ence;" and, above all, she must "know her station," though it is rather difficult to say what that station is. It is not the drawing-room, it is not the kitchen, nor is it the young ladies' room. It must be the landing-place. OUR HOTEL. GIVING our baggage checks to t porter of the "American House," at Bosto we drove to that immense hotel, where remained for one night. It was cramm from the very basement to the most und Children are her especial delight: they sirable locality nearest the moon; I belie tell tales against her, outvie one another it had seven hundred inmates. Havi in teasing her-play little practical jokes, received the key of my room, I took r peculiar to juvenile geniuses, with her supper in an immense hall, calculated 1 work-box and desk. The whole life of the ladies parlour, and felt rather out of pla dining 400 persons. I next went into t Governess is a living sermon upon the holy among so many richly-dressed females; f text of the forgiveness of injuries. Her as I was proceeding to write a letter, amusements are few; for singing cannot porter came in and told me that writi be called singing when it is done by com- was not allowed in that saloon. "Freede mand, and dancing is but sorry dancing again," thought I. On looking round, when you are requested to join in it merely did feel that my antiquated goose-quill a to fill up a side-couple. Her accomplish-rusty-looking inkstand were rather out ments, however, are manifold, though exercised for the benefit of others. place. The carpet of the room was richly-flowered Victoria pile, rendering t heaviest footsteps noiseless; the tables we She is an Encyclopædia in bombazeen, marble on gilted pedestals; the couch which must be ready to be referred to at covered with gold brocade. At a pian a moment's notice by every one in the of rich workmanship an elegantly-dress house upon every possible and impossible lady was seated, singing. A fountain science, including the very latest improve- antique workmanship threw up a jet d'et ments, corrections, and additions that may and the whole was lighted by four splendi of iced water, scented with eau de Cologn have taken place in philosophy, poetry, or chandeliers, interminably reflected, for th puddings. She plays the harp, piano, and walls were mirrors divided by marb accordion; teaches calisthenics and hairpillars. The room seemed appropriate curling; dances the newest fashionable the purposes to which it was devoteddances, from Bohemia or Andalusia; music, needlework, conversation, and flirt understands glove-cleaning and dress-mak-ing. With the single exception of th ing; is clever at Berlin wool-work; in rule against writing in the ladies' saloon short, must have every female accomplish- a visitor at these immense establishment ment at her fingers ends. She knows is at perfect liberty to do as he pleases eight or ten languages, but must n't talk unless spoken to. Her greatest talent should be displayed in listening cleverly. Her sympathy should be all upon one side, like the Irishman's unanimity. She must have no views of her own, but only reflect, like a looking-glass, those of the person who is consulting her. Her whole life is a heritage of petty meannesses. She has not the consideration that is paid to a cook, and very frequently not half the wages that are paid to a housemaid; in fact, the housemaid has the advantage of the two, for she is entitled at least to a month's warning, whereas the poor Governess is often dismissed at a moment's notice. The Model Governess is literally the maid-of-all-work of fashionable society. Ladies, think of our own daughters, and treat her kindly! provided he pays the moderate charge o two dollars, or Ss., a day. This includes even at the best hotels, a splendid tabl d'hôte, a comfortable bed-room, lights attendance, and society in abundance From the servants one meets with grea attention, not combined with deference of which informs you by a suggestive bow manner, still less with that obsequiousness at the end of your visit, that it has been meted out with reference to the probable amount of half-sovereigns, shillings, and sixpences at your disposal. The "American House" at Boston, which is a fair specimen of the best class of hotels in the States, though more frequented by mercantile men than by tourists, is built of grey granite, with a frontage to the street of 100 feet. The ground-floor to the front is occupied by retail stores, in the centre of which a lofty double doorway denotes the entrance, marked in a more characteristic gratification