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The Brussels Post, 1889-8-30, Page 3i 0 AUGUST 30, 1889. TEL' BRUSSE 8 POST. a 110UTSEa3OLD. A Strike. •Ouoo upon an evenieg dreary, As I pondered end and weary, 'O'er the baekee with the mending from the wash the day before ; Aa 1 thoughb of meantime otibohoe To bo planed in little breoohes. Roue my heart roballiuus in me, ae ib oft had done before, At the fate that did condemn me, when rey daily task was o'er, To that baokeb evermore, John, with nob a sign or motion, Sat and read bhe Yankee Notion, With no thought of bho oommobion Which within me rankled sore, "He," thought I, "when day is ended, Has no etookinge to be mended, Has no babies to bo tended, Ho oan sit and read and snore; Ha oan aft and read and met him ; Must I work thus evermore?" And my hoarb rebellious answered, "Nevermore; no, nevermore." For though I am but a woman, Every nerve within le human, Aohing, throbbing, overworked. Mind and body nick and sore, I will strike, When day is ended, Though the etookinge are not mended, Though my course oan'b be defended, Safe behind the oloeeb door Goes the beaker with the mending, and I'll haunted be do more, In the daylight ohall be crowded all the work that I will do ; When the evening lamps are lighted, I will read the paper, too, —[Woman's Journal, Guarding One's Beauty. Onoo, oh, so long ago, a certain intellectual, dreamy youth presented me with a volume of poem', In one of them with mu/sod this line, after a very pretty description of a girl at her toilet: Her beauty guarded kept her beautiful." I regarded the faob that he marked it se a joke at the time, and in my inner consoloueness the word' have been a useful joke many times since. Often before retiring at night, tired and lazy, I have felt inclined to omit the necessary brushing of teeth and hair, memory whispered, "Her beauty guarded kept her beautiful." If a woman has but throe hundred dollars a year for personal expenoao (and a emarb woman will wile that much oub of any cir- cumstances), ib le wise for her to spend only one third of it on dress and the rest for ser vice,, or, at least those LABOR-SAVING OONTRIVANOEB whioh bring ease in this work -a -day world. Of conree to many ladies, being elegant on one hundred dollars a year Bounds preemie throne, but 10 can he done. Simplicity in dress re the fundamental idea of beauty. The novelbieo or freaks of faebion'aro what make expense and they aro generally Inele- gant. White dresses are inexpensive and appropriate for the wee girl or the greeeheir- ed grandmother. Indeed, a woman—say, of thirty, (heeled in white, with satin hair and complexion clear ani healthy, intelli- gent eyes, pleasing lips and teeth, with soft hands, exquielte finger -nails and a pretty foot, is the ne plus ultra of womanly loveli- ness. Summer dresses last for several years; winter garments oan also be managed with economy, but by no moans economize on your dentinb, or the amount of brushing BESTOWED UPON Y00R PER50N. Another, and perhapo the paramount advantage of buying leisure for one's self le the opportunity it gives for mental ae well AB physical culture, and the amiability one feels when Olean and reatod, Most of woman's ungraolousneoo cornea from her habitual wearineao and worry. To sacrifice one's self to the point of shattered nerves, even for one's nearest and dearest beloved, is a fatal mfotake, Better be pretty and ,sweet tempered, with the housework a little .negleoted,than to have everything in order and acting and feeling like a virago. This -however, is hardly a fair oontreat, for being wall and well pleased with ourselves, we ,can manage things more happily, So, oiotere, let us take care of ourselves, A gentleman once said to me (oh, how much +wisdom we owe bo the saying of gentlemen 1), "You are selfish ; but, true, a judiotoua .selfishness is the height of culture."— Suggeations for the Siok bore, Even in the depth of summer it is often :wise to keep a Blight fire during the night, To avoid rousing the eiok Bleeper fill paper ,bags with coal and lay a sufficient number of these bags in a scuttle. In this way a fire may be replenished without the slighted: noise, It is eoeentlal in oeleocing some one to watoh with a sick person that a healthy per- son with all his five senses alert to catch any change should be employed. A slightly deaf person will oause great anzoyanoe, beoeuee he must exert himself un- duly to make himself heard. The eyesight of the nurse must be perfeob to note any change, her feeling alert bo notice change of temperature, her smelling power withoob a flaw to make etre of fresh, pure abmoephere, and her tante delicate enough to allow her to appreciate the difference between poorly cooked food and bhab properly prepared, A fidgety or nervous woman or a selfi'h or self. absorbed woman is utterly out of plane in a sick room. All good houoekeepers always keep bund- les of old flannel, of old linen and of old cotton where