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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1901-7-11, Page 2***-- 0 Yx. ****ME******* BABY'S DRESS IN HOT WEATHER The superintendent of a. large hos- pital tells how to tiress a baby in the summer as follows: A very young infant must svear, even during - the hottest weather,. high, neck and long sleeves, lightweight flannels; never use silk or cotton underwear for children. as it does not absorb the .m.oisture. After the infant is Nix months old woolen gauze shirts may be worn with high neck and short sleeves for very hot weather. The flannel band should be worn until the third mouth, then the knit, one till the chiki is at least three years old, and always e. flannel pet- ticoat. Tim little dresses may be /smile of as thiu material as desired but should have long neck and lone sleeves. 13aby'sielein is exceedingly delicate and much suffering is caused by the tender little neek and aims being bursted from exposure to sun or wind. Low socks. although pretty, are not at an advisable, especially in a chongeabie clineeee; even silk stock- ings are preferable. but best, of all are 'cotton ones. Do not use stun bonnets. they are so hot and utes comfortable; dainty muslin cap or etrew shade het. if the child is old enough to weer it. is much better and or. Slippers fur children who walk ebout are also to be avoid, ed. Many little anlelee ars turned and weakened by their use. Sum- mer weight leather or kid shoes are to be preferred. not, delay too long' putting on short clothes in summer. I.:ven if by is only three months old it, is bet- ter to change fruin long to short during the hot weather than to wait till fall. I'S'EFUL When e floor is inlaid mai polish Lias goue the best preporative for re- storime it is as Sonows: half a. peeved of yellow wax. four °tutees oil of titre Keine,- one pint of lige...eel oil. Cut tee wax in bits- anti 1.11t it in an OM WinatO eau; athi the oil and, let it- get bot. Remove from the doe and on berely warm. stir in the oil of unite:Mice. When a:FM put a little on e woolen cloth arid rub isle then rub with a dry clOth, For ordinary unvereielzed Mae walnut filleiiture, mix two labl.e spoonfuls of sweet or lineeed oil vsitla a tablespoonful of turpentine. Rub on with a. bit .of flanuel and rub dry with a. larger piece. nlixed spice for Layering spices calm. cotsides or bread puddings is made by sifting together three heap- ing tablespoonfuls of ground cinna- Mon, Oneheaping tablespoonful uti of elm and snace and on.? measured even of ellspice. In houses already built witese owners are uot able to incur the ex- pense necessary to make the celher proof against ground air. there is flr.m simple and easy preventative whinfr (everyone can apply; namely, to open i cellar windows every day on opposite sides, so that a turrent of air may pass be:meth the house. This mixes the groueti :dr with the atmospheric, blows it aux.:, and, prevents its entering the 'dwells:en Levender-seented sheets are the de- light of dainty housewives, and it is -claimed- that they induce sweet slum- bers. The odor is exceedingly fresh, clean and wholesome, and oldefrish- toned housewives always ecented their linen end napery with sprigs of the SWeOt flower. Italian orris root is sometimes .substituted for the lav- ender if the latter cannot be procur- ed, but there is no reason why farm- ers' wives or any oue who has a plot of ground large -enough for a vege- table or flower garden should not raise sufficient quantities of lavender and keep the linens deliciously frag- rant. THREE GOOD RECIPES. To Clean Highly Polished Furni- ture.—The simplest method is to go over the surface with a cloth wet with paraffine oil ad let it rest for an hour or more. This will soften the dirt and will fill any scratches with oil, thus preventing the water from reaching the wood. After the dirt is softened wash the surface with a soft cloth, with soap and water, using castile or some other mild white soa.p; rub very dry and then wipe with a soft cloth wet with turpentine and parailline oil. Let this rest for a short time, then pol- ish with a soft cloth. When a sur- face is much marred or extremely dirty it will be well to omit the washing and clean the surface with powdered rottenstone and oil. Wipe clean and. finish with the paraffin oil and turpentine. Laundering Lace Curtains.