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HOME HINTS.
HOME HINTS. Icixo CArFs.-Tiiis (says "A. L. O. S. writing in the Agricultural Gametic) is a branch of confectionery lint, used to be left entirely to the pastrycook, but with thtt advance of the culinary art, the young people of the rising generation would be glad to ice their cakes if they only knew how to set about it. There are various kinds of icing, but the most fa-irsiliar form is the royal icing seen on brides' cakes. plum cakes. &c. It is also one of the easiest managed kinds, the only ingredients being sugar, white of egg; and a little lemon juice. The best quality of icing sugar should be used, and some cooks recommend the addition of a little cornflour or potato llour to prevent the icing being too hard, and also to do away with the excessive sweetness; but as these two ingredients are extensively used to 71 adulterate icing sugar, the probabilities are that a sufficient proportion has already been added to the sugar before it has come into the hands of the operator. Two or three whites of eggs should be sufficient for an ord.nary sized cake, and to these must, be added gradually as much icing sugar, also putting in from time to time a few drops of lemon juice us will make (lie mixture stiff enough to spread without running; it must be beaten very brisklv till light and white, and should rise to double the original quantity. It must then be put on the cake at once, sufficient being laid on to give the requisite thickness, and with a thin bladed knife, dipped in cold water, it must be evenly spread over the top aid the sides, working from the bottom. As a rich cake is apt to break through and mix with the icing, it will be found both an advantage and an improvement to use ra layer of almond icing before putting on the royal icing. Take equal quan- tities of ground or powdered almonds and icing sugar, moisten with white of egg. add a few drops of essence of ratifui, beat well and spread over the top of the cake to any thickness desired. If this is done, and allowed to stand a. day or days to set, the royal icing will then be much easier put on than when it. is laid next the cake. If elaborate ornamentation is gone in for, a bag and a set of tubes will be required, but. wonderful effeds may be produced by simply folding a sheet of notepaper cornerwise, filling the wide end with the icing, and gently and evenly pressing it out at the small end, either in dots or in a continuous flow, which may be twisted and turned Recording to the taste of the operator. The next principal kind of icing is the boiled nv.ng sometimes called fondant icing," the chief difficulty of which lies in boiling the sugar; but this, too, can be overcome by practice. Pnt -,Ilb. of good loaf sugar, a gill of water, and a pinch of cream of tartar into a white enamelled saucepan, and let the whole stand by the side of fire till dissolved, stirring it occasionally. When quite melted, put the pan oil the fire, and let it boil fast, but be sure not to stir it, as then it would not bo creamy; when it has boiled about 10 minutes drop a little into a basin of cold water,and if it is soft, without being brittle, take o!T the saucepan at once, and putaside to cool. When almost cold, beat it with a wooden spoon till it becomes ns thick as cold cream. If it should get sugary it is a sign that the water has been in insuffi- cient quantity, and a spoonful or two may be added, the saucepan returned to the fire for a few minutes, and the beating resumed as before. This icing should be made in small quantities at first, till the requisite experience is gained after that, as it will keep for any length of time, it may be made in bulk, and put into a. jar for future use; it should then be molted by placing the jar in a water barh,and put on the lire till of a good consistently for spreading, and any sort of colouring or flavouring can be added as desired. Venice or butter icing is best used as a layer to enrich any kind of plain cake, and for sponge cake especially it is a distinct improvement. Bent, six ounces of good fresh butter to a cream, and add gradually four ounces of fine castor sugar, to which has been added one small teaspoonful of Groult's refined potato flour: add the flavouring, which may be. a liqueur or essence, or grated chocolate, beating all the time; split the cake or cakes, either once or twice, spread over the icing, and replace the slices with a gentle pressure. Chocolate icing is also well adapted for using as a layer in Madeira or sponge cakes, the brown of the chocolate showing well against the white of the cake tt, can also be used as a coating on the outside. Melt slowly together equal quantities of the best grated chocolate, and the very finest pounded sugar, add a gill of water to 8oz. of the mixture, boil gently till 4 oroughly dissolved, and use at once if found to be tco stiff a little more water can be added. It is almost impossible to give the exact quantities in these things, ingredients vary so much in their composition, and it is here that the skill of the experienced cook comes in, to see what is wanted and what is not LANCASTER PUDDING.—Take a stale Savoy cake or a large sponge cake and cut a slice off the top, hollowing the inside until there is just a bottom and walls of cake, being very careful not to put your knife through or crack the cake. At the bottom of this hollow put a layer of tinned apricots with a good sprinkle of castor sugar. Next a layer of the cake you have taken out crumbled and put on to the top, when you lay the lid on, sticking it full of blanched almonds. Put in a glass dish a foundation of the rest of the hollowed-out cake, and stand the filled-in cake on it; pour a wineglassful of sherry and a pint of custard upon it. Do not make your pudding until an hour before it is wanted, or it will become too soaked and fall. You can if preferred pour the fruit syrup and a little cream over instead of the custard; and if you want to make it extra good some stale ratafias or macaroons in the bottom layer. Obviously you must use a deep glass dish. GOOD AND ECONOMICAL PEA SOUP.