either can be readily obtained if necessary in the elok-room. Bandages of old flannel are invaluable in cases of rheum atiem or of sore throat. In fact, there is nothing else that will take the place of such half worn goods. New flannel would be of comparatively little use for the purpose, A email flannel bag filled with hops and wrung out in boiling water will Boothe to sleep a sufferer .from neuralgia pain,' oftener than anything else. There should be sufficient bandages on the outside to prevent its web - ting the bedding and causing a chill In this way, Peroone who have suffered from chronic troubles of the bowels have been frequently cured by wearing continuously, all the year round, a heavy flannel bandage over the abdomen. Choice Beoipee. OHMS. STRAws,—To make enough straws for twelve persona you will need these materialo : Six tablespooafuio of Parmesan cheese, nix of flour, two of butter, ono Bait. spoonful of salt, half a eait•epoonful of nay eon, one tablespoonful of water, and two eggs, Boob the butter to a oream end then beat into it the unbeaten yolke of the eggs. When this mixture le thick and light, beat in the water. Boat the whites of the eggo to a otiff froth an dryf x d stir them into the mix. taro, Mx the dry ingredients and stir them into rho egg and butter. Continue to stir until a smooth paste is formed. Divide this panto into two parte, Flour the mould. ing board alightly and roll this paste vory thin, CO it auto Strips about three inches long and half an Inch wide, Bake in a vory moderate won for fifteen minutes, and serve either hob or cold, liaensniar S1rano —To threequarta of ripe raspberries pub one quart of good older-vle- ogar ; let lb stand bwentyfour hours, then ',train and pub bo eaoh pint a pound of loaf sugar. Boll Ib about an hour, being partiou• lar to alum ib oleo;. Whon cool, put a wine• glassful of brandy to eaoh pint of shrub, CtrocoLATE PUDDING—Five minim of pounded almonds, a quarter pound of olmoolete, a oaptul and a half of milk, or milk and cream mixed, throe menthe of sugar, vanilla flavoring, three eggs. Bail the milk with tho chocolate and auger app pour it on the bread, Add the yolks of the eggs and the flavoring and boob well, Then butter a mold thoroughly. But the whiten of the eggs to a froth and also the cream, if any is used and mix all together. Steam it for an hour, or until it is firm, and earth with custard or Dream mum (levered with vanilla. COFFEE CREAat.—One pint of rich Dream whipped light ; one ounce of gelabino soaked in a oup of milk ; one oup of strong clear ooffoo ; ono cup of white sugar ; whites of two eggs. Dissolve the soaked globins and sugar in the boiling coffee, when you have strained the labtor through fine muslin, and let it cool. Whip the dream and the whites of the ogee In separate vessels. Whon the gelatine is poi -feebly cold, beet it by degrees into the whites until it is a pretty firm froth. Then whip in the Dream. Rinse a mold in cold water, fill it with the mixture, and set it in a very cold plane, or an too, for eight or ten hours. Send around a pitohor of sweet Dream with it, INDIAN PUDDINU.—Una quarb of milk, two heaping tablespoonfuls of Indian meal, four of sugar, one of butter, three og e, one tablespoonful of oalb. Boil the milk in the dee ,le boiler. Sprinkle bho meal into it, stirring all the while. Cook twelve min- utes,'stirring often. Beat together bhe eggs, malt, sugar and half a teaspoonful of ginger. Stir the butter into the meal and milk. Pour this gradUnly on the egg mixture. Bake slowly one hour, STRING BEANS FOR WINTER USE.—Cat off the heads and tails of tender young beans, and a thin strip on each aide to re- move the strings. Then divide each bean into four or mix pieces, according to size, cut- ting gem lengthwise, in a slanting direc- tion, Have ready a large stone jar and a quanov of ooarae east ; pub a layer of salt in the bottom of the jar, then a layer of the prepares, beano, nexb another layer of solo, and so on, until bhe jar is fall, finishing with a layer of salt. Cover and set In a cool dry place, When wanted for nee, take out the requisite quantity, work until fresh- ened and boil as fresh beaus, changing the water once or twice. Ten Good Things to Knew. 1. That salt will curdle new milk, henoe in preparing milk porridge, gravies, eta., the Belt should not be added until the dish is prepared. 2, That clear boiling water will remove tea stains and many fruit stains. Pour the water through the stain and thus prevent its spreading over the fabric. 3. That ripe tomatoes will remove ink and other stains from white cloth, also from the han9e, 1. That a tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with white clothes will aid in bhe whitening process. 5. That boiled obareh is =oh improves by the addition of a little sperm salt or gum arable dionolved. 