—Shake all the dust from the curtains and put them to soak in plenty of cold water, changing the water several times ixi the first, six hours. Have a tulsful of strong soapsuds to which bas •been added two tablespoonfuls of borax dissolved in boiling water. Squeeze the water from the curtains and put them in the suds. Let them soak for twelve hours, then squeeze and sop them gently, pressing out the water, Put them into another suds and repeat the squeezing and sopping. Next press out the suds and put them into clean tub; cover them with boiling water and let them stand for an hour, then rinse in two clean waters. Fold them carefully and run through the wring- er. Starch them and put them. in frames, or if you have no frames tack sheets `on the carpet and stretch the curtains on these. Palling car- pet or frame, put two mattresses to- gether and pin sheets tightly on them, pinning the curtains on them. In whatever manner the curtains are dried be SUM to lla.VO them stretched perfectly straight; and every point held in place by a pin. Do not starch them too stiff; use about a cupful of starch to a gallon of water for lace, scrim, etc. Coarse lace requires a little more stiffening. To Remove Ohl Paint and Varnish. .'" —Tb e following recipe for removing old paint or varnisk is from a Clete man publication: Two parts of am- monia, is mixed up with one part oi irits of turpentine, forming e. per - anent emulsion, which is applied to the paiut to be removed. In a few minutes, it is stated, the paint will be so softened that it can be scraped r rubbed away. IVITII THE -COOK. Oranges in Sirup.—Peel six -o eight. orauges very Willy, aeel re- move all the pith; put the rind of three of the oranges jute. u .gill of water and boil 10 minutes; strain the water from the peel and add to it six ounces of Wed sugar; boil un- til it is a thick sirup, then drop the quarters of orange into it, taking care not to break the skin; cook for a few minutes. when cold, serve in a gismo disk with whipped cream deli- cazely sweetened. Veal With Aracaroni.--Alinco up cold veal with a slice of ham, a. little grated rind of lemon, o„ little ,sait and a few spoonfels 'of broth or gravy. Shouter gently, taking are that it does not boil. Serve it up- on small squares of buttered toast, and surround it with a border of macaroni. cooked without eheese. A Summer Salad.—Three lettuces, good quantity of mustard and crees envie young radishes, boiled beetroot, hard-boiled eggs. Wash and remove the decayed leaves from the lettuces and mustard and crese, drein well from the water . 'and- 'cut them mot the radishes into eMeil Pieces: arrange on- a dish lightly. with the eel d and cress nixed with them, and any of the f34144' mixtures you prefer poured under. not over them Garnieh with boiled beetroot, cucumbers and bard -boiled eggs gut into slices, and some vege- table flowers. Slices of cold poultry or flaked fish may be tolded to the zunier ealuel, and are extremely good. Fruit Juices.—Frult juices are in- dispensible in families where summer drinks and water ices are liked, and . are ueeful in making sauces for pud- dings. To an these juices, ramie the fruit and run it through a sieve. . To every pint, of the ;Mice and pulp add three cupfuls of sugar. FM the fruit jors, with the mixture. cover them and places in a kettle with suf. ficient cold water to about cover them. Bring to a, boil slowly oral boil half an hour. Then till the cans full, seal them and cool them, in tlea, water. BRITAIN IN DEBT TO MN pt the Besutos From Taking Part in the War. Not alone England. but likewise civilization, owes a deep debt of gra- titude to Sir Godfrey Lagden, to win= Wont) belonge the credit for restraiuing the west war -like and best equipped native roces in Africa from taking part in the war in South Africa. The Basutos, in par- ticular, who are magnificent fellows arid splendidly armed, had a rauxiber of old grudges to pay off against the Boers, who have n.11 along been dis- tinguished for their maltreatment of the native races. The Bueutos could not understand why they should not be allowed to fight for their friends, the English, under whose protection they lived, against the Boers, whom they ito obhorred, and it required all the tact, cliplomacy, and persuasive powers of Sir Godfrey to hold them back and to pieeentthem from tak- ing part, in the wee During the siege of Nitpener. when the English garrison was oo hard pressed, 7,000 armed Wasutos stere ahnost alongside the beeiegers and could have annihilated the Boers by a single rush. But Sir Godfrey's wise counsels prevailed with the chiefs, and. thanks to him, South Africa was spared the horrors of e, native war, a war which would have let loose all the bonds now holding in check the innate savagery and fierceness of the natives. Sir Godfrey has had a. varied car- eer, and twenty-two years ago was clerk to the state secretary of the Transvaal when it was under Eng- lish administration. He was present at the siege of Pretoria in those days, was