The Pontypridd Chronicle and Workman's News

FROM, CITY ammi'ONUK-NTS. FROM a return just issued it appears that therft Rre 44 officers on the active list of the Army now employed in the service of the colonies these include one major-general, three colonels, two lieutenant- colonels, eight majors, 20 captains, and 10 lieu- tenants. There are also 11 officers on the active list of the Navy now employed in the service of the colonies, these rank as follows: One captain, one commander, three lieutenants, one staff commander, throe gunners, one captain It. If. A., and one cap- tain iv..M.L.I. The colonies have also enjoyed the advantage of having ships constructed in her Ma- jesly's dockyards, and have had stores granted; while a screw corvette was presented to New South Wales, and a screw sloop to Canada. THE Corporation of IJy the have begun an experi- ment in lighting the streets of their tilwn by means of oil lamps instead of gas. The local gas company have refused to make any reduction in the charge they have made un-ier the contract just expired of £ 4- us. cd. per lamp per annum. The company supplies the adjacent town of Sandgate at a less rate, on account, as members of the corpora- tioll allege, of the competition there of the Folke- stone Uas Company. The llythe Company assert that the rate is less at Sandgate because the service is less efficient. By lighting with oil the town will effect a saving of • £ per lamp per annum, and the iliuminaiing power in declared to be a mere trifle less than that'of gas. At Winchester, the system of lighting the suvets by means of oil lamps has been in operation more than 12 years, and the Jlythe Corporation have received most satisfactory reports from the local authorities of Winchester, both as regards economy and efficiency. They have also had similar reports from East Moulsey, where oil lamps have been substituted for gas for a year with the result that the local authorities have saved £ 22". and the streets, it is said, were never so well lighted before. THERE is still a notion prevalent among the un- educated part of the French population that English- men have the right, when they are tired of their wives, to sell them to the highest bidder, and that they freely avail themselves of it. We should hardly I he iUstified in ridiculing such ignorance of the laws of this country when persons are to be found living among us, in fact "native here and to the manner born," who have, by their own showing, no idea of the nature of the marriage contract. The excuse made by one William Frederick Mills, a wood the nature of the marriage contract. The excuse made hy one William Frederick Mills, a wood turner, of Bethnal-green, when lie was arresied the othej; day, w;is that lie thought he was free to marry again, as his wife had given him permission to do as he liived in that respect. Taken by itself, such an explanation would be worth little notice, though repeated in the presence of a magistrate with a con- fidence that seemed to imply a perfect belief in its validity. But when we find the second spouse he selected regarding this position of affairs as quite satisfactory, and going through the marriage cere- mony without misgiving, after a consultation with her aunt, we may well ask whether Miss Angelina Pope ever enioj'cl the educational advantages pro- vided by the ratepayers. She admitted in the course of the proceedings at Worship-street Police- court, that she knew Ilills was a married man when he proposed to wed lwr, but the. real wife's allegeit indifference as to her husband's further matrimonial .arrangements was accented as sufficient authority for taking a second wife. Mr. Mills and his bride have been rudely awakened to a sense of their real position, for the former has just been sent for trial upon the charge of having "feloniously intermarried" with her. I A TELEGRAM from Paris informs me that between three and four hundred French convicts of the worst class are about to be transported to New Caledonia. These Recidivists, of course, have all been con- demned at least twice, and may be said to corre- spond