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The Brussels Post, 1891-10-9, Page 3orT. is° i T H B BRUSSELS P 0 S T, A RAMBLE IN SOUTHAMPTON, reeord rif a Owe, in Heil, when gtinpewslee BUTTER AND OHEESE, adopt the satne system ill regard to it, same standard in butler tneking if yen ; was maid there, 10 repel it night attack 0 1.mi %,,,,jeuf eeereee era 1.1 miele by the French ; 80 that the American Apart from my Own business I was very ". "41 LI t I f I; gi in, upon . sigh, s use re. , greatly surprised and pleased at the vere Southampton, Englund, September 3.-1 f line displey of agriefiltaral ni 1 y t'hi" eitY "1, pf I 11.111iii:IIT1111.11Pit',W,1111:,ffr.C(11.1°11111V/11•Itim;':itill'e Sh01011 t 10, fair. The whets+ exhibition 111Odd,o,g, lElOrOly p.,1,1 or entry mut depart• . 1,4 A 811.1114„ It d1141101'S arc always prepared to wa.; reveletism end eptere1111 index of th" 1'".1.11" """t"intql gling proew'aion of belated travellers, take good adviee, cud 1 tlonk they may Canada's industrial pregewis," ••••••••.....1.••••••• seek it no a goal ins,..a.1 ef treating it rts. a bearini, bays rushed Wildlv by, as 1 steed pay even more atseetion to the views of a ensittiner from ale oad than to the omelette PERSONAL. of the 1101110 V11,0/11101' in rt'gard 10 the 11(111133. and elites.; trade, '' \ tete tilos,. werde Mr. \Vim (inhale, 11 Prinee likmark !malice tiniell from hie e1,1 Medlin! di reetm, of l'aundo,'H great fair, in- enemy iteuralgia, 11114 the writing of his mein - de" 1"1,er, e"1'1""1 ','"11110'1"'"Ile,'1 110 1111P1-1,1' 81 11111golisS8 10111 drollery, the use of Omen trodue, ;1 a reretter tio Mr, 1‘ , A. Mollie ot airs does not progress swIltly. lie dislike, I"' 1' 1 "111'. Wit" 11 l'H "I'"ant 11"8". 1.1111 111i 1/11134.:,, for 1 11., 1,11,111,,A and t hoplea• Aberdeen, semiruel, end euggret, .1 !hot the the work, fuel f s, rectvol. of the piust seems to 'motets to Seuthempten ,41011,1 un air, ot s'ilre id the passing hour. 1 foaming Omelets r latter gentleman give his impreseions ot 1 130 embitter and ;;Isturb him. turbulenee and seentnenuees. T1") 11"P"'" the narrow little equalid thoreuglifrire of , 'Permit., Exhibition, whieli he 11,1.1 been al, The operation eeeently performed upon spirit of this ens!, notwithstanding there is Blue A wilier Lone, amid. the picturesque ' teodieg. Me. M ellis is the chief partzter a newly awakened feeling of reVerelice Henry Irving's Owed, ly Sir Morel] .Mack - inundations of what was once the royal in the firth of Geo, 'Mullis & Son, provision enzio W118 eminently successful, and ?lit actively at wmes, =keg no account , '1 palace of John and of Henry the Third— 1 'lieu:bents, with headquartere at Aberdeen 'riving's voice will in future be less sulimet picturesque rweessories, and Cloes nollung LI colds of wilder. now LL mass of masonry that has outlasted. and is peylog his first vielt to atioada, a to lajnry beim the fogs an eithei• to create or to perpetuate them, In the etorms and nevagesof a thousand yettes visit combining bueiness and platelet.% In Southamptcm, for example, just as in an. Mr. Spnrgeon, the great English preacher, I looked into dingy lodging-MA.18mi that are a few words Ise told how pleased he was cieet Warwick, m treitwar jaughe along W110 1/11S been so seriously ill, has a fine scarcely mote 1 111111 110108 in e, wall, rind with the country and with the hospitable through the whit arch of a gray Mona t conutt•y estate at Beulah Hill, Norwood, ge 0 threaded a difficult way among groups of eheraeter of the people, The pos.sibilities of the .Midtlie Ages ; and this Ivey the Pse- re„ged chilikee, silenced for 11 n.,,,men, h.. The grounds are hanclsOrtiely laid oat,and in sent makes its continent 011 the PUSS. 1 et `2 y of Canadian development he believes to be t re presence of a atranger, but soon loud unlimited. Nis remarks MS tO 1110 butter Ids gardens end hot-housee Is a remarkable associated.,—the one bottle the consequent:0 and cheese trade, in which ho (11 more part. oollection of plants ancl ehrubs gathered from all parts of the world. the Present and the Past aro inseparably again in their earelese frolic over the crumb. ling grandeur of forgotten kings, Blue 'elderly intereated, contained keen oritacism and inheritor of the other,—amt tn no way Anchor Lane leads to the Arcade in the that must prove of value. bettor eau the student nf Boatel develop- weal. wall of the city, whieh, with iiS "I W01114 toll the Canadian farmer," said Walter Besaut olaims to have seen " ghosts"on several occasions in his life. ment pursue his study than in ramblIng ninteen splendid arches, is surely as fine a he, " not to waste his energy in the produe- theough the streets and minor% 910 street- spechnon of true Normen architecture as dun of anything else than the very finest was over three hundred years old,and while Once when he was sleeping in a room which nres that to -day has built !mild could he found in any part of this Kingdom. butter if he wishes to increatte his hold upon the door was securely locked, three old the ruins and the relies of . yesterday. 