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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1887)
FOREIGN GOSSIP. Loss Until 200.000 or tlin 125,000. 000 heathen womon in India can road, Cardinal Manning has boon liro moled to tliu vlco-tireidonoy of tlio Loiufon Nowspnpor Fund. A profit of olght million florins was netted hy the nnlion.il library ol Austria-Hungary lift your. A lino wn lot down Into nn r.x tlnot crater at Molokal, Sandwich Isl ands, n distance of tli niii thousand llvo hundred foot without reaching liottom. - Quito, in South Amnriun. la tho only city in tho world on tho Kquutor, .ami tho Him rises nnd sots thero tit six o'clock tho year round. N. 1'. Wit ness. Denmark is known ns a romnrka lily level country. Surveys of last sen son find only tu'o points In tho klug doin that reach nn elevation of live hundred and forty feet. Gtlden Hide. A (Jlnsgow yacht, destined for jicreh fishing in Soulli Australian wa ters, has boon lilted with olectrical ap paratus expected to light up the water to tho great depth of sovontoou fath om. Cyprus is proving to firont Hrltaln nn expensive luxury, because, although the Income from revenue rises some $;H)0,00l) above expenses, something over SlfiO.OOO has to be paid annually ns a subvention to Turkoy. Congreya tionalist. - In a Liverpool cigar factory, where one thousand girls are employed, a tiro brlg-tilo, composed of tho operatives, hits been orgaui7. d. Tho girls are well oflloercd and drilled, and at a re cent "blaze in the factory did cfllclenl nervice hi subduing tho Humes. .V. O. Times- Democrat. -The project of e mnoetlug Hal' with Sicily by a sub narine tunnel is again diseuss d. The estimated cost of the work is over fourteen millions of dollars The depth .of the sea along the proposed line is over live biinilr'e I feet. The length of the tunnel would probably not exceed llvo nillos.--.V. )'. J.cdtjer. - Hituyiti .Nanjlo. now professor of Sanskrit at Tokio, has been Mint by his monastery ou n scientific nnd religious mission to India, lie went to tKford. sonic years ago. to study S.utskrit un der Prof. Max Midler, and received the honorable degree of M. A., on leaving England. He is the anther of several learned works on Htiddhlsm. - One of the newest and heist of the ninny circus s In Paris has just Innught out an old production a Spanish fair with all Its ailjnue s, lis beggars, its niandolliiists, its peasants and merchants iu costume, its audi ences and songs, and, to crown all, its hull tight. This Is one of the most amusing and picturesque spectacles Mien In Paris for many years. - The monk of St. Hiriiard, who devoted themselves as ardently to the study of science as t the rescue of wayfaring men, hnve brought the tele phone into th.dr service of mercy. The famous hospice is now in telephonic communication with the Outline de Pro, and tlt! village of S. Pierre, ns also witlt the Outline d i Font lute and the village of St. Oltoniy, on the Ital ian side. -Urooklun liayle -Mrs 11 -nrv Wood's grave is in lltghgate Cemetery, near those of Ueorge Whit, P.uepa Kosn, Frederic Maurice, (leorgo V.i'idonltolV, 11. Ornbh Kobinsiin, Alaric A. Watts, Lord Lyndliurst, and 'lt. father, mother and little daughter of Charles Dick ens. Near bv, also, i the tomb of Wonibvvell, tho famous menagerie showman, surmounted by a full-slaed lion in marble.- v.in UudgeJ. Some odd re-i !e its huvo arrived t tlte Paris xoo. They include a three striped paradoxitro from In linn; a Scop's owl, captured at sea near Aden; u white-fronted heron, from Austra lia; a Stanley parakeet, from West Australia; a Hurmolstor's earlanta. Southwest Hruail; a black sternottiere, from Wot Africa, received Iu ox ohange, anil twotnws. The "juiiows" hlightly troubled u, but tho pamdox ure, the Scop's owl, the black stento there, and the llurtiieister's cariuma puexle us entirely.