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The Exeter Advocate, 1892-9-29, Page 6LETTER FROM COB4117. rman Precautions Against the Spread of Cholera, THE CATHEDRAL OF COLOGNE. "bantling Through the CrerMatt Wine Couatry. GIBRALTAR OP l'HE RHINE. C033LENTE, Aug. 28, 1892. It is a week since my last home letter, and now vire are out d Holland, with its hundreds of bad smelling canals and great lack of puns water, and are partioularly 'well settled in a very pleasant hotel right on the banks of the Rhine. You know how Bsigety Mr. L, is. Well, our rooms iu Amsterdam opened on one of the canals and Mr. L. imagined that he =lolled a bed Jotter from the water and became excessively nervous. He wonldiet drink water, and as he is no more used to beer then we are, the couple of glasses that he persisted in drinking kept him awake, and that 'caused him to imagine that he was gobsg to have the cholera. For a couple of days he fretted and fumed, made Mrs. L. and me repack and separate all our things, so that they could go home at any time, and the following night at Cologne he again lay awake and fancuadthat he Saw the black death carts gathering up those stricken with the cholera. Now, however, be is all over his whims, and doesn't say a word about not going into Leipzig. Ham- burg seems to be the only German city Which is AFFECTED BY Tan CHOLERA, and according to the newspapers every pre- cautionpossible is being taken there to pre- -vent its spread. The Germans are so very stringent, and have so many soldiers to see that their orders are enforced, that I feel much safer here than I would in France. In Holland milk was very cheap—but five Data cents, one of our cents, a glass. I got to drinking a great deal of milk, for the water had a nasty sweet taste that was very disagreeable. it was always hot, too, and had not a pure clear look like that of our Canadian water. Here there are little booths almost every block, where they sell seltzer water for 5 pfennings (a cent and a quarter) a bottle. I have taken to drinking this, thoughthe water here seems pure and good. Last Monday morning we went to Zaandam by boat, to see whore Peter the Great worked to learn ship -building. We were shown the little cottage where he lodged and the ship -yard where he worked. On the way we saw hundreds of windmills and a part of TUE GREAT HOLLAND DYEEs. The land is actually lower than the water, and is protected by great high stone banks, all overgrown with willows to make them doubly !strong. I was very anxious to go right out to the sea and have a good viewof the largest dykes, so we found out where to go from, and waited a very long time at the wharf, only to learn that the boat went bat on Sunday. In the afternoon we went to the zoological gardens, which are second only to those in London. The aquarium is the finest in Europe, far superior to that in London. We saw the coral ineects at work, anemones of all kinds, and one of the keepers allowed us how he fed them, and -fish of almost countless varieties swimming about just as they do in their native waters. It was a glimpse of " life in the water" which I had never seen before, and in which I was greatly interested. Tuesday we visited a very fine picture gallery and museum in the morning, and in the after- noon came on to Germany, staying over night at Oberhauser, near Duesseldorf. There is nothing particularly attractive in the place, but it began to get dark and we did not wish to miss the scenery along the route, so we decided to wait till morning to continue our journey. Wednesday morn- ing, then, we co,me on to Cologne, or Koeln as the Germans have it. Mr. L. casually heard that there was a case of cholera in the city, and of course he was sure he was getting it. Nevertheless we greatly enjoyed this beautiful city with its wonderful cathedral, styled by the guide • book the grandest monument of Gothic architecture in the world. No description could give you an idea of its vastness which indeed eeems altogether beyond compre- hension. Its towers rise FIT -E HIINDRED FEET INTO THE AIR and verily appear to reach the sky. Its vaulted roof is two hundred feet in height and its stained glass windows, presented by the Crown Prince, the Emperor of Germany, the King of Bavaria and other potentates, throw most lovely lights over the capitals and columns. We were at two services in the cathedral and were thrilled to hear the waves of sound resounding through the lofty arches, but the prayers and the responses had a peculiar buzzing sound which was anythimg but conducive to devotion. You know they sayithey have the bones of the three wise men from, the Ease preserved in in the Cologne cathedral. I had quite a, desire to see them but, Mr. L. rAaid he would not encourage such idolatry. However, we did see bones by the cart load in St. Ursula church. Tradition says that in the 41h century St. Ursula with eleven thousand maidens went on a pilgrimage to Rome. When they were returning they ' were cruelly attacked at Cologue by the Huns and were all ruthlessly murdered. The Church of St. Ursula is built on the spot where the murder was perpetrated, and