13ar Gate at the top of the Ifigh Street, is also the British market. And the quality of the A walk in breezy Soutlia:mptom.if only of a ladies in Queen Anne dresses entered and a noble relic of Norman taste and skill ; but product can be greatly improved by a more few home, is full of inattention. There sat down on chairs irbout the smouldering Bar Gate has been somewhat modernized general adoption of the factory system of fire. was a great and merry Innititude upon the 'Chen, withont waiting for further by changes and. restoration 1 and the statue, manufacture. The experience In Britain is menifestations, Mr. Besant became horror - lovely green Comtnon us:Tight, and the bmtd. npon its south front, of George tho Third in that the old system of butter making by the stricken, leaped from the bed and opened WaS playing in its pavzhous and the lards the .1 ruse of a Boman Ent peror, mars its vener- individual farmer is a misteke. In this, INS the blinds, letting in the early =ming were circling and twittering around the able nntlimity with D. t011011 of unconsciously in every other industry, combined Wart light, The visitors; naturally ofibnelecl by tree -tops in the light of the evening sun ; eemie humor. but as I ;stood them rind watt:lied the happy produces the best results. When made in o such unseemliness,slowly faded away. Mr. Many excursions are practlemble from creamery or butter factory as we call it, on liesant says, however, that he never receiv- throng and listened Le the martial music, • Southampton. 0»e of the prettiest o scientifie principles tho butter ut better and ed n„5, communication from the other the ecene eeemed saddeuly to change, them 10 1 110 drive westward, by the Corn. of a more unitorm quality, Tho farmer, I werie. and I beheld the armored colenes mercial It oad and Ramsey Lone, to the v11- think, should only :supply the raw material Alfonso XIII., the infant King of Spain, of Henry the 'Fifth and lieord lage of 51111brook, where 01010 is an old for butter nialcMg and let the factory do the has 110W, at the age of five, escaped from the trumPete 111eY, ea '4W the gel' church, and whore—in the adjacent cemetery rest. Take the matter of uniformity in petticoat 'nonagon= tend been phwed under lout King, npon hts mall clad charger, rid- —an obelisk of grenite marks the resting quality, one of the first requisites. At the the charge of a governor. The spirit of ing downward to the 01,11,, for Aginuourt and place ot the poet Pollock, author of 1 Phe present time 1 tun told, and have had ex- mischief seems to be as fully developed in the laurel of everlaer ing fame. . Course of Thee." Another, which may better perienee of the fact, you can find two him as if he were not a sprig of royalty, for 011 ereny side there is sqttiething in this , be made on foot, is the ramble along the qualitiee in the same tub, the buttet being place to stimulate the fency mid to 0,11111i811 St IN recent party in the palace garden he , avenue to Southampton Common, and sn, .4 two days' churning, Or take two farmers remembrance of historie lore, turned the hose on a distinguished general Al the '401 beneath oaks and elms and lime trees, and alongside of each ether with the same breed of the High Street steed King Canute'e pd. and (111 ambassador, drenching both. .11 ie through " 11 sweet disorder " of shrubbery of cattle, the same posture and the same also related of OM young gentleman that at swe 1 11111 there, upon the neighborieg beach and gorse. to the beautitill eemetery in winch quality of milk. In the one case the butter dinner reoently his iittenilant said, reproach - the menarch 'spoke his vale commerel to hawthorns and evergreens and a erofneion of is good and in the other poor. 1,e,r Sri ex- sday the advancing 1V11 1•0,,, 01111 made 1118 fully, " Kings do not eat with their fingers." ; all t he flowers that 'grow in this radiant land port trade this is disastrous. 1 he buyer 'rho youthful monarch finished what he was memorable sultiniselon to the Pewee that is have made a veritable bower for the awful requires to examine every tuli—and so eating with the aid of lijs fingers, and then greater than that of kings. In St, Michael s ,s s silence and ineciettable majesty of death. I troublesome is this and SO miry that he S'IllSr0 1 110y show yen tin ancient red...Won replied, " This King does." wandered there to look upon the bm•inl- house, made of timbee and brick, avoids it altogether. Lady Tennyson le known ELS the composer '" place el my old friend Edwerd Sothern, and , I came upon it, in an afternoon that was all " NOW it W111 not pay the Canadian which A11110 Boleyn once lived, with her of some charming musio, although age and ,aeu sunshine and fragranee,—like those days of farmer to export that kind of butter ; it 000 royal lord King Houry -VIII, ill health have rendered her unable of late It' '8 a careless mirth that once we knew together. be sold, ot course, but in the British market which beaes her name to this day. to do nmeh in that line. At the recent There never Wa8 a droller or more whiinsical it is unprofitable, while the finest factor two-etory building, surmounted with four y celebration of the Laureate's eighty.second snide There never WINS a comedian who to butter will command high prices. Hero in large gables, the teont curiously diversified birthday, at Freshwater, his words were t le faculty of eccentric humor added a more Canada I think you have a climate that with e, erescent pent and with four great 1- sung