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 did it AGRICI|LTUEAL. English Cheeses. c„M0D haa written the fnllowiDg in- PrO; 3"*;°;° le for the Bural Neu Yorker. terestiDg ^^^^^^ makiug and cheese export- ),ow tna j^'^^^^g gucii important branches iDg "'^^^gg in Giiada the subject is one of •p many distinct kinds of cheese KQoland, some of which have a " With one single tx- 00 ""^Th widertputation. â- ^ ,i,ey are all f f the claBS known aa '"^^'Tchceee," in distinction from the many ' " i of "soft cheese" which are so gentril- i^ in Fian:e and Germany and which ' ""^w beirg imported in ratner consider- tl°volurrf into London. That one excep- • 3 the Slipcote cheese, ar.d it is made in RatlacJ^I'i^e. There is an odd conjanc cf littleness about this cheese made m V°2land it IS mace in the smallest quantity, d its home i- in the smallest county of the ^^Dfdoni. Tnere is, of course, cream hee°e, which is alfo very small, but it is ' a c-het se properly so called, because it is ^ider.mcit-im only and it ii not coagulat- ^artiticiallynd it is made in small quanti- tes iQ various counties. â-  j.,g silpjote cheebe is made from milk, which n coagulated in the ordinary man- by the aid of rennet the coagulum is jtrainerto drain, aid afterwards nsr j-eilinast nui^antitiTS of about one pound each, on riUtes, where it drains still more, snd next jtjjpuced betwe n cabbage leaves, which are regularly charged, and there it ripens. Xhe lipeciag takes from onato three weeks. according to the weather, and is completed when the cheese begins to ooze out a thick, curdy li'iuid, an t when the skin or coat is ready to sip offâ€" hence the name of "Siip- lote." Thif singular cheese is purely local aod has a very lim ted reputation. Few pEople in England have heard of it, and icwer still have seen or eaten it. It has bten on exhibition once or twice at our Lon- don Diiry Shows. Cream cheese is made by pouring cream into muslin which is placed in a small box orwickei mold; here the cream coagulates by reason of its own accumulating acidity, and forms itself into shape as the whey drains from it. It is ready for consumption as soon as it is firm enough. A limited de- mand exists for it in London and elsewhere, bat it will propably give way to the Camem- Dert, th^ Neulchatel and other Continental soft cheeses. The Stilton is at once the most modern and the most famous of English cheeses, and 033 no aiti(iuity to compare with that of the Cheshire, the Djrby, the (lloucester, tee \N ilts, or the C.ieddar. Records apper- taining to our ancient methods of cheese- makint: are, unfortunately, very scanty, nad only incid iital allusions are made to thcoi in a few old books here and there. It IS a matter for regret, in this age of inter- etting investigation, that so little is known aDout the habits and customs of our agricul- tural forefathers and yet it is probable tna: a good deal might be learned irom the musty and mildewed parchments on which the archives of counties and ancient famil- ies are inscrib id, if ouly a search were made. The search, however, would involve enor- ICCU3 trouble, and practically, could never ce completed for m many places such archives are not accessilL" while in others they are probably more or less illegible. We mnet be content, therefore, to rely on tne nebulous tale of tradition, the rest being ouried in the grave of the centuries. But in any case it is tolerably certain that several of our systems of cream making, as we have them to-day, date back to a very tarly period, and ttiese systems, owing to ccal practices and to the influence ot soil mJ Climate in given localities, are well de- Med ani clearly dictinct from ea;h other. It may be said, moreover, that certain kinds oi Eagli.-K cheese, to wit, the Scilton. the Cheshire, the lerby, the Lsicester, the Wilts Truckless.etc. cauonly be produced m integ- rity of character, flivor, and quality in the iliatricts to which they are peculiar. The cheese of Leicestershire, when we get a good Simple of ;t, is probably the best cheese in hnnland, and it has certain pecularities thich, io far as my cbaervation and inquiry so, iiavt not been successfully imitated in'any other eectiuns of the country. ' This is true also of the Cneshire cheese, which, like the Lncesrer, cannot be made with complete !iic:es3 on suy other aoil that the hunter sandstone and the keuper marl. It is true ilso of the i )erby cheese, which is made ^roDfi a carbuniferous limestone soil, Tnd of •he Gloucester, which belongs to the oolitic lormation. It is true most of all, perhaps, 5t the Stilton, whi^h belongs to the deep 'arly u!ay of Lsicestershire â€" a soil which commuiiKatts a quality and flavor that, so *r as I Mw aware, cannot be obtained in My otr.ir soil, te it never so rich. Stilton 'heear is ii;a'le in various peirts of England, ^din other countries too, but I have yet to find any sample of it equal in all respects t'^lhatnii'.e in the Melton Mowbray dia- snct, FARM ITEMS. Jt.Eo I'liTATiiKs â€"Rural Ntw TorhrByi: "•â-  upwar.'