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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-2-3, Page 31 Fun, 3, 1999, T$E BRUSSELS POST. A.� r THE CRADLE S, DL 0 A� NEWSPAPER MAN'S VISIT TO THE ENFIELD FACTORY. The I/lgt:eot Soup in the evoked. and Ilx interesting content0—h'he sten who None lite efi sem .Ldoro the Weapon SVlth Almost p4 i lonnte Adoration. A correspondent of the London Daily News writes; Enfield Small Arnie Fac- tory (Mee not mean to receive any dun - Orme visitors. "What Is your name?" I was asked. "Jonathuu Blank." "Where do you live?" "1,001 Moonshine Street, in the parish of Starlight, in the county of Smoke - shire." "What is your occupation?" "A. picker -up oC unconsidered trifles." "Are you a British subjeol1" "Prom the top of lay head to the tips of my toes." "What is the objets' of your visit?" "To obtain permission for a view of the faotory." Then T wait Ln a cheerless sort of guardroom for many weary minutes, while the wheels of olrcumloeution go slowly round, grind- ing. out "an order to see." Al lust iL Domes, borne by a bright and intelli- gent fellow, telco says he is instructed to act as my guide: He was an art- ful and wary one. In matters his- toric and picturesque ho was gushing- ly communicative. But in matters immediate and of martial moment he was either politely evasive, or smiling- ly reticent. Of walnut gunstocks he could tell me much, whore they came from, how many could be got from a true of given height and girth, why they were preferred to ash, But when I asked whet effect the ifashoda crisis had had upon the work of the factory, he irreleavntly talked about the mar- vellous mechanism of the man -mowing Maxim. "Are you extra busy 1" T asked. "We are always busy -bees hero," came the smiling response, "No, but 1 mean aro you specially busy just now?" I persisted. "The pleasure of conducting you round, sir, Is so great, that I regard it as recrea- tion, and not as business," was the dip- lomatic answer. In fact, he was hard- er to crack than the walnuts of which he made such irritating use. How- ever, from several of the men with whom I spoke on passing through, I gleamed the fact that the crisis had caused some extra pressure, but that they had been so busy for so long that nothing but an actual outbreak of war could cause much greater pressure. I can quite appreciate this, for the hum, the platter and roar of the machinery was perfectly deafening, while the swift pace at which it was going made ono positively giddy. WHERE STOCKS ARE MADE. We first visited the stocking depart- ment. Ladies need not be alarmed. It woes merely the shop where gun - stooks are made. The senses are charmed with the sweet aroma of wal- nut -wood, and for a moment there arises Ia the mind pleasant pictures of pastoral peace, animated by groups of viltuge children boisterously shying at stately trees and eagerly gathering the falling fruit. But the illusion vanishes as quickly as it came, when the guiclo points out the various pro - ceases by which the wood, coming in in the rough-hewn blocks, emerges in well-rounded and polished butt ends of rifles ready to be attached and sent on their deadly mieslon. In adjoining rooms similar scenes of rapid transfor- mation from rough -cut wood to high- ty finished "dobiod" and barrel rests take place. Then wo lase to the Pat- tern Department. Here official re- ticonae, masked in wreathing smiles and diplomatic answers, reigns su- preme. Patterns of all the products of the factory, down to the simplest entail, are to be seen in this room. But the curious and the inquisitive visitor is not allowed to tarry, and on my guide hurries me before 1 had time to get more than the haziest of hazy impressions of what 1 have soon. ; BAYONET AND SWORD MAKING. e, pass to Lho bayonet and sword `department. This struck use us be- ing particularly busy. Dozens of man were hard at work furgiug and turn- ing out bayonets and swords of all sorts, shapes and sizes. Round about were glittering rows of long swords, broad swords, swords single -edged and swords double-edged, and swords that are bayonets, besides iunumera.ble bay- onets, and ugly -looking steel heads for boarding -pokes, A most uncanny fam- ily, in truth! The noise was inde- scribable. The screech of the files alternated with clang of hammered steel, while the hiss from the braziers' stove commingled strangely with the incessant clatter made by the rivetters, It wus'an inharmonious concert well worthy of warlike preparations. IN THE SMITHERY. My visit to the smithery leads me to believe that both Dante and Milton must have got their conceptions of the nethermost deeps from some such place as this. Indeed, Milton's ttesct'iption ethicist exactly fits this Enfield In- ferno: A Dungeon horrible, on all sides , round, As ono great furnace flamed yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible, As I orossed the threshold a groat gloomy chamber opened. to the view, seeming to stretch away without lime it. Then I saw that it was peopled with great massive giants, whoso every breath gave forth gusts of glowing flame, and whose bellowing and bias- ing and. roaring reminded one for all the World of the raging incoherenees of the fallen spirits. 