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The Brussels Post, 1892-11-25, Page 7Nov. 26, 1802 HOUSEHOLD, RYE 1'r'I'ra,—Two otlpfale rye Sour ono• half cupful wheat flour, one eeland ono'table- e loonfttl au ar ono teas oonfui and a half Early ROWTraining, baking powder, sifted three tinioe with the f g , P er,ICE CIIIT'resexte. A lady remarked to me the other day that the development of original sin in her two•year•o1d boy was something appalling, "and lie ie such a baby ib iutpoesible to train him yet," said else. This is where many parents make a fatal (mistalco, At the first dawning of intelligence in a baby he should begin at lost to barn that hie baby faults rsaeb upon himself. If a baby of eight months erica bhromph sheer naught. ineae—be sure fireb that it a naughtiness -- then put him in a ronin where ho can cry it out alone. A poor woman of my aoquaintanoe, who, fn addition to the care of several email children, took in laundry work, had a little boy of a year and a half who caused her great fear and trouble by his persistence in playing around the stove. Tho poor mother explained again and again that the stove was hot and would burn, but without effect. Ab last In despair she laid his fingers on the hot lido, and with spartan firmnoee hold them thero until quite painfully burned. When the told me of it, I exclaimed in hor- ror at her cruelty, but ehe replied that ohs had, undoubtedly, staved his life, ao, since this harsh lesson, he would not go within many feet of the stove. Children aro of Much different tetnperamehts and characters thab it is absurd to detail seb rules for their government. My own baby, when less than a year old, learned that the steam heaters in my apartments were hob and alwayo gave thorn a wide berth in passing. Perhaps the only general rule that will apply ie that of honesty. The time -worn •adage is never more true than when applied to the training of children, Bo perfectly honest with your little ones. If baby cries every time you pttt on your hat, because he knows you are going to leave him, don't go in the next room to put it on and slip away for fear of his orioo. As surely as you do, ho will eoon begin to cry if you go out of the xoom, because he will have learned that going out of it has meant a prolonged aboence. There is no tyranny like the "pink and white tyranny " of infancy, I have learned by experience that most of my troubled in the management of my ohildren have been caused by my fatal weakness of doing what was easiest et the present mo. mons, When my Grob child was young I learned some pretty severe loosens on this point. The whimsical little fancies that ,come into their baby heads are legion. One baby of my acquaintance would only take a drink from his mother's hand, which little whim his fond mother humored until one day a baby sister came, and she saw the evil results of her good nature. !toaster Jack refused food or drink for 30 hours be- cause his mamma could not give it to him, but, although she begged to have him brought to her, the firm and judicious auntie who had hint in charge, would not yield. If, by the time baby is a year old he has not learned that you mean what you say, and that his loudest screams will nob swerve you from your purpose, yoa have sown the wind and must be prepared to reap the whirlwind. Next to this, and perhaps be. :aide it, comes the lesson of obedience. Only a mother knows how hard it is to make a pretty baby rogue who runs away from his morning bath, shrieking with glee at his own waywardness, come to her at the sound -of her voice. Hio very wilfulness is so pretty that she can hardly keep from clasp- ing hits to her and covering bit with kisses. But alae 1 If we mothers yield to any such transports as these, it is to our own undoing. By gentle means, if possible, ifnotUY s e rn• air ones, baby must learn that mamma's ord Toendjust as it will be ' well ie law this if nimnnma does not bewilder itis infant mind with many laws. There is another little lesson which baby can learn, as was demousbratod to me at a friend's house. This is to control his feel- ings, and if ho happens to feel cross, to re- strain his desire to wreak vengeance on all his faithful subjects. It often happens, as it did in this instance, that baby wakes from his nap in that mood which is popularly supposed to be caused by getting out of the wrong side of the bed. It, such oases, the mother's usual mode of procedure is to hush .and soothe and to try by various means to divert his mind from his aupposed griev amen, while baby's usual mode of procedure is to grow more and more exacting, In this ease, baby's papa asked the young man, who was not yet 14 months old if he wanted a drink. Baby shook his head and yelled louder. "If you don't stop crying, " said papa, "You shall go in the kitchen. " 13aby hesitated a moment, then thought he would risk ib and lammed his crying, upon which papa promptly carried hint, high chair and all, to the kitchen. Presently a very mteh subdued and mollified baby call- ed " Papa " in heartbroken tones, and upon shaking his head "yes," when asked if he would be good, was brought in, somewhat aheme-faeedly, ensiling. At first I remon- strated with this stern papa, but he silenced me by saying, "Babies and husbands should be trailed to control mud suppress their feelings and not make others miserable every time they are a little out of aorta," 0001 Weather Dienes. FRICASSEED Cumtts.I.