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A?! skiiifni bank in other days, "Sh: poet :. priests and premiere great, 2 .v-{xloyei meircmfb in diver; ways W build for he»: a sea: or state, Ivory white 4-" 3d jewel-bright: And an the world deciarci ’cwn; good- A throne wzs m tab to: worn “1110321. But queen; have heft, their thrones are nowâ€" Hmre doni-d - heir crown; and said or proved ’Iimt royalty it, cit might; bow, And through the 3 o mince have moved To seru- zmd pray And go their way : And none have hindered though they could- Is this the case with womanhood? It. seemed wherc‘er I chose to room I saw 10-day in every placeâ€" The buey mar: and quiet homeâ€" A being (lowered with regal grace, At work with men, Brain. hand and pen: Am! tibia. somehow. I understood Vv .u Lhrone despising womanhood. This gloomy idea. that womanhood is synonymous with sorrow needs to have the sunlight of common sense thrown on it, and, like other bogies, it will then disappear. There was a time when a woman imagined physical ills her birthright and (poor soul) found her consolation in making an idol of them, regarding herself as a highly strung peculiarly afflicted being whom man, great, coarse, rugged man, could never hope to truly comprehend. This was bad for both her and the man. Now she has learned that a woman who “starts fair” at the beginning (that is, without inherited ill‘ health) and takes care of herself everrafter- ward, (an expect, nay, is expected by others, to_e__njoy physical well-being. _ The ~slairiie'rnle holds good :vith a. woman’s imagined birthright of sorrow. She un- cionbtedly must share in the common doom of humanity and suffer her measure of heartache and disappointment as does man, and, perhaps, by reason of her more sensitive moral and mental fibre she may suii’er more, but that is the very reason why she should not make the same sen- sitiveness a whip with which to scourge herself. Trials will come, as incidentals of existence, quick and fast enough to suit the most sentimental sorrow-worshipper, but the who goes half way to meet them should remember the dying words of an old phil- osopher, “My son, I have had a great deal of trouble in the course of my life, and most of it never happened.” Most women are trained for pauperism, and accept pauperism as their heaven-or- dained condition. Unmarried, they depend upon father or brother; married, upon a husband, Marriage to most oi them re- volves itself intoa “condition of being sup- ported.” It is true that the vast majority of them far more than earn their living in marriage. They carry on Simultaneously the trades and professions of cook, chamber- mid, waitress, hoasemaid, laundress, seam- stress, scullion. child’s nurse, and general buyer and manager of the family, while filling the higher role of wife and mother, for in the vast majority of families in Chris- tendom the wife is the only ser want. But for all this no one thinks of a married worn- an as self-supportingJi The law, literature, and custom invariably refer to the husband as his wife‘s “supporter,” and as “ the sup- porter of his family.” Until quite recently no married woman was allowed to possess any property, even now she uses it under limitations, as if she were a child in tutel- gge. Vezetsbles and Desserts- !Iost. housekeepers value a. good rule for a lemon pie. Put a. cup of White sugar into acup of cold water and bring to a. boil; then spit in a. heaping tablespoonfnl of corn starch mixed in a. little cold water and the beaten yolks of two eggs ; beat well. Boil about four minutes and take from the fire and add the grated rind and juice of one large or two small lemons. Bake a crust scoring the bottom to prevent rising, then fill it with the lemon mixture. Beat. the whites of the eggs to a. stiff froth with two heaping table3poonfuls of powder- 0:! sugar! spread“ it over the top and brown slightly in the oven. Cold Slaw. -â€"Sh1ve very fine half a. small solid head of cabbage; melt in a. pen a. teaspoonful of butter and stir into it a. heaping teaspoonful of flour. When per- fectly smooth, add a half pint of milk with an egg beaten in it ; stir over the fire until very thick and it begins to boil then stir it into the cabbage. “Then the cabbage is thoroughly incorporated with the sauce add a. little salt and a. half cup of vinegar ; stir well until mixed and put into the dish in which the slaw is to be served, dust a. little pepper over the Apple and Riceâ€"Peel and core apples being careful not to break them, put. them in a deep baking dish and pour over them a. syrup made of a. pound of sugar to