The Huron Expositor, 1877-08-10, Page 66
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Butter2aking.
Season able Talk by Prof. L. B. Arnold.
Of the great mass 4f butter which finds
its way to the general market, and is
reckoned as "`good," the first and most
obcious defect is an old taste, derived
probably from toe much or too long ex-
posure of the cream to the air before
churning. Everybody understands the
fact that butter exposed to the air soon
acquires an. old and disagreeable taste ;
but everybody does`, not seem to appre-
ciate the fact that cream deteriorates the
same as butter by standing open in the
air. But it certainly does so, and very`
much more rapidly than butter, and'
especially if exposed to air which is
warm, or which contains any bad odors
Or vapors. Owing' to the nitrogenous
matter mingled wth cream, it is very
susceptible to change. Exposed to warm
and damp air, cream will decay about as
much in one. day as butter would in a
week in the same situation. It is, there-
fore, very easy, and certainly very com-
mon, an old -taste
on .for for -butter to ;acquire
m
by too mach exposure of the cream be-
fore churning. The surface of cream
which is exposed ; to the atmosphere,
especially to a faulty atmosphere, is all
the time changing and working toward
decay while standing for the lower par-
ticles to get up and ready for the , skim-
mer. The longer this exposure con-
tinues, the greater the . change and the
more is the flavor of the resulting butter
affected. It is ons of the striking ad-
vantage of the mere modern modes of
raising cream, that, they bring it to the
surface quickly and improve the butter
by shortening the exposure of the cream
to atmospheric infuences. The cleanest
flavored butter—that which has the fu11-
est, freshest, and ;most delicious taste,
and the best keeping quality -is now
made by heating the milk to expel ob-
jectionable odors, ;and then, under an
air -tight covering, lowering the tempera-
ture to -hasten the ;ascent; of the cream.
If cream must be, exposed to the air
while rising, it will do very much toward
avoiding the old taste, so often founld in
butter, to have the air in contact With
the cream as cool as possible. Cold re-
tards change, and the cooler the surface
is kept the less pregress towards decay.
The cooler air now sought in: modern
creameries makes ai marked improvement
in their butter over those which have
used cold water but warm - air in their
rooms for setting milk.
Another defect is indicated by the
word "sticky." This is occasioned by
overchurninc or overworking, and the
grain becomes considerably
iderablY
inJured.
Butter is composed. principally of three
fats—olein; margarin and•stearin. These
fats exist in the milk in very minute
globules, say 1-2000 of an inch in diam-
eter—not each fat in a separate speck by
itself, but all combined. in one_atom of.
cream. They doubtless have a definite
organization and arrangement, as do the
white, yolk and germ in an egg. As in
mashing an egg its'; contents become dis-
arranged, assume a new appearance and
a new flavor, and jbeeome more perish-
able, so in mashingthe little grains of
butter do their contents become disar-
ranged and change ;in flavor and appear-
ance and keeping; quality. Wheii the
little grains are unmeshed the butter
breaks short and with a distinct frac-
ture ; but when they have been mashed
dr broken, the butter appears sticky,
and handles more like lard. Its flavor
becomes at once ehanged, and it loses
greatly m keeping uality. It is difficult
to work butter without mashing some of
its grains of fat, but the less it is work-
ed the less of this, there is done. The
mode of working, too, has much to do in
producing this objectionable condition ;
a sliding or drawing stroke of the lever
or ladle injures the grain most. In the
the moat improved process of butter-
making
uttermaking the buttermilk is got out and.
the salt mixed in without` working the
butter at all. The first step in thus ac-
complishing this is to cool the butter in
the churn before it is ready to gather,
down to about 55 degrees, and then
churn. very slowly until it forms into
minute lumps or grains, as it will soon
do at that low degree, and the lumps so
formed will be perfectly solid butter,
with not a particle of buttermilk inside
of them. These limps are then washed
in cold water or brine, . and the butter-
milk all washed Off them, which can
readily be done without having the
granules of butter stick together. After
taking the granulated butter from the
rinsing water it is laid 'on an inclined
table and drained: and salt stirred iu,
which is easily dole with, perfect even-
ness. By leaving it upon the table till
it warms up to about 60 degrees, the
lumps or grains are pressed together
with the lever or ladle, and a solid mass
of butter, evenly salted and with a per-
fect grain, is the result, without a par-
ticle of working.
