MORAL AND RELIGIOUS.
• Bine Bkr EvmirkfU."
Children are eloquent teacher*. Many
a lesson which has done oar hearts
good have we learned from tlieir lisp
ing lips. It was but the other day an
other took root in memory. We were
going to a picnic, and of course the lit
tle ones had been in ecstacies for sev
eral days. But the appointed morning
broke forth no glad sunshine, no song
of birds, no peal of mirth.
Thero was every prospect of rain;
©Ton hope hi l her face and wopt.
"Shan't wo go, mother'/" exclaimed
* a child of fivo, with passionate empha
sis.
"If it clears off."
'• Bnt when will it clear off?"
" Oh, lock cat for the blue sky I"
And ro he did, poor little fellow, but
never a bit of blue sky gladdened bis
eyes.
"Well, I do not care, mother," said i
be,when the tedious day had numbered
all its hours; "if I haven't seen it, I
know there is blue sky somewhere."
Tho next morning there was blue sky
such as only greats us ofter a storm.
"There, mother, didn't I tell you
so?" cried a joyous voico, "there is
blue sky I" then the little head bowed
for a moment in silent thought.
" Mother," xclaimcd tho child, when
he again looked up, " there must have
been blue tky nil day yesterday, though
1 never caw a bit of it, 'cause you see
there ain't no place where it could have
gono to. God only covered it up with
clouds, didn't He?"
itriS.ioini Intelligences
Tito Roman Catholic church iias sent,
fifty missionaries to equatorial Africa.
Tho Baplkt* have in tho State of
Ohio 635 Sunday-schools, 8,730 officer*
and teachers, and 53.284 scholar*,
It is said that nearly half of the
strength of the Presbyterian church in
tho United States is in the States of
Pennsylvania and Now York.
The Church of England Zenana Mis
sionary fsociety has just sent cut seven
teen women missionaries to India, thir
teen o' whom go out for the first time
The Protestant Episcopal church in
Oregon has sixteen recto: a, twenty-six
churches and missions and 1,040 Sun
day-school scholars. Tho communi
cants cumber 785.
Mr. Ingersoli, according to the Chris
tian Union, knows no moro about the
Christian religion than a boy would
kuow of a chestnut from pricking his
fiogyrs with tho burr.
A novel baptism occurred at HI.
Charles, 111. A lady, who was lame and
unable to walk, was taken into tho
. water in a bug-y. handed to the clergy
man and properly immersed.
The Wilmington iDel.) Femalo Bible
society is sixty years old, having been
organized on Di-oember 22, 1821, five
after tlm formati >n of the Ameri
can Biblo EoHt.tr. The subscrilrer*
last year number d 227.
Of tho 3.598 Presbyterian churchen
on the roll of the general aembly
2,075 received no now memliera last
year, wbilo 647 churches received only
* one each and 550 two each. Tho total
increase daring the past year over tho
year before it said to be less than one
half of ono per cent.
Monster gatherings of the officers of
the Salvation Army from all parts of
England were recently lreld in Exeter
hall, London. "General" Booth, iu
addressing ono of the meetings, said
they had cow 230 stations, 235 corps,
470 paid officers, and their income wan
now 8250,000 a year, against 820,000
when the Work iiegan five years ago.
An Extraordinary Funeral.
There was an extraordinary character
in Yorkshire at. tho beginning of the
present century named Jemmy Hirst,
of Bawcliffo, who was a well-known
figure at Done-aster and York races.
