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The Brussels Post, 1890-5-23, Page 3MAY 23, 1890, THE BRUSSELS POST. HOUSEHOLD, ;Am shells from FAX 11141'414/Oiled oggs and cover with the mixture) fry two minutes in Perry kat flet These may lie served hot or How He Dresses The Baby. An 'family man fancy that they can dress the baby much more deftly (and expel I usly than the mother can perform the sarue operation. That is if they only set them- selves about It, "Of course there is no doubt of that." says the malt to Ithns0lf, ',14 man can do anything better than a woman, and not make half the fuss and talk about It. Women wear theineelves all out talking IL over. Why, a woman will talk more about making u fiat-lrnn-bolder than a man would about building a steedsf,g-hot,sc. When a nota 1s going; to do anytting, ho goes to work and does it, He dooan't have to run all over the neighborhood to ask every ono he knows about it, and then tie as he has a mind to, as a woman will do. And so, having heard him boast of his capabilities for years, some fine morning, when his wife's head aches, and the font, inine deity of the kitchen has given notice, the mother of the fancily invites him to dress the baby. The baby is big enough to walk around and have a finer to eve'ypie, but it will bo "the baby" till a later edition appears. The man who knows it enmities triumph- antly to himself. 'He is delighted with the opportunity of showing his wife how much quicker nue can do it than sho can. And he'll see if the baby is ggoing to run all over cram tion after eats and things, and cry half the time while he is doing it. Discipline is what is needed with children, He calls the baby to him. "Stand there, 1 teddy, while papa finds your clothes, like a good boy." Freddy places himself in position, •while his pa goes in quest of the raiment, belong- ing to the juvenile. Freddy spies a bird on the topof a tree in the yard, and ho climbs at on the l° o get high up at the window, and he knocks down a couple of bundles of sheet -music, his slater Fanny's now hat that she left there last night when she came home from the party, so tired that she could hardly ,. bed than poor Freddy get up stairs to Ile t . ly v window sade to save sip., nal grabs the w6 v himself, turd brings it down, fixture and all, and draws a double tracked railroad o1 the polished rosewood of the piano with hie wildly clutching finger -nails, and lands safely on the floor, howling with raga at nut having been able to get the bird. 13y that time his pa has found most of his clothes, and is ready to begin. But Fred- dy isn't ready. He wants to seethe pictures in the album. Then he insists on hearing the watch tick. Then he wants to catch the dog by the tall and give it a good pull, Lo see if it is on fast. Then he wants to kiss mam- ma, " Stand still 1" soya his pa putting motile severe look that he uses on his insubordinate' clerks in the clingy town office, " and see if you can keep your tongue still while .f dross you ! Don't wiggle so, Freddy ! Stand still ! Put down your foot ! Lot that eat alone! Isere, yon little mischief, stop chewing that lead -pencil ! lilold up your head, can't you ? Put this hand through 1w,, that 000 t frond gracious, it Is strange that )00111011 0(11 lllLtke pants forbabies wrong, ' 1 end to! And mntbuttons on (111 t Lan w w'o tld be needed to button up a tegimeut of men 1 N"w then, for the waist ! Htumph, that is etude the sane way, all the buttons in thou wrong • place. Noarm-bales, no nothing ! d still . 1 tell •1111 it dnenti C hart Freddy, hold ) I yon ! Yrs, 'tis on right. It can't be un any ther way. By - Jove, I've forgot the drawers, 1 W foot. , and the stnrl:lugs . Here, )lit n that F t. lFredd • caul, oulsto 1 wi g gl-, Gond.gracious, y Y l 66 ingyni.toes 1 hold your leg stiff There; nosed Nu.c, we'll put 011 the little man's co1li,t Y\\•hat an outlandish contrivance to fasten a collar. It doesn't stay pitanywhere. Let's see, the bow gees under it ? No, it must go over it. keep your head still. What are you bobbing so for 1 Lift up your arms, Freddy ! \Vhy what the deuce is the matter with this Child's arms ? Ho can't move 'em. Don't cry, Freddy, Let =look.: A Do stop that bawling. This all comes of your mother's humoring you so. I say, Fred, stop this noise! Stop it 1 say 1 I shall be army— And about at this juncture his wife ap- pears on the scone, and she finds that reddy's pants aro hind part before, and ono of his arils has been put through the neck space, and the other cum through one arm- hole of his waist, and his collar, which was outdo to turn down, stands up, and his stock-, inns are on wrong side out ; and his pa will 11100( own that there is anything out of order about the proceeding, but the next time he dresses the bnhy, ho doesn't dross it —he always has something to see to that prevents hint, Putting Away Winter Clothing. Heavy, woolen clothing a11(1 furs must be put away early, before the moths are astir. They spent to work in fur- nabeheated 1louse% the year round. I found a"bnifalo bug" and a shining, silvery hasbeen but thise n a war January, motel In Jta Y' ) a whiter. 