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with a different sort of harmony. Poor Mr. Vanderbilt. He is forced to stand up for an entire class, and the class, it is said, cannot tell a B flat from a high C, nora contralto from a mezzo- soprano. This is clearly malicious. Mr. Vanderbilt knows a flat when he strikes one. One of the newspapers, I am pleased to observe, commented fancifully upon the extreme modesty of Mr. Jay Gould, who sat hidden in his box, at the front of which, in sight of the audience, glowed the serene features of Mr. Rus- sell Sage. Mr, Gould is essentially a modest man. The shy little thing is much too backward for this harsh world, Taken altogether, the virtues of our local aristocracy were remarked with pleasure and commendation upon this very interesting occasion. There was, I ought to explain, a performance. Every one was not acquainted with this fact—but Campanini did sing, and Nilsson, and Scalchi, and Del Puente, and some others, Campa- nini was rather broken up, though he gave flashes of his old fire. Nilsson san; beantifally. after beginning atone flat. The orchestra was superbly handled by Sig. Vienisi.. The second night of the opera brought forward Mme. Sembrich and Naschman in ** Lucia "—and both were immensely successful. At the Aca- demy of Music, Mme. Gerster has been warbling like abird. Mr. Abbey and Mr. Mapleson are certainly very clever managers. ‘They are fighting each other hard, and their competition delights the millionaires, who pay the bills, and inspires those who can distinguish a B flat from a high C. Last week it was the opera, This week it is Irving. Mr. Abbey has the trump cards, We are revelling in ‘ The Bell and ‘Charles I,” and we have discovered that ‘‘ our dear Henry” —as that genial Texan steer, Mr. Tom Ochiltree, calls him— is, in appearance, midway between a Methodist minister and Oscar Wilde, VIXEN. Pane Kitier.—A snow-ball. “ Better lay-it than never,” said the rooster to the hen. “What an egg-sample of idiocy,” he remarked, as he ducked out of sight. -LIFE- SUPRA Te THE FERUANS IV, B44 F you prick a tree it keeps very still ; no cry and no wincing. But if you prick a dog, it yelps and jumps, The tree has no nerves; the dog has nerves. This explains why the tree keeps so still, and why the dog makes such a fuss. A nerve is a white thread running between two different parts of the body. Its business is to carry messages. You pinch the end of a dog's tail. There are white threads running from the end of a dog’s tail to his brain. The message sent over these is the following ; “ To Headquarters in the Skull: There is an awful pinching here. Tirexporrai.” ‘When this message reaches the brain and is recorded and considered there, the brain sends back at once the following message : “* Tipexvortait, Esq... Jerk away from the pinch quick, Commanber-in-Cuiey, Headquarters." The tail is jerked Euied and everything is lovely again. It is not the same white thread which conveys the pinching message, that brings back the jerking message. They look alike, but they are not alike. ‘The one that carries the message from the end of the tail to the brain is called a nerve of feeling, and the white thread which brings back the message from the brain to the tail, commanding it to jerk, iscalled anerve of motion.—Profound Science, in Dio Lewis’ Monthly, ‘Tuer is talk in Warren of lynching the man who evolved this toast in connection with the late muster : “ Our fire engines, may the be like our old maids—ever ready, but never wanted."—Springfield Republican. Iris a grand thing to be a genius. Queen Victoria asked Tennyson to write a poem about John Brown, and in three days the poet had found five new rhymes for Brown, as follows: Celluloid, instructable, rihelion, transactions, introcarpular and cairniclesiac. No poet iving, save Mr. Tennyson, could have thought of these rhymes,— Burlington Hawkeye. NEW PUBLICATIONS. HENRY HOLT & CO. 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