Paris herself again in 1878-9 . ushed Colman and all his mustard into the Impalpabilities infive minutes—plodding up and down, up and down, pounding thesilver ore under their tremendous toes. It was a rebellious ore;but the huge pedals crushed out the precious stuff at last—got itout by slow and unwearying persistence, as the pith is pickedout of a reed, or as misery crushes the heart out of a man. Butmy mind came very swiftly back from Mexico to contemplate asurging crowd of vivacious Gauls who were struggling for somepackets of mustard which were being gratuitously distributed in front of Me
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . ushed Colman and all his mustard into the Impalpabilities infive minutes—plodding up and down, up and down, pounding thesilver ore under their tremendous toes. It was a rebellious ore;but the huge pedals crushed out the precious stuff at last—got itout by slow and unwearying persistence, as the pith is pickedout of a reed, or as misery crushes the heart out of a man. Butmy mind came very swiftly back from Mexico to contemplate asurging crowd of vivacious Gauls who were struggling for somepackets of mustard which were being gratuitously distributed in front of & J. Colmansshow-case. Theyare quite as eagerwhen there is abiscuit scrambleat Huntley andPalmerskiosque;and they nearlysuffocate whilethronging roundthe obliging gen-tleman at the per-fumery fountainin the Frenchsection, who, itis said, scents 20,000 pocket handkerchiefs a day for person, abusing this generosity, tendered four moiichoirs forgratuitous odoriferous treatment. Mais il est done un pick-. MORE GOLD MEDALLISTS. 181 pocket, ce maraudeur-la, murmured the obliging gentleman, outof all patience. While mentioning the fact of a Gold Medal having beenawarded to the firm of Orlando Jones & Co., starch manufacturers,at Battersea, I wish to point out that Mr. Orlando Jones is himselfthe inventor of the i:>rocess of making the Patent Pace Starch, or Amidon de Eiz, which bears his name. The invention in questiondates from the year 1840, since which period the firm havereceived no less than nine medals of honour at various Inter-national Exhibitions, the reasons given by the juries for theseawards being the invention of the process, the excellence ofmanufacture, and the extended use of the product. Some of myreaders will, no doubt, remember the time—which, thanks toFree-trade and Inter-oceanic Navigation, we are scarcely likely tosee again—when bread was at famine prices, and mob oratorsmade a grand point by hotly denouncing the waste of goodwheate
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