40. E. J. M.-TO REMOVE FRECKLES WITHOUT DISCOLOURING THE SKIN.-The following will answer your purpose:-Rectified spirits of wine, one ounce; water, eight ounces; half-anounce of orange-flower water, or one ounce of rosewater; diluted muriatic acid, a teaspoonful. This, when properly mixed, should be used after washing.-G. M. F. G. 41. GEORGE PRICE.-HOW TO MAKE THE PIECE OF WOOD ADHERE TO WHICH THE SPINDLE OF AN ELECTRIC MACHINE IS FIXED. -Try three parts of yellow rosin, and one of beeswax, melted together in a pipkin, and then enough red ochre stirred into it to give a uniform deep red colour. This is ordinarily used for cementing electrical apparatus, and has a neat appearance. Of course it is to be used hot, and the glass, &c., should be warmed.-G. GUYON. Or,-A cement composed of four parts resin, one Burgundy pitch, and one finely powdered brick-dust, melted over a slow fire, and applied warm.-MATTHEW ROBSON. 42. W. EVANS.-TRUFFLE BEETLE.-Entomologists, who search carefully along the hedgebanks, athwart which innumerable spiders have thrown their elegant tracery, may chance to find the truffle beetle (Leiodes cinnamomea) feeding on the fungus from which he derives his name. Unlike many of his brethren, who delight in sunny months, and inhabit the loveliest flowers, the truffle beetle is found between the months of October and November, often, too, on windy and open downs as those of Wiltshire, Hampshire, and Kent, and bleak and woodless tracts in Scotland, regardless of fierce winds, and storms of sleet, though small and delicately formed, and apparently ill-adapted to resist the extremity of cold. 43. Z. L.-CEMENTS.-I believe gypsum and oil is very good; but, however, here are three descriptions of cement. Universal Cement.-Curdle skim-milk, press out the whey, and dry the curd by a gentle heat, but as quickly as possible. When it has become quite dry, grind it to powder in a coffee or pepper mill, and mix it with one-tenth of its weight of finely-powdered quick-lime, and a piece of camphor, the size of a pea, also reduced to powder, to every ounce of the mixture. Keep it in wide-mouth one-ounce phials, well corked. For use, make it into a paste, with a little water, and apply it immediately. Diamond Cement.-Isinglass, one ounce; distilled vinegar, five and a-half ounces; gum ammoniacum, half-an-ounce; gum mastic, half-an-ounce. Mix, and it is ready for use. Neve Cement.-A little ground borax, mixed with plaster-of-paris, makes an excellent cement for many purposes. It is simply mixed up into a plastic consistency, then applied with a trowel. It soon hardens. Having used all three of these receipts, I can fearlessly assert they are good.-G. M. F. G. 44. TO KEEP Brewer's YEAST, AND CORRE ITS BITTERNESS.-Pour three times the quanti of water upon it, stir it well up; pour the r water off, and put on fresh every day, and it keep for weeks. All brewer's yeast should h water poured on it, and be left to settle until next day, it is then poured off, and the yeast fully taken out, leaving a brown sediment at bottom. Bread made from yeast prepared i way will never be bitter.-FLORA LESLIE 45. J. G. T.-TO REMOVE GREASE STA FROM PAPER.-Oxymuriatic acid removes grease, and should the paper require bleaching operation will answer both ends at the same Nearly all the acids remove spots of ink, grease, from paper; but it is important such as do not attack its texture. Spirits diluted in five or six times the quantity of may be applied with success upon the spo after a minute or two, washing it off water. A solution of oxalic acid, cities tartaric acid, is attended with the least may be applied upon the paper without damage. These acids, taking out writing ink, and not touching the be used for restoring books, where have been written upon, without att text.-G. M. F. G. THIRST?-It is the peculiar property of i 46. C. M. CARR.-WHY DOES SALE I tract moisture. It draws the moisture thoral vessels and pores to itself, and throat dry.-J. D. 47. KATE. PAPIER-PLASTIQUE. punches can be obtained of almost mongers; they are sized from 00, to making a hole from the size of a small seed to that of a gun-barrel. Our corn must understand they are merely cusps; the knife being sides, and occasionally to the cusp, usually liberates intended to be cut out. T instruments made for punch the capitals of columns; the part, or shaft, is best formed shaving a cedar pencil to the p amount of taper, and then card gumming the thinnest card round it, and sel ing it there until dry with cotton; the co would produce marks round the work, if not tected by an outer piece of card. If "K will give us a sketch of the capitals she wisher form, we will tell her the best way to prom Will she require many of the same pattern? should not advise her to construct a cathedra she wants a nice smart ornament. They us contain too much roof to look well on a tabim sideboard. We hope to supply a design f monumental cross, which is much more itala the shades required for cathedrals are so long a narrow, compared with their height, but a c takes a tall round shade, and each face of work is good.