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THE BUBAL NEW-YOBKIR. JULY 91 
less majority, as day after day they listened to the 
same dismal groans of the burdened vessel; the 
creaking of the chains, and the monotonous “Oho! 
oheo i" of the sailors, tugging at the rigging. Nor 
was the food calculated to tempt their appetites. 
At six In the morning and evening the steward 
announced “ coffee-water.” Many in preference 
to the black, bitter octree, break their hard-tack 
into a pan, add a little salt and butter, then have 
their hot water poured over all, thus making a 
kind of soup. The noon-day meals are alternate¬ 
ly, rice and potatoes, barley and prunes, lentils 
and dumplings of flour, and pork and beans. The 
two dishes are always mixed and boiled In an Im¬ 
mense kettle into a thin pudding; then It is meas¬ 
ured out in suitable quantities tor each family. 
The salt herring, unsavory butter, and hardest of 
hard-tack, which is distributed once a week, com¬ 
plete the not very tempting bill of fare. 
Occasionally, on a moonlight night, the violin 
and guitar of some of t ue passengers were coaxed 
out and then the deck was transformed Into a 
dancing floor, with the girls, the students and 
even the sailors oil duty on the ** Ugbt fantastJo 
toe.” Then, too, the most miserable would ven¬ 
ture out on deck and watch the merry circle, or 
gaze Into the moonlight waves and gather fresh 
hope as the good ship bravely plows the deep, and 
the friendly capt aln pauses here and Lhere to point 
out to them the floating masses of sea-weed and 
the birds soaring around the mast as sure Indies 
tlon o, the nearness or land. 
“ Land ahoy 1” The welcome news from the 
watchman went, rrom mouth to mouth. In a short 
time every body had rushed on deck to see nothing 
after all but more sea weed and birds. But the cap- 
talu leveled bis glass straight ahead and a satisfac¬ 
tory smile passed over his face as he expressed the 
result of his observations In a cheerful “Keep look¬ 
ing, good people, keep looking.” And they did 
most peraevertngly. The minutes wore into hours, 
the morning into noou, yet not one had stirred 
from Its point or observation. At last a Taint emi¬ 
nence appeared In the distant, wave-skirted ho¬ 
rizon; their anxious races lighted and simultan¬ 
eously a hundred hats were waved, and the whole 
assembly burst Into the Joyous salute. “America! 
vlvat America 1” The sick, the aged and the tittle 
ones were helped up to feast their eyes In silent, 
tearful Joy upon their future home. 
The following day there was a general clearing 
up of one’s goods Straw mattrasses, old blankets, 
tin pans and kettles were thrown overboard with 
great satisfaction. The custom house officers 
next proceeded with their Investigation without 
any difficulty until they came to the feather 
bundles. No reasoning and gesticulations of the 
peasant women could Induce him to desist fiom 
searching them. In plunged the official arm and 
out flew the feathers, to the dismay and Indigna¬ 
tion of the owner. 
We left our German emigrants at Castle Gar¬ 
den enjoying huge slices of bread and cbeese 
while watting for the train that Is to take them 
westward, where we know they will, by honest 
Industry, Boon create pleasant homes and add to 
the wealth and strength of the New World 
THE WORLD’S FAIR. 
Fob two years a constant agitation has been 
kept up In New York for the holding of an inter¬ 
national Exhibition In this country In 1883. The 
dwellers In towns remote have, during this period, 
heard but little of the labors of the handful of pub* 
lie-sprlted men, who have persistently carrrled 
forward the movement to the point it lias now 
reached. Patiently and prudently tuey have gone 
on from stage to stage, having the satisfaction at 
each successive step to witness a decided advance 
In all the essential elements of sucoess. The hold¬ 
ing of an International Exnibltlon in this oountry 
in 1883 is now an assured fact. The initiatory dif¬ 
ficulties inseparably connected with a scheme of 
such magnitude, particularly those in regard to the 
obtaining ol necessary legislation, have all been 
overcome, and the preliminary arrangements and 
complete organization oi the United states Inter¬ 
national Exhibition commission In 1883 are being 
pushed forward to a speedy completion. A special 
act of congress providing for me holding of tueh 
exhibition has been obtained; bills have been 
passed in the New York .Legislature granting to 
the Commissioners who may be appointed powers 
to acquire such lands, etc., as may be requisite, 
and the Governors oi the several States are rapid¬ 
ly nominating Commissioners to asoist the project 
to a successiul termination. The plan oi the pro¬ 
posed exposition Is on a Beale or such magnitude 
that It completely eclipses everything of the kind 
In tue past, and may probably never be surpassed 
In the future, and me movement has now entered 
upon a career of popular recognition and public 
favor which guarantee the ultimate accomplish¬ 
ment of all its projectors have hopea to realize. 
