| Show FOREIGN NOTES geo augustus sala says he be has proposed toasts to the ladles ladies in nineteen different countries and sixteen different languages the discovery of a 10 16 feet by 16 inches wrought iron pillar at dachi northern india with discoveries of other massive forgings forg ings proves that the ancients knew a thing or two as well as the moderns an exchange thinks that tho marriage of the princess beatrice the last unmarried daughter of queen victoria to the marquis of stafford Staff bird eldest oldest son of the duke of sutherland and cousin to the marquis of lorne would be ill III received by a large portion of the aristocracy notably the great tory families who would naturally feel left out in the cold and complain that a liberal government had bad brought about these matrimonial jobs to gratify its ita own powerful partisans of london preachers mr cayler tells us spurgeon and newman hall take the leadin lead din jin popularity and wide evangelic angelle ev influence neither of these two remarkable men can carry one additional dit ional pound of steam both are worked up to their utmost capacity both are felt throughout britain and indeed the whole civilized world when newman halls new now chapel is comple compie completed ted his church accommodations in the old and new buildings combined will even surpass mr spur geons geona neither hall nor spurgeon has much of wealth or social aristocracy in the regular congregation but people of rank and high culture go by scores to hear bear them every sab the women of the old town of anjou are celebrated for their art in folding linen the renown is an odd one but bat it has nevertheless bestowed no mean celebrity on the ladies of angers the art does not flourish now as it used ased and Is ia indeed nearly confined to the grand old housekeepers of the grand old chateaux of the place the linen presses of a magnificent gothic hospital still show too some bome chefs chefa of the kind the good slaters sisters throw open the door doors of their immense cupboards cup bards with a natural feeling of pride and reveal to the astonishment and admiration of the visitors the wonder wonders sot of their dexterity in a vast sheet folded into a trough twenty four fil leap formed of chemises are drinking guarded by a night dress in the shape of a shepherd and so on linen castles windmills towers and abbas are frequent t tours 0 urs de force of these dexterous linen folders in coursing over great britain we are all struck with the immense culture of trees they are cash arti clea and ever will be for kindling coal cohl fires it if no higher purpose were contemplated we are cutting and hacking them down as though they encumbered the ground every range of fence with us as there should be studded with trees it should be a spring and autumn duty to extend their trans transplantation plantation our farmers ought to have it impressed upon them that such labor would yield a harvest in the future far exceeding their expectations by laborious efforts with uncertain crops whose value valtie must always vary in volume and value upon the contingencies of the weather trees grow tall regard regardless lecis of seasons they are a sure crop another observable feature in land culture that con erasts strongly with our own la Is the general employment of horses instead of oxen dr J T V 0 smith |