afterward private secre- tary to General Sir Evelyn Wood, acted as War correspondent for a great metropolitan daily throughout the Egyptian campaign, and some time afterward perforrued the re- markable feat of walking on foot through the jungle and swamp from Cape Coast Castle to the Ashanti stronghold and capital, ICournassie. Had Sir Godfrey failed in his due ties in South Africa, and had the na- tives commenced to take part in the present war, there would have been no knowing where the matter would have stopped and whether the black men, after having destroyed the Boers, would not have turned upon the English and driven them by sheer force of numbers into the sea. dentendenenenendonene*enoneXedondennede ON IIIE FAM ekwnendsdei"ndeldesnene:ededcw.;,•ndeds UP-TO-DATIO STABLE. The Proper housing of domestic animals is receiving eareful syste- outtie -considez-a,tioxi as never before. Investigations are being backed ap with -careful, practical experiments M stable construction be, men who are thoroughly conversant with the subject. A well -constructed up-to- date stable is a valuable and iodise pensable acquisition, to dairymen Who wish to conduct a profitable business. The floor should in all cases be made of cement and the beta ter and more thorough the founda- tion is constructed, the cheaper it will be in the end. -Under no con- sideration can a stable be built pro- perly with a storage room overhead., It may be eonnected with a barn and silo at one end, but. to be right it is importaut that the construction be entirely separate. Building paper should be used both inside and out- side of the studding, thus making ix -inch dead air space. This paper may be protected with cheap Or ex- pensive boarding boarding at the opeion of the builder. -If the paper is care - fuller Put on, it will provide the ne- cessary air space without reepeot. t the quality of the "lumber ueee. The roof should be steep. as anything less than one-third pitch is too short-lived if covered with sningles. Make .ample provision for Liege windows. especially on the 'south side. Admit sunshine, if possible, into every corner of the stable. To secure proper warmth and venfilee tion, a ceiling must, be provided eight end, one-half feet, above the goer. As a stable should, in no ease. provide for storage masthead, this 'ceiling xuay also be very light. It should also be remessiberen that dust is .orte of our worst enemies, as when moir•letied with the loreaelt of annuals, it coustitutes an ideal breeding element for microbes. For tlzls reason. all walls; partition man- ger and stall rails should be moot!). Lewe no alga have no beattiug the lumber used about the stable. The value of fresh air hes never been breuglit forcefully to the at- tention of smell dairymen because the ordinary loosenfatinted farm building admits plenty .of it, In building wormer stables an attempt was made to fairrosit sufficientalr by allowing a liberal amount of cubic feet per bead of stock. Ideas were 80 liberal in this respect that many sta,bies were built SO large and with ' such high ceilings that in practice they were found to be -cold, damp and unhealthy. Warmer buildings have shut, Out fresh air and opened , the way to diseaee, As the most ex- pensive animals were naturally hous- • ed in expensive, gables, the irnpree- sion got abroad that thoroughbred stock contracted dieease more read- ily than common hurtle- scrubs. • A MISER'S BIG HOARD. A miser named Bailly, aged seven- ty years, has just died at Ee-reux, in France. He left a letter stating that he died in extreme poverty, but his relatives did not believe the etate- ment, and set to work and searched his house In the cellar, buried in old. flower pots, they found $5,000;• in a soldier's pannikin, hidden in the old man's bedroom, they discovered $2,500; but their great haul was made in the attic of the house, where they found, hidden under the roof and in crevices in the wall, money to the value of $60,000. The old man for years had lived on stale bread he had begged and boiled horse -flesh. 