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The Brussels Post, 1889-10-11, Page 7OCT. 11, 1589 .... *- 1(1',ND) UNIVERSITY. A SHOW' REVIEW OF iTS PAST AND PRESENTl CRY. Y. H R One or the finest 1i rumens on the con- tinent --5t8 Itentaiirrif Slu'eielllllllilga— Wfatl the rolvereity lens Ilene for the Prom --Sc r( heat of Set mice. In Ontario the story of University educa- tion is inseparably oonneoted with the his - L �, tory of the country itself. his - oho, Whoe the calmly waw beim ,i g fa 1 ottndod the .fano Gavor I P f a jqWent and public institutions embodied a more or loss e0nn- prohenoive scheme of higher 1oleriucabioh. It was difficult to keep the torch alive, but Te mif,encrt Sete and Ihoroio by s exertions the way was paved for the Na - 'omit Univeriity w Y in uwee'sPmk. King's College did not suit ho requirements of a country having hotro eneous elements of race and mood, and con- equcntly in 1853 the egislature created the prosont University on a purely non-sectarian basis. It need not be said that the innate - tion was organized with two separate and well defined departments, University Col- lege being given control of the teaching and the University proper of the examining and the dogree-conferring powers. . In this way the University has had aver since its organization the advantage of the services of distinguished soholars in active co-operation with the professorate on the Examining Board, not to speak of the im- partial character given to the examinations of the University Muni matriculation to graduation. Ups and downs the University had, and there were periods in its history when its friends feared its very existence, but great mon rallied round it and saved 11 from the hand of the despoiler. Year after year adds to its popularity, until now it may be said to bo thoroughly implanted in the affections of the people. There is no public building in tho city which rho people of Toronto lova so much to take the visitor from other countries to as the University. The site itself is not loss magnificent than the buildings, although they may be said to rank in architectural effects with any struc- ture on the Continent. They are only surpass- ed in Canada by the Parliament buildings in Ottawa. Situated ono natural elevation of ground beyond the Queen's Park ravine, the site commands a picturesque prospect of all shades of beauty, which at once charms the visitor and justifies the wisdom of those who bad to do with rho selection. Tho buildings were completed in 1859 from de- eigns fry Messrs. Cumberland .0 Storm, architects 0f this city, and in the fall of that year they were taken pone:m1011 of by the faculty and students. The material is stone, and being loft superficially in the rough state, the structure is given that appear- ance of age which ono sees in the modireval sin DANIEL WILSON, ritESIDENT. universities of the Old World. The archi- tecture is Norman, and with rasped to its interior and exterior arrangement every- thing was done to give the whole an appear- ance of elaborate finish in every detailThe general outlineis in the form of a square with a quadrangle 200 feet wide facing the north. Tho thief eloration of the build- ing, however, faces the south, the frontage being 300 feet in length and with the mas- sive tower 120 foot in height in the centre, the whole structure is given that needteval aspect which the designer evidently Yntend- o0), The east front is 260 foot iu length with a separate entrance surmounted with a mailer tower than•that seen at the southern ;entrance. The west end of the buildfitgis 200 feet long, and is not much resorted to 'except by THE BRUSSELS POST .T.....erms.n.ner yawmmor.^smtro e:mon.Yl rra.mmrsarrrw"'L"'ver znparmY rramvt iri '3i 7.',,1.".x... ' GERMANY'S ROYAL CHILDREN. Fe'otts Story for Children or' This country to head. The young Emperor of Company, IViiliarn II., hao five littlo boys. The oldest Isamu years old. Ho ie then Crown Prince and the heir to the throne, He will some day bo Emperor of Germany. Ila i0 a fine manly little follow. Germany is averY military country,ntrY, and the Emperor Ytrilllom is such a thorough soldier that etriet military discipline is the order of the day in the nurseries of hie littlo 95 P ala. As 8000 as petticoats aro left off the tiny boys are dressed in baby uniforms, and the young Crown Prince looks quite like a. soldier. When their father visits them in their own quarters (as I suppose I ought to call, mob a Crory military nursery) the Crown Prime commands his smaller brothers to "fall in." a Albert who are ThenFrederickn0) scarcely more than babies, "fall in." Little Prince Albert is such a mite that he is not able to keep his position for long, and soon trots eway to his nurse's side, But the Crown Prince and Prince Frederick stand stiff and aerated like real soldiery till their fathers returns their salute in proper fash- ion. Nher the little Crown Prince was six years n!d be was given a bedroom to Himself instead of sleeping in the nur cry with the ethers. 