of his palate. If people persist in taking their meals in a separate apartment, they are obliged to pay dearly for the indulgence of their exclusiveness. There are more than one hundred waiters, and the ladies at table are always served first, and to the best pieces. manner by groups of gentlemen smoking before it. This opens into a lofty and very spacious hall, with a chequered floor of black and white marble; there are lounges against the wall, covered over with buffaloskins; and, except at meal times, this capacious apartment is a scene of endless busy life, from two to three hundred gen- The drawing-rooms are always kept very tlemen constantly thronging it, smoking hot by huge fires of anthracite coal, and at the door, lounging on the settees, read- the doors are left open to neutralize the ing the newspapers, standing in animated effect. The temperance at table filled me groups, discussing commercial matters, ar- with surprise. I very seldom saw any riving or departing. Piles of luggage, in beverage but pure iced water. There are which one sees with dismay one's light conveniences of all descriptions for the use travelling valise crushed under a gigantic of the guests. The wires of the electric trunk, occupy the centre; porters seated on telegraph, constantly attended by a clerk, a form wait for orders; peripatetic indi- run into the hotel; porters are ever ready viduals walk to and fro; a confused Babel to take your messages into the town; pens, of voices is ever ascending to the galleries paper, and ink await you in recesses in the above; and at the door, hacks, like the lobbies; a man is ever at hand to clean and "eilwagon" of Germany, are ever de- brush soiled boots; in short, there is every positing fresh arrivals. There is, besides contrivance for abridging your labour in this, a private entrance for ladies. Oppo- mounting up stairs. But the method of site the entrance is a counter, where four or avoiding the confusion and din of two or five clerks constantly attend, under the three hundred bells must not be omitted. superintendence of a cashier, to whom all All the wires from the different rooms centre applications f rooms are personally made. at one bell, which is located in a case in the I went up to this functionary, wrote my lobby, with the mechanism seen on one side name in a book; he placed a number against through a sheet of plate-glass. The other it, and, giving me a key with a correspond-side of the case is covered with numbers in ing number attached, I followed a porter rows. By each number is a small straight down a long corridor, and up to a small piece of brass, which drops and hangs down lean room on the third story, where to all when the bell is sounded, displaying the intents and purposes my identity was lost number to the attention of the clerk, who -merged in a mere numeral. Åt another sends a waiter to the apartment, and places side of the hall is the bar, a handsomely de- the piece of brass in its former position. orated apartment, where lovers of such beverages can procure "toddy," "nightcaps," "mint julep," "gin sling," &c. On the door of my very neat and comfortable bedroom was a printed statement of the rules, times of meals, and charge per diem. I believe there are nearly 300 rooms in this house, some of them being bedrooms as large and commodious as in a private mansion in England. On the level of the entrance is a magnificent eating saloon, principally devoted to male guests, and which is 80 feet long. Upstairs is a large room furnished with a are combination of splendour and taste, called the "Ladies' Ordinary," where families, ladies, and their invited guests, take their meals. Breakfast is at the early hour of seven, and remains on the table till nine; dinner is at one, and tea at six. At these every delicacy of the season is served in profusion; the daily bill of fare would do redit to a banquet at the Mansion-house; the chef de cuisine is generally French, and an epicure would find ample scope for the meals Steam laundries are connected with all the large hotels. At American House the laundry is under the management of a clerk, who records all the minor details. The linen is cleansed in a churn-like machine moved by steam, and wrung by a novel application of the principle of centrifugal force; after which the articles are dried by being passed through currents of hot air, so that they are washed and ironed in the space of a few minutes. The charge varies from six to ten shillings a dozen. There are also suites of hot and cold baths, and barbers' shops. Before I understood the mysteries of these hotels, I used to be surprised to see gentlemen travelling without even carpet bags, but it soon appeared that razors and hairbrushes were superfluous, and that the possessor of one shirt might always pass as the owner of half a dozen; for, while taking a bath, the magic laundry would reproduce the article in its pristine glories of whiteness and starch.