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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1889-6-28, Page 8S THE BRUSSELS POST, __-.,..., .,.-•..,..amn,:rnvne, . ,:$.rix:tri^t•KRY.;T,yr1FeN.^rwA:Vd'satlwar°I0Y4nrfS7>enwee: potatoes all chipped. B dl mail the stage - nobles aro tender, then add to two gnarta of soup, one half ens of Hee, one -bolt tea., spoopiul of peppee ; add salt and one table• spoonful or butter, Bot until the ,loo ie ,tall/ tai bE,aO.A D, Pietu'els For The Children. It le to be prompted that in (nolo house soft and then serve hot. which Good tloueekeepiu;( la a weloome STUFFlCD QNI,NB -Parboil half a damn visitor, are foued many other petaodieaJa and papers, and cona,.quently in these days of beautiful lilustratiou8, many pleura, Granted then that this be true, our house• keeper has a source on which to draw for many beautifulthiuge. Pollees I eau beet illnetrata and suggoatby giving exempirs of oollcctione of pioturce, brought b,gather from many different sources, and made maul and abtraotfve by aroma of paste I enter a draw. Ingram, On rhe table fs a collection of per Ma= of authors, neatly mounted on pieces of cardboard about the siza of an ordinary cabinet photograph pard. Holee have been punched in the Dards end they are fastened together by ma= of narrow ribbons tied in pretty bows. On e small table are some large scrap albums, but instead of containing the amuse scrap plotvree, the fi-ab one is fie• led with portraits of prominent men and woman, most• of them beteg full-page pie tures. Harper'a llleetrated papers fnrnitk- ed many of these. Under it is another album of miacellaneous plenum of genteel interest. On an eaeal in cue corner of the room is a collection of pictures illustrating the noted cathedral bnildinge of Europe. Yee would scarcely believe that these were not printed upon the cardboard instead of being simply pasted there, Scattered about the room everywhere are pictures. some in portfolios resting in any convenient place. There are beautiful steel esgraviaga m some of the illustrated magazines, as well as exquisite wood outs. meet of one's What, tf eals? and how charor the mingly pictures been to furnish a room. To mount pictures is not difficult provided we have good paste. An excellent way to make it ie as follows. Take rqual parte of flour and starch, Wet thor.ughly with cold water and then pour on water that is boiling and cook for a few minutes, being careful to use water enough so that it will nob be Ino thick. Dtetribute ie evenly over the striate of the book of the picture, put- ting on as little as possible. Lay the top of the picture drat upon the cardboard and smooth it downwards with a clean cloth. Dry lb under pressure with paper more or lees poroaa next the picture to absorb the moisture. The cardboard may be obtained at n printing cffine, where you can have it cut into the desired size, or you may obtain at an tort store beautiful tinted boards with edg.s. With what a dainty gilt may you present your friend by mounting a beautiful pricture or the portrait el some favorite author upon ouch a card. Better far than any Chriatmesor birthday card you may buy, for it to not only a work of art but is the re- sult of loving labor, The Chrio'mae number cf "The Book Bayer," published iu Now York, emends beautiful little works of art suitable far such purptsee, and during the year 188S each number con.ained a portrait of some author. large coitus, thin drop In gold water; take rut the centre son fi 1 with a demising made of stale bread ciumbe, a little chopped cold moat, the yolk of an egg, salt end pepper ; cover with thin slices rI fat bacon, 'sprinkle the top with a little molt and sugar ; pub iu a baking pan with soup stock to cover the bottom ; put in a slow oven, When the onions ere tender take up, remove the =eon, amain and skim the gravy, pour over the onions and serve, STRAWBEI.RY FRORTOAKE.—Make apuff pante with one =pout cf butter, cold and hard, toed cupful of hard, cue en; f nl of eold water and four and ore half .upside of if,ur. Rob the lard into the Haus es g ou wauid 10r any passe. Dat the butter up to emelt pieces; throw in. and mix with a knife. Roll out laid bake in two oblong tine. Serve an anoblong dish with etraaberties hebween the layers, sprinkled heavi'y .vith powdered sugar, and strawberries cn top also °prink• ed with sugar. Whip a pint r1Iweetensd lream to a wolf' froth and put CM r the Dake nd around the sides. LATEST FROM EUROPE, Another War Olond in the Oont'nontal Sky —Matters in the Balkans the Cause of Alarm. A now war scare has bean born thie week. At this moment Earope is taking it very seriously indeed, and the war scare ie the. only talk. The " Standard,' which makes a specialty of alarmist news, is quite hyaber- ioal with wo ry, end bhe "D oily News" and other newep,psre follow snit, all in a very doleful, pessimistic tone, RuBoia hoe shown an unusually pronounced desire to gobble up the little Balkan Ste ea whioh not as buffers between Austria, Tarkay, and Russia, and hence the row, The Servian PORK Poe PIE — Cut in !mall