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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1904-9-15, Page 2*..0;eseetenia04-04Eg•CeStigaersea< About the 0.00H0t1Se eba.Sitnile›?.laaratearetarnienia.$7;V: SEPTEMBER DAV S. The skies, a hazy, golden sheen, The wind, a faint, teasighe Complathing to the rehriveled stream That calls as lost love in a. dream, Front out tlee ewers gone bee elices cf bread and butter, and *i oPread an. eceital Mintier a slices ree- 1 tiler thickly with finely cbopped tone guot Prose together lightly, Ngnparell Meemalade.,-Oao cup of IA fresh grated pineapple, two cepa of A freSh strawberries, oi• -red respberelee, three cups a granufated segar. sie fruit first, then add sugar; boll until it CIOkS but. Oot,. loiegoe about twenty nueutes, wawa,. peal. hot. For serrine with afternoon tea, or for the picnic lunch basket, caramel cookies are recommended. The lot - lowing recipe conies from the wife of a college professor z Two eggs, one cep a sugar, two cups of oatmeal, one tablespoonful of butter, ono teaspooeful of baking powder, two teaspoonfuls of vannila flavoring, aud a pinch of salt are required. Cream the butter and seger, bent the eggs sePanatelY, arid mix the baking po iv - der and salt with the oatmeal. The mixture should - be a thin batter. Drop on a buttered baking sheet very Lar epare, Bake in a telerably quick oven. Ilielcory-uut umearoone aro eniong the most tempting house -Made cakes, and are vary easily made, Stir to- gether a pound of powdered sugar, a pouad of ruts chopped as fine as pos- sible, the whites a five enbeaten eggs, one tablespoonfuls of baking powder. Drop from a teaspoon, on the tin and ;rake in a, very moderate oven, as they burn rather easile and need to cook slowly. The following recipe is quite fam- ous in •a -Pennsylvania towa, where aa old negro cook makes what are 'mown. arid delighted 'in al "Betty's junibles," They are made with one pound each of batter and sugar, two Pounds a fican, three eggs, nine tea- spoonsful of orange juice, three tea- epoonsfuls of baking powder, salt to taste, Handle ligtsatly, roll rather thin, and sprinkle with granulated sugar before baking in a quick'o-ven. They will keep -if locked up -for sev- eral months. The melancholy woodland ways Are rile with joy no more; whisper, as of forest fays, Steals out along the dreamy days. .And sennaertime is o'er. 'Adown the orchard's fragrant aisle 'ale ripened fruit swings low; rf.lhe aster, ia profusiou smiles, And from the dim .woods' subtle wiles, The shadows leugthen slow. Tho songbirds gather for their flight Th silence, and farewell; No more their songs of pure delight, :Aro heard at 'dawn," and soft twi- light By forest, field and dell. A ceaseless, and a haunting strain. Comes up from Reid and fen; A voice as from "the ;erica of pain," Is echoed from the deep, dark main, Sorrowing nature's knell. So, all is hushed in quietude, As fade the home; away; As some sweet dream song's inter- ,. ' lune, That never more may be renewed, So dies September's day, J. R. WILKINSON, Leamington, Ont. IN PICKLING TINE, The following mustard pickles re - ;metric very closely the mixed pickles for sate, at the groceries. That they are wholesome when made at home 'by a carefui housewife, goes without saying. Mix together 1 quart each Of chopped cauliflower, sliced cucum- bers, tiny whole cucumbers, very small onions and one small red pep- per. Cover with vinegar in which a tablespooa of salt has been dissolv- ed and let stand over night, In. the m.orning cook in ea= vinegar for 15 miantes, then drain well, Mix. .14 tablespoons ground neuetard witli five cots' worth of tumeric, 1 table- spoon black pepper, 3 tablespoons :sugar and half teacup flour with enough cold vieegar to make a smooth paste. Pour this mixture into 3 qts, boiling vinegar, boil a few minutes, thee. ' pour over the eickles. Mix well and bottle. Un - Tess you have plenty of wide mouth- ed bottles it is better to ese one- -quest cans. This recipe manes 6 quarts. bet do not pare, enough green. cucumbers in layers, sprinkling over them half a