6, That beeswax and salt will make rusty flet irons ae clean and smooth aa glass. Tie a lump of wax in a rag and keep it for that purpose. When the irons are hob, rub them Arab with the wax rag, then scour with a paper or cloth sprinkled with salt 7. Than bine ointment and kerosene mix- ed in equal proportion' and applied to the bedsteads le an unfailing bed bug remedy, as a coat of whltewaoh is for the walla of a log house. 8. That kerosene will soften boots or shoes that have been hardened by water, and ren- der them ao pliable as new. 9. That kerosene will make tin tea kettles as bright as new, Saturate a woollen rag and rub with it a It will also remove stains from varnished furniture. 10. Thab cool rain water and soda will re- move machine grease from washable fabric,', Peaoe or War. Lord Salisbury's opeeoh ab the Mansion Hoaee dinner was in a line with several other opeeohes delivered by him ab the same plane and under substantially the ammo oondiblons. The European horizon, ho asserts, is Week with war clouds ; the great continental nations are spending larger and larger eume in preparing them. selves for .babble, bub the costa of a struggle carried on under such conditions are so enormous that none of those most deeply interested can afford to break the peace. It oan ab leaab be said that the peso predictions of thio kind which the English premier has made have proved true. There is no more likelihood of war in Europe now than there was two, three or four yeara ago, and on none of these mations has war occurred. So, on the doctrine of ohanceo, ib may be fairly argued that a continu- ance of peace is reasonably assured ab the present time. Bab it seams to be an en- ormous insurance premium to pay for pea00 to be compelled to keep millions of men eon. staidly under arms, and to spend hundreds of million,' of dollars taken from bho hard earnings of the people in wholly unproduc- tive military outlays. If the reeulb of all of these groat armaments is merely the con- tinuance of peace, why le it not better to Procure the oonbinuanoo of peace by a dis- bandment of them? We are willing for war purposes to saorifiee life and wealth in a per. featly reckless manner, when, If men had only a fair amount of reason, all of the legi- timate endo that can be gained by war could be acquired, without any waste and hardly any expenditure, by peaceful methods. Why the Teeth Chatter. It le through the akin, and only through the akin, that wo reooivo sensations of tem- perature, The chattering of the teeth from the feeling of cold fa caused by what la term- ed reflex action. of the lunaoles of the jaw. Whon an improoeion is made on the seuoibive eurfaoe.of the akin it is conveyed by an ex• oitor nerve to the spinal cord, and is there reflooted back on the mueolee by a correopond- ing,motor nerve, the notion boinginvolunbary, like that of any other moohaniom. Chatter. ince of the teeth, AB well an shivering and sneezing, IS nature's effort to rectors the 6lreulation of the blood wbioh hoe auoumulab, od in the larger veins near the heart.—[Now York Telegram, fy LATE CABLE NEWS, European Powers Uniting—" The Migh- tiost Coalitoo Ever Seen,' England in Afsioa—Enfporor William's 1101/F1/ - Cott at Home General Book's interview with General von Waliersee and War Minister Devernois resulted in a milliary convention, which, assooiated with the Italian convention, corn• plebes the pima for nava] and military nom, binabiono in the event of war, Although no oflialal warrant ie given for the reported absorption of England into the al• lianoe, rho language of the eeml ttficlal preps jestifioo the inference that the British go• vernmont has Agreed that ,their naval and milibary toren will oo•operate with those of the alliance in repreoeing any wanton die- turbanoe of the European peaoo. DOES IT MEAN \YAR'. The question now,b000meo prominent how the league will use its tromendouo strength ! Ruoefan papare, recognizing the formidable character of the league, predict that Bte• marok, having formed the mightiest coali- tion evar eeen, will hasten to mettle eoorea with Ramie and Preece. The leading official organo of Berlin and Vienna breathe a language of general good will. The "North German Gazette" re• o ices over bhe strength of the Milano and t e ability to meet any eventualities from the East or Wea6, The Fromdenblabt trusts that permanent peace is secured, and boasts that the allied powers are ready to fade any emergency, The German Colonial Company at a meet ing the other dap resolved to appeal to Prince Bismarck for proteotion agalaeb English en• croachments in Africa, and urged him to find moans to pat an end to the present state of affairs, In the resolutions adopted reference is made bo the seizure by rho English Admiral at 'Zanzibar of Dr, Peters' steamer, the Mere, and to tho damage done to German traders by the Niger Company, and the per• alotent efforts of Englleh oompanies to ac- quire sovereign rights in the territories ad- joining the German eettlemente, NO ILL FEELING Tno0O1i. The speakers all protested that no feoline of hostility toward