tered seed -for one more chance. Fickle
Dame Fortune', could not always frown
on such a beautiful country. Victoria
t with her smiles for two
is only just to say that
ained have done better
t left. The population of
d neighborhood.. has in -
y within the past two
has been brigh
years ; and it
those who re
than those th
the colony a
creased great
years. There are now close on 2,000
souls, where f ur .years: ago there were
barely as ma i y dozen, and everywhere
in Victoria I ' as delighted to find happi-
ness, peace a plenty. Profitable crops
of . Indian cor , wheat, rye, oats, and
millet were g own both last year and in
1875—the la er year especially. Stock
has been doin well, and Mr. Grant finds
that his colon is rising in favor among
intending enn rants. He prefers to sell
his land in se tions of 640 acres, and to
farm this the oughly and tide over pro-
bable emerg ucies at the outset one
would be wel to have at least £15,000.
The majority of those who have settled
here within t e past two years are Rus-
sians and, being working people with-
out capital, they have reduced the cost
of labor great y. They break prairie and
plow laud at 5s. or 6s. per acre, which
used to cost 2s. or 14s.; andfor a day's
work Russia women charge only 25
cents, or ls.,. and excellent workers they
are. Plowm n are now paid with $18 or
$20 a month (£3 12s. or £4), out of
which they ave to 'board themselves,
which will c st $8 or $10° a month, or
£1 16s. to £ . Favorable as the past
two years ve been, none have yet
made a forte e ; but, as an instance of
how amply those who stick to their land
claims have been repaid, it may be stated
that the day before I visited Victoria,
one of the original settlers sold for
$2,283 a . quarter section (160 acres),
which he prefempted at $2 50 per acre,
and whicha improved at a cost of
$500—a clear profit of close on $1,500,
or £300. his settler has all along
been in the mployment of Mr. Grant,
and executed the improvement on his
land by contract.
Mr. Grant has about 11,000 sheep.
His ewes are mostly graded Mexicans,
and with these he has been mating,
with very ea isfactory results, imported.
Southdown, otswold, Lincoln, and Lei-
cester tups. is wool crop averages about
five pound a • ead.l
Mr. Bowrn u, an English farmer, w• ho
settlecl in the vicinity of Victoria about
a year ago, h - s established a small herd
of very fair shorthorns, and has good
prospects of s ccess. Mr. Maxwell, not-
withstanding serious reverses during the
firsttwoand
years (six acres of his sec
A Scotch Colony- in Kansas.
A Scottish farmer presently travelling
in this country, writes of a Scotch colony
in Kansas as follows : j
My next stoppage was at Victoria,
Ellis County, a Scotch colony, which
was organized about four years ago by
Mr. George Grant, late of Grant & Cask,
Loudon; and a native of the North of
Scotland. Mr. Grant acquired his pro-
perty, extending to about 100,000 acres,
from the Kansas ;Pacific Railway Com-
pany. It lies between the railway track
and the Smoky Hill River, has rich
loaniy soil, is well watered, and is pro-
vided with an abundance of excellent
building stone— a ,fine variety of sand-
stone. The prairies around are treeless,
except along the creeks, and rolling and
covered with rich pasture, mostly buf-
falo grass. Mr. Grant lauded at Victoria
in May, 1873, with abbot thirty of his -
country people, and made a vigorous
commencement. Here, as all through
the State within the railway limit of 20
miles, every alternate section, or .640
acres, was Government :land, and most
of the emigrants took up homesteads, or
pr'e•euipted a quarter section, while some
purchased land inoin Mr. Grant—the
Bon. Walter Marven, son of the late
Lord llerries, being one of the first set-
tlers. The history of this young colony
confirms in every respect what I learned
of early settlements in other parts of the
Far ``West, and what was said in the last
letter concerning the success and failure
of emigrants with capital and without.
Mr. Grant and bis little band of agricul-
turists found Victoria as nature and the
buffalo had left it ; they had no prece-
dent to guide their operations, no home
comforts such as they had been accus-
tomed to in their native land ; drought
and grasshoppers devoured their first
crops ; and wolves and stormy weather
played havoc with their stock. Those
who had little lost all, or nearly so`; and
a few left in despair, those having longer
purses, or wealthy friends, and extra
courage, retained - their hold, and scat-
crop of eorn
hoppers in les
his adopted
acres, and is
ful, comforta
would be well
and the Ne
would do like
11
eing consumed by grass -
than two hours), stuck to
country ; has now 2,000
arving out ,a very beauti-
le home for himself. It
both for the Old World
if more noblemen's sons
'wise;
Ci tern Water.