1114 was very pleased, and said "Oh I that 15 nice ; now I need not be with rho children any more." In the Sumner of 1888 all five boys had 0 charming holiday with their mother at the beautiful castle of Oberhof, in the forest of Thuringia. Their father was away. A little fort was built for them in a cor- ner of the gardens, with a tent and two smell common. Tho three eldest, dressed in oflleer'a uni- forms, paraded in front of the fort. Then while the Crown Prince beat the drum, an old soldier showed tho other two how to at- tack and defend the fort. Little Prince Augustus William, who was only n year and a half, was dressed in white and wore a tiny helmet, He looked on and clapped his hands. In Germany, every boy, whether he is the son of the Emperor or of a peasant, has some day to be a soldier. The Emperor fa very fond of his five boys. Almost his first question is, when he re- turns home, "How are the boyo."—Our Little Men and Worsen. chairs, as also lecturers and !allows. The quiet t TrA'1'10S AND S111it51• 51/10/18 of the University are congenial to the phr- eSit of lenrniug, Secluded. in !;onerous exposure of restful nature pat the boort. caries of foliage no oeltoes of the city's buoy n0104 800 caret --d. In front of the sober, mummy -tree atone muting nature fled Poen subdued and droned with all a gardener's c e carafe! tanto. On tho broad, lase ib graseanapped es'pot, with its border of gravelly driveweye, the students play their games of cricket, football or base. ball. There have played Cunn da' s best eriobotors and there have gathered some of Toronto's boat bounty to encourage by their gloved plaudits or their presence the native adore in past matches. To -day as we enter the grounds the whito.(latino it d orickoters are acattorod over the green, and on the driveways 000010goe stand with their bur - dons of pretty spectators, 1f, as the rg costa- o width" of mit) might cull it th, „ front v urn ve nature 'e has 's eat round the Un t 1 l Y 6 been cut and fashioned into the symmetry pod tameness of the gardener's art, the " bask widths" aro still neglected and beau- tiful. And bore will bho meditative student find a soothing quietude. 1t apelike well for the success t)1 01110010 a educational system that the ntnje'ity of the student& in the higher institutions arc nob front rho families of rho rich. It is shown that to the ambitious the avenuee to lourning are open. And, unless I a1(1 mistaken, a largo proportion of the students at Gniversity College are from the fertile fuels of tho Provinces. To these farm -bred young follows, and cannot, olovor fellows they aro, the bit of nature at the back of the Ulivel•sitymust beawelcome resort. At first he toy linger on the smooth, regular, expres- sionless lawn. A callow youth floods his admiration on a pretty painted actress but soon tiros of his artificial shrine. Just so the student whose life has passed whore nature wears her own garb and bends her will to no human hand, finds in the little strip of rough, Ieaf•etrown ravine, moments where his spirit will travel EApir TO TUE LITTLE 1h00IIOSTEAD and the old woods on the "back lot" of the farm. And bo will remember how he and his playmates played at Robin Hood ; the diminutive cave in the hillside in which the bold forest rangers abandoned themselves to feasting end %vessel And then the games of hido.atd-go.eeek and the trees they climbed in those old woods when they wont birds -nesting. I !night go on with scores of recollections that will come to him as be sits, his beck against a stanp, as I am today, and listens to the harsh, rattling call of the crows overhead, or the chirping, twittering birds that are building their nests about him. Many students, doubtless, have hero planned glorious futures of usefulness, and have been