—Wash and out up the chickens; boil them in just enough cold water to cover them and add to it a little salt, or a small slice of aaltpork, When the ohioken becomes tender and seems done, have some hob baking -powder biscuits brok. en open and laid on a platter, place the piece° of ohioken on these. If there should be more than a pint of broth left from cooking the chicken, boil it down to that quantity. Melt a tablespoonful of but- ter in a saucepan and add to it a heaping tablespoonful of flour, stirring constantly till smooth, and then pour in slowly a cup of milk, and as it boils and thickens add the broth and pour the gravy thus made over the ohioken and biscuits. STEAMEm Festr, —Cut off the head and tail ; wash the fish, salt and lay it on a plate in a steamer, and 000k till done ; then remove carefully to a platter, after having taken off the skin. Serve with drawn butter made as follows ; Two heaping teaspoons of dour mixed well with a piece of butter the size of an egg. Pour on enough boiling water to make it the 000sietency of Dream, and flavor with very little Worcestershire sauce. DDxatl AI'PI.n GAIIE.—Ono pint flour, one-half teaspoonful Balt, one-half teaspoon• fulaide, one teaspoonful Dream of tarter, one-quarter cup butter, ono egg, one scant cup milk, four sour apples, two tablespoons sugar. Mix the dry ingredients. Add the egg beaten at mixed with the milk. The dough should bo soft enough to aproacl half an Molt bhiok on a shallow baking-pau. Coro, pare andcut the apples into eighths, lay thou in parallel r owe on the top of the dough, the sharp edge down, and pros enough to make tbo edge penetrate eligheiy Sprinkle th o sugar over the apple and bake half a n hour, Bat while trots, with blither or with lemon sauce Title le one of bite, Lin coin's rooipes. flour, one cu fel and a half of milk, or enough to make a ranter Stiff batter. Acid the milk to the whipped egg and angar, stir in the flour, and beat hard for a minute be• fore pouring into greased gemens. Bake in a quick oven, They will be found whole. some and delicious, Sn,u,r,oattn To -unmet --Peel and silo a dozen or more tomatoes, chop a very small onion fine, and grate a pint or loss of broad cruonbs. First put in a layer of tomatoes, a pinch of onion, and little snit and popper and bite of bettor; thou strew od breed artunba, and more tomatoes, seasoning etc.,' finishing with bread crumbs on the top, If the onion flavor is not liked omit it, Bake in a moderato oven throe -quarters of an hour or more, according to the size of the dish, or until the tomato la very soft and thoroughly incorporated with the bread crmnbs. StroaED (Retests.—Five pounds of grapes, two pounds of brown sugar, one•half pmt of strong vinegar ,thraeteaspoons of ground cinnamon, two of allspice, and one of oloves, Pulp the grapes ; 000lr the pulp until the seeds separate, then put it through the col. ander. Put one cup of cold water on the skins and boil till they aro tender ; then add tate pulp and other ingredients, and boil until it looks thick enough. They can be sealed in fruit jars or putin wide-mouth- ed bottles and corked, or in crooks with a paper pasted over then, according to the osmate. CrxyAtrov RorLs.—Take a piece otbroad dough as large as a pint bowl ant] roll out as thin as pie pastry. Smear this well with butter, then sprinkle over generously with sugar, sprinkle over enough water to Intake a wet paste of the sugar, and shake powdered cinnamon over the whole until it is brown. Roll up precisely am for jelly roll, and set it to rise. When it has risen, out it through with a knife, separating into pieces an inch or so thick. Bake in a moderate oven for thirty minutes. A delicious coffee oaks, Cor Di,•v PrrtDlyo. —One aup of granula ted sugar, one egg, three tablespoonftls of melt- ed butter, two and one half cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Pour in a low, square tin, and bake twenty-five minutes. It should be served warm, with a sauce poured over it made as follows : Stir to a cream one tablespoonful of butter and half a sip of sugar; moisten with a little cold water two teaspoonfuls of flour, and pour a pint of water over it to scald it and then stir in the batter and sugar ; beat the white of one egg to a stiff froth, and stir it in the sauce lust before sending to bhe table ; flavor with lemon. APPLE Co,woTE,—Seleot medium-sized and rich flavored apples, pare and Dore them, cutting in quarters or halves. Make a syrup of a half pint