In our clim te, Where rain is abundant
during a cons4derable portion of the year,
the water falling upon the roof of any
house, if properly collected and stored is
ample for thewhole supply of the family
which that roof shelters. The water, as
it falls, is ordinarily free from any impur-
ity that can a eet its taste,and fromevery
source of ser ous fouling, though after
long) contin ed 'drought it is well
to _divert nd discharge upon the
surface of. he ground the first ten
minutes' flo of a shower, so that
the impuritie of the air• and dust of the
roof may be rst removed. . After this
first dash, le d to the cistern all that fol-
lows. Even with this precaution the
water will be more e agreeable for use if
filtered. There are numerous systems
for making filters in cisterns, but no oth-
ers so simple
tory as the s
cistern from
iby a wall of
simply neces
'.set on edge
or so durable and satisfae-
paration of that part of the
hich the suction pipe leads
brick and- cement. It it
ary to build a wall of brick
(t inches thick), se as to in-
' dude about Ione -quarter of the area of
the bottom, sloping back so as to ter.
urinate against the side of the cistern at
a height of f nom four to six feet. This
) wall should e so well' cemented with
cement at it joints that water can only
pass throughl the material of brick, and
for strength its form should be slightly
bulging. A wall of this sort, measuring
say six feet at .its base, and rising to a
height of sifeet at its highest point,
will transmit an amount of water suffi-
cient to supplythe demand of the most
constant punhping that domestic use can
require.—Co . Waring in Scribner:
Ev at a
nuisance flus are in summer. Two
weapons aro powerful:against them,
cleanliness and -darkness. Therefore,
the dining room should be kept dark be-
tween meals,l and care. should be taken
to sweep ev+ry crumb from table and
floor. But i�t will not do simply to shut
up the room,.shutting up the flies in it.
Close every window and door but one,
and tbroughe that drive the flies out.
hard as it may seem on
.actiee makes perfect here
Keep t ng Out the Flies.
cry ho sekeeper knows what
This is not s
paper, and p
as in all else. We have known a house-
keeper who was so expert that she had
only to wave her broom, and the flies
dutifully swermed out as they saw the
standard raised in air. Fly -nets for the
windows arecomfortable appendages for
living and sleeping rooms. Bought ready-
made they lare somewhet expensive ;
made at hope they cost' only a trifle.
Have the carpenter—or if some one in
the family knows how to handle tools,
let him—matte a fraise of inch -wide lath
fitting the lwindow frame. On this
stretch mosgiito netting—dark green is
best—and fasten with tacks to the laths.
The same netting over a frame of reeds,
of osiers, or lvires'from an old hoopskirt,
makes serviceable,' cake and butter cov-
ers. Bend ope hoop into a round of the
size wanted, then on this fasten two
semi -circular, hoops, crossing each other FIRST
at right angles fin' the centre above the
hoop. This !forms the frame, which, if
of wire, shoud be wrapped with worst FOR SALE AT
ed ; on this - t e netting is sewed, and a
button on tctp serves as handle. Air THE HURON FOUNDRY
every sleeping room thoroughly every
morning, and, if possible, let in the sun
to shine on the beds and bed clothes.
Often at night when the heat is well-nigh
unbearable, awet cloth hung iu the
window over Ithe blind will cool the room
as if a showei had fallen, and every one
knows how not .water poured on the
pavement in front of . the door will fresh- REPAIRING OF ALL KINDS
the hot, dry air. The principle of ,
the reduction of temperature by evapora-
tion is capable of much practical applica- PROMPTLY ATTENDED TOi.
tion. In India and other tropical coun-
tries, where i e is almost unknown, the
natives cool heir drinking -water by
hanging earthen jars filled with it in a
brisk current of air, which process is said WI{ITELA W' di :MO E.
to cool it thoroughly and rapidly. So,
also, when ice is ` unattainable, butter
may be kept firm and sweet by setting
the bowl containing in in a shallow dish
of ,water and covering with a napkin, the
ends of which are well immersed in the
water in the bottom dish. A. wet band -
kerchief or sponge worn in the hat when
exposed to the sun, as' in the harvest
field, will prevent sunstroke under the
most intense heat known to our climate,
and will often relieve headache arising
from head and exhaustion combined.