England wao entertained, and that the action of bhe German Colonial Company was taken solely in defence of German rights, whioh had been violated by the Englleh Trading Company. The Emperor and Empress of Germany met with a royal welcome on their arrival at Bayreuth, the people turning out en maws and greeting the distinguished visitors with demonstrations of unbounded enthusiasm. Another manifesto has been signed by Gen Boulanger, M. Arthur Dillon and by M. de Rochefort. It atatee among other thing that "the judgment of the High Court Is tho re - milt of a compact entered into between the Chamber and the Senate in consideration of a promise given by the formerlto maintain the life of the Senate, The result of this monatroue iniquity committed against us is the defeat of universal suffrage. But this arbitrary rule of calumnies and prevarica- tion is nearing its end and, notwithstanding that fresh coags de etat are being prepared in the dark, we have confidence in the firm attitude of the Eleotoral Code." A Radical Change Proposed. The defenders of the Eotabliehed Uhnroh in England have e000eeded in inducing bhe Gov- ernment overnmenb to introduce and supporta measure which, if it become,' a law may, as its ultimate outcome, put in eerioue peril the continuance ofthat church ae a fatate organization. At the present time the tithes by which the olergy are supported form a charve upon the land. Either the land owner or the tenant is compelled to pay ea much towards the support of the Eetahliohed Church, A failure to pay gives the clergyman thus deprived of his income bhe right, through hie representatives, to take possession of the land and seize upon its undisposed -of products. This is nob a satisfactory arrange. ment where resistance is made to payment of tithes, and just now in certain parts of England, and especially in Wales, the at- tempts to milled bithee have led to a reels• tante which has been almost' carried to a riot. The proposed law makes tithes a charge both upon personal property and land, and permits the clergyman to eue and recover ae in bhe case of any legal debt. While this may make the work of recovery easter, the proposed change in the law le such a radiool ono that the themes are it will increase to an 'mimosa exhent bhe popular hostility to the Eetabliehod Uhuroh, Thus, though the money, when ib to neces- sary to forcibly collect i6, may come meter, it is nob unlikely that in a ehorb time more itwill nob come at all. U. S. Sunday Desecration. Blehop Littlejohn, of the diocese of Long Intend, has written a powerfut letter, on bhe oubjeob of Sunday desecration in the United States. In it he says : "It ie simply fright- ful bo behold the rapid inareese of almost every form of Sunday desecration. I may not hero go into the causes of this increase. They aro well known to all who hove their eyea and ears open, and if they aro allowed to work on unaheoked along the existing lines of lawleoo and unrestricted indulgence, the American Sunday, es bound up with the boob traditions and euntomo of our 000ial and religious life, will, in the next twenty years, praabfaally 00400 00 exist in our great cities and in their far -spreading Suburbs. This consideration ought to bo enough to arouse all Christian people of every name from their preaenb apathy. But there fe another feo- tnro of the case which ought to tell wibh equal force upon all who yahoo, as necessary to the peace and order and well being of the community, the proper enforcement of the law. Bad as are the violation and contempt nob only cf the religious oanotiby of Sunday, but also of he domestic and armlet proper- tied, and of Ha labour exemptions for the madeeo, the open, habitual and wanton defiance of the lava emoted by the State for the proteotion of the day Is only lees fraught wibh dfeneter," Commenting upon the Bishop's letter the Brooklyn "Times" nays bhab " there oan be no doubt bhab the open breaking of the Sunday laws breeds con- tempt for all law, tonna the suburbs into pandemon#hm and tends powerfully to destroy the character of Sunday as a day of rest." Making the Beet of Ciroumstanoes, Vigilantes—" Wo regret to inform you, madam, that we have Nee lynched your husband by mistake, We intended to hang Bill Badeye." Wife of the deceased—" Is thio Bill mar- ried Y" Vigilanteo—•" No, oappoeed to bo single." Wife of deceased—" Weil, 1 expoot I'd better take him thou, I need nomebudy to I do the ahoroa,"-[Omaha World Wives and Sweethearts. It is In domestic life bhab untidiness mute ra the greatest mieohlaf, remark's Omar Wilde's Woman's World. It meano waste of time, Waste of money, waste of affaarton; It nine oases out , f ten to le the oause of otrifo and untie; p coca often of utter rube, Far more marriages turn out unhappily through untidlnoses then from any other oause, I do nob mann the ordinary sort of porstnal untidiness that so many women fall into of ter marriage, the ceasing to make bhemaolvee attractive—though