teacup salt. Let them stand 8 hours, To * pint olive oil add 2 onions chopped fine, oZ celery seed and 1 oz. each bla.cic and white inustat•cl seed. Drain the cucumbers and place in layers,' sprin- kling between them the Beads, onioes and 2 tablesuoons oil. Then pour over them. the rest of the oil and all the jar with good cold vinegar. The cucumbers should be of medium' size and the slices not more than an eighth of an inch thick. Tn.matoe, Pickles. --In ;selecting e,reen tomatoes i-cject all that have (the slightest tinge of ripeness as they evil/ soften too quickly. In coolcing. relut thorn la thick Slices, not more thaw two or three to e. tomato un- ites they. are very nese To st busa. tomatoes use 1 dozen large white onions cut in medium slices. As they are cut place them in alternate lay- ers in stone jars an strew over this amount 2 teacups sett. Let than stand over night. In the morning drain and cook until tender in vine- gar enough to cover. Drain again arid place in the jars in 'which. they . are to be kept. Heat 4 qts. cider vinegar, add to it 2 lbst brown sugar, 2 oz. each ground cinnamon end aUspice i. oz. ground cloves, e Ib. white mustard mod, 2 -ozs. ground inestard, a scant teaspoon cayenne and a tablespoon celery seed. Tie ground spices loosely In a bag. Add the celery seed and ground mustard to the Welding vine- gar, stirring until the mixture is smooth. If liked, a little horseraer fah may be auded to tile vinegar and • will help to keep the'enielches. Pour the hot' vinegar over the pickles nt once and cover closely. Prase act plate on the pickles to keep. them. ender the 'vinegar and put a tight • cover over all. Heavy paper tied firmly in place inakee an excellent lalbStitute, for it Hen; fitting. cover. Take 24 large ripe cucumbers, six white onions and four red peppers. Pare and remove the seeds from the encumbers and chop wen, hut 'nob too The. Chop 07110/13 arid peppers, mL thoroughly with the three, 1 cup earl and 3. oz. white mustard seed. Place in a inuelin bag and let them drain over nigat. Remove to glass jars, cover with cold vinegar and seal. These tire good. SELECTED RECIPES. Orange Frappe. -Two tablespoons ;orange syrup, two tablespoon,' shav- ed ice, fill with seltzer', shake and strain. Jags Phosphate. ---Two tablespoons ()mange veins, one egg, broken into the glass, fill with ice cold eada, shake, add it (lash of e tthospkst, Pour out, grate n nutmeg over the top, arid serve wilai a straw. Frosted Coffee -Fill a glens half full or cracked lee, and add two roniPs of Sugar. Pour the coffee IDN'er steady, boiling hot, shake and etralny add eretun to sign and serve, lleteriberrn Dash. -Two tabIeepoOne asPberaet Walla •tsno tableepoons of erearri, half a ghats or erti.theci VI *tan seltzer Altaic° end strain, Olive, and Tongue Sandwiches. - &ono cred 1ntnce olives, seasoning With White pepper, thee petted to a Ormeireah ptete, apread this on thin MARKING FINE LINEN, While the simple initial is perfect- ly correct, the monogram is the more elegant method of marking them. The same initial or monogram should be used oa all household linen, varied in size to suit the sizes of the arti- cle to be used. French embroidery is the most ap- proved form al decoration, and this Is done in pure white mercerized cot- ton or linen; so this must be used if one wishes to cater to fashion. The letters on sheets, pillow cases, anti tablecloths are usually theca inches in height; for towels and din - nee napkins two, or two and one- half each in height, and one and one- half inch in height for smaller nap- kins. Perforated patterns for mar -king, from which the pattern may be transferred to the linen, may be had in fancy work shops, and these will enable the worker to stamp her own linen accurately, which is one of the essentials of good embroidery to which it is to be applied, and one rule always obtains for good work and that is : Use threa.cl it little nine rather than too coaree, for the latter is Sure to look humpy and clurasy on it fine ground, even thougli skilfully bandied. Always place the- stamped linen in an embroidery, hoop