1 If one has no cedar chest to store 't substt utais it trunk woolens in, it very good Td. The ha(rel should be well of Heal b1a washed it cold water, dried and lineal with xlewspapors. These are pasted in, using thick flour paste with a largo spoonful of alum added to a quart of paste. Cover every plaou e1 the inside of the barrel. Cleattth000vor together land pastopapor on the inside. The woolens should bo thoroughly) brushed aid sunned, carefully folded and laid in. When the barrel is full, the mover should bo pressed clown, well around tho barrel, tied clown with twine and pasted so as to fit close. Woolens may be kept securely in this way. The great thiig is 10 sun and thoroughly brush the garments, so that if moths aro already there, to get them out, and then pack securely, Au old trunk past its usefulness, of a box properly pro. paled, will answer the same propose. Hang out furs when the sun shines hot ; lot them hang several hours, combing them with a coarse dressing comb. Put into its box the mut( and a strip of paper pasted around whore the cover joins the box. Tho fur cape tate sane, I never add eamphor or anything, and have kept those furs twenty- three years, and never a sign of moth, Tho fu'.lined circular may be put into a lung Wade of calico, nlarlo the length of the gar- ment, the latter laid on. the bed and folded together, at patent garnnent•holdor put in at the neck, the bag slipped on 110111 the hot ten part, drawn closely at the top and tied, then sowed around rho wino loop of the "holder," Tho soil plush sack, the cloth jacket and wintee overcoat, 0,00 prepared in tho sante way. Have a row of hooks put u in the closet very near the ceiling, so that the garments hang full length, a11(1 conte out in the fall with never it wrinkle, This loaves room below then for another row of hooks for shorter garments. Dainty and Delicate Ways of Serving Ego's, I. Scooro Titus.—Mix with one cupful of cookod ham (chopped fine) a pastomade of ono -half oupfsfol each of silk and bread• aruabs, etto•ialf teaspoonful of raised ams. tarci, a littlo salt and ono raw egg. Remove ez• cold, and are very delicious for picnics, cold lanehos, etc. Cicken, veal, lamb or salmon may be used instead of the hast, with sea- soning to tiro taste, Lemon, however, ahouId bo mood In seasoning the salmon. 2. Sxtrrrlsu tans. (a)---lonlove the shells from six hard-boiled eggs and cut lotlgthwise. Remove the yolks and put the two whites together again. Mash the yolks and add one-half teaspoonful of soft batter and one- half the quantity of deviled tongue or ham. Fill the whites with the mixture and press to halves together. Spread what 10 left of the yolkutixturo on a Blah and place the eggs upon it. Pour over a thin, white since or real gravy and sprinkle with buttered crumbs. b . 1'lacu in the oven until a delicate e1 testa brown. (1) After the oggs are filled, roll in fine broad -crumb; and beaten egg, again in the crumbs, and fry in very Int fret. Drain and 501vo with tomato saute. 3. Snoo.roPao Roos. —Six herd -boiled eggs. Have one pint of veal of chicken gravy or white sauce. ()hop fine olio capful of ham, tongue, poultry or tisb, Soften one cupful of orackee-crumbs in one-fourth cupful of milk. Chop the whittle of the eggs line. In a buttered dish put one layer of crumbs, a layer of chopped whites and sauce or gravy, mhncod moat, yolks rubbed through a find stainer ; another layer of crumbs, and so on until the dish is full. The top layer should be buttered crumbs, Bake till the crumbs are brown, Errs A LA CREME, —Three hard-boiled oggs. Cut off a slice at each ofd and out the eggs in halves crosswise. Remove the yolks and cut into thin tithe's. Mix with them an equal amount of thin pieces of chicken, salmon or lobster and season to tr1ate. Fill the white cups with the mixture adfl place on shallowdish Pout around ti(em one cupful of cream sauce, her•, S.v.to,—Out the yolks of hard-boiled eggs in dice and mix lightly with (bocci chicken, lisle or lobster. Fill the white cups with the mixture and serve on lettuce or crosses with Alayonalsc dressing, Bases Encs, No, 1.—cleat the whites to a stiff froth and add ;t very little salt, Spread roughly on a platter and make a nest for each yolk some distance apart. Season, and bake till the white is a delicate brown. BA line Errs, No. 2,--13roak each egg into a cup, then place 011 a hot, buttered dish. Puha little salt on each egg and bake until the white is frit. Garnish each egg with thin strips of fried breakfast bacon, and serve at once. BArtsn Erns, No, 3,—Butter a shallow dish and sprinkle with fine ooeker-crumbs, Plane each egg carefully on the crllullos and 00001 with seasoned and buttered crumbs, Bake till the crumbs are brown, di;tern flocs ox ToAsT.