of cold water, the same quantity of granulated sugar and the juice, and a little of grated rind of a fresh lemon. If cinnamon. Savor is liked put in a stink and remove ib before the apples are put in. Boil the syrup in a pre- serving kettle a few moments to dissolve the sugar and then put in the apples and cover the kettle closely. Set them where they will not boil, only simmer. If they are inclined to stick to the kettle shako it oetasionally. When they are transparent remove with a skimmer to the dish in! which they are to bo served and boil the juice down till there is just enough to parti- ally cover them, then pour it over and set it away to cool. FRIED Ctrrcgsv,—There are few better dishes than fried ohioken, if cooked satis- factorily; but it needs careful watching, be. cause if either under or overdone it is taste- lesse chicken Inca and unpalatable. Out upth tc P into lanea proper for ser inwipe o ttent dry, and season slightly, Hove Coady a spider or deep pan, with two tablespoonfuls butter; snake ib hot; then lay in the pieces of chicken, not too closely, and cover, so as to retain the steam. Do not cook very fast, but lot the heat be uniform and steady until it is nicely browned on this side, then turn, and add more pepper and salt, if need- ed, and more butter also. 11'hen done take it up, pour a teacupful of milk or oreom into the pan. When it boils, acid a little thickening, take it ap in a gravy tureen, and serve it with the chicken, It adds ma- terially to the flavor. Some Reoent Wife -Sales. According to e. Welsh newspaper, a man employed at the Cyfarthfa ironworks sold itis wife, in 1803, to a fellow workman for the eon of two pounds ten shillings,with the understanding that another half -sovereign should be spent in drink. The wife, it is said,was more amused than indignant at the transaction. On the fifth of July, 1872, a well•dreasod woman applied to the Exeter magistrates for a summons against her hes. band, who had refused to support her chil- dren, To the utter astonishment of the justices sho stated that her husband had sold her to a man with whom she was then living for fifty pounds, he undertaking to support two of the children, lie appeared, however, to have gone back on hie bargain, and reftteed to do anything for them, and the magistrates very wisely cleolined to inter - fore. In 1877 a wife was sold for forty pounds, and, what ie tnore remarkable, the articles of sale were dr.wn up and signed at a solicitor's office, the money paid, and the chattel handed over with all the gravity of law. In the course of a County Court case Sheffield in Ma 1.81 a man named Moore ntSl May,1881, , stated that he was living with the wife of one of his friends, and that he had purchase, ed her for a quart of beer I During the hearing of a School Board case in the course of 1881, at Ripon, a woman informed the Benoit that she had been bought for twenty five ehillings, and had assumed the name of the purchaser. At Alfreton, in 1882, a husband sold hie rib for a glass of beer in a public -house, and the rib gladly deserted her legal lord. One menet expect a wife for less than twopence halfpenny 1 Two years after this a bricklayer at Poasholme Green, Yorkehiro, sold his wife for one shilling and six'penee, a " legal" document being drawn up to make thebargain binding on all Bides. In the Globe of May the 0th, 1887, there appeared an account of a wall•to.. do weaver at Burnley, who was charged with having deserted his wife and three children. He admitted the soft impeach. mutt ab once, but urged that inasmuch as he had sold the whole family to another Mari before the alleged desertion, he was acquit- ted of all responsibility for their mainten• mice, It was nothing to him whether their purchaser provided for their wants, the law had bettor see to that. For bitnself ho had duly received three•halfpenoe, the amount of tie purchase money, and there his inter, est the affair began and ended I t 'n r bf3 Just as Well Pleased. Cholly—"Mabol and—or—I have beer— er—talking—atld—I have tomo to towek if you will consent to our marriage." Her rather--" What i Allow you to starry my daughter Mabel? Never 1" Gholly (with a eiglt of relief) --"Thanks awfully" THE BRUSSELSPOST, VALUABLE FARM. HANDS. Bogs 'runt Bave issue' Labor IR Carlon for Pioets or sheet,. Thorn ie.now a movement going °lifer the benefit of the useful order of dogs, par- tioulat'ly those OA ere of eorvioe• on the farm. Linorsou said, "A weed to a plant whose usefulness Mee not boon discovered,' and the farmer's clog in all parte of the country may bo defined In a similar man. nor, Farmers, as a olase, aro not very quick to adopt what is of practical importance to them, oopeolaliy when it le something that cannot bo brought to their door; conse- gttnntly what is common to every other agricultural cotnmonity in the world to tut. eonntet hero, for a good useful farmer's dog would be difficult to find. Occasion- ally you bear of Farmer