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The Red Ar stocracy. Mr. William Black, in his “Sun rise,” has given us the portrait of a niildfand refined young English no bleman, who is one of the agents and members of a powerful internationalist revolutionary society. We doubt If any young man who retains an atom drove their ancestral kinsmen to put on the coarse dress of the Benedictine or to live on the spare meal of the Trappist. It is a spii it of revolt against the tyranny, falsehood and sham which make the (leadening laws of the fashionable world so intolerable to How Princess Cicely Lived. there are many such to be seen in Hyde Park in the flesh ; but in Paris t is different. That city appears to possess just now a large contingent of titled Revolutionists, whose blood is very blue, but whose political princi ples are very red. Indeed, they have become common enough to go by the general name of “Les Gentilshommes Rouges.” We take up the Intransi- geant, and we find that its leading ar ticle is written by Monsieur le Mar quis de Rochefort. We turn to its “chronicle” of daily events : it is sign ed “L. Grammont.” This bitter wiiter, who jages against the times and calls the attention of the laboring classes to the misere from which noth ing but the still future Social Revolu tion can free them, is really a duke. His full title is the Duo de Grammon. He is a very young gentleman, as amiable as Mr. Black’s English revo lutionary peer; and, in spite of his fierce talk, is supposed to be incapable of injuring a fiy. He will probably die of consumption, if report be true; but it is his ambition to fall at the foot of a barricade, sacrificing his life in a conflict for the liberation of the people from their tyrants—whether Kings, Emperors or Republican Opportunists. When the Duke is not writing his imaginary chronicles, he is said to em ploy iiis pen in the composition of delicate love-poems. His genuine ca pacity may be guessed from the fact that he won the first prize for the ode to Victor Hugo. of seriousness, moral earnestness or common human sympathy. It is ready to plunge into any extreme if it can thereby save its own soul from “the pomps and vanities of this wick ed world.” The modern duke, mar quis, baron or viscount becomes a So cialist or Nihilist, as it seems to us, from an exactly similar impulse to that which drove so many a mediaeval duke, marquis, baron or viscount to become a monk. Dislike of Dogs and other Squibs. The favorite paper of the wives and daughters of the French operatives is the Reveil, on account of the enter taining reading in its literary supple ment. We are told that a married workman who wants to please wife and daughters takes home a copy of the Reveil. The leading are sigm d “Lanessan.” M. Lanessan’s name will be fresh in the memory of many Eng lish readers, on account of the promi nent part which he has lately taken, in the Chamber of Deputies as the Par liamentary champion of the workmen on strike. It might be supposed that he is a self-made man,after Dr. Smiles’s type of pacific heroes. On the con trary, he is a baron in his own right, and Delongs to one of the oldest aristo cratic houses of France. To our thinking the Rtveil is not a lively paper. It does not exhibit the fiery glow which characterizes the Radical, for instance, one of the most instruc tive specimens of an organ of French demagogy—which is quite a different thing from French democracy. The editor of this demagogic print calls himself “Henri Maret,” and he sits and votes in the Chamber under that name. Doubtless he has a right to it; but it is only a part of his full deaigna tion, which is given at length upon his visiting-cards—“Le Due de Bassa- mo-Maret.” There is no doubt what ever as to the authenticity of his ducal title. His two cousins, Ernest and Rene, are aristocratic men of fashion, and were lately described in one of the society journals as “ornaments of the Faubourg Saint-Germain.” It is a singular social phenomenon, and well deserving of serious study, that no less than three of the princi pal revolutionary journals of Paris should be edited respectively by a marquis, a baron and a duke—each of whom, considered from a genealogist’s point of view, is no upstart. But this new party of Red Aristocrats, or “Gen tilshommes Rouges.” is most fully represented in the Mot d’ Ordre. Ed mond Lepelletier, its famous editor-in- chief, chooses to be known to France and the world merely by these two words ; but if he were to subscribe his article with his complete designation, nis signature would require two lines, for he is “Edmond, le Vicomte de Bouhelier Lepelletier, Baron de Baint Fargeau.” The reporter of law cases in the columns of the same journal, who so«mB to delight especially in giv ing iongaocounts of sacerdotal misde meanors, signs himself “Andre.” He also is nothing smaller than a Vis count—Andre, Vicomte de Gosset. The third in that aristrocratic-revolu- tlonary joint stock company which conducts the Mot d’ Ordre is the Marquis de Qeorge. These de classes of the French noble families are said to be the most taking aDd popular agents in a socialistic agitation. The