'Then 1 noticed that each giant was waited upon by I.ttla notive dusky dtvnrfs, who scent- ed to be heroically trying to slim the hound lose appotil05 of lhci r voracious masters by shovelling grent loads of black food into their cavernous mouths. A.ncltlion, to deepen the illusion, there Game every now told again 0 mighty soundas if Cltase greatgiants were t stamping with rage. But my eyes had now become familiar with the une oanny surroundings. 1 wee thus able to see that those hungry -looking glants were iron furnaaos, and the dwarfs of my illusion were, in foot, big brawny smiths, while those lhuudr•ous sounds, seeming like the enraged stamping of the giants' feet, were the blows bf mighty hammers knocking glowing bare of stool into the rough semblanos oC 'looks," 'There are some wonder- ful rolling trills here too, In at one end are put little squnt blocks of steel, and out they cone et the other, elong- ated gun barrels, ready to go to the "boron," TEMPERING STEEL AND .BRING 13ARJIIiLs. The guide next hurried me to the Hardening Department, where the steel is put into a "good temper" lest the guns should burst instead of doing their duly, or the swords and bayonets should play "a double game" at a critical moment. Bad -Compered met- al is worse than a choleric) general on the battle -field. But it seems nearly as necessary that steel should be pol- ished as that it should be sent hence with a good temper. To this end Ran- goon oil is used. There Is often, how- ever, a lot of roughness to be got rid of, so that the schoolmaster—no, the polisher—finds it necessary to show grit by using emery powder. The combination is not a healthy one for the workers in this department, The dost -charged fumes from the heated oil and powder get on their lungs, with frequently disastrous results. I had therefore little wish to prolong my stay, and hastened on to the Barrel Department. This room is really a great exhibition of automalio ma- chines. There are several dozen dif- ferent sorts. One drills a hole clean through the barrel, but finds it nec- essary to apply copious draughts of soft soap and cold water to keep the barrel cool. Another machine "puts the sorewon," the bore within the bar- rel, to make the bullet revolve as it de - parte from the muzzle. One machine planes this part and another that, one drills a hole here, a second drills a hole there, and a third somewhere else. Then there are other machines which are fearfully conservative, for day after day, from one year's end to an- other.' they do nothing but work in the same 'groove." And what is more they work as swiftly as ever, quite indifferent to the monotony of their occupation. The insignificant pieces of rolled steel in the smithy has now become an unmistakeable rifle barrel, and ceasing to be "bored" it looks as straight ns a die, flashy as a looking -glass, in its readiness to attend the formal "reception" in the Assemb- ling Department. TEE BIGGEST SHOP IN THE WORLD. But the polished Wirral is not the only visitor expected at the great re- ception in the Assembly Room. The looks, the bodies, the springs, the trig- gers, and many other mcmbors of the great rifle: family have to go to com- plete the union so necessary to their future reputation. Nearly all these are made in the "Big Room"—which my guide assures maid the longest sin- gle shop in the world. Just two hun- dred separate processes are being per- formed here, and over 2,000 machines are giving forth their martial music, The confusion of sounds still rings in my ears. Babel must have been no- thing to R. Some machines grown as if in agony, others roar and bellow in a braggart way, yet others hiss. as though they were serpents in dead- ly oonflict; others again, screech more weirdly then the midnight owl. They are such a lot of thirsty crea- tures, too. Great tabs of frothy soap- suds stand by them, and through long tubes the drillers and their mechani- cal comrades are eternally devouring this delectable draught as greedily as ever Caliban consumed the "celes- tial liquor." Having taken a glance at the Screw ' Department, where machines being periodically given long bars of steel ;automatically and unaided convert 1 them into myriads of finished sorews, 1 proceeded to witness the great rifle reception. This takes place in the Assembling Department. Hither are brought every member el the rifle family—barrels and stooks and trig- gers and bodies, and alt the rest of 'them. Then the separate ingredients of each single