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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1891-12-04, Page 7f',4414!',1**4MV:11`44-00a.. - -s•e=1.1t, • Ire••••I'llis•• STUDENTS OF COOKERY. Balhe's BetitAaeiteing , Savay to and -fro in the twiligbt gray, This is the ferry for Sbadowtown ; It always sails at the end of day, Just as the darknees isslosing down. • , . ••••,••••••••••••••••••••••• Ladies- Showing Increased Interest Rest, little head, on my shoulder, so A sleepy kiss is the only fare ; Drifting awaofrom the world we go, ii Miss Parka's Lecture's. Saber and I in a rocking cnair. NEWS OF Tkth WEEK. Brantford is to have an electrical street -railway system. ° . Complete cable service with Brazil has been re -established - Adam Lotto, of Napariee Mills, has been See where the fire -logs glow and spark, Glitter the lalights of Shadowland • ' killed in a railroad accident at ChICAgo. . ° The Pelting me mettle *Intl awe bleak LAST NIGHT'S DEMONMATIOL- NTho Montreal- agent of hnueigration re Are rienles lapping up its strI end. ' porta 26.729 arrivals during th® past year. There was a larger tuen-out of—ladies than • There where the mirror is glancing dim ever at Miss Parloa's cookingl' lesson last A case of smallpox has been quaran- Atined in Kingston, N. Y., by the Board of Health. lake with its ehunmering cool and still ; • Blossoms are waving ahoare its brim, pose over there on the window -sill. Rock slow, more slow, in the dusky light, Silently lower the anchor down; ' Dear little passenger, say good night, We've reached the harbor of Sha dow town Is This Common, Thunanity ? New York Herald : A few days ago— the story is familiar to the public—a young woman without friends, without money, without hope attempted to end her suf- ferings withl'audanum a the Grand Chitral depot. She was taken to the Bellevue ....... al, where with due care and 77, .n,ra proper tree. ent she recovered. She hai chosen t e,o eal her identity from the public°. No hingis known derogatory' to her char- acter. It is a question whether she was mentally responsible for her rash act. Now. -What do theatuthorities propose to do with' thni unfortueate young woman who is pen- niless and >rzendless in this great metropo- Have the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff cus i —say about seven minutes. is? Trie ' in' 'ler home ? Z?rovideber with froth, and as soon as th . means 'to go to her friends ? Help hee this.froth into it ; s 0 el cern is cooked stir -poonful of vanillacaosr" ies‘rnvith either a tea- to.get employment ? Send her to an appro- into an earthen dish slid letitextract;gef per priate retreat for the mentally a oted ? vied. dish serving time pour into a grs dish.ty No. She is to be arraigned ascommon i la eitiehilooks better if you have some bits of criminal in a police court.a She has bree'ell ee iy to put over it. offended, say these apostles of justice, Haynie to oiven the "specifications," sh against that section of the Penal Code wh',..h proceeded meanwhile taltk thepracticalclemonstratione declares an attempt at suicide to be a felony away about the treat." punishable by imprisonment cin a Stateny.ment. of meats, and the advantages of prison. This is an absurd law. If it has broiling and roasting over other methods. any effect it can only be to make a would-be Preparing to deal with ' a lee of mutton re her, she warned the clabss that at first suicide more desperate—more determined bef° not to fail in the attempt. As a matter of the oven ust be hot. Wipe the meat fact it has. proved a dc d a letter, and rightly season well withsait andpepper-d ' andredge so. It ought to be blotted from our statute it.well with flour, b * , eine also very generous book. Shame on the attempt to use it for with the pp,n—to let plenty go into it. the persecution of an unfortunate being Then put it into the hot oven. As soon as the threshold of woinahlmed with infamy a young life and_to brand eieservee. it is b brown the other side. Miss Pa 1 ' brown on one side turn it over and s pan more humane treatment. o below. Always put hot water in, but' the 'The Bler's,Ready vt.''''''