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my dear baron yon are the man 1 who waa it that promised then to settle on the first of march i yon my dear baron i who waa it that didnt settle on the first of maroh i yon my dear bwon i who is it then who haa broken hia word twice and is an unmitigated scoundrel your obedient aervant moses rosenthal a question and answer the following qneation and answer are said to have been genuine in an old country general intelligence paper what do you understand by physics electricity and magnetism physios is pills and things electricity is the telegraphwires magne tism ia what yon take in connection with rhubarb the bobth pacific squadb0b8 rttaat john ball and ioclr kam can kely on tor immediate le la brining be while disclaimers of hostile intent and ex pressions of belief that the seal fishery con troversy will be peacefully settled are bow coming both from the british and american authorities it la yet well to look at the naval foicea which would be available in the case trouble should occur after all no doubt there will be careful instructions on both aides to guard against bringing on a collision between the vessels of the two governments that are to go to behring sea this summer still american revenue cutters are under orders to make arrests of persons taking teals in the eastern part of bshriog sea in violation of the presumptuous law enacted by the united state and the navy will bick them up in doing so the commander of the britishiquadron in the pacific is rsar admiral algernon c f heneage who held this command also last vear his flagship is the swiftsure a power ful armoroad of from 6500 to 7000 tons displacement with engines having a maxi mum f nearly 5 000 horse power capable of giving her over fifteen knots sue has a powebtrl battery of rifled guns and a complement of 475 men this is the only armored vessel in his com mand the amphion a cruiser of 4300 tons displacement or a little less that the balti mores has a maximum of about 5500 horse yower and about sixteen knots spied and carries ten rifled breechloaders and about 300 r beers and men the icarus is a craft of 970 tons displacement with a complement of about 120 men these are the vessels which according to a report trom victoria received orders to sail on the 10th of june from vancouver to bshriog sea this report has since been denied but the flagship at least may go north in addition the british have on the paci fie station the champion a large proteoted cruiser of over 4000 tons displacement and two smaller vessels besides a fourth now under orders to return to england the american government will be repre sented as usual in behring sea by the re venue cutters rush capt shepard and bear capt healy which will make arrests of the vessels charged with seal poaching and by the thetis lieut- commander stock ton ot the navy a fast scaling steamer might not be troubled at getting away from any of them the bear and the thetis are relies of the greely search expedition and the slowness of the thktis in a subsequent trip aronnd cape horn to arrive at the soene of her present services was something remarkable they are all lightly armed the rush has four and the b ar two 3inch breeohloading rifles the rear also having two 21pounder howitzers for the bath a couple of the hartfords gatllnggnnb were secured before starting on her irulse and it has been reported that the rushs armament was also inoreased the taetia carries only a couple ot machine guns there are now available at mare island two war vessels the iroquois and adams which have just had their repairs completed while the charleston at san francisco is getting ready for her next trial trip the iroquois commander joshua bishop is a wooden vessel of 1575 tons displacement carrying seven or eight guns mostly smooth bores and a complement of 194 officers and men the adams commander t wood ward is a wooden vessel of 1375 tons dis placement carrying six guns she is the oraf t that did good service at samna prior to the arrival of the nipsfc the charleston the new steel vessel of 3 700 tons displace ment is much faster than any british war ship in worth pacifio waters and will havo a powerful battery nl sixinch breechloadlng rifles whlob however she has not yet taken no board it happens that there are no other vessels on the pacific station really available the finta a smalloraf t of 550 tons displacement carrying okly four howitzers whioh haa been on duty at sitka ar rived at san francisco for repaira on may i and will not be ready for some time the bid store ship mon- ongahela is at pago pago while news has recently come that the alert whloh left honolulu for samoa to relieve the nipsio bad arrived at apia and had already gone on to auckland with the nipsto in tow in order to have the latter vessel repaired there the probabilities now are that if any vessel at all gees to behring sea in addition to the justomary trio the rash bear and thetis it will be the iroquois and on the british side