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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-19
HIGHWAYMEN.

Christian Ruethor grocer engaged In business at the
Of Evergreen and Magnolia street. Brook
Ign, while coming to this city to market at an early
hour yesterday morning ordered to stop In Mag.
nola street by two men, one Of whom pointed pisto
at him. Instead OF obeyng the order Ructher whipped
his horse into gallop ana escaped.
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RIVER THIEF CAUGHT.

Detective john J. Doyle, Of the Sixteenth precinct
yesterday morning arrested one OF Ave river thoves
who had stolen about twenty hundrcdweight OF ropo,
which tho had placed on coal boat at the foot
OF Twenty fifth street, their small boat was over
loaded with It's vi cotton freight Detective Doyle has
been making things hot OF atc for the river thevcs VINO
nave been Committing depredatons along tue line Of
the river IN tho Sixteenth precinct, and u Is ilkeiy
that tho four thieves who escaped In the prcsent IN
stance will soon DO hauled up with sharp turn.
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STUDIO NOTES.

STUDIO NOTES.
S. Guy has nearly finished an exquisite picture
which he calls Loves First Labor" A brown haired
girl, bending embroidery frame resting on her
knees, IS working on par Of slippers. The figure.
shown to the knees, nls nearly the whole Canvas Tho
flesh ,ints line. the drawing excellent, and the
gray light which the girls shoulder IS al
mirably dinused through tho picture.
David Johnson has landscape on tho Wawaganda,
Orange county, n. y, rcady 10 nush ON his return
from Ocean Grove, where DO has been spending part OF
the summer and expects shortly 10 return
Colonel Robert Il. Ingcrsol Is having his portrait
painted by NJ. W. Clark, of Chicago; Professor Luigi
Gregori painting tho portrait OF Bishop Pelisser,
OF Texas
Humphrey Moore's "Almch" 10 on exhibition in
Chicago
Tho ST. Louis (Ao) exhibition commences on the
10Th aay oil September, and closes on the 10th DAY
Of October Tho pictures will DO forwarded and re-
turned by Thomas A. Wlnuri, No. 64 East Thirteenth
street, free OF charge No commissions charged Tor
sales. Last day Of shipment 25th OF August instant.
Bell Il Sons, OF London, have recently issued the
second volume Of the Earl Of Dunravcn's "Notes on
irish Architecture" Edited By Margaret Stokes
Excavations al Pompch still continue and arc re-
warded by interesting discoveries. Four human skci-
ctons were recently found, and lying near them pre-
cious objects 10 gold and silver
Tho London National Gallery Is closed during the
month Of October. a circumstance which calls down
the wrath OF tho Aaa>mGum.
descriptive catalogue OF tho engraved and litho.
graphic works OF Professor Legros Is soon to be pub
lshcd IN London.
series OF English pictures, attributed TO Moflard
ADD his school, recently sold In London.
The Grosvenor Gallery to DO closed for repairs and
will OMEN with d uututnpal exhibition color
drawings. This will be followed by collection Of old
masters in tho winter
A stained glass window has just been placed il the
parish church Of East Ber.holt. the ARTISTS birth
place.
Bonnat's portrait Of N. Theirs has been photo
graphed.
Gainsborough's portrait Of the Duchess OF Devon
shire exhibition ut the Byron Gallery, In LONDON
The Lycian sculptures brought homo by Sir Charles
Fellows 10 be placed The gallery Of tho Brit
sh Museum.
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this years. date, has lately been placed
on exhibition. peasant interior, mother sitting
on y low bench holds out her arms young lid
who has just got up ana who. encouraged by brother
and sister, advances hesitsinCy across the noor IN
evident dread Of tho coming BATH Indicated by the
water jug and basin with sponge aud soap. I'VE and
fear struggling but tho former has The ".s; - ~
In the background grandmother Is shaking the bod
ding OF the cot, which is BY the acove in which Is
the mothers bed. Robbie has also just been added
to the gallery in n blue vase. few moss ones
strewn the table, cut glass decantcr and bowl null
Of raspberrics
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breaks over tho landscape lighting up long bank TO
tho les while Geccy clouds scurrying DER.
In the Russian picture the trod horses al evening In
driItng storm clustered and huddlcd shiv.
crngly together under the projecting roof and by tho
door OF Of the stone sheter houses, whio tho
capped and long coated trooper in charge blankets in
hand, Is unlatchns the door. The cagerncss OF the
poor animals to get into shelter as we'll US that OF their
master, Is well suggested, ana the painting Of tho ami
mails ID especially 1ne. nno cattlo piece by H. Zuge
OF Munich. among the pictures. loaded wood chr,
drawn by oxen mas halted u country road in tho
cool 81 adc AZ have flock OF sheep going III the oppo.
site direction. while the tho woodman and shepherd
arc having q quiet chat
julius hintze OF Munich, Is represented by O small
winter piece snowy lane by the woods, down
which comes peasant girl With "a load vi 1rewood
On her back and holding by tho hand her little brother
Who 10 blowing his unoccuped hand keep his Dnecrs
warm There Is 1ne flower piece by Jean Robic Of
Brussels; and gypsy family by A. schwartz, Of
Berlin. Tho man aud wife, who arc stroling players
arc seated on bank by tho roadside Tho woman
holding tired child In her arms while her tamborine
lies On tho ground by her sido, Is listening TO her
husband as no plays tho nuta A little gypsy
girl playing with the monkey completes the pleasing
and yet pathetic group mother and child, by
Boogucrcau, Is also among tho rcccn, purchases
schaus Co. have secured q number Of importa mt
foreign works which have not as yot arrived There
arc. among others, small wator color by Nelson
Lcs Margucrtcs," arurc piece from the Paris salon
OF this year. by Paul de pommayrac, which attracted
much attention; "Lo Nouvcau Commls," by J. G..
vibert, from tho Same exhibition; two figure pieces
painted to order by Carl Becker OF Berlin and several
examples OF KacmmcreE Cabapel Is nov en-.
Raged picture for tho nrm In the gallery
'Gome 10 mo- by Meyer Won Bremen. OF
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-06-30
WHAT TROUBLES JOHN BUkL.

