The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-02
4 TRIUMPH IN PASTRY.
AwEDD1sa CAKE OF WHICH THE oursrp1

4 AWEDDING CAKE OF WHICH THE OUTSIDE
HALF CAN SCARCE BE TOLD.
British Confectioner.
One of the items connected with =
marriage about to be celebrated in
aristocratic circles is magnificent we'd
ding cake, of which the following is O
brief description: The cake consists of
three tiers, surmounted by castle
made an exact architectural copy of the
brides home. The stand, owing to the
size of the cake, is made of wood and
gilded, no gold or silver stand in the
trade being available. The whole
structure measures FIVE feet high and
weighs 200 pounds The stand is three
feet four inches in diameter and nine
inches in height.
The first tier of the cake is two feet
and half across and ten inches high,
decorated with eight arabesque orna-
mental columns, each surmounted by q
small vase holding orange blossoms
ard maiden hair ferns Between the
columns hang eight festoons. The top
of the tier is ornate with filagree pip
ing. The second tier measures one
foot eleven inches in diameter and
eight and half inches high Four
panels adorn this tier, two of which
contain the coat of arms of the bride
and bridegroom respectively, painted
on white silk in true heraldic colors,
each surrounded by pearls and ferns.
The two other panels exhibit the
mongranls of the pair, also on silk, and
cololed in harmony with the coat of
arms, but surrounded by wreaths of
orange blossoms and maiden-hair ferns.
Between the panels hang four pretty
gypsy baskets full of stephanotis,
orange blossoms, green ferns, and silver
| leaves. Between each basket and panel
hangs q cornacopia with orchids, etc,
Over each panel is pair of flying
doves, and adove also is placed between
each basket and cornucopia. Standing
on top of the tier are eight cupids, each
rising out of bouquet OF orange bios
SONS and holding over his shoulder
stephanotis, out of which is flowing a
stream of water, represented by spun
| glass. The top and bottom of the pier
are embellished with filigree piping.
The third tier is twenty inches across
and six inches high, ornamented with
eight festoons made of stephanotis,
| orange blossom, erica, oats, and silver
| ferns. Dropping sprays of orange buds
| and blossoms and silver leaves hang be-
| tween the festoons down to the second
| tier. Over each festoon is an orna-
mented scroll bracket from which
hangs by silver wire basket of orange
blossoms, oats, maiden-hair and silver
ferns. Filigree piping as before fin
| iSheS off the top of this tier
Above this tier stands the Norman
castle, with outer castellated wall four
and half inches high, containing
| porticullis entrance, with turrets on
each side. Inside are the moat and
drawbridge, leading through Norman
doorway to court, nine and half
inches high, with its three turrets and
rows of windows. Further back is the
keep, eighteen inches high and six
| inches in diameter, its fourteen windows
overlooking the whole structure. At
the very top is the flagstaff nine inches
high, floating the banner of the house.
IRREGULARITIES OF WITCHES.
Boston Herald.
Watches are peculiar. You can take
two watch movements, made by the
same firm and apparently in all re-
spects precisely alike, and yet one may
run vastly better than the other ever
will, even with the most careful adjust
ment. Queer, at first thought, isn't it
The two watches are made SO closely
alike that their parts are interchange
able, and yet each has its own individ-
uality, as it were, and one is, as I have
said, likely to be markedly better
timekeeper than the other. Why is it ?
Give it up. ITS too deep for me. Per-
haps it's for the same reason that one OF
two locomotives, built in the same
shops, from the same patterns, by the
same workmen, under the same super
intendent, and of the same materials as
near as possible, will "steam" easier and
do more and better work than it's mate
suppose that it is impossible to make
two pieces OF machinery exactly alike
NAY NOT SPECIAL SENSES EXLST2
Philadelphia Record
There is no reason why other animals
may not have special senses which per-
ceive some of these vibrations, while
they may be totally unable to perceive
some of those which make up our SEN
sations. Just as blind man is ignor-
ant of blue and red, SO may we be oi
the sensations of some of the lower
animals. This is the more probable
from the presence in many of them oi
organs which are evidently sense
organs, yet which do not seem tc
answer to any that we have. Thus the
line of pores along the side of fish is
line of sense-organs that are not eyes
ears or organs of smell; and it is more
than probable that the curious organs
that have been described upon the
antenna of insects, may be the seats Of
senses which we can have no idea Of
4 SAFE PROPHECY
New York Sun
Of all the prophecies of the end oi
the world the safest and slowest is the
one made recently by the ghost of Mo
hammed, at Mecca which puts down
this event for a date of 40 years hence
70 people accustomed to the short time
allowances on this subject of Miller
this prediction of the spirit of Mo
hammed will be bosh; yet some Mo
hammedans are excited about it.
plague and cyclone are TO be fore
runners of the end and if Egypt will
furnish the plague, America can easily
produce the cyclone.
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NEW IDEAL OF TILE SEXES
London Punch.
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