—Soak one pint peas overnight and put them in a large saucepan with three quarts of cold water. Add six large onions and two or three carrots, scraped, washed, and cut up a little celery if you can get it, or a handful of spinach or lettuce; and, if you have them, a few fresh bones. Bruise a few peppercorns and tie them up in a small muslin bag. Put the cover tightly on and give the pot a boil up. Then remove it to the side and let it simmer slowly for quite three and a-half hours. Salt to taste. Strain the vegetables through a clean sieve or colander, or beat them up. Add a little dried mint and simmer half an hour longer. Pour over some toast or fried bread and serve hot, or serve toast ibparately if you Erefer it. This recipe does also for lentils and aricot beans. A French cook would add a tea- spoonful of sugar. These soups are most nutritious and invigorating in cold weather. A VERY GOOD WAsii FOR DRY HAIR.—Hair which looks dry and rough, and no amount of brushing will make glossy, often wants a nourishing dressing. The following lotion well rubbed into the roots is very effectual: Resorcin, 20 grains, salicylic acid 5 grains, castor oil, !oz., Eau de Cologne, 2oz., rose water, 8oz., shaken together. Part the hair in several places, and rub well in with a sponge, a bit of flannel, or a soft tooth-brush, and 10 minutes after brush thoroughly. While you are using the lotion you should wash your hair well, once a week, with soft water and a little borax, and after you have improved the condition, continue for some time to use the lotion once a week. A GOOD OINTMENT FOR SPOTS."—Nothing is more disfiguring than spots," many or few, on the face or neck. They generally result from derange- ment of the system, or poorness of blood, and the remedy should be more than skin deep. Thorough washing with ammonia in the water will often remove the tendency to them, but a solitary pimple or spot can be checked and prevented from developing if, when you first feel a slight irritation of the skin, and notice that it is beginning to look red and inflamed, you rub well in a little ointment made of 1 drachm of sulphur and loz. of benzoated lard, FRENCH POT-AU-PPUr.-Pilt in your pot 61b., of beef, cut into pieces, and some bones, lib. of mixed green vegetables, four teaspoonfuls of salt, one of pepper, one of sugar, and two or three cloves. Add eight pints of water. Simmer all very gently, removing scum from time to time, for three or four hours. Remove any fat and serve. The addition of 1 Jib. of bread, of broken biscuits, or of cold potatoes will be an improvement. Toast should be served with it. This is a most nutritions and useful dish when large numbers have to be economically provided for. BREAKFAST- ROLLS.—Mix some flour with a sprinkle of salt, put it in a basin, make a hole in the middle, mix a little warm water and yeast, and pour it into the hole in the flour: Stir just enough with a spoon to make a thin batter, and sprinkle some flour on the top. Cover the pan and set it,in a warm place for an hour or two. When light add a little more lukewarm water, and with a little more flour make a dough. Knead well for 10 minutes. Then w ;divide into small pieces and knead each separately. 'M&teihtorounJ cakes orrolls. r and set; to rise abouthours. Bake carefully. W|irmf:-tiext 2 morninl, in the oven, covered with a batfiri. 's
ART AND. LITERATURE.
ART AND. LITERATURE. A VOLUME of Mr. Stopford Brooke's sermons bu been translated into German, and published under the title of "Faith and Science." The translator is the salllC to whom the Germans owe their version of F. W. Robertson's sermons. It is interesting to lea ti that the English preacher's sermons are wel- comed as a refreshing change from the ordinary dis- courses in the churches of the Fatherland. So many attempts (says the Glohe) have been made lately to account for the falling-off in the demand for modern pictures, and to explain the chango in the popular point of view with regard to the claims of the painter's craft to serious attention, that the remarks of Sir W. B. Richmond in a recent lecture to the students of the Royal Academy call for con- sideration as throwing somewhat a new light. on the subject. lIe protested with some vehemence against what. he held to be the vicious principles of workmanship that are in vogue now among our younger artists, and commented on the fact that while the art of the sculptors is gaining steadily in style and technical merit, that of the painters is deteriorating. It, may be that he is right in his dingnosis, and that the disease of slovenly cleverness has affected present- day painting to such an extent that the old-fashioned public, which cares nothing for smart technique, and worships solid and serious workmanship, has in con- sequence ceased to find in contemporary pictures any aesthetic satisfaction. But if Sir. W. B. Richmond's strictures are accepted, and the charge he makes is admitted to be true, it is still difficult to see by what means a change for the better is to be brought about. He advises students to study the old masters, to give up trying to be clever, io learn to draw and paint well,, and not to smear, in other words to revert to the sound principles of the English school of the last. century; but he scarcely explains how this desirable improve- ment is to be promoted. So long as we hr.ve no art teaching worthy of the name students will seek their education abroad, and come home again well versed in the vices of those foreign methods that Ihey can- not re.il^ understand for want of long acquaintance with the foreign traditions. Our art has ceased to be in touch with the native taste, it is chiefly an Anglo- French hybrid of an artificial kind; and so it will remain until the better artists in this country will undertake the duty of teaching with the same zeal as illl shown by their brethren abroad. SOME original statistics, mixed with some rather trite reflections concerning literary criticism, are contributed to the Author by a Canadian corre- spondent. He declares that Every unknown book gets from 30 to 50 notices in the English Press every book by a known author from 60 to 100. Out of ascore of critics, how many will be influenced