a. pint of water boiled till thick ; put a small piece of lemon peel inside the apples and bake slowly until done, but not broken. Take out the lemon peel and put any kind of jelly or jam insxde the apples. and between them put little hea sof well-cooked rice. Serve either cold or 017. gpweease'tw’away as it shaufd~ be made a. half hour at. least before it is to be eaten. Baked Apples. â€"Apples lacking in flavor and juiciness may be improved by pouring over them a. dressing before baking. For a. small pan of apples, pared anal cored, mwo thirds of a. pint of boiling water, a table. spoonful of flour mixed smooth m a. little cold water stirred into this, and a. small lump of butter, sugar and any flavoring that is perferred. Pour this mixture over the apples and bake until they are done. Indian Custard Pudding. â€"Ta.':e seven heaping tablespoonfnls of indian meal, half a teaspoouful of salt, taro tablespoonfuls of ginger or cinnamon. Pour over these a. quart of boiling milk, mix well and pour into a buttered pudding dish. Just- "oefore putting into the oven, stir in a. cup of cold water which will produw a. similar efi'ec: 3; eggs ; bake one hour in a. quick oven. -bl v Apple Shortcake.â€"Mit together one quart of sifted flour, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a half teaspooniul of salt, a scant. half cup of butter, and ‘sweet. milk enough to make 3 am? batter. Bake in a long tin, or in \Vashington pie tins. Split opensas soonas baked with a thin-bladed 1168 knife, spread with! butter and cover with well-seasoned apple sauce, cream and nutmeg. Place the other half of the cake on this with the crust side down, butter the top, 3121'}. the apple sauce and cream, and Serve eitner 0010 01‘ 1100. I Indian Custard Pudding. â€"Ta're seven heaping tablespoonfuls of indian meal, half an tesspoonful of salt, two tablespooniuls of ginger or cinnamon. Pour over these a. quart of boiling milk, mix well and pour into a buttered pudding dish. Just- 'oefore putting into the oven, stir in a. cup of cold water which will produw a. similar effect asl eggs ; bake one hour in a. quick oven. Apple Shortcakeâ€"Mi: together one quart of sifted flour, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a half teaspooniul of salt, 3 scant half cup of butter, and sweet milk enough to make a stiff batter. Bake in a long tin, or in \Vashington pie tins. Split opensas scones baked with a thin-bladed h6t knife, spread with butter and cover with well-seasoned apple sauce, cream and nutmeg. Place the other half of the cake on this with the crust side down, butter the top, add the apple sauce and cream, and serve hot. Bird's Nest Pudding. -Set seven or eight pared and cored apples in a dish just large 1 a In a. like manner the printers and language makers of the latter part of the sixteenth century began to recognize the fact that there was a sound in spoken English which l was without a representive in the shape of i an alphabetical sign or character, as the first' sound in the word “wet.” Prior to that , time it had always been spelled as “vet,” ’ the v having the long sound of u or of two i u’s together. In order to convey an idea! of the new sound they began to spell such words as “wet,” “weather,” “ web,” etc., with two 11’s, and as the u of that date was a. tipieal v, the three words in quotations 3 above looked like this: “Vvet,” “weather,” ' “vveb.” After awhile the type founders re- 1 l l cognized the fact that the double u had come ' to stay, so they joined the two u’s together and made the character now so well known i as the w. I have one book in which three 6 forms of the w are given. 'l'he first is the ‘ old double v (vv), the next is one in which E the last stroke of the first v crosses the first , stoke of the second sud the third is the' common w we use to;day. EOUSEELQLE Women and Happiness- Womanhood. enough to hold them. Pound one cracker very fine and pat it. into a. quart bowl, add three eggs, ahttle salt, and milk enough to fill the bowl. Stir it well, pour over the apples and bake. Creamed Tutnips.