--('over the dish with poultry lir veal gravy and place in it a slice of toast to each egg. Put the platter in the oven over lot water, and when hot 4100p the eggs on the toast and bake until the eggs are set. Poseur;u Tlurs, No, 1, --Break each egg in a cup and slip gently into a pan of boil- ing water. When the whole is firm take each egg up separately and trim the edges. Poached eggs should be served on slices of lout or toast. Pommes, Eons, No, 2, --.Errs A LA DAr- rncxr;,—St5w one.half can of tomatoes ten minutes and season with salt and pepper. Break six eggs into a bowl without beating, then slip them gently into the hot tomatoes ; lift the white ncclestoually until it is firm, tion prick the yolks and let them mix with the tomato and white. Serve immediately, on toast if desired. The Fust English Bible. Tho earliest attempt to slake an English translation of any portion of the Bible was in 1505, when a translation of the seven penitential Psalms were made. In 1520 William Tyndale's translation of tho New Testament appeared, but the edition was bought tl1) and burned. In 1530 Tyndale published his translation of the Pentanteuch, (411(1 a year later the book of Jonah. The first English version of the whole Bible was published by Miles Coverdale in 1535, and dedicated to Henry VIII. In 1537 the next English edition, known as Matthew's Bible, appeared, In 1530 Crauner's Bible (so• called because ho wrote a preface to it), made its appear- ance. Richard Taverner published at edition in the same year. The "Geneva Bible" (so called because the translation was made in Geneva, by several English divines), mine front the pros in 1557. This was the first edition divided into verses and printed in Roman lettere. It was the subject of much playful criticism by reason of the last word in the translation of Gen. iii, "Then the oyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig tree loaves together, and made themselves breeches." It was sometimes called "Tho Breeches Bible." The"Bishop's Bible" e wpublished abei iu London 1568. From 1607 to 1610 a number of the most eminent divines of England were engaged fn still another translation, whiuh resulted in what has ever since been known as " King James' Bible," and which con- tinues to be the standard version. A Collect for the Day. Almighty God I whoshoest unto all Vint walk in error Thy truth's constant light IA Rh moroiful intent, before they fall, To bring then back into Thy way of right, Grant unto those admitted to the fold Of Ohrist's religion evermore to 510111 Things adverse to their faith and take float hold Of such things as wore taught ns by Thy Son Jesus, through whorl we pray Thy will be done T. W. Pansox8, Deoadenoe of Rome, TIoo last official statistics of Ronne show that the city must hove lost, (o largo percent- age of its population siuoo the last 0ensus. Although only 20 houses have boon built there in the last three yea's 4,000 houses With living rooms for 20,000 persons aro now 0000111. The transientpopulation is thought to have fallen off also. Hardly six thousand strangers wont there to see tho big oariival this year, while in former years the number was little short of ono hundred thousand. Bill Later, Mrs. annum (whet her new bonnet cane hono)---Why, actually, the bird on the bon- net hasn't any bill, ' unso-•Who bill was too largo Gt g to go en the bonnet, It. will 00100 separately in at wheel. burrow about the first of the month. Too tuttoh a matter of oourso.--.Cruelty to Bares. ONE MORE UNFORTURATx,, A Wonutal's meth Am 'Mildew or kin 'Por• ranee en Smarties,' sketch or n (see - tiered ((trete. T,(0001n, May 15r -^A sensation was et'0- ated oft Saturday afternoon on Yonge street by the news that a woman had suicidal in a state of rn0(1ts over No. 8Stton the east side of the street, near Ring enact The violin, was a dissolute woman of the town, who famed under the name of Aire Ida Tor. ramie, Abs. 