-W. D. 48. R. G. MARSDEN. YEOMAN. — small estate in land, a gentleman-farmer; see to have been anciently a kind of ceremonions given to soldiers, whence we have still the guard; it was probably a freeholder not vanced to the rank of a gentleman. ARLES THE MONTH. AY is the third month of Romulus's by Numa and Julius Cæsar. Romulus assigned thirty-one days to this month, Julius Cæsar restored it to the original Numa reduced the number to thirty, and length, which it now retains. There is a doubt about the origin of the name of this month; because, although the Romans offered sacrifices to Maia, the mother of Mercury, upon the first day of this month, yet it appears pretty evident that the name was fixed long before the time of Romulus. bete Among our British and Saxon ancestors ; but the fifth month, as reformed this month was hailed as the genial K harbinger of approaching summer, and celebrated sometimes with religious observances, and at others amid general festivity. On May-eve the Druids made large fires on eminences, in honour of Beal, or Bealan, the Celtic or Irish word for the sun. Two of these fires were kindled in every village, between which the men and beasts devoted to sacrifice were compelled to pass, one of them being killed on the kairn, and the other on the ground; hence the Irish proverb applied to a person in a dilemma, "Itter dha teine Bheil" (between Bel's two fires). Synonymes.-In Latin, Maius; French, Mai; Italian, Maggio; Portuguese, Maio; Saxon, Tri-milchi; and ancient Cornish, Me. Verstegan says, "that the pleasant month of May they (the AngloSaxons) termed by the name of Tri-milchi, or Trimilki, because in that moneth they began to milke their kine three times in the day." bloom. In our own country, in fo times, the village lads and lasses left homes at break of day— "On a May-day morning to fetch in May These good old times have long passed away, and are now little honoured than in mere remembra then we had the May-pole, painted various colours, dressed with garlands streamers, and surmounted by a crown; and there was the village fid seated upon a cask, and vigor scraping away for the lads and lass skip round the May-pole, as represe in our emblematic engraving. The sports of the chimney-sweeper the 1st of May and the two foll days are familiar to all, yet very fe aware that Jack-o'-the-Green org consisted of a man dressed out flowers and ribbons, with a long wall stick, having a wreath of flowers tw around it. This strange character d away at the festivities, whisking his about his head, and keeping up the of the games. Symbol or Allegory of the Month.-A young man, with a beautiful face, elad in green, embroidered with various bright flowers, and a garland of white and damask roses upon his head. In one hand he holds a lute, and on the forefinger of the other a nightingale, allegorical of the "eve song" of this bird, which is first warbled during the month. The sign of Gemini, the Twins, also accompanies him, alluding to the sun entering that sign on The 6th day is dedicated to St. the 20th of the month. (See our enthe Evangelist, who is said to have graving). There is not a day in the year that is devoid of historic interest, and May has her fair share of the number. The 1st day, commonly called May Day, is a very remarkable one in our calendar. It is dedicated to St. Philip and St. James the Less. St. Philip was born at Bethsaida, near Tiberias, and is supposed to have been the first of our Saviour's disciples and an apostle; he died at Hierapolis, in Phrygia. St. James the Less underwent martyrdom in a tumult in the Temple, about the year, A.D. 62. May-day festivities are said to have originated with the Romans, who worshipped Flora, and celebrated her festivals by rejoicings and offerings of spring flowers, and the branches of trees in The 3rd day is "The Invention of Cross," being the anniversary alleged discovery by St. Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine Great, of the cross on which our Sa suffered. plunged into a cauldron of boiling off order of Domitian; but as he was harmed he was permitted to live, and afterwards banished to the desert isle Patmos, in the Archipelago, where h supposed to have written the "Ap lypse" or book of "Revelations." The 9th day is Rogation Sunday, wh is a moveable feast. It takes its n from the Latin rogare, to ask, beca Mammertius, Bishop of Vienna, in 4 appointed the three following days the offering of supplications, with fastin to be offered up to avert the calamit that had befallen his diocese. The 13th day, this year, is Ascensi Day, or Holy Thursday, which is t anniversary of Christ's ascension, former celebrated by processions, which wer alished at the Reformation. The day is also dedicated to St. Barnabas, nisters and officers of the various whose proper name was Joses. He was ishes, with those who please, followed descended from the tribe of Levi, and was the boys of the parish school, bearing born at Cyprus, but educated under Galed willow wands, proceed in proces- maliel, at Jerusalem, and was associated a to the different parish boundaries, with St. Paul, preaching the Gospel in ich are struck with the white wands, various countries for upwards of fourteen I this is called "beating the bounds." years. He suffered martyrdom at Sais day is, also, Old May Day.--In lamis, in his native isle, by being stoned 12, died BARON GEORGE CUVIER, the to death by the Jews. The festival of ebrated naturalist and geologist, aged this saint used to be observed with great y-three. (See our engraving.) ceremony, garlands of roses and woodroof The 23rd day, this year, is Whit being worn during the observance. day, so named because on this day catechumens appeared in the ancient rch in white garments, and Whitsune is most probably a contraction from ite Sunday tide or time. The festival Whitsuntide, or the day of Pentecost, established to commemorate the aculous descent of the Holy Ghost on Apostles This day is also dedicated St. Boniface, who was a Saxon preser, born at Crediton,, in Devonshire. name was Winfred, or Winefrid, and, r being educated in a Benedictine astery, at Exeter, he was sent to esland as a missionary. In 745 he created Archbishop of Mentz, and was rdered in 755 by the peasantry in East esland, while holding a confirmation. The 26th day is dedicated to St. Autine, a monk