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 « »^!Wf%-' ' vs^fciU'iSi^" â-  'â-  *««â€" iriiw mâ€" ««S..) htfA«IUIB.Mf^ •vKHjaKut*^. i' •*â- ' ***•?-«â-  it 4* ;urbed by the noj x)ys at home, mrf )roaches they dril le in search nf plj e are those banist^ " said Mrs. Cur a soft linen cloth I [)^S^ [l^ ABOUT BBIDGB8. i^'s last enemy is the weather. Vdiis varies with the material r-'lmate Some kinds of stone r i.«exPoted to the air, and other i»* „ Some kinds are rapidly chip- '"'T the frost, others are scarcely (i) at all. A stone which stands r nVclinate, may cramble away in «are generally built by means of ^P' Two roles of piles (logs or ^tliDened at the end) are driven r the olace where the pier is to â-  Fr«i rows are two or tWe feet P*, into this space is thrown straw rT which is tightly rammed down. ' I* 1 ' a sort of tight box in the water, f ^*L open and the bottom being the k; f "jver The box so made is called If lam The water is pumped out of d'en the masons can begin laying ' Z of the pier. When the pier is 'â- 'ft enough to be out of water, the ' kt-n to pieces and taken away. I'T'est stone arch in the world is the Y",Mge, AtCheater, England. It Ri^er Dee with a single span of '"^tiiother bridf'C at Chester which .,„iiitic interest. Chester is a very j,i,l the wall built around it by the ;â- ';, .till standing. As you pass out "irt'i-'iite you find yourself on a 'lUiicir spans a deep chasm hewn i Vie solid red sandstone At the â- '.•'this chasm runs a canal. Look ".\ aiul at a distance of a hundred I i„m tlie bridge you are standing on, "â- ;,,,. a small stone bridge over the ii-iii, leading from nowhere to no- â-  Ji vou were set down upon it, and u ilk"t' either end, you would bring .,i,t ;i blank wall. It is only about a Vj.ie and lias a light iron railing on ve mA the edges are overgrown with iaJ weeds. This is the Bridge of i,"!!!,' iiu' there was a prison on one J tlie chasm, and a chapel on the I Prisoners condemned to death were Mjj this httle bridge to attend their .;i-i,nis services in the chapel, and â- â- itn led back to execution. Both the iu.l the cliapel have now disappeared, I â-  phiee of one of them has risen a Blue- \m,\ for buys but the bridge re- |. ;;i!.l the heaii master of the school is M iM!q^ Mi^m of biwti. It WM dertroycd and relmil lev- ml tuDM, ql Taaona m^terial^.it is «u*l Mfw nlicsiirf it 9V» still ta Iw meoi ia theJWjw. The •cen. of lOculay' poem of '^HOT»tiiu"islud«ttluslmdge. The Bomaa Emperor Trajan, in liie fiirt y«vt rf Mm aecond ccutuy, A. D. In^mi imidenae bridge acroas the Danube, near where the town of NicofK^ now stands. It had twenty arches, each one hundred and sixty feet. His sacceasor Hadrnm destroyed tiie bridge, to prevent the barlMunAiu nwth of the Danube frmn nsing it to cross tiieir armies and march against Borne. Not far from Spalding, in Lincolnshire, England, near the famous Croyland Abbey, is a small stone arched bridge which is con- sidered a great curiosity. It stands at a point where two streams unite to foml a third, and is so built as to span all three. Three half arches meet over the central point of the junction of the sti'eanis. This bridge is a thousand years old. Against the parapet at one of the entrances, sits a battered stune statne of King Ethdbald. The pathways are so steep that only foot- passengers can use it. Some of the finest stone bridges in the world are over the Seine, in Paris; but there is nothing so peculiar in their size or con- struction that we need to describe them here. There are also some noble bridges over the Thames, in London, the finest of all being the Westminister Bridge, near the House of Parliament. This was completed in 1750. It is one thousand two hundred and twenty feet long, and rests on fifteen arches. Two things make its building mem- orable. It was the first structure of the kind for which caissons were used, and when it was newly completed it was found that one of the piers was sinking, and the two arches resting on that pier had to be taken down and re-built. Before the re- building, the pier was sunk as far as it would go, by piling an immense number of cannon on it. A. caisson is a sort of floating box, some- times made of timber and sometimes of iron, rsed instead of a coflFer-dam for building piers. (to be conti:sued). ... .Iwii. [.â- ; ,j hu.s a more celebrated bridge with ,r history, the Bridge of Sighs. It ',10 of the canals, and connects the il'.ce with the state prison. It is a way, of a single arch, high above tir. I'risoners used to be led across :;inm,'h it) to receive their sentence juiiu'nientluill of the palace. Byron's ;iM this bri(li,'e, in the fourth canto iille Harold," greatly increased its ,.;; now every traveller who goes to lic.:iiis his next letter home with the .:ioii -â-  "I i:i Wnice oil the Uridfje of Si^hs, '..a, I- ..:;1 ;i pri-on uii each hand. .;.