The Brussels Post, 1892-8-5, Page 6THE BRUSSELS POST.
HOUSEHOLD.
The Ileidenminer Month.
The midstunmer inonth is half.gone, The
•anost sultry eveather of the year is with no
la all the temper/tee zone, "hot joie", boil -
Ing like 'the fire," ie a month generally
dreaded. In ench weather every precaution
tehould be taken to avoid exposure and
eheigee. The entire programme of life
which wars suitable enough for the colder
weather must now be (hanged to suie the
torrid heat.
There are many riays in this month when
elle (thief part of the work should be done
in -the cool of the early morning, and the
midday be left for relaxation and rest,
Nothing is gained mid a great deal may be
lost by bard work during the sultry season,
It is astonishing how much slcill and care
may do to mitigate the discomforts of ex-
tremely warm weather, If the house be
Shut up during the middle of the day, so
AS to keep out the heat awe flies, and open
in the morning and evening to let in the
eteol air, the temperature may bekept 001-
A U41 UST 5, 1892
whitee of four eggs, two cups of ilour, OU S fiTOES.
B13.W-1M A.ND ria wAu.
ter, a third of 10 eup of sweet, milk, the
teaspoonfal of oPeam o' tartar, half a 'tea.
SpeCalfhl of soda end a teacup of raisins, 11
recolres two persons to lin the moul Is with
tale cake, one to put in the white pert
width forms the border and the other to
put the red pare in the centre. A motet&
mould is the best to bake this cake in, ea it
is the moat ornamental. Let the take bake
for ahem air hour io a Inthierately hot ovele
Whcn it is done, let it cool in the mould and
curving part with a green tereg, colored
with spmech green. The French vegetable
coloringe what') come for this purpose, and
cost idiom, 25 centre a bottle, are perfectly
barmier s.
Invert it oil a platter. Ice it, thichl 01 111(10
Row to Deal With the Mosquito.
There are very few people who attempt,
to eeel with mosquitos Se they do with
other inseete. Sufferance seems to be the
general role. In meny Ideas in the moon -
tains this insect disapaears early in July,
but in lowland, near neer or seashore, 13e
takes up his quarters for the season. There
formerly oomfertable. Whet° t ,e2 e 18 nn
appears to be no remedy quite so effectual
awnings the blinds must be closed, and the
ishades drawn in midday. for au, pest ite the odor of pennyroyal.
The wise bousekeeper arranges her rook -
big, so that there shell be no excessive heat
from the stove during the afternoon. liy
1(101180 01 boiled meats and simple stews
and braizes, which may be cooked at the
moreing fire, she avoida the strong fire re.
quired for retests and heavier meat dishes.
'On ironing days or any days when it is
necessary to home D. strong fire in the range,
she takes adventage of it to cook meat
enough for two or throe days. Thus by
earefel management she can avoid a fire in
the range at last half the time, using ea
ell or gas stove to cook the simple suppers
that are Meat desirable at this season, In
the very charneter of her food, she 11111.3,
combat to roneideralele extent tlie discern.
'forte of the season. applying the. antidote. ins prevents the
A mistake which housekeepers are quite ng teat sometimes occurs. A$
likely to make ie to serve cold food. Now Pauefut nie
m other eases, " One man's meat is another
a meal exolosively of cold food is one of the
man's poison," and. the same remedy will
most difficult to digest, and area more
not apply to all milivienals. Some find
•severely the lowers of the body, whieh are
ea.mplior etli cm iota, and 8011 01(1 water
already weakened by the heat, The
will not avail. ..anamouia, however. seems
ea/melee of light soups, delicately broiled
to be generelly successful as a neutralizer of
steak, and other meats that are easily
the motel nito poi en, While there are large
digested, are especially needed in a summer
quantities of inosauitoee and 00 (60000 for
diet. The feinous cook of Prime Ester.
thew appearance Is apparent, 111 10 well to
hazy, when ordered by his master to give
look about the p1011508 for something
him something easily digestible, as he was
suffering from hingnor, eta three slices from
15 welahung &Het of beef and broiled them
all rare. He heel the flea slice in thecentre
efthe serving platter and squeezed the
mice of the other two over it, until noth-
ing but the fibre was left in therm Thus
Ise served one fillet of beet on the platter
enveloped in the nouriehing juices of two
others. Sault a dish as this conteins the
stimulus mid eouriebment necessary to
combat the wear and tear of summer heat.