by a pub- lisher, by private enmity,' or by inherent malice? At the outside, five. The rest may not know a good book from a bad one, or share your own notions of what is good, but you may be pretty sure that 10 of them taken together have a better 'general idea' of what the public likes than you have. The idea of a critic of any importance sedulously hobnobbing with a dozen publishers daily, and going over with them the pile of books on his table is pretty, but it won't wash clothes.' Here and there an important critic has a friendship or an interest with one or two pub- lishers, and may receive a hint that a good review of one of the firm's books would be gratefully received, but it does not occur every time and such influ- ence could only be secured to praise a book, and a book that would bear praising without loss to the critic's prestige." TIIE Idler contains very interesting information about Some Modern Caricaturists." The names of Harry Furniss, F. C. Gould, and Mr. S. R. Halkett are known to everybody, principally in connection with the political cartoons which they have published. A true caricaturist also with the brush and pen is Max Beerbohm. His parodies on the style of our leading writers were as completely successful as his portraits of literary and artistic celebrities which appeared in the Savoy Magazine and the Academy. Among other leading caricaturists, whose work is described, are H. S. Simo, Starr-Wood, Fred Hall, Leslie Ward (" Spy of Vanity Fair), and E. T. Reed, whose pre-historic peeps are one of the most popular features of Punch. TIIE current issue of the Magazine ol Art is more than usually interesting (remarks the Glohe) because of the Sidelight on the South Kensington Museum Select Committee'' which is contributed by the editor, a little note on official methods that is in its way significant. The chief of the other articles are Mr. M. H. Spielmann's Edwin Austin Abbey. R.A. M. Fernand Khnopff's argument on the ques- lion "Is Photography among the Fine Arts?"; Mdme. Helen Zimmern's Ricciardo Meacci and the detailed description of Professor Hubert Herkomer as a Painter in Enamels." A coloured frontispiece is given for the study for The Ran- som by Sir John Millais; and amang the other full- page illustrations are reproductions of some drawings by Mr. Abbey, and of the well-known "Suldy of a Lemon Tree by Lord Leighton. AT the siege of Paris the Germans exempted Mont- morency from contributions. This was done in honour of the memory of Rousseau, whose great works, the "Emile," the "Social Contract," the New Heloise," the Letters to D'Alembert, were written at Montmorency during the years 1756-62. Besides being a striking instance of sentiment in modern warfare, the compliment came naturally from a nation which, being the best educated in Europe, owed so much to the author of the modern revolution in education. And now, M. Guerin, the Mayor of Montmorency, and M. Julien Ponsin, the architect, are realising a' long-talked-of project of establishing a Rousseau Library and Museum in the town. TilE" University Correspondent" has just pub- lished its annual list of absurd mistakes made by children in writing answers to examination ques- tions. In geography the following answers occur: The North Pole is a stick put in the ground by the explorer who can go farthest North." A delta is a burning mountain." If you stand on the sea shore on a clear day, you can watch a vessel sailing round the world. This is a proof that the world is round." The Sunder bunds are the hot winds which blow across the desert of Sarah." Canons are pieces of rope the Americans catch wild horses with." "A Buoraine is a disease which afflicts cattle in hot countries." THE coming exhibition at the London Guildhall ought to provide a very valuable illustration of some of the best phases of British art. Although the bulk of the collection will consist of pictures and draw- ings by Turner, covering all periods of his practice, a number of works by Reynolds, Gainsborough, Wilson, Constable, Etty, and Romney will also be included. Such a show will compare excellently with the last one held in these galleries, and will suggest a contrast that will be instructive in very many Ways between the best characteristics of our own school and many of the most fascinating qualities of French painting. By the first of June Mr. William Reeves will have a new translation of Nietzsche's principal work, Thus Spake Zarathustra," ready for issue in a small volume. Meanwhile the work is appearing in parts. Steps are being taken to form a Nietzsche Society in England. In Germanj the cult of Fried- rich Nietzsche is firmly established and is spreading, and numberless commentaries have been written upon his books. At this kind of work the Germans beat i6 jn'verae- If we are not mistaken they have already written and published more than a hundred books and pamphlets on Hauptmann's beautiful lyrical drama, Th«» Sunken Bell." Among the thilosophers, and the speculators on the destiny of human society, Nietzsche occupies a foremost place in the contemporary German mind. Believing Society threatened with decadence irretrievable, he would arrest its doom by measures wherein philanthropy, as hitherto understood, should find no place. What- ever may be thought of his ideas, his questions as to the tendencies of evolution cannot be shirked. The translator of the work now in progress is Mr. Thomas Common.
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SIR ROBERT REID, the late Attorney-General, wh,3 may succeed Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman as chair- man of the Scottish Liberal members, is in his 53rd year. The son of Sir James John Reid, of Mons- wald Place, Dumfriesshire, he was, educated at Cheltenham College and- Ih, Iliol, where he had a distinguished career. Called to the Bar in 1871, he rapidly built up the reputation and practice.. of a sound lawyer. He was first elected to Parliament for Hereford in 1880, but sir-ce 1886 he has reprtsented Dumfries. Mr. Gladstone made him ,Solicitor- General in 1804, and on the the elevation of Sir -John Rigby to the Bench hn became Mr. Attorney."
MARKET NEWS.
