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HURON . EXPOSITOR.
A Trip to Cairo.
Cairo, as every one knows, is still essen-
tially Oriental in appearence ; more so than
Benatesentiich more so than modern Luck-
noer. " See Naples and die," rive the Ital-
ian proverb, but it ie good, also, to look .
down on Cairo from its citadel, and live.
That citadel was built by Saladin. The
suieptuous mosque of -Orientel alabaster
through 'which you pass into
tie hqrial-
piace of the victorions Mahomed Ali. You
emerge upon the ramparts from which the
last of the Mameltikes lea* fotj life and
won. And there yeti pause. The confus-
ed murmur of a greateity lying ar below,
_
surges up to you from a twown wilderness
of buildinga, pierced _everywhere by count-
lessminarets, and enframed in uch peer-
less setting as only the flooded ie and the
everlasting Pyramids can give.. Round the
whole horizonetretchea a placid 1 • nth of
watere among clusteringislands• _erald
verdure,
• wherebroad sails hover ike white-
-winged birds, and the col umnar 'date -Palm
floats double palm and shadow. Bevond
. _
the Nile, and teri the edge of t e Libyan
desert, behold the Pyramids! here they
Stand in the grey feivor of an -Egyptian
noon, • austere and solitary ithin the
sphere of theirown religiousness Sb stood
they, already some centuries old, when the
Chaldean Sheikh ,Abram, with h s too -beau-
tiful Sarai,' .by retain into . the
lend of Egypt. Of course, I visited . the
Pyramids, and, as usual the Aral. _ciceroni
•
erecl.their best to destroy whatev r enthus-
iasm the visit might have insp red. An
irhitation Of three English chee rang out
feorn the gang of mendicants as set my
_foot on the summit of the Great PIT amids ;
eind the sound bad scarcely died ay- When
one ofthem struck up -Yankee D oclle and.
a sec.ond to make sure of my atien'elity,
pointed Out Nepoleon's battle-ffe d, and. de-
cleimed with effusion, Soldat qtkvrante
"tie des vow reqardent. In spite this, one
essays to look round with some ;ittle re-
maining impression of we, and Neliold-t-
jenny Lind's name cut o te topmost
'stbne by lier,seryant ! It is lee' peible not
.tneletigli end light a.cigar, tnougI below you
Mee. the Sphinxes, couchant am�ng .10,000
somplehres, and• beside you rise. o her pyre -
mils, where the Kings of Merop is "he in
gloryeevery, one in his own °use." I
feign' simple pleasuee,,,before le ving Cairo
liettetetery out my original puepos at , Heli-
opolis, the Aon oe On of Ezeeiel and the
Betheheniesh, of. ,Jeremiah. The low
Mounds of earth, with the fields and gard-
• ens comprise within their limits, look in -
Significant crime+. Yet this i the un-
-
bted site of the geese Tem' le of the
„Sun elle high-priestof which wa
e„..,
itttr t..0 Joseph, and, in later time
er of Moses. Along avenue o
which led .up to the front of t
terminated in two obelisks, ye
,04)-ices—the gift 38 centuries ago
tasen I., the prototype of .the
Seeostris. One of these obelis
erect in its proper place. "it is
known in Egypt, and therefore "
—the father of all that have la
It yr4s raised aboufa centnry
eecening ofJoeeph ; it has looked
his mai nage with _Asenath ; it h
,growth of Moses; it is mentioned
odtitus ; Plato sat under its sha
the obelisks which sprung up
,iterlone has kept its first positi
,enee, it has seen its sons and
*meek to great destinitee elsewher
these gardens came the obelisks o
,of the Vatican, and of the
And this venerable pills
loOks from a distance, is nowa
enly landmark of the great seat
tlom, of Egypt."—CMagaz
father -in -
the teach -
sphinxes
e temple,
th gilded
of obir-
legendary
e ife still
the oldest
the wortd
en since.
efore the
down on
seen- the
by Her -
ow. Of
around it,
n. One
brothers
. From
the Lat-
orta del
fro it
most the,
f the wis-
ne.