.s f,f ICO different kinds of pota- ':e-i raised last season, only two seed-balls 'ormed on those from which it was desired '0 save seeds. » jr plan for raising f eedling potatoes, as has been stated several times, 1" to sow the seeds in flower pots now "i-splant when three or four leaves have :ormed to little (three-inch) pots, turning "=6e out in o[,en groucd with the soil in- â- " wntii there is no longer any fear of irosts, -^\iti::, \N Ai.KKL-LTCRE. â€" At Washing- " J^^tntiy, the House Committee en Ag- _^-iltrire completed the agricultural appro- P-iiiion bill. The aggrej^ate amount ap- Propr aud is .So.'iO.rj'JO, an increase of about •-j.tUO -er the last appropriation. The •"' iiiif. rj from last year's appnpriation in i-crease of s-_4 0(J0 for the Statistical ot tea plant, and the refusal -10,000 for the reclamation in i i.'^partn^ent, the approp/iatio'n of i;iOOO for "*^P'Ofagation ^-^^rrropnatt e\-nl" ^*°*^ ^y aiuk.iig artesian wells. Tne â-  Penments hitherto made by the Govern- "_^'-ifs, tut two bills have been introduced 'L^O 1 !e3 ttitti Olf*- â- tgress for the formation of compan- ^ella f -^ ^^^' "'^^e capital to sink artesian pr).p,j°"' 'â- ""iting and stock watering pur- a-.ab ^^ """ region." The Senate may PrcD-iV'" lieht changes in the House ap- bibi^vl'"" '"' but such changes will pro- u Live s °"^°'^°^"*- -TotK I.\s:PECTioy. â€" In coowquence of the ro«picim of allowiDg American oattl« to be imported into England, b.^^ rf 2,! attention has been given to thi subject a' Washngton. A bill hw been intrSed mto Congress, by Senator Logan, to provide for tee appointment of inspectors ^ofUve S Jfl ' fo«'gn "hipment, the inspects, to be located m the custom district, where their services may be needed, but not mo" than SIX to be appointed in any district The examination of meats is not lo be com- pulsory but on the application of a pacW and the payment of "reasonable fees aid charges " the m-pectcr will examine the products and furnish a written certificate setting forth the time and place of the e^ amination and the condition and quality of the articles examined. It U expected if- 1, • lu"^*^ *^^ •'°"°i conditi^ of which IS thus officially certified, will find Z?thf^.'*\^*°*^^ European markets that the cost of mspection will be easily re- paid. ' Uselessness of Blinders on Horses. •; Biinders," says a writer in " Oar Damb Animas. " originated in the pride of per- sons who imagioed their horses presented a faner appearance when provided with these senseless appendages. Custom and ienor- ance combined in perpetuating their use, so that to-day probaoly nineteeu-twentieths of our horses are disfigured by these worse than useless contrivances, including multi- tudes of miserable, broken-down animals einployed in the severer grades cf labor, and which could not, from sheer weariness and lifelessness, be induced to shy, or run away, by anything short of a bomb bursting in their immediate vicinity. " The unsoundness ef that logic which insists horses are less frightened by objects which are screened from their view by blind- irs, but which they can Jiear (such, for in- stance, aa locomotives), than when they can see JQst what the object is, is proven wholly false by the experience of all who have dis- pensed with blinders on their animals. Jt M the unseen object which most terrifies a horse. Tne animal who will become unmanageable when made to face away from an apprc ash- ins; train, will quietly stand its grotmd if allowed to face ine object, I know this from personal experience with many restless horses. " Blinders do not prevent horses from ob- serving each object in front, and upon eaeh side ot them, ai they approach it while travelling upou the road, and hence blinders can only serve to prevent their seeing objects overtaking