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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe East Huron Gazette, 1892-08-18, Page 7.:.�.o► mow. i��s�i�• r' Indiia.• e:ald by in China, more ;as known else - patrons with ,ode to fit under 1. ring drams, ban - skins of asses, valves being con - was an expen- :eeturv. Queen possessed of lac false hair. few good news. year than most '.braries.—[F. B. sly tolerated at has just ruled ;hrow a pailful 'ander when the iolder who is on ed by the stroll - y ;-),000 feet of elves as a sign re said to be en - e women. India, is cele- eat adrninistra- rereigns. greatest size in row to a Iength ,spread out 10 of the French by M. Leroy of which three - nal labor. hag a weakness all her pocket - eh she herself and presents t 19 inches in distance of 150 contain; 2,542 66 tons of coal e human body one-tenth the most efficient s by dropping o, iron shovel ow will answer the American orchids, and rooms of the ite House con- arieties of the ants in alL . Each bidder pon a slip of )ox. The box and the goods highest bid - f India pierces s about sixty evation of 6,- ong, and was arry a double xhaustive col - eh formed the Tapling's be - has now been where it has rge of by the t of printed vast extent ds. Walnut, found close to :eir nuts into far away and dreds of miles y sorts are es have been rt Palace to laced on the Royal apart- ld, and, it is Corot in the ge. argest of its w Church of hts of Mont- t Annecy in ent, which will be audi- its clapper, tatea Patent e. In 1790 1 years later otal number 100 years nearly thir- die they are hey gambol- cised when ve is mark- ot long and a few words and date of -t year cost e journeys et down as rgest sum on one of the Queen d Berlin on It . g dress is silk, made n, and is of it, with , carelessly le tulle veil and as often m lies in a e veil. Jew - ride, and a ✓ wedding , at dinner e Imperial e Brit- l , the Col- : e to trans - of crofter e Western locating i Boast and lid provide s of lfver- rred in Rs, the ale yeas* OR THE LADIES. " If I -Were Fair." were fair 1 - If I h little bands, and slender feet ; If to t y cheeks the color rich and sweet luau? a�taTword and faded at a frown ; If I had clinging curls of burnish'd brown ; 1f I had dreamy eyes aglow with smiles, And graceful limbs, and petty girlish wiles— If I were fair, Love would not tarn aside ; eefe,'s pate, so narrow, would be broad and wide. If I were fair! H I were fair, Perhaps like other maidens I might hold A tic e, heart's store of tried and tested gold. Love waits en Beauty, though sweet love alone, It seems to me, for aught might well atone. But Beauey's charm is strong and Love obeys! The mystic witchery of her shy ways. If I were fair my years would seem so few; Life would unfold sweet pictures to my view, If I were fair ! If I were fair, Perhaps the baby, with a scream of joy, To clasp my neck would throw away its toy, And hide its dimples in my shining hair, Bewilder'd by the maze of glory there ! But now -0 ! shadow of a young girl's face ; Uneolor'd lips that Pain's cold fingers trace, You will not blame the child whose wee hands close, Not on the blighted bud but on the rose So rich and fair. 0 ! just s little fair, with some soft tench About my face to glorify it much ! If no one shunn'd my presence, or my kiss, My heart would almost break beneath its bliss. 'Tis said each pilgrim shall attain hie goal, And perfect light shall flood each blinded soul, When days flash merges into sunset's bars, And nightie here and then beyond the stars 1 shall be fair! —[Edith Rutter. La Belle Rosiere. In France with the month of June comes the season of rosieres, or as some per- sons persist in calling it "the business of the rosieres." What is a rosiere ? A rosi- ere is a young girl on whom a wreath of roses is bestowed annually at a certain epoch, for what the French call "Sagesse." Sagesse ! Dear me, another Gallic term to define, and no easy one either. If I am not mistaken, I think that the Anglo-Saxon words "moral excellence" will convey, in this particular case, the signification of sa- gesse. The custom of crowning a rosiere is observed nowadays but in a few villages. So ancient and charming a practice com- mands respect; let us therefore revive a lit- tle chivalry for the occasion and allude to the ceremony as a season. After all it is difficult to believe that the graceful com- petitors can possibly look upon the affair in another light than that of a friendly con- test. The origin of the rosieres is strangely enough attributed to St. Medard, Bishop of Noyon and seigneur of Salency, who lived in the fifth century. The first rosiere was crowned, it appears, toward the year 525, and on that memorable occasion the worthy Bishop awarded the prize to his own sister, whom, history telLs us, public opinion also designated as the most virtuous girl in all the country round. Ah ! those days of yore. The modern philosopher must indeed regret not having been born many, many hundred years sooner, at an epoch when he could have con- templated a bishop and all the members of its diocese in complete unison. Ah ! those happy days of yore. The good Bishop of Noyon in question handed over the sunr,of twenty-five French pounds and a wreath of roses to his own sister, who, in the estima- tion of all, was the girl residing in the do- main of the Lord of Salency who- enjoyed the highest