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AFTERNOON RECEPTIONS.
Iow New York Society Receives It's Friends.


a week OF receptions, kettledrums and
afternoon teas came to a close yesterday.
Though Tuesday is the old established day.
for fifth avenue lat homes" several " new
departures are noticed. For example,
Saturday Mrs. William Astor was sat
honae, J" and all who were able to pay their
respects after the ball of last Wednesday
did so Between 5 and the avenue and
Thirty fourth street were jammed with
carriages. The large drawing-rooms were
well filed from to 6, Mrs. Astor receiving
in the front drawing room.
Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts was also at
home yesterday afternoon from o'clock
till 5. Mrs. Roberts wJre plum -colored
gros grain, made en- princesse, with long
train, with side breadths of pearl-gray silk
inserted, lace on the neck and wrists, orna-
ments diamonds. Mrs. Fred Nelson wore
q full street suit of black velvet, with a
black velvet hat. Mrs. James P. Kernoch-
an wore an olive brocade, with hat to match.
Mrs. McVicker wore blue velvet suit, ele-
gantly made, with white dress bat. Miss
Mary Alice Townsend wore rich black
costume, with dress hat. At Mrs. Roberts
reception not only were the beautiful draw
ing rooms thrown open, but the picture
gallery also. These afternoon teas are to
continue every Saturday for the ensuing
month.
Mr. William Cullen Byrant and Miss
Byrant we're also sat home" yesterday
afternoon, from 4 till o'clock, at his resi-
dence in Sixteenth street. It was very
pleasant. gay gathering-nor SO brilliant or
numerous, perhaps, as the one last year,
when the celebrated vase was presented,
bat very bright conversazione notwith-
standing. Miss Byrant received her
friends in the front drawing room, and was
assisted by Miss Fairchild and Miss Ohm
stead. Miss Bryant wore white brocade
and silk, long train of the broeade and silk,
front of 81 ilk corsage pompadour, finished
with lace, elbow sleeves of lace, trimmed
with silk. Mrs. Chester Arthur wore
black velvet, very elegantly and elaborately
embroidered with clair de lune jet, dress
bonnet Miss Fairch:ld wore quite mi
deval costume of striped black and white
satin, made with long train, eorsage poin-
padaur Miss Leonowens wore a blue silk,
made demi-train, eorsage pompadour,
trimmed with lace, Marie Antoneete
sleeves.
Mr.. and Mrs. DeRuyter and Miss De
Ruyter were also at home on their return
from Europe, at their residence, 75 Madi-
son Avenue, yesterday afternoon. from 3
tall Q o'clock. Miss DeRuyter wore an old
ball dress. Mrs. DeRuyter wore black
velvet and diamonds. The indefatigable
Brown kept "wateh and ward at the
doorway
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Strength Of the Sioux

The five great bands of the Sioux nation
to-day are the Ogallala, Uncapapa, Yank-
-oniase, Cheyenne and Upper Santee. Be-
sides these there are numerous smaller
oands, once distinct and powerful, but fast
dwindling away before theirterrible enemy,
disease. The most important of these are
the Sans Arc, Brule, Assiniboines. Sisseton
and Wahpetons. The Cheyennes here
mentioned should not be thought the same
is the distinct tribe of that name, who
speak different language and are OF differ
ent habits from the Sioux. Taken as a
nation, they can muster $4,000 warriors,
and these, with their families and herds of
ponies, roam over an immense tract OF land,
80 large, indeed, that the ordinary reader
can form no idea ofits vast extent, without
taking map and comparing the land Of
the Sioux with countries or States with
which lie is familiar. The reservation as
put down on the map is large enough, but
that does not cover one-third of the land
traversed by The warrior in his search for
game or glory. From the Platte river on
,be south 10 the British line on the north,
and from the settlements of Minnesota on
the east to the mountains on the west, be
il continually roaming. Sometimes when
warmly pressed BY the government troops
he crosses the line and seeks safety on the
British soil, and Is only prevented from en-
te,inv the mountains by the superior tactics
of the mountain Indians the warfare OF the
plains not being suitable for mountain bat.
Ties.
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THAT TELEPHONE ExPERndENT.-The
experiments referred to in our paragraph
quoted from the Titnssille Herald, a few
days ago. has just been repeated at Brant-
ford on Prof. Bells telephone line to Tutelo
Heights. A telephone was placed on vari-
ous parts of the head, neck. trunk and
limbs of speaker-even on the soles of
the feet-and in every case the voice was
heard at the other Of the line, three and
one-eighth miles distant. Except when
issuing from the feet, the words, though
faint, were perfectly ineligible, as was
proved By the immediate answers sent to
the questions so singnlarly asked. The
fact that the whcle body vibrates with the
voice has long been known. a deaf person,
by keeping his hand on the speakers char,
can tell, by feeling the vibrations, when the
sitter is talking. But that these vibrations
can be heard as words and sentences is
altogether a new fact revealed by that
wonderful little instrument--the telephone.
In the Brantford experiments the region Of
the stomach was found TO yield the best
results. Nobody ever before supposed the
word I. ventriloquism to descrihe real
fact; but il Is now proved that Ne are all
ventriloquists BY nature, and that We speak
from head to foot through every libre Of
our bodies, Can any use be naade of fhis
fact Time will ah0E. 9oreata Gfobs.
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webster's Seventeen Murasrs,