set to his wife's music. subtle power of intellectual perception and ought to produce as good buttorasDeninark. diamond -latticed casements ; and gaziug Prince William of Alontenuevo, the son of upon it, I could not fail to conjure up the artistic purpose, Few players of our time Yet et the present tnne between your finest Empress ;Marie Louise of France, is dying have made ao inueli laughter or given so creamery butter and the finest Danish there virsage of that dark.eyed, golden -haired at Vienna.. His father WWI Count Neil). beauty whose faseination.played se large a touch innocent pleasure. But he could not is a difference of 41 to 5 cents per pennd. perg, to whom the Empress WU married pert in shaping the religion and political bear prosperity, and he lived too much for This should not be ancl would not be if you after Napoleon's death &1St, Helena. Prince enjoyment—and so, prematurely, his bright sent us butter of a, uniformly high steed - destiny of England. There she may have William was strikingly like his mother in career ended. A sunple mess of white "4' stood, In the gloaming, and leaked fotth arsenal appearance. lie had a passionate upon the griln and gloomy Norman church marble marks the place of his last sleep and " To your farmers it would be of the P loudness for musio, and during the violent that still frowns mem this lnnely square, the leaves of a sturdy oak rustle over his greatest possible benefit if they could get 85 fits of insanity that have marred his life and weuld make a, darkness even at n0on. heed 1 mid as I turned 08011y from that place to ep,rnore per ewt. foe their. butter. The during the past ten years nothing has Booth- nt pence I saw the shimmering roses all osstson m re-aul to the erdinary buttet A few :steps from St. Michael's will 1 ring 1 ed hun so readily as the playing of the you to a relic of a different kind and fraught around, 0111.1. heard the cawing of the rooks P ado by the' individual is that it collies organ or piano by an accomplished music- , ; in the distant ohne, and felt and knew that • . 1 n1' i ,r, .• !lit co 'petition hi our market with what jam with widely different assneititions—the ; -0- - Wet '''' . hi this slumber there are no dreams and that se cal ec mat etu me,' which comprises birthplace of the pious poet, I RAO The house stands in French Street, a little with the dead all '8 well. a good. many grades It eau be and im EL two•story rod -brick dwelling, hav- W. 'W. produced in unlimited quantities and the good qualities are really more palatable bark from the sisiewallc, on the east side, ' I ing eight windows 111 tho trout of it and two than anything but the best creamery. The doors. Between the house and the street Benefited by Fiction. raw materiel of this ' margarine' is selected et " ' How many people realize that American fat imported to Holland from America and there ie n 0111.11011 101)1011 W11011 1 SIM it MIS (1,Willi.11,11t .1V1111 tIlO blaeiug yellow .of a mese tourists leave in this country from twelve to manufactured by the Dutch, who mix milk f bl ening marigolds. A tall Iron fenee 1 twenty millions sterling at least per alumni 1, and oil with it.. The different grades are ' et'llth ` 1 1' e ''' 1 Such is the feat Does anybody ima ' gine of absolutely uni orm qua y ,i) . t f l't and'the fines encloees the garden, v* ' s • tic ttr e • I that tuey come here to look at our buildings quality is expensive, bringing a otter price poplar trees growing aleng the margin, 1 - , and if yon stand 'at the gate, and look I and streets? No. Upon reflectioe, nobody m our market than Canadian farmers' but. elong French Street, you can d iseern bouth. eau fail to see that the man reason why the ter, rubbing close indeecl to the secoud.class ampton Water at no great distance. They bulk of them visit us is to see the places quality of creamery. The price ranges venerate the memory of Dr. Watts in this made memorable by Shakspeate and Jenson, from 0 to 18 cents per 113. or aboutthe same town, anti they have not only built a 01 i urch in Scott and Butes, Dickens and Thaelreray, as the lower grades of the Canadian butter. his honor, just above 13ar Gate, but have sot bleorge Eliot and Charlotte 13ronte, Bieck. Canadians have in unlimited quantity raw up his sifttrie (by Mr. Lucas) in the park,— more and 'Black. The indebtedness of Grad. ienaterial that is capable of yielding the the lignre of the cipoetolic bard as ho ap. grind to romance is, therefore, by no means enest butter. To put it to a, poorer use is peered when in the act to preach. This inconsiderable, particularly when it is re- really a waste of power. You should get piece of sculpture—the pedestal of which is membered that we, too, speedo considerable above this oonapetition with margarine to faced with medallions illustrative of the sum yearly in the same direction. tillak- whieh yoer poorer butter is now subject, life and labors ot the poet—was appropriate. speare has indireotly. bestowed millions of and export nothing but the best cretunery. ly dedicated by the Earl of Sheftesbury, pounds on the inhabitants of those pieces " At the exhibition I examined the cream - in Silly, 1881. Leaving the birthplace of with which his mune is associated. Not to fi cry butter entered for ootnpetition, and Watts you have only