'Torrance Was 0110 of the finesl- looking menthols of the rL'mi.ntonde in the city. She carne of respectable parents In Boulder Creek, California, and her true naaudWait Ida Rutllerfortl. She w'aevery vo- luted and highly -educated, and it is said that she at one One held a high social position iu her native State. fall, handsome in face and figure, with soft brown eyes, brown gold hair, tapering hancla that might havo furnished nlodols fou' a sculptor, attractive In manner, refined and vivaolous hn speech, mho always food plenty of lovers, and appeared sadly out of place among her assnoales. She was just the woman to attract masculine attention and admiration, and along with it tiro associate dangets that she failed to avoid. Some months ago oho canto to this city from Montreal. and entered a notorious Immo on Rielunond street meet. She had not been there very long when she met a young man, an American, by the nano of Frank Moore, Moore became enamoured of her, and gate up his room at the Bassin ]louse and furnished a suite of roams over 89 Yongge street. These apartments he furnished in luxurious style, spending over two thousand dollars in furniture, carpets, and. curtains. When he moved into the apartments Ida Rutherford gave up her old associates, and went to live with ilial as his wife. Thin was about Now Tear's. They lived happily together over since. Moore was a deal kamo sport and (knew a lot of young Men about town, and they used to call 011 hint at his rooms. But the woman pined for the companionship of her sox, and and although Moore furnished 1101 with books and magazines she was so much alone. as business took him away, that she often felt glonmyand downcast. Whether it was remorse or jealously that prompted her, at any rate about five o'clock on Saturday morning she swallowed two onnee5 of laud- anum. Moore had been out very lotto on Friday night, and did not got to his rooms until one o'clook in the morning. What passed between the two no one knows. When she took the poison Af000 rushed over to Bingham's drugstore, and Di. Thor - burn was sent for. 'Vhen ho arrived ho' sett for Dr. Riordan, and they both did everything in their pewee to save her life, but without avail. She died about one o'clock. Moore says that he was about to take a trip to British Columbia with her, and that Ito could not account for ler rash act. Moore hails from iudianapnliR whore he used to work in a bank. He cause to Toronto a year ago with about 833,0(8), with which he purchased the schooner 81. Louis, There were meaty seamy passages in the life of thodoecasod, tier aliases were "Leslie," "Edwards," "Billings,' and "Torrance." The latter name she took from a gambler living in Baha o. She las lived at Los Angeles, San Francisco, (iulfy's (lone, Albion, and Big River, California; Virginia City, Nevada ; Duluth, New York, Buffalo, and Montreal. The father, mother, and lIlotherlive at Boul- der Creek, California, and she is said to be the only daughter in the flintily. She had a very tine wardrobe, worth thousands of dol- lars. Moore took charge of tho funeral arrange- ments. The Sabbath Chime. How deep and tranquil is the joy Which thou hast kindly given To those who seek thy presence, Lord, And tread the path to Heaven, 'Tis ht the silence of the shade My sober thoughts begin, And earth's illusive charms appear. But vanity and sill. "Ds hero the troubled springs of lifo Are calmed to sweetest rest: The stillness of this ]tour expels The tumult of my breast. Far, far above all mortal things I walk with God Mono; And w11110 Ito names celestial joys, I call them all my own, Then lot the noisy world pursue The trifles of a day,-- M'ine bo the silent, secret joys That never fano away. He Snow It, A woman who spoke of Co -Goth's "Faust" was highly indignant, anion the nhau with 80110)01 she vas talkie spoke imnnediatel v talking P Y afterward of Goethe. It Was very impolite, olitn shnthon htltOcomet tifd inthat fashi en. Sho would have etjoybd a conversation with a gentleman of whom ono of our exchanges narrates an anecdote : "Ho was 0 guest at a Now York hotel, and called upon the clerk for a shoot of pa- per, staying that he wished to write aletter. Half an hour later he again approaohocl the counter, Ho had finished the loLtor. Would the clerk please road it, and see if it was all correct? 0 The clerk glanood at it and said : " 'I see you spell jug "g -u -g." That isn't right,' 1"I know it,' was the reply ; 'but you see I'm writing to the old man, and he always spoils it that way. If I put the other "g" to it, he would think I was putting on style over him, and forgetting 1 was his son. Ho's sorter tender-hearted, and I dont want to hurt his feelings.' "And so the letter went off with only ono 'g' at the end of 'gag,' " Making Little Progress. George—" Have yen and wiflo; decided yet what to name baby?" Jack—" N -o, not quote ; but the list of 300 names which my wife picked out, has boon reduood to 170,' George--" Well, that's making progress anyhow." Jack—" Y -o -s ; but you see about half of the 860 vanes worn for another kind of a baby." A, Preaohor's Picture of Satan, Says an Indianapolis clergyman: "Were I to make a picture of Satan, I should matte the face and form of an imperiously graoioms, magnetic, fascinating, winning pontlonnal; of commanding intellect, of courtly presence, of rare attractions. I should have nothing Not Yet Universally Adopted, roptilsfvo save tho hidascribable zeal which i hatred of God and good and truth loaves al - wive on the fade, not always soot and nog. uizeel and that generally oscapos the unwary and inexperienced. THE BALLOON OF THE FUTURE, now the Air win Ile Navigated to tie Twentieth Century. Who can tell what marvels science may not accomplish before ten decades have conte and gouts? 