them from behind, which is an end never to be desired. I have frequently seen horses shy so violently as to nearly overturn the vehicle on beine passed trom the rear by a noiselesaly-gliding bicycle, which fright would have been avoided had the animal been unblindered, and thus aware of the approach of the machine. " Blinders also much diminish the beauty of a horse, the eye being one of its finest features. Bat the greatest obj ction of all is the cruelty (and injury, as well) resulting from their use. Toe vast mijority of blind- ers tT3 made nearly flat, so tnat they com- monly press directly aqa'nst the eye-lashes and eyes of the horse, which causes pain to the animal, besides frequently destroying its sight. '"I strongly and earnestly wish there could be legislation to compel all horse- owners who insist upon using blinders, to use od1 heavily convexid ones, which shal not press in the present cruel manner against the eye-lashes and eyes." Oar Forefatliers' Homes. Bad as the dwellings of the poor are in cities, and in the country also, they are as a class far superiir to those in which our Anglo-Saxon ancestors lived. If a serf, the Saxon lived in a hut not as genteel as some of our modern pig-styes, and far less com- fortable. If he was a gentleman, his home consisted of a hall, with little rooms on the outside surrounded by an earthwork. The rude walls of the hall were covered with some sort of hanirings, on which were hung arms and tropics of the chaser The floor was of e arth strewn with rushes. In this rude hall he breakfasted at nino and dined at three o'clock. It was consider ed disgraceful for a gentleman to dine alone. Everybody was welcomed with a lavish hospitality. The stranger brought news, n mean gift to an out-of-the-way country equire, who had no newspaper and couldn't have read it if one had been placed alongside of his breakfast plate, or rather bread-slice. For they used thick slices of bread, as plates were then unknown, on which to place portions of meat. These slices were called trenchers, because they were to be carved upon. Forks were unknown. A Norman baron is reported to have been 80 hospitable that he turned the king's highway through the middle of the hall of his minor. He did so in order that no traveller might have an excuse for passing without partaking of his hospitality. Seated on a high wooden seat, the Anglo- Saxon gentleman presided at his dinner of boiled bacon, which, with bread and vetret ables, mead and beer, was the principal dish. Quantity made up for the deficiency in quality. He and his guests drank heavily. Drunk- enness and sloth marked his daily life. Dfinking-cops were so made as not to stand upright. They had to be emp isd at a draught. Buckets were used to carry the mead cr oil to the guests. When the Saxon gentleman cr lady slept, he rested on a bench upon which a sack filled with straw had b3en placed. Neither he nor his wife wore a night-dress. The change from these rude customs into a more refined style of living was due to the Norman conquest. It polished the Saxons' manners, and infused into their sloth the energy characteristic of the English race. The transi«!on required time. For a long period the Saxons resisted the advance of the refined Norman manners and customs, as remindinK them of their servile condition, The conquered, however, had his revenge â€"he forcea his language upon his coEqaeror- The process was simple but effective, ilie nnmwried Normsiu selected their wives from among the beautiful Saxon maidens, and these naturally taught tneir children their native tongue FOREIGN ECHOES. ZntereniBK Kew» items trom au o^ar the World. .A^l^ '^^ °J ^«'^- CJ'o^»»gnoH wa« cremat- ed the other day at RmeT The operation *^P«r^ectly snooe««ul in forty.fir mln- It is Ksrionsly proposed at Antwerp to .^n^f-^^?®^"^*' "^* uDiversal exhibition m I8o5 the Great Eastern aa a floatine rea- taurant and hotel. ^^ Aocording to the last census the popula- tion of Spam and its possession* in northern i^!r**f ^^^^'^J *^t o* Cuba. 1,521.. 684, and that of the Philippines, 5 567.685 o^^lP^.?