reputation of moral excellence. The edict of the Bishop set forth that not only was it necessary that the conduct of the rosiere should be blameless and her morality and integrity unimpeachable, but also, and this was by far the most exacting portions of the decree, that the character of her father, mother, brothers, sisters, and other parents as far back as the fourth generation, should be certified irreproachable 1 Such a condition was harsh in the extreme. It was unjust, decidedly, for a poor girl, the issue of vicious or guilty parents, has certainly more than ordinary merit in living a life of virtue with such antecedents. Then the Bishop of Noyon died, the new lord of Salency adopted a new system and granted unto himself the right to choose the rosiere from among three girls selected by the village and presented to him. The 8th day of June was the day adopted for crown- ing the rosiere, that day being the Saint tdedard, The lucky rosiere was robed in white garments ; her hair was allowed to flow in large curls over her shoulders, and accompanied by twelve young girls and as many swains she walked through the village to the chateau of Salency, accompanied by whatever music the country folks were in position to provide for the occasion. The scene for the following act was laidin church, where a special hymn was sung for the glory of the departed Saint Medard and also a to ! deum. Later on in the day a frugal meal was partaken of by all -those who had parti- cipated in the ceremonies. The rosieres had been forsaken for a long time when, toward the close of the eigh- teenth century the custom was revived suddenly and rendered more brilliant than it ever had been before. At that epoch, it should be borne in mind, economists and philosphers had undertaken a sort of rappel a la nature ; rustication was to be the order of the day. The drums sounded the alarm, the heralds proclaimed the fashion, and as usual, the public, ever eager for a change, responded to the call. Agriculture, the green fields and the meadows gay, village fetes and " rustical society" came into favor once more. It was bon ton for the nobility to iblay the county/ Squire.- A few wealthy irds, fed seemingly on Rousseau diet, re - 'Wye(' to re-establish on their estates old Iistoms and cast -oft traditions. The most litique souvenirs were brought to light egain, and Freron, notably in his " Annee Litteraire," gives a resume of the principal historical features of the feasts, after some eld documents he discovered at Noyon. !Mae village ot Saleney shown once with Imre novel brilliancy. Paris this time was hot too proud to speak of it or write about it. The Marquis de Pesay, unifier the title of La P.osiere wrote the libretto of an opera eomique -to which the celebrated Gretry tet music. In his Fae'tes port Lemierre de- toted a few lines to the rosiere. They well leserved a perusaL Refine de.tios jardinos tux mille couleurs Sois fiere desormais l'etre le prix des moeurs Et de voir eclater es beanies printanieres Snr le front ingenu des modeates bergeres ; Sois plus flattee encor de servir en nos jouis De couronne aux vertus gee de lit aux amours. La pomme a la plus belle ! a dit l'antique adage, Un plus heureux a dit : La rose a la plus sage! And so the chapel of Saint Medard in the tillage of Saleney which, prior to the revival )f the festivals, cent "„wined no other souvenir of the happy days of centuries ago than a painting representing a prelate in pontifical raineent depositing a wreath of roses on the beautiful head of a young girl: kneeling down and gowned in a white robe, once more reconquere-a its past glory. In the mar 1775 Saleney ceased to --hold the mono- poly of relines aad many analogous institi- tions were founded. But never did an village derive from the custom the amoun of prestige enjoyed by Salency. There th rosieres, independently of the honor that eI. Renin of a Vast Grazing Ground and Star. ONE CIGARETTE STUB. t always ys fell to their lot were certain in the course of the succeeding twelve months, however humble their condition mightbe,to find a husband. And it is a fact well worthy of note that when the festivities were reviv- ed in the-eighteesi�th century the inhabit- ants of Salency were good people, honest, sober, and industrious. They mustered about 500 and could boast 150 homes. They did trot work with plows, but all cultivated their own small; piece of laud and they were happy. Never was there a case of crime committed at Salency by an inhabitant of the village, not even of any evil conduct, still less any weakness on the part of the gentle sex, while the peasants of the neigh- boring villages were as brutal and vicious as anywhere in the country. Nowadays the most celebrated corona- tions of rosieres are those of Saleney and Nanterre, the latter being most brilliant,. Nanterre is a village situated about seven miles west of Paris at the foot of Mount Valerien and is equally celebrated for its slaughter houses, its prison, its cakes and its rosieres. It is an old village dating from the time of the Druids and is said to be the birth place of Saint Genevieve. The well from which Genevieve's parents drew water is to be seen at thepresent day and visitors walk to its brink and look down into it because the saint is said to have restored her mother's sight by bathing her eyes in its waters. The young girl elected rosiere, in addi- tion