11)' that timebeforethe next contenary of the first balloon ascent in 1]11g. land is celebrated --ballooning will probably hare entirely superseded the Under-gromtd Hallway in London, to the incalculable bene. fit of the lungs of the next generation. Surely in the golden days to collie, Loudon mono, perchance London fog, will be mat- ters of history. The metropolis of the future will rejai'0 in a clear atmosphere in which to make their aerial voyages, and the dwellers therein will no longer (tread the v I (' advent out pf the tel nth of N n ember Thu Londoner of the future will go down to his business in the city, not in a stuffy colnpart- mett of an underground railway, train, 00 on the top of a jolting and cunlberseine °Wali. bus, but will be wafted rapidly and nlise- lessiy to his destination on the wings of the wind. The brief transit will be accomplished at an altitude which will enable the traval- ler to see outspread beneath hint a wonder- ful coup diel!, the whole vast area of the largest, richest city in the world, and yet he will rejoice in as strong 8 feeling of secur- ity as that of the modern traveller who ow. amines himself fn the corner soot of a railway carriage with the intention of running down to Brighton or Folkostot, By that time the early dillieulties of aerial voyaging will, no doubt, bo as completely things of the pastas the obstacles that so long bated the inven- tors of the steam engine, and the telegraph, are now. But patience --that patience whu.it is the truest gonitis—conquorod, and will still conquer, all and every difficulty. Perhaps no science has been of such slow growth as the 5oie11c0 of mrostaties, but the old saw, "slow and sure," may hold good 01100 more, entitles triumph of the hallos will great in proportion to the magnttndo of the dillieulties overcome in perfecting it. As Voltaire very truly hays, "Perfec- tion is attained by slow degrees; she requires the ]land of time." Wasnot the attain-en- gine t 4 n -en - i 1\ et u t bine itself a thing of slow growtt? On its first introduction, the wiseacres shook their treads and prophesied that the thing world never work, but the pretlietious of the wise - aces have not been verified. The triumph of the steam-ongine has been complete; the triumph of the balloon is, doubtless, but a question of time. Those who have doubted the ultimate success of the balloon will probably, nay, eertai0ly, be obliged to acknowledge that after all they were in the wrong, that might of genius can conquer all things ; and they will adapt themselves to circumstances, and take their tickets for tie 2.20 p. rat. balloon as coolly as they naw' do for the 2.20 train. In a hundred years, the fleet hansom of the day,poetically termed by Lord. Beacons- field 'the gondola of London," will have vanished from tie earth, and the vulgar but economical minibus, dearly beloved by paterfamiliases who aro compelled to look keenly after the pogo of every -day life, will to as 0x'lin01 its ole dodo. Dainty aerial equipages will have taken thaw place —for the balloon of the future will probably be a very elegant affair indeed, both lighted and propelled by electricity. Tho dust and dirt of railway travelling will bo avoided ; the tattle, the noise, and, let us hope, the nerve -torturing railway whistle, now ((1>0p - arable from journeying along the "iron roads," will 10 no more, and the a'ir'y bal- 1,ou will pursue the noiseless tenor of its way through clondlaud. 'Then imagine the delights of estuarial pie- nic ; picture the charms an aerial tour round the world with a pleasant party ; think of the illimitable fields for sport and adventure the balloon will open up in the future, When the triumph of the balloon is complete, the North Polo will be forced to reveal its secret, For tho i0o barriers which now guard it so faithfully will be powerless to bar the progress of the explorer; the source of the Nile will be as easy to trace as the soiree of the Thames. How a Judge Got at the Truth, That the race of judicial Solotnois is not quite extinct in the 10th century, even in Russia, is evident from the following ingen- uhts device imagined by one of then to dis- cover on which side truth and justice lay in a rather difficult case that cane before hhn recently. In the university town of Despot a prosaic plodding burgher complain- ed to the "Judge of tho peace"that he had Noon defrauded by the defendant of 20 roubles, (1/2)," "I bought a now from him— he is a peasant, your honour," ho explained, "and I first paid for the :0110181, and then asked him to drive it front the market -place into shy yard, This Ito agreed to do. Well, when he