THE NEW NORTHWEST, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, lssi
- THK PSXZK BERIAU ' ' .
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PobllcaUon of hf Ms Worr, - Rrtn WhlrW
wlad, by MIm Ma7 CnK will lonntiiMd U th
next 1md st the !f aw JorrwwwT M ttl a IfcJs
VICTORIA OF ENdUND.
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." . . -" ; I. HER GIRLHOOD. , v"
; Mr. Ollphant In her picturesque life of Queen
Victoria, recently published, give an account of
the girl's training Inlne days of 1er comparative
poverty. The little heiress of England waa not
permitted to take part In the pageant of her uncle's
coronation, or brought forward too aoon Into the
glare of day.;:. After thle date the course of her ed
ucation widened, and ahe wm made acquainted
wltbjrarioo feature of her own country, making
a aerie of visit and expedition throughout Eng
land to many of the roost Interesting town,
cathedral "and ehelr.7nmarkable place ; and
wherever the little maiden went, a wm natural,
1hV wa thecnter""bf attraction! .'creatur o
ydung and o highly placed, with already me
shadow of a crown upon her, drearall eye, and
gave a cnarm 01 sympaineuo niiun; wuicu en
nobled it to the ordinary curiosity of the crowd.
Something kinder than curiosity, a feeling more
warm and genial than the vulgar love 'of a specta
cle, drew gazer but upon her path wherever "she
moved. And thus her wis mother accustomed
her, unconsciously to the multitude of eyet that
were tojwatch her every movement' and to the
often wearisome, If sometime eXcltlngaVtalls of
apubllolife. "T -'V '
There doe not seemPany appearance that In her
early day th Queen showed ahyjrf thJdlstate
lor toe puDiio observation, wnicn is me greatest
reproach that anyone ha made against her inher
elder day. Difficulties of kll Jtlnd,' however, a
was natural, beset her young path. 'Her position
was Infinitely more delicate and critical than had
he been the daughter of the 'reigning sovereign,
r holding a natural plao In his family. The King
took dire offense at the wis restraint under which
the young'Prlnces was1 brought; up, and so far for
got what was due lb' a' lady, and his guest, a to
upbraid the Duchess of Kent at his own table for
keeping her young daughter as much a she could
t-4bnwholeonwalriof thvOotntrWhttf
we read of this scene, of the Queen s ' confusion
and the Prince' tear,' and the 'painful family
squabble revealed to al) th gossiping; Whispering
world, we cah'reallxe better what difficulties must
have been In the way of bach a serious education,
and such a seclusion from courtiers,' flatterer and
royal bad manners, a made the Princess Victoria,
when she came to the throne,1 Che admiration of
lltoriTounded-herr-gvldently to her con
sclentlou mother and guardian the charge of con
ducting her young mind at fe and spotless through
-1, Al II A l A A , . t
ill inese uixzy, fmtiui i iuv great cictsuuu wuicu
awaited her was inducement enough to beat all
thing and follow steadily the course chalked out,
whatever angry King or Impertinent critic could
say. -i fi - 'm'j' i .i ,-. .
Od th other Jiand, while' 'the : Duches wa
blamed for keeping the young Princes out of the
buss of the Court,, she wa equalty blamed for the
tpedltloha, ad Trontable toj f ti hf Lihe Qsarnal) -Wept, K .J
rSSitm ladr was mad; acountedwltn f full,' but I ardl7' knew- who was
little ex
"wlltCu tu'eVoung lady wa mad acquainted with
so far as tbo modesty of her girlhood permitted, to
her future people; " Almost every heir and heiress
who I not the ton or daughter of the previous
possessor of the Inheritance is liable to the same
Jealon watch7 and Inevitable fault-find I tig:" Her
mother kept her child frotri all vulgar contact
with th crowd ; It wa a vigorous aeclftslbn."