to turn a, neighborin mentionStratford-on-Avon,thereisforexam• w at I saw wite on the whole good, some of corner and proceed a shore distance, to filA ple, Rochester,a, town which unites reeollem very high class. There wo.s some, however, an effect of contrast still more remarkable— Goes of the great dramatist and of Dickens. that was a little off in flavor, perhaps kept the remnant of the ancient Donuts Del, in Near God's Hill stands an inn on the very too long, while some had a tendency to be- -Winkle Street, the buriabplace of the do. spot that Shakspeare doubtless had in mind cense sour, the buttermilk, I imagine, not capitated nobles WhO 10Sb theiv lives for when writing that scene in Henry IV- where having been thoroughly taken out of it, conspiracy to assassinate King, Henry 1, . Falstaff meets wall the " men in buckram," Alain, there WELS some of the butter rather This was an almshouse in Ileney's day, and I know that Bound about, as everybody knows, are many sa t for the British market, later (it, -was founded in the reign of Iftiehaaid buildings and districts made famous by tho one of the reasons for this is that your pea. and that has been restored—a small, derk,. creator of the Pickwick Club. '.Po this Elo think the salt will keep the butter in the First) but only the chapel of it remains, neighborhood American pilgrune come 111 otter eondition till it is lauded in our mar. oblong structure, partly Norman anti partly shoals, either before going or after havIng ket. In the old clays, when it took the but - Early English. Queen Elizabeth ass1gned gone round such bits of Dickees' London as ter Or longtime to reach us aoross the ocean, this church for the use of Protestant refugees still remain, Scott, even when living, en- that may nave been necessary, but in the who fled front the persecution of Alva and Hotted whole districts. When " St. Ronan's present age of quick and constant communis 8011710o is still performed in it in the irench Well" WEIS published, the notables of the cation there is no need for so much salt. The language, Under the chancel floor of this little town honored in the romance " voted butter should be made and shipped at once. old edifice rest the ashes of the false friends by acclamation," says Lobkhart, " that If kept long it loses some of its flavor and is elle mu name of Innerleithen should be classed lower. By shipping frequently there (dismissed to their; death 470 years ago), „ , , who would have slain their King and un - as fer as possible, dropped thenceforth, end is no need of so 11111011 salt, and our people perilled their eountry ; and upon the south that of St. Ronan's adopted. Nor were they like it better without. The travelling dairy wall, near the altar, there is a tablet of nitetaken in their auguriee. An unheard-ot- that the Ontario Government maintains is El. gray stone, with indented ancl blookened influx of water bibbors forthwith crowned retty thorough means of educating 010 letters, bearing this record of their fate 1 their hopes ; and spruce hettlea and huge tamers and raising the standard of butter staring lodging houses soon arose to distudi making by individual effort. But if farmers woefully every association that had induced are within reach ef a creamery at al1, that Sir Welter to make Innerleithon the scene is, I think, the proper method of butter by these illVE4010115 of the (1811t10 loci al all making." of it romance. Nor were they who profited r sparing in their demonstrations of gratitude. The traveller reads on the corner of every 11031, ereetion there " .Abbotsford Place, Waverley Row, The Memnon Hotel, or some inscription of the like coinage." Such WitS one coati in point. The interest 111 the works I of the Nocthern INIegician has since his , death, scarcely, if at all, diminiLhed, Ab- botsford itself is still so popular a resort Near this tomb and 1 caning against the that the fees paid by visitors amount to waIl is a, beautiful old brass—the full-length about ;8400 a year ; and tourists go abont in figure of a French cleric of the time of as great numbers as of yore, the " Lady of Queen Elizabeth,—mounted 013011 an oak the Lake," " Marmion," or one of the board 1 the head being carved ni maeble, " Scotch novels " in hand, loolcing. up the while the person is of the dark green 1100 I places they have lon r pictured in imagine. that old brasses so often acquire,. end that Hon, with much t le samo fooltng that seems to enhance et once thou interest Cobden had W11011 he visited Burns' birth. and thole opulent °freak Th1g. place, " Ile describes himeelf," says Sohn In Southampton, es indeed all over Morley, " as boiling over with enthusiasm land, the disposition to preserve the relies upon approaching ' Alloway's mild haunted of a storied past is stronger at present than kirk,' 1110 Brig o Doom and the scene of it Was a hundred years ago ; and foe thistly; Tam o' Shanter's hetitilong ride," though antiquary has reason to be deeply grateful. the hero worship svas driven out of hini, as Ilia Constant regret, indeed, is that this it hes been ont of many other toiteists, by gentle impulse did not awaken reviles The (whom King the inevitable utilitarian who is pretty sure old Castle of Southampton to bo knocking about a place hallowed by Stephen reigned, who "was