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SUG GESTIONS FOB. BEE AD,„
in mixing bread 1.150 a 51101'i-11a11-
dled wooden spoon, 1LS long as you.
can. Use eaough flour lWays to
keep your loaf from sticking to the
ISoturg or your halide., but take care
fl'omato Fickle.,,e0hop ag1111.0 11 of
green tOsaatoes, sprinkle ealt on
theist, Ilteng them in a Goers() eOt1Ql1
hag aad let (belle. twelve hours.
Chop a dozen onions, four green pep -
Pere and a pint 'of horseradish, add
fonr Pinnies of mixed spiees ; , mix
well, pt:tele, in jers mad cover with
vinegar, i1ie up isloesly,
GLEA.NINC-1 WALL I'APER.
A. cerreepOndent tells of al,k exPori-
',meat elle made in cleaning her wall
paper. She eays : "1 need pulverized
pumice stone and flour, four ounces
of the pumice powder te one quart
of flour, reaking a t,luel paste or,
not to get in tO9 much flour. Ex-
dotigh. Roll out as wide as tlie wall
pert handling can only come by ex -
papal. in length an6 two inches
perlence, and you must not be das-
equrageil. V at first :the dough 511011.5
to 0'l0.it.1l111 at teuches. Try wva
es.et your loaves into the pens ,fcir
the last rising rather soft. if you
etui get pans with high sides'', you
will find them nicer, as, it keeps the
bread from spreading :Eipat or runs
Mug over the sides.
To insure good baking powder bis-
cuit, care must be takea to keep the
dough very soft, so soft in fact that
you are Only just able to get them
Up and into the pan; and they must
be baked quickly in a very hot oven.
yer roll out your dough thinner
than an inela
When bread or biscuit becomee
stale, you can freshen. it by pouring
a little hot water over the loaf seed
draining it otl quickly; then set it
- in the oven to heat through, and it,
will be good as new. When crackers
become soft from long standing, put
them in, a pan, and bake them over.
They will be as crisp as new ones.
Yeast without hops : Twelve large
potatoes boiled, mashed and pressed
through a sieve; add 3 cuts lukewarm
water, 1 cup yeast, 1 cup salt and 1
cup sugar. Mix thoroughly and set
in a warm place four or five hours.
When bubbles rise, it is ready for
use. One teacup of this yeast, will
make three quart -loaves, and no
sponge is necessary. Keep in It -gal,
jars, corked tight, and in a cool
place. It will be good for weeks.
Bread : Pare and boil 6 good-
sized potatoes, drain off the water.
mash fine, pour over them about 3
pts lukewarm water, and run
through a collander. Add flour until
this is a thin batter, then put in 1
cup coffee yeast. Let stand until it
rises, then stir in flour, aS much as
you can, with a spoon, cued let rise
again. Work in enough more flour
to knead rather stiff and let rise the
third time. When light, this time
work out 'into loaves and let rise.
Baking Powder Biscuit : One cst
flour, 1 lump butter the size of an
egg, a pinch of salt and 2 heaping
teaspoons baking powder. Milk en-
ough to make a stiff batter. Bake
in a quick oven.
Crackers : One egg, white only, 1
tablespoon butter, 1 teacup sweet
milk, teaspoon soda, and 1 tea-
spoon cream tartar. 'Mix very stiff,
beat well, roll thin and bake.
Rusks : Take a piece of bread
dough when ready to bake and add
1 egg, cup butter or lard and
cup sugar. Mix them well, roll out
and cut with a biscuit cutter. Let
them rise before baking. If not quite
stiff enough, add. flour ; Bake in a
quick oven.
thick, 'then inclose the dough in a
piece of muslin and eew 21, on end
boil them Lebout tliree-cmarters of an
hour, when the rolls will be hard
and firm, an11 ready for nee, You
•
1111 1 have te use the Waal boiler,
as nothing else in the kettle line will
be largo enough to accontmoclate the
broken lengths of the strips. These
rolls are then usedfor rubbing over
the soiled portions of the paper.
Not only will they take out ordinary
dirt spots, but grease as well. Af-
ter the rubbing the paper should be
dusted off carefully wal1 a clean
cloth, and it any dirt reeneine 30
over the surface again. This re-
moves the dirt much better than the
bread process, which I have tried
,elso. It cleans li1 e. a charm."
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Pair cit -
Tight Bolts.
