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JOHN H. SRALS, - Editor and Proprietor. W. B. SEALS. - Proprietor and Cor. Editor. 9018. MARY E. BRYAN (•) Associate Editor. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, JUNE 8, 1878. iHissliapcu Girls.—A Connoisseur Takes Nolo ofTliein.—In last week’s pa per we commented at some length upon the fact —■plain to any close observer—that fine shapes nre rare among our girls; and that a growing laik of harmony of proportions and pliancy of movement strikes the eye of the lover of beauty most discordantly. Hardly was the article in print, when a communication came to us from a gentleman of the finest artistic tastes—a well- known citizen of this place in ante helium times, though for years since a resident of New York. He is among us again, and his eye has lost none of the keen sensitiveness to beauty, which made Slim a dilettante poet and art-critic in the old 'days. He looks out upon our city promenades and is struck by the same predominance of un- £taoefal shapes, which we observe from our sanctum window, and not having seen our edi torial comment, he writes to ask the wherefore of the phenomenon. He says: Dbab Mbs. Bbyan:—I am sure the excellent Scnnv South is the ready and powerful advooate of all that is noble and good in woman whether morally, mentally or physically, and where there is so much that is lovely and admirable in .the 1 fair daughters of the South, it is ungracious to even hint a criticism. But (may I whisper it in your ear) I declare it does seem to me that our girls are getting round shouldered ! There, it is out, and I ask you to take a walk some pleasant day on Whitehall or Peaohtree streets, and see for yourself. Unless these old «yes deceive me, we are in danger of physical degeneracy in the South. And these charming girls are to be the mothers of our future men. The blame, if the faults exists, rests with the present mothers, who, perhaps in the multi plicity of cares since "the surrender” have fail ed to give sufficient thought to the physical cul- .ftnseof their children. Do pray let us not raise ■Tin among us a lot of narrow chested, delicate -women, a la Boston. I have scrimmaged around but fail to find the sensible advice of Aaron Burr to his noble daughter, Theodora, on this subject. You can say what is necessary as well as be did. Won’t you do so ? We don’t want braces— 1 unless the girls are already diseased— which God forbid; but we do want a resolute will to hold the head erect, to throw the shoul der’s back, and to march through life like a Zenobia. With much diffidence, yours, S. R. We had suggested “corsets” as the secret of the misshapen, half-developed figures of too many of our Southern town and city girls, and wo honestly believe it is the chief one, but an other influencing cause is no doubt the lack of such exercise as promotes free development of limbs and organs. Our boys have their Turn Verein clubs, and other gymnastic exercises, their baseballs and billiards, and cricket match- os, and at school they have a host of athletic plays and games that do duty as chest-expand ers and promoters of free, limb-motion, and healthy action of the blood and of the digestive organs. What exercise of this kind do our girls have? Even croquet is out of fashion, walking is unaristocratic when an apology for a turn out can be afforded, and it is also a rather weari some business to saunter along dusty or muddy si dewalks, with one fist full of grabbed-up train and the other holding up the inevitable and abominable parasol. Our town girls do not ride horseback, romping g ames are voted vulgar, billiards are fast, there ere no ladies’ gymnastic clubs, and by way of exercise, our budding womanhood, has only a little spiritless gliding through figures, which i s called dancing, or a little unwholesome and brain-addling whirling, termed waltzing. Even on these, the clergy are sitting down with all fc he energy they should—but don’t—use in en forcing the decalogue. How then are our girls to develop the free, fine Bhapes we love to look upon, when they are boarded up in steel and whalebone by the time they can toddle, and when the most exhilerating recreation allowed the grown up ones, is a weakly dose of dime dab music and recitations (a cup that may cheer, but don’t inebriate!) a little dancing, a little mild flirtation over liquescent ice oream in a saloon redolent of dust and flies, and a lit tle dreary shopping and promenading with the encumbering train, parasol and tie-back effec tually preventing any free play of limbs. Mean time, their young sisters are being “little la- dice” in the schools, scorning to spoil their clothes by romping, and gathering into groups at recess to talk over the fashions and discuss amateur theatricals and society gossip, when they ought to be playing that splendid old game of Grace Sticks, worth all parlor callisthenics— or engaging in “hop-scot,” “chase the fox,” or some other exercise that is not mechanical and drill-like, and that calls for open air, laughter, and freedom. May we hope, some day,this side of the mille- sium—to have free schools of physical training for our girls, with ample grounds and all need ful appurtenances, as