THE 
NEW-YORKER. 
“Forty, less One,” by James Richardson; and 
“ Meadow Talk,” by Caroline Leslie,—the last 
two with capital Illustrations. The Departments 
“For Very Little Folks,” “Jack-ln-tlie-pulplt,” 
“ Letter-Box,” and “Riddle-Box," are varied and 
attractive. 
In Scbibnkrs’ tor July la continued the series 
ot Illustrated articles on Bird Architec ture. A Few 
Antiques, shows some quaint and curious designs 
In necklaces, spoons and crosses. An Interest¬ 
ing article on 1’he Police of New York has a most 
ludicrous out “ Mustering the Rattle Watch ;” 
nothing could possibly present a greater con¬ 
trast to our modern police In their line unif orms 
than does this primitive-looking “ Rattle Watch.” 
Luigi Monti, (whose American Consul Abroad 
was noticed In these columns a week or two 
ago), contributes an article on Italy and the Pope, 
which throws considerable light on the rnuob- 
dtscussed question of the “temporal power.” 
“His inheritance,” Is concluded and few who have 
followed the fortunes of Robert Elyot but what 
will be disappointed that so bright and promis¬ 
ing a story should have so commonplace an end¬ 
ing. Frank R. Stockton’s “Pomona Takes the 
Helm at Rudder Grange” Is oxqulsltely funny. 
We commend Its perusal to the suburban resi¬ 
dent whose life is made burdensome by llght- 
nlng-rod men,agents and tramps; more Ingenious 
and efficacious methods ot procedure against 
these very objectionable classes of the communi¬ 
ty than were employed by Pomona, It would he 
hard to devise. 
Tns Eclectic for J uly contains an admirable 
article on the Eastern Crisis by Gold win Smith • 
the second installment of II.Talne’s staleot Paris' 
before the outbreak of the Revolution, and an In¬ 
structive paper on Vlenaa and Viennese Life. Be¬ 
side these are, a biographical sketch of Edmund 
Burke; the Greatness of the Romans, by Gold win 
Smith; Man and Science, a Reply to Tyndall; 
The Earth’s Place In Nature, besides poetry, 
domestic and foreign literary notes and science 
and art. A line steel engraving, “ The Roman 
Children,” adorns the title page. 
The article in Lutincots for July which will 
probably excite more Interest than any other Is 
Leonard W. Bacon’s The Heal Prisoner of Ohll- 
lon: to those who know of tuts historic personage 
only through the medium uf Byron’s poem, Mr. 
Bacon’s article will be a revelation. Margaret 
B. Wright gives an Insight, Into Parisian student- 
life in her An Atelier oe Uiunea. chang-Howand 
Anarlcy by Jennie Woodllle Is an amusing ac¬ 
count or an attempted fusion of the Celestial and 
Negro races. The other short stories are, a Bird 
Story by Wm M. F. Round; Aunt Edith’s Foreign 
Lover by Mary W. Fisher. There Is an interesting 
instalLmentof thoserlal For PerclvaL A Levantine 
Picnic; Popular Marriage customs In Sicily,by 
Gulseppe Pitre; Census of 18S0, by Henry Stone; 
TheTdyl of tlie V riclouse by UL- •lotto Adams; 
A Tartar “ Fight,” by David Her, and Monthly 
Gossip and Literature of the Day, complete a 
most Interesting number of this popular maga¬ 
zine. 
“Souk War Scenes Revisited,” by T. W. flig- 
glnsou In Atlantic for July, contains much that 
will interest those who are curious to learn the 
effect of freedom on the late slave negroes of the 
South. The samo magazine contains The Will 
of Peter the Great and the Eastern Question, by 
Allan B. Magrudor, a most Interesting and timely 
article. The first Installment of Henry James’, 
Europeans, promises well; Mosuum Seta Yo; or. 
Womans Sacrifice, by N, T. Kaucko, a Japanese 
story, is a novelty in magazine literature; St. 