Mr. Webster's experience with Senator
Harrison's inaugural is thus narrated BY
Peter Harvey in his "reminiscences of the
great expounder: 4 s5
''One day, among other new arrange-
ments, he suggested to the new President,
in as delicate way as he could, the fact
that he had sketehed an inaugural, know
ing that General Harrison would be over
whelmed with calls and business after his
election, and he himself having leisure to
write. The General at once replied that It
WAS not nect ssary, that he had prepared his
Own inaugural. 'Oh yes, said he. T'ye
got that all ready will you allow me to
take it home and read it to-nightq' asked
Mi. Nenstet. Certainly, the President
replied and please let me take yours,
So they exchanged the documents, and the
next morning when they met, General Har-
rison said to Mr.. Webster: IF / should
read your inaugural instead of mine, every
body would know that you wrote it, and
that did not. Now, this is the only Off
cial paper which l propose to write, for
do not intend to interfere with nav Secre
taries but this is a sort of an acknowledg-
ment on nay part to the American people of
the great honor they have conferred upon
me in elevating me to this high office, and,
although, of course, it is not so suitable as
yours, still it is mime, and I propose to let
the people have it just as have written it.
T. must deliver my own instead of yours :"
Mr.. Webster told me that he was a good
deal annoyed because the message was, ac-
eording to his Judgment aud taste, SO m
appropriate. It entered largely into Ro-
man hist.,rv. and had q great deal to say
about the States of antiquity and the Roman
Proconsuls, and varinns matters of that
kind. Indeed the word g Proconsul' was
he found that the President was bent upon
using his own Inaugural, Mr.. Webster
said that his desire was to modify it, and
to get ID some things that were not there !;
and get out some things that were there;
for As it then stood, he said, it had no
more to do with the affairs Of the American
Government and people than chapter in
the Koran. Mr.. Webster suggested to
Gen. raj Harrison that he should like to put
in some things, end General Harrison rath-
er reluctantly consented to let him take it.
Mr. Webster spent portion of the next
day in modifying the message. Mrs. Sea-
ton remarked to him, when he. came home
rather late that dav. that he looked fa-
tigued and worried; but he replied that he
was sorry that she had waited dinner for
HIM. g That is of no ,nsequence, at all.
Mr.. Webster" said she, shut am sorry
to see you looking SO worried and tired. r
hope nothing has gone wrong. l really
hope nothing has happened "'You
would think that something had happen
ed,' be replied, "if you knew what have
done. have killed Sc senteen Roman Pro.
consuls as dead as smelts, every one of
tbcm.''
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Tricks Of Drivers.