The Origin of the Stars.
••••=0•••••••••
Twenty years ago the rigid clout
positive philosophy that the origi
present systems of order and life
.-beetend the domain of science,
'speculation on itis a waste of
rereeed likely to'he accepted by
jfic world. Now all this is cha
etandency of the time is to investi
bleras which seemed hopeless the
.. i
-question n which science in
..tiitielies the pepulai mind, and
letth.the general intellectual enth
the age, are those Of the' origin o
the earthernd ef4beeiters.-
' Even those eiho then discussed
lar hypothesis' of Lapltice did so
ear of 'toplessness. It was ening
felt, in which*nepos. itiVe eviden
ageinst the new doctrine was
For a tune, as one sapposed neb
another was resolved, by more
ieleecopes, into stars; it was beli
the.very eicisttencc of nebulous
remote space was made very i
Rutem one inuiginedthat it coul
triiiinctly either proved or disp
..felkihe apparent nebulae are mass
numerousnnd so remote as to.
:tinguishable. Att least,. many
of years must pass astronomers
'fareiny direct evidence of even
rapid change e that can be imagine
remote abysses of space eoulc
ACM
But like so many other bazirie
'the Most edneated minds have
foremost to set . in advance to 't
growth of knowledge, this, too,
std. A year ago one of the Englis
*mere at the Cape of Good Hope
ed that the great nebula in Argo,
beilliant object of the kind in t
siy, and one which has been
regarded are doubtless a firmament
etempita:able to our own milky way
tent, but so remote that light itse
take very Many thousands of yea
from it to -"cis really undergoing
-vett
me of the
1. of the
ies wholly
and that
'igen uity,
he scion -
ed. The
ate pro -
and the
t ,nearly
ks itself
siasm of.
life, of
he 'noble.
with an
iry, they
for •or
ttainable.
la after
powerful
red that
atter in
probable.
ever be
red that
s of.stars
1. ,indis
housa.nds
ld us, be -
he 1DOSt
in those
reackeue
itnthewhich
e future
isappear-
setron-
announc-
he most
e whole
generally
ef stars,
in ex-
Ef would
rs to pass
changes
so rapid that its figure andgenetal appear-
ance are quite different from ' what they
were only a generation atte.
. And now comes from Melbourne in Aus-
tralia, where one of the .finefit reflecting
telescopes' in existence has just been erect-
ed, the news, that its first work has been to
cc:firth:in the'startling report of the Cape
riationomer. •The givat nebula has changed
its form, in the words of Sir John Herschel
like a " ckeild drifted by the wind." One of
the stars init,. the well known varialete
ritartEtatAants, Whieh; in - 1843, was the
brightest, save Sirius, in the sky, has faded
away until it is now in isible to the naked.'
eye: The inference ie. certain that elie
nebula is much nearer us than has been
supposed, is really at -a distance from Us
comparable to that of the - neerest fixed -
stars ; and it is probable that the variable
star in question is not, as wai supposed
before; comparati'v'ely close to etir system,
and wale projeCted by perspective upon a
different system, of worlds.; not as the Mel-
bourne ob'serVet now thinks, far -away be-
yond the nebulous cloud and Shining
through at, but is really a centre of the
nebula, and a sort of wiring nucleus of its
coneetary mass. This view' is urged with
tuuch force, by a writer in* the hist London
$pectocor, and seems to be nearly forced
upon ini by the fact that the most -change-
able star and the ' nicsit changeable nebula
in- the whole 097 'occupy the same appar-
ent . .
'plece arid go through their _ changes to-
gether. .
-
It is is yet toe goon to attempt to point
but thebearing of this discovery on the
mos& difficult and fascinateg problem of
science; the erigini of the stellar . universe.
