are peace."

I never saw a more beautiful scene in any public building than on one of
these bright sofas, fit for any parlor in New York, where lay a weary,
plain, exhausted man resting--sound asleep.

Another triumph of Christianity that building is--a Christianity that is
erecting lighthouses on all the coasts, and planting its batteries on every
hill-top, and spreading its banquets all the world over.

Well, with these reflections I started for Brooklyn. It was just after six
o'clock, and tired New York was going home. Street cars and ferries all
crowded. Going home! Some to bright places; to be lovingly greeted and
warmed and fed and rested. Others to places dark and uncomely; but as I sat
down in my own home I could not help thinking of the three spectacles. I
had seen during the day Sin, in its shame; Art, in its beauty; Religion, in
its work of love. God give repentance to the first, wider appreciation to
the second, and universal conquest to the third!

CHAPTER LI.

MANAHACHTANIENKS.

We should like to tell so many of our readers as have survived the
pronunciation of the above word that the Indians first called the site on
which New York was built Manahachtanienks. The translation of it is, "The
place where they all got drunk." Most uncomplimentary title; We are glad
that it has been changed; for though New York has several thousand
unlicensed grogshops, we consider the name inappropriate, although, if
intemperance continues to increase as rapidly for the next hundred years as
during the last twenty years, the time will come when New York may
appropriately take its old Indian nomenclature.

Old-time New York is being rapidly forgotten, and it may be well to revive
some historical facts. At an expense of three thousand dollars a year men
with guide-book in hand go through the pyramids of Egypt and the
picture-galleries of Rome and the ruins of Pompeii, when they have never
seen the strange and historical scenes at home.

We advise the people who live in Brooklyn, Jersey City and up-town New York
to go on an exploration.

Go to No. 1 Broadway and remember that George Washington and Lord
Cornwallis once lived there.

Go to the United States Treasury, on Wall Street, and remember that in
front of it used to stand a pillory and a whipping-post.

In a building that stood where the United States Treasury stands, General
Washington was installed as President. In the open balcony he stood with
silve