that in iteolf is dioestrous enough—but the mental unti- dineso that provenle woman from thinking out a subjoin to the end. Many a girl hao married full of love, good resolution, aid the beetlntentlope, resolved to be oareful and aoonomioel in her home. keeping, and al ways keep her home In prlo- tloe freohneee and prettiooee, Bab she soon find' putting down everything the Bayo is a very tiresome business; r'boafdes," she pays to herself, "I only buy inn: what I want, end putting down every penny won'b save me a penny," And ehe very aeon finds that she lona a good many pentacle. The weekly bills grow in the most alarming manner ; the weekly sllownaoo le no longer eua talent to meet them; one hao to be leftover one week, another the next and so on, till all are In arrears ; while the hoeband " good easy man," thinks everything ie going on quite smoothly and praieea hie wife for her good management and skill in being able to have everything the same when beef and mutton and ooale and butter se so much dearer. She, flattered by his praieo, cannot bear to admit that she is all behind and so the matter goes on till it cannot be con. coaled any longer. Il the husband is a prudent man and hcuo made some provision for euoh a contingency, he le fortunate, but if be has been livlog up to his Income, ae so many men do nowadays, he is handicapped at bhe very commencement of his career with an anouopeoted debt and it may take him the best'yearo of his life to shake it off, for even the smallest debt has the moeb marvelous /never of acoumulatiog; beoidee, he has loot faith in his wife's management—loot some of his admiration for her, spoken Borne words, perhaps, that oan never be recalled, and un- consciously diskette her. She, knowing she deeervea to be blamed, woman-like resents the distrueb, and is impatieno of any inter- ferenoe or supervision ; the simplest queotion about household expenses sends her into a passion ; more hard worde follow, and so " the little rift within the lute " grows wider and wider, until a dreary sea flows between those two hearts that had loved so truly 1 And a little mental braining—mental tidiness —would havemived all that, Fan With the Qld Man. He was a meek -looking old gentleman from the country, and as he took hie Beat at the dining room table the drummers looked at him over their soup -spoons. They noted hie weather-beaten face, his web hair carefully parted and bruohed around over hie ears, and hie air of diffidence as he ter• vouely fingered hie fore ; and when the waiter girl stood ab hie aide and winked ab the boot - and -shoe man, they were all attention. "Soup?" she seked, The old man seemed a bit eorprieed ab the brevity of the bill of fair, and fidgeted about as though wafting for her to say something more, Would you like some soup?" said the gars, with a aide -glance at the coffee -and• Bpaoe man, "1 ain't particular about soup, es I know of," answered the old man. "Boil' mutt'n capereance, roes' beef, r'e' lamb, r'e' veal, trienniaohiaken, cul', ham, tongue, ohiok'n-oalad, frittere, boil' 'n' baked p'tatue," said the girl, with lightening like rapidity, The old man looked kind of helpless, and the boys felt a little sorry for him as he kept hie eyes fastened on the fork, which he shoved from aide to side with his fin- gers. "I guree I'll take—I guess you'll have to say that again," he said, looking up, and the girl rattled bho whole thing off In exactly the same time as before. The old man looked 'round the table and naught sight of a drummer winking ab bhe girl ; bhon he jerked his head around, and looking her straight in the face, he said : " Yon may gimme e'm bile oornbeef 'n' cabbage, roan' beef, veal 'n' mntb'n, oole ohlok'n 'n' turkey 'n' tongue, 'n' eau ham '0' eggs 'n' codfish oakee 'n' easoag0'n' beefsteak 'n' a piece o' punkin pie 'n' oup o' coffee, els; ea' now see of yer kin make yer little lege fly 'e fast as ye kin yer tongue, for I winter gib home ; there's a shower atomize up." The girl hesitated, burned red, and then made a break for the kitchen, while the drummers laughed and the old man gazed out of the window ab the gathering clouds, The statistics of bhe Salvation Army,fur- niehed by Gen. Booth at the last grand con- course which took place at Alexandra Pa- laae,ehowed an increase of 283 corps and 1,665 officers. The march past Gen. Booth was performed by a body of over 20,000 Bol- diero, and wan marked with intense fervor. The robbery of sleeping oars is tho faohe ioual.le orirne at present. The ebriking thin about all bhe ro beries is the ease with which one or two mon clan strip a oar load of paooengere who ere suppoeod to be under the care of a oondnator and a porter. Tho method of, the highwayman -burglar is to wake each passenger separately, bake his belongings And keep hili quleb with bhe arida- five of a loaded pistol, Oae would suppose that ° belt a dozen awakened passengers would be rather unmanageable, but oo far there has been no case in which the robber has tailed. A report on'the state of the English skill ed labour market, prepared for the Board of Trade T-urraal by the labour oorreepone dent of the Board of Trade, ebateo that re - burns from the principal labour organization oltow the market to be in a remarkably pros. porous condition. With few exceptions the societies report an hnprovemenb in the de - mond for labour and on increase in remun- eration. The percentage of unemployed in the trades represented was only 1. 