Brown having a good one that came from the old country: but leek of a mato of his kind prevented the substitution of such dogs, While our farmers would give 51 fora dog, which would sivo the SUM int wages in a week, 50000 can be readily obtained for a superior ornamental tit. Bernard and half that for a poodle trimmed a la Francaise, trotting behind a belle, or a saucy bull dog at the heels of "Cbappie" It'was loft to No w J orsey to effect a much needed change, whet, at the latelntoretate Fair, Trenton,' sheep dog trials wore given under the auspices of The NowJersey Kennel League. Some enterprising membore of the State sent to England for cracks, when it was learned that not one out of a hundred of the bench show collies, which were generally supposed to be shepherd dogs, were of any UN to the farmer. About a ,vook before the trials there land. ed from a white Star steamship two very ordinary looking dogs, which some one said were not worth their freight. Wallace was one of theeo,—a largo black and white dog, combining the good qualities of the old Welsh driving sheep dog and the Scottish rounding dog called a collie. The other was a daughter of Champion Turk, the dog Queen Viotoria praised when she attended bhe sheep dog trials in Wales. There was but little oompebition for the purse of 5150 offered at Trenton, so these two dogs divid- ed it, and before their work was finished one of the spectators said that Wallace, who to the city -bred man did not look worth his frieght; was worth a flock of sheep. VERY ACCODIPrd0IlttD °AR MES. Now farmers from far and near want to know something of the new dogs and ib may interest then to know that they will Drive and fetoh cattle. Drive or go in front and lead sheep. Drop at command, or on the lifting of the hand, Search for cattle or there on command, al- ter their course, as directed by whittle, or wave of hand. Remain with injured animals, bring sheep after their master if he is on horse- back. Bead off sheep or cattle by jumping wall or fence. Keep them in road or let them pass one by one. Vetch sheep or cattle out of water. Take sheep or cattle to water and bring them bank without assistance. Watch the flock or cattle at night and keep curs away. Catch sheep by holding on to the wool by the side of the head, without in juring them and many other things requiring both iutel• ligence and training. That such dogs would be vsulable on a form is beyond question. That it is time some encouragement should be given for their importation scot finally been decided and the numerous agricultural societies throughout the country will doubtless second the motion he Iuteratato Fair to t of t constitute trials for farmers' doge, a nacos• sary part of every oountry fair. The shepherds of Scotland are justly proud of their dogs, which aro called collies. Any of this kind from strains that have been kept at work are invariably re- markably intelligent, easily taught and managed without diti"tcultt, whereas those kept far away from the folds as household pets aro as often valueless to the shepherd and the farmer. Latterly, their showy ap• pearanoe has induced some owners to take then from their vocation, and by carefully mating have brought out conspicuously the attractive points in the appearance of this dog, bub in too many instances it has been done at the saorffleeofintelligenceandwork- ing qualities, so that by purchasing a collie you are not sure of getting a useful farmer's dog. The shepherds of Wades have splendid dogs bred far generations at hard work on the mountains. These fine Welsh animals are sure to be thoroughly trained and make excellent dogs for the faun. THE BOBTAILED 0UIEPIIEn.D. There is another kind of shepherd clog also used on the Welsh bills and in many parts of England, called the bobtailed sheep dog, When in old England everything else, in. chiding windows, were taxed, man's best friend is not overlooked, but the poor shop - herds were allowed one dog free, provided they out Itis tail short, which was supposed to interfere with his ehanoes of catching hares. After being prevented by law from enjoying the usual caudal appendage, event wally they were born ala statute, and have boon born ao ever since. Knowing, wide- awake follows they are when yon get them straight from stook that inherited this pe• ; i resolute and determined, ouliarlty a ways ano not quarrelsome, except when his flock or anything belonging to his master is molest• ed and then woo to the venburosone offen- der, be he human or canine. If canine it is ten to one he never recovers from the at- tack! for bobtailed sheep dogs do not ap- preoiate the quality of mercy. For hard work, native intelligence, faith- fulness, sagacity and general adaptability they have no superior, It is bub seldom, however, that they can be made to gather the flock or r' round" in the oollie fashion, and this is probably the reason why a arose between these two varieties generally makes the best farmer's