before beginning work. Sheets are etamped exactly in tb.e middle of the top end, about two or three inches from the hem, witli the top of the letter toward the middle of the sheet, so that the letter reads correctly when. sheet is turned back. Pillow cases are marked in the same manner., with letters two' indica, above tbe hem, the lower end. of let- ters. WII.A.T TO DO WITH STAINS. Iodine Stain. -Wash with alcohol, then rinse in soapy water. Scorch Stains. --Wet the scorched place, rub with soap and bleach in the sun, Soot Stains. -Rub tbe spots with diw meal before sending the clothes to the weal]. Crass Staina-Saturate the .spot thoroughly with kerosene, then put le the washtub. Blood Stains. -Soak in cold water, then warth in warrn we ter with plen- ty of soap, afterwards.; boil. Mildew -Soak in a weak solution of chloride of lime for several hours, then wash with cold water and soap. Ink Stains. -Soak in sour milk. If a, dark stain. reelable 1111.SC in. a weak solution of cbloride of lime. Verdigris. -Salt and vinegarwill lamove the worst spots' of verdigris on brass or copper. Wash off with soap and water, and polishi with a whiling wet with alcohol.. ' Grease Suots-Hot water and soap generally renziove tbeeto If axed by long; standing, use ether, chloroform, or naphtha"; All three of thesa most lao 'used away from either fire or artificial IJOUSEKEEPX.NG HELPS. Many kinds of provisions are dump- er when bought, in quantities, and there is always comfort in having a supply at hand. Soap may be bought by the box and the longer it is, kept the 'better it will be. Starch will Reep indefinitely. 'Borax is a very useful exticle, and a, box of it ehould be timed oa the shelves of every kit - then or pantry. It it> g004 lor softening hard waiar, either for the toilet or laundry. Use it liberally' about the kitchen ehlk and it will re- move• all die:agreeable odors. A strong, hot solation of bornx and water poured down the drain pipes purifies end clisinfecte them." There are many tasks tbaii May be performed while sitting down if one has cm old -0'inee StOCA in the nitchen. If you have a high elude ter whica Ybtt have to airtime tale the top may be ettwed off, to Make astool-of it. Paring vegetable, ironing and wip- leg disbee are not tiresome taelcm when elm Site down. to do Ileni. AMA..., • + NOW THEY ARE STRANGERS,' propoted feet fright, wict af Lev accepted him ,theeight, lis svotael tenet' step lOseleg Meaa Are,yree-"Ilosit nice of 11103. r But thee, that'e the wan lie alIvties dOleata 0+0+0+*4-41+0+049+0+1+04- n h n 0110il KNElit 0.18 I 4.Brieence LH% Or TUE ',T0'111:01vItttr WitINTED rOLIOr. -r 41+4240+04•+*4•04-•+.4•0-aa+ iscofolipleencerof QI tfiheoldvtorrithhuurtriesttY aitoounttebdo Police, This has been their sphere el influence since 1$74. Canada .orgentzed a moarited !prep le Toronto in 1873 for s the purpose of establishing a emir + biance of order in the unknown Itu- tvrt'e Land. Three hundred trocipers reaelled the West in 1874. Lieuten- ant Colonel French wee in tern -- mail& They came in by Way of Fargo and Fort Benton and found the American whiskey traders in command, exorcising a despotic sway over the Jilackfeet. This was the be- ginning of the figlating of the Werth - west police. Captain Charles E. Denny now residV es; in algarY. Ilo eras with this original body of mee, and tells many Interesting stories of the collisions of the first year. Where Maeleoci now stands, one hundred miles from tae border, the whisk -en traders had erected 'a fort. They had nmented several brass can - hon, and with the aid of the rith American traders further south at Fort Benton were able to defy tho Indians. This field had been. aban- doned by the Hudson 13ay people to the American Nox•tlisvest Trading Company some years before. It was to drive eta; the American whiSkey 1ttadeas that the mounted police kilned their first work. The old fort Was , taken. This was the famous Nthootiup of the pioneer clays. It Was. so. tamed because the traders there ran out of whiskey on one oc- casion and hui•ried a messenger to B. C. Powers, the old trader at Ben - toe. to whoop up the sup.ply.