Son." His boy friends at the Convict
were devoted to him, and were eager to play, sing, or copy any of his
compositions. One of them, Josef Spaun, who was several years older than
Schubert, and better off, helped him to procure all the music paper he
needed.

His first mass, in F, was composed and performed in 1814. It is said to be
the most remarkable first mass ever produced, excepting Beethoven's in C.
In 1815, when he was only eighteen years old, he composed the music for
more than a hundred songs. The fine song, the "Erl King," was written in
this year, and many of his boyish songs are among his finest productions.
When he died in 1828, he left more than 1,100 compositions, the greater
number of which had not then been published.

In his lifetime, some of his songs were sold for a few pence, and he lived
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.

Woe to the dairy wife who lets it stay too long!

It becomes like little knobs of rubber, that nothing will soften. When one
tries to bite it one's teeth rebound. It is the toughest kind of material.

Mr. Callander, the Englishman who invented the milk buttons, must have had
an encounter with some of this cottage cheese, and his trouble in chewing
it must hav