dog, American farmers often say 'bite reason they do not buy such dogs is because of their cost and the difficulty of getting young. stars trained in this country ; yet now that the best prize winning stook has been intro. duued front England one disadvantage may be oonnted out. When it is remembered that it is a comparatively easy task to train a dog from each stook the other excuse also vanishes. Of course, unless the dog invariably in• limits native intelligence from the right stook itis a ueelese task to try to teach him to be of service on a farm, Ito may chase the cattle and sheep, but he will not fetch the right , S osbt a u from r tion u 13 Sup peeing g PP stook is procured, ono of the family should have charge of his education if the farmer cannot attend to it. 0.41010 IN TmAID't$O, The pup should not be taken into the house to bo petted and spoiled and mad nuflb for outdoor life, but e'toutd be kept Ca the barn near the stock, His first leeeon should bo obedience, and if ho who hots charge of his education always foede him and lets him out for a scamper ib will bo found that the pup will roadily show hie gratitude for these two chief delights and will soon learn to obey. At first it will be well to foster his love of approbation and attend mental titan to his c nt development rather than to teach triclts withotta purpose. Then, as Ito lemma bis name and comes when called, ho may be taught to come n at the word "heel or"to heel," remain• ing just behind until encouraged to go for ward by a cheerful tone, wltieh aaauree him be may continue his ramp, After a while, when quite curtain he has maeterod this dirootion, he theta(' bo taught to drop at the word " down." The pupil should be called by name, as formerly when ho will run up expeotin" the word " Roel," when the trainer steal(' advance and gently but firmly press the dog to the ground, then with hand uplifted repeat "down 1" After a time, and as he understands the tieing of the hand goes with the word down," he may be taught to drop at a. distance by motion of the stand a1o110 and afterward remain where he is while the Mettler moves his position. When obed- ience may be depended on Ito should bo taken out with the Souks, or Battle, and will probably learn much of what is re- quired Ity imitation. First the cheep may be taken into a corner and kept from breaking away ; he will follow the movements of his master and will soon try to do it himself. Every effort of this sort should be duly recognized, and after awhile the dog should be taught to drop and re. main in °s'a'ge while his trainer walks away a few steps. This will prepare him for keepirg sheep together in the center of the field, or on the road, and if the trainer will in all cases go around, and not directly up to the stock, when he wants to change positions, the dog will learn to go around instead of splitting up, a very necessary lesson. One thing al a tlrn0 should be the rule, and now the pupil should be ordered to fetch, and may be re easily taught by sena of the flock being allowed to wander from the rest than by rounding them at the word "fetch." Later on, while he is tints bringirg them together, the trainer may go to another part of the field, or out at the pate, when the dog will readily learn to drive, for he will himself be anxious to get to his master and will not know what to do with the sheep and will consequently drive thom where hie master is. To work to whistle, or to hand, may be done in the same manner, and the tame sheep may besubstitutecl for wilder ones as he progresses, just as the open country may later on become the place for his training ground instead of an inclosure. It will be surprising to find how they and how pleas- ant a task ib 10 to educate the ordinary looking dog into one " worth a flockof sheep. Looking'nto Ootopisi• After visiting the summit of Cotopaxi and studying it from different directions and at varying thetas -ma, Mr. Whymper con- cludes that eteam unquestionably plays a leading part in its operations, Ono morning When he was encamped upon Cayambe, sixty miles away, at a height of almost fifteen thousand feet, he caw Cotopaxi "pouring out a prodigious volume of steam, which boiled up a few hundred feet above the rim of its crater," and then was borne toward the northeast almost to Cayambe. Mr. Whymper had an unobstructed view of it, and believed that it contained "a con- tinuous doily of nob less than sixty cubic miles of cloud formed from steam." " If this vast volume, instead of lathing from a fres vent, had found its passage barred, it- self imprisoned, Cotopaxi onthat morning might have been effaced And the whole continent might have ciivered under an explosion rivalling or surpassing the mighty catastrophe at Krakatoa," Of the interior of the crater, as it appear. ed at night, Mr. Whymper says : "Tho atmosphere wee oold and traugnil. We could hear the deadened roar of the steam.bleste as they escaped from time to time, and