the bones of Se Ursula and all her attendants are Still shown to confirm the story. We weat in to see the skulls and :bones which are contained in glass cases all about the church. On one side a series of paintings portrays the whole scene, and the sexton points out the various eaSerl, SONIE OF THE SEULts ARS ADORNED •-with different styles of headolressee, and some are even decked with crowns. All through the 'Wordsworth country, end wherever we had been, Mr. Li has conn /Ambled ofeers. L.and me chaeing after dead melee bones. He takes no interest in it Whatever and is dreadfully bored when we go to Bee gtaves er monuments, Now, he say, he hopes we have had a, grand finale to our chase • and will • be satisfied after aavieg sieen the skulls and bones of 11,000 all at once. We could nob repress a smile as the sexton assered us that he had one of the water -pots Med ab stile marriage of Cana iti Galilee, and asked M We wished to see it kr mother extra Mark spied°. We declined. Cologne had ory boantiful stores and tnagnificeut reeie &wee and fine fitted& Wo rode on a cat- talo route all about the city. It was 'very warm while We 'Were there, but delightfelly olciot in the churthee. The Mete day we came on to Beanies/blob. °Minable tlin LAnGrat UNIVIlfiSirk IN eilaritANV. Ibises a flee old Cetliedrals, tees,. Which is non/ belitg restorede brad the city ie re. llowned fer being the birthplace of Beethoven, We erica our esuel street ear deivee al passed through most nleasent parka and broad, open ebeets, with very handsome residencies. Then wo bed a sail to KooligeWinter, past several old castles, till We reached die Siebertgeloiree or Seven edountehte. • We issoended by rail two peaks, 1)rapbenfele and Poteraberg, and then welked, down them. • Draehenfelis means dragon's rook, and the awry goes thet a horrible dragon used to haunt this cliff till finally it wes destroyed by a very bold and breve knight, Siegfried. The cavern whore it lodged is still seen mud who is to dispute the story? Oa the mizernit of the .tuesk is an old ruined castle, from which we had the most glotious views I have ever seen. Half way down the hill is a more modem castle, Drachenburg, and the lower parts of the mountain are ovenenowie wive VMS -ARDS, from which wiue is made, called Mullen- blut or Dragon's blood. Our hotel at Bonn wail beautifully eitusited on the banks of the Rhine, and we breakfasted on the veranda overlooking the river. While eating we saw a great many soldiers float down the river on a pontoon of thirty-two boats. The military band was playing gaily and °rowels were on the shore to wave adieus to the soldiers. On Draohenfels and again on Petersberg we met these scene soldiers and saw them drill and then march off down the mountains. They were a very fine-looking lot of strong, stal- wart men. Yesterday we had a day of rare enjoyment. The sail to Coblentz was ex- ceedingly picturesque the views constantly changing owing to die many windings of the river. Every old castle has it own story of love or war, and it was very inter- esting recounting them or reading them for the first time. For instance, at Ttolaudseck only a crumbling arch remains of the castle built by the Knight Roland who was called to war by Charlemagne and was obliged to leave his sweetheart Hildegunde. Years passed and she HEARD NO YAWS OF HER LOVER so that she joined the nunnery of Nonnens- werth and then Roland returned to claim his bride and found her lost forever. He built this old castle that he might view her passing to and from her devotions. One time he saw the monks bear a coffin to the chapel and then he never saw Hildegunde again so that he knew she was dead. He never spoke again, but was soon found lying cold in death. Near Remagen we saw a very old Gothic church on a hill. While the bows of St. Apollinaris were being taken to the Cologne Cathedral, the ship stopped just opposite this hill and could not be urged forward until the hones of the holy man were removed and carried to this hill. Hence this church was built and bears the saint's name—Apollinaris Kirche, and many pilgrimages come thither and miracles in greet number are performed. The hills along the Rhine are just covered with vine- yards in places and grapes are very cheap and very good. We saw very many quarries of basalt, pumice stone and many other varieties of rocks. Our steamer stopped at Andernach with very ancient walls, gates and bastions and its legend of Christ coming down from the stone cross to perform works of mercy throughout the town. Then we passed Neuwild, where many Moravians live, and were soon at Coblentz, the capital of Rhenish Prussia, a very strongly fortified city with old walls and strong gates and very many soldiers. Just opposite lies Ehrenbreitstein, THE GIBRALTAR OF THE RHINE, looking like Quebec, although to my eyes not quite so imposing. It has a garrison of five thousand soldiers, and they say six millions have been spent upon it during this present century. We took our usual method of seeing the cities, and inquired of of a conductor on a train which was the pleasantest drive. He suggested Stolzen- fels, so