When Jemmy had made his fortune a*
s tanner he rcaolvedto cut the tan yard
and "aet up as a swell " for the remain
der of his life. The first step be took
. to that end was to procure a handsome
I oaken coffin, furnished with a folding
lid, which was let into the corner of his
parlor like a cupboard and filled with
provisions and liquor. When Jemmy
Hirst died, rich and fall of years, ho
left directions in bis will that he was, to
be bnricd in the afore arid coffin, and
that his body was to be carried to the
grave by eight old maids who were to
receive half a guinea apieuo for their
services. The eight old maids, how
over, were not fori booming, and right
buxom widows were engaged at half a
crown a head to <V duty as bearers,
the motley preevstio* wan beaded by
bagpipes and a fiddle, and dbfctecitntry
folks flocked it) by hundreds to pay
1 , their f Jemy "Hirst, of
Kkwriiffo. He died.iu 1823. Mr. Kills
King, who lived la fcifig's Bench Walk
sea* eighty ycari ago, kept his coffin
TIIK HOME IKM TOK.
A poultice of fresh tea leaves moist
ened with water will euro a stye on the
eyelid.
For earache, dissolve asafetidu in
water; warm a few drops and drop in
tho ear, then cork tho ear with wool.
According to a French medical journal
whooping cough has been successfully
treated by l)r. Barety, of Nice, by tur
pentino vapor.
Dr. Poole'* Health Monthly advises
people to try a newspaper over tho
oliest, beneath tho coat, as a chest pro
tector in extremely cold weather.
Tho white of an egg, into which a
piece of alnm about the size of a walnut
has been stewed until it forms a jelly, is
a capital remedy for sprains. It should
bo laid over the sprain on a piece of
lint, and be changed as often as it be
comes dry.
A lump of fresh lime, the size of a
walnut, dropped into a pint of water
and allowed to stand over night, the
water being poured off from the sedi
ment and mixed with a quarter of a pint
of tho host vinegar, forms a good wash
for scruf in the head. It it is to Ire ap
pliod to the roots of the hair.
A Novel Little War Ship.
A New York paper says; There now
lie-" at the wharf of the Delaware and
II udson Canal company at Hoboken a
very modest-looking little vessel which j
Captain Eric-son has constructod and
christened "Tho Destroyer," which, it:
is claimed, will make ineffectual and of
no value for offensive warfare those ex
pensive and heavily-armored vessels,
the prido of tho navies of the old
world. With this innocent-appearing
little craft he proposes to completely
wipe out of existence, if opportunity
offers, the best vessels extant,'mode
upon the system of which he was the
father.
The D stroyer is a craft of iron,
whose hull, even as she lay light on the
water, was almost entirely tubmerged.
When ready for service bat little of the
hall would bo above wter. The house,
which is situated well astern, is of iron,
but no attempt bus laren marie to make
it impregnable, an with the house en
tirely shot away, the Destroyer is just
as seaworthy and capable of performing
tho work required of it. Below tho
house it is as well prot. cted as any ar
mored vi-ssel afloat. Its dimensions are
130 feet long, 11 feet deep and 12 feet
wide. These nnnsual proportions aro to
give her a high rate of speed, and as
her lines are exactly alike in both direc
tions she can move ahead or astern
with equal facility. Tho simple hori
zontal engine of 1,000 horse-power rest
ing on a surface condenser of about
eight foot square, tho bydraulically
oontrolkd rudder, tho novel steering
apparatus, and the torpedo gun are all
below tho surface of the water, and as
they aro protocte 1 by armored plates ot
improved construction, with a n]>eaial
device to protect the machinery from
shots fired at the exposed portion or
front of tho b rat, her inventor asserts
with confidence that aha is indaatract
ible save by sunken torpedoes or boats
of her own kind. A frigate's launch is
larger than she yet tho frigate itself in
a contest would be wholly at her mercy,
for tho immense craft could not be
handled quickly enough to get oat of
the way of Ihe little death-dealer no
more than can tho ponderous cle*
phsnt escape from the insignifi
cant little fly that so terribly
annoys it. The armament of The De
stroy or is a single grin situated just
above the keelson, in the forward part
of the boat, and its muzzle opens di
rectly into the sea, being proton .ed
from the rushing in of water when not
in use by a permanent valvo hung by an
elbow joint to the stem of the vovael,
and which is opened or closed by a pis
ton operated at tho breech of the gun.