. - - meet must be kept up or it will stew. It A v. cten*., .,„,..,:a.a auto a city police must be dredged, •not with the fat, but stamen /Lige inn _ to ,breathlessly tell the with the gravy water, every twenty min - Sergeant in ea e that he had been made utes, being turned over with a .spoon and the victim of a edger game. He had, in fork, but the latter must not pierce it. the afternoon, gallantly sheltered a dashing Each time it is turned over it must be gen- young wtunan under his umbrella in Broad- crously basted with the liquor, then lightly way, She invited him to call on her in the with salt, pepper and flour. The object of evening. He accepted and was confronted at putting the water in is to keep the tempera - the house by a man who sprang out of a ture down to that of boiling water. And so closet and played the role of the angry hus- the leg of lamb was treated. band. It was the same old game. And the Speaking of custards -Miss Parloa ex - victim had only himself to blame for failing tolled the double boiler and emphasized the into -the trap. It doesn't appear -to be value of constant stirring and slow cooking, necessaryfor either the green -goods man or and impressed on the class that at a certain the badger gang to Change tEtetics. , Given point the ,custercl must be removed from the alluring promise of good money for a the fire. For a quart of soft custard she song, and the unwary farmer glides blindly would use four eggs. 'The custards made into the swindler's grasp. Given the hlan- with yolks alone are smoother. Too much dishments of a bright woman of the street, sugar ought not to be used ; half a cup and the city "smart" man' becomes an. easY would be too much. victim of the badger. It is on the cards for While the meat was cooking and the yesterday, for to -day, for to-morrow.—New tapioca cream cooling, the following method York World. of dealing with the sweet potato was dis- cussed. and subsequently the dish was evening, but men were small potatoes and few in the hill. The lecture began promptly at 7.30 and,it was twenty minutes -to eleven The German Government has forbidden when the sampling was done. One of the Berlin bankers to assist Russia in floating dishes on the evening's programme was her loans. scored off, fish being unobtainable, but the "I.I.T.II===PV.Z.GC20 instructions nepeniemeleeemeileeemeleoles can experiment in the seclusion of the: own kitchens. The first dish was tapioca cream, and measuring cups and knitting . were laid aside as Miss Parloa arose to give the formulae* and several hundred notebooks were opened to jot it down. It wael follows. : Wash four tablespoonfuls of tapioca; put it into half a pint of cold water and soak over night. In the morning pour off all the water remaining (if any—sometimes it absorbs it all), and put the tapioca in a double boiler, with a quart of boiling milk ; stir in the yolks of four eggs, half a teaspoonful of salt, and one cupful of sugar, well "beaten together. Cook the mixture, stirring constantly, till it thickens John Mayer's Plea. cooked: • ful Cook (boil) the poCatoes one hour ; pare them, Chicago Press: There was a power sermon in an appeal that was made ny John and cut ihem in halves, or if large in quarters; Mayer, a good-looking German, to Justice season with salt, dredge and put in a pan flat Lyon yesterday. " I can't find employ- Sides down and spread over with soft but- cater and dredge it over with a little powdered ment, and would like to be sent to the sugar • then set the pan in a very hot oven and Bridewell." " Well, I'll make it $25," brown for 20 minutes to half an hour, according said the justice. "Oh, please make it $75." That is what is called glazed sweet potatOes. to the heat to! the oven. • They are delicious. Mayer begged, " and that will keep me till the grass grows again." And still we hear A very tasty dish was the mashed and from press, pulpit and platform, and in browned potatoes in cream sauce, and great • essays on triumphant democracy, that interest was taken in its preparation by the " there is work for all, opportunity for all, ladies. It was as follows: plenty for 411," only some folks are lazy, sixpotatocut in elibes ; oneslice-of onion ; two For persons use ono uart of cold boiled trifling, good-for-nothing. As a comment sprigs of partiley,one slice of carrot; three table - on , this view of social conditions, John