paying damages, and putting up a private Theatre for the night, whose electric plant alone cost $10,000. Another still had up all the organ grinders and their monkeys from New York for a barrel-organ concert. Another lady paid $250 dollars for an entrée of “incubated turkeys” for one dinner. And so on. Mr. Longyear of Marquette built an opera house and gave it to his wife “to play with”. Millions figure in conversation like hundreds at home. We had a drive today in spite of the wind, and saw some of the houses — one fine (imitation) Colonial, several in French style, especially Mr. Coates’ and Mr. Berevin’s, a darling gardener’s cottage of Mr. Taylor’s, and Mrs. Winty Chandler’s house, which we rather liked. Mr. Davis went away this evening on