When the gun is to he fired this valve
is raised, aud stands oat of the path of
the projectile. How, when the valve is
raised is the water prevented from
raabing into the mnzclo of the gun ? is
a query that natnrally arises. And the
inventor provides against this emergen
cy by tho ue of i seetionally con
structed temporary valve of wood and
rnbtrer cloth, which tightly fits the muz
zle and is placed in the gun before the
projectile is, and shattered to atoms when
tho torpedo starts on its errand of de
struction. " Water must rnsh in when
the projectile leaves tho gun, and so
sink the vowel," says the critic as he
looks at the working model. Certainly
it would bat for the fact that as soon as
the projectile is fired oat Urn gunner
closes hi* permanent valvaand shuts off
the influx, which can only \n through
the gnn ittolf What comes in ions out
through the breech and drips through
a grating into the bilge below, from
which it is pumped ont by a steam
siphon placed at the side of tho gun
So far the explanation is satisfactory
and it is made doubly so by the initial
experiment, wWh showed that Ihe
permanent valvo iwrfi be closed after
the gua is fired, ami Ira; very little
water be shipped, though there was s
strong tide nmnin. toward i
*.u. Oi tho.,rd.j
A SENATOR'S ItEHINISCKNCES.
K*-Hmnlor Hi*nilrlrk'ii ltrr|l<-< linn* of
l'remlnml Mfniter. of Ike Inlinl Hmn-i
NUMO.
An ludianapoli* (Ind.) letter gives
the particulars of an interview held with
Ex-United States Senator Thomas A.
Hendricks. Daring the interview Mr.
Hendricks gave interesting reminis
cences of some of the prominont men
whom ho had met in the Senate. He
said: '
Many senators whom I met at that
time were men of marked qualities* Mr.
Collamor, of Vermont, was one of the
moat ingeniona and plausible debaters I
have ever hoard. Ho was then a sena
tor, greatly respected, and exerciacd a
decided influence ; In his character and
policy ho was decidedly conservative.
Mr. Anthony, of Rhode Island, who
is yet in the Senate, was then in the
prime of his manhood, courteous and
elegant in his manner, never giving
offense, always devoted to his party,
and very sncceasfnlly taking charge ol
its interest.
I met with no man in the senate
whoso qualities interested me more
than Mr. Buckalcw, of Pennsylvania.
Etc was modest and retiring, hnt when
called out by duty, a debater of rare
ability, philosophic in his habits of
thought, not combative, punctilious,
holding a strong position and exer
cising much influence in the Bcnate.
During his term he prepared a very in
teresting work, outside of his sena
torial labors, on the snOjectof "Minor
ity or Proportional Representation." It
is the ablest work on that subject that
has como to my knowledge. Mr. Buck
alcw was singularly retiring, modest
and democratic in his habits.
His colleague, Mr. Oowan, was always
listened to with interest. He was a
dashing debater, and canto into any
controversy whoa it was at tho highest,
and wasablo to maintain himself again t
much odds. Ho ca.ne into the Benate
a Republican, bat became very rostless
under party discipline.
One of the most inter* sting characters'
in the Senate of that day was Garrett
Davis He was a war Democrat from
Kentucky. I think be was the most
fearless debater I over heard—not al
ways the most considerate for the ranee
he advocated.
Mr. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, war js-r
-haps the finest orator in the Seuate.
Daring the first part of th - war he w~*
a conservative Republican. By his con
victions of right, and by extreme hos
tility on the part of other* to his poli'i
cal position, he was carried into the
ranks of the Democratic part;, and be
came one of tbo strongest advocates of
the Democratic cause. As a friend he
was sincere, as an sssociato charming.