B be took her to see beautiful cathedral or a hl
torlnal bautlful house.- It was an attempt a. a
I tnijgite Botnbe PriUw nUictedeah
other. And la the meantlma Kemtngtoii Palaee
held Its own with a flrmnes not less remarkable
than, the purity: and gravity .of the aim wLJqh
were tner pursued i , i . rtr-it-t i i . h- . . ; -
but
political' blunder recorded
There la but one
against Victoria during the few months of solitary
-rule preceding her marriage. The iuddefi change
from the secluded life at Kensington to the Inde
pendence of her )wltlon a Queen regnant at the
ve of eighteen," mignt nave been an excuse ror
many mistake I but it 1 hard to see what there
llo
Mar t; i m " x . m .B A
on. Tiie pne iuue connuuuonai sib or
' L.klAU mmIIW m wslra Ka1I r mv ah
VI UIV1 WsV (Mlll a uiaao iww v w
amused the nation fully more than It alarmed It
Ixrd Melbourne had resigned who waa the
Queen's first Minister and devoted personal friend,
besiaes Ming ine neau or me party vo wnicn an
her training had inclined her and BIr Robert
Peel wa prepared to. take his place; but the ef
fort of the Conservative Premier were frustrated
by the refusal of the Queen to change her Mistress
of the Robe and Bedchamber Ladle an unfor
seen proceeding, which JhjadJe
"he"change for a hbrt time.' " 'J ,
lb he herself, however,' Judge herself mor se
verely, and ha recorded her painful recollection
of this moroenVof early freedom, when,' perhaps,
her head was lightly' turoedVy the plendor and
. t . a 1 -. 11 -a. ifcAl(T,w-f t m.'
UftOKiro IRCUWQtK HCri(l iwvitivu. . n "Wi
anhnnl for a vounff airU or one more detrimental I
be imagined," Her, Majesty aajs, wiw proiouna
tell who can Jadge bespit I alsfactbry that b
little barm cam ol-lt To Uie'pur all thing
are pure," even th delightful folllea of youth.
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Mis MarUaaatf. the most unfavoraaie oi enuca,
hrf" W .Am.thlnrularrabl to say of most
people she mentions, and to whom th monarchy
altogether wa funreal,", says of the young Queen
that she laorhed and talked ob aU bocasioo when
tha naor beheld her a pleasant fault. x Another
shortSomlrtr of Her Majesty during the Interval of
gyeiy was that all idea of marriage were put out
of toenntnd bythewutrt-orwwy iw inoe-
pendent action. Her girlhood had been so soper,
her whole life so retired and quiet, that the daiile
and movement of the greai world delighted her.
In the'revulslbnorfeellngshe "preferred Xondoil
to the country a preference curiously unlike the
sentiments of her later life, though not remarka-
Ki. it mut h- allowed, between the ages of
eighteen and twenty- period at which few young
persons of any 'rank prefer quiet amusement.
-It was in May, '1831. nearly two year afjer her
accession, that the lhident.occorred. "it wen
understood now," say Mr,.Theodore.Mrtin1 In
bis "Life of the Prince CJonsort," 'Hhat there was
mlsunderstandingon both hWs; but the Immedi
ate effect jwato exasperateJhTorj Lrtxbxih
feeling that a tottering Ministry owed Us continu
ance l,n office to the personal predilection of the
Sovereign.". ..Nowaday, however, -nobody can
suppose that there wa any danger to the Consti
tution in the act, and th episode remalna.an
amusing and characteristic one, lighting up the
dullness of politic with a picturesque incident
Never again did Her Majesty depart rrom ine
constitutional Impartiality which look ' upon
Whig, and Tory, Conservative and Liberal, with
the same calm confidence tand friendllne; 'ahd
we confess, for bur own' 'part, that this one little
"fting bf youthful Impetuosity give to ourselve
a mop' affectionate realisation of the character
and difficulties of th Qdeen. 'V;'.-'4'
.AKSOUSCISO HpB BETBOTHAU
All tle world know how smoothly went on th
wooing of Victoria and Albert The soeuVln
which tha young latly Informed her Ministers of
her betrothal waa a pretty on. Th young pair
had remained together for above a month, keep
Ing tkfc.lsrotM
growing to know eah other In thA bloa inter
eourso of tbalr betrothal; and it wa not till the
depojrtor of the younr lover had brought back
common Ufa arid lU-oarsa thatthQu n narved
hanetf for vtbe; public deciaratloo which no one
could mako for her.v Th sUustloa I o peculiar
that w know; scaroely any preoedent . for it
Even now, when he had beey two year on the
thron, no Queen o young. bad ever .reigned In
EngUnd,:and'no English Queen had ever had
such a morning tal to tell to her Privy Council
lors, l Th young lady did it with the modest dig?