^'**'°° °^ ^P^^' »°d its possessions ^456,468. with a sUeht preponderance of females (145.000) over males. Jpl' Hatcher, who lives near Salisbury, m i.ngland. has been awarded the Order of St. John of Jerusalem for bravery in saving the life of James Lodder, a boy who had been several times gcrad and tossed by a k â-  ^^^ medal has an inscription stating that It was awarded "for service in the cause of humanity." Male education and female education in India, when compared with each other, pre- sent a striking contrast. The total female population is 99 500,000 and the total male population 103 000.000, but only 127,000 fe- males are under instruction at school, aa against 2,517.629 males. In one case the p«rcentage at school is 84, in the other it is 16 28. It appears from a work soon to be pub- lished by I^ouis Fdgan, the author of a well- known life of Panizzi, that the Brit'sh museum possesses the only authentic manu- script of Raphael, the manuscript being a sonnet written on a sheet containing sketches for some of the figures in the "Dispute of the Sacrament," which was painted in the Vatican about the year 1508. The North Oerman Gazette replies to the " attacks of the Spanish republican Castelar on the elevated person of the German em- peror" by as hearty an attack on the charac- ter of his assailant, ascribing his rancor to the fact that Germany was one of the first powers to recognize Alfonso XIJ, after the fall of the republic, and his motive to a de- sire to fish with selfish ends in the troubled waters of a new republic. The treasury of the Garman empire has just undergone its annual inspection. Every year three important financial officials visit and verify the imperial funds kept in the Julius tower at Spandau, and divided into tour sections â€" that intended for the ex- penses of fortifications, the share for pen- sions and invalids, that set apart for build- ing the parliament house, and the war por- tion, which now amounts to $30,000,000. Nothing whatever is known at the Vati- can of the £500,000 said to have been left the pope by the late Mrs. Stapleton. It is safe to conslude that the report was a tan- talizing invention of some "anti- clerical." Half a million pounds, or even franco, would be a welcome addition to the papal treas- ury, which is decidedly dry jnst now. The want of money to pay carainals is said to be the chief reason for the long delay in creating new ones. While the Austrian crown princess was driving recently through the Rothethurm- strasse, one of the most frequented streets of Vienna, a little boy of 5 years old ran against the wheels ef her carriage and fell. He sufl'ered only a slight abrasion of the skin on the nose, but was taken at once to the hospital. Toe crown princess, with her maid of honor, subsequently went to inquire about him at the hospital, and also called to reassure his paients. A correspondent at Snakim writes â€" While encamped lately near Osman Digma's quarters, some of our allied Arabs showed a periectly ridiculous cowardice, walking about the camp on their hands and knees at the first souna of a musketry attack, which they piteously declared " caused them stomach-ache." Oae Arab officer also, in a late reconnaissance ot tie Turkish cavalry, behaved very badly, and another officer positively bolted. This gentleman has been tried by court-martial and sentenced to death, but the sentence will be most likely commuted by reason of the offender's youth, and because the Turks were themselves in the act of turning their backs. A few days ago, says a correspondent at Nice, at the hour when all fashionable Nice was abroad, a great crowd assembled at the entramce of the Rue Adelaide, drawn thith- er by a crime then just committed, and now already forgotten. A woman of 57 years of age, who had made money Dy keeping a private grambling saloon, had married a young husband. This man made continual demands upon her savings in order to meet his own losses at the roulette-table of Monte Carle, and she at length refused to comply with his requests, wtdoh became daily more exorbitant and imperious. In a moment of fury he first cut her throat and then shot himself through the heart. The Ather warn club of Madrid recently inaugurated their new house, which has cost £30,000, raised by subscription among its own members. Tnongh it is neither re- markable for its architectural merit nor for its comfort, it has noble library with 30.