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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-01
A UCTION SALE-rHIs FRIDAY) MORNING.
"A Commencing At l0H O'Clock.

A UCTION SALE-rHIs (FRIDAY) MORNING
"A Commencing at l0H O'Clock.
Handsome and useful Household Furniture.
Contents OF the elegant Residence,
210 West Twenty-drst street, near seventh avenue
Over l00 lots by catalogue,
In excellent condition made by best city makers and
used but short time consisting o. in!ad and 9lt wal
frame Parlor Suits covered in damask, satin and
coteainc French plate Mirrors Lace Curtains,
Decker Bros. III octave rosewood pianoforte.
Etagerc with Mirror elegant GU Paintings rich mantel
Sets. imported Bronze figures Clocks. handsome Il
Turkish suits tasy Chair; Lounges nlaid French
walnut Buffet Extension Table, dining Chairs, dinner
and tea Sets Silver ware Cutsry rosewood and walnut
bureaus washstnnds marble top tables Toilet Sets,
nc hair and spring Mattresses; rep plush and haircoth
Chairs velvet Brussels aud ingram Carpets as.
sorment Of useful household articles
ROBERT CASHIN, Auctioneer.
n: B.-Sale positive To attend sale take Seventh or
Eighth avenue cars Competent men in attendance TO
pack and ship goods to city or country Goods can re-
main until May Notice Of sale OF Horses. Carriages,
Harness. &C., see Mondays Herald.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-01

A UCTION SALE OF HANDSOME HOUSEHOLD
rurn u ms gay commencng o O'Clock N
square fianoiorte, worth $500 elegant inaid and pt
Parlor Suits with rich covers also rep and haircloth
Suits French plate Mirrors, OIL Paintings Chromos,
Bronzes Clocks Curtains Bookcases, Etageres marble
Dressing Cases Bureaus spring aud hair Mattresses
kilchon Furniture, Buffet Extension Table, Cutlery
China, Glass. silver ami plated Ware, &c.
HENRY linn. Auctioneer.
DY MAX BAYERSDOkFER, AUCTlONEER-6ELLS
ID OH Monday Fixtures OF large white beer brewery
96 Edroge street, large quantity Bottles, Boxes steam
Boiler, tanks Receivers; also Lease.
MAX BAYERsDOKFER's office, II Chambers street.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-01
@2O mn WORTH ELEGANT HOUSEHOLD

at public auction, THIS DAY Fridayj,
commencing O'Clock. private residence
2l0 West Twenty drst street. near Seventh avenue.
pras pisna,orta Sa rt n pau Taia' @ I'M
ported Bronzes, Mirrors Clocks Bookcases Library To
bles Buffet Dining Chairs, Extension Table, HnvorMare,
Bedsteads Dressing Cases. Bureaus Wardrobcy, Wash
r asy Snsr rsp snT Nv.
pets DC. n. B.-Sale positive
Competent to pack ship goods city country.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-01