spirit which has driven them to seek alliance with the revolutionary agita- akin to that whloh Alfred de Mussett, a distinguished poet, hud a dislike for dogs. One day he visited a member of the French Academy, and as soon as he entered the hall an affectionate dog made his acquaintance, by rubbing against his new and dainty clothing. The poet would have driven the dog off, but as the owner of the house would have great influence in securing his desired election to the Academy, he kept his temper. While the poet and his host were at the table the dog entered the room, placed two muddy paws on the cloth, and seized the wing of a cold chicken. “You are fond of Jogs, I see,” said the poet. “Fond of dogs!” replied his host. “Why, sir, I hate dogs.” “But how about this animal here?’ said the poet. “I have borne with the beast,” was the reply, “because it is yours.” “Mine!” cried de Musset. “I thought it was yours, which was all that prevented me from killing him.” The dog was a wanderer who had stolen into the house. The two men laughed. The poet gaineda friend, but the dog and his kind an enemy bitterer than before. When a certain precious little boy was requested by his teacher to say his lesson, which be didn’t know, he timidly remarked : “Grandmother says I should be ‘seen and not heaid !’ ” Susie had been eating oranges just before she went to school one day. In school the teacher said : “The earth is round like a ball; it is one-fourth laud. What are the othtr three-fourths?” “Pleethe, inarm,” said Susie, who was in the front row, “I deth it ith thkin.” What is that word of five letters of which, when you take two away, only one remains ? The word “stone” The following is lrom the ” it e-book of a school-examiner: Examiner—“Who can tell me any thing about Benjamin Franklin?” Small boy (triumphantly)—“He was frozen to death in the Artie regions.” One night last month there was an eclipse of the moon. A lad who sat up ail night to see the eclipse was boasting to his younger brother about it. All at once the younger brother said: “Well, suppose you did see the ’clipse last night; cau’t I see one any night? There now 1” Victoria’s Appreciation of Longfellow. At a dinner given in Loudon in 1877, to Chief Justice Shea of the Ma rine Court, Sir (then Mr.) Theodore Martin, the biographer of Prince Albert, related to the Judge that the Queen once told him, when he called at Windsor Castle, “I wished tor you this morning, for you wouW have seen something that would have de lighted you as a man of letters. The American poet Longfellow has been here. I noticed an unusual interest among the attendants and servants. I could scarcely credit that they so generally understood who he was When he took his leave they concealed themselves in places from which they could get a good look at him as he passed. I have since inquired among them, and am surprised and pleased to find that many of his poems are familiar to them. No other distin guished person has come here tLu-.t has excited so peculiar an interest. Such poets wear a crown that is im perishable.” A curious old document was un earthed from the obscurity of a semi- private collection of manuscripts—for it is not, properly speaking, a record— and it is well worth attention, not only as a memento of a distinguished lady, but as evidence of what may be considered as the usual regime of a pious household in the middle nges. It is a detailed account of the daily life of the Princess Cicely, mother of Edward IV., and in the original ex tends over several pages of foolscap ; a few of the most salient points, how ever, are all that can be noted here. The Princess spent her time as fol lows : She rose at seven and began the day with matins, after which she had breakfast. This over, she returned to her religious exeicises, and continued so employed till eleven o’clock, when she with all her household dined. Having concluded her dinner and given an hour’s audience to such ten ants or others as might desire that privilege, the Priucess slept tor a quar ter of an hour, and rising, it is to be hoped reireshed, from a singularly short siesta, she returm d to her pray ers, and so continued till “even-song,” to which ceremony she immediately proceeded, allowing only a short inter val for the consumption,as we are told, of “wine or ale.” Even songconeluiled at five o'clock, she went to supper, and, on edifying thoughts intent, du ring the progress of that meal recited (he lecture she had heard at dinner to those about her. Relief, however, was at baud, and the Priucess’s sufferings for the day were over—stern duty was to be suc ceeded by mild dissipation, for on rising from the table, she gave herself up, as we are informed, to an hour’s “mirth!” History is silent as to the peculiar kind of jollity indulged in by this pious lady, but, after the supper and its accompanying lecture, even chess must have appeared a reckless indulgence, and the frolics of a jester, or the stately measure of a dance,a pos itive orgy. The hour of gavety being spent, the Princess Cicely went up stairs and, alter praying again, re tired to bed, reaching that haven at eight o’clock. The