Tt was more common years ago than re-
Gently for landlord and stage-drivel to have
an understanding with each other, whereby,
for consideration paid the driver, hungry
travellers were scarcely allowed time to
comfortably seat themselves at the table,
when the driver would announce the imne-
diate departure of the stage, thus cheating
people out of meal who paid for one.
remember being one Of stage load of
hungry travellers crossing the Sierra Neva-
da before railroads had spanned it, when a
noted judge, still on the bench, and an
equally noted professor of aa eastern col
lege, were Of the party. s
Our arrival at a dinner station WAS bailed
with delight by all the party, and we filed
into the dining room TO attack the sayory
viands, the landlord, however, first taking
care to collect the fee for the meal from
each of ms. We had certainly not been ive
minutes at the table, and some of us, in
waiting to be helped to coffee, had not
tasted mouthfal of food, when our driver
shouted +: -
ssAll aboard Pm behind time and ean't
wait minute loRger." -
A look of mingled coasteraation and dis
gust spread from face to face, as we sprang
from tue table, bat the judge remained
cool, as he touched the professor on the
arm.
!" viii you see TO the bread supply, if
take care of the meat % he eueried.
The professor caught at his purpose and
promptly asssnted. la another instant the
judge had conveyed a large turkey and a
couple OF spring chickens, ready carved,
from their platters to two napkins, while
the professor eaptied the contents of the
bread plates into anpther, and, led by the
judge, they marched triumphantly to the
coach.
Their example was contagious; each of
the passengers hastily confseated some ar
ticle of food-meats, vegetables, even past
ry-nntil the dining room was pretty thor
oughly stripped of everything that went TO
make up the coneomitants of a good meal,
and che interior of the coach bore the ap-
pearance, / imagine, of Sheruan's hummer
raid, while the bewildered aud amazed look
on the face of the sprechless landlord, as
we drove of, would have proven priceless
study to any artist. The roars of laughter
it caused us proved good condiment to
our strangely improved meal
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CHRISTMAS GIFTs BY WHoLEsALE.-Ina a
a Leading manufacturing establishment in
Philadelphia, Christmas day, work was sus-
pended, and the proprietor of the establish
ment and 400 employees, male and female,
assembled in large room which had been
fitted up for the occasion. Here, after some
hours spent in social manner with good
music, etc., she proprietor presented his
employees gifts amounting in value to about
So. 600, mostly in cash. Five boys received
each handsome gold watch as prize for
steady attention to duty and meritorious
work. Two other gold watches were pre-
sented to journeymen as special marks Of
appreciation. Besides these there we're
about $50 cash presents, in sums ranging
from $40 to So. Sums of So and over were
presented in crisp greenbacks, and smaller
amounts in new trade dollars. Three gold
chains were also presented to employees.
The book-keeper got group of Rogers
statuary, and each of the faremen received
a silver ice pitcher. After the proprietor's
presents had been distributed, each of the
foremen received from the employees Of his
respective department a handsome silver
set Of eight pieces. The ladies Of Ehs esr
tablsshment presented the proprietor with
a silver flower arm; the employees of the
finishing department. gave him gold plat
ed ice PITCHER with salver and tankards.
the employees of the counting-ro0m and the
foreman gave bin al ebony cabinet. Dur
ing the presentations the room resounded
with cheers and all we're in the best Of
spirits. In addition 10 the presents al-
ready menli1 1ned, each head OF i family
employed b the establishments received 8
turkey.
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i" KITTY HAWK. "
A MARINE DIALOGUE.

foSA' AIFF2s
Where the worn out with chasing, at thy white
feet sink embracing. thou still sittest, celdly
facing,
Kitty hawk!
Facing gazing seaward ever, on each weak strong
endeavor, but in grief or pity, never,
Kitty Hawk!
Eagles, sea-guls round thee flying land birds spent
with speed and dying, even man to thee outcrY-
ing,
Kitty Hawkl
ALI thou see'st all thou nearest, yet thou carest
naught nor fearest, flesh nor fowl to thee is
dearest,
Kitty Hawkl
Art thou human art thou woman ? art thou dead
to love and to man more than all relentless ever !?
Kitty Hawk!
Hast thou wrongs to right, Kitty? wrongs that
move the soul to pity !? tell to me thy mournful
ditty,
Kitty Hawk
Tell all how some false lover, vagrant shipboy,
sailor rover, left, bereft thee, threw thee over,
Kitty Hawk!
For Antipodean savage left thy rage the shore
to ravage, with a faint idea of salvage,)
Kitty Hawk!
How thy vague but tragic story clothes the sandy
promontory, calls in accents monitory,
Kilt Hawk!
How thy feline appellaton, in accptrine combination
most BELTS q rhymed narration,
Kitty Hawk!
Festive tramp! around me prying-man with hair un-
kempt and fying-youth with neck and head re-
tractile,
s Like a clam
Draw within thy soft incosure, stop this cerebral
posure, for that's not the kind of hair-pin,
That am.
IT you're apo strophzing with this attItudinizing
prithee, hasten your uprising,
And in time,
On this beach, which is the Stations leave some
tain indentations- footprints for some sailing
brother,
Who might rhyme!
For my name is Jane Maria, and my father Kezurah
though he greatly might admire,
All Your talk,
AS of the town officials might prefer that his in
itials, should appear, just as he writes them
X. T. Hawk.
BRET HARTE
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.

