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HOUSEHOLD. Swngine- to Dreamland. Swing, baby, swing to dreamland; The ‘e. sweet, in slumber go: My song will blend in scexnland With songs the angels know; Thy hammock will be golden And like the crescent moon, And in its hollow holden Thou wilt be sailing soon. Go swinging, swaying. swin 'nv High up among the stars ; g1 m At mother’s wish upspringing Shall sleep let down the bars; ‘ Altho’ thy hammock golden Is like the crescent moon. Thou wilt, in my arms holden, Wake bright and laughing scorn Fate of the Sealskin Saoque- It seems a paradox to say that the wom- an with a sealskin sacque is to be pitied thi; season. She has been envied hereto- fore. But the woman with a sealskin sacque is in a bad way. She has been run up against the balloon and leg-o’-mutton sleeves. She has been confronted with the alternative of no shoulders or no sealskiu sacQue. For that sacque has never yet been made, that will comfortably cover four feet of shoulders and six inches ad. ditional frill and leave the latter intact. In the ordinary course of fashion in has usually been only necessary for the woman with a sealskin eacque to get her treasure out of camphor upon the approach of cold weather and take a promenade. She was considered always ready for winter. The sealskin was always in the style, and cover- ed a multitude of deficiencies. The wom- an with the sealskin sacque was always sure of being helped across a crowded street by the police, was always asked out to supper after the play, always got a seat in the cars, received the general good attention of the world at large. She was the envied of her sex. All this is now changed. The unexpected draught of.tlie sealskin season required prompt measures on the part of the latter. And they took them. They began a campaign of education last summer. They sneaked in on the enemy with the dreadful balloon sleeve. The balloon sleeve sent the sealskin sacque up higher’n a kite. It is true some obstin- ate women will try and combine the two, but it comes hard. Some of them take out the old original sleeve of the seal and put in a balloon of the silkworm, and feel satis- fied that they have beaten the game. Others recklessly crush the inflated shoul- ders and groan in spirit. Others still, with an affected contempt for any fashion which clashes with the rights of the sealskin sacque, stick to the old style of common everyday shoulders, and let ’er go at that. But the antisealskin contingent is in the ascendancy and the sealskin sacque as an article of wearing apparel must go. A Word of Advice- So much depends upon the arrangement of the sideboard and table that housekeep- ers are constantly on the lookout for dainty pieces of china and glassware wherewith to replenish the articles that are broken by careless domestics. It takes so little time to make the table neat and attractive, that there is positively no reason why careless methods should be practiced in so many households. The morning meal, which should be the most enjoyable repeat of the day, is placed on the table hurriedly and without regard to a careful arrangement of the various dishes. The father is absorbed in the newspaper, and the mother, fretted by the shortcom- ings of the cook, has only words of reproof for the children, whose childish prattle dis- turbes their father and adds additional fuel to her own vezation. It is of the greatest importance that the eating room should be madeneat and cheer- ful, and, above all, if the table is laid at. tractively, it will tend to dispel the clouds that hover across the domestic horizon, and phage a better aid to digestion than all the nostrums in the universe. To decorate our dining room it is by no means necessary to choose expensive arti. cles. A pair of plain, red earthenware vases, with an artistic model on each side, will help to brighten the room and also furnish suggestions that may prove valu- able in selecting a varied ass urtment of bric- a-brac. Art is applied to such common usage in these days of machinery and useful inveu~ tions, that good shapes and tasteful designs cost no more than ugly ones, and yet people will fill their houses with china and glassware that are glaring deformities in both shape and ornament. A plain tint in china is generally prefer- able for common use. If many breakages occur, plain white dishes will be more "atisfactory than those that are decorated, )3 they can easily be replaced. A