Year: 1877

day, whichever you choose TO call it. dur
ing the intervals of watching with fran
tic apprehensions the iconoclastic efforts
of her carman, and will relieve her brain
from the excitement attendant thereon,
by the inexpressible delight she will
feel in the shabbiness of Mrs Browns
furnishings when they are piled on the


trucks.


Meantime. wise proyisionary MeSsrs
Brown and Smith, dine and sleep at
their Clubs or hotel until chaos becomes
cosmos. Otherwise, the little wedge is
frequently entered on May day, that
eventually proves that incompatibiIity
of temper which finds its final disrupt
ing tendency proven in a divorce case.


The Academy of Design is again open
with It's annual Spring exhibition OF
pictures, and affords lovers as well as
connoiseurs in Art, more pleasure than
usual. 1t has as general thing better
order of pictures, and they are hung to
far better advantage than usual. To
show how differently artists appreciate
their own work from the manner III
| which it is viewed by others. Imay men
ton the case of lady who sent two
pictures, one that she thought worthy
of a place, another which she did not
consider so. The latter was accepted
and the former returned, much to her
surprise


Since the opening of the Academy
one of our most promising of artists MIR
Beaufrain Irving, has died very sud
denly of congestiye chill. He was a
Southern gentleman, whose sympathies
with his home were cultivated during
the civil conflict on the Southern side.
The war left him as it did SO many 9TH
ers, with all the luxuries of life, and even
its comforts, matter of memory. The
pencil, which had been the amusement
of an idle hour, became the serious en-
ployment of the busy ones which neces-
sarily succeeded the former. Taking
Messounier for his guide, he made rapid
advancement toward the success reach
ed by the French master, adding to the
exquisite detail and painstaking labor of
his work originality of design that was
speed " making him one of our most
famous men. Personally he was one of
the most polished and courteous OF gen
lemen, and his studio pleasant pace
TO visit. He leaves wife and eight
children to mourn one Of the kindest of
husbands and most indulgent of fathers


To add to the picturesque beauty of
our harbor, Spanish Man Of War ar
rived on Sunday, and the usual salutes
we're heard booming from fort and fri
gate. Shortly after her arrival she
was boarded by the officers from the
Russian fleet, aud the usual ceremony OF
congratulation we're gone through.
There is something amusing to the
locker on in all this process and circum-
stance. 1t says so much and means so
little. A puff of political indignation
and these same people might be bang
ing away at each other tomorrow, with
the sole determination ofsweeping their
recently congratulated guests from the
face of the earth.


People out of town often think that
they would like to be able to send TO the
city to do their shopping, if they could
only find a reliable person to entrust it
to. 1t is with much pleasure. therefore,
that announce the opening of new
and perfectly organized institution of
this kind, to be known as the New York
Press Purchasing Agency. tits in con
nection with the widely known New
York Press Correspondence Union, and
this not only gives it a status that endors-
es it, but the special privileges always
permitted to newspaper correspondents,
Of the earliest and fullest investigation
of wholesale and etailimportations, and
chance of buyingat the lowest figures
in the market 1t will be constantly
under the personal supervision of the
we'll known fashion writer attached to
the Union, Mrs Ada Deem Hunt, whose
special weekly correspondence with
leading modistes and people moving in
the best circles in Paris, and also with
importers and manufacturers in New
York, will make it possible for any per-
son from the Atlantic or Pacific to obtain
the latest fashions and best of goods at
bottom prices. Anything will be pur-
chased from paper OF pins to bridal
trousseau. Fer further particulars ad-
dress the New York Press Purchasing
Agency, Box 1863, New York City; or,
matters of special importance may, if
preferred be addressed to Mrs Ada Deem
Hunt, No 63 Madison Avenue, New
York. All money orders should be sent
to tho hov addroSs