they had in the days of the Grecian Republic? The laws of Lvcurgus then made the physical education of females compulsory, and parents were warned against permitting their daughters to marry until they hnA reached the prescribed profioiency in cer tain exercises calculated to develop the fullest Bodily vigor and grace. Think of our Govern ment condescending to such details! Think of this glorious administration, which is strong upon back pay and franking privileges, whioh employs its gigantic energies in alternately con necting and exposing its own rings and return ing boards, think of it taking cognizance of the physical training of its females! And yet, if it Should do so, there might be national results; for women are the mothers of men, and sound minds,and sound morals are the usual concomit ants of sound, well-developed bodies. Ergo, better physical training of the women, might us men in the administration of public af- “ Alee, Fresh Lard ’'—Fruits and Vegetables VS. Meats—There has been a recent effort to procure national legislation in the matter of transportation of cattle, and an extensive inquiry has been instituted into the treatment of cattle upon rail-cars and steam boats, and the condition of the animals when they arrive at the cities, where they are to be sold as food for the million. The investigation has brought to light some rather startling facts concerning the disposition made of the thou sands of smothered, famished, bruised, crip ple animals that are taken out of the crowded cattle cars on reaching their destination. It seems that the maimed and freshly dead ones are immediately converted into pork or bacon, while those that have been dead for a longer time are sent to the lard factories, where they are tumbled, without any previous cleaning, into vast kettles, and the flesh, bones, hair, etc., soon reduced to a mass that is sold to the fer tilizing manufactories, while the grease that rises to the top is carefully skimmed off, the putrid, offensive smell deodorized by means of chemical treatment, the discoloration removed by similar means, and the grease product of a half decayed animal is ready for the market as “nice, fresh lard.” No chemical process can remove the delete rious quality of such a product, and the lard that goes into our biscuit, and fries our spring chicken, as well as much of the breakfast ba con and sugar-cured hams that we eat so enjoy- ingly are really as slowly and insidiously poisonous as those little “ soothing draughts ” that parson Yosburgh was in the habit of ad ministering to his trusting wife. The moral of this is that we must raise our own meat and make our own lard. Meat and grease are sufficiently provocative of disease in this warm climate, even when proper precau tions are used in keeping the cattle healthy and preserving meat and lard in the cleanliest and most wholesome manner ; but when we come to buying and eating the flesh and grease of pu trid animals, it is no wonder that our systems are soon filled with the germs of disease. We have repeatedly urged upon our people to eat less meat and grease, and depend more for food upon the nutritious grains, and the great variety of fruits and vegetables that our Boil furnishes in such abundance. These vege tables and fruits, either fresh, dried, preserved or canned, are always available, and are far more nutritious and healthy than meat and grease, * SlliifT Dipping;.—It is not general&y known to what an extent this practice of dipping snuff is carried in some sections of our fair South, nor how many matrons and young girls of intelligence, and high social standing are slaves to a habit that gradually undermines their health, shatters their nerves and too often insidiously opens the door to the terrible opium habit. Snuff dipping is demoralizing in the first in stance, because in most cases it fosters conceal ment and deceit. The habit is kept secret from parents and friends. We know daughters, whose snuff bottles are concealed in their rooms, where they use the contents constantly, without the knowledge of their parents. We have seen, at boarding schools girls go into hysterics When deprived for'i day or two of their snuff, and borrow tobacco from the servants, as a substitute, until they could ob tain their usual stimulant of Sootch or Maccaboy; and we are well acquainted with three sisters— beautiful young girls, were it not for the sallow hue tarnishing their complexions—who are at present under medical treatment for derange ment of the nervous system and digestive organs arising from their constant use of snuff. Their physician has assured them that this was the cause of the disease, thus blighting their young lives, and that medicine must be in vain as long as the practioe was continued, and still, they cling to their snuff bottles as persistently as the toper to his demijohn. And this when they know that this vile poison nourishes the worm of disease at the root of life, silently, slowly, but surely destroying it ere its prime; for aside from the filthiness of this habit, the constant drain of the salivary glands, produced by frequent spitting and the narcotic poison of the weed itself, throw the delicately balanced system out of order, and bring a train of diseases to render life insupportably burdensome. When will it Be ?