- nmiuds me of a little storj\ Once ;;me, !iy some strange accident, a foolish v.,L- .-ent to C'oiiLiress. He had travel- â- .;:'.!(• ill KuiDiH" and be was ambitious .ki::.: one tine sjieeoh. I don't know Nil.ject that he chose â€" perhaps it iciMit from the Con.imittee on Roads iiri.iL'c's, but, at any rate, with infinite â-  :ie iiroiiaied a thiwery speech and rose ivrt- it. lie began â€" • •â-  v'l iii Wii'iev on tlic Ih'idi^'e of Si^'hsâ€" riiisiiiinta sujipressed titter reached .ir, wiiicli disconcerted him, and he He begau-again â€" 1 iii Voiiite on the Bridjre of Sig'hsâ€" ;r ^tDppeil again, for be lieard the titter -:it was hnidcr than before, and more -priuil. and he was proportionately em- "â- Â»1. Still, he got n]} courage to make "istan â€" â- â- ;â-  Ill \\nii-e on the Bridsfe oi Si^hs â€" ;!ie whole house burst into a roar of â- 'â- :: and applause, and the poor fellow «" and gave up the attempt. "^K lias more than three hundred *. tlio liuest of which is the Rialto, a inailile arch over the Grand Canal, of 'â- "•â- trij'ht feet span. This bridge received -wie. Pom,: (If Rialto, " Bridge of the -i^'treani,"' from the fact that for a lon^ â- â-  " was the oidy one crossing the Grand 'â- â-  the broadest and deepest of the â- "sthat wiuil among the islands of that â- â- no city. It was planned by Michael â- â€¢â€¢ ami was built in ir)88-91. It is Iiavo co.^^t a sum which would be "naif a million Canadian dollars. The -^ :s very steep but this is less of an J'^n here than it would be anywhere â- Jt there are no horses or carriages in ^^ A pathway passes over the middle; â- " «'le of it is a row of small shops (or â- *« as we shcmld call them), and out- fr these are two other pathways. These f;' "Sed to be occupied by goldsmiths â- â- â- ^*y changers, and every day mer- -â-  md bankers met on the bridge to 1^ '"-er business aftairs. You will find '\* t) this in Shakespeare's " Mer- ""enice." â- ^t Canton of Uri, Switzerland, the L p^"^*'^t. Uothard pass crosses the [: f^euss by a single stone arch of twenty P«t span, rising a hundred feet above -ream. This is called the Devil's .. It was built in 1830. Previous to ' â- lie the road passed over the old n"' which is twenty feet lower. This f '« m Ills. In 1799 the French and r 'tnan forces met at this little bridge, rrate hghting ensued, and the stream t^'^ith blood. r-" Romans built several stone arched it! "^** t^e Tiber. The fii st of these, ' "nest still standmg, was the ^Elian W w (tailed St. Angelo's. It was 1^. j. Hadrian, near his Mausoleum, r~n modem times has been used as a Krid'^^^^^'^tlie Castle of St. Angelo. '*m\ l^*^^'"^*^ its present name from l^„ ^^ angel once apT^red »t h« W^' *^^ originally built, it h«Mj a R.n»i?^^ i^f or awning, which, WM L- «^ by forty pillars but this has eh- r^'^ppeared. m Jvi °\ ^^^ famous Roman bridges was fSoftt- Sublician, and fteCTr*ra rills ' ^^ ^^^ ^^i^* ^y Ming Ancns PJad ^Ti^^j composed of wood a»d koB, ' • draw," to allow of the .aiSHTyg .a .m. Soma DovMnrtrtKâ€" QkM New Zealand. The British colony of New Zealand con- sists of a gioup of islands in the South Pa- cific Ocean, situated about 1,200 miles from Australia, and 6,500 miles from the coast of America. Two of these islands. North and Middle, are nearly equal in size. The third, Stewart's Island, is much smaller, being about the size of Rhode Island. There are also several outlying islets. The islands are o'f evident volcanic origin. Their surface is mountainous, and many of the peaks are active or extinct volcanos. In the Noith Island are remarkaljle geysers and hot springs. The mountain slopes are gener.ally densely wooded, but between them are tree- less, grassy plains, well-watered and fertile. Rivers are numerous, but they are generally rapid, and are navigable for only a few miles from the coast. The climate resembles that of England, except that the seasons are re- versed, January being midsummer and June midwinter. The productions of England together with many of the fruits of warmer countries here come to perfection. Grazing is the chief occupation of a large proportion of the people, wool, hides, and tallow being the staple articles of export. Wheat and oats -are also raised for the export trade, and large quantities of gold and coal mined.