BEADS. uninjured by any accidental cut, requires | BAG OR WALLET IN BERLIN WOOL AND great precision and steadiness. The outline of the edge should be worked in fine button-hole stitch, and finished by having a purl sewn round it, and when completed will be found very elegant. Of course the pattern can be extended to any dimensions required. OUR design representing a succession of stripes, it allows the wallet to be made of any size. One twelve inches in width would be quite suitable for most purposes; and for this it will be necessary to purchase a quarter and a half of Penelope canvas of medium fineness. This is to be folded in the middle, and must be about twenty-two inches wide. As the wallet is to be ten inches deep, the extra quantity is left for turnings-in. The size being thus determined, the canvas must be well overcast all roun. The wool is to be double Berlin. The colours used for the stripes are shaded down from yellow to brown, as thus: light yellow, darker yellow, orange, brown, The stitch is done as follows:-It is simply the herring-bone stitch, taking two threads upon the needle, leaving two between each time, top and bottom, passing over four threads, which makes the width of the row. This will leave two threads between each stitch uncovered, on which the beads are to be inserted with a needle and thread after the wool-work is done. Four rows being thus worked in,-namely, the four shades, light ye low, dark yellow, orange and brown, forming one stripe,-six threads are to be left clear between that and the next stripe, which is to be worked in the same way. which is done by folding it in the centre, fastening it up at each side, and covering the seam with a twisted cord. A lining of twilled calico or silk of any dark colour answers very well, with a strip of whalebone on each side of the opening. The handles are of twisted cord of the same kind as that carried up the sides, and the tassels of variegated wool or silk. STRENGTH OF THE BRITISH NAVY.The following is the exact strength of the navy and classification of vessels as given in a parliamentary return, showing the number of steamships afloat and building, together with the effective sailing ships, on the 1st of February, 1864. There are 400 screw vessels afloat, and 37 building; 106 paddle-vessels afloat, and 1 building. Including 86 effective sailing ships afloat, the grand total of steam and sailing vessels is 630. The building of three lineof-battle ships, three frigates, two corvettes, three sloops, and five gun vessels, has been suspended, and two other frigates now on the stocks are ordered to be taken down. Armour-plated ships, iron, thirdrates, screw-afloat, 6; building, 3; ditto, fourth-rates, screw-afloat, 2; ditto, wood, third-rates, screw-afloat, 4; building, 3; ditto, fourth-rates, screw-building, 1; ditto, cupola ships, fourth-rates, screwbuilding, 1; ditto converting, 1; ditto corvettes. wood, sixth-rates, screw-building, 2; ditto sloops, wood, screw-afloat, I; building, 1; ditto floating-batteries, iron, screw-afloat, 3; ditto, wood, screwafloat, 4. Ships of the line, screw-afloat, 6; building, 3; effective sailing ships--afloat, 2. Frigates, screw- afloat, 37; building, 6; effective sailing ships-afloat, 12. Frigates, paddle-afloat, 14. Block ships, screw-afloat, 9. Corvettes, or sixthrates, screw - - afloat, 26; building, 2. Sloops, screw-afloat, 35; building, 3; effective sailing ships-afloat, 6. Sloops, paddle-afloat, 26. Small vessels, paddle When all the stripes of wool-work have been done, and the beads put in (steel beads look the best, but chalk white are very afloat, 14. Despatch vessels, paddlepretty), rows of ribbon velvet are to be afloat, 3; building, 1. Gun vessels, screw inserted. Care must be taken that this-afloat, 47; building, 5. Gunboats, screw velvet is exactly of the width which will accurately cover the six threads of canvas left between the stripes of wool-work. The velvet is put on with blu chenille in a wool needle, the stitches being six threads apart, which leaves a slanting line on the velvet like a spiral twist. afloat, 143; building, 6. Tenders, tugs, &c., screw-afloat, 7; effective sailing ships afloat. 1. Tenders, tugs, &c., paddleafloat 43. Mortar ships, screw-afloat, 4. Troop and store ships, screw-afloat, Troop and store ships, paddle-afloat, 1. Yachts, screw-afloat, 1. Yachts, The fancy work being now completed, it paddle-afloat, 5. 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Presently I insinuate my body, and then he bids me climb up the rungs of this iron cage. With a painful recollection of the bears at the Zoological gardens I follow his instruction, and step by step ascend until I find myself standing upright in the Ball of St. Paul's. And then ensues between me and my companion beneath me, a conversation which insensibly reminds me of the dialogue between Punch and his showman. "Are you up, sir?" asks the man. "I am," I reply. "How do you feel yourself, sir?" Quite well, 66 66 thank you." "Are you pretty comfortable, sir?" "Yes, thank you." "You can say you have stood in the ball of St. Paul's." "Yes, thank you; I'll come down now." And down I come, preceded by the man, whom I find at the door of the golden gallery, brushing my hat with an earnestness which nothing less than a shilling could compensate. A SENSIBLE DOG.-The Chesterton collector of assessed taxes left an "assessedtax small white bulldog-in reality a demand paper on a gentleman possessing a for that animal's tax. No one was at home, and the collector thrust the paper under the door. Looking through the window, the collector saw the dog's eye fixed upon him. The dog then deliberately took the paper into his mouth, placed his feet on the fender, and thrust the collector' demand into a low fire, there holding it till it was entirely consumed. The dog did not choose his master to be "affected with notice." No doubt he would. in like manner, have destroyed an overdue bill presented for payment. |