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•THE OLD LADY OF TJIKKAD
MEKOLK STREET.”
The Bank of England, 200 Years
Old, and Its Peculiar Methods of
Doing Business—Once Kohbed
by Amerlcun Rogues.
O NE coming has known of been the old pride celebrating ladies richest and in and the with dignity world best lie
the 200th anniversary of her birth,
Though during tho whole course of her
long and bu&y lifo she has never been
ontside of London town, the fog,
noise an l bustle of the English capi
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fected her health, and, despite her
great ngc, she is reported as being
bale and hearty and giving every
pi JinT-- at the present time of living
to celt’, rate another centenary of her
birth. r l ho venerable dame in ques¬
tion is fondly styled by many millions
tho “Old Lady of Tkreadnuadlo
Htreol,” but to the lords of trade and
finance, tho staid and formal gentle¬
men who worship forms and reverence
titles, she is always respectfully re¬
ferred to as the Bank of England.
Tho credit for tho founding of the
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THE BANK OF ENGLAND.
Bank of England belongs in tho main
to William Patterson, a shrewd Scotch
merchant, then doing business iu
London. Patterson later fell on evil
days and died in poverty, but the in¬
stitution which he founded still stands
for all that is sound, safe and endur¬
ing in tho world rulod by shining gold
sovereigns its and crisp £5 notes. From
foundation, says the New York
I’ress, banking in the modern senso of
tho word may bo said to date. The
capital of the bank at the outset
amounted to $6,000,000. This sum
has been several times increased, and
for the past sixty years has amounted
to tho vast sum of $72,765,000. The
bank has also a reserve fund of $16,
000,000. For managing tho public
debt of Great Britain, a privilege it
has enjoyed ever since it was founded,
tho bank receives $1,235,000 a year,
Its remaining profits accrue from the
use of its deposits, on which it never
allows interest, and from its own eapi
tab It pays a handsome yearly divi
dend, and its shares, few of which are
ever at about offered^for $1700 eaoh. sale, are now quoted
biuco 1814 no notes of a smaller
denomination than £5 ($25) have been
issued. Tue largest notes issued at
tho present time are for $5000 each. ,
Put once iu its history, during the
trying and critical period of the
Napoleonic wars, has tho bank sus
pended specie payment, and iu all
parts of tho British Empire its notes
have always been accepted as legal
tender. Thero is but oue exception
to this rule, aud that is at the bank
itself. There they must be raid in
500,000-conld be paid without im
been in cirenlfttioll but an hour, and
has never been wiihen. the wails of
the aud building, it » at onee canceled
ft new one issued in its place.
During the first century and a half
of its existence the Bank of England
was often made the victim of the
forger and counterfeiter, losing in
this way sums aggregating $10,000,
000, but in recent years it has suf
fered few losses of this kind. The
notes now issued by the bank defy the
counterfeiter. They are very long,
very wide and very ugly. The paper
is of remarkrble whiteness aud tho
ink used in printing intensely black,
For many generations a Hampshire
family of' named Portal has manufactured
all the note paper. It is all made
bv hand from the purest and cleanest
linen and each note has three rough
or uncut, edges
The most epriAo
ever perpetrated against tho Bank of
England were committed, not bv Eng -
lishmen, but bv Americans—G eorge
and Austin Bidwell, George McDonald
and Edward Hills. Their forgeries
were of notes of discount. The bank
was in tho custom of accepting
bills of exchange on deposit, without
verifying either the signature or ac
oopfances, and filing them away
they fell due. The Bidwells and their
aids, bv a clever maneuver, eecured
the needed iutroductiou, *" 1 one of
them opened an account .c a brauch
of the bank.
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counterfeit bills, duly signed and ac
cepted, and the bank officials advanced
the money on them. On one occasion
the forgers neglected to date the ac
ceptance, and the bank requested the
acceptors to supply the omission. In
this way the frauds were finally brought
to light and the forgers caught and
sentenced to life imprisonment. Hills
died in confinement, but the Bidwells
and McDonald were released on ticket -
ofdeave some years ago. Their steal¬
ings from the bank amounted to over
$5,000,000.
The British Government takes n< i
part in the management of the bank,
which is wholly in the hands of the
stockholders. Its affairs are directed
b y a committee consisting of the gov
ernor, deputy governor and twenty
four directors. Eight of the latter r€
tire yearly, but are usually re-elected
as long as they court the honor.
governor and deputy governor are
elected to serve for one year, but each
is generally accorded a second term.