touch of sly humor which the courtly old chronicler, who apparently finds the lady’s daily ex ercises too much for his gravity, in serts at the end of his account, is worth quoting: “I trust,” says he, “our Lord’s mercy that this noble Prinee-s thus devydeth the hours to His high pleasure.” The account is not yet concluded: the following information as to the menage of the household may be of in terest. The dinners on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday consisted principally of bolied beef and mutton, one roast joint in addition being allowed; on Monday and Wednesday the meal was much the same as on the other days of the week, with the omission of the roast. The suppers uniformly consisted of roast beef and mutton. The dinner on Saturday was salt and fresh fish and butter—the supper being salt fish and eggs. Friday is not men-4 tinned ; but, as it was a fast day, the meals were probably w T orse than those of Saturday. The head officers alone had break fast, and to them also was allowed the luxury of bread and ale for supper. The two following rules, almost Draconian in their severity", must conclude the notice of this interesting document: By the constitution of the house, if any man comes late to matins, etc., he has only bread and water for his supper. Every man at Easter must biing a certificate to show where he was shri ven or received the Sacrament, or he loses hia place. It is probable that such a way of life was rare, even in those days of priestly inff uence; and surely there could be but few servants fouid to submit to a rule as strict as that of Edward’s mother. But the broad features of the case have their value, and would probably apply to most regimes of the period. sion that “ the dress of the clergy had no distinct intention, symbolical, sacerdotal, sacrificial'or mystical,” but originated simply in “the fashions common to the whole community of tlie Roman Empire during the first three centuries.” He begins by dress ing up a lay figure at the time of the Cbrivtian era, and shown how his various garments have survived in clerical costume. His shirt, camisia or chemise, survives in two forms, the all), so called from its being white, and the dalmatia, so called from Dal- matia, from whence this shape of it was derived—just as certain great coats, to qu. te the Dean’s illustration —are now called ulsters. This shirt, after the invasion of the Northern bar barians, used to be draw r n over the fur coat, sheep skin or otter skin, the pel- lisse of the Northern nations, and hence, in the twelfth century, arose the barbarous name of sujyerpedicium or surplice, the “ over fur.” The pre sent rector of St. George’s-in-the-East, the Rev. Harry Jones, told an amus ing story of the Dean which illustrates this point. He came to preach at St. George’s one very cold day, wrapped in a fur coat, and Mr. Jones advised him to keep it on during the service. “Yes,” said the Dean, “I think 1 had better do so, and then my surplice will be a true superpellicium.” An other form of the same dress survives tn the Bishop’s rochet, which is the little frock or coat worn by the medie val Bishops out of doors when they went out hunting. Similarly the pall of an Archbishop is the relic of the Roman toga or pallium. It is not so certain as the Dean supposes that cas sock is derived from Caracalla, “a long overall, which Antoninus Bassia- nus brought from France and whence he derived his name,” for it has also been traced to kas, skin or bide. But there can be no doubt that chasuble comes from casula., “a slang name used by title Italian laborers for the capote,” which they called “their little house,” as “tile,” is—or was a short time ago—used for “hat,” and as coat is the same word as “ cote ” or “cottage,” and “cope” is another form of overcoat—a sort of waterproof; or that the mitre was an ordinary head-dre-s worn by women, and still, according to the Dean, to be seen in the museums of Russia as the cap or turban worn on festive occasions in ancient days by princes and nobles, and even to this day by 1 he peasant women. The division into two points is, he says, “only the mark ol the crease, which is the consequence of its having been, like an opera hat, folded and carried under the arm.” The stole, lastly, was a simple handker chief for common uses. On State oc casions such handkerchiefs were used as ribbons, streamers or scarfs, and were lienee adopted by the Deacons, who had little else to distinguish them. The Dean mentions a curious modern illustration of the way in which the use of such a slight symbol may arise. When Sir James Brooke first returned from Borneo, where the only sign of royalty was to hold a ker chief in the hand, he retained the same practice in England. The pro cess by which these simple passed into official First, the early Christian cl* rgy and laity alike, when they came to their public assemblies, took care that their clothes, though the same as they usu ally wore, should be especially neat and clean. Next, it was natural that the colors and forms chosen should be of a grave and sober tint. Lastly came the process, which may be easily fol lowed in English society during the last two centuiies of common fashions becoming lixtd in certain classes at particular moments, and of what was once common to all becoming peculiar to a few.