spoonfuls of butter, one level teaspoonful of Mayer's plea for imprisonment for 150 days salt, a quarter of a teaspoonful of pepper, two scant tablespoonfuls of flour, one pint of milk, is almost tragic. one cupful of grated bread crumbs (not over - stale bread) beat the flour and two tablespoon- fuls of,the butter together [it was explained Buffalo News: According to the remarks that the beating must be thorough and the re- sult a light; creamy mass or the mixture would made at the Women's Christian Temperance be lumpy) in the saucepan ; add the onion, par - Union in l3oston no woman who wears cor- sley, carrot and half the salt and pepper. Heat sets can be ranked among the really elect. the milk and pour it gradually on the contents of the saucepan; then set the pan on the stove; What connection can there be between when the milk begins to bdil set the pan back • whiskey and the straight-laced women of where the mixture will simmer for five min- theutes. Season the potatoes with the remaining country? salt and pepper and put them into a gratin dish or any shallow escallop pan and strain the hot sauce over thein and sprinkle the crumbs over this. Dot with the other tablespoonful of but- ter set the dish in a rather hot oven and 'cook for 20 minutes. The cooking went on merrily and the ladies fired questions at the teacher, on. various topics. The assistant basted the lamb, and while the fire got in its work James Mahoney, a laborer of Belleville, Miss Parloa gave the formula for the raise- while working for Contractor Joshua Lang, ing number, fish au -gratin. also of Belleville, on the roof of the new Any kind: of fresh fish, free from skin and Roman Catholic Church at Brcckville, fell bones, will do. Use for one pint of fish a cup from a broken scaffold on Saturday at 3 and a hay of cream or milk, one tablespoonful p. m. and died at midnight from fracture of of flour, two of butter, a quarter of a teaspoon- the skull. ,He leaves a wife and one child ful of pepper, one and a half teaspoonfuls of Uncle Sam's Tenor Notes. , salt, half a tablespoonful. of onion juice, eight in destitute circumstances. Joshua Lang, tablespoonfuls grated bread crumbs. Break H. Sills and a man named Lister were also Philadelphia Times : Chili; China and the fisli into a plate with a fork and sprinkle on the scaffold, but caught I themselves and Canada are the high C's with Uncle Sam is over it half of the pepper and one teaspoonful bound to reach unless he splits his larynx. of the salt, mixing a little with a fork: put the were un milk or cream into"a small sauce -pan and heat Mr. George Curzon's appointment tea be injured. A Rare Chance. Under Secretary for India is a . marked it to the boiling point ; meanwhile heat together Milton Champion : Champion for one and stir it into the bol mg milk, stir for one instance of political selection for fitness' the flour and one tableepoonful of the butter year for a barrel of snow apples. minute and, add the onion iuire and pepper; sake. He is 32 and an Oxford celebrity, has take it from the fire and put abouthalf a spoOn- travelled much in the East, has written a ful of the sauce into each of six scallop shells, now put in a thin layer of fish and another readable book of most solid merit, is a man layer of sauce; repeat_;_flnally sprinkle the of the world, has been Private Secretary to grated bread crumbs over each dish ; melt the Lord Salisbury, has five years'party experi- second tablespoonful of butter and sprinkle it over the crumbs. Place the scallop shell's in a ence, and has the crowning distinction of largo pan and put, in a rather hot oven for being a leading spirit in that select com- fifteen minutes and serve immediately. , pany known as ' The Souls," to which Mr. As soon as the lamb was done Mr. Priest- Balfour also belongs. man was called to carve, and a bevy of An immense demonstration was held in young ladies assisted him. 