to our habitual criminals. This fact imtkes it easily comprehensible why the Australian colon- jets feel so strongly about the French acquisition of the New Hebrides- It is an open secret that one reason why the French Government has been so anxious to get possession of the New Hebrides was that this group might serve the same purpose in re- gard to Recidivists as New Caledonia. France wants, in fact, to have another cesspool in the South ) Pacific; while the Australians naturally object to its existence in what are practically Australian waters. The contiguity of the New Caledonian convict settlement has proved to he an almost in- tolerable nuisance to our Antipodean Colonies, for convicts frequently escape from the island to the "mainland" of Australia. This.is not exactly the' kind of leaven which JS REQUIRE^ for the population of Australia. I KNOW^IOW strenuously and success- fully the colonists objected to the trittisportat ioil o £ J English convicts, and how they threatened that if: any more* were sent to Australia they would at once ship them back to England and land them on the coast of Devonshire. It is not likely, there- fore, that they can regard with equanimity the- action of the French Government in shipping habitual criminals from France to settlements within' comparatively easy reach of the Australian coast, especially as the wateh over tbem-does^not appear J to be very strict. There is eveiva suspicion that escapes are winked at; for it is DIFFICULT to imagine how, under other circumstances, so many prisoners could have got away to Australia. It would be in- teresting to know what excuse^ have been made by the French Government for the deliberate violation of the Convention between the two Powers. The original excuse has, of course, long since ceased TCJ have any validity, and it seems quite clear that, unless pressure is put upon the French Government to observe its solemn pledges, the occupation of the New Hebrides will become permanent FOR some tim6 past there has been considerable interest felt by the police in the movements of an expert thief, who hae been visiting various liotelt in London for a short time and carryingoff in some cases a good deal of valuable property. The stranger in question seems to have reduced the rob- bery of Ihe guests and others to a. system that approaches to a science. To hirtl neither 1(lclc nor bolt was any obstacle to success. The con tiding traveller, when this UruneHo patronized all hotel, might in vain secure Ins bedroom door with one or other, or even with both. At the Castle and Falcon two rooms were entered one night and the purseljj of the occupants carried off though the doors were supposed to be secure against a thief. An examina- tion of these doors by a sergeant of City police led to the discovery that the bolts had been rendered useless by a proceeding at once simple and effective. The screws which fastened the sockets for the bolts had been withdrawn, and the holes thus left open bad been made much larger. The screws wrapped in paper suiffciently thick, were returned to then places, and the sockets of the casual observerseenied as capable of resisting pressure as could be desired. Where necessary, means appear to have been de- vised whereby a key left in a door after it had been locked from the iiiaide could be turned from with- out with as much certainty and ease as if the instru- ment ordinarily used were available. Mr. Jame^L Smithson, who describes himself as clerk, has 1 been so unfortunate as to fall under the suspicion of the City police, and consequently his movements have, it appears from the evidence given at the Guildhall Court, l»een watched carefully for some time past. By an old coincidence this individual has it iq alleged, sliowjd a decided tendency to change his hotel frequently. HIS latest address was Long's Hotel, but during the time that his mode of living has been closely observed he has made a short stay at the Imperial Hotel as well as the Tavistock Hotel and he was taking his departure from the firt named of these three hotels when he was quietly arrested.