George’s Company, by H. E. Scudder, Is an ac¬ 
count of the society the eccentric John Rus- 
kln proposes to found. Weak Sight,, by H. 0. 
Angell M. D., Americanisms, by R, W. White, 
besides poems, the Contributors Club and notlcos 
of recent literature go to make up a most enter¬ 
taining number. 
Thb Popular Science Monthly for July, is a 
notublB number. The leading article, by Prof. 
Du Hols-Raymond, on “ Civilization and Science,” 
shows the relations ot science and civilization in 
a new light. He makes ft brilliant argument, and 
is most happy in illustration. Prof. Tyndall tells 
of “ Recent Experiments on Fog Signals,” giving 
a series of interesting experiments, notablv the 
marked results of exploding guu-uotton from 
rockets lu air, as an effectual means of producing 
powerful 8 QUu( 1 waves. Mr. Geo. Chahoon has 
a “ Warning for Destroyers of Our Forests.” He 
shows that our water-supply Is dependent on 
keeping our forests Intact—especially spruce 
forests. He makes some original points nor, here¬ 
tofore advanced, to our kuowledtro. Pror. Tenney, 
In “Seaside Studies,” (illustrated), treats of 
anemones, eto. The question of “Pain la Hang¬ 
ing ” la Bhown to be no question at all. There Is 
no palu, at least Dr. Stacy so maintains. Wo are 
glad ot it. Mr. R. G. Eccles, plain “ Mister,” takes 
up “ Radical Fallacy of Materialism,” and demon¬ 
strates, to our complete satisfaction, that con¬ 
sciousness Is not matter, is not energy, Is not a 
combination of these qualities; m short, puts the 
soul above everything. Ills a strongly argued 
P a l>er. The whole number la very Interesting 
and brimful of popular science. 
Sunday Afternoon, July number, Is a very 
readable volume but not, we think, up to the 
average level of this exceptionally good maga¬ 
zine. The editor breaks a lance with sundry 
carping religious papers, andBhows pretty clearly 
that the scope and atm of his journal Is certalnLv 
as “ religious ” as anything offered under de¬ 
nominational cloaks. The serials continue, 
and Rose T. Cooke does a “ Funeral Paalm.” C. H. 
Richards usVs, “Have we a Christian State?” 
and C. II. Woodworth has a paper on “The 
Protestants i)t Russia.” Mr. Gilman enters the 
arena with, “What Is the Use or an Alphabet?” 
and Olive A. Wadsworth talks about “Little 
Pilklns.” We think an Investment In Sunday 
Afternoon would bo a whoiesome move, and 
recommend it. 
BRIC-A-BRAC. 
GRAMMATICAL SMILES. 
A Correspondent of the New England Journal 
has collected the following specimens of false 
syntax: 
An Iowa editor thus acknowledges a present 
ot grapes; “ We have recleved a basket of 
grapes from our friend W., for which he wlU 
accept our compliments some of which are nearly 
two Inches lu diameter.” 
One of Sir Boyle Roche’s Invitations to an Irish 
nobleman was rather equivocal, lie writes: “ t 
hope, my Lord, if you ever come within a mile of 
my house you will stay there aU night.” 
A coroner's verdict reads thus: “ The deceased 
came to his death by excessive drinking, produc¬ 
ing apoplexy in the minds of the jury.” 
A correspondent In writing of a. recent conven¬ 
tion in the city of Cleveland, says: “ The- pro¬ 
cession was very fine, and nearly two miles loug, 
as was also the report of Dr. Perry, the chaplain.’’ 
In the annual report of a town In Massachu¬ 
setts we find the following : “Thetown farm¬ 
house and alms-house have been carried on the 
past year to our reasonable satisfaction, espe¬ 
cially the alms-housse, at which there have been 
an unusual amount or sickness and three deaths.” 