nlty wh'" hmA 1rnm flrsildlatlMgulsheqVher f
and here la the description of it he ha herself
given us, with .hersualrhappy.sluipiclty--nd
stiilghUorwardnew. The'Privy Council, know
ing how Important th sitting waa, mustered
strong. There wore eighty gentlemen ofibem as
sembled in th 'bow-jroom on th groand floor of
Buckingham Palace," whom, this young ereatur,
with her heart -fallr-had -to fao alone, and tell
what had happened Co ber. !
Precisely at two e'elock'in narrative is rrom
JM-TBQfllJrav
there.' Lord
Meloowrntft saw looking kindly af hie with" tear
In hi eyes, but bb waa not near an. ; 1 then read
my abort declaration. I felt that ray hand shook,
but I did not make one mistake. I felt most
happy andJLhankf ul when Jtjra oven ..Lord
liandsdbw.B .then ro,. and in the ,0am of the
Privy Council asked that 'this most gracious and
most Welcome communication might be printed.'
I then lef the rooro, the whole thing not taking
above two or three minute. The Duke of Cam
bridge camclnto the small library where I was
standi n gr nd wished me Joy
tlf "AH I J, ' IT'. -.
WllTS AXp tfOTllKR.
The, .roung Queen, In , he happy, year that fol
lowed, her .wedding, was a good little wife and
inotherjTbe greatest maxim of alV-h write,
i thai the children should be' brought up as
simply rknd In as domestic a way as possible ; that
(not interfering with their lessons) they should be
as much a possible with their parents, and learn
to, place their greatest coaftdeno In them In all
thing.,'' ''1$ Js already a hard case for me," ibe
Queen a4ld, Whenhe peak of .the. preesureof
public business which prevented her from' giving
to th little Prince Bbyal all the attention she
wished, "that my occupations prevent me from
being with her when she says her prayers f " and
we may quote entire the note of Instructions in
respect to religious training, whleh the young
mother of twenty-five put down for the guidance
bf her deputies In thl important work: "I am
quite clear that she should be taught to have great
reverence for God and for religion, but that she
should have, the feeling of devotion and love
which " bbrJI?ivtnlyrathrJ
earthly children to have for Him, and not on of
fear and trembling; and that the 'thought of
death and an after-life should not be presented In
an alarming and forbidding view, arid that she
ahofki bo mad to knowA a jrejno JUTrtneof
creed., ,w .".fV-rmi . vi .n-.-X n-.-r
To wU and simpl InstrucUon .jalghl ho
leaa
than royaL- A a lighter dtallrw may add the
decrlptip'glTb bythoWelth tturseof ow
IMnces.'qtiotcd by Madam Bunsen, who twith i
hair-grud'perhaps, that ah had noi aomethlog
tnor splendid to tell of) Informed the amo4 am
bassadors that the royal ehlldren "were kept Tery
plain Indeed ; It waa qnlt ior living-only a bit
of roast beef, and perhaps a plain pudding." The
aame authority, probably quite uneonsclou of th
high compflnuat she was paying, fprorioonoad
Her Majesty to bo Vqulte fit to have been a poor
man's wife a wll as a Queen." Bo stands In the
world a capable woman, fit for whatever duties
ftari mar-send th bnmMet-l4-ftt!lo(
mutual dignity a the highest.
fllE QrKKX'a PRIDE J5I HE! C8BAXD.