The sttietiient tliitt Lord K. Churchill's visit to the Continent has no political object, is regarded with scepticism by the entire Vienna Press. The daughter of Brigadier-General Villacampa has had an audience of the Queen-Regent and ex- pressed to her Majesty her gratitude for the clemency extended t > her father. The late Mr. I'. Brocklehurst, of Hanbury Hall near Macclesfield, has bequeathed 411,.000 to the en- dowed fund of the Macclesfield Infirmary, and & similar sum to the Macclesfield Grammer Sohool, of both which institutions he wasgovernor for many years. „ The certificate of Captain Roberts, maater of the Liverpool ship Victoria Cross, which was lost near Roches Point on Sept. 17, has been suspended for six months by a court of ittquiry. The Midland Railway Company are erecting snow screens en the exposed portions of the Settle and Carlisle line were snow Mocks ,.e occurred in pre via tis years. These screens are formed o: sleepers in parallel positions, »»ne ja/ds apart fran { sch othe& tl

HOTEL ROBBERY IN LUMDUN. A daring robbery has been discovered to have been committed at the Bell Hotel and Restaurant in Basinghall Street, City. The management of this establishment has lately changed hands, and the present proprietor residing in the suburbs, tem- porary accommodation has been arranged in rooms at the top of the house. The lower part is under- going repairs, whilst some of the rooms are let out as offices for the time being. f -It seems that, taking advantage of the fog, a thief made his way unob- served to the top apartments, and, watching his op- portunity, broke into one of the rooms and took money and jewels to the value of A'HO, belonging to the incoming lessee, Mr. Thomas White. It is a matter of considerable doubt how the robbery could iiave been effected, so many people being about during the day. Information was at once given to the police

THE ATTACK OX A FRENCH CONVENT. The 1 aris correspondent of the Standard writes: The attack on the Convent of the Dames Augtis- tines at Auxerre, and the forcible withdrawal of Madlle. Gallet from that establishment by her father and his friends is causing considerable sen- sation both amongst the clerical parties, who are loud in their protest against the illegality of the proceeding, and among the Republicans and Radicals who are insisting that the present opportunity must be seized to.once for all put an end to the sequestra- tion of young people by the religious congregations, which, according to the advice of the most violent, should be suppressed or driven out of France. The Voltaire points out that in order to marry in France, even in the case of persons who are more than twenty-one years of age, it it necessary for the parents or nearest relations to consent to the union, and the publicity of the act is requisite. At least the same precautions should, it contends, be taken in the case of a person taking the veil.

A V EN ERABLE HORSE. At Chester City Police Cpurt, before the Mayoi (Mr. G. A. picksojf) and other magistrates, Win. Brooke, of Buckley, has been summoned for cruelty to his horse by Christopher Nicholls, inspector of the Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals. The- Inspector stated that he saw the de- fendant with a grey gelding attached to a cart. The ahimat wasjn a very weak condition and there were several raw wounds on. it. It' was evidently suffering- great pain.—The Mayor (to defendant): Are vrtii willing to lufcre the horse destroyed?— Defendant: No; I would rather be destroyed my- self liter). -'I'Iie M:iyor: We have no power to destroy- you (renewed laughter). — After the magistrates had retired to see the horse, the Mayor said it was at least thirty-one years of age. The bench fined defendant 20s. and costs, or in default fourteen days' imprisonment with hard labour.

NEW MAGISTRATES. A Parliamentary return has just been issued showing the number of new magistrates appointed during the tenure of office of the last Conservative Government, from July, 1885, to February, 1886L In counties there were 230 additional magistrates appointed, of whom 23 were for Middlesex, 19 for Glamorganshire, 13 for Pembrokeshire, 15 for Yorkshire (North Riding), and 11 for Northumber- land. The number of new borough magistrates appointed was 207, there being I for Harrogate, (first commission), 8 for Newcastle-oil-Tyne, 7 each for Chester, Longton, Northampton, Oxford, and Stockport; li each for Bath, Exeter, Hastings, Lydd (first commission) Macclesfield, Sheffield, and Tenby; 5 each for Bedford, Brecon, Cam- bridge, Devizes, Flint, Halifax, Kidderminster, Leicester, Poole, and Portsmouth; and 4 each for Basingstoke, Berwick-on-Tweed, Bridgewater, Eye, Maidstone, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Pontefract, Rochester, Stanrford, and Wrexham.