we changed trains and soon found ourselves at the base of a high hill, sur- mounted by a castle belonging to the Emperor of Germany. We climbed this hill and joined a party who were waiting for admission to the castle. It was beauti- fully furnished and we had very pictur- esque views from the towera, but the whole thing was very funny, for Y70 had to put great bit elippers on over our boots, and then Fail around on the floors so as not to scratch them, for they were beautifully in- laid with various kinds of polished wood. This morning we attended the Church of St. Castor, which dates back to A. D. 836. Thie is the church in which Charlemagne divided his empire among Iiia sons in 843, A. D. We wanted to go to a Protestant Church, but there was but one in the city, and the hotel announcement was marked with a great cross, and really one could not tell from the record of services whether it referred to a Protestant or Catholic place of worship. The rest of the day we have rested, and I have thought I would spend my time writing. ELLA GARDINER. searryieg 'Unfashionable ? It is estimated that there are 3,000,000 young men of marriageable age in the United States who obstinately neglect to provide themselvem with wives, and this implies the existence of at least an equal number of young women of marriageable age who are waiting for proposals that never come. The fact is important as indicating one of the sooial tendencies of the period. It cannot be doubted that the popularity of matrimony has materially declined in recent pare and that a kind of 'general hesitancy seems to prevail respect- ing the negotiation of such alliance. There was a time when the young people of the country hastened to pair themzelves with bird -like eagerness and delight, as soon as they were out of school; and society not only encouraged them, but practically coin - mended them to take that course. They were considered superfluous and burden - Dome until they gob married. The tree work of life could not begin with them, they were taught, so long as they rernaineal aingle ; it was their duty to become yoked without unnecessary delay, and it was a. disgrace to raise reasonable opportuiaitieein that relation. But it is decidedly different sit the present day. The practice of wedlock is no longer imperative nor does discredit attend the unmated. state, even isenen pro. longed into the thirties. rhere is as touch advice given agaitee merriege as in favor of it by the wise and experienced of both Sexce, and the remit is a steady decrease in the proportion of actual weddings to possible ones. •-..-0,5/, Louis Olobe,Danocrat. Lost la the Crowd. Barry–'What are you so bite about 1 Streng—I inade an ase of myself when wag in Chicago. leatry—Oh, don't worry about that. Yoi wouldn't be noticed there. Lacte not in Wear sholild be dabbled in clear, cold water to remove all trace of Wadi • dried ha the sue and wrapped in dark due paper. ' If) takee five yearto tan ad elephant/a " Theyi• pay Tht Digear lives by his mita," "1 shouldn't be etitiptieted. ' Seine people can live oe, to lieges yeti limott.)'" 110–eWe ate acne Ceming to Ittintiel. Are yeti not seated 8he,,,,Xot a bits if you take the diger out of year neenelts. • IMMIX'S ROLM= BCOLOBE. ThercoPic Alarmed Over the Increasing BOldliteS ofileigands. Allem° cable says; It is auundeniablefact that brigandage is on the increase, aot only in Sicily, but upon the mainland. It is well known that brigands live at Viterbese, mid thee for the past twenty years they have been exieting on the proceeds of their crimes. No effort is made to supprese them. Some of thebrigandspose as secnalreformere. One of these thieves has written a letter from Oaltenistia, a city of Sicily, to a paper wabliehed in Rome enclosing 51. which he requests the pariAse give to some worthy charity. In writing of his occupation, the brigand says he never robs the poor, only the rich. With much unotion he states that he has just assisted in ehooting and roasting Signor Bilotti. The PanifaUcs says the impunity of the recent crimes of the brigands, and the enormous booty they have secured without incurring any penalty whatever, has stimu- lated the passion for brigandage through- out Italy. Home Rule First, Thou Labor Reforms. [London DailyNews.] One satisfactory reisult of the Newcastle election is the complete overthrow of a fumy motion of what is called the party of labor. Mr. Keir Hardie happily failed to carry with him any considerable section of the Newcastle voters; and it is doubtful whether he had more than a handful of sympathizers in the whole country. Eng- lish Workingmen are politicians, and have no sympathy with irreconcilable& They are largely in sympathy with the eight hours demand; but they will not follow Mr. Hardie in sacrificing everything else to it. They see that the Irish difficulty must be cleared out of the way before any of their questions can get more than a hearing. The sudden af- fection of the Tory party for the Union is due to a shrewd perception of its use as a drag upon the wheels of political progress. The more Irish Sessions we have, the longer shall we be an