1115 REDEEMING POINO. Skitts is utterly lazy and worth- less. Oh, I don't know ; he is entitled to some credit for not letting anything worry him. In 1670 the Dutch owned one-half the shipping of the world. Their proportion is now less than leo of the total. BREEDING POULTRY. The great difficulty in hreediug fowls where one wishes to breed from certnin hens of the flock and to keep a pedigree of the fowls rais- gni! to disting•uish the eggs of ea.ch While every hen lays an egg that differs materially from any other it is not always an easy matter to them, nor to tell winit hen lays a -certain egg. It is only within n. few years that the trap nest bus been invented, which makes poesible and easy the keeping of a record with each lien. The advantages of the trap nest aro many. To the commercial poul- try keeper they enable him to sort out the non -layers of which there are always some in a large flock. The best layers can be distinguished and their eggs kept for setting and in this way the egg record of a flock can be increased greatly in two or three years. To the fancier the'trap nest appeals most strongly, for it. enables him to breed pedigreed stock with no danger of getting it mixed. The trap nest is a. simple gontri- vance. It consists of a box with a trap front so made as to close and confine the hen when she enters. She is locked in and kept there until let out. With a, numbered leg band a a. record can be easily kept with each hen. The styles of trap nests differ materially and there are sever- al patented ones on the market as well as several which are not pat- ented. In using them it is neces- sary that the pen be equipped en- tirely with them and from one-third to one-half as many nests are need- ed as there are laying hens. The hens must be let out three or four times a, day and the eggs removed, but other than this no extra work is re- quired. The adoption of the trap nest will work a great improvement in every flock. MILK VARIATIONS. Several conditions disturb the per- centage of fat in milk, sometimes in- creasing it, and at other times de- creasing it—generally, increasing one by one and sometimes several inilk- ing-s, but a decrease in quality fol- lows the gradual return to normal condition; and there is on the whole a, considerable falling off in the total production of milk and butter fat. These conditions are: Rough treat- ment, exposure to rain and bed weather, change of feed, change of milkers, rapidity of milking, unusual excitement or sickness. The variations of the test can be expressed in one general law. Any- thing that increases the quantity of in this case. Excitement increases the percentage of fat, but it also de- creases the flow. When a cow is fed upon grass or succulent fodder the flow. .of milk increases, but..the, test decreases. When sho is under -fed and then given f all feed, the amount of milk is increaseclrbut the test is loWered. Exception to any,of these rules will sometimes occur. Many dairymen have an idea that feed affects the test; this it does not do directly but only indirectly. It has been proved by experiments that fat cannot be fed into milk. A cow on full feed, giving say 30 lbs. of elk a day testing 3.60. can be fed any kind of fodder and the test will remain the same as long as the quantity of milk does not change. The New York experiment station fed fodder from which all the fat had been extracted, but the test did not change. Fodder rich in oil was fed aud still the test was not affected. "JUNE" vs. "wlisiTuar. FLAVOR. It is not, entirely that the cows are fed musty feed that gives the butter that peculiar "winter" flavor. milk decreases the test as e rule, and anything that decreases the quantity of railk increases the test as a rule. In night's and morning's milk that drawa after the longest period tests less, the quantity of milk is greater in this case. A fresh cow's milk tests less than a stripper's; there is also more milk The mold spores and dust floating in the air and falling into the milk pails and impregnating the warm mint with the germs will produce this objectionable never. And, it has also been found that when the feeding is not done until after oink- ing the flavor of the butter is better thus when the musty fodder is fed at or inenediately before milking, showing that the germ -laden air is largely responsible. Almost anyone can make good but- ter now, Pot entirely because the cows eat grass, but because they do t eat musty forage and the milk is not exposed to air which is load - e4 with dust and mold germs. Pure air and pure water are favorable to the production of good milk and good butter, but do not allow the cows to wade in foul ponds or water holes. That will spoil everything. NEW CARRIAGE. END OF SONE VESSELS, ^ Republics Which Ilse Engliah Steamships as Gunboats. All countries cannot be rich, neith- r can all countries have just what they waut. To use an old stereo- typed phrase, some of them have to govern themselves aecordiug to cir- cumstances. Severe.' Republics have found it muck cheaper to buy old steamships for gunboats than. have new ones built. In fact, for some Republics to pay for a, gun -boat what the leading nations have to pay, would practically mean, their bankruptcy. The Republic of Hayti is using a gun -boats two old steamships, which, in years gooe by, were employed in