MARKET NEWS. ..M"IC-LAIiE.-The market opened and continued all in harmony with consumers' views, sellers driving no consolation by the progress made in either the volume of business or the tendency of prices, while there was no increase in the attendance since noon. Wheat on the week 6d easier for English; foreign, rather less, being steady; flour lower; barley, fairly steady; American oats being in rather better request and firmer, while maize is distinctly cheaper, flat more especially. Home-grown wheat continued quite out of favour, and if seemed difficult to find purchases even at further slight concessions. White, ranges at 27s to 30s and red, at 26s to 29s, according to quality, with very little stirring at those prices. Foreign descriptions again en- o' grossed slow attention, but sellers were by no means pressing at recent rates, and the tone left off distinctly steadier than anticipated during the early part of the day. No. 1 hard Manitoba, 31s to 31s 3d ex-ship, and 31s 3d ex-quay; and choice old crop, 36s landed; Duluth, 32s 3d ex-ship Cali- fornian not offered. Calcutta Club No. 2, 30a to 31s landed, according to sample. Russian sorts remain comparatively too dear to meet consumers' views. In the market for flour, millers still resolutely refrain from entering into business except for immediate requirements, being well-stocked, and quotations con- tinue to pursue a downward course. The Millers' Association prices were not further reduced. Town household 24s 6d and whites, 27s 6d per sack. Of country makes, patents quoted at 23s to 25s; roller, 21s to 22s; stone, Igs to 20s. American first patents range at 24s to 25s, and second, 22s to 23s. First bakers, 20s to 22s, and second ditto, 16s to 17s Hungarian up to 35s. Among feeding stuffs, grind- ing barley ruled fairly steady, but met with only a slow sale, at last rates. Odessa Nikolaieff, 17s 6d ex ship, 17s 8d to 18s ex-quay; Crimean, 17s Gd ex-ship. The market for oats was again in favour of sellers, but offers met with poor response, resulting in only a slow day's trading. Last week's arrivals were fairly large, ship- ments being lighter. American mixed clipped, ex- ship, remains nominal, in absencs of offers, 16s 6d ex-quay; white clipped, 16s 4cl ex-ship, 16s nd to 2 2 iGs 9d ex-quay. Russian sorts maintained. For black Libau, 15s 3d ex-ship asked. Canadian white, 15s Ðd to 16s ex-ship, 16s 3d ex-quay. New Zealands range at 23s up to 28s ex-store, according to sample. Maize was again met with poor support, with a further easier tendency in American, mixed ruling at IPs 3d to 18s 6d ex-ship, 18s nd ex-quay; Odessa, 19s for new; Galatz-Foxanian, 18s 3d ex-ship. There was nothing fresh noticeable in the market for either beans or peas. the tone remaining slow, but very steady, with holders reserved. Egyptian splits held for 21s ex-mill; Mazagans,20s Oct; and New Zea- lands, 33s to 31s ex-store; Canadian white peas re- main very scarce, at a premium, and nominal, in absence of offers. LONDON METROPOLITAN CATTLE.—Only a moderate number of beasts was placed. A fair demand pre- vailed for prime qualities, and supplies being shorter the tone was the turn firmer. Second grades were stead}'. Fat bulls and rough cattle moved slowly. Fat cows quiet. Scotch quoted, 4s 4d to 4s 6d; Devons, 4s 4d to 4tf 5d; Norfolks, 4s 2d to 4s 4d; Lincoln shorthorns, 4s to 4s 2d; Irish, 4s to 4s 2d; and fat cows, 3s 6d per 81b. Sheep supplies were on a smaller scale. Wethers evi- denced a slow demand, but ewes ruled firmer- n. to 8-stone Downs wethers -5s 6d to 5s 8d; 9-stone ditto, 5s 2d to 5s Id lO-stone half-breds, 5s to 5s 2d 11-stone llampshires, 48 lOd to 5s; 12-stone Lincolns, 4s 8d to 4s lOd 10-stone Down ewes, 4s 2d to 4s 4d 11-stone half-bred ditto. 3s 10d to 4s per 81b. sinking the offal. Calf trade not worth noting. Milch cows, S15 to £2:2 per head. Coarse and inferior beasts quoted 2s 4d to Od second quality ditto, ?s 2d to 3s lOd I prime large oxen, 4s Od to 4s 2d; and ditto Scots, &c., 4s 4d to 4s 6d; coarse and inferior sheep, 3s 4d to 3s Od second quality ditto, 4s 2d to 4s 8d; prime coarse woolled, 58 Od to 5s 2d; and prime Southdowns, 58 4d to 5s 6d per 81b. SMITUFIKLD MKAT.—Scotch beef quoted at 3s 8d to 4s 2d English, 3s 8d to 3s 9d; American—Dept- ford-killed, 3s 7d to 3s 8d Liverpool, 3s 5d to 3s 3d American, refrigerated hindquarters (best), 3s 4d i to 3s 8d average, 33 Od second ditto, 3s to 3s 4d; i\yerage, 3s 2d forequarters (best), 2s 2d to 2s 4d • averago, 2s 3d; second ditto, 2s to 2s 2d; average, I 2p. Mutton Scotch, 4s 2d to 4s 4d; English wethers, 3s lOd to 4s 2d; ewes, 3s to 3s 4d; Argentine, 3s 4d to 3s 6J; English lamb, 6s to 6s í id. Veal: English, 4s 8d to 5s Dutch, 4s 4d to 4s 8d. Pork: English, 3s 8d to 4s; Dutch, 3s 2d to 3s Cd and Irish, 3s to 3s 4d per 81b. POULTRY AND GAME.