â€"Peel, lay in cold umber for half an hour and cook tender and fast m hob salted water, drain! pressing well, put into a. dean tin or procelain sauce- pan and beat smooth over the fire with a. wooden spoon (never an iron one), mixing in as you go on, a. gooi spoonful of butter and three spoonfuls of mflk or cream ; season with pepper and salt. The lumps should be rubbeJ. out and the turnips be p. smooch puree. In this article I propose to give the es- sential points in making sxlads rather than a. lift of‘recipes. a ‘1 1 The first; {requirement of a. really good salad is freshness and coolness, While the second is daintiness; a. salad which has be- come warm. or one that is mussy and over- loaded with gernishing can never be a. suc- cess. Salads are not as troublesome to make as many housekeepers seem to think, and they are wonderfully economical afi'xirs, for in their making all bits of fish, fowl, meat or veg‘eta'xiles may be used. The French are noted as salad makers, but. in reality their success lies more in their wonderful knack of seasoning than in any- thing else. A French cook will have every variety of sweet; herb in stock ready for use, nd he will use several sarieties in one sal- ad, but he never makes any one flavor strong enough to be pronounced; he goes on the principle that a. little is good. but. too much is worse than none at all. \Vhen making a. salad have the material and dishes as cold as possible and keep them so until ready to serve. Dip lettuce, parsley and anything of that kind in the coldest water to be had, to freshen them, but be sure to shake every drop of water olfl or igwlll spoil the dressinw. In cold weather, or if onc- lims a. refrig- erator, a cooked dressing will keep nearly if not quite a. week, and with this on hand five minutes’ time will give a dainty look- ing and nourishing dish out of What Would otherwise be thrown away, for if there is ever so little of two or three kinds, when nicely put together no one but the maker would ever know it was made of “ scraps.” _Have a. bed of sweet herbs in the garden for summer use ; dry some for winter season- ing, and if there is room to spare as some window, have a. box of pzrsley. borage and such things growing to use as garnishing in the winter. Tney are as ornamental as many so-called “ house plsncs ” and are use- ful as well. I have tried many necipes for dressings and have settled down to the use of the three which follow, because they are good, easily made and inexnensive. The cooked dressing calls for sour cream, but; sweet; cream will do as well, and if not: very rich, a. trifle more butter may be used. Cooked Dressingâ€"One cup ,sour cream, two teaspoonfuls of sugar, one and a. half teaspoonfuls of dry mustard. One-half cup of vinegar, two eggs, one-half cup butter, one teaspoonful of salt and a. dash of cayenne pepper. Mix 3.11 ingredients, except butter and pepper, in an earthen bowl; place in a. dish of boiling water and stir until thick, but not until it curdles. Add the butter when taken from the fire, and the pepper when cold. “ . r. u. p I. LL Mayonaise Dressingâ€"Beat the yolks of two eggs until light : add two teaspoonfuls of salt and one of whxte pepper and beat again ; stir in a tablespoonful of oil (using a. silver fork) ; then another spoonful of oil; a little vinegar and a. little oil alternately until a. half pint of oil and two tablespoon- fuls of vinegar have been used. Stir thoroughly and always in one di- rection. French Dressi ng â€"To three tablespoon- fuls of oil add a. salt-spoonful of salt and half as much white peppcr. and beat, thoroughly, then adl n tablespoonfui of vinegar and beat; until foamy. Tlllis dressmg is meant. more especially for such salads as lettuce, celery and dan- delions. If the herb garden affords a. tarragon bush, pick some sprigs and put; into a. bottle of vinegar and keep it. for salads, as that is the “ tarragon vinegar ” so often called for, and for which you pay a. fancy price 1f bought prepared.‘ A gefmine “ French ” dressing always calls for three times as much oil as vinegar and twice as much salt. as pepper, re- membering this point, one needs no recipe. For those who do not like the taste of the oil, more vinegar and less oil may be use . They “'ere Added to Our Alphabet a‘é‘cw Hundred Years A30. [1: is a. fact not so well known but that it may be said to be curious that the letters j and w are modern additions to our alphabet. The use of the j may be said to have become general during the time of the commonwealth, say between 1649 and 1658. From 1630 to 1645 its use is exceedingly rare, and I have never as yet seen a. book printed prior to 1652 in which it appeared. In the century immediately preceding the seventeenth it became the fashion to tail the last i when Roman numerals were used as in this ex- ample : viij for S or xij in place of l2. This fashion still lingers but only in physicians’ prescriptions, I believe. Where the French use j it has the power of s as we use it in the word “vision.” What nation was the first to use it as a new letter is an interesting but perhaps unanswerable query. THELETI‘BRS J AND W. Salad Making;- The Khedive’s Visit to Constantinople [las- Made Elim Slore Favorable to Britainâ€" lle Will Visit London Next Year. The Khedive has learneii his lesson and has profited by it. His visit to Turkey Was known to have made a deep impression upon his mind, but the extraordinary change in his conduct since his return to Egypt, has convinced everyone that the im- pression was deeper even than had been im- agined. For some reason the Sultan treat- ed Abbas during his stay in Constantinople as if he were anything but a. welcome guest, and he would not, it is said, allow him to make any complaints against British rule A,-J 41-..