the better for the planning. I hope the gardener may be kept fro.: the back of the University grounds, and that part be left to adorn itself as nature pleases, —Toronto Globe. THE ST0D1TiT5 •IN nE0108001t and the other ocoupanta of the buildings. ,and north side of the quadrangle faces the !Park. The visitor, on going in from the main entrance, passes from elites room to class room and other wall -arranged apart - manta, fiuiehed in keeping with the magni. ficeht external part of the massive struc- ture, until Convocation Hall is reaobsd, which is the main attraction for students and the general public. In close connection ety buildin. s is the ,with the Univor g School of Practical Science, which has charge of rho instruction given in chemistry, engineering, mihlhg and as- saying. The curriculum of the school is / about to undergo,. such a reanodolling as will make the Soiree' of Practical Soienco more in keeping with the need there is of giving suitable facilities for acquiring a knowledge of the various branohea of tech- nology. This has been done at the regnant of manufttoturers and employers of skilled mechanics, who sae in the eohool possf6ili- ties of adding to the wealth and resources of the oouthbry, by diffusing more nceurato knowledge of the etoono0s in 80 far as they relate to the manipulutiolt of material into its various uooful forms. The University is now governed according to the provisions of aha Tederabion Act passed by the Logfs- laturo during the 50sai0n of 1887, Sir Daniel Wilson being appointed the firth President:, Anti eidort W0A nt erwiee 111055 to the "WI by , ,. v., •+..., v, 11(180450(5 141 at1u0tt0la ONE CAUSE OF DIVORCES. End Peeking the Entering Wedge of Mari - tel infelicity, "The very light manner in which Ameri- can girls and women toss off the oft -quoted Meredithisnh that 'civilized man cannot live without cooks' is only another instance of the national leek of reverence for really serious things," quoth a lady of broad cul- ture and largo experience, who was one of a group of feminine Summer boarders at a well known mountain resorts Some of the younger members of the group are inclined to treat rho subject jokingly and to shrug their pretty shoulders over the idea of there being anything serious in so material s ques- tion, but their elderly friend would have none of their flippancy. "I assure you, girls, it is my first convict. tion that more divorcee are to be traced to the foot that American women know noth- ing about cooking than to any other one muse under the sun. It is, in nine cases out of ton, "the little rift within the lute,' the entering wedge, the apple of discord thrown into the newly formed and apparent. ly harmonious domestic circle, to create dis- content, alienation and fluid dissolution. Cooking is on art which no woman should fail to acquire, the .rudimenta' of which shouldbe inculcated' with the three 15'a, and the finer touches added with the finishing. off efforts of her music, drawing and French masters, The few cooking schools that have been established and the very limited ao- commodaEions that have been made for teaching eu]practically b'cat rt) cticall in a few of our larger institutions of looming are totally in- adequate to effect the results required to remedy the almost universal ignorance of American w. men upon this important sub- ject. The ntotter ehould go deeper ; the import- anal of the subject should bo preached from droll ooh the housetops until every soman e f as much ashamed of not knowing chow to nook as she would of not knowing how to, write her name. The number of people who can afford to hire French cooks is so limited as to exclude that way out of the difficulty from the general question. The arb of living, of dining, is an outgrowth o: civilization which cannot be ignored, and coming, 68 it does entirely within woman's province, should roceivo her most serious attention, since the results to be obtained ere well worthy of her hightet efforts and utterly re- deem the apparent memmoos of the omega= tion. "It is the wise woman who will Moldy her husband's material tastes tend older to them; itis the tensible and rightly baianced wo- man who will descend from her esthetic and sentimental heights long enough to realize that 90 per cent, of this life f8 meta:lid, and that by nourishing 110r husband's body wall she is really improving his morale. You will tell 4•+0 that 1 ea balkier/ Watteau. muco you have beard all this before, you cannot hoar it too often. Thin POW of cooking hs of far more importance to Wb. men than that of suffrage, or prohlbitiop or foreign missions or faith cures, It is fhb key to the social problem, the padlook 50 the divorce courts." And our onthusiaatl0 elderly boarder, quite warmed by hor own eloquent)°, gathered up hor knitting and d toher own roc while certain ma,rehe all m, of rho young matrons whom cone ionees were whispering to them the secret moaning of cortaiu 11th!