UNFURNTsHED ROOMS AMI APART
MENTs TO LET.
TO LEr--nAsrxENr AND PARLoE rLooRs II
Closets Las' on h r modsr
ate. Apply on the premises
RIO LET-uyruRxIsnEp. POSSESSION THIS pay.
rTEi sSS;s ss
near Perry street: price extremely low
RIO LET-uxyuRSrsuEp, SECOND FLOOR. TO 4
premises al %ss. ssa' nsn street. ''' owner
RIO LEr-rHsEE SUNNY ROOMS on FIRST FLOOR.
1 IA second avenue Inquire at loi second avenue
TO LhTrouE or FIVE Rooms IN moCs e. NO us,s
tenant Apply on the premisea
House on Lcsinsion avenue r e; rent low 70 good
''AA'' ''' FEANcIs CRAWFORD sss Third avenue:
no LEr-sEcoND FLOOR IN HIGH sTooP HOUSE,
Dpy wS sooa TT
ITO LErzrHE ELEGANT SECOND FLAT OF sss
ana sSer sUS Inquire
OF Janitor, on the premises
sgA rIsr FLOOR ASp BASEMENT SIX
premises. aio East Forueth street
RIO LET7IN WEST FORTY. sEcoND STREET. THE
Second and Third Floors of brown stone house. to-
Apply 70 s fDs &
RIO LEr-rnIaD FLOOR, CONSISTING OF FOUR
West fwensIsIS street Esisrenoss .scSsnse 0u'' 40
Upper. PART OF HOUSE NO; 80 EAST SEVEN.
hs Sas to coI.r 81 yss
Third avenue.
100 EAST NINETEENTH srREEr-ELEGANr
re gwen ns and r.
1oS WEST FORTY -sECoND sTREET.-ELEGANT
lAC Rooms suite singy, at reduced rates: also
BARGAIN cosy Cottage on BANK Of HUDSON partially or
FULLY furnished modern improvements; hall hour from
city; ine garden healthy location.
SALES Al AUCTION.
4 RCH. JOHNSTON, AUCTIoNEER-oFFICE AND
"A salesroom 81 Nassau street opposite the Post offce
Hoi auction branch - to Is East Thirteenth street
Ulice Furniture, Books, &c.
ARCH. JOHNSTON will sell, this day. At l0H O'CLOCK
salesroom 81 Nassau street. large aksort ent Of
once Furniture, SAFES, Desks, Partition Railing, Mat
ting Chairs, Stools &C.
nne Library Of Standard Works. 80 volumes London
News &c.
LBERr B. WALDRON, AUCTIONEER
"A By d. W. IVES,
second hand Office Furniture &C.
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UAHEB Al ANYTHING
RY JOHN A. DUNN AUCTIoNNER-WrLL SELL
~ this day at1oH O'Clock No 81 Bsst rnrty.feuftA
stating Of Chars Tables Ranges catsup bottleh Table
cloths Knives and Forks. Spoons. Napkins. counters
Back Bar oyster Box, glassware Mirrors ficturea 10
nINGEE. PORTER CO., AUCTIONEERS.
Extensive sale OF Plumbers Stock and Gas Fix,ursa To
close the copartnership interest of
JAMES MCLAUGHLIN 4 Goa.
~ Inc store on Eighth avenue, or l2h street. %
Also Horse Wagon and Harness.
Catalogues on the premises ana at the oicss Of the
aucuoneors, 2S0s third avenue and Ill Broadway.
EDwARD sGHENCk,, .AyorIoNEEE, WILL SELL
~ this day friday. May ut l0X O'Clock. 10 ana
q william street, besween Beaver street and Exchange
place shelving Countera Shove Gas Fixtures and
Pipe. stove ana Pipe Henectors. Signs, &c.
THIRST AVENUE AND RIoHrY.sEvENrH srRrrr.-
Sale ip foreclosure on the "a day Of Nav 1874 the
on the norhweserv Of First avenue and Eieity
seventh street, aud tho Lot adjoining thereto.
+. H. LUDLOW CO.. Auctaouscrs.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-01

$4,000 Of pa5s gs Up
day. AFTERNOON, commencing at ~ O'Clock.
Private residence III West I'D street near 9Th Az,
comprsins eeuant ~ octave rosewood rianotorte tonr
Mirrors Beds Bureaus, Dressing Cases spring and
hair Mattresses Buffet Extension Tables, Chairs also
Horses Wagon and Harness, Robes &C, will Do
sold at ~ O'clock REED q CO., Auctiuneers
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-10
An Indefatigable Artist.