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(5,0,00i'a®®ioo®,o, is®®::?Dcocisi@edo,
1.
'10w is it ;visa have ilever mar-
ried, 11Ivjor Ileuderson ?'' t`isked inY
\vife,
011, I \vas born a bachelor," re-
plied the mdior, "ands---"
'Pont be sofoolish ! 1 want to
knowthe real reason."
The 10 1.1 reaeon,'' said Major
Headerson ''is that my feet
are so 51110.11."
"What do you inean
Thc majog learted back in his chair,
and smiled 'rcaned the table. Jane—
if that girl heel been born a limn,
she would have 11e0n 1011110r to an
arehbi shop—filled his glass with port
and after a sip at it he began his
story :
It was a good many years ago
that it all happened (he said slow -
13))—a good many more\years, in
fact, than 1 care to count: I was
a yOUng Slanatern, and over liead-
aiid-our in love with , Kittie Marsh -
mount. I \Vas 11.' timid youths in
tllose days und although I thought
Kittie rather liked me than other-
wise, 'I had never dared to tell her
of my own feelings. I had often
tried abut, whenever I began, some-
thing W�S sere to happen .to ,anake
Rittie laugh, and the21 all my cour-
age oozed out of my finger-tips.
,01.10 evening in Seine there was a
dinner -party at the Marshmounts,
and I was there. 1100.5 off to Gib-
raltar to join my battery next
morning early, and I had made up
my mind to speak to Kittie taint
same evening after dinner. You can
imagine how I enjoyed, the meal. I
felt like a nerVous man must feel
who is going to be hanged as soon
as day breaks ; and, to add to my
misery, :I had on ea pair of new
patent -leather boots, whichwere too
tight, and gave 1110 awful :beans !
As dinner went on, my feelings and
my boots combined beCante too much
for me, and I dropped my, fork, on
purpose, stooped. down, 'unbuttoned
the' right boot, which hurt nie most,
and kicked it off. The relief was
wonderful, and for a little while I
actually contrived to talk to
She was charming that evening.
There was something about her that
showed me she was sorry"that :I was
leaving England, and she .wore some
tea -roses I had sent her in the bos-
onof her dress.
-Miss Marshmount," 1 said, while
.dessert was being handed round,
2. want to talk to you: very par-
ticularly after, .dinner."
'Come up and sing ducts instead
of smoking those horrid, cigars you
a,re• so fond of, then was Kittie's
reply, And.I felt as though I had
suddenly been translated into a.
seventh heaven.
A few minutes later I bent down
under the table, and felt about for
my boot. I couldn't find it,
dropped. another fork, stooped down,
and looked foie:, my property ander
the table. It wasn't there—at least.
I couldn't find it anywhere. I came
up again, purple 111 the face, ; and
when the ladies left the room I
couldn't open the door for them.
Kittle was very naturally annoyed
at this, and 1 WaS the youngest man
at the table, too ; but how could
liop round that room., in front of
overybody, with one boot, on ?
"I shall expect yell *upstairs 1(1
five minutes," whispered Kittie. And
.1 think, although, of course, I can't
be certain, that she returned:the
saceTeze of the hand which I ,gave
i
Directly the women weer: outofthe
roorre 1 went down ,,on all fours
under the table, aud searched every-
where fOr that confounded boot of
mine. It had vanished as completer.
1 y a,s' last month's moon !. „
"What the dickens, are you doing
Henderson ?" ,asked -Tons Marsh -
mount. It might ha.ve been better if
I had told him at once ; but. he was
one of those incorrigible jokers, who,
would have bothered mc about my
tight boots all the evening if he
had known, so I told him it was
11°rit'illeililigKittie came back into the
room, to speak to her brother for a
few moments. She sat there, darting
naggers' theusts at inc out: of those
geetianbl.uct eyes of hers. I forgot
to say that 'T had lit a big cigar.,
to give myself countenance, ancl
think up a 1310.11 for finclieg my boot
agesn.
"Well," said Kittle presently; '"I
am going up to the drawing -room
again, ; but I can't make my entry
among all the , dowagers without the
support of a, manly arise." And she
looked straight at me. ,
,1 felt the perspiration pour down
my cheelte an(1 forehead, and I know
that, - I blushed scarlet, but I didn't
move. ? L couldn't
lead , Kittle Marshmount into her
mother's drawing -room, with '`one
boot off, and the other boot on,",
like the boy in the nursery rhyme.