8, per cent. at the and of June, whereas a year before it was 4. 6. These and other °ircam- otanees, inoluding the proapeot of good drops, indicate bho return of "good times in England. While several unfriendly ants have al- ready characterized the adminiotration of affairs at Washington eine Benjamin Hare rfoon bcoame president and Janes G, Blaine tie firob liouboneet, we have to 000gratulato those two eminent gentlemen and their asoo- obetes upon et least one Aboral interprota. of the law. It hes been decided that rail- way oars running on Canadian llnoo in the States are not dutiable. There la more than room to auopeot that the foot that the ma. jority of the caro and locomotives used and owned by both the Grand Trunk and Canadian Paoifio rallwaye are made in the United States, land something bo do with the ruling, apart from bhab other fact, that our neighbors might pooaibly have boon the greatest suffer ere frominaontentenee had the interpretation of the law been otherwise, TREASCRE CRAtd8ERS OP INDIA. VA9i hoards or Money Alidaen Away by Nath oa Princes, In the courts of the native princes of ladle hoarding takes piece on a vast Beale, says " Chembera'a Journal," The maharajah of Burdwan died lately and left a targe board. Ib proves that Anterior to 1835 there was maoh hoarding when fo is abated that the maharajah had withdrawn from his otore £230,000 of silver, which was in the form of Slkka rupees, none of which have been :min- ed since 1825, A letter was submitted to the royal oommieslon on the subject of bhe maharajah's hoard, A description woo giv. of the several breoeur° houses in the estate, their dlmenebone end bhetr oontente : " One large room, measuring about 48 leen in length, 14 feet 6 Mabee in breadth, and 13 loco 9 inches in height, where gold and silver ornaments and otnamente net with preoioue Bbonee are kept. These arbicloe are in sloth -Mu and bootee of all deeoriptfono, and atm come gold plates and 'supe, bbalem and katorahe, as well ao wash. ing-bowls, jags, eta. Two other rooms contain 'silver domestic' oteneiie, forks, apoona, etc., and, etrabge to say, English dinner and breakfast seta, all of silver. Two of these rooms were ander look and the doors bricked up. There are four other rooms, one containing ornamento of gold, silver and pre- ciouo thanes, gold ornaments and throne; MO others oontaining the reserve treaeury, which included rho oatate collections and governmenb eeouritate and debentures, while the other le thus deeoribed : "The fourth room measures about 22 feet 6 iaohee an length, 15 foot in breadth, and 12 feet 3 Moine in height, where there are Iwo large-sized vacate prepared for hoarding bhe current silver coin, and since the year 1267 B. C. come money was from time to time pub in and token out by bhe Maharajah Mah- tab Ohnnd Babadoor for the expenses of an emergent and exbraordlnary nature, such ao the late Maharajah Aftab Chund Baba• door's marriage, Lsla Ban Behari Kepnra marriage, and buying landed proper ties. When he died one lao was lets in one of the :melte." In another department the ornamento belonging to different gods of the family were kept, and silver thalami, Bap• also, oto., for the religious pueposes, the room being looked and sealed. Ie wee the ouobom of the of the Burdwan Raj family to confide bhe custody of theeevalnablee to bhe maharanee for the time being, but the vaults were never inspeobod 'Ave in bhe presence of the maharajah. When sumo were withdrawn only relations and trust- worthy servants wore admitted into the room and vault'. Treasures and dewans used to be present outside the room or apart- ment, where the sum drawn was sent out (female guards being plaoed in the passage) for the purpose of weighing, counting, and bagging it before it was sent to the mint. Other inebanoee of hoarding were given by an officer of the Indian postoffioe in 1886, who stated that a native prince was then hoarding gold ab the rate of £40,000 to £50,- 000 a year, and on the death of two native princes recently it was believed that they bad left £4,000,000 each. One of these prinoeo took a loan of £300,000 from the governmenb of India in 1887, when be much have been in possession of o large hoard himself ; for it is a point of honor with a family not to break into a hoard, which is treated with the oaoredneee of a family pic- ture. When the prince in question had to make a payment to the government of India for a purpose in which he wao interested, and was asked