1t is the Russian performances in Asia
Miner that no doubt trouble John Bull.
The public assurance of the MuscoVite
commander-in.chie6th the czar's OBJ
iect is not conquest, makes very little
impression. Perhaps it only irritates
England and the more because all cars
and all Russian commanders have told
that touching falsehOod 80 often. Mr..
Gladstone believes it, of course. In his
resolutions he does not even venture to
regret the presence of the M~uscovites in
their neighbor's territory. If the car
announced that there was no truth in
the assertion hat his troops had crossed
the Pruth, Mr.. Gladstone would believe
it. His hatred of Lord Baeons6eld dnd
the Turks is 80 grea3 that it blinds him
to everything else, though the utter fail
IRE of his last sensation pamphlet has
opened the eyes of his publisher to tho
fact that a great man who has worked a
lifetime to build himself areputation and
a name maylevel the edifce to the ground
in a few short months. The reading
will not buy Mr.. Gladstone's
latest work at any price. 1t has fallen
as dead as Ginx's-Baby-Jenkins attack
on the government. When the shadow
sword has ever appered in tho politi'
cal atmosphere of England it has been
the patriotic habit of all parties and all
to rally round the government,
and the great bulk of the people resent
the unstatesmanlike and un-English ef-
;orts of Mr.. Gladstone to break down
his honest and loyal practice. ~-LonTon
Cor, NeU York Times.
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APAEESE