perhaps the sviftsure alone will go north it is definitely known that the adams has already been ordered to hynolulu at the request of the state depart ment to take the place vacatad by the alert the boy had the beat of it the master of a school in a certain village bore the reputation of being a very olever calculator but upon one occasion he almost forfeited his reputation the reotor of the parish and some friends paid a visit to the school to note the progress of the ohildren a little rogue of whom no question had been asked and who had therefore missed the opportunity for distiogushing himself which he greatly desired made up his mind to question since he was not questioned mast er he said will you do me the kindness to answer me something ask whatever yon please replied the master you know i always tell yon to ask anything yon do not know he who asks makes no mistakes my father ia three times my age will the time ever oome when he will be donble mine that is not a ques tion said the master it is a joke to bring that about the clock mutt stop for him and go on for yon ku- it is quite possible continued the boy i will prove that what i say i true i am welve years old my father is thirtysix tn twelve years i shall be twentyfonr uuj iny father fortyeight consiqqontly my father who is now three times jy age will then only be donble the visiters laughed heart ily what was easier an auctioneer was selling a lot of land for agricultural purposes gentlemen said he this is the most delightful land it is the easiest land to oultivate in the country its ao light ao very light mr parker here will corroborate my atatement he owns tho n xt patch and will tell you how easily it is worked yes gentlemen said mr parker it is very eaay to werk but it is a great deal easier to gather the crops qtjeeh viorobias daily life a peep at the inner scenes ot the queen or englands household the tnnr life of the court has little in it to tempt a sybarite simplicity dutifulness conscientious performance of work are its characteristics at 9 her majesy break- fasts alone unless some of her ohildren grandchildren or personal friends are staying in the palace and she is rarely without them in summer at osborne windsor or blmoral meal ia generally served out of doors in some alcove tent or summer house after whloh the qaeen either drives in a small pony carriage accompanied by one of the princesses or she walks attended by a ladyinwaiting or maid of honor with whom she converses with friendly ease and followed by two highland servants and some favorite dogs luncheon is served at 2 the cotvlves being her majestys family or royal guests until this hour from her short after-breik- tast exercise the qaeen is diligently occopi ed with official correspondence and business of various kinds long training has made her a politician ot no mean ability and breadth of view her natural common sense forming an admirable basis for such a super structure it assists too in enabling hec to cheese her friends well and wisely though the court surroundings are not calculated to help royal personages lu forming a just judgment of charaoter human nature puts on a somewhat too angelio guise where t very thing may be won by amiability and nothing by tho reverse in the mornings the maids of honor they are nine in all in waiting for the time are with the princesses reading or practising on the piano singing or playing lawn tennis with them as any young ladies companions together might the ladyinwaiting accom panies the queen in her afternoon drives and visit whioh are most f rt qaently to the poor and to humble workers often to simple gentry or any one in trouble afterwurd this lady reads aloud to her ms j ssty in her private sitting room the royal dinner hour ia 830 and that meal is shared by those of the royal family then residing with the queen by distin guished visitors and some of the household in rotation viz lords and ladies in waiting maids of honor equerries and grooms in waiting this latter officials holding a con siderable lower position than the equerry though to the uninatructod it sonnds like a distinction without a difference the qaeen is a woman of strict business habits and study application the amount of correspondence she gets through is enor mous in the private portion of this correa- pondence her majesty is assisted by her private secretary a ladyinwaiting and a maid of honor especially the dowager marchioness of fly one of the ladles who is a valued friend when the court is at windsor the mem bers of the household in attendance are one ladyin waiting these ladies are always peeresses two maids of honor a lord in waiting two equerries one groominwait ing also the keeper of the privy putse the private secretary assistants in both depart ment and the master of tho honsehold the attendance is the same at osborne and bal moral with the exception of the lord-in- waiting to attend to her majestys toilet an3 wardrobe there are five maids viz three dressers and two wardrobe women the senior dresser