Fairy Tales Utilised For The New Generation.

0 u this world of ours an avenging Nemesis , 0 f retributive justice somewhere ? Even jn this world , I say , it is good for us to feel assured that crooked counsels and evil ways always find then - level , bring their own punishment , and inflict much

merited ignominy upon all who adopt them and pursue them ; and that despise as we may the voice of conscience or the warnings of religion , there is no other possible result for unbridled licentiousness , for the most part even here , but misery and penury ;

no other probable end for the unblushing outrages of injurious evil living , even now as a general rule , than the eventful contempt of man , the practical degradation of the world ? And here the curtain drops . Let us not seek to lift that veil which mercifully hides the future life in its reality and its awfulness from us all !

Thomas Tusser—A Sonnet

THOMAS TUSSER—A SONNET

BY BRO . GEORGE HARKHAM TWEDDELL , Author of ' ¦ ' Slmkspere , his Times and Contemporaries , " etc . "Thomas Tusser ought to be better known than he is , in these days of agricultural progress ; aud I believe that our better educated posterity will amply atone to him for the neglect he has received at

the hands of their more ignorant ancestors . "— PETEE PBOLETARIDS . TUSSER J methought the disembodied soul Of Hesiod had wander'd through the ages , Finding no kindred mind ' mong all the sages And the sweet singers , whom he could

control To teach his wisdom till he met with thee . Then , as the Pythagoreans would preach , He enter'd thee , and strai ght began to teach Our modern Greece Points of Good Husbandry ,

&* he had taught them , in his Works and Days , To ancient Greeks , when Homer sang of Troy : And when the war-song gives no longer joy io human bosoms shall be the

, yours praise Of handing down in your undying song , Maxims of wisdom which to ev ' ry age and riinie belong . Rose Cottage , Stohesley .

Civil And Mechanical Engi Neer's Society.

CIVIL AND MECHANICAL ENGI NEER'S SOCIETY .

CHIMNEY SHAFT BUILDING . AMONGST the papers read before this Society during the late session was one on the above subject by Bro . R . M . Bancroft , a brief extract of which may be

interesting to some of our engineering and architectural readers . In 1874 an extraordinary dinner party took place on the top of a chimney just completed , at the Stanton Iron Works , near Nottingham . Forty-seven of the

artizans and workmen partook of a hot dinner on the summit , which is 190 feet from ground , and 24 ft . across the cap . There were 420 , 000 bricks used in its construction , and the cast iron cap weighed 15 tons .

In 1872 the Connah s Quay Chemical Co ., built a shaft , in which 1 , 000 , 000 bricks and 620 tons of stone were used , the cost of which was a little over , £ 2 , 000 . The Shaft of the Pumping Station , Grosvenor Road , Pimlico , is 172 ft . hi gh ,

exclusive of railings round the top , and is made with an inner and an outer ring of brickwork , 220 steps being built into the outer ring by which to ascend the shaft , from whence you have a splendid view of the river Thames .

The first Chimney built entirely of Concrete in 1873 , was for the river Wear Commissioners , South Docks , Sunderland . It is 74 ft . 9 ins . high from ground line . Proportion of Concrete , 1 Portland Cement to 5 Gravel .

Wrought Iron Chimneys have been erected at the Crensot Works , France , 197 ft . high , and 6 ft . 7 inches diameter at top , increased to 10 ft . at bottom by a curved base .

Another Wrought Iron Chimney has been erected at Pittsburg 196 ft . high , and one is to be put up 275 ft . high at the same works . The construction of these g igantic shafts are often attended with much danger , and we occasionally hear of the workmen meeting with fatal accidents in the course of their duties . The new chimney which has just been completed at Manchester for