say, 
“ I'll stand a, jack-knife all round.” 
How does it happen that we have fallen 
into n, habit almost compulsory, of social 
drinking? You drink many a time when 
asked to, when really you do not want to. 
When a man has treated you, you feel moan 
and indebted, and keep a sort of account 
current in your mind and treat him. And 
so in the use of just that agent, which at the 
very best is a dangerous one, you join hand 
in hand to help each other to ruin, instead 
of hand in hand to help each other to tem¬ 
perance.—Rev Thou. K. Beecher. 
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TRAVELING IN CALIFORNIA. 
Mr. Charles Nordboff writes as follows 
in Harper'8 Monthly about traveling in 
California Certainly in no part of the con¬ 
tinent is pleasure traveling so exquisite and 
unalloyed a pleasure as in California. Not 
only are the sights grand, wonderful, and 
don, and is shorter than a voyage across the 
Atlantic, is in itself delightful as well as in¬ 
structive. Probably twenty Americans go 
to Europe for one who goes to California; 
yet no American who has not seen tho 
plains, the Rooky Mountains, the Great Salt 
Lake, and the wonders of California, can 
honestly say that he has seen his own coun¬ 
try, or even that he has an intelligent idea 
of its greatness.” 
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SENSIBLE SENTIMENTS. 
Do not kick every stone in the path. 
Learn to think and act for yourself. 
Pay strict attention to your own affairs. 
Keep ahead rather than behind tho times. 
Do not stop to tell stories in business 
hours. 
Have but few confidants, and the fewer 
the better. 
Use your own brains, rather than those 
of others. 
A man of honor respects his word as he 
does his bond. 
It is folly to break down order, as atheism 
must, and be is daftest of idiots or wildest 
GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT-INTERIOR VIEW. 
surprising in the highest degree, but the cli- of maniacs who supposes a world can be gov- 
mate is exhilarating and favorable to an ac- erned without some thought of God. 
tive life; the weather is so certain that you Never buy an article you do not need 
need not lose a day, and may lay out your simply because it is cheap, and the man who 
whole tour in the State without reference Rells it will take it out in trade. 
Mr, Bolton’s Trip To The City. 
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BY O. S. ADAMS. 
Mu. Simon Bolton prided himself on be¬ 
ing one of tho shrewdest men in Danbury. 
Danbury wusil small place- indeed so small, 
many said, that they wondered how it 
could hold a man of Mr. Bolton’s caliber. 
He was a large, full-framed, full-fleshed in¬ 
dividual, with a head set ostentatiously 
back on his shoulders, a warlike-looking 
mouth, und a pair of cold, calculating eyes. 
He walked with an obtrusive swagger, and 
always seemed ready to discharge a shower 
of abuse at any one who should be so un¬ 
lucky us to cross his path or be in his way. 
Ho had accumulated considerable property, 
and was reckoned 0110 of the most substan¬ 
tial men of the town, as he was in reality 
otic of the most overbearing, lie attribu¬ 
ted his success in making niouey solely to 
his inimitable shrewdness; and truly, if 
shrewdness consisted in finding out the de¬ 
tails of his neighbors’ affairs, ascertaining 
their wants and needs, and appearing in 
the right time with a few hundred dollars 
to extort ten per cent, a month or so, then 
Mr. Bolton was a very shrewd man. Ah, 
how shrewd! 
He never wasted anything, or squandered 
money for needless luxuries. One of his 
proudest boasts was that he had never spent 
one dollar for a newspaper of any kind or 
description. And thereby hangs a tale—in 
fact, this tale, for if Mr. Bolton had read 
the newspapers it is exceedingly improba¬ 
ble that the present history would have 
been written. 
One fine spring morning Mr. Bolton as¬ 
tonished his family and neighbors by an¬ 
nouncing thut ho was going to take a pleas¬ 
ure trip to New York. Many were the ex¬ 
pressions of wonder and curious questions 
in regard to the inspiring cause of this un¬ 
wonted extravagance, all of which he treat¬ 
ed in a manner comporting with his digni¬ 
ty. With very few would he deign to con¬ 
verse on the subject at all—these favored 
oues being as wealthy, or wealthier, than 
himself. Until the hour of departure bis 
whole family was in a state of confusion and 
uproar, and, it might be added, terror, over 
the preparations for the grand event, for 
Mr. Bolton made his importance felt at 
home as offensively as clswhero. 
The day arrived. Mr. Bolton placed in 
his wallet a hundred dollar greenback and 
one hundred dollars in smaller bills, and 
hired a conveyance to the railroad station, 
four miles distant. Ho was In due time 
comfortably seated in a cur, where I 10 
1 glanced around at his fellow' passengers, as 
If expecting all of them to stare at him in 
awe; for this journey to Now York was a 
grand event in his life—an event in which 
he fondly imagined himself to be an oxcep- 
tionably favored individual. When ho re¬ 
turned, his importance would be magnified 
ten-fold—he would tower above his fellow 
citizens with more unbearable haughtiness, 
if possible, than evor before. 
However, he did not attract any particu¬ 
lar attention; in fact the majestic bearing 
ho assumed seemed quite lost on the obtuse 
crowd around him. So, with a feeling of 
disgust, he soon settled himself back in his 