to the wreath of roses, receives from the mayor of the village a sum of money voted by the municipality. Making Guests Comfortable. How to make your guests comfortable and entirely at ease and at the same time give yourself a sense of freedom is a prob- lem that few women comprehend. A good deal of what we call entertaining is an art but after all, the corner -stone of it is an in- tuitive knowledge of how to leave . your guest alone. .9, wealthy and famous lady who has a summer palace in one of the love- liest spots on the continent is an ideal en- tertainer. Here is an example of her way of doing it. The newest arrival was a gentleman. The hostess, with undoubted sincerity, told him he was welcome. "Fran- cois," (this to the butler) "show Mr. BIank to the blue room." (To the guest) "Dinner will be served as soon as you come down." After dinner this ideal hostess said to her guest : ''We hope you are prepared to make us a long visit, as we know we are prepared to make you comfortable. The blue room is your castle while you remain, and you are to come and go with freedom. Our breakfast hour here in the country is 8 o'clock, but you can breakfast at what hour you please. It is our custom to drive every morning at 11 o'clock. There will be a seat reserved for you in the carriage, which we shall be glad to have you occupy ; but if you do not care for that there are the boats, the fishing tackle, the billiard room, and—and—well, whatever you can lay hands on. Francois will see that you have anything you want to eat and drink. We shall feel free to enjoy ourselves and you will add to our pleasure if you will exercise equal freedom," This is truly royal hospitality. There are many little details in the way of mak- ing one sest comfortable that are not suggested by the foregoing remarks but which some experienced observer has form- ulated-: See that your window curtains are good and that your guest knows how to manage them. Nothing is so unpleasant to a visitor as to be compelled to pin articles of cloth- ing to the window -frames because the shades won't come down, or to be compelled to ex- periment with' noisy curtain fixtures at night. Be sure there are the following ar- ticles in the room, however small : Some good soap, a large pitcher of fresh water, a clean glass of drinking -water, a supply of towels, both fine and coarse, to suit all tastes. Be sure the pin -cushion is supplied with pins. Supply the bed with plenty of pillows. Also place in the guest's chamber a few en- tertaining novels. One may serve to while away a sleepless hour in the night or early morning. Without any toadying to your visitors, you should do all you can to pre- vent homesickness on their part. Home- sickness is caused in a great measure by people expecting guests to do all sorts of things that are distasteful to thew. Until you learn the taste of your visitor never serve any risque food—such as tripe, liver, fish, brown bread or salad, without preparing a second dish known to be liked by your guest. In serving stranger guests it is well to re- member that beefsteak, roast beef, veal, lambs, eggs, wheat bread, tea, coffee, apple pie and sponge -cake can be eaten ny nearly every one ; while too many such viands as ham, pork, mutton, Graham bread, chocolate, cocoa, custard or cran- berry pie, and chocolate cake are entirely distasteful. Can a Small Boy Lift Six Tons ? Mr. Gosse, in " World of Wonders," re- lates the following remarkable story of the strength of a beetle, and gives some ingeni- ous comparisons : " The three horned beetle has just astonished me by proving its wonderful bodily strength. When it was brought to me, having no box immediately at hand, I was at a loss where to put him until I could find time to kill and preserve him. At last a happy thought struck me. There was a quart bottle of milk sitting on the table, the bottom of the bottle having a hollow in it and large enough to allow my prize to stand erect in it. I soon put him in his glass prison and turned to my work. " Presently, to my great surprise, the bottle began to move slowly, and then gradually settled down to a smooth gliding motion across the table. I instantly divin- ed the cause. It was being propelled by the nt scalar power of the imprisoned in- sect beneath. The weight of the bottle and its contents could not have been less than three and a half pounds, while the weight of the beetle could not have been any way near a half an ounce. Thus I was watching the strange eight of a living creature move 112 times its own weight under the most disadvaatageous air- cumstances. A better notion than figures can convey will be obtained of this feat by supposing a lad of twelve years to be impris- oned under the great bell of St. Paul's ca- thedral, London. That bell weighs six toes I€ e. boy of the age mentioned could push within and cause the bell to glide along the pavement his strength would not be equal in proportion to that of the beetle under the bottle 1 A divorce can be obtained in St. Helena for less than $7.50. The luxury of doing good surpasses every other enjoyment—{Gay. - While the farmer is in town working his jaw in politics, the weeds are getting in their work just the same. vatioa of Thousands of animals. s. A number of hunters in the Gros Ventre range, Wyo., one day in August, 1889, were smoking as they rode along. One carelessly cast his cigarette stub