—We regard all specula tions and prophecies about the time when the world will come to an end as very profitless and foolish. Those seers who have puzzled and even addled their brains in efforts to make out the mysterious numbers of Daniel and the Apo calypse, know no more of the matter than the most unlearned, and succeed only in making themselves ridiculous. But without endeavor ing to make out the meaning of these wonderful books, we think we can see reasons for thinking that the reign of man upon earth will not be as long as any of those vast geologioal periods which have preceded him. In the first plaoe, should mankind continue to multiply at its present ratio, in a few thousand—perhaps in a few hundred years, the population of the world would be greater that it could sustain. The el ements essential to the support of human life are now consumed at a more rapid rate than ev er before. From all that we now know the time is not far ahead when fuel will be exceedingly scarce. As country after country is denuded of its forests, the momentous fact will soon be gin to stare ub in the face that the vegetation on the earth is insufficient to keep up the due pro portion of oxygen in the atmosphere. Neither matter, nor the force which according to the philosophy of later days it represents can be utterly destroyed; but its form may be changed, and all man’s skill may not avail to bring it back again to a form that shall subserve his ne cessities. Man is in fact the great disturber of nature’s equilibrium and is doing all that he can with brain and hand to shorten the period of his supremacy on earth. Without him all lower animals would soon Ml into a just bal ance, while the rain and wind, the swelling stream and the heaving ocean would carry on their work through vast cycles ere it could be said that the earth had put on a new face. But when he comes on the scene with spade and axe, battery and crucible, rifle and torpedo, changes must occur at a rapidly accelerated rate and the length of the geological period be in finitely shortened. The Women’s Hotel—Mrs. Fleteh- er's Opinion About it.—Matilda Fletcher who, on stopping at the Stewart Women's Hotel, was refused admittance because she had neg lected to provide herself with a letter of accept ance, at first spoke her mind freely, and de nounced the institution as a humbug in this poetical impromptu, scribbled indignantly while she waited neglected in the reception room: Oh vaunted charity, that scans With cold distrusting look The face of woman, to detect If in its open book Be blotted words or shadowed lines; Refusing yet to lend E'en common courtesy and trust, Unless some man commend With gracious words of character ‘ ‘And his benign esteem !” Thus ends in bigotry and cant Stewart’s divinest dream. Afterwards, she saw reason to reverse her judgment which she frankly did, declaring: “I must say that in truth were I in charge of the departed Stewart’s noble institution, I should scrupulously guard its honor and be totally averse to accepting any and every woman who might take a notion to wander into the hotel out of the slums of the great, wicked city. Very few women, who value their reputations, would be willing to make a home here if the manager were /reckless or indifferent to the character of its inmates.” Mrs. Fletcher describes the hotel as a para dise of comfort and elegance, inferior to none of the mammoth hotels of America in appoint ments and attendance while this has the added glory of a spacious library containing thou sands of standard works of history, biography, poetry, fiction, science, and philosophy, to gether with many valuable books of reference, such as Appleton's and Chambers' cyclopaedias dictionaries, gazetteers, etc., in abundance. She says “if the literary women of New York realized what this library is, and how much time they could save by making their home here, I presume they would crowd into it so rapidly that we should soon see a lamentable restriction posted, “No women from other States admitted;” and then what would become of me when I fisit the great city, in which I feel lost even with the present privileges? The inside rooms are really the pleasantest, because they are so quiet and overlook the court, which is a delightful little park, full of beautiful flowers and plants, with a fountain in the cen tre. There are seven reception-rooms, besides the immense parlor. The existence of these, refutes sufficiently the published rumor that ladies are not permitted to receive their friends. ” Governor Colquitt’s Talk to tlic Savannah Colored Sunday School.