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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-6-8, Page 7THE TRUE STORY Of LLOYDS' 0O111r1IN OF FAMOUS OLD LON- DON INST1'1'TJT'ION. .Its Growth Was Rapid and Steady -It Is T.nsuilag the Conning Coronation. Ono iniluct:ce of the forthcoming •Ocronation of Jing George has ,been to add more publicity to the London insbitutiou known as ',`Lloyds'," although it already en- joys world-wide renown.. The press •contains mane references to the rate of insurance quoted on the lia- ee bility of the ceremony to take place 1► by this organization, • Among the n'tany old and famous •business institutions of London there are few that can claim such -an, interesting history combined with Suoh extraordinary develop- .ment antlegrowth as the world- * .famous corporation of Lloyds, Toward the end of the seven- teenth century Edward Lloyd es- •tablished a coffee house in Tower Street, which was then the main thoroughfare between Wapping -and the- City, From advertisements FEATURES' Oft THE "ROOM." :in ,the London Gazette of 1088 and the following years we see that "Lloyds' " was a resort of,seafar- ing leen, for business and cominer- •cial uudertshiogs of all kinds, in- cluding sales. In 10e2 Lloyd moved to Lombard Street, and about this time com- menced his information, bureau with regard to the roovement of ships, which was undoubtedly the origin of ,the "Lloyds List" of to- day. As the house in Lombard Street became recognized more and more as the ,:entre, of shipping news the system of marine insurance was •alae recognized ;,.s . an important • commercial transaction, and hence -about this time brokers and under - "'Writers first, came into existence. impossible within the limits of this article to mpt•osent to all adequate- ly the processes by whch this. in- fluence and those activities are at work, Lloyds appease most prominently before the public in marine insur- anco and marine intelligence, To effect these main principles it is necossary that Lloyds should bo well supplied with information on all marine matters, Many illus- trations could be given, but three nest sufl'tca : ' (1) News regarding moveinents• and oasualties to ships is received. every day and all day bywireless reports and telegrams, including mssages from Lloyds agents, sig- nal stations and . representatives who are stationed in every seaport of any size and on every seacoast throughout the inhabited parts of the world. (2) '`Lloyds Register," a book issued by a society called the "Lloyds Register of British and Foreign Shipping," contains par- ticulars of every sea -going vessel in the world of 100 tons and up- ward, together with much informa- tion of interest to the shipping community in general. (3) Index books containing the latestinform- ation of the whereabouts of each vessel, and a "Captains' Regis- ter." HAD WONDERFUL GROWTH. .After e. time too business out - :grew the quarters, 'and in 1774 a scommittee •was appointed, which . chose the rooms as they exist te- •day in the Royal Exchange. For Having dealt very briefly with Lloyds as an organization, we now come to Lloyds as eeplace, or as it is commonly called, "the room." Among the, interesting items to be seen some of special note are the callers' "box" and. the Lutine bell, the loss book, the -arrival hoops and the notice' and telegram board. At right angles to the underwriting room is the leading room, a large room containing many index books, brokers' desks,. etc. There is also. a members' library, . containing complete charts of the sea, large maps and many books of law and reference. At the busiest time of the day the room contains well over 500 people. The Latino bell (mention- ed above) was resuoed fromthe wreck of La Lutine, a. 32 -gun frig- ate, which was sunk through run- ning ashore off the Island of Vlie- land in 1199. This boll is rung in order to announce the loss or ar- rival or speakingof overdue ves this grew step in the history of eels. The moment it is rung a Lloyds, Julius Angorstcin, 7c es,- dead silence takes the place of the •tive of St. Petersburg, and -Ger- continuous' turmoil and talk while mein by birth, wan to a large ex- tent responsible. He is reported - -to have said before