when he could make the payment --a payment of £150,000—ho said : At any moment." Hoards are only drawn on in extreme oases, and i6 le math calamltiea as war or the great famine in Madras or Bombay that will bring them out. Daring them famines bullion or ornaments were oaken ont of the hoards and Bent bo the Bombay mint, to Eogland, or pledged with the native banker or money -lender. But, unless under special oironmaoanoae, the gold and diver of which the hoards are composed are drawn In withona any intention of re- turning to circulation again. The Duke of Fife's Bride. A story of Princess Loniee'o childhood days whioh has been roughly attributed to another royal grandchild, will illustrate her love for mischief. While visiting the Queen one day ab Balmoral she committed some act for which the Queen intended to punish her. Her onstom is nob to send a naughty child into the other, but under the table, and under the table was Prineeae Louise ordered to go, where oho was completely concealed by a long cloth, After a few minutiae the Queen said, " Lsnise, are you good yet ?" ' No," came the prompt reply. Then stay where you are." After another interval the same question came again, the reply being "Not quite good yob"; and once more she was told to stay until she was quite good. At the third interrogatory, "Louise, are you quite good?' the infant Prinoose responded, " Yeo, quite good." " Then come here, Lulu dear, and 1'11 forgive you." Upon which, from beneath the table, appear- ed the child, clothed only in nature's gar- ments. The Queen was unable to resist a fib of uncontrollable laughter, and asking why she had undressed herself, was told, " Adam and Eve was naked when they was quite good." Pioneer Times. There are still told in the Western Staten some dramatic inoidento of early history which illustrate the rough elements oub of which the finer later o]vIllesden has grown. There wao very little form or reverence, for example, observed even in the pulpit, In the early sebtlemonte in Illinois, 'meeting" was held onto a month, Parson Lindley was a powerful preacher, and always drew a orowd. He e000d, while preaching, oa a stump near his own cabin. On one 000nadon he was observed to keep an anxioun eye on his wolf -trap in the edge of the woods. Having given oub the text, he said, hurriedly " Mind that text, brethren, Ponder on it a few manatee, but don't move hand nor foot. There's a wolf in the pen, and I must kill the gentleman. 1'11 preach the sermon as soon au I get baok." Most of the brethren, wo fear, assisted in killing bhe wolf, leaving the sisters to ponder on the text, Reducing The Surplus, Jenkins (walking up tho front garden)— " What on earth" (reads "No Admit - tame Exoopb on Btu:1m u"1—" What on earth, Mr, Parker, have you got that duel{ on your front door for ?" Parker—" Why, no many ornamental fellows call on my daughtoto they aro in nnoanotlter'o way, and as the girls don't go off I must do something to reduce the eurplua 1 Corning in Well, to ba!" Poor Fellow. Mr, Jonathan Truth pp : " What's the male ter with young Darlinghon 1 Ho'q going into the conservatory with Dolly l3lioker, ao pale as a ghost," Mies Penelope Peach - blow: "Going bib a dentine, I bake it, rem what I know of Dolly." GENERAL NEWS. The rapid growth of Landon le an old story, yob it may interest tome people to learn that oinoe 1818 the great4l6y has rawly - ed half a 'Millen new houses and nearly two thousand miieo of etreebe, Between 1878 and 1888 the average iuoreaee iu street mileage was more than 50 miles a year. Many lefinenbiel journals In the Molted States take the O4nadien view of the B3hring Sea eefzcres, They pronounce the see nee wrong, and deolare than it is preposterous to resume thab the Amer#oane have ex Aube, jurisdiction in the ocean eeven1y 00 0 hun- dred milts from land, Great Britain 1100 a magnificent /telt as-, oembled at Selfhood Oat now, but she is preparing to make an extraordinary Increase in the obrongth of her navy. Under the Naval Defence Act provision has been made for the conetruorlon of no lees than lfty•nwo new war ships, twenty in the Government dock -garde and thlrty-bwo in private yards. Lord George Hamilton stated in Parliament recently that of the former eighteen had already been commenced, while oonbrsote far the'mustruotion of elxteen of bhe latter had been signed, and it wao expected that the whole number would be .under way in September. The Emperor William will need to review the Beicioh fleet again in two or three years in order to judge of he strength. In hie letter of aoceptanae of the Repab#i— aau nomination for the Presidency Mr. Har risen wrote as follows : "In appointments to every grade and department fitness and nob parby service ehoald be the essential and tile criminating test, and fidelity end a flaaiendy the only sure tenure of officio, Only the in terestr of the public cervine should suggest romovele from office." There have been to date in the Pest -Office