-- taieijjo TYmia. THE COMEDIE FRANCAISE. Tim World's MikI XlucultlppiU Tlir;trr n Monument of Art. It Is a superb monument, this house of Molicre, a verltalde liraud Seigneur's palace, with sumptuous saloons, h Malr-ens ndor.m I with statues, gal lcrit! full of picture, busts nud Mutu ary, and the thousand souvenirs that bear eloquent witness to a long and gloriou- jwst. The exterior, from the surrounding colonnade to the lantern on the summit of the roof, give one the impression of immntahle and grandiose stuldllly. The tinrrow entrance doors of Indescribable wlui, and innocent of all ornament. charm ou hecauao thoy remind yon of an other nge. And the grand vestibule, which loiks like n Florentine crypt, that qxtclout, vaulted rotunda periled with statue-, the walls covered with antique uilrror-gla iu Muall Mnums, lite Mjirys thst radi ate (Ml nil s-idMs pi.tixltsl by the ushers of tb (uodh e vi aiwl rtimliHu, with their hvv kiher ebalus of uft'xv hugi'iff round their ittMtk,)Mtxv Uill'Mvut from any tkiugone lias ever su! . . . KariNg tlw Mrw,V htnuds n HiarUe H(ue by Ds id l'Aurr iviMywtiutf Tdi! ul- Jug h r4 Ih ih i tun ut .t'.'.itiKle of a Cer tUiuklii f tVe i. im.. of Id tMira. Ou eitlMT d of la',- , ma mv iljPorto ttiue ( J; d niW. CVuely My Doet. aud to h Irft Cloyiugv r' stsine f It 'chL m!m iv 1HaHmS Trvly, ilrHl in u nutique iwpluta and holding jv.n,ril iu lite baud. In Uio vcubuio vl Ut eiitrnuca from tho Placo du Palah ltoyal. tiontoil in niches softly lighted by two tnodost roflcctors, nro the two tutelary geniuses of lliohousn, M diore and Cornelllc, chlsoled In marhlo by tho sculptors Audron and Tal gnlerc. LL us pass along tho broad lobby botwoon two rows of mar bin busts and walk up thn grand stalr-ca.se, which is comparatively recent, havinir bom ndd mI by the archltest M. Clmbrol, when tin Thea ter l'rnneais was onlarg'd In 180 1, thanks to land gainvd by street im provenii'nton the sfdo of the Place du Palais Kval. The public foyer and the whole s uitli fae.ule of the th'-ater date from tin same year. 'I bis stair case, willi its marble caryatides by Carrier llolleusn. Its rich iron balu strade, its lino architectural linos, de nerves nothing but praise. Unfortun ately it leads only to a lobby, and one must turn to the left to outer the pub lic foyer or crush-room. This foyr looks like a rich and artistic salon, with it profusion of doll onto gliding, its pilaster, its mirrors. its graceful ornamentation, and fine deeorativo paintings. batcil com fortably in an arm-chair or on a sofa, one can contemplate at one's ease a rare collection of masterpieces of French sculpture of the eighteenth century placed around tho room. In the midst of a mass of vorduro ami (lowers Voltairo occupies tho placo bf honor at one end, not as a dramatic author, not as one of tho grand ances tors of the house, but because his statue Is the finest that Ho itlou ever made. At the other end of the room, on each Ide of the moiiiimental chimney- piece, nro busts of Molicro nnd Cor neille, and in front of each of the six teen (tilted pllnstors Hint divide the walls Into panels stnndsou it.s pedestal a marble bust of some celebrated au thor, bv II iu lou, Cafll U'i, Piijoti, IS lizot or others an admirable series, which is continued along the adjoining gallery, at tho end of which we admire Clesin- ger's seated statue of George Sand. The foyer nnd the gallery of busts con stitute f.ir the public the ntiHcum of the Ooincdio l'Yancnisn. Hut these two rooms contain only a very small part of the artistic treasures of the house. In every passage, in every room, on every stairway, on every wall, there are busts, pictures, engrav ings, historical souvenirs, which the public does not. see. I ho artists green-room, tho directors ca timet, in particular, are most interesting, but. if course, unless you hive friends at e iiirt you can, not enter these rooms. Happily, a far, at least, ns the sculpt m e is concerned, tho greater part of the masterpieces are placed permanent ly within the public view, iu the foyer mil tlte passages. At the present day the richos of the ('oinedin are so abundant th it for want if room even masterpieces have be lef, it dark c inters, u isen nnd almost for gotten. At the Couteilie Kraneaise, in