getting to the great social problems with which Parliament will some day have to deal. Newoastle has therefore voted, not for shelving or shunting Home Rule, but for passing it. That is what the new Paaliament and the new Government are gehig to do, and the Newcastle election means that the country will support them in doing it. Heel Mr. Morley been defeated, the position of the Ministry would have been weakened; as it is the Government and its Home Rule policy have had a great increase of strength. Everybody feels the change which the election has made, not merely in Mr. Morley's position as member for New- castle, but in the political situation gener- ally. It has inspirited the Liberals and thoroughly disheartened their opponents. They were going to begin winning seats at bye -elections, and they now have reason to suspect that they will go on losing them. There is not much room in the pending elections for Liberal gains, but there is the possibility of increasing the majorities, and we trust that every effort will be made to do this. The autumn will bring a revival of political interest and movement,. The certainty that a Home Rule Bill will be presented to Parliament in the coming session will again bring the Irish question to the front; and the public recol- lection of the incidents of Coercion will need to be refreshed. As it has been at Newcastle, so it will be all over the king- dom. Where the issue is put clearly before any great popular constituency, the answer will be in raver of a generous measure of self-government for the sister kingdom. Nothing More ta be Learned. With figure swathed in white cloths and face covered with lather, it was difficult to form is correct notion of the appearance of the man who occupied the first chair in the corner barber shop. To the most casual observer it was obvious that the man in the first chair was laboring under intense ex- citement. He was breathiug in short gasps, his bosom heaved under the white towel, and his hands nervously clutched the cush- ion seat. "Fine clay," The barber was whetting his razor and geeing vacantly into space. The bosom under the white towel betrayed new agita- tion but the man in the first chair made no audible comment. "Going to the exposition?" The convulsive twitching of facial muscles was noticeable through the lather. The lips worked violently, but no sound escaped them. "How's your folks ?" " See Isere." • The man in the first chair lead jerked him- self into an upright amnion. " See here, I say." His manner was positively ferocious, and the barber was transfixed with consterna- ti' cYou've staved me for twenty-fiveyeare, haoinni it you ?" demanded the man. The barber gulped and nodded feebly. "Asked more than ten million questions in that time?" " Er—I—er—guees—". The barber stammeredand looked uncom- fortable. "Yes, you've asked as many as that. In that time you have gradually drawn from me my entire family history so far as I knew it, including the fact that my grand- father 'WAS IsillIg—which I have kept from everybody. else m the world. What, if I is may ask, your purpose in continuing your interrogations 2 I'd like to know, if I may, 'what more you expect to learn." All the barber could do was to laugh in a sickly way and nmrmur incoherently, while the Mall In the first chair resumed a re- cumbent posture.—Detroit Free Press. reads; In inges waver. The Parisian fancy for gay plaids has reached America, and plaid silk blouses are becoming quite the fashion. Upon those they suit they are very becoming. They are worn With dark or black silk or lace skirts, and many add a black sash tied in front in a meat° bow. A pretty Victoria plaid bas c cream -white ground with multi -colored checks and lines upon it. This plaid, formed into a French blouse, was worn with a skirt of navy blue China eilk and a black velvet sash, six inches wide, lined With the tartan and finished on the ends with long jet tassels. At the rma- side and it the coantry these gay blouses are very succeetfully worn with Holland skirts and open coats but in any case the black rAash is not also forgotten, as tide lends a picturesque as well au a beeoming fink& tO the whole attire. Uncle Wayback—Now, vrotei use o' • toachin' gals all these new fangled studies. Wot good ie this 'ere aetroxiozny you're studyin' ? City Niece --Why, uncle, it's a delightful thehject to talk about tm moonlit • evenings. We point out Venue, and then the young Man says something pretty, and then—eee that rig? Hosband—How much dit you spend to- day t 'Wife—Seventy-six cloilare and gown- • teen eetate, Husband (ironioally)—Was that all Wife fribbau injered air)-aTivels was all I iad. There IS a village en the Northern Paei 0 'Elliroad which has fifty-four inhabitatta Yid tele cluatilieee both Presbytehati, MEE LADY'S TOILET, The Secret of her Success in Alway Locking Attractive. • My lady is poor and veorks for a living— and a small one at that. She is not beautiful, She ts not clever. She is essefuliy plain. But when you look upon her you think how full of meaning must have been the old phrase, " Perfeet lady," before it got worn out. And wherein