We should not be surprised any day to hear that a marriage market had been opened on one of the plazas of Rome, the quotations of which would read something after this fashion: Husbands dull and declining; American beauties more active; foreign mammas less firm; American securities in great demand; the market in princes somewhat stronger; holders of titles much sought after; brains without money a drug in the market; "bogus" counts at a discount; the genealogy market panicky and falling; the stock of nobility rapidly depreciating; the pedigree exchange market flat and declining, etc., etc. This traffic in titles, this barter in dowries, this swapping of "blood" for dollars, is an offense too rank for words to embody it. The trade in cadetships is mild in comparison with it, because in these commercial transactions with counts, while one party may be the purchaser, both parties are inevitably seen to be sold. The business may only be excusable on the theory that "an even exchange is no robbery." But so long as brains are not bartered for a title, or beauty sacrificed for a pedigree, we should not complain. Of money, there is plenty in America; and, while marquises are in the market, let Shoddy continue to pipe for its own. A fig for Macbeth's philosophy that "blood will have blood." We modify it in these degenerate days to "blood will have money:" "Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare; And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair." * * * * * "The Lay of the Last Minstrel." "SHOO FLY, don't bodder me." * * * * * "Benedict's Time." THE honeymoon. * * * * * Homoeopathic Cure for Hydrophobia. BARK. * * * * * Ode to my Washerwoman. $2 50. A.T. STEWART & CO. ARE MAKING _GREAT REDUCTIONS,_ In the Prices of the Goods IN ALL THE DEPARTMENTS OF THEIR Retail Establishment, NAMELY SILKS, SATINS, VELVETS, Dress Goods, Laces, Embroideries, REAL INDIA CAMEL'S HAIR SHAWLS, Ladies', Misses', and Children's Walking-Suits, Reception-Dresses, Morning-Robes, Undergarments, INFANT'S WARDROBES, Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods of every Description, HOUSEKEEPING AND HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS, Linens, Sheetings, Damasks, Damask Table-Cloths, Napkins, Towels, Towelings, Blankets. Flannels, Quilts, Counterpanes, Carpets, Mats, Rugs, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN OIL-CLOTHS Upholstery Goods in Brocatelles, Silk Terrys, Plain Satins, Figured Cotelaines, Striped Reps, Furniture Chintzes, Etc., Etc., Etc., AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES. * * * * * BROADWAY, Fourth Avenue, Ninth and Tenth Streets, * * * * * The two great objects of a learner's ambition ought to be to speak a foreign language idiomatically, and to pronounce it correctly; and these are the objects which are most carefully provided for in the MASTERY SYSTEM.