lie actors' greenroom, nud in the pub ic foyer, almost all the master porlrait sts of the eighteenth century, seulpt irs and painters alike, may be studied it tlie.r best work. The sculpture is particularly admirable. The statues mil busts of the museum of the Come lie may be compared witlt the antique censures of the museums of Italy, and be conclusion will be that tho seulp nr's art never achieved its end with note truth and more of the ideal than : did by the chisel of llottdon, Cnllicri, V ijou nnd l)a id d' Angers. For they ire really splendid nnd rndiant with entity and genius, these busts to which into has contributed the master ouches, giving life to the flush, nnd tceentunting tho expression according o thescnlptor's Indications. Theodore. Child, in Hurler's Magazine. ALL ABOUT CALICO. Iiitriuliii'tloii nt tlu I'ulirlo from tmlln luto llollnuil met Ureal Itrltutii. The derivation of this word is very interesting, ns of such nn ancient date U its origin. Mr. Leonowens says in Iter "Travels in India' ' that "in the vear 14'JS, just ten months and two Uys after leaving the port of Lisbon. Vnsco da (Tama lauded on the coast of Malabar at Calient, or more properly ivalo Uho.la. -City of the Hlaek Cod less' Calicut was as that period not otly a very ancient seaport, but an ex ensive territory, which, stretching along the wtMern coast of Southern In lia, reached front H out bay and tho adjacent islands to Cap Comorin. It wn at an early p.riol, so famous for its weaving and dyelug of cotton c'oth, that its tiatno became, idcutirtod with the manufactured fabric, wheuco the uatue calico. It is now generally admitted that this Ingenious art originated iu India in ery rvmole ng, ami f row that coun try found Its way into Kjtypt. It wns not until toward the middle of the seventeenth century that calico-printing was Introduced into Knropo. A knowledge of the art was aoquirtl Uy mm of the servants iu the service of the Dutch hVisi.ludm Company and carried to Holland, whence it was in troduced in ludon ia the year 167&." U was urprisiag fur grown -up chuV trea, as well as our )oung Mks to iearu that P.iny a early as the nrsl eenturv uwnthws in ht uatural hU-Uirj- iV. there exUtetl in K't a oii, ;tu! in thsl f dyeing while do h . l m-u ran U dejviesl iilici it loau of such antiquity. 11m -tu.Ul mtke-up of the )rt.'ut 4nj' .r.a U 'k lown w::h tsiUfiu;i ujn ;i.f i i ... divs but "Wlia: kind of '. a .re lit the u.mJ Ca - Tor a pii' ol abject shame ttnl th- farw f a jxig de thai is bung l xl thiongh iho sUxsu by a dude lMoAu HerX. WOOD PRESERVATION. Thi aioltioil Snrorfiilly Ailoatort nt the Cliiirlontown NavT Yard. For ninny yours thero wero many complaints and dissatisfaction with modern ships iu tho nnvy, becauso of their early decay, resulting from a law of nature which has nover boon entire ly overcome. Many unsuccessful ofTorts have boon mado to do this but thus far practical tests ham not demon strated tho thorough efficiency of any of them. Tho process of presorvation, as applied at the Ciarlosiown Navy Vitrd, adopted in 1877, gives tho most satisfactory results, greatly increasing the durability of the wood. Tho creo sote jTrocess was applied to several ships, and, although meeting all re tpiiroinonts as a preservative, it entit led a strong odor which tainted all the food on board ship, rendering it so dis tasteful that it. could not bo oaten. For this reason it was found necessary to abandon this process. The chemicals used in the present method of preserving do not smell bad. and after exposure to air or water for a fow weeks thero is nono whatever. It i.i admitted that this process is superior to all others, and as it may bo of inter est to many of the readers here append ed is givon tiic. method of tinib T pres ervation by impregnation nt tlte Cltarlestown Navy Yard. Timber of allMiiiiensions is loaded on cars, which are run into a copper cylinder six foot in diameter ami eighty feet in length. A pipe leads from the bottom of thn copper boiler to a steam boiler; this jiipo is pierced witli numer