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Words OF Wisdom.

If q man be gracious to strangers, it
shows he is a citizen of the world, and
that bis heart is no island cut off from
other lands, but continent that joins
them.
If man will let matters take their
course, he will live smoothly and quiet
ly enough hut if he will sift things to
the bottom, he must account himself q
man of strife.
The first symptom Of true love in a
young man is timidity; in girl it is
boldness. The two sexes have ten
dency to approach, and each assumes
the qualities of the other.
Plenty and indigence depend upon
the opinion every one has of them and
riches, no more than glory or health,
have no more beauty or pleasure than
their possessor is pleased to lend them.
What rare gift is that of manners
How difficult to define how much more
difficult to impart! Better for man
to possess them than wealth, beauty or
talent ; they will more than supply them
all.
To be comfortable and contented, be
sure to spend less than you earn, and
restrain your outgoes till they are less
than your incomes. This seems to be
an act that very few persons have
learned.
Not the surf-beaten rock, that lines
the shore of the ocean, stands half so
firmly as the truth. 1t will live and
flourish, and will still be truth, when all
its opposers have perished, and every
rock rolled from its bed.
It is into the minute circumstances of
mans conduct that we are to inquire
for bis real character. In these he is
under the influence of his natural dis
position, and acts from himself; while in
his more open and important actions he
may be drawn by public opinion and
many other external motives, from that
bias which his disposition would have
taken.
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In Distress.

A policeman was passing down Rich.
mond street last Wednesday afternoon
when he heard a woman's voice lifted
in high lamentation; opening the wicket,
he strobe up to tho door, where wo.
man was lying prone on the steps, be-
dewing the rubber foot-nat with her
briny tears.
"What is the matter, man 2" he said,
gently.
"0oh, boo, OOH ?" said the stricken
female.
"Now, don't take on so, said the club
carrier, with tremulous gentleness; "tell
me what is the matter"
"Oh, I, I'm, a-a-ooh, OOH !" and
she wept afresh and copiously. .
"Why, my dear, dear madam" said
the officer, "what great sorrow has
blighted your life and drove the sun
shine from your happy home? Where
fore are you thus cast down into the
depths of anguish? Why are the foun-
tains of your being broken up, and your
beautious eyes become springs from
which the aqueous fuid"-
SECT out, you brute ooey, ooh, o.
Oh, boo-hoo."
The sympathetic officer was non.
plussed. He backed off step or two,
and, as his great heart throbbed in
sympathy with so much suffering, he
could but make one more effort at COM
fort.
MADAM" said he, and as he spoke
lis voice grew husky with emotion;
"madam, I sympathize with you from
the bottom of my heart, and, while you
do not seem disposed to trust me, yet if
there is anything in the round world I
can do to lift this sorrow from your
heart, let me do it. assure you it is
no idle curiosity. I would be your
friend. I will avengs your wrongs, and
the services of one loyal and true are
yours if you will accept them. I would
not pry into that which does not con-
cern me, but I know that some great
sorrow is upon you, and gently, tender.
ly would I raise the pail that hangs
about your life, dress the wounds that
have been opened in your tender heart,
and pour the balsam of consolation over
the"-
He did not notice in his vehemence
that the woman had stealthily risen,
but she had, and, launching the foot
mat full in his face, she said:
sect out O. this, you mean old
blatherskite2 You're meaner than that
old guardian in this dime novel who
wouldn't let his niece marry the hand
some trapper. If I want to cry about
what read it's none O. your business"
Two blocks away the policeman ficked
q bootblack off the sidewalk by the ear,
and muttered:
eff women amt the curusest-built
animals in the world, kill me for fool"
Cincinnati Breakfast Table.
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the stove, with her tail three or four
times as big as usual.
Mamma stepped very carefully, and
with her bare feet over the broken glass,
and Lit another lamp. Papa opened the
outside door. Mamma took down the
broom, and punched it at the place
where Topsy had disappeared, while
papa kicked the door of the tin oven on
tie other side of the stove.
Topsy thought the house must be
coming down, and 80 she scampered out
at the door so fast that she looked like q
black streak.
"Sho there |" cried mamma, and papa
shouted "SC-SCAT !"
And then the clock struck twelve, and
Thanksgiving was over.-Ha,7iet E.
Bagg. in November Wide AsOake.
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Food of the Ancients.