'Then George Heseltine came up,
Smiling fatuously, as he always did,
ancl offered -his aria to Kittle. .
She took it, of 'course ; and after-
wards, as you know, she took
George HeSelthae as well,the brute 1
Direetly ,she had , gone, .1 crawled
down Under the table 'again, and,
right over in the far cornets, near
the head of the table. SUW the
point of tise boot which had played
ned such a nasty trick.. It's extra -
Ordinary, I thought, how theSe in-
animate objects travel. 1 reached
out for 11. ; but it had stuck some-
how. L gave it, a good pull. :There
was a crash, a yell, and when I came
out from tuiderneath the table, I
found old Marshmount 011 his back
ili. the fireplace, With all ,the other
111011 standing round him, trying not
to laugh.
CLOTH
Take any soft, strong cloth, of all
wool, and the same amount Of Can-
ton flannel; let the hand be laid flat
on a piece of paper markedround
with a, peneil, then cut Mit a pat-
tern; allowing for seaths ; etit the
lining bias so as to have a spring 1.0
it ; stitch the flannel and lining sep-
arate., turn the seams together in-
side, bind the, wriSt, leaVbeg the Mit-
ten open two bacheS on the 'under
part of the hand, work a buttonhole
on one side, sew a strong button op.
the other, and you will have a dui: -
able mitten.
A GB,EAT FUTURE.
Northwest in a Splendid Finan-
cial Condition.
F. W. Thompson, general manager
of the W. W. Ogilvie Milling COM-
pany, says the result of the croli,
which will average about 23 bushels
to the acre for Manitoba and the
Northwest, will leave that country
in a splendid condition financially,
and he added that the eastern pro-
vinces will of course benefit accord-
ingly. He estimates that the farm-
ers this year will realize a total of
from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000
cash:as a result of their. labors this
season.
Mr. Thompson looks .for a large
increase in the population for the
next ten years, and in greater pro-
portions than has occurred in the
pest. Winnipeg, be adds, was bound
to prosper, and would become in
the near future one of the most im-
portant cities of the Dominion.
ire believed that the total wheat
yield would be 50,000,000 bushels,
while all the other grains wers
most ea.tisfactory. There will be,
tile general manager declares, a
steady increa.se in the business of
cattle raising, ancl the shipments
promise this fall to largely exceed
those of last year. Spealsing furth-
er, Mr. Thompson says : "When we
realize that only ten per cent. oi
the fertile land in the small, prov-
ince of Manitoba is under cultiva-
tion we can easily gauge the future.
The total area of land in the P10
1(211(0 of Manitoba is over 40,000,000
acres, so if we deduct one-half there
are 2,0,000 tacres. left, an(1 this is the
finest 13..aid in existence on the globe
to -day, and capable of producing as
much wheat or in fact more than
the entire spring wheat crop of the
United States. 10 (111 in Manitoba
there are 3,500,000 acres under cul-
tivation, and all grains„ s0. you will
easily eee that we are still in need
of farmers in the west. There are
some 35,000 farmers in Manitoba,
and there is plenty of room ' for
100,000 more, tind if theetee,Were
there that little province alone could
raise sufficient wheat to supply the
United. Kingdom, making Great Bri-
tain completely independent of ,the
foreign powees es, regurds lier con-
s .
language, or' by the laughter of the
other follows, and 1 couldn't get a
word of explanation in, ,
Luckily, the old marl wasn't really
hurt, but only shaken: and presently
he got up, and led the way to the
dra,wing-roorn.
I followed last, hobbling' along as
best 2. could, and trying to hide my
bootless foot behind the other one.
``Young chap must be going inad!''
were the 1101. cls I heard 111 old Marsh -
mount's geo\v1, Lis 1: made my way
into the room. Just as my luck
would have it, Kittie was sitting on
the far side of 1110 1'00111, and I
didn't dare cross 0001' 11/1der the fire
of the dowager's eyes, with only one
boot on, and the other foot in a
"blue silk soak. It was horribly tan-
talising, for Kittle WaR 011 a little
'sofa near the piano, and there was
lots of rochn for two.
I remained standing by the door,
hidden.—at least, My right foot hid-
den—behind 11. large standard lamp.
and sPent a miserable ten. Minutes
\Vat ening, ' Kiutic, Whom lIes el tine
had joined upon the sofa.