Ladies on 'Horseback.
Riding on horseback is a useful as
well as graceful Means of exercise too
much neglected by young ladies.. , A can-
ter of a few miles is a most admirable
promoter of human health and beauty.
The cheeks, the eyes, lips, and every fea-
ture of the fair equestrian, when she dis-
mounts, possesses the fresh, and sparkling
grace, which is one of the most import-
ant requisites in feminine loveliness, and
which cau be imparted only by purity of
the blood and its brisk and equal circula-
tion, which are produced by temperature
and exercise. The pale, sickly and lan-
gnid countenance ` of that lady whose
hours of leisure have been passed without
occupation within; her chamber, or in
listlessly lounging upon a sofa or couch.
may present attractions to such . as
have selected as their standard of
beauty from among the 'vie ims
of a round of fashionable: ' dis-
sipation ; but every man of sense and
genuine taste will prefer the ruddy low
of health, the active, agile step, and ex-
uberant beauty of her who is accusto ed
to spend some time of every day in ac-
tive exercise, on foot o>'on horsebac , in
the open air.
Romance of •Jandy-Peddling.
Years ago, in New York city, a Scbtch
woman was left=a ,penhiless widow with
two little boys. She supported heiself
and family by making molasses candy,
which the boys sold. on the street for cent
a stick. They were industrious and fru-
gal, and saved sufficient money to Open
a small shop. From the humble busihness
of peddling candy arose one of the arg-
est confectioneryimanufactories in the
country. Stuart's; candies, for the two
boys became R. L and A, Stuart, ere
known for. their purity, and tooths me -
nese all over the world. From the ca dy
business the firm rise into sugar refi ers,
acquiring both reputation and for ne.
The joint value of, their property i es-
timated at about $10,000,000, and hey
are as noted for their liberality as for
their wealth. I Bath -Men are zea ous
membersof r Presb e i n
Hall's a
ll
:,t
Church, and their somewhat roan -
tic lives illustrate Proverbs x ii.,
29 :— " Seest thou a an dill, en in
business ? He shall stand before kilns ;
he shall not stand before mean men.'
TIDE
SEMI-ANNUAL
CLEARING SALE
IS
NOW GOING ON
AND LASTING FOR
TWO WEEKS ONL
II
AT
HOFFMAN BROTHE S
CHEAP CASH STOR
MAIN STREET, SEAFOR
Goods Marlked Right Do
SOME BELOW COST PRICE.
Call Early Before the Best
gains are Gone.
FI
DON'T FORGET
•
YG UR MONE lr
A You Will be Sure to Buy
IF YOU
GIVE US A GALL.
HOFFMAN BROTHER,
THE GENUINE
ROYCE REAP
4ND
PRIZE
R
AI\ D
MACHINE SHOP.
Remember the New .Foundry.
AIG LST 10, 18'`
111111111111
$PL�NDID ASSORTMENT
OF
SUMMER GOODS SELLING OFF - CHEAP
i
Compiing .Dress Lin
Dress Go ds --Plain, Stri ed and Checked. A Large Stock of Prints
in all the Newest Patt rn8. Also Shades in Seal Brown, Olive
Green, Navy Blue, Card nal, &c. Colored Cotton Skirtings, Brown
Ducks; Denims, and Cottonades,
AT
Iron. Bar Grenadines, Newest Shades in
MILLINERY. MILLINERY. MILLIN ERY.
Now Is THE TIME TQ BuY CFrEAP MILLINERY, SHAPES ALL NEW AND STYLISH.
FLOWERS, FEATHERS, ORNAMENTS, CUFFS, COLLARS, NECK TIES, SCARFS, &C.
ALLAN MITCHELL, ,Seafoi1th.
T ,E CHEAP CASH GROCERY
, -i a
HAS 1 ST RECEIVED ANOTHER
LAR E ARRI Al, o FRESH GROCERI S-
1
T `ISIS WEK_
1
N wv ; Teas,. Lower than Ever.
B ' ht Demcvrara S'ugar, the Best and Purest in the Market.
A Large .Lot iofrespPickles, Sauces, and Canned Frv,it.
G od New C2urra is and Raisins.
Flour, Feed., and .Provisions always in stock,
Also- Hams, Bacon, ' -&e. .