,i
But that ifewillgi e a new impulse to the
nelsiiiktheory terrkh 'already has found
so much- eorroboration in *the' researches of
the telescope, providing, 218 they do, that
Many Of the nebula ire really diffused COM-
etary vaper, and net "stat dust," is un-
queetionable. 'Even now, men of high
'scientific attainments are found who claim
that the etupeednons dream ot Laplace • is
on the way to liecorrie an aecepted doctrine
of science, and that the Cycle of the uni-
verse, measured in periods which defv not
comprehension only, but oven numerical
_expression, is a formative orogrees, under
suprenie taws. frAtn a iiniversal • chaos of
vapor to order and system, and a destruc-
_ .
tivo progtess back tegam to that uniform
diffusion: of its e particles and forces. in
which it had its origin:— Evening Poe.
'Long Intermissions.
There is a well-knewn anecdote of a sil-
ent man, whoriding over a bridge, turned
about and asked his set vant if he liked
eggs, to which the se' va,nt answered, 'Yes!'
.whereupon nothing more passed till next
year, where' tiding over the same bridge, he
turned about to the servant. once more, and
said, 'How?' to which the instant reply
was Poached, sir!' Even this sinks, as
an example of long intermission of dis-
conrse, beside an anecdote of a minister of
Campsie, near Glasgow. It is stated that
the worthy pastor, whose name was Archi-
bald' Denniston, who put out of his charge
in 1655, and not replaced until after the
Restoration. Ile had, before leaving his
charge, begun st discourse, and finished the
first head. At his return in, 1661, he took
up the second, calmly introducing it with
the remark that the times were altered,
but the cloctriutee of the Goseel Were always
the same.'
• In the newspapers of July, 1862, there
appeared'a paragraph which throws even
the minister of CarnPsie's interrupted ser-
mon into the shadeit is at follows : 'At
the moment of the destruction of Pompeii
by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius, A. D.
79, a theatrical representation was being
given in the amphitheatte. A spectator
named Laugini, taking advantage of -that
historical reminiscence,has just construct-
ed a theatre on the ruins of Pompeii, and
the opening of which new theatre he an-
nounces in the following terms : After a
lapse of eighteen: hundred years, the theatre
of the city will be re -opened • with a La
Figlia dei Regginaiento. I solicit from the
nobility and gentry g continuance of the
'favor constantly bestowed on my predecess.
or, Marcus Quintus Martius, and beg to
assure them that I shall.make every effort
to equal the rare qualities he displayed dur-
ing his management'
Mining under the Sea.
, There is a vast copper mine in England
where shafts extend many hundred yards
under the sea. The moaning of the waves
as they dash against the rock is forever
sounding in thee gloomy . aisles. When
the storrns conae, the sound ,,of the waters
became so terrific, that the boldest miners
cannot stay below, batleave their work and
come out upon the eitith. Overhead are
masses of bright copper streaming through
the gallery in all direetionis, ',reversed by a
net work of thin red veino-of iron, and all.
over the salt water drips;drips down from
the t'ir crevices in the rock. Immense '
wealth of metal is _contained in these roofs,
but no miner daregive it another stroke
with his placate, Already there' has been
one day's work too mud) upon it, ae.a.heige
wedge of wood lriven into the rock beers
witness. The wedge is all that keeps back
the seri from bursting in upon them. Yet
there are three tiers or galleries where men
work day by day, not knowing but at some
fatal hour the flood may be upon them, ren-
dering all escape as hopeless as it was in
the days of Noah. The awe stricken
visitor hurries away from the scene with
a heart appalled in view of the hourly dan-
e
gers. •
Time is ,woman's rival, for no tight -lacing
can cenetnet eetith' the mute ef tiee
To Keep CellartivIroni P'reezing.
• The following method: for obta' inieg this
desirabletfeature is given by the, k'cientifte
American. The experlinent was tried by a
gentleman with the cellar a an out -house
in which, �n Eteveral occasions, vegetables
have frozen, although the cellar was forti-
fied against frost by a process known to
-farmers as "banking." The walls and the
ceiling were pasted over with four or five
thicknessei of old newspapers, a cnrtain of
the same material being also pasted over the
small low windows at the top of the cellar.