Cold meat heated up with a little curry
as far more digestible, and therefore far
more nourishing, then cold meat. Even
Iced tea, that favorite beverage uf
seramer, is a drink of doubtful value at the
dinner table. Hot tee heats the stomach
and prepares it 110 1110 wotk, while cold tea tote is canned athlete le may Le used
retards - digestion, like ice water taken I jest taken from the can or prepared. mere
during a meal, by chilling the stomach, eppetaingly acemeding to tee clammed
The midday rea, if for no longer than half 1 recipes,
an hour, should be a part of the daily A can of fresh canned salmon is a luxury
segime of every hard:working hoesekeeper. in more than one reepeet, and it lends itself
11 ehe can so teenage that she can get. such , so easily to different 'uses. In the Reenter
a rest, she will feel like rising early 10 the ic is one of the most convenient things to
morning, when she can do extra work in keep in t he house, Inc preparation into (111 -
the cool hours of the day, and the other- ferent dishes being so eadily ami eately etc-
-Mee long tour of duty of the day will be complished. Below we give flee different
oomfortehly broken. A great many women reeeeete tee tieing La
toil on hoar after hour without realizing I er o
,,ALMON. —One MD Of salmon, two
till they lie down to rest at night how eggs, one tablespoonful of melted butter,
tired they are. They have been keeping 1 orie cup bread crumbs, pepper, salt and
op on their nerve-ftree, rather than on them minced eucumber pickle. Ikea the liquor
The essential oih sold in drug etoresis hard-
ly so effectual ea the fresh herb iteelf.
bouquet of these fragrant herbs will usnally
drive away this troublesome pest. 1Vhen
mosquitoes attack a community in feree
they are hest exoreised by a smudge, or
smouldering fire oi pine boughs or fragrant
wood, smothered to give forth a thick
smoke. This smoke is not especially dis-
agreeable to people in the open air, bat its
effeet in driving may mosquitoes is remark
able.
The beet antidote for the bite of a mos-
quito undoubtedly is ammonia, weakened
with a little weteer or salt and water, Some
people go so far its to press the poison out
ot the bite with some small metal instru-
ment, like the poirt of 00, wetch key, before
which attracts therm An uncovered bar-
rel of ram water will brieg them in hordee,
and damp places end stagnant pools are
spots where they delight to congregate.
There are a great inany °ejections to rime.
quite bars, the ellief of which is the sense of
sutToca ; i on wbiell their uze engeeders. They
keep 001 nostjuitees, but they also keep out
the pare, fresh air it is better to endure
the presenee nf tbe pests, or to use other
remedies against therm than te keep 'teethe
fresb alr 13y the use of nets at the doors and
window*, or in eauopy over the beds
----
Cootne (leaned Salm on.
In the heatee season when it is very diffi-
cult to Leve fresh meat an excellent substi•
strength—e, most dangerous thing to do,
A Wonderful Woman
Physically and mentally, the late Dow-
ager Grand Dacha of Mecklenburg
'Schwerin was, in truth, the most remark-
able woman in the °enemy. Born on Feb-
ruary 23, 1803, it WaS Dot Until 1888 thee
she had any serious illness. Imagine eighty-
, five years of unbroken health 1 Her life
was idyllic in its peaceful beattty and good-
ness. It is true that the late grand duchess
had to endure tbe loss of her husband and
half a century of widowhood, and that one
Iv one she mourned the death of all her
ildren, but that ie one of nature's penaltiee
for the privilege, 11 10 be one of attaining
extreme old age. The tender affection
which existed for so many years between
the gaud duchess and her brother the late
Emperor William, was the great happinees
of her long life, and its countless ante of en.
assuming benevolence made it a blessing to
herself and others. That there must have
been muoh that WaS remarkable about the
duchen in her young days may be judged
by the enthusiastic admiration which the
sight of her superb figure and lovely face
aroused in the eyeacal philosopher poet
Heine, who confessed that to gaze upon
"Our Alexandrine's" pure and serene
features made him feel a better Mall,
A Mother's Argument.
"Tbe most-to•be-regretted act of my
life," says a lieutenant -commander in the
mavy, "was a letter which I wrote home
to my mother when about seventeen years
of age. She decoys addressed her letters to
me as 1My dear boy,' 8 felt at thee time I
was a man, or very neer it, and wrote say-
ing that her constant addressing me a a
'boy' made me feel displeased.
0' I received in reply a letter full of re.
preaches and tears. Among other things
' ahe said : You might grow to be as big as
Goliath, as strong as Samson and as wise se
Solomon; you might beam° ruler of a na-
tion, or emperor of mighty nations, and the
'world might revere you end fear you ; but
to your devoted mother you would always
appear, in memory, in year innocent, un•
-pretentious, unselfeanceited, unpampered
babyhood. In those days when I washed
and dream' and kissed and worshipped you,
you were my idol. Now -a -days yeu are be.
coming a part of a groes world, by contact
with it, and I cannot bow down to you and
warship you. But if there is manhood and
maternal love transmitted to you, you will
-understand that the highest compliment
that mother love can pay you is to all you
4 my dear boy"'
Water -Melon Cake.
Several correspondents hate asked to have
the reelpe for watermelon cake reprinted,
When it was printed amend yeare ago it
was a eomplete novelty, and as Buell mee
with general aceeptanee, but recently eater.
ere fewe taken 11 317 and are making °aka
in that form for sale at the zhope. The office
consists of two parts, the white part which
imitates the rind, and the red pate Mild
imitates the centre of the inelon and has
raisins in ie for mix To make the white
part, beat two cups of sugar anti It cup of
butter to a cream. Add a cup of milk, the
whites of six eggs, two teaspoonfuls of cream
, tartar, 0116 of soda and three and a half
ps of dour. For the red part, use one
cup of pink or red *nary MI, et cup of but.
from the ffith and set aside for the sauce,
piek the fish to pieces, then work in the
melted butter, seasoning, eggs and crumbs.
