Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-27
For the Spirit of the Age.

that your type-setter last week substi-
tuted the word accompanied" for my
word acquainted" at the commence
ment of my rambling letter and the
change did not improve the sense.
This day is French day, as yester-
day was German day, and the crowd
is increasing, so that the Peace Jubi-
lee may be pronounced not only n
success, but a decided triumph, be
yond all cayil The house is almost
entirely filed to-day, as it was yester-
day, the slips in the body Of the house
being filled, and the vacancies in little
spots in the galleries, The prices for
the galleries is now put down to three
dollars. but the reserved seats i'll gal
lcries are still five dollars.
Friday, Dist,
To-day is Austrian day, and here I
will mention that when you print the
name Of the famous musical composer
and leader from Vienna you had bet
ter call him Strauss, with two SIS in
stead Of a Z. Another word is spelt
uil.--The gentlemen representing
the press We're photographed at twelve
to-day. Three views were taken and
which will prove to be the right one,
don't know. Once did not know
what they were doing till it was near
ly over. Perhaps we shall be i'm
mortalized i'll picture, if not in song.
| am living in such crowds and noise
that it is almost impossible to put any
ideas together. | sometimes get hold
Of the tip end OF an idea and before |
find out what it really is, it vanishes.
Emerson in his essays has some sen
tences containing the mere glimmer-
ING Of an idea, like taking hold Of the
slippery end Of the tail Of an eel when
10 and behold the eel is gone and
you haven't cot him. / cant attempt
to describe and write up this music
| know nothing about it. When |
see handsome horse, or handsome
lady, or house, | know it instantly,
but | cant talk horse, nor write
music. As to the ladies, who can de-
scribe their merits and winsome ways?
| am inadequate to the task, and am
struck with awe as the magnitude of
the subject looms up before me.
To gid refined gold, to paint the lily.
To throw q perfume on the violet,
70 smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-hght
10 seek the beaiteOus eye Of heaven to
garnish,
Is wasteful, and ridiculous cxcess
For want Of something else to say
will now give an incident illustrating
the force and power of the law here in
. Boston. was going along Washing
ton ST., which was full Of ladies and
gentlemen and vehicles, when ! came
opposite young man in large one
horse wagon containing empty boxes
, which he had mloaded excepting two
small ones and by his being there
three or four teams and lady's car
riage were obliged to stop till he
moved. y policeman, a gentleman
like man, as they all are, went up to
the young man, and very quietly and
mildly said to him, 'you have been
here long enough" and the young
man, instead of trying to argue the
matter and saying that he had but
two boxes left, took up his lines in
st&ntly and dartcd off as though he
had been shot out of u gun, and he
probably drove around the block and
came to the place again as he did at
first and put out his two remaining
= boxes.-Another thing | noticed this
+ morning On the corner Of Washing
- ton and some other street the iron
rails on which the horse cars run had
become so much worn as to need re-
pair for a few rods, and a set of men
: brought some new rails for the curve
. around the corner took the old ones
, up and put the new ones down quick
er than you could walk from the
Eagle Hotel to the red bridge. They
did not send off somewhere for new
rails and then send them back again
because they were not right and get
another set and thus consume a week
the corner being impossible in the
mean time. The city of Boston does
no business in that way, but every
thing they may want is prepared care.
fully beforehand and laid up safely for
emergencies that may arise,-The
representatives of the press are in
= vited to meet Madam Leutner, the
i prima donna from Leipsic, Germany
whose pay is $4,000 for coming
here, and Herr Bendel and Frants
> Abt, tonight at s, at Piano Rooms O
Hallet, Davis & Co.
The performance has Just commenc
ed on national hymn, Angel Of Peace,
words by DR.. o. w. Holmes, by
Chorus, Organ, Orchestra and Bands
Strauss leads off in few minutes il
another Concert Waltz. He and hi
band and all the foreign bands arr
i, applauded highly and frequently call
!, ed out again, in some instances three
J times. The Band of the Grenadiel
:, Guards from London appears in thc
second part to-day for the secont
time, Mr. Dan Godfrey, Leader
This is very splendid band. Theil
+ instruments are somewhat differen
: from those used in our country and il
f Prussia, many of them are reed in
2 struments including several ole
n fashioned bassoons. They howevel
n can make tremendous clangor wher
they please with their brass trumpet'
:, and base and snare drums. All the
J, members of these foreign bands seen