Year: 1878

J


seventy thousand dollars had van
ished into thin air. Mr.. G;zaham


says he invested for the widow to


the best of his ability, and the
widow says that he had mighty lit
| tie ability to invest all she knows
is that her money is gone, and it
now appears that Graham knew
that & 5ong time before the widow.
Mrs. Mccall tried to get Mr.. Gra-
ham put in jail, on an order Of ar


rest for swindling, but merciful
friends came at once to the rescue,
and for the time at least saved him
from feion's cell. So many proud
heads have gone into the basket
during the past year that it is
scarcely safe to prognosticate what
may be Mr.. Graham's future fate,
but it may not be amiss to tell all
the old codgers out your way to
"be7are of the vidders."


We are now rejoicing in the latest
Of scientific discoveries-the won
derful Psychometer. With this
marvellous instrument you can look
right into a persons brain Gf he
have any, and you can tell what
he is going to think about. Mind
reading is no longer the secret Of
showmen and travelling mounte-
banks. The shop-girl who sells
you a yard Of tape or a paper OF
pins, can look in your eye and with
a Psychometer in her inside pocket
can tell exactly how much you are
going to beat her down. We had a
private exhibition at a fashionable
clearinghouse on Wednesday last,
but everybody knew so much about
everybody else that it produced
such disturbance in the company
that two suits for divorce are now
pending there were five free fights
coming downstairs, and a couple
of actions for personal damage, are
the results of the evenings enter
tainment. Ely wife has lively
curiosity, to see how the old thing
works, but I mildly suggested that
perhaps it might explode, and there
the matter rests for the present.
Our savans are in grief, for we
lose the Castellani collection, which,
for the last year, has been an un-
qualified source Of delight to all of
| our intelligent citizens. It will be
long before we shall again have an
opportunity Of studying such gems
of art, bringing back the most
halloWed memories of the worlds
immortal dead. I was in hopes
that perhaps Judge Hilton, Mr..
Stewards lucky heir, would have
cast some bread upon the water,
but T leaned upon a broken reed.
I had a faint suspicion that, may
be, Mr.. Astor would respond. Per-
haps his judgment is more pro-
found on Schweitzer Kase than
Archaeology, and this accounts for
his silence at the present interest,"
ing juncture. Those of us who
visit London may perhaps have the
pleasure Of looking at them in the
British Museum, unless Kaiser
Wilhelm or the Khedi7e Of E egypt
should secure them for Their ma
tional collections. The first man
| that I hear talking about public
spirit in New York, I will send the
| fool-killer in search OF, and if he
| does not brain him on the spot, I'll
have him deposed from his Office.
You know it used to be consid-
cred as rather uncomplimentary to
call nan after that gentle animal
which assisted Joseph in his fight
into Egypt. 7 don't know that the
objection is entirely done away with
yet, but if any man wants to call
me horse, I should rather esteem
it compliment. I saw some
horses up at the Aquarium that
could do everything but talk,-such
feats as never were performed by
any equine before. And as for
dogs, why the next man who calls
me a puppy, I shall think is trying
to compliment me; for these dogs
are able TO do. in these hard times,


thet which many a two-legged pup
py is not, and that is, to earn their


OWE living.


The second murder within a
month at Owney Geoghegan's rum
hole, 103 Bowery. It is true that


the murdered men are just Of the
kind that save us the expense OF a
gallows, but I can't say that [ ad-
mire this means Of putting them


ont Of the way. # we could only