Put in a buttered bowl, cover tightly and
and 801 11 a pan of boiling water. Cook in
O hot oven one hour, then stand the bowl in
cold water for a moment to loosen the pud-
ding, and turn out on a hot dish.
For the sauce make a cup of drawn but-
ter, to which add the liquor from the can,
a beaten egg, pepper, salt, a chopped
pickle, end some minced parsley. Boil up i
and pour over the fish or serve n a gravy
tureen.
SALMON AD GRATIN,—Take a coffee cup
of salmon free from the liquor, and flake it,
mix with it a half cep of cold drawn butter,
pepper and salt. Fill a smal/ baking dish
with the mixture, cover with fine bread
crumbs, and brown in the oven. A little
mashed potato and half acupof cram forma
nice addition to this dish. lt should be sere.
ed hot and garnished with a little fried pars-
ley. This gnantity wie serve four people.
SAT.MoN ON TOAST—nal:a thedoh, season
with pepper and salt, and heat it with a
little milk or cream, Toast several slioes
of bread, which dip quickly lite() the hot
milk, place on a hot dish, spread with but.
ter and pour over it the heated fish.
SALMON CoQUETTES—One can (daimon,
one egg, well beeten, one-half cup of fine
bread crumbs, salt, cayenne pepper, nut-
meg, juiee of half a lemon, Dram off the
Jigger and mina the fish. Melt and work
in the butter'season and if necessary mois-
ten with a little of the liquor ; add the
crumbs. Form the parts into rolls, which
floor thickly, and stand them in a cold Omit
for an hoer, Fry in hot fat and serve on a
hot platter, gornished with fresh parsley.
Seramta SALAD—One cup of cold salmon
minced and mixed with an equal quantity
of chopped celery, Line a dish With lettuce
laves, tern into it the mixed sehnon and
celery, and over all pour a dressing made of
two tablespoonfuls of oil, three taleespoon•
fele of vinegar, salt and pepper. A may.
onnaise dressing may be used, but with
salmou the plain droning is to be preferred,
A Remarkable Woman.
A remerkable woman has juet passed
away in Fratiee by the death of aladentois,
elle Virginie efauvais. She was the old-
est teacher in France, ead was born ab
Nancy on the 3d of August, 1797, Up to
1862 ahe was engaged in tenohing and haci
written several worke on education which
in their way enjoyed considerable repute.
When she retired from her labours she WaS
possessed of a fortune of 500,000 francs. In
1890 she geve 400,000 francs foe the era.
tion of a hospital in her native city, In her
will this remarkable woman nioele the fol.
lowing provision r,—" I desire to }nen an
ordinary civil funeral, that my body be
placer" in a coffin painted with the national
riotous% mid time 10 5111011 he conveyed to the
cemetery tncovered by any pall. The hearse
shall be drawn with two harm as in the
caee of the poor, and the horses shall be
adorned with the tricolour. On my coffin
desire that a laurel crown be placed in
token of my lifelong flghe against ignoranee
end famatimem, Further 1 desire that my
coffin shall be followed by nixed of at least
ten perrormeres, who shall play patriotio
airs, and that at least 200 poor pea.
pie shall be invited to follow me tO the
gave, and that eaoh ot them shall be gly-
n a couple of francs."
'MO,' team" ana Their 34'4"m–ilea!' Mow the Selmoners Are Provertatied
d
In z Prapertle4. 11 4' II 0 I ed et Their Paten.
The lather of jewrerY wee Peailleilleam' Ever sime 111 (alt Colninbia °Wire
WI no be 3005 0" 1°°" ,by llee,euIee ire" , ash -milers heve been 'lamellate enough to b,
the chains that 1(1015015,1 nim to Al 01111L Gall. r00110,1 ,, gcm, 11 7300 1,,,,„,,, ,,, yg,„.ty c„1e1„,,,1
eawiis he made u rimout ofzcne of the
"Le to da steetnehip t ;
t1eN:1:0 Initi
ohs fttrees, and in thebeel of it hexed ueeaa00apreviewa00po(,10;eze.
