Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-11-15
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR.

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR
NEW YORK, Nov s, 1880.
Thank heaven! The election is over,
and we may now turn our attention to
things more agreeable than politics.
Art, for instance. The after-effects of
the election are making one artists pot
boil at any rate. He is painter of
black eyes and is a marvellous concealor
of such Commissions. He IS very busy
renovating the bruised brows of brokers,
bankers, and bigwigs generally who
have become so excited in "the cause"
that they forgot to see where they were
going to, and so ran up against lamp
posts, fists, and other obstacles. High
err art is represented by perhaps the
most carefully finished painting ever
produced on the planet. 1t is the mas
terpiece of Holman Hunt. the great En-
glish artist, and is being exhibited by
the dealers who purchased it for 91O,-
900 sterling. The gifted Inner took
six years to complete it, spending four
years in Palestine to acquire the exact
aroma of the scene portrayed and to
secure. at great expense of money, time,
and diligent research, antique models
for the inanimate objects represented.
The result is marvellous and 1.-The
Shadow of the Cross is Enthusiastically
one of the great pictures of the world.
The patriotic small boy is still cele-
brating and is coming very multitude
nously to the front as frst-class nui-
sance. Of course, ash barrels are their
natural prey at this season for bonfire
purposes. but their collection this year
has been systematic and even scientific.
Large gangs of boys have dubbed their
resources and accumulated barrels by
the thousand and then waged war for
their possession. Some serious fights of
almost riotous character have been held
over these spoils with bottles, bricks
and rocks as weapons. In trying to
stop one of these encounters "Nan the
Newsboy," who was appointed police
man as soon as he grew tall enough, in
recognition of his having saved many
lives from drowning, got set upon by a
mob of little fellows and most cruelty
beaten.
The danger of modern toys is getting
emphasized every now and then in a
startling manner. Already explosions
and sudden deaths attributable to the
torpedo have occasioned the tabooing Of
that delight of ingenious youths, and
now another death has occurred to war;
people against that ingenious affair
known as Pharaoh's serpents. The in
ventor, John Dickinson. of Brooklyn
whose employers have coined money by
his skill, was employed in his residenc,
manufacturing supply of the egg
when retort broke, he inhaled tn,
noxious fumes and died very soon after
wards with his internal organs congest
ed in the most remarkable way. TIL
gases thrown off by the combination o
these eggs, which are composed of me
tallic poisons, are of most virulen
nature, and even in a we'll aired room
or out of doors are decidedly inimica
to health, SO they will now probably b
severely dropped as parlor entertain
; ment
,, Have you seen the last issue of Puck
If you haven't, get it and study tn
center cartoon. 1t is puzzle pictur
/ unparalleled, with portraits of the can
: didates and ever so many more promi
nent men concealed and yet revealed b.
tree and rock and shining river. ]
makes Hancock look as joyous as th
q dear. old boy undoubtedly feels. N
mud was thrown to offend him a.
through the bitter fight, and he has th
e respect and esteem of even his most di
a igent political opponents. while the fat
remains that he has for life most snu