A Western paper says: “ A child was run 
over by a wagon three years old, and cross-eyed, 
with pantalets on, which never spoke after¬ 
wards.” 
a swarm op n ices. 
B patient, B prayerful, B bumble. B mild ; 
B wise a« a Solon, B meek as a child ; 
B studious, B thoughtful, B levin*, B kind; 
B sure you malts i-at'er subservient to mind ; 
B cautious, B prudent, B trustful, B true, 
B temperate in argiunent, pleasure and wiue, 
B careful of conduct, of money, of time, 
B cheerful, B grateful, B hopeful, B firm, 
B peaceful, benevolent, willing to learn ; 
B courageous, B gentle, B liberal, B just, 
B aeplrlug. JB humble, because thou art dust: 
B penitent, circumspect, sound in the faith, 
B active, dnvotod, B faithful till death. 
B honest. B holy, transparent and pure; 
B dependent, B virtuous, and you’ll B secure. 
POISONING BY BURNING GAS. 
To have our rooms pleasantly Illuminated with 
gas Is to undbfgo a process of poisoning, the more 
disastrous because, Instead or directly producing 
the characteristic symptoms of defective blood 
oxygenation, the gas-polluted atmosphere Insidi¬ 
ously lowers the tone of vitality, and establishes 
a condition favorable to disease. It would he diffi¬ 
cult to overrate the importance of this household 
peril. Pictures are spoiled by gas, gilt moldings 
are tarnished, the colors or decorated walls and 
ceilings fade, and men and women of delicate or¬ 
ganization are enfeebled and Injured by the foul 
air In which gas Is discharged and supposed to 
burn lrinoVousty. The extent to which this evil 
works in the midst, of domesticated families dur¬ 
ing the long evenings is not adequately appreci¬ 
ated. After the first few unpleasant experiences 
are over, the physical sensibility becomes in¬ 
ured to the Immediate results ot breathing an 
atmosphere charged, more or less heavily, with 
the products oi combustion and unconsumed coal 
gas. It Is not creditable to the ingenuity or prac¬ 
tical men that no method has yet been devised by 
which the advantages ot g°s as an Illuminating 
agent maybe secured without the drawback of 
slow poisoning, with the host of maladies a de¬ 
pressed vitality'Is sure to bring lu Its train.—[Lon¬ 
don Lancet. 
ONE DAY. 
Give me Joy, give me Joy, O my friends, 
For once in my Life has a day 
Passed over my head and out of my sight. 
And my soul has naught to unsay. 
No querulous word to the fair little child 
Who drew me from study to play ; 
No murmuring word to the beautiful wife, 
The angel who walks by my way ; 
No snappish reply to the hundred and one 
Who question me gTaveiy aud gay, 
No angry retorts to those who misjudge 
And desire not u nay, but a yea ; 
No word to the beggar I faiu would take back 
No word to tbo tenant at bay; 
No word, though I know I remember them all, 
Which t would, if I could, e’er unsay. 
Give me Joy, give me Joy, O my friends. 
For the patience that lasted all day! 
[Christian Leader.. 
WHISKY DRINKING IN NEW YORK. 
A New York correspondent says: The pro¬ 
prietor of the Metropolitan Hotel told me that 
his bar receipts were $175 a day. If we suppose 
the average receipts at the bars to be fiO a day, 
about $280,000 would have been spent every day 
for Uquor in New York by tipplers alone. Tb)s 
la equal to $70,000,000 a year. It Is computed 
that 1.860,000,000 drinks are taken In New York, 
and a tariff off two cents <m spirits aud halt a 
cent on ale will aggregate $9,lOO,uoi) city revenue. 
We spend rorl quors in the United states $735,- 
000,000 a y ear, or nearly tour limes the cost of 
ruuuiug the geueral government; and yet the 
English exceed us la guzzllug by $59,000,000. 
Tying her bonnet under her chin, 
She tied her roving ringlets in. 