Acordon
e • 3 , ('00011, to 700(3001700(30011001vit thwho
e /w
ee, elm bteng
thlerto of 111138 . t was the first ring and the mat stone. 'I te tioror a t 1 11t e v t 1 1 1) 53 t
-
Hebrew tradition aye that, the teblete ()Limed to Reliving :,,eit e»,1 play hido awl took
1 Moses we: 0 of sapphire. en Hebrew tile; 301 111 the Aino:teall BeVeilue Oaten+, With
Islyziliiiotlyi7sT110,iyaelruty. t, et
word seriph' omens the meet tbeentintilful.anetel. eiveng euealaann
Tho e'raIlteti1e'lle'lltie4eelly 81'1 enTinPraopRell. Ply steamer sows idea mae
y detained the renton of
Jelin in his Apocalypse. An ement cl of te hedged thePseeling beelines. Ie i he iirst
inestimable valne ornemented the bezel of place there ere two seasons, celled the
the ring of Polycrates. Xing a •'"111ee'L'11- t east'end the sunt seasons, reepeetively. Th0
net meaa"ht haring 'ee't ell htslIfe het'''. first begins in February, The fleet, whielr
cid by fortune, determined to put eis lack has its headquartere in Vitoria, gets out
s
to a severe test. Ile thiew the ring n t
' • of winter qnarters at that time teal ail
tbe sea. alio next day
he we" fishhtee The 'south to somewnere off ehe Oregon coast,
record of that dita's sport still anoints ur where the vessels fall in with the seals mov•
broken. leis majesty caught a flue lis 1, .ier, north,
ana in the inside of the fieli he fotild his b
A schooner carries from four to eight lam
•
ring. That happened in the yearL- 30 of
tors, math ono of whom has his boat and
the foundation or Rome, met the ring, con -
crew. Day after day the boats are lowered
sidered as a talisman, 300.0placed tenting the aed go ereieleo emu", sometimes several
royal treasures of the Temple of Concord. ''
miles from the veseel, in pursuit of seal.
Emeralds from indea, Persia taxi Peru are The hnnter !steads in the bow of the boat
the most valuable. According to their with a ehotgun and emote his game in the
tints "II their luster they are elassed as heed. It le no easy matter to make a good
Prosines, Neronianes and Domitianes. AS shot on a small boat tossing about on the
cording to Suetonins, Nero used to look at, waves mai a good blotter is, theeefore, a
the fighting gladiators in his emerald. The crack shot, or week' be so considered
stone is the emblem of charity,pe y ashre.
and 01101111033(8. It bad the repuh'
tcatioi?of .o
a hunter receives (33 a ski» for each one
curing epilepsy by appliation and ef being shot. Often in the coarse of the season he
an alaronnd paiu killer,
melees SI,200 or $1,50e. In some schooners
The diamond has always been regarded as Indian burdens are carried. They come
the most precious stone. It resists the from the west coast of Vancoever Island,
hardest bodies, if he Pontiff Aaron wore a and are as artistic in the mauagement of a
diamond of astonishing virtues. .it became • emee ia a heavy 550 00 (1 seete sea esieeder,
obscure, almost black, when the Hebrews
aspeTahresi. r method of killing the seals is wtb
rereIna state01"erIlsin*11ilag"i)EY Tliey peddle cenetly alongside a
ueserveu tteal,n tt ueeenie red, Out on ,”e
" sleeper "—sleeping seal—and pierce him
presence of innocence it canto back to its ,,eth the weapon.
original purity and brilliancy. Rues 0108000s " The seals move slowly in their mogrees
ra that diamonds breed, and that a certain towards the rookeriee, and 111 10 the middle
princess of the Is' use of Luxemburg had cwo of July before they reach there. Then the
which had a family in the course of a reason- sea season opens.
able time, The same interesting assertion In the past this has been the prosperous
is also made by Boethius. The dieenond 11511 time of year for the sealers. While not
reputed as a preserver egainet epidemics and invading the rookeries, they have, been able
poisons. It alms anger and foments con•
to get big =miles in the immediate mcinity
legal love. The ancien es called it "the stone
of reconciliation." It symbolizes constancy, of the islands. Now the cruisers prevent
any scheoner from even entering the sea.
For all that the Ressian side presents a
new and practically untried (1eld, with lin.
mense rookerin ou Copper Island. .This is
where many of the schooners were intend.
ing to go, when the seizure of the supply
steamer Cognitions, on June :22, slant oti
their provisione and wIl compel them to
come home within the rext few weeks,
Strength and innocence.
The none of the precious stone inserted
in the ring of Gyps has not been handed
down to 05,1)000 11, 18 probable that it was
the topaz whose wonders Philostrates re-
counts iu the life of Apollouius. An attri-
bute of the sun And of dre, the ancients call-
ed is the gold magnet, as it was credited
with the power of atirecting that metal, in -
In former years (me rendezveus 3011.5 ap-
thcating 118 veins and discovering treasures. pointed for the schooners for early at June,
Ifelliorlorne, in his story of Theagenes and and there the elm ly steamer would meet
Caricles, says that the 11070511 01000 from tire
theln, reeeise th tic skins and dive then
all those who wear it, end that Cat tales was their provision*. Report says the steamer
preserved by a topaz from the eery vengeance was mit always particular whether or not
of Arsaues, Queen of Ethiopia. This stone the effected the transfer at sea or within
was one of the first, talismans that 'fheagencs
American writers.
possessed in Egypt. The topaz at present
This year three rendezvous were appoint.
symbelizes Christian virtuee, faith, justice,
eel, mud the steamer Coquitlain, Capt. 11,
temperance, gentleness, clemency. fangene Mel:Allen, was charted ria the supply
One of the 'area end most precious stones
She lett henee June 9, with several
is the carbuncle, which is sometimes thousend cloliars' worth of provieions in her
Intended with the ruby, front
which 11 held, and with three cabin passengers. They
fees by the intensity of Its tires, produced were Cants. Kelley and Grant. agents for
hy an unernal luster of gold, while under
the Sealers' Association, and The World
the pnrple of the ruby there only appear orrespondent.
clottings of azure or lacquer. Ethiopia
Tonto. Bey Afognek Island in the
produced the most precious ancient car.
