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m,,lm_,,,,..,..,..‘4.,v A. _, _. - -.w-<<2~4m~......,......m,......M.-.m. ..:.a~«..~._... . . .,.,J_, ~,. .A. mffifim%y.mym\ , i . V fl 3. i ' I CRIGULTURAL ~ Hints on Buttermsliing. (83' Prof. II. B. Dean, Ontario Agricultural College.) CLEASLISFAE Ixroa‘raxr.â€"-In order to insure success in butterniaking, it is neces- sary that great cleanliness should be observ- ed. The cow should be keptclean, the food should be clean, the stable must be clean, the milk, cream, pails, strainer, churn, workerâ€"in fact, everything about the dairy including the person or persons working in it, should be a model of cleanliness. Clean- liness and intelligence are two requisites for successful buttermaking. Tris Comâ€"Keep none but good cows, ’ each of which will make at least 250 pounds of butter in a year. Feed the cows that you have liberally, house comfortably, care for kindly, and milk regularly. Give pure water only, and keep salt where it can be reached by the cows at all times. Having done all this, dispose of those that do not attain to the standard. Ursxstns. ~1’rocure because with the best there is a great deal of labor in making butter. Among them be sure toinclude a good dairy thermometer. (A glass one preferred.) The following is a list of most of the articles required in an ordinary farm dairy, together with their probable cost : A barrel or box churn, size to suit hcrd ...... . ................. $6 00 to Sll 00 A lover or roller workcr ......... 6 00 to 9 00 A butter mouldâ€"size. l to2 lbs. . 1 50 to 300 A shipping box, with ice box in centre and wooden (troys).. . 4 75 to 6 00 A thermometer (glass). . . . . 0 to l 50 A salt sieve (hair) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 C0 to 1 50 A pair scales, to weigh quarter ounccs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 00 to 10 00 Albuttcrmilk strainerâ€"size 2 to 4 ' guarts, with perforated tin bot- om ............................. . A butter ladlo.. . . .. ............... A cream pail (tin, with handles on sides and tin stirring spoons) 1 00 to 2 00 Creamer cans and box for cold water (8 cows) ................... 5 00 to 40 00 A hand cream separator (10 or V _ more cows) ...................... .100 00 to 120.00 A stiff brush for cleansing uten- sils ............................... 0 20 to 0 30 A supply of washing soda or borax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A supply of good butter salt, per proper utensils, suck.._ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 70 to 2 00 Butter color. it thought advisable to use it, per bottle . . . . . . . . . -. . . . 0 25 to 1 00 or per gallon ..... . . . . ........... . 3 59 MILK Hosea-E dry cool cellar of uni- form temperature,free from badsmell orsinell of vegetables, is a very good place in which to keep milk. Milk or butter when kept for any length of time where such smells ex- ist, quickly becomes tainted and lessened in value. A milk house with double walls may be constructed quite cheaply. A pan- try or a cupboard is not the best place in which to keep milk. MiLkixcâ€"Miik only where theairispure; brush the cow’s udder before commencing ; milk rapidly and quietly ; strain im- mediately, and get to the place of setting or separating as soon as possible. Summaâ€"Set the milk while it is warm. Set in creamers or deep pails. Those are better than shallow pans, especially in sum- mer. Put the cans in water at from 40 to 45 de recsâ€"keep it at that temperature-â€" and 8 im at the end of 12 hours in summer and 24 hours in Winter. A water-tight box about two feet deep will be a convenient place in which to put the pails where a creamer is not used. Cans may be used which are either put wholly under the water or set in water which is as high as the milk in the can. If shallow pans are used, skim at the end of 24 hours in summer and 36 hours in Win- ter, and alwa s before the milk becomes sour and thic . Keep the temperature of . the milk room even at from 50 to 60 de- grees. A hand cream separator will pay with a herd of ten or more cows. Tun Canaanâ€"The cream should be kept sweet until ‘24 hours before churning by keeping it cool, either in the creamer box or in a cool cellar. Get a a cream vessel (tin is referable) large enough to hold the cream orawhole churning. If there is P not sufficient for a churning from one skim- ming, stir the cream thoroughly at every addition of fresh cream. In summer warm the cream to 63 or 65 degrees twenty-four hours before you wish to churn, and it will be about the right de- gree of sourness or ripeness in that time,but as