—The supplies were lighter, but demand, was of a continued slow character. I Hares, 3s to 3s 8d wild ducks, 2s 6d; widgeon, Is 8d pintail, Is; woodcocks, 2s 6d to 3s Od; snipe, 8d to Is 2d; golden plover, lOd to Is 2d; j black ditto, 5d to 8d black game, Is 6d; ptarmigan, ] s; cock capercailzie, 3s; hen ditto, 2s; wild rabbits, ed to lOd each; Australian ditto, 7s Od to 9s 6d ) per dozen Surrey fowls, 3s Od to 4s Od Sussex, 2s Gd to 3s 3d Yorkshire, 2s 9d to 3s 3d; Boston, 2s 3d to 2s 6d; Irish, Is 9d to 2s Russian, Is 6d tolsSd; ducks, ditto, Is 9d to 2s; English ditto, I 3s 6d to -Is geese, 4s Gd to 6s each; ditto French, B)L(i per lb.; cock turkeys, 5s 6d to 8s hen ditto, i 4s 6d to 6s each; Italian cock ditto, 61 d per lb.; I hen ditto, 2s 9d to 3s 6d each; Bordeaux pigeons, lOd to Is 2d each. i BIU.INGSGATE FISII.-Irish salmon, 2s 9d to 3s; Scotch ditto, 2s 6d; Dutch ditto, 2s 6d to 2s 9d soles, Is to 18 6d slips. Is to Is 3d red mullet, Is 3d 10 Is 8d dories,6d to 8d per lb. turbot, 10s to 14s; brill, 7s to 10s halibut,7s to 9s 6d lemon soles, 7s to 9s; plaice, 4s Gd to 5s 8d per stone; steamer ditto (large), 2Gs to 30s per trunk; Aberdeen ditto, 27s; whiting, 6s to 12s skate, lis to 12s; cod, live, 20s ¡ to 24s dead, 14s to 20s per box English mackerel, I 25s to 30s per 60; haddocks, 8s to 14s per trunk; Dutch smelts, 2s to 3s per basket; Scotch salted her- rings, 20s to 22s 6d per barrel; eels, live, 19s to 22s; dead, I6s to 18s per draft; lobsters, 30s to 60s per dead, 16s to 18s per draft; lobsters, 30s to 60s per score; crabs, 20s per hamper; Dutch oysters, 10s: j French, 6a per 100; winkles, 6s to 8s; whelks, 4s per bushel; mussels, 4s to 6s per bag; bloaters, 3s to 3s Gd; kippers, 2s 3d to 3s per box; smoked had- docks, 2s to 8s per dozen; shrimps, 14s per bushel. j NNCOL.-Tlie i-narlet generally is in a more healthy position, and the business recently done has cleared off some amount of stock. Holders ask better prices, but this attitude at.once checks transactions, and as buyers have of late purchased more freely than hitherto, they are able to stand out of the market at tha present moment. Fractional changes in price affect the result, as very little separates buyers and sellers; but this little, owing to the Btate of trade, means the margin which allows contracts to be taken. In the unsatisfactory state of trade which has so long been experienced a little move is thought more.of than under normal conditions, so tbat when buying drops prices appear to revert to previous levels, the market not being of sufficient strength to uphold values. Fewer transactions have been re- ported towards the close of the week, showing that t buying has again for the time fallen off, but, on j the whole, spinners are rather better employed, I and a more hopeful tendency generally iff apparent. Downs. 8d to 9d: Kents. 7d half-breds. 7*d- CORK BUTTER.—Seconds, VUs per cwt. GRIMSBY FISH.—Largo supplies were landed by some 60 steamers and 10 smacks. Fish of all kinds was plentiful, and there was a strong demand, the following prices ruling Plaice, I 4s to 7s 6d; lemon soles, 6s (xi per stone ■ soles, Is to Is 3d per lb. live dabs, ..21s; dead ditto, l'8s live codlings, 19a. 6d dead^ oiUo, 17s per kit; haddocks, 15s; gibbed ditto, 17s Cd live ditto, 23s per (box; whitings, 4s per stone; .gurnets, ^Gs per box; pitches, 6s per stone-; smelts, 3s Od por box; catfish, 35s per score; turbot, Is to Is Id per lb.; I longer eels, 4s 6d each briLs, lid per lb. live ling, 3s • to 4s dead ditto, 2s to 3s live cod, 4s to 6o dead, ditto, 3s Q,1,to 5s live skate, 3s to 4s dead ditto, 2s to each hake, 45s; roker, 15s; live ma.llish,3.ís.; rltld ditto, 25s per score; finnan haddocks, 4s; live h/uibrif, 9s; dead ditto, 7s; English shrimps, 3s 61; foreign ditto, 3s 3d prawns, 3s. per slor.c kippers, 2s Cd; reds, 2s 6d; bloat,2s (id per box; English oysters, 68 6d ditto, V* Oil |VT 100; whelks, 3s Gd .per wash s dr. it's Cd. ice, 18 6d per it. t.usk*, 1 s I <
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THOSE who expected a lively meeting and debate in the French Senate on Monday on the introduction of. the bill for sending the Dreyfus revision before the united chambers of the Court of Cassation were dis- appointed. The bill was introduced without comment by the Minister of Justice, and it was then promptly referred to the ordinarv formal committee. I
THE WOMAN'S WORLD.