Presently tea came in, and be-
hind the footman s*i-I,11 the biscuits
trotted Fide. 13i60 was Rittie's
spaniel. A nt.-ist.y King Charles I.
beast. with more ear,s 1.113111 Sense•
The little brute had my boot in his
silly mouth, and was pretending that
it was a, rat, 11.11C1 werrying it. If it,
Had been a rat,' he ss,ould have
squealed, and hidden away under-
neath 1-1 chair. I 10373 f u 0 u s
made a bolt forwaad, -to cateli hold
of Ficlo. My foot 'lipped, 2. caught
at the nearest thing I could .reach,
and (1111011 caree 1:be footman,' with
tea, On top of me. '
have never seen anybody so ab-
S0111tely nil:1011S 118 '0111 Ararshmount
MEN IN THE KITCHEN.
There are multitudes of women
who do their own housework and
whose mothers and grandmothers did
before -them, who, though tired al-
most to the point of nervous col-
lapse, or even when half sick, never
think of asking their "Dien folks"
1:0 get a meal or do kitchen work.
Many women of the old- school seem
to think it out of place for a man
to wash dishes or ma,ke bread.
Of course the average man, Unin-
structed innocent as he is, does look
awkward in his wife's kitchen. He
• is apt to disturb its aspic pie or-
der. Naturally he would prefer to
Pc doing something else, and as a
general thing he ought to be doing,
something else. But there are times
when his place is in the kitchen.
Men are not40.lways busy at their
respective occuriations ; there are
slack times -when they are laid off,
or if they employ themselves, when
their own work does not press so,
but that they could just as well lend
a hand in. the kitchen as not.
woman is making a needless sac-
rifice of herself who refrains from
asking her husband or sons to do
more in the kitchen thaa to bring ia
the Wood and coal and fetch. a pail,
of water
The relief that more assistance
would give to the woman. of the
house is not the only consideration.
Since no farmer feeds his horses or
cows, his hens or hogs without en-
deavoring to utilize the teachings
of ' the widest available experience
and the closest study in regard to
the best lsinds of diet adapted to
secure the best cOnditions of health'
and strength for Ills animals, so he
will naturally ask Why should not an
equal care aucl intelligence determine
the selection of fare for his own
He will find a new interest in leg-
islation bearing on the protection of
the people's food in purity and
wholesomenese and lie will 'be ready
to co-operategintelligently with the
public rschools and the progressive
press with regard, to popularizing
more rational idea.s of diet, as bear-
iefs on economy, health and morals.
PERSONAL' EXPERIENCES,
METHODS ADOPTED BY SOME
I1LIEN TO GET AT THE FACT.
---
Food of the British Jack Tar --
Lord Kitchener's Experience
in the East.
,
"Hardly sufficient to keep body
and soul together." That is the
opiniorapf Mr. Yerburgh, an English
M.P., upon the food the Admiralty
allows the men. No one who is not
acitually an able seaman is better
qualified to give an opinion on the
subject than, this gentleman, and an-
other 11.1(1111ber of Parliament—Mr. Ar-
nold White. The two have lately
been servin0, as bluejackets on board
of the Channel
I'leet, and for a time living on the
food served out by GoVernment,
without evea the slender additions
which jack, es a rule, buys out of
his own pockets The worst' point of
this diet, was' that, after dinner had.
been served at 12:30, the only food
for the next eighteen hours was
"This sort ot thing may he -s-ery
fin 131 in a. sergeant's MeSSr00/11," he
thundered ; but, l'in—.E'sn—r m
hanged''—it 2.2. ('1 CI ter 1111)1e exertion
for the old man to change tile word
be nicant" to say---:`,'1'xn. ltanged if I'll
have it in my dra.wing-rooin !"
Ancl he's taken one of liis lioots
off, too," said Tom. "AVIlatever is
the /natter with yoll this evening,
old man—a touch of stmstroke, or
\Vhat ?'
-Sunstrolce 1 Sunstroke bee -be
.stroked !" shouted his father. "It's
port—that's \vhat it is. '1:Ye's drunl.
sir ! Yes, yOu' PO drunlc, and if
your father wasn't ,0110 of nay old-
est friends, I'd "
1601111 1110 10 What Old Liarslimount
WO 111C1 11avo done if 2110 governor la ad
not, been one of his oldest friends,
for just at that minute Pido, with
my boot in his „mouth. earne within
kicking range, and. 1. let fly with the
foot that hati 1/00t 111
Fido dropped the boot, aud flew
across the room like a ptinteg foot-
ball, dropping with a erne), just ai
Kittle's feet.