-Englishwoman in America. ORIGINAL POETRY. LONG, LONG AGO! That much-lov'd song, "Long, long ago,' How swiftly from her lips it came,- Fondly I listened to those words; And felt that they possess'd a charm In happy dreams I see again That gentle face so fair, And hear those tender murmurings Then ask me not to listen now, It would my grief renew; No other voice could wake the spell THE DYING BLIND GIRL TO HER MOTHER. "Mother, dear, oh weep no more, Oh, weep no more for me! But, say, when Heaven's bright shores I reach, Sweet mother, shall I see? Will the dark mist from mine eyes, That turn'd to night my day, And clouded all my childhood's hours, Will the flowers whose scented breath, And will the murm'ring brook be there, And there beside Heaven's crystal stream, "Then, mother, I shall know again, And thy dear face seen but in dreams, O'er my raptur'd ear will roll, The music of the skies, The song no mortal tongue can learn, And we shall meet again, my child, FLORA LESLIE. I come, WINTER. I come from the frozen North, I come with my icy breath; And mortals deem it a shaft sent forth, To scatter destruction and death. I wither the leaves and blight the flowers, But when have I dimm'd the heart's bright hour I hush the lark as it soars from earth, But when have I stilled the songs of mirth, Then why do ye fear me, sons of earth, I break the shafts of disease and death, And guard the good that thy soul doth know, E. D. A. SOME ONE TO LOVE ME.* Oh! brightly the sun-beams are shining, And the birds raise their sweet wedding favours Oh! with love for a spirit above me, How joyous existence would be; Oh, love! what is summer without thee? Nor the stars nor the sunbeams so joyous, I have sisters whose smiles of affection, Each of these loves another beside; To make life a summer for me! Very suitable music for this ballad has been this month) published, and may be obtained from Dunster's Musical Repository, Lyme Regis, or from any musicseller, Price 28. This is a capital preventive, together with regu DOMESTIC HINTS AND RECEIPTS. larly washing and rubbing the feet. RECEIPT FOR "TURKISH MARROW.". Take some cold dressed meat, mince it very fine, mix with E one egg, a little gravy, a small quantity of onion and herbs; season it well with pepper and salt. Then take a vegetable marrow, cut off the top, and scoop out the seeds only; fill the marrow with the meat, tie the top on again very firmly, and let it stew gently till the marrow is quite tender; send it up in a dish well covered with a rich gravy. BUZZARD. TO REMOVE GREASE SPOTS. This receipt 1 received of an intimate friend, In a versified form, for the ladies to use, And cleaned them with ease in the following way: G. M. F. G. GATHERING THE PERFUMES OF PLANTS.-The perfume of flowers may be gathered in a very simple manner, and without apparatus. Gather the Bowers with as little stalk as possible, and place them in a jar, three parts full of olive or almond After being in the oil twenty-four hours, put them into a coarse cloth, and squeeze the oil from hem. This process, with fresh flowers, is to be peated, according to the strength of the perfume sired. The oil, being thus thoroughly perfumed with the volatile principle of the flowers, is to be ixed with an equal quantity of pure rectified spirits, and shaken every day for a fortnight; then it may be poured off, ready for use. DIMINUTION OF SMOKE. The Registrar-Geeral, in his weekly returns for London, suggests hat the smoke from the fires of private houses in water may be greatly lessened by lighting the fire rom the top, whereby much of the smoke is conmed. REMEDIES FOR CHILBLAINS.-Boil some tursips, and mash them until reduced to a pulp; put them into a tub or large basin, and put the feet into them, almost as hot as can be borne, for a short time before going to bed. Persevere in doing this for a few nights, and the itching and irritation of the chilblains will be cured. Of course this must be before the chilblains are broken.2. Dissolve two drachms of acetate of lead in half a pint of cold water, adding a glass of brandy, or good rum; mix well, and apply with linen cloths frequently-Cost, 6d. 3. Liquor of subacetate of ad, half an ounce; camphorated spirits of wine, he ounce: mix.