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RECENT LITERATURE. 
The Undiscovered Country. By William D. 
Howells. 1 vok, tamo, <U.oii. Boston: Houghton, 
Muhm fit Co. 
Mr. ilo wells ranks among the foremost Ameilcan 
novelists, ills marvelous faculty for observing, 
ana ins rare skill in depicting character and de¬ 
scribing scenery; the delicate sympathy with 
which ue treats the persons who figure in his nov¬ 
els; and tue exqulsiie literary art which adorns 
whatever no touches, supplemented by a noble re¬ 
finement which pervades ills stories, make the ad¬ 
miration and deiigut oi his numerous readers. 
“ The Undiscovered Country ” is, beyond ques¬ 
tion, the greatest novel Mr. Jlowells has yet writ¬ 
ten. it has the graceful and unarming qualities of 
his previous stories, aud, In audition, It introduces 
subjects 01 proiounder interest. Tne treatment of 
Spiritualism is masterly aud exceedingly engag¬ 
ing ; and tne description of me among the shakers, 
wlih tne Incidental statement of their peculiar 
views is admirable. 
The love-making is well represented, with 
warmth of hearty support and with perfect refine¬ 
ment. 
The excellent humor and observation of natu¬ 
ral scenes are as marked In this as In other novels 
by the same author. Popularity and permanent 
Interest may be expected as the author’s reward 
for this production. 
jlla.il Propose*. A novel of American Life. 16 mo. 
Cloth $ 1 . Boston: Lee & Shepard. Publishers. 
This is an anonymous novel. Its plot Is original 
and Interesting throughout. The characters are 
well drawn, and the writer shows skill In con¬ 
trasting them. The general tone la extremely 
natural; the home and army scenes are portrayed 
in a light which reflects them clearly. 
To be brief, readers can scarcely fall to be 
pleased with the style In which this story Is 
written. 
Tlie Temperance Light. A Now Collection ol 
Gospel Temperance Hymn* and Sacred Songs By 
G. C. HukE and M. E. Sarvoss. Boston: Oliver Bit- 
son A Co. 
TblB is a. cheap (toct.) Temperance collection, 
whose price will at once commend It, as Its con¬ 
tents are not at all “cheap." but evidently care¬ 
fully selected and condensed. There are thirty- 
two tunes, and the words and music were procur¬ 
ed of twenty-seven different writers. It will be 
seen that two or three dollars will procure quite 
enough bookB for an ordinary “ reform club.” 
ThankBKiving and Other Poems. By Agatha. 
Price $J.2j>. New Vara : G. Putnain’a Sons. 
The opening poem, “Thanksgiving,” Is written 
In a pleasing manner, and the home scenes of a 
preparation for and a gathering of the family In 
the country homestead to celebrate Thanksgiving 
season Is depicted In a peculiarly natural way. 
The other poems are good and well worthy a per¬ 
usal. 
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VARIETIES. 
Charity.— How noiselessly the snow comes 
down i You may see It, feel It, but never hear it. 
Such Is true charity. 
Civilized Poultry.— Among the announcements 
of articles offered for exchange In a paper devoted 
to such transactions there appears the following: 
“ Wanted, a drawing-room suite for two portable 
fowl-houses on wheels." 
Music Is an art which strengthens the bonds of 
civilized society, humanizes and softens the feel¬ 
ings and dispositions of men, produces a refined 
pleasure In tne mind, and tends to raise up in the 
soul emotions ot an exalted nature.—Brougham. 
Rhine pebbles mounted In sliver, and as brilliant 
as diamonds, are used for the ornamental darts, 
arrows, ana daggers that are now tnrusi through 
the loops and braids or elaborate coiffures. 1 he 
same showy white stones are also used for belt 
clasps, small buckles for satin slippers, and lor 
lizard Drooches that serve to pin a scarf of lace, or 
to hold a bouquet on the corsage. 