- 000 volumes, and its corridors are hung wi«h portraits of former presidents and of the greatest statesmen of all parties during the last fifty years. Its saloons, adorned with frescoes and tine paintings by modem artists, members of the club, and the lecture hall, with seats for 1,200 persons, were fill- ed by the elite of Madrid society and the diplomatic corps. The king, queen, and princess honored the ioauguration with their presence, at the invitation of Senor Canovas, who is at present president of the Athen- se am, and who provided the inaugural en- tertainment. The king desired to be in- scribed at the hea: of the list of 1,100 mem- bers. According to the MilUarische Nachrich- ten, the works for the construction of a canal which will unite the Baltic with the North sea are on the pDint of baipg taken in hand. Tne canal will commence ai a point between Bransbuttel and St. Mar garethen, on the Elbe, will pass Rendsbnrg, and end at the bay of Kiel, near Haltenau, south of the great fortifications of Freid- richfort. Tae length will be ninety-seven kilometers the canal will have a depth of nine meters at low water, and wQl be a hundred meters wide. Tae largest ships will be able to pass at all hours of the tide in both directions. The eaoal being entire- ly under the oon'rol of Germany, her men of war will be ab!e to avoid the periloiu paHase of the belt, whkh Ddmmark ia at present able to impede by her ooaat batteries and by torpedoes. When the Baltic ia frczm over the ships can be utilised in the North Sea. A whole family has bceo poisoned a" Ofen (Bada), on the opposite side of the Danube to Pdcth, by an escape of gas. Tae gas bad penetrated into the house from a disused pipe buried under the ruins of another house at some distance, which bad beea homed down several years ago. The doctor was sent for, as everybody in the house felt ill. Symptoms of gas-poisoning were apparent, but as no gas was used in the house the doctor was unable to account for it, and left after administering medicine. The patients were relieved and went to sleep, but nexi morning five of them were found dead, and four others in a hopeless condition. Ooly a nurse and a child have recovered, being saved, probably, owing to their faces being buried in the bedclothes. Oae of the vic- tims was the grandmother of the children who had come the night before on hearing of the illness of the family. Harems in Morocco. Yesterday we were guests in two Moorish harems. The inmates gave ui a very kind reception. The gloomy appearance of the outer walls contrasted strongly with the inside of the houses. The halls were tiled. Marble pillars, bright colors, and rugs gave the rooms a bright appearance. Mattress- es were laid on the carpets in apartments facing the court- yard. They were the bed- looms of the wives. There were no win- dows. Each wife leaves her slippers at the entrance of he r bedroom. We saw no chairs and only an occasional cushion. The wives prefer to recline or to sit on the floor. One or two sat on sheepskins. The second harem belonged to a rich Moor. We saw there several clocks and mirrors, evidently a recent importation from Paris, but they looked out of place. The Moor had only one wife, and she was just 13 years old. She had been married two years. She sat on the floor barefc»oted with three other women, who were either rela- tives or visitors. She was very pretty. With an engaging smile she metioned us to sit near her. She looked animated, gay and happy. Several servants in the Orien- tal attire were in attendance. Tha life of Moorish wives must, however, be very wearisome. Taey are shut up in apart- ments with grated windows, high above mankind, with only occasional glimpses of the great world without. In the first harem I saw a widow with seven children, all girls. Two were playing cards and two were sewing. None of the girls had ever seen a man. O3 Fridav only the widow is allowed to go to the Moslem cemetery to weep and to pray over her dead husband. We were offered coffee and cakes. Etiquette required that we should drink four cups of coffee and eat as many cakes. Ojr visit was made very early in the morn- ing. The poor wives seemed glad to see us. They admired onr dresses and called each other's attention to what took their fancy in the way of jewelry. They were dressed gayly, but they had a slovenly look and had an ungraceful walk. â€" Tanqiers Cor, Aew York Sun. A Parisian Novelty. Leaders of faihion in Paris deserve the rare praise of having discovered â€" not, in- deed, a new pleasure, but a new variety of an old one. This ia the very heart of the dancing season, Paris being in all things a month earlier than London and after Cinderellas, fancy