*It was located at the junction of the Belly and . St, artery's rivers. The. name was changed in Owner of zie romance and tradition of the Par North for thirty years has made the Northwest Mounted Police fam- MIS, says a writer in the NOV York Herald. Recently it government edict has, gone forth that will send the &akar ,Oady of men anther north and pronticany confine their erforts to the mysterious region marked on the south by the Arctic cirele. This 'new era in the career of the North - Nat Mourited Police is the sequel of the tremendous immigration that has been pouring over the southern beim- dary for the last five years into the Northwest Territories. The change means that the militia, system of the Dominion will be es- tablisted in this vast western em- pire, vehicle for more than thirty years late been subject to the iron rule of the red coated cavalry of the British F,mpire. Probably nowhere In the world, with the p'ooible ex- ception of Texas, where the Rangers of pioneer clays attalued faro° as rough and ready fighting mon, does history present a more picturesque example of military ocoupation of a force of men with so many daring deeds to their credit. In fact, the mounted police a Canada have since their organization presented it fas- cinating interest to civilization pe- culiarly their own. There is no other inetanee in the empire building record of the British people where so snugl a body of arrnecl men have accomplished to much with so little actual resort to arms. Famed in song and story'as theexplorers of Prince Rupert's Land and the pre- servers or the peace of it domain as wide as ,from the Missouri River to the Pecific Ocean and from New Or- leans to Boston, this splendid army of vetm an fighters was constructed uPon it nucleus of bat three hundred plainsmen. It Is an alluring story for the Eng- lish speaking world to contemplate. The reign of the Canadian police ex- tends over a hostile country lying be- tween the forty-ninth and sixttofirst parallels of latitude and the 101st and 1161,h degrees of. longitude. 'In - clay there are twenty -tour liandred members of this body. In 1878, when the force was organized, it con - slated of 'three hundred. It was in the following year that the small army inveded the unknown Prince Itupert's Land, as all this section was then lcnown; For years the ori- ginal force controlled this colossal empire, iehnbited by tierce tribes of Indian warriors and fiercer band's of white desperadoes. 'Elie gradual in- crease of population necessitated ad- ding to the force. FR NORTHERN BOUNDARY. To -clay tliese cavalry scouts pene- trate far beyond the Arctie circle and maintain law and order among the Indian tribes that slimed out into the icebound north, where the red nien's skin gradually clears and gives place to the Esquimau. From the American. border On the south to the Arctic Sea on the north, a dielanc:o of two thousand miles, and from Manitoba on the east to British Columbia on the west, a distance of eight InnadrecI miles, these men exer- cise civic control. It was to this veteran force that the empire appealed in its darkest moments, then the Boer sharpshoot- ers were *destroying the English regu- lars. Many or the Canadian nioent- ed riflemen who died at Heart's Riv- er and taught the republican forces at Spion la.op were di -awn from these riders of the Western plains. It was this leaven that formed the Canadian regiments sent to South .Africa into each I:alighting corps similar in mo- bility and accuracy of rifle to the Boer commanders. A. generation be- fore theca same rough riders had . been called upon tor the hard weak in T,an,a of British regulars in putting clown the Mel rebellion 113, the Northwest. These two fierce conflicts established the Mettle of these. men, as a, hundred sharp bat- tles with Indians and outlaws all over the Northwest had before and since tested their red blood. As rapidly as the Territories are orgneired the militia se -stein stip, plants the mounted police. There- fore they will be eonfined to the Mackenzie