C,Ill"ISTIAN,LITY AN]) POLYGAMY. Are Christianity and polygamy compatible? was tha startling question propounded by the Bishop of Exeter. A t first sight (says the Duihf Telegraph) it would seem that the answer must at once be No." The Old Testament has records of tjjen allowed more than" one wife but the New Testament has none, although, except, in the case of a bishop, there is no express condemnation of the practice. Yet in Africa, China, India, Burniah, and Japa-n conver- sion is attended with great difficulties because many of the natives are polygamists, and have more than one wife. General Gordon asked Bishop Temple whether converts could retain three wives e:tcli-a moderate allowance on the Dark Continent The Bishop thought not "What a pity! rejoined Gordon I might convert all Africa if you would allow that." The Bishop of Exeter seems to incline to|tJti» y|ew, 9>id he says that the question is about to cÜlhe before the lttti4Anglidan Synod in 1888. Dr. Bickersteth contended that a man who had married more wives than one should not be com- pelled to put any of them away, that such divorces 'fro bid Wrong, and-would prod vice bad conse- quences in domestic fife, besides increasing opposi- tion to Christianity. On these grounds he would admit a polygantist to baptism, but would exconi- muiiicaje a csoavert who teok more wives than one. This would stamp out polygamy in a generation among converts, and permit the Gospel to penetrate the wtiole system of society. Which wife is to be ,tatilriie 1 ? Clirilstianq ty(told give superiority to the first; but that is not the idea of primitive men, who think the youngest quite as sacred and much more attrtetive.

TUISOCIAI.ISTS AND THE UNEMPLOYED The other morning a mass meeting was held out- side the Bricklayers'Arms Station, Old Kent-road, ,Itt"wllit-li Mr. -ti. IL'Cil 'ampioii, in the course of a long address, said that he had made calculations which caused him to apprehend far greater distress during the approaching winter than was experienced last year. Notwithstanding the fact that thou- sands of unemployed persons were as yet sleeping out, there were now in the metropolitan workhouses 1,400 persons more than at the same period last year. If England were rich enough to spend ten million pounds in slaughtering poor Egyptians ir the iiilei-est,of i few greedy bondholders, it surely was rich enough to expend a million or two in saving the lives of sonu of its own citizens who were starv- ing^ 'They,-the Social Democratic Federation, had Jporiie to the conclusion that they could not more effectually bring the condition of the unemployed before the wealthy an-l ruling classes than by or- ganising a vast demonstration Of, say, 100,000 un- employed citizens to follow the Lord Mayor's show on Nov. They were told that the great feature of the show would be four trophies representing the British Empire; but he thought the great feature wmld be a great peaceful demonstration of gaunt, starving Englishmen following that pageant In that WSay they could show what direful misery there was in the most wealthy city in the world. They might rest assured that the governing classes would do nothing for them until they were com- pelled.

| -THE PAINFUL BIGAMY CASE. Joseph Gibson (4li), of ;V.», Tolty-street, Old Ford, has been "Charged on remand at Stratford Petty Sessions, with feloniously intermarrying with Alice Thain, at Walthamstow, on Sep. 7, his wife Maria being then and now alive.—The evidence given on the last occasion showed that on Easter Monday, 1882, the prisoner was married at St. Luke's Cliurelt, Ci-stiititaiii- place, Honierton, to Maria Parkes. About 18 months later lie was intro- duced into the family of Mr. Henry Walter Thain, one of the relieving officers of the West Ham Union, and from time to time he visited Mr. Thain's house at Sliernall-street, Walthamstow. He became ac- quainted with Miss Alice Thain, and on Sep. 7, 1885, he was married to her, describing himself as a bachelor. He subsequently seemed to have told his second wife of his previous marriage, and as a result of the revelation she lost her reason, and has since ha,1 to be removed to the County A-iylttivi itt Brentwood. Air-. Thain, the mother of the unfor- tunate second wife, in c nirse of her evidence said that she was at the prisoner's Irouse when he told her daughter of his first marriage, but she was not m the hame room, and did not actually hear the ad- mission. At the door she overhear I her daughter say, -Ilia forgive you, Joe, if God will. You know you have deceived Ole." Prisoner, reserving his defence, was now committed for trial, bail being re- fuse". The first wife, a young persou, respectably dressed, was iu court, and appeared greatly affected.

Sir George Strahan, Governor of Tasmania, will shortly leave for Knglaml. His return to the conny is regarded as improbable. Serious riots have occurred between the. Hin- doos and Mahomedaus at Jetpur, in the Kattv. I. war district. casualties, Uowew, are re- ported.