- The gold mines, which are chiefly upon land which is property of the government, were discovered in 18;i7, and it is estimated that since that time they have vieldeil previous metal to the value of $210,000,000. The leading imports are- iron and steel goods, clothing, sugar, liquors, and tea. About four fifths of all the trade is with Great Britain and her colonies in Australia. Dun- edin, Auckland, Wellington, and Christ- church are the principal cities. The first has a population of aljout 45,000 the last of about 30,000. Wellington is the seat of the colonial government. Steamers from Mel- bourne and Sydney connect New Zealand with Australia, and the steamer from Syd- ney to San Francisco by way of the Sand- wich Islands touches at Auckland on the North Island. A telegraphic cable also joins New Zealand with New South Wales. The railroads of the colony aggregate 1,500 mUes and the mileage of telegraph Imes is upward of 4,000. New Zealand was discovered by the Dutch navigator Tasman in 1642. Nearly three quarters of a century later Captain Cook, the famous English discoverer, made a more careful examination of the islands, sailing around them and passing several years in their waters. By the European peace of 1814 Great Britian was'confinned in the pos- session of these islands, but no steps were taken to settle them. New Zealand was nominally a dependency of New South Wales until 1840, when it became a separate Brit- ish colony land was acquired from the Maori tribes who occupied the country, and the foundations of a prosperous settlement were laid, but dishonest dealings with the natives brought about a disastrous war, which centinued with varying fortune until the submission of the Maoris in 1872. Like most British colonies. New Zealand has a governor and an elective legislature, in the lower House of which the Maoris are allowed representation. Large provision is made for education, and the proportion of illiter- ate adults is small. Eleven tweHths of the people are of British .decent, the number of Maoris not exceeding 45,000. ITie latter are now peaceable, and their race is declin- ing in strength and numbers before the wMteg. â-  Two ladies ont walking met a gentleman. He raised his hat to one and the other said " Do you know that gentleman?" "Oh,, yes " the other replied " his mother was I my 'mother's only child. What relation was 1 the gentleman to the lady " " Her son." j A Scotch minister on a visiting tour throiMh his parish had occasion to pass close I to a farm, the tennant of which had gone i over to the Free Church. To show no spite the minister decided to enter, which he did, and found both the farmer and his wife at • tea. Fanaerâ€"" There's a gnid day, minis- ter ye're j6* in time ta taV a cup wi' us. Fill opt a cap, Janet." (Janet complies, chujog which the minister remarked)â€" "Y««r teapot runs very slowly, Mrs. Brows." Jasefc^" It dis that, minister. t;,'It's gey lite yersel' when ye're preachin'â€" sort o' slow in the delivery." â- omrJiBilk, ope ea|t id anaW^^^ro V0^ o^** haff ci^ of lard, one teaanxwuttfima, alit- tle Bataiieg.or ejnrtpt of leitfta. ')ffxi)^#r- at«ly stiffs Mil oatlMlf aaineh thick, e^in rings and fry m l^f^ ^^ CntcLE DdccHirtrTs.-^-One egg, one cup of sugar, ome tal|lespqpnf«l thi^' sweet cr^D, stir weUtogethec, than add nntn^g, a Uttl« salt, and solv^ on* temMpooabi of soda in one cup of sour milk mix as soft as can be and roll oat. Cat in rings. ° Tmtist DoroQNrrs. â€" One egg, one table- spooif ol of baMer, e*e cap w angar,' one cup of sweet milk, two tT»iW|iiiiiifuliiof cream- tartar, one teaspoonfal of soda, and flavor- ing. Flour sufiScient to mix as soft as can be rolled out. Cut off strips, twist them, and fry in very hot lard. PovEKTV DocGHNCTS. â€" One cup of sour milk, one egg, two teaspoonfuls of sugar, one teaspoonfal of xkLa and a Uttle salt. Do not mix very hard, roll thin, cut in squares. These are very good without the egg this recipe acquired its name in war time when sugar had to be used sparingly. Boston Raised Doughxuts. â€" One cup of sweet milk, one-half cup of yeast, or one- quai-ter of a yeast cake dissolved in one- half cup of warm water. One tablespoonful of butter, one-half cup of sugar, one egg, one-half teaspoonful of spice, flour sufficient to mold. Set it away to rise, covering is closely when light, roll out, cut into shapes and let rise again quickly and very light. Good Doughxuts. â€" One cup of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, two eggs, three teaspoon- fuls of lard, one teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfulsof cream-tartar, a little cmnamon or nutmeg. Beat the sugar and lard together till light, then add the eggs well beaten. Mix with flour as soft as possible and have it stiff enough to roll out. Have the lard very hot, and when frying the cakes do not pierce them with a fork when turning them. All the alwve recipes have been'tiied and are used frequently by the writer, and with the usual care in frying they will all prove good. Economy in Fuel. One of the most difficult