— Every Georgian should be proud of our true hearted and pious Governor. Not only does he preside with dignity over the grandest religious gatherings, like the late anniversary of the Na tional Sunday School Union, which embraced some of the ^reiCest and most learned of the American d^rgy ulfcd laity, but condescends to preach to anl^ teac*l th<i benighted freedmen of the country, and break unto them the bread of life. And now we hear of him in our chief seaport talking to and exhorting an African Sunday school with a fervor and effect whioh complete ly won the hearts of his simple hearers. We confess to the belief that never in his whole previous history did our worthy chief magistrate appear to greater advantage. No, not even when returning from the pursuit of the Yankee after the glorious victory of Olustee. The Morning News thus characterizes the effort: Governor Colquitt made one of the finest ad dresses it has ever been our fortune to hear. He has made such a talk as must result in great good. It was a plain, frank discussion of the two races. It was fully an hour and a half long, but held the immense throng with a growing interest. We wish the colored people of the whole State could have heard this simple, earn est, powerful ard eloquent address. It was couched in language that all could understand. It dealt with the vital truths of Christianity in their practical application to the colored peo ple. He brought his ideas down to the com prehension of his hearers. His reference to the past in connection with the blacks, giving the reason of his interest in the colored people, the associations of his childhood and the tender memories blended with them, were peculiarly touching, A fervent ‘Amen,’ deep, spontane ous and thrilling, came every moment or so from the venerable dusky faces that drank in the words and power of the speaker. Certainly, could some of the Radical bloody- shirt fellows have witnessed this scene, the Democratic Executive of Georgia standing in this vast throng of colored people, talking to them of the religion of Christ, and then receiving their rude but sincere congratulations, they would think that there was small basis for their bloody-shirt balderdash. One decrepid old Mauma tottered up to the carriage as the Governor was about to ride off, with tears streaming down her cheek, and blessed the Governor with a fervid pathos. As the concourse dispersed, it seemed as if the city for blocks was covered with the smil ing, happy, well-dressed groups of colored chil dren. “34 Y’ears.”—We'do hope our Southern people are extending to this excellent book the patronage it so richly deserves. The style is easy, forcible and exceedingly graceful, and having for its foundation actual facts and real personages there is a realistic beauty and freshness about it which few books of romance possess. The Nashville “American” says of it: The ingenuity and force with whioh this story is written must attraot a large cirole of readers and make the reputation of the author. Likethehistoric novels of Sir Walter Soott, it has for its basis, actual events and real persons. The plot is ingenious, the management of de tails skillful, and the interest awakened at the beginning of the story is made by the admirable disposition of its several parts to grow in inten sity to the dose. Important lessons, moral, social and political, are inculcated in charac teristic and well sustained dialogue, and wheth er or not the conclusions of the author in every instance be accepted, the sprightliness and taot with which they are presented mast challenge at least the admiration of all. Brass Buttons.—Herbert Spencer tells ns that wars and all necessity for martial prep aration and parade will eventually pass out of our civilization. Not sorry are we to believe it, nor to hail the day ‘When the drnm shall throb no longer And the battle flag be furled.’ But then, the world will lose that entrancing spectacle—man arrayed as a military biped— a bird in the fine feathers of gold lace and brass buttons and cock's plumes, with ‘The gun upon his shoulder And the sabre at his side-’ What a blank will be left when Mr. Spen cer’s civilization eclipses that gorgeous vision —the awe of small boys, the pride of staid cit izens, the hero of the maiden’s dreams! The coming women will miss the keenest of femi nine joys if she is never to whirl in the Strauss with a manly form in gold striped pantaloons; if she is never to feast her eyes on the brilliant evo lutions of a crack militia company on drill and stepping like Evangeline’s heifer ‘as if consci ous of human admiration,’ Every parade day is a feast of eye and mind. Heads are thrust out of windows, balconies are crowded; a per fect Fourth-of-July ferver is stirred in each bosom, as looking down the ranks of cock’s plumes and gold striped pants, one feels the real glory and strength of his country. It is interesting, too, to note the variety of limb and height in one of these companies. No monotony there; such as reigned in old Nicho las or Frederic le (hand's level lines of six-foot grenadiers, each chosen for his inches and his breadth of shoulders. What would we do for craok companies if the test applied to applicants were any thine like those of old Roman days ? Then, as we read, even tall and well-shaped men of the soundest constitution could not pass the pre liminary examination for admission into a military corps, unless they were able to jump their own height vertically, and thrice their own length horizontally, pitch a weight equal to one-third of their own a distance of twenty yards, throw a javelin so as to hit a mark at fifty yards, and pass numerous other tests of strength and activity, and of expertness with the bow and the broad sword. Those old pagans were awfully particular, but we can crow over them in the matter of uniforms. What was their clumsy, rusty armor beside the brilliant colors, and gorgeous get-up of our military heroes ? * Fools Are They-Or Only So for tile Money ?