had the cow close by my Mouse, he refused to budge a step further unless I paid him 20 roubles, saying that he had reoovod nothing* from me. This was itf—, I mean a barefaced lie, because I paid him the mon- ey a few minutes before Y \Hero aro our witnesses naked the Judge. " Witnesses ! I have not a single witness \That taro Lha witnesses for? single he know right toll, the—, that I. paid him the---,' "You must not Gall Itilnnames," interposed to Judge. "Did he pay you the money?" asks the Judge of the defendant. "I never saw the colour of it, your honour, I didn't. Why, if T had do you think—" "That will do," exclaimed tho Jurlgo ; "the plaintiff's claim, unsupported by witnesses or evidence of any hind, i5 null and void, He seems tin honest fellow, though, and has evidently lost his 20 roubles,, Lot's make up a little subscription for him. I head the list with fivo ra111,1es. Won't you giro something too?" inquired the Judge of the defendant w110 had won 1110 suit. "That I will," eagerly exclaimed clic triumphant suitor, " with a whole heart, Will three roubles do? IIoro's the note." Tho Judge took the three -rouble note daintily, examin- ed it aritiowlly, looked suspiciously at, the donator, and said, "You dare to atter false money fu an Imperial court of justice? Have you any more notes of this description? This is a very serious 01(11ter indeed. Whore did you got this forged money?" Tho peasant turned red, and white and yellow, gave aseries of explanations that contradict. ad each other, muttered and mumbled, mod floundered about from lie to lie, till at last in despair he cried out, "if you want to know the whole truth, hero itis : This hero forged foto belongs to tho plaintiff, Ho did pay ono 20 roubles for to cow, the rascal, but ho paid mo in forged notes, and that's one of them. It comes to what 1 said, that Ito didn't pay mo at all, and it's bo that must go to Siberia for uttering forod notes, not I. I ata as inn000nt as tine Mabe unborn," The Judge condemned then and there that inn000lt peasant to refund the 20 roubles, for the notes were really oe good ars the best that circulate fn the bhnplre of olio Czars. STAUOK A BERG}, Morrell' l:a0ui,c or the ('itnudtlin 1ttl'11nIs11(t/ I•dtrishtn, till r:erar, Muy22,-• T1estoalotship Parisian which arrived here last week, appeal% to have had a dangerous trip oR'tht, Inuits of Newfoundland, conamment upon thop108al• ,once Of fug a1111 icebergs. A reporter, in con. versation with 0 !neither of passengers, learn- ed that the meeting with and striking all ice- berg was fur more serious than the sltip s log reports, It appears that the vessel w08 running cautiously at the rate of six }riles per hour oil' the hanks of Newfoundland when the lookout sighted a huge feoberg about 40 yards ahead, The engines wore immediately reversed, but thestuan ter strtudc the iceboats and run on to a portion of it a distance of shoot twelve feet. For u time the huge ship midterm' from the shock and great excitement prevailed on board, It wee the perfect self -command of the officers that prevented a panic. Mr. Green- shields,Q,(!., of Montreal, who was a passenger, remarked that he got a ;terrible scare and s0 did the inhere, more particu- larly the cabin p105senger5, The steerage passengers did not properly realize what had happened, as t/wey ware all below giving up their tickets to the pursel'and his assistants; but, as Due of them said, the purser continu- ed to take up the tickets as 1f nothing had happened, which quieted their fears. In the meantime, the vessel lay on for star- board side for about a minute, and Captain Ritehlo ordered every parent oot deck and the crow to stand by the boats, The fire• men all rushed on deck, leaving their fires neglected, which tendert 4o scare the passin- gm% more. However, the vessel soon settled in clear water none the worse of iter narrow escape. The officers state that the ship sus- tained 1(0 damage, her o1011, appeared as if it had received (t severe shock, and it may bo necessary to examine it when she reaches Montreal. Tho passengers also told the reporter that they nearly ran into and sank a ship off 11(0 banks of Newfoundland in a dense fog, They were right of to her when she was discovered, and the vessel had only time to reverse engines and stop when the steamer wits nearly of top of the sailing vessel. The passengers did not ascertain the name of the sailing vessel, and the officers deny the fact altogether. Almost Drowned. The author of "New Zealand after Fifty Sears" was at passenger on board the ship Sit' George Pollock, bound from London to New Zealand. Wean about a thousand miles south of the Cape of Good Hope, in a very cold latitude, he was fishing for alba. Leases and molly -hocks over the stern, when a sudden lurch of the vessel pitched Itiin overboard. Ile fell about twenty feet, and as ho