things to teach a girl is economy in fuel. Nothing seems to satisfy but a continual piling on of coaL As soon as a little gas has burned off, a vigor- ous shaking and raking out of ashes follows then the stove filled anew, touching and lift- ing the covers, which soon become red hot,, and the process is repeated from morning till night. Teach her in order to obtain and secure a good draft, the coal ought never to be above the lining. And in this connection I am reminded of another .practice which seems ^tO come to kitchen gh-ls by intuition, or handed down by tradition that is, to put sad irons, or flat irons as generally called, on the stove over the hottest fire, hours before use' con- sequetly they are ruined, for if once heated to redness, will ever aftei' retain heat but a short time, and lose their smoothness, too. I would rather lend almost anything else to a neighbor than a flat iron. In ironing, have two holders to use alterately, thereby lessenuig the heat of the hand and insuring a iireater degree of comfort. Hints. Ginghams and prints will keep their color better if washed in water thickened with flour starch. Flour is very cleansing and will do the work of soap in one or two Avash- ings in the starch water. This, with the rinsing, will be suflicient, and the goods will look fr€!sher than if washed and starched in the old-fashioned way. Much trouble may be avoided by keeping flat-irons in a dry place so they shall not rust, and by remembering to wipe each iron, not only the first time it is taken from the stoA-e, but €'e)-y time. Spermaceti (dropping of candles made from that substance will an- swer), tied into a small piece of linen, rub- bed frequently on the iron seems to keep it smooth, and, I think, gives a gloss to articles stiffened with cold starch. To dean a spice mill; If you wish to clean your spice-mill, grind a handful of raw rice in it. 'The particles of spice and pep- per, or of coffee, will hot adhere to it after the rice has passed through. A way of treating soiled kitchen walls "Dissolve a lump of extract of logwood the size of a grain of corn in hot water and put it in four or five quarts of lime that is ready to use. One application will be as good as two without the logwood. To scour knives easily, mix a smaU quant- ity of baking smla with your brickdust, and see if your knives do not polish better. Work and Health. Work, pure and simple, however hard and however constant, is rarely the cause of impairment of health, if only common hygienic precautions be observed. It is the hurried and irregular meals, and still more irregular "pick-me-ups," which do the mischief. Monotony of work is, however, in the long mn, as detrimental to intellectual vigour as is a monotonous diet to the diges- tive functions but relief here is easily ob- tained by forcible diversion of energy during some part of the twenty-four hours into an- other channel. The statesman, exhausted by the responsibilities aad cares of oflice, may seek recreation in the felling of timber, whUe the woodcutter, if he be wise, will take his over a book or a paper by the fire- side. The complete change of occupation and mental activity on Sundays must be of immense utility to the jaded bank -clerk or busy tradesman, and, if for no other rea- son, is highly to be (JOmmended. mpunineot which hifi iNiaaMiol I^SOdt of the late ComnMHidB^ H. H. Gorringe awnwriately derigned after the Esjrptian •bdiw which ilia anginaeriiig iiulifiitfBght from the banks (rf the Nile. It ontte* A brave, noble, and acholarty vhoM death ,waa a natkn^d Iqh. Qoeen Victoria has received fnmi Glasf^w a praaent tiiat is said to be, in chaiming fancy of design and exquisite workmanship, worthy of the great Bienvenuto Cellini him- self. It is an el^Bgant parasol, the handlB of which is a globe oigAd, representing the earth, upon which her Jlajesty's {msseasiona are marked by incnistations of preciooa stones. The late Charles O'Conor was a veiyaen- sitive man in his private feelings. When after a niilroad accident some years ago, word came to New York that Xrauuel Lord was either dead or mortally wounded^ Mr. O'Catkift cried like a child. A^ain, me morn- ing, he told his secretary, having an appoint- ment to transact some business, " I cannot do anything this morning. I am tenrihly shocked^ A favorite family Newfoundland dog, which was in the halnt of coming to t^e trail! with me, in some nnaccouii'toble way got under the locomotive and was crush- ed to death before my eyes. I can't do any- thing to-day, I fear, at all, and you needn't wait." Within forty years the Rev. W. H. Mil- bum, of Washington, has three times offici- ated, for several terms, as Chaplain of the House of Representatives, and it is said that no