THE STORY-OF AN ESCAPE. On the evening of February 11th, 1879, several iends of the revolutionary cause, of whom I was c Ie, met at Yvitchevitche's lodgings, in the house Kossarovsky, Yleanski-street Kieff, the town where I was then living. The police were upon us. We were within fourteen days of Irkoutsk before I succeeded in effecting an exchange of identities with a convict condemned to simple exile. My substitute, a peasant by origin and a burglar by profession, agreed to the exchange of identities in consideration of a sum of sixteen shillings ill coin, a pair of boots, and a llannei blouse.. Two days before our arrival at the etapf, I pre tended to have a bad toothache, bound up my face with a pocket-handkerchief, and at the halfway halting-place remainded all the time on the bench that served for a seat as if I were dis- tracted with pain. The plan succeeded to admira- tion. About October 20th, 1870, we reached Irkoutsk, where we were to be inspect 'd by the higher authori-, ties. At length came my turn. Pavlor," shouts the starosta. "Here," Iani-wer. And taking up my bag, I enter the audience-cham- ber. "Paul Parlor? says the presiding councillor. Yes, your nobleness," I reply, doing my best to speak aul look like a peasant prisoner. "For what crime were you judged? I. :For burglary, your nobleness." "I Are the effects given you by the government all in order? I, Thev are, your nobleness." "Two shirts, two pairs of drawers, woollen trousers, great coat, pelisse, a pair of boots, leg- irons? "cnulncratell the coullcillor. As each article is named. I say, "It is here," and during the interrogation an obscure personage fumbles in my bag to verify my statement. This concluded the inspection, and after surrender- ing my fetters, which [ removed without the helpof a blacksmith I passed into the apartment where i was to lemam as a prisoner until they took me to j the village where I had to be entered as a settler. On the following day the in voluntary colonists, of whom I was now one, started for our final destina- tion, a village some forty miles from Irkoutsk, and on November 1st we arrived at Talminsky, the end of our long journey. For the last time we were paraded and counted in the court of the Volast. Then, after our effects had been again examined, we received our registers and were handed over to the clerk of the village, who had' orders to find us quarters. The escort went oil, way, we went another, and we walked through the streets of the great village, free men within the limits assigned to UI.

THETWIDOW CABOCHARD. It is well known that at the Pere la Chaise ceme- tery, near Paris, there stands in a conspicuous posi- tion a splendid monument to Pierre Cabochard, grocer, with a pathetic inscription, which closes tlIlIS- "His inconsolable widow dedicates this monument to his memory, and continues the same business at the old stand, 167, Rue Mouffetard." Now, a Parisian papea relates that a short time a»o a gentleman, who had noticed the above inscrip- tion, was led by curiosity to call at the address indi- cated. Having expressed his desire to see the Widow Cabochard, he was immediately ushered into the roonce of a fashionably-dressed and full- bearded man, who asked him what was the object of his visit. "I came to see the Widow Cabochard, sir." "Well, sir, here she is." "I beg pardon, but I wish to see the lady in per- son. Sir, -I am the Widow Cabochard." I don't exactly understand you. I allude to the rei ict of the late Pierre Cabochard, whose monument I saw yesterday at the Pere la Chaise." I see, I gee," was tlfe smiting rejoinder. "Allow me to inform you that Pierre Cabochard in a myth, and therefore never had a wife. The tomb you ad- mired cost me a good deal of money, and, although uo one is buried there, it proves a first-rate adyer- tisement, and I have no cause to regret the expense. Now, sir, what can I sell you in the way of gro- ceries ?