NJ Edmond About gives some curl
ous details respecting Paul Baudry, the
painter of the voussures of the foyer of
the New Grand Opera in Paris. He
saws that the artists remuneration was
fixed at 40, 900 francs; but when the
artist learned that there was a talk of
giving the ceilings and the spaces above
the doors to another, he offered to paint
the whole himself without increase of
pay, thus reducing his reward to $50
francs per superficial metre the work
occupies 500 metres square. M. About
also states that Baudry, before drawing
his first sketch, made two journeys. one
to London and the other to Rome. At
the Kensington museum he copied the
seven cartoons of Raphael. At the
Vatican he copied eleven enormous
frescoes of Michael Angelo, all to endue
himself with the spirit of the masters
and to catch for himself Le bon pi.
That done, there only remained to
shut himself for eight years in the
damp building of the rising OPP
era house. There he occupied six
studios-one on the sixth story, another
on the tenth, and the last quite at the
top, under the cupola, whence neither
cold nor heat could disiodge him.
His whole life was there. He slept
and ate in L0ge de danSe1GSe, furnished
with his students furniture. He lived
whole months without seeing any other
faces than those of his models and the
old house-keeper, and very occasionally
a friend. 1t is out of such stuff that
really great painters are made.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-10
Bad RFeets Of Forest Clearing.

No country in the world perhaps pre-
sents more striking proofs of the evil of
excessive forest-clearing than the kha-
nate of Bokhara. Thirty years ago the
khanats was we'll wooded md watered,
and regarded by Central Asians as a sort
of terrestrial paradise. About twenty
five years ago the mania of forest clear
ing was begun, and continued until the
heavy timber had entirely disappeared.
What the improvidence and ignorance
of the rulers spared, was utterly con-
sumed by the fury of civil war. I'm
mense tracts of land once well peopled
and cultivated, deprived of fertilizing
moisture, are now barren, treeiess
wastes. The water-courses being dried
up, the system of canals, which spread
like q net work over the khanate, has
been rendered useless. The moving
sands Of the desert, no longer restrained
by the forest barriers, are slowly ad-
vanciDg, filling up canals and dried wa
ter courses, and viii continue their
noiseless and ceaseless inyas ion until
the whole khsnate will be converted into
a dreary waste as barren as the wilder
ness separating II from Khiva. It is i'm
probable that the khan possesses either
the energy or the means necessary for
averting the desOlatiOn with which his
territories are threatened.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-10
The Brunswick Onyx Vase.

A London paper contains long let
ter on the subject of the Brunswick
onyx vase. From the information con-
tanned IN the letter we make the follow
ing interesting extracts referring to its
later history Like many other fuoi-
tives of note, the Mantuan ONYX re-
malned ia London till 1914, when IL lx-
tHred to Brunswick with the long ex-
lied princes of the duchy. For a time
1t seemed as If nothing more could now
threaten the peaceful rest of the wan
derer but in 1880, when the reigning
Duke Charles heard his people clamor-
ing for his downfall, and saw his palace
in flames, he bethought him of his
Mantuan treasure before he sought
safety in flight; and having sent a con
hdential friend to remove IL from the
ducaI museum, he carried it away with
him. Thenceforth nothing was known
OF 1t. No one ever saw it during the
lifetime of the eccentric Diamond
Duke; and, when the city of Geneva,
IN conformity with his testamentarY
wishes, claimed as his universal residu-
ary legatee all his works of art. a fruit
less search was made for the long
vanished onyx vase. At length, after
oft-repeated examination of the ducal
treasures, it was noticed that shred of
manner prOUruded from the base of q
metallic vase which appeared to be of
very little value. On a closer inspec-
ton this vase was found to be split
lengthways, and to be excessively heavy
when compared with another vase of
identical form and external appearance
with which it seemed to form a pair.
On separating the split surfaces the
onyx came to view perfectly intact and
uninjured, and thus the mystery of its
supposed disappearance was at once
explained. Geneva art-Iovers were
overjoyed at the discovery, but their
hopes of calling peerless beauty their
own were shattered by the claim set up
by the reigning Duke of Brunswick for
the Mantuan onyx as an inalienabIe
heirloom of his family and now, after
a second separation of thirty-four years,
the gem is restored to the ducal muse
UNI of Brunswick. Since its unexpected
resuscitation, various drawings and
have appeared of it in
Germany, and, among these, the best is
water-color sketch by Professor A.
Gnauth, which gives a very correct rep
resentation of the figures with which it
is decorated" "
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-10
Fashionable Resorts for Children"