rifle are carefully mar - 1 shelled and examined, and you see ris- ing before- your eyes dozens of Dom- ' plated Lee-Metfords, standing proudly forth in all their warlike glory. THE MURDEROUS MAXIM. Having followed the factory career of the rifle, and glanced at the mak- ing of swords and bayonets, my guide conducted me to the pet department oC Enfield Look. This is where the quick -firing machine guns are made end repaired. The plaoo was full of life of bustle for the Spanish-Ameri- can war has stimulated the fighters' faith in the effioaoy of quick -firing guns. Here are made the gentle and the loved Maxim—the favorite of mod- : ern martial philosophers. The man adore this deadly instrument of war with all the passionate adoration that poor Honore showed for his gun in the Yields beyond Sedan. Tho mechnnios who make it are loud in its praise, and exultingly point to Omdurman—just as a mere statistical vindication of its deadliness. That: it should faithfully diechargo 700 potential messengers of death per minute is to them a triumph of the mechanic's art. That this may be al the expense of humanity and oivilizatiou does not bother them. Me- chttnies, not ethics, is their sdenoa. Others, however, may perhaps profit:. ably ponder the ethical sides mid then helps the. Czar a little in hie deep to- wards realizing Isaiah's ideal of human cononrrl, when the nations "shall beet their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks," and when 'nations shell not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." A CHINESIS HERO. Tran Sau-t'ung, who wits seized and beheaded together with five other pro- minent members of the Reform party, may be well regarded as near ahem as Chinn is likely to produce, He had envie time to esonpe, lint refused to fly from the wrath to (some, remark- ing lien be wished to meet death as n " Hop .Hon! zu," n gond Son of Han. "What. does it matte'," ho mill, "if a few of us dice 1n all western men. (ries blood bas flown like tealer in the cause of reform .L,el, my blood be the first Shed in the great cense." `_•_111_0_*et+- • _ •_o_• -,•_•_l • GIFT FOR A GIRL FRIEND, A dalnty device, for a girl's room, which should be made in a oolor that matches or harmonizes with the hue of its hangings and furniture coverings, has been recently invented, and can be used either for autographs or mono- grams—i2 one is an inveterate collets - tor of the latter, and Inas wearied of using them to decorate fans, Take a square of white card -board or heavy water -color paper three and a ball In- ches long and three !mhos wide, out LL into the shape of a heart, and leaving a border an moll in width outline light- ly with a pencil a second heart, which must be out out with a very sharp pair of small scissors. Paint on the heart tiny pink rosebuds and leaves, sprays of forget-me-nots, buttercups, maiden- hair ferns, or violets; cut three pieces of satin ribbon three-quarters of an inch or an inoh and a half wide—pink, blue, yellow or violet, according to the flowers painted, and half a yard long. Fringe or point one end of each, fas- ten with photographer's paste on the bank of the heart, one at the bottom and one on each end, Cut pieces of card- board one inch long and two and abate inches wide—the easiest way, it one in - Lends to make several, is to out up blank cards—and fasten them with the paste across the strips of ribbon, slant- ing them a little that the effect may not bo too stiff. The heart can be sus- pended by a loop finished with bow and ends of baby -ribbon matching the color of the flowers, or it may be hung, by moans of its open centre, or two small tacks. NAN'S SOUVENIR. Nan was going to have a birthday party out at grandma's house. Ten lit- tle girls were Doming to spend the af- ternoon and stay to supper. There was only one thing that trou- bled Nan, and she went out into the kitchen where grandma was frosting cakes the afternoon before the party, to talk about it. Tie cakes looked so good that Nan never could have stood 11 if grandma had not baked her tast- ers, in patty pans, of every single kind of cake. "Everything is too good for any- thing!" said Nan, leaning her elbows on the table. "Except I wish I did have silvernears for the party." " Goodness, me I" said grandma. t Young Folks. What's that?" " Tillage for them to take away to 'member my party with, for always," answered Nan. "Silver•nears is the best part of a party, I think, grandma.' "Oh, yes, souvenirs—yes, lase. Well, we must see about them, then. Didn't you tell me there were twelve kit- tens down at the barn?" ' Yessum," said Nan. " And, 0 grand- ma you said they'd have to go, some of them, anyway, 'cause the farm was getting overrun with cats. But grand- ma, you wouldn't say so if you could see them once; they are the sweet- est, ounningest, dearest—" " Yes," said grandma, calmly; "they always are. But