But not alone in the silken snare 
Did she catch her lovely floating hair ; 
For, tying her bonnet under her chin. 
She tied a young man’s heart within. 
[Nora Perru . 
Nearly one thousand years old.— Alcohol 
was Invented 950 years ago in Arabia, and was 
used by ladles with a powder for painting their 
facea. since that time it has beeu used mainly 
by gentlemeu tor painting their noses, and used 
lu a plalu state because they required no powder 
to fire them off. 
k 
Jfor 18 omen, 
CONDUCTED BY MISS FAITH RIPLEY 
THE FARMER’S WIFE. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
Up in the morning at dawn of day. 
Then hardly time to her Maker to pray. 
Milking her oows with a “(Jo, boss, co,” 
Under her feet no grass can grow. 
Busy, so busy, and this her song— 
" The summer is short, and the winter long.” 
Old in her youth, often weary of life. 
Bless her! God help her! the farmer’s wife. 
Chickens to feed, such a hungry crowd. 
Calves to be teutled of which she in proud. 
Bread of the lightest and sweetest to bake. 
Butter the golden, and fragrant to iuaku; 
Honey, like amber, to strain and to clear, 
Fruit, to preserve In ite season each year, 
Cheese to pree*. aud to turn each day, 
Bless her! God bless her! we sigh, as we say. 
Washing and ironing to do each week, 
Hundreds of things that a pen cannot speak; 
Cook and confectioner, seamstress, is she. 
Dairymaid, housemaid, and teacher to be, 
Nurse, and physician, and preacher, at home, 
City of refuge when erring ones roam. 
“ She hath done what she could,” short her life’s little 
day. 
BlesB her I God help her ! my friends let us pray. 
-- 
MABEL’S HOMILY ON PARLORS. 
J. E. M’C. 
“ When I get a bird and “ a nest,” said Howard, 
.“I’ll have no parlor in It. See what a fuss this 
room makes for you, cousin Mabel,—twice a year, 
at least, i’ll warrant. There, ma’am, there Is the 
last tack pounded down, and I’m not sorry. When 
will you have the Things hove in 7” 
“Right away,” sil l Mabel, delightedly; “ while 
I have such excellent help. What a good thing 
you happened to drive over just as you did; though 
I will admit you have grumbled amazingly,—ror 
yon, i mean cousin Howard. Such an even-tem¬ 
pered, peaceable man aa you are, I didn’t know 
anything could bring you down to the common¬ 
place level with the rest of us.” 
“ Much obliged for your good oplnloo, Mrs. Mac. 
But seriously, Mabel, what is the use ot this 
room, anyhow, when you have such a cosy sitting- 
room across the hall ? Any one with sense, would 
ten limes rather sit down there and chat and en¬ 
joy hlmseir.” 
“You talk exactly like a man,” said Mabel, as 
If that was saying about all tuere was to say with 
regard to ineompetency of judgment respecting 
household affairs. “ How would It answer to oak 
the prim Miss Watson,or the stately Mrs. Burners 
Into my sitting-room, to find tnat your namesake 
had four chairs tied together for a line of cars, 
and Mllly had sprinkled cut papers all over the 
carpet7” 
“First-rate; they would, of course, make allow¬ 
ances, knowing It was your family room.” 
“You remind me,” said Mabel, as she carefully 
wiped and put in their places some pretty mantel 
ornaments, “of & celebrated musician who was 
asked to play on a piano out of tune. He was 
told that ‘the audience would make allowances.’ 
‘Ah! that ts what people never do.’ he answered. 
‘Nobody makes allowances, they always expect 
you to bo at your best.’ It is twice as true about 
the housekeeper. Nobody makes any allowance 
for her, or at least that sort of people Is so scarce 
you would need to go out In the daytime with a 
lantern to hunt them, as Diogenes kuuted for an 
honest man.” 