on the grass beside the trail. Usually it would have died there and no harm come from it, but a breeze was blowing that fanned it till a dry blade of grass flamed up. The hunters had just passed around a bend and did not see the flame. An hour later a fire that threaten- ed all the grass south of the Gros Ventre river was raging and the few settlers there were riding from ranches even thirty miles away to save the range their cattle needed. One man followed and brought back the hunters and for the rest of the day more than a score of men with horses dragging bundles of green brush galloped up and down to confine the flames to the canyons and mountains east of the valley. They succeeded, and the ranchers worn out rode home to rest. Some hundreds of square miles of mountain sides and the bottom lands in the canyons were burned over. Later came winter and the deep snow common to that country. With the snow came herds of elk from the mountain tops to feed in the thickets along the brooks be- tween the mountains. It was their regular practice, and they had always livedthere in peace the winter through, for the settlers killed enly what were needed for food. But this winter, instead of nourishing grasses and twigs, the Chautauquan says, the un- fortunate animals found only charred stubs and blackened scds. Goaded by their hunger they came out on the plains and about the ranches of the settlers. At first they fled at the sight of a man, but by Janu- ary cared nothing for one. They mingled with the cattle ; they leaped over fences built high to exclude them ; they attacked the haystacks in spite of_armed men stand- ing there on guard. They died of starvation by the thousand, and one who drives up the valley sees hundreds of whitened antlers where the elk fell on the plains and thou- sands of dead and blackened tree trunks on the mountain side. Bow to Maintain Fertility. BY PROF. C.C. OEORGESON. Many farmers on our prairies still cling fondly to the delusion that the fertility of their farms will never gis e out. Emphatic as- sertions to the effect that manure is a posi- tive injury, or that the land will remain just as fertile as it is till it is worn ten feet deep, are not, infrequent. And I• regret to say that they sometimes come from those who, by reason of education and opportuni- ties for observation, ought to know better. It is useless to argue with such people. Nothing but experience can convince them. To them the evidence of statistics and the experience of others count for nothing. Nor are these lines directed to them. There is another large class of intelligent farmers who admit the possibility of soil exhaustion but who, nevertheless, fail to take measures to prevent it. They are convinced that im- mediate measures are needed. They have become wedded to the pioneer practice of limiting farming to sowing and reaping, and to doing this with the least possible ex- penditure of labour. They can, therefore, never find time to haul manure from the feed lot, or to bother with clover and tame grasses ; and as for rotation, that they ad- roit is doubtless a good practice, but there is no chance for it, since they grow but wheat and corn, and the corn is always surest on the low-lying portions of the farm, whe rens the wheat does fairly well on the high ground. This class, though open to conviction, require positive proof of the need of a change before they consent to alter their system. There is stili.a third and large class of excellent, wide•awake farmers who keep abreast of the times, whose farms are growing richer as the years pass; these need no advice on the sub- ject. If you would he convinced that our prairie soil and even our rich bottom lands can suffer loss of fertility, compare, when- ever' opportunity offers, the crops in average years on new land after it has been under the plough a couple of years with crops on adjoining fields which have been cultivated for years. If the eye fails to detect a difference, let the bushel measure decide the case. Should this fail to prove • it to your satisfaction, study the practice of farming communities in the older settled portions of the Mississippi Valley,and note the history of that practice. The farmers who to -day are prosperous and successful in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Missouri do not rely on the unaided native fertility of the soil for the growth of their crops ; they have laid aside the pioneer system and adopted the reciprocity plan in dealing with their soil, by which they give as well as take, and they find the more they give it the more they can take. That soil was once as fertile and as " inexhaustible " as the best Kansas soil now is. If a change has been found necessary there, will it not be needed here? Finally, applying the test of common sense to the problem. It is evident that it must take a large amount of material to grow a field of corn, or wheat or anything else. Where does it come from ? Though water and air furnish much our field crops are not air plants ; the essentialportion must come from ,the soil. Now, roots cannot bite off and swallow particles of soil as was once be- lieved ; they can feed only by absorbing water, and with it the nourishment that it may have dissolved in the soil: But soil does not dissolve like s>;igar or salt. Only a very small per cent. of its weight can thus be dissolved in water, and it is this