-Cost, 5d. 4. Put the hands and eet once a week into hot water, in which two or three handfuls of common salt have been thrown; this is a certain cure. Encourage children to use the skipping-rope regularly during cold weather. TO GIVE A FINE COLOUR TO MAHOGANY.-Let the tables be washed perfectly clean with vinegar, having first taken out any ink-stains there may be with spirits of salt. Use the following liquid:Into a pint of cold-drawn linseed oil, put four pennyworth of alkanet-root, and two pennyworth of rose pink, in an earthern vessel; let it remain all night, then stirring well, rub some of it all over the tables with a linen rag; when it has lain some time, rub it bright with linen cloths. TO CURE HICCOUGH.-It is not generally known that a lump of loaf sugar will instantly stop the most troublesome hiccough. TO GILD IVORY.-Put the ivory you intend to gild into a solution of sulphate of iron (copperas), and then into a solution of nitromuriate of gold; on withdrawing it from the latter, it will be beautifully gilded. TO TAKE INK OUT OF MUSLIN.-Dip the part stained with ink into cold water. Then fill a small bason with boiling water, and on the top place a pewter plate; lay the muslin upon the plate, strew salts of lemon or tartaric acid upon the ink spot, rubbing it in with the bowl of a spoon; the spot will then immediately disappear.-BUZZARD, Bath. PREVENTIVE AGAINST MOTHS.-Strew camphor over the things you wish to preserve from moths.BUZZARD. FURNITURE POLISH. With a piece of soft linen or flannel, From a stool to a beautiful pannel.-G.M.F.G. PECULIAR DANGER OF DAMP BEDS.-Why is a damp bed so dangerous? because, in a damp bed, with an insufficient covering, heat is drawn out or attracted from the body more rapidly than it is generated within the body; a chill ensues, and this superabundant abstraction of caloric is greater during sleep than during our waking hours; for during sleep the internal heat-producing process is, like other vital functions, lowered in degree. Moist air, or air which has vapour dissolved in it, or diffused through it, attracts caloric more copiously and rapidly than dry air. The moist air of a damp bed carries away from the body caloric with dangerous rapidity; the whole body is chilled; disease, and often death, ensues. Rapid abstractions of caloric, it is well known, are amongst the most prolific sources of disease. How is all this often fatal mischief to be prevented? Nothing can be more easy. Prevent, by a sufficient covering with non-conductors, the abstraction of caloric, and all mischief is obviated. One, two, or three additional pairs of blankets, according to the temperature of the chamber, would have saved many a valuable life.-Sir H. Marsh's Lectures. BED-ROOMS, sitting-rooms, stables, and outhouses should occasionally be washed with limewhite, because the lime, being very caustic, removes all organic matter adhering to the walls. INTERESTING STATISTICS. MARRIAGES.-66,776 persons were married in three months of January, February, and March. The annual rate in the quarter was 707 marriages to every 100,000 of the population; while the rate in the winter of 1855 was 631 (or less by 1-10th), and the average rate of the preceding winter quarters was 704. The marriages (33,331) were more by 4,257 than the marriages (29,131) in the winter quarter of 1855. CONSUMPTION OF FISH.-Some idea may be formed of the demand for fresh fish in London alone, from the following items extracted from a return of the quantities of each sort brought for sale to Billingsgate market in the year 1850. There are stated to have been 203,000 salmon, 400,000 cod, 800,000 turbot, 2,470,000 haddocks, 9,797,760 eels, 17,920,000 whitings, 23,620,000 mackerel, 22,750,000 oysters. The growth of the demand in all manufacturing towns is steady and remunerative. In Birmingham, in 1839, the quantity of fish sold was on an average from four to five tons a week; in 1852 it amounted to twentyfive tons a week, and in 1854 it varied from thirty to forty tons a week. The consumption of Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, and Sheffield, increases annually in like proportion. Then there is to be added to all this the enormous consumption of various species of cured fish. There were in 1850 sold in London alone 750,000lbs. of barrelled cod, and 8,000,000 of salted cod: 19,500,000 smoked haddocks, 50,000,000 red herrings, and 147,000,000 bloaters. AN INCH OF RAIN ON THE ATLANTIC.