soon as it becomes slightly thickened and sour churn it. It is not advisable to allow the cream to become warmer than 63 (is. grees in warm weather. In winter the rip- ening temperature will be from 64 to 70 do- grces. In case the cream does not sour prop- erly in 24 hours, it is a good plan to add a small quantity (about ‘2 per cent.) of sour milk or sour cream to act as a starter. All changes in cream should be affected gradually. I‘Ievcr add hot or very cold water irectly to the cream to warm or cool it. To afl'ect this set the cream vessel in another vessel containin warm or cold water, and stir the cream all the time it is being warm- cd or cooled. Do not allow the milk or cream to freeze. If the butter is white, at small amount of good butter color may be added to the cream just before commencing to churn. alumnaâ€"Strain the cream into the oh 1m and you will not be troubled with “white specks. " Use a churn withoutpaddles or dashers on the inside. Churn often in summer, not less than twice a week. The churning tem raturc for summer will be from 56 to60 egrees, and in winter 64 to 68 degrees. Every one must find out for themselves what is the best temperature. Start the churn slowly (.30 turns to the minute, increasing to 60 or 70 after a few minutes), and, if a closed covered churn such as the "Daisy" be used, it will be necessary to remove the plug at the bottom of the churn two or three times during the first ten minutes. “"hen the butter " breaks," add one quart of cold water (if the day is hot, and warmer waterâ€"55 ° to 60° â€"if it is colder) to the churn for every pailful of cram". and then continue churning until the ‘ tier is about the size of grains of wheat, when the chain should be stopped. the buttenuilk drawn oil, and as much water added as there was cream at the commencement. Give the chem a few rapid turns and draw 08' this water ; repeat the operation. when the water should come awn quite clear. If it is not, then a third washing may be given to the granular but~ _ tor. ‘ Never "gather" the butter in a solid l mass, as this method leaves too much but. termilk in the butter. Italao makes the " oven sailing." so requisite in good butter, more difficult to perform. Summitâ€"Fine salt at the rate of from g ounce to l ounce to the pound of butter may now be sprinkled on the granular butter in the churn :.or the butter may be salted by means of brine put on the butter while in the churn ; or the granular butter may be removed to a cool room and placed on a slantipg table which has butter cloth spread on it, and there salted and allowed to drain for 3 or 4 hours, or over night. Afterwards work'very slightly, and pack or print at once if for immediate use. Or the granular butter may be removed from the churn as soon as washed and drained, placed on the worker, salted and printed at once, or be packed in tube or crooks for market. Woakixc.â€"â€"Be careful not to overwork the butter, injuring the grain and making of it. Work by pressure and not by friction. A slanting worker with a movable roller or with a lever attached at one end will be found to lessen the labor, and is much preferable to the bowl and ladle. MABKsTiNc.â€"Put up in a neat and attractive form, and get it to the consumer , as quickly as possible. If it is thought HAPPY KING OF SIAM! In Hot Weather no Packs Himself Away In a Glass Case at the Bottom l on: Lake. Among the travellers who arrived from the Orient by a recent steamer was one Clark Russell, a namesake but no relative of the famous novelist of the sea. Mr. Russell, made rich by the prudent care and acquisitiveness of his father, a manufactur- er of cutlery at Sheflield, has spent the last four years in wandering about the contin- ent of Asia picking up odds and ends, scientific and curious, which it is his inten. tion to embody in a book. He has been through Thibet, the dominions of the Great Lama, traversed Munchuria and Mongolia, the entra-mural possessions of China. made incursions into the unfrequented wilds of Siberia, and latterly has been touring the l tubs or crooks and covered with butter China, Tonkin, and Siam. He paused for a cloth, or parchment paper and a salt-plaster, time at Bangkok, the capital of the king- so as to exclude the air. To this salt-cover- ‘ dam of Siam, and picked up much interest- ing, fresh brine should be added from time to time. To repare ash or spruce tubs to be filled with utter, they should be soaked with brine for one or two days, afterwards rinsed. scalded, and have salt sprinked on the inside before packing in the butter. Tin-lined butter tubs are used by a number of