have lost their scepters within living - memory, 
and continue to live very handsomely upon the 
property they had secured in advance on the 
chance of a rainy day. It is extremely probable 
that King William of Prussia will speedily be 
added to this corps of errant and distinguished 
royalty. A violnter of the constitution he had 
sworn to maintain, he ought to be branded us a 
perjurer and deposed as a tyrant By the way, 
this catalogue is very suggestive. The contin¬ 
ued sovereignty of each of the above deposed 
rulers was said to be secured by various solemn 
treaties. Where are they now? The liery leaven 
of public opinion has scorched them up, and they 
live ouly on the historic page. This ought to 
teach us the small value of European treaties. 
They are operative only while they suit the 
stronger party.— Washington Chronicle. 
GEOWING bkook or speckled 
teout, aetifioially. 
- V 
HELEN, KNITTING. 
[Concluded from first page, this number.] 
now to fi.ace tuf. egos nr tue hatching 
BOXES. 
Commence at the lower end of the box, and 
hy the eggs on top of the sand as thick as you 
can place them without touching each other. 
Proceed in this manner daily until you have 
fdled the entire length. Should you choose, you 
can put partitions between each day’s deposit, 
with date and number of eggs. A box one toot 
wide and twenty feet long, will contain 100,000 
e g£r ? . It has been recommended to place the 
spawn in gravel from one to two inches deep, in 
hnitatSon of the trout: but I find by practice that 
the first method is the better one, as it will cna- 
bly you to examine the spawn daily. The reason 
will be seen under the head of 
AFTER CARE. 
The eggs will need to be examined every week 
or two, and all the dead or white ones picked out 
with a pair of forceps, made of No. 8 wire flattened 
at the ends. If the water is perfectly pure, and 
above 42 deg. through the winter, but few will 
BT WIT. 1.1 AM OI.AND BOURNK 
Litti.e Hbt.b.v, on her chair— 
Patiently at work was she; 
And in ringlets fell her hair, 
Lovely did she seem to me; 
She was sitting, 
Knitting, knitting. 
Busy litUe girl I thought I, 
How I love to seo your skill! 
I am half inclined to try— 
And I most believe I will! 
She was sitting, 
Knitting, knitting. 
In a whirl the fingers fly, 
First one needle, then the next; 
She might with her mother vie; 
But for rac, l am perplexed; 
She was sitting, 
Knitting, knitting. 
Thou a xigaag, cross this way, 
Then a curious whirl again— 
How she makes the fingers play; 
It’s no business for the men I 
She was sitting, 
Knitting, knitting. 
Now the curious seam is made; 
How to do it I can’t tell; 
But tho skill site has displayed, 
Makes me think she does it well; 
She was sitting, 
Knitting, knitting. 
Now tho too is closed and done— 
What a pretty sock is this ! 
It U knitting number one I 
C!o and got your mother’s kiss I 
8llO was sitting, 
Knitting, knitting. 
Bnsy little girl I thought I, 
How I lore to sec your skill I 
Ami tho pleasure in her eye 
Made my heart with pleasure fill 
Helen sitting 
At her knitting. 
Tbe herring, early in the spring, makes its 
appearance on the coast botb sides of the At¬ 
lantic, in schools of millions, so densely crowded 
together as to discolor the water tor miles. They 
are made a prey by various kinds of voracious 
ttsh and birds, which hover on the outskirts of 
the schools like vultures on tho march of an 
army; aud they are taken by the fishermen in 
quantities equal to thousands of barrels at a 
time. Tin; migration of the herring to the 
bays, coves, and shallow waters along shore, is 
in obedience to a law of their natures, which 
requires the spawn to be deposited in such places. 
Light and air ate indispensable for vivifying 
the ova, hence the approach of the fish to shore. 
In connection herewith, we give the portraits 
of two denizens of the ocean which play an im¬ 
portant part in the economy of human food. 
Neither of them, in tbeir individual capacity, 
has anything remarkable, either in size or ap¬ 
pearance, and it is only in their aggregate char¬ 
acter that they exorcise so great and beneficent 
an influence upon the human race. Without 
the herring, in particular, the inhabitants of 
many cold aud inhospitable countries, such as 
the islands of the North and West of Scotland, 
would be unable to subsist; and even in more 
temperate climates they would, in the loss of 
these fish, be deprived of an important element 
of human subsistence. 