The papers were pasted to the bare jOiets
overhead, 'eating an air space between thene
and the -floor. He reports that the papers
carried his roots through last winter, though
the cellir was left unbanked, and he is con-
fident they have made the cellar frost -
proof. We do not counsel the spenial use
Of old newspapers for this purpose. , It IS
just as well or 'eetter to use warm brOwn
paper. Whatevei paper is employe -1 it
will be necessary to sweep down the walls
thormighly, and to use a very strong size to
hold the paper to the stones. It is not
necessary to press the paper down into all
the 'depressions of the wall; every -air space
beneath it is an additional defence. Against
the cold.
-it • 4.
Father Hyacinthe.
••11,
It is now said that the shortness of Father
ilyaeirithe's stay in this country was owing
to a very prosaic, but nevertheless impera-
tive reautOr. It Was simply that he brought
lea two thousfind francs in money With him,
and that being spent, he had to go back to
his friends, Fortunately the proprietors of
the Fifth Avenue Hotel generously made
him no charge for his board, or he could
not have stayed fro .long as he dad, and
though he would accept no pay from the
French Benevolent Society fel' the. lecture
he delivered in their behalf, he was forced
to anew them to pay his passage to _Havre.
These fats are highly creditable to the rev.
father, as showing that his conduct has not
been governed by mercenary motives. If
he had so chosen, he might hove made any
amount of money by exhibiting himself as a
lecturer, but that Via -8 not his purpose in
visiting the country. Itt this respect he
offers a pleasing contrast to many of the po-
litical, literery and religious notabilities
who come to our shores from Europe.
-et*
Gutta-percha.
Gut
Gutia percha, large quantities of which
are consumed, is the gum or sap of the gutta -
tree, which grows?in the forests Of the Is-
lands of the Indian Archipelago, in South
America, and in numerouu other tropical
countries. It VirtiEi first discovered by Dr.
Montgomery, in 1822, during his residence
at Singapore in tI4 East Indies. The first
introduction of it into. England was made
by him in 1822, eince which time it has be-
come a permanent article of commerce, be-
ing now imported into England and the
United States to the amount annually of
several thousand tons. The first importa-
tion of it was Made by William S. Wetmore
in the year 1847. Mr. Wetmore was then
engaged in the trade with the West Indies,
and brought direct from Singapore twenty-
five thousand pounds of gutta-percha for
Samuel T. Armstrong, who hadjus return-
ed from London bringing with him the four
ornanientel patents granted in 1845 in
England, for the working and using of gut;ta-
percher: in all possible toms Alien known.
Two of these patent were registered. in the
patent office of this country, and constitute
the basis on which Mr. Arnistrong and his
successor, Samuel T. Bishop, operated for
many years. The economic uses of gutta-
percha are important, and increase with the
progress of invenfion. As an insulator
of telegraph wires For cables, to be used
under water, it has proved to be the best
article that has yet been discovered for the
purpose. In the year 1846, Dr. Werner
Lemens made the first experiment to the
intent of insulating the conducting -Wire by
means of an envelepe of gutta-percha, and
the subsequent year the Prussian govern-
ment ordeeed 1,386 English miles of this
wire to be laid down under .the streets of
Berlin Subsequently many submarine and
subterranean lines were made of wire in-
sulated in this way. It has been used from
that time to the present with entire success.
The first submarine telegraph cable insu-
lated with gutta-percha was made by S,
T. Armstrong and Lorenzo Higgins, in the
city of New York, in May, 1848, and laid
across the North River, for the Magnetic
Telegraph • Company.—elftenatfactuier and
Builder.
-*Air
How Frenoh Bank 'Notes are Made.
When a. new batch of French notes is to
be printed, a. equivalent, number of the
choicely prepared and presextred; sheete. of
paper is handed over to the 'superintendent
of the printing office: The operatives are
all picked men, skillfute active and silent.