Aleutian group, was the first rendezvous.
boucles. The Choddeans regarded this stoee
This was reached in the teeth of a pee
EtS a powerful talisman. .Legend make Saturday, Jame 301. Running in the
the eyes of dragons out of carbuncles,
schooner Venture was spoken. She came
elarcies ab Horto, physician of one of th
in the same day. On Sunday, ,Tune 19, the
viceroys of India, speaks of earnbuncles which sehooners were towed to sea and the traits -
he saw ni thc palace of that price which were fere made.
s0 extraordinary in their brilliancy that
Then the Coquitlarn stood away for Port
they seemed "like rod -hot coals in the Etches. On her way there several schooners
midst of darkness. " Louis Vertoman re- were provisioned. Before entering the hare
ports that the King of Pegu wore an encr. bor inquiry was made as to tvliether or not
mous one, which at night appeared to be any warships were there. Not one wee in
lighted up with sunbeains. The virtues of sight, end the schooners reported they had
Ole carbuncle are resistance to fire, present. all lef t, So the vessel ran in aud commenced
vation of thli---sats
e eyes, promotion of la It
eto fill her tanks with water. She had dire
dreams, oration of happy, illusions and an charged no cargo, but had her hatches opeu,
antidote against impure ma
eon -When the Corwin mane in and seized her,
The ruby is valued highest when it One of the cutter's officere had observed the
tains the least azure. The largest ruby that moe-ements of the Coquithim and supposed
history speaks of belonged to Elizabeth of her to be discharging cargo.
Austria, the wife of Charles IX. It was al.
The vessel was taken to Sitka having
most as big as a hen's egg. The virtues at• aboard as a prizeorew Lieut, H. gainer,
tributed to rubies are to banielt sadness, to and Engineer lirere on. On the trip they
reprees luxury and to drive away annoying proved themselves very entertaining, and
thoughts. At the wane time it symbo izes did much to make thne pass pleasantly. Mr.
cruelty, anger and carnage, as well as bold- is a, Baltimorean and a very jelly
ness and bravery. A change in its color an- Qoinon
nounces a eelamity, but when the trouble is shipintete.
over it regains its primitive luster. The
S
amethyst,so called from the GreekmMOUNT AETNA'WORK, a
ethus•
tore meaning ":000 drunk," was re favorite — '
The Village or With a Population
Stone s.MOnA the Roman ladies. Its previa
prd virtue was to draw away the vapors of ()f00000 Reduced to Rains,
inebriety from the brain. It else drove The eruption of Motint Aetna is rapidly
away evil thoughts and attacted to its pos- increasing in violence. The fires in the
sessor the favors of princes. ureters show great activity and loud explo.
The opal, fallen from ite ancient splendor, seine are continually taking place. A severe
is to -day ca/lecl an unlucky stone, aVen by earthquake shock occurred this moreing.
those who laugh et old superstitions ; but which reduced to rnins the village of Giarre
it once beld a high rank among precious on the cOaSS of Sicily, five hours' journey
stones. The belief that it attracted mister- from the critters of Mount Aetna. The
thee was !minded on &Russian legend which population of Giarre is about 18,000. No
frninded its way into France. The Emprese mention ot loss of Weis =de, hue itis fear -
Eugenio bed a horror of an opal. At sight ed here that many meet have perished. 'The
of one in the Turneries she manifested ter- whole country suffered severely from the
ror. That had the effeot of loweriug the shock. Engineers have been sent to threat.
price of the stone. ened p010005 00 prevent the vast gnaneitiee
The turquoise is considered as a talisman of lava that are being Oaten out by the
in Penal, les Dative sole It preserves itS VOleano from entering the wells from which
possesser from tiocklents and mains eon- the population obtaut their supply of water,
stoney in affections. The valno of the Should the /am come into contact with the
tergeoiso depends on its shade and its me, water the steam generated would destroy
espealally its thieknese, Those classed as the wells.
belonging to the old rock are veined very The caters of Aet»a were last aotive in
highly. Einblem of youth, of sentiment 1865. (Sarre, the destroyed village, lay
and tender recellections, the turquoise mey directly to the oast of the famous Valle del
he called the iorget.memot of stones. It Bove, on the eastern eide of Aetna, a black
breaks on the dewth of its proprietor and anti desolate space three miles in width,
changes color when he is ill. Thie last bounded on three sides by perpendicular
observatton is perfectly true and is certified cliffs from 2,000 to 4,000 feat high, opening
to by ell lapidaries. The same thing has only to the east. The people in the mouthy
been Pommeled of coral. "Nob only do of the mountain are calm and betray no sign
precious stones live," says Jerome Catalan, whatever of epaulet,
" but they 1008 liable to get siolr, to suffer
from the infirmities of old age and at, last
to die." A Bad Atmount of Mashontaand.