44 A cosy little parlor, fresh and pretty, and shut 
up and lacked up, if necessary, Is a great promoter 
of peace In t he housekeeper’s mind. If she Is ever 
so busy and her work is In the most unfinished 
state, and If the children have been made happy 
by the freedom of the living-rooms, there is the 
parlor aU • set aside ’ ready for any chance caller. 
There are a good many other luxuries we could 
give up before that. So don’t flatter yourself, 
young man, that your wife will consent to abol¬ 
ish the parlor, at least uutll society can be reor¬ 
ganized.” 
“ It Is agood thing for the children, too, to have 
some spot they are obliged to respect* and that It 
Is a special treat to have thrown open to them on 
birth-days, and at holiday times. I know It does 
them good and makes them happier and better. 
Now, sir, what do you aay to mv homily on par¬ 
lors,—looks as pink as a rose, doesn’t the room?-’ 
she added, stepping hack to the door, and survey¬ 
ing her work with housewifely pride.” 
“ I say, let’s adjourn,” said Howard, “ anti go to 
the other room, where we can He off at our ease, 
and get out the fishing tackle, for I must have 
some fish yet, for supper, If you have kept me so 
long over that old parlor.” 
“ 1 do heUeve your foot seems ou your native 
heath where you can stir a room up from Lip to 
bottom, but you have been such a good, helpful, 
old cousin this afternoon I’ll give you leave, v-ju 
know where to find John's tackle, but do be care¬ 
ful, Howard, about your fish-hooks. I am about 
as afraid of them as I would be of a loaded pistol, 
with that crawling baby about the floor.” 
A MOTHER’S HEART. 
These are Mrs. Besant’s thoughts about the 
robbery of her child : 
“ Sir George Jessel is a Jew ; he thinks that a 
parent should be deprived of a child If he or she 
withholds from It religious training. Two hun¬ 
dred years ago, Sir George Jessel’s children might 
have been taken from him because he did not 
bring them up ns Chrtstalns: str Geo. Jessel and 
his race have been relieved from disabilities, and 
he now Joins the persecuting majority, and deals 
out to the atheist the same measure dealt to his 
forefathers by the Christians. The Master of the 
Rolls pretended that by depriving moot my child 
he was Inflicting no punishment on me. If the 
Master of the Rolls has any children he must be as 
hard-hearted In the home as on the bench, If ho 
would not feel that any penalty was Inflicted on 
him If his little ones were tom from him and 
banded over to a Christian priest, who would 
teach them to despise him as a Jew aud hate 
him as a denier of Christ, Even now Jews are 
under many social disabilities, and rlchly-gllt 
Christian society hi^ks upon them with thinly- 
concealed dislike. The old wicked prejudice still 
survives against the m, and It is with shame and 
with disgust that liberals see a Jew trying to 
curry ravor with Christian society by reviving 
the obsolete penalties once inflicted on his own 
people. O* one thing Sir George Jessel and his 
Christian friends may be sure, that neither pros¬ 
ecution nor penalty will prevent me from teach¬ 
ing both my religious beller and ray social doc¬ 
trine to all who will listen to me, and since Chris¬ 
tianity is still so bigoted as to take the child from 
the mother because of a difference of creed, I 
will strain every nerve to convert the men and 
women around me, and more especially the 
young, toaereed more worthy ot humanity. 
Sir George Jessel prefunded to have the child’s 
Interests at heart; in reaHty he utterly ignored 
them. I offered to settle £110 a year on the child 
If she were placed In the charge of some trust¬ 
worthy aud respectable person, but the Master 
did not even notice t ie offer. He takes away the 
child from plenty and comfort, and throws her 
into comparative poverty ; he takes her away 
from the most tender and watchful care, and 
places her under the guardianship of a man so 
reckless of her health, that he chose the moment 
ot her serious Illness to ask for her removal; he 
takes her away from cultured and thoughtful so¬ 
ciety to place her among halt-educared farmers. 