; The'Exlilbltlonjof .1851 was carried out onljr by;
the determined work and unfailing energy of the
Prince, who stood fast against all disunions, and
overcame every obstacle with, firmness, good
h ii mor. and Derseverance be vond praise. After
every kind of discouragement and opposition, the
work wa finished at lasand, by tbe greatest
good fortune, the building itself was as unique a
the idea, and the pectacular effect produced was,
according to all record,-f theTnost sUocesruT ahdT
strlklnff kind. It was a Fairy Palace of Industry
and Tasterwhere every" genius did not hesitate" to
dw.U, and wherewealth and arTcamrtogelfter In
a way which ha borne good fruit ever since, and
given a hew stimulus to many a branch of skilled
labor, and the higher handicrafts as well as the
larger Interests of trade. The Queen, who had
followed every step" of the project with unfailing
. MACHINE-MADE HONEYCOMB.
Chief flpeclal Agent"Thrle E." Hill, in the
statistical preparation of this City manufacture
for th next eensu. baa brought Jo the attention
of the publl tho manufacture oCcomb founda
tions In which bees deposit honey. . It was a pop.
ular belief that bees mad their own honeycomb;
but, for the past three years, man has been doing
it to a considerable extent, and the bees apprecl
at hiahandlworiu. r- .. - :-r
- "There are thousands, of pounds annually made '
In this city," said Mr. A. J. King, of ,14 Park
place, "and it is cotplng dally Into more general f
use. Throughout the West and In Canada, where
there are large apiaries, it ha superseded be -comb.
Why shouldn't it t Every pound of comb
represents twenty pounds of honey. The' keeper
seeds to have a lookout for this item'
In the production of the comb foundation, bees-
wax 1 heated to a high temperature in an oblong -tank,
over ,four Inches wide -and twenty-five or
thirty -inche deepItJ placed standing inan
oval tank, In which is very warm water. A clean'
board 1 run down into the inner tank containing
thJeswaxThnrihOrboard ts-dipped-lhtorold
water, and the wax peels on.. It Is then passed
through a machine to be Indentd, JThejnachIne,
Is complicated one. Mr. King says he has
4 found -no-- mectian tr itr i ni ti t y wno T-aDi e xo
make one. There are many in the et. The
foundation Is placed In the hives. The bees
lengthen the ceils by digging out the bottom and
walling up the lds. JSetc 1 or Aun.
interest, made a visit to It two day before the
opening, which filled her with the tenderest de
llght".We remained two hour and a half," she
says, "and I came back quite beaten, land my head
bewildered from -the myriads of beautlful-and
wonderful things which now'qulte darxle one's
eyes such' efforts have been made, and our people
have shown such taste in their manufactures : all
owing to this great Exhibition and to Albert-All
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- HerMajesty's accoont of this great undertak
ing, of the solemnity of the opening, and all tho
proceeding In which she herself wa"th chief
actor, are, like all she writes,' most animated and
graphic, giving a alntyle and mOstHfe-likc-count
of all that was passing under her eye. "I
waajherjIredehoMiysvat the conclusion of
this wonderful day; but w Were beAh o happy;
so full of thanktulne." ' In and throughout all,
thl triumph wa epeclally dear1 a being that of
her husband. 'Thejwudest.andjupplftilayof
faiyappyillfe." she eall it, a belBg fiill of nho
glory of his dear name, united wltnr too glory of
mydear country." Every word the Queen write
on thl subject 1 aglow with this sacred pride and
generou joy; - 1 , ';" O--' . .
A BAB.C0MILI1IE1T. ' ' ' " '
The same Fumner, on returning from a ball at
the Oulldhall, which they did not leave till after
ioneo!clQc klnthe mornlngthe royal pair found
the streets still full of people waiting for those
who made i the deadof hlght!',gaywlth their ap
pfauses. A 'million of , people remaincl till S lh
the street," the Prince write. "Howfewov
reign have ever had jitfeb a true 'compliment
paid them !" '' ' '' ' :. '-
Discovery or a Letter Wnirrcx by Adam
TO Eve. In Josh BiUlngs "ook Book and Pic
torial Receipts," Just published by Carleton, tbo
following interesting letter I found : rT7 r
ElBjifA, IMjeiliNK, Ttgf 1 wo.