There is something absolutely marvel"
on In the progress Japan has made in
the arts of western civilization during
ebrief period that has elapsed since
she seriously adopted the idea of going
to school in Europe and America.
Japan new boasts an "inauential press"
printed with type and OF paper of ma
tive manufacture. She has railways,
telegraphs, lighthouses, codifed laws,
and, better than all, an excellent public
school system. It is nov some three
years since the p~cst.offce, with a regular
and well-administered postal service, was
introduced, postal cards Don followed,
and the economy which characterizes
government institutions IN Japanis illus
trated by the fact that the cards are fur
nished to the people at one-twelfth the
price of ours. But while %cultivating
assiduously the arts of peace, this pro-
gressive and eager people do not ignore
the necessity of being prepared for war.
Navy yards, rihed cannon, improved
arms and even military schools have
been introduced. The earnest and down
right sincerity with which this suddenly
awakened race endeavor to avail them
selves of the very best instruction attain
able sometimes Wanifests itself In quaint
and curious ways. Prior to the Franco
German wal nearly all the drill-masters
and military instructors employed were
Frenchmen. But when France was ter
ribly beaten by Germany after a war of
a few weeks, the japanese government,
reasoning in a literal-minded ann
upon the event, drew a very matter-of.
fact inference, in accordance with which
all the French officers in its employment
were discharged and their places supplied
by Germans. As a race, the Japanese
evince a superiority to z the Chinese.
Their skill and ability are not merely
initiative, bit in many instances they
have invented Improvements of their
own upon things borrowed from the "civ-
ilized nations" Another feature which
distinguished them from their CONT
mental neighbors is the entire absence of
that silly cenceit and stupid complacencY
which make the Chinese look upon all
foreigners as barbarians from whom they
can learn nothing. 1t is this differences
that accounts for the amazing and almost
miraculous progress which the former
have made in so short time. The best
seminaries Of Europe and America have
japanese students. who are zealously
struggling to acquire all that western
civilization can impart, while at home
an irresponsible and mysteriousdespotsm
has given place, without any great con-
Ss~4ilsion, to something closely resembling
a constitutional government. It will be
a long time before we shall see any such
effort to inaugurate radical changes in
the Chinese empire.--San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-06-30
ADMIRATION OF CREMI-
NAILS.

If a level robbery is committed, We
always hear of the address of the robber
who has discovered where the jewels are
kept and tbs habits of the owners and
the weaknesses OF the servant maids
who has, that is, exhibited a little-Often
a very I~ittle--Of the skill of the most
ordinary and half-experienced detective
If a criminal escapes from prison, the
papers are full of compliments on his
ingenuity, patience and skill in adapting
means to ends, though he has done moth"
ing which an ordinary artisan, with a
difficult job of repairs to finish, does not
do every day. It takes more patience,
and skill, and perseverance, for instance,
to file a complicated door key than
cut through any number of bars; and
the work is, in most cases, done at once
better and niue quickly.
Forgery, q low variety of the common
est imitati}e art, displaying no power
except one possessed by almost every
draughtsman-we doubt if there is q
portrait painter alive who, in a week,
could not initiate any signaturs-always
moves reporters to admiration; while
s~windling, if only the amount obtained
is sufficient, ~rousesjudges and advocates
to a loudly exp:" ssed conviction that the
swindler, had he only beep honest, might,
with less exertiop, have risen high in
any trade or profession. He would prob
ably not have risen at all. Industry is
wanting to all habitual criminals. and
though there have, Of course, been
exceptions, still, as a rule, the most
successful /" plants" the robberies which
have excited the most attention and
raised their authors highestBn the crimi-
nal class, have demanded no qualities in
those who arranged them beyond those
which are displayed by every minor
actor, or wandering juggler.-- London
SPECTATOR,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-06-30
AND CAY.