who has been many years with her majesty is specially oharged with the task of conveying orders to different tra5es- people jewellers drapers dressmakers i one dresser and one wardrobe woman are in constant attendance on the qaeen taking alternate days dress is a matter in whioh even in her young days her majesty does not appear to have taken much interest at present her perpetual mourning allows of no crude color combinations some of us elders have a pleasant if vague reoolleorien of victoria ragina a good many years ago sty forty or fortythree in a very simple and becoming bonnet tied beneath tho ohin a wreath of wild roses nnder the brim framing a sweet kindly young face ah me 1 sorrow and experience have writ their cruel marks on hers and ours since then the origin of tobacoo tobacco according to an arabio legend translated in the la commedia umana is no older than the founder of islam the prophet was once travelling across the desert of yemen it was winter and all the reptiles which infest the desert were asleep suddenly the prophets horse trod upon a viper and apparently wdunded it mohammed full of mercy got down from bis horse and taking np the viper put it into his sleeve hoping that the warmth would restore it the viper soon began to stir incapable of gratitude llkethe ser pent which was in the beginning it said to mohammed reverend prophet i will bice thee i nay replied the mild prophet that wonld be the blaokest ingratitude poor reptile to repay a good deed with an evil deed nevertheless said the viper i shall do it i swear by god the al mighty that i will bite thee 1 when mohammed heard the name of allah he dared not prolong the dispute but bowing his head with reverence said his name be praised for ever you and- i both belong to blm from him we both reoeived me and he offered the viper his hand a violent pain compelled him to fling the viper from his sleeve and to ourse it in the name of allah the prophet then sucked the vipers poison from the wound and spit it ont upon the sand a magnifi cent plant immediately sprang np on the spot where the prophets sacred saliva had fallen one of his disciples gathered some of its leaves and burned them as an offor- lng to god for the rescne of his prophet mohammed and his companions were de lighted with the splendid aroma of the but n offering as its smoke ascenled towards heaven fiom that day to this all the faithful of islam havo taken pleasure in the plant whose taste and scent partakes in an equal degree of the bitterness of the vipers poison and the sweetness of the holy proph ets spittle he hadnt bean playing the little boy had come in with his clothes torn his hair full of dust and his face bearing unmistakable marks of a severe conflict oh willie willie i exclaimed his mother deeply shocked and grieved yon have disobeyed me again how often have i told you not to play with that wicked brooklyn boy 1 mamma sld willie washing the blood from his nose do i look as if i had been playing with anybody t at the antipodes the marvellous growth of victoria some- thins about its early days it ia doubtful that if in all the world the united states not excepted iny commnn ity has ever progressed with a swiftness and expansion so phenomenal aa has the colony wmch her gracious mjei y per mined to take her own name when the granted it a separate existence in novem bar 150 it had been but fifteen jeats esrl that the first settlers the brothers henry one of whom died only a few month ago came acres bsss sraits from van dieinws land in their little thistle in 1s37 the town f melbourne wss laid cut and one hundred allotments were then said on what are now the principal streets the aggregate sum which the 100 allotments fetched was 3 410 last summer the same allotments were oarefilly valued by experts and it waa calculated that exclusive of the buildings erected on them they could now be sold for nineteen and a half million pounds before 1851 when the gold discover ies were made victoria prospered in an easy gentle fashion its scanty population out side its two petty towns were wholly engag ed in stockrailing almost its sole sxports were wool hides and tallow the gold find npiet as by a whirlwind the lazy primitive social system of the bucolic era from all the ends of the earth gentle and simple honest man and knave hurried swarming and jostling to the new el dorado and yet it was wbnderfnl how small- was the actual crime of a serious character when the utter disintegration of restraining institutions is taken into consideration in january 1852 when daily shiploads of gold mad immigrants were being thrown in to melbourne only two of the city constables remainedat their duty the chief constable himself had to go on a beat in the donntry the rural police to a man had forsaken their funotions and made haste to the diggings in the first rnsh the capital was all but depopulated of its man hood there remained behind but women and children who had to shift for themselves an advance of 50 per cent of salary did