They each receive an annual salary of
85000 and each director 82500 a year
for his services, Despite the small
salary attached to it, the governorship
of the Bank of England is an honor
zealously sought for by Londou’sablest
and shrewdest bankers. David Pow¬
ell, the present governor, is now serv
ing his second term, having been pre¬
viously deputy governor and a direc¬
tor of the bank.
The Bank of England has two
branches in Loudon and nine in other
chief cities of England. The London
branches issue no notes, but that is
the principal function of the country
branches. Ordinarily about 60,000
notes are paid out in a day, and as
many new ones issued. The bank
gives employment iu its several de¬
partments to over 1000 men. A physi¬
cian in the employ of the bank looks
after their health, When a clerk asks
for a leave of absence because of ill¬
ness ho is examined and tho physician
also visits him at his home while hois
sick. Superauuated clerks receive a
pension, so it will be seen that the old
lady is not unmindful of tho wants of
her children.
Since 1734 the office of the Bank of
England has been in Threadneedlo
street, in the very heart of London.
Without, tho bank building is plain,
grimy aud unprepossessing. Iu its
centre is a small courtyard, in the
summer months planted with fragrant
flowers, and singularly fresh, green
aud beautiful. There is no noise,
bustle or confusion, and on all sides
are to be seen the quietude, solemnity
and decorous absence of haste xvhieh
befit the home of so aged aud opulent
a dame as tho Old Lady of Thread
needle street.
If the visitor is so fortunate as to be
equipped with a director’s order to
view tho bank he will be taken into a
basement, through a great iron door,
at which a watchman is always on
guard, and ushered into a round, low
vault, crowded with small trucks
piled high with gold. Each truck
holds ingots to the amount of $400,
000, and the walls of the vaults inclose
more than $125,000,000 worth of the
precious metal. Iu another apart
ment baud presses are at work print
j U g the notes for which these piles of
gold ingots are the collateral. Each
of these presses can piint 3000 bank
notes in an hour, and could one enjoy
its output for a singlo day he would
have an income greater than that of
auv millionaire.
Fvcrv onin that comes into the
a s, fifh. \ro
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aftvr which thev are returned to the
Government mint to be recoined. The
loss on light coins is sustained by those
' depositing them. The treasure of
the bank is a gloomy room, the walls
! of which are lined with fireproof cup
. boards, each containing some 80,0JO
! sovereigns, or an equal amount of
| notes. A small bundle which the eus
todian takes from one of the cup
boards and allows the visitor tohanxlle
i for a moment, iu itself represents a
pr.noely fortune. than"a The bundle weighs
.-.neb m-s pound, but contains
» tUou.ml notc«, and each of the
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pr tty
bundle stands for nine tons of the
pares* gold,
In the basement of the bank are
als« to be seen the barracks wherein
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for its protection thirty-six soldiers
are quartered from seven every * even
inrr " uu til th* next morn in*- These
®? ld ... ? ers are: provided , with supper by
- \ lected he b ? ak for °^ too CIal8 purpose » an 1 helps a Dbrary them col¬
while away the long hours of the
night. Many a more irksome task
than guarding the gold of the Bank of
England falls to the lot of Tommy
; Atkins. Not many old ladies have
their nightly slumbers guarded by
three score stout men of arms, but
then there are very few who possess
so many treasures and such stores of
gold as does the one in Threadneedlo
street, who, while celebrating her
200th birthday, gives no sign of age,
decrepitude or decay, and will doubt¬
less bo as hale and hearty, as rich,
staid and respectable in 2001 as she is
to-day.
New Trees.
The German Dendrological Society,
which is presided over by Baron Yon
St. Paul, of Fischbach, in Silicia, oou
sists principally of practical garden¬
ers, nurserymen, scientific botanists,
officers of forestry and country gentle¬
men. The aim of tho society is the
introduction of now trees and shrubs
into Germany and to test their use
fulness or ornamental value. For
this purpose it is proposed to plant
arboretums iu different parts of Ger¬
many, which, of course, will also con¬
tain the old and well known species of
indigenous trees and .shrubs. It is to
bo hoped that an enterprise of general
interest like this will meet with the
necessary Support of tlie authorities
and the public in general.—New\Or«
leans Picayune.