There never was a good war, or q
bad peace.--FrankLin.
"A letter from one tramp to another
was picked IN in Fairhaven, Vermont,
the other day, which closed as follows:
~ won't ketch me in this stat agin my
advise 10 u IL tn go back tn york ceeF
clere of vermont fur it IL not a good hum
for q sensativ tramp"
-. Notwithstanding her deplorablo
mental condition the ex-Empress Char
lotte of Mexico is in excellent bodily
health, and it is said that she is now
more attractive in appearance than she
was before her widowhood.
.~.spesking of the great men that cor
stitutes the Hayes cabinet, the lndepen-
dent says: Every one has great big
mouths, noses and ears. The size of the
fourteen ears and sever noses of the
cabinet 10 something remarkable. Mr..
Evarts' ears and nose, compared with
his body, are immense"
America is re quGS country. /
viseet one fine house wiz a friend Eat in
vite me. / say, BEG parzen, [ bin
mooch thirsty" an re peoples quickly
sgo bring one b~eeg~-very Deeg pitcher
wiz glass and puts zem before me, an
smile an smiIe--oh! 70 sweetly! An
Eat waz not Wine--no, no, Eat waz all
waiter my cote IL see uothinks zu
smile bout in Eat waiter
"A local correspondent of the Boston
Transcript writes: Zone Sunday, in
the absence of the teacher, | took charge
of q class of boys of from four to six
years of age. Speaking the TRUTH was
the basis of our conversation together.
| asked the boys if either Of them could
tell the story of George Washington and
his little hatc@et. One Of the boys
promptly began telling the story, and
was listened to most attentiyely by the
dozen or mere of the class. One little
fellow, who had given the most careful
attention, turning his head a little to
one side, his bright eyes swapping, and
with a most determined expression upon
his face, exclaimed, Well, Mr.. B,
l don't care, my father had an oleander
bush and | cut it down. He asked me
i'll did it. | told him I did--and he
licked me-"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-06-30
THE rLAeUE1N rsE EASTERN VA

EEE3# ~-~
The anxiety of Europe concerning the
complications of the Turco.R Russian cam
paign is likely to be increased by the
entrance into the field of battle Of two
unexpected hostile forces. inimical to
both sides in the conflict, and threaten.
ing, moreover, to carry devastation into
neutral territories. Cholera and plague,
from their recruiting stations in India
and Mesopotamia, are on the march, and
under the fostering conditions of war it
is impossible to foretell the limits of
their invasion. Last year cholera was
on its route through Persia toward the
Russian possessions on the Caspian, and
early in the present spring grave appre-
tensions were aroused as to the yiru-
lence and rapid diffusion of the epidemic.
Within a few weeks several local out
breaks have been reported, one at Akyab
killing rs per cent. Of the European
population in thirty hours, and new foci
OF Infection willdoubtless be multiplied.
On the other hand, plague, which has
been gradually extending it's ravages for
some years past, had, even before the
commencement Of actual hostilities.
spread to the regions north of Bagdad
with alarming speed. Under these cir.
cumstances the war now in progress mot
only threatens disaster to the combat
ants themselves, bnt menaces all Europe
4 visitation Of pestilences which no
precautions may be able to avert
NeU York World.
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times the reputation. presses very