hes the oeorebt In my lady's toilet, to a groat extent. Every day's dust brought home from down- town must part company with her gown, her bonnet, her shoes before the next day's dust ha e its chance. Each day's smudges and stains must come of the hardworking little fingers. The cinders are brushed or shaken out of her hair, which no doue 'has its weekly bath as regularly as my lac1r has her daily dip and her wholesome ru biug down. • These are neaestities, and she does them in the ways she has found to suit her best. The paraphernalia for it all she keeps up and in good order, even before she buys gloves, when there is a question between the two ; mad as for going downtown with- out using them thoroughly she would as likely go without her breakfast. Oh, yes ! a,mil when my lady has once made her toilet she does not think of it again, much less return to it—even so far ae to examine a finger nail in the presence of others. The crowd in the Railway Station. One oold rainy night) last winter," re- marked the drummer, as he wiped a string of perspiration beads from his melt and face "1 was left at a small station on a WeAern branch road, to wait for four hours for the train thet was to take me somewhere. There was nobody around and I looked pretty lonesome, I guess, for the brakeman came up and tendered me his sympathy for two or three minutes before his train went back up the road. " Hard place, ain't it?' he said, look- ing around on the general dismalness. " Rather,' I responded • and worse when a man has to wait in iefor four hours.' " 'Oh, well, you may have some com- pany,' he said, encouragingly. " 'Who?' and I peered about me to see if anybody had arisen from the earth. " Well,' he said slowly, as if making a calculation, you'll find in the station the telegraph operator, the station agent, the baggage master, the train despatcher, the ticket -seller, the storekeeper, the accident insurance agent, the express agent, the postmaster and one or two other officials.' " Thee isn't so bad,' I replied, and told him good night as he jumped for the bat platform. "Theo I went into the dimly lighted sta- tion and looked about for my prospective companions. Nobody was visible except a sandy -haired, freckled -faced man at the telegraph instrument. " Where are the others?' I inquired, much surprised. " 'Others what ? ' he answered. "'Why the others the brakeman told me were here. The telegraph operator, the station agent, the baggage master, the train despatcher, the storekeeper, the —" "The man at the instrument began to grin. " 'What's the matter ?" I asked. "'That darn brakeman!' he said. "'He's the only agreeable thing I've seen around here,' I put in, in defense of my friend. ' He said those men would be here until the next train comes.' "'And they will,' said the man. " ' Well, where are they,' I asked, with considerable asperity. "'The sandy -hair man stood up and tapped himself on the chest. ' Them's me,' he smiled; 'come in and set down with us.' "And I did for four mortal hours."— Detroit Free Press. The Boy. The spectacle of a small boy whom one meets sometimes in the horse -cars, under the wing of hi o predestinate idiot of a mother, wrings one's very soul. Silk hat, ruffled shirt, silver -buckled shoes, kid gloves, cane velvet suit with one two-inch pocket which is an insult to his sex, how one pities the pathetic little caricature ! Not a spot has he for a top, or a marble, or a nail, or a string, or a knife, or a cake, or a nub; but as a bloodless subetitute for these necessities of existence, he has a toy watch (that will not go) and an embroidered handkerchief with cologne on it. As to keeping children too clean for any mortal use, I don't auppose anything is more disastrous. The Divine right to be gloriously dirty is portion of the time, when dirt is a necessary consegence of direct, useful, friendly contact with all sorts of interesting, helpful things, ie too clemito be denied. The children who have to think of their clothes before playing with the dogs, digging in the sand, helping the stableman, working in the shed, building a bridge or weeding a garden, never get half their legitimate enjoyment out of life. And oh 1 unhappy fate, do not many of us have to bring up children without a vestige of a dog, or a sand beep, or a stable, or a shed, or e brook, or a garden ! Conceive, if you can, a more difficult problem than giving a child his rights in city flat. You may say that neither do we get ours ; but baa as we are we are always good enough to wish for our children the joys we miss ourselves. Thrice happy is the country child, or the one who can spend a part of his young life among living things, near to Nature's heart. How blessed is the little toddling thing, who can lie flat in sunshine and drink he the beauty of the " green things growing " • who can live among the other little anims, his brothers and sisters in feathers and Inc. The Beacon's Wooing, Deacon Sharp, who lives in the Buckeye Valley, has never married. He made tho attempt once, but his humility and piety worked against, him, He was the same long, solemn -visaged chap then that he is