small amount which constitutes its fertility ; when that is used up its capacity to pro- duce crops is gone. Anyone can see that with continuous heavy cropping the stock of fertility must in time be reduced, and if nothing is done to maintain it, finally give out ; and then we have an abandoned farm. How to maintain the fertility of our farms is a problem that ere long will force itself in our attention It is the wist es course to solve it before it becomes pressing, for the old adage that "an ounce of preven- tion - is worth a pound of cure " had :never a more apt application than there. What to do to maintain the fertility can in a general way be formulated in a few brief rules :- 1. Save every scrap of manure, whether produced in the stable or in the feed lot. The era when it could be most profitably disposed of by dumping it in the river is gone, never to return. One cannot fully appreciate the value of this pre- cious material until he has seen the farmers of Japan or China go along the public road and carefully col- lect the occasional droppings from passing horses. 2. See that the best portion of the man- ure is not wasted by leaching: Allow no coffee-coloured stream to meander leisurely from the manure pile to the creek ; for it contains bushels of corn in the undeveloped state. 3. Save the straw and use for bedding for the stock what is not used for feeding. It willmake the cattle more comfortable, and serve as an absorbent of the liquid manure,' besides furnishing much that is of valve itself. 4. Haul the manure on to -the corn land during winter, or early spring, and plough it under as soon as possible. Never manure directly for wheat and oats unless the land is very poor. It is those who do so who con- clude that "manure is injurious to this soiL" In a wet season it may cause the straw to grow so heavy that it lodges, and in tbe dry season it may make the soil too porous to retain the necessary moisture ; but none of these objections apply to corn. 5 Adopt some system of rotation so the same crop shall not occur two years, - or at least not more than two years in succes- sion in any given field. 6. Let red clover and tame grasses, especially the clover,be a prominent part of this rotation. Seed it early in the spring, either by itself or with some mixture of grass seed, but not with any grain crop. Useit for meadow the first year, for meadow or pasture the second, and the third, plough under a good growth • of young clover as late in the spring as practicable to prepare for planting, or pasture it till mid -summer and then break it up early and thoroughly for wheat. If done before harvest it is better than later. 7. If for any reason such a rotation is im- practicable green manure fields in turn for the corn each year, for which use somelegu- minous plant if possible. The Southern cow pea is the very best plaat for this pur- pose. Let it fellow wheat, and plow the land and sow the -cow peas broadcast, two bushels per acre, early in July immediately after wheat harvest. By the middle of September there will be a heavy growth which should be turned under before frost. Other means for keeping up the fertility will suggest themselves to the practical farmer ; but if these points are adhered to his land will never fail him, nor will he need to patronize the artificial fertilizer manufacturer who, in the East, profits by the thoughtlessness of a former generation of farmers in letting the land run down. Curiosities in Marryin- A work ingparson, whoseexperiences have been gathered in large town parishes, tells in " The Cornhill " some amusing stories chiefly relating to the wedding ceremony. Once it was his lot to be embarrassed by the appeals of two young women who want- ed to marry the, same bridegroom. The first corner of these had scarcely told how her faithless lover had actually put up the banns in the East -end parish, when the deliquent turned up with an idiotic grin on his face and a gaily -apparelled young woman on his arm. What could the parson—then a young and bashful creature—do but invite the trio into the vestry -room, there to dis- cuss the business. Luckily for him, it speedily leaked out that there had been no legal residence in his parish, which afforded him at once a sufficient ground for declining to perform the ceremony. On another occa- sion the awful discovery was made that the bride had by accident been described in the marriage licence by her pet name. It was suggested that an affidavit of identity sworn at a neighbouring police -court might repair the blunder. This was done just in time to complete the cere- mony within canonical hours ; but the accommodating clergyman afterwards re- ceived a stern admonishment t from high g quarters "not to do it again." Another case was that of an elderly widower who was so dull and stupid that it was very difficult to marry him. When told to give his right hand he gave his left ; when the minister said " Say this after me," he immediately remarked " Say this after me," But when the words he was to repeat were given, he was stolidly silent. "At last," says the narrator, "he saw that I was somewhat bothered by his extreme stupidity, so in the middle of the service he upset my gravity by volunteering the following apology : 'You see, sir, it's so long since I was married afore that you must excuse my forgetting of these things.' " One more sample. It appears