housekeeper who possesses superior judgment will carefully avoid purchasing imitations and cheap articles of a fanciful description. . A simple wreath or geometrical pattern is much in vogue, and is used to decorate the cheaper ware. The gilding which is so freely applied to ordinary wares gives to the article a tawdry appearance which is very irritating to the artistic eye. In choosing glassware, heavy shapes and showy cutting should be avoided. There is no stronger evidence of vulgar taste than a propensity to select articles that are elaborately decorated. There is a favorite style at present, without a particle of orna- ment, the delicate quality, slender stems and graceful shape being sufficiently ele- gant without ornamentation. Some Puddings- Steamed Raisin Pudding.â€" One pint flour two teaspoonfuls baking-powder, half a teaspoonful of salt, one cup of milk, two tablespoonfuls melted butter, two eggs, half acupful sugar, one cupful raisins. Sift together the salt, baking-powder and flour, add the milk, melted butter, yolks well beaten with sugar, the whites of the eggs beaten stiff, and the raisins, stoned and halved and rolled in flour. Pour into a bowl or mold, and steam two hours. Poor Man’s Puddingâ€"Three cupfuls flour, one cupfnl beef-suet,one cupful molas- Mono cupful milk, two eggs, two tea. spoonfuls baking-pow der,half a teaspoonful silt, two teaspoonfuls mixed powdered spice. Chop the suet very fine, and mix with the flour that has been sifted with the baking powder,salt and spice. Add the milk, molasses, and well beaten eggs. Pom- ( into a well-buttered bowl or mould, and steam three hours. Paradise Puddingâ€"One cupful raisins, one “pr CbODped apples, one and a half cxIpfuls nice light bread-crumbs,three eggs, three tablespoonfuls sugar, a pinch of salt, flavoring of grated nutmeg and powdered cinnamon. Stone and tear the raisins in half, and beat the eggs very thoroughly. Put all the ingredients together, and when well mixed,pour into a small buttered bowl or mould, and steam three hours. Rice and Apple Puddingâ€"Three table- spoonfuls of rice, three tablespoonfule of sugar one quart of milk, three sour apples a pinch of salt. Core and quarter the apples, mix all the ingredients together. pour into a well-buttered pudding-dish, cover. and bake slowly four or five hours, when the milk should be all absorbed and the rice a red color. Serve hot. Cabinet Pudding. â€"Butter a plain round or. oval mould ; line the bottom with raisins and with citron cut intofancyshapes; cover this with pieces of stale sponge cake, then more raisins and citron, alternating with the cake until the mould is full to wrthin an inch and a half to the top. Beat together the yolks of three eggs and three tablespooufuls of sugar until extremelv light. then mix in slowly a pint of milk just brought to the boiling point. Pour this over the cake, etc. , in the mould. Put the mould into a pan of cold water, so that the water may cover one-third of the mould. Set it over the fire until the water boils, then put the whole into the oven to bake one hour. Turn out the mould and serve hot. Baked Indian and Apple Pudding. â€"-One cupful Indian meal, one cupful molasses, two quarts of milk, two teaspoonfuls of salt, two tablespoonfuls of butter, or one tablespoonful of finely chopped beef suet, one quart of pared and quartered apples, half a teaspoonful each of ginger and grat- ed nutmeg. Bring ths milk to the boiling point in the double boiler, pour it gradual- ly on the meal. return to the boiler, and cook half an hour, stirring fretlueutly. Add the remaining ingredients, pour into but- tered puddingdish and bake slowly three ours. Scalloped Apple Puddingâ€"Half a cup- ful sugar, half a cupful butter, two pints light bread crumbs, three pints of sliced apples, flavoring of powdered cinnamon or grated lemon rind. Melt the butter and stir it into the bread crumbs, and mix the flavoring with the sugar. Buttera pud- ding-dish, put in a layer of the buttered bread crumbs, then sliced apple, and sprinkle with sugar ; repeat the layers until the materials are used, having a thick layer of crumbs on the top. If the apples are not juicy, and have little flavor, add half a cupful of cold water and the juice of half a lemon before putting on the top layer of crumbs. Bake about one hour. Pudding in Haste. Have you ever been surprised by having company come in just as dinner was ready on a day when you had not provided a des- sert! I