1t looks as though theologians were
leaving hell in out the cold Boston Post.
The Boston Herald thinks Beecher is not
to blame for abolishing hell. He did it in
self-defense a#2 es4
A man was recently arrested in Chicag
for hitting another man over the head with
Dutch cheese, and that s sweitzer case of
assault and battery Com. Adg.
IF some men were measured by the size
of their hearts and suols,a gun-pateh would
make them suit of clothes, including aa
ulster overcoat. t.--Oa City Derriek. l
painter once store d i'd keep.
And he was quite a Ioker;
For when he found his girl asleep.
He with ayeow oehre
taa.aae4l s-Harensack RepubAcaa.
"An enthusiast" I" is an individual who
believes about four times as much as he
can prove, and can who proves feur times as
much as anybody else will believe.--Bil-a
lings
When paragrapher makes a joke of
whole cloth it is generally homes-pun.-
Turner'S Falls Reporter. Sir, Oliver Wen
dell is the only men who makes Holiness
puns.-N. z. Herald. rs
Several exchanges are giving directions
"How to Dress" The most sensible way
is to stay in bed until the fire is started,
and then take your clothes under your arm
and trot out to the dining room stoye.-
Rome Sentinel.
Now listen. Why are the journals
that run down Mark Twain like Michi-
gan town. Well, as you may not haye a
map of that State handy, we will give the
solution, which is that they Mount Glenn
ens.-Free Press.
A few weeks ago the Quartermaster Gen.
eral of the Turkish army issued rations of
soap to all the regiments in the army of
the faithful. The astonished warriors took
it, looked at it, felt it, wondered what it
was, and finally made soup of it.-HaWk-
eye.
The manufacture of paper from wood
has reached the altitude of perfection in
Canada. The superintendent of the mill
up there says that a tree is cut down and
showed into one end of the mill, and in five
minutes there is neighbor at the other
end to borrow the paper.-Danburg, Meas
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A Railroad velaeipeae.

A raan named johnson, travelling musi-
clan, being in Garland. and anxious to de-
part for more congenial cliuaes, with the
aid Of an ingenious blacksmith there, man-
afactnred veloeipede, with which he pro-
poses to travel down into Texas. Having
become possessed with two-wheeled veloe-
ipedes, such as were in common use few
years ago, he proceeded to fasten them to-
gether to run ON railroad. Wooden axles
were constructed SO that the machines
could re adapted to any gauge of track, a
broader tread was placed On the wheels to
which were added aanges made of whisky
barrel hoops, levers were fitted to give
meaas for using the hands as well as the
feet to gain motive power, the whole ar.
rangement was given coat of red paint,
and it gas set on the track at Garland
ready Tor service. The machine weighs
about 40 pounds and is easily handled. The
operator sits on seat resting across what
were the two seats of the old velecipedes.
Being provided wish al'ght camping out
fiji, Johnson mounted his novel travelling
apparatus at Garland and arrived here with
out accident. having made the trip at the
rate of about is miles per hour.
He remained in this city day or two,
and altering the gage of his car to suit that
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road,
he started out on Friday afternoon bound
East. Our informant tells US that he saw
johnson near Goldsmith's ranch, and tried
to keep up with his car on good horse but
the animal was soon distanced. The en-
gineer OF the eastern bound passenger train
reported having met Johnson at Apishapa
yesterday. At that time, of course, the
car was removed from the rails and was be
ing pushed by the owner along the road ad-
iacent to the track. @
We are informed that johnson is an old
railroad man and always provides himself
with time card so that he can keep ont of
the way of the regular trains. His appa-
ratus is so light that it can be moved from
the rails in a moment. Should he run foul
of a special train it might discourage" his
ca, somewhat, bnt on the Atchlson, Topeka
s. Santa Fe there is little danger, road be-
ing so straight. Golden (Col.) Globe.
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- Aase#
Half the young men In the country with
many old enough TO know better, would
ego ihto business that is, 60 into debt,
tomorrow If they could. Most poor men
are so ignorant as toeavy the merchant and
manufacturer, whose life is an incessant
struggle with peeuniary difficulties, who is
driven to constant "shinning," and who,
from month to month, barely evades that
Insolvency which sooner or later overtakes
most men in business 30 that it has been
computed that but one in twenty of them
achieves pecuniarry success. For my own
part-and speak from sad expariencs-I
would rather be a convict In q State prison,
. slave ina rice swamp, than to pass through
life under the harrow of debt. Let no man
misiudge himself unfortunate or truly poor
so long as he has the full use of his limbs
and faculties, and is substantially fres from
debt. Hunger, cold, rags, hard work, con-
tempt, suspicion, unjust reprOach, arc die
agreeable but debt is infinitely more than
them an. repeat, my young friends.
avoid pecuniary obligations as yon would
pastilence or famine. Ifyon have bat fifty
cents, and eau get no more for . week, bay
a peck Of corn, parch it and i've ON it, rath-
or than owe any aan dollar. or course,T
know that some men must do business that
involves risks, and must often give notes and
other obligations. and do not consider him
really in debt who can lay his hand directly
on the meaas Of paying, at suine little sac
riice, all be owes. | speak OF real debs,
that which involves risk or sacri6ee on the
one side, Obligation and Dependence On tho
other; aud say, from all such let every
youth hnmbly pray God 10 preserve him
everueore.-- Horace Greeley. a's
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New Style OF posTAsE SrAMPs. With
view to Obtaining an additional safeguard
against the fraudulent practice Of g wash
Ing" cancelled postage stamps. the Post
mastsr General has directed specimen
stamps Of the one, two, and three cent de-
nominations 10 be prepared, with melOsed
borders Of white around tks rest Of the de-
signs. Ths adopsios or these new styles
viii prohahly bs oaaeially ordered at an
early dsy,
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How Bread crusts are Used in Paris.

