New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-21

Fvervwherc one comes across those cheerful homckc
streets leading to pleasant inland views with cef'rn
spire surmountng time worn chapel OF past age,
whose inhabitants in keeping with the streets. No'
an unimportan addition the pleasure stranger taxes
in rambling about st. Peters Port is the physical beauty
Of those be meets We find here tho pure Norman race
the same a. that which conquered Britain put ahSe
that scarcely mixed with Saxon or any o'hcr iocE"
blood The men have q fresh, rudy complexion, an
honest frank good humored, but manly expression ihe
women have skin remarkably fair delicate and clear
and features regular expressive and often beautiful II
but their eyes brilliant and eloquent as those OF
their sisters of Greece America they would present
nearly perfect type Of female beauty. And the children
are course charming and even when they run Out OF
the peasant houses in the remote districts and beg the
passerby for doubtless there is witchery about them
seldom found in beggars elsewhere But to speak OF beg
cars in Guernsey almost absurd for extreme poverty is
nearly un known while almost every er OF the lard cui-
tyates inherited from his ancestors Tor many
centuries and il is difficult to find evidences OF sq"aor III
the island Even the houses OF the peasanry are heay
kept and lace cambria curtain hides the lower
windows of the humbcst cots, while flowers ana vines
are trained on the window seat during the Winter season.
The island of Alderncy Is about twenty miles to the
northeast OF Guernsey but is famous for its Dreed
OF than for its people "These are 30 caicn PROV
ably because the first exported were from s&'
island although very few that are sold as Attorney
cows are directly there Those OF that breed act
ally exported from these islands generally from Jer-
sey, where the cattle much the same as those OF
Alderney-small, with tapering heads and OF delicate
fawncoor The Guernsey cow Is esteemed ny some even
more highly than the Alderney it Is rather larger and
more OF u red. brnded in color. The cows are mixed
three times daily. and the milk is churned without skim
ming; one pound OF butter day is by no means an I'M
common yield for good COW. The COW cabbage is made
TO reach size large that the leaves are used to wrap
the in for market while the stalks are varnishcd
and armed with fcrrulcs and extensively used al 81
Heer's for canes The cows are very carefully
coddled. The grass they feed on is highly en-
riched by the yraic species OF seawccd ga'h-
cred from the reefs at low tide Iherc are TWO
yraic haryests appointed by the government, one
in the Spring the other in August although IL IL
a other times in small quantities All hands turn OUT III
the season with and CARTS frequently at ngh ana
il is very lively, picturesque occupation thoush oieh
attended with risk and loss of life from the overlooking
of boats or sudden rising of the tide. The cows are
ALWAYS tehered when feeding they eat less in TINS way
really giving milk than if glutted with food ana
while they cropping the grass on one SIDE OF cd'
il has time to spring up on the other SIDE Wheh thcy
have done ealing they are at once removed from INC
sun into the shade The breed is preserved from inter
mixture with other breeds by strong and arbitrary laws
very carefully enforced No cattle allowed to enter
the islands except for slaughter, within certain number
of days, with the exception OF oxen for cranght'
Another marine locality nearer home, az described
by Mr.. NorlhoG in his paper on "Cape Cod
fractions than the celebrated islands of the British
Channel The following tribute to the embcnatic
fish whose efgies glores the Hall Of the Great and
General Court" OF Massachusetts is not unworthy OF the
savory subject. "The Goldfish is noble animal He is
served to you fresh from his native lair and fried IN
company with thin slice Of fat salt pork and this IL
the orthodox or as German might the dHcn seig
qndchende way preparing it, mackcre may be boiled
or broed he may he picked smoked but goldfish
should be first caught, then disembowelcd ana washed
then gently sailed for the space OF half dozen Aos
and then the brine being washed away, fried over BRISK
fire with salt pork II this process has been performed
by skilled hand Cy ninc-yearold Cape boy, for in
stance) your fish will be firm nakY crisp, juicy, tender
in short delciousand you VIII send your plate back
for a second portion. N B.-A Goldfish which has been
transported to New in fishing smack ana Kept FORA
week the end OF sewer In the North or East
River is different animal Fat pork Will not save hi
The primitive simplicity OF Nantucket life has been III
vaded by modern Inventions still retains much Of its
pristine fascination Boating fishing and comfortable
living among pleasant population and IN very pleas
ant old the anusements OF Nantucket Ihere are
also some drives to Siasconse which is fishing VII
LACE Sancaty Head, where stands lightAouse OF
to the south Shore where the surf hgnone OF the
three overlong tedious OF late, auctions have iur
nished recreation also Summer visitors, where they
purchased curious old furniture old china, Old table
gear: and was even offered magnificent brass WARM
ng-pan There is also public library an interesting
museum, and very pleasant intelligent society East
man Johnson the artist has studio here The Islanders
have always been remarkably peaceful. No doubt the
Quaker influence has helped toward this Even the In
dians felt and submitted to this power AT present Nan
ucket has not lawyer in its population II case is to
be tried before the court lawyers brought over from
the mainland Whether there is Jail or not forgot to
ask there years ago. and there an oid
story that in the days when stock still roamed at large
DOOR fellow in this locknp complained bitterly That he
could sleep Of nights because the sheep came into
his cell and tranpled him." The present number,
which commences the Fifty First Volume OF the Maya
zine is fully up to its usual high Standard containing the
first chapters OF story by Julian Hawthorne, The
DEVELOPMENT Of our Mineral Resources" by Professor
sterry Hunt The Wit and Wisdom Of the Haytians,"
by John BigelOw. and several other interesting articles