not avail to retain at their desks the officials in the public offices servants had gone gentlemen and ladies had to carry water from the river for honsehold purposes for the water cart supply had been arrested by the departure of the carters it was said that poor mr latrobe himself the amiable but weak lieutenantgovernor had to blaok his own boots and groom hia own horse in the wholesale absence of workmen no contract could be insisted on the squatters shudder ed too as the shearing season approached knowing that all the shearers were digging ob cradling in forest creek or on mount alexander it was then that mr childers who at the time was an immigration agent made his famous bull wages of wool pressors 7s to 8 a day none to be had to saeh an extent did prices rise that there was the danger lest government could not afford to bupply food to prisoners in gaol a con tractor for gaol necessaries claimed and got 166 per cent over his price of the year before and notwithstanding this stupend ous increase had to defanlt in april 1852 fifty ships were lying nseless in hob- sons bay deserted by their crews carriage from melbourne to castlemalne waa at one time 100 per ton sue acted pb0mptly bare courage and presence ot hind or a french cart some years ago four men who were em ployed in cleansing a common sewer at a place called noyon in france upon open ing a drain were so affeoted by the feted vapors that they were unable to ascend tne lateness of the hour it was 1 1 oclock at night rendered it difficult to prooure assistance and the delay must have proved fatal had not a young girl a servant in the famuy with courage and humanity that would have done honor to the moat elevated station at the hsztrd of her own life at tempted their deliverance this generous girl who was only 17 years of age was at her own request let down several times to the poor men by a rops she was so fortunate as to save two of them pretty easily but in tying the third to the cod which was let down to her for the purpose she found her breath falling and was in great danger of suffocation in this dreadful situation she had the pressnee of ncind to tie herself by the hair to the rope and was thns drawn np almost expiring with the poor man in whose behalf she had so humanely exarted herself the instant she recovered she insisted upon being let down again but her exertions this time failed of snocess for the third unfortun ate man was drawn uo dead the corpor ation of the town of noyon as a small token of their approbation presented the heroine with 600 livres and conferred on her the civil crown with a medal engrave 1 with tho arms of tho town her name and a nar- tative of the aotion the duke of orleans also sent her 500 livres and settled 200 yearly on her for life womens heads and waists the venus de medicis head measures aronnd the temples 20j inohes allow f r the wavy hair a half incn and call it 20 inm- er i make the waist 27 inches but as the figure is bending slightly forward it may vary accordingly as the measure is applied the neck is 13 inches a lady friend was so kind aa to measure several other ladies for my benefit and i do not find such a marked difference toe heads are generally larger and the waist smaller it is true but take one instance head 21 inohes waiat 24f inches neck 12 inches a young gin of 16 measures 214 inches head and 24 inches waist another lady meas ured just 20i inches head tho measnres were taken over the waist of the tnnlo ono would suppose the measures woald be less if taken after olasalcal manner bat by some mysterious dispensation of providenoe the waist of the molern woman is acknow ledged to measure more when untrammeled art student ib gbeeblbd br hansen trip en snewghoes since dr nansens return to denmark he- has added very interesting details to the story of his trip across greenland vbieh waa bru fly told in the letter he sent o europe laat f alt the fact that his party after leav ing the ship within twelve miles of umivik where they expected to begin cheir land journey drifted many miles south in the ice and were over three weeka reachingtheir eestination on the coast shows the immense difficulty of penetrating the ice barrier that the prevailing winds kept constantly packed against the eastern shore of greenland some of the isolated natives unaccustom ed to the sight of white men med is terror v though caps holms sojourn among tlj during one winter shonld have taught them better probably no tribo were ever ao thoroughly introduced to the publio by means of the oamera as these natives of whom numerous photographs appear in capt holms recent book the six men of the nansen expedition wero a speatacle worth seeing as they gained the lolty summit of the inland ice all tied together with a rope as though they were climbing the matterhorn it was a wise pre caution for the snow concealed not a few gaping crevices in the thick ice and now and then the fragile bridge gave way under some member of the party it was heavy sledging in the soft snow of the