carrying the mails, passengers and cargo between Liverpool and West Indian ports. They were sold to the Ifaytien Government by the English steamship company width owned them. An la'nglislunan had occ.asloo to be on one of them some time ago. when he met the President of lIa,yti (Invemolite) on board. But he noticed that very few alter- ations had been, made. A few cannon had been placed on either side of the two uppermost decks, and holes made for the mouth of the cannon to be in- serted. That was all. But the neg- ro crew and the commandant thought the world of their "battle- ship," as they called it. The other atearaship, also lilted out ae a gunboat, is likewise used for coasting between the different ports of the Republic, for the pur- pose of defence, and also in convey- ing the president and heads of de- partments of the Goverument front one port. to another. San Domingo, another Ilepublie, su sasn asps eeduie siziorpos steppe gunboat an old steamship which was purclumed from the same English nem that sold two of their fleet to the Haytian Republic. 'These two Republics have never been on very friendly terms. Up to fifteen years ago they had no gun -boats.. Now outi metal Corridor Railway they have two each. The hunch:rile Republic hes one Car ror the King, gunboat, which was formerly an old King Edward's new continental steaneship owned by a. Liverpool corridor reilway Carriage has just firm. An explosion occurred on returned from a trip to Calais. board a few years ago. when some The carriage has been in hand over of the crew were killed. and vorisider- two years in consequence of the spas- able damage was done to the vessel. uzodie fashion in which the work bus Yet another Republic possesses an en carried on. it has been built English steamship as 0. gunboat the works of the Compagnie Gen- Nicaragua,. For years this boat was erale de Conetruction at St. Penis, employed in 'carrying cargo between France. and when the order was first, English and Centred American ports given the vehicle was ordered for the before she was put to her present, Prince of Males. Now that circum- use. stances have decreed that the ear They were. in each ease, bought shall le ueed, by the Xing the arras for a few thousand dollers, and they of the heir apparent have been tea, answer the purpose to whieh they moved and will lie replaced by thosellidweopuft,mbluetargieLlb000a. ktcomical along - of Ills niajesto. The royal coach is said to run very easily, and as soon as certain changes bave been made aud the trial trips have given com- plete satisfaction King Edwereni new continental carriage will be pronoun-. Ceti really for its royal passenger. In uppearance it. is muchthe. same, as the ordinary wagon-lit, car, though, of course. when it. is finished the royal arum and other indications! will differentiate it from all other vehicles. While the old car used by, tbe Prince of Wales, and built in England, is cream on a lake bottom, the new carriage is of varnished teak, and of a very stembro shade. Xing Edward's ruture car is about. a foot: longer than the previous one, and rests on four wheels instead of six; it weighs about thirty-seven tons. Ulm royal compartments include . two ledrooms—ono for the Xing and: -another for the Queen—two dressing' rooms end a salon in the centre. There are in addition, two compart- ments for personal atteadants. Tito carriage is liberally decorated with handsome wood carving and plush and leather trimmings. The ceilings are artistic design, and are through- out painted in light colors, In two ; of the compartments they are in: embroidered silk. The carriage is fitted with Stone's system of electric lighting. AU the windows are provided with! two blinds—a dust blind and a silk one, and the fixed windows are of double glass to meet the require- ments of winter. No space is wast- ed and in nearly every room is observ- ed a variety of practical and handy arrangements, intended to make the most of the accommodation. The carriage is heated by warm water, which can be generated in two ways— by a coke fire or by steam from the engine. A door at one end of the corridor permits communication with . a dining or sleeping car, and the' king's coach is so fitted with brake appliances, etc., that it can travel over any railway system on the Con- tinent, provided with the standard guage. The only countries in which the king must follow the example of bumbler travelers and change car- riages are Spain and Russia. MARRIED FIVE HUNDRED TIMES To be married six times during the honeymoon is an experience that comes to few. Four years ago a vil- lage youth and his sweetheart visit- ing a Michigan town noticed a fur- niture dealer's advertisement