‘ ......-.v a..- ..y-.‘.-_--. w J "" VD, in Egypt. Probably Abbas discovered that the situation of the Sultan, who is bulhed by three or four ambassadors. i3 9' great deal worse than his own. To be under the C NTROL OF ONE FIRM POWER, which knows exactly what it wants to do in Egypt, must. by the light thrown upon it by the position of the Mohammedan stop-gm ruler on the Bosphorus, who is more or less at the mercy of half a. dozen contending interests, have seemed, after all, not so undesirable to the Khedivc as it did when he set out on his Visit to Constantino- ple full of the idea. of returning with aprom- ise from the Sultan of assistance to free him from the leading strings of Lord Baring. The Sultan is at present receiving six mil- lion dollars a year from Egypt, and no doubt the young man thought that as his country had no other return for that money he might at least ask his suzerain lord to protect him from any other vnssalage. The Sultan, however, doubtless feels that wuos’vnn PAYS “mu MONEY, it is really a British subsidy, and one that for his part he would be the last to disturb. The young man, when he saw his grand- father Ismail, now a prisoner at Constanti- nople, doubtless got from him, too, some very sage advice about whether Eng- land or Turkey was the preferable master. Since his return he has taken the trouble to make public his change of heart in regard to the British regime, which he now sup- ports with all his authority. The natives of Cairo had been extraordinarily insolent to Europeans on the streets of that city, and assaults had become quite frequent. The native tribunals refused to convxct the criminals, who These demonstiations against Europeans were accompanied by a. revwal of the na- tionalist movement, which under Arabi Bey very nearly ended the rulership of the Khedive’s father. Probably this appeared ominous in the eyes of the freshly enlight- ened lihedive, anal be instructed his governors and sheiks to end the agitation, since which there has been a very obvious subsidence of efi‘crvescence. Now it is announced that the K‘nedive will Visit Lon- don next year. It is growing more and more improbable that England will ever be able to withdraw from Egypt. Every year shows an immense stride in material progress so undoubtedly the outcome of English rule that its British source. The longer the occupa- tion the greater and more promising become the prospects of Egypbunder a. continuance of British rule and the greater the reluct- ance to allow Egypt: to drop back, as she certainly will do if left to her own manage- 1l ij___ ment. Even the French bond-holders are almost unanimously opposed to the British Withdrawal, because it would certainly bring doWn the value of their Egyptian se- curities. Evacuation seems futher off than ever now that the French intrigues and the Khedive’s hopes have failed. Spider showers are worthy of mention. The spiders are gossamers. and all those who have read \Vhite’s “Natural History of Selborne” will call to mind his descrip- tion of the showers he observed. One of these, he tells us, continued for nearly a. whole day, and the gossamers descended from a. surprising height, for when one gentleman ascended a. hill near at hand, some 330 feet high,he found that the spiders were dropping from a region in the atmos- phere that was still beyond the reach of his gaze, _, _.. .1 ",,A These gossamer showers are great mys- teries, and once seen, cannot, very readily be forgotten, for the air on these occasions becomes literally crowded with the tiny parachutes mentioned, which are composed of a. few threads of almost invieible gossam- er, wit-h ggrâ€"fiw but lively spider afiached. This may be regarded as the most beauti- {ul thigg in strange showers.