struck the water fiat on tis chest the wind was pretty well knocked out of hint and he was for the moment half -stunned, Men I came to myself I was floating pretty einnfor' ably, my thick woolen clothes supporting ale, and my wide-awake hat floating by my side. There was a heavy shell, and, as I rose to the orest of a wave, I saw the ship, looking very small, as if she were already a long way off. I noticed, however, that 011e woes hove to, and I fait sti10 that I should be picked up. My only fear was that the albatrosses Inigltt swoop down upon me and kill me with their terrible beaks, as they had killed the carpenter of the same ship the voyage 1 koro. A long time passed --]lours, it seemed to ale • -and, my clothes having become soaked, I fl oatod low in the water and could no loug- erentpty my month fast enough to get breath to keep the ship in sight. Every wave that came sank lie deeper and made oto swallow more water, I began to fool deadly cold and thought it was all over with mo. I could not help blaming lay friends on the ship for their cruelty in lotting lie drown, when they 04111 5o easily have sent a boat for me, but I forgave them and said my prayers, I could no longer keep lay head above water, trod et lost I saw it green over 111y oyes as I looked up, my head swam round mull thought I waa going to sleep, I was aroused by something touching me, forcing me down in the water, and then dragging neout altogether, and the next thing ]: knew 1 wits among men who were talking, though Icold not understand them for tho rushing and whizzing in illy ears. The first words I understood were some. thing about "handing him up," and at the saute time I felt myself lifted up the ship's side and seized by a number of arms, Soon 11o1oww that I was lying in 10111'111 blankets with loot bottles under my armpits and feet. I mold hoar voices round me and know what they said, and 1 could feel lauds rub- bing lily foot and turning 1110 about, kBut I could not speak or move or show a sign of life, and in my inside I felt so cold I thought T must die. At length Ifelt something very loot in my mouth, and I gulped and it went clown my throat. It came again and again and warned mea and Horde ale feel t p b 01 P 0 0l though foe 111 51ck . Then felt all over moat terrible T 1 out lie pricking and twitching like "pins and needles" when your foot is asleep. After that I got drowsy, and the next thing I remembered. I was lylllg in my berth with my father and sister sitting by, ala I had been nearly half an hour in the cold water's of the Southern ocean, and it was two hours before they could toll for cot' - lain whether I was dead or (alive, Nothing Dangerous About Him. Mr, N. Pock—"Alexandre Dumas says that 'anything useless is dangerous.' What do you think of that, my dear?" Mrs, N. Peak—" I think he was an old fool who didn't know what he was talking about. Thorn is nothing dangerous about you, is there?" Familiar with the Subject. A toa0hor w(tstollinglhe' little boys about temptation and showing how it sometimes Dane in the moat attractive attire. She used as an illustration the paw of a eat. "Now," said she, " you have all soot the paw of a oat, It is as soft as velvet, isn't it?" " Yossoin," frau the class. " And you have seen the paw of a dog?" " Yoasenl," '• Well, although the cat's paw seems like velvet, there is, nevertheless, 0mneo1lod in it something that hurts, What is it ?" No 8510wch'. Tito dog bites," said the teacher, "when ho is angry, but what does tho cat do?" " 1lelatches," replied the boy. " Correct," said tho teacher, nodding her head approvingly. "Nov, what has the oat got that tie dog hasn't?" " \Vhiskers,' said a boy on the back seat, and the titter that ran around the class ]Wrought the lesson to an ooh, --"Rhe 70110(9 "What's that of your coat collar, Jack ? Ccctfiolfr. Boots culling?" "Ya -as. You 000 my girl hasn't got on. Nature makes its vagabonds, the world to this new smokeless powder y0 " makes us respectable, STRING SMILBS, Knight of the bath --Saturday flight. He--" I like seats with arms." She—"SO do L" Curious. There are no counts in this 000(111y, and yet every 311011 counts. \Shen a barrel is full, it usually gets Lunged up. And this is the ossa with a 111ia1. He.. "Darling, will you love me when I'm gone ?" Sho• -• Yes, if you are not too far gone." Faslhionable ladies are not foul of hard work, and yet they know what a toilet is to dress for dinned'. How many things there are to laugh at in this world to the girl who has pretty teeth and dimples. When a man finds a button in his Boo he will hardly take the excuse that it is part of the dressing. It is strange to see a man buttoning his coat up to lois chin on a cold day, when the garment is a chinchilla, Many people who claim to be wedded to their art seem to have been overtaken with divorce proceedings from