arctic sum mer but the party on their enowshoes dragging five little sledges made fifty miles in the firat twelve days they were steadily climbing toward the summit of greenlands ice plain which as we have learned within the past few years is higher than any other extensive plateau in the world except those of the pamir and some parts of tibet the party occupied over two weeks in crossing this almost level expanse of ice 9000 feet above the sea it was now sep tember and at the enormous height of nearly 3000 feet above the summit of mount washington it is easy to understand that the greenland tourists were impeded no longer by soft and yielding snow the temperature however was seldom lower than 20 below zsro but many snow storms and great drifts impeded the progress of the travellers at last they reached the eastern slope of the frozen sea and hoisting their sails they found that much of the time it was no longer neceesaty to haul on the sledge ropes often they travelled behind their sledges to hold them back and rattled down the long slope at a splendid rate now and then however they wore faoe to face with thest abtung dangers most as once when they paused on the edge of a great orevice whioh seemed like the mouth ot a bottomless abyss they had other narrow escapes and once nearly lost their lives through the breaking of a snow bridge earlier travellers on the inland ice of green land have found that the need of making long detours to get around orevices was one of the greatest obstaoles in their way at last the fiords of the western coast were reached in forty days the little party had travelled 300 miles from sea to sea we do not yet know what scientific value at taches to this expedition but it is likely to add interesting facts to our knowledge of this stupendous ice mass which moving very slowly towards the ooasts finds some outlet for its accumulations through the fiords contemplating this tremendous ice movement it is not difficult to believe that we bee in the greenland of today the con ditions that in a past geological age tore great boulders of trap from the palisades and huge granite and more rock masses from far northern regions and strewed them along the ahorea of long island princess of wales it takes the princess of wales two hours to dresb every day despite her increase in years thete are courtiers who declare that she looks handsomer than when she first ar rived in england and they take as the reas on the faot that the style of dress suits her so much better than what is now considered the dowdy dress of a quarter of a oentury ago nobody knows where the princess gets- her gowns from it is generally supposed that her maid makes them from patterns supplied however the princess cannot pose as a leader of fashion exoept to women of a oertain age for inatanoe she cannot wear the gaud flowercrowned hats that are coming into season this spring and yet these hats will be what is known as fashionable nevertheless who makes those pretty fringes some say that her barber shifts bis lodgings evory week others declare that this hairdresser supplies the material ii and that a maid makes it up really the- princess of wales has very little hair it amounts to nothing more than what women know as a wisp at sindrlngham there is a room jast like a huge hatters shop all around it are little radeptaoles varied by pier glasses and these receptacles contain the hats and bonnets of the princess when she is at home aha wears two or three differ ent hats every day but she alwaya wearb a bonnet when ont visiting for a princess her bonnets should not be considered extra vagant she generally gives about 750 for a hat or bonnet not at all an extravagant price i had lost his ground in scotland tha topio of a sermon or dis course of any kind is called by oldfashioned folk its ground or as they would say its grnnd an old woman bustling into kirk rather late f onnd the preacher had com menced and opoi in her bible nudged her- next neighbour with the inquiry whats his grand oh rejoined the other who happened to be a brotherminister and there fore a privileged critic hea lost bis grund long since and hes just swimming 1 the bishops mistake to encourage informers over a bridge at athens ga ia the fol lowing any person driving over this bridge at a pace faster than a walk shall if a white man be fined five dollars and if a negro receive try onty five lashes half the penalty to be bestowed on the informer soene a batters shop at the westend of london enter a wellknown man about town who hands his hat to an attendant to be irocad while standing bareheaded at the counter in comes a certain bishop tho latter mistaking the olnb man for one of the shop walkers gives him his hat with the irquiry have you a hat like this the club man in the coolest possible manner takes the hat turns it over examines it closely looks at it inside and out then in slow and measured tones remarks no 1 have not and he adds refleotlvely ifl had i am hanged if i would wear it i tableau s ajesam- ad