EQUAL TO THE OCCASION. When Lord Liverpool was forming his ministry in 1822, he thought it absolutely necessary to have Canning at the Foreign Office, although aware that; the appointment would be obnoxious to George IV. The Hilke of Wellington undertook the un- pleasant task of communicwUiig Lord Liverpool's de- termination, and went to Brigh ton for that purpose. As soon as the King knew what was wanted of him he broke out: "Arthur, it is impossible! I said, on my honour as a gentleman, he should never be one of my min- isters again. llun sure you will agree with me that I cannot do what I said on my honour as a gentleman I would not do." Another man would have been silenoed; but the great soldier, always equal to an emergency, re- plie(l: ,I Pardon me, sir, but I don't agree with you at all. Your majesty is not a gentleman." The bold assertion startled the King but the duke went on: "Your majesty is not a gentleman, but the sovereign of England, with duties to your people, far above any to ysurself and these duties render it imperative that you should employ the abilities of Air. Canning." Well, Arthur," said the King, drawing a long breath, "if I must, I must." Although he did not like being told he was not a gentleman, George [V had once, at least, while Re- gent, forgotten he was one. This was when he flung a glass of wine iu Colonel Hamlyn's face, with Hanriyn, you are a blackguard! The insulted officer could not return the compli- ment, without committing something like treason; it was out of the question to- challenge the Prince, while to let the insult pass unnoticed was equally I upo sible. The colonel filled his glass and threw tiie contents in the face of his neighbour, saying: His Royal hHarness's toast—pass it on! "Hamlyn," cried the Regent, "you're a capital fellow! Here's your health." And they were fastJEriends from that evening.

THE LADY AND GUARD. A very nervous old lady, travelling abroad in a place where the railway train was going up a very steep incline, kept constantly pestering the guard with questions, and doing her best to make the other passengers as frightened as herself. «• Is there no fear, guard ? cried she. "Plenty of fear, ma'am, but no danger," replied i; be. "Why," she continued, "look how steep the in- cline "Yes," returned the guard, "it is steep enough, but we have a good brake ou every wheel, so that we are in no danger of slipping back." But suppose the brakes should not act, what would you do? cried the timid one. ««Then we should reverse the engine, and still be quite safe," said the man. «• But what would become of us if the engine broke down and the brakes refused to act? per- sisted the old dame. That is a question I am unable to answer," re- plied the official; "it would depend entirely on the kind of lives we have been living."

TRIFLES MAKE PERFECTION. A friend called on Michael Angelo, who was finishing a statue. Some time afterwards he called again. The scnlptor was still at his work. His friend looking at the figure, exclaimed: You have been idle since I saw you last:¿ "By no means," replied the sculptor. "I have retouched this part and polished that. I hare softened this feature and brought out this muscle. I have given more expression to this lip and more energy to this limb." IC Well, well," said his friend, but all these are tride. It may be so," replied Angelo. "But recollect that trifies make perfection, and that perfection is no trifle."

Envy has no rest. With wiihing comes grieving. The aobler the tree, the more pliant the twig. A deceitful man is a needle with two points. The sheep that Meats loses a mouthful. Count the disadvantages first, then the advan- tages. Mi. SytnoM, a well-known observer of the wea- ther, has recorded the temperature at nine o clocb ia lite morning ill his garden for 30 years.

VABXISH FOR SCRAP BOOK SCRAPS.—Boil CleRfl- parchment cutting, in vrater in a clean glazed pip- in kin 4till they produce a very elear size. Strain it, and keep it for use. PARCHMEST PAricu.-This is made by dippirvj ordinary unsized paper for five or six seconds in di, lute sulphuric acid, and then washing with extremely weak ammonia. STICKY FLY PATER.—To one ponnd of resin ad ) two fluid drachms of linseed oil. While the'admix* ture is warm spread it en foolscap paper. To POLISH BRASS.—Polish with rotten stone a", oi), alcohol, or spirits of turpentine. ,111. ZiI1.