The diversity OF substances which we
find in the catalogue of articles of food
is as great as the variety with which the
art or the science of cookery prepares
them. The notions of the ancients on
this important subject are worthy of
remark. Their taste regarding meat
was various. Beef they considered the
most substantial food ; hence it consti-
tuted the chief nourishment of their
atheletm. Camels' and dromedaries
flesh was much esteemed, their heels
most especially. Donkey flesh was in
high repute M@cenas, according to
Pliny; delighted in it ; and the wild ass
brought from A RIGA, was compared to
venison. The hog and wild boar appear
to have been held in great estimation ;
and hog was called "aninaal Dropter
co,auiva ,,atuna )" but the classical por-
tion of the SOW was somewhat singular
-" vuiva nil dulcius ampia." Their
mode os killing swine was as refined in
barbarity as in epicurism. Plutarch
tells us that the gravid SOW was actually
tiamped to death, to form delicious
mass fit for the gods. At other times,
pigs we're slaughtered with red-hot spits,
that the blood might not be lost. STUFF
fing a pig with assafetida and very
small animals was luxury called "por-
Gus 7f@anus;;" alluding, no doubt, to
the warriors who were concealed in the
Trojan horse. Young bears, dogs and
foxes (the latter more esteemed when
fed upon grapes) were also much ad-
mired by the Romans, who were also so
fond OF various birds that some consular
families assumed the names OF those
they most esteemed. Cattius tells us
how to drown fowls in Falernian wine,
to render them more luscious and ten
der. Pheasants were brought over
from Colchis, and deemed at one time
such rarity that one of the Ptolemies
bitterly lamented his never having
tasted any. Peacocks were also very
highly esteemed.
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Flying-A Vision OF the Future.

Flying. Putting commercial consid
erations aside, and looking merely q
social ones, how great an alteration vii
there be in the ways of civilized being
if flying is brought within the reach O
all who can buy an engine and some du
rable wings. To take the most poetic
relation of life, what different thing
will courtship be when lovers seek the
clouds, as of course they will, and whel
VOWS are exchanged in the air. LORD
Lytton tried to describe something o.
this sort, but his hero was clumsy fel
low, who could not learn to manage his
wings, and constantly had to be caught
by the women who loved him. Very diff.
ferent will be the case when the vigor'
GUS and well-trained young EngGshman,
who will take the lady whom he admiree
out to fly just as ladies are now taken
out for drive, or will, perchance, urge
his suit when lowering outside her Sec
ond-foor window, and will perch on the
sill to learn his fate. Then, in the more
prosaic part of life, in the ordinary
routine of commonplace daily existence,
what strange alterations will occur ! Our
ancestors would have laughed at any
one who had told them that the time
would come when the throngs in the
streets would have under their feet men
of business who were being dragged to
and from their daily work and it is
equally difficult for us to conceive that
perhaps in the next century the peaceful
ramblers by the Regents park will find
the sky overhead suddenly darkened at
q certain time in the afternoon by the
great Aocks of city men who are flying
to their homes in the far northwest.
There will, of course, be some incon
venience from the general acquisition OF
powers of flight ; but then every great
change brings with it certain amount
of suffering. Thus it is terrible to pic
ture the feelings of the quiet household
er when he learns that large number OF
school boys have recently been let Loose,
and are flying about the neighborhood |;
or that the crew of a man-of-warrecent-
ly paid off have bought aerial machines
and may appear at any moment. Such
drawbacks as these will, however, be
trifing when compared with the vast
advantages which men will gain from tue
possession of wings. Perhaps the most
striking OF these will be the facility
which will be given for the pursuit and
detection of crime. It is not easy to
picture flying policeman, or to imag-
inc injunctions to move on coming from
above the chimney pots but it is per-
haps possible to realize how perfect q
feeling of security the inhabitants OF
London will have when they know thst
all over the metropolis watchful inspec-
tors are poised in mid air, and that soar.
ing constables are constantly on the
lookout. Let it be hoped that when
these days come men will not forget to
whom they owe so much, and will re.
gard the members of the aeronautical
society as benefactors of humanity, and
worthy Of enduring fame.
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"Do you make any reduction to q
minister ?" said young lady to sales.
man. "Always. Are you minister's
wife "Oh no, I am not married,
said the lady, blushing. daughter,
then?" emo" The tradesman looked
puzzled. 81 am engaged tor theologi.
cal.student," said shs. The reduction
was made. 81 81
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The Old Maid Of Athens.