why not give them to the party for souvenir's?" You always think of the perfectest things 1 Of course, there'll be one apiece and two for me ; and you don't mind the two for' me, do you grandma?" And, of course, grandma said she didn't mind. So the next day, when the ten little guests went away, after having the most charming time, they each took with them a kitten in a box with slats fixed so that it could breathe. And, after they were all gone, Nan went down to the barn. When she Dame baok, she looked very sober. "I wouldn't have thought," she re- marked, " that I could have felt so lone- ly without those ten kittens. I hope I'm not getting selfish." And grandma smiled. Tho next day grandma was upstairs when she heard Nan calling. And then, running up the stairs, aeoompanied by a chorus of mewing, she burst into the room, her cheeks very red and her eyes very bright, with ten boxes piled up in her arms. " 0 grandma," she cried, " the party all came back and brought their silver - nears! They said their mammas said they were just as much obliged, but they had so many kittens now they do not really need any more; and say —0 grandma, don't you think we can keep film now?" And, of course, grandma, when she got through laughing said, " Yes." GIRLS AND SEN'CIMENTALI'CY. It is man, according to George 1\i:ere- dish, tvho has made woman sentiment- al, and given her that "over -fatted heart" whish proves so cumbrous an organ to possess in the groat battle of life. It is good, therefore, to find one of the foremost of our women think- ers and writers, a w.riter'like Flora An- nie Steel, doing battle with the "Giant of Sentimentality," whioh still falsi- fies our wholesome human life, and Leaching our girls that there is some- thing nobler than mawkish romenne, and a Higher ideal than to espouse their possibly foolish fancy of oho moment, THE STRAIGHT -RAISED GIRL. Some one of the oracles whoso mis- sion is Lo advise young women how to seleot a husband, and to warn young men against feminine wiles, has re- cently set up a new guide post for nlaccutine Wayfarers on the road to matrimony. "Marry a girl with straight hair," says the 'oracle, "The ohanoos are that her ways aro as straight as bor locks, while the hoar'( of the curly heeded girl is as full of twists and quirks as her heir'." The theory is expounded at some length. If ail man will but be guided by this sibylline voice, Ilia day of the, straight-haired girl is close at hand, She needs compensation. For years oho has fought en unequal fight againet her sister of the curly lodes, eel her temper basbecnworn thren.d- hare, all on account of her hair. What ohanco has a str'aigbl-barred girl On a windy day. Her hair is straggling in frantic wisps over her collar and her ears. She looks untidy, disropul- Able; and all the time the cur1Y-haired girl is becoming more and more be- witching. Her stray looks oriep and our( and flutter fluffily round her Ince, and she am(les in serene rons- oIou.neas that the wind is quite pow- erless against her, 'Intel rainy days come Um straight -hatred girl sighs dolefully, and looks limp and deject- ed, in spite of swell Mlothee. Hol days have the same depressing offeot upon her hair and spirits. Soa bathing has no charms for her. Even golf can't be to her what it is to the champion with curly hair. But, if straight hair is to be a certificate, of eligibility for matrimony, there will be balm for all these wounds. THE ROSSLAND OUTPUT. Met Year's Went Shows a Itlg increase Over 10117. The value of ore produced by the Roseland mines during lite year 1808, says a Roseland despatch, reached the enormous aggregnto total of $2,804,- 758.12. The shipments were 116,207 tons; for the year ending December 81, 1897, the shipments were 08,000 tons and the value of the ore mined was $2,100,000. In a single year the ship- ments from the mines were almost doubled, while the value of the output increased $700,000 or 33 per cent. The year has been remarkable for the immense influx of foreign capital, which absorbed some of the better Rossland properties. First in size comes the British American Corpora- tion, with investments of nearly $5,000- 000 in the north belt. Close atter it carne the purchase of Gooderhum- Blacksiock syndicate of the Centre Star, for $2,000,000 cash. Ore shipments from the mines of the Roseland camp, for the year ending December 31, 1898, were as follows; Le Rol, 66,000; War Eagle, 42,799; Iron Mask; 3500; Centra Star, 2907; Poorman, 453; Monto Chr•isLo, 410; Velvet, 350; Cliff, 140; Giant, 114; Sunset, No. 2, 32; Deer Park, 6; total, 110,697. Conservative brokers estimate that the volume of business for the year in Roseland stocks reached the enormous sum of ten million dollars. The great- est stimulus was given the market dur- ing the time the British American Corporation was acquiring its twenty odd mining