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The Brussels Post, 1891-5-15, Page 2THE BRUSSELS POST. LY_NDCN OF HIGH CLIFFE. AN OLD ROEMER'S LOVE STORY. C, Desrann, Author of I' When tne Tide Was "The Artiet and the Mon, " 1010.1 14 'Larar Room," 1.3te., Etta : ruling Ly love, una thee arily, feeneh and iliPlaaticable theuglot ? She was SOP° she , mouth not rule in auy other way. She knew , by that true instinct which a true love givee thet if she were once to attempt to dictate ! to Milly her influence over her would be Y gene, she could not etep out of her eater°, Y 1 but mige t it not be well, as Lady Flora e had seemed to hint in the onorning, that e some one with umro experierce Red power r should be put over her sotrongavilled little '1 " CHAPTER THE al X.T.H. NTORITS IN TILE AI 10. Two er three clays have gonehappily by oath the pleesant rumnimiey of sautitnen whet?) reigned tit Castle Ettrielt has no bee e broken. The whole ot the little part —Lady Flora, her husband, Milly and Lett Morrison, mod Captain Winstanley—egve in thinking the elackenziea rich guest ou of Lite pleasantest and most deliglieful vompamons. (colonel Lyndon reserved himself at first. She was handsome, he eaid, but she was not exactly the style he admired. Now, even am has given. in. Coneldering her eircum• ,eitances, and the many disadvantages under which she laboura, he thinks her a noiraele. Her simplicity, which he really thinks is not put on— he admitted this to Pertly, who almost quarrelled with him for hexing thought for a single moment that she could appear to be what she wee not—ber gener- osity, undher readiness to amuse others and to be amused herself, are almost pheeomenal in a woman who must have been petted and indulged from her childhood. .As for Veronica, it is pretty evident to evety one that she likes too house iu the neighbourhood so well as Castle Ettrick. There is scarcely a day when she does not look in, either in the morning or in the evening. Sometimes, when Janet is busy over her housekeeping—for it is the areot jumanak- ing season—Veroniea will drive herself over in a ireetty little basket carriage that the general has had trimmed up for her use, and then she picks up the school-t-om party, which ie often reinforced by the colonel, and, sending the carriage on with the groom, takes a walk across the moorland with her friends. On other occasione she is mounted on Brown Bess, an o/d charger wloo luta seen bard work, but is still te glorious °remote, with glossy skin, and arched neck, and a fine spirit, that Veronica, as Brown Bess's master saw at once, knows how to keep in check. Fair-haired Janet is beside her then. She rides the snow-white pony that has been the pride of Deep Deane fur mauy years, and the two girls fly together along the sheep tracks and deer -tracks thot cross the mo in every direction. /t is a mauve! to Veronice that Janet can know her wear about so web. But Janet, being to the manner born, sees no difficulty. " Bear to the right," sloe cries —" Bear to the left," end Brown Bess and Snowflake, hearing her voice, throw up their heels in the mere spirit of fun, itnd brined over the springy ground av if they were galloping for their own delight. "But, how you can tell when there is no land -mark 1" I -moue= will trey when they ptill ep. " And you are alweye right." "There are always., land-rnarks to me," -Janet will answer, smiling. Their longest mid morn rapid rides are taken eiorly in the morning or in She late evening, for the 0011 IS 1101 011 the moors at maaday and in the afternoon. Vow and then they have company ; Percy has come to know their hours for starting, and he will ride out with the Colonel to meet them at Deep Deane, and they will set off together for along stretch across the moor, and reach Castle Et triek in time for a late breakfast or *an early dinner. How graciously they are welcomed on these pleasant occasions, the cordiality of LadyFlora andher husband, Mill y's delight, and Perey's over tiowing rapture meet be left to the imagination, This was the sort of life that went on for many days. The first break in the general joyoeseess arrived in the shape of two letters for Ferny. One was from the adjutant of his regiment, stating thee, the &maxima would be ready to start in seven days from the date of the letter. He read this first, and his mother, who was watching him closely, saw him turn pale and set his teeth together. She watched until her son took tip and read his second letter. When he had done so, he rose from his seat, and made a sign to Colonel Lyndon, item followed him out into the hall. "Better 'leave them," rmid Mr. Winstan. ley to the wife, for she eeemed disposed to follow Colonel Lyndon out. "Lyndon knows your wishes and the boy's position in the service. He will advise him for the beet" " There is only one advice—only one— that ouglth to be given," said Lady Flora, tapping her foot impatiently on the car- pet. " Darling," whispered Letty to Milly, who was gazing tearfully at her mother, " we are not wanted here. We had better run away to the school -room" "Oh I let me stay, let me stay 1" pleaded Milly. "I want to know