The most precious of all stones, according A dreary ae,cment of elashonaleed is that
to Dr, de Lignieres, is the jade, on secouet which is given by a writer oo Baily's Maga.
of its rarity, iteextraordinary cluelities and eine, who has been sojourning with a party
the mystery of its cutting, It was rept-doe et Fort Salisbury for many months. Cottle
as a sacred stone iu,a nobody 1310 0. right to will not live tier will borate and it seems as
possess it eXeept a prince of imperial filood, if all men, sooner or biter, fall ill. The num-
Ageritis Glut'
eus a famous physician in bee of people who have 000030 into Maehona-
Amsterdem et the time of the Real:seance, land is 1615 ; but there aro at the present
published a work 011 the ;jade or nephritic time only 600 now known to be fit the min.
stone, a it Was then called on account of try, all the others are gone or dead. "Fort
its nation on the Penni system. At the ROAMS Salisbury," the writer adds' under date of
period. Italian authors spoke of the jade as April last, is Wean playedoet ; there are
Matta and divine -ad its wonderful powers only bOut 400 Whftes loft in the oountry.
for healing sciatica. The legencissurround•
ing this stone ebound in history. 1)001
epechnene of jade aro extremely rare, and
the world is at 8, 1088 to know how the
Chinese managed to cut It, because it is so
extremely harcl that nothing can make an
impression upon it. Splendid speeimens of
gray and green jade eau be seen in the
museum of the Trocarloro.
About I ft,ODO 'men are er—nployed 150 nrtvi•
Whig 1,114 eteeencre and 6,3111) harps oe
the eliesiseippi 100,01 tribntarica, anti they
earn an average of b4151) per annum.
What with fever, bad food, and no work,
everything has eerie to a etandstill, We
ham offload onr 111 110335 at Mount Darwin to
the representative of 'Byname°, who went
to the nertrest telegraph point; and wired for
inetructione, The answer thee ho got beck
was "No, money at ail is to be invested in
'Mastic:melon d.'
The iler Royal Highness, "11101003
sontethilta VI nose of the erown prineeto
of Pentawk. r,he ls SiX feet three inches
Contrarrland.
sine her. smg 110 for Oat effete:Dd.
Wheel sell cm a voyage le tantearylanelt
The evinces are SII manly,
'Phe AHD 1,1 al1 ready.,
The eaten le tihing.
\ W1111•R
ro set soli for Conteerylend
and whom sball yoo find there?
rhey are ell 00 a kind there,
'mat great lama= band in the Contrarylnud.
They tin et 0 In onynors, like tat cleave norners,
And Waft to be 100504 into axing they're
pleased.
Their mouths 811 droop flown,
Their orebrews all frown.
'INT milk end they pont-
And they whale aied they flout,
And thew etearltly sate
.8.10 1110 (ley, all the allY.
"I and "0 000,11"
And "1 11 ;Iola' end "7 sha'n't."
too high," "ice toe low,'
les too fast," " 000 11000'
For a dweller in con trorylandr"
SIng Iwy, slag borer Con trarrian
Who'll sail on 0 00)0811 110 ContrarrIand I
The winds are all steady.
The ship Mall randy,
The cargo Is filling.
Who's willing, who's
To eet sail for Oontraralencl
Remedy for Potato Rot.
TO the Editor :
Sia—There are few diseases of field °rope
which are the direct cause of more loss to
the farmers of wade than that which is
known under the different uames of " pota-
to rot," " blight," or "roost.," My object
in writing this letter is to draw the atten•
Ron of your readers to the fact that a prac-
tical and simple remedy has been discover-
ed, and that the best time for applying it
is cluriog the Later half of this mouth.
This desease of the potato is due to the
attacks of a parasitic fungus, known by the
name of Phytophtltora infeetans. The life
history of this tunges is briefly as f011OWS
The fungue passes the wintee inside the po-
tato tuber ancl is planted with it m the
spriug. As soon as the potato throws out
its shoots, the parasite grows with it, run.
ning up through the tissues and the etemr,
and from about the middle of.enly producee
beneath the leaves an abundance of spores,'
or seed -like bodies. These are exceedingly
minute, 18111 000 produced in such numbers
that they frequentiy give a frost.like am;
pearance to the under sides of the leaves,
When these spores are produced an the
leases the appearance known as " rust "
lows itself in the shape of small, dark
brown dots, which are caused by the
drying up of the tissues from the pais, Be
having used up their contents. From the
rust stage all future infection takes place.
Some of the spores are carried by the wind
and falling upon the leaves of other adjacent
plants, produce more rust spots, while
others felling te the ground are washed be-
neatn the surface, aud reaching the forming
tubers produce the rot stage. The 3080 001,
as seen in an um in the tubers, is the form
of this disease which is best kno an, bet
7(5 0110 rot is really a dry rot which kills the
tuber, and ioo autumn the wee rot follows as
O result of decay. In winter the disease
occurs in the tubers as patella of hard,
whitieh diseased tiesue.