the outset, "Where are you going at this late hour?" asked the policeman, " To the lecture." He knew his wife was waiting for trim. Airs. Langtry is said to have become fas- cinated by the handsome valet of an EngIieh Duke. is alto going to become a lily of the valet ? One-half of the world does not know how the other half lives, and it is just as well that it 15 so, for a great deal of scandal is thereby saved, A Melbourne manager advertises for roryphees who " must not be over thirty years old." Let the Australian "ballet" reform proceed. Briggs—"Tomkins is engaged toil widow, I hear." Braggs—" Yes ; that's just Like him. He is too lazy to do any of the court- ing." She (facetiously)—" I suppose you call your horse Cupid because 'hers such a love of a home ?" He—" Not exactly. You see he's blind." Alias Tender --"How do you like your steak—rare?" Tony the Tramp—"No, mum; I (don't like it that way, but that's as often as I git it." Old Sol will soon hi cloudless skies Shine like a fiery ball, And there will then be lots of flies Upon 118 all Bobby—"Pa, what do they calla man who has two wives?" Pa—"A bigamist, Bobby." Bobby -.-"Pa, suppose he has more than two wives; what is he then?" Pa—"A foul!" Silverstein (sarcastically)—" Vas it a matte' ohf brinciple mit you that Leah should marry o Gentile ?"—Goldbergs " Oh, no, he vas not so far ahead ohf me ast dot ! It vas only aquestion ohf iuderest." Angel C'ake— Sloe looked with disomy at the result of her baking, And renuorked, with tears in her eyes, " If this really is angel cake I have been making Then whyin the world don't it rise ?" An improved phrase— We'd donhtless arrive at the truth a deal quicker And speak in it language less dim, If, instead of remarking a man is in liquor, We said that the liquor's in him. Ancient Feet, A noticeable thing about the statues found in our museums of art, supposed to represent the perfect figures of ancient men and women, is the apparently dispropor- tionate size of their feet. We moderns are apt to pronounce then too large, particular- ly those of the females. It will be found, however, that for symmetrical perfection these foot could not bo bettor. A Greek sculptor would not think of suoh a thing as putting a nine -inch foot on a five -and -one- half -foot woman. Their types for these classical marble figures wore taken front the most perfect forms of living persons. Unquestionably the human foot, asrepresent- ed by those old sculptors, was larger than the modern one, and, in fact, tiro primitive foot of all people of whom we have any re- cord, either in printing or statuary, was larger than the restricted foot of modern tines. The masculine foot, forming an ap- proximateaverage of four different countries, was about twelve inches Iong. This would require at least a No, 12 or 14 shoo to cov- er It comfortably. The average masculine foot today is easily fitted with a No. 84sshoo, and is, therefore, not above ten and seven-sixtcoonthsof an inch. 12iow, by the old scriptural rule of proportion, a mar five feet nine inches in highs should have a foot eleven and ono -half incites long, or one-sixth his Light. It was of 110 great consegnenee what size sandal he wore, but ho would have a modern shoo of at least 1 . for required 0?: o No.!), o a minilnusn ht r t t 1 f 1 real com- fort. For women allowin for the differ- ence in the relative size of the two sexes, which was about the salve then as now,a woman of five feet three inches hi bight would have had a foot tel inches long requnr- ing a modern shoe—it ought to bo spoken only in a whisper—No. 0 as the most com- fortable for that foot or a No, 5#i as the lim- it of torture. Tho reason for the difference between the old classical foot and the mod- ern one is obvious. Restriction is what has done it.—[Shoe and Leather Reporter. Why Not ? "Mother, our teacher sumo near Hokin' lite thhis morning'," "What for, Johnny?" 1'Canso I argued that when it was more than one gooseberry it ought to be called 'gooseberries"" The Usual Description. "Is the follow what you weak' call a feet matt ?" "Ho 0a tsoitily is fast in every respect but One." "I,Vhat is the exception?" "The matter of paying his debts," A Near•Stghted Citizen, Citizen—"Why don t you clean out that gang of loafers in front of that saloon 1,1 Policeman ((pitying)—"Guess you taus' be nearsighted. 1 hems oity officials." Pride of Station, bit, Forundoed (proudly)---" Note this magnificent business block, I own every foot of the ground on whialu it stances, and it is from this that I derive shy inose" Old (;;ant—•" Ali, yes ; I remember this locality very, toll. It was here your grand. father had Ins junk shop." "Ah 1" exolahnad hers. Bascom, as rho (1a. ggea ce of the Spying morning was borne to. her nostrils though the open window, "clow grateful is the odor of the earth to the oil factory nerves."