was so surprised the other day, and I hastily made a pudding sauce, then put the pudding on to boil while we were at dinner. Split a few crackers and put raisins be- tween the hagesâ€"I happened to have seed- less raisins which I usedâ€"sprinkle a little sugar over them, tie them closely in a cloth, or put them in your pudding-bag, and boil fifteen minutes in milk and water. For the sauce I used one cup of sugar,one- half cup of butter, yolks of three eggs, one teaspoonful of corn starch ; stir the ingred- ients thoroughly, and add boiling water enough to make it the consistency of thick cream. Flavor with wine, brandy, or any of the extract flavorings if preferred. Four Good Recipes. Delicious Spring Chicken.â€"Dress and joint them, wash and drain, place ina dripping pan and just cover with sweet cream; season with a little. salt, pepper and butter; let them cook until the cream is almost cooked away, and the chicken will be done. Eggs in the Nest.â€"Beat to a froth the whites of six eggs; add a little pepper and salt, pour in a round, buttered tin, dip upon it six tablespoonfuls of sweet cream. one spoonful in a place; upon each spoonful of cream place one of the yolks whole, be- ing careful not to braek it; place in a mod- erately hot oven, cook and serve hot. Baked Beans. â€"Boil until very tender, season With salt, pepper and sugar; slice, pieces of pork, place over the top and bake. Lemon Custard Pieâ€"Sheet milk, 1 pint; 3 eggs, 1 lemon, § cup of sugar; mix the beaten eggs, sugar and milk together, as for;1 afcustard; remove spots, stem and flower en rom lemon, chop very fine stir i to the custard and bake. ’ n It is the Mind that Sees- How do we see? Did you ever chance to think ? I have asked quite a number of peo- ple lately, and they reply: “With our eyes, of course, how else?” or words to that ef- fect. Did you ever realize how much of our vision is mental? We see nothing properly and definitely until the mind len'ls it's per- ception. We may be gazing steadfastly at a. picture,yet be unable to see anything but a confused mass of colorâ€"because the mind is seeing faces or scenes a thousand miles. away, perhaps. Call the mental vision back; and the figures on the canvas take their proper places, at once we see the picture, Ur shut your eyes. Can you not see the faces of those you love or hate as clearly as you ever saw them with the physical means of sight 2 How many times one glances at his watch, yet, when asked the tzme as he replaces it in hisfipocket, is unable to tell simply because he looked only With the eyes and not with the mind also. Man Overboard. “ Only those who have been roused from midnight slumber on shipboard by the terrible cry ‘ Man overboard !’ ” said a. tra- veller, “can comprehend to the full its terrible meaning, the fear and horror in its sudden alarm.” “ Oh, yes, they can.”teplied a little lame shoemaker, who was not much of a travel- ler. “ I heard it once When Iwasn’t near the ship. and I realised the horror of it more than anyone else.” “ You couldn’t,” said'the traveller, scorn- fully. “ Yes, I could,” persisted the little lame shoe-maker ; “ I was the man who was over. bmrd.” ‘ P. AND 0. COMPANY. The Oldest Steamship Company in the World. â€"_ \ Established In 1837â€"From the Flrsl Ves- sel, the “ William Fawcelt” 206 Ten -â€"’!'0 the “ Victoria,” Over 6300 Tons. l The organization which is knowu famili- arly to Englishmen all the world over as the “ P. and 0. Company ” was established in 1837, and has stood in the van of com- mercial progress thronghout Her Majesty’s reign. The hiStory of the Company, more- over, is the history In brief of England’s conquest of the world’s industry and com- merce, for its success is due to the posses- sion in a. marked degree by a few individuals of those qualities which have won her present position. Energy, tenacity of pur- pose, and the ability to see beyond the horizon of the present have made of a small firm of shipowners a great trading organi- zation of national utility with a fleet of fifty three ships, representing a capital of over 317000.000. The foundation of the Company was laid as far back as 1825, by Messrs. Brodie, McG. Wilcox, and Arthur Anderson, who were in business as merchants and ship- brokers. In 1820 they built their first ves- sel,the “William Fawcett,” a paddle steamer with a gross tonnage of 206, and engines of sixty horse-power. Lisbon was then, in the eyes of Englishmen, the most important