A CoysciEXTiora Oikl's Sacrifice. The fol-.
lowing story is told of a two-story, brick house In
thesubarbsof Boston, whose door and windows,
are nailed up, and which has never been occupied : -"Nearly
thirty years ago a young man built It
for his bride, intending to mortgage and pay for -it
gradually, as his wordly goods inoread, to all
of which she agreed.7: When-the-weddlng -Jay
was appointed, the trosseau ready, and the house
finished, betook the. lady out from Boston to ln-
L spect it. After' going over the house be presented
ber with a deed or- it a a wouaiug gin. iviiow-
ing his circumstances, vhe was astonlshet that he
had actually paid fof It He explained that buy
ing a ticket In a lottery, ha had drawn th first
prise, which Just covered the cost of the , house.
The Puritan maiden protested that she would uot ,
take a home obtained by gambling; and refused
the deed. -'His argument were of no avail she
remained obdurate. .. When ther left the house h
locked tho door and threw the key into the brook
near by. The next day he boarded up the win
dows, and only the spider and mice have ever oc
cupled It The man never married; he became
ricn. Datf a wanderer on tbo face of the earth.
Tho woman never married she 1 till living,
poor and an Invalid.". . - -
Bear Ev e ; I ha ve been on .the, rampage now
one month, prospecting for our new home, and
have seen some ranches that will do pretty well,
but none of them lust th ticket. The old garden
is a hard place to heat, but w hare loeMhat, and
are turned out now to root hog or die. We will
fight It out nowon thlsilne, if It take all Sum
mer. Eating that apple was a great blunder, bat,
my dear girl,-let bygone be bygone) there is
hop for us yet , Just as soon as ( strike a good
claim I win come back to you. Watch over Cain
closely ; he Is a brick. The weather Is raw and
cold ; I feel that I am to thinly clad. No more
new from your loving -.'" ' Adaic :
P eW lias Cain out another tootn jtVTi
- Most publishers, and editor too, have doubtless
had very amusing experience of the Innocent
Impatience of correspondents, r Letter to the
eiiitor often run a If tho poor man had nothing
whatever to do from morn to dewy eve hut attend
to thelrpapersTTHe may be struggling, like a
dray horse in an overloaded wagon, to overtake
the pile of crabbed hand-writing in prose and
verse that burden hi table, ranging from essays
on Chinese metaphysics to lines on a snow-drop,
and possibly In regard to a given paper, thinking
of Inserting It In the course of the season, when
down comes a thundering- epistle demanding why
It did not appear in the latnumberWelt the
impatience of correspondent 1 not always Inno
cent. Borne have a spiteful pleasure In stinging
the editor for rejecting'? what th unhappy man
never asked. If be had only time h might ex-
Klain things, and perhaps pacify them 'K but per
ape not Dr. Blaikie. . . .. .
Excessively ' Courteous Personalities.
L"Mr. Thompson presents his compliment to
Mr. Mirapson, ana oeg to request tnat he win
keep his' plgg from trespassing on hi groundy
"Mr. Blmpson present hi compliments to Mr.
Thompson, and beg to suggest that la the future
he wilt not spell Pig with two gees." "Mr.
Thompson's respects toMr.JSlnipanraitd-wiIl
leer obliged it lie win add the letter E to the last
word In the note Just received, so as to represent
Mr. Himpson and lady." "Mr. Flmpson returns
Mr. Thompson' letter unopened, th . Imperti
nence It contain being only equaled by its vul-
grtty.a r;v:- .