pieces cue pound of (leen fresh pork, or if only Balt pork is obtainehle soak it until well fresh- ened, which will take about twenty-four hours. Plane in a kettle with waxer to cover ; add a scant terepeonfni of pepper, one sliced anion end one elided apple. Bail until the pork is tender, then cover with orust made eafoilowe: 'Iwo supe of flour in %blob has been thoroughly mixed ewe teaspoonfuls of baking powder and t 5'o tablespoonfuls of butter ; n ix to a stiff dough and roll into a sheet to fit the kettle; stew half an hear and serve hot. AT THE ANTIPODES The Marvellous Greyish of Tictor la—Some- thlug About its Early Days. It is doubtial that if in all the world, the United Stetee net excepted, any commun• ity has ever progressed with a swiftness and t moss: on so phenomenal as has the oolony whioh Her Gracious Mujes.y per. matted bo take her own name when aha granted it a separate existence in Nevem. bar, 1b50. It bad been but fifteen gears earlier that the first settlers—the brothers Henty, one of whom died only a few months ago—Dame =roes BABA Straits from Van Diemen's Lend in their little Thistle. In 1937 the town t f Melbourne was laid out. and one hundred allotmeu+s were then Gold on what are now the principal streets, The aggregate Bum which the 110 allotments fetched was £3 410 In= summer the tame allotments were manly Ioafamilvwherathereara growing children let them collect all the pictures tb' y can find M eatrtoting any sutjeot, snob, for txample, oa the eubjeob of geography, and make a ecrep•bock of them. Is will prove a very instructive book, end pleaaant and profitable work for the long winter evenings. One other hint. Don't forret the lit- tle ones. They will find something interesting in almost any picture. Keep a box for them and put into its all pictures especially adapted to child- ren, or any that you do nob want for anything else, discarding only poor ones and those that are sensational or portray scene of violeo:ee. (The Benner these me burned the better) This box will furnish you with material for picture books when. over cn occasions of birthdays or Christman• e0 you wiah to gladden some little hearts with a picture book. No matter if you have no little ones of your own, don'b waste the pictures. There ere many Mimeo where there are children but no pictures. If you have no time to make picture books, lntereat some of your boy and girl friends and show them how to make books from paper cambric or this cheap holland used for window shades, with pinked edges, and how to arrange the pictures, and see how they will delight in doing that which will brine a gleam of brightness into the life of some unfortunate child, and lessen the caro cf some burdened mother. —[Gocd Housekeeping. The Eiffel Tower, The Eifel Tower—the Garman name .is. pronounced Eifel] by the Perieiane—le to- ward the river end of the Champ de Mare, direebly iu a line with the Trooadero and the Bridge of Jena on the ono side and with the grand dome of the distant central hall en the other. This central hall hoe two vast wings which come nearly up to the tower and tnolese a space somewhat lower than their foundations, which is laid out in .ger. den er- deps with fountains which can be illuminat- ea et night in colon, Straight on bank of this central hall is the Palate des Machines, the !argent covered structure over built. To say that it is 1,452 feet long, 380 foot wide, hat a euporfloial iron area of 150,000 aquare yards, and is roofed by twenty vast steel girders meebing in an arch 150 foot above the floor, oonveya no adequate idea of the immunity of this edihae—still leas of the enthusiasm with which engin• ears assembled here regard its pro• proportions and detente of workmanship, The decorative qualities of the throe domes and the SPLENDID REAOHE$ OF FAOADE R %eras, instead of looking utter the in• tereeta ef their nominal meter, King Ae xeoder, Meade lit le eon, have been eponly coquetting with their real meter, bhe itusalan bear, and !listening favorably to Russian proposals for a military convention. A military oonvention in this case would mean simply the military annexation of Servia by Russia, the control of the Servian troops by the Co er, the elevating to the Salesian throne Kerageorgevfah or the Prince of Montnegro, the deposition of the Abrenovitoh dynoety, and a very uncomfor. table state of thiuga for others whose in- terests demand Servian independence. Another minor 000nrrenceia a different part of Europe may at any moment assume the dimeneiona of worldwide interest, and may also tern out to be not altogether un• connected with the Belkan embroglio. Germany bas fallen foul of little Switzer. land over the treatment whioh a Berlin police spy received upon being detected In. wide the republic, and has secured the co• operation of Rueeia and Austria, and it is reported, of Italy as well, in demanding that Switzerland shall cease to offer an asy- lum to the political offenders of other Donn• tries. The only answer the Federal Assembly has yet made to this demand is unanimously to pass a vote of 17,000,0001. for the purchase