offer- ing a dra.sving-room suite to any couple that consegtedto be married Publicly in his shop. They secured the suite. Going on their wedding trip to an Ohio toms they noticed. a similar advertisement there ztncl re- peated 'the performance. Then the idea struck the husband that he might arrange these matters himself; and ia two weeks he had persuaded six dealers in various towns to emu- late the others. Nominally the couple won a specified prize et each place, but -they really received a Sash consieeration arranged before- ' hand. So it has gone on over since. The couple now claim to have been married 500 tim.es, The world's hemp ,crop is worth 10. millions Made into rope- it is Valu- ed at 30 millions. A pedlar has .nisu been thrown eta of .the second story 'wind:7w by the prOPrieteir of the house. Co 'n up he thruSts his head:again in the room, Now, aside, don't you want to buy something -WwvotImovw XING EDWARD AND HIS 1T.ATS rasbions in hen's headgear For 1.171iicla he Received the Credit, If Xing Edward VII. never devised another fashion he has done his duty by the hat makers, for at least seven styles of hats are said to have been worn first by him while it is certain that he has invented or crea- ted two or three. Ire has frequently heel the credit of creating fashions which had in real- ity existed in a more or less obscure manner for some time previous to their adoption by him. It is true that, he has not, been able always to give vogue to a style. He once wore a kind of Welsh sugar -loaf hat which lastecl for only a few months a.nd was never taken up to any extent oven by those most eager to imitate the royal headgear. On the other hand men of distinction. In life and fashions have \cern hats of a, style that never adorned the head of the present King. He has, however. created. in the full sense of thaword certain fashions that have survived, and foremost among these is the low -crowned silk hat, which in the history of fashions will always be associated with his name. His fidelity to this style of headdress has been remarkable. He clung to it when on the sands of Egypt Said Pasha received hira and he wore it while going down the rapids of the St. Lawrence River. He always wore at Goodwood until two years ago the black instead of the white top hat. When lie finally changed to the cooler color his ex- ample was followed with enthusiasm by the class that waited the imita- tion of the styles from him. It was King Edward who substi- tuted for the silk galloon that for- merly surrounded the silk hat, the band of cloth now in use by all well dressed mero The habit of clinging to one's hat at all times in public is another practice for which the King is re- sponsible. The soft Homburg hat was introduced into England and made popular by the King and it has taken its place among the re- gular fashions of men in England although it came from a foreign country. He never wears a straw hat and has even neglected the pre- vailing Panama. His objection to the straw hat is founded on the fact that he has never had one that was becoming to him. Another native style that he did much to make popular in England was the Glengarry 'bonnet which he frequently. wears still. . He now wears most frequently a brown bow- ler hat. The cloth cap with flaps to be let down over the ears he 2ail7 ed • to make popular and the grey derby in which he still appears oc- casionally has few advocates. SHOEBLACKS' EARNINGS., Some very remarkable statements have been made by Mr, Bird, the superintendent of the London Shoe - black Brigade, which celebrated its jubilee recently. Mr. Bird said that one boy earned $41.15 last month. It appears that many of the London shoebla.chs earn over $10 a week. The recent census of Malta gives the total population, including; troops, as 186,000, an increase in ten years of about 8 0001, "I BEQUEATH alY Some Wills That Greatly Surpriss ed. the Legatees. It is related that a certain very wealthy miser was much puzzled dur- ing his last illness as to wbone to bequeath his property. Fieally one day he received from a relative a let- ter writtea on an inch of paPer. This decided the question,. Instead of being annoyed at such disreepect, the nileer's avarice got the better et les pride, and he declared the writer should be his heir, esteeming him worthy to be his successor in persi- Mosey. John. Reed was gasfetter of the Walnut Street Theetre in Philadel- phia, and filled the post for forty- four years with a punctuality stud fidelity rarely equalled; there is net on record a single representation et which be Was not present. Ile was soraewhat of a character, and ap- pears to have had his mute am- bitiens. As he never