WHO’S WHO” IN ENGLAND IN 1863. 
are given carctully prepared accounts oi tne | 
noble families of the kingdom, their lineage and 
possessions and their ages. From tho issue ol 
this work for 1803 we gather tho following in¬ 
teresting items: 
Theeldest duke in Great Britain is the Duke 
o7~Cleveland, who ’is 74 "years old, and the 
youngest the Duke of Norfolk, aged 15; the 
eldest marquis is the Marquis of Lansdowne, 82, 
tho youngest the Marquis of Ely, 14; tho eldest 
earl is the Earl of Clnulemont, the youngest, the 
Earl of Chairville, 10; the eldest Viscount is 
Viscount Cumbermere. 8!), the youngest Vis¬ 
count Downe, IK; the eldest baron is Lord Siu- 
clar, 04, the youngest Lord Rossmora, 11; the 
eldest member of the Privy Council is Lord 
Lyudhurst, 90, the youngest Earl Spencer, 27; 
the eldest member of tho Uouao of Commons is 
General the lion. Sir Hugh Avbuthuolt, member 
for Kincardineshire, who is 83, the youngest Mr. 
ner, the member for Ripon, 23; 
more comlortabie ior me operator, auu uiu m 
keeping up the temperature of tho water. 
THE TIME OF INCUBATION 
Depends upon the condition and temperature of 
the water. The water in my hatching boxes 
stands this winter at 38 deg. and at 40 deg. in the 
springs. The springs are from eight to thirty 
rods from the-box. brought in two-inch pipe tile, 
laid from two aud a half to three feet under 
ground in water-lime. In this water the eggs 
commenced hatching on the 21st of January, 
seventy-eight days after they wore put in tbe 
box, and they have been hatching in great num¬ 
bers, daily, since. So far. my success has been 
beyond my most sanguine expectations, and 
should nothing befall them 1 shall have enough 
to stock a number of small ponds, at least. I 
took a few eggs from the race after they had been 
in forty days, and put them in a tumbler in my 
house where the temperature ranged from fifty 
deg. to sixty deg. They hatched in twenty-six 
days after, 12 days sooner than those In the race. 
The egg has two skins or membranes; tho trout 
is formed between them. The first appearance 
of the egg, as viewed through a magnifying 
glass, is a red speck on one side near the white 
spot before referred to. This, I think, is the 
nearly two hundred thousand pounds sterling. 
These fish are destitute of scales, the smooth 
covering of their hacks is variegated with min¬ 
gled colors of white and blue, while the belly 
is of a silver white. It is usually caught 
with a hook, which is frequently baited with a 
bit of red cloth, at which the lish bites with 
avidity. One person attends two lines, hauling 
them in alternately. 
The mackerel is a very beautiful fish. Like 
tho herring, it migrates in schools, ami is in this 
way sought nut and captured by the fisher¬ 
men. They are caught in 
Reginald A. Vy 
tho eldest judgo In England is the Right Hon. 
S. Lushington, aged 80, the youngest Mr. Baron 
Wilde, 16; tho eldest judge in Ireland is Chief 
Justice Lefroy, 8G, the youngest Mr. Justice 
Keogh, 45; the eldest judge in Scotland is the 
Lord Justice General, G9, the youngest Lord 
Justice Clerk, 52; the eldest archbishop is tho 
Archbishop of Dublin, 74, tho youngest tho 
Archbishop of York, 43; the eldest bishop is the 
Bishop of Exeter, 75, tie* youngest the Bishop 
Designate of Gloucester and Bristol, 43; the 
eldest colonial bishop is the Bishop of Toronto, 
83, the yonDgest the Bishop of Ontario, 37; the 
eldest baronet Sir Tattan Sykes, 90, the youngest 
Sir George Sitwell, 2; theeldest knight is Gen¬ 
eral Sir James L. Caldwell, 92, the youngest Sir 
Charles T. Bright, 30. 
great quantities 
along the coast of New England, and the Brit¬ 
ish Provinces, salted and packed in barrels for 
the inland trade. There is also a mackerel fish¬ 
ery on the west coast of England, which em¬ 
ploys great numbers of men, and a capital of 
JAPANESE LITTLE FOLKS 
The Hon. Frauk Hall, who was in Japan a 
few years ago, speaks thus favorably ot the 
Niphone.se children. The Japanese it will be 
remembered are heathen; but what Christian 
country, with all its ministers, churches, sermons, 
etc., can show Buch good children? Mr. Hall 
says: 
“ During more than a half a year’s residence in 
Japan, I have never seen a quarrel between old 
or young. 1 have never aeon a blow struck, 
scarcely an angry face. I have seen the children 
at their sports, their kites upon the hill, and any 
amount of Intertangled strings or kites lodged 
in the trees, hut no angry words or impatience. 