of repeating rifles for the army ot the republic. The Germaoa nay shay only desire that the Swiss Federal Government should take over the jarisdic tion ho this matter and no longer leave it to the authorities of the various cantons, but in England this is reoogn-zod as an attack by the empires on the principle of the right of asylum, and there will be a tremendous outcry here if Lord Salisbury declines to bank up brave little Swi'z:rland in a retinal to comply. vALDED BY FXPEBTS, and it Was cal:elated that, exolnsive cf rho buildings erected on them, they meld now be sold for nioeteen and a half million pounds. Before 1851, when the gold discover- ies were made, Victoria prospered in an easy gentle fashion. Its scanty population, out side its two petty towns, were whollyengag- ed in atook•raising ; almoeb its sole exports were wool, hides, and tallow. The gold find npret as by a whirlwind the lazy, primitive somal system of the bucolic era, From all the ends of the earth, gentle and Dimple, honest man and knave hurried swarming and j catling to the new E D.rudo. And yet it was wonderful how small was the actual crime of a 0001000 character, when the otter disintegration cf restraining institutions is taken into consideration. Iu January, 1852, when daily shiploads of G. LD MAD IMDIIORANTS were being thrown in to Melbourne,only two of the city constables retnain0dat their duty. The chief constable himaeif had 1' go ca a beat, In the country the rural police to a man had forsaken their fuoctions and made baste to the diggings. In the first rush the capital was all bub depopulated of its man. hood ; there remained behind but women and children who had to shift for themselves. An advance of 50 per cent, of salary did not avail to retain at their deaka the officials in the public cfficee. Servants had gone. Gentlemen aadladies had to carry water from the river for household purposes ,1or the water mat supply had been arrested by the departure of the carters. It wan said that poor Mn Latrobe himself, the amiable bub weak Lieutenant -Governor, bad to black his own boots and groom his cwn horse. In the wholesale absence of workmen no contraeb cculdbeinsiated on. The squatters &shudder- ed too, ae the shearing meson approached, knowing that ell the shearers were Little Girls' Dressiest. Mothers who hove risked hinta about making little girls' wash d1eeaea are advised to get plain Chambery, or °tee the ombre striped and plaid gingbams, in rose or blue er red for plain colors, with yellow or green for attipea end plaids, Tho full round skirls have a deep hem, and are gathered to the belted waist; these are of media length, instead of the extremely long skirts worn last year. Baby waists gathered to a belt of white embroidered insertion and to a eimilar band at the top of the low round neck are on the pretty pimps dresao0 of piuk, blue or red Chambery made for the smalleab girls; the eicevea are a short, full puff gathored to an embroidered band. For larger gills are plain waieta slightly pointed in front, out high in the Week behind, and pointed in a tk.ort V on front, and worn with short sleaves. Eo.broidered edging nearly two inches wide is set fie whole width in the back of the neck, and tapered very narrow to the point ef the V in front; similar edging is set in the froub of the armholes, and tapered thence to the alight point at the fronb of the waist. The short sleeves are high -shouldered, opening in an upturned V on the outside of the arm, and are worn over full muslin guimpe sleeves. The yellow sombre etelpes on white, green stripes with pink, end brick red with white stripes or plaids. are being made up in these little dreeoes of Preach zephyr or SSotoh gingham; and the designs ate also suitable for embroidered white manna. Logger girls who do not wear guitnpes have everyday dresses of girgbama, prints or lawn made with high bolted waists with a yoke, or with the ehouldere quite plain, or else gathered there on a band like the full Russian blouse. Tho &sleeves are full, and there ere turned•over colla and Dollar, or else pleated frills form the finish for to ak and wriete. +r ` C13O'.oe Reolpe8. Toren SoVFFLE-- Skin a dr zen tomatoes, am k and stow voted thick, attain to remove tt o reed, mix In tFo yelko of two eggs, then the et'ftl •beaten veinlet: add a little salt, Pill a boning diet and sot in the oven tin it rises and =glee to set ; serve immediately, ClaiooEx Sour. --An old fowl is used beet in abroth or soup. .Give it time enough and Loll &newly, meson with salt, pepper, end a few sprigs of celery top, Save hot. The ahlolren can be Mede very palatable b f ftyirg in telt pork eh inn nae or butter, aft( 1000} y r !chert r crntho roti'. RIs.E Ferree -For this use the liquor u or in wbirh the btol bas been boiled, after skint• nag it free from lot. Add t*D obopped Wendt one turnip, ono carrot, and two JUNE, 28, 1889 sn u4ww taivaumt(4,awxtcu THEMORTH PACIFIC SQUADRONS, What John Buil and Uncle Sam. Can Moly On for Immediate Uwe In Mincing Bea. While dfeoleimero of hootile intent Auden. presidents of belief ehab the teal