I S111.1 110(2 lily boot, but didn't
stop to put it on, and left the
house hurriedly, without sa,ying
good-bye to a,ny body.
I spent, most of the night, conipos-
ing a note' to Kittie, with. a full. ex-
planation ; but it read so absurdly
that, after writing eighteen or t`Wen-
ty different versions, 1: gave it up,
and sent my inqn rotresi at seven
next morning, with a few lines to
lier, begging her to see nie for two
minntes before T. left at ten for
Gibraltar, so that I might explain.
My own. messenger brought the
answer back to me.
. "Dear Al.r. ETenclerson," she wrote—
wet had been brought up together,
ancl she had never in her life called
me anything but Jack,—"A ma,n.
who can so far forget himself as you
did la,st night, and who can. ill-treat
...
a, poor dumb lieast who had done
nothing to incur your anger. can
have no explanation to make to
whiell it would be worth ray- while
to listen.
stniaption of lirea'clstuffe."
HOT TEA WITHOUT MILK.
and a piece of dry breasl. This meal
\vas at in the afterecion, and :Li-
ter that nothing till breakfast, at
6:30 next morninen
This experimen't, if trying, was
C31101'5. Cenci -I'd Broa,dwood is the/
hero of one which lasted longer and
was far more severe. The general
has always been one of the grecstest
authorities of horsemanship in the
army. :Ile gained his experience in a
very u0Vel fashion. e When subaltern
in the 12,th Lancers, lie felt that, as
an amateur, it was, impossible to ac-
quire tha,t inner knowledge of the
Turf which professional riders have.
So he, joined a racing stable, in the
humble capacity of stable -boy. He
got up at dawn, groomed. and fed
racers, exercised them, lived like all
the rest of the helpers, and very ra-
pidly acquired all the trieks of the
trade. That they stood him in good
steltd is proved hy the ,fact that he
holds the Indian ridiiig record of 10S
miles in forty-eight and a half hours.
No one but ,hiniself knows how
ninny charecters Lord Kitchener has
played during his long Eastern ex.-
perience. But one or two
good nianagentent, arrived eafely atl
the bottom, twelve miles away.
Another expeieinent, which its au-
thor is not to repeats \vas that
of an English novelist, \vell-kno \vie
for his realistic descriPtions. ile
\1.1115 writing on the French :Revolu-
tion, ,and.
rArD A VISIT
to a Louden svaNW.orks exhibition, Leo
have a look at the guillotine. As lie
studied it, he began to fancy that,
11)0 yolce made to fit down upon tin?
shoulders of tile criminal would not
hold a person who struggled,
He waited till there Was 110 0110
11111.1 then tried the experiment
of putting his head in the machine,
ancl lowering the yoke. To his dis-
ina,y, he found himself quite unable
to Lin it again. Then the aWful
occurred that if lie strug-
gled the axe which. was suspended`,
overhead might fall. In that ca,Sen,
his head svould oroament the baslc.etl
of ,sawclust below. '
At last lie hea,rd a visitor ap-
proaching. but, to his disgust, the
man, evidentl,v of the opinion that
the author \vae the person place6. s
there to show how the thing acted,
refused to- listen to his ,i`Ppeals. It
was a full t,wenty minutes before an
attendant "came and released hita
from his perilous position. ,
GREAT SPEA.ICERS.
SI -TE SCORED.
They occupied two one dollar seats
a.t the opera—those two W0111e11 did.
wore high and costly hats on.
ileads and an aspect of grim
determination on their faces.
1Sor the young woman in a seat
behind 1110111 had said
your pardon, but will
please re,an.ove your hats ?
And each had answered :
No, will not.
When the first scene. was over she
asked thera Eigain, and again they
answered ''No.''
'11Then she went to an ofilcial and
made conmlaint.
Yes. hie saicl, it is a hardship,
madam, but J. hesitate to ask them
to take nri. their hats, for 1:now
them and know they would refuse,
aful if I should -undertake to' compel
them i,here would be a scene. But I
can do better for you than that.
rrhere is a vacant seat directly in
front of them. Go and take that,
and I will see that yott are not dis-
ttirt)ecl.
She took it.