° doloestic clouds, wont off to ponder those things in their profitby hearts--per- hap a to them. i TWO DISTINGUISHED EXILES. 51x-mayor°;they Halt 1.101ngIn London and Theodore Tilton lti ,n Lt Faris, Sometimes yon will meet men who bring up scrums that are of the past and are almost forgotten. They bring up old memories-= oldgh ghosts of its peat, nsitwe e. It ie bu a abort time ago Chet I saw Oukoy Hall in London, and what recollections a 'New York under the reign of '!.'weed be brought up I Those were groat days for (fall, and for mon who wore a great deal worm than he. What a follow of infinitejest lie was, and what a bright spot Ise mads rho Mayor's office in Now York some tar my yearn ego. The older newspaper men, politicians and mets about town will long reuromber its attract. tireless, Tie w old have bee it rash man in those days w h , would hove attempted to prophesy the height in the temple of fame to which the brilliant and witty mea might not climb. What prophet could foresee that this gifted and once popular men Wei to pass the even- ing of his life practically an exile in n foreign land, leaving behind him on the field of his early triumphs nothing but shattered am• bitions. Yet this was to be. In a small oafo in a somewhet'i'nfrequenE- ed part of Paris the other clay I saw another roan who recalled a case tho fain of which was world-wide. He was sitting at a table seemingly buried in thought of a not plea- sant character and oblivious of his surrounn• ings. Ho had an intellectual face, but on it there were deep lines that told of past suf. ferings. His long hair was gray—proma- torely gray. His shoulders wore boob, and there wee a moody brooding look on hie face. I3uthe was evidently a tall man, and some years ago must have been a handsome man. As ho sat at the table ho looked like a strong man borne down by the memory of some great sorrow. Presently he arose rind walked out without looking to tho right or to the lefty and then, I recognized him, although it had bean years since I saw him before. It was Theodora Tilton, the once famous editor of the New York Independent. But bow ohangod. In the slays of his popularity, ho was tall erect, strong and handsome; now a broken, prematurely old man. He is doing some sort of literary work here, but no ono seems to know just what it is. I oould not but think, afterseeing the mon, that the .scandaliu which this man's life was wrtekerl was mere than a mere scandal. Itwas,in fact, a tragedy. The circle of the chiefadore in it is narrow ing. The greatest of then is de,d, 00 are others, among them some of the lawyers and the jury. Ono of tho lawyers, Benjamin F. Tracy, is in the Cabinet of the President of the United States. Mrs. Tilton is more fortunately situated than her husband, for she has the company and opmyathy of her children. But Theo- dore Tilton haunts out•of-the-way places in Paris, seeking neither friends norfrisndships, a miserable and broken mai.—Philadelphia Nimes summ ry's and madames Sane's. The two sone of the two loaders of English political life are both good pariah priests, the one at Hawardon and the other at Hat- field. Mr. Stephen E. Gladatono has to sopervise six or seven district churches, and has a double daily service at the pariah church. Ms ecclesiastical training was ob. Mined in the purlieus of the Iambobh pot - Moles, while Lord William Gaseoyne Cecil, the rector of Bishop Hatfield, served under the vicar of Great Yarmouth. The tall fig- ura of the Prime Minister's eon was well known in the narrow and peculiar courts where real bloaters receive thseir;finslsmok• ing. Now he has a daily servioo at Hatfield House to perform, and to provideministra- tions twice a day at the magnificent parish church, while on Sunday, with the aid of only two curates, be also finds services at two or three distriet'churches, a mission church and a cemetery ehapeL