place on the Peninsula, and thither were the mails conveyed, from Falmoutb, by sailing-packet once a week, wind and weather permitting, frequently occupying three weeks in the passage. In 1835 Messrs. Wilcox and Anderson, having then three steamers, with a total gross tonnage of 1124, began running steamers to the principal ports of the Peninsula, and, al- though it was not immediately profitable, they persevered in the enterprise, and offer- ed to undertake run MAIL SERVICE FOR THE GOVERNMENT. On August 22, 1837, was signed the first foreign mail contract by the terms of which the Government paid an annual subeidy of £29,600 in return for a monthly service from Falmouth to Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz and Gibraltar, and Messrs. Wilcox and Anderson in collaboration with Capt. Richard Bourne, a naval officer concerned in the conveyance of the Irish mails then founded the Peninsula rCompany to carry out the contract. The fleet was in the same year strengthened by the building of three new steamers, one of which, the “Great Liverpool," was of 1311 gross ton- nage, nearly double the size of any other vessel of the fleet. This was but the begin- ning. The extension to Egypt was the next ste . At that time the mails on leav- ing the eninsular steamer at “ Gib,” were picked up by a small Government steamer and carried to Malta, thence by another Government vessel to Alexandria, thisl .- .._..- --._-‘__.._'â€".w..-â€"._â€".- . ” lon and Calcutta, and from Ceylon to Slug spare and Hong Kong. This was a time of progress by leaps “EL bounds. True, Australia was then as It were only suspected; gold had not as yet been discovered in quantity, and the pOPu‘ lation and trade were comparatively scanty. But the nation was throwing out suckers in all directions, and the success of the Indian mail service suggested the wis- dam of establishing steam communication between Australia and the mother country. Not until the spring of 1852â€" -the year; AFTER THE GOLD BOOM service. The operation of this contract was partially interrupted by the Crimean War, when heavy demands were made upon the company of the conveyance of troops. The P. and O. vessels carried some 2000 oflicers, 60,000 men, and 15,000 horses during that war and in the Indian Mutiny its services were still more valuable, though less extensive. In fact the Company has been utilized in all the wars and “little expeditions” in which the country has en- gaged during the last half of the century. An incident in the Egyptian war illustrates all the possible value of such a well-organ- ized line to the country. It was at the time when the Egyptian troops at Sinkat and Tokar were beleaguered by Osman Diana. The Government applied to the Company on the 12th of February for help to transport two battalions from Cairo to Suakim. Two of the Company’s ships, the “Bokhara” and “Thibet,” then bound D for the East, arrived at Port Said 8. day or two afterwards. They were immediately dispatched through the canal ; fittings were erected and all preparations made during their passage, so that the moment they ar- rived at Suez they were ready to embark the troops ; one vessel sailed again in less than ten hours,the other in less than six teen properly equipped, with 1500 men on board. At the present time the P. O. fleet con- sists of 53 steamships,of an average tonnage of 4104 each ; two vessels still larger than the “Victoria” are building, but, until the Suez Canal is widened and deepened, they cannot rival the “Campania” class of ship in actual size. The British Government retains by an annual subventiou the “Britannia,” “Victoria” and “Oceans,” and seven other vessels of the big fleet are held at the immediate disposition of the Admir- alty. The transatlantic lines only contri- bute an equal number, viz.. four from the Cunard and six from the White star lines, and the only other mail steamers on the Government list are the three “Empresses” of the Canadian Pacific Co. BANK BURGLARY A SCIENCE. Nllro-Glycerine Will Conquer Nearly Any Safe. In opening a modern bank safe the burg- lar putties up the entire joint or crack, except for about an inch at the top and was Australia included in the regular mail )M-fl‘“ â€"-â€"â€"~ --..