T have seen them intent upon their games of 
Jackstones or marbles under shaded gateways of 
(ho temples, but have never seen an approach to 
They are taught Implicit 
■ta and Hannah wilderness. At one shilling per pound, they 
, as in the human would give the nice little sum of $224,150. But 
suppose, again, there could be but one-half of 
on. tho number raised in tho largest-sized ponds, 
:arried a long dis- and that tho expense of growing them would be 
kept constantly in equal to the first calculation; still this would 
supply of oxygen, give a profit of $88,526. Suppose, finally, that 
and two years old, they are worth only G eta. per pound; this.will 
without changing give a profit of $20,712.50, besides all the ponds, 
nth ice. Had the parent trout, aftd 300,000,000 eggs, or young fry, 
have lived but a in hatching boxes, could have been taken from 
impregnation, may the number of trout now in the ponds. Worth 
rater, in bottles or a fortune of themselves! I believe the first sum 
sand. In this way might be realized, witli everything favorable, 
the country might But they should be located near a large city, in 
Small ponds 
SPANISH MOSS 
each way from this speck around tho egg. About 
the forty-ninth day the eves qre perceptible; on 
the fifty-first day could sec the formation of the 
head and body; on the sixtieth, could see tho 
heart beat, and the arteries running in all diree- 
Tt now shows life, and in a few days bursts 
order to obtain sufficient food 
will yield a profit in proportion. Nearly every 
farmer lias a spring, if properly arranged, that 
would furnish trout/or his table, with but little 
expense. 
Bass and pickerel are probably the two next 
best varieties for ponds. 
Should any one wish further information, I 
will give it, as far as I am able, with pleasure. 
quarrel among them 
obedience to tlveir parents, but I have never seen 
one of them chastised. Respect and reverence 
to the aged is universal. A crying child is a 
rarity seldom seen. We have nothing to teach 
them in this respect out of our abundant civiliza¬ 
tion. 1 speak what I know of the little folks of 
Japan, for more than any other foreigner have l 
been among them. Of all that Japan holds there 
moss. The effect oi tins uroopuig parasuw penn¬ 
ant in long waving folds from tho trunk and 
branches, is depressing to the lust degree. It, is 
suggestive of death and weeping willows. It 
is tiio embodiment of vegetable woe. No party, 
however joyous, can approach it, that a myste¬ 
rious influence does not appear to emanate from 
its ghastly folds, which throws a damp upon their 
spirits and compels their silence until the un¬ 
sightly object is passed. Those who hava seen 
no mosses more pretentious than the green fungi 
growing on trees and rocks in Northern expo¬ 
sures, can form no adequate idea of the wonder¬ 
ful exuberant growth of the Tissandria. Con 
sumption is uot more fatal to the. life of man than 
this parasite to the life of trees. Once let it fix its 
iron grasp upon tho stem and branches, and the 
proudest monarch of the forest becomes a dead 
and worthless trunk. The gray, hair-like fiber 
bangs in folds three feet long from every twig, 
the stouter end uppermost, resembling, for all 
the world, an aggregation of disheveled locks. 
The wind sighs and moans through tho pendants 
with that peculiar mournful sound one hears 
from telegraph wires during a gale of wind.— 
Chicago Tribune. 
The Brain of Childhood.— It is a fact well 
attested by experience, that the memory may be 
seriously injured by pressing upon it too hardly 
and continuously in early life. Whatever theory 
we hold-as to this great function of our nature, 
it is certain that its powers are only gradually 
developed, and that, if forced into premature 
exercise, they are impaired by the effort. This 
tions. 
the outer covering, but is still firmly attached to 
the egg- which, in fact, is a part of the young 
trout. The young trout, when first hatched, is 
about half an inch long, and looks and acta more 
like a wiggler you often see in rain-water, than a 
trout. It has no fins except the pectorals, just 
back of the gills, lie lies upon his side almost 
constantly. On tlih fifteenth day all the rest of 
seen, and he now takes on 
eyes and ruddy brown faces with pleasure. I 
have played battledore witii tho little maidens in 
in the streets, and flown kites in the fields with 
as happy a set of boys as one could wish to see. 
They have been my guides in my rambles, shown 
me where all the streams and ponds were, where 
all the flowers lay hid In the thicket, where the 
berries lay ripening on the hill; they have brought 
mo shells from the ocean, and blossoms from the 
field, presenting them all with modesty and 
a less bashful grace than a young American Lboy 
would do. Wo have hunted tbe fox-holes to¬ 
gether, and looked for the grocn golden ducks 
among the hedges. They have laughed at my 
broken Japanese, and taught me bettor, and/or 
the fins are plainly 
the appearance and action of a trout, and is con¬ 
stantly in motion, darting through tho water 
with great rapidity. It lives upon this sack 
until it is all absorbed, which is about the fortieth 
day. At this time the young fish begins to seek 
its own living. He is now one and a quartet- 
inches long. 
FOOD. 
