Show THE PEEP O’ if — rirx: AVe yoke Jiave seen appeal awfully imposing the The manifested fury of the gods Hurls back the earth to chaos !” Berlioz says of this recitative “ it is sustained with awful truthfulness in melody modulation and instrumentation It is immensely grand throughout exhibiting the strength of a priest of thundering Jove The last line especially that ‘ Hurls bgck the eafth to chaos !’ terrible in its musical effect— is simply produced by a B flat and an A natural” JBut it makes one tremble to hear it It seems as if the walls of the temple wepe about to fall You see how far e are frorg the famous E flat in Robert and yet the fatter has nothing like the of tipis fremenflous go -- passage Technically speakjng a hasso profunda means' a singer who dpes not go above the C or D above the staff’ The voices of those famous artists Dtkivis and Lablaehe volume stopped at low G But on the other hand if ‘these singing basaes (as we call them) are limited in that direction with what facility do they render La-- r the medium and high tones blache carried his voice to high 0 like a prima donna and Derivis pung the grand air of (Edipus Ellc prCaProdigu? with the inflexions ! of a real tenor MEYEKBEEIL Meyerbeer the great musical composer died on the 2d of May 186 J at Paris lie was buried with great pomp at Berlin II § CROCHET WORK cojfln was A BEAUTIFUL EDGING Walker’s Crochet Hook No 20 and Manjovc’s Crochet Thread No 18 : Make a chain of fourteen stitches — turn hack: 14 If me Mbs 4 chains of last row work 4 double chain 4 miss 4 work 2 double turn back Chain 4 work 4 2nd Row double in the four chains of last row chain 4 work 4 double in the four chains of last row turn net back 3rd Rote Chain 4 work 4 double in the four chains of last row chain 4 work 2 double in the four chajns of last rqy turn back ill Row Chain 4 wqrk 4 double in the four chains pf last row chain 4tf ofk 4 double in the four chains of last row chain 6 work 1 double in the sajqe four chains qf asf yow? tqrn hack 5lh Row - Chain 4 and work 1 double for four times in the six chains of last row chain 4 work 4 double in the four chains of last row chain 4 work 2 double in the four chains of last row turn back 6th Row Chain 4 work 4 double in the four chains of last row chain 4 work 4 double in the four chains of last row chain 5 work 1 double in the centre of the four chains of last row chain 5 work 1 double in the centre of the four chains of last row chain 5 work I double in the four chains of last- row chain 5 work 1 double in the centre of the four chains of last row tupn back 1th Row Work in the centre of the five chains of last row 1 double 5 treble 1 double repeat this four times in the following five chajns of last row chain 4 work 4 double in the fopr chains of last rowj pliuin j work 2 double in the four chains of last row Repeat’ froiq tP second rovf for he length required decorated with wreaths and flowers poeseif ted by the Queen of kissia and the Princesses of the Koval ' At the foot was a laurel family leaf on a white cushion a tribute from the members of the Royal Orchestra at Dresden The coffin was carried down and "a procession formed stairs headed by all the artillery and cavalry' bands of Berlin' with wreathed wijji crape The Royal Orchestra deputations-rorPreserving FRUiT-r-Man- y tlic theatres managers of the- - persons fail in preserving the fruit atres friends deputations from inn- which they put up‘ by not heating sical societies and state carriages Jdiejars and sealing while the c Queen aiifl all the'' tents arc scalding hot It is’ a qftjie Royal family important that the jars be full brought pp 'the process jpn formed Any vacancy left contains air in honor tp the illustrious Jew which may cause fermentation and fie was hupedas a prince of music Coautry Genconsequent injury with the roval honors of his art tleman '' :t A 4 ' theirim-ptrumen- ts A New Sounding Apparatus— new maritime sounding apparatus has recently been invented A great objection by Mr Gouczel to that at present employed iq that currents in the water cause Jhe line of suspension to be bent and so the apparent depth judged of by the length of line ’em: ploj’ed is much greater than the to The purpose real depth which the now sounder is intended to be applied is for the construction of a chart of the bottom qf the opean which would be of immense service in the laying qf A ! ! Useful en- trance of the high-priein the pecond act when Julia falls dying pn the steps of the altar: “O crime 0 nameless horror O despair The vestal flame extinct the pricstjcss dying' ' 12L Scientific ami those who to 95 DAT— A LITEIlAftT MAGAZINE ‘ telegraphic cables and ' apart from such uses the possession of such a map would he of great In the itm scientific interest proved apparatus the suspension line is altogether dispensed with j a rod of irorp furnished with nippers at the extremity supports a cylindrical weight capable of being detached from the rod above the wejgl)f a float of hollow metal is On striking the bot tom qf tle water the weight i detachpd and the remainder floats to the surface a small clock enclosed in the apparatus is so arranged as to stop by the concussion so that the time of descent can be estimated a bell is also attached and an easily visible object is fixed above the whole Action of Light on IIoney — Honey fresh from the comb is a clear yellow syrup without a trace of solid sugar in it but it gradually upon straining crystalline appearance and ultimately becomes a solid mass of sijgar It lias pqt been suspected that this change was clue to i photographic aptipiq but this appears to be the pase M Scheiblcr has enclosed hpqcy in stoppered flasks some of which he has kept in perfect darkness-Whilsothers have been exposed to the liglfl The invariable bdOn that the sunned portion rapidly crystallises’ whilst that kept in the dark remains perfectly liquid It is thus seeq why bees are so careful to work in perfect darkness and- why they obscure the glass windows which are sometimes placed in The existence of their hives their young depends upon the liquid i ty of the sneharine food presented to them and if light were allowed access to this the syrup would gradually acquire a more or less solid consistency and seal tip the cells |