ous small holes to permit tho free es cape of the steam. Steam is then ad mitted, which will thoroughly saturate the timber, piv-sing out the sap. witlt the exception of soin of its albumen parts, which, together witlt tile con densed water, will run off at tho bot tom of the copper cylinder. The steam answers the double purpose of driving out the sap, and at lite same time rendering tho tim ber, which ns found in the mar ket, can not bo expected always to be evenly seasoned, uniformly prepared to receive the impregnation. Tho gate at the end of tho boiler being hermetic ally sealed makes th lingo cylinder perfectly air tight. Now-a powerful air pump, connected with the cylinder, is set in operation, for the double pur pose of extracting the condensed steam contained in tlte limber nnd of extract ing the air to form a vacuum. When tho vacuum is estnbl shed, tho copper cylinder is filled with a solution of sul phate of copper, and by means of a force pump a pressure of from one hundred to one hundred nnd twenty pounds to the square inch is applied. After the timber is saturated witlt sul phide of copper the residuum is let oil' and a vacuum is foiled again, and a solution of chloride of barium is ail -utitted. Thi form.-, in n short time a chemical combination with the -ulphat of copper, forming insoluble salt of sulphate of barytes, and tho timber is ready for use. The destruction of all wooden struct ures iu salt-water by iho ship worm is only question of time when tho wood has not been impregnated. When the temperature of the ocean is high titis ship worm will destroy wooden struct ures so thoroughly in two years that they become thereby unfit and unsafe lor uo, and have to bp renewed. All elVorts to slop the action of these mi crobes failed until this process was in troduced. Many failed partly because the nature of some application was either such that they would not enter into the green, sappy wool, or that they washed out easily by the action of lite water, and partly because such ap plications were confined to an outside coating, which, when removed front any otto given point, afforded no pro lection, for worm after worm then en tered nnd the whole slick was quickly destroyed. Kven to case a whole pile with shoot copper is only a temporary, though costly remedy, for only so long as the whole armor remains intact and incloNos the stick in a water-tight man ner is it protected. The nature of tho proee-s hero de scribed i such that sticks of any length, oven when cut tlte same day. can easily be imptvguato.l thoroughly from one end to the other, an 1 the crystals precipitate I along the inside of the jvures of the w.hv.1, as tho tvsult of the combination of the two chemic als, form h coating inside these pores, which neither can hs removed by mechanical action ror tho action of water, as ulphat of barytes is insolu ble in water or aekls Soft wood, such as jluc whitewo.d. beech, etc.. which, when tmnreparod, only last from two to three years, has beou found when prepared by this process to lie in good nod s..und condition aft er .xteen year' service. Railroad ties which have been impregnated have been found free from decay after cxoiire for fifteen years, which testi fies to the efficiency of impregnation. Jtaitoff MiiH j'rt rr.' QttMiU. TOOTHSOME CHEESE. Niitrn Ixak-aHo Wfclrh Can !! .MmU ly ltw.- Ititlltct IttcniiA There are several kinds of chee that can be made w here bat two or three cows are kept, ami several ol iheiu are delicacies as well as Nu tritious food. Fir&t may be mentioned the rreant chetsse, as rich a batter bat with a ptwioaaeed rheeee Aaror that make it quite acceptable as a dish for leen. This i made a follow: The mith U pat ia fallow paa ia the i.