buttermakers. Horses With Veils. It is ver comical to see in the street of Colorado prings horses decked out with veils. We have grown accustomed to the jaunty little hats worn by many horses in our own towns to protect them from the heat of the sun. We can even see an umbrella fastened over their heads Without surprise, but a veil gives to the noble beast a dandyish look that is very droll. Some of these veils, belonging to fine saddles, are mere fringes of fine strips of leather that hang before the eyes ; others are pieces of mosquito netting drawn tightly back and fastened like a lady’s nose veil ; but the most stylish, and altogether efi'ective, are of netting drawn over a hoop which holds it away from the eyes yet completely pro- tects them. Anything funnier than a pair of horses going gravely about the streets wearing these exaggerated goggle arrange- ments is rarely seen. These veils, how- ever, though fashionable at the foot of the Rocky mountains, are not worn for fashions sake. They are indeed a. stern necessity, and the comfort, if not even the life of the horse demands it. Colorado, with all its great attractions, has one plagueâ€"the lague of flies. Flies of all sizes, from the cast up to the enormous bluebottle are everywhere. Most parts of his body the horse can himself protect if not deprived of his tail, but his eyes he cannot and these delicate organs are special objects of attack by the fly tribe. -It is the least a man can do to provide a protecting veil for his most faithful servant. Cooking Canned Salmon. In the heated season when it is very diffi- cult to have fresh meat an excellent substi- tute is canned salmon. It may be used just taken from the can or prepared more appetisingly according to the subjoined recipes. A can of fresh canned salmon is a luxury in more than one respect, and it lends itself so easily to different uses. In the summer it is one of the most convenient things to keep in the house, its preparation into dif- ferent dishes being so ieadily and easily ac- complished. Below we give five different receipts for using it. BAKED Summitâ€"One can of salmon, two eggs, one tablespoonful of melted butter, one cup bread crumbs, pepper, salt and minced cucumber pickle. Drain the liquor from the fish and set aside for the sauce. ick the fish to pieces, then work in the melted butter, seasoning, eggs and crumbs. Put in a buttered bowl, cover tightly and and set iira pan of boiling water. Cook in a hot oven one hour, then stand the bowl in cold water for a moment to loosen the pud- ding, and turn out on a hot dish. For the sauce make a cup of drawn but- ter, to which add the liquor from the can, a beaten egg, pepper, salt, a chopped pickle, and some minced parsley. Boil up and pour over the fish or serve in a gravy tureen. SALMON AU GRATIN.â€"Tnke a coffee cup of salmon free from the liquor, and flake it, mix with it a half cup of cold drawn butter, pepper'aud‘salt. Fill a small baking dish with the mixture, cover with fine bread crumbs, and brown in the oven. A little mashed potato and lialfacupof cream forma nice addition to this dish. It should be serv- ed liot and garnished with a little fried pars- ley. This quantity Will serve four people. S.u.:.io.\' ox Toasrâ€"Flake the fish, season with pep er and salt, and heat it with a little mil or cream. Toast several slices of bread, which (lip quickly into the hot milk, place on a hot dish, spread with but- ter and pour over it the heated fish. SALMOX CoQUiri'rrSâ€"One can of salmon, one egg, \vcll beaten, one-half cup of fine bread crumbs, salt, cayenne pepper, nut- meg, juice of half a lemon. Drain off the liquor and mince the fish. Melt and work in the butter, season and if necessary mois- ten with a little of the liquor ; add the crumbs. Form the parts into rolls, which flour thickly, and stand them in acold place for an hour. Fry in hot fat and serve on a hot plntter,‘ garnished with fresh parsley. SALMON SALADâ€"One cup of cold salmon minced and mixed with an equal quantity of chopped celery, Line a dish with lettuce leaves, turn into it the mixed salmon and celery, and over all pour a dressing made of two tablespoonfuls of oil, lhrcc tablespoon. fuls of vinegar, salt and pepper. A may- onnaise dressing may be used, but with salmon the plain dressing is to he preferred. Queen Victoria fir nly believes that objects made by blind persons bring goal luck. The title, “ Her Royal Highness, " means something in the case of the crown princess oqueumai-k. She is six feet three inches [A . Illinois women are preparin to make a large exhibit of souvenirs of A raham