sent to England by Pope egory the Great, to convert the Saxons. accomplished his mission satisfactorily, he converted King Ethelbert, who pointed him Archbishop of Canterbury, ich he held until his death in 610. The 29th day is commonly called › Restoration Day, because in 1660 ARLES II. was brought back to gland, and restored to the throne of ancestors. In some parts of England ople wear oak-leaves and oak-apples ilt) in their hats, in commemoration of e concealment of Charles in an oak tree Boscobel, after his defeat by Cromwell, the battle of Worcester, September 3, 51. (See our engraving.) The 30th day, in this year, is Trinity unday, which is the day set apart for le celebration of the festival held in onour of the Holy Trinity, and enjoined the Council of Arles, in 1260. This The subjects of our illustrative engraving, not already noticed, are VOLTAIRE and COLUMBUS. The former is the voluminous French writer, who was born at Chatenay, near Sceaux, in 1694, and died Aug. 30, 1778. His most celebrated works are the "Henriade" and the "Life of Charles XII." His collected works form seventy volumes. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, the illustrious navigator, who first discovered the American continent, was born at Genoa, in 1437. After vainly seeking aid from Genoa, Portugal, and England, he at length induced Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain to equip and man three vessels, with which he made the important transatlantic discoveries for which his name is so distinguished. After enduring many insults and disappointments, he died at Valladolid in 1506. THE BRAIN IN 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 is a maxim, indeed, of general import, applying to the condition and culture of every faculty of body and mind; but singularly to the one we are now considering, which forms in one sense the foundation of intellectual life. A regulated exercise, short of fatigue, is im proving to it, but we are bound to refrain efforts in early life, and before the instrufrom goading it by constant and laborious ment is strengthened to its work, or it decays under our hands.-Sir H. Holland's Mental Physiology. them but would faint downright did he once see the line of his dear native shore fade in the horizon." "That is not true, Lebrun. Our Brittany has produced too many good sailors, she smiled good-humouredly at Paul "yourself among the number, to permit belief in your sarcasm: besides, is he less a man because his heart sinks when for the first time he leaves his native land behind him ?" "Oh! certainly not. I have had my eyes overflow myself: and the first time we steered out of Brest I cried like a great lubberly boy - which, in fact, I was." "And you are none the worse for it, a man, I suppose ?" IT was long past noon, and all was busy life on Dominique Bonchamp's farm. A number of Breton damsels, in their modest and picturesque costume, were bustling about, attending to the wants of the labourers as they came and went in and out of the farm; the voice of the farmer was heard everywhere, and his portly person was so active in its movements, that at times he appeared ubiquitous. The farm was evidently one of the most prosperous, and presented none of that dirt and discomfort, unfor- "I suppose not-yet, to be valued tunately so frequent in the homesteads of ashore, it is not sufficient to have gained Brittany. the reputation of a good sailor! an ide Standing at the door of the dairy was ne'er-do-well,' they say, and they pass Yvonne, leaning against the primitive-him by for some St. Peter," and again looking woodwork: she looked as beautiful and delicate as one of those exquisite flowers that we see at times adorning the rough sides of an oak. Near her stood Paul Lebrun, with a look of mingled bashfulness and impudence upon his generally bold face; but, in the presence of Yvonne, his reckless bearing was subdued, -not by any effort on her part, but as a rough spirit is awed and calmed by the quiet and holy aspect of the interior of some Christian church. Yvonne's pure and gentle face was the altar before which the wild nature of the young sailor bent down; true, he struggled against the feeling, but to conquer itwas impossible. It was during one of these struggles to regain his usual confidence of demeanour that we come upon him now. "A good morning's work this!" and he kicked carelessly at a huge basket of fish that stood at his feet. "Had Keroulas been compelled from his cradle to pick up a living with the hook and line, he could scarcely have done better." "Keroulas is a good fisherman. Talec says a better sailor-" "Sailor!" laughed Lebrun contemptuously. "You don't call these spratcatchers sailors! why, there's not one of kicked the basket with his foot, "wh brings home his miraculous draught fishes!" "For shame, Paul Lebrun! to spe thus illnaturedly of those who daily r their lives to give their wives and chi dren bread. Besides, you have an in verent way of speaking of holy thing which I greatly dislike." "I was brought up to the sea, a not to the church!" answered Pa somewhat sulkily. "And so to follow creditably the on you consider it necessary to entirely for get the precepts of the other! I'm reall ashamed of you, Paul!" The young sailor looked up into th bright face of the pretty lecturer, an said somewhat sheepishly "I'm but a rough fellow, I know but, under your tuition, I shall soon b tame enough-such a tongue would que a tiger!" Yvonne laughed outright at this ver doubtful compliment. "So I'm a shrew, am I?” "You!!!—why you're as gentle as the dove that announced the abatement of t storm to Captain Noah; and your words are as soothing as oil upon the wave. You a shrew!-good idea, that!" |