--[Cha.mbers’s J ournali A traveler’s tale of British phlegm is told in the following terms : A Frenchman was seated in a. smoking carriage and had for his companion a. “milord Anglais.” Enter a British miss â€"of course with a plaid and protuding teeth and a Skye terrier. She sat opposite the milord. He politely in. formed her that: she had by mistake got into a smoking carriage. She made not the slightest answer, but sat grimly on. ,,1 "The milord threw away his cigar, much to the astonishment of the Frenchman, who, according to the story, sat watching what would happen. When they reached the next statlon the milord said, “ Madam can now change into a non- -smoking carriage. If she does not I shall assume that she does not mind smoke and ghall light another cigar.” ‘cMadam said never a. word, but stared in front of her. The train 'went on again and the milord fightcd up. When his cigar was well alight and the train in motion,the lady ENGLAND IN EGYPT. ESCAPED ALL PUNISIIM EXT. EVEN THE FRENCH ADMIT Milord. Miss, and the Dag. Spider Showers- bent'lforward, took the cigar out of th) milord’s mouth, and threw it. ou‘s of the Window. The milord not only did not; make any remark, but he did not; even seem dis- turbed. All he did was to wait. a minute, and then to bend over the lady, seize the Syke terrier, which was lying in her lap, am} fling it out of the window. 1 A Of thfs act the lady. to the complete as- tonishment of the French specuator, tonk no notice whatever. At the next station both the lady and the milord got out, but without exchanging a. word in regard to the cigar-and-dog incident. while the French- man turned over in his head an etude on the subject of “Les Anglais tacitu‘rnes.” Some of the Interesting Echrlences of Capt. Frank Brown of Yokohama and Gain Inc. Capt. Frank Brown of Oakville, master of one of alino of fine steamers runningr be- tween Japan and China, was in Toronto last week. His six months leave of absence is drawing to a. close, and he will shortly be leaving for Vancouver, whence he sails on the Empress of India. for Japan. ‘Twenty years ago Capt. Brown was well known on the Canadian lakes, but about that time took a trip to England, which resulted in his engaging in undertakings that have kept him away from Canada, save for oc- casional visits, ever since. ‘While in Eng land he was engaged by the Church Mission- ary Society to snperintend the construc- tion on the Clyde of a. steamer which it was the purpose of that organization to place at the disposal of the late Bishop Crowther to enable him to better prosecute his mis- sion work among his fellow~Africans. When the steamer was constructed Capt. Brown was entrusted with the task of TAKING IT TO AFRICA, picking up the celebrated African at Sierra Leone, and then proceeding up the Niger River until the country which was to be the scene of Crowther’s labor was reached. Capt. Brown has a. curious story to tell of this trip. As they proceeded up the river the party found it necessary to propi- tiate the chiefs of the various tribesby whcse territory they passed. They were greeted on one occasion by a. fierce-looking chief, the head of a. powerful tribe, who marched under the shelter of a. huge umbrella sup ported above him by a. dozen or so of hlS subjects. The missionary asked Capt. Brown to be sure and find something as a gift for the chief that would please him. The captain thought for a moment, and then determined to make the chief a present of a. fine uniformed Waistcoat, with scarlet lining and big brass buttons. The chief was without a waistcoat ; in fact his dress consisted only of a. cloth around his loins. The wsistcoat was turned over to the chief, who \VAS DELIGHTED \VITII IT, and decided to put it on there and then. The article of attire was new to him, how- ever, and he was not properly instructed in its uses. Before Dr. Crowther and Capt. Brown realized what he was doing,the chief had thrust his legs through the armholes of the Waistcoat and was buttoning it; around himself. The sailor and the missionary looked gravely ou,3.nd the chef £ch pleased and proud at his fine appearance. After Capt. Brown had finished his mis- sion with the Crowther steamer he was em- ployed by the Royal Geographical Society to explore the Niger River. A year or two later, or fifteen years ago, he became an oificer of the Japan Steamship Company, and has remained in their service ever since. The captain has 4. great store of in- teresting information and experience about the empire of the Mikado. He thinks much might be done in the way of opening up a larger trade between Canada and Japan. but admits that freight rates stand somewhat in the way, England’s great traffic with the east enabling her steamers "to bring freight at a. very low rate to Japan. Capt Brown is a. hale and