—It pays to be a fool sometimes, outside the case of the oircus clown and the co median. Everybody has heard of a noted in stance in the persons of “Count” Johannes and his papil, Miss Avonia Fairbanks. These two individuals continue to give “mental banquets” as they announce their performances of scenes from Shakspeares Othello, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, etc. Their manner of acting is so in tensely and unconsciously ridiculous, that the performance draws crowds, who howl, hiss hoot, fling vegetables and cabbage heads, and interrupt the play continuously. This conduct seems to wound the “count” and the fair Avon ia. They retort indignantly and the fun grows more uproarious. At Jersey City recently they treated a large audience to a mental banquet of Othello and Hamlet, which was broken into by a tumult of oat calls, a blowing of fog horns, and an incessant shower of beans upon the heads of the performers, cansing the Count to close his entertainment at nine o’clock. He stigmatized his hearers as towards and donkeys, and Miss Fairbanks on being struck in the back with a large beet, threatened to horsewhip the person who threw it. One of the audience in sulted the Count by inquiring “is it alive ?” as he appeared on the stage, and the Count an swered him, “Yes, you jackass, and if you’ll send me your name, you’ll ,discover to-morrow that I am alive !” Notwithstanding these insults and interrup tions, they continue to give performances and are apparently irrepressible. And they make a good thing of it pecuniarily. Their Bottom like unconsciousness of their own idiocy is the charm. It is like the Pyramus and Thisbe per formance in “Midsummer’s Dream.” If it tran spires that they are only playing the fool, they will fail to draw. Don Piatt suggested such a doubt, and the houses were rather slim in Wash ington in consequence. * Tlie Queerest of American Char acters, Train.—George Francis -still lives, though he has not succeeded in getting -himself into conspicuous scrapes lately. But his com plexion is as fresh, his locks as ambrosial, his nature as bouyant as ever. He has eaten no meat for years and lives on fruits, vegetables and Turkish baths. A correspondent of the Springfield Republican, writing from New York, says “I have seen Train lately. He is still full of splendid conceits and crotchets,his talk a con tinued flow of brilliant, startling, shocking, absurd, revolutionary, quaint, reverent sayings. He seems to be a human locomotive without brake or stop-cock. He watched the sparrows on the green and the pigeons that circled over the park; he followed the children with his eager eyes and seemed to pine after them, him self a big, overgrown boy. An inexpressible sadness came into his face sometimes, and then it was tender and sweet as a woman’s. One can not help feeling a deep sympathy for the man, who with more poise and steadiness of nature, with a mental equilibrium with which he has either lost or been denied, perhaps with better regulated nerve gauges, might be one of the most brilliant men of the age. It is a terrible reflection on our medical science that it has found no way of restoring such a man to the world and to himself. * We agree with the Belmont, Missouri, readers about that picture of Clara Morris. It was simply an outrage, and the engraver should have been hung on the spot. We did not dis cover the defects till too late. We hope Miss Morris did not see it; if so, we tremble. Canada fears a Feninan raid, and is running her troops to her borders as a preventive. College Announcements. Wabd’s Seminary—The thirteenth commence ment of W. E. Ward’s popular seminary, at Nashville, Tenn., takes place on the 3d, 4th and 5th. Forty-five essays will be read by the young ladies. LaGrange Female College.—The commence ment day of the LaGrange Female College will be on the 12th of June. Bishop Pierce will de liver the address. A grand excursion party will attend from this city, leaving at 6:30 i*i the morning and return at 6 in the afternoon. The fare will be only $1.50. Franklin Female College.—The closing ex ercises of the Franklin Female College of Ken tucky, begin on the 9th of June, with a sermon by Rev. T. G. Jones, D.D., of Nashville, Tenn. The address before the Philomathean Literary Society will be delivered by Prof. G. S. Joynes, L. L.D., of Vanderbilt University. Commence ment exercises on Thursday, the 13th. Synodical Female College.—The 24th An nual commencement of the Synodical Female College at Florence, Ala., will take place on the 9th of June, and conclude on the 12tli. Miss Maggie Anderson, of South Carolina, is Valedic torian, and Miss Jennie Dade, of Arkansas, is Salutatorian. Our thanks are due to Miss Florence Prescott, of Tennessee, for an invita tion to be present. She is one of the committee of invitation. Mary Sharp College.