tt, worthy peer"), 1ette long 8g 0 d eSti,y 0 d , ba fragnintA , groat deeds or celebrated by words that live, the walls remain, and these, 11 le Omens ort the mmmiple that i he punishment 811011111 fit, the ernne snob num (meld to have blare, Ing operations constantly going on in their baok garden and be made to turn a tread- mill in order to get to bed. thormiehlare, 11 s unemeitem ;hymen) beanie' Is .for., 'diet er.ty renniote ef leudel mud „1 "3""11' ""1 61"'"4"" i3,316""'` cete-. awl ail idle yonth in the gateway, W011,11 110,1V uy appreelited luore luiro , 11„41,„1„,t, gayly litl;""1 11°0 iheY 0111.'1' I" pki 1 a., .3 IT •• Ph., eitl left laltind prt,ent, 1.11111 arc view, 011118 inei• ^ Richard, Earl of Cambridge, Lord &rope of Masham, Sir The, Gray of Northumberland, Conspired to murder king Henry V. in this town as he was preparhig to sail with his army against, Cluirlea WM Sixth, King of France, for Which Conamrney they were execnted and buried neer thie place in the year INICCOOXV. toobserve, ne•oguarcletievith scruptdons care. As you stroll along tho shore you gaze will wander f vein tho gay and besy steamboate, --alert for the channel islands and for Vie= and seeming liko brilliant birds that plume their wings for IlightieettulNvill rest on grim towers end beetions of the thirteenth and tbe fifteen; h centuries, over which the ivy hangs in queer dtapories of Alibiing emerald Ill-Intmor arisee from an inward oon. and against, which the copione flowers of seionsnese of onr ONVIl want of merit from a geranium and nasturtium blaze in ecarlet discontent Which ever n000mpaines that and gold, Ono of those citadels, peactefit ly envy Whieh foolielt Vanity ougenders,— occupied novc by the Harbor Board, hearts CGootho, E,xperience le the oretun of life, but it soura with ago. "As to your cheese," said Mr. Mellis in response to a. question, "there is no ' doubt all. Yon have got there with Canadian cheese. I purohased the first prize exhibit at the fair, and consider the sanmles of choose Shown there es the finest I have ever seen. It is for ahead of Atnericau cheese, and is different in many respects. 11 does not ripen so quiekly and keeps longer, in that being not unlike olieddro. The Ameri- ear consul at 13rietol some thne ago reported that Canadian cheese wits driving American cheese out of the market, although the latter was tls to Ss less por hundred, The admiration. leo:sueli public d000ration has progress of Ca.midion °hoes° has been very boon intrusted to women in this country, ertokl, and within the past eight years it amd they have had no suell olumee to display has obtained supremacy in the market, bo- their skill, America is far more conservative ooming better and more valuable yoe,r by thaw England in the employment of women yeas Tito trade is eneemous some of tho as household decorators. Departments in Vessels leavieg Montreal carry' hardly 1111 . women's schools haveffiready been started in y- training girls in thing oho. It is ehipped down the Ste (-1"" 131,1Laie for Lawrence by a 000l route, and reaohes the , horticulture. At Alegandra College in market In far better condition then oheese I 1)11111111, a department of thie kind was shipped from more southerly parte, I don't ' 00 successful that it IVSE4 speedily initiated know whether it is speculation or not, bee I tit other 50110010. At the Werth London there is il, tentioney to keep the price rather I Collegiate Soliool recently a paper was read high. That, of course, must in tho end do. 1 by Mrs. Chamberlain, a lady who has 'man. defeat itself, for the people aro not bound to aged a, garden of two and a half acres with oat cheese and When the price becomes too 110 other Resistance than thet of a boy of high tltey buy something c !114, Thou the fourteen end the notiasionel help of a wok. value goes down with a boend, and, alter a Ing gardener, During. the season of the eohool Wire, Chamberlain is to ,givo general lectures on the stibjesit of tiorbion trite, in- tereled for ladies who, if they do not in- tend to teke up tieltive work, may desire to Onre of Flatirons. It is so easy to keep the flatirons in good condition that there Is excuse for any housewife neglecting them, no matter how busy eho may be. .8.0y woman can easily tell at glance when these articles aro well kept. Some housewives will have in their possession irons that have been their mother's before them, and though they have been in constant use for years, are still as firm aml smooth as any one could. Wish. Other women, with the same kieds Of iV0110, W0111d, by negleotand careleSsuess, in a year or two render them unfit to use, Where there are many starched clothes to be done up weekly, it is a good plan to wash the irons once a week, but where plain clothes agd only a few starched clothes are to be done, once month is often enough. Talce some clean &minutia soapsuds, and with a cloth W0Sil the iron well, afterwards striping with a, dry cloth ; then put them on the back part of the stove to dry thoroughly. To ()lean the irons, always have a piece of coarse sandpaper, or a handful of coarse table salt, or lb piece of wrapping paper in which to rub them. Always have the top of the range perfectly clea,n before putting on the irons, and never allow them to get too hot. If such a thing does happen, cool