A Maine man who didn’t care two shakes of a 
lamb's tall about the newspapers rode fourteen 
miles through a fierce snow storm to get. a oopy of 
a weekly that spoke of him as “a prominent citi¬ 
zen.”—Boston Post, 
Dr. Tanner, the fasting prodigy, Is an English¬ 
man by birth, and came to this country when sev¬ 
enteen years old. lie Is a well-preserved specimen 
of nervous-sanguine man, with excessively strong 
will-power. He has iron, gray hair and sharp fea¬ 
tures, and looks much more like a Yankee than an 
Englishman. 
"Here, somebody, quick! Where’s an editor, 
anybody, quick I” and catching sight ot the porter 
he went for him, and grabbing btni by the collar 
he holloed: “ Bay, what natural in animal his¬ 
tory—pshaw! What history In natural animal, I 
mean, at least, wnat animal In natural history 
does Chill resemble at present ? Give it up ? Why, 
the lammer of Peru, of course!” and with a wild 
and idiotic laugn he disappeared down the com¬ 
mon street stairs Oeiore he could be identified.— 
N. Y. Graphic. 
The question has recently been discussed with 
considerable earnestness oy several scientists, 
wnether marriage la conducive to longevity and a 
caeca upon crime and insanity, one of tne latest 
autuonues takes tne ground that the statistics 
heretoiore adduced as apparent prod of the Dene- 
nciai effects of marriage are not truatwortny, and 
that two of me points most cerialniy decided are, 
mat youmfui marriages, either of women or men, 
are not conducive to longevity, and, second, mat 
widows and widow., ra die more rapidly man eltner 
single or married peisens of corresponding age. 
it is also said mat it is a flagrant error to rusfl into 
marriage under the supposition lUat tendencies to 
criminality or Insanity will be checked by such 
action. 
The glass of soda and the looking-glass resemble 
each other, i’ ou can see me soda s uzz in the one> 
and your own phiz la the other.—Boston Tran¬ 
script. 
Tnere Is at Brussells a curious case or chrome 
drowsiness. A man aoout 45 years ol age, appar¬ 
ently in perfect nealth, nas lately been attacked 
by an irresistible tendency to sleep. As soon as 
he stops walking or seats himself even to eat he 
rails into a deep siumber. All me remedies pre¬ 
scribed by the leading Belgian physicians have 
failed to produce any effect upon him This Is 
said to be the first case of me kind la Europe, al¬ 
though such cases are by no means rare among 
the negroes ot Guinea, who call mem Nelavan. 
An Innocent youth from the public school brlDgs 
Ills bleeding knuckles to hia mother, asking tor 
her sympathy : 
•* How were they damaged ?” asks the lady. 
“ Oh, only against me other fellow’s cheek¬ 
bone.” 
“ Poor fellow , how is his cheek-bone ?” 
The scholar retires in Indignation at the glar¬ 
ing absurdities of the female logic. 
The tribunal of the Justice of the peace, of Ge¬ 
neva, Switzerland, has given judgment In a case 
between a servant and a master who gave each 
day the money for bread. The servant put the 
money In his pocket and ran up a bill at the 
baker’s; the tribunal decided that the baker had 
acted imprudently, but that a master Is not re¬ 
sponsible for the debts contracted In his name, 
without his knowledge, by a servant. American 
tradesmen would suffer considerably It the law 
was so translated nere. But who can say It Is not 
Just? 
Charles Diokkns once wrote to Sir John Ben¬ 
nett the letter which has lately been published In 
the London Dally News: “ My Dear sir-since my 
hall-clock was sent to your establishment to be 
cleaned, It has gone (as, Indeed It always has) per¬ 
fectly well but has struck the hour with great 
reluctance: and, afrer enduring Internal agonies 
of a most distressing nature, It has now ceased 
striking altogether. Though a happy release to 
the clock, this Is not convenient to the household. 
If you can send dowu any confidential man with 
whom the clock can confer, I think it may have 
sometlflug on Its works that it would be glad to 
make a clean breast of.—Falthiull.v yours, Charles 
Dickens.” 
A little girl has been absent two weeks with 
her parents at a camp-meeting, on her re¬ 
turn home her Uttie playmate, Ella Day, enter¬ 
tained her by showing her her new playthings. 
At night, little Mary, In saying her prayers, said: 
“ O Lord, bless Ella Day, and make her a good 
girl, so I can take all her playthings away from 
her, and she won’t want them back again.” 
-- 
BHIC-A-BRAC. 