—We return thanks to Miss Lula Bowen, of Georgia, for an invitation to attend a reception to be given by Mrs. E. Walmsley to the graduating class of Mary Sharp College, at “College Home,” on the 20th of June. The class consists of 21 pretty and ac complished young ladies. Mebceb University.—The anniversary cele bration of the two literary societies of Mereer University, took place on Friday evening, the 31st nit. Mr. Hugh M. Willet, of Macon, was the orator of the Phi Delta Society, and Henry M. Holtzclaw, of Perry, Ga., of the Ciceronian. Roanoke College—The twenty-fifth annual commencement of Roanoke College, at Salem, Va., will begin on the 9th of June. Thebacca- leaurate sermon will be delivered by Rev. G. W. Blagden, D. D., of Boston ; the address be fore the Y. M. C. Association by Rev. J. I. Mil ler, of Staunton, Ya.; the address before the Alumni Association by Rev. A, T. Graybill, of Matamoras, Mexico ; and the oration before the literary societies by Hon. Clarkson N. Potter, LL. D., of New York city, Addresses are also expected from Governor Holliday, and Hon. Wm. H. Ruffner, State Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction in Virginia. The music will be furnished by the United States Marine Band from Washington city, by permission of Presi dent Hayes. Dhaf and Dumb School.—On Wednesday, the 26th June, the Deaf and Dumb School at Cave SpriDg, will close for the term, with ex amination exercises. On that day a marriage will be celebrated between one of the officers of the Institution and one of the young lady grad uates. Both of whom are deaf and dumb. At the request of the Board of Trustees, and of the Principal of the Institution, an opportu nity will be offered to the public of enjoying a trip to Cave Spring on that oky. In addition to the exercises at the Deaf and Dumb Institu tion, a visit to the great Cave and Springs from which the town gets its name, will lend at tractions to the trip. The party will be carried through without change of cars, and the ride is through a section unsurpassed for variety, romance and beauty of scenery. The route is via Kingston and Rome. Governor Colquitt, Mayor Angier, and other prominent citizens will be of the party. Fare for the round trip, $2.50. For further informa tion address at Atlanta, S. A Echols, or J. S. Stewart, Trustees Deaf and Dumb Institution, or B. W. Wuenn, Gen’l Passenger Agent W. & A. R. R. Prof. Henry ami the Smithsoni an.—This Institution grew out of the munifi cent bequest to the United States by the Eng lish scientist, James Smithson, who died at Ge noa, in June 1829, leaving the bulk of his for tune for the purpose, which aggregated In all the sum of $541,379. This great trust Professor Henry was called by the government to admin ister in 1846. Its legislative power is in the hands of a Board of Regents, but he has been the executive head. They directed the con struction of the beautiful pile of buildings in Washington. That was different from his idea. The bequest was leftfor the “increase” of knowl edge and for the “diffusion” of knowledge; and this he held could have been done in plain buildings as well as in a palace. But splendid housing is deemed to be orthodox for such in stitutions, Professor Henry would have expen ded more of the money in the employment of talented men in fields of original research for the “increase” of knowledge and by broadcast publication for its “diffusion” among men. This he has done to the best of his ability, not withstanding the quarter of a million of dollars and more spent upon the magnificent buildings and surrounding park, and it is an eloquent monument to his memory in these days to say that after all that expenditure, the $541,000 that came to the Institution have increased under his administration to more than $700,000. Seventy-five Cents for the Chi nese.—Sometime since a letter from China was sent to the Sunny Souih giving a harrowing ac count of the famine then raging there and calling for help. In response to this, three little girls, Octavia and Jennie Dozier and Annie E. Walk er, all of Walker’s Station, sent us a quarter eacl to be forwarded to the sufferers. While th< Rev. Young J. Allen missionary to China was in this city recently, we handed the money t< him, and it will doubtless reaoh those starving people, and like the widow’s mite be attended with the blessings of the Father. Edison, the Phonograph Inyentor. Mr. Edison is as bashful as a school-girl (of the last century). He has much less than his pro portion of the brass of the period, and to this in part I refer his disinclination to be ‘reoeived. 1 Besides this, he probably considers that sort of thing more or less flummery and humbug as others do who have seen a good deal of it. . 11 is not true that bo is slovenly and uncouth m appearance. He had on a new silk hat yester day that was not stared out of countenance by anything on Broadway. It is a fact, however, that he is not particularly careful in dress, and frequently goes unshaven for a good many days m succession, but this is becauie he is In m- K"® 1 * b ™y man ' You may perhaps have notic ed that no man who shaved and changed his shirt every morning ever invented a phonograph and took out 162 inventions before he was thirty- one years old. Edison is far above all a" * tions, either in diet or dress, and is simple- eel as a child.