'The meat, Limerick yesterday in commemoration of The Prince of Wales passes many hours potatoes, sweet potatoes and tapioca •cream the death of the Manchester " martyrs." at theibedside of his son, Prince George, were passed round and unanimously voted Messrs. Michael Devitt, John Redmond, who is ill with typhoid fever. The fact good. —Hamilton Times. , Edward Harrington and others met on a that Prince George has gained the thirteenth, Robert Dinnie, poet and antiquarian, common platform. The speakers demanded day of his illness without suffering delirium and father of Donald Dinnie, the famous the release of the Irishmen imprisoned in is much in ' favor of his rapid recovery. thlete died at KincardineO'Neil, Scot- 1 England. The meeting passed off quietly., Typhoid fever is quite prevalent in London, land on the 29th ult, Ile was 83 years of Letters apologizing for their absence were 279 cases having been reported during the received from Mr. John Dillon and Mr. past week. age William O'Brien, who were in Mitchells- A London cable says : Sir Charles Tup- A plumber is not the only man who make town, where' they addressed 6,000 persons per was to -day appointed a director of the money by the judicious use of soft solder. at a federation meeting. General Mining Company, a small „concern Jack Well, Jim, T preposed th • Miss At the •Soinersetshire Assizes on Settle with a capital of £200,000 sterling, owning Summer last night. Jim—Ind she give you day the Rev.' Dr. James Casper Clutter- • mince in Nova 'Scathe Sir Charles' nominee her heart? Jack—No, but I got a piece of buck, D. C. L., inspector of workhouse tion,to the board of the Bank of British her mind. schools, was tried for obtaining on false Columbia occasioned surprise, and his The latdst feather boa around thefashion- pretences and with intent to de rau , from acceptance of the present post again raises able woman's neck looks like a fringe of Mrs. Turner, of Park street, Bath, the, the question whether an active share in the sum of £1,600 ; from Charles Martin control of public companies is consistent whiskers. ..„ There now 4 000 miners on, etoikse: IefflialteNifitrtiftrsiiNfraircitraris amost entirely cut off. The drought which prevailed in Texas since earlysummer was broken on Saturday by a copious rainfall. Count Tolstoi's two daughters have opened a free soup kitchea for the famin.e-etrieken near their father's chateau. Hodges the sum of £1,000 ; from Willie Pearce, master of the Dorchester work „. hou' se the sum of £2,000 ; from Dr. Metall, of Clanlodge, Bath, the sum of £2,.4$je. La from the 'IWO. C. "MeCattelaiiii, of -Wood- sir c hall Place, Bath, the sum of £2,500; and front the Rev. H. R. Pearce, of Bethvvick bltorb oe fr hill, Bath, the sum of £5,650, in all the tor of tit Liverpool from Montreal On Wednesdayguilty, guilty, and was sentenced to five yearta colonies - penal servitude. the steamer Mongolian, which arrived at provided fo sum of £16,050. Dr. Clutterbuck pleaded Mrs. Lavinia Mason, the stewardess of tricts in crofters a been a A cave-in }(1:03';tihnh.. ; • 'UCKNOVj e "urs 8• ,, Mei South North lat, last, waa arraigned in• eourt on Saturdar, a Brantford charged with shooting, with intent to ki I, trenches givingVay . e . oi weenie e — Purser Stewart, of the seine vessel, the steamer was passing Londonderry on while John McGregor and ]teal eenteil, nearly - up to their necks. McNeil was cruidied„,,,,,,.„ Friday last. The prisoner deelarsd At; a.„,thalutiqjtyarovfaieriewmfawisarielfiririfiri_ti,' •bowei`nraMaTiqqanlinner PrornWe a first tlidught to be badly injured. The mkt - marriage, and when asked to fulfil his engagement on the steamer's arrival at hap took place shortly after 11 o'clock, and. Liverpool he threatened to discard her. She it was 12.30 before the victims were treed. They were taken home in a badly bruised became so enraged that she fired three and shaken condition. shots at him for the purpose of frightening him, and that she did uot desire to do him ho fu y wounding him. The prisoner was re - The Exchange Telegraph Company has Gus bodily injuri. Two of the billets, -farther —a-devints rrom Rio To daneirie this ver, took effect in Stewart's body,pain- afternoon statingthat affairs throwehout Over half a foot of snow fell in St. Paul, Brazil are rapidly approaching a crisis. Minn., on Saturday morning, and it looks as in nded without bail: Everywhere discontent and disaffection if winter had commenced in earnest. • with the present regime are becoming more Brazilian ports are infected with yellow Messrs. McNaughton & Co., of Windsor, fever. pronounced. In general the political con - on Friday took across the river into Detroit clition of the country is described as border. 