THE WOMAN'S WORLD. WHBN your servants begin to show a desire to aave your money (writes" Sibilla," in the Sun) rather than to spend it, you can rest assured they are getting sincerely attached to you. Is there anything more trying to a hospitable soul than to have to refrain from giving the expected invitation just because the cook is on the rampage ? THE woman in the crepe veil at the theatre is one of the sights that make men look upon all feminine emotion as artificial. WHY is it a woman generally looks angry rather than grateful when someone tells her that her gown is gaping at the back? MASSAGE is a great science, and belongs essentially to wise hands. Therefore, if one cannot afford proper treatment, use your own steamer or bowl of hot water but once a week then rub the muscles of the face with a rotary motion upon the forehead and cheeks; and, if you have wrinkles, rub in the oppo- site direction from whence they are. Keep greasy I compounds away from your face, excepting they are prepared by persons whom you know thoroughly < understands their business. Then buy only what suits your particular case. Use only the best soaps and powders, and, excepting you bathe, diet and treat the face regularly as directed. Wno really sets the fashions, asks a writer in Woman's Life. That was the subject which cropped up at a dinner the other night at which I was present. Several of the guests were of the opinion that in the highest circles the real fashion was set by the Princess of Wales. No doubt there is a very great deal of truth in this, whilst several were con- vinced that even in the very highest circles the real fashions were set by the leading actresses, &nd several names were quoted, notably those of Mrs. Langtry, Miss Olga Nether- sole, and one lady in the company con- sidered the beat dressed women on the stage Miss Mary Moore and Mrs. Beerbohm Tree. I just refer to this fact—though it is not particularly interesting —as it reminded me that the late Sir Augustus Harris once assured me that one of his first thoughts in the introduction of a drama was to have all the ladies engaged in the piece dressed in such a way as to get talked about by the feminine members of the audi- ence, who would tell other people to come and see the very latest in dress. ———— WOMEN who are the happy possessors of the classic broad, low brow," may always feel assured of being on the right side of both beauty and fashion, by wearing the front hair slightly rolled in pompa- dour effect, not brought back and rolled tightly and smoothly, which gives a strained, a severe, and un- refined appearance, but loosely taken back from the face, slightly waved and combed over a low roll, leaving, if becoming, a little short, very short, curl or two to stray carelessly over the forehead, it is sure to do credit to the plainest features, and lend a beauty which with any other mode of dressing the hair might be lacking. If, after being combed back, it is brought forward slightly before being confiend, it will have a still prettier effect. All the styles of hair- dressing admit the use of many fancy pins and combs. The combs of grandmothers are very much in vogue. Those in gold or old silver are highly prized by young ladies. Crescents set with jewels are fashionable. Jet hair ornaments, and jet and rhinestones combined find much favour. Some of the newest hairpins have for a top a jet butterfly. The rhinestones are, of course, only suitable for evening wear. ———— THE newest tea tables for the drawing-room come now with an oval glass removable tray on top. The tables are of mahogany, with plain inlay. The lower shelf projects several inches more than the upper shelf, which holds the tray for the cups and saucers. On either end of the tray are handles, which make it easy of removal and carriage. CHILDREN never need weary of their surroundings if the furniture in the nursery bo changed about now and then, and the pictures on the walls be removed for others. Here is a good idea, whereby coloured pictures or inexpensive 'photogravures may be changed as often as liked, though the frames -e remain permanent. Take two lengths of picture moulding each about 3ft. long and tack them to the wall a foot apart, the lowest being about 3ft. from the ground. Before nailing place three small block behind the upper one to obtain sufficient space between it and the wall to slip in glass behind it. If desired, a piece of the moulding may be fitted at each end. This makes a permanent frame in which the pictures may be changed as often as is desired, and being low they are within easy view of the children. Probably a handy carpenter would charge only a trifle to fix a kind of dado of frames to the room, allowing different sizes and removable divisions, so that a large variety of pictures could be inserted at will. The children should be taught tc name the various objects in the pictures, and to talk about and interest themselves in them. CORAL necklaces, old bits of lace, and fringes are all so much gold now to the girls who possess them. Those who have inherited a quantity of old fringes from their mothers or grandmothers, all neatly wound up on cards and in as good condition as when they were first bought, preserved by the care the grand- mothers bestowed upon their wearing apparel, may (the Daily Mail suggests) take them out now, and if they will agree in colour with the fabrics worn, use them to very good advantage. Heavy knotted fringes are best used for trim- mings. They are not convenient in many ways, but they are expensive, the rich silk ones, and for that reason they have a certain charm. The colours of grandmother's day are many of them in vogue again. Some of the wraps give the effect of grandmother's costumes entirely. A woman wearing a flounced cape long in the back and cut up in the front, her d<->mi- train dragging behind her, looks very much as if she had stepped out of a fashion book of-well, most people would not like to say that they can remember when those fashion plates represented the modes. FEW people give proper care to their boots. They come in damp, tired, cold maybe, and possibly not in the best of tempers, fling their boots off impatiently, get into slippers as-quickly as possible, and sit down to rest, forgetting that their boots will be in a scarcely wearable condition by next morning. If every man would invest in a couple of quarts of good, clean oats, which he could always keep in a bag in his dressing-room, he would have at hand the means of putting his boots in excellent order with very little trouble and no cost to speak of. As soon as the boots are taken off, lace or button up, and fill them about two-thirds full of oats, then tie in handkerchiefs two parcels of oats as large as can be pressed into the tops of the boots to fill the remaining space, and put them away until wanted. The oats absorb the moisture from the boots, aad in absorbing it they swell considerably. The constant pressure on the leather keeps the boots in proper shape, and prevents that uncomfortable stiffness and rigidity always noticed when leather has been wet. A little trouble and care of this sort would save many a pair of boots. Especially is this useful where there arc children who are always running out in the rain, and then coming in with wet feet. WOMEN inventors by no means confine themselves to those departments where they might be supposed to possess special experiences. Patents have been granted to women for a plan of deadening noise on railways, for preventing sparks from locomotives, and for a new form of life raft. The greater number of their inventions, however, are connected with dress and domestic appliances. During last year nearly 400 patents were applied for by women. Some ot these have reference to textile manufacturers, electrical, and railway appliances, and stationery. Appliances for the sick have received considerable attention from women inventors. IF you want to prevent the face looking greasy follow this advice Add a few drops of tincture of benzoin and rose-water to the water in which you wash your face, thein dust lightly with oatmeal, and finish by rubbing the face with a bit of soft chamois- leather. Any chemist mill mix the benzoin and rose- water in the correct proportions for you.
