The New York herald., 1879-12-18

money and that he hopes his friends will get up an
entertainment to pay his travelling expenses Some
one lent him s40o to come East.
An English fashion journal gives the following az
she winter costumes for little dogs:-"For toy ter
rier aged one year-Carmen velvet coat richly em-
broidered in crewes. bound with silver cord; crest
aud initials on the front in raised silver. Hair
forehead caught up and tied with red ribbon falling
over the back. collar to match with u dozen silver
bells. Small Italian greyhound-Coat of navy blue
stamped velvet embroidered in gold with name ana
crest. lined with squirrels fur and bound with
swansdown, gilt collar and bells''
Pail Mall Observation-Disclosures can never be 30
popular as figure pieces. mankind being naturally
moro alive to the beauties of living creatures than to
those of nature. Claude, Vandeyelde Cuyp and
others gained their popularity by representing cer
tain obvious phenomena of nature in such way as
irresisiby TO produce conviction of tine truth of
their rendering. Turner. though he challenged
comparison with these masters did not follow tho
lines they had laid down; he could not be content
to depict. however consummately. the sights which
any Cockney might see in the course Of q walk"
London academy THE Report of the French
Meteorological Congress in 1s7S--At the time of the
Exhibition last year a number Of conferences were
organized by the French government. That on
meeorology lasted for four days. The report of the
meeting has appeared. 1t contains the p-oto
coils of the sittings and about twenty-five of the
actual papers laid before the conference The sub
jects referred to are pretty numerous. Among
those to which most space has been allotted have
been ozonometry, evaporation. mountain observa-
tioDs and the meeorology Of the Atlantic in relation
to the HERALD warnings" NF W
London TruM:-"Husbands bewarei Mrs. Bullss
went to Mr.. Buffers club. asked for his letters
opened them and commenced proceedings in the
ink WI nm
the adys part, and If the practice obtains clubs viii
be forced to order their porters to give up the
letters of member to any one suspected Of being
wife. Half the domestic felicity Of matrtmony is
based upon the bliss OF ignorance. From the time
of Eve ladies have rendered themselves miserable by
gratifying their curiosity. What the apple in
the Garden Of Eden letter ought to be in a clubs
thing forbidden to be touched by any the fair
SEX"
"All Europe" says English Critic .sancient
beliefs steadily giving way; the Western world
appears to be moving toward new conception Of
life and its obligations. When this movement began
those who associated themselves with it for the
most part animated and hopeful. They saw in the
past only the evils from which they were escaping.
and confidently looked forward to happier than
mankind had known. But different temper
has succeeded to this sanguine spirit. Thoughtful
and sensitive natures have begun to perceive that.
after all. we lose something in departing from the
lines with which preceding generations were satis-
fed. and that perhaps ideas cannot do quite so
much for society aud the individual at
time supposed. Nearly all the higher recent tera-
ture not only of England but of France and Ger
many. particularly Germany. bears traces of this
sense OF disappointment. Men write as il they had
tested the utmost possibilities Of existence and ~
II its amelessness had at last been found out"