land, Athabaelter and the unearned regioe iceyond the inlets of the Arctic Ocean with in it short time. yo -day the outpoi of civil- ization On Gteat Bear Lake and the valley of the Mackenzie River, the Missis.sippi of the North, are marked by the presence of o single red coat, and curious, as it may appear, this loraly sentinel. the only eyinbed of :British netlioriey for hundreds of nines, le ealleient to preserve order' among the half Wild tribes who sop - ply the lancleon Bay Company svitli its fur treasure in that distant land. In Calgary, nearly two thousond miles from Chicago, the people do' hot cons aloe 'Nam eel ves anywhere near the border of ci vil ization to- w ard the hTortli. Here is located the great barraeIce of the polka, but, three aunt/red miles north,' 1i:flit/ors- ton, a eity of 10,000, is the north- ern teerniints of the Canadian Paci- fic Redirond. Tlien for ANOTHER THOUSAND IVIILF,S oat:Unary commercial r el et ions are maintained through tao chain ' of JIutiton/3it3t trading poste. Not until that inmate region le eerie -bed do Canadians beginto see the bier - dere of their empire. , In fact the Peace :River country, that lend of prolate° Which it being sought by 'so many .Aineeicarie te-they, is flea hun- ched: eritles 21.0111 of Tilthrlotitott. 1Tere the Alherlecine are to -day raising 1therstjf oat, In a, laud where wegetallem Wee a fear years ego atieepoe , *to be absolutiely extenct, This gi. an idea of the treenendeue COLONEL MAC.LEOD. The mounted police stations were gradually extended north. They reached the present site of Calgary, one hundred and fifty miles north, the following year. It was here that 'a curious character of history was found -Sam Livingston. He was lo- cated in a natural fort at the con- fluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers and eked out an existence trading with the herlians. He' was an Am- erican, who had -come West as a thild with "Kit". Carson. Then and for years afterward Livingston claimed absolute domain as far as his rifle would shoot in any direction. The extraordimary character resides bore to -clay, one of the ties that bind the present with the early part of the last century. It was seine time ago that the old man made a trip down to Winnipeg, it spot he had not vieited in sevehty years. He declar- ed that "inedicine” Lad becm put in his eyes when he saw the tall build- ings. He witnessed the aniovenrents of an electric car then for the first time, and again declared it more "Medicine" than real. The mounted pollee barracks at Calgary are a spacious park, includ- ing many buildings... Lieutenant Colt onel Sanders is in connuand. Corn- missioiaer Perry resides tat Regina, capital of . the Territories, six hun- dred miles further east, but this is the important post, since it is the point where the Canadian Pacific Railroad lines cross for the east and west, north and south. The police. are attired in cavalry trousers, a bright red tunic and white helmet. They carry two heavy revolvers and a Snider carbine. Strung out in every direction over the plains, the police are prepared by this chain to convey news of the railways with re- markable celerity. they ride in re- lay e and couriers reach the Arctic circle froro the American border eas- ily at the rate of one hundred miles a ay. Two score men are main- tained in the Calgary barracks for emergency 'duty aid are rushed out in relays as desired. Regular mili- tary discipline is maintained and any man permitting a prisoner to eseape is sent to the penitentiary. In the Isolated districts these police make arrests, aet as judge and iurer and 111 not infrequently as exeeuting officer. s This complete command gi-ves thi. s force extraordinary influence oven at 1 Thu event in the Iiistox•y of the force that reflects most credit upon their capacity for handling critical situations grew out ,;:if the flight of old Sittleg 13011 and hie Sioux bend of bravo after the Caster Ineseacre. Captain Doily, of Calgater,. Liee in comenaecl of a detachment of police, surrounded tfie Sioux, eutnembered a Iven.ctred to one, and