Nny.be goes further: Dr. Drysdale's affidavit 
stated that It was absolutely necessary at present 
that she should have a mother’s care; and Sir 
George Jessel disregards this, and In her still 
weak state, drags her from her home and from 
all sne cares for and throws her into the hands of 
strangers, if any serious results rollow, sir 
George Jessel wlUhe morally, though not legally 
responsible for them. In her new home she can 
have no gentle womanly attendance No Chris¬ 
tian lady ot high character will risk the miscon¬ 
struction to which she would be exposed by liv¬ 
ing alone at Slbsey vicarage with a young clergy¬ 
man who Is neither a bachelor nor a widower. 
The child will be condemned either to solitary 
neglect at home, or to the cold strictness of a 
boarding-school. She Is bright, gay, intelligent, 
merry, now. What will she be at a year’s end ? 
My worn wish for Sir George Jessel is that the 
measure he has meted out to me may, before he 
dies, be measured out. to him or his.” 
COMMENDED TO MOTHERS, 
In the Interests of the Children. 
Do you not think that we are apt to underrate 
the amount of help which the little ones are able 
to give us? And when the children see that 
their efforts are appreciated, how willingly they 
seem and how anxious to do their very best! But 
we must remember that what may be mole-hills 
or trouble to U3, are mountains of difficulty to the 
inexperienced, unpractised hands; and we must 
only give them such tasks as are suitable to their 
strength and capacity. Ia a household where 
the majority ot the work devolves upon their 
mother, how much better it would be If a •;-rt.nln 
share were allotted to each child, and the little 
one held responsible for the proper performance 
of Its task. 
I have a neighbor, a widow with a large family 
of children, who seldom hires help, aud also finds 
time for exchanging friendly calls with her neigh¬ 
bors aud doing many kind deeds ot charity, and 
yet her house Is the perfection ot neatness, and 
her children tastefully dressed. The two oldes’, 
girls of fourteeu and twelve, make the beds and 
put the rooms In order. Charley feeds the chick¬ 
ens and does some weeding, while the youngest, 
a boy ot nine and a girl ot seveu, wash the break¬ 
fast dishes and lay them In the closet. All this 
time “mother” Is free to atteud to the calls of 
the bucther or grocer, gets the churn ready, or 
kneads the dough Into wholesome loaves, and a 
thousand other things that are the better for be¬ 
ing attended to In the early morning. 
Before school-time the house Is in order, and 
“ mother” Is left to wash or iron or sew as it may 
happen, and lhe busy B’s are off to school as 
happy us If no suc‘i clung as work was known. 
1 must not forget to mention one rule which this 
wise little woman observed and to which she at¬ 
tributes the readiness with which the children 
accomplish their tasks. She never encroaches 
upon the children’s hours of play. After school 
la done they are perfectly tree from all care un- 
tU evening. 
This Is no fancy sketch, but a veritable, i bough 
very poor, descrlptlon^ot a family that were my 
neighbors for years. Busy Brains. 
Some years ago at Port Shleldsborough, Miss., a 
man held the position of Collector of the Port, 
aud while in office became afflicted with softeu- 
log of the brain. Under these circumstances his 
wife per.ormed all the duties of the place for five 
years faithfully attending to every detail. Dur¬ 
ing three years of the time her husband was 
bedridden and helpless, but when he at last died 
and the widow petitioned to be continued in the 
position, her application was refused, although 
her application set forth how she had virtually 
acted as Collector for a long period and had now 
a rimtlvof children dependent on her tor sup¬ 
port. And alinougb the paper was endorsed by 
lhe leading citizens or the piece, and by the two 
Senators iroin Mississippi. Mr. BotltwelJ, at, tnat 
inue Secretary oi lhe luierlor, returned the pe- 
tltiou uugranted. expressing Ids regret <n his Ina¬ 
bility to comply with it, but stattog that, the law 
was explicit—“ No one not an elector could hold 
the position or collector of a Port.” 