With her face wreathed in
she turned to them and sa,id
Keep your lia,t8 On ladies, if you
choose. You will not incommode
me in. the least.
r.Plien she put on her own hat, a
close linitation of a Gainsloorougli in
its design, make-up, and general
scope, and sat serenely, with it on
her head, through all the rest of the
perforniance,
For elle was only huMan, and the
provoeation was great.
'2110re111,1100 expenditure per inhab-
itant of the 'British Teles hes risen
25 per cent since 1810, Ghat of
AtIstralin 1321 j,)er cent.,
DOMESTIC RECIPES,
Sweet Pickles—One rule will all-
SWei 1'01' pear, peach., plum and ap-
ple, sweet; pickle. To, seven pounds
of fruit allow five pounds of sugar,
a pint of cider vinegar, half 1)12. 0111100
of stick' cinnamon a.rid half an
ouncb of cl.oveS. Some. like more. cin-
n.a.mpil atiel. less cloves. Tie the
spice in mUslin and Cook in the vine»,
Ouch/abet' Pickles—To each. hundred
of the smalleSt cucumbers you ca,n
1)0062.0.0, allo\v an ounce each of mus-
tard seed and &levee,. a large table -
Spoonful of 5011i a cup of sugar and
tWo sinall red. peppers. Put the cu-
cuinbe,rs in a. kettle, With enough
Vinegar to Cover therm Pf.eat very
sloWly to the 50:,' .12113 point. Take
otit, put la dans alai fill up with
boiling -vinegar.
you
"I am leaving town early this
morning myself, for a fortnight's
stay with my friend `Gla.dys Hesel-
tine, so anyhow it would be difficult
to fincl time to see you. Besides.
father says he will never have you
in the house again ! You have of-
fended him dreadfully.!:' ,
So, you see (said. the major), if
I hadn't been so vain of my small
feet, and ahad worn my boots just
one size larger, I might have been a
Benedict by this time. -
And the major looked down at his
wellavarmshed,boots, smiled into his
moustache, and didn't look' altoge-
ther ,miserable, I thought.
„INCIDENTS HAVE COME :.
to light .which 'give:sonic. idea pf . the
methods by ,which he gained his am-
azing • knowledge both of ,his own
men and. :his -enemies.. For instance;
on the. hettd of Our se,cand general. is
a :sear made. by a stone' throwa at
what 'he imagined to be "that dirty
nigger" by -.one. Of his, own inen.
Later on Lord : .Wolseley, was spec-
tator of .an:uneXpected sectnel to an-
other of Kitchener's experiments:. ,A
big, handsome. Arab was ., being ex-
amiried.!,.by: the Cornmander-in-Chief,
and Kitchenere..steanding by the lat-
ter, ',now: and then then spoke to him
in a .low voice.. Suddenly the Arab
0(00311170(1 '530 tones. He sprang:
adross ,the table, and, gripping Kit-
chener by the throat, endeavored to
strangle him: : He had -only just real-'
-
.ized that this English officer, was the
seeming Arab emir to' whom he -had
'Unwittingly betrayed all the secrets
of the great plot which once so :Isear
ly lost us Egypt. 'n
• Quite the pluckiest" experiment of
recent, years had as hero Mr.: Henry
Mass, of cycle -tyre .fame. When the
Great ' Western Railway' of England
were :constrUcting the biggest. tunnel
in .the 'world under the Severn, the
water broke in from
: A GIGANTIC SPRING,:
and so completely flooded the bor-
ings that: it seemed, they Would have
to he ahandoned.
.There was a chance of pun -ming
them. clear if 'only a water -tight door
in the tunnel could be closed:. But
no diver :was strong enough to pull
a thousand .feet of air line behind
him:'through the borings. Then. Mr.
Fleuss came upon the scene, with a
new invention of his .own—a diving
apparattis, with, an air -hag; which
needed no tube.
But ,the Great Western diver said
he would net put it ,•-orin for. a thou-
sand pounds, . so the itiventor,,who
had never had :a diving -dress On in
'his life, was .forced tnin diver, and
drosi throne]. eighty feet of shaft,
and crawl through the black:Silence
of this flooded. -tube, jammed with
floating timber and debris. He tried
41 time after time, creeping:on biS
knees along the tramway metals; but
his air supply was insufficientto last
and he..fcriled to reach the door. He
Sitcceeded however, in persuading
Lambert, " the company's diver, to•
try the,, dresS, and the. latter event-
ually closed the door. . .