“ Tell us not in mournful numbers 
Life is but an empty dream ” 
When milk 1 b seven cents a cjuart 
And raises mighty little cream. 
The mysteries of a baby’s toilet were altogether 
new to a little four-year-old, and he carefully 
watched the bathlug and dressing of his little 
cousin. When the little powder-box was open, 
and the fluffy brush was about to be used un¬ 
derneath the baby’e chin, he exclaimed: “ Oh, 
aunty, let me see you salt her.” 
A rosinoN in life 
At all worth the naming, 
If you gain it, ’twill greatly 
Depend on your aiming. 
“ Yes," said a fresh girl at a show, “ 1 know my 
beau goes out between acts, but he's nice and 
never drinks anything but a cup of coffee, be¬ 
cause 1 can always smell It as plain as day, and I 
'know the smell ot coffee trotn beer or whisky, it I 
am a little bit green.” It Is a very happy thing 
for a young man to have a girl’s confidence. 
From a grave-yard In Conway, Mass.: 
“ Hero iiee little Willie 
Fair ae a lily, 
God for him sent. 
And we let him went." 
A fond mother wants to learn how her son will 
‘ ‘turn out. ” That’s easily done. If he’s wanted to 
go out and weed the garden, he will “turn out” 
slowly and reluctantly and be two hours dressing. 
If he’s called to see a circus procession go by he’ll 
probably “turn out” quick and hurt himself trying 
to come down stairs anil put a boot, on at the same 
time.—Lowell Sun. 
A tender young potato bug 
Sat swinging on a vine. 
And sighed unto a maiden bug: 
” I pray you will be miue." 
Then softly spake the maiden bug: 
" I love you fond and true. 
But 0, my cruel-hearted Par 
Won’t let me marry you." 
With scorn upon his buggy brow, 
With glances cold aud keen, 
That haughty lover answered her: 
" I think your Par-is-greou." 
A NEW PUZZLE, 
A correspondent furnishes the following puzzle: 
“ a sharp youth fresh from school having gone to 
visit a good-natured uncle, the latter placed on a 
table fifteen fine oranges and fifteen apples and 
desired fits young friend to take halt; he, not lik¬ 
ing the apples, was about to take the fifteen or¬ 
anges : but this monopoly of the best fruit bemg 
objected to, the old gentleman told him to range 
all the fruit In a circle and take away every ninlli. 
The clever fellow ranged them m such a way, that 
by taking away every ninth, all the apples were 
left on the table, and the oranges transferred to 
his pocket." _ 
A clothes-line is a harmless thing 
When stretched from pole to pole; 
Until you step across the yard 
And step into a hole. 
Then, as you makes forward lunge, 
It stops you, so to speak. 
And throws you down and jerks you to 
The middle of neck’s tweak. 
- Keokuk Gate City. 
An article Is going the rounds entitled “ What 
Kissing Really Is.” Gentlemen, there's no use in 
trying to explain what It is, for you can’t. Be 
satisfied that It Is and always will be.—Kentucky 
State Journal. 
A toung lady who Is studying French, lately 
wrote to her parents that she was luvlicd to a 
dejeuner the day before, and was going to a Me 
c./iuin)wtre the next day. The professor of the 
college was surprised to receive a dispatch from 
the “ old mau" a day or two after saying: “ if 
you don’t keep my daughter away from these 
menagarles and side shows, 1 will come down and 
see what alls her,”—Pittsburgh Telegraph, 
Jor fflomra. 
CONDUCTED BY MISS RAY CLARK. 
LITTLE FEET. 
Little, Jolly, human feet, 
Caught iu gaiters trim aud neat, 
Tripping lightly o'er the ground, 
Just the echo of a sound, 
Bearing dawn the great highway 
Little maiden lithe and gay. 
Lustrous, beaming, asking eyes. 
Catching facta; demurely wise; 
Scattering sunbeams everywhere; 
Witching, winsome, wondrous pair, 
Guiding down the busy street 
Little maiden's fairy feet. 
What her errand, what her task ? 
Bold the one who’d livhtly ask. 
Scarce she breathes it to herself, 
Earnest, hasting little elf, 
Gliding down tho crowded way. 
Little maid, with feet of fay. 
Wondrous secret! Faithful heart, 
Little woman's cunning art. 
Not by glance or look or word 
Shows she what her heart iB stirred; 
Stirred her heart, and sent her feet, 
Swiftly down the busy street. 