a Parliament- s •ary committee in 1810 that he had "found Lloyds a. small institution ,and had seen it 'grow into n,. vast .size." As illustrative of the varied kinds of iasarance effected' at Lloyds the committee have in t heir ossa4sionrho ofigiialpolicy ef- . , n in e lift, ; a , footed on -el1V dthe itn]o 'eel, 1a 7£113. It vas for one month at e _premium of three guineas per cent. In 1799 the printed form of Lloyds marine policy came into use: It has remained the same aver sins*, mith but one small change, and in "t. Endoof much adverse eribioieen it bas stood the test of legal actions on nearly every clause, and hes proved itself to be intelligible' and 'capable tie ofstistraightforward olwarc eAP an - ration. Inthe forty yearn of almost oeareless war from 1775 to 18:a I.:oytly rose to <a great eminence, owing pen tly to the high premiums demandedb the underwriters, Thus in 1782, when all the naval powers were In arms'. against Great Dritain, the premium from Liver- pool to New 'York was between $125 end $150 per rents, Whereas nowa- days the rate by the big liners would not be move than two or three shillings on many typos of merchandiee, and often even • loss than teat. P.;°LLAMENT INQUIRED. In 1510 Lloyds wore ,mbjected'to 1. a very close Inquiry at the hands of .Parliament and came out wil.h fl in colors and in 1824 the ap- peal 1 of a d Let of George I. even- ed n ,g ( the, field of axarino instteance to oc all who eared to oilier it. The in- stitttion continued to peoaper, and ll in 1871 a charter of incor• finally , erat1 a arae granted to ,t, the ob- p 4 „ 'rho pro - Motion being . to vain, in P motion .df eve, measure whirls might in the preservation of nu;.ht i,%o i maeine life at seas eih wt!' the raven„ton of fraud Il eine 1- insu ' , in connect. ansa, find too rapid collection end dietributiou of marine intelli- gena,” 'i'I,e "l.,hrytis" of to•d;ty is an en- ormous ttrganlzeticrn whore e't't- d - enea and at tic:, ea extend throe g ?j.. alit all the ,ncruntriea ports and acaeoasts of the world. It is quite QUAINT OLD LONDON IN EVERY YEAR THEY Alit I'ASS• • 47 A.WA.3.'. Tho Ruthless Rand of Modern Ina 'Movements Is Laid Upon Them. 'When the London County Coun- cil. was created it took away many of the famous Middlesex houses and the few that remain are fast get -t- ime into the building market, says London Graphic, One the oldest licensed houses in London is "Ye Old Dick Whitting- ton," in Cloth Eair, Smithfield, which bears upon its walls the statement that it was established in the fifteenth cents -try, and is "ye oldest licensed house' in the pity of London." Its appearance, with its overhanging upper stories, sup- ports the assertion, and it has an added picturesqueness by its close proximity to the ancient Priory Church of St. Bartholomew the Great, founded in 1123; But many of the ancient' inns of London have of necessity been re- built, such as the White Hart in High Street, Borough, which also, boasts of a fifteenth century ori- gin, or the Adam and Eve, at the corner of Hampstead Road, built three centuries ago on the site of the old manor house of the Lords. of Tottenhall. And the famous Cock Tavern in Fleet street has been a licensed house since the reign of Charles II. A neighboring house the "Rain- bow," dates back to the same per- iod, with an earlier history as a coffee-house. A. REMARKABLE •INSTANCE of the tenacity of a license is seen in the Waldorf' Hotel, Aldwyclt, which holds the license of, and was literally built around the old Arti- choke in. Clare market, which serv- ed many generations of Covent Garden market porters as a house of refreshment. Not many years ago the City of London abounded in ancient tav- erns, for the old nits were rare 'good eaters and big drinkers, and so are the young ones, as the enor- mous number of places still within its limits testify. But the. city tav- ern life of to -day is quite a differ- ent thing. from what. it was twenty- five or even ten years ago-mahog- any counters, stained glass win- dows, ,mirrors and gilt; food and drink bolted as though for a wager, aconstant rush and tear; like the refreshment room of a railroad de- pot, hate takenthe place of the easy, if somewhat close and dingy, rooms in