hearty sailor of perhaps 50 years of age, and hopes to end his service in the east in the course of a. few years, when he looks forward to spending the rest; of his days in Canada. If there is one thing that hurts the ten- der feelings of those who meddle with things Indian more than another it is to be re- minded that what we represent in India is “ the stick.” From Travancore to Hunza, with very trifling exceptions, we got it; by the stick, and from Hunza. to Travancore wv-vâ€" ~-_ we must keep it by the stick. And, as may be seen in this remarkable in- stance, it is for the exercise of the stick that the very natives themselves look to us.They â€"â€"that is to say, the Hindu part of them, and a part of that part onlyâ€"may congress and conference and write leading articles and cram for Government posts and culti- vate a. taste for representative institutions. But when it comes to the pinch, it is they who cry to us to come and protect them from the adversaries they would be so glad to rule, who actually complain that we do not come soon enough to their protection. Now are cow pFotection societies, and things of that kind, to be overlooked and sneered at. We know, by unfortunate ex- perience, that it is quite possible for Hindus and Mohammedans to be at each other’s throats one moment and at ours the next. And it is equally indisputable that nothing but our presence prevents them from being chronically in the first state, and that it is impossible to strengthen our rule too much, in order to prevent disaster to them as well as to ourselves. Every one who knows the facts, who is capable of drawing inferences from them, and who has the courage and honesty to look his own inferenees in the face, knows that we are, and always must be, nothing in India but a. garrison an army of occupa- tion. We cannot teach the natives of India. to govern themselves, for if they had been cap- able of that they would long ago have been governing us. But we can give them perfect freedom, in every sense In Whlch freedom is not a. mere term of cant and gabble ; we can see fair play between them, we can offer careers of reasonable bulliency to their most, promising representatives, and we can be “ good lord t0 800d man,” not the least: reasonable and DP" the least noble, on both sides, of posmble relations betweex} bgman beings. All else is bosh an‘a mare’s nest, the lat- ter surertoo soon to undergo a change into a nightmare’s nest of the 1857 tpye.â€"~[The Saturday Review. A CANADIAN FROM JAPAN. England, Indian and the Stick. Powerful! and Terrlble, the New British. “'arships. The designs of the two new British cruis- ers Powerful and Terrible, says the New York Times,'have been given out in brief by the British Admiralty. These two ships are designed to he the largest cruisers in the world, and the intentions of the British authorities concerning them have been watched closely by naval experts ever since the first announcement was made of their prospectivebuilding. p .1 h d... Therprihcipal dimensiovns of the Power- ful and the Terrible are : Length, 500 feet beam, 75 feet; mean draft, with keel, 27 feet;displacefnent, about 14,000 tons. The continuous sea-steaming speed is to be twenty knots an hour. On an eight hours’ natural draft contractors’ trial the speed will do about twenty-two knots an hour. The hulls of the two ships will be steel, Wood sheathed and coppered. It is pro- posed that the ships shall be able to take the sea and keep it _fox:_long' periods, apdpin THE )‘vaRGEST CRUISER FIN EYE WORLD. order that niether shall wife} in speed for want of coal, the designs call for a coal supply of 3,000 tons for each ship. 0:) the 14,000 tons displacement and twenty-seven feet; dvaft'called for in the designs a. con. supply of only 1,500 tons a. ship is consider- ed. The bunkers, however, will hold 3,- 000 tons of coal. vvv uv u y- v-w-- Th 2 battery of each ship will consist of two 9.2-inch breech-loading rifles mounted, one in the bcw and one in the stern, as Chasers, twelve 6-inch rapid fire guns in broadside, eighteen 12-pounder rapid-fire guns, twelve 3-pgundar rapid-fire guns. and mL- D a-â€"'I '"--~~-» x . v a. number of small machine guns. The 6- inch tapid-fire breadside guns wxll be in such a. posztion as to permit tour guns to be fired right ahead and four right astem. I ,II wv â€"-v.. "D"' vv; Armor protection will be provided for all the 9. 