Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-11
President-Elect Garfield.
His Beliefin PrOvidence-some Omens that
 Preceded His Nomination.

His Beliefin nPrOvfdence-sosne Omens that Preceded His Nomination. [From the Cincinnati Herald and Presbyter.l After accepting an invitation to Cleveland, we determined to visit Mentor, our object being to see there the "lad who has five bar ley loaves and two small fishes" We were not at all disheartened by the thought What are these among so many?" for the reason that our interest was in the lad, and not in l the leaves and fishes. From all we had learned of MT. Garfield we concluded that he would be quite as willing to see a minis ter as a politician. About 5 o'clock we | reached Mir. Garield's house, mile and a | half from the depot, and met very pleasant | reception. After some questions and pleasant allusions by our host in regard to his friends by whom we had been introduced, we said ''This new departure in your life is, no doubt, unexpected?"
 He replied, ''Yes, indeed, nothing could have been more unexpected to me and to all. The convention was in Q dead lock. There was no light anywhere, I have never haC less thought or expectation concerning any event Of my life.
 We responded that it was providential, and we were not grieved that men who had been for years working for a nomination were left out. We hoped the same result would follow in every nominating convention. He said, 'I believe in Providence. spar row cannot fall to the ground without His no
 
 feeling that so high power was exercised for me or for my elevation"
 We said, Eff there is Providence in the arrairs of earth. it is not presumptuous to note it in your case"
 He said: "Oh yes; believe the world is progressing and that God rules. I look at the progress of society the flowing of 8 mighty river, constantly onward, though here and there may be still water, eddies and whirlpools, parts of the current seeming. to run backward, and yet the great stream run ming onward and growing wider and deeper to it's outlet. What referred to is person. al feeling, rebelling against the idea that in this progress and my interests are part of it. In war was often Respondent, but I always fell back on the assurance that the eternal verities must ensure the preservation of our country"
 The flight of the eagle in Washington on the day of the nomination was referred to, and we asked him if he knew the report to be true.
 ''Yes," he said, |" investigated it careful ly. It was strange, indeed. Eagles are not often seen away from forest and mountains, but that day large one was seen in Wash ington sweeping about over the city, and at last lighting down on my house at the time of the nomination, as near as we could judge of the difference in time between Chicago and Washington"
 We said, How strange and interesting that was'
 ''Yes, indeed" he said, and he added, "There is another thing I have not men, toned, but will tell it to you gentlemen, for know you will like to hear it The night before the nomination we sat up long after midnight, trying to agree upon something and get out of the deadlock. but all in vain and we took little rest, expecting to go into the struggle again the next day without any light or prospect. As went into the convention hall the next day passed man, one of the Moody and Sankey men, who was actively handing out leaves to every one passing him. I took one, thinking it probably adver- tisement of patent medicine or something else, but glancing at it I saw it was a leaf of the Bible, and I thought would not throw it away, and put it in my coat pocket and q thought no more of it. Very soon the nom ination was made, and dispatches came thick and fast. read them and put them in the same pocket. After the adjournment went to my hotel and the despatches came in great numbers, too many to be answered, and I told my secretary tp put them all in my trunk and when we got home we would at tend to them. Here said I, are some in my pocket, and, handing them to him., he said, fWhatis this ? It proved to be the leaf of Scripture, and it was so folded that only @ verse could be read-viz. The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner. This is the Lords do- ing, and it is marvellous in our eyes. It
 
 sent to apply such passage to myself" An Actors Hobby-The Greatest CoIIec-
 tion of Butterflies i'm the World.
 Henry Edwards, the well known actor, of Wallack's Theatre. has one of the finest col lections of butterflies in the world. In two large rooms Mr. Edwards has slowed away about 25O, 900 specimens, comprising 60, GOO species of insects. Butterflies and moths are the predominating orders. That part of his collection that Mr. Edwards most prizes is the type specimens, or the originals from which new species were described. His for ty years researches in all parts of the world have added between 700 and 800 species to the list of described insects. MT. Edwards was one of the earliest chronological explor- CTS of Australia and the other strange coun. tries in that region of the globe. There are no duplicates of some of his species in any known collection. For one small butterfly from New Ireland, in the South Pacific, a brother collector recently offered $25. He has other butterflies that are quickly taken in the chronological market at $50 apiece. They are not large or gaudy, but scarce. Next to his Australian gleanings, MT. Ed wards values his California insects, many of which he was first to describe. Some of his butterflies were caught in Greenland and Lab rador, some in Patagonia, many in Lapland, and others at the Cape of Good Hope. No climate is too cold, or too hot for members of the butterfly family. The Falkland island, New Guinea, Turkestan. Africa, and Alaska have furnished specimens to the collection, and South America makes dazzling display of beauty in the cases The genus Parna- ssius comprises the butterflies that live only E.. l.s 1.As