which no kind of orna- mentation was ever attempted, and a leisurely meal washed down by hot beverages that gave the atom- ah'a chance, which the fathers and grandfathers of the present gener- ation found goodsenough. At the present day aclerk at $5 a. week may have a 25 cent dinner amid muck more hi*urious surroundings than the rich merchant could com- mand years ago. Whether the clerk the collo: announces the news from is better or worse for this super - his "bas." t,• iority in the long rim is question `Lloyds also maintains • an in- able. quiry office," where the relations of crew or passengers may obtain, ARE 17A$T DISAPPEARING, without Dost, information --concern- The old citytaverns were usually ing the movements of the vessel in which they are interested. squeezed into by -lanes and alleys Lloyds List, a daily paper con- and those who confine theneselvea y to the main arteries of the kingdom i nee and i tell e • ritnuo n i r maritime g a • B and Magog'will observe few • of Gog t oldest ships istlo movements of ;e off into'these newspaper in Europe with the ex- hostelries, but turn option .of The London Gazette, labyrinthine thoroughfares that being originally established in twist and wind and turn 1696 as. Lloyds News and as Lloyds and double, •like the 'threads List in 1720. of a. maze in all dirse- A�- - tions, and you will find them dotted within a few yards of each other. FOH-Eltla.N SFAS. Pew, very few, remain in their an- v.,;a,l' sr. MADE IN CANADA Used in •,.,::.saadiaxt heroes to produce delicious leonaownrade ltreadr and a amiss qtly is always included lin ,rportsrnens° and Campers' Outfits. Decline all Imitations. They never give satisfaction an4 coat just as much,, E. V/, Clall;o:TT CO. LTD. WInnlnog, - Toronto, Ont. Montreal APearded al:host honors at alt 11,237 ,Expositions. t • `. ma PERFECT first made and publicly sold in Et/g- land by Pasqua Rosso, It is a siml• ple, innocent thing, and makes the heart lightsome. It is good against sore ,eyes, and better if you hold your head over it and take in the steam that way, It is excellent to prevent and cure dropsy and gout. It is a -most excellent reme- dy against king's evil, the spleen, It keeps the skin white and clean, and you may drink it hot as you will without skinning the mouth or raising blisters. The drink is only made and sold in St, Micnael's al ley, Oornhill, London, . B• C., by Pasqua Rosse, under the sign of his own bead." In a country that so powerfully and potently believed in "jolly good ,ale and old," as did England in those days, that the new bever- age would excite hostility was in- evitable;- the wintry was in arms, every tavern keeper furious in his denunciation of "the filthy, sooty, stuff"; bills and pamphlets were issued to ahow the dreadful conse- quence of imbibing this vile decoc- tion. One writer •adjures the shades of bygone Englishmen. calls on • JOHNSON'S MANLY GHOST tient state, and each year their Orer $40,000,000 Spoilt 'There Each number decreases. Year by k'o.eeign Visitors. Being in the -city the other day, I turned up St. Michael's alley, s -cording to the latest statitatica, `vile- rues a ainstthe western side about $40,045,000 is expended each of the beautiful ancient church of year by visitors from foreign conn- that „amo, to look Inc one of the tries' who take tho "cure" at the most notable and interesting of city natural mineral spring resorts in taverns, the "Jamaica (offeo Western Bohemia along the Erzge- House,". and behold a new, spat- Dirge (Oro Mountains). This does iota and beautifully decorated nob include the snip sport by for buildingvvhieh has taken the place oign transient visitors who stop for of the historica1 olcl house. Far less than eight days, or by, those nearly seven hundred years at from the various crown lands. Tho least -as the rarish records inform grand total is nob less than $45, us that the "ancient lights" of the 000,000 to $50,000,000, tavern were definitely fixed at the Soma idea of the volume of busi- commencement of the fifteenth ren- ness transacted at the groat Bo- tury-hens generations of London- hemian spas may be deducted from crs havo eaten, drank, and made rho fact that the railroad office in merry upon teat site. 7502 Marienbad, which