Tim Etiquette ol the Fan.
There is an endless etiquette in tin
use of fans, and with tho Japanese the
fan is an emblem of life, The rivet
end is regarded as tho starting point,
and as the rays of the fan expand, so the
road of life widens out toward u pros¬
perous future. It is also said that the
Japanese ogi originally took its shape
from their wonderful mountain, Fuji¬
san, which represents to them all that
is beautiful, high, and lioly. When
one begins to understand all this,
there comes a salutary feeling of ig¬
norance, and wo perceive that tho
Japanese may claim to be among the
great symbolists in the world. A
continuance of such study might turn
tho most hardened European into a
Japonophile.—The Spectator.
Hothouses on Rails.
A new method in horticulture has
been devised iu England. The Pall
Mall Gazette describes it briefly thus;
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A HOTHOUSE ON RAILS.
By a system of moving glass-houses on
wheels, with or without heating ap
paratus affixed, running on rails, crops
whi ch are to be forced, protected or
ripened, in succession mav be brought
under the glass as they stand in the
soil or on stages. Obviously, a more
rapid and at the same time more eco
nomical production of fruits, flowers
and vegetables may bo anticipated if
this system be found as serviceable
practically as it sounds
Our intermittent climate will be re
garded with contemptuous indiffer
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TO Bata, the Drowned.
A very effective method of raisin,
pcrlenee, and'is jar. as follows: *11 it half Take full of a
haU-gallon fruit
unslacked lime, then put on the run
ber and screw the metal top perfectly
air tight. Perforate the top aid with
small holes, attach a weight sink
the jar in the locality where the body
of the drowned persou is supposed to
be. As the water seeps into the jar
the lime gradually becomes slacked and
generates a gas, which, in ten minutes’
time, will cause au explosion with the
force of the*surface dynamite, raising every ob
jeet to within a radius of
fiftv feet Those who have seen tho
b?ing operation sav it has never failed to
the desired results.-Rich Hill
Review '---—
Attempted Assassinations.
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Against . . , Alexander ,, , III., TTT ol f Pn Russia., -
very often ; Alphonso XII., of Spain,
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six attempts from W to 1846 ; Napo
leon L , 180 .° : ^fP 5 »leon^ III., twice in
^'’5, once in ISoS; Letona 1840,
twice in 1842. once in 1849 and agait
j ' ln 1875 lbb and '“ ; 7ML 18.8.—Chicago bam iv. Germany, Herald. 1861,
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SUMMER STYLES.
WHAT WOMEN ARE WEARING IN
TI1E DOG DAN'S.
The Newest Fancies in Waists—
Pretty and Comfortable Duck
Dresses—Some Fashion¬
able Headgear.
w AISTS variety less. the simple Chief this are but of almost summer undeniably them end¬ are in
stylish ones with big revers and ag
gressively prominent gigot sleeves,
the round waists having dainty
ribbon b ^ with streaming loops and
trimmed on< s with ono horizontal BU V” an ,^ bands of waists in
sertion or ribbon. Many of the new
white China silk shirt waists are laid
in box pleats, which have an insertion
of black lace covering their edges,and
with tho same finish for collars and
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PICTURESQUE STRAW HAT. \
Tuscan straiVhat, with deep red rose^yuitder tlie wave! brim. It is trimmed with
rich black tips and bows of Tuscan satin, with jet pins.
cuffs. White or ecru lace appears
thus on black blouses. Some of IsIigsq
end at the belt, while others arc furn¬
ished with a gathered lace flounce that
is fastened to tho blouse belt, a sash
ribbon concealing the joining.
In the picture of a summer waist
there is a blouse of citron colored
crepon de laine, trimmed with narrow
black ve vet ribbon. It has a round
yoke shirred twice, to which the
blouse part is sewed with a small hoad
and fastens at the side. The two tiny
basques are ornamented with baaids of
ribbon, which also appear at the top
and form ths spiral trimming of the
sleeves. The standing collar is per¬
fectly plain and also fastens at tho
sides.
Frills are declining in favor, and
ruffles of lace, except in very elabor¬
ate gowns, are seldom seen. Inser¬
tions and applique effects rule in the
use of lace. Very narrow lace, used
as an edge, and insertion laces are
more in vogue than the wider designs.
The narrowest Valenciennes or guipure
is still much in vogue for edging rib¬
bon, which is to be pleated, or for
edging tulle or net of a constrasting
color.