fishery euc- troverey will be peaoofully Bottled are pow coming both from the Brittah and Amerfoan authorities, ie le yet well to look at the naval fen tee which would be available in the Baan trouble &should comer after all. No doubt ,hero will be careful lnatruotiono on both eiders to guard against bringing on a collision bebween the vessels of the two Governments that are to go to Behring Sea this eummer ; still Amorioan revenue ousters are under orders to make =route of persona taking aoala in the eastern part of Behring Sea, in violation of the presumptuous law emoted by rho United States, and the navy will bask them up in doing so. The commander of the Brltiehrquadron in the Pauifio ie Rear Admiral Algernon 0, F, Henoage, who held this command also last year. Hie fiegehip ie the Swlftauro, a power• ful armor -sled of from 0 500 to 7.000 toss displacement, with engines having a maxi• mum t f nearly 3 000 horse power, capable of giving her over fifteen knots. SIMS H,18 A OOWER'PGL EATTEBY of rifled guns and a complement of 475 Wren, This is the only armored vessel in his Done mand The Amphion, a oruiser of 4,300 tone diaplaeamenb, or a little less that the Belbi. mores, has a maximum, of about 6,500 horse power, and about sixteen knots speed, and carries ten rifled breechloaders and about 300 effieera and men. The Icarus is a orafo of 970 tons displacement, with a oomplemeab of about 120 men. Theme are the vessels which, according to a report tram Victoria, received ordera to sail on the 10th of June from Vancouver to Bahring Sea, This report hes mince been denied, bub the flagship, ab least, may go north. In addition, the British have on the Paci- fies station the Champion, a large protected oruiser of over 4,000 tons displacement, and two smaller vedeels, besides a fourth, now under orders to return to Ragland. The American Government will be rem - minted, as usual, in Behring Sea, by the re- venue cutters Ruth, Capt, Shepard, and Bear, Oapt. Healy, whioh will make !wrote of the vessels oharged with seal poaching, and by bhe Thetis, Lieut -Commander Stock- ton ot the navy, A fast sealing steamer might not be troubled at getting away from any of them. The Bear and the Thetis are notice of the Greedy search expedition, and THE SLOWNESS 0P THE THETIS in a subsequent trip around Cape Horn to arrive at the scene of her present services was something remarkable. They are all lightly armed. The Ruth has four and the Boar two 3 -inch breeohloading rifles, the Bear also having two 24 -pounder howitzers. For bhe Rash a couple of bhe Hartford's Gatling guns were secured before starting on her iraise, and it has been reported that the Rush's armament was also increased. The Thetis carries only a couple of machine guns. There are now available at Mare Island two war vends, the Iroquois and Adams, which have juts bad their repairs oompleted, white the Charleston, at San Francisco' is getting ready for her next trial trip. The Iroquois, Commander Joehna Bishop, la a wooden vessel of 1,575 tons displacement, carrying seven or eight guns, meetly smooth bores and a oomplemenb of 194 officers and men. The Adams, Commander E. T, Wood- ward, is a wooden vessel of 1,375 tone die. placement, carrying six gems. She is the craft that did good service at Samna prior to the arrival of the Nipsic. The Charleston, the new steel vessel, of 3,700 tons dieplace- menb, is much Mater than any British war ship in Morth Pacific waters, and will have a powerful battery ni eix-inch breechloading rifles, whioh, however, she hoe nob yet taken no board, Ib happens that there are no other vessels on the Nellie station really available. The Pinta, a amall;oraf0 of 550 tone displacement, carrying ONLY FOUR HOWITZERS which has been on duty at Sitka, ar- rived at San Francine for repairs on May 1, and will not be ready for some time. The old store ship Mon ongahela is at Page Pago, while news hoe recently come that the Alert, which left Honolulu for Samoa to relieve the Nipoio, had arrived ab Apia, and had already gone on to Auckland with the Menlo in tow In order to have the letter vessel repaired there. The probabilities now are that if any vessel ab all gees to Behring Sea, in addition to the ouatomary trio, the Rush, Bear, and Thetis, it will be the the and on the British side, porbapa the S elegem alone will go north, It is definitely known that the Adams has already been ordered to Hynolulu at the request of the State Depart- ment, to take the plane vacated by the Alert. of the central hall would be striking by themselves, but there are beside them, and more especially clustered about the and Tower, mores of beautifullypletareeque buildings erected for the most part by the verioue nations whose arohiteoture they typify, which produce an ensemble whloh one is quite safe in deolaring ran never have been equaled anywhere before in man's fancy. Not only is tbere tbo richest con- ceivable diversification of outline and gener. al effect, but over all is spread a prodigal wealth of Dolor in contraete—now boldly barbaric), now exquisitely modern in soft gradations—on