has a resident It was not, however, untilm, population of 0,270, receives from or thereabouts, that the old"Ja .: aoutbound passengers .fur transpor ales became historic. In that yearr teflon tickets alone, exclusive of an Armenian, Pasqua Rose baggage roeeipls, $406,000 annual- Ragusa, in connection with a Lon- Tirho same city don coachman named Bowman, tt The post _Mice in 5 t• .r. (,;, the government, after hero opened the first coffee hotter. arms over l _, in London, ,and it was here, tea - et sa mantels of all expellees. u net uses clition tolls us, that the first cup ni fit ol. tl. lnultillllent. These figures Inc in met- untlti tiled' he three fceGrr.. was publicly sold ] nd. can, he t ' i .three. resorts de- form -is, and probably in Eng a pntlslg Cir, t Pasqua, had, coin to London in the pondntg Qi, 1s p manna mineral ad service of a Turkish merchant., and springs Inc ruts purposes (Carlsbad, being a tnnu of energy sot about, b l) exclusive of•tee special assessments,bre- bra int to l 1 C etaricub „a and Franzen at , sa, puffing the new bevorag,e into fay. $913,000 -annually, tri Aired rases, ore -for •fol• Hint noble art which has such,great ser ec. was .not. unknown: even -----•-,7,' . tion of late: a GLEANING HOUSE. then. the phantoms of Beaumont and Fletcher, who drank pure nectar with rice canary, ennobled; while these coffee men -those sons of naught -gave up' the pure blood of the grape for a filthy drink -"syrup of soot, essence of old shoes." He villifies the fragrance of the berry as a "stink," and compares. the drinkers of it to horses at a trough. Complaints were made to the magistrates that these vendors of coffee poisoned the air with vile smells; that they kept largefires days and nights to the annoyance and danger of the. neighborhood. down and made one of the, com- pany, I need not tell the reader. that lighting a man's pipe at the same candle is looked upon among brother -smokers as an overture to conversation and friendship;" In that famous book, "Boswell's Life of Johnson," may be found more than one mention of the Old Jamaica, telling how Dr. Johnson, Goldsmith and Boswell discussed a bowl of punch here; Garrick, ton, when he visited the city, was in the habit of dropping into the Oki Jamaica. But it was essentially a morehants' house. Here the prices of sugar and coffee and all other productions of the 'Nest India Is- lands were ruled and settled, and by and by a portion of the building -was set apart as the West Indian. merchants' subscription room, and so became a sort of minor Lloyd's, But the old is every year passing away, and giving place to the new. and I suppose it was considered that the Old Jamaica had fulfilled its purpose; at all :events, between twenty-four and twenty-five years ago the ruthless hand of modern improvement was laid upon it, and et became a thing of the past. SAVING A TITLA.RE. Amusing Incident of an English Shepherd's Boyhood. A shepherd of the English downs, who had a curiously tender feeling for the little wild birds, told to Mr. 1V. H. Hudson an amusing in- oideut of his boyhood, which Mr. Hudson records an "A Shepherd's Life." He was out on the down one summer day in charge of his father's flock, when two boys of the villa -ea on a ramble in the hills, Notwithstanding all this abuse, camp and sat down on the turf at the taste for the new £angled bey- his side. One of them had atit- erage spread. Pasqua Rosse's cof- lark, or meadow -pipit, which he fee house was crammed with eus- had just caught, in his hand, and tomers; and others were opened in there was a hot argument as to the oity, and the craze soon spread which of the two was the lawful westward, so that when the eight- l owner of the poor little captive. eenth eentury opened there were no I The facts were as follows: One fewer than 3,000 of these establish -1 of the boys, having found the nest, minks within the metropolis. At became possessed with the desire to this period the coffee house had get the bird. His companion at beoome an institution; it was at' once offered to catch it for him, once a tavern, a club, and a centre and together they withdrew to a of intelligence; it was here men distance, and sat down and waited until the bird returned to ,sit an the eggs. Then the young bird - catcher returned to the spot, and creeping quietly to within five or six feet of the hest, threw his hat we stood laughing. The dispute waxed hotter as thel" gophers as the so that it fell over the sitting tit- The secret of taking and printing Philosopher lark; buthavingthus secured it, photographs in color -.a possibility he refaced to give it up. sought after as eagerly by photo- TILE EVOLUTION OF IiIIAS$. Discovery of the Proper Dye Result came to hear the news, as they now take up their morning paper, and soon each profession had its own particular house, frequented by amen of its own calling; so there were literary coffee houses, law- yers, doctors, etc. The city houses were almost solely patronized by merchants, and after a_ while Pas- qua Rosse's became the especial haunt of the West Indian mor - the name c ants and so obtained h of "Old Jamaica." ENTER ITS RIVAL, TRA. Coffee was not long without i4 rival, which, however, did not gain public favor so quickly as the ber- ry. Just after the restoration, Thomas Garraway opened in the Exchange alley the first place in England at which tea was sold, both in the leaf and the drink. In a bill he issued at the time he says that hitherto tea bas been sold for $30 to $50 for one pound in weight, but that the will nowsellit at from $4 to $7.50 a pound, and further in- forms tis that very manygentic•moii bad rtarnc snit of quality send to hint Inc the said al,n a him, call himcolor pht,ln raphe have been re- two Megan a rvstcttaWc se resortl to his House :unallput on their coats and walk produced l,`, the throe -color pro- an olise dye that when used on cot- toadrink incl daily .uY n i it thereof. Such was tate or- off, cess• -tire primary colors. red, yel- ten cloth would not yield to soap to dr n i in of the encu famous only a few low and blue, hexing laid ane on top ev soda. They spent yeses in en- J? ' wasshied clown onl • a few of lustier and peilmrat, a g which 1 r 'Pl thing mod hope years back. In the great fire of 1068 the Old Jamaica tavern -which under an- other name alight have been there when the bells of St. Michael's Church pealed forth to'. announce the. victory of Agincourt -fell; with flames, It was immediately rebuilt and the new tavern -for it must be remembered that these oid coffee houses, like French cafes, sold something stronger than coffee for those who preferred it -maintained all its old reputation, .and drew back more than its old customers. Day by clay the great West Tnclien merchants came here to review the prospects of the trade, or to dis- miss trite merits of A MIGHTY BOWL OF PUNCH, every ingredient of which was of their own importation. .A d ilaoli records in rhe. Spectator a visit to the place, and how be ob- ri red throe tilarehants in clone u fi•rencr ov^r n pipe of tobacco. FIFTY-EIGHT BELOW ZERO. interesting Effects of Such Ex• trem,. Cold. A reader of the Youths' Com- panion who lives at Fairbanks, in the heart of Alaska, writes that the late winter has been exceedingly cold. There were five days in Dec- ember when the thermometer never registered higher than forty de- grees below zero, and fell at times as low as fifty-eight degrees below. This is sensibly colder that Captain Peary found the weather at the Pole; and when the temperature rose ta:zero, everybody talked ab- out host "eterm" it seas, and began to speculate whether winter was about over. Some of the interest- ing effects of such extreme cold are thus noted by the correspondent: Thick frost appears on nail -heads and all metal points en insidewalls of houses, as well as on the panels of. doors. All windows with single thick- ness of glass become coated with frost to the thickness of as much as one-fourth of an inch. 1ire-wood, telegraph -poles and wires and.trees are thickly coated with frost an mercury is frozen. Cold air rushitag ie ai open doors instantly conyerts thg moist and heated air of the interior into clouds of steam. Exposed portions of the body are quickly frozen unless guarded. Water thrown on the ground rat- tles in frozen drops, and water - wagons aro covered with ice, al- though stoves enclosed in sheet - iron jackets fitting the interior of the tame are kept burning at fell