Here she enters; we without 
Stop to find her secret out. 
See! she buys a great wax-doll 1 
Errauds done; yee, that is all. 
Clasps, and hastens up ihe street. 
Joyous maid with little feet. 
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DON’T! 
BY MARGARET B. HARVEY. 
Don’t get discouraged. This, however, I confess 
I am saying for other people, because at the pres¬ 
ent writing i feel very much cast down. 1 don’t 
think I ever had an article In any periodical 
printed precisely as I wrote It, but within the last 
week or so 1 have noticed, It seems to me, more 
errors than ever. 
i sometimes Imagine that whatever 1 accomplish 
by my pen is counteracted by the mistakes which 
lay me open to the suspicion of Ignorance and care¬ 
lessness. Though, as regards the latter, It is a 
well known fact that In trylDg to avoid one lault a 
writer often Inadvertently commits another. 
For instance, regarding causes of discourage¬ 
ment, In my article on Gentlemen Friends there is 
a word piloted “railing, whtoh I am sure r wrote 
raillery.” Quite a difference. 
By the way a friend criticises this sentence, 
“ Let no man touch you except when you shake 
hands." she wants to know how about dancing, 
assisting a lady Into a carriage, or, as young folks 
occasionally do, having a good game of romps. 
Why, say I, all right, of course. 1 only meant to 
Indicate Ln a general way what girls ought to do, 
leaving ranch to their own judgment. 
Shall I say over again, Don’t be discouraged ? 
Indeed, I shall try not to he. 
Don’t whitewash the trees and rockeries ln your 
lawn and garden. The white glare or the lime, 
these hot* sunny days, Is something the human 
eye was not Intended to stand, ir you must have 
whitewash, have as little of it as you cun; fences 
and chicken-coops are proper objects tor it. Be¬ 
sides, tfilok how unnatural are white trunks and 
stones, imagine tho rugged bark In the woods, and 
the soft gray of the wild ravine smeared over with 
a monotonous coat of the blinding mixture. 
Don't fill your vases with the dyed grasses, 
which, 1 suppose, will soon make their appearance, 
as they have done annually lor several years past. 
Who ever saw bright scarlet aud cobalt blue and 
sulphur yellow, growing out ln the field ln the 
shape or grass tints, either In one bunch or ln sev¬ 
eral, so near together as to admit of being tied up 
ln one ? There are already many beautiful grasses 
or the natural colors, why saould you want to Im¬ 
prove them 7 You only spoil them when you try. 
Dont wear your best silks and kid gloves this 
time of year. Put them away till Fall, and revei ln 
light cafico and lisle-thread. Simple attire Is al¬ 
ways In good taste for summer, f saw two little 
gins—young ladles—only this morning, dressed ln 
elegant white pique, trimmed with embroidery. 
But It vas soiluu and tuuihied-looking, and the 
fresh ribbons didn’t Improve it a bit. i couldn’t 
help thinking how much better would have looked 
plain ten-cent chlmz exquisitely done up. 
Don’t get your children flue ostrich plumes 
for their hats anu thereby deprive them of ihelr 
excursions on the river. Don’t give them sashes 
so wlue, that t hey can’t go to all the picnics. 
Adornment of the body sUould always be next 
to the last consideration, health and comiort next 
to the first. And let me add, don't glvo tnem so 
few changes of garments that they can’t make 
'mud-pies and paddie in tne creeks to their heart’s 
content. 
Don't have a haudsome bonnet locked uway and 
do without hluug a carriage, lor a long ride through 
tho lovely by-ways of your neighborhood, gain¬ 
ing health and happiness and inspiration. On 
If 1 coul. say all 1 tool. 
Don't eunch your wardrobe, so depriving your¬ 
self of books and pictures and concerts and 
pleasure trips, and above all the luxury of giving 
to others, in short, don't take from the Inner to 
add t/j the outer person. 
Don’t misunderstand me. I believe In dress 
rully. I don’t take the ground that adornment 
Is vanity and that a true woman ought to neglect 
her personal appearance, l built ve in judgment, 
ln moderation. 1 know of a young lady who has 
half a dozen fancy allk dresses, and not one in its 
first freshness, if she had an elegant black and 
perhaps a seal-brown or bcltle-gieen, ln place of 
them all, site could always appear well dressed 
and have quite a nice little sum besides. 