about my Pony. Mother—" " Don't you see that I am busy, Milly 1' said Lady Flora, impatiently. "Really, Miss Morrison, you should—" "Ns not Letty's fault 1 it's mine," pro. tested Milly. "I—._" " You are not in good order, Mildred, or you would not bendy words with ma There is not nearly enough discipline in this house. There; I am not vexed with you. Go off to the schoolroom." " But I want to tell you," began the child, in whose poor little heart honesty and love and anger were waging terrible warfare, " that Letty—" "May I ask you to exert your authority, Miss Morrison ?" said Lady Elora, with great irritation of manner, She wart eorry the moment &he bad spoken, for Milly burst into angry tears, ancl every particle of colour deserted Letty's face her morrow only served, for the moment, to increase her irritability. She turned to her letters, mid tried to look unconcerned, while the young governess led off her weeping pupil. Mildred was aeon consoled. A little sharpness of manner from her mother was no new thing to her. Lady Flora had ao. euatomed her children to occasioeal Iittic gusts of ill -temper, and they lasted eo short a time, and were so amply atoned ler, that they did not leave much trace in their memories. Letty could not so readily forget the in- cident of the morning. Lady Flora's /lady words had stenek tt chord in her natere which was only too ready to vibrate. Deep- ly grateful to the Winationleyst for their tnany leindneseee to her, and almost morbid. ly consoientioue abont fulfilling rightly the dutiee of her new position, Letty hod en- tered epee it with mealy fears. In the su11. thine of Millyai affeetion the ameet of her there had vanished aWay. The sieene of the morning had Wised them to spring to life gain, and they olustered about her, a tor• Hole and eaveoriepiring multitude, Wag /dilly testily In want of etrortger ciplige them hers? Hod elle to oethority Oeer her Waa that thought Of here Of Letty did not weep that morning. Sbe was too far too einch tronloled te shed tears. Besidee, she had her duties to attend to ; lout her pale face turd the heaviness of her eye when she appeared at the early dinner in the dining -hall, showed that ehe was not as happy as usual. Lady Flora who was quite herself again —Colonel Lyedon's advice to her son heal been in consonance with hoe own wishes— observed the change in her youeg governess, and felt to little aggrieved by it " You have surely not been fretting 011 000001/1 of what I said to yon this morning?" she said, a little sharply. " You know it will never do for you to be so eensitive." She was alone with Milly when she made this remark, but it was overheard by Colonel Lyndon, who 190113 coming into the room at the moment, and whose eyes were upon Letty. She did not answer, partly because she had cought sight of hint ; but he NAV hcor face flame with oolour, and the tears spring to her eyes, and an emotion such as he load never felt before canoe over him. "11 I bad o»ly the care of that poor little thing 1" he said to himself. , If she were my uhild—my little sister 1" He made Lady Flora, happy and berign by informing her that he had seen Percy all to Edinburgh, and that there was every chance of his obtaining an exchange into a regiment stationed there. .` And if so, he will get leave again at once," he said. Tins was joyful news to Mill)", who pro- ve c ed her mother's rebuke by jumping up from the t able and °lensing her hands. Then the colonel turned to tatty. He looded so kind and benignant that she could not help smiling at him, end, with the smile, the shadow passed from her face. " Do you know," he said, " that I have a confession to make, anti that 11111, afraid to make it?" " Afraid ! A soldier afreid l" cried Milly. " That a fenny." " Well, yes, I think it is. But when old soldiers do shockingly silly things, Milly, and when they are sure they will be scold- " lant stire you have done nothing silly.," said Letty siinply. •• There, Colonel Lyndon I Never say that no one appreoietes your merits," cried Ledy nolo. " Bat what have yea (Ismer urged Milly, " I have been so foolish as to make a promise. The Mackenzies and Miss Brown fr " Oh, let us go, mother ;s1> lotus go 1" cried Milly, not pernetting him to finish. "Veronica seal sloe would ask na When are we to go, Colonel Lyndon ?" " You are asked for this afternoon, and your father said if I could succeed in begging you off from lesions I might drive you and Miss Monition over in the phaeteri, and we are to stay for stopper if lo.e can be spared." " And drive home by moonlight? Oh, mother 1 mother r, cried alilly, in a little ecstasy, " you won't say 11)0 1" It amosed Lady Flora to observe that Colonel Lyedoe was looking at her with al' most as much eagerness me Milly. " And if I did toy 'no,'" she said, emit. " what then ?" " 'Mother, don't tease ue Say 'yes,' like a darling." "You will promise to be very good, and do everything Lefty tells you ? " We will all he good," said the colonel gravely, " Miss Morrison shall be our general. We pet ourselves under her orders, 1Vliatever she says we will do." "No, no, 00 1" cried Letty, blushing. " Yes, yes, yes 1" shrieked " Mother, darling, good•bye. Expect es when you see es. Come and get roudy, Letty.' The two young girls left the room. The colonel lingered. lady lalora saw that he had something to say to Iter, and she kept her, place. She was grateful to hi rn for his assistance with Percy, and she felt that it would be pleasant to serve loltot in rely way, Bet he asked no service of loer. He was a little ingtheitive, he Raid. When he lived withpeople he had a trick of beeoming in- terested in therm Would it be indiscreet to ask Lady Flora a question or two about Miss Morriron " Not at all, she answered, with &smile, Ile was net very ready with his questions, and before he had made much way, with them, the voices of Milly and her governess, could be heard out on the terrace, aud Lady Flora, saying that the young people were impatient, asked hint to emit tor her story until the evenieg, "18 is quite a little romance," sloe said, " and you have net time to hear it all 11090." He thanked her, begged her to pardon him for his curiosity, and went out on the terrace, where the two young people were waitieg for him. As the three walked off together to the yard, Lady Flora watched them, and, when they had disoppeared from sight, elle stood still in the same spot, with a meditative look in her face. Presently she turned to go in -doors, and her lips were mottling now, toed her eyes :were bright, "She is as helpless ate a baby, and as pretty as an angel," she said to herself. "And he is as noble a creature as ever stepped. It would be pretty if one could only bring it about, and Oh, what a load would be lifted offmy shoulders 1" (100 00 CONTISORD.) How to Preserve the Voics. Mow to preserve the yokes and keep it presumably fresh is almost like asking how to keep from growing old, Some people grow faster than abet% because they are imprudent awl do not take care of them. melees, The voice should not be imposed upon,. and instead of growing husky in a do- eade it should remain comparatively fresh for two and even four decades. Pottes voice is a fine example of one that hae never been imposed upon, never been forced to sing six eighth in a week and once at a Matinee. A grand opera sliver should shog only twice a week, perhaps three times 11 Ids or her physical condition Warrants it Singers (should have plenty Of glop, good appetites, nothing to make them nervous, and, if posaible, 11 more or leas phlegmatic dispoelbien, ,The letter tliey rarely poesese to any great degree, Overwork is death to veice, 4. anger Will not notice 0,1 first the inroads; that gradually endeernthe a voice end leteee it an seho Of its former sweetness I LATBST DISOOTERIES IN OIBNOB 'Chi, Gate Streit 111. 11)1, 10. 01 1.1,1410URY; 8111111VANT 10. 0 NAVY i8 Lite Gulf Stream? Wlienee doe it moue ? Where does it, cease to flow 1 To: what T t mis it due? hose questions hay been mated from the time when llolumInte made his great, voyage of disoovery, four hundred years ago, down to the present clay, and even now some of them have not been satisfactorily answered. Lieutenant Maury begun hie deseriptiou of this wonderful phenomenon with tho ex- pression, " There is a river in the ocean." The phrase explains in few words exactly what the Gulf Stream is, It flows along the coast of Noeth Ainetiea from tloe lower ex. trenaty of Florida to Cope Hatteras, loud thence crosses the Atlantic towttrtl the:AIMS of Europe, Lille land rivers, it has its source, the Gulf of Mexico, wloieh is fed from the Caribbean Sea. This in turn r0. ceives its water from the eastern Atlantic Ocean, into which the Gulf Stream itself pours its own supply, so that there is, it reality, to gaind tramline movement of tit whole oeean, of whieh tIte Gulf is a, portion], Our ocean river does not run dry, like those on land, nor does it do much harm when, like the Mississippi, it overflows it5 benits, because its banks are water, and can easily be pressed aeide. It always flows in about the same place over the bottom, too, and when it does allege its position it is only in accordance Wilk a law, which »lakes it retawn to its origilial position after a re. plat' tine as certain as that spring follows winter. It does not earns flow on the surface of the sea, for occasionally it chuthee along below the waves ; but the same law guides it, and after a while it is sure to rise again to the light of day. peeneitartells er the Gulf Stream. This river is very warm, because it comes free) the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, where the sun has been heating it for a long time. Of course, after it has left its southern home, and is making its journey across the Atlantic, it is gradually becoming trooler ; but, nevertheless!, it, maintains to the shores of Europe, even well up toward tbe Arctic regains, a much higher tempera. tore than that of the surrounding air or water. It has its own finny inhabitants and other animel life; 0111'10118 little fish and crabs that make nests itt Lite floating sea•weed ; beauti. ful little jelly -fish called thimbleffish, float lug or swimming near its surface in such countless numbers that at times the waters are brown with them ; and