Rome Whore you will and man is false 3
bis Spain may be most dire ~
When once he has Belfast, he
Will shortly Of her Tyre.
Pekin this Brest and you will see Sss
That Isle of Man most dearly,
And yet Issy this Dublin plan
Will Rouen us quite clearly.
Heed not, oh, maid, the aghs and Wales
OF man, or else forlorn you
Will rue the time, when fest erect
He'll puf bis Sweden sccrn you. ss
Though you be Hungary for lore,
There's Norway that you can
Havana thing that's safe to do -s &
With such brute as man.
-Eugens Fed.
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A chamois, with red eyes, white horns
and hoofs, and a snowy-white fleece, is
among the curiosities of the Zooplastic
museum at Soleure. It is the second
specimen found in the Alps in thirty
wears. " ", s ~ ,s
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to bed. By this time she was terribly
hungry. She didn't care straw for the
"thrashing Win said he would give
her, didn't even care if she was drown
ed, and began to NEW, softly at first,
and then louder and louder, until Wins
papa bounded out into the kitchen to
see what was the matter, and ran against
the table, and then against the stove,
and hurt his knee 80 badly it made him
knock chair over. 49,
Topsy heard Wins mamma calling
from the bedroom
"What upon earth is the matter ?"
And papa answered, I wish the stove
was in Jericho |"
Mamma laughed, and then papa said,
"Now where is that wretched little
cat ?"
"Topsy was afraid somewhat again,
80 she said very softly, meow !"
"There she is % cried papa.
Where ?" called mamma.
"How should I know ?" scolded papa
for his shins still ached from hebump
on the hearth.
Meow, meow !" said Topsy.
"She's in the pantry again p ex-
claimed papa, and then mamma came and
lit lamp and they went to look for
her.
"MEow |"
They looked under the shelves and
behind the -four barrel, and into the
cupboard, but no kitten was to be seen.
"MEOW
"She's under the foorl" papa cried,
in dismay.
"She's in the drawer - cried mamma,
suddenly remembering that she shut
the drawer when she went into the pan
try and found the spoiled goodies.
Papa opened the drawer, and out
jumped Topsy right into his face, which
startled him so that he jumped back
against mamma and made her knock of
the lamp chimney.
Topsy had dashed wildly under the
cupboard, but when she heard the chin
Iney smash she rushed out, and unde,
New-York tribune., 1878-04-29
A GIT TO YALE COLLEGE,
DIR. T. d. PORTER CONVEYS LEXINGToN-AVE PROP
TRTY TO FOUND AND MAINTAIN PROFESSOR
SHIPS AT YALE.