properties in this camp, and the aalivily thus started has never been slopped to any great extent. The, standard stocks are to -day selling for higher figures than ever before. IL is reported that u montreal syndi- cate has purchased the British Colu- mbia mine in Summit Camp, near Greenwood, and olose to the Great Oro Danoro Copper Mine, at n price of be- tween three and four hundred thousand dollars. SPARE THE ROD. It is no mare sickly sentimentality that would banish corpornl punishment from the olass-room. Under more hu- mane management the standards of the school have risen and the humanizing influences have become greater. We do not need to turn to the historic past to know that harshness begets harshness, hardness and cruelty. The world re- flects the spirit in which we meet it ; and this is nowhere more evident then In the class -room. A harsh word, a sneering remark, the cynicism of the teacher, are reflected by sensitive chil- dren; while undue severity and cor- pora, punishment make impossible a spirit of harmony and interest and the feeling of mutual co-operation, which should be called forth in the ideal re- lations of pupil and teacher. On the contrary, a firm, consistent and gen- erous treatment of a young child, as of an older person, has an appealing and controlling force. This is preemin- ently true of the normal child, of a child in which the Sense -impressions have been on the whole favorable to happy sweat relations ; where the "sense -means of cultivating virtue' have been present in early childhood in the home; wbero the child has gain- ed, from the action cif those by whom he is surrounded end in the satisfac- tion of his physical needs, on impulse which awakened love and gratitude to those who satisfied these needs, and trust in 'tbose who protected him In danger ; where those who have directed taint have been as flexible as nature toward his irregular desires ; where he has been accustomed to yield his wishes to circumstances, to n consideration of others, or to the direction of parents. With mush environment, pet, ewe, obedience, gratitude, Nuel, and rove have begun to enfold before the Child enters the school, He bas already re- cognized that all that exists in the world is not for his own sake only ; and he hes begun to respond in self - development and self-control. In the rompanoinship of those who love him, of those who in the daily relations of home show him (:hal: justice, mercy, puri ty, love, generosity, firmness, eonroge, are tont rolling etarnoels in social lire, he has already obtained a preparatory discipline, which makes him amenable to the djsetpline of the school. FLESH, FOOD, VEGETARIANISM. Some one hes estimated that twon- ty-two acres of land is needed to sus- tain a man on flesh, while that amount of land sown with wbent will need forty- two persons; sowed to owls, eighty- eight; to potatoes, Indian corn or rice, one hundred and seventy-six persons, and pinnLed with the bread fruit tree, over six thousand people could be fed. D1C.LENSION OF SWEAR, The Count—Ah I zo English tongue, how cat sees drola. W'on 20 mall weost to prove Mees love for ze ,finely, he swear to her, rias first yarn of marriage Ise swear by her—and aftatre, parblen I .he swear at her, WHAT UNGI,E SflM AT. IT1MS OP INTHRRST ABOUT TM BUSY YANKEE, Yolghborly Interest le Hls Poings—Mattcre of ,Moment and Mirth Gathered from Ills Daily Record. New York's Chinatown elects a may- or yearly. IIis salary is 31,000. This year's output of flour by Min- neapolis mills is beyond all records. Five new Presbyterian churches were crested in the Adirondaeks last year. The Chicago couneil has forbidden the use of the rod in the House of Cor- rection. Sixty-five Denver hunters recently brought in for 4,328 rabbits for the poor of that oily. In three years Rudyard Kipling has received a dozen utters for his Ver- mont residence The 1,316 clerks in the Chieago post office are to be uniformed, probably in dark navy blue. Capt. Thomas Nicbolson, f3uoksporl, Me., cleared 320,000 out of his fishing fleet this season. Half a million dollars worth of opium reached San Francisco from China the other day. Hope Cody,' chairman of Chicago's Board of Election Commissioners, is only 28 years of age. At a rough estimate there are 15,- 000,000 pairs of gloves imported into this country each year. It is estimated that the next census of the United States will show the pop• ulation to be 90,000,000. There are 45 colleges ctnd 17 Stals Christian Associations among the col- oured man of North Carolina. The United Stales is now producing more pig iron than at any time dur- ing the history of the country. A resident of Swainsboro', Ga., cste- braLed his 85th birthday recently by hearing his pastor preach his funeral sermon. By the wilt of James L. Hugh, of Philadelphia, the Maeonio Home of Pennsylvanta will receive between $50,000, and $75,000. The sum involved in the deal by which the street car lines of Balti- more have been combined is in the neighbourhood of 328,000,000, 0. Vanderbilt, jr., pays the highest house rent in New York 32,000, a month, and a man named Hennessey the lowest, 83 cents per month. When Paul Newman, ex -Attorney - General of Hawaii, was the other day admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, he registered from '' the territory of Hawaii." New York papers are delivered at the Grand Centras depot, three miles from the office of publication, ten min- utes after having been printed. The use of the pneumatic mail tubes is the cause al the rapid delivery. David M. Wilson, who died in Phila- delphia recently, followed the curious fact oe shaking hands with every Mayor of the city on the day of his inaugur- ation, a practice which he indulged for almost seventy years without break. Gen. Merritt, it is said, was ten- dered the position of the first Gover- nor-General of Cuba, but declined it on the ground that the first six months' occupation was sure to re- sult in little except trouble for the commanding officer. The day Prepideut and Mrs. McKin- ley were in Atlanto., Ga., an old col- oured lady placed a bot brick in the Presidental carriage for Mrs. Mo- 'Kinley's comfort, as the day was cold, The old lady has the refusal of a posi- tion at the White House now. Frank Gould, saw George Killian, of 330 East Eighteenth street, New York, giving his two rough -coated St. Ber- nard dogs an airing on Fifth avenue. Presto, the male, carried a whip in his mouth, Laura Jean, his companion, trotted after him. The dogs struck Gould's fancy. He wanted them and did not long dicker about the price, He paid 35,000 for the animals. Au absolute monarch Dame to New York very quietly ono day Inst week. His name is George Clunies-Ross, and he is king of the Keeling -Cocos Islands a small group near the Island of Java. He is a Scotehman and claims sove- reignty on the grounds of his grand- father's discovery of the Islands. The Carnegie Steel Company have purchased 35 nares of land on the banks of the Monongahela river, wast of Homestead, on which large shops will be built to make steel cars, with a capacity of forty each day. An axle - forging shop will also be eructed. The plant will employ about 2,000 workmen. Miss Florence Caldwell, a daughter of United Slates Judge Caldwell, of Cleveland, was graduated as a civil engineer last June from tine Colorado State School of Mines at Golden, She will not practice her profession, how- ever, tis she is about to merry another civil engineer, whom she met in Colo- rado. Edrvnial J, Brook Is the man who arced as spy for the United States in Spain during the war. Represent- ing himselt as a German scientist, he sectored letters from Genera.( Weyler that gave hint access to the fortifica- tions at Barcelona, Cadiz and. Fer- rol, and secured biro entertainment as the guest of Admiral Cervera nb board his flagship, In the 35,000 accident damage suit brought by Mrs, !Marie Ilouillon against: R. T. 1\'ilann, Cather -in -Ines of young Cornelius Vnnderbill, the ,jury return- ed a verdict. for the plaintiff for 35,- 600 and 0051s, She said her business of dressmaking was almost.. ruined en il0' count of being laid up by injuries re- ceived by slipping on the roof of a horse mend by Mr. WIbson, Thomas i1. \Verson of San b'run- cisco, and his wire, who Ives .Nrnml Sliraackels, daughter of the sugar king, are completing arrungemenla for an extended tour of the world. While their trip will be ono of pleasure and business combined, the chief objeal Mr. Watson hes in vielw is the acquiettion of property valued at £9,000,000. He has in his possession papers which he &alma show him to be entitled to about one-half of the tows of Carlisle, Eng- land. WINTER WRINKLES. Jamie—Pa, what Ls "less -ma jeete ?" Pu—That's the Latin way of calling a crowned head a chump. Prose Versus Poetry—He—Man pro- poses—what's the rest of IL.1 She—slut is not always ueoepted. Jones—They say the girl Dawson married was cross-eyed. Brown—Yes; but he never fully realized it until at - bar her money was Bono. Injustice of Fate.