What We Are Coming To

Ihe iollowing is tho translation of an articlo in a Berlín paper, which will convey an idea of the Germán estiinates of the coming American hotel: The latest American progrese in building will be the " Maminoth Hotol," soon to be ereoted at Chicago. This euormous hotel has a frontage of three English miles, and a depth of six miles; the heighth of seventy-seven stories will measure 3,480 feet froui the ground floor to the roof. The hotel will nave no stairs but five hundred balloons will always be ready to take visitors up to their rooms. No room waiters are to be employed, but visitors will be served by a newly pat ented automatic, put up in every bed room, who will do all shaving, shampooning, &c , to tho guests by a very simple and ingenious mechanism. Suppoeing the guest requires hot water, the automatic will be able to cali down stairs, "A bucket of water to room 1,002,107," and the waiter will be up in seven seconds by a patent elevator. Half an hour before table d'liote, instead of the ringing of bells, a gun (2-Í pounder) will be fired on each floor to cali the guests to get ready for their meals. The tables in the dining rooms will be measured four miles each, attendance to be performed by waiters on horseback on either side of the table. Music during table d'liote will be played - gratis - by eight bands of seventy-soven men each. Por convenience of visitors a railway will be built on each floor, as well as telegraph offices. The price of a bed room will be from one dollar to ten dollars. The cosfc of thia building is estiinated to be $80,000,000. The billiard room will contain nine hundred American, ninety-nine Frenen and one English table, and, as most of the visitors are expected to be Americans, the billiard room will be fítted out with a Bpittoon oí' one hundred feet in circumferenue. " One who has tried it," writes as follows : " If any farmer wants a convenient and cheap cushion to ride on, let him take a sheepskin, as soon as it is off the sheep, and scrape the flesh off ; then lay it on a smooth place. Pulverize one pound of alum and one of salt, and cover the flesh side of the skin and let it lie for a week or two, and it will be well tanned. They make the best seat for the reaper, raker, corn-planter, or to throw on the horse to ride from the field to the barn ; and in case of a sudden shower they would answer for a protection. The Pittsburgh Pust thinks the next Pennsylvania delegation in Congress will stand 14 democrats to 13 Republicana, which is a Democratie gain of 9 frora the present Congress. Eepublicans concede the loss of from two to five Congressinen in the State.