THE HOMER USEFUL AND SUGGE8T4VE. WHO MAY AND WHAT THEY MAY SHI)OT,nt( gttmie question, and the rights of occupiers to shoot, and with what license, are matters which puzzle. many, and the following explanations may, perhaps* clear up some doubtful points.—Before the passing of the Ground Game Act, 1880 the right to kill bares and rabbits on enclosed land was vested in the tenant, unless the right was reserved to the landlord by agreement, which was done in most cases. The re suit was, that the tenant had no right to killlrnres and rabbits on his own land. When this act WIUt passed a more favourable condition of things ensued; the tenant has certain rights given him, and it pre- vents him from partaking with tlieni by agreement to his landlord or any other person. Of course the tenant can waive his right; but the landlord cannot, compel him to do so by law. The tenant's right is not exclusive he merely linq a concurrent right with his landlord or other person entitled to the* game. There ar«> limitations to tenant's rights he can kill and take ground game.only by himself, or persons duly authorised by him in writing. Further, it is only the occupier himself and one other person authorised by him in writing who may kill ground game with firearm*. Tno authorised person iiiii,t be a member of his household resident Oil the land, or a person in his ordinary service on Such land, or a person f>-> in riilf empi ',1".d by him for rewjrd in the killing of -,t, Any iiiinil),-i- of I)ei may be employed Icill ground otherwise than with firearms, provided ther belonged to the cla-ses as above named, and do not use spring traps except int. rabbit holes, or poison.— What the a may shoot.—Th» may be gathered from the foregoing, or, shortly, it is only the hares and rabbits which the occupier may shoot, and this right he must share with his land- lord or re;n"S'Mitat: ve. It is, of course, open for the tenant to agree for the whole of the came. in which case he shoots the winged game as well as ground game.—Licence*.—The question of licences of ten .•rops up in connection with the above. For excrcis- ing the rights to ground game a ten-shilling licence is sufficient. For shooting all game, an excise licence is required. Exceptions are made to the- licence and no licence is necessary where an occupier of land uses a gun for the purpose, only of scaring birds OJ- killing vermin nor for the use of a gun in the dwelling-house, outbuilding, offices* yard, or piece of ground lying near, and belong- ing to a dwelling-house, i.e., in a dwelling-house or the curtilage thereof." Where a game licence ilt taken out, a gnn licence is not required. For shoot- ins with an air-gun a ten-shilling licence is neces- sarv. F4),) FOR TNI-AXIS A-n INVALIDS.—A table-, spoonful (heaped up) of wheaten floor, a heapedt dessertspoonful of malt flour, seven and a quarter1- grains of bicarbonate of potash, and two tablespoon- fuls of water are to be well mixed. Add five oune" of cow's milk. and put the whole on a gentle fire. When the mixture begins to thicken it is to be re-* moved from the fire, stirred for five minutes, heated and stirred again until it becomes quite fluid, and finally boils. Separate the bran by passing the mix- ture through muslin. The product is as sweet a* milk, and will keep for twenty-four houas it is, per- haps, the best possible food for infants who cannot be suckled. It is gently aperient, but if found much so, substitute twenty grains of prepared chalk for the potash. Barley malt can be procured from. any brewery it must lie ground in a coffee mill, add. passed through a sieve to remove the husks. Tim fine flJlllrso obtained is what is called malt flour. POISONOUS itOOll PAPERS.—In the course of sorft remarks on this common, yet often unsuspected, source of illness, the Sanitary Record says: -in 1740 the use of arsenic in the manufacture of pigments wtwi prohibited in France, and in 1843 Professor, GmeUé. in Germany, directed attention to the poisonous itv. rinencc of green colours containing arsenite of cop- per, and though every year cases are reported ia this country of the injurious effects of arsenical ..n health, yet, while public analysts are occupied in detecting impurities in food and drink and drugs, and sanitary officers, are appointed t* watch over the health of our cities, the free' sale of poisonous room-paper is unchecked by law, an4 people