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who have termed it an “Elysium.” 
“If anything under paradise.” wrote 
Pope to Bolingbroke, “could set me 
beyond all earthly cogitations, Stowe 
might do it.” Lord Chesterfield and 
Lord Chatham were as loud in its 
praises as Walpole. During the last 
century Stowe was more than once 
the temporary home of the exiled royal 
family of Lrance; and it is now offered 
“to be let or sold, owing to the death of 
the Comte de Paris.” Stowe belonged 
to the Canons of Oseney, near Oxford, 
till the Reformation, when the broad 
acres of the estate were given, for a 
short time, to Wolsey’s great college at 
Oxford. Lour centuries ago, in 1592, 
it was conveyed to the Temples, one of 
whom soon afterward erected there a 
mansion, which was enlarged by Lord 
Cobham, through whom it passed to the 
Grenvilles, and so to the Dukes of 
Buckingham. The estate having be¬ 
come involved in debt, the place was 
dismantled in 1848, when the furniture 
alone was sold by George Robins for 
upward of £j 0,000. The last Duke 
lived again at Stowe, but after his death 
the property passed into female hands. 
Some idea of the size and grandeur of 
Stowe may be formed from the fact that 
its grand front is 900 feet in length. 
Its gardens, roseries and collections of 
foreign trees and shrubs are among the 
finest in the kingdom, and so also are its 
statuary and sculpture, both inside the 
house and in the adjacent grounds; and 
the Grecian and Italian temples which 
diversify its “ Elysian Lields” are full of 
classical inscriptions, chiefly from the 
pens of scholars and statesmen of the 
last century. The gardens were original¬ 
ly laid out by Bridgman, but were 
largely altered and improved by Kent 
and by “Capability” Brown .—The 
London Times. 
TREE-TRUNKS AS FILTERS 
A WELL-KNOWN Austrian engi- 
^ neer, M. Pfister, is stated to have 
discovered a remarkable property of the 
trunks of trees, namely that of retaining 
the salt of sea-water that has filtered 
through the trunk in the direction of the 
fibres. He has consequently constructed 
an apparatus designed to utilize this 
property in obtaining potable water for 
the use of ships’ crews. This apparatus 
consists of a pump, which sucks up the 
sea-water into a reservoir, and then 
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