An odd and dainty finish for a waist
consists of a sort of dog collar of many
shaded silk, with a deep jabot of laco
arranged in front so full that its upper
corners reach the shoulder and the
lower edge falls in a point to the belt.
The belt corresponds to the collar,
anti Das panier looping of lace over
the hips corresponding to the jabot, _
the point falling to the knee line and
the back. sides M!any meeting prettily devices front tend _aad to
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duck dresses. ,
Ducu dresses can be bought very
cheaply ready made and are pretty
Bac ! comfortable, but the home made
articie can be easily superior. Be
^ re to wash the goods first or have
the dressmaker 4 do it, else after its first
to the tub the gown will W as
if made for a smaller sister. White
duck is bv all means the swellest color,
s oi [ s easil L but it washes well. The
re aj, . heavy duck, such as men have
worni these many years washes soft
and fine. A little chalk judiciously
applied to the gown will make it spot
That is what the soldier folk do
with their fine white helmets andshoes,
aad even their gloves. Sailor hats to
! go with duck dresses are trimmed with
a band of duck to match. A very stun
ning duck dress was made of brown
dock, peppered with scarlet dots. lt
was tailor cut, opening over a scarlet
waistcoat, and the hat was a sailor,
with a band of scarlet ribbon and two
great rosettes of violet’ on either
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after King Louis XN.’s time. The
skirt is perfectly plain, and so is the
waistcoat, but the coat is fine. It has
the hip-pocket laps, with “frogs” in
lieu of button-holes, the big cuffs and
lace ru files. The lace neckwear is
omitted in deterence to the season.
VEKT JAUNTY HATS.
The English walking hat is the only
really new thing of the season this
year in headwear which is widely pop¬
ular. Though very generally worn,
the strictly correct ones are sufficient¬
ly differeut from the cheaper imita
tions to insure the continued popular
ity of tho fashion with the best dressed
folks. There is a fancy for a hat of
j the loaf English walking entirely type, covered with sugar with
crown
shaped velvet; that is, a band of vel
vet fitted to the crown cf the hat and
covering it entirely. A very stunning
hat of this kind is "of light straw, the
brim wide and curving up at the sides,
the crown tall, sugar loaf shaped, and
covered with amber velvet. Two
white illumes are set at the back of
the hat on the brim, so that they
spread to right and left and show from
the front. They are fastened by a
bow of violet velvet, with long
loops and ends which spread and lie
on the hat brim.
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The sketch depicts a dainty toque
which will commend itself at once to
the home milliner, from the fact that
»for it old trimmings may be utilized,
|It is a brand new model and a pretty
of the simple and small sum
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a green feather pompon with aigrette
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exactly to meet at the edge, and then
with a Ion- N millinery j needle slin ,.D
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For x- the .. moment there is nothing so
popular as alpaca. A gray one had a
wonderful lodice trimmed wita nar
row white braid, and small bone
tons placed oetween rows of this same
narrow braid on the side seams at the
back and front, for it turned back
like the Tyrolean peasanc jacket, of
which it reminded me, ami showed
button holes on one side and buttons
on the other having a simple white
satin riboon bow at the waist. There
were cream pipings here and there,
and a turn-down collar and the waist
coat or rather smr was of cream
batiste with a close-set line checx of
red and blue, neat and smart the
most difficult of all unions. A Mask
alpaca sxirt and jacket wnth large
sleeves ending at the wrist, had an ir
regular-suape l revers—an excuse for
the introduction o, some hue ecru
fawn exquisitely embroidered. The
glory of it however, was the blouse, a
perfect bodice ma te of poult de sole,
of the most brilliant cense, with a lit
tie beurre lace toward the neck, open
icg with tne selvedge, forming a cas*
eade on vithtt wW, sag wing a white
satin WMr ti^ti the iaek«t
could be worn, or not, as the wearoi
pleased. The sleeves were of tlie
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A PAINTY TOQUE.
newest form, large at the top, n irrov
ing toward the hand, the unper por
tiou of the wrist falling in a point
over the hand, with the result of mnk
ing tapering fingers much more la
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WITHOUT kings.
Those who use rings an l poles for
their window curtains sometimes tire
of seeing a thin curtain suspended in
this way, and wish they could dispense
with rings, but do not care to incur
extra expense for brass rods and fix
tures. They may do so and yet retain
the pole.