To withdraw a child from a city sea-
son, and TO let her loose in Saratoga for
recupeTation and refreshments of body
and sOul, is like transplanting flowers
from ayscorching greenhouse to a sun
burnt desert. These Is nothing in Sar-
atoga fit for young spirit to dwell mp
on. Do You yourself recall the man
ners of the young woman that you have
seen there in the walks, and inthe gar
dens, the drives, and parlOrs? Did
they not bear themselves either with
shyness (which was clear assumption
or an effrontery which chilled you to the
bones? Did they not stare at you with
appraised chins IN a manner shrewdly
patterned upon childhood simplicity
and frankness until you lost ySur self
possession? ? Did they not gaze into
your eyes and laugh so immoderately,
and open their mouths so wide, that
you were forced to say 4" Hoyden" be
hind your lips When they success
sively took your arm and walked away
for the floor, or for an ice after an
hours acquaintance, did you not ex-
claim to yourself II consequence of
their manners, a. Can It be possible that
she thinks me rich q? Does she love
me ?" Did you not mark the anachron-
ism of the elaborate cOiffure, the queen
ike dress, and the downcast lids, 50
timid, so reluctant, so apprehensive,
lest a gaze should penetrate to the
eyes they hide? Also that that lay
between a Quaker-like modesty of at
and a lock so full Of worldliness
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-10
Noble Devotion.

Fay" writing from Saratoga to the
Louisville Courier Journal, says {:
q Yonder is a maiden lady whose hair
is almost snow-white. She looks very
gentle, refined, and delicate. A light
shawl covers her shoulders, and even on
this bright morning she has to avoid
the draught. The gentleman, who
seems to regard her with the tenderest
care, moves her chair and otherwise
seems solicitous about her health and
comfort. Some are puzzled to under
stand the relationship that exists be
tween the two, for they do not bear the
same name, and, besides, there is q
nameless something which tells that he
is neither husband, lover, or brother.
These relationships are common and
easily defined, but in these days of de-
generated honor it is rare to find a man
devoting himself to a woman past her
youth, and who is nothing more to him
than friend, but is the sister of the
girl Who years ago was to have been his
wife, and would have been but that death
interposed and the bridal robe became her
winding-sheet. No other love has since
entered his heart, but he preserves his
loyalty to her memory by a brothers
love and protection to her only sister,
and she, in spite of ili-health, has per-
formed her mission in life by support
ing and educating orphan nephews, so
that as she declines in years she has
those about her who think an old
maid the dearest and best of women.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-10
Professor Huxley on a Century s
Progress.

