New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-10-17
GENERAL NOTES.
So good man as Archdeacon Denison l,

| So good a man as ArchdeacOn DenisOn I,
uncbaritable when he writes about American cheese.
lie is thankful that English farmers are dscounteuanc-
ing factories and making their good Cheddar cheese at
home. He that the principal elements OF
good cheese home making and natural drying and
reproaches English farmers for throwing into the ditch
all their valuable monopoly by allowing themselves
] be deceived by the American example into artificial
drying and rapid sale. " A real Cbeddar," he says
sond not be eaten under eighteen months from date
Of making and IL best nc two years from IT, No Amcri
can or factory-made cheese smells sweet after Fix
months, when II is a between the and the
maggOts. The public generally have been taken In
because ninety ont OF hundred who buy cheese
buy whole cheese, bat bunch Of cheese. ana
then eat 1t before they ud out how badly made and
how nasty There is country Europe, or cut
Of il, that can make prime Chcddar cheese except
Somerset ana &c Is the worst folly TO and throw
a monopoly being IA natural GIFT. We had better 20
PACK and If need be i've on bread and water two years
tbat III tbe rd year we ana our customers my DE abe
once more TO live on bread and rea Cheddar cheese.
There 10 better food In the wOrd-few foods good
and we have bsen throwing it all away Ike idiots"
DR.. John NJ. Leavitt gives this account of one
OF the colored missions Of tie Protestant Episcopal
Church IL has recently been privilege 10 be
the Antrim Church, built By the Rev. Mr.
Webb for the colOred people In Halifax
County, in the Old Dominion. The edi1ce
Itself Is model az rural architecture. But n church
should be commended Tor its work than is form
and It's ornament During the weeks OF winter about
seventy cOlOred men, and children collect for
strucOn the elementary branches or knowledge.
Toward spring. and especially In the summer. their
numbers diminish. Mr.. David Webb teaches
them with skill. patience AMI success The avid
ity and aptitude of his pupils surprfs-
ing. was again and again present. and more aud more
admired what 1t was my privilege 10 witness In add
ton to their usual lessons, each scholar taught
cite the Iord's Prayer aud the Apostles Greed only
such per.ons can appreciate the deep and iast-
ing effects Of such instruction. -Four Baptist
ministers among the puDlIs, coming RON great
distances. aud animated with oyerDastering desire
lean. Theeects the school the colorcd people
Of entire region visible in repres ing taaf
igious frenzy to which they so incline. in quckenng
their intelligence, N furnishing them with sound prn-
cpes. IN improving their manners, IN establishing them
IN pcty aud elevatnlg them INTO useful Christian
That ants have some kind of sign language
has been proved by Sir John Lubbock OF his
cent papers 1t is UNREASONABLE if discoV-
store of food her comrades soon flock to the
urc although this is not invariably the case. IL has
been that this fact taken alone does not
power of communication. An ant observing friend
bringing food home might infer without being tod.
that by accompanying the friend The return journey
she might also participate in the good things THIS
gument has been by Sir J. LuJbock's compelling the
ant who found the ~ return to the nest empty
handed If she took nothing home, and yet others
turned with her. he argues, there must have been
communication between them. As the result of care
fny conducted and striking experiments, he concludes
that in possession OF something approaching To
languagethat they able to ask their friends when
occasion requires, to and lend them u helping
hand Relatives Invariably recognized Young ants
reared from eggs taken from nest were, when they
reached maturity introduced to the maternal abode,
and although the oh ants could never have
until that moment. yet IN all the item they
undoubtedly recognized belonging to the cOnmuniiy
ranger am il nvauaDly once attacEea and ki!ied
Ii tnat the recognition Is not personal and
Individual ANA the fact that they recogz" their friends
even intoxicated, ana That they know tae young
born III their own nest even when these have been
brought OF the chrvsilIs by Strangers, seems 10
indicate that the recognition i not ctei By means o.
sign password. The political CONVICTIONS Of 1nis
dccp-rOOtcd. WHcn queen was iBtrndu: cd INTO
uueeuess she at attacked and Destroyed
IL wOuid II which nad been long living
republic cOald not BE- induced to accept queen.