that it occasionally happens that a couple who have been content to be married at a registry office are some time afterwards seized with a desire to be married again, as the law allows, in church. The working parson" having one day got such a couple on the steps of the altar, he was rather nonplussed by the answer he got to the question "John, wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife?" "When sir,"replied the bridegroom, "1 told you we was married two years ago." The French Navy. The French Chamber of Deputies on Mon- day, after adopting the credit of 200,000 fr for Colonial Missions, resumed the debate on the supplementary credits for which M. Cavaignac, the Minister of Marine, has asked in order to bring the navy up to the the desired standard. M. Brisson complain- ed that the Budget of Marine was always increasing, while the defensive forces of the navy diminished. Passing on to a criticism in detail, he condemned the defective or- ganization of the Admirality, and said that under existing circumstances a mobilization in case of war would be attended with difficulty. M. Brisson further declared that, although the money had been voted for the purpose, the ships were not yet armed with quick -firing guns. M. Cava- ignac replied. He said- that the supple- mentary credits were necessary in order that the naval programme adopted by The Chamber might be carried out. He urged that a strict pursuance of that programme would have the effect of nearly doubling the strength of the first line, and in particular, the number of swift cruisers would be in- creased. If the Chamber wanted the marine time defences of the country to be brought up to the level of the land forces, it would have to pass a naval budget of 250,000,000 to 300,000,000 francs. The generaldebate then closed, and severll votes were agreed upon. Extraordinary Burglary In reports dealing with crime in our Australian colonies, mention is made of an extraordinary burglary recently perpe- trated at an office in Sydney. The employes, coming to work one morning, found that the door of the strong room had been burst open. A hole had evidently been drilled through the iron door, and a charge of dynamite inserted and exploded. The outer door of the room was torn off the hinges, and the glass of the window shat- tered, while the steel and iron of the door was twisted into a variety of shapes. After all their trouble, the burglars only obtained $2.80. - Putting It More Direct. " Ah, Wadleigh, do you hrppen to have $5 that you don't need ?" " Indeed I haven't." Midgely thinks the question over and is uncertain. " Well, I say, Wadleigh, do you happen to have ,$5 that I need badly!" " There is but One Book." (From the last words of 4ir Walter Scott.) Fetch me the buke, d r Lockhart; - An' gie me ane swe ward. What buke ? There i nae ither— The life o' th' incarnate- Lord; I fee' the shadows creepin'; My licht's nae burnin' lang, Sae read from the bleesit gospels A bit, thiel, ere I gang ; Fin' whaur he helpit the needy; His pity wi' his micht !— Oh,mT soul's sair hungry, Lockhart, For the livin' bread, the nicht! I think o' the dear disciples Bae tassit on the sea An' the wards he spakt tae Simon— I kenthey'd comfort me ; Tell o' the chitterin' sparrows— Nae wan o' them can fae" Tell hoo he callit the bairnies— The dearest thocht o' a'; Read owre boo the ravin' tempest Seekit silence i' the deep ; Sae the surges i' my bosom Are croonin' a' tae sleep. Ye mann Batch the roll o' Jordan r his wards to tbe Pharisee, But ye'll hear him prayin', dearie, r the sough o' Galilee ; Dinna fash 'bout Judas' kisses, Nor greet i' the garden dim, But joy hoo the dyin' beggar Foun' paradise wi' him ; - Nae hent o' Thames dootin', Nae ward hoo Peter fell; It grie's me sair—their weakness, Wha ken'toor Lord sae weeL Read o' the walk tae Emmaus That lang and tearfu' day, An' Iat oor hearts burn, Lockhart, As we gang the countries way, Pluck me a lily, Lockhart, A' Biller-dewt an' sweet ; I see the rose o' Sharon, An' mell the growin' wheat; Let's join the throngin', dearie, An' wait i' the wee bit ships For the wards, like beads o' honey, That fa' frae his hely lips. Hoo sad the gospels, Lockhart, Wi' his wan'r n' hameless lifo; But there's ane grief fetches comfort, - Ane rest that comes o' strife: Noo tak' me, kin', gude Lockhart— Aye tenner and true tare me!— - Oot wY the dear disciples " As far's tae Bethany ;" I sair need rest, beloved, An' the Iicht's a-wearin' dim; But heaven's nae far fro Bethany, An' sone I'll be wi' him. An Amateur Bull -Fight. Chappes, a little village near Clermont- Ferrand, France,was the scene ofsomething very like an amateur bull -fight, which left nothing to be desired in the way of excite- ment. M. Manuel, a farmer, was leading a cow to the local fair, when the animal sud- denly broke loose and started off to rush through the street at the top of its speed. The first victim was an old man of 70, whom the cow hurled violently into a ditch. The infuriated beast next attacked an elderly woman, and pitched her a distance of 15 feet. After upsetting several peasants, and injuring thein more or less severely, the cow tore into the village of Chabreloche, where it stopped suddenly in front of two gendarmes, named Clavelier and Pommey- rol, who placed themselves in its way. After eyeing them for a few seconds, the cow made a rush at Clavelier,who fortunate- ly