clergyman has ever been so popular in that capacity, or so reformed the attitude of the members toward religious exercises be- fore their sessions, and toward the minister conducting these. His fine voice and pres- ence have been very influential in this re- spect, and an attention is paid to the morn- ing prayers that was unknown years ago. Dr. Milburn also treats the House as a par- ish, visits -the members regularly, and re- ceives them at his home, and is described as " equally esteemed by men of all faiths who meet him." General Lew Wallace, whose Ben Hur has had a wider circulation and a greater success than any other religious book pro- duced in this generation, has given to a con- tributor to the Detroit Journal some inter- esting reminiscences. He had completed, he says^ the first part of Ben Hur, which carries the story down to the birth of Christ, when he chanced to meet Colonel Ingersoll. At that time the General did not trouble himself to inquire into the truth of religious doctrines, but IngersoU's talk determined him to investigate and decide for himself as to the divinity of Christ. For five years, he studied the life of C'hrist and the history and customs of Judea and the Jews. He had gone but a few steps when he came -to the conclusion that Christ was divine. When Ben Hur was completed he went to the Holy Land, and spent months in visiting every place referred to, in order to verify his work. Not one word required to be changed. A Russian millionaire has recently had built for him in St. Petersburg a most sump- tuous smoking-room, which is the astonish- ment of all the northern capital. Its richness consists not so much of its furniture, which is a model of simplicity, but in its walls. These are literally lined with European bank notes. Instead of the maaa of white ceiling j which fonns the desperation of disciples of William Morris is seen a profusion of Aus- trian notes most artistically grouped around a blue 10 florin bank note. Charming de- signs composed of French, English, Italian, and Russian bank notes adorn the walls. This curious room has received many famous i visitors from all parts of the compass. I Among others a celebrated Hungarian paint- er was introduced. He glanced up at the eecentric millionaire, and said with a smile " Sir, it is a pity you have alrteady thus dis- j posed of your money, for â€" for the same amount I would willingly have decorated your walls â€" perhaps more artistically, indeed, thpji is now the case â€" by covering them with paintings, even as Michael Angelo did for his Holiness Pope Julius the Second." A Grrim Discovery. Since the annexation of Nice to France in 1870, the former Dominican church has been used as a military bakery. A few days ago it became necessary to examine the roof, and the architect was horrified to find in the garret about 600 skeletons, flung pelemele. Medical experts declared that they must have been buried at least three or four centuries ago. It appears that when Nice was occupied by the French troops in 1792, the monks were expelled from the building, and the church of St. Dominick was converted into a oiational bakery. and it is supposed that in carrying oat the transformation the graves in the "%oor of the church were emptied of their contents, which were transferred to the gar- ret, and flung there in heaps. Most of the pei'sons interred in that church must have been members of noble families of Provence or the neighboring districts, who possessed the privilege of. a place of interment within the church "forever." The majority of the skeletons were of women probably among them was the skeleton of a duchess of Savoy, who is known to have been buried in that church. All these remains have since been buried in one of- the cemeteries p the town. POPVI^ARSCIENCE. AaattallaM ladlaa Astkaia (Twrcâ€" Welvm the-' SkJOB dboovered by the Anatrmlian iTHHanSr-* Boie CUBE tor Asthma, or we will refund the j lice o( •S.00. 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Send 10 cents in stamps for the Invalids' Gide-Book (168 pages.) Which gives allpar- ticolars. Address, World's Diapanaary Medical Association, Buffido, N. Y. Green, also blue plash, will be largely used for small outer garments. Dr. Pierce's " Favorite Prescription" is not extolled as a " cure-all," but admirably fulfils a aingleneaa of parpoae, being a most poteat apecific in thoae' cnronie weafeiesses peculiar to women. Fabrics with rough, curled surface are in the minority this year. No trouble to swallow Dr. Pierce's Pel- lets. She â€" "Why, Charles, how can you call Miss Jones plain I wish I was half as good looking as she is." He â€" " You are, Hattie, and yon know it." 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