Turnover the upper edge of tho
curtain as much as will leave the de
sired length, and then with needle and
thread run across it twice, iuth ' saico
way that you would treat a muslin
curtain which is to bo gathered on a
cord. Iu this case it is to ho the polo
instead of a cord, so the space must bo
wide.
A lace, muslin or scrim curtain
gathered on a pole in this way, with a
fulness left above, dresses the to.i of
the window more prettily thm when
rings are used, especially when there
is no cornice.
THE BEST FANS TO USE.
The more gorgeous a fau the less
likely it is to raise a comfortable
breeze. The spangled gauze fans are
enough to make a girl bankrupt her¬
self buying them at bargains, but
they don’t furnish any moro wind
than a pigeon’s feather aud hardly
half as much. The heavy silk hand
painted or etched fans afford air, but
it is apt to be warm. The most com
fortablo fan and satisfactory all
around is the Japanese paper fan that
closes iu broad folds. They give more
wind, which is always cooler than
that produced by any other fan. Don’t
have them too heavy scented with per¬
fume, for they generally possess a
faint imitation Oriental odor of their
own which is pleasant. These paper
fans are made in very artistic designs
and colors, aud any one can afford to
have a number to go with differeut
dresses. When the night is warm one
of the rice paper fans with a handle is
lightest and gives the coolest breeze,
while one is trying to fall asleep. A
novel way to use a fan while trying to
get to sleep is to dip a large palm
leaf in cold water and then lazily
sway it back and forth. Tho damp
fan is heavier than the dry one, but
the moisture on the fan cools the air
surprisingly.
NECK SCARFS.
Large neck scarfs for summer weav
are made of plain silk chambray net
in white, black and cream shades, and
in delicate tints aud deep tones of yel¬
low, blue and cardinal, pink, green,
etc. Chiffon, gauze, silk muslin, etc.,
plain or accordion plaited, are also
called into service for these dainty
bits of neck wear. The trimming takes
the form of edgings in black, white,
cream, beurre or beige lace, The
chambray net comes in double width,
at forty-five cents a yard.
A Mirror That Cannot Be Broken.
For many years a popular supersti
tion has found fuvor in the minds oi
many regarding the misfortunes which
would follow the persons who broke a
mirror, but at last this fear of ill-luck
promises to become a thing of the
past. The celluloid mirror is a new
invention which should have a future.
The manner of constructing it is as
follows: A plate of transparent cellu¬
loid is coated with silver or other pol¬
ished metal, over which another layer
of opaque celluloid is placed, and a
mirror is obtained which may bo
burned, but which will not be broken
by an accidental fall. It is hoped
that this invention may be applied
with advantage to optical instruments
of large dimensions, owing to the duc¬
tility of the substance, which per¬
mits of its taking the required form
with greater ease than reflectors in
metal, while possessing all the merits
of the glass reflector.—House Fur¬
nishing Review.
Where tne Different Kinds ... Come „ From,
Richmond, Va., is the largest horse
market in the South. Last year thero
were 10,000 horses and mules sold iu
that city. This stock was of all kinds
an q gra des. The work horses were
i arge i y f r0 m Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Missouri and Ohio, aud were sold to
>forth and South Carolina. The sad
qi e aa q harness horses came from
Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee an l
were taken by Northern buyers.—New
Y"ork World.
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MILK INDUSTRY.
A BUSINESS THAT IIAS GROWN
TO GREAT PROPORTIONS.
Best Kind of Cows for the Purpose—
The Legal Standard iu Difter
eut States—Fashionable
Color In England.
O F tli? many benents conferred
on man by the cow-, her milk
product stands at the head*
for upon it human life large¬
ly depends. The dairy industry of
the United States has attained enor
mens proportions in recent years,
ami has made more rapid progress
than au v other branch of agriculture.