the graceful fly- ing -fish, which dart out of the 'water in schools ; and countless myriads of minute animal life floating about, so that, when the sun is shining high in the heavens, the water seems to be filled withomotes. These little things, clying, sink to the bottom, and their diminutive skeletons or shells go to form an ooze, ovhieh, if exposed to the air and to pressure, resembles cloalk. This ocean river is quite unlike the rivers of the land in point of size. The alississippi, at a point below its lowest tributary, is about two thousand feet wide and one hundred feet deep. At places Ms wider than this, but there it is shallowee. The Gulf Stremn, at its narroweet point in the Strait of Florida, is more than two thousand feet deep, and over forty miles wide. A Rapid Stream. In point of speed, but few navigable rivers in the world equal the Gulf Stream, It hur- ries itIong three, four, five, and s innetimes over slx miles an hour. Even Home miles is fast enough to delay 0) 800158 in a great de- gree, in the course of twenty-four hours, any vessel which broppens to Le in its influ. ence. The water is a beautiful deep blue, and so clear that one may look far 11110 100 depths. Ott the edge nearest the coast, where it press. es against the colder shore water, its tine of meeting with the shore water is frequently so sharply defined that at one end of tile vessel you may have the clear warm water from the south, while at the other end is the cold murky water from tile north. Native is always wonderful, and one can hardly foil to be impressed by the grandeur of high mountains, lofty precipice.% ornmense forests, glaoiers ond woterfalls, but the Gulf taream is the greatest of all of nature's won- ders on Otis earth. It is impossible to rea- lize the immensity of it, because it does not appeal to the eye, and the mind can hardly grasp its magnitude by the aid of tin array of figures. We all know that the soa water is salt. Contained in every thousand paellas of water there are thirty.live pounds; of saline matter, Now if you mould stand on the shore of Florida, and (multi take all of this saline matter out of the orator of the Gulf Stream as it flowed past, during only one minute ef time, all the vessels in the world at the present time woidd not be enough to carry the load. When Columbus messed the ocean to America for the first done in 1492, he dis- covered the existence of the current which enters the Caribbean Sea and helps to form our Gulf Stream. Allet4e old Spanish navi- gators! noticed this current, and wondered what could be its muse. ifiroteenue Theortie. Columbus gave a reason which was gener- ally accepted as correct for many years. Ho saw that the heavenly bodies appeared to rise in the east, and go down in the west; that the winds in the tropics always blow from the east, and tile currents of the ocean move in the same direction, So he conclud- ed that the fluid and gaseous elements on the earth's surface, the air and the water, simply partook of the motion of the sky, and all went around the earth together. The Gulf Stream itself was not discovered era the famous Ponce de Leon went to searoh for the Fountain of Youth, The 011, tives told of a, wonderful well or spring on the Island of Bimini, mod the Spaniards, who were always on the lookout for remarkable or valuable Ojeda, fitted mit this expedi- tion of discovery, They did not know where Bimini was, ex. slept that it was somewhere northwest of Porto Rico ; but they set out, hoping to find the means of °heating time, end making Noe old young again. They soiled olong tam eastern side of the BahanntIslands, and flit - olly rettehed the coast of Florida. Then 11,ey turned wouth, and Nailed against the current for several hundred miles, all the time wondering where the water came from without exhausting the supply, and where it wont to without filliiig lt sorne other place. Atter several years it was concluded ity mealy persons Hutton the water of the sea was moving ; that ft reached a hole in the earth ond went down, and at some other point, a great distance away, returned again to the surface at the starting -point of thot or stoma other eurrent. Its mired en Navigation. For a long time after the settlement of the errantry which is now the treited States, veseele coming from Europe made n, very long detour toward the south to aVoid the Gulf Stream, /nstead of Sailing froth Eng- land to Virginit itt tho 80008 direct lint, they went to the West belies, nod some - Onto oVell amend the island 111 COM, in order to have to favoring etiri ent, all She IVRY. They aid r at know that they might avoid the Gulf S1i241111 11 exiling north cof it. lay and by it was notiood that this eoat rivet' was always found to he Iloirdig at nearly the sante place along our mast, and that the edge was marked by 11oreat change in temperature. The captaino of the whal- iug remelt; end Atlautie paelrets avoided the current hy Witting the temperature with a thermometer, keephog in tlie cold water when sailing' west, and in the warm water if going east. A knowledge of this fact led Benjamin Frealtlin to investigate the subjeet, and tita oily to