row, with what is known as a "gift of prayer." In soon aud out of season he was ready at any moment to flop down on hie knees and telt all he knew of spiritual grace. There wore tho.s.e. whoesaid be liked to hear himaelf talk. . On this ()weskit he asked jenny Price to be hieperener lot life and jenny, who was a prim school 'teacher, censented. Then the desten flopped. He began iti hie metal train by invoking forgiveness for his sins. Ito was everything that was vile, and, as he enumerated the crimee laid down in his own itnagitation, Jenny began to fidget. At last she touched the deacon on the shoulder. " You needn't pray any more Oa my aceount," she wild. I wouldn't think of marrying snob a wicked sinner, If you are only hell as bad at you say you are I wouldn't, have you. 1 hope you Will repeet 'before it is too late." And she left the astordahod deacon to his own reflation e upon inatrimeny and grime. —beeroit Free Press. A 'Ints in LOAM °Oats $700 to build, le 10 weeks in building, has lg °mate of paint, has two roofs, Weighs 30 ewte when °meshy and over two tons when full, rivet! 30 yeara, tattle 84 (average) every Mile it tuna tbr hire and runs 60 to 80 reilee a clay. • AB01111 *MUG Mr. A Subject of Whits Women RIAOW and intOuld Knott Much. Women know less about meat than about anything for which they spend their money. The buteher'e counter the shrill° et which they saeridee their dollars to meet the necessities of living, and a knowledge ef this necessity should be of paramount import - atm in the estimation of the household buyer. She should know meats the same ail she knows fruits and vegetables, and not be entirely dependent on prices and the vera- • city of the butehen From the appearance of meat may be judged he tenderness and its wholesomeness, This knowledge comes by experience, and is Inc easier of acquisi. tion than knowledge of the COS of meats. But the latter may be learned by study and is practical applioation thereof ou every visit to the market. Good, wholesome meat ehould be neither of a pale, rosy or pink color, nor of is deep purple. The first denotes the diseased con- ditiou ; the last, proves the animal has died a natural death. Good meat has more of a marble look, in consequence of the branch- ing of the veins which surround the adipose cells. The fat, especially of the inner organs, IS always firm and suety and never moist, while in general the fat from diseased cattle is flabby and watery and more often rsocialeiemnt bileeaa jelly or boiled parChment. Whole - will always show itself firm and elastic to the touch and exhibit no damp - am, while diseased meat will appear toft and moist ; in fact, often more wet, so that the liquid substances run out of the blood when pressed hard. Good meat has very little smell, while unsound meat baS a dis- agreeable, cadaverous smell and diffuses is certain medicinal odor. This can be dis- tinctly proved by cutting the meat through with mknife and smelling the blade or. pour- ing wenn water over it. Bad meat shrinka considerably in the boiling ; wholesome meat rather swells and does not lose an ounce in weight. For soup, the brisket or plate piece is the best out. This can be used most advan- tageously kr cold outs. A shin of beef is more economical buying and better for a large portion of soup. The finest of roast beef is the porterhouse cut and prime ribs. Beef that has been killed for over a fort. night makes the best eating. For pot roast, cross ribs and lower sirloin cuts are desirable. Chuck cuts above all, are to be avoided. The choicestbeefsteak is the hip -bone steak, but this is not a economical cut. A porterhouse steak ha more meat and less bone than the hip -bone steak, and is particularly desirable for small families. The sirloin or fiat -bene steak comes in much larger cuts. No steak should be bought, less than two inches thick. In selecting a roast of veal, " Nierenbroden," as the Germans call it, or a loin of vealtvith the kidney is most desirable, as it is a juicy, tender meat. The best veal cutlets are those of the rib, dressed in French style. Ahied quarter of lamb is a choice cut, but moresubstance is derived from the fore quarter. Mutton chops should be two inches thick and out from the loin and ribs. For boiling a leg of mutton, it should be tied in a linen rag has been sprinkled with a little fi Pork, more than any other meat, regiaires to he chosen with the utmost care. It is beet in cold weather, and should be avoided during the summer months ; it is season- able from November to March. If it is ill fed or diseased, no meat is more injurious to health. The fat ehould be white and firm, the lean white and finely grained and the skin thin and cool. If the fat is fall of small kernels it is diseased ; therefore avoid it, or themonsequences will be dear. In choosing poultry of any kind the chief object is to aseertaie the age of the fowl. Common fowls ought to be plump and broad on the breast and fat on the back. The skin of fowls end turkeys ought to be white and of fine grain. The legs ought to be smooth, toes supple and easily broken when bent beck. If these signs are not found be