blast. Fog settles down so thickly as to obscure the view of buildings across the street. There is oppression in breathing and pain in the lungs from inhaling tho frosty air. Horses drop dead from inhaling the frozen air and consequent con- gestion, and teams are not permit- ted to leave the stable. Birds and animals disappear. CARL rLE 0;11 EVOLUTION, What the Sligo of Chelsea, ,Thought of Darwin. It is interesting to know what such a metaphysician as Carlyle thought of sue- a>t natural philoso• pher as Darwin; the men were in- tellectually and spiritually sa unlike. An 'article by Frank. Hale Fie in the English Review, in which the author relates some delightful eonversations he had with Carlyle, throws a flood of light on the mat- ter, Incidentally the same article declares that Carlyle thought Em- erson "the greatest man he bad known, and - the noblest." t `Greater than Darwin 1" asked Mi, Ilarris. Carlyle then told how et Lady —'s he:had met Darwin, and how sitting with him in a nook apart, Darwin ran over the gamut of ev- aluates. He ° would' havo made it a there narrative, but' Mr. Barris struck in, "But the theory must have' interested you," and waited. Carlylt went on "Aye I' : he said, as if plunged in thought and then waking up, The theory, maul The theory i>31 as old as the everlasting hills !" impa- tient contempt In his voice. "There's naething in it -nothing.; it leads no whither --all sound and uoise signifying naething, nee - thing.. . -The fittest," he went on with unspeakable -scorn, " `the ,survival of the fittest'; there's an answer for you to make the soul: sick. What is your 'fittest' 1 What d'ye mean by 't/ An evasion, I call it, a cow- ardly, sneaking evasion, with its tail between its legs. Is your 'fit- test' the best, the noblest, the most unselfish/ Theles a faith, a belief to dire and die by ; but is that your `attest;' eht Answer me that. That's what concerns me, a man-. that and uastttin6 sole. "Is your 'fttons' a poor:servile swo-legged venial sneaking round for bone' and tasrning omits mas- ter, b swbb his feet ,"Or is.y - 'fittest' just the greedy mediocrity among hosts of mediocrities, the alightly stronger pig or fox, eh/ Ay di me, ay a�' me -tits evil dreamed Fittest,'' huxnpb5l„ a ho pursed his lips and ulmlrtd Isis eyes to get rid of the unshed tears. "Did you tell Darwin what yea thought of his scientific ceeed 2 T asked, after a pause. "I diel, he said, with a• quick change oa mood, smiling suddenly with the gay, sunshiny, irristible smile that illumined his whole face, quivering on the lips, dancing in the eyes, wrinkling the nose, "After Darwin had talked to me for some time, a little crowd had gathered about us, open-mouthed, listening to Sir Oracle, and when ho had finished, I said: "All that's vary interesting, Dar- win, no doubt; how we men evolved from apes and all that, and per- haps true," and I looked about me. "I see no reason to doubt it, none; Grouse and ptarmigan burrow in but what I want to know is how the snow, and only the dogs te• ' we're to prevent this present gen main at large. erotism from devolving into apes/ That seems to me the important matter -to pre'rent them devolving intonAndp the old man laughed--�a great, body -shaking laugh the shook him into a cough, and there -'•'--- COLOR PHOTOS PRODUCED. Remarkable Achievements in a London Studio. sat there, and ali last, when it got to the point of threats of cuffs on the face the • and slaps onY the ori p r to agreed to fight it out, the victor have the tit -lark. The bird was then put under a ha fr for safety on the smooth turf • feet away, and the boys pro 4' ` ed to take off their jackets and roll up their shirt sleeves, after which they faced one Another, and were just about to an exact faCsimite to the actual begin when Caleb, thrusting out his colors seen by the "eye of also cam - crook, turned the hat es-er, and. ere." "Although colored plates of aunty Dew the i:itlark• a kind have been produced," said. The boys, deprived of their hird the inventor, Id Hambergor, "7 and of an exe•isn for a fight: would can claim that this s tltc first time! , could be made tbat woukl not fade gladly have dirchnred their fury that a true color photograph has would. certainly