All Goods Bought from me Warranted as
D
- Represented or Cash. Refunded.
NO HUMBUG AT .THE .CASH GROCERY.
Goods Delivered Free of Charge in Town, .Harpurhey or Egmondville.
J. FATRLEY, SEAFORTH.
KOOL KLOSE, KOOL KLOSE,
FOR THE PEOPLE
.EST ROG-ERS'_
KOOL KLOSE I
KOOL KLOSE
KOOL KLOSE
KOOL KLOSE
KOOL KLOSE
KOOL KLOSE
KOOL KLOSE
KOOL KLOSE
KOOL KLOSE
KOOL KLOSE
KOOL KLOSE
KOOL KLOSE
KOOL KLOSE
LINEN COATS
LUSTRE COATS
i
SERGE COATS
CORD COATS
LINEN DUSTERS
FRESH ARRIVALS -AT 999,
A Dine Lot of New Teas at tibe
Following Prices :
Fine Young Hyson at 60 cents, worth 60 cents. -
Choioe Young Byson Mayune at 60 cent, worth,
70 .
Extra Yonngcents.Hyson at 70 cents, worth 80 eents.
Fine Japan, uncolored, at 40 cents, worth 50 cents.
Extra Japan, uncolored, at 50 cents, worth ea
cents.:
Choice Japan, uncolored, at '60 cents, worth 76
cents.
Japan Pekoes, choice and at very low prices.
Call and See and Save Money by
Buying at the Three Nines.
KOOL KLOSE
KOOL "CLOSE.
KOOL KLOSE
KOOL KLOSE'
KOOL. KLOSE
KOOL KLOSE
KOOL KLOSE•
KOOL KLOSE
KOOL KLOSE,
KOOL KLOSE
KOOL KLOSE
KOOL KLOSE
KOOL KLOSE
JOHN R,00E3R,S'
" NOTED" DRY GOODS HOUSE, SEAFORTH.
T3ARV]ST IS COMING,
AND
C. WIL SON, SEAFORTH,
Is prepared for it at his old sta
3 on Main Street where you can get any quantity of those
celebrated
SHARP'S PATENT SULKY HAY RAKES,
Those certainly are the best Bakes in the market, being the only Canadian Rake that secured a Cen-
tennial medal. This rake was purchased by the Australian Government for the Sidney Exhibition.
REAPERS.
REAPERS. REAPERS.
JOHNSTON'S REAPER, WOODS' 1tEAPER and the CONQUERER COMBINED , all manufactured
by that well knownfirm The Massey Manufacturing Company.
MAXWELL'S LIGHT REAPER.
This is something new and should be eiamined by farmers before making a pure se. .It is the
,jest light reaper in the market.
I
WI G- MA
MO 1�,T C1-3Ii"ES_
i
WOODS' MOWER, BUCKEYE MOWER, SPRAGUE MOWER and others. All of the above
Machines are sold on the following terms: No Equal or No Sale.
SMALL IMPLEMENTS.
{
PLOWS of all kinds, TURNIP -SEED SOWERS, Iron and Wooden HORSE HOES , Cnitiva tors,
Gang Plows and Iron Harrows.
All Implements TTarrantecl to be What is Represented.
O. C. WILLSON, SEAFORTH.
BUTTER. BUTTER. ' BUTTER.
MONEY !ONEY ! WHO WANTS IT ?'
NO RUCK ! NOR TRADE
E I� W.
RSA CASA,
AS USUAL, IS
PAYING TOP PRICES FOR GOOD DAIRY BUTTE R
IN ANY QUANTITY,
AT HIS OLD AND RELIABLE BUTTER STORE,
Goderieli Street, Sea, f orth.
A FRESH STOCK OF
CANNED FRU T.
Having purchased a Bankrupt Stock of
GLASSWARE,AND CROCKERY -
Dinner Plates at 75 cents per dozen, worth $1 15.
Soup Plates at 75 cents per dozen,worth $1 15.
Breakfast Plates at 60 cents per dozen, worth $1,
Tea Plates at 50 cents per dozen, worth 90 cents.
d Tea'Plates at 85 cents,
Unhandled worth $1 15.
Unhandled Tea Plates, plain, at 75 cents, worth
1.
Tea $
ete at $2, worth $2 50.
Tea Sets, fancy, from $4 upwards.