whioh the eye never ceases to dwell with delight. In truth, to steeply alt on the rising ground by the fountains in front of the Trooadero and look aoroee the river at the baildinge of the exposition proper is an experience in itself worth =m- ing the Atlantic to enjoy. One Hada it dIffi,u1t to understand how temporary etructuree of zinc and Men and glass reared primarily to serve as mammoth show oases for tbe merchants and manufaotnrers of the earth, can in themselves bo things of beauty, individually or all together. Bat not one will leave Paris this season without remembering as among the most notable things he ,bas seen the wonderful pic- ture presented by the expoeition buildings, superb in its linos and GLOWING WITH GOLD AND PR1SDIATIO IDES under the softly -azure, cloud flicked Sommer akThe Eiffel Tower !Melt is at first sight, something of a disappointment. The de- sign has been so long familiar to every eye, by menus of drawings, models, and photo- graphs, that the element of surprise Is wholly lacking, and it takes time and a kind of pro- ems of reasoning be analogies to lay hold of its genuine magnitude. I dare say that people who ascend it, even to the first plat- form, have no diffioulby in realizing howhuge the thing truly is, but the lifts are not work- ing yet, and since the opening day no one is permitted to undertake bhe accent by foot, To me the most marvelous feature of the tower is that from the beginning only one life has been lost during its co astruoblon, and that the life of a wilful little boy who went where he was forbidden to go. The color of bheiron is all reddish brown, whioh doesn't seem to be a very happy selection, but at least the structure is not ugly and does in time grow to be very impressive. The jealousy of the French electricians, who are PAR BEHIND THE ENGLISH In practical ability and knowledge, yet have foughb bitterly againeb allowing any foreign- ers to ehare in the lighting contracts, has prevented anything like an Intelligent use of the tower ae yet for spectacular tffeote in ill- umination, but these will come in time, and no doubt they will be notable when they do come. The eamo spirit kept the question of elevators for the tower open until every other expedient had been tried, and recourse to an American firm was absolutely noes, may. A whimsical story was told me the other day about the effort to shut the Eng- lish firm out of the competition for working the colored fountain display, Week after week the oontrecte which had been ver belly promised the English oompany were delayed, after they had been fairly won, and at Iaeb ib was announced that there would be another competition, conducted on alightly different linea, whioh neoeoeitated rearrang- ing bhe whole plant. While the English company were engaged in this, the manager noticed A SUSPICIOUS NUMBER OF YOUNG MEN with yery commonplace clothes, but cur- iously white hands, loitering and sauntering about, but keeping a sharp watch iu a furtive way on the English workmen. With great shrewdness be had the whie- pared word passed around to do everything wrong, regardless of expense or results, ae long as the spice were aboub, and the men, enteriog•into the spirit of tbe thing, elab- orately mystified them, At night, when the new competition (same on, the English had Bet everything right and gave a bebter display than ever, while the Frenchmen broke down with grotesque completeness at the outset. Thus it was that the English finally got their contract. QUEEN VIO PORTA S DAILY LIFE. A Peep at the Inner Scenes of the Queen of England's household. The inner lite of the court has little in it to tempt a Sybarite—aimpliclty, dutifulness, coneoientione performance of work are its characteristics. At 9 Her Mejeaty break• feats alone, unless some of her children, grandchildren or personal friends are staying in the palace, and she is rarely *without them. In Summer, at Osborne, Windsor or Balmoral, this meal is generally served out of doors, in some aloove, tent or Summer- house, after which the Queen either drives in a email pony carriage, accompanied by one of the Peinoeseee, or she weeks attended by a lady-in-waiting or maid of honor, with whom she converses with friendly ease, and followed by two Highland servants and some favorite doge. Luncheon is served at 2, the convives being Her Majesty's family or royal guests. Until this hour, from her short after•breek- lasb exercise, the Queen is diligently octopi od with effioiol correspondence and business of various kinds. Long training has made her a politician of no mean ability and breadth of view, her natural common sense forming an admirable basis for such a super- structure. It assists, too, in enabling her to choose her friends well and wisely, though the court surroundings are nob calculated to help royal personages in forming a just judgment of character. Human nature puts on a somewhat too angelic guise, where overythirg may be won by amiability and nothing by the reverse. In the mornings the maids of honor (they are nine in all) in waiting for the time are wibh the P, incesses, reading