Mr. Fossenden was then at the height
of hi* very distinguished career. I
think Maine has never been so ably re
presented in the Senate. As a debater
he Was very remarkable— quietly, atU-n-
I tivoly, ho listen-sl to those opposed to
him nntil he appreciated exactly the
field of the fight; then, without note,
book or authority, ho made his reply so
c'ieiitly that he con Id not be misunder
stood, and I never knew him to leave a
point unanswered. I do not mean that
hi* answer wa* always aaccesslnl, hnt
it was always able. He wa* one of tbo
great men of his party, and held great
influence nntil be fonnd himself com
pelled to separato from it in bis vote
ngainst the impeachment of Andrew
Johnson.
Governor Gfimos represented the
State of lowa. I never saw a purer man
in public life. The influence of his
aide and excellent alministraticn as
governor cf lowa did ranch to estab
lish the State permanently as a Repub
lican State. He, too, separated from
h..s party on the impeachme nt question.
John P. Hale, of Maine, wan very
much observed at the time I went into
the Senate and very much spoken of.
He was a brilliant man, but not a
student, as I thought, and he had come
to repeating himself.
Mr. Henderson was a young senator
from Missouri, a goodtfawyer, a strong
debater, and very sincere in his convic*
tions. He also separated from the Re
publican party on the impeachment
question.
Reverdy Johnson was the ablest
lawyer in the Senate. 1 have never
heard any one who so readily, and with
out special preparation, announced his
legal projiositions and supported them
by exact reference to the authorities.
For a part of the time Henry 8. Lar,o
was my colleague. He deserves to be
held in high estimation by his country
men. Passionate in his politics, but
sincere and truthful, with few superiors
as an orator.
John Sherman was not thoa frequent
in his addresses to the Senate, but al
ways the same, well prepared, and left
bis views distinctly impressed upon the
mind of tho body.
The most distinguished member of
the Senate was Mr. Buruner. Mat.y of
his speeches wore politic*! essays rather
than debates. lie was a man of great
learning, ospsbleof exhaustive research,
thoroughly in tamed, never politic,
never avoided a question to attorn mo
dato friend or foe, not even to rave his
party; he stepped at onee to the front
edge of question and required fctblei
'- • V,.., '
and more timid ]>artisans to follow. I
have said, and I snp]>oao I j* correct,
that at his death he left more of his sen
timents embodied in the laws of the
oonntry than any other man.
Mr. Trnmbnll, of Illinois, was in many
respects a distinguished man. As a de
bater ho was very able, as a lawyer very
eminent. Ho was chairman of the ju
diciary committee, and reported many
of the most important bills touching
the relations of tho races and the recon
struction of the States. He, too, left
the Ropnblican party upon the impeach
ment of Andrew Johnson.
Mr. McDongal, of California; was a
brilliant and attractive man, although
not a man of much influence in tho
body. Borne of his speeches made upon
tho spur of the occasion without pro
par ition were as remarkable as yon find
in tho best collection of literary gem*.
If I had a (ilnbe I wonld like to refer
yon to ono or two exquisite apccimcns.
I remember one occasion when tbo hill
was pending in tho Henate upon
the President's veto of tho admission
of Colorado. If all the sena
tors were present it was known
that tho bill could not pass. Senator
Wado called tho bill np (he being chair
man of tbo committee on Territories at
the time) late in the evening; some 1
'.enators were not present - Mr. Dick
son, senator from Connecticut, a sup
porter of tho veto, it was announced in
the Senate, was sick, and that he could
not safely attend. Mr. Wado expressed
tho thought that if Providence had
favored the measure for the admis
sion of that state, it was projrer for
i's friends to take advantage of that
circumstance, and so ho insisted that
tho hill ahonld be taken up and passed
npon. Just then MeD&ugul came into
t ho Senate, and without taking his seat,
bnt standing by his chair, he replied so
completely, so jiowerfaHy, in a few
sentences, as to settle tho fate of
tho hill for that Light. Alter Mc-
Dongal took his seat Mr. Wade could
g*t lint ono or two to second him in his
effort* to take the bill np. I cannot
give yon McDongal's speech. It can
hardly be repeated. Hi* illustration o
hi* al'boirance of the sentiment he took
from Pcrian mythology—tho spirit of
good and the spirit of evil—the spirit
of good that brought to mankind all
bl< l -inga—the spirit of evil that poured
up :i the race its many curses; and the
sentiment he condemned he compared
to the lAttcr, bnt in sncb U-autiful,
strong and classic language, and in
every respect so forcible, that the pro
position to take the bill from the table
received no support.