them by setting Upon end on the hearth, Some women,when in a hurry,cool irons by plunging them into cold water, which will yery soon spoil thorn. Don't keep the irons on the stove 31711011 not in use, for it is sure to harm the temper of the iron, and don't have irons on the stove when 000king, more particularly when the artiele 000king is one that is apt to flow or bnil over, or while frying. After taking an iron from the stove, whorl wanted for use, first rub it °ma piece of homey wrapping paper kept for that purpose, thou rub the smooth part with a oloth in whieh is encased. a bit of wax. Rub the iron well over a °leen cloth, and then it is ready for the clothes. In ironing starch. ed clothes, if any of the sbareh stiOlts to the iron always scrape it off with a knife before placing 011 the SbOVO to heat Irons should be kept in some closed, dry place. If kept on a, shelf they are always dusty when wanted. , Lady flortioulturista. The bneiness of florist offers at once a re- munerative and oongenial employment for Womon. There two many women florists in Amadeu, and a, iertge number in Great Bzitain. The decoration of Lord Beacons- field's monument on last Primrose Day Wall intrusted by the Primrose League to two lady florists, and so successfully WM 1110 NVOT10 earried out that it attracted 5operol time, rises to the normal lignie. " To etun no, 1 tun more convinced than over, as a, result of my visit, at Comedian traduce cam command a gent share of Brit.; Zell teethe The market is an unlimited ono, fraPerintend the manitgentent of their ger- und if you supply us with the hest artiele dens. Spada attention is ealled to the you will get tho best price. You lave al. need of a thorongh training and genuine ready rettehed it very high standard in choose love for the work. making. T1310 luta been largely a result of adopting the factory system and Rooming The num who keeps hie 011111 shut nom uniformity of product, You can rettelt tho has to oat any crow, THE FLEETS OP TILE (TAN, !Six torpedo Willi aro buiblisig, feur for the lialtie and WO foe the Meek, of eiglity.0 Conti cavil. Two, the Nargen and Heeblan d, TIAP 1'10111111.01S Wil—ieti.(143 Iteelt Peeper- completed at Abo, were deei•med f or VE1 err the (sleek sett end the Bettie, T110:11 0110 11101 that, 1111(1,1` ordinary eirettresteneee, should furnieli a reassemble guarenter! that no I.:W.01101111 WOX would be undertaken volentarily, by litweisz bef.ge I stet, she has (heeled that her troops must le, reerneel with reeeatieg rifle, 1ng vory high speeds. 1 silting the Battle .1,17 1,13,3,1„.(1,,,,,,uir4.1:111,,,,trisi r tele, n suutL,11111 n,11(11,,,..,:i1ct,exiii11..;,31,411e1t:i,tildt1113.1sg,torirpulenclte, emits', hardly les ,,ertioleted in less then ,•ige. , aceeraling to the Menem.. nearly equal, leen months, or t we years. But as possible If they; do not Leveed, 1 rio in number, and sefeets to thi8 metive for delay. wo have the ; they are provided with ollieere end 111011 w on thitsiaem etirrell up by the Fraziesellue. ' are well adapted for Ode peculiar eervice. shin anteaters and the eeigelenes of the Dar. drutellee ineffient, which nkitt preeipitate twenty- two keels, Leal winter L (gilt new torpedo boats were ordered for the 131a lc See we to bo built at Odeissa, thr oe at Nirolaioir, and three at Sebastr,pol, I short, Ruesia les ft very powerful float of torp.d erati, both boats and ernieere, have SINGING BANDS, interest to Meanwhile the growth of Russia's fleet has I Pe"01-e 313.141 11141 1."1 1 1 1 11" ""s" Wa0 Triseed..1 0 Its seem.. tmeturl fatuntion. A glance at her geo- graphieal poaition shows that her naval One of the most remarkable natural curl - forces in home watere, exclueive of Geese in °sides ever heard of has jus1 been diecover. the Pacifie,are divided into thoseof the Battle I ed in Flint Hills, Kau. A long reach of and those of the Bleek,which are too dietent country in that section is composed of sand beds and hills covered with mall particles of tlint interspersed vith home larger rooks. It is utterly barren. A road passes through the desolete tract, but it is travelled only when the people are in a hurry, for It 10 hard on man and beast. About two mouths ago the people were surprised by mayoral -slight earthquake shocks. The tremblings continued for several days, A few nightS af ter the eazth- quake people at the farm of jasper Newton, on the edge of Flint Hills, thought they heard the seand of muoio, and got up to see who 1055 playing at that time of night. The sound rose and fell in regular cadence, but they, could distinguish no tune. It had more of the sound of au aelian harp than of any other instrument. They listened for (some time, but as the musics neither advanued nor retreated tkey concluded that it must be at ranne neighbor's, and the sound was carried le, peculiar cendition of the tames- Ph'01.160e. next night the music came again, only it eeenuel to be louder and nearer. So loud ults it that Mr. Newton could distin- guish the filet that it came from the direc- tion of the sand hills. Thenext night there was a heavy raimstorm, and the music. did not sound for several nights afterward. Then came a dry spell of a week, and one evening the family NVOS sit- ting in freest of the house the sweet strains ere hotted again, anly they were