—A man eon't do much without money. No, and when he hos money he doesn't need to do anything. Mrs. Sad—When I'm dead you will think of all the cruel things you've sold to me. Mr. Sad—And it will be, just like you to go and die in order to give ma a chance to think of. them. Father, did you hear what the man in the pulpit said? What did be say? He said, This ie a winked world. Did he mean us? 0h, no i It is only his way of saying he is all right. That's a terrible noise in the nursery Molly, said the mistress. What's the matter? Can't you keep the baby quiet? Shure, ma'am, replied Molly, 1 ain't keep him quiet unless I let him make a notes. - His Point of View—Papa, it speaks hire of a burst of confidence. What does it mean?" Failure of a trusted hank, growled the old gentleman, who had just been hit by that sort of a calamity, seen twenty-two summers. Insurance Agent—Pardon me, madam, butwhat is your age? Bliss Antiquate—I have ?seen twenty-two summers, Insurance agent—Yes, of course; brit how many times did you see them? A sohoolmaster had been giving a lesson on physical force. Boys, said he, can any one of you tell me what force tt is that moves people along— for example, in the street? Please, sir, replied the first boy, it's the police force I Bobby, at the breakfast-table—Maud, did Mr. Jules take any of the umbrellas or hats from the hall last night ? Maud —Why, of course not ! Why should he? Bobby—That's just what I'd like to know. I thought he did, because I heard him say when he was going nut; I em going to steal just one, and— Why, what's the matter, Maud? FREAKS OF FASHION. The Romans depict the Britons as al- most naked, but modern opinion in- clines to the belief that they were at times clad in skins. The conquest at Hastings meant also a victory of the long coats and short coats and long cloaks of the English. The Norman dandy curled his hair with irons, parted it in the middle, and bound it with ribbons. The Normans were also responsible for the introduc- tion ntroduo-tion of the barbarous custom of tight - lacing, a small waist being much ad- mired. Great attention seems to have been given to sleeves which fell over the hands, Ladies' sleeves grew to such an extravagant length that they hung down from the valets to the ground and had to be tied in knots to keep them out of the way when walking. A peculiar feature in Plantagenet times wore the Crackowes, boots with toes so long that gallants of the day fastened the points of their toes to their knees with gold and silver chains. During the thirteenth century the head-dress of the ladies began to be assertive, and at length developed into the horned head-dress. This was a frame with two unsightly protuber- ances, called rants' horns, alt of which was covered with some fine material. It was thundered at from the pulpit, but feminine vaulty was proof against tho most formidable opposition. The climax was reached by the arrival of the "steeple" in the fifteenth century. This atrocity, es its name implies, was a very formidable structure. The mod- ern matinee hat pales into insignifi- canoe iu oomparisou. The "steeple" was made of rolls upon rolls of linen, and rose to a point, two feet above the head. In the reign of Edward III. au act Wes passed against the adoption of gar- ments unsuited to the degree or purse of the wearer. The dress of the dead was not even exempt from legal in- terference. As an incentive to the woollen industry, it was enacted that uoing corpsebut wool. should he swathed in any - Elizabeth's reign was marked by the advent of the farthingale —the pro- genitor of the arinoliue. 1t: consisted of a circular petticoat made of cloth stiffened with whalebone. Its dimon- asone were enormous. James 1. forbade the farthingale at the masques at Whitehall, from the foot that four or five Indies got wedg- ed in a passage an one mammon. The great feature of the eighteenth century was the wig, wbielt underwent 00.517 changes. Dandies combed their wigs in the.n.tres and such places be- fore an admiring crowd. Ladies were proud of the hoop, which enjoyed n. popularity as great as its size, which is saying n great deal. Muffs at this time • were always carried by men of fashion. l'h0 crinoline abomination begun its reign of terror in England in 1854. blrs. Ann Bloomer renttered herself immortal in 1810 by introducing the .Bloomer costume into America, end the casturne was adopted by some strong- minded ladies in the west of London as early as 1861. CHANGE. More iunnvniion 1 exelnitned the plea `lp,ntislt resides) of the l?ltilippines. What's the matter new? ahem people want its to do hnsiness with the. AustrnHall linllol instead of the Mouser 1)01111. BEAUTIFUL DELF WARE The woman who doesn't know her china has a very vague idea 00 to what Delft ie, She usually has at idea that everything that bus a windmill upon it ie Delft were, and if she is even more ignorant she culls everything blue and white Delft. She is not so very wrong in culling the blue and white windmills Delft, for they are intend- ed to imitate that famous old Dutch china, but there is no more real Delft in the pieeea lc bo found in the ordin- ary shops than there is ill any piece of crockery made in lengland or Am- erica in blue and white. The real Delft may not even be in blue and white and it may not have a windmill up- on it, though matey piens of it do show Holland scenes, There are brown and white Delft and Delft in polychromes, and it all comes from the pottery of the Porcelain Bottle, in Delft, and the supply there al never equal to the