Considering that he employed five
keeperS; well-known Yorkshire bar-
onet was of opinion -that his stock
of pheasants was not what it slibuid
Pc . He had more than a suspicion
'that MS. e0VertS .were not watched at
night; ande.by way of' Making certain
resolved to turn poacher hisnself. ,Pre-
tending tcYleave hothe, he kept :Ciniet
.(taring the day, and at tight sallied,
forth velYeteert8; armed .with a re-
gular poacher's short -barrelled gun.
For three night§ in. Saccession lee
worked. havoc :among .his own birds,
and . at the end of that time leis
whole staff :of keepers leiceiVed
SHA.RF AND SUDDEN NOTICE
1;0 leave.
Heads of big estoblishinerrtS have
Time Of Life When Orators
:Their Best.
Amongst orators there` c.an be in
doubt that it is between the ages of
forty-five and fifty-five that their
eneeial enclowmentS have secured 'fori
Wein ': their :highest triumphs,: Dcee
mosthenes,. wheSe ambition was ear.4
ly kindled; did not deliver his great,
est Speech—De Corona—which has
been deseribed as the moSt
cent viadication in the annals of or-
atory until he Was fifty-two,
Burke, whose training was desul-
tory, astonished the House of Coin-,
Moils by his speech on American af-
fairs when he was thirty-six, butj
only achieved .hla masterpiece, hisk
impeachnient - of Warren .Hastings -en
.effort Ot. elocitionce unparalleled
in: its energy: and effect, and 'which:
must.:have exhausted his speec.h,cen-
tres,.fOr it -left .hian at one point 00,71
prived of the power of articulation;
for a little—when he was in his .
ty-eighth year,:
Curran,- of whom Byron said, "Ile,‘:
has epoken. more poetry than'I havel
ever written," made hissmoSt
lient speeches in:the State trials lel
which , lie apPeared between. his:,f or-
ty-fourth and forty-seventh years,:
And John Bright, whose fiery de-
clamation on behalf. of the Anti -
Corn Law League began in his tsven-
tyeeighth: year,. may be said to have
exhibited .nis control over language"
in its finest perfectionn speechesi
delivered. subsequent to his 000;1°1.0
for Birminghaim When he was forty'-
six -
011
.
On this7subject Mr. Barnett SnliSlt
says :"I have heard all the greatestS
speeches of the greatest orators ofl
my time ----Parliamentary, pulpit, anq
platform speakers,-13utt, Lowe, 'DiS-,1
Bblwer Lytton, Derby, Pun -e
shon, Gough, and had"their most
splendid. period from foitY-five' to .fifei
ty-five years of age. In the case oll ,
Gladstone, some of his greatest ora -
dons were delivered when lie was
between fifty-five 0#11d. sixty."
Are at.:;,
II;
SHRINKAGE or TEE SUN.
Sir Robert Ball, the eminent as-,
tronomer, says that the .sun
shrinking. It is a well known fact,i
he explains, that most things in(
cooling become al -nailer; a poker, forj
example, is shorter when it is cold:
;than when it is hot. The sun,
must obey this fundamental law, and
must therefore be e*etting, smaller. If
t,
we could measure its diameter on
two successive days we should find
that it had decreased by nine inches
--Unit is to say, it iR shrinking at
the rate of, roughly, five feet a week, t
or a, mile in ,every twenty years,
14
view of this shrinkage some people
might feel anxious lest the sun
WORLD'S BIGGEST FLOWER.
Now in Blossom in the Kew Gar-
den.ss in' London.
The biggest flOWer ie. the \vOrld
has just opened in the Kew gardens,
London. It is a species of lily found
in Sumatra. •and the flower is some-
times a yard in diameter. It has the
rather ctunbersoine name of Amor-
pllophalius. This giant of its race
was discovered in 1878 by Dr. Ilec-
cart, who sent seeds to Florence,
and one of the seedlings raised from
them was sent, in 1870,, to Kew.