-Lieut. Maury, in his "Physical Geography of the Sea," thus computes the effect of a single inch of rain falling upon the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic includes an area of 25,000,000 square miles. Suppose an inch of rain to fall upon only one-fifth of this vast expanse, it would weigh 360,000,000,000 tons and the salt which, as water, it held in solution in the sea, and which, when the water was taken up as vapour, was left behind to disturb equilibrium, weighed 16,000,000 more tons, or nearly twice as much as all the ships in the world could carry at a cargo each. It might fall in a day; but, occupy what time it might in falling, this rain is calculated to exert so much force which is inconceivably great-in disturbing the equilibrium of the ocean. If all the water discharged by the Mississippi river during the year were taken up in one mighty measure and cast into the ocean as an effort, it would not make a greater disturbance in the equilibrium of the sea than the fall of rain supposed. And yet so gentle are the operations of nature, that movements so vast are unperceived. THE great bell in the Ivan tower of the Kremlin, at Moscow, weighs nearly 4,000,000lbs. It is 21 feet 6 inches high, 22 feet 5 inches widest diameter, and varies in thickness from 2 feet to 6 inches. It was cast about the year 1730. SPEED OF LIGHT.-Light comes to the earth from the moon in 1 seconds; from the sun in 8 minutes; from Jupiter in 52 minutes; from Uranus in 2 hours; from fixed stars of the first magnitude in 3 to 12 years, and from those of the twelfth magnitude in 4,000 years. HISTORICAL FACTS. HOW TYNDALE'S BIBLE WAS FIRST PRI IN ENGLAND.-At this time printing was exec much better at Paris than in London; and, o to a singular conjunction of circumstances, Th Cromwell got a licence for Grafton and Whiter to print the Bible there. The work was, how interrupted by the Inquisition; when not onl sheets, but the types and printers, were carri England, to the great improvement of th there. The Bible was soon finished, and or to be set up in every church in the kingdom: the priests were forbidden to hinder the p from reading it there on pain of deprive And thus were fulfilled the words of Tyndal martyr: I will cause a boy that drives the plough to "If God spare my life, ere many! edition of 1539 there were four others of the more of the Scriptures than you do." Afte Bible, printed at the expense of £30,000, advi by Antony Marler, a citizen of London, wh tained an order to have them set up in churches. Durin £7 103., and for the bound copies £9. The price was fixed by authori reign of Edward VI. Tyndale's Bible was pr more than thirty times, while of that with ( mer's revision only half the number was calle The first Scottish edition of the Scriptures published at £4 13s. 4d.. and yet the Bible in almost every house! amined, after his assassination of George Vil FELTON, THE ASSASSIN.-When Felton wa Duke of Buckingham, at Portsmouth in Au 1628, there was found sewed in the crown of hi "a writing to show the cause why he put this act into execution." Of this paper the follo is a copy : "That man is cowardly base, and deservet the name of a gentleman or Souldier, that i willing to sacrifice his life for the honor of God, his kinge, and his countrie. Lett no Commend me for doeing of it, but rather dis mend themselves as the cause of it; for if had not taken away or harts for or sinnes, he w not have gone so longe unpunished. Jo. FELI This unique document was found among Evelyn papers at Wotton, in Surrey. Sir Ed Nicholas, Secretary of State, who had the possession of it, was one of the persons b whom Felton was examined at Portsmouth. daughter married Sir Richard Browne, and celebrated John Evelyn married the only daug of Sir Richard Browne; and Lady Evelyn, widow of his descendant, presented the writingt late Mr. Upcott, one of the editors of Evelin's D TOMB OF QUEEN CAROLINE and Georg] Queen Caroline was buried in Westmi Abbey; and George II., on his deathbed, tw should be placed close by hers-a side of ea three years afterwards, directed that his rem the coffins to be removed, in order that the ments might be in actual contact. This story been doubted; but a few years since, it becor the duty of one of the Chapter (the Rev. H Milman) to superintend some operation wi that long-sealed vault, the royal coffins were f on the same raised slab of granite exactly in condition described; the sides that were abstra still leaning against the wall behind.-Quart Review. |