or praceleiog on the piano, singing or playing lawn tennis with them, as any young ladies, companions together, might. The lady-in-waiting aecom- panics the Queen In her of ernoon drives and visits, whioh are most fro quently to the poor and to humble workers, often bo simple gentry or any one in trouble. Afterward this lady reads aloud to Her Maj :sty in her private sitting room. The royal dinner hour is 8.30, and that meal is shared by those of the royal family then residing with the Queen, by dtotiu- guiahed visitors and some of the household in rotation, viz lords and ladies in waiting, maids of honor, equerries and grooms in waiting, thio, latter offioiele holding a mu eiderable lower position that the equerry, though to the uninstructed it sounds like a dietinoblon without a difforenee. The, Queen is a woman of atriob business habits and study applioetion:: The amount of correspondence she gets tbreugh is =or. moue. In the private portion of this 000000• ponder= Her Majesty le assisted by bar private secretary, a ladyin•waiting and a maid of honor, eepeoially the Dowager Marchioness of Ely, one of the ladies, who le a valved friend. When the court is at Windsor the mem- bers of the houeehold in attendance are one lady.in waiting, these ladies are always peeresses), two amide of honor, a lord•in wetting, two equerries', one groom.in-wait- ing, also the keeper of the privy puree, the private secretary, assistants in both deparb- menb and the master of the honeebold. The attendance le the name atOaborne and Bal. moral, with the exception of the lord -in• Weiting. To attend to Her Majesty's toilet anl wardrobe there are five maids, viz., three dreamers and two wardrobe women. The senior dresser, who has been many years with Her Moj baby, is specially obarged with the task of convening orders to different tralea• people—jeweller%, drepers, dreeamakere, &o, : one dresser and one wardrobe woman are in constant attendance on the Queen, taking alternate days. Drees is a mabter in whioh, even in her young days, Her Majesty does nob appear to have taken much interest. At present her perpetual mourning allowe of no crude color combinations, Some of no elders have a ploasent, if vague, recollection Of Victoria Regina a good many years ago, say forty or forty-three, in a very simple and becoaing bonnet tied beneath the chin, a wreath of wild rosea under the brim featning a sweet, kindly yoeng face. Ah, mo 1 sorrow and experience have writ their cruel ntarko on here and ours since thou, DIGGING OR CRADLING in Forest Creek, or on Mount Alexander. It was then that Mr. Childere who tot the time was an immigration agent, made his famous bull. ' 1Vagee of wool pressers, 7a to 8i a day; none to be had.' To a,ioh an extent did prices rise that there was the danger lest Government could nob afford to supply food to prisoners in gaol. A con. tractor for gaol neoesearieo claimed and got 166 per cent. over his price of the year before, and, notwithstanding this stupend• Dna increase, had to default. In April, 1862, fifty ships were lying useless in Hob eon's Bay, deserted by their crews. Carriage from Melbourne to Oaablemaine was at one time £100 per Mn." SHE ACTED PRO EPUN. Dare Courage and Presence of Blind of a French Girl. Some years ago four men, who were em. ployed in cleansing a common newer at a place palled Noyen, in France, upon open ing a drain, were so affeobad by the feted vapors that they were unable to ascend. The lateneao of the hour (lb was 11 o'olook at night) rendered it. difficult to proouro aeaietanoe, and the delay muds have proved fatal had nob a young girl, a servant in the family, with courage and humanity that would have done honor to the most elevated station, at the hazard of her own life, at, tempted their deliverance. This generous girl, who woo only 17 yearn of ago, was, at her own requeeb, let down several times to the poor men by a rope, She was so fortunate us to save two of them pretty molly, bat, in tying the third to the cord, which was let down to bee for the purpose, she found her breath failing end was in great danger of suffocation. In this. dreadful situation she had the presence of nand to tie heroelf by the hair to the rope and wan thus drawn up almeab expiring with the poor man in whose behalf she had 00 humanely exerted herself. The instant she recovered she insisted upon being let down aWain, but her exertions thio time failed 0f 0u00ee0, for tho third unfortan- abe man was drawn up 'dead. The torpor, ablon of the town of Noyon, as 04=11 token of their approbation, preeented the heroine With 600 livres and conferred on her the oivlj arnwn, with a medal =greed with the arms of the fawn, her name and a Ma heDuke of0rloane a action, T tetivo of th oleo Bent her 500 livres and &settled 200 yearly on her ferlife, Kafd Mclean, a Sletohman, is command - or -in Chief of the army of the Suiten of Mo 00000, ACTIVITY OF TEE ANCIENTS. They Wore dust as Keen 0* Bloat Yhinge us the Modern Men. Modern man thinks himself a fine fellow, habitually contrasts hie virtues, wisdom, intellectuality and invontivenooe