stepped aside, and hid behind a tree. The cow then made a dash at the other gendarme, who discharged his revolver hitting the animal in the forehead. The wound merely caused the cow to be more enraged, and it made a second dash at Clavelier, who fled across a field, closely followed by the beast, at which Pommey- rol fired repeated shots. Nine bullets took effect, c but only rendered the cow absolute- ly bso e lot - ly mad. It attacked each of the men in turn, until at last Pommeyrol, who had been fortunate enough to obtain a gun loaded with ball, shot it dead. The owner of the dangerous beast will be prosecuted for carelessness. When Forks Came In. It was about the year 1600, and in the reign of James I., when forks were first in- troduced into England. This " piece of refinement," we are told, was derived from the Italians. In a curious book of travels, published in the year 1611, the writer says : " I observed a custom in all those Italian cities and towns through which I passed that is not used in any other country that I saw in my travels. Neither do I think that any other nation in Christendom doth use it, but only in Italy. The Italians and also most strangers that are commorant in Italy, do alwaies at their meales use a little forke, when they cut their meate. For while with their knife, which they hold in one hand, they cut the meate out of the dish, they fasten their forkes, which they hold in the other hand, upon the same dish. This forme of feeding is generally in use in all Italy, their forks being for the moss part made of yron, or steel, and some of silver, but those are used only by gentlemen." Before the revolution in France it was cus- tomary, when a gentleman had been invited out to dinner to send his servant in advance with his knife, fork, and spoon. If he had 1:10 servant he carried them with him in his pocket. Some of the peasantry in certain parts of Germany and Switzerland to -day carry a case in their pockets, containing a knife, fork and spoon. The Weight of Drops. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that the weight and size of drops depend upon the exterior diameter of the dropping tube, the interior diameter having no influence except upon the velocity of the flow. Using a dropper of one-eighth inch in diameter and determining the weight by very deli- cate balances the following results have been obtained, fifteen grains s eight being taken as the unit : Distilled water, 20 drops ; al- cohol, at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, 52 drops ; alcohol, at 90 degrees, 61 drops; ethereal tinetiare, 82 drops ; fatty oils, 48 drops ; aquec,ns solutions, whether diluted or sat- urated, 20 drops ; wine 33 to 35 drops ; lau- danum about the same ae wine. 1,700,000,000 Letters. They say that the higher the civilization of a country the greater is its correspondence as indicated by the postal traffic. By this test England should have nothing to -be ashamed of ; because, during last year, as by the official return, the Post Office deliver- ed in the United Kingdom above 1,700,e00,- 000 letters -45 for every head of the popula- tion. Then there were 330,000,000 post cards, 481,000,000 books, 161;000,000 news- papers, and 47,000,000 parcels - "Trajan's Wall" is a rampart made of earth and about 35 or 40 miles long, extend- ing from Rassova, just at the big end of the Danube, to the shores of the Black Sea. Though only an earthwork it is a most for- midable line of defence. Even now, eight - teen centuries after its construction, it is from 8 to 10 feet in height, with a clear cut fosse in front of it. The teacups used by tea merchaistts in tasting tea are made especially fos itie pur- pose of the finest French china, and have no handles or saucers. The teas are care- fully weighed out and placed in the cups, when boiling water is poured on them. Tea tasters nowadays depend more upon the odour than the taste of teas, and some of -the most expert do not taste them atall bat rely entirely upon smelling. SHOT THROUGH TILE HEART; A Young Womr n /fettled By a Chilli's care.►- Iessness. A despatch from Charlottetown, P. Po L, says:—At AIbany,Saturday,Mary Jame aged 16; eldest daughter of Michael Mc- Carthy of -this city., was accidentally shot through the heartand instantly killed. De- ceased was spending her vacation with her uncle. She was in a room talking with her- cousnta little child,who picked Er a load- ed gun which was standing in the Darner' "- andaccid'entallydischarged it with thefbove` fatal result. The girl was being educated for a nun at Notre Dame Convent. - About the World's Fair. It has been a kindly emphasized fact cone netted with the World's Fair that women have been given a more liberal place in official work than has ever been granted them before. They are showing that they are -worthy the position they have gained and the possession of a Woman's Building on the Fair grounds, the design made by a woman, is a conspicuous monument of their success. The site alloted to the Woman's Building is one of the best on the grounds. Mrs. Potter Palmer, the president of the Board of Lady Managers, was the first of the applicants for space. and it is current gossip in Chicago that when it was an- nounced she was to visit the grounds for the purpose of selecting a site the just minded gentlemen who had it in their power to apportion space intimated, with the assump- tion