forced teem to remain in a preseribed lanit pend - big negotiations. with Sam, It was the deehleg Mounted Isoliee, Captein Denny who took froth Sit- ting /lull the huge gold watch the' old Indiaii chief had snatched from the still quivering corpse of the dar- ing Custer on thablootly field of the Little Big flor» and retui•ned it to Mee. Custer. Though the Sioux had just destroyed more than twice as many fine cavalry troopers as Cap- tain Denny coefronted bine with, his braves seemed cowed by the very latowledge of their bloody victory naid offered no violonee to the small body ol Canadian prate°. JUDICIAL POWER,. • These fighting men have no author- ity within towns and cities through. the Teeritories to rnalre arrests ex- cept when the crimee aro committed beyond ouch municipal bouna, How ever, they act as a militia force, to be called M whenever the ordinaey constabulary are unable, t�, maintain older. The troopers do eog'ular pa- trol work and ride by their chain seretani from the American•liee to the Arctic circle in their relay system. It is one of the marvels of the many curioeS things witnessed in the Far Noitli-the presence of single red - coated men, grim and silent, keeping in check h^undreas audeven thou- sands of. Indians and their ,wildei hall -breed companions. It is the cer- tainty, however, that if -violence is done one cif these men retribution is swift that gives them the annereng command of turbulent forces ;site- gether out of proportion to their ability to enforce the laws. The police COMMUSI 021er or highest ofn- cer present sits as a court end dis- poses at all cases brought by' the ,srouts, with little regard /Or the' hairsplitting technicalitio of the le• gal fraternity, The guilt or the inno- cence is 'deteernined not infrequently upon hearsay evidence, but it is em - Meetly satisfactory to the law abid- ing people. 'Elie American settlers aro the loudest in their praise pi this strange sYstene that embraces both civ•il and criminal jurisdiction, with little hope of guilty men evad- ing it. USED CORPSE LYMPH. . — London Patier's Charge Against English Doctors. The London Morning Leader pub - tithes a sensational article, dealing with what are described Rs "revolt- ing extieriments on London chil- dren." • During the late smallpox epidemic in London, a number of children were vaccinated with lymph from the bodies of dead smallpox patients. "It was made Into calf lymph first, but its origin was the human corpse. There is no mistake about It. "It was in 1001 that there was a strain of lymph raised in London, and used air the vaccination of thil- dron, from corpses of, smallpox patients In Glasgow. The proces- sion of the smallpox pulp on its way to tlie children was through thee° :Donkeys and an unascertainable num- ber or calves. On October 8 material was removed from the fourth calf, end all we ate tolcl is that 'it was subserelently employed for tiie vac- cination of other calves, a strain of lymph Tieing thus • obtained which continued to give excellent results both on children and calves.' " TIa'ACHINCI 17.3.31 A LESSON. A wealthy broker is so fond of ewers that he frequently spends ome tin,e in and about his plants, conetimes doing a little gardthing grated. A few' days. ago he thought e would water some plants, so he ailed to his new coachman, •wlio was landing near a watering -can, ond old him to fill it eked bring it to ilnijghat. n-hie "Beg pardon, sir, I'M tlie coach- man." arid the importation, teach - "Well, that's all right; bring that can here." - porots so remote that they could not back their edits by force. POPULARITY 01? THE FORCE. While the members of the mounted police receive but ninety cents a clay and Prin.