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THE Natural History Museum at South Kensington has just received a very ftne specimen of the egg of j&pyornis, the extinpt gigantic birdl of Madagascar. It measures 2ft. 7ih. "in its longest^circumifer^ncg and 2ft. 6in. in girth, while its, Equid contents eaual a little under two gallons.
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BOYS FOR THE NAVY.
BOYS FOR THE NAVY. AN INTERESTING SCHEME. A conference has taken place in the offices of the Navy League, under the presidency of the Hon. T. A. Brassey, to consider a scheme for training British recruits for the mercantile marine and the Royal Naval Reserve. The various speakers laid stress upon the difficulty of getting boys into the merchant service, and upon the fact that 40 percent, of our sea- men were foreigners, including Lascars, which was considered unsatisfactory with reference to Naval Reserve requirements, and also to the need of ensuring the safety of food imports in case of war. A resolution was passed approving the principles of a scheme for reinstating British seamen in British ships. The main features are as follows: (1) Boys taken from the public elementary schools to be entered in depot training-ships, and indentured for four years to officials appointed by the Board of Trade—the first year in depot-ships, and the three succeeding years in ships of the mercantile marine. (2) To be bound to serve time, and pass as quali- fied seamen with Royal Naval Reserve. (3) Payments to selected shipowners, El per month for first year, los. per month second year, and 10s. per month third year. (4) Cost of scheme to be provided by Board of Trade. A committee was appointed to invite the attention of the Government to the scheme, and to arrange deputations thereon to Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Goschen, and Mr. Ritchie. Mr. Gray Hill, of Liverpool, read correspondence the subject between Messrs. Elder, Dempster, and Co. and the Board of Trade. The firm of steam- ship owners in their communication explained that they have come to the conclusion that the scheme put forward under the Act of last session can never be successfully worked, as from & business point of view the pecuniary induce- ments offered to the shipowners are quite inadequate, and the responsibilities placed upon them such as they cannot in fairness be expected to assume. They, however, put forward a proposal on their own behalf remarking, We should explain that at the present time vfe have under our management 95 pteamships ot an aggregate tonnage of 299,249 tons. With a view to assisting in the training of lads for the navy we are prepared to carry from two to four lads on each of these vessels, so we would commence by carrying from 200 to 300 boys on the following terms: "(1) The Government to select the boys (who shall not be under the age of 15) to be engaged, and to make such arrangements as may be thought necessary with a view of securing them for the Naval Reserve. "(2) Tha Government to provide each lad on en- gagement with such outfit as may be thought neces- sary. (3) Th e boys to serve on board our vessels for three years. (4) We topay the boys the following rate of wages, viz., for the first year at the rate of 10s. per month, second year £1 per mouth, and third year £ 2 per month, and, in addition, we, of course, to find the boys in food, also in port pay them 15s. each boy, and provide board, &c., weekly. We would suggest, although we do not make this a condition, that the Government, should tell off some experienced official in this port to exercise a general supervision over the boys, more especially whilst they are in port. and with a view to seeing that they perform their part of the agreement. If our proposal is accepted we shall not ask for any allowance from the Light Dues that we might be entitled to under the Act of last session, because we feel so thoroughly that those dues are an unjust and mischievous tax on shipping that we will not be parties to any such bargain as is contained in the Act; but in taking up this position we shall (rust that the country, when it finds that shipowners are prepared to do their best to assist in the important work of training lads for the navy, will take upon itself the national duty of lighting its own coasts. Mr. Ritchie, in his reply, refers with satisfact ion to the scheme Messrs. Elder, Dempster, and Co. submit. He points out that he does not think that the acceptance of allowance of the Light Dues would in any way commit them to an approval of the system of collccting Light Dues laid down in the Act. "The Goi-ernnient," the right hon. gentleman explains, propose by the regulations they are about to issue to take steps to secure applications from suitable boys, and to put before ,pp I them the advaptages they will obtain if they fulfil their engagements, and it is hoped that shipowners j will co-operate with the Government in a plan which would not only be beneficial to the country, but also greatly to the advantage of the mercantile marine."