publish a ellen delieleg the limite of the Stream. This happened to be just, et the time when the Afflel.18011 Revolution was becalrIng out, and as the information weld help the English vessels engaged in the war, Doctor Franklin eappressed its publthetion, solar, as he (meld, until the contest WAS ovev, After that time, the importance of the study of the Gulf Stream was everywhere telmitted. The advantage of a knowledge of it to °spades of vessels, who might gain its assistanoo in their voyages, wee evident It was also proposed, since it hod so,great an effect on tile climate of Great 13ritain, to kocop swift stoiling-vessela in the Gulf of Mexico wed the Streit of Florida to .arry reporth to langland wheuevee its tempera- ture or volume changed mateelally. This was before the days of fast steamers or the electric telegraph. trade winds, always blowing in 5.010 three- BITOLUT.ON 01' PA.BBIOS. thin toward the weNt, blow the water along, too, 11,17li 80 het& mid afterwatel keep top the Media that Iarueeed the Cliareettio New mote met. Both are, perhape, right to a eertain ex• tont, as to correms in general, ant the Gull Stream is peter:day almost wholly 11110 10 the W/11(1 11114 110 1.011 11•10110. The water le 118611 0,11V 101111, 1111a thrown by 1,11e to us from the ages III the 1 heroalth that ANIV00 into the Caribbean Sea, from the are !lethally worn by tho Andre of the pre. weatern end of whieh the tweell1111etien 0,f scoot day, the wmppings of mummies. The looter runs into the Gulf of afesieo, "I" material of which those ore composed le in from there it escapes through the Streit of every arseuree linen, The use of oveol for Florida hue the Atlantic Ocean. wearing apparel 110118 100bidaell hl ancient Egypt, linen only beaos considered neat ro»ti clean. Tito apartments on tloo Berlin museum show that this /inen attained a high degree of fineness, and even of tranaparoney, The tneans employed in the designieg of them was a sort of lartworir with glass beads, which were partly round and partly oblong. Wee) of various volorq were also woven item ding to the representations on the nienumeuts, btu ole suit% modem,' were not used for clothes, but for Rumania and other purposee, Chnirs were upholstered 111 check patterns, 'ahem are also extant, a large. number of patterns In Egyptian ovall paint. ings. These were orightally weavers' pat- terns•—the patterns of the loom pasted on to the ovens. In later tines, especially in the period of the Ptolemies and Alexander the Great, very valuable artioles were produced in this department. Nothing has been preeerved, but th reference in ancient literature war- rant us in snying Hutt there were products, of embroidery and half embroidery. The rich /11111/3 in upper Egypt belong 10- 1110 late Egyptian period, manly to the pe- riod from the fourth to the seventh century, A. D., at the time the corpses of the rich, were dressed in the robes which they hare W0011 during life, and as much as possible was put into the graves with them. Much, of this buried stuff has come down to our day in a .good state of preservation. In theSe itihrleil we find but very faint echome of the old representations of the pyramid period—for instance, the lotus flower, oto Greek rule and Roman rule had passed over Egypt, but the culture had remained Greek, and its chief center was Alexandria, Ito the seventh century Greek cultere ceases ; Islem pressea in, also the Copts, wile leave traces of their culture in the tiassanidte, eta. The ferule referred to have great technical interest. What, was possible there must have been possibho in other plectra An- other question, " was more possible ?" can not be so positively tonswereci. 1Ye have no definite proofs whiell warrant an ailimative. Much moist undoubtedly he regarded as provincial which is yet of croa- k:terrible importance. Particularly interest- ing a technical nspeet are linen garments, with designs in wool end provided with borders, 'allele trimming goes above tloe sleeve at the opening of the neck, in the lower part not mute round, and rises up on two stupes ; on the shoulders two round pieces are attached. Another kind is as follows : The sleeves, the lower part, the breast and shoulder pieces trimmed ; in the geeallo,,t,e,erutt.vliere the girdle went round, no Thu production of these borders was at- tained with considerable teohnic&I difficulty,. and it is interesting to see how it was over- come. The material is first woven through, then designed, end the border part rano-oven ; en this portion the warp threads, therefore, continue to stand without the shoob going through them. The pawn is wrougia. 