make his fortune. on Caleb, but the° • durst not, see- been printed upon one and the Ono of the offaecri, - young elan, hie that his dog wait luting at ids sante sheet of paper witltcut teach- took the hint. When he got hohno g nide ; they could only threaten and ing up or "transmitting." Hitherto i a employed a skilful dyer, and the •,.h fur Stone by the alchemists of old - seems now to have been achieved. Studios, ten- tDover Street S At the , don, England, numbers of photo- graphs of well known people. la which the mast delicate Lints of eyes and cheeks e ,d heir, of jewels, and laces, and silks, had been re- produced on paper, eensitized by an entirely new l.,rocesz, so as to be of an Accident. A luck accident •ed to the in Y vcntion of kabki, that olive colored cloth that is worn by soldiers. For years the British troops in India wore a cotton cloth of a greenish brown, but it always fad oil -when washed with soap. While discussing this defect with some 'British otheees a business mail from England careleasie remarked that the naantG�turer first to discover the means whereby a e+ rt,o n drill "1Chy tlatr'your heir' 't LINT)ON S To. GL1? 0i' „1-1,.,,i which, having 1111ed one for reee1 . Ile - lies agreed to ...at I,Itdm." teeke a iuueh. batter leis." "The virtue of coffee eirmitlisi:, or three ailette aiuone dicta, sat G I ria os+•n a e, T'ti;,xhtt lighted it at the -til•» Ono of his handbills is 'before vs tie wax rnndio i:? ,.t steel before he's . innilbegins; loam and nasi i thrown in two It that�,o,,Yl1 i, illntati Host, It IlMPROVED ROAD •M AIiiR, Within a few naiad's past a now method of treating roadways, in order to enable them to resist the destructive effects of motor traf- fic; raf fics has been tried in Franco. in- stead of employing Inc to cement the materials, a special fonin of machine is used to wedge the hits of stone together without grinding and pulverizing 'thein, as ordinary steam -rollers do. The machine 'carries a set of cast-iron rammet•s, which �cicliver their flows vertical- ly, ly, and produce no tangential movement of the stones. The ap- paratus ,.ravels on wheels, and 'when at Work advances about 2130 feet an hour. Tt is raid that a road was thus tveated is much more clur- �cltich elbowed :12 annual growth ebb, than one made with the said r in s was only nine inches tau, of a st.eahm-holler, which not only ono 1L'o truiiir was but thea+oighths ltrnchtces tux, mtch fine coati ttkoe t of at itself iu diameter. hfinoral but rounds the stones, and ii dopositr, ;s ossa to ht, ohaniinnt, lint thein liable to roll. •ppreareters harp been able to stay I I butt: ant short porteds. blendinginto some- thing that will pass for the Foal pieta ro. CURIOUS LABRADOR. Dr, W; T. Grenfell deseribes Labrador its a land still hardly niece of cloth that had been sub - known beyond its l,urdons. The jeetcd se the same processes. For a s lint ° this line but to no avail, he t ling see less. One day, howeseer, they found among actnereus scrarsa of dyed cloth Ono that retained its color under the most severe tests. Tae nuzzling part of it all was that this scrap had been derived from a cold current that flows along ,tri shares front the north dominates its climate, and notssithstanding that it is considerably farther south it receives less eont'iluous emu. shine than Alaska, because ire summer is shorter. The eel iters they hit ulon the secret inc';dye the indi p• rho soil and the dryness of wilco tills sr:rap had been p winds etnnt ninny t;f its plants to pod had remained far a time in a tee that a lnx'eh Vowing peculiar kind. -This such a dt y iS g rnet.al dish of ti the soutlteett enol of Labrador, 1 metal, in eornbmation with .the ,cl;c:nietls of the dye, had furnished the very thing needed. They made the experiment pith other pieces; the dye hold,; and their .fartuues wot'rt node, ong done the experimeeters tried to helve this riddle. The one bit of cloth of khaki mentioned was the only piece that kept its color against all attaokx. Finally by the merest chance Loud stile() natunahly speaks lo itself. gut flowers will ltetrp froth Ion - I The should proper time to Flo tw thing 18 ;Aar if a small piece of saltpetre 'be l when itbsitutild bo dont,: put into the water.