Department alone about 13,000 removals by the present Ad— miaietration. Ib would seem, therefore, either that this department was In a fright- ful state when Mr, Harrison book offi:o, or that he did not mean quite all that he mid, in hie letter. The World's Fair Committee of the New York Chamber of Commorao recently ap- pliod to the Director of Flnanoe of the Perla. Exposition for an estimate of the re- ceipts and expenditures of bhab enterprise The reply wee that the receipts would pre bably amounb bo 59,703,000 and the expaa- es no a little over $0,000,000. O1 bhe reasipte $4,400,000 came from private subscriptions $3,400,000fr000 the State, and $1,60),000 from the oily. Ae the Now Yorkers pro- pose to have quite as floe 4 show as bhab at Poria, if nob a better ono, they are now nu - officering how the necessary funds eau ba raised. The amounb required is large, bat lb is confidently expected that the greater portion will bo subscribed by the oilMine. From the replies received to it cireuter letter of inquiry on the enbjeob of Negro labor, scab bo over 7,000 large employers in the Southern States, it is noteworthy that nearly all express a preference for Negro labor in ordinary work about mills and fee- torlee, The Tennessee iron mills reporb tha work of colored men to be the beet earl meso reliable they have. The Alabama and Georgia iron mills think that for skilled work the white man is superior, but in coma • mon labor the Negro is beet. The testimony of lumber mill men is in Alabama that Negroes are as efBaienb ae whites, and of the Arkansas sew mills thab Negro labor is at least ten per cont better than white labor. Fanta like these go to show that the hWRol,i are steadily pushing their way Into the par - milts of skilled workmen. The Chrietlan science priestess who. achieved some notoriety in New Yak not long since by divorcing herself from her hus- band after a fashion of her own in order that she might marry another " heeler," did. nob display maoh wisdom in her second choice. Husband No. 2 turns out: to be a. raooal whose life for the past twenty pears hoe been one of fraud and villainy. "Daring thio period," says an exchange, " he has married eight different women, robbed them of several thousand dollars, and then deeer- bed them; defraudedwiiowo and orphans e played the role of rotor, soldier, lawyer., doctor, clergyman, and merohenb, and found opportunities in eaoh for swindling ; forged notes, cheques, and bonds ; carved time in prison, and seduced women, and not once hes he been interfered with." The Christian Sofeotiete ought to be proud, of their aonverb. Vacant Lands in the Eastern States.. So great is the number of forme is the New England States left vaoanb by their former 000upante having gone to the Weotor' drifted to the oitleo that determined efforta are being made to repeople the depopulated' areas. In Vermont the drain hat been an heavy that it is estimated that 200,000 threat of vacant farming land oxide there. It fa proposed to introduce a Swedish colony of filby families into the State. The Boston, "Iferald" says : "From a somewhat care- ful study of the conditions on which farming; is made suooeseful in Northern Now Hemp - shire, it is believed that the present dififf- oulty in farming with us is not ea much for the Boil ae is till e econ- omic changer a000unb for a great deal of on - successful farming, In the oholoo of mope, in the expenditure of money for machinery, in the changed character of home living, le to be found the explanation of the fact that a largo number of the New England 1armere are in debt." It is very instructive for the Canadian farmer bo note these confeoeione of the anoatiefaotory oonditiono of American farming, The United Status joarnalo do nob blind their eyes to the foots, or talk glib- ly about a sixty million market. They leave thab for the cabbage -beaded Comm:r— clia Uniodistn,—[Ex. In the Name of Religion. In several counties of Georgie at the present time, the colored people are Ia a remarkable relhgtouo frenzy. The culta vabion of crepe is being neglected and the people aro giving ail their time and money to false prophets who claim to poseeos the spirit of Christ. The people of Liberty rummy refuse to do any work ao their load- er manures them that they will be transport- ed to the promieod land on August 16th. A self raieed prophet ab Rockford I11., re- cently oreated great excitement: until he was proven to be a full fledged crank. How meth longer will these religious owindlora and lunettes be permitted to play upon the gullibility of a superstitious publish ? Will tonafoobery over ooate to be an abbraobion ? Can't somebody suggest a preventative for the retigfona donkey 'Mikis nefarious bray ? No Diegraoe After All. Husband: "Your stater Jennie has run away and got married—eloped." Wife. (faintly): "What was els married int" Husband: "Silk." Wife (tottered). "Thos she didn't diagram) the family after all. Whom ilia the marry 3''