14,760 dozen of eggs, valued at 82,214. A big binder twine trust has been formed ing on anarchy. The Exchange Telegraph . in Chicago. Company's despatch further declares that Counterfeit one dollar Dominion of Can- Fonseca's death is probable at any moment. ada notes are in circulation near Ottawa, The British- Liberal leaders have decided Winnipeg City Council has passed a re- to incorporate in the platform approved at solution in favor of a direct railway line to the Newcatle conference an English Tenants' Duluth. Rights bill. This decision is one of the Stratford Council proposes to have a -new most important steps that the Party has fire hall. A by-law will be submitted totho ever taken. The question of ameliorating people. the position of British farmers, by giving M. de Giers, the Russian Minister them greater security for their capital and of freedom from harassing - covenants im- Foreign Affairs, dined with President Carnot last night in Paris. posed by landlords, has long been recog- nized as ripening towards Liberal legiela- The by-law to raise $28,000 for water- tion. This resolution on the part of the works for Parry Sound was carried yester- Liberals has been hastened by the move - day by a majority of 19. ment 'of the Conservatives in the same During the past week there were 33 dieection. failures in Canada, as compared with 27 for On the centre door in the main entrance the corresponding period last year. to St. Patrick's Church, Ottawa, some The London Baptist Social Union has en- person 'unknown painted last night, in dorsed the proposal to held a Baptist Ecu- menical Conference in Min..— :„ i 0‘,.., . The election trials in North Perth and East Bruce were proceeded with yesterday at Stratford and Walkerton respectively. The Spanish Cabinet Ministers,with Senor Canoyas del Castillo as President, have re- signed their portfolios as a result of the .re- cent crisis. From November 1st, 1890, to November 1st, 1891, there were 429 homestead entries in the Edmonton land office, an increase of 290 over the preceding year. At Lonsdale, Hastings county, a verdict of wilful murder has been returned against James MeGinniss in connection with the death of B. Ford on Thanksgiving Day. On Saturday afternoon Mayor Clarke laid the corner -stone of the new City Hall of Toronto. The total cost will be $1,000,000. The building is to be ready for use in 1895. The commercial treaty between Austria and Italy was signed at Munich yesterday. It gives Italy large facilities in the expor- tation of wines, olives, fruits and manufac- tures. noon, for the purpose of usingit as an in- fectious disea ties hospital for isolating diph- theria patients. Mr. Foster, Minister of Finance, denies the teeth of the report that the ominion Government has nearly completed arrange- ments with Mr. CeFurness, M. P. ,President of the Furness Steamship Company, for a fast Atlantic mail seryice. The Pope has appointed the Bishop of Chictouthni, Province of Quebec, Canada, to be coadjutor of the, Archbishop of Que.: bec, with the right of succession to the archbishopric. The Vicar -General of 'Que- bec, it is expected, will succeed to the Bishopric of Chicoutimi. A new binder, invented by E. Ingleton, of Brantford, and intended to bind all kinds of grain with straw taken from the sheaf while being cut, is about to be introduced. On Thursday last several sheaves werebound to the entire satisfaction of those who were. permitted to witness the operation. . A telegram from the Viceroy of India states that no doubtsare entertained that the pilot, brig Culdoon foundered during the terrible hurricane which recently passed over the Andoanan Islands and the Bay of Bengal. The Culdoon had a crew of six British officers and 35 natives, and it is le- lieved all were drovneed. Mr. W. Cusden, M. C. R. brakeman, Si. Thomas, aged 22, died suddenly yesterday morning. He had been ill with preritonitis, recovered and was to have gone out on his run to -day, but was taken ill again on Satur- day afternoon and died on Sunday morning. He came from Manchester, England, four years ago, and has no relatives in Canada. There was a lively