I am determined to clear it out at 25 per cent.
less than the original invoice price.
FLOUR AND FEED
CONSTANTLY ON RAND.
GOODS DELIVERED FREE.
Remember the Place, 999, opposite- the Com-
mercial Hotel, Seaforth.
A. W. SPARLING.
EXETER
WOOLEN FACTORY;.
THIS Factory is now fitted up with Machinery,
of the latest improvement, and is in fall oper-
ation in the manufacture of
TWEEDS, FULL CLOTHS,,
BLANKETS- AND YARNS,
Of all kinds whieh are kept constantly on handl
and exchanged for ;Wool or Cash at very low -
prices.
Custom, Manufacturing, Wool Card-
ing, Spinning and Fulling Dong
on the Shortest Notice,- -
lowing prices:
Tweeds, per yard, 40 cents.
Satinet, cotton warp furnished, 35 cents.
Plain Flannel, 25 cents.
Twilled Flannel, 30 cents.
Blankets, from $3 to $3 50 per pair.
Roll Carding, 5 cents per pound.
Fulling, 10 cents per yard. ,
Spinning: 14, cents.
As we have now on hand a large gnantity of
Fine and Coarse Tweeds, Blankets and Flannels,.
of our own manufacture, which we can recom-
mend. We feel confident that we can give
GENERAL SATISFACTION
To those favoring us with their patronage.
499-13 WANLES S & BLAIN.
HARD TIMES AND PRICES TO SUIT.
THE TIMES..
BOOTS A111D SHOES
aigal IN ENDLESS4VARIETY AT,
THOMAS ''COVENTRY'S..
T AM JUST OPENING my Spring Stook, com-
prising all the Latest Styles in Ladies', Gents'
and Children's Wear. I have bought from' the
best houses in the Trade, for Cash, and Tam there—
fore in a position not to be undersold ; 'and asI
am more than usually hard up, I am determined
not to be ; I therefore respectfully invite' the cash
buying people of Seaforth and its surroundings to
give me a call before buying elsewhere.
-IN THE CUSTOM DEPARTMENT
Of my business I buy none but the best niateriat
and employ the very best of workmen. My repair-
ing is executed in a style that cannot fail to give
satisfaction. So, with thanks fox past patronage,
and an abiding faith in a better time coming,
I would simply say don't . forget the plane
SIGN OF THE BIG BOOT,
East Side, Main Street, Seafort'h.
THOS. COVENTRY, Seaforth.
KIDD'S HARDWARE.
RECEIVED
DIRECT FROM MANUFACTURERS::
AMERICAN CUT NAILS,
SPADES, SHOVELS, FORKS,
HOES AND RAKES,
GLASS, PAINTS, O1 LS, &c'
•
FENCING WIR
AND BUILDING HARDWARE.
Of Every Description Cheap.
EAVE ?ROUGHS AND COltDUCT-'
IG PIPE
Put up on the Shortest Notice and "Warranted.
Special Inducements to Cash and'
Prompt Paying Customers.
JOHN KTDD,
NEW AND t' CHEAP G SODS.
MRS. P. MARKEY,
DEALER IN . .
GROCERIES and FRO VISIONS,
CONFECTIONERY, &c,
GOODS DELIVERED FREE OF CHARGE.
MAIN STREET, SEAFORTH, OPPOSITE:
HAYS' HOTEL. 485
R. N. BRETT,
SEAFORTH,
Wholesale and Retail Dea';er in LEATHER and
SHOE ,FINDINGS of Every Description.
None but the Very Best Stock kept. Terms
moderate. A Trial Solicited: All orders by mail
or otherwise promptly filled..
490 - R. N. BRETT.
HAMS AND BACON.
'FILE undersigned have for sale a gdantityof
C. C. Be4on, Lpng Clear Bacon, Heavy Mess
Pork, and Canvas hams, and Lard, which they
offer to the trade at low prices. Address
CARDNO & GRAHAM,
497 Seaforth-P. 0., Ont.
AUGUST 10, 18/
`Fights between Ira,
Mr. Scott ,Russell, the E
-on naval warfare, thinks 2c
be a long time for an erica;
- is, for the period which wi
tween sighting an enemy
:sinking hint or being sunk.
gering, but Mr. Russell bad
and puts them forward 1
theoretically.` "Standing
24 feet above the water, I t.