of times The population presses very
closely Upon the means of subsistence.
There are no waste stores anywhere:
Everything is already turnedto account,
and when Che necessity comes there is
little room for any further saving or
reduction. Land and water are alike
taxed to the ut~ternnost to furnish foed
and dwelling-space for the teeming
multitudes which cover them. The
Chimes are hard workers, cettented with
slender fare, and able to put up com
fortably with a general scale of living
which would bessimply into!Aable to
Englishmen. These qualities and habits,
which turn to their advantage abroad
when they are brought into competition
with Other races, are a source OF dagger
to them at home. The Chinese can
undersell the Irish immigrant and the
native "white trash" in the distant
labor market of California. They can
not be equally sure that they will obtain
the poor pittance with which they will
be satisfied in China. In ordinary seasons
they can pull through well enough, and
can thrive and think themselves we'll off
on the slender material supplies with
which they have learned to be content.
But when the pinch comes, as come it
must sometimes; when the parched
earth will no longer yield its accustomed
increase, or when the store of food for
any reason begins to fail, the suffering
is speedy and severe. 1t is a question
then, not of the surrender of luxuries
which al 1T any rate be spared, but of
the want of the bare necessities which it
is impossible TO forego and live. To the
great eastern hive, thickly swarming
with its uncouEted millions of inhabi-
tants, the chance of famine is never far
distant, and the worst reality of famine
arrives very easily. 1t is present among
them now, and it is fearful to think of
the intense and widespread misery which
it will bring with it before it has run its
course. There is the hope, our CORE
spoDdent writes, of good crops in the
coming season for those who survive.
The snow, which does much to aggravate
the present distress, is at least a security
against the reoccurrence of another
drought. But itholds out no early hope
of relief. When summer comes all will
be we'll for those who Ire alive to witness
it, and to enjoy the plenty which is in
prospect for them. Meanwhile, in the
dreary weeks which still remain the suf-
fering is growing worse. The people
have been driven already to their last
resources, and they have proved to be in
sufficient. The total loss it is not easy
to estimate. We hear of villages of five
hundred families with three hundred re-
ported as dead from starvation. This,
or something like it appears to be the
actual condition of some 5000 villages,
and there are Others besides in which the
pressure is less extreme, but still terribly
severe. The numbers of the dead, it is
clear, must be already reckAned by mil.
lions, but we can hazard no conjecture
as to the total which will have been
reached before the return of summer
London Times, May l.
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THE BLACK SEA AND THE SEA OF
AZOV.

AS the Black sea is again about ODE.
come the scene of stirring events it is well
that a clear understanding should be had
of the nature of that remarkable body Of
water. It is about seven hundred miles
long in its longest direction and has an
extreme width of about three hundred
and eighty miles, being three-fourths
longer than Lake Superior and more than
twice as wide. It's depth is from four to
forty'eight fathoms neaFshore, but in the
middle no soundings have been found at
one hundred and sixty fathoms. The
greatest depth of Lake Superior is two
hundred fathoms.
The Black sea is not like our lakes, a
fresh water sea, but on the other hand it
contains o~ne-seventh less salt than ocean
water, and is held to receive one-third of
all the running water of Europe. The
puzzle is what becomes of all this fresh
water, and how the Black sea retains its
salinity. The sea is tideless. There is
no perceptible current toward the Med
~iterranean. It has the same level as the
sea of Marmora. The outlet by the
Bosphorus, even were there q strong cur
rent, would be insufficient to discharge
the immense volumes of water constantly
pouring into the inland sea, and it
scarcely seems credible that the evapo.
ration is sufficient to account for the sur
plus water. Like our own lakes, it is
subject to frequent storms, but naviga-
ton is not exceptionally unsafe, and an
extensive steam navigation is carried on.
There are several Islands neal the mouth
of the Danube, but the sea is si~ngularly
free from rocks and shoals.
The sea of Azov, which ia connected
with the Blacksea by the narrow strait of
Yenikale, is much smaller, being only
about n hundred and sixty-eight miles
long and eighty broad. It's waters are
fresh and abound with fish, but are verv
shallow, and fall off toward the west into
huge marshes, which have been aptlv
named Putrid sea. 1t is of comparatively
little Importance for purposes of naviQa.
tion, though it has several ports and
roadsteads.
All the shores washed by the Black
sea have within the last decade made
strides in the path of material and
development. The entire
Russian coast is annually growing in
wealth, and importance.
Odessa chiefly exports wheat, tallow,
hides, cwool, and leather, and takes in re-
turn the products of all manufacturing
The southern shore, compris-
the northern line of Asia Minor, has
also been quickened into an activity
which bids fair to bring it up to its
ancient prosperity. SAMSON and Trebi-
,ond are the principal ports, and are the
rates through which the trade Of Persia,
Armenia, and central Asia can flow to
The local products are not
very important, chiefly consisting of
Vool, hides, and breadstufs,- Cleveland
Herald. Il