DR. r. d. PORTER CONVEYS LEXINGTON-AYE PROP
rRTY TO FOUND AND MAINTAIN PROFESSOR
SHIPS AT YALE.
DR.. r. ID. Porter, who lives IN one and
owns Of the Odfashoned wooden houses standing
back from the highway on the east side OF Lexington
ave between TEirty-sixth and Thiryseyenth-sts has
made conveyance OF that property, with the block OF
land connected with it, TO Yale College for the pnr-
pose OF increasing strengthening tho teaching force
the college proper, by maintaining lectureships ana
profes sorhips 10 promote learning virtue, picy ana
truth" The conveyance made sone weeks ago The
property s however, for the present encountered win
large annuity to be paid to DIR. Porter and his family
and portions OF the property especially on Ihrd
ave. subject to mortgages.
Dr. Porter has provided in particular fOf the
establishment OF a lectureship-to which 5000
per year is TO be devOted-whch Is designed
to " teach the principles OF righteousness ana
TO show that those principles are In harmony win the
common sense and Judgment OF mankind. lie prOVdes'
also, that the rpOraon Of the college shall annually
distribute 5000 to disabled teachers In needy crcuu-
stances; md that 5000 year shall be paid to the
present incumbent OF the professorshp OF the Chinese
language and literature the said college The rest OF
to used without restriction for the gen
cral object first mentioned.
Ii ought to be added that this purpose the part OF
DR.. Porter has been entirely spontaneous Professor
Dwight of the Columbia Law School. acted as DIR. Por
ters counsel In drawing up tho peculiar deed
OF trust by which the property is conveyed.
The valne OF the property is almost exclusively In the
land self-the improvements being practically worth
less The land has valued high ms threequarters
OF Il million of dollars, or higher with such rea-
sonabe revival estate certainly be expected
within few years. IL hardly be rated at lees than
half million.
DIR. Porter who is nephew OF the renowned Timothy
Dwight president Of the college from l705 TO 1917 was
graduated from Yale College In the class OF 1916 and he
has engaged In teaching during his whole life He
has great dislike OF notoriey. and has been anxious
that his gift to his Alma Mater should attract as little
notice as possible.
New-York tribune., 1878-04-29
TWO INTERESTING DEBUTs.

c;cnor Maieropi. whose New York advent at
., erioa was some time ago announced in this Journal
,,, emerge tonight at tho Fifth Avenue Theatre. ms
sc,or although an Italian, performs in English drama
Ia was seen here several years ago, In the dramatc
company Of Rlstori His acting was recently mueh com'
ondea in te press Of San Francisco. Sgnor Maieron
will appear in The old Corporal" drama madeknown
here wears ago. by Henry Pacide and afterward pre-
sented by Daniel T. Bandmann and others 1t Is an'
pounced that the debut here, in English DRAMA
of signora MaierOni will occur week later than
that OF her husband This lady is niece OF RstOrl
The nature Of the treat in store for the patrons OF the
drama may be inferred from the following extracts OF
a recent letter from Madame RistOri to sgnora MAZE
ron to the publication OF which the latter has given
her consent:
From the letters which have received from LORD
Normandy and many others OF your friends, am de-
ghted 10 hear continued testimony to your great
success and cannot express the extreme pleasure IL
gives me: the so, as the arduOuS TASK YOU nave
undertaken appeared difficult and uncertain OF sue
cess To attempt play in the English language is an
exceedingly bold task for you VINO are ltallans ana
oltho' know that Eduardo great artist and wOui
he sure to be greatly applauded under any circun-
tta0ces YOU must permit me to that am both sur
nrsed and prOui OF what have accomplished; ana
also thai your aectonate aunt Adelaide. congratates
YOU on your success and prophesies for you spendd
future, - . l.. -.
well remembered, 1t will be beneficial TO you that my
estimate OF Won should be known. and specially that
Tie magnificent Press Of that great country should De
Iware that Adelaide RsOri Is proud 10 call you her
fepheW and niece.
New-York tribune., 1878-04-29

DIED.