The flower which' opened this year
on the plant rema,inecl open ,for 12
hours only, aild then closed Up
ag-ain. The vase -like cup of tlie,
flower • Was supported 1)y a stalk
three inches thick. `I'he cup was 18
inches deep and nearly three feel,
across. 11 was beautifully frilled
and toothed on the margin. Out-
,
side it was smooth, of liglit green
color, spotted ;with white, t,lie tirmer
part 1)0Ing deeply fluted with svhite
ribs' ,over half an incli thick and
puole interspaces. Inside the cup
of the lily was yellow at the bottom
and purple at the top, with a vel-
vety 5110011 over it, From the bot-
tom of the Cu) arose a columnar
tliree and a half feet high
011c1 seven inches thick, '
Old Mes,relanotiat was a choleric
old. chap,. and thS, language he used
was' frightlftil. Ire thought had
been playin off a practical joke on
hill, and he WaS furious, tried to
explain ;, but eversr word I sent was
drowned, either by old 111anslimotilit's
should not last their time. Such an-
xiety, however, is groundless, Sir
'Robert Ball assures us, for the sun. is
still 860,000 miles in diameter, and
it will 3:die 40,000 years for it Lobe
reduced to 858,000.
TWO VIIMVS,,,
(:iastleton (to Dashaway)—What do
you think.. of it ? Here's Clubberly,
who T. !lave alwaYS thought was a
friclud of mine, actually asking Inc
to 10116 hinl 2393.
011ibberly (later, to 'Dashaway)--
What do you thinlc of it '?
(lastleton, who I have always
thought was a friend :Of nline, ac-
tually refusing to 1011d me $25.
HOUSE OF ECHOES.
Many Valleys, described in guide
books as "whispering valleys," are
favorite resorts for tourists in all
parts of the world. Few, however,
exceed in wonder a valley at Stans-
field, in Essex, England. The rector
of this pa.risli, in giving a earl)
account of 1115 own experience
states that his ,house stands 'on
hill 28S feet above sea level, rising,
in the rear to 300 feet, while in .
front the ground slopes away to th
stream. 100 feet below, and again
rises .1S0 feet on the opposite side.
From the rectory the bells of four,
ijeen or fifteen villages may be clis,
,while across the valleg
.:footsLeps and voices in conversas,
tional tone luny be heard ,at half 1*.
mile. "efer"
VALUE OF TI -IE KING'S CliOWN„
The Crown. worn. by ICing Edward
at 111.5 coronation will be enlarges':
but its weight will be kept clown
to 1,110 lowest possible degree. Now
f
sometimes , to make sure that ihey that it has bOCOrne 1111 object of
,io. e010s100
are getting their nioney's wortli o11101)37Yuest'qns are rife concer
inin
of au ol'Sject rather than by its 11- .
,
king. would ofteri dress as a lumber- illost impressed by 1,116- co. 11, valu
the e,
millionaire timber and
man, and, axe in hand, trainp off in-
to the ,niountains, \where .11e spent,
days. unkisosvu, among Ills men. Ile
did it once too often, was recogniz-
ed anti the camp determined to pay
111111 out. '
logs NV0110 at that time sent
(losvn to the 1)lains on ct water chure,
a wide trottelt csf tin1.13er, wliicli ran
0T101' tr°3t:1.Ci,Ii10111
1'.0.),‘9'111:t0C-11)nott,()in
tainni'ndlliwbcc:aYl.
00160117.
1wa,1i.c.1I
, ,
\vas sent (low)) this Glatt° allele re -
nail's 11. 0(0 sleecletl, J1 u t; the WOrl<1
WaS VISI17,, as Llie speed was 11,111110 1-
ly -terrific, "I'lie atien decoyed 'err,
Flood on to this boat, and let, it
loc)se. irlillionalre spent, the
110s1 terrine 11011' !lour of 'his exist-
ence; 1)Ut, 111(1e by' good lue,lc 1111112.
toric: or sentimental 3tssociations, iS
p3trtieuhtrly anxious to lasow 11007
much. 'the 0r011'11 15 WOrt11. Tile (100s -
tion is inore easily a,iked than an-.
ssvered. Sixty years ago the (gown,
W(15 valued at something like 8565,4
000, but it is consideeect that Old
geins have 11 higher Valile 1100 aPart,
fr0111 that 2.1.111011 hisiorie i1np01t01lc6
1.1 01:13.i'V'settosf21)1(11)1(0::(1111110(1)17,iGv,o
i 51) as 1.11
0 cXtI'01110137 ‚1310'
healthy, 013' 0(1 the Shallow 10rnisi1'ie..
1112 15 21 1 12aL 11101)1111 tion a11.\3.17Fs
sults in an increased nuntber 01