-: . may .. .. u- m. GOSSIP ABOUT BfiYsiIIss. of Wales is Convalescent ”‘â€" The Princess ao yachting and the PH u- muy Wlll Leave Buzzard .myal Botrothalâ€"our The Prince 18 3° cess and F8 for a Tulle Naval Suprem’°” Yates in his latest London cagfg-sfjxundhe princess of Wales is con- ' ter her recent severe illness, bflbeifiliilli'fery weak and much depressed. The Princess Maude h“! “130 been ill. Sun- do. was the second anniversary of the death y b dee 0f Clarence. _Her Royal (I); lineess and her daughters Will 'be away f 1g En land until about Whitsunday, T1231 Fringe of W3135 Intends W be. at Cagnes during March and H13 E'Oyol Big}: noes has ordered the cutter Britannlo,’ which has been' laid up at Cowes durmg onths, to get ready to sail m . the 13'5” three Mediterranean in order for the _ _ tha‘tnscfle might take part In the various re held during t he season riigafimiiyigi'f a The ‘ ‘Britannia” will leave Zariyein February for Marseilles, where ms on March 4. the regatta begs made a formal grant of The Queen a“, the Duke and Duchess 01188 . Clarence H cream rooms shut up and t c 3:52:33; I5: the exclusive use of the Duke as of Saxe-chourg, who retain :32 13,2226 of living there whenever they ha' on to visit London. The Duke and Pp nnaught always occupied ts in Buckingham Palace when :E:;t$:; in town, but this was a very in- convenient arrangement, and the Queen has long been anx10u5 to give them a permanent in London. reTlianflicial announcement of the betroth- ‘rand Duke of Hesse and his, :Lugifn $133253 Victoria M elite. of Co bourg. which took place formally in the Palace of 001,0ng on Tuesday afternoon, was delay- ed until it had been privately communicat- ed to the Emperor and Empress of Russia, the German Emperor and Empress and other relatives. The marriage, according resent arrangements, is to take th _ 1p‘l'acelitPCobourg during the. last week. in April, when the Queen Will be staying there. During his recent visit to the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle the Prince of Wales carefully inspect-ed the famous-Silver churn which was made during the reign of Queen Elizabeth and weighs two thousand Ounces. The superb christening ewer and basin by Benvenuto Cellini were also on “The recent visit of the Duke and Duchess of Chartres to Prince and Princess u alde. mar, of Denmark, at Copenhagen, was con- nected with the project of a marriage be- tween their second daughter, Princess Marguerite who accompanied . them to Copenhagen, and Prince Christian, the eldest son of the Crown Prince of Denm ark. In addition to his being the ultimate heir happy arrangement involving from three ! bottom. A well Of putty is then formed to the Danish throne, Christian Will inherit weeks to a month for the conveyance of letters from England to Egypt. Tenders; of steamers to replace the Admiralty Pack- about the top crack, where it is uncovered, and two and a half or three ounces of nitro- E l cerine poured into it. If the safe is not i I protected by felt or rubber, it W111 require i I etc, and the Peninsular Company OPtamed ‘ but three or four minutes for the glycerine the contract, their estimate being £234,000: to distribute itself over the entire joint of or £10,000 less than the cost of the Covefn- the door and drip out at the lower crack, ment service which thfipperseded. ’lbe says the Washington Star. An ordinary “ Oriental” and the ‘4‘ fit . Liverpool”â€" detonating cap,such as is used in exploding then considered large and powerful vessels, dynamite, is inserted in the upper well,and though thelarsest was only of 1600 tons the fuse lit. When the explosion occurs and 450 horse-powerâ€"were devoted to the the door comes off. When the operation new work. THE NEXT STEP IN THE COMPANY’S DEVELOP- MENT was the establishment of the Indian service. In 1839 the public awoke to the necessrty of comprehensive and unvarying communi- cation with India. It was the year of the fateful occupation of Cabul. and news travelled with a sloth and irregularity .not to be sufi’ered by a people awaiting tidings from its sons in the foremost regions of the Empire. Several rival schemes were brought forth, but they were still-born, apd the Peninsular Company sought and obtain- ed a Charter of Incorporation for the pur- pose of establishing steam communication with India under the title of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. The charter was dated December 18i0, and says Black and White contained. 