in poverty nearly all his days. Yet publishers have grown rich by the sale
of his compositions, and his work is a delight to the world. The house in
which he was born is marked by a marble tablet, and costly memorials have
been raised in his honor. Some words that he spoke in the delirium of his
last illness made his brother Ferdinand believe that he wished to be
buried near Beethoven. This wish was fulfilled, and his grave lies near
that of the great musician, for whom from his early boyhood he always had
a profound reverence and admiration.

M. BOURCHIER SANFORD.




INVENTION AND DISCOVERY.


There has lately been patented in England a system for making buttons,
combs, brush-handles, billiard balls, and such like articles out of milk.

The bone buttons and articles of that kind, which we have been using up to
the present time, have been made of refuse from the slaughter-houses. This
new process will only require milk.

Any one who knows anything about dairy work knows what loppered milk is.
It is the thick soured milk that one finds under the butter cream.

This loppered milk is made into cottage cheese, and many people, in making
their cottage cheese, stand it for a moment on the fire to thicken.