011 these threads, which are not bound by shoots, but by a process which is really embroidery, as these threads cannot he penetrated with a shuttle, but only with a needle. We have, also, a whole series of the fab- rics woven with napa We have, further, the technical peculiarity that the coarse woallen threads are inserted with the needle; short, we have to whole series of interesting &axone and the designitig, which is weighty arid important, renunding no in part of Mosaic patterns. They eon - slat principally of Roman and Greek insorip- dons. Peculiarly interesting are a series of floral patterns, which indicate reallyearnest observation of nature. A series of semi- natural leaf patterns is produced. as follows: A large field is formed of dark purple ma- terial in a round or pointed oval shape, and on it the threads are put in /11 White -10111'0d patterns of extraordinary fineness and ex - conceit teeth. These borders are not worked in, but for the sake of convenience are .pre- pared one by one, and sewed on. This is applique work. About judea and the Bible gives ns many items of vtlnable information, althongh in a rather disconcerted way. )inch light bee been east upon the eubjeat, we may 09211 007 that deep insight has been given us 1580 5110 textile art of antiquity, by the . great dis- coveries which have been made in Assyria in the course of tloe present century. Slabs of alabaster were foetid among the remains of the royal palace of Niniveh, a good state of preservation, which exhibit in low relief series of figures representing various incidents in ancient life, showing. es, for ex- ample, this king at court, in battle, hunting, drinking, etc. All those reliefs depict the dark specks darting above, Determined th calosettuitiniayieesit tchleetapieir. son represented down we find out what these were, I used a stronger We see lone, eleite &Ling garments of magnifying glass, and looking through it Mean materials with few or no folds, which the &peeks proved to be other little swim. roust have been thick woolen febrieer mars Buell as I had just been emtminitog ; and broidered with gold. These garmbitts 1808 the latter, of course. seemed larger, But covered with circular patterns) alLrIA and in uow there were still other speaks darting general with plain figures and are provided about, so a stilIstronger glass was used, wall with borders of the breadth of a hand, The the same result. Magnify as I might, I principal part of the garment is completely could not reach apoint whore there were not covered wtth ithieborder and is quite in the, sante moving atom needing furbhor meant- style of the dress now worn on state 0008,-, tying, I have SilIee learned that no glass mons by the servants of princes. The bor. has ever been made powerful enough to re. der is put on either straight or in curves, veal the tiniest of these " infasoria" as they and has remained so distinct in the sculptures are miled.—Plary Ir. WorstelL because it lose been engraved on the stone 88- With shttrp chisel. A Fish Runs Away With a Boat, A correspondent wribieg from Sierra The Ohange in Woman's Dress. 89era ity Gr. 3, 11, Lvening, of the Berlin ort erne. oneloiril 101 111101110; 110i1e8 The land taut mat corers to our notice any impoetent toe. tile fabrics 104 )4gypt. Stuffs have come down. The Possibilities of Agriculture. It le contended by Pi ince K eapotkin, whose striking inifele ri The possibilities of Agrioolture" in tile August Pue.thl attract ed. so much lottention at the time, Hoot the getteral popular conception of what the earth 18 capable of producing under proper treatment is very faint, owl that were a different method employed in tilling the soil the return »tight be enormously, 11 0101 indefinitely ineremsed. The method be advo- cates is styled as the intensive ,as compared with the extensive ; that is he advocates the more thorough working and manuring otto small area rather than tluo indifferent, tilling of a huge one. Whether the remarktoble conclusions to which be comes could ever be realized is doubtful, since in his ealculatima too Ittale allowance is triode for elimatic G011- diSiOlIS but the eneral proposition that a little farm wel tffied is more remunera. Ship captains were requestecl, and naval tive than a largo one poorly worked, ad - officers of most countries were required, to inks of no question, A practical make all the observations possible of the lustration of its truth is furnished. m the temperature and other features of the Golf arap reports of Canada and England for Stream, end. regular expeditions were fitted the post yea.. Taking Ontario on the one out solely for this purpose by the United hand arid leogland and Walee on the other States. They devoted a groat deal of time and for the former the avertme for a, tann- in finding the temperature, but there 9080, ber of years including 1 880 (the returns for at that time, no accurate method of deter- 1800 are not yet published) and for the litt- mining the velocity of tbe water, tar the report that issued, it is found that The usual way employed to meet atin this " while the avert!, e crop of wheat por acre velocity was this: A ves,sel at sea is moved km year in the ld Country was thirty by its own power, or by the wind, pn once- bushels, that of Ontario—jutigina front MI Wan compass couree ; but at the tomb time, average of eight yearn —was only eighteen. current is impelling it in some unknown Th3giumi direction. produced thirty-five bushels of barley to Ontario's twenty.six, forty-one Laws Which Govern the Stream. of beans to Ontario's twenty, and nearly After a while rho captain takes an observe,- twentymine bushels of peas to Oneario's tion