110116.0f those pampering clauses and conditions With which foreign Governments have sought to nurse to maturity a weak industry. On the contrary, it was granted subject to the con- dition that the company should establish steam communication with India within two years; promise of subsidy there was not only an undertaking from the East India Company to pay premiums on a cer- tain number of voyages accomplished in the year, the total amount of which was NOT TO EXCEED £20,000 PER ANXUM. On September 24,1842, the “ Hindostan, the first steamer, specially built for the traffic to India, left Southampton for Calcutta bearing the Charter of Incorpora. tion. It was a journey then. You may travel from one end of Africa t with more ease to-day. Waghorn had a few 15 years previously shown us the way overland, but only the rudest arrangement existed for are 0 traffic through Egypt. Goods and passen. ing d' embarked at Alexandria con- join . . gers were 13' s canal boats glycerine on the outside, the result being to Mahmoudich cup out the top of the outer plate of metal. veyed thence in big mastles astern of a tug, along the. _ Canal, a distance of forty-eight miles to ‘ the were taken b steamer tion. _ Afteh, whence Y FromyCairo to glycerine placed therein, Which feeds teen hours across around the threads in about ten minutes, formed in two- tearing the door and part of the frame out in sixteen hours to Cairo. Suez was a journey of exgh the desert which was per . wheeled omnibuses, holding sxx persons, and drawn by four mules or horses. As the roadwas merely a cutting in - was opene an experience by no means uncommon for _ _ Cargo plate, as just explained, m), half a camel teaspoonful of glcerine . the horses to stray into the desert. was carried by the same route on back, and it was even found cheaper to de- port coal across the desert in this way than pl to send it round the Cape by sailing vessel to Suez. The completion (in 1859) of the rail way across the Isthmus of course changed all this, and THE OPENING or 'rIIE SUEZ CANAL IN 1869 evolutiouized the whole co mmerce. The service between Calcutta, Madras, were accordingly invited for a quick servxce ; g y takes place in the vault there is rarely any noise more than fifty feet away. The burglar does not carry ultra-glycerine With him. He goes to a hardware store and buys a few pounds of dynamite, which he breaks up in a convenient vessel, as awash basin, covers with alcohol and allows it to stand until the glycerine has all combined with it. The alcohol and glycerine are then poured OE, and an equal amount. of water is added ; the water and the alcohol combine where it is ready for use. The chrome steel, of which the safes and vaults of banks are now largely built, is easily drilled by first heating the steel. A basket of wire-netting is made to cover a space of about six or eight inches square, and this is wired to the side of the safe or door. It is filled with charcoal, which is ignited and a fierce heat generated by a pair of bellows. In four or five minutes the basket is removed and the heated spot allowed to cool. It may then be drilled or out like ordinary boiler iron. Once a hole: sufficxently large to admit a man’s arm? was cut through a chrome-steel bank safe! four inches thick in four hours, so that a man’s arm was passed through and the locking bolts disconnected with a wrench, In a little less than two hours a smaller hole! was cut through the back of the safe into the money vault and the contents taken ” out through the hole. The large vault door behind which the safe is placed is rarely blowu with glycer- ine. It is generally opened by drilling a, two or three inch hole between the handle othe other and the combination look. The cuts off be looking bolt, and the door opens when the handle is turned.Safes With round doors ften opened experimentally by build- a well of putty at the upper part of the l; and exploding about a teaspoonful of A large well, embracing the cupped por- is then made, and two ounces of when exploded. One round door is mention.