with bhe oorroeponding qualities poses seed by his prodoeesoera of age, much to bheditadvantage of the latter. This vermeil in amiable enough. It has boon bold by every generation of the paeh. It will govern the men of bhe future, who will regard the people of our era with pity as inferior to their remarkable selves. Many able writers have bent their energies to the puncturing of Ibis balloon of vanity. Wendell Phillips femora lecture on "Tho Lost Arts" was given to thoueande of audien. tee, which marveled ab the WONDERFUL A000MPL18HMENTB of men o! ancient times, and departed bhenk. hog Providence that they wore reserved to live and nob in later and better times. Prof. Max Mullet's lash contribution to the Fort- nifihtly Revises goes over same ground, and will probably have a eimilar vanishing effect upon the minds of all except a fear of les most thoughtful reader°, It 10, however, worbh while to study some of Re arguments, if only crudely to realize that men made up of fl ooh and blood are the same kind of crea- tures whenever they leve, that they went through the same struggles for existence, had the same love of thought and inventive ca- pacities, and were actuated by the semi pas. dons in the days of the Priaraoha as in these icer years of bhe dyine Nineteenth Cenbury. Consider with Professor Muller that the philosopby and poetry of Greco and Rome still live in "Milton, Racine and Goethe." You can Bee that Frederic Harrison is as truly the intellectual child of Aristotle ae he admits bimeelf to be of Auguste Compton Remember that the invention of the alphabet was A GREATER TRIUMPH of my mind than the discovery of the spin- ning jenay, and that it is owed to the Bop. thine, who firab pr0dueed hieroglyphics. "Your L," says Alex Muller, "ie the crouching lion, your F the elevates, a ser. pent with two horns ; your H the Egyptian picture of a sieve.' The Arabin figures. from 1 to 9 reaohed Spain through Iodic. To invent these was to discover "that without whioh the mem hanical and electric science could never have Mumma what they aro, that without which we should never have had steam engines and eoleetric telegraph." Surely, the an- cient Riedoo wee not leen brilliant than modern man. The liobyloniane were nob fools when they invented the orxagooimal or 60 system„ by whioh we still divide the hours and moments of time. The Greeks concieved the idea of coined money in the Seventh Century B. C. They could nob have been leas practical or leas thoughtful than the men of to -day. The forme in whioh we express our thoughts, the very phrases we use, are ae old se the art of expreeaion ibaelf. These things ought bo be borne in mind whenever the mon of old are under discus- sion, They ebould evoke new interest in our predecessors fn activity. Above all, they should teach no that we must not un- derrate those who have long. Bingo returned to dust, while we are erj iying the fruits of their industry. Living man is bottor than his prototype, because he has learned to be a little less sensual, a little more self. oontrolled, and a groat deal lees cruel ; but he has the same head on hie shoulders, fill. ed with about the eame kind of grey mat- ter. Watch Sorews. Ib is asserted that the smallest mews in the world are those used in the produotion of watches. Thus, the fourth jewel -wheel eorew to the next thing to being invisible, and to the naked eye it looks like dust; with a glans, however, itis seen to be a small screw, with 200 threads to the inch, and with a very fine glass the threads may be seen quite clearly. These minuteeorewe are 41000th of an inch in diameter, and the heads are double ; it is also estimated that an ordinary lady's thimble would hold 100,• 000 of these screws. No attempt is ever made to count them, the method pursued in deter- mining the number being to place 100 of them on avery . delicate balance, and bhe number of the whole amountio determined by theweigh t of these. After being cub, the eorewe are hardened and pat in frames, heado up, this being dont very rapidly by manse of touch in. dead of by eight, and the Heade are then polished in an anbomabic machine, 10,000 at a time. The plate on whioh the polishing is performed hoovered with oil and a grinding compound, and on this the machine moves them rapidly by revereigmation. Didn't' ft member the Name. She—" I hear that yon went as far as Conatentinoplo, Mr, Smythe. Then you must have seen the Derdanelleo," He -- Hen 1 Dont remember the name. But I saw the Willard° et Trieste, and young Spoopendyke, who was travelling wibh them.'' What he Could Do, Pat(ingapingwonder ab the lottees on a Hobsew ubohee 0 sign) : "Hero, Mikes tis rade yereelf has the Eclat I'urnin , Can gra limb now !" Miko t t'3 cannot ; Mali Ikea me Auto here x bolavo I oad play it.7e The Boy Had the Beet of it, The meter of a school in a oertain village bore the reputation of being a very clever calculator ; but upon one =plosion he almoeb forfeited his reputation. The rentor of bhe pariah and some friends paid a visit to the school to note the progre0s ot the children. A little rogue of