of the sun, eremite other heavenly body, twenty. There ISTS no crop in which the by which he is able to calculate almost ex- English farmer did not beat lois Onteath Italy where the vessel actually is ; and the brother, acre for acre, and on the whole ditlerenee between this position and the (ma the former got 40 per cent, more stuff off wloere he supposed himself to be he attn. his farm than the letter. Conoing to the butes to currents, By collecting many thou- difference in value of the respective yields, sands of these restate, a fair idea of the gen- the gross average return per acre for Eng - oral direction and velocity of the currents has been reached. bang and Wean is about VS per acre, while This method could only tell tloe general average, and could not (tumble 0,113' 0110 to predict a change in the position of the cur- rent, or any variation in strength or direc- tion, It is also delusive to depend upon the test of the temperature of the water to show the direction of the flow, because the wind and waves, massing & current of warm water, always carry it, 011 the surface, beyond the lint t of she °emelt t People who bathe on a sea beach notice that when the wind is blowing toward the shore the water is warmer than when it is blowing in the other direction. This is simply because the wincl slides or pushes the surface water, warmed by the sun, and every wave, large or small, also carries some of the heated water toovard the beach. IYhen the wthd is blowing from th land the warmest water is carried away, leaving the colder water from below to take i taplace, 'This ia also Ole case In the ocean, with the Gulf Stream. In quite recent years the government has started out in comore certain way to aseertaiu 11)0 110990 of this river. A steamer is anchor- ed in the ocean, and from it tile speed and direction of the water, as it flows pest, is measured directly, not only on the surfeee, but hundreds of feet below. Steamers have A. Drop of Hay -Water. already anchored in water nearly two miles Lot me tell you of seine of the wonderful and a half deep, and probably Hoare is 110 things have seen. Once I put a little hay spot in the ocean at which we shall not be in a tumbler, covered it with. water, and set able, before long, to observe the currents. the glees in a warm place for a day or two, Instead of employing a chain, as vessels Thee, with a medieine•dropper, Iput drop ordinarily do when anchoring in harbors, these steamers use a long, steel wire rope, of the water on a glass slip, covered it with a very thin glass wafer the size of a cent, which is lowered, pulled in, and wound up placed it under my microscope, adjusted the on a large iron spool,by steam•erigines. En this way we hove learned that this focus, toed what aeightinet my eyee. Dozens and dozens of what looked /the animated reale river is governed bylaws such as those drops of jelly were darting here and there, which govern the tides. You will remember Shat the tides rise tuid fall generally twice buinpiug against one another, or dodging aaah (.1 ay, Lb a greatest rise and fall d a rfa g imatne saantontoliiiegr t1 ihkeeosreohwocoi 1,-,1f) us tyrisa,antzeociti ess s. woPueird. Ole month coming about tile time of the new ancl full moon. dae'h a much bigger fellow. keeled it might, be a big brother, older than the changes in the Gulf Stream- others by some hours, ond so entitled to the In the same way the Gulf Stream's eurrent defermwe he seemed to exact. Then, in Re- veries in strength everyday, and at different other part Of the drop of water, the little ones times in the month., depending upon tho po- sition of the moon in the heavens. It varies formed almost a circle, and presently in the center of this came a bigfellow—he most have in temperature OCOOVaillg to the season, and been at least 1•1OOth of an inch_ long—who in position, too, a little ; lout the grand sta eam be ta reaomog " la T. wo,.„„ra is not erratic. Ail its movements aro fixed I dought to myself. " That is exaotly the by laws that do not change. way I hove seen him address an audience 11 18 maintained by sotne, that the cur- rent moved ao far to the northward a year ksunicTweuwedhiaetghee etioTdeetheiengsth"all ones, for not But loan mover ago that ib bathed the shores of Nantucket and Leeg Island, musing the wo1,0 her in New segvicaienakte " little ghost of an inandible reached my ears. Besides these England tO be warmer than usual. This thenclealon was based npon the fact little creatures, I could see whet looked like that sett captains foetid the watet water farther north than usual, and on the finding of a floating seaweed, peculiar to warm wa- tars, much tourer the shore than customary. But as we have seen, the temperature is poor guide 50 60 the limits of the current; and the mane wind and waves that 0011 early the wilder can also carry the small fragments of homing wed. • A Popular Delusion. Then, too, if the current did reach the shores, it could batelly temper the climate far inlan(1 unleas the wind carried the heated air; and this the wind can do about au well from the regular position of the cur- rent as from any position to which it may have