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.do-c. JUSTICE RUN MAD. A painful sensation has been caused by an extnt* ordinarily severe, sentence passed upon a number 01 Socialist workmen at Dresden. The accused, nine masons and scai'folders, celebrated with their com" rades on July G last the customary festival, given by the masters, after the scaffolding of a building haa been put up, Beer supplied by the employers waa drunk abundantly, and the tide of joy rolled high. All at once it was noticed that the men on a neighbouring building were still at work^ though it was eight o'clock in the evening. Ex- cited by their too copious libations they summoned them to stop, as TO hours per day had been agreed upon. A quarrel ensued, in the course of which the tipsy men attacked their working comrades to pre- vent them by force from continuing. The superin- tendent of the buildings interfered at this point; calling the men "burglars," rogues," and so on. Enraged they then attacked him, and, probably in aj panic of fear, he shot at them with blank cartridges'. The men evidently thought he had reallj fired at them, and with the cry: "Beat him to death, the dog they rushed upon him, and struck at him with laths and bottles, until he was rescued, by police. In spite of the serious injury received by him he completely recovered after a few weeks, but this did not prevent the jury from returning a verdicC of gui!ty of attempted manslaughter, and the men were sentenced as follows: One to 10, one to nine, one to eight, two to seven, and two to six years' hard labour. Two received four years' imprisonment. Almost all the accused have wives and children. Nobody will excuse what the men did, and they deserved severe punishment, but this Draconic sentence is simply incomprehensible. It is calculated to create the utmost excitement among German workmen generally. What makes the matter still more painful is that the case, without intelligible reason, was tried with closed doors. The Social Democratic fraction in the Reichstag has addressed a manifesto to the working population of Germany, appealing for funds in aid of the families of these nine men. As a pendant to this astounding case it may be stated that at Posen a boy of 13 has just be8t imprisoned for lese-majesty.
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After "all iz seel and done, the artyfishall pleases more people than the natral duz. I think the lowest depth ov human degredashun haz been reached at last in the person ov the modern "Tramp." Abjeckt vagransy and walking lazyness haz been redused to a science. THOUGH the Kaiser has declined offers from American editors to contribute to their columns, it is understood that his Majesty has ambitions in the way of authorship. He kept a very careful diary during his visit to the Holy Land, and he is credited with the intention of publishing extracts. The book, it is said, is to be illustrated by snap-shots taken on the spot by the Empress, who is an expert amateur photographer. Up to the present the Emperor's most successful literary efforts have been in the nature of telegraphic despatches, and if he finds that he can turn out his best copy in this way^there is nothing to prevent him sending his MSS". to-his pub- lishers in a series of short telegrams. I
A SNIPE STORY.
A SNIPE STORY. One would not perhaps think of looking into th. Amrita Bazar Pctirika for shikar stories, but a glanct into the recent number of that paper has disclosed the following gem: "During the last Christmas holidays we formed a party to go outft-ehooting. Ous boat had sailed a short distance »fp the Bali khaljj which rises from the Pallapole bcel' and falls inU the Ichamati, near Rangoon. We saw a pair of bis enipe3 to our right. The fowling piece" rang out anc belched forth a cloud of smoke and small shot. Onf of the pair was wounded in the leg and wings, but managed to make off, accompanied by its mate. At a short distance the pair took refuge in a piece 01 marshy land and began cawing in a plaintive tone, which soon collected half a dozen of its fellows. 001 boat came alongside by this time, and as soon as tb« J gun was raised a second time, a strange sight met our view. The assembled birds formed a ring around the wounded bird as if to protect it from oui attack, while its mate busied itself in relieving its pain with its bills. Such a spectacle made a very soft impression on our minds and unnerved oui hands."
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"A SIMPLE FACT ABOUT" KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES. Ask throughout the world, in any country that can l e named, you will find them largely sold. There is absolutely no remedy that is so speedy ingiving relief, so certain to cure, and yet the most delicate can take them. One Lozenge givea ease. Sold in 13Jd. tins. IN a long account of Lord [Charles Beresfordw visit to the Yangtse, which is furnished by the; Shanghai correspondent of the Times, there is an in-i structive paragraph concerning the foreign-drilled! troops on the K:ang Yin forts. In a fit of economy) the German officers were paid off, and the force is now commanded "by a native general of the ortho- dox type, supremely ignorant, of every thing connected with the profession of arms." When the menweret drawn up at the parade attended by the gallant admiral, the native process of evaporation was clearly in evidence, for only 1800 out of the orlg,¡naL strength of 3000 were forthcoming. LINSEED COMPOUND' gives Expectoration without strain, 9sd., ISld. Sold by Chemists only. HBAn OF THE ESTABLISHMENT: David, you are a fool!" David: Well, sir, I can't help it. Wheii you engaged me, you told me to imitate you, and I Vel done the best I could." « LINSEED COMPOUND' for Coaghs and Colds, allays irritation. Gives immediate relief. I'VE an offer to go to work for a wholesale house. Wh-.t would you do if y we m my shoes?" After a careful insDection- I think I would black '^BISHOP MITCHXNSO*, the; new Master ot Pembroke* Oxford, is a soundeducationalist and a manofwid* outturn Before he became Bishop of Barbados, a Fee which he held until 1881, Dr. Mitchinson had /jained considerable experience as a master, first a& Meipbant Taylors' School, and subsequently as head- master of King's School, Canterbury. His University career was a brilliant one. He went up to Pembrokei with a scholarship from Durham Grammar School} and took a Pirst in Classical Mods., a First irk "Greats," and a First in Natural Science. In lat^ years Dr. Mitchinscn has done good service in tha diocese of Peterborough, nenft THE Queen has -just send a donation of IPOR- the, Mentoae Society for the Prevention of Cruelty tal Animala:" <