Lin- coin. Miss Mary Russel Day has been made State Librarian of Kentucky by the Legis- islature. Two women have been elected to the ves. try of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Hick~ man, Ky. - :iug information there. There is one story i that he tells that will especially commend itself to the seekers after the strange and the novel. “ I was en rised," he said at the palace the other day, “ at the size and appearance of Bangkok. It is the Venice of t 9 East. The city lies on both sides of the River Menam. About twenty miles from the east and on each side, branching out from the stream, are a great number of canals upon which the dwellings and public buildings are built. The buildings, constructed of wood as in most Eastern cities, stand upon ipiles, and the wash of the waters around 3 these supports at night makes ainost unique l and pleasurable sensation. It is as though you were borne along on a gently moving river. for the city is as silent as a necropolis, and there are no sounds, no clangipg of street-car bells, no hideous shouting of Sal- vation hymns to break the spell. Further down the river you see tier upon tier of floating houses moored to the bank, in which a large part of the population dwell. “ But that part of Bangkok which inter- ests the tourists most is the section set apart for the King. The palace is enclosed in high White walls which are a mile in cir- cumference. Within them are contained temples, public offices, seraglios, stables for the sacred elephant, sccominodations for 1,000 troops, cavalry, artillery, war elephants, an arsenal, and a theatre. The palace of the King is equipped in true Oriental magnificence. Hangings of the costliest tapestry and mats made of woven silver catch the eye at every turn, His better to do so, it may be packed solidly in southern regions of the Continent, Cochin- does not exist in the world. In summer Bangkok is a steaming sweat-room, and any contrivance to escape from the heat is eagerly entertained. “Some Chinese architect suggested to the King that he have erected a glass pa.- vilion in the great reservoir that occupies part of the palace grounds. He drew the plans and the scheme captured the fancy of the King. The pavilion is built entirely of glassâ€"walls, floors, ceiling, and allâ€" joined by an indissoluble cement. .The plates or slabs of different sorts and thick- nesses and variegated colors Were obtained in France, whither an agent had been sent for the purpose. When put together they formed the prettiest and most unique struc- ture that imagination 'can picture. The Chinese architect, true to the genius of his race, had ornamented it with quaint turrets and gables that made it seem a toy house. By mechanical means it was so arranged The Paper Age. The world has seen its iron age and its brazen age, but this is the age of paper. Weareinaking so many things of paper that it will soon be true that without paper there is nothing made. \Ve live in paper houses, wear paper clothing, and sit on paper cushions in paper cars rolling, onpaper wheels. If we lived in Bergen, Norway, we could go on Sundays to a paper church. We do a nod paper business over paper counters, uying paper goods, paying for them with paper money, and deal in paper stocks on paper margins. We row iaces in paper boats for paper prizes. We go to paper theatres where paper actors play to paper audiences. As the age dcvclo the coming man will become more deep y ou- meshed in the paper net. He will awake in the morning and creep from under the paperclothing of his paperbed, and patch his paper dressing gown and his paper slippers. He will walk over paper carpets, downpaper stairs, and, seating himself in a paper chair, read the paper news in the morning paper. A paper ball will call him to his breakfast, cooked in a paper oven, served on paper dishes, laid on a paper cloth on a paper table. He will wipe his lips with a paper napkin, and having put on his paper shoes, paper but and paper coat, and then taking his paper stick (he has the choice of two descriptions already), be will walk on a paper pavement or ride in a paper car- riage to his paper office. He will or- ganize paper enterprises and make paper profits. He will sail the ocean on paper steamships and navigate the air in paper balloons He will smoke a pa er cigar or paper tobacco in a paper pipe, ighted with a paper match. He will write with a paper pencil, whittle paper sticks with a paper knife, go fishing with a paper fishing-rod, a paper line and a paper hook, and put his catch in a paper basket. He will go shoot- ing witlia paper gun, loaded with