not so loud ite formerly and appeared to be at a much greater distance. As the dry weather continued the sounds became louder and neater OV0PY night, At last it. was determined te solve the mystery if possible, and a plity of young people set out for the Flint Hills determined to camp out all night and see what it was that estuseil the sounds. The first night they camped about: the centre of the waste spot. Atter darkness came they quieted down mid 50011 the sweet sounde were heard faintly in the direction of Newton's house. They thonglit at flrst that, a trick was being played upon them by seme one at Newton's, but, the same strain continued with no varia- tion of strength all night long. Then they moved their camp nearer to the edge of the barren place, o,nd that night tbe music ap- peared to come from a spot abont a hunched }exile (rem them. The sound did sen seem any louder than when heard at the house of Newton, but it was clearer and more die - Una. One of the party went out to investigate, and as lie was walking about the musk, sud- denly stopped, lie stood still for oome time, but not sotuul came. Then he walked away, and had gone hot a short distance when be heard the music behind him. Re- tracing his steps, it stopped again, but as he walked on it started up. Ile then mark- ed the sand with a stick and went back to the tent Next morning they investigated the plate where the stick had been placed and found tint it WAS almost gone. At the spot where it had been placed the sand. wits working as if sornething underneath WENS boiling. It bubbled and work.ed eoneen- trio circles and evidently caused the music by the rubbing together of the partiales during the curious phenomena. When it rained the wet sand would emit no sound. to effect a junction in ease of need, Moreover, both forces are under restrietions which, as Sir E. J. Reed phrases it, approach nearly 1,0 the conditions of bloeltudes, n the Black Sea the fetters rue those of the Boephorus forts and the European treaties fleet which she is now struggling to free herself in part. In the Baltic the blockade is that whieh is enforced by nature nearly half the year. With her accustomed. energy, however, Russia, bee constructed a navy during the last twenty-five yeara muited to her especial needs. She began with a series of monitora, launched during the latter part of our civil war. Next follewed the admiral class, con. slating of four turret ships of about 3,700 tons displacement. A third etep m advance was furnished liy the circular coast defence ships, or floating batteries, of the Popotfka class. Their displacement is about 3,550 tone, the speed about eight knots, and the armement two 4 l•ton breech loaders and four smaller pieces. Bnt oue of Rueeia's chief conceit miens In navel construction was rmule truer In the form of armored cruisers cembining high speed with goml protection all,1 0110,41NO battery. The Ceueral Admiral, launched in 1 s73, was the pioneer el this class. She was built of hen, wood -sheathed under 100100, 01111 COppOred. She 11,1113 of 1,43e toes displacement, etestmed 11 knots, carried 1,000 tans of coal, with an endurance of nearly 6,000 miles at 10 knote, had 6 inches of armor at the water ltne and around the battery, and a curve.) protective deek, This WIIS IL great advanee on previous types, und the system 1V110 taken up and improved upon in 1111111y navies, Passing 110W to the last five years, and to the Meek Sea fleet, the fir•st group to uotice are the Catherine II. and Tehesine, launched in 1886, and the Sinope in 1857. These three battleships, of 10,18 1 tons displacement, are belted throughout with conmound armor from 18 to 1 2 inches thick and Intve 3.inch protective deck. Their batteries consist of six 1 2.inch rifles on disappearing barbatte carriages in a redoubt formed liy 14 -inch armor, besides; seven 6 -inch rifles on the gun deck, and revolving 0141111011 and torpedo tubes. Each vessel cost about '84,500,000. The two earlier are 1 6 -knot ships, but at the trial of the Sinope the machinery, which was furnished by Napier & Co, of Glasgow, developed 12.750 horse power, which gave a. speed of 1 7.38 knots, About a yen'. ago, at icolidelf, was launched theTwolve Apostles, of 8,200 tons displaceinent, for theBlack Sea fleet. Still another laid down at Sebastopol is the battleship St, George the Victorious. third, of 1 2,460 10110, IOLA been commenced at Nicolaleff, while it is reported tbat a new battleship Ines been planned. for the Sebas- topol yard. 13ut none of these, except pos- sibly the Twelve Apostles, could bo made available within a shott time. The cireular ships Novgorod and Poport, with their IS - inch armor, belong to the 131ack Sea. Noticeable next in the Black Sem fleet are six gunboats, the Donetz, Uraletz, Teretz, 1,224 tons, 2,000 horse power, and two 8 - Kuban ets, 7.aporogetz, and Chernomoretz, of inch and one 6.inch guns. They ere of light draught, for the purpose of being esed the Danube, if necessary. Several other vessels, mostly unprotected cruisers, need not have special mention. In the Baltic fleet, besides the four armor - clads of the Admiral class, now of little im- portance, and the Poiarski and so on there is the Peter the Great of 0,340 tons, four- teen knots' speed, and four 41 -ton guns, There are