- - "Your visits remind me of th srrowth of a sue-
rsfl newtpapciv'aald-LTncl Jabez. leaning hi
cum vd ins cane, auu gisnriuK oomuiim Ufnrv
r In
quired William
rofthe f weskljrj iew t
,ne, anil glancing on lllla
wt uu AnifTnrn nv so
iienry. en, you commenced
-weekly, aikrnbw
have becom a ilailywitlLnJtenday supplecnenV1
' Which of th reptile I a mathematician ? Th
adder. . '.-. '
A Brave Wosf ajt. During the laie freshet.
Mr. Gillespie, of liogu Rtver, awoke during the
night to find the water one foot and a half deep in
her hoase. 'At the time there were In the bouse,
beside, herself, her three children and her
mother-in-law. The river was alive with drift at
the tlme but to remain In th house was almost
sure death to all; so taking her children, the
brave woman started, the water being up to her
waist for the upland back of the house, which .
ghe resetted not without considerable-danger, as
the current was so strong as to nearly
out into the main streanv-Returnlng, sheearried
her motherrnlsWlo the place where she had
previously taken her children. During the ex
citement they naturally forgot matches, and, as .
a ' consequence, being a good distance from any
neighbor, were obliged to stop In th wood all
night without a flrer-iVrf Orord iAt , , -
Rich boy are often Spoiled and their "energle "
sapped and undermined by luxurious habits, the 1
too free use of money, and the lack of that disci- ,r
Iine which comes from - Indigence.- Thereare
they live beyond thHr means because thev wish '
to drr anTlvtite and "entertain, 14 neighbor do
who have Unfold their income. "Truly, mail
walketh in a vain show !" Of this narrow and ,
vulgar ambition, a brood of sordid and un whole
some things are born. It Is Impossible that ehil
dren shall develop symmetry of i character in J
houses whsre Ufa Is a frantic struggle to appear ,
as grandly as the occupants of the, next one ap-
pear, the grandeuf belng all tinsel and vatn show. .
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A banquet was recently given by a bourgeois of '
Brescia which is destined to make It mark In the .
annals of cookery. It was composed entirely of f
asses' flesh roast boiled and broiled, and th
f wholo-waa' proiiounced"nnotJ exquisite. 'AT
money makes the man, so does coorery maae mo
meat. Every part of the Italian beast aacrifleed 2
on thl occasion went down the thfoata of the f
wise men assembled to devour him. . The tongue'.
In particular wa declared to" be perfect Will
the example be followed elsewhere 1 The motive 1
of the giver of th banquet waa simply to procure '
for the poorer population an article of, food more,,
nutritious than the bad beef and mutton sold at .
butcher shot. V ' '. '
Although some of the undenrround telegraph
wires In Germany have been In use for five year, '
they hav cost nothing for maintenance, and are
not likely to need any repair forearr to com,
There are now 8000 mile of such wires employed. ,
The plan adopted consist In enclosing seven or .
more separately Insulated conductors with a coil of
moist hemp, Surrounded by a complete sheath of
Iron wire, which again Is covered with a layer of -
hemp yarn Impregnated with, a protecting com ;
pound. The cables are wound upon drums at the .
sheathing works, and, after being subjected to.'
careful electrical testa, ar paid Into trenches'
three feet deep and covered up. f 1
Queen Rophle of JSweden, during the six years f
of her Illness, has so suffered from nervousness
that she haa not been able to listen at all to mo
tkhoiiglrh"U "very fond of It Upou ber .
recent marvelous recovery at Amsterdam, ner
eldest son hastened to hr, and hi singing wa
her first musical enjoyment He has a beautiful
voice, and the eyes of those present filled with
tears a they saw theTadiancain the mother'e
facerandlhe emotion which th son tried to con j
ceal.a he sang to that mother, restored to him
almost from ber deathbed.
II'O ttulel""
Ane Tenormer atano w i
-"liy Peeping" I the new yanfC
are made in a acreenw. .The nerforme:
-hlodU nd place- their eye in the holcy-whlte-p
the persons in front guess to wbom th jcyep.be-
long. ; : .- " " ' -" :.
We wish for more in life, rather- than mor of .
It Jecm Ingilo. ' :.k '