-u .1 war. and at tha end of twelve t. u.Ntaepaa are set oa a iv oaty -d t !.. i ;Loi uillk will inu through irradaaily until the fllni uf ix a h hi :ak and bconat- w rio t -1 The n i.k p.i ust not I mi I. ani h n wju-iih-4 iuthcirnUr it is re- ! moved from the stovo and set back on the shelves. After twolvo hours It is ready to bo skimmod, and thn cream is Inkon off in a thick, semi-solid mass. This is called clouted croam, and is often eaten by itsolf as aihlicacy. which it really Is. If it is cliurnod it makes a ratllor flat-flavored butter, but it will keep sweet a vory long time for months, or a 3-ear, or more. This thick cream is dipped off from tho milk and put in email wooden molds, about five inches long, threo wide nnd two deep. These are laid upon a foldid linen or cotton cloth which absorbs tho whey which d ains from the cream. Tho cream snon becomes solid and of tho consistency of now-muli baiter; then tho molds nro lifted off from tho cheeses anil thes are left to drain for u day longer. A little salt is sprinkled upon tho elieos.rs when thn molds are removed, and they nri lit for uo at any time after draining for twenty-four hours. Thee cheeses soil in tho Euro pean and English markets for lifty cents each and weiglt ono pound, Another small cheeso is mado from tho curd of sour skimmed milk or but termilk, and i a very plonsnnt relish for a supper or a lunch. Tito sour milk is set upon tho stove in the pans and warmed until (ho curd sets. This is dippid out into a thin muslin cloth and hung up to drain. When the whey is drained off the curd, slightly salted, is molded w i ll the hands into small, round cakes, llatloned somowhat. and thesi are packed into a stoneware jar and set iu a warm cloet for a few days to "ripen, " when they acquire a. pro nounced cheese llavor. 15y longer ripening tho curd elm igoi to a rat iter pasty consistency, and the cheeses may become sticky and covered witlt blue mold. When this happens, the ripe ness is c iinplele; the cheeses are scraped free from mold and set away iu a cool, airy dace fur consumption. In the opening process the cheese ac quires a buttery texture and becomes soft. Hy longer keeping nnd exposure to a warm teinperaiitrc, a vory good "Liuibnrger'' may bo mado in this way. An exquisite small chees" ma be made in imitation of the Neufchatel, which is exceedingly popular in the large citiesboth in America nnd Europe. This is made of sweet fresh milk, to which is added the swept croam of the previous milking. Tlio fresh milk of a good butter-yielding Jersey cow would make thc-e cheeses without the addition of cream. The mixture of milk and cream is warmed to eighty degrees, and sufficient rennet I is aiiiieu anil snrroa into it to maKoinei curd in an hour and a half or two hours. The curd is clipped out very carefully with a strainer, as soon as it is firm enough not to break, and is put into cylindrical molds about six inches in height and two or three incites in diameter. Theso molds nro made of tin; a small fruit or oyster can. having the top and bo:tom incited off on a hot stove, would make an e.xce.lent mold for this kind of cheo-c. The molds should be pierced with holes to let the whey drain oil and are placed on a clean fol led cloth to be tilled. As soon as tlte curd becomes finn onotigh it is turned out of the mollis and set on a table covered with a straw mat to per mit the still exuding moisture to drain off. These cheeses are eaten fresh when ten or twelve hours old. ot they are lighlly salted, wrapped in paratline paper and kept in a cool place, neither dry nor damp, whore they will keep a long time in good con dition. This same process is ued for mak ing small, flat, round chooses and oth ers squnre or formed in molds of vari ous shapes as tarts are made. Cheeses of this kind are often flavored in vari ous wavs by the ailil'Mon of powdered sage, anise seed, dried sweet herbs pawdtred. etc., and for the production of a verv rich cheese like the English Milton, or the hrenc'i Roquefort, sorn- blue mold is sown among the curd by adding small fragments of an old cheese. It is a curious fact in cheese making, that the.growth of theso pecu liar fungi in the curd dvelops a re markable change of character, pro ducing a soft, rich, butlerv texture, and a very pleasing, sharp flavor, without any of the strong nmmouiaca! tlor acquired by some of those ripened in a warm teniMratnre and with out the mold. The.