also eight belted cruisers, ranging. from 5,800 to 8,000 tons, and with a speed ot fifteen or sixteen knots, and from seven to ten inches of armor. The Alexander II. and Nicholas I., of 8,440 tons, 11ELVO EN cone pieta belt of steelartnor from six to fourteen inches thick and nine feet wide, with a battery of two 1 guns, four 11-ineh, eight 6.inch, and four 31.inch, the P2 -inch guns being in a 1 0.incli summed berbette tower. These vessels, which have a speed of sixteen knots, are fine modern W111. ships. Mention must be made also of the Pamjat Axowa, an armored cruiser of 0,600 tons, having afi-ineh bolt, eighteen knots of speed, and two 3.inch and fourteen 6-110011 guns ;of the Ghaegoot, 6,628 tons, launched at St. Petersburg last autumn, which is to be fol• lowed by one similar but probably larger t the Navarin, it turreted battleship of 0,500 tons, sixteen knots speed, and four 12..inch and eight 0-10011 guns ; finally, the Rurik, whieh will be of 10,000 tons, with armor belt of medium thickness, a speed of eighteen knots, a steam ratline of '20,000 miles, and a heavy armament of four 8 -inch and sixteen 6.inch rapid.fire guns. ,Of the unarmored steel cruisers the largest and fastest is the Admiral Korniloff, of 5,000 tons, built et, St. Needle. The Orel, about tho same size and built at Glasgow, is an auxiliary cruiser, being the tenth of the much -talked -of volmiteer fleet, She ob. tallied the unprecedented average speed, under nateraldraught, of 1 0.37 knots ou the measured mile dnring period of six hours, The Vitias and the Rinds. are of '2,065 tons, 3,000 horse power, and lo knots. There are several vessels of the Pamjat Morkuria class, 3,000 -ton unprotected 01111813114. Very nosiceiable are the three evinered gun. boats Grossiastichi, Gremiastchi and Otaltgenii, arinered gun boats of 1,402 tens, yot carrying a 5.411011 water. lino, bolt a oelluloso coffer dam, a 0- ineh and a (3.113010 breeeh-leading rule, and searing 1 8 knots' speed, This is certainly a very marked type, The imperial fttolit Polo Star, of 50,2 tons and 1 8,85 knots, can be used 111 war time as a cruiser, But in her torpedo eraft Russia has per- haps gained most eelehrii y, The Adler, a new type introduced by Schiel•an, of 180 tons, is Line of the fastest vessels in the world, having made twenty.six and tt half knots imr hour, The light 0.31(1 Salton, tor- podo gunboats of 600 tons, with protective deck and 100 tons of coal protettion, have speed of twenty knots itml carry six tubes The Kazerski, also constructed by Schiehau, has made twenty -ono knots and another vessel of the same type has 1:con laid down Nicolaieff, besides two others to bo heilt by Schichen at his ONV11 works in Gertnany. The Anaeria is a, twenty-rme- knot torpedo boat built by him for Russia, An Enobanted Pr:noess. I found her dee() in the forest, 'rhe beeclute end chns between, A delicate amber plane tree • Mid masses of bronze Lind green. A. sorrowful, snollhound princese Awaiting her lover there, She said, newt() know me senile', 13y the veil of my yellow hair. " He seeks 010 tho wide world over, Ile seeks me the whole year through, To loosm tho charm that binds me, My prince and iny lover true " She shirered beneath her foliage, And sighed in the twilight chill, "Ars, me, wilt thou find me neVer. Thy lovo that thou sootiest still " " SSW 111111." chirruped a blackbird, "Ho passed by this very spot HO le come, and gone, 0, princess I Ro pmsed, and ho knew y ou not," The cold wind rustled her branches Till the yellow loaves fell slow ; " Ile is dead and gone, 0 princess Many a year ago.' A Pre000ious small epicure, while saying the Lord s Prayer at her Mother's knee the other even. Mg, varied the ustial formula by substitut- " give us this day. out• daily chicken." " thought I might just as well ask for something I liked while I woo abont it," tille said with childish faith, " and I just love fried chicken 10 She ie an original little thing and her commente are often very ainuaing, Having been brought up in a family of briem..brac hunters, her knowledge of ceramics is quite remarkable for a child. Ono day her mother noticed her gazing fix- edly at her great-grandmother, a very old 1vonian, whose kind old face was literally netverk of fine Nvrinkles. " What 'are you looking et, Bessie 2" she asked the child. " I Was only thinking," she answered , promptly, " what a remarkably fino sped - men of old crackle Grannie was." This was much to the old lady's delight, shelving a bit of a colleotor herself. Exploalon On a Kan -of -War. ' The English cruiser Cordelin, which has lately boon sailing among the Pacific Islands, returned a, short time ago to Sydney, Australia, bringing thenews of an exploston. While firing practice was going on, 6-ineh breaoh-loading gun burst at the seventh round. Two officors and four ef the (mew were killed and many were more or 10E38 severely injured. When the explosion occur., rod the ship WM shaken from stem to ste Imgo pieces of iron flying about in rm, directions, The upper dock watt b all through. Part of the gun earring° wee It 'nese actress the dock, while fragments of the'orka mod gun fell into tho sea, hundreds of 'Mat. away, The Cordell& is a steel ship of Vitra tons displacement and 2,420 hors p Sho WM built at Portsmouth an latmehed iu 1881.