fracas at Deseronto on Saturday evening, the result of family troubles. Douglas Powles assaulted his father-in-law, Charles Maracle, pounding him severely on the head and stabbing him several times in the thigh. Two hours later two sons of Charles Maracle gave Powles a terrible beating, disfiguring his face and head. A young man named Barnes, a cutter in John Marshall & Co's. establishrfient, Lon- don, who was arrested on a capias at the instance of Mrs. Hughes, who charged hien with bed tieing her daughter, married the latter in jail lest Wednesday, and as soon as he was liberated he swallowed a quantity of croton oil, from the effects of which he died last evening. An inquest will be held. .-eire alive It ran All the Same. Bazar: "Bay, Bonny,” says Hicks, en- thusiastically, " you never saw my baby, did—" " No," returned Bronson, shortly, "but I've seen plenty of others. Let's go play billiards." . lit Inc Mart of Love. New York Herald " Was Bond's mar - failure ?" No, an embezzlement. , It took place after six months' residence in Dakota." letters nearly two feet hioh " The Flteps num m --tde eNargimqfEt4 daubed with paint. On the door of the newly -erected St. Patrick's lyceum,-whiCh adjoins. the residence of Rev. ather Whelan, yeas also painted the inscription, " No Popery," done in tall, carefully -forme& - Roman letters. There was a rumor current in Ottawa yesterday that Lord Stanley intends resign- ing the Governor -Generalship next month. Judge Elliot at London ,yesterday decided that the Liberal „notices of objections to names on the Dominion voters' list were in- validTe The specird train to transport 250 marines and 25 officers of the Imperial service from Vancouver to Halifax lett Montreal last •night for Vancouver. There is a rumor current that the Cana- dian Pacific Railway Company will start telephone company in Montreal in opposi-, tion to the Bell Company. At a public meeting in Windsor Thurs- day night addresses were 'made by Dr. Beers and Magistrate Bartlett. Resolutions • 'condemning annexation proposals were adopted. Harry H. Hutchinson, a Canadian, was arrested. at Chicago yesterday on a eharge •of smuggling opium. In the bottom of his trunk 110 half -pound packages of the drug were found. The action of the National Bank, the principal creditors of the Borghese compels the seizure of the Borghese gallery in Rome. The sum of £320,000 is asked for the collection. Major Wissmann, the well.known Ger- man officer who led an expedition into the interior of East Africa, is lying seriously ill in Cairo. He is suffering from inflamma- tion of the lungs. At the Chicago . flower show the golden. rod was selected as the national flower. It has just been learned, says the Calgary Tribune, that the survey party which left Calgary two weeks ago, ostensibly to make a survey from that place to the boundary in connection, with the C. & 'E. railway, has gone to grow's Neat. The report which was ciaMeted that they were going to make a survey to the boundary was evi dently,ur founded. . No doubt the survey is made by the direction of the C. P. R,, and is in connection with the proposed new line by Crow's Nest Pass to the coast. • A device of English parentage is a poste balance combined -with a knife, in which the letter is hung to the blade of the knife, the handle of which is balanced on the edge of the table. Ile- -Why ere you so sad, darling ? She was just thinking, dearest, that this was the last evening we could be together till to-morro*. She—Row odd of Mr. Ergent to. make me a present of a parrot 1 The parrot—Not at alt He's trained me to speak a good word for him. .41 What a kiss Has Done. Was not Voltaire publicly kissed in the stage box by the beautiful Duchess deVil- lars, in compliance with the demands of an enthusiastic pit to thus reward the author of " Merope?" The kiss has been the bribe of politics, for when Fox was contesting the hard won seat at Westminster the beautiful Duchess of Devonshire offered to kiss all who would vote for•the great statesman.' And the inspiration of patriotism is the kiss, for did not the fair Lady Gordon turn recruting sergeant when the ranks of the Scottish regiment had been depleted by Salamanca and tempted the gallant lads by placing the recruting shilling