paper cartridges and will defend his country in paper forts with paper cannon and paper bombs. Having lived his paper life and achieved a paper fame and paper wealth,he will retire to paper leisure and die in paper peace. There will bea paper funeral, at which the mourners,dressed in paper crape, will wipe their eyes with paper hand- kerchiefs, and the preacher will preach in a . paper pulpit. He will lie in apaper coffin; elsewhere in this paper it will be seen that he has a chance of doing so already if he is a paperâ€"we mean pauper. He will be wrap- ped in a. paper shroud, his name will be en- graved on a paper plate, and apaper hearse, adorned with paper plumes, will carry him to a paper-lined grave, over which will be raised a paper monument. Tea-Ghost Lead. One of the industries in connection with the tea. trade is the collection of the lead with whicli‘fea-chests are lined. China has been noted for many centuries for the purity of its lead, and this tea-chest lead, as it is called, is regarded as the finest in existence. There are many uses for it ; it is found very valuable in making the best kind of solder. No machinery is employed in the produc- tion of this sheet lead ; every sheet is made by hand in the most primitive fashion. A large brick is provided, the size of the sheet of lead to be made, and is covered with two or three sheets of paper. On these the molten lead is poured, and another brick is placed on the top, which flattens the lead out the required size and thickness. The sheets are then soldered together to the size of the interior of the tea chest; the tea is packed in, and the top sheet is fast- that, when empty, the pavilion would rise; eiied in place. ‘ The workmen are very ex- to the surface of the miniature lake. At a- little distance it resembles nothing so much as a. pretty conservatory, such as might be seen in the Jard-in des Plants at Paris or in l pert, and they turn out an immense num- ber of sheets in the course of a day, and, where labor is so cheap, at a price much less than if the articles was produced by the gardens at London. Happening alonga machinery. little later you might wonder what had be- come of the pavilion. Au attendant would tell you that the King was taking recreation with his harem at the bottom of the lake and point to the spire-like ventilators rising above the level of the placid surface as evi- dence of the truth of what she tells you. “By one door only can the King enter, and this closes hermetically after him. At once the edifice begins to sink. the valves in the tall pipes in the roof open. and in a few minutes it is resting beneath the placid waters. There in this cool and perfectly present Majestyâ€"a luxurious fellowâ€"had lately erected a structure of which the like dry habitation, with the softened light ployed. And they _â€" Playing-Cards in Russia. There is only one factory in Russia for the manufacture of playing-cards. It has a monopoly of the business and belongs to the Foundling Hospital. In is fi ured that there are 30,000,000 people in ussia who play cards, and to supply the demand this factory puts out 6,000,000 packs of cards annually. In order to make this enormous quantity of cards only 329 women, aged from 15 to 20 years, and sixty-men are cm- are chosen amid the trickling throuin the panes of colored and sisters, wives, and daughters of the work- figured glass, the King spends the hot sum- men at the factory. Both cxteriorly and mer days singing, smoking, eating and interiorly the factory is a model of cleanli- about him. ” MOUNT ABTNA’S WORK. Tiict‘iliagc of Glarrc, Willi a Population 0:13.000 Reduced to Ruins. The eruption of Mount Actna is rapidly increasing in violence. The fires in the craters show great activity and loud explo- sions are continually taking place. A severe earthquake shock occurred this morning, which reduced to ruins the village of Giarre on the coast of Sicily, five liours’ journey from the craters of Mount Aetna. The population of Giarre is about 18,000. No mention of loss of life is made, but itis fear- ed heie that many must have perished. The whole country sullered severely from the shock. Engineers have been sent to threat- ened points to prevent the vast quantities of lava that are being thrown out by the volcano from entering the wells from which the population obtain their supply of water. Should the lava come into contact with the water the steam generated would destroy the wells. The craters of Aetna were last active in 1865. Giarre, the destroyed village, lay directly to the east of the famous Valle del Bove, on the eastern side of