Governor Morton entered the Senate
after the middle of my term. He soon
took rank as one of the ablest leader* of
hi* party. IJo was extreme in his ex
prosiions of political hostility -strength
and esrnestnas* were tho characteristics
of his speeches.
A ( aptirc In thr South Seas.
Australia is ringing with the
Logi Boero, lately rescued from
H nth Sea savage*. Captain
i lin, who explored the Solomon group,
! discovered a white man naked among
| the saragra at Bonka Island, acd count
! <-d seventy war canoes, each containing
forty armed ravages. After consider
able stratagem he got alongside a canoe
containing the white man, who was ulti
mately, with some difficulty and danger,
ransomed for throe American hatchets.
Ho was an Italian named Lugi Boero,
and had been for Qfteen months a cap
tive with the savages. When he found ho
was about to bo liberated he embraced
Captain Mclaughlin in an agony of
joy. Boero, with Ave mates, left Liki
harbor to go on a crniso in an open
boat. Three days afterward they rirnck
a reef, the boat was broken, and they
fell into the hands of the natives. Be
got separated from bis companions,
whom ho only once afterward saw. All
were treated worso tban dogs. They
were the slaves of every one, and made
to do horrible work, always treated with
tbo greatest ill-usage and obliged to
vrcdUpaked in the son, with their skin
jef fit g off. Captain McLaughlin, after
reacning Lugi, sailed for Boughan
ville and other inlands, where he heard
of another white man in captivity, but
was unsuccessful in rescuing him. It
is supposed that this unfortunate Italian
is the only survivor of the six.
. bleeping Apart.
" More quarrels arise between broth
ers, between sisters, between hired
girls, between clerks in stores, between
hired men, between hatbands and
wires, owing to oleolrical changes
through their systems by lodging to
gether night after night under the same
bedclothes, than by any other disturb
ing cause. Them is nothing that will
so derange the nervous force, as to lis
alt night in bed with another person
who is soibent in nervous force. The
alu rber will go to sloop and rest all
night, while the eliminator will be tum
bling and tossing, restless and nervous,
and wake up in the morning fretful,
peevish, fault-Hading and discouraged.
No two persons, no matter who thay
are, should habitually sleep together.
Om will thrive and the other will iora.
XbU is the Uw."i of Life."
TOI'ICH OF THE OAT.
Now York city bun appropriated
91,000,000 for street cleaning in 1882.
Hor police will cost 80,300,680, the fire
department call* for $1,404,850, the
ftchools will have 83,500,000, the de
partment of charities and correction
oan he run for $1,812,500 and the de
partment of pnhlie works will com
mand $2,389,900.
The city of Klingenberg, in Lower
Franoonia in Germany, not oDly im
poses no municipal tax, but every voter
receives an annual dividend from the
city treasury of a nana ranging from
$22.50 to $25. The city recently cele
brated the Sedan anniversary by giving
every citizen fifty cents, with fifty cents
extra to every soldier of the war with
Franco.
Tho New York ffuur say* that "Sid
ney Dillon, ono of Jay Gould's partners,
is about to bnild the costliest and most
ornate private residence on this conti.
uent. It is to be erectc-d at the corner
of Fifth avenue and Bevonty-sixth
street, and the hense, with the grounds
surrounding it, will cover thirteen full
city lot*, four of which will be on Fifth
avenne."
A pathway only eighteen inches wide
in cut into the aide of Hlato mountain,
near Lcadrille, at a height, over an
almost perpendicular chasm, of 1,500
feet. Few men who one it have strong
enough nerves to walk upright, but in
stinctively crouch or "coon it," an the
local saying is. The tool hardiness of
James Zero in attempting the passage*
when the ground was a glare of ice
may, therefore, be imagined. He
slipped, fell, and was dashed to pieces
on the frozen ground more than a quar
ter of a mile below.