IVO wont up to view the interior of the crater. Our long rope had been rig - god from the rim of the crater to the tett. Grasping il, I made my way upward in the darkness, prepared for something dramatic, as a strong glow on the under sides of the steam -clouds showed that there was fire be. lots. "Crawling and grovelling as the lip writ approached, I bent eagerly forward to peer into the unknown, with Carrel behind, grip ping my legs. " The vapors no Tenger concealed any part of the vast orator, thoughthey wore there, drifting about as before. " We saw an amphitheatre twenty-three hundred feet in diameter from north to south, and aisle= hundred and efly feet across from east to west, with a rugged Heil irregular creat, notched and °racked ; sur• rounded by cliffs, by perpendicular and even overhanging precipices, nixed with steep slopes—some bearing snow, and others ep- darently encrusted with sulphur. " Cavernous recesses belched forth smoke; the aides of cracks and chasms no more than half -way down shone with ruddy light; and to it continued on all sides, right down to the bottom, preoipioe alternating with slope, and the fiery fissures becoming more numerous as the bottom was approached. " At the bottom, probably twelve 'tun. dred feet below ea, and toward the centro, there was a rudely circular spot, about; one- tenth of the diameter of the orater—ohs e a i e, na le- i o of the volanu its channel of oo m t cation with lower regions, filled with in- candesoent it not molten lava, glowing and burning; with flames travelling to and fro s leave g over its surface, and sointillatioos scatter. ing as from a wood Gee ; lighted by tongues of fiiokoring flame whioit issued from the cracks in the surrounding elopes. " At intervals of about hall an hour the volcano regularly blew off steam. It rose in jets with great violence from the bottom of the orator, and boiled over the lip, con- tinually enveloping rte. The noise on these occasions resembled that which is heard when a largo open steamer is blowing off steam, "Tie steam appeared to be pare, and wo saw nothing thrown out, but in the morning the tent was alniest black with matter that had been ejected." No Show for Him• A pretty and altogether modest young Irish girl, ovidently a nurse, stood patient. ly waiting tier turn in it big drug -store, At last one of the eterks, to rather dashing young fellow, disposing of his last cuetomer, made his way to the young woman's side and asked politely: " Is any one paying you attention, miss? " The young voman Ulnshe , hesitated a moment an answered erecd coY 1Y • • "No, air; I ani mari•todl"—[Christian Advocate. Argil—numb (n company Is generally the wrest eat of conversation, and in books the reading. l:,tison has two hundred women in his employ making the most delibate eleotrloa instruments, A OITY OF TRE DEAD. The awful Convulsion which i;urlet Isonatltnl l'ontpcil--Tho calamity lie Culled by a visitor to the BOetle. "Bay was turned into night, ut(1 light into darkneee 1 an inexpressible quantity of ashes and duet woe poured out, deluging land, sea and air, and burying two entire eitlet—Heratilaneutn and Pompeii—white the people were sitting in the theatre,' Such, being interpreted from the Latin, is the brief allusion made by Dion Caeains in min of his histories (Lib. lxvi,) to the tear- lttl oataett'opho of en August night in 70 n, u., when the recently -restored city of the I'ompoiane was finally overwhelmed and hidden beneath twenty feet of debris from Vesuvius, tor seventeen hundred years, For Pompeii had besot shattered to its Needs, Liens only a fete years before, by a terrible earthquake of Vesuvius. In e. Is, 03, a vio- lent Dseillatiou of the mountain, accom- panied by lightning and great noise, shook the city ; the wall's clashed and fell, the atone streets were upheaved, and tbs citizens reduced to a state of utter panic and distress. But they did not despair, At once they set to work to rebuild their Comte of Common Appeal, their Forum, and their private houses ; they drew their best archi- tects and artists together, and, with the improved ideas of Roman art, adorned their newly -built city with beautiful frescoes, soulpturea, end mosaics. No pains were spared to beautify It—a poor humble village of little fame, threatened hourly by the wrath of the mountain towering above it; yet in our eyes a city of exquisite art, the highest perfection of Roman skill in sculpture and painting, and a standing object of wonder that such skill should have been twice lavished on a city doomed to de. MI -notion. Yeti, from histories written o b the time, and soon after the time of the destrnc• Lions of the city, we leara much definite fact—that the city was beautiful to a high degree, that wealthy Romano and Neapoli- tans, as wallas Pompefans, occupied houses in it, and lived in luxurious style and splendour, We also learn some interesting facts as to the topography of the hind at that time. The sea almost