pAIDwIN-At Newark, n. J., sunday, April % 1873,
Charlotte Crane, widow Of David J. Baldwin, IN the $50
Relatives and friends attend the funeral services
nj her late residence 2l9 Orangest Newark, N j. on
Wednesday, May Ii . D. M
IntermCnt Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
HALLOCK-At residence Somers Centre y. " on sat
uray April 81 Elizabeth, widow Of the late James Haock'
IN the 76th year Of her age. ,-,. -.
Relatives and friends invited 10 attend her funeral AZ Am
awak Tuesday, April 80 at 1850 o'clock
will be In waiting at kaonAA on ARRIVAL OF the
S3Oa M from Grand Central Depot-Hariem Railroad
NICHoLS-April %, 1873 William Z. Nichols aged IL
years at the Union square Hotel.
Burial viii take place his home East addam, Conn., April
Relatives and friends respectfully invited to attend.
MACKAY-At New Brunswick, ". j. April 26 Anna Matilda
Nevns widow OF the late George MGekay o New Bruns-
wick.
TAYLOR Suddenly. Arrl 2j 1873 at Dcmarest ~ !, Of
pneumonia John Douglass Taylor OF John ~ and ImmA
ID. Taylor.
his residence in BrOoklyn seventh day.
fourth MONTH 27th stephen Valentine IN hls SD year
Relatives and friends invited Ia attend his nef from
Friends Meeting house Schermerhofrs BroOklyI on
third ay 3Oth inst. at o'clock p. without further in
VitatlOn.
GsTAFF-sudcenly at his residence Tahluah West Is.
L.. l., FRIDAY, aPgu 70, Dr. AIreu Nagsti IN tho
18th Of his
Relatives ana friends OF the family respectfully invited
ST. Marks Church, 2daye and 10TH
ST. ON Tuesday the 30t inst at 1880 o'clock IT is kindly
requested that no flowers he sent.
YOUNG-Ats ST. Paus School Concord, y. H., April &c.
Edward Mason Young eldest son Of Mason and Louise
Uurlbut Young Of New York m the l5th Of his
Funeral services will be held 81 James's Church, New
London, Conn. on TUESDAY, April 30, at O'Clock.
The iuerment will take place nj Greenwood.
New-York tribune., 1878-04-29

OF the Scotland detective force In London relating
TO the murder OF Nrs Lydia Chapman wife OF Joseph b.
IN this circular are Carlo sescOvch and his mistress
have no doubt win be able TO find out IN few days
who Frederick Marker Is, and viii then advise you
Yours truly, RoBT. A. PIsKnRToS, SuperintendeDt
The following is the record referred to- from the record
at Plnkerons National Detective Agency in NewYorks
Carlo sesicovich alias Charles Grandy," alias /" VIM:
Wallace" alias Howard Adams" alias John Howe"
alias The Dutchmah t Is ssd TINS man is hussian.
kept saloon under Booths Theatre In New-York city,
and Is supposed TO have been one OF the men engaged IN
burglary the Third National Bank OF baltimore,
Md August 1S. 1872 with Jos. Il. Chapman, Shell Ham
itoD Frank Mccoy alias Big Frank an English burg
ar named Sgneo and Joseph Rey sRs
committing this burglary Chapman, Rely. Junco and Seq
ieoyich went abroad making their headquarters IN Lon
engraver named John Becker travelled through Europe
obtaining money forged letters Of credit in which
they very successful until they reached Smyrna,
Turkey, where, In endeav0rng to obtain money forged
letters OF credbey all arrested convicted and SEN
fenced 10 three years Imprisonment in British Consul
lar prison az C0nstantnOpe. 5escoyIcb, Becker and
Rely escaped, after serving about year They then
returned to Eugand and Sescoveh went with his mis-
board the residence OF Mrs. John b. Chapman
wife OF their confederate, whom they had LEFT IN
prison in Consantnoplc Mrs. Chapman was then living
Lydia Porter One morning Mrs. Porter was found dead
IN her bed and her bOirders, William and Louise Wal
had murdered her. and on April ~, isao. 10
a circular ssned giving the circumstances OF the
case and requesting hat i2iormtton DC synt S1peen
force. Since Mrs Chapmans death IL mas been re-
ported that Becker Rely and Sescovich had been en-
deayoring to obtain money from her with which 10
defray their expenses trip TO Australia for the
purpose OF committing forgeries there; that Mrs Ca
who supposed to have been possessed OF con-
siderable money and jewery had persistenty refused
advance the money for this expedition, IN conse-
0uence of which refusal on her part had been
concocted between the men above named for the pur
OF robbng herr that in order 10 rob her they lad
dosed her with some narcotic her death resulting here
New-York tribune., 1878-04-29
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
pu,1HARMOyIC SOCIETY.

BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.
Saturday nights concert at the Brooklyn
Acsdamy OF Music formed fitting close to what mas
been an exceptionally brilliant season. Inc au"ieneo
Gas large and enthusiastic, the programme was
an admirable one the playing OF the orchestra was
unusually ne the stage charmingly decorated WIN
as il is the custom of the society to do at te
last concert Of the The programme opened WIN
Reethoyens seventh symphony, which was superoy
iven. conductor aud orchestra we're in the happest
ven and there was o warmth and brilianey ABOUT
the performance of this noble work which re very lar
bevond the common. The other orchestral selecuOnS
.sere schubcrt's beautiful unfinished symphony, tne
Graedher Capriccio which was so successiui III new
Work. I'm the symphony Concert SERIES ana the
rannbKuser Overture. Miss Beebe was the soiolst
~ the even ng and she gave excellent rendering OF
,1orAerssohns "Infelce." There were also a couple
- soectops for the English Gee Club, which sang Gold
haCk,s "Three Fishers" aye Eyes OF Melting Blue
1,,b .oIos for Messrs Woodruff and Bard WIN
Quartet vocal accompanimentl and AttwG1oGs coos
There is mild and tranquil light all OF whlcn nave
hoan heard this year at the cuh's own concerts but
,Sev were All capally given. with exquisite accuracy
md enisb and the voices tod surprisingly wen. AIle
'bs concert Mr. Thomas received an enthusiastic recaI
andn nit ovation,
New-York tribune., 1878-04-29
,,., N. marty is widely scattered over the

is that the party is widely scattered o'o' N
Ar lanes Bryce. the intrepid traveller VINO
..oondea 10 the crown of Mount Ararat In 1910,
a. letter 70 The London Times TO correct soue
in 10 the importance OF the cessohs VI
.,orv IN Asia specified In the Treaty OF san e.oiAno
Y ,ates that Batum Ia not really harDor az an hVI
r,.cc Of any natural strength toward the sea-
osro bay-a small open bay formed by SPIT Oh Sanu
unnine ont on its west side No doubt II ehoruS pe'i
,ncborage than any other bay on that bold and
,s coast: but IL lies exposed to the violent nortnerS
ra,es-so much exposed that when the wind RISES
A.. nave 10 get up steam and stand out to sea- s
,onsiss In the fact that Russia who owns vast anu
,rary rich territories between the Enxme ana 'ne
o,an has no toerable port along this part OF her .o
coast Al Poti where the railway from Inns 'u' " a,
,ea there IA bar with only four feet OF "a'e' " oad
southoum Kaleh. there is nothing but an opon ''r
stead Roth places but especially Poti arc t tno
t,n,,ohlo from tine maarial fevers Whc1 ino osion
1'6e Russians cannot be e%peccu q, thres
lisc ars which they have capt ~ aHsct
tOstye wars But in any case, theSc ccsso ia1
of the Armenian people anu hot
tn1 Tbey do strengthen RusSlas pOsi.Ioh "a
W ~ adIa They do not even give her gIeatSl 5
nnon Persia III she is ever mad enough 10 atL'Ch
e nnnst do so either through Turkestan OF ~
Sorthern Persia which, owing to her comnlahu VI 'e
caspian has lain already for fifty years at her mercy