-e blue veined eheess are highlv e teemed ami exceedingly imnular iu European countries and especially in K lglaud, where the very tine Stilton cheeee sells for fifty cents a jwuud, and requires one or two year to ripen before it is thought fit to be eaten. The fungi doubtless grow in the cheese at the expense of the nitrogenous por tion, and thus prevent the formation ol ammonia which accompanies a certain stage ef putridity, while they keep tht cheese sound and develop a more high ly carbonaceous character a butter)' character by the exhauliou of om uf the nitrogenous element. Swob, cheese U highly digestible and nutri tious, and while it is a matter of taste, it ik certain that the mold is not at ail ia jarioiia, and to some extent may be considered uefuL Rurmt .Vr J'orUr. The coal bods of China aro fire iinxi a- larfM as tboee of all Kurope, while poM, r, lead, tin. copper, iron, marble and petroleum are al found in the grwatott abundance. Ow ing to the prvjotlie of the people th mine hare never been worked to any . xtead. it beta tho fopalar beliof ia Ca'.a thit If ILcse 1X-I- are o.jBjJ .bouad f demons and spirits iro- priol in the eartb would come fori I and till th U.llrV M'Ull ai' ai.vi ( NATURAL MONUMENTS. Wild Mini Impi-Mdv Fconen In the Mount ains of H't Virginia. Up hero among the highest altitudes of West Virginia, on tqp of the anti clinnl ridges, 3,600 fect abovo the level of the sea, among the conglomerate erics, stand a number of stupendous monuments or monoliths whose pecu liar features, preserved by their silici otts character from tho leveling power of atmospheric agencies, degradation by water and erosion of time, to all ap pearaiices sound and perfect as when iu the carboniferous ago the lands wero cast tip in lateral folds. These impres sive monuments are in some cases l.r0 feet high hy several hundred in width; their crowns aro generally somewhat concavo in shape, tlio outer rim of tlio bowl being in sonio instances several foot higher than its center. Tho most peculiar feature, and one which has" been gazed upon by visitors with awe, and is regarded by tho native with that degree of reverence only found among a rural Christian people, is the fact that in tho center of each stono is a hole, varying in size, but perfectly smooth and regular in nil. In ono instance, which will describe nil, the hole at the surface is two foot in diameter, de scending into tho hard stone several feet, with a regularity of size which could not be made moro perfect with modern ingenuity and instruments. Holow the space begins to broaden into .in ovoid shape, until it has assumed tho shape and form of the interior of a long-necked bottle or that of a perfect rone with a long stem. At the bottom, many feet below tho mouth, lies a round stone ol great density, surrounded and often covered with very line sand, which partakes of the nature of the rocky walls about it. The belief- and theory of tho natives and those vi-itors who have, go.no many miles through these almost pathless wilds to see them U that when this part of the world was covered with water, many centuries past, large rocks or stones of great density had been carried by tho flood and deposited upon those stones, whose, concave crowns having created a sort of whirlpool by the resistance of the outer walls or ris sent the denser rocks in a whirl and constant grind ttutil they bad wrtrn themselves down into the bosom of the larger stones. As iho depth increased a correspond ing rcsijtMnec ensued, causing the re volving stones, by their increasing velocity, to grind further into tlte sides of the walls, until they had worn them into tho shape above described. Measurements were made by several visitors a short time ago and tho shape of each cavity was exactly the same in form, only differing in sizo in propor tion to the round dense stone lying at the bottom. In all instances tho neck of the ovoid-shnped hole was the merest trifle Jarger in diameter than tlio round stone. Several effort were made to get one of tho