Aetna, a black and desolate space three miles in Width, bounded on three sides by rpendicular cliffs from 2,000 to 4,000 feet iigh, opening only to the east. Tue people in the vicinity of the mountain are calm and betray no sign 1 ! whatever of a panic. ‘drmkmg, with his harem and favorites Miss Eoline Clark has been elected tothe superintendeucy of the Fremont, Nebraska, schools. The graduate department of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania has been formally opened to women. Margaret Shaw is the first Woman gradu- ate in civil engineering from the Michigan University. Queen Margaret of Italy will loan her famous collection of laces for exhibition at the World's Fair. O 'hen Lady Somerset was in Boston she called at the state prison to see a convict from her own country. l l iiam Wilberforce and Lord Shaftesbury are uses. This is one of the essential conditions of this branch of the production. All the cmployes live at the factory and earn from $5 to $15 a month. They work from 6 in the morning to 6 o’clock at night, and are allowed two hours a day for their meals. Besides the ordinary playing-cards of differ- ent qualities the factory produces annually 120,000 packs of figured cards for the Ger- man colonicsybcsidcs 12,000 packs of minia- ture playing-cards as toys. The annual profit of the factory amounts to about $800. - 000. The cardboard is supplied, by the Neva paper-mill. Big Little Men. Brains and stature do not go together by any means, and some of the most famous men in the world have been little men, or, at least, they have been short. Everybody can think of a dozen men besides President Harrison (who is an thing but buried under “ Grandfather’s at”) as caricaturists feign, whose names are leading ones in poli- tics or literature or business today who have fewer inches by several than, say, Bishop Brooks. A writer in the Gentle- man’s Magazine marshals many celebrated little men whose little talents have enriched the world since “ Zaccheus, he, did climb a tree" to see over the heads of his taller companions. Balzac says that little fellows are the follows for work ; being short him- self, he did not hesitate to so. , what Bacon said too about the evident re tion between over-developed inches and under-developed brain. The champion of the tall may have his say about that as soon as he pleases; but on this side there are Na leon (who was five feet one) and Admiral eppel, At- tila and Oliver Cromwell. The Duke of Wellington and Lord Nelson were both a good deal under six feet: General Sheridan was much shorter than General Grant who was not a tall man, about the height of Frederick the Great. Michael Angelo and Sir Christopher Wren, Thomas Moore (not an inch above the five feet) Alexander Pope (only four feet six) Voltarie and Calvin and David Garrick and John Milton and Will- some of those named and everybody can add lto the list. LORD BURLBIGE The Romance on Which a “mans Poem m Founded. “ There is scarcely an episode in real lilo,‘ says Sir Bernard Burke, “ so romantic as the story of the second nuptials of Henry Cecil, afterward Marquis of Exeter.” Early in life, and long before his accession to his father's title,he married the rich heir- ess of the Vernons of H inbury, but experi- encing little happiness from the union, be separated from his wife. Shortly afterward, tired of the artificial attractions of rank, he sought out some undescended country maid- en who would wed him from disinterested motives of sincere affection. Like Japhet in search of a father, he now went in search of a wife. He travelled in Shropshire as a plain countryman and took up his residence ata humble ion in a remote part of the shire, where discarding all aristocratic pres tensions, he entered into whatever company he found at the inn. His ready command of money and the mystery that hung around him excited theegossips and soon caused him to be shunned. One old crone would have it that be robbed a bank ; another that he killed some man of wealth and thus came by his money, but all agreed that dis~ honesty or fraud of some kind was the cause of so educated a man assuming sure roundings so humble and making compan- ions of those who were so unmistakably his inferiors. At length, weary of such sur- mises, he left the inn and engaged lodgings at the farmhouse of a man named Hoggins, in the neighborhood. Here he rcSided for two years, building a house, purchasing a farm, and going to London whenever he needed money, never once revealing his rank or station. Farmer Hoggins had a daughter of sweet 17, whose charms attract» ed the attention of all