- ed which was found to be so tight in the the sand,it was threads that glycerine would not flow. This a by first cuppi- me inside , 4'16 0 col , This soon passed dovm the joint betwgen :53 ates, and when exploded brought ofi‘ the outside plate and some of the screWs holding it in place. ”-9“ An Encumbrance. A young merchant risked his own life to save a young woman from drowning. “ Noble-minded youth l" said the girl’s Ceylon, Aden and Suez proved all that could father ; " we owe you a debt 0f gratitude, be desired by all but the shareholders, but the decision of the Government to establish regular communication from Ceylon east. ward to Singapore and Hong Kong in the interests of the India and China trade p turned the tide even for them. The Com. pany hadno competitors in the field, and ' the bargain struck was for a subvention of £160,000, which was at the rate of 173 per mile over the whole line from Suez to Cey- A hundred thousand pounds or the hand of my daughter. Choose ! Our hero thought that if he took the girl he would get the money as Well, and re- lied, “ I choose your daughter.” “ You have done well,” said the father - “I could not have given you a hundred thousand pence, as I am only a. P00r cobb- ler, but you shall have my Slaughter; Join hands, my dear children.” and the nitro-glycerine sinks to the bottom a considerable portion of the immense for- tunes which came to his mother, the Crown Princess, from her father, the late King Charles of Sweden, and her mother, Princess Louise of the Netherlands. :0 on Princess Louise at the time of her marriage in 1869 was the richest heiress in Europe. The Duke of Connaught has been ridi- culing at .eldershot an order relating to bootlaccs. He holds that the practice of crossing the bootlaces is wrong. . it is small matter, perhaps, but the routine of, regimental life is made up of small matters. All the Duke of Connaught has done here is to point out what the right of way is for a soldier to deal with bootlaces, for the sake of uniformity, which is essential in a well. ordered army. The Khedive has instructed John Inglis of the Glasgow ship-building firm, just, returned from Cairo, 10 design and build a screw steam yacht of 600 ton for he own services in the Mediterranean. The vessel is 'to be ready by summer. The condition or the Queen of Sweden is causing great anxiety. Her Majesty is suffering from the after efiects of a severe attack of influenza and a. state of extreme weakness. The Crown Princess of Sweden is ex. posted this month at Carlsrhue on a visit to her parents, the Grand Duke and Duchess 0f Baden, and will Visit Algiers later. The Due de Sagan, who has been passing the autumn at Chateau Valencia, spent a few days in Paris before going to Berlin, where he will remain for the rest of the winter. He is the only example of a French- man, who is a Duke both in his own country and in Germany, for while he is Due de Talleyrand of France, he is head of the principality of Sagan in Silesia. . Sir Mortimer Durand, who arrived in London last week, after a special “11851011 to the Ameer of Afghanistan, isto go to Osborne in a, day or two on a Visit to the Queen, and will dine and sleep at the Palace. 5*, .____â€"â€"-.â€"â€"-‘â€"-â€" Bad Him There- A stupid-looking countryman halted be- fore a blacksmith’s shop, the proprietor of which was forging a shoe,and eyed the per- formance with much interest. . ‘The brawny smith, dissatlsfied With the man’s curiosity, held the red hot iron sud- denly under his nose, hoping to make him beat a hasty retreat. . . “If you give me a Sixpence I wrll lick it,” said the countryman. . “I Will stop the braggart’s jaw,” thought the smith, as he took from his pockets Sixpence, and held it out. The countryman quickly grabbed the coin, llicked it, and walked away, whistling, “ Did you ever catch a weasel asleep '2” Hand Made- A Glasgow man, during a business trip, had the misfortune accidentally to burst one of his shoes. Entering the first shoe. maker‘s shop he saw, in order t? purohm a new pair, he asked the son of St. Crispin if he had any hand-sewn shoes in stock. at Plenty 0’ them,” replied the tradesmen, and, after taking the customer’s measure, he went into an inner apartment, and soon returned with an armful of foot-wear. The gentleman selected a pair that fitted him best, and examining them With a critical eye, remprked : h “ You re sure these 15.0% are hand- sewn 2" _ ' . . . “ Look here, my fnend,‘ exclaimed the indignant shopman ; “ ye shairly dinna think that I were thee shoes wi’ my feet 2" 5393‘ » gen 5 moven each cl left so. gens, i at onc1 gens 0; horses paralil of lite the to pegs i: mules, once c formed ends a rear. throw: yards, the sol tinual laagcrl space i pleied On t ed 0rd River. fog, ta had ll! forms} avoid as the heliogn where the krl 0f the nativei they w a. Matti I have natived pens J about day be we me to a kn mount] side, a neares on the inside out as 1 Debt to the as the but: he bad side. at the meanti Burnet left sid he was all the 1 en. W but it v| long) 3' lungs a3 ly wou stretch with in Wrapped same cw