aspired, how- ever. to appear on the stage in his lifetime, he imagined an ingenious device for a.ssimeing a, role in one of Shakespeare's pla-ys after Isis de- cease. It was the elsull Of Hanatate and to this end he wrote a, elause in his will thus: "My head to be separated from ray body immediately after ray death; the latter to be boded in a grave the former, duly macerated and pre- pared. to be brought to tbe theatre. where I have served all my life, and to be employed to represent the skull of Yorick-s-and. to this end I be- queath my head to the properties." Others have bequeathed. their Monis to their friends or to pnblic institu- tions. Cartouthe requested, 'when on the wine], that his skull miglit he preserved in the Genovevan Moues- tery at Paris, end accordingly it is to be seen, to this day in the librarY of thee building, as Eugene "Aram's skull is daily seen and handled in York Castle. England, AN E.ca-.INTRIa TESTATOR, having been told that, if the pmoper formalities required by the law of wills were complied with. it was int, naterial whether the said Will Were written on parchment, paper, can- vas, or wood, elected to write his on his door. The executors bail. erefore, no choice but. to itaVe tlx or unscrewed from its hinges and carried into court for probate be- fore it could be administered Not long ago there died in New York a gentleman, suppoeed to be sane, who left the following testee :neuters; directions: "I bequeath all my fortune to my nephews and neices, seven in number; they are to Metro it equelly, and on no account to go to law about, it. on pain of forfeiting their respective shares. "I own seventy-one peirs of trous- ers. and I strictly enjoin my execu- tors to bold, a public sale at which theca ellen be sold. to the bighest bidder and the proceeds distributed to the poor of the city. I desire that thege garments shall in no way be examined or meddled with, but be disposed of as they may be found nt tlx time of my death; and no ono purchaser is to buy more than one pear. As the testator had always been more or less eccentric in his ways, no ono was much surprised at these singular clauses, which were religi- ously observed. The sale was held and the seventy-one pairs of trous- ers were sold to seventy-one differ- ent purchasers. One of these, in ex- amining the poeketS, discovered in a pocket, n packet of some sort, close- ly sewn up. He lost no tine in cut- ting the threztd, and WAS not a, lit- tle surprised to find a bundle of bank notes representing $1,000. The news soon spread, and each of the others found himself possessed of a similar atriount. HOW THEY MET. Bennet Burleigh, the English war correspondent, is authority for the following strange story: Ono day last autumn two officers, newly ar- rived front different parts of up- country, met at Cape Town. Rather lonely and m good deal bored, they scraped acquaintance and found one another agreeteble. When the dinner - hour came they agreed to dine to- gether. The keen edge of appetites having been taken off by a good dinner, the senior ofacer became a, trifle more ex- pansive. "Do you know," said he, "I rather like you, and there's something about you that seems fainiliar, as if we had met before. I am Major S. of the*" "Hello. are you?" said the other. "I'm Lieutenant 5.,—Just joined,— your youngest brother!" There was an unrehetersed scene as the two khaki -clad warriors sprang to their feet and pounded each other oua the back—which is the I3riton's way of tallier, on the neck and weep- ing. . They had not met for :years,. and the baby brother had meantime sprouted into a tall youth with an incipient mustache. ' CHOICE ATTAINMENTS. -- Cheerfulness and sweetness of dis- position are oftea as great a force in trying situations as sheer intel- lectual' ability. The power of re- straining- one's temper under provo- cation of looking, on the bright side of things in discouraging circum- stances and of not construing a -dif- ference of opinion into. a personal matter is one of those choice attain- ments whose winsomeness men al- most universally recognize • , • ••••••,2-...4111, PEERS AND PUDIAIC-HOUSES, A British Parliamentary return juet issued shows the number of li- cen se d house's owned by peers. The list includes the following: Lord Derby, 72; Duke of Bedford, 50; Duke of Devoeshire, 47; Duke of Rutland, 37; Duke of Northumberland, 36 ; Lord Dudley, 33; Lord Cowper, 22; Lord Salisbury, IA; Lord Dunraven, 11. BIGNESS OF LONDON. A City That Would Hold Can- ac/'s Population. We are accustomed to talk quietly of London, as the largest city of the world, but how newly people realize to the full the extent and magnitude "the ,huge wen of England," an Lord