lapped the southern gate of the city, and thither it was that the chariots used to be driven down, where the oitieene embarked in their ahips,and merchants landed their goods. The force of Nature, however, altered the contour of the land considerably, and Vesuvius setts its streams of Lava, scoria, and Capilli for three or four miles southward where now, between Pompeii and the sea, oranges, lemons, pomegranates, and vines grow in profusion, scenting the hot air: Pompeii, in short, is now—what is left of it—an inland city, and a city of the dead. To -day no togas flaunt the sunlight with their bright dyes; no sandalled feet nor rattling chariot wheels ooho through the narrow, stone -paved streets; Nydo, the blind girt beloved of Glaucus, is heard no more singing her song— Burt my flowers, oh buy. I pray, 'the blind girt comes from afar ; If tho earth bo as fair as I hear them say, Those flowers her children aro Only wild maidenhair now grows in the nooks and crannies of the ruined walls ; and bats at sunset flitter and flap in the shadows, haunting the silence, Parasols of all stades and patterns, white flannel trousers and trousers and "blazers," cameras and opera glasses, tell by day of the revolution of seventeen centuries. Those whose time is limited will at least observe the sleep ruts worn by the °harlot wheels in the stone. paved streets, also the beautiful mosaics which hero and there have been left un touched by the hand of the vandal or by time ; the fragmentary frescoes which still adorn the walls of the private villas; and the evince employed in these remote days v f water. Leaden i • the conveyance ante o for Y PP ing is visible in many places, with neatly executed taps and jets—a marvel of what the citizens ocelot do in their day. Ono is inclined to thin], when beholding these things, that the ancients were more skilled than onreel es—cortainly they had reached the highest pitch of art and minute when the dark pail foil and silenced them for ever, With visits to Pompeii we must combine visits to the Emmons Museum in Naples in order to learn fully the history of the an Went arts of sculpture and painting. The Museum contains, as is well known, many priceless relics in marble and bronze—not only priceless in themselves as high works of art, but also as affording an admirable insight Into thelife of the citizens—the food they ate, the vessels they drank from, the dress they wore, tine jewellery, and the ordinary necessaries of daily life, But it is given to few to devote time to the flail ap• predation of these valuable relics rearmed from Herculaneum and Pompeii; few may afford time to linger over the incomparable fogneo of young Nareteaus as he listens to the song of Echo ; to mark the exquisite grace of Diana as she bends forth to the bow; or to study with eatlefaotion the fide bust of the Emperors of fallen Route. Then we are again among the silent streets of the buried city, listening for the shout from the Theatre, the splash of water from the baths the rattle of chariot wheals in the by -ways, But we listen in vain I Far away down the twinkling, roast• ing shore, the din of Naples comes to us in a low monotone ; or long, glassy waves come rolling in upon the beach in heavy pulsations, Look down from the ramparts into the Theatre below—the Tragic Theatre, where once Tragedy was acted in its fullness. Ota and maidenhair • 'de hair fill the sect t'oe a be- tween tween the dislodged atones. All Is confu- sion and leek of symmetry ; all is a deathly stillness. Yonder, without the pity wall, stands the dismantled amphitheatre ; and beyond it, hugged to his neck with soma and ashes, the destroyer of the city—Vesu- vius. Already the gun has purpled himand veiled his robes with a faint mint, Out seaward Capri is sleeping in a lap of bine ; and Castellainoro, Sorrento, and their neigh. boors hug the shore or crown apparently inaccessible heights. Again the sound of traffic and busy life ootnes to us at we stand gazing northward to the oily where 300,000 souls are toiling, hurrying, clamouring, in bustle and activity. There, an unending moan of life ; the city sleeps not by night nor day, it knows no rest, no portae. Here, an intense Silence, where sombre shadows fall through the twilighb, and gossamers deck the anklet's web at clay dawn ; it is a silence that stay, be felt, Rain has laid her hand on 1'ontpeio. She is a captive for ever —a city of the dead, i A prleouer'e bondsman has a beautlfu glum: a on him, Of all vegetable phenotnene in tropioal climates the Palo de Vaca is one of the most remarkable, Although it frequently a bare soles of a rock,and n thea n o � P leaves •i cone or leathery -like grows r ooi ao, head Y yet itis prodnotivo of a very ghitintttn ]'q• uld. For months its leaves are not mois- tened by a single drop of rain, rid its branches and boughs appear entirely dried tip ;but when the thank le pierced it gives out a plenteous supply of yellow juice, having to