"What becomes of the old moons. What
becomes of the old bread crusts in Paris 90
asks theF Figaro, and then tells of their trans
formation. The 6ogsaagssr en- essUa, free
" translated, baker of the old, utilizes the
dry, damaged and abandoned lieces of
bread. He gathers the crusts in boarding
houses, convents and hotels. These NOR
sells, covered with sand, stained with ink,
are often picked from heaps of refuse by
servants to the bakers of old, who turns
them into new preparations. The mer-
chandise is first carefully sorted out. The
fragments which are judged TO be still in
presentable condition dried In an oven and
forms eroutss an pot, which are used up
10 soup in low class II ssaurants. Almost
all the lozenge sha. cd eraists served in
dishes of vegetables have this origin. The
crumbs and defective crust are pounded In
mortar until they become white paste,
which butchers use 10 adorn outlets. All
the material that appears absolutely inca
pable of further service is then roasted, re-
duced TO ashes, ground into powder, and
by the addition Of a few drops sf essence
Of mint, Is converted intoa a t,soth paste.
such is one Of tho metaparphosea Of Paris
industry. sa
PEACHES PLUcBEb ON CHRIsTAAs. The
Harrisburg, Pa, Telegraph, of the s4th
ult., says: !. Discussing the bala,y weatA-
or of the winters gentleman well known In
Harrisburg as one OF OR oldest and most
successful business men. now located on
Third street, stated to a, this morning that
he pl,acked peaches on tree an bis premis-
es on Christmas day, 1852, and seeded them
as part Of the desert for the dinner on
the occasion. General Cameron, II be reads
this paragraph, win recall the incident, as
he ate portion Of the fruit. and also ex-
amiaed the tree, on the day referred 10
which contained It. This, 81 al incidentof
past propitious winter weather. has not Of
Ten besn surpassed IN tia fruit Ane Ia tAiaI
latitudssa
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POETRY
CIRCE.
BY WILLIAM WINTER.

II is the law of streams to run,
OF autumn leaves to fall,
And she who has been false to one
She viii be false to all.
o, wild as tempest on the sea,
Is that poor lovers fate,
Whose faithful spirit, bound to thee,
Must hope, and fear and wait!
BY surge of JOY and storm of pain
His heart is soothed or broke;
He would not rend thy heavenly chain--
He cannot bear their yoke
There is no heaven so high as faith,
No hell so deep as doubt,
No haunted spectre like the wrath
Thy fancies vile or fout
All, let that tiger heart of thine,
By british mercy led,
To Just one p1teous act incline
And strike thy lover dead
Then let the streams forever run,
The leaves forever fall
Thou wilt, at last, be true to one,
And not be false to all.
80 BaldaoiA's Monthly.