Year: 1874




manifestations Of pleasure, and he was red-faced
man who evidently had some connection with astaga
company. Whenever his patience seemed to bo
completely exhausted, he would swooD down In
frenzied and Intellectual way from the sidewalk and
catch-not a single boy. For who ever caught
small boy. or caught one that didn't catch latart
That man will do well to be careful. Boys viii be
bows and they gro desperate when their sports are
interfcred with.


The warmer temperature turns the thoughts OF hall
our realers to Summer quarters. These early June
days are full of plans for mountain seaside resorts.
for country boarding or for cosy little box In tha
country for wifeand children, to which the head Of
the house may hope once or twice week 10 escape
from the furnace of baked brick on Manhattan
Island The business depression leads most sensible
and wel-to-do people to seek in their Summer quar-
ters less show than usual and more economical com
fort To satisfy the inquiries OF this large class. we
have taken great pains TO procure, through compe-
tent staff of reporters satisfactory details concerning
the accommodations offered at scores Of unpre-
tentious watering places in the vicinity OF New
York. Last week We gave all the particulars con-
cernng great variety of places on the jersey coast
and the south shore of Long Island. To-day, on
our third page may be found fuller particulars
about multitude of smaller places on the Long
Island Sound than have ever before been presented
as we'll as all the details any one Will care TO know
of the prospects at Saratoga and similar resorts
These letters are not made up of the usual trash OF
early watering place correspondence, but arc
crowded with just the facts which those seeking W
select place for the Summer want 10 Know
Ia suicide always to be referred ~ cowardicef
Such is the view of it usually taken by moralists.
though the act itself implies certain degree, at
least. of physical courage. We need not mention
many self-slayers whose yalor is historical. Not
celebrated man was Wolfgang Bach, who Shot
himself in St. Louis the other day. During the
kepeIvl he was Captain. Of New-i9rk battery.
having previously been lieutenant in the Prussian
artillery. He was gentleman of birth and educa-
ton, but after the peace his occupation was gone.
He opened an ale shop in Davenport, Iowa. ana
failed He tried insurance brokerage IN 81 LOUIS
and failed. Hardly knowing where To lay his own
head he married, and so multiplied that particular
embarrassment by two, and when two children
came by four. He then shot himself, and for bis
pains is called "a coward by the newspapers. So
he was but it would be more charitable to speak OF
him as one who could not find the proper thing to
do in this world and so made an experimental excur-
sion into the next. 1t would be great improve
ment of our philanthropy if could have
Society for Finding Out What Men are Fit For.
with an Auxiliary Society for Helping Them to
Do 1t.


The Council of Memphis refused to appropriate
any of the public money the sufferers by the South
Western floods. Cairo newspaper taking oiiensc
at this, proceeded to show how Memphis, when
stricken by pestlence, was succored by her neigh
bors All this has given rise to good deal OF un-
pleasant recrimination and proiitless controversy
A.. l,s Antn xrh
they should have done at first-they have raised
handsome sum by private subscription, and sent IL
to the relief of the sufferers We do not know what
motives actuated the Memphis Council in thus de-
clining to vote money out of the city treasury Tor
the relief of New Orleans or Cairo; but we DO
know that they had no moral right to vote such
money or thus dispose of the public funds. Inc
true course was to raise what the city was disposeo
to give by private subscription. The iaciiity VIII
which municipal representatives vote appropria.iohS
for all manner of miscellaneous objects Is one 'o
most unpleasant signs of the times, as Taxpayer"
sooner later will find out.


Since the old days of wax and taper have de-
parted and envelopes have facilitated dispatch and
the writing Of letters is no longer called an art 1t
not to be denied that there is a certain loosenes
about correspondence which was not known TO our
fathers Only in recent years has it been the rue
that considerable number of letters is dropped into
the Office every week without any address upon
them. Postal cards furnish a large portion TO tins
class Of oversights. But quite as absurd and even
more nconsequent the letters that have no sig
natures. We once received report of college COM
mencement, excellent in all other respects save that
there was nothing about 1t to indicate where the
event took place. and the postmark was illegibls.
To this class belongs the following after-dinner
letter. which we publish in full. merely remarking
that we agree in the belief expressed in its opening
words:


NEW YORK. May 20 1874


My Dear sir,-Perhaps it may be OF little interest,"
to of your readers 70 learn that very fine ban
Quet given evening or two since.


The Indiana judges stand no nonsense from fhe
bar. lawyer there lately in the course Of his AZ
gument used the word disparagement" stop
using Latin words" said the Judge. or sit down.
The poor lawyer. undertaking to explain. was ruth
lessly fined $50 for contempt.


We are Informed that the gentlemaDly hotel clerks
are practicing the articulation Of the eNtracr
dnary word, "Besticando.' Tired travellers viii
know in time the atitudinous bedroom and the i'm
practicable couch which the mystic word signifies.


In our report of the Washington meeting OF
the National Academy OF Sciences it mentioned
that Prof A. NJ. Mayer had hopes OF ascertairng tho
quanttave relation Of sound TO heat This hope has
been realized. He has determined the equivalent IN
heat Of the sound produced by vibrating treble fors
front Of Its resonator II all OF this sound during ten
seconds were absorbed aud converted into heat, 10
would the temperature Of grain OF water one
fourteenth Of degree Fahr; equivalent in mechanical
effect to lifting grains foot high. or the one-hund
redthousand Of Joules unit. This is the nrst time
that the mechanical equivalent Of sound has been de-
termined.