In this district the rust stage does not
generally appear until about the first of
August and this is the fires evidence that
blight is present no the field. As a rele the
Week spots appear only on a few leaves at
first, but if the weather be favorable the
disease spreads rapidly from these centres of
infection, so that a large field may become
Jiseased in a few do.ye, and as a result the
crop of potatoes wt.: be reined.
Ramitote
Careful experiments have shown that by
spraying the potato hemlines mettle time the
rust first appears with amixture of sulphate
of copper and Bine, known as the "Borde.
a exmixture," the rust or blight on the
leaves can be stopped, and as 00001000)081150
O large proportion of the rot in the tubers
can be prevented.
DIRDEAUX MIXTURE
Copper sulphate 6 pounds;
Lime, fresh 4 pounds ;
Water 45
To inake Bordeaux mixture—Tooke six
pounds of copper sulphate tblue vi(rol)
powdered, and diasolve it in one gallon of
hot water in e wooden Dub (iron must net
Ise used, as the vitro! would ((auk it).
Slake four pounds of lime an sufficient ,
water to make a thin whitewash. Strain
this through a fine sieve or a week to re- '
move all lumpe. When both liquids are
cool, pour the lime wash slowly into the ro
LATE FOREIGN NEWS
Statesties reeetaly ecnipiled show that
aholit. 1,200 miles of new 1 aloud Weio bllilh
in the Rata dodge; the first lax months of
'his year,
Of the thirty stoves in Machias, Sole,, six
aro owned and condrusteri liy women and
aro the nate totem/Eifel Intemese
melds in the town,
A. new pavement, made of metal plates,
10 now being tried hi elliicago and St, Louie,
One of the ad vanteges claimed for it is that
111will last nearly 20 yeers, and can then be
relahl without disturbing the foundation
which consists simply of some
Napoleon Le Grande, a Biddeford, Me.,
French Canadian, has a small mentigerie of
his own which is both profitable and emus.
big St. Bethnal dog furniehes
power for a terning lathe by diligent work
In a treadmill, end Mao takes pert, with
other (legs, in acrobatic exerclus which
wouhl men applause ho Barnem's tont Le
Grande hes clown dogs, leaping grey hoonds,
anti a buck deer broken to harness,
Herr Ferdinand Geyer, an Aestrian tent-
leman and land proprietor, aged about fty,
while ascending the Ortmiug Mountain,
near Aussee, in the Salzkamtnergut, on Sun-
day, missed his footing, end, elipping down
the side, was precipitated into a eliasm, the
mouth of which woe nearly covered with ice.
He WM killed on the spot,
The novice, Mathias Radek, was guill-
otined at Valence, in limo'Tuesday
morning, for the murder of the Trappist
Father Ildefonee, secretary of the Monastery
of Aiguebolle. 1Lobbory was the motive of
the crime, and the mur erer fled WIth a OM
of 12,1351, but Was eventually captured at
Picrrelatte'and afterwards tried and con-
demned to death at, the AMMO,
A woman without arms has been married
at Christchurch, New Zeeland. The ring
was placed upon the fourth toe at her left
foot. A similar marriage to this was per -
fanned at St. James' Church, Bury at.
Edmund's, in 1832. The zing Wats placed
on 01(0 01 the bride's toes, between whieh
she grasped a pen and signed the marriage
register.
An A ustraBan farmer saw a bolt, of light-
ning strike in the cell' re of a field on June
I last, and being curious to see the effects ot
the stroke, welked to the epee as WWI as
the storm was over. He found the subtle
fluid had left its mark in the slutpe of an
enormous " D " of an angry red colour'and
had no doubt it was the sign named of the
arch fiend himself. He Faye no money
would induce him to buy that field.
A diabolial attempt WAS n a 2e on Friday
last to upsee the express train which left
eloaseillee tor Paris at 11. '23. p.m. Iron
wedges had been placed across the rails and
fixed to the skepers at a place between the
stations of Pas des Lenciers and Vitro -Ross
_At this point the line runs along the border.
of et deep ranting. Luckily the engine
crushed th ough the wedges and sped along
in safety. Tliere were '400 passengers in
the train.
A Vies= telegram etates that the Court
of Prague has sentenecd the Preilrato
miners, who caneed the terrible fire, and
who confessed their negligence, to different
terms of imprisonment, Knee who threw
away the lamp wick, was sentenced to three
years' imprieonment ; Kandlee, who eves
evith him, to two years ; Havelka, who
raised a warning voice and confessed the
whole affair, to 18 mouths ; Pod the fourth
miner, who was not so neer the others, to
three months.
The guillotine, says the Tiente Paris cor-
respondent, has been imported into Annam.
A young Anitamite, 23 years old, who ae-
sassinated the mistress ef a European, hos
jest been executed amid the childish de-
light of the mob. The natives nem to feel
that the horrors of the death penalty of de-
capitation are much lessened by this Quick
Western method of punishment, and oddly
enough it is feared that one of the results of
the introduction of the guillotine will be
the extension of piraoy and brigandage. .