I found, last spring, that tho yonng trout ate 
and thrived well on the yolk of hens’eggs, boiled 
hard and crumbled fme. Alter a few weeks, I 
fed them hashed liver. I find this to be the best 
food for trout of all ages, as they grow rapidly 
upon it. I feed my trout once a day through the 
summer, and from two to three times a week 
through the winter, as they eat less in cold 
weather than in warm, and grow in proportion. 
I have 1,100 parent trout, caught with a hook in 
the small streams about My largest pond con¬ 
tains sLxty-one square rods; Avater fourteen feet 
deep. Four hundred of these trout were put in 
two years last summer; 400 one year ago, and 
about 400 last summer. About fifty have been 
taken out for table use. and about the same num¬ 
ber have died from various causes. They were 
from one to two years old when placed in the 
pond, so that they now range from two to five 
years old. A few are older. I fed them the 
livers, Ac., from two beeves per week, during last 
summer. 
DEPOSED AND ESTRAY RULERS IN EUROPE, 
YOUTHFUL WORKERS 
An editor in the West gives the following ac¬ 
count of his compositors: 
Thero is little Willie— only fourteen years of 
age—and small at that—at his stand deciphering 
the manuscript and puttingit into type. Willie 
is fully equal to the best hand that has ever been 
in the office, being both a speedy and accurate 
compositor, and is, beside, posted generally as to 
the news and business connected with the paper. 
And there is Hattie, as ucat as a new pin, 
busily engaged over a telegraph dispatch, occu¬ 
pying another stand, on a high stool to make, her 
high enough—she is ton years of age. 
Near her is her little sister Ettik, who is two 
years younger, puzzled over some hard word, 
which Willie explains to her satisfaction, aiul 
she goes ahead with a new alacrity. 
In the corner, on a very high stool, is little 
Fred, settingup the latest news from Kansas, 
proud of the dignity of his profession. He is but 
about six years of age. 
say that the trout are worm out one sinning a 
pound; and where is there a disciple of Sir 
Izaak in America, who would not be glad of the 
chance for such rich sport, through the means of 
his fly, and pay his shilling per pound for all he 
caught? Yes, sir, the anglers of the country 
would soon take out all the trout from the ponds 
at that lay. A pound trout at tho end of a 100 
foot lino aud a ten'foot fly-rod, rushing through 
the water with an almost lightning speed, first 
this way, then that, bending the rod nearly 
double witli his power, and spinning the reel as 
he runs out the line to its full length, showing 
his broad, beautiful sides—now hero, now there, 
now diving deep down in his crystal element, 
leaping out of the water in this and that direc¬ 
tion-requiring a steady hand and great skill to 
bring him to land; even now, about to pick him 
up, he makes another powerful struggle for life, 
and is away again, with tho velocity of thought, 
but this time sooner yielding to a superior 
power, tho well-practiced hand of his captor, 
aud now he lies motionless on the water, witli 
mouth extended, his glistening sides turning 
about in the water, as he is exultantly reeled to 
land, soon to be placed in the delighted angler’s 
basket. One shilling per pound for such a 
trout! Every trout fisherman will toll you that 
his trout cost him nearer one dollar per pound, 
let him go where he will for them, beside hard¬ 
ships innumerable when going into a dense 
This furnished food so abundantly 
that they paid hut little attention to flies or 
other insects. It cost me about seven dollars for 
food lasf year. The fish are very tame, coming 
regularly for their food; they take it from a 
spoon, or hand, and throw themselves clear out 
of the water, by the hundred, in their eagerness 
for it 
GROWTH. 
The trout that hatched one year ago now, are 
from four to seven inches long, aud are heavy, 
compared with those in the streams in a wild 
state. Those two years old are from seven to 
J nine inches; three years, from nine to eleven 
h inches; four years, from eleven to thirteen 
| inches; and five years from, thirteen to fifteen 
inches long. Trout four years old will average 
one pound in weight. The trout in my pond 
T will weigh from one-quarter of a pound to two 
A. pounds each. With pure, cold water, and plenty 
Y of good, fresh food daily, trout will grow rapidly, 
■) and may attain a pound's weight in three years. 
h Still, those of the same age vary much in size. 
jj There are Tom Thumbs and Lavinia Warrens, 
Rome at Noon. —The spring deepens into 
summer, aud before the last days of June have 
come the city is empty, silent, and Roman. The 
sun hakes all day on the lava pavement, and 
they who are in the streets at noon creep slowly 
along in the shadows, clinging closely to the 
walls. The shops are all shut for two hours, and 
the city goes to sleep. The splash of fountains 
sounds loud and cool In the squares: a tow car¬ 
riages at intervals rattle along; but were it not 
for the burning sun and dry air that beats up 
from the pavement, you might rather suppose it 
midnight than midday.—Story's Rabadi Roma. 