-ender for their mounts, the semiee is surrounided with such a halo .or romance that the adveniene one card the restless of all nations Vie with one another in securing the positioris. Since the American oc- capation the -country has so rapid- ly ottlecl ep that the service has retrograded becauee of the lack of exciting duty. 13t4 tostlay it includes a Lee body of cavalry, ready to teoe-te day or night on the slightest provocation, To the readiness of these raiders- of the plains to mo've from point to peiet, nialte time and shoot quick is drie the extraordinary freedom of the Canadiaii Weet from lawle,ssness. • On the American side of the border, south of Macleod', the tow pinchers go armed and the "bad" man flouris'h'es his weapon, al - Ways conepicuously displayed. The line 19 the limit of this vort of thing. The desperado wad rides across is kneed to diseaed hie weapons. If he reeists ha is confrouted with certain death. The road agents who have periodically raided the tritnecontin- ental trains passing through Mon- tana, .when peraued, ritle cloee up to the Cancalian Bee, bet, seldom eras's. The Canadian Pacific express trains, richly laden With the 'brownie° of the Orient peseing throligh to the im- perial conere, are immune fromethe attath' e or bandits.These olitlaws realize that on that side can be found day ned night several: hundred men, ao Well anted and as Well motorted as they, wtho knave' ilia country bet- ter end 'who call 111CSITC teeter oil ;eight notice than all tlie sheriff pos- ses the Western States could ciegati- tza.- 'Upon the same theory to arra a tieleber of reeoltita Men and keep them With their enceinte O'er itady to 'go aboard a feet train to pirsite trete iobbers, the Ceriadirin West Clorainatea the lawless, "gon figlitere" of the Territoriee, It 18 the diSagay Of tette atif preparecheess. 'glee pude)), sir, rm tlie coach- man.' "Well, wen, I know that. Dring the can here. 1 want it." The coachman touohed his 'hat and still made the same reply. Then something dawned on the broker., "Oli," lid said, "so you're the coachman, and can't bring the can. Well, coachman, go and ha,ya tho black team Iiitabecl to the faultier car- riage and bring it here. Have one of the ostlers ride on the box with vie coachman teethed his hat again 3:avec:tro11y-and went. Pres- ently lie drove up in style. "Now," said the broker, "chive to where that can. Is; and you ostler, pick it up, get back on you, box, drive round to the stable with the coachman, 1111 it with water, and have him drive you back again." It was 40110, and the can brought, 111 lcd, "Now, (artier," sail the broker, "you may go. Coat...lin:are you re- main where you are. 1 may need you again. Don't drive away 'until eive yeti leatre." 'Jae coachman reeved his dignity, but, he set on tlie sett of that teach for two hours after ilie broker bail finished , watering the 1.1.owere. BIRDS THAT SHAVE. Man lute a rival in the art of sbaving in a South ,American bird called' the "Irma/1ot' which actually begins shAving Mt arriving at Inciter- bTatutally. adorned with long blue tail feathers. it Is tot satlefied with thein in their natural state, but, with RS beak nips Off the 'Web on eeea ;tele, lea -Virile only, a, little ottal tuSt at the exef of each, GENERAL nirronirris,TIQN. Tit -Bits of Knowledge Which Yoe • Should Know. The average) Japanese seldier is not more time 5 feet 4 inches high. 1.1e-ery fate boy in India Is school, and only every fiftieth gill. 11 is a curious fact in natural bbs- tory that no bird can fly brickwarcle. There are Mier° then 4,000,000 eteel pens used up every dey land. Morocco Is the most important State that is absolutely without a newspaper. Paris lies the biggest debt of any city in the world. Xt ameneas to $400,000,000. The largest serpent ever meaSured was a Mexican anacoada, wIlidli wee found to be 37 feet in length. The 'argot bronze Statue in Ilia world le that of Peter the Geeat nt St. Petersburg. It weighs 1,100 toes. , China Holt's the vvorld'e record In the Ivey of executions. There aro at least 12,0010 legal exereetione yearly. Tlie cheapest municipal tenenieets can be rented for 50 ent ca are those owned by Dublin, arire.re e two rooms a week.