round stonos out of it. resting place nnd to the surface, but the attempts always failed. These monuments of the birth of na ture tand almost three thousand feet abovo the level of the lands of Ohio lioriVring on the river of that name. W9.Mt7r (ir. IV.) Cor. X Y. World. CANES AND CRUTCHES. A Denier Clntini That They Are Supplant In? Artlllclal l.iinliN. "Yes, sir." said a maker of artificial limbs in San Francisco, "men are get ting to be proud of plain wooden legs and empty sleeves. The time lias not long gone by when 1 received nu merous orders for legs, with feet at tached, wondroiisly combined .with cork, wood and steel, with springs that moved a finely as those in a watch; in fact, leg? that, with their trousers cov erings, wero quite as presentable in good company its the lost limbs they replaced. If any attention was at tracted by tho somewhat stiff move ments o their owners, the pitying ou sel vers would say: 'Poor fellow, bo has a touch of the rheumatism. 1 can sympathize with him; I nm troubled with it myself occasionally.' Nobody then evor said to a friend who asked him to take a walk: You must pardon me, but I have only ono leg.' He made some differeut excuse; illness in his family; indisposition; any tiling but inability. Hut how is it now? Why, a fellow who, half a dozen yirs ago, jKtked his leg into a sewer when he was staggering to his home a little before dawi:, and fractured it so badlv that no repairs were possible, leans back iu his cbair and, resting a dirty stick upon the table, while he quietly smokes a big cigar, sas to the com pany: 'There, gentlemen, is what Shiloh left me. I'm an old soldier and, hang me, I'm proud of if' " "I believe the manufacturers of canes are responsible for the decrease in the sale of arti-tically made crutches. You see a mau with a strong stick iu his hand can manage to hobble along tolerably well, even though has only one lever limb to support him, and if he has in addition a plain, old fashioned wooden-leg. nut uudcruiiucd by drink, as one of Dickens' characters says they sometimes become, he can walk atvat well enough to nui-di all the business that a oue-lcgged urn; is ever likely to be called upon to do. Of courte men kne this, loug ago, but it U only lately that they have taken it into their tuphl head to imagine that ooe leg ie U-tter than two, if the lie with which thev account for the los of the iM one U only bumcienlly skltlfolly constructed to be credited. "It k for thfe reaoa that 1 Wave taken to selling walking ticks and caue& Fale l-gs won't iupport ma an longrr. .' Waiter iacm L-tertturt- is a jood walking slick, bat a bod ctuuh. It wa a vwy guod crutch for him, however, but apart from that little inconsistency he did not weigh his words. A walking-stick is a crutch, moro's the pity and a cheap one, too. "Then, thero aro a great number of men who carry their love for elegant canes into the, regions of foppery, where ns the best false leg that was ever mado was only intended to conceal its ident ity, anil could not be worn more grace fully by a fop than by a pensioned minor. Cnncs with silver tops (with which the market has been glutted for the past two years, silver being cheap;) sticks so light that if the fingers grasp ing them opened they would be apt to fly up instead of falling down; sticks so heavy that they .seriously handicap their owners in a long walk, and would disappoint both hound and hunter by sinking if ?no of them were thrown into a pond for a water-dog to replevy; canes witlt the head of tlio 'missing link' on the handles, and canes with out any handles nt all. They combine to knock tho false leg from under the men who tell the same story, whether they left a limb on the battlefield of Gettysburg or in tho vicinity of a Penn sylvania coal-mine." "Ironw ood and lignum viicc make the favorite canes for heavy men; bamboo and mnlacca sticks aro more in vogue among light ones. The redwood of Hritjsh Columbia lias recently come into the market, and makes about si heavy a stick as any wood known. It has a rich port-wine color, and