the neighboring swaius. Mr. Cecil, too, fell in love with her,and felt that though humble in environ- ments and unfinished her education, her simplicity in life and virtuous actions would easily adorn that higher social life to which he was accustomed, and of the shame and conventionalities of which he was already sick unto death. He finally resolved to make her his wife, and at last proposed for her to the farmer. - “Marry our daughter 1” exclaimed Mrs. Hoggins. “ What, to a man we know nothing about i No, indeed l” “er5, marry her he will,” ejaculated the husband, "for she likes him. Has he not a house and farm, and plenty of money to keep her? Isn’t he as good as any of those youngsters who come looking after Sally ‘2" The mother gave in ; the matter was ar- ranged, and Mr. Cecil married the rustic beauty of the Very unaristocratic name and family of Hoggiiis. About the same time the uncle of Cecil, the Earl of Exeter, died, and young Cecil, being heir to the title and estates, found it necessary to re- pair to London to administer the will of his uncle and to prove his claim to succeed him in the House of Lords He accordingly set out, taking the Shropshire girl with him, calling at the seats of several nobleman on the road,where, to his wife‘s utter astonish- ment, he was every where cordially receiv- ed. At last he came to the magnificent man- sion,Bur1eigh House,and as they approach- ed through the park the husband asked her whether she would like to be at home there. “ Oh, yes, indeed, it is a lovely spot." “ Then,” said Mr. Cecil, who was now Earl of Excter, “ it is yours. ” It would be im possible, says the narrator, Sir Bernard Burke,to describe in words the surprised feel- ings of the lady, or to divine the random thoughts which crowded upon her mind in that moment ; the wrongs that had been done Cecil’s character by the wiseacrcs at the inn ; the obstinacy With which her moth- er had at first denied his offer, and her own future station in life as the lady of so fine an abode. Tennyson has elegantly told in one of his immortal ballads the story of Hen- ry Cecil’s courtship. It is entitled. “ The Lord of Burleigh." A TENNYSONIAN BALLAD. They by parks and lodges going See the lordly castle stand : . Summer woods about them blowmg Made a murmur in the land. From doc thought himself he rouscs, Says to or that loves him wellâ€" “Lotus see these handsome houses Where the wealthy nobles dwell." So she goes by him attended, ‘ Hears him lovingly converse. Secs whatever fair and splendid Lay betwixt his home and hers. Parks with oak and chestnut shady, Pn rks and ordered gardens rcat; Ancient homes of lord and it“ y, Built for pleasure and for state. Thou herhcart rejoices greatly Till a gateway shq discerns With armorial hearings stately, And beneath the gate she turns. Sees a mansion more majestic Than all those she saw bofprc: Many a gallant. ny domestic Bows before ii in at the door. And while now she wonders blindly, .Nor the meaning can divine. , Proudly turns be around and klndiv' “All of this is mino‘und thine." All at once the color fluslica llor sweet face from brow to chin: As it were with shame sho blushes, And her spirit changed within. Then her countenance all over, Pale again as death doth prove: But he clasped her like a lover And he cheered her with his love. And a cutie consort made be. And cr gentle mind was such That she grow a noble la'ly And the people loved her much. From this lady the present Marquis is de- scendcd. His son, Lord Burgleigh, was Member of Parliament for Stamford for many years, and it was for this borough that Lord Salisbury first entered l’fll‘llflg ment. Miss Townsley, of Nebraska, has entered upon the astorato of a Baptist Church in Ashland, ebraska. A successful conservator and nursery has been established in San iego, California, by an cx-school teacher. Married women dwelling in the District of Columbia may now sue and be sued,priv- ileges hitherto denied them. The widow of Hotcbkiss, inventor of the famous gun, has left a million dollars for glue lfresh Air Fund Aid Society in New or . Nebraska is suffering from no common loss in the death of Mrs. Jennie 1“. Holmes, wife of the Hon. Charles A. Holmes, of Tecumseh. The Polish women, from princess to ant, will wear black during 1892 in com- momorating the centennial loss of Pa independence. ,_.,,..,.,,.......;.<,,....,,,..,....- . , ., ,, , ;_, . . Winâ€"5.- hrâ€"-._-.n~ . 'Fww lav-om I‘m MM -A__ -oadq - a...“ u, m s. . “M. M"... .~ ,,. .._. .y....-.. s ...-..u. ... a....v - .--,~ .x, 9.; ..-,_, MMMWJWU!W1 .. n..- so a. .. g._ 2.1!... N...“â€" ,, «AA.