• So light is the -touch of the 'na- tive barber of India, that he tan shave a customer wane asleep with- out waking him. Saientists estimate that there is energy enough le fifty acres Of sun- shine to run the machinery of the world, could it be concentrated. Rheumatism is almost unknown to JaPan. • The Japanese escape the malady to it great degree by avoid- ing the excessive use of alcohol and tobacco. The village of Neumuegen StWeet- plialin) boasts of a laborer who hare been working, on the Same farm. for - seventy -eight years. Ho is nowre- tiring into the workhouse. Tes the dominions of the British Empire alone 8,000 individuals van- ish evert,' year without leaving any indications as to their whereabouts. ' or ever appearing again. Great Britain, Prance, and Ger- many produce 65,000,000 pins• every day, according to last year's eta- tietics. Of this nuraber Great Br, 1- tain alone manufacteies 53,000,000. The finest -looking 'people of Fatrope it is slated, - are the llziganere . or gipsios of Hungary..• Physically they aro splendid specimens of men end women, and are rarely ill. The coinmen, house -fly souraTe ilia note Ia in flying. This means that its v:ings vibrate 385 times a sec- ond. 'The heyaey-bee sounds A, • iere plying 440 vibrations to the necond. • In the tropical northern territory... of South Australia, travellers mottle not carry a cempass. „The district abounds with the nests of the mag- netic or meridian ant. The longer axes of these nests polut due north and south. In fasting feasts the sect known as, •tlie Jales, in India, is far ahead of ' all rivals: Fasts of from thirty ata forty days aro very common, and once a year the people abstain fronle food for seventy-five days. la. A merchant in Ruesia can be die' dared bankrupt if his liabilities ex- ceed $1,000 and he has not the ready cash to meet fm, He eon be ar- rested, and his detention depeixis ion the will of his creditors. There has just been buried rit Stand °Wirth, Wliitefleld, Mr. John leullough, who has lived in orue street all his life--narnely, eighty- seven years, and died in a house.. op- posite to the one In which he Was born. The family of a deed Japanese soldier gets as a pension about 'one- third of the pay of leis raisk. Tins wati14 give the widow of a private $1.25 a month; of a first lieutenant $6.25; of a captain. $7.50; and to, the widow of a co/onel $25 a month. 'Waterloo, it town in Iowa, has a. church for which one immense glaci- al boulder furnished praetically all the material. • The huge stone before being blasted was 28 feet high, 30 feet wida, ana 20 feet thick. 11 was k estimated to weigh 15,125,000.313e. -ea! It is asserted by a- sculptor that the human foot. is becoming smaller. masouline foot of twenty cen- turies ago woe about twelve !lichee', long. The average rnan's foot of tedclay ie easily fitted with a No.' St shoe, which is not above ten inch. - es and seven-sixteentlis in length, The law of France requiring all seamen to deposit 8 per cont. of their wages with the Government ie applicable to • fishermen, and ,elite fund so collected is .esed to create a service pension payable to all who have Served twenty-five years tinder the French flag on the seas. THE rim:1m I'llINT. Identification by finger -print is gee - ;wally sapposed to be quite it nrcxlern European detective device; but itOP- pears that it was employed in Harem 1,200 yeare ago, The Rev. W. Con- ner, a former missionary in Korea, in an address to the Anthropological Society, stated that lie had been able to trace back its use for 1,2,00 yeare in. the deeds for the sale of slaves.. The slave was required to place her band -all the slaves WOVe W0111011— tipou the sheet -of 'paper on whkil the deed was written, and the out- line of the lingers and Lamb wee traced, alter which an inle impreee of each of the fingers was taken. Collyer's experience of the Kele esuis led him to describe them as a' people of keen mental capabilities, sharp -Witted, mid always ready with an anetdote. Ragbag Ittgan (after a long ratite) --"I'm nalmarieg I ellen go ena list for a eafer, Widow Skelly." then, its a peer sojee yoaill nutnel"e- "Phawt do yez me1ic7" "Oh, notb- conale. lug Only a man. wbo kapes 4 cellist"' ea a Widdy for a f- yectre withott pluck On000 t& shpa§. his MOincl, #tlexiq, tli� attAite al et sojer M Siereetbnes mi Manh to for boreal btit a hobby'.