He constantly found the observation
made by English political writers, that
the French were persons necessarily in
competent to govern themselves, be-
cause ever since the year 1889, they had
been in a state of chronic revolution.
But those Englishmen who could recol-
lect that the Long parliament began in
1910, and that the last Smart rebellion
was in 1745-that was los years-might
be inclined to doubt whether even a
much longer period of political vicissi-
tude and political struggle than that
which had been passed through by
France, was the slightest indication that
people were not able TO govern them
selves efficiently. In the early part Of
the last century they had, IN fact, but
Just got rid of their Bourbons and ali
they represented. Society was in a
state of corruption which could only be
compared to that of the second empire
in France. Bribery was the means of
government and peculation was its re-
ward. Four-ffths of the seats in the
house of commons we're notoriously for
sale in one shape or another. The min
lister required to know the state of the
vote market more than any other, and
even the king, at q later day, occupied
himself in the subsidizing the kings
friends, and alloting to them subsidies
proportionate to their merits and ser
vices, with a retail rather than a royal
sagacity. Laughter. The condition
of the church was either torpidity or
scandal. Hear, hear. The position of
dissenters was a scandal to a civilized
country. Priestly and the men who be-
lieved with him had, if the law were
put in force, no civil rights, or mt least
none that were worth having by any
man who valued civil rights. His
preaching was crime, and every Sun
day, during which he abstained from
going to a service which he abhorred,
he could have been visited by fine and
imprisonment. As to the material condi-
ton Of thecountry, he need not tell them
it was time when no man dare make n
journey without being armed when it
took several days to get from here TO
London; when canals were an inven-
tiOn whose utility was greatly doubted,
and whose revolutionary tendencies
were strongly suspected. Laughter.
And when they thought that, all that
was only hundred years ago.-Ad-
Oly-egg 1f Eig On iUghHyyl
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-10
The American Literary Field.

The American correspondent of an
English review recently pointed out,
in letter treating of literary matters
here, a tendency that 1t is worth our
while to notice and examine with some
care. We are by no means indebted to
this writer for first calling our attention
to a state of affairs that has long been
perfectly obvious to every one who has
studied, however specifically, the con-
dition of the American literary field :;
but paragraph of his letter presents
the case with commendable clearness
and truth, and will serve us as text
better than any longer dissertation.
American journalism" he says, sis the
magnet that attracts all young pens,
and there is hardly a rising man or
woman who does not contribute to the
daily press. Formerly this was not so.
The passing generation of writer's had
little sympathy with newspapers. Let
not your life be taken by newspapers,
was one of Thoreau's maxims. It is i'm
possible to think OF Emerson or Long
fellow, or Whittier, or even heversatile
Lowell, dashing off a leader, or writ
ing editorial paragraphs. To days bat
ties are fought with newspapers, not
books and so young writer's enlist
where they are sure of seeing most SER
vice. Journalism is becoming a pro-
fessIon, and as, in this country, it prom
ises the finest results in political and
social influence, the next decade will
see a great change for the better in our
press. In enterprise it to-day leads the
world. In culture and dignity English
journalism can give us lessons.
That there are strong forces at work,
besides mere inclination, to draw the
best writers to journalism, is fact
which doubtless accounts for a consid-
erable part of this state of affairs. In
the immediate compensation, and in the
security that attends constant employ
ment and regularity of payment for it,
journalism undoubtedly outbids liter
airy work of the other class. There are
many men who can with perfect justice
argue that they cannot afford to write
even a successful book u fd1it UiUre,
and they canDot wait for slow returns of
sales and the hard earned fame that
comes at last.
The last few years have seen in Amer
lea very few great books in any depart
ment of literature, scholarship or fc-
tiOn. Yet there are men whom we could
point out-whom people constantly do
point out-at work in the absorbing and
intense labor of the daily press, who
could make no triiing part of the liter
ature of a generation. The press cannot
afford, it would seem, to lose their ser
vice but can general literature afford
to lose it, either?
Is there no way to solve the problem?
Cannot press and literature advance
with equal step? Or must we give up
the pursuit of one noble end in striving
for the other? The question Is worth
the thought of both writers and read
ers.-A DDZetOH's Journal
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-10
The Reindeer.