The Prettiest Parisian Actress. Thirty years ago the prettiest woman in Paris was 731anohe Pierson; , now it is Mlle. Depoix. The first was fair, the second is dark; the first, even in her youth, had the dimpled pluMpnese, whioh unluckily be- came vexatious obesity.; the Second , is alendor and thin, all muscle, without a sus. picion of fatness—just a duo covering of flash on her bones. distinctly and h is roti is The feet is she Th S, Y P charmingly pretty. with dark hair clinging to her forehead, clear deep eyes, bleak eye- brows drawn with a single strolto of a mss' ter's hand; and a long oval face, and some- thing sweet and maidenly and yet sensual in her whole parson, and, above all, the tinetiou which promisee a woman of the world. There is no sign of the free -and -easy airiness which stamps the common actress ; everything about her is oloso.fitting, closo- buttoned, neat, and in good taste; nothing to catch the aye or divert attention from that °!harming head On which wo gaze with restful pleasure. This boattty, this .aristoomtic witchery, needs uo frills or furbelows,, 1t hos found Oa proper setting—a stamp of reserve, al - I noel of disdain. That is what we sea on the boards when she plays, whore she le to bo soon, for that is all that is required of hor; x115 hco'l not speak., Children Ina teen of Snakes. A party of sportsmen from Port Stockton, Tex., while hunting antelopes in the Sierra Charrote a few .days ago, made a most sing- ular discovery. Riding up a narrow gorge they caught sight of a gigantic rattlesnake trailing his hideous length along the steep crag just above their heeds. Several of the party, states the truthful correspondent, fired at the reptile, but none of the shots had any effect beyond causing his snakeship to accelerate bar leisurely movement,. The sound of their shots brought a man out of n cave in the rooks, and after some talk the hunters were invited to enter. They found a woman and children there. The woman lighted a torch, revealing the cave swarming with snakes of every description and size. They hung from rooky projections in the roof and sides of the cavern, hissing at the unwonted light, and glided about from one corner to another. One groat slimy black monster lay morose the throat of a sleeping infant, gently waving its horrid head above the child's mouth. An older child was °st- ing from an earthenware vessel, and o large rattler leaning from his shoulder would swing over and oat from the dish, while the child would strike it with its baro hand whenever its strange mesemate seemed get. ting more than its share.—Pitbaburg Dis- patch. old days r f Wilford rum in Noir England, , Levin) tisk. limited oxperiouce we have had with imituiret sun cures 505 ore prepared to believe that if Mrs. Caird only guzzles . 000ugll of the real cure the will reach a eon- '' 1 rI un o ndl At OYer bhp ;,av on marriage, to a' howling success.—Wasbiogboo Post. MME. DE CAS1'TCILIONE. A F,ta•orlte or \ape4nl, !1•lto 'ole,: rammer 71roy , i ••ht it Ea 11 1e, t The rumor wbichWee uurrontotlthehoule..j vards of Paris a few cloys ago that Mine, do n 'Dn Inlaid to (f al • t lin t 11 rl e (.' B PC the Pte 1 a i 11 g lean HI, woo dead,l•eviveN s number of e collections of the once haulms b11to 1 In the year 1850 there appo',red to Paris { A c a Count and Countess ,la 004th :inure. They were Italians of good family, wile bare with them letters of introduction to the beet houses fn imperial sacioty. They nppenred oeto to have plenty of money at their disposal, took n handsome hotel on what was then rn it called 1'A venue do I 1m pa t. c now known as1'_Am:weedu Bois de Boulogne, 1810) enter- tained ilk un onesbentatiows manner. cline, de Castiglione's bounty soon bernu,e the talk of the town. Never had Paris 00555 sue', perfection fu womankind. It was Impo-W.1e for paluter or sculptor to find fault with her features or the linos other figura. She was a brunette, wits a rieb, !'fear southern complexion. ilor eyes, of deep violet, ware shaded with 11(14 hind( lashes, which theboulovordieri ,lecirxe,i took her half an hour ovary morning to _,5.-,t. !ler hair was blue -black. Her nose 5i es of the bold Renton type, which 19 so rapidly disap- pearing in fair Italy. When she opened her luscious red lips she tliselosod two dazzling rows of faultless teeth. But beautiful as Mom. de Caetigliono's face was, many thought her figure even more perfect. Her arm was u drum, and a model of her foot is still preserved lac '•8 thing of beauty and a joy forever" among people who lived anti revelled inNapoleon III. 