moved. Tile month of December, 1889, was very warm for the 11805011 of dat year, and the that of Ontario is 514." These are figures that Canadian f armors will do well to ponder, batwing in mind meantime the foot that in the matter of expense as well as climatic conditions he has decidedly the advantage over lois Old Country brother of the soil. The immigration returns tor last yeee sbow a slight increase over the year 1889. The total lumber of immigrants entering the Dominion was 178,921 with &theta Yalu. ed at $2,609,409. Of these 33,678 Wells re- ported at the custotn houses as actual sett- lers, with property valued at $1,230,432. Thus it happens that while less then otoo'liftb of the total number entering the Canadian ports remained in the Dominion those that did remain were owners of nearly one-half of the total amount of cash and effects brought in by the new -comers. It is fair therefore to conclude that the quality of the Canadian contingent was much above the average. A. striking feature of the movement of last year was the unusual number of immigrants from 'United States to Canada, especially of settlers into Mani- toba, from Dakota, where the crops have proved a failure for the past two or three seasons. Is this a realm of some of the wandering sons of whom so much has been heard during the last couple of months? tione, West Africa, reports a eingtlar inch comae was assigned by many to the erratic dent which occurred in that harbour on Sun. movernent of the Gulf Stream. East of the dal, the 22nd February, to the afternoon one Rocky Mountains the United Stathe Signal of the boats which were moored off the Pub. Service has eighty 010 signed stations, 111410 Wharf was seen to suddenly atart off up at sixty-five of these Motions, many of them over a thousand writhe front the sena the river as if being tarried by the tide, tomperoturefor the month W SA many defereea t:he Some persone who withessed the affair pm, above norm!. aued it the runaway, and on getting up to °end that the boat was being drawn along winter e At Cape Macrae the stream _is le-laeaYai ay a graeagee,waar This is rattily a huge end 5000)01101, very bear—indeed, it octopus, and for some little time the own - la just outside the shoale—and yet here the meta of the tpinsuing boat were afroid to temperateve wa,s more than six degrees board the 00100 000fh dnring December, the air pressure as shown Leoue Harbour, and i i he fi t t me ithuFaattlincoaitilYitut 18,to two, or : s ci can.ror 1V0,1•10010 than the normal. tured ond towed back to Susan's Bay. It For the cause of this wo must look to the 01301/10 %Wit Ale MI 118 1 VC I11 C f air, and not the wearer, As it happened this deseription of fa; vie he 8 er Et by the barometer was higher titan "'mai 111 glut 'they have made off with one of the the vicinity of the Gulf of Mesita and the boats moored there, It Is said that some of Southern States, and "Th°11 1°'"I' twara the'fisli are of immense size, the body alone Canada, so that the general movement of air measuring from eight to twelve feet in dia. was from the warmer toWard the cold* meter, ano the legs are proportionately parts of the continent. l'he Gulf .of Mexico Ta„a rid the Gulf Stream are warm, and She ''''., 8 looted air, rising from them, was carried Alta the Bngagement was Broken. north, and so tempered the weather for the 111011th He. " ../And do you mean to tell MO 010,b ISTOW what is the mute of the Gulf Sitcom 1 7011 engaged yourec If to me for mere caprice over 1" be. !ntending all the while to throw 5080Some say that the water in the firopios, i ing heated, mid consequently lighter than I She. "Net exaotly ; but Pm writing a the Gold, heavy polar water, flows northward neve1,1thdrvo got to have On aged lover in on the sedate, and the other water south, it I needed a model, and so 1---ith--Shall Ward, underneath, Others .say that the I Seritl,.you 10 eopy a the book t" The elaborotely.dressed woman, on the street especially, Is deetigned to be a rarity.. Flashy styles will be given over to the mark- ed W0111011 who seek for attention—attention so far as the criticisms of their own sex mita the sneers of the 11101/ are concerned. Thatt. the time is ripe for a material change in the fashions is conceded by all women of theta mid intelligence, Styles have rim to the ex- tram°'until only a little distance remained to thopoint of the eeceedingly ridiculous. The strain on the purse has been severely felt. Changes, and of a radical nature, be- came so frequent that even the wealthiest fonnd difficulty in keeping pace with them. The reaction which hee set in is both timely mid 11CPAtily. W011100 00 every hand are welcoming the dawn of the simple in dress, While man will have extended to him the honor he has always esteemed the greatest would be eonforred open him—to walk the street with o woman in neat, bet simple, attire. It appears the German Government exer- cised strong influence to prevent the election of Prince Bismarck for Geoetemunde, but, alarmed by the strength of the Socialistic vote, an effort will be made to return the Ox. Chancellor by an ovtrwhornihg tnajoritv 180 the second ballot, • ti