2-inch and 6~inch guns. The 12- pounder guns on the upper deck will be fur,- nished with strong shields revolving with the guns. The torpedo armament will con- sist of four submerged torpedo discharge tubes placed in two separate compartments. The engines, boilers, magazines, and other vital portions of the ships will be placed below a strong curved steel deck, having a. thickness of four inches for a. large propor- tion of the length, with a. slight reduction of thickness toward the extremities. This deck will be associated with minutely subdivided coal bunkers extending up to the height of the main deck. This latter feature is identical with that seen in all the late first-class cruiser designs for the British nayy. _ .. . . «1- 41._J- ....., . Careful attention has been paid in the de- signs to the transport of the ammunition from the magazines to the gun~fighting positions. The armored conning tower is on the after end of the topgallant fore- castle. A great height of freeboard has been provided in the new ships in association with a. long poop and forecastle. This fea- ture will, it is calculated, admit not only of maintaining high speed in a. seaway, but permit of fighting the bow and stem guns in heavy weather. â€" â€"â€"'â€"'J It is not known how much horse power has been allowed to the new ships, as the designs have not yet been fully completed. It is announced, though, that twin screws, and not triple screws, will be used. The British Admiralty deem the experience had with the cruisers Blake and Blemheim, as well as in the large twin-screws steamers of the mercantile marine, establishes the efficiency of such propellers within the limits of power and draft contemplated. ' -~ I- -‘ ,- ,,,_ I)-_-_:_.I 11.111va vs 1"" v. ‘v--- _s__ The construction of the cruisers Powerful and Terrible was authorized in the navy estimates of the Admiralty approved for 1893-4. It has been decided, however, to postpone the commencement of work on the Terrible until the next financial year of the British new . The tenders for the construc- tion of the Powerful will be invited, it is said, as soon as the designs of the two ships are fully finished. Few people even among professed politi- cians, have much idea of the wealth of the world,or of the manner in which that wealth is growing. Still fewer have any notion of the potentiality of wealth to increase. M. Jannet quotes the elaborate calculation of an ingenious author to show that 100:2, ac- cumulating at 5 per cent. compound interest for seven centuries. would be sufficient to buy the whole surface of the globe, both land and water,at the rate of 1,000,000f. ($540,000) the hectare. The actual growth of riches has not hitherto assumed such inconvenient proportions. , 2-4-- --_J.‘L-..1‘:na ‘A I" " I.’ ' M. Jannet cites various authorities to show that the wealth of the United King- dom exceeds £10,000,000,000; that of France, £8,030,000,000 ; that of all Europe, £40,- 000,000,000 ; that of the United States, £14,000,000,000. If we place the wealth of the rest of the world at £26,000,000,000, we shall arrive at an aggregate of £80,000,000,- 000. \Ve should have, We may add, to mul- tiply this vast sum 30,000 times before we reached the total to which according to M. J annet’s ingenious authority, 100i.,accumu- lating at 5â€"per cent. cc 709‘yca._rs would grow. [UV-y “I; "v“... I?" V, The figures we have given are fie vast that they convey no appreciable idea; to the or- dinary reader. It may assist the apprehen- sion if it be added that France, on an averagepossesees more than £200,1he United Kingdom more than £250 for each member of the population. Just 200 years ago Sir W. Petty estimated the entire wealth of England at only £250,000,000. Two centu- ries, therefore, have Increased it. iortyfold. But the chief additions to it have been made- in the last fifty years, and we believe that we are not far wrong in saying that the sum which is annually added to the capital of the United Kingdom amounts to £200,000.- 000, or, in other words, is nearly equal to- its entire wealth at the time of the revolu- tion of 1688.â€"[The Edinburgh Review. She --“ If you married a. girl in the hope‘ that she would one day come into a fortune wodldn’t you feel guilty over it ‘1” Heâ€" “ Not if she got the fortune.” One of the pathetic things of life is to see a. man trying to carry what is technically known as a “ jag ” and the tune of “ After the Ball ” both at once. “ Hello, Bingley, how did the doctor suc- ceed in breaking up your fever?” “0h. easy enough; he presented his bill and I had a. chill in fifteen minutes." Jinksâ€"“Did you ever read ‘The MI! Without a. Country ‘2’” Winksâ€"“No, but, I can sympathize with him. I an ‘The Adan Without any Beintives in cago. i” The Wealth of the World. ,, compound inferest. for