balsamic porfnme, and is said to be as nourishing as the milk of the now. LATE FOMMG NEWS. Thirty years ago there was a great out- cry against the lighting of St. Stopben e Cathedral at Vienna by gas. The Arch- bishop has now introduced eleotrieity, A visitor to Marshal MaoMabou says that the Marshal is still a great sportsman. He starts out with his gun at six In the morning and walks twelve or fifteen miles a day. His hand is firm and hie aha is euro. Acoorrling to statistics compiled by tho International Telegraph Bureau, there were despatched in Europe during the year 1891, 207, ,91,000 telegrams; in the remain- ing portion of theworld, 88,422,000, a total - Of 290,017,000. A resident, of Lawrence, Kan„ received a letter last week which was mailed in Clu °ago twelve yeareago, 'twos "accidentally discovered" in a ventilator shaft with wad of other mail, The Tourist Zeitung publishes a list of Alpine accidents for 1802. There were 32 fatalities in al1,20 having occurred in ascents without guides and 8 with guides. Twenty- six were tourists and G were guides. Ten werocaused by attempts to gather edelweiss. The river Nilo has a fall of but six inohee to 1,000 miles. The overflow commences in Jtmo every year and continues until Aug- ust, attaining an elevation of front twenty- four to twenty>six foot above low-water stark, and flowing through the Valley of Egypt In a turbulent body twelve miles wide. During the last one thousand years there had been but one sudden rise of the Nile, that of 1820, when 30,000 people were drown, Sinceedthe war of '70.71, twenty-two years, the military expenditures of France have been fifteen millarda throe hundred and sixty-eight millions of franca, or about 83,800,000,000. This sum is oxolnsive of the five milliards paid to Germany as an indemnity, of the sum expended on the navy, and of the amount used in building strategic railroads and the payment of mill. tory pensions. An English Railway carriage company i0 building for an Indian potentate three su- perb railway carriages, which will oonetttute - a palace on wheels. In the framework of each carriage is to be used £40 worth of teak to resist the ravages of insects, The suite of oarriages includes day and night apartments for the prinoe and hie retinue, and also a auiaine department—the latter having the facilities to carry two tone of water and two tons of ice. At the manmpvres near Spandau, Ger- many, special orders were issued that the oountry between Gatowand Carolinenhoohe should be cleared of everybody outside the army, as the troops were to practise with the new ball cartridges. Despite all warn- ings, a servant girl went to work in a garden on the outskirts of Gators. A stray bullet shattered her arta and entered her left breast. She was removed to a Spandau hospital, where she died a few hours later. British postal cards of the value of one halfpenny—corresponding to our one -cent cards—have always sold at three farthings each. The penny cards recently put on sale for foreign correspondence sell for just one perry, the simple amount of the poet - age, as all cards sell here. The British people now want to know why cent post cards don't sell for a cent, and ons member of Parliament has figured that the revenue from the extra farthing on each post card brings in to the Government over 8110,000 - a year. The annual sale of postal Dards is about 30,000,000. The uesirethemeticountry by holding Proffice, bethe post e • so humble ublio o e e s ver humble, o� t o 'a Canoe as teens to U shot, as str tg h F anywhere else. Tbs Prefect of the Seine bad recently 1,071 offices at his disposal, all of a minor importance, and for these offices he had over 40,000 applicants. The offices were mostly as supernumerary clerks, port- ers, orters, looal customs collectors, tobacco shop- keepers, and even thief funeral mutes and cemetery rangers. There was only one office that lacked a candidate. That .was the office of teacher of manual labour in the elementary schools. There was no aspirant for this situation, The Roman journal L'Italia says, since the French menceuvree, that " the work that the French have accomplished during the late manrenvrse is admirable beyond question, and it gives a clear idea of their powerful military organization inoluding the railway service, Without being jealous of our neighbors, we would be glad. if their example could be followed in our country. In truth, we are flan, indeed, from the French organization, and our inferiority is rendered mere painful by the feet that it fs complete- ly ignored. 41'e believe that we are almost on the top of the mountain, when in reality we are at the foot." News has just reached Rome of a chock- ing occurrence it, a sulphur mine near Palermo, While work was in progress an acoumttlabion of noxious fumes took place at an unexpeoted point, and five men were immediately overcome, and shortly after• wards snooumbed. 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