The wealth of the Lapps consists in
their reindeer, which arc their only
standard of riches. A herd of n thou
sand makes a man Opulent with six
hundred he is passing rich 7; three hun
dred give him a modest competence, and
fifty mean absolute poverty. A Lapp
who owns only fifty reindeer must hire
himself and his little flock TO his
wealthier neighbor in order TO support
his family. The draft on these animals,
in truth, is immense. They are re-
quired to supply their masters with
food and drink, shelter and raiment, and
to serve as horse, OK, COW, sheep, goat,
and all the domestic animals into the
bargain. They draw the sledges, and
plow and harrow the soil they give
the milk from which are made the curds,
whey, cheese, and sometimes butter,
that form 80 large a staple of the Lap
land diet their flesh is good eating,
and supplies the meat of the bousehold;
and OF their skins are made not only the
wearing apparel for both sexes, but the
mating and covering of the tents and
kayaks of the Lapps, while their sinews
and tendODs supply the place OF pack
thread, and their fat feeds the lamp that
feeds the darkness of the arctic nights.
Moreover, they are of little expense, as
they browse all day on the ichens and
reindeer moss that grow plentifully
among the rocks, and are driven back at
night by the herdsmen TO the inclosure
where we see them, and where they arc
r,enned and MIXED. They are only
MIXED in the summertime, and yield
then but very small quantity, though
their milk is so rich that it must be di-
luted before it can be drunk.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-10
Shall and WIN.

Richard Grant White, writing in the
Galaxy. says " As to shall and will
something may doubtless be done by
study and by taking thought to check
bad habits and correct the result of I'M
fortunate associations. The mistake
most commonly made In the use of these
words, and the one therefore most care
fully to be avoided, is the use of will
for shall and of the corresponding would
for should. Shall is much less often
used for will. And yet in the word
shilly-shally, which is upon everybody's
lip, is petrified the rule and the exam
pie in regard to shall and will. Shilly-
sbally J merely colloquial corruption
of Shall I? Shall I?' and thus ex-
presses the condition of a man who is
vascillating between two courses of con-
duct. 1t has been made into a parti-
ciple, perhaps even into a verb. A man
who stands shilly- y-shallying about a
woman as the ladies say, is a man
who, as they also sometimes say, doesn't
know his own mind about her-mental
condition for which the sex has not the
highest respect. Now no one would
say that a man stood asking himself,
viii I? Will I?' and yet such is es-
sentially the mistake most frequently
made in regard to the Hse of these
words in conversation. We hear peo-
pie say, What will I do?' and even
Will I do thus or so? the offenders in
these cases being generally of what
some people humorOusly call the Hiber-
nian persuasiOn-an' expression, by the
way, for which there is no authority
of very respectable standing and an
tiquity. Among people of Anglo-Saxon
race and of average education the mis-
take, when made, most commonly takes
the indicative form, thus { I will go to
bed elegantly, retire] at ten o'clock to-
night we will breakfast at eight
tomorrow > instead of I shall go to
bed, &c, I'VE shall breakfast, &C."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-10
Burns Estimate Of Fashionable Fe-
male Youth"

Three or four letters of Burns hith-
erto unpublished, so far as We know,
have Just appeared in The Athen@um.
One Of them contains some advice to a
young lady in the stilted yet genial
style of the time. 1t Is not 50 very
inapplicable now, mesdemoiselles.
Nov" says the kindly poet, after his
professional brOcsded compliments are
paid, '' let me add few wishes which
every man, who has himself the honor
of being father, must breathe, when
he sees female youth, beauty and innO-
cence about to enter into this much
chequered and very precarious world.
May you, my young madame, escape
that frivolity which threatens uniyer-
sally 10 pervade the minds and manners
of fashionable life. To pass by the
rougher, and still more degenerate sex,
the mob OF fashionable female youth,
what are they ? Are they anything2
They prattle, laugh, sing, dance, finger
a lesson, or perhaps turn over the pages
Of q fashionable novel bat are their
minds stored with any information,
worthy Of the noble powers Of reason
and Judgment, or do their hearts glow
with sentiment, ardent, generous and
humane? Amid this crowd of
nothines, may you, madame, be some
thing May you be character, 9igni-
fed as q rational and immortal being I"
Burns estimate Of fashionable female
you'll" in that tea-dFinking time in
which be wrote agrees perfectly well
with Mr.. Ruskin's opinion in modern
days but the Oxford DiOgenes has