balls, and costume re- unions, in which inventive eccentricity was to be confined entirely to (the outsides of) the heads of the guests, it seemed that noth- ing new in that line could be devised. Something neV^ has been devised, and ia now in the full swing of Pitrisian patronage and popularity. Dances are given in which the hostess assumes a nationality. Tue Parisienne is content for the night to be a Spaniard, a Pole, a Neapolitan, and as is the hostess so must be her guests. The mise en scene is rigorously correct. In on4 salon yon might fancy yourself in Madrid, especially if yon had ever been there. You have the sarabande and the bolero, the short petti- coats, the gay flonnces aud, where nature (or art) can supply them, the olive complex- ions, the lustrous locks, and the rather wanton eyes of the country of bull-fights dark beauties are much admired and Span- ish lace is in high request. A few doors off you are in Poland, Caopin's dreamy waKzss giving the music and the slow, swinging step so inexplicable to a Frenchman accus- tomed to teetotum gyrations. German manners and customs are not yet very pop- ular but there seems a craze for the Rus- sian mode. On the whole, the boulevardier boasts with reason that after it has struck 12 he can make a tour of the world in forty minutes.-â€" PaW Mall Gazette, Notliin^ New Under the San. A discovery has been made which again lays the honesty of our ancestors open to serious suspicion. The j srry-bnilder, it seems, was not unknown in the middle ages in fact he must have iourished and waxed mighty, seeing that he occasionally got such a job as the building of a cathedral into his unclean hands. In the course of "restoring" Peterborough cathedral some insight haa been gained into the ways oF the builder of the " Norman" and "early Eag- Ibh" periods. Like his successor, he was an adept at concealing the practices by which he, no doubt, amassed a considerable fortune. The walls of the lantern at Peter- borough being carefully examined, it ap- peared that, though the outside facing was of good Barnack stone, beneath this thin surface there was nothing but rubble and "pit mortar." So, too, with the great central tower and the piers which support it, or rather do not support it any longer. The core of these piers "was nothing but dust," and even their foundations were of the shallowest and poorest kind. Under the circumstances it is astonishing that the work should have lasted so long. â€" St. Jamts' Gazette. ,_^^j|g ^i^^fci^ l^^^"" A Canadian fiirjaer, who recently lost a small pig, after long search found him drowned in the crcan can. "So," he B.'id, "poor piggy's creamated." DUELOd IS 6ERXANT. Aa lBt«ce«aso of optnloa on V«rlosB Pttaaea of Ualromty Itf*. A Birlin telegram to the Lmdon Timet sayv la connection with the deb ate on the estimates of the ministry of public works in the Prussian chamber of deputies there were some interesting interchangt 8 of opin* ion on various phases of univeisity life. A prominent clerical member, H.rr Reich- ensperger, opened the discussion by com- plaining of the idleness, the drinking and dnelling habits of students, of the acacJemic system of cramming, and of the clique ex- istenoe led by the profef sors at some univer- sities. But it was on the snbject of duelling that the conversation mainly turned, and it was Dot difficult to divine how the tacit sympa- thies of the great majority of the house tended. Even the remarks of Herr von Gossles, the minister of public worship, drew from Dr. Windthorst an expression of surprise that "while duelling had been made penal by law it was nevertheless de- fended in this place. ' The ultramontane leader here referred to a decision of the supreme court of Lsipsic, according to which, as one speaker put »t, a duel with sharpened blades or rapiers might, but not of necessity must, be held to be a combat with mortal weapons â€" which was opening a door of escape with a vengeance. And it was plainly a matter of secret satisfaction to most that this indulgent door of escape had been created. Dr. Windthorst. it is true, displayed more than the half-hearted- ness of his colleagues when he declared that "in contrast to the opinions of the herr minister uttered last year, he regarded duelling as a decided evil, and in no way beneficial to the human character," Bit other members openly and boldly advocated a moderate encouragement of the