whom no question had been naked, and who had therefore miueed the opportunity for dialinguahing bimoolf, whioh he greatly desired, made up hit mind to question eines he was nob queobionod, "Mast. er," he &said, "will you do me bhe kindness to answer me something 7 "Ask whatever you please," replied the master ; "you know I always tell you to ask anything you do nob know. He who asko makes no mistakes." "My father is three times my ago. Will the time ever come when he will bo double mine f" "That ie not a quea• tion," said the master ; "it is a joke. To bring that about the clock const °bop for him and go on for you.' "But it is gaits possible," continued the boy ; "I will prove that what I say is true. I am twelve year% old; my father le thirtyeix. In twelve yearn I shall be twenty-four and my father forty-eight. Consequently my father, who is now throe times my ago, will then only be double." The viottore laughed hoarb- iiy. A HERO IN HUMBLE LIFE. A Workman Demuth Into a Casting Pit to Pn11 Out n Fallen Comrade. About 8 o'olook one recenbSaturday night, as some workmen in the Siemens depart- ment of Thomas Firth & Sons, Sheffield, were about to remove a red•hob steel ingot, weighing twenty six tons, front the casting pit, a terrible accident mothered. The 1100.bon travelling crane had brought into poeitfon over the ingot, whioh stood in the coating pit, when as ono of the workmen, Stanley, was adjusting the obain on the' orane, 1118 foot slipped; and he fell into the pit, a die• anon of.fiftoon feet, tight down beside the column of red•hob atcel, Some idea may possibly be formed of the awful nature of Stanley's position when It ie known that the ingot had a bub few hours previously been a sea of bubbling fluid in the furnace. And then a deed was dont at whioh one's flesh oreepa as ono thinks of it. A laborer known familiarly as "Seller Jaok"—we pall him Brave John Smith now —realizing in a moment the awful posi- tion of poor Stanley, who lay there etunnedby the fall, close to the ingnob, and was already ablaze and roasted alive, seized a ladder, and, thrusting ib in a adjoining pit, hurried down, encountered an awkward fall through the ladder suddenly turning round. Re- covering himself in an inetnnt, Smith rushed to the rescue, and stepping into the inner pit, that ia, the armee immediately surrounding the bottom of the ingot (a step down of three feet and width from wall to ingot of only two feet three inoloee), speedily pinked np his mate, and succeeded in carrying himin- to the next pit, whence he was able by the miasmas of other woekmen, to get him up the ladder. Then John Smith lay down, and was afterward carried in a dazed state to the infirmary: When I add that Stanley wan a, heavy robed man, and the sailor a man of only about nine °bone in weighb, Ina that ho entered the pit with eoarcely any clothing on him and with his shirt aleeveo rolled up, it will be possiblefor your readers to form some idea of whab thio man must have endured. Poor Stanley died threodays afterward— a sadly unrocogniztble objeot bo those who had known him hest, John Smith, who was expooed for only a few eeoondelege ;time than Stanley, ie doing fairly well, though ho in very severely burned about the arms and halide, Delicately Pat. "What moues you so thoughtful to -night, George r asked Nellie. "Well," Raid George, an he threw his ayes up to the coiling and took a froth hold upon her slender Weidb, "I was thinking that if year mother was willing to boom my mobher in-law I would like it very much." "You would t' , "I would indeed, "Then if it will afford you any oatiefaotion I can inform you that tam m quite willing that she should and that oho le alio quite willing to not in that 00pcmite, in to quint add unos. tentatiouo manner,'' Agd thuounderthetilenb0bar0thearrange- ments were oonolnded by which two lives hitherto running apart are to be blended in. to one and a youth hitherto his own master i= d er the oho of a mobhor n i to tett under' y P The paesion soma woman have for =toads ing,auotiona le a mor'brt taste, He Gave Himself Away. A laughable illustration of how anger oauoea a man to make himself ridioulone is given in the following incident from a Ger- man newspaper. Banker Rooenthal directed his book•kooper to address a sharp letter to Boron Y., who had promised &several times to pay what he owed, and had s.0 often neglected to do go. When the•letter was written, it did not please banker Rooenthal, who le very excitable, and ho angrily penned the following• --"Dear Baron Y.—Who wag it that promised to pay up on the drat of January R You, my dear Baron—you are the man 1 Who was 10 that promised then to settle on the flrgb 61 March? You, my dear Baron 1 ''Tho wee it that didn't cattle on the first of Meath 1 You, my dear Baron l Who is it, then, wo et has broken his word twice and is an unmitigated scoundrel! ',your obedient servant, nloeoo Rosenthal. Bind -Hearted People, " Well, Doctor, how did you enjoy gone Aftioan journeyt How did you like the savageses 1 ' tO h, they aro very 11114h ear t- offpnoz ed ,they tolccopmothbra for dnnor.