nlear on the horizon. He
1 am seeking him. We s
.apart—at modest speed a xi
minutes—at that rate we s
18 minutes. What to do
Minutes is a serious questic
not a very heavy sea on, bu
swell; our ships roll gently;
ily; our guns are charged ;
Twelve minutes are coneum
tual approach, and_ the clic
next six minutes is serious.,
first three the only course lie
to meet the enemy boldly,;
him, and insists that a con
ders must be, "Stand by
speed r. -head 1" Then the
are soon over 1 The eeginei
order for the crash! 1
All ii
already made fast 1 The
eye never leaves the enemy.:
of a minute he sees the tut
Then, if the enerny is nol
alert to double or tack, he a,
a mercy, or the only course of
is to "stem on, stern int
side is open to the sea.'? 1
sell's conclusion is, however
ever side may win,t seems
an encounter between to et
last more than three minute:
time of an engagement will l
Eighteen minutesto meet, a
ininntes to close quarters si
fight." So, the lesson he wi
learn by way of preparation
work are first to possess th
strength to strike an enem
harm to him, and least t!
the second to " possess the I
power."
Disraeli, Peat and 3
His ringlets of silken 1,1
flashing eyes, his effeminate
voices his dress coat of 1
lined with white satin ; hi
gloves, with hie wrist sura
long hanging fringe of lila(
his ivory cane, of which tht
laid with gold, was relieve
black silk in the shape
Everyone laughed at him f
fected; but the women decl
was an affectation of the be
they felt that bis personal
flattering homage to their nn
weakness. Sueh was the
exquisite who .forced his v
saloons of peeresses. Men 1
light esteem, but observant t
as a rule, are more discernir
young men than themselves
"that he would live to be a'
That was Disraeli, after he
intense sensation by his nog
Grey," written and publish
was little more than 20 y>
And this is his appearance u
hangs from the crown of
single curl of dark hair, - "a
you cannot look at withoi
touch of pathos in your inns
it is the only thing about the
silent man remindingyou of
youth of 'Vivian Grey.' T
low this solitary lock is dee
with furrows left by care's
the fine, dark eyes look dov
mouth is closed with a. fir
Bays
says more for this man's tem.
than pages of eulogy wan
what strikes you more the
else is the utter lack of exp'
the countenance. No one lo(
face, though but for a mol
fail into the error of supposi
pression and intelligence ani
they are there, but in co
The face is clean shaven at
blank—the face of a sphinx --
remarkable face in England.?
A Queer Mangy
Athos Fish, one of the -rf
in Albany, N. Y., died a feel
leaving an estate of $50,000 t
institutions, and cutting off
a dollar a day, ' In desenibin
ner of life to a friend, he on
buy a shank of beef from t
which costs me 10 cents.
makes enough soup from thi
one meal, then the meat
afterward makes two n nor
one day's food for 10 cents.
bone and get the marrow
pu=rposes, and my wife fin
fuel in the bone itself to do
cooking. Then in an iron bo
ashes, which I use for man:
plants that realize for me six
Yet, w)ien extra taxes wept
his property, he rarely, if ev
ed more rent from tenants
they had been paying. 11
widow who had two children
money. He offered to borro
and allow her seven per cent!
accepted the proposition, a
charge of the property for a
-One day he forced a settleme
bringing in a bill for her
children's board, and leaving
to him.
The Chinese Infl.
The influx of Chinamen az
great as haw. Every steam
lug vessel from China brings
Within thirty days over 4,
brought to port. Among r
`is a consignment of Teeters,
Mongol rarely if ever seen 1
They are to be distinguishe
general run of Celestials by
ence of therecheek bones, s
plexion, and a most villainou
to their almond eyes. At ho
pirates and revel in their th
propensities. _ The "honeet'
say they come to these sh
good, If that be so, they wi
be welcomed with hospitab
bloody graves.—Sura Francis
ton Journal.
11
—An old professor, whose
tion was antiquated and pr
speaking of milk as the lacte
ways said, " lacktail fluid."
student suggested that the re'
bly was because the professo
Was a bobtail --her tail havin
off when she was young.
OLD BATTLE FIELDS POR M {
DIE1 i --It appears that the
Dobrudscha are usin, ., the old
Roman Emperor Tr Y. as a
against Russian atta Thi.
1,700 years old, was ode of
by Trojan—one in ,3pain,one
country from the Danube to
and one in the Dobrudseha—