Tho lung of Ashantoe, like his neigh
bor, the despot of Dahomey, is an adept
at human sacrifices, but the latest ex
ploit attributed to him, of killing two
hundred yonng girls in order to get
their blood for mixing mortar in the re
pair of a building, is almost ]>ast belief.
In civilized countries, monarch*, to be
sure, rend tens of thousands of yonng
men to die nthe battlefield inVrrder to
build np and cement their power with
warm blood, but the Istrlwrities of the
ruler of Oootsassieareof a different sort.
The eagerness for inflicting violent
death is, however, snch a passion with
the Ashantees, as their wars with the
Fantees show, that probably this latect
atrocity on the Gold Coast doc# not pro
duce much emotion there.
The I tali in newspapers hare fast in
crease! in tiamb.!? of Ute years, and
for a half-century show a progress
which in n minor,; has kept p3e with
the other countries of Europe. Pre.
▼ions to 1797 thra was not oae jonrn 1
in tho entire cuaatry, fn IKI9 there
wore only 1%, and of these 119 were
JpubTUli <1 in It ima. Now ther,- are
1.4 *>4, of which 149 arc dailies, bat
Home no longer has the lot 1. It is
Milan, with 216, that comes flrat. Home
Mhen follows with 147, Naples with 114,
Flofsace with 110, Genoa with flfty
aix, and Veniee with thirty-two. Rome
has eighteen daily papers, N oples six
teen, Palermo thirteen. Mil si twelve,
Florence nine, Turin six, and Venice
five. On an average, there 8, UOO read
era for each Italian newspaper.
The New York posicfflcs has a man
j whose business for the past twenty fire
years has been to decipher lad al
dreasea. no has collected directions of
the various cities of the country, and is
said to know all the streets and a great
number of the residences of New York
city. Some time ago a foreign letter
came directed to " Patrick Mihoney
first house in America." Tbo letter was
from Ireland, and after the usual inqui
ries, the clerk learned the time that the
vessel bearing the letter arrived. As an
experiment, he placed it in the hands of
a carrier, who was instructed to deliver
it at the end of ——— pier. Tho house
was a sailors' boarding-house, and
strange m it may aeem. Patrick Msho
ney was found. When the letter was
opened the only contents w,< found to
be a draf'. for $4OO.
Galcatta vu recently thr vn into a
state of intense excitement by the ar
rival of the great Moulri H4s Ahmed,
who is credited with the possession of
minuralons power# enabling him to
cure all diseases which flesa is heir to.
His process is very simple. Too peo
ple assemble with earthen pots of water;
be passes among them and breathes
npon the water, and forthwith it is im
pregnated with caratire properties.
Enormous crowds follow the
whererer He goes, and not only Uin
doosaio Mohammedans, hot ovei Chris
tians of all classes join the ranks. He
i in easy oircn instances, and exacts no
foe or reward of any kind for his sor
rier; hi# pontons] character is shore
repr moh, an i his i.ifl ixaon is al ways j
nsod iij fivor of Uw an 1 ordor. Ho is
s Mohammedan preacher and a great
authority upon of Mo'ammedan
fltitrttl
In reference to the reoent great do
that a Washington genlaman well
known in Southern circled a*; of the
Confederate (nod that the Confederate
disbursing officers had altogc'-her a very
large nam on hand, which they were too
hoaeat to appropriate and pocket, mod
if they retained it, the United States
government, it u feared, could noise
it. 80 they placed it in tire hands of
Honorable Englishmen ae trustees, to
hold for a term of years, and then to
dispose of it as seemed most just At
the head of these, it was understood,
was Lord Haughton. The Bank of
England is probably only the deposito
ry and agent of the trustee*. The ironda
lamed approximated $800,000,000,
Probably not one-third are now in ex
istence. This money in England was
the prodnct of cotton, etc., bought and
paid for with bonds.