The sheets, the ink, and the matrixes of the
plates are kept, ' securely rimier Jock and
,koy until actually wanted. The, printing
is effected - by steam -worked presses, The
is bine, and its compositichiknown only
to a tew of the authorities. An insPeotor
gnes.bes rounds during the continuance of
the-oper.eations, watching every press; every
workman, every process. A beautiful ma-
-chine, distinct from the press, is employed
to print the veriabIenumbers o11 the note,
fed with sheets of paper, it will number a
thousand of them in succession, changing
the digits each time, and scarcely requiring
to be touched meanwhile; even the remov-
al of one note and the placing of enether are
'effected by intomic agency. At every sue-
ceisive stage theenote is examen' ied. So come
431011'rezMtr" "
a record is always at,hand of the number of
sheets rejected ever since the bank of France
was established, be its defects in the paper.
the aninting, or the numbering. 'When the
master -printer has delivereclaip.his packets
of printed and numbered sheets each note
is stamped with the signature of the Secre-
tary-General and the Comptroller. This
completes the creation of notes. The notes
so created are kept in a strong box, of which
the Secretaiy-General and the Comptroller
have keys, and are retained until the day of
issue. - The chief cashier tells the Governor
that he wants a new supply of a particular
denomination of notes, the ,Governor tells
the council, the council tells the Secretary-
General and the Comptroller, and those two
functionaries open their strong box, and
hand over the notes demanded. Tlie raotekat
this time are not really money; they do not
become So until the chief cashier has put
his signature to each, and registered its num-
ber in a book.
The lifeeof a French bank note is said to
average two or three years, and does not
terminate until the condition is very shaky
indeed --crimpled, pierced, with pinholes;
corner creases torn, soft, terniehed, decrepit
while yet young. Some have been half -
burned, one has been found half-digested in
the stomach of a goat, and one boiled in a
waistcoat pocket by a laundress.- No mat-
ter; the cashier at the bank will do his bet
to decipher it, he will indeed take an.in-
finity of trouble to put together the ashes
of a bilrned note, and will give the owner a
new note or the value in coin, if satisfied of
the integeity of the old one. The bank
authorities preserve specimens of this kind
as curiosities, minute fragments gummed in
their proper position on a sheet, of paper.
Very few- of the notes are actually and ir-
revocably lost. Dering the last sixty-seven
years 24,00 bank notes of 1,000 francs each
have been issued, and of this number 23,-
958 had been returned to the bank by the
month of January 1869, leaving only 42 un
accounted for. •Whether these 42 are still
in existence, or have been burned into un-
collected ashes or are at the bottom of the
sea, or elsewhere, is -not known. Of 5,000
franc notes, 24,035 have been returned out
of 25.000. The bank holds itself „morally
and financially responsible Mr the small
number of notes unreturnedeready to cash
them if at any time presented. -
The banks sends the old notes again and
again into circulation, if Verified and us-
able; but they are examined first, and any
that are found too defective are cencelled by
stamping a bole in them. These cancelled
wave -pass from one official to another, and
are grouped in classified bundles; the book
that records the birth of each note now re-
ceives a notification of its civil death, and
after three years incarceration in a great oak
.chest, a grand Conflagration takes place. A
huge fire is kindled in an open court; the
defunct notes are thrown into a kind of re -
revolving wire -cage over the fire, the cage
is kept lotating, and theminutefragments
of ash, whirled out of the cage throtugh the
meshes, take their flight into infinite space
—no one knows whither, The bank of
France prints a certain number of notes per
day, and destroys a smaller number, so as
to have always in reserve a sufficient
ply of of new notes to meet any emergen€y ;
but ehe actual burning, the grandefire-up
takes place only once a month, when per-
haps 150,000 will be burned at once. The
French go down to lower denominations
than the .Bank of England, having notes of
100 francs and 50 frane,s, -equivalent to £4
and £2. There muSt be a great deal Of
printing always going on in the Bank of
France, seeing that in' 1868 they learned 2,-
711,000 notes, of an aggregate value 904,-
650,000 francs (averaging about £13 each),
and burned 1,92'7,192, value 768,854.900
francs.
The notes nowregularly kept in circula-
tion in France are those of 1,000, 500, 100
and 50 franc, et
• A Japans° Country House.