continue to line the walls of their bedroonh and the nurseries of their children wjtlt, a covering which frequently contains from ten to thirty grainy of arsenic in every square foot of surface. Children put to sleep in these poisoned rooms, droop and die% like birds in cages, painted with Scheele's greeny nevertheless, the trade in arsenical paper go^s on briskly, nlll manufacturers weekly work up tons ot the poison. The employment of arsenical pigments rvr colouring toys and confectionery is now almost* abandoned why then should the health of the pub. lie be jeopardised by tolerating the sale of^poisonou* papers? It is, however, ,only by legislative inter* fere-nce that we can expeCt to put a stop-to tlie^us £ rti tiiese poisonous colours, and we -trust that tl* i matter may in the present session be brought before Parliament. Though green papers are chiefly to be dreaded from the large amount of arsenic they con* I. tain, yet in yellow and buff papers sulphide of ar-, senic has beon found." The following is the way to find arsenic in wall papers :—Place a piece of th.. suspected paper about the size of a penny piece, on a saucer, and pour on it about half a'teaspoonful common liquid ammonia. If the paper be cOloiiredl with arsenical green, the liquid in a few seconds will become of a fine blue colour. If a bit of nitrate of silver (lunar caustic) about the size of a pea b& placed in the solution, it will become a rich canary- yellow colour, from the production of yellow arsenite of silver.. CHILD'S KNITTED STAYS.—The stays are workedt across, and for the- height of the back 31'; stitcbe*. i must be ciKt on. They are knitted in plain tow* backwards and forwards, so that a plain and a pur| row alternately appear on both sides of the grork, After 5 plain rows, in the Oth the four buttonholeik are made (which are to Cloge the stays at the back), by casting off the 3rd, 4th, 13th, 14th, 23rd, 24th, 33rd and 34th st itches these cast-off stitches are t<v be replaced in the 7th row "by casting on two wliero they are deficient, then follow 56 straight rows, 0, 28 ribs, to the shoulder. After these, for the shoulder strap 17 stitches are to be cast on atr.thetop,allfl with these 53 stitches 16 rows, or 8 ribs, are tobe knitted after which, cast "off 24 stitches from th^ top, in the next 12 rows cast off a stitch at ti 'ek beginning of every alternate row for the hollow of the armhole (making 0 in all), and afterwards knitj 10 rows strtigii t, In the next 12 rows, 69titelige. are to he increased at the same end; tlieywert. before diminished for the other side of the armhole. Then cast on 24 stitches, and knit 16 rows, or 8 ribs, straight, which will form the other part of the. shoulder strap (the two halves of which mus< be afterwards sewn together on the top of the shoulder). 17 stitches are to be east off from the shoulder strap" and 48 rows or 24 ribs knitted, which will bring the- work to the middle of the front. The second half ist, to be knitted to correspond exactly with the firsts but of course in this no buttonholes are required, but in their place four small china or mother-of- pearl buttons are to be sewn on. The edge stitcrle all round the top of the stays are to be taken up. placed on the four needles, and 12 rows knitted back* wards and forwards, observing that at èach of the four corners three stitches are to be knitted together- every second row, and after the above 12 rows cast off the stitches. The stitches round the armholes, are also to be taken up and finished with two rows, anti then cast off. The waist is to have the sama border as the top. SPIRITS OF TURPESTINE.—Thia is one of the most valuable articles in a family. Its medicinal quali- ties are very numerous for burns it is a quick ap- plication and gives immediate relief; for blisters 01\, I the hands it is of priceless value, searing down t" skin and preventing soreness; for corns on the toes it is usefuL Then it is a preventive against moths; by just dropping a trifle in the bottom of drawers, chests, and cupboards, it will render the garments secure from injury during the summer. It will keel. ants and bugs from the closets and store-rooms, by* putting a few drops in the corners and upon the^ shelves: it is destructive to bed-bugs, and will driv* them away from their haunts, if thoroughly applied to the joints of the bedstead, whi e it injures neither furniture nor clothing.