New-York tribune., 1874-01-16

been photographng modern society In sixty chap
ters and among his classihcations are several IN
reference to the dress coat The professor, he says
the orator the economist buttons his coat hermetl-
caly as if in solemn attempt to compress the
tmoultuous outbursts of stupendous intellect the
coat of the savant never fits; the officers coat fits
TOO well. The artists coat takes every form the
bankers coat is jnst as he choosts-it might be
sack and he would be equally well received. The
clerks coat has no characteristic, while that of the
literary man hnctuates between the apogee Of
elegance and the depths of slovenliness An odd
paragraph in NJ Bertall's album tells the story OF
the way in which the late eccentric fashions In
feminine costume were adopted He contributed
series of caricatures to the We Pdrisienne ridi-
culing as he thought, the absurdty OF the dresses
worn in SardOu's comedy, La FdmHle Benoiton.
fortnight after all the fashionable dressmakers in
Paris had literally and seriously copied his satires
- BE "a Juvenal. after that" says Bcrtall.
II DIR. Cark's book on feminine education has no
other effect it is valuable rs evolving statistics re-
specting that important subject private letter
from President Raymond of Vassar gives the losses
by ill.healh from the last three graduating classes
as follows The class of '73 lost out of its whole
number of 81 students the class of 72 lost out of
90; and the class of H. out of 57S, lost only T.
losses all but three arrived at the college in poor
very delicate health Two of these three had fever
there. and went homo convalescent; the third
was case of nervous breaking down from hard
study which was entirely unexpected, for the pre-
yious health had been good. This case and that of
graduate of II who presumed upon her apparently
vigorous constitution and exceptional talents by
attempting to Oyertake class much in advance of
her are President Raymond says, the only instances
of a serious giving way of the health caused by
study And he emphasizes the assertion, Our hard
students are, AS a rule our healthiest students"
One OF the nObest societies mentioned in fiction IS
that for providing the infant negroes in the West
Indies with moral Observation-Disclosures blend
ing" the Shepherd Mr. Stiggins remarks. select
| tales with wood cuts" However impractical moral
pocket-handkerchiefs may seem to the average
infant negro they are certainly of more ciyilizing
tendency than the calicoes recently made in En-
gland for the use of the heather in Africa With
serious and graceful regard for the tastes of their
pagan customers, the manufacturers have prepared
patterns IN which arc groups Of devils dancing
around fires with children impaed upon toasting
forks. Prof. Williamson solemny observes that
while he doesn't say that the calico printers and
merchants in duty bound to lose money by send
ing patterns which will not SELL yet he does think
that such objects AZ these ought never to issue from
! Christian country.
| The Dead Head evidently not extinct in France
An editor whom he had importuned for theator
tickets recently gave him the following letter to
the business manager Of one Of the principal thea
ters MY DEAR FRIEND: send to you lunatic
who has tormented me two hours for tickets; but
beware OF him, for no is very dangerous. His
family usually keep him in charge OF faithful at
rendant. but today ho has mauagod to escape. 4
think he is armed. Yours. &c" Tho unsuspeCting
/ ID IL pIesoat ted thlS pQIs Il the thoatoI aud va