's brilliant court. The Italian beauty soon succeeded in gains ing the Emperor's favor, and the Csrboear of Italy, whose enmity he had gained through his wresting from Italy the fair province of Savoy, thought it would be au cosy thing for her to inveigle !him to some place where his death could bo brought about. While the plot was being =Mired, "La Castiglione" appeared at a fancy bull given in honor of some foreign royalty, and hor oostutne shocked the Enhpro+s Eugenie to such an extent that she refusad to recognize her and had her removed from the room. A stormy meeting between the Emperor and the beautiful Italian followed ; she raved madly and threatened his death if the insult offered her was not atoned for. She was finally pacified, the Emperor promising that '® the next night, at the opera, ho would bow to her so that all Paris would knew that she lt,.l•, ; stilt held his favor. The plan was carried out and the Empress immediately, left the hoose and shortly afterwards left France and paid a long visit to Scotland. It is said Queen Viotoria's pleadings alone prevented her suing for a divorce. Meanwhile, the Carbonari had decided that Napoleon's time had come, but "La Castiglione" betrayed the plot to the hand of the police, and the arrest of the conspira- tors followed. Senator ingnlls's Oddities. "There aro two little circumstances In connection with Senator Ingalls's speech at the unveiling of the Grant monument," said a gentleman just home from Leavenworth, "'that go to show hie lova of notoriety, his desire to be considered odd, et:metric and ori- aginal, and go far to explain why he is a much -quoted, much -talked -of man. In the first place he delivered his speech from the top of the table which stood upon the plat- form. Metall, Blender figura wee clad in • well -fitting snit of some light gray mater- ial, and from the elevation he cameo the effect was striking. kir. Ingalls knew it would be. Then, as the Times stated, his notes were written upon telegraph blanks. ' Yes, upon telegraph blanks of many oolora sizes and shapes. To the man who did not know Ingalls he appeared to say t "I dashed them off during a moment's time I had this morning, had nothing but a few scraps of paper and really gave them et) thought." Now Ingalls probably spent some !tours of ch ho made a the little speech t t on o stud 5 P P Y the unveiling and his peculiar and careless. looking notes were for effect. It shows the man, always superficial and denhagogiq.",-e4 Kansas City Times. Tho Stat (Inre, Mrs, Mena Caird, the woman who dMetin- guished herself by trying to get at the world's family affairs as a failure, is now in Austrian Tyrol, undergoing what is called "sun cure." This sun cure has boon des- oribed to tis as a very pleasing remedy for whatever ails you. It consists ie drinking grape wine with a bead on lb matin you doh t know wirehair you are a sioL man or an its. ftatod balloon, ".Then you sleep it off in the sun, tool when you woke tip anemic for a monkey-wreuult to amour your lout on with, they give you another treatment, 'We have it from pereo,s who have tried it that next) to taking dinner with C'hatuheey 11, Hopoty it is, for the time befog, the most stleetivo atret `;:aerial sr omen Lawyer. This afternoon Miss Kate L. Pier, who practises law in Milwaukee, aroma a case before the Supreme Court, being the first lady to appear in such a capacity before that august body. She made a strong and logi- cal presentation, and was accorded the most respectful attention. The lady's opponent {' was John J. Sutton, of Columbus, who was very do 'scandal in his references to opposing counts'. Miss Pier was attired in black silk, A and a rich diamond sparkled on her Snger. She is a beautiful girl, little over twenty years of age, a brunette, with bewitching eyes and very heavy lashes, but her striking feature is her splendid black hair, which falls nearly to the floor fn a massive braid. Her mother and she graduated together from the law department of the Wisconsin Uni• varsity a year ago, and both now practise in Milwaukee. Month And the Man I Sing. q��.\, 41+tt 7 ill l(��% ii a�� �V ^�t. +I(t Y0) Ij4) `PM1 ta ij let's tl•e man who lcslwo It ell, 00. 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