is very handsome. In tho event of an argu ment, it would strike home when logic failed, for it is as convincingly weighty as a bar of iron, and has a great advan tage over a sword or a pistol, inasmuch as it never misses lire, and its possessor can't cut or pierce himself by falling upon it in an unguarded moment. "Another objection to the artificial leg is that a man walking with one through the snow feels the cold in his toes, although he has no toes to feel it in. It is vory queer, but it is an nbso ltttc fact. The sensation of chill re mains, even when three feet of iron, wood, cork or steel spans the space be tween the cold earth and the sensitive point. Whether a man wears a well made artificial leg or an old-time wooden 'peg,' it is very necessary that the lower extremity of the false limb should bo well shid. A cane used in conjunction with a common 'stick leg' cases tho pressure on the ground, and may have some advantages over the scientifically made limb, but it decreases our profits enormously. "I once sold to a sportsman a leg that was simply a gun-barrel, with a cork in the bore. He loadtll it. before he went out for a walk, and if lie canto across a flock of birds he just pulled out the stopper, leveled bis limb and fired at them." Han Francisco CalL CLIPPING AND FILING. How I lu Turners or I lit fast Ilefuoeil tho Coin r tle Iti-ulni. "Milling" tlte edge of our gold and silver coins, termed also "graining" and "erenating." first employed in 1 C 10, to prevent their being injured by wear, and more especially by being clipped by rogues, is a hint taken from tlte ancient Syrians and Romans, who treated their coins similarly and for like reasons, by cutting out regular notches round the bonier, so as to show the inside of tho melal. Hut the old forgers were not to be so easily beaten, and made corre-mondiug incisions iu their copj cr imitations, plating them over with silver. Clipping, filing and sweating coins that is, im mersing them in some strong acid that will eat awa the sin-face, thus causing them to lose their weight, and conse quently tlyir value are among tho clumsier dodges; while the plan of cov ering pieces of iron, lead, copper and other metal, cut to tho size and shape of the coin to be imitated, with a thin plate of gold or silver neatly stamped and soldered at th? edges, which can only be detected by weight and sound, calls for a greater degree of skill and manipulation. Hy a law of the Em peror Constantino false coiners were declared guilty of high treason and condemned to be burned alive; by tho law of Athens, all counterfeiters, de bascrs and diminishers of tho cur rent coin were subjected to cap ital punishment. and in -our own country theso offenses aro deemed high treason, and not only these, but the mere fact of buying, sell ing, conceal ig or knowingly having in jKissossion any implements" or tools for the coinago of money. A curious statute was framed in the reign of (leorgo II. to the effect that "any of fender shall be pardoned incase (being out of prison), he discovers and con victs two other offenders of tho same kind." It is also contrary to law to consign money to" the melting pot, the 'punishment for which, iu the reign of Charles 11., was "(1) forfeiture of the same, nil also the double value; (i?) the of fender, if a freeman of any town, to be disfranchised; if not, to suffer six months' imprisonment." Hy a statute of William ill., "any person' but, vng or selling, or knowingly having" in his custody, any clippings or tilings ,.f tho coin of the realm, shall forfeit the same and i'600, one moiety to the King, and the other to tho iuformer. and bo branded on the cheek with the letter K.' The counterfeiting of foreign coin is also considered a misdemeanor and breach of the peace, ami liablo to a punishment of one year's imprison-, men t for the tirst ott'ene ami sevon years' penal servitude for the second. C'Aawom' Journal. Naval academies ami gehool-ships twnt out some pretty good skipjwrs, but old ohaetiB ojut doubly disouuut thctn when U oomo to quantity.