Tho editor of Nature says that " many
Arctic authorities are of opinion that the.
days of great and expensive national
Polar expeditions are passed, and that the
money thus spent wonld le put to much
better use by Wing devoted to the car
rying on of a continuous series of ob
servations. At various points around
the Arctic arm observations will be es
tablished as near ae practicable to the
pole, where a continuous series of ob
servations will be taken, according |p a
common prearranged plan. Theae ob
servations will be connected with mete
orology in all its dej-artments, with ter
restrial magnetism, the anrora borealis>
atmospheric electricity, the movements
of the ice, biology, combined with geo
graphical exploration where practicable.
Aits r a year or two of snrh observations
we may then be able to compare and co
ordinate Polar conditions with those
which prevail in r< gions further south.
A vast array of data must necotsarily be
accumulated that cannot but be turned
to valuable account by science."
What is known in California M "the
debris question" has finally got into the
i courts, and injunctions and counter in*
! junctions are being exchanged, to the
manifest profit of tbe lawyers. The
mines of the hill country bordering on
tbe Sacramento valley are worked by
washing out vast quantities of sand,
clay anl gravel The debris chokes
the streams flowing into the Sacramen
to. The country is frequently inun
dated, and extensive tracts of arable
land are covered with silt, to tbe de
struction of all agriculture. The farm
ers have procured an order issued from
one of the courts directing the sheriff
of Nevada county to shut off the water
of certain mines, the owners of which
had been previously enjoined from
prosecuting their work. Another court
lias issued a temporary injunction re
straining tbe sheriff from shutting off
the water. At this paint the matter
rests, and it is difficult to see how any
solution of the question can be arrived
at so long as tbe prosecution of the
two industries appear to be incompati
ble with each other.
A Jim!ca Breakfast,
Strang® aa it rair wei at first-right,
everybody in the West Indies eats very
Urge meals The climate is so hot that
yon must take food freely to make tip
for losses, and the appetite has to be
stimnUted by a great variety of dishes,
as well as by the oo pious use of those
very insidious capsicums and the still
more delicious little red sad yellow bird
peppers. A few of these tempting irsita
arc placed in the salt cellar at every
meal, and with the brig lit tropical flow
; ers which invariably garnish the Üble in
pretty specimen vases they give a gen
eral air of pleasant, (esthetic refinement
j to the whole arrangement,
i Breakfast is a'really solid and tub
sUntial repast, usually put off until
I0:30or 11, the pang*of pressing hunger
being stilled before the early morning
canter by a enp of coffee in the bed
room. With it comes sometimes a cas
; sava cake, one of the best Jamaican in
i stitnlions, made by the negro villagers
; from the roughly t craped meal of the
arrowroot plant. This meal is rolled
into a thin poate and then baked hard
and dry into ronnd cakes, about the
thickness of a Scotch oatmeal bannock,
but tunch more delicate in taste. Thus
refreshed, one manages to get over the
time till 11 o'clock breakfast, and then
t he table io a hospitable planter's house
positively groans under the weight of
its viand*. Most of them are fearfully
and wonderfully made, I mnst allow, but
their variety is certainly astonishing.
Tea, ooffoe, claret, and, above all,
rum and water; flab, fresh and salt, and
twice laid; meats, hot and cold, fresh
and salt; pepper pot, and eggs in aban
donee. As a rule, the meal consists of
two or three courses, ending off with
curried chickens or cray-fish, over which
a eonple of soft-boiled eggs are broken
on each plate. " Bombay ducks," those
queer little Irdlan dried fish from the *J
Indus, sometimes accompany it cm the
epicure's tabic. They are baked quite g
hard in the oven, and then broken up
t > vat with the curry. To finish all,
mors marmalade home made or im
p-wied, to the square mile, is probably
nro in the West Indies tssn in any
nher part of the British dominions. -
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