between her lips for all who would take it with their own? Temperance and Strife. ' Canada Presbyterian : Temperance ad- vocates have exhausted strength enough on each other to have well nigh driven the liquor traffic from this continent. An effort to do any good thing may end in nothing more or better than a wrangle about how it ought to be done. One is often tempted to think that the one-man power is, after. all, about as good as self-government provided the one man isa reasonably fair kind of mortal. The working of popular govern- ment in eitheechurch or State involves an enormous amount of unnecessary friction. Some five days ago two young men, one aged 17 and the other aged 16 years, named Why He is Enlisted. Buffard, of 'St. Lambert, and Langlois, of Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott : So long as there/ St. Jean de Chrysostome, were accidentally are women in cities' who buy their food by drowned in Black Lake, five miles from selling their vvomanhood ; so long as there Thetford Mines. are men in the rich coal fieldsof Illinois who must stand without, shivering at the door, with pick in hand and muscle ready for work, while wealth locks the coal fields up against them and a shivering population ; so long as in the iron fields of Pennsylvania: men work twelve hours a day, with n� time to court their wives or kiss their children, solong my heart -and my hand are enlisted in any and every movement that gives fair promise for the emancipation of iniustry. Guerin and Feron yesterday instituted, in the name of J. P. Whelan, an action for $10,000 damages against Ernest Pacaud. The action is based on the publication in L'Eleeteur of certain statements regarding the Whelan charges. Giseinto Epifario, an Italian, who for the past six years has carried on a steamship agency, general store and banking business among the poorer class of his countrymen in Philadelphia, is believed to have absconded with upwards of $50,000 belonging to his countrymen. There is a report current in London that the Canadian Government has completed ,negotiations with Mr. Furness, M. P., head of the Furness line of steamers, for an ex- press mail service between a port in the English Channel and Canada, making the journey in five days. A. Fake Men Story. Rochester Herald: The newspapers hostile to ex -President Hayes have for several years had a great deal of fun at his' expense over his alleged poultry farming. Now the ex -president quietly punctures the whole business with the statement, made at Atlanta recently to the effect that he had never raised a chicken in his life. "The story, of the chickens was started by my Wm. Hensberry, a brakesman on the friends as a, joke," said the ex -president ; Canadian Pacific railway, met with a serious "they began it for the fun of it, and others accident at Woodstock yesterday. While who were not friendly to me, wishing shunting in the yard he fell off a car, in- perhaps to belittle me in the eyes of the juring his left leg above the ankle. Hens- public, published the fake for all it was berry, after being attended by the com- worth." pany's local surgeon, was able to be taken to his home at St. Thomas. James Warder, of the Consolidated Com- pany, writes from Fairhaven,. Washington. George—Either you must marry me or put -me out of my misery. He is one of the stockholders of a company Ethel—Must I choose ? just organized on Puget Sound for the George—You must. Ethel (with a sigh)—Well, where is the propagation of black cats. An ieland is to be purchased, and there the black cat breed axe ? is to be perpetuated. These, cats will live on fish, and are to be raised for their fur. The Humane 'Girl. In the Court Room. • Texas Siftings : Judge (to a very homely old maid) --Miss, in what year ,were you born ? Witness—In the year 1866. Judge—Before or after Christ? "Money talks," but to most people ib says good-bye. At a newspaper exhibition in Paris there are 6,000 specimens of journalism from all parts of the world. Do not situations of hazard best prove the sincerity -of friends ? The man who has never made a fool of himself has lost the luxury of ane oppor- tunity; he was probably a fool 'to start with. A man was put in the stocks in England as late as the year 1860. • • • •