barbarous and brutalizing practice of the national universities. To this vary practice Piince Bsmarck once ascribed the prevalence of that c im- bative and party spirit in parliament which had caused him so much woe â€" a spirit that men learned and brought ai^ay with them f»om the fencing sn^und but in legitlative quarters the practice is still countenanced as much as ever, and when the legal decis- ion above referred to was issued, there was even a movement among the members of all factions, as Minister von Gossler reminded the house, for mtigating the effect of the judge's dictum. Most deputies have them- selves been students, and look back with affectionate remembrance to their univer- sity life with all its swaggering and mili- tant pleasures ai d they still continue to have a sneaking sympathy with a habit which has been discarded by most civilizsd countries except Germany. The foundation of duelling is the feeling ot honor, but the Germans have not yet come to see that the hocor of a man can only suffer a taint by the actions of his own and not by the words or actions of another, or that the sure foundation of dishonor is not without, but within a man. Daellists, how- ever, think otherwise, and so do the Ger- mans, and as long as they do so, it is no wonder that they are so eeositive of ciit- icism, (especially from France), and so quick to re£e it it. Tyndall on Rainbows. "I do set my bow in the cloud, audit shall be for a covenant between me and the earth." Thesublime conception of the theo- logian ex eedel that desire forexast kaow- ledge which was characteristic of modern science. WhateT2r the ultimate cause of a rainbow might have been, the p-oxitnate cause was physical, and the aim of science was to refer a rainbow to its physical prin- ciples. The explanation of the rainbow was due to Djscartes. Descartes looked at he drops of rain he pictured one liquid sphere falling in the air he pictured the rays of the sun falling upon a liquid sphere, be saw that certain portions of the light would be refracted, would be driven to the other side of the drop, back again, and would be again refracted an- their emerg- ence from the drop. He took a pen in his hand, and calculated the entire course of the rays through the drop and their di- rection after theu: emergence from the drop. He found that the vast body of the rays, after quitting the drop, diverged at one particular angle they came out aa a par- allel sheaf. There was a certain form of emotion called intellectual p'easure. It might be caused by poetry, literature, na- ture or art, but he, (Prof. Tndall) doubted whether there wasja pleasure fj'he intellect more pure and concentrated than that of a scientifis man, who looking at a difficulty that hai challenged the human mind for ages saw that difficulty melt before his eyes and recrystallize as an illustration of a law of natnre. Such pleasure he thought must have besn that of Descartes when he succeeded in uncovering the lavs which ruled the appearance of the mast brilliant meteor in natre. Elegant New York Homes. New York ia full of elegant homes, hardly excelled in the world. A'l our American cities abound in noble homes, but here, where wealth has been so bountiful, the«e homes are upon a scale hardly to be found in the world. The merchants and success- ful men cf New York live like veritable k'ngs and princes. In other countries society is organizsd round men here the men serve the women, not only for seven years, like Jacob to L abau's daughter, but for seventy and seven. This is the golden age of women. Nowhere else are women without rank or quality maintained as if they were descended from princes. New York homed are replete â- wich everything that money can buy. Almost every house hold has its special devotion some run to prints, some to coins, some to elegant bind- ings of books, soms to antique and vener- able editions of books, some to i ugs, some to placques, some to paintings. I venture to say that in this city if the private houses cculd be thrown iaside out We would stand amazed at our o^n treasures. Sometimes the most magnificent tastes and qualifi ra- tions are found io the most moaest New Yorkers Silf made men feel like ornament- ing their homes with the treasures of In sir I '3' 5 •il I :il ,11: if:. !-l ' own occupations, Goth. pleasures, cr origins. A fool may have his coat embroidered, but i' will always be a fool's coat.