of lordly airs and with, no doubt, cons temptuous reflections, that the women stood -little chance of getting what they wanted, but when Mrs. Palmer appeared and chose a spot which might be thought to have been conceded with partiality, there was not a question raised—indeed, the final fiat was that they would have gladly given her any- thing. The Woman's Building faces the Midway Plaisance, a beautiful roadway which con- nects Jackson with Washington Park, and will furnish many attractions of its own at the time of the Fair. It is the first build- ing in view at the presenttime as the visite or nears the grounds by the railway. The heroine of the Woman's Building is, of course, Miss Sophie G. Hayden, the only woman in America who has taken a four- year course in a school of technology. Up at the top of one of the city buildings called "The Rookery"Miss Hayden has her den. "The Rookery" is a rookery only in name, as it is one of the fine tall buildings which ate even more popular in Chicago than in New York, and Neiss Hayden's room is one of a suite devoted to the Bureau of Con- struction. The room is like that of any architect. Rough tables hold designs and plans, and near the window on a high stool without any back sits the young lady her- self, poring over papers and drawings. She is a dark -eyed girl, exceedingly youthful in appearance, and without the smallest sign of feminine coquetry or vanity. On the con- trary, her mind seems thoroughly absorbed in her work, and, like the modest rose, she seems to have been born to blush unseen, neither seeking nor caring for publicity. Piled with questions from interested per- sons, she answers in a soft, low voice and in as monosyllabic terms as possible. As women architects were almost unknown until she came to the front, every word that can be gleaned about her is sought for with much curiosity. Shewas born in South America, her mother being a Spanish wom- an and her father a New Englander. She came early to the State of Massachusetts, and really only seems to have begun life when she took up the study of architecture at the Institute of Technology in Boston. She went through the entire course of four years, and upon leaving the school in 1890 began teaching in the manual training school in the same city. It was at this time that the Board of Lady Managers is- sued the circular calling for a design for the Woman's Building, and a friend of Miss Hayden, who was in the Bureau of Con- struction for the World's Fair; called the attention of the young architect to it. This led Miss Hayden sending to Chicago for in- structions regarding the terms of the com- petition, and finally resulted in her setting to work on the design. All her thought and attention were given to the work for one month, and then the design was sent to the Board of Lady Managers. As a result in about a week she was telegraphed for, and upon her arrival in Chicago she was told that a decision had been made in her favor. The working drawings have since been made under her direction, and from time to time she goes down to the grounds to see that they are carried out. a - A Cat Lett a Legacy. Cats, as a general rule, are not set much store by, even when their position in life is that of a household cat. There is, however at the present moment, and owing to certain odd circumstances, a eat in the French capital which has become, so to say, a public character, in the sense that the Municipal Council of Paris has had its at- tention turned to it. Whether it be a fine specimen of the feline race or a merely common -place puss is not stated ; but evi- dently the animal had a strong hold on the affection of its lately deceased mistress. The lady made a will, bequeathing to the muni- cipality a ;ertain sum to be applied to the educational wants of the poor children of - her -district, on condition that the cat she left behind her was as well cared for, for the remainder of its days, as any Christian could wish to be. The animal, the testa- - trix stipulates, is to he placed out to hoard with an elderly person of undisputed re- spectability, who will undertake to look after it and to see to all its comforts. In order that the dear creature shall not suffer from any alteration in the diet to which it hp been accustomed for years, its late mis- tress states that its three repasts per day are to consist respectively of lights in the morning, of liver at noon, and of a piece of oalf's heart in the evening. Distinctly this is a cat whose lot in life might excite the envy of many a forlorn, abandoned child. Emb:.rrassing- In a school in Glasgow the other day, a teacher proved that it may be embarrassing to use one's self as an illustration. The word " orphan " had been spelt cor- rectly, but none of the class seemed to know its meaning. After asking one or two of them, she said encouragingly. " Now, try again. I am an orphan. Now, can't some of you guess what it means?" One of the duller scholars raised his hand, - and said. " Its someone - who wants to get married and can't." - A Big Circulation. Advertiser : " What is your circula- tion ?" Business Manager of " Weekly Buster " ; " Sir ! Our presses have a cap &ty of 100,- 000 perfect copies an hour—yee, dir, 100,- 000 an hour, all cut and pasted and fokled yes, sir. - And here, sir, is a detailed and absolutely perfect photograph ei one of the presses. - -Look at it yourself."