Rosebery has descrileed, our metro - polls. To begin with, the population of London 4s smile six millions of peo- ple; that is to say, it boasts more inhabitants than do Australasia, thq Canadian. Dominion, Portugal, Swee den, Belgium, Greeco, Holland, or RetUnallia combined, In another century, progressing et the same rate of increase as at the present time, London will eontain fourteen millions of people, though in 1791 the populatiow was barely a railliou. There are—to take a, trivial mete but yet significant— Approximately 140,000 factory girls in London; or • in other worft a raimeer equal te the population of Christiania in Sweden. Them are nearly 2,000 miles of streets in London, along which some 11,000 cabs, and 2,000 onmibusee Carry eighty millions of paesengers s. year. In Battersea alone them are seventy miles of streets. There are towns full of Germans. Italians, and Frenchmen in London, enough Germans to fill Loipsic, and enough Frenelusien to OR Briebeae, Australia. If no wages were to be paid in London for a calendar month, half Europe would be beggared* while the fortune of the ivory hunters in Afriee, depends entirely upon *me Loption firm. You could place all the people of Paris, Berlin St. Petersburg rind Rome in London, and there would still be room—providing, of =tree, that the present population Were non-existent. The people of London eat 400,000 oxen and two and a. half paillious of sheep per annum, though nothing grows in London but grass and a, few deciduous trees and flowers. If all the rents paid by tenants in London were to be distributed even- ly among the entire population, ev- ery Alan, woman and child would be called, upon to pay $800 a year. London's gas bill is over $15.000 000 a year. lf tho gas -pipes of London were laid out in a, continuous line, they would be considerably Jointer than the River Volga, a distance of 2,- 216 miles. Londoners, in fact, are nothing like so conceited as they should he,. tit the colossal magnitude of their dwelling -place. KISS HER AND TELL IIER SO. YOU'Ve a neat little wife, at home, ohn. As sweet as you wish to See; As faithful and gentle -hearted, . As fond as a. wife can be; A genuine hornesloving woman, Not caring for fuss or show; She's dearer to you than life, John; Then kiss her and tell her so. Your dinners are promptly served, John. Aseiltewise, your breakfast and tea; Your wardrobe is always in order, With buttons where buttons should ITer house is a 'Easy home ricstr'erh, AuLbilt lialiven, of rest below; You she's a, rare little treasure; Then kiss her aud tell her so, She's agowife and true to you, John, Let fortune be foul or fair; Of whatever comes to you, John, She cheerfully bears her share. You believe she's a brave, true help- er, And kinvovrloItops far more than you It will li John, her end of the load, Just kiss her and tell her so. There's a crossroad somewbere in life, John, Where a hand on a. guiding stone Will signal one "over the river," - And theeother must go on alone. Shouldslg, John,rttec roach last milestone, fir 'Twill be comfort amid your woe To know that tat while loving her here, John, You kissed her and told her so. IN' REGULATION ATTIRE. The good spirits and good nature of soldiers are proverbial, They are always ready for anything in the way of fun, and even in the very moment of death they are not insen- sible to a humorous situation., "Tonally Atkins" has a sort of pone derous huinor of his own, of which he may be not infrequently lmcoa scious. Clonan Doyle has told several good stories of the lighter side of the war in South Africa, and Julian Ralph supplements them with others quite as good. Mr. Ralpd relates an an- ecdote to illustrate soldierly good humor, ON'011 at the expense of per- sonal comfort, The troops had been greatly an- noyed by swarms of troublesotne in- sects, and to cap' their sorrows a small army of locusts put in an.. ap- pearance. Tommy had been vainly brushing away and trying to dodge the pests, alt ,to no purpose, until fnally catching one and closely ex- amining it, he called out to his mates in .a rich cockney dialect: "Blame inc if the blooinin' butter- flies ain't in khaki:" • A FANTASY IN FIGURES. A very curious number is 14,2 857 which raultipliecl by 1, I, 3, 4„5, or 6, gives the same egures, in the samo order, beginning at a el:Tomtit points .but if multiplied by 7 gives all O's; e, • s's 142,857 5.12,857 -I 142,857 x 2 — 285,714 142,857 x 3 — 428,571 142,857 x 4 -- 142,S57 x 5 — 71,1,285 142.857 x 6 -- 857,142 142,857 x 7 -- 099,09b" Multiply by S and you have. 142,856; then add the first figure to the last, and you have 142,857, the original number, the figures exactly the same as at the start.