In 18-50 the number of milch cows iu
this country was estimated at 4,837,
01.'!; in 1800 it had risen to 16,512,
000, or had more than trebled. In
addition to this there has been a largo
gain in the milk product, owing to
the introduction of improved breeds
and better e vro and feed,
T.ie present.business depression lias
caused a big drop in tho price of but
ter and cheese, two of the most profit¬
able farm industries, and even m.
has not held its own. Whether t
selling price of the latter is not al¬
ready too low for profit is an open deal
question, It could be a great
dearer an 1 yet afford the Inner u
V1, ue for his money, for milk supplies
alt the elements of nutrition. It is
j . moro wholesome t.uau man meats,
i pirti'-mlaiTy in summer, am it moie
j largely substituted for them, a higher
standard of health would doubtless bo
the result,
At present rates it would seem that
* bc middle-man takes too large a pro
portion of the price considering tho
work, skill and capital involved. 1? arm
ers have themselves largely to blame for
this. Few of them realize what tho
milk really costs them.
Every dairy farmer should keep a
milking record; by doing so lie could
see at a glance what cows to keep anil
which to part xvith as opportunity
offered, and could also test tho vari¬
ous foods and regulate the dietary.
The first thing to be considered is
how to mi prove tho quality of om
cows so ns to get tho best returns foi
the money. A good milch cow costs
no more to keep than a poor one.
Both require the same amount of feed
and care, but the rewards are very
different, as a little figuring will show.
Hence, good cows are oE prime im¬
portance in starting a dairy.
But by a good cow tho writer does
not mean a jersey, unloss butter is Hol¬ the
product desired. For milk, tlie
stein or shorthorn is to be preferred,
the former being the better. The milk
produced is of a very good quality,
anil the best for drinking purposes.
For this the milk of tho Jersey is en¬
tirely unsuitable.
Milk which is very rich in fat is
neither profitable for the farmer nor
desirable for the consumer. It is too
rich to be digested by children or in¬
valids, who form tho great bulk of
our milk drinkers, and the yield is
too limited to benefit tho farmer.
On the other hand, poor milk is n
contemptible fraud, which will starve
tho system of the consumer, That
there is a golden mean has been recog¬
nized by the adoption of a legal milk
standard, which, while varying some¬
what in the different State, generally
averages twelve per cent.
In Nqw England the law calls Hamp¬ for a
little higher standard. New
shire requires not less than thirteen
per cent, of solids in whole milk sold
for consumption. In Vermont there
is a standard of 22£ per cent., except
in May or June, when twelve per cent,
is the necessary limit. In Massachu¬
setts the law demands at least thirteen
per cent, of solids, except in May and
June, when it is twelve per cent.
Rhode Island standard is twelve per
cent, oolids, although some effort is
being made to raise it to thirteen.
Connecticut has no recent law on tho
subject, the one in force reading:
“The usual test for quality and the
certificate of analysis of the Director
of th<3 Connecticut Agricultural Ex¬
periment Station shall be deemed
prima facie proof of adulteration.”
Whatever the standard of his State
may eall for, it will pay the milk pro¬
ducer to supply an even higher grade
than the legal one. He will thus gain
a reputation for a superior article and
make his customers eager to econo¬
mize in some other quarter, It will
also pay him to learn the require¬
ments of his market, and, if the de¬
mand runs to bottled milk, or any
other vagary, to supply it, if possible.
We would not, however, advocate tho
taking of a cow from door to door, so
as to milk her in the presence of each
customer. This is the very newest
departure in the London milk busi¬
ness. It is one that is not lacking in
boldness and originality, and it de¬
serves fear, more success than it is likely,
we to meet with. The practice
is common in Egypt, where house¬
holders appreciate the advantage of
being able to judge for themselves
whether the animal from which they
draw their supply looks healthy or the
reverse. But whether it will answer
in London is more than doubtful.
There is no article of food about
which city people are so ignorant or
so fanciful as their milk. In England
the demand is for milk which must
look thick and yellow in order to be
genuine. It is all in vain to assure
most people in English towns that
pure milk is not of a rich, yellow hue,
and that, as a matter of fact, it ought
to be white. They "know better than
the cow and the milkmaid combined,
and as they demand yellowness they
are supplied with it to their heart’s
content. All that has to be done, and
is done, is to mix various coloring mat¬
ters with the fluid, and these pigments
usually are inocuous, though not al¬
ways so.
The British demand for yellow milk
will be recognized here absurd, Our
city people summarily analyze their
milk by seeing that it is not “blue”
and that it smells “sweet” and seems
“rich. ” They know little of its
amount of solids and fats and the
great aim of the dairyman should be
to have a good supply of milk that
will defy the analyst to even suspect it
of being watered. --New York World,
A perfectly proportioned man weighs
twenty-eight kfight} pouada for • rery feet ef