—London Quartely. Not the Oldest Book. Captain Ward, of Sumter, South Carolina, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal, has the oldest news paper,oldest book,and the oldest candle in America. He has a copy of the Not tingham Post, published in England, October 12, 1711, by John Collyer. The book is the “Life of William Cavendish, Duke of New Castle,” and was written by Margaret, his wife. It was publish ed by A. Maxwell in 1685, a hundred years before our independence, and contains269 pages. The candle is of v ax, two and a half inches in diameter, and about an inch long. It was used in the private cuamber of Queen Elizabeth. It is very remarkable that any in telligent person should suppose that a newspaper of 1711 and a book of 1685 are the oldest in the United States. In the libraries of antiquarians and in many public libraiies there are huu- dreds of newspapers and books whose dates run so far back of these as to make it scarcely worth while to men tion them. The first newspaper in America was published in Boston, September 25, 1690, and we are not aware that a copy is extant in this country. But the Boston “News Letter” was established in 1704, and continued every week till 1776, and in England newspapers have been pub- lhhed ever since 1640. We have in this country hundreds of newspapers printed earlier than 1711. And as to books, we in the last number of this paper mentioned a volume in our own possession published in 1587, about 100 years before Captain Ward’s oldest book. The next book we take up is printed in 1600, and we ceuid find scores and scores of a still earlier date. Two hundred presses were at w r ork in Europe in the year 150Q, and in Mex ico they were pointing in 1536, and in Massachusetts in 1639. The Bay Psalm Book, of which there are sev eral copies, was printed in 1640. Eliot’s Indian New Testament was printed in 1661, and is among us to this day and the whole Bible in 1663. But it is needless to multiply examples of books extant printed long enough before 1685. We would think that there was some error in the form of the statement in the Louisville Journal, if it were not that in one of our own evening papers we read that Colonel Thomas W. Knox disputes the report that Captain Ward, of Sumter, S. C., has in his possession the oldest book in America, tlie date of its publication being given as 1685, and gives a de scription of bis volume printed in 1681. It is very singular that these gen tlemen do not know that the Lenox Library has cases filled with the finest specimens of the earliest printing extant, and that volumes printed between 1450 and 1500 are to be found in numbers of our private as well public libraries.—N. Y. Observer. Humility and self-denial for the sake of others are not requisite to the full development of man. Clerical Vestments. How Maoh “ Primitive’’ Amthority There is for Them. Dean Stanley describes, evidently with infinite amusement, the puftly secular and common origin of the pre sent official drees Gr' i^® clergy, whether in the, Anglican V* ^® Roman Church, and he enfon^ 8 * the liveliest illustration, the Twenty Impc Too Much for Him. Too Old.—Mr. and Mrs. Jones were starting for church. “Wait, said the lady, “I’ve forgotten tiling : won’t you be good, now, go up stairs and got my goats off' bureau?” “Your goats!” replied Jones; “what new-fangled thing is that?” “I’ll show you,” remarked the wife, and she sailed up the stairs, and down again *vith a pair of kids on her hands.\“There they are,” said she “Why, » call those things kids,” said the surprised husband. “Oh, do you?” snapped the wife^ “Well, so did I once, but they are so old now I’m ashamed to call them anything but goats.” Then they went to church. The newt day Jones’ wife had half a dozen pairs of new gloves in a hand some lacquered box of the latest de sign. ' Nothing can be great vhieh Is not mgs. 1. Loud and boistJPBPlaughing. 2. ben others are talking Reading,* aloud in company witbl out being ask cad. 4. Talking -when others are read ing. 1 • 5. Spitting atvout the house, smok ing or chewing.! 6. Cutting finger-nails in company. 7. Leavmp ch'urcb before worship is closed. 8. Whispering ^r laughing in the house of God. 9. Gazing rudely at strangers. 10. Leaving a stranger without a seat. 11. A want of respect and reverence for seniors. 12. Correcting older persons yourself, especially parents. 13. Receiving a present without an expression of gratitude. 14. Making yourself the hero of jour own story. 15. Laughing at the mistakes hers. 16. Joking others in company. 17. Commencing talking before an other has finished speaking. 18. Conn lencing to eat as soon as you get to the table. 20. Not listening to what any one is saying in company. The first discovery of fossil human remains in the caverns of Brazil has been made by Dr. Lund near Santa, province of Minas Geraes, whe*j an osseous breccia has been found taining human debris olosely ated with the remains of extin< •1m. r « i