When we arrived he was in his garden.
but immediately came forward, and, in a
most courtemte; gentlemanly, manner, in-
vited us in. The garden was very Small,
but made the utmost of. & little rill of
water ran round it, in which were rocks,
with srnali ferns and water plants growing
among them. In front of the house the
water ended in a small pond, in which flonr-
ished some enormous lotus plants, with an
extremely tasteful and pretty arrtingernent
of rocks and flowers arround it. -It
was full of all Berta of sold -things—among
others a map of the world on Mereator's pro-
• jection, hanging against the wall. The fa-
mily altar on this day—one of the three
during which the feast of lanterns was cele-
brated—was plentifully supplied with founts
and joss sticks, and many china jars and of-
naments. In this room thel sun was shin-
ing, so we went into another in a detached
building close to the first, where our hott
took down the side wall—a simple process,
-when they only consist of a sliding panel
filled in with papor—and brought us into
an, empty room, which,looked ont into 'an -
oilier' tiny garden. Here, apparently, the
little brook rose and/ formed itself into a
miniature fountain, and with a pleasant,
refreshM- g trickle, but faint as fairy bells,
trickled .stivay over a miniature rockery.
This room was only partially matted, else-
where, the wood,which was waxed, shone
like satite A pillar in the centre was form-
e& of a tree, then with the rough outer bark
removed, and then waxed, till it looked as
bright as if -varnished. The whole place
was simple, clean, and cool looking, and in
perfect taste —From "Round the World,"
lire. Clark.
-et•ite
Why are country girls' cheeks like a good
print dress? Because they are warranted
eter
Jan. 21 1870.
T 0 MERCHANTS, TRADERS,
dm. Jrc.
The subscriber has just received a large asao
ment of -
DAY BOOKS, LEDGERS, JOURNALS,
Blank Bookt, Bill Books, Counting Rouse
Diaries,
Pocket Diaries for 1870.
Bibles, Prayer Books, Psalm Books --and a
large assortment ofmiscellaneous books in splend-
did-gilt bindings, kuitable for Christmas and
New Year's Gifts.
Sabbath School 130oks
• Reward Tickets, &c.
Plain and Fancy Note Paper anti Envelopes,
Pena, Ink, Pencils, School Books, etc.
Musical Instruments !
Accordeons, Concertinas, -Violins, Violin Strings.
Rosin, Brid.ges, &c,
Briar and fifereschaman Pipes, and Fancy
Goods -of all kinds.
A large -assortment of
TOYS
For Girls, ind Boys,
At LUMSDEN'S
Corner Drug and Book Store,
Seaforth, Jartiy. 21st, 1870. 53-tf.
"NEW 'YORK HOUSE?
V
The Subscriber has
.:4;u•sT :cypightnat •
In the above House,
A SELECT STOCK
OF FRESH
GROCERIES I
WINE
AND
•
LIQTTORS1
AND
FLOUR r.t,4 FEED!
A1iofwhjchhewflJ sell at the
LOWEST PAYING PRICES
The fact that the entire stock Fresh from
the wholesale markets, should be sufficient ar,p•
ment to induce patronage.
FARM PRODUCE
Taken in ex go for GooskatSa4h,,Eticee, _
se—Killoran and Ryan's Old.
Stand.
PHILIP CLAPP.
Seaforth,,Tarey. 21st, 1870. 103-tf.
GO TO THE BEST.
The British American.
AND
BRYANT, STRATTON & ODEL
optlip.IDATEu gumless 0011E0E.
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litUSINES8 SCHOOL in the country. It -has
the largest staff of Teachers, the most practical
and best adapted business forms, and the best ar.
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. _
- It is under the management of thorough busi-
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all the business banniilimly.
.
The adviaitages and facilities afforded in tliis
inetitution are unequel led, in the country, and no
-young -men should enter a. business ,eareer,
out leimself of its benefits, We
were.awarde4..tike
pitsT PR,EZE IN BUSINESS 'WRITING
at-thelate.Proviacial Exhibition at London. Al
thiig he',3i:#13‘.coiliecitiiii _year that we have
taken thieyprue, We feel confident jhat there cart
be but one opiniou as where togo to learn, to
-write.
For veciMens ofwriting, banknotes, circulars,
&e., ad&ess,
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