de- mand. Just when the first Delft wars was made and where the secret of its maa- ufooturo was discovered is not known. J. Perry Warden, who has made a study of the subject, says it dates back to 1600, and that Is as ter as it can be traced accurately. Euglisb books on ceramics give the date as 181.0, but Mr. Warden sups there is no origin for the statement except a. date given Ln Hay- dn's Book of Dates, wbose authority cannot be found. The Dutch were hav- ing intimate commercial relations with Italy and with China about 1600, and it may be that the secret of the china was brought from Italy. It is certain, anyway, that the Delft people got a great many of their ideas from China, and the early Delft has a strong re- semblance to the Nankin ware and is covered with Oriental designs and man- darins flourish upon it. The Dutch are not only industrious and persistent, but they have a cap- acity for development, and they gave up mandarins after a time and brought out their own home acmes upon their beautiful ware, wlth its wonderful glaze. They were patronized by roy- alty at that time, and the first Dell went into the homes of the rich only. But it was very popular, and, like oth- er good things, Its excellence brought out imitations, not only in Holland, but in England and the markets were over- stocked. It was impossible to support fnolories, which turned out first-class work, and by 1710 the aommeraial per- iod of Delft had been reached, and af- ter that the work was inferior. But through all the vicissitudes of the china, one manufacturer had gone on making his Delft according to the old standard. He was able to make only a little of it, and only this by car- rying on at the same time the mann- fact are of an inferior grade of goods. He bad been dead some years, and the factory, whish was carried on by his daughters, was on the verge of ex- tinction, for in it there was only one old man who knew the secret of the Delft ware, when Joseph Thoofl: visit- ed the pottery. He discovered the old workman, bought the establishment, and began making the ware, and, with the aid of the old workman, built up the factory on a large scale. That is the Pottery of the Porcelain Bottle, from which all the modern Delft comes. A.11 the work is done with the great- est skill and care, and not a pine of it is sold out of the shop that is not as perfect as it can be made. The de- corating is all done by hand by artists of experience. To paint upon the bis- cuit requires a quick and accurate hand, The colors must be put on at just each a thickness, and it is Im- possible to alter or to make a change or an improvement after astroke of the brush Is once made. Boys ere ap- prenticed to the work, and for three years praotice en odd pieces of biscuit, and it is not until the end of that time that they are allowed to palet the simp- lest designs—those with which they are most familiar, the windmills and tall Lowers of Holland—upon small pieces of Delft. All the work is done individ- ually and with great Dare, and, while the .result is beautiful, it is not in- expensive, and Americans going to Delft, if they are not hoaxed by buy- ing imitation Delft outside the fac- tory, make an oulary against the prices, which is not a credit to their intellig- ence. 'rbe (nark on this ware is a por- celain bottle, beneath which is a sim- ple monogram of J.T., and below that the word " Delft." in Dutch script. Many Delft plaques give reproductions of old paintings. An interesting feature of the Delft pottery is a branch of it in another part of the town, where simple arti- cles are decorated by girls, who, in the intervals between week, taro taught sewing, cooking, and the practice and profession of the good old Dwell art of housekeeping. l'HE LOCAL PAPER'S HOLD. The attachment of subscribers to a well-conducted newspaper is folly eon - firmed by publishers. So long as e paper pursues a ,just, honornblo and judicious course., says the Springfield, Vt.,-iteporter, meeting the wants of its customers in all respects, the ties of friendship between the subscriber and the paper are as hard to break up 1y an outside third party ns the links which bind old friends In business or social life. Oecasimol defeats and er- rors in a newspaper are overlooked by those who have become Witched. Ihrungh Ile perusal fur years. They sometimes become displeased with it on account of something which has slipped into its columns, and. 10117 stop hiking it, but absence of the familiar sheet et their homes or offices for a few weeks becomes a privation, and they conclude to Lake it ngain. No friend- ship on earth is more constant than (hot contracted by n reader fo.i a jour- nal tint makes an honest and encrust effort to merit continued support, ttlysses S. Grant, son (If the late Gen. .n'a. Grant, is a Republican nuclide for Ironed Sautes Senator from Cali- fornia.