assured that the poultry is old and stale. When the feet are red and hard, the skin coarse and full of hairs, the poultry nay be considered too old for the best use. The same rule applies equally to geese and d u ck s . Next to pork, no article rmmires so much czre and judgment in the selection as fish. When perfectly fresh thew will be rigid and their eyes will be bright • the gill0 will be of a clear red, not dark, coler. The fish which inhabit the surface of the water'such as mackerel and herring, cannot be too fresh. Those fish which live in deep water not only live longer after leaving the water,bub their flesh keeps longer in good condition. Crabs and lobsters should be heavy and solid when good, and oysters should have the shells firmly closed. OAS of the most eseential features in mar- keting is to select only those articles which are ia season, if one would wish to have them good, pure and well flavored. Gaelic SnealrIng ill Scotland. Zecording to the Scottish Census the largeet propel 5.071 of Goalie speaking psr- sons ere found in the northweetern division of the oonntry, where 35,853 or 21.45 per cent., of the populetion spede Gaelic only, and 81,521, 00 48.78 per cent., both this language and Engliale and in the northern division, where 1,101, or 16.08 per cent., speak Gaelic only, and 19,000, or 16,08 per emit. both lanuguages ; while in the reset h. ern division res persoe is found speeking Gaelic alma, and but 515, or 0.25 per cent., of the inhabitant' s who may be supposed to understend that leligeage. In Ross and Cromarty, among the counties, 18,576 or 23.87 per cent. of the inhabitants epeak Gaelic only 37,437, or 48.11 per cent., both it and English ; itt Sutherland 1,115 or 5.09 per cent' , speak Ga,olic only, while 14,788, or 67.53per cent , speak both languages '• in Inverness 17,276, or 10,34 per cent, of the inhabitants speak the oue only, and 44,084, or 19.38 per aerie, epeak. both. Argyll is the county- which conies next, with 6,042, or 8.05 per oene, of its popm, latioa spos.king Gaeta.: only, but 36,720, or 48 96 per cent. both Gaelic and Englieb. in every comity in Scotland Gaelic is apparently understood by at least a few of the inhabitents. In five counties over 20 per cent or the inhebitarate speak Gaelic, while in twenty-three countiee Ooze able to do likewise ere under 5 per cent. Blow Aeons. Cigars? Not one mao in ton Can select e good cigar 00 1011 a live from a fifteen-ceetteri 11 a weed burgs even, realtee a good ash and does not produce nausea they vote it a good cigar. It smoltee and that is all they know or care about it. Ib im not is fact, as many people appear to believe, that cabbage leaves are used in the manufactalre ef cheap cigars. Tobacco ecu be raised as cheaply ab cabbage ad •iverics up much better so there is no incentive for such aclulteradon. But muoh of the tobacco ased in the mann. facture of the eheapor gradoe of smoking tame() has beet gathered out of the gutter the ham of mgar subs,—Si. Louis 010*, Dotard& . ,. • • • Many stall animals at their own Weight 10 Mod 10 tk• clay. ameelletteettedleMPOINII NEW E1't1Ll0411 WARsoir, Facts and Figures Regarding' tlie Rept' Sovereign, A remarkable fact abont the RoTal Sovereign, the latest and perhaps the most formidable of the English, line -of -battle ships, is that the late been built and fully equipped for flea in less than three Years, a feat hitherto unrivalled in the history of naval architecture, says art exchange. Still more noteworthy is the fact that the vessel was completed, for £10,000 lees then the original estimates. The eteam, gunnery and torpedo trials of the new Sea monster have been made with tho most satisfactory resulte. With 9,700. horse power the ship made nearly seventeen knots and with 13,800 -horse power eighteen knots, or half a knot more than, the Trafalgar, which is a smaller ship with, similar engines. The Regal Sovereign attains greater speed with less expenditure el power than any of the vessels of the famous "Admiral" chose and is greatly superior in this reepeet te the Italian warship Lepanto. She is, in fact, the fastest warship of her displeoement and defensive and offeneive qualities in the world. She carries four sixty-seven ton guns, ten eix-inch quick -firing guns, a number of4 torpedo tubes amid all other customary armament. Her value, with supplies and ammunition on board, is just about L1,000,000. The Evils or Military Service. (Oudia, in the Fortnightly Review.) There can be nothing worse for the young. man than the barrack life ; ab thnes very harsh and onerous mad cruel, but with long,. lazy pauses in it of absolute idleness, when the lad, lying in the sun and on the ston benches, dazes and boozes his hours away, and the vicious rogue oan poison at will the ear of the sitnple fool. Lord Wolseley con– siders it an admirable machinery for create ing citizens ; it is not so, because the indi- vidual it creates is it mere machine, with no will of his own, with all virility and opirit beaten and cursed out of him, with no ideal set betore him but to wait on the will of his corporal or captain. A soldier is at no time a good "all