A serious fire is reported from Tortes% a
tradiog port and sea of a bishopric, near ihe
mouth of the Ebro, in Spain. A number of
workmen were molting pitch with the
object of repairing to bridge of boats over
the river, when they accidentally set fire to
he structere. Six workmen tn encloavour-
eg to extinguish the blazing pitch became
eveloped in flames and jumped ince the
,ver. NWO Ryes were lost aud some of the
ther were injured. The fire spread with
great rapidity, and eventually attacked the
bishop's palace and custom -house. The
!
midge was totally destroyed, and Tortes°.
5 consequently mit off front the right bank
oliefthpeimr,ive.er, winch is a Bourn of trade to
t
copper sulphate solution, stirring it all the
time. Now add enough water 110 010118 45
gallons, and the mixture is ready for use.
ft is best to prepare the mixture some tittle
before requireel, bet Rim s( be kept covered
to keep out all dust and rubbish.
To apply this mixture to tho foliage un-
doffitedly the beet and cheapest way is to
use a proper spraying pump and nozzle, but
if theta are 11011 00 hand, good results which
will well repay the erouble, may be obtain-
ed by applying the mixture with weltering
cans supplie 1 with ene roses, There are
several differeet kinds of sinning pumps
in the meeket. Perhape the most, 5000011.•
lent for this work is a force pump attached
to a berme on wheels, to be drawn through
tle field by a home. Smaller machines,
knnwn me Knapsack Spreyers, consist of a
O reservoir antainieg a small foreci pump,
whieh ran be carried upon a manes back.
Both of these kinds of pampa cat be pur-
ehased for about $15 to 320. It will be ne.
cessery to spray the fields two er three
time% to protect the crop thoroughly. There
s no danger of injuring the foliage with
the abovemixture, ea it is only half the
strength of the triginal formula which is
most generally ueed.
A great advantage of this mixture is that
Paris green, the only practical remedy for
the Colorado pototo beetle can be applied at
the same time. '1 o do this, mix front a
quarter to a 1011 00 pound of Parfet green with
to little water so as to Make thick paste,
and, then arid it, to the 45 gallows of Bor.
dente mixture, that is, it is used in exactly
1(50same strength as with plain water.
These mixtures must be kept constantly
stirred while being used, as both the Hine in
the 13ordeaur. mixture and the Paris green
sink quiekly to the bottom ol (lily mixture
if left undisturbed.
traPtol VLETOnER,
Entomologist and Botanist to Dominic,
Experimental Farms.
How a Hindoo Uses °looks.
The Hindoo places oo. clock in his parlor,
aye it write° in Toinpla liar, not because he
over desures to know Whet the hour is but
130e0.1100 clock is s, foreign curiosity, h-
eated, therefore, Of eententing hinISelf with
ono good °look he will have, peehays name
in ono ream. These docks are slow of his
wealth, but they do not add to his comfort,
for ho is so indifferent to titne that he
measures it by the number of bamboo lengths
the sun has travelled above the horizon.
Prfnerwe Beatrice in writing & book on
lace, to bo illustrated by herself,'
loo Michigan It is unlawful for railway
companies to neglect to block the frogs on
their roads, so that the feet of employees
may not be caught therein. A switchman,
while uncoupling ears, lied his feet aught
110 an unblocked frog and was injured. He
sned for damages, and proved that other
frogs in the yard Were unblocked and that
the Tarclinaster bad been notified of their
°audition. The Court decided that it was
no defence that the company had employed
men to keep all frogs blocked, and that
proper material had been furnished for that
purpose, beetrose the negligenee of the em-
ployees was the negligence of the ormapany.
Sara Pol/ard, Farmer.
Minnesota rejoices in the poreiession of a
unique oharacter, Sane Pollard, who is one
of the most successful fermate in Polk
County, where she owns half a section of
land which she works herself with no help
from men except in the harvat season.
Miss PoDard is a young woman of grace,
beauty and many accomplish /nen ts who has
left to pleasant eastern home for die life of
01800)00, She does her own plowimg, seed-
ing and harrowing, Operates her large farm
With no other counsel than her own good
judgment, and has added a quarter section
of land to her domain with the proceeds of
few years' hidustry. See Weal% when
engaged in otttdoor work ashort shirt which
falls pet below the knee, and has knee
breeches to meta it,
An Unexpected Rebuff.
A small Scotch boy miscalled to give ev-
idence against his father, who was accused
of making disturbances in the strata Said
the bailie to him : "Come, my woo neon,
speak the truth, and let us know all ye ken
about this affair." .Weel, sir," aid the
"d:ye ken Inverness street I" "I do,
lacidie,' replied his worship. "Weal, we
gang along it and turn into the square, and
cross the aguare—"
"Yes, yes," said:the bailie, encottragingly
1'An' when ye gang morose the square ye
turn to the right, and up into High street
till ye wino to M1011:17; w ''0‘ Qf 11101
lad; proceed," said
the old pump well," "Well!" Kta the boy,
teith the most infantile ei000plloity, " ye
nutv, gang an pump it, for yell no pump
m