round" man ; the mili- tary temper and standard are, and must be, always narrow. In its most odious and, offensive forms as in Germany, it amounts to a brutal and most dangerous tyranny, overbearing in De intolerable vanity, and holding civilian life of no more account than dust. Lord Wolseley seems to imagine that where conscription exists every man serves. In no country does every man serve. Even in Germany is very large proportion escape through physique or through circumstances, through voluntary mutilation or emigra- tion. It is fortunate that it is so, for I can concieve nothing so appalling to tlae world as would be the forcing of the military temper dowu the throats of its entire Mita tixdee. Militarism is the negation of indi- viduality, of originality, and of true liberty. Its sombre shadow is spread over Europe ; its garotting collar of eteel is on the throat of the people. Foity-eight has produced nothing better than the nuiversal rule of the tax -gatherer and the geuclarme. The French republic has the same corruption, the same tyrannise, and the srane coercion by bayonets for which the two empires were reviled. Germany is is hell of despotism, prosecution and espionage. Italy. has recovered political freedoin only to fall prostrate at the feet of her old foe, who had "the doable beak to more devour." This is all that militarism and its offspring, conscription, has done for the three nations who most loudly protested their free princi- ples. In the latter, at least, the whole people, sweat, groan, perish under the ' burdens laid upon them for the maintenance. of the vast bettations of youeg men im- prisoned in barrack -yards in enforced idle- ness and semestarvatioe, whilst the fruitful lands of tb.e Venetio, of Apulia of the - Emilie of Sardinia, and of Calabria lie untilleh under the blue skies, the soil cry- ing for its sons, the spade and the scythe rusting whilat the accused sabre and musket- shWhen the gaiu of what is termed a whole nation under SralS is OStdIllated, the exag- geration of the pompous phraee hides the - nakedness of the fact that large numbers of young men are lost to their country by the meatus to which they resort to escape mili- tary service. In Italy and Germany these, may be counted by legions; 10 Preece men are less numerous, became in France mon are more wedded to the netive soil, and take to service more (ally and more naturally, but in Italy and Germany thou- sands fleck to emigrant ships, thus choosing life-long self -expatriation ; arid every year, as the military and fiscal burdens grow. heavier, will leas go away by preference to lands where, how- ever hard he the work, the dreaded voice of the drill -sergeant cannot reach themand they can "call their soul their own." Patriotism is is fine quality, no, doubtdoubt but it does not accord with the chill and , apathy which character- izes the genera,' teaching and temper of this age, and a ;vomit; rnan may be pardoned if be deem that his couctry is lese a mother worthy of love that a OCIldi and unworthy stepmother, when she dementia three of the fairest years of hie life to be spent in a barrack -yard, and wrings his ears till Use blood drops frorn them'or locate him about the head with the butitof a inueliet, beaus he does not hold his chin high enough, or shift his :feet quickly enough. For a hundied year's bumanity in thia generation bas been shouting, screaming, fighting, weeping, chminting, bleeding in sesirch end struggle, for various forms of what has been celled liberty. The only result hitherto deducible kern this is the present fact that the rations of Europe are ail watching °itch other like a •number of, :sullen and emelt:foes does. `We are told that this is peace it le ouch excellent and perfect peac,o that it is merely their mutual. unaerteinty of each other's strengthwhich keeps them from flying at each other's - throats. It is not peace which Europe en-, joys; it is an armed truce, with all the ex- hausting strain on the body politic and on the exehequer which must aceompany such a stu,te of things. Conscription orablea this , waste of tension to exien mid the impatience whioh couscriptirsn excites iu the people renders them perpetually thirsty and feverish of war They foamy that war - would end it ; would give them sornethbag good in return for all their suilerings. " We mimed oe like thee the InuVereal, feelieg on the continent e18 18 ate feeling, cteated by conscription. Conecription ie the poleaxe with which the patient laborer • or citizen is brained, mid la SUS from the pwr7lidalt htitt,')ewLe er;fttiPoen°'tt w bleg Vonfgcsiribcieed • itt Englattri Mom with the many other forms of eeridsucle which deineeraers aseures us 10, liberey ; but it is ceresin that when